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GAF, what is the worst game you've ever played?
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letmetrythisname
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Being born in the nineties (and in the US where the C64 and especially Spectrum weren't so prevalent), I'm honestly grateful I missed the apparent mountain of bad games that those systems had, as much as I'd like to track some of those computers down and play the good games they have.
shark sandwich
tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
Haha same here. Rented that game for NES and thought it was the worst POS I'd ever played, although I really had no idea WTF I was doing. Check out some videos of Hylide for Saturn (Virtual Hylide I think it's called?) to see what this turd evolved into.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Probably Back to the Future Parts II & III on the NES.
I have no idea what to do.
I have no idea what to do.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade's Revenge is up there.
Yes! This was one of my few NES games and I died at about the same spot a few levels in every time. I hated this game so much.
Well this one..sigh..
Oh god...the stuttering
Octavianus
Banned
Fallout 4 followed closely by Fallout 3.
Hated literally everything about those games, the only reason I even tried both of them was due to being a big fan of the first two games so I wanted to give them a shot.
Unfortunately, they're just not for me, to put it mildly.
Other games I hated:
-Earthworm Jim 3D
-Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
-No Man's Sky
-Rise of the Robots
Hated literally everything about those games, the only reason I even tried both of them was due to being a big fan of the first two games so I wanted to give them a shot.
Unfortunately, they're just not for me, to put it mildly.
Other games I hated:
-Earthworm Jim 3D
-Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
-No Man's Sky
-Rise of the Robots
MegaSackman
Member
NOOOOO THAT GAME WAS LEGIT!!
It's a GAF tradition!
Sir_Crocodile
Member
I remember there was a game that the developer didn't finish, so they just made the last completed level impossible to clear and shipped it.
Was a late eighties platformer, can't remember what it was called now though.
I'm sure this happened more then once back then.
Was a late eighties platformer, can't remember what it was called now though.
I'm sure this happened more then once back then.
oh god that might be the best most recent one for me too.
Objectively there are worse games but for someone who loves the Yakuza games Dead Souls just feels absolutely souless, miserable experience.
SwipeLeftHoney
Banned
Easily without a doubt Vampire Rain was the worst game I've ever played.
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/vampire-rain
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/vampire-rain
The one that immediately comes to mind is Dead Island on PC.
A friend and I got it on sale 3-4 years ago to play it co-op. We had issues connecting, and then even when we did connect we were totally off sync the entire time. He'd ask my why I'm standing at this place not moving, when I'd be across the map waiting for him on my screen. Within an hour we had both uninstalled it.
Resident Evil 6 was also a similar story. It kept disconnecting us and replacing the other player with a bot without even telling us. It also had your Microphone on permanently with no option to turn it off or switch to push to talk.
A friend and I got it on sale 3-4 years ago to play it co-op. We had issues connecting, and then even when we did connect we were totally off sync the entire time. He'd ask my why I'm standing at this place not moving, when I'd be across the map waiting for him on my screen. Within an hour we had both uninstalled it.
Resident Evil 6 was also a similar story. It kept disconnecting us and replacing the other player with a bot without even telling us. It also had your Microphone on permanently with no option to turn it off or switch to push to talk.
Rapscallion
Member
Spider-Man on the GB might be up there. Horrible, horrible game.
MegaSackman
Member
DarthButcher
Member
letmetrythisname
Member
I remember a really old YouTuber named Armake21 doing a video defending it back in like 2007, saying it's actually pretty good and extremely tense once you acclimate to the mechanics, but I've heard the same defense for RE6 and that game was still shit.
FalsettoVibe
Member
rogue galaxy
i wish i could have my 50+ hours back
You played your worst game for 50+ hours?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Oh boy... I've played some pretty bad games.
Now this one isn't technically the -worst- I've ever played, but it's the game I hated my time with it the most.
I was a dumb kid and got this game with my own money, which I never got allowance or anything like that and had to do work for others to get money since my parents never gave me a dime. Anyway, I bought this game, I don't remember why. Even at the time I got it, where I must've been only 11-13 years old, I hated it.
There's a literal garbage mechanic where you have to pick up garbage to get access to minigames, you go around a fixed camera angle (with REALLY drawn out angles making it hard to spot your character among crowds) looking for garbage, which is tiny, and then to throw it away. Do enough and you can get a fast pass for something so you don't have to deal with long lines of people blocking access to games. This mechanic is just not fun.
Several of the minigames are rather broken or just not fun, and sometimes game gets to the point of frustrating. Some of the 'minigames' aren't even games, like one is just a cutscene from different angles and another you literally cannot lose (but on the flipside some are so infuriatingly difficult, it's just... GUUUUUH.)
The worst is a goddamn quiz sequence where you need to answer I think 10-20 questions correctly without getting three wrong, they're on a timer and they're WAY too hard, there's a large array of questions and many of them go into various movie's development cycles. I don't fucking know what happened on the set of Water World or remember what the cameo title of a book was in some scene of E.T.. And everytime you get it wrong, the Woodpecker just taunts at you, "You need to watch more movies!" Over and over again. And you can't progress in the game until you beat this, and you're only give 15-20 seconds for each question so you have no time to search it up online.
But that wasn't close to all that was wrong with the game, from shitty graphics to filler content and and...
I was probably more sour on it because I spent money on it at a time I barely had any to spend on games as a kid, but it's stuck with me. I know I've played worse games, but this one was my least favorite gaming experience.
Now this one isn't technically the -worst- I've ever played, but it's the game I hated my time with it the most.
I was a dumb kid and got this game with my own money, which I never got allowance or anything like that and had to do work for others to get money since my parents never gave me a dime. Anyway, I bought this game, I don't remember why. Even at the time I got it, where I must've been only 11-13 years old, I hated it.
There's a literal garbage mechanic where you have to pick up garbage to get access to minigames, you go around a fixed camera angle (with REALLY drawn out angles making it hard to spot your character among crowds) looking for garbage, which is tiny, and then to throw it away. Do enough and you can get a fast pass for something so you don't have to deal with long lines of people blocking access to games. This mechanic is just not fun.
Several of the minigames are rather broken or just not fun, and sometimes game gets to the point of frustrating. Some of the 'minigames' aren't even games, like one is just a cutscene from different angles and another you literally cannot lose (but on the flipside some are so infuriatingly difficult, it's just... GUUUUUH.)
The worst is a goddamn quiz sequence where you need to answer I think 10-20 questions correctly without getting three wrong, they're on a timer and they're WAY too hard, there's a large array of questions and many of them go into various movie's development cycles. I don't fucking know what happened on the set of Water World or remember what the cameo title of a book was in some scene of E.T.. And everytime you get it wrong, the Woodpecker just taunts at you, "You need to watch more movies!" Over and over again. And you can't progress in the game until you beat this, and you're only give 15-20 seconds for each question so you have no time to search it up online.
But that wasn't close to all that was wrong with the game, from shitty graphics to filler content and and...
I was probably more sour on it because I spent money on it at a time I barely had any to spend on games as a kid, but it's stuck with me. I know I've played worse games, but this one was my least favorite gaming experience.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
This is mine, exactly. BL2 was such a disappointment.
There is some Alf game that I think was for the master system. At one point you can buy a book, at which time if you read it, you have to start the game over again. The game also gives you no indication that it is a "cursed" book or I don't even know the reason behind the item in that game, but that made it the worst game I have played.
hydrophilic attack
Member
😔
the badness crept up on me, and when i realized, i fell victim to the sunk cost fallacy
djplaeskool
Member
Home Alone 2 (NES) was probably the worst experience overall that comes to mind.
Enter the Matrix (NGC) also gets a nod for being such an unstable, crashy, jank-ass game
X-blades was bad, but at least functional, I guess.
Enter the Matrix (NGC) also gets a nod for being such an unstable, crashy, jank-ass game
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X-blades was bad, but at least functional, I guess.
I have vague memories of DOS Mega Man and thinking WTF and going right back to my NES.
Edit: Completely forgot about Atari 2600 games. I don't know if I'd even count some of those as "games". Even Superman 64 has redeeming entertainment value compared to some of the coding done on those carts.
Edit: Completely forgot about Atari 2600 games. I don't know if I'd even count some of those as "games". Even Superman 64 has redeeming entertainment value compared to some of the coding done on those carts.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Tony Hawk Ride. And it was at a public demo in a shopping mall. I had to stop and get off the board, it was just too shitty to keep playing.
The rep asked me what I thought and I had to politely tell her "that might be the worst game I've ever played". She didn't seem at all surprised.
The rep asked me what I thought and I had to politely tell her "that might be the worst game I've ever played". She didn't seem at all surprised.
Pops Maellard
Member
I talked my best friend into buying Brink with me at launch. We actually just had a huge falling out two weeks ago and now I'm wondering if it was six years of bitter resentment about Brink.
What was so bad about BL2?
BakedTanooki
Member
Yaris on Xbox 360
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
This just reminded me: Mega Man 2 on a flip phone circa 2006 is without question the worst game I've ever played.
Cross-Section
Member
A little game called Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure for the Gamecube.
Rented it as a kid while on a bit of a Back to the Future kick; needless to say it, uh, did not live up to expectations.
This person knows my pain.
Rented it as a kid while on a bit of a Back to the Future kick; needless to say it, uh, did not live up to expectations.
This person knows my pain.
malboroking
Banned
this
I think I saw a girl wearing that outfit at a rave I went to in 1996. Wtf is up with those pants?
Lmao man every time I recommend something my brother dead eyes me and starts a sentence with "Remember when..." ah man I've got him to buy a few stinkers with me, evolve is another.
I've finally learned my lesson and stopped giving into hype and wait for impressions, Nioh being the exception.
malboroking
Banned
Good to see were already seeing garbage posts. Majoras Mask? Fallout 3? Be careful not to cut yourself on the edge.
QuantumZebra
Member
Just terrible. Clearly worse than Superman 64, ET, etc...
they are edgehogs
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On topic: release day Aliens: Colonial Marines was pretty horrific. That might be the most recent memory one. Of all time, hmm... Duke Nukem Forever or that recent Jurassic Park game.
That's really hard. I mostly remember the games I really like. Most games I disliked I have forgotten about now unless some one actually mentioned the game and then I might recall that I disliked it.
And even in recent memory I haven't played a game I didn't care for in a long time. I guess I'll say farcry 4 since it lasted me all of a day or two before I got bored of it (I didn't dislike it, I just got distracted by other things and never felt the need to go back. Seems a trend with Ubisoft games). Not really upset cause I just paid 10 bux for it though. Or maybe Assassin's Creed BLack flag? (The pirate one that came out with the PS4). Which also I got bored of quickly (I kinda expected it but wanted a game to play on my PS4... just didn't expect to get bored that quickly).
I'm sure I've played worse games. And if some one mentioned them I'd remember hating them. But I don't remember them off the top of my head.
The only other game I can think of was FF VIII mostly cause i could not care less about the characters and at the time I had to care about the characters to be motivated to play the game ... so I finally put it down and said not bothering finishing it. I still think I've probably played a worse game but honestly it's the only one I can think of that I outright disliked (I mean I don't think any of those are necessarily bad games, they just really didn't hit me right).
And even in recent memory I haven't played a game I didn't care for in a long time. I guess I'll say farcry 4 since it lasted me all of a day or two before I got bored of it (I didn't dislike it, I just got distracted by other things and never felt the need to go back. Seems a trend with Ubisoft games). Not really upset cause I just paid 10 bux for it though. Or maybe Assassin's Creed BLack flag? (The pirate one that came out with the PS4). Which also I got bored of quickly (I kinda expected it but wanted a game to play on my PS4... just didn't expect to get bored that quickly).
I'm sure I've played worse games. And if some one mentioned them I'd remember hating them. But I don't remember them off the top of my head.
The only other game I can think of was FF VIII mostly cause i could not care less about the characters and at the time I had to care about the characters to be motivated to play the game ... so I finally put it down and said not bothering finishing it. I still think I've probably played a worse game but honestly it's the only one I can think of that I outright disliked (I mean I don't think any of those are necessarily bad games, they just really didn't hit me right).