Machine
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The main board game is about as thrilling as a game of Candy Land but the desert island survival game is actually pretty fun.
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The 100 worst games of all time (GamesRadar)
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The main board game is about as thrilling as a game of Candy Land but the desert island survival game is actually pretty fun.
Little Nemo
Member
Yeah, I don't know what Fester's Quest is doing on there. There were way worse NES games back then. I'm looking at you, Deadly Towers.
Hella Lugosi
Member
It was never officially released so I'm not sure if it counts. Also it gets a pass for being satire.
Icedburden
Member
Game isn't horrible. It's just not what the fans wanted.
I'm calling complete and utter bullshit on Fester's Quest and Friday the 13th being on that list. There are easily dozens of worse NES games. Both games are difficult but there's nothing about them that's broken or impossible. They control a lot better than tons of other games, none of the bosses are impossible, they have solid graphics and if you know what you're doing they can both be fun.
I think a lot of hate for Friday the 13th comes from the fact that it appeared to be a simple side scroller and it's mistakenly approached that way. It's actually a deceptively deep game with strategy and RPG elements. That misconception got young players rushing through carelessly like it was Contra and progressing poorly. Then being ill-equipped for the Jason fights that can whittle down your campers, getting them all killed and shelving the game permanently.
I think a lot of hate for Friday the 13th comes from the fact that it appeared to be a simple side scroller and it's mistakenly approached that way. It's actually a deceptively deep game with strategy and RPG elements. That misconception got young players rushing through carelessly like it was Contra and progressing poorly. Then being ill-equipped for the Jason fights that can whittle down your campers, getting them all killed and shelving the game permanently.
Most interesting thing in here, that list a "hey, we heard these were bad" list...nothing more.
Veritigo_X
Member
Only one I've played on the list is Bubsy 3D. I actually ended up beating it as a kid. Gotta get your money's worth out of those rentals.
It's a "board game" that hasn't anything of a "game". So it's just a "board".
Nah it's actually legit terrible. Maybe not top 100 terrible but terrible nonetheless. The gameplay is complete trash (no sense of impact, bad animations, boring and recycled enemies, broken game balance, completely trash encounter design like that invisible underwater bossfight, etc.), the game is ugly as sin (the only redeeming factor being Dante's design), the story might as well be nonexistent... It's just shit, and not just as a DMC game.
Bl4ckSunsh1n3
Member
E.T. is so bad that all of the cartridges got tossed in a landfill. I think number two is selling it short.
I liked Friday the 13th for the most part.
I liked Friday the 13th for the most part.
Out of the games I've played on that list, they all definitely deserve to be there... excepting maybe Friday the 13th and Fester's Quest. Friday the 13th is not a good game but it's not irredeemably horrible. Just one of those extremely obtuse games with poor hit detection, slightly stiff control, and vague objectives that were a dime a dozen on the NES. Though I would have never guessed the company who made it would end up becoming one of my favorite ever game devs.
Back in the day pre-AVGN Fester's Quest seemed to garner a tiny bit of praise in like Nintendo Power and such. Boss graphics look great at least.
Back in the day pre-AVGN Fester's Quest seemed to garner a tiny bit of praise in like Nintendo Power and such. Boss graphics look great at least.
Gipsy Danger
Member
Rogue Warrior is horrendous. The only thing remotely good is the stupid rap at the end featuring Mickey Rourke. And that's only because of it's terribleness.
MrCunningham
Member
I feel like it is getting harder to make a "worst of all time" game list because of how iOS/ Google Play and Stream Greenlight has really affected everything. A game like Big Rigs used to be a novelty in how bad it was. But there are so many bad Greenlight games out there now that just rival it in its badness.
You beat me to it. I literally never heard anyone claim it was a bad game until internet hyperbole legend made it soley responsible for ruining the industry retroactively.
XAMOEL_ART
Banned
Friday the 13th?
I actually like the game...
well, the cabin music over all.
I actually like the game...
well, the cabin music over all.
MrCunningham
Member
It was getting credit for ruining the the home console industry 1983 long before the internet. I remember there being articles about it in old game magazines. It wasn't really the game that was solely responsible for ruining an entire industry, I feel like it was the tipping point.. Bad 2600 games like Pac-Man and the last of quality control for third party developers were already souring consumers on home consoles, at least in North America.
Though ET really isn't one of the worst games on the Atari 2600. It was actually "OK" in comparison to some of the other trash that was released for that system.
diffusionx
Gold Member
There are thousands of games that would kill to have DMC2's problems.
"All of the cartridges" weren't thrown in a landfill, the game was one of the top selling 2600 games. The issue was that they massively over produced the game and still ended up with a ton of unsold carts.
The landfill itself that everyone acts like was filled with copies of ET was actually filled with an assortment of unsold games. The industry had crashed and games in general were no longer selling.
THE Caffeinated
Member
Ride to hell at the very least spawned one of the finest Quick Looks to date.
Ohh yeah, there was a reason why I never go to them. I don't fucking care to click through a bazilion pages just to see one thing.
Fucking piece of shit garbage.
Anyone mind sharing what they actually wrote about unlimited saga? Can't be arsed to do it on mobile.
Edit: i clicked and clicked
Ok i expecting the no go to location markers, mini map or how it wasn't CT, FF or something else main stream but hey each to their own. I also disliked it coming off Frontier but it grew ok meFlaws yes but the sum of it made up for it in the end.
I remember renting Unlimited SaGa, and not willing to put in the time to learn its obtuse systems, I gave up. One of the worst games ever? I couldn't say. But I think ignorant quotes and ideas like the one above have hurt Japanese RPGs in the west farrrr more than a niche game like this did.
This list is ridiculous. I remember playing Golden Axe: Beast Rider to completion, for example, and having a good time. Was it an amazing game? No, but it wasn't even close to be one of the worst 100 of all time.
I played a lot of games for the 80's micros that were much worse than anything on this list.
I played a lot of games for the 80's micros that were much worse than anything on this list.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Plumbers don't wear ties is awesome though...
mcz117chief
Member
I am enjoying it much more than most games I bought this year. I can think of like a million more games that can easily beat most games in their shittiness on that list.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Silent Hill: Book of Memories is a good game as long as you know what you're getting into (a hardcore Action/Roguelike with Silent Hill fanservice).
42. Unlimited SaGa
I'm not the only one that thinks this, I see. I remember Drinky Crow talking up this game. Those were the days...
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/08078/images/strouse11_en.jpg
I'm not the only one that thinks this, I see. I remember Drinky Crow talking up this game. Those were the days...
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/08078/images/strouse11_en.jpg
FriedConsole
Banned
It was the Star Wars Battlefront of it's time.
It was a massive failure, but people seem to forget how little that had to do with the game itself.
You've played a board game before, I take it? Snakes and Ladders, Ludo, Mouse Trap, etc.
Many of them are just taking turns to roll dice and seeing who wins, so being critical on those grounds is not the most effective line of attack.
JeffAtomsky
Banned
A few years ago it was only "top 10". Guess this one list never shrinks
96. Golden Axe: Beast Rider
Played through it, and it absolutely belongs on the list.
82. Bubsy 2
Don't remember it, but I played it when I was younger. I'm sure it's garbage.
76. Silent Hill: Book of Memories
This is the Vita game, right? If so, then yes it belongs here. Couldn't stomach more than maybe the first level. Total shit.
62. Chicken Shoot
This should really be much, much higher. Got it for super cheap and played a bit of it, and it's beyond fucking awful. No challenge whatsoever when you're shooting the same stupid chickens over and over again, until you get to the boss where you would have to shoot it for literally 10 minutes straight (maybe longer, because I couldn't sit through that shit). Developers of this should be fucking ashamed of themselves.
57. Mario is Missing
Same as Bubsy 2, don't remember it, but I'm sure it was crap.
42. Unlimited SaGa
Never played it, but this might be the one controversial game on the list. I know a few people out there swear by it.
33. Yaris
This game was supposed to offer cheap achievements, but I couldn't play it beyond one or two races. It's so bad.
Played through it, and it absolutely belongs on the list.
82. Bubsy 2
Don't remember it, but I played it when I was younger. I'm sure it's garbage.
76. Silent Hill: Book of Memories
This is the Vita game, right? If so, then yes it belongs here. Couldn't stomach more than maybe the first level. Total shit.
62. Chicken Shoot
This should really be much, much higher. Got it for super cheap and played a bit of it, and it's beyond fucking awful. No challenge whatsoever when you're shooting the same stupid chickens over and over again, until you get to the boss where you would have to shoot it for literally 10 minutes straight (maybe longer, because I couldn't sit through that shit). Developers of this should be fucking ashamed of themselves.
57. Mario is Missing
Same as Bubsy 2, don't remember it, but I'm sure it was crap.
42. Unlimited SaGa
Never played it, but this might be the one controversial game on the list. I know a few people out there swear by it.
33. Yaris
This game was supposed to offer cheap achievements, but I couldn't play it beyond one or two races. It's so bad.
Yeah I don't think it's quite the worst game ever, but I do think some defenders try to give it too much credit. It was a late gen release for the 2600 and if you look at some of the other games from that time like Pitfall and Yar's Revenge, it's pretty weak in comparison. Maybe not compared to some of the other earlier crap like Haunted House, but it's still bad. It's high-profile definitely enhanced it's reputation as crap through.
I am enjoying it much more than most games I bought this year. I can think of like a million more games that can easily beat most games in their shittiness on that list.
Honestly Silent Hill: Book of Memories and Yaiba are only on this because of franchise expectations. So really more dissapointing than actually bad.
Thats kind of the problem with a list like this, the actual 100 worst games are random shlock on mobile you've never even heard of.
Concrete Charlie
Member
I played hundreds of hours of Pac Man on the Atari 2600 as a little kid. I feel like the game got a bad rap.
mcz117chief
Member
Yeah, Yaiba is definitely the worst Ninja Gaiden game (haven't played Vanilla 3 though) but it works fine, has no bugs and has some very cool ideas + Yaiba himself is a super fun character that I would LOVE to see in Dead or Alive, and that intro, man that intro is one of the best there is. Definitely a game I would recommend if you would see it for $10-$20.
DAMN! I forgot about this game. We had it, and I have no idea why. It was trash.
Storm Raider
Banned
Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival & Black Ops Declassified are really that bad?!
Dot Matrix
Member
I only played 2 games on that list. Daikatana and Custer's Revenge. I think people hated Daikatana more because of the obnoxious ad campaign and it ended up being extremely average. Custer's Revenge is pretty childish and offensive though.
Mercenaries 2 should have been on there for sure.
Mercenaries 2 should have been on there for sure.