What is the WORST video game you have ever played?

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I would say Red Orchestra 2. Everything about the game to me was really bad, it did not click with me at all. I can say the sound effects and the graphics were nice, but aside from that, not a fan.

All the ones that won't let me out of Level I, no matter how hard and long I try. That's most of them. I don't get games anymore. I still would like one that would let me drive, I thought I would like <famous name car game> but it won't let me out of Hawaii.

hardly a good thing. IMO games should try and grab the players attention as early as possible. the longer it takes for a game to "get going" the less likely i am to keep slogging through it.

armikrog had a fantastic opening cutscene evocative of saturday morning catoons, with very smooth clay animation, but the ending sequences saw the repeated use of the baby and 4 way sliding block puzzles, methinks they ran out of ideas pretty quickly. perhaps this is the opposite scenario.

i understand being irked over seeing very little of spiro 5 except the area immediately outside the fortress and having the reveal of attacks on it lead to nothing, but it didn't bug me too much.

but a bad game, but mediocre with the potential to me freaking amazing if given a bit more TLC.

The Red Star (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Star_(video_game)

A very obscure PS2 game released in 2007.

It was originally supposed to be released in 2004 but was cancelled due to the small indie company going bankrupt, before being picked up by a larger company.

It's just...boring.

I usually like shoot em up/beat em up combat games (combined with platformer or roleplay elements, e.g. Ratchet & Clank, Avatar series, Jak, etc.) but this was just dull and repetitive.

Extremely difficult combat and dodgy controls. Very repetitive combat almost no sort of diversity whatsoever. All enemies are exactly the same except for they get slightly more powerful over-time + bosses.

It lacks dialogue except for pain sounds and has no sort of story whatsoever except for little snippets of text before a chapter/mission.

Awful graphics.

Like I said, I enjoy games like this normally, but with things The Red Star doesn't have. Ratchet & Clank and Jak have platforming elements, up to date graphics for their time, humor, characters with personality, decent voice acting, diverse range of skillsets, equipment and weaponry to use, use of vehicles, diverse enemies and locations and diverse combat, etc.

Maybe Red Star is too different to Jak and Ratchet and Clank, but even similar games like Prince of Persia are far more diverse.

Yeah, The Red Star might appeal to some people for having a 'classic/retro' feel to it, but to me this is an outdated PS2 game that seems like something that should be on the old Sega and Nintendo systems. I remember even the Chapter screen looks like one of those old NES screens.

Gameplay video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls2rUXJsHLU

I remember doing like the first four or five chapters and it was all the same: C+P maps and enemies. The video I've linked is just one mission, but it's also basically the whole game (and there's like 20 chapters). You can upgrade your character and should as the enemies increase in difficulty but I could see there wasn't going to be anything interesting anytime soon.

Leisure Suit Larry - Box Office Bust

Easily the single worst game ever released on any Microsoft console.

Anybody who says otherwise either hasn't played it or is easily amused by "comedy" which uses nonstop profanity as a substitute for actual humor.

Shadow the Hedgehog. Janky, glitchy controls, dreadful level design, and B movie story..

I'd say Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing or Dick Tracy For NES
I think you know what i mean (or not )

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark.

Complete trash.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
The Simpsons Skateboarding

How to Train your Dragon 2. That game was so disappointing.

That game is a guilty pleasure. It is the very definition of jank, but everything about the plot is amazing. Any game that opens with a black Sonic pumping an assault rifle (?!) has to be good. Then there's the fact that you can go evil and commit terrorist acts in a misjudged post-9/11 America analogy. Or the Prez in what is clearly the White House, who looks solemnly a photo of Sonic & Shadow during the good times. It's so silly that I love it.

Then again I also finished Sonic 2006 so I might be broken.

I've posted one awful game before here (FFXIII) but I'm going to break convention and post some more.

Oblivion. Everything about the setting is atrocious. Going from the high fantasy setting of Morrowind to the laziest Roman empire analog ever was painful enough, but the lack of scale to the Imperial capital, and it's poor design, was unforgivable. The quality of the writing was probably the worst in any mainstream game that I can recall. Graphically, it looked pretty in the forests but the characters looked awful even for the time. Fighting involved very little conscious effort. Incidentally, every Bethesda game since has been pretty bad and I was tempted to put Fallout 3 here, because that game is an awful mess in a lot of the same ways.

World of Warcraft. Obvious enough choice, my main issue is that, for a game where you're supposed to be invested in the world, the lore and everything around it is awful. I started as a gnome or dwarf or WHATEVER, admired the awful graphical style while finishing the tutorial area, at which point I was dumped in the gnome/dwarf/whatever town of Tinkertown. Because short people like to tinker. That's the level of narrative depth and world-building we're dealing with? How do people play this game for more than half an hour before turning off in disgust?

I'll probably think of more games to post about later.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Everything is just wrong about that game; the music's boring and forgettable, the graphics look outdated as heck and dull, the gameplay's essentially Rachet and Clank if those games were awful and boring, terrible framerate, and characters who keep talking constantly. Another huge problem is how barren and overall dead the game feels, with no unique or interesting style, which isn't helped by how empty the hub world is. I'm not a big fan of the modern Sonic the Hedgehog games (save for Sonic Generations or Sonic Colors), but this is a new low for the blue hedgehog.

worst game I played for my is resident evil revelations

I can't believe that happened too. A Sonic game worse than Sonic 06 and it wasn't even made by Sonic Team.

Virus: It Is Aware. It's based on a crappy film with Jamie Lee Curtis.