Brink is a fine contender for the title. As is Fable III, from what I can recall of the last couple generations. The real answer is probably something from the PS1-era that I rented and have thankfully forgotten.
The worst one I've ever inflicted on anyone else is X-Men: Destiny. My brother will never forgive me.
I really can't remember a single game I've downright hated. Maybe I'm good at knowing what I'll enjoy.
I could say Ecco The Dolphin because it was so ambiguous and I had no idea how to progress past the first 15 minutes or so. I keep meaning to go back to it after all these years.
Good one. One of the few games my parents ever bought for me on the NES (they owned a video store, so renting was basically "free"), because I thought the cover was so awesome. I think I ended up telling them to just take it down to the store and rent it out.
I remember a jrpg on Dreamcast that I had that I thought was the worst at the time. I don't remember the exact title but based on the cover art it was probably Time Stalkers.
I mean... it's totally Superman 64. I remember watching videos of it on IGN (may have still been N64.com back then) and being so hyped for a 3D Superman game where you could fly and pick up cars. I was a fool.
I played a lot of Toy Story for Gameboy when I was a kid because that and Mario Land were basically all I had for a while. I haven't played it since but I'm pretty sure it was complete crap.
All the buggy crap I played on the NES and N64 I've forgotten by now, and never played more than a minute or two of it anyway.
Of games I can remember and actually put some effort into, I'd say Binding of Isaac and Yoshi's Island DS are the first two that come into my mind. I have strong memories of how viciously I disliked the experience of playing those two. When I think of my top 5 hated games, they're ones that will always immediately pop into my head.
Good one. One of the few games my parents ever bought for me on the NES (they owned a video store, so renting was basically "free"), because I thought the cover was so awesome. I think I ended up telling them to just take it down to the store and rent it out.
I never owned it(thank God), but I have made it to the final level(don't ask me how). Truly a horrendous game or, as I refer to it, a hazardous walking simulator.
Personally, the worst game experience I had was GTA5. It is just random shit. The GPS-line fetish the missions designers had must be dangerous. Among the worst games where I am not alone in my opinion they are shit are Sonic 06, Sonic Black Knight (which is worse than 06 imo), Sonic RPG (worse than 06), Sonic Boom Rise of Lyric (worse than 06), Sonic Blast (worse than 06), Sonic 3D Blast (worse than 06) and Tenkai Knights (worse than all the bad Sonic games).
funny, i just played through the game again and had a lot more fun than i did before, maybe cause i was using a wiiu pro controller over the gc controller, caused it controlled better than i expected
Assuming "worst" takes into account feelings before, during and after a playthrough...
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2.
Never before have I hated a game so much after loving its demo passionately. To me, it was even worse than Devil May Cry 2 as far as sequels go.
Now if "worst" is more about a really janky, "how was this approved?" kind of game...
Quantum Theory.
Oh boy. Played it for the laughs on Dec. 21 2012, tried to do it in one sitting while the real world was supposed to explode, quit at 6 am because I was too tired to go on. Turned out I quit in the middle of the final boss fight, ha! A bland, yet memorable experience.
And if it's about torturing yourself, about a game that I NEVER, EVER, want to play through again...
Alice: Madness Returns.
You can't force me, no! NoOoOOoo!!!!
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You know what, forget all I said. The only answer here is Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta. Move along, Uncharted, there's a new franchise in town!
Uncanny X-Men on the NES. I saved up for awhile for that being a big comics fan and was soooo angry. I think that game caused me to mostly rent games for the rest of the NES and SNES era
I had a ZX Spectrum when I was young. There were a lot of really shit games. Even as a 10 year old to whom the Speccy was pretty much all I knew, they were shit.
There were myriad really shitty licensed games - here are a few that I remember being awful:
Your worst games have nothing on this one, I saved money for months as a kid to buy it, even Nintendo Power pimped it like it was the second coming of Christ. I lost my innocence the day I played it and understood that day bad videogames could also exist.
Why? It improved so much from BL1. My only gripe was no Old Haven type area to farm. Most areas were really open and enemies making a straight dash to you was more evident.
Story was shot, but the first game didn't even have one so..