What is the WORST video game you have ever played?

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05 May 2015, 1:29 am

BioShock Infinite is probably the worst game I have ever played. Completely uninspiring.



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05 May 2015, 11:59 pm

I haven't played too many truly awful games, but the one that was crushingly awful was Rascal for the Playstation 1. I got it for Christmas along with the console from my mother years ago. When she told me she bought it at a grocery store for maybe 15$ I was worried. The graphics were pretty good for a Playstation 1 game but the controls were beyond horrible. I tried to sell the game but failed so I just gave it away, and even that made me feel guilty.

Sometime around last Thursday, I forgave my mom. :lol:



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06 May 2015, 12:30 am

Looks like some can't tell what is a bad game over a game they just did not like. I am especially looking at newageretrohippie. Skyward Sword may have done some things with the Zelda formulae that can be seen as unpopular, but it was actually a pretty good game. Having recently started to go through what Zelda games I could, I can also say that Zelda 2 is also a reasonably good game, the game can be rather difficult, again pretty much totally different from all other Zelda titles, but it is not bad. Nuts & Bolts was again another game that was totally different from the rest of its franchise, but in itself was actually a pretty reasonable game, people hate on it too much because it is not what they expected. And Assassin's Creed III might have had the most boring protagonist of the games, but had a number of good game components such as naval combat that made the 4th so good.


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06 May 2015, 1:14 am

Bradleigh wrote:
Looks like some can't tell what is a bad game over a game they just did not like. I am especially looking at newageretrohippie. Skyward Sword may have done some things with the Zelda formulae that can be seen as unpopular, but it was actually a pretty good game. Having recently started to go through what Zelda games I could, I can also say that Zelda 2 is also a reasonably good game, the game can be rather difficult, again pretty much totally different from all other Zelda titles, but it is not bad. Nuts & Bolts was again another game that was totally different from the rest of its franchise, but in itself was actually a pretty reasonable game, people hate on it too much because it is not what they expected. And Assassin's Creed III might have had the most boring protagonist of the games, but had a number of good game components such as naval combat that made the 4th so good.


Good/bad, best/worst...it's all relative to the individual. Most consider Geist one of the worst games ever, at least one of the worst FPS games ever, but I LOVED it. On the flip side of the coin, Witcher 2 and Oblivion are regarded as some of the best but I couldn't tell you 1 good thing about them from my POV. Skyward Sword is the 3rd worst Zelda to me, but that's only from a gameplay standpoint as I loved the story and music ( by gameplay I mean I despise motion controls and the Imprisoned is the worst boss fight ever made...plus the handholding lack of exploration ).

If you want me to name the worst game I ever played that literally nobody will argue with: ET on Atari.


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06 May 2015, 1:41 am

lostonearth35 wrote:
I haven't played too many truly awful games, but the one that was crushingly awful was Rascal for the Playstation 1. I got it for Christmas along with the console from my mother years ago. When she told me she bought it at a grocery store for maybe 15$ I was worried. The graphics were pretty good for a Playstation 1 game but the controls were beyond horrible. I tried to sell the game but failed so I just gave it away, and even that made me feel guilty.

Sometime around last Thursday, I forgave my mom. :lol:


I didn't know there were grocery stores selling games during the PS1 era. :P It wasn't something I really saw until near the end of the original Xbox/PS2 generation, when grocery stores around here started carrying budget games along with used DVDs.

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If you want me to name the worst game I ever played that literally nobody will argue with: ET on Atari.


If you can believe it, there are people who've played it who say it's actually not that bad of a game, and one feature it had that really stood out was that it featured some fairly complex sprites that didn't flicker. This is an insanely difficult thing to achieve on the VCS, due to the way it draws graphics.

Here's a good video about it:



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06 May 2015, 1:54 am

newageretrohippie wrote:
Skyward Sword is the 3rd worst Zelda to me, but that's only from a gameplay standpoint as I loved the story and music ( by gameplay I mean I despise motion controls and the Imprisoned is the worst boss fight ever made...plus the handholding lack of exploration ).

I would agree with some of that assessment, I am not a fan of the motion controls in how beating certain enemies often required specific motions that I would have rather use of normal controls, although after I decided to just keep playing it until I finished it I did start to get an interesting hand on it, which made the final confrontation with Ghirahim fun. I hate the Imprisoned too, after the first I was done with him and was annoyed at return fights, and is also a fairly common boss in Hyrule Warriors, although luckily there are combos that can make him a bit easier in that. The story ends up quite effective which makes me think that it means it can't be said as truly bad, even with the lack of freedom.


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06 May 2015, 4:28 am

I can't remember the name, but it was some Garfield game i played over ten years ago in which you had to rescue... what was her name again? The female cat... never mind. It was just this tedious, cryptic trudge that barely explained its mechanics and when you beat it you got nothing. The game just did the Paper Mario thing where the only reward is that your save is at the last save point.



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06 May 2015, 3:25 pm

Fibbox wrote:
I can't remember the name, but it was some Garfield game i played over ten years ago in which you had to rescue... what was her name again? The female cat... never mind. It was just this tedious, cryptic trudge that barely explained its mechanics and when you beat it you got nothing. The game just did the Paper Mario thing where the only reward is that your save is at the last save point.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_m ... ideo_games
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07 May 2015, 5:49 am

MasterofYoshis wrote:
Fibbox wrote:
I can't remember the name, but it was some Garfield game i played over ten years ago in which you had to rescue... what was her name again? The female cat... never mind. It was just this tedious, cryptic trudge that barely explained its mechanics and when you beat it you got nothing. The game just did the Paper Mario thing where the only reward is that your save is at the last save point.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_m ... ideo_games
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07 May 2015, 6:34 am

Forza Horizon. I got it on Black Friday shortly after it's release, put it in the console, fell in love with the menu music, started the game, passed one exit that was hard to find on the gps, opened the console, grabbed some pliers and destroyed the evidence and threw it out the window. If this is how I was starting, I wasn't thrilled about finishing it.

Next, is Fight Club. "The worst piece of crap I have ever seen." and "I wanted to poke my eyes out with hot needles." My two favorite unrelated quotes from the movie Bruno. I pre-ordered Fight Club, Game Crazy called the day it arrived, I rode my bicycle down, got the game, rode back home. I beat the game in 20 minutes and took it back for a refund right after. The storyline was crap, the characters looked nothing like they should, and the only cool part about the game was breaking bones with exray vision.



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07 May 2015, 9:25 am

The worst game i ever played was probably Eat Lead:The Return of Matt Hazard. I bought it for 4 dollars and i still feel like i was robbed.



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07 May 2015, 9:49 am

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The worst game i ever played was probably Eat Lead:The Return of Matt Hazard. I bought it for 4 dollars and i still feel like i was robbed.


I rented that one from Gamefly...terrible terrible game.


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07 May 2015, 11:55 am

Dead Island.

So much fail for the single player mode. There's actually a game-killing mission where if you don't manage to beat it on the first try, you spiral down to nothing and can never get past it...with no way to load a prior save to try again with fresh weapons and ammo supply.



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08 May 2015, 8:15 pm

Newer example: Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, because of both its unfair gameplay and its retcon-crazed story.

Older example: Mario's Time Machine, because of its overly vague and confusing objectives.



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09 May 2015, 12:43 am

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Newer example: Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, because of both its unfair gameplay and its retcon-crazed story.

Older example: Mario's Time Machine, because of its overly vague and confusing objectives.


Dream Drop had it's issues, but it was still leagues better than Chain of Memories, 358/2 and Re:Coded....


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09 May 2015, 3:09 am

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
If you can believe it, there are people who've played it who say it's actually not that bad of a game, and one feature it had that really stood out was that it featured some fairly complex sprites that didn't flicker. This is an insanely difficult thing to achieve on the VCS, due to the way it draws graphics.



Aye, Im one of the ones that thinks it's a decent game actually.

I think one of the biggest problems with it was the complexity: nobody knew what the hell they were doing. There wasnt anything else like that on the 2600, really. The sort of game where you *have* to fully read the manual to at all understand what's going on, how the mechanics work, and what you're supposed to do. With most games on that console, they're very arcade-ish, and you dont NEED to read the manual or remember a bunch of small seperate things just to play it at all.

.....also just learn where his hitbox is so you dont fall down into pits too much when you dont want to. It's not actually hard...