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What's the worst game you played all year?
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Henry Jones Jr
Member
I'm going to go with Darksiders 2.
Got that game on a steam sale about a month ago. I'm probably about 4-5 hours in and man is that game boring. You ride through this empty overworld to get to a bunch of pretty bland dungeons. Is it just me, or does 90% of this game contain no music? The story seems pretty lame. "Hi, I'm Death. I'm here to do stupid tasks for you giant dwarf people."
There is also a ton of shitty climbing. Half the time he won't jump in the direction you want, or wont jump at all. And the combat is far more frustrating than fun. I feel like the more fearsome enemy in the game is the camera. Not to mention that loot drops ALL THE TIME and the pop up window that compares the stats to what you are wearing is useless. It wont show you if a stat is completely missing from the item you are looking at. For instance, if you have a bracer with 30 armor and 20 strength, and you find another bracer on the ground with 21 armor and no strength, it will show the bracer as a + to armor, but completely neglect that you will lose 20 strength.
On top of that, the PC version seems to have stuttering and v-sync problems.
I really don't know if I can take it anymore. But on the plus side, it is the most effective sleeping aid I have ever tried.
Got that game on a steam sale about a month ago. I'm probably about 4-5 hours in and man is that game boring. You ride through this empty overworld to get to a bunch of pretty bland dungeons. Is it just me, or does 90% of this game contain no music? The story seems pretty lame. "Hi, I'm Death. I'm here to do stupid tasks for you giant dwarf people."
There is also a ton of shitty climbing. Half the time he won't jump in the direction you want, or wont jump at all. And the combat is far more frustrating than fun. I feel like the more fearsome enemy in the game is the camera. Not to mention that loot drops ALL THE TIME and the pop up window that compares the stats to what you are wearing is useless. It wont show you if a stat is completely missing from the item you are looking at. For instance, if you have a bracer with 30 armor and 20 strength, and you find another bracer on the ground with 21 armor and no strength, it will show the bracer as a + to armor, but completely neglect that you will lose 20 strength.
On top of that, the PC version seems to have stuttering and v-sync problems.
I really don't know if I can take it anymore. But on the plus side, it is the most effective sleeping aid I have ever tried.
cooljeanius
Member
Really? I guess that means it's time for me to remove it from my Steam wishlist if it's really that bad...
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It isn't. I really enjoyed it.
I can understand if a person may not personally like it, but it isn't an objectively broken game and the mechanics work as they should. It's a puzzle platformer, where the puzzle is finding out how to traverse the world.
Street Fighter x Tekken I guess. The online was so bad that I just had to flatout quit playing online, something I haven't done in a fighting game since Brawl. I managed to get a decent amount of fun outta local multiplayer, but not enough to justify buying it Day 1 for $60. Then there's the fact that I still can't get the rest of the characters without dropping another $20.
Never again, Capcom. Well...for anything that's not Marvel or Power Stone.
Never again, Capcom. Well...for anything that's not Marvel or Power Stone.
RE6
I had some fun with it but I never wanna play it ever again. I recently played it just to see the new camera that the patch added. I played it for about a minute and I was done. Forever. I think most of the people who say they love it say that because they love Mercenaries. I understand that because the actual gameplay mechanics are pretty good once you master them. But if you don't give two shits about Mercenaries then this game has virtually no redeeming qualities. They story mode is just full of terrible "cinematic" bullshit that makes going through most of the chapters a chore. Every single chapter as something bad in it. Every single one. If I want to get to the good part of a chapter I have to go through a bunch of terrible shit. For example, I like the Tall Oaks town part in Leon's first chapter. However, to get to it I have to go through the awful tutorial-like university section. It's fucking torture.
I will never understand the Bayonetta hate btw. The combat is just so good.
I had some fun with it but I never wanna play it ever again. I recently played it just to see the new camera that the patch added. I played it for about a minute and I was done. Forever. I think most of the people who say they love it say that because they love Mercenaries. I understand that because the actual gameplay mechanics are pretty good once you master them. But if you don't give two shits about Mercenaries then this game has virtually no redeeming qualities. They story mode is just full of terrible "cinematic" bullshit that makes going through most of the chapters a chore. Every single chapter as something bad in it. Every single one. If I want to get to the good part of a chapter I have to go through a bunch of terrible shit. For example, I like the Tall Oaks town part in Leon's first chapter. However, to get to it I have to go through the awful tutorial-like university section. It's fucking torture.
I will never understand the Bayonetta hate btw. The combat is just so good.
Dude, play through the whole game.
The ending stuff will make sense and there are more paths than 999.
Night_Trekker
Member
Yet everyone raved about Torchlight II as the second (third, even!) coming of Diablo, when in reality it wasn't anything special either.
I still had an enjoyable experience with Diablo III, maybe mostly for the social aspect as I played the game with friends over Skype from beginning to Inferno for about 100 hours. It came out the week after finals back in May and we had absolutely nothing but free time, so we played the shit out of it.
There was absolutely a point when I said "Why the fuck am I playing this game?" and that came right around Inferno Act 3 before any patches were released. Nope.
reptilescorpio
Member
Call of Juarez The Cartel
Which is sad because the Call of Juarez game (the second one) that came out a few years ago was actually pretty good! I liked it quite a bit.
I would have forgiven it to some degree if there were strengths that carried it a bit, but I can't find any. The story was so awful it makes me embarrassed for the people who wrote it. The co-op mode actually punished you by making the game insurmountably difficult for those of us who aren't masochists or gaming iron men.
You won't find me raving about TL2, I've never played it.
I think the fact that Deckard Cain is so easily offed by such a silly, minor character is actually unforgivable. And I don't even care about the story of any of the games, but it's Deckard fucking Cain, man. You can't just do him like that.
Conflict NZ
Member
Mass Effect 3. The ending ruined the rest of the series for me. Since 2007 I have been immersed in the story, following every detail. Five years of buildup and hype led to three different coloured 2 minute cutscenes and basically ruined everything I loved about the series with one of the most bullshit cliched "The protagonist dies OMG WE ARE SOOOO EDGY LOLZ" endings I have ever seen. Congrats Mac the Hack, you ruined everything Bioware stood for and I will never purchase another one of your products.
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust. The game has real potential, the voice actors are good, there is a decent game idea behind it and there are some actually really funny jokes, but it's all put together so poorly, with bad art, shoddy editing and an annoying camera. Such a shame
Resident Evil: ORC. What a sloppy mess.
I still can't believe that game sold over 2 million.
Bad consumers are ruining the industry right now.
maverick40
Junior Member
Zone of enders HD collection. Fuck what a mess. Nostalgia is a dangerous thing. The games just suck so bad now.
I heard the second one is still good, yeah?
BrokenSymmetry
Member
Guild Wars 2. I loved Guild Wars 1 and played it for thousands of hours, but GW2 was a huge disappointment. Generic MMO world and combat, worst story and voice acting I've ever encountered in a game, no skill customization, no connection at all to its world, enemies respawning seconds after you killem them, lots of bugged Dynamic Events, etc.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Lakewood Story Episode 1.
It's free, RPG Maker, yeah yeah... But this game was hilariously terrible, I don't even know where to begin. Glitchy as hell, terrible yet hilarious pacing, laugh-out-loud dumb puzzles, and the kicker, it's made by a German guy trying to make it in English... It's hilariously terrible, and the worst part is you can see some honest effort was put into making this. Definitely sticks out as the low point game for me this year, even if it is unintentionally hilarious.
It's free, RPG Maker, yeah yeah... But this game was hilariously terrible, I don't even know where to begin. Glitchy as hell, terrible yet hilarious pacing, laugh-out-loud dumb puzzles, and the kicker, it's made by a German guy trying to make it in English... It's hilariously terrible, and the worst part is you can see some honest effort was put into making this. Definitely sticks out as the low point game for me this year, even if it is unintentionally hilarious.
maladroit
Member
Diablo 3. Every single aspect of it was a problem.
The fundamental design philosophy was an issue. They were so determined to "keep things simple" and "stay away from bloat" they didn't even make the UI modular, which meant minor tweaks to the interface required major code rewrites. Things that should've taken days or weeks got pushed back months.
The servers were constantly fucked. Playing hardcore was worthless, if not impossible, even months after launch, because a few times a week you'd lag out and just die to anything in the area.
There was a horrid lack of content. First of all, the entire game plan was players had to reach the level cap by beating the same short game four times in a row. What? Then, they had to grind until they were decked out in gear, at which point there was... nothing to do? At all? No interacting with other players, no additional challenge. Nothing.
It's absolutely mind-boggling to me that this game could be so far off the rails, and even lack general polish, when it had such a long time in development. The thought of ever having to play it again actually makes me feel nauseous, which no other game has managed to do.
The only thing positive I have to say about Diablo 3 is when the real money auction house was implemented I was able to sell all my gear and pay for the game, as well as make ~400 dollars.
The fundamental design philosophy was an issue. They were so determined to "keep things simple" and "stay away from bloat" they didn't even make the UI modular, which meant minor tweaks to the interface required major code rewrites. Things that should've taken days or weeks got pushed back months.
The servers were constantly fucked. Playing hardcore was worthless, if not impossible, even months after launch, because a few times a week you'd lag out and just die to anything in the area.
There was a horrid lack of content. First of all, the entire game plan was players had to reach the level cap by beating the same short game four times in a row. What? Then, they had to grind until they were decked out in gear, at which point there was... nothing to do? At all? No interacting with other players, no additional challenge. Nothing.
It's absolutely mind-boggling to me that this game could be so far off the rails, and even lack general polish, when it had such a long time in development. The thought of ever having to play it again actually makes me feel nauseous, which no other game has managed to do.
The only thing positive I have to say about Diablo 3 is when the real money auction house was implemented I was able to sell all my gear and pay for the game, as well as make ~400 dollars.
Riposte
Member
I like The Mercenaries, but I also really liked the main game too. Saying it has no redeeming qualities while also saying it has "good parts" is contradictory. Also going to that from saying every chapter has at least one bad thing about it is an odd way to explain your position. Most of the game is split between quick small encounters as you move through an area or big arena fights, both show the virtues of The Mercenaries in action (in the case of the latter, they take the areas and turn them into Merc maps). One thing the campaign has over Mercs (which is to say it does what Mercs does, better) is that Mercs is confided to a few small areas where you kill things, whereas in the course of these campaigns you see move along more places than you would in most games.
I wouldn't say the "cinematic bullshit" is as common as you imply here. I guess it becomes more common depending on how loose you take that word to mean (everything that isn't on foot with the normal combat system?). Even then the vast majority of the game is spent like you'd expect with small portions where it varies (running sequences for example), though I don't know if something like that shows up in every single chapter (it seems most common in Leon's campaign, the weakest campaign). I think most of them are inoffensive at worst, though there some really troubling ones that I could see ruining someone's mood (particularly the running sequences in Leon 3 and Chris 5 come to mind).
That may be true for Leon 1, as that's likely the worst part of the game (especially to replay) right after the Prelude. I can't think of any other part of the game which strips you down to that degree and for that long, it is not a great example. Once they add save point(sub-chapter) selection, I'll probably won't touch it again.