What are the Worst Non-licensed videogames you ever played?

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Almost everything from the current console generation.

Shiny HD graphics, extra features, online multiplayer, and consumer hype are not what make the game. Good design & good gameplay are what make the game.

I'm going to drop the nuclear bomb...

Shaq Fu.

^That would be a licenced game.

It's too bad the Wii Virtual console doesn't have licensed games besides the TMNT game for the NES.

Shiny HD graphics, multiplayer functionality, and extra features do a lot for me personally

Consumer hype also has an effect on my enjoyment of a game. A good example would be Rock Band. One of the main reasons I enjoy it so much is that it is frequently at parties and other social gatherings because it is so mainstream and popular. I can play every instrument on hard/expert depending on the song and it really helps me in situations where it's available to start conversations. When I was 15 I bought nice DDR pads because all my friends were playing and I was tired of sitting in the back watching but didn't want to make a fool of myself so I started practicing at home.

I'm not saying these things are all that matter, but I am saying that they do have a pretty great effect on the quality of a game for some, especially the less hardcore gamers.

I totally agree with this. I played the first three Spyro games to 100%+ completion multiple times and looked for all the achievements. Then, after buying Season of Ice and Enter the Dragonfly, I quit playing Spyro all together.

As far as I've heard, Crash Bandicoot and Sonic the Hedgehog have both gone down the same path.

The main problem is that the industry focuses waaaaaaay too much on those things. So much so, that the gameplay is seriously left hanging as a result.


Personally, I don't care about consumer hype or the overall popularity of a game. All I care about is whether or not the game is good.
And from what I've seen, only a very small handful of current-gen games are actually any good at all. The vast majority of them are utter garbage, for reasons which I stated above.


That may be so, but I personally do not care about any of that. I never have, and I never will.
The only things that concern me are gameplay, creativity, imagination and innovation. And I am just not seeing any of that in the vast majority of current-gen games.
I can honestly say that I have gotten much more enjoyment out of older games than I ever did from almost all of the current stuff.

One could argue that most, if not all videogames, contain licensed characters...Link and Zelda, Mario and pals, Mr. Hedgehog for example...which is why I was rather confused at this thread in the first place @_@

I just ment that the games had to start out as a game franchise before being turned into a movie/show