SellTheKids4Food
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Uh, Game of the Year Edition... even as a late comer to Borderlands, there was no way I would have purchased it separately.
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What's the worst game you've played to completion and why did you stick with it?
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Uh, Game of the Year Edition... even as a late comer to Borderlands, there was no way I would have purchased it separately.
Kocolino67
Member
For me the last one was Bioshock Infinite. That was my tour de force of endurance.
drugstore_cowboy
Member
Sonic Adventure, horrible game but I had nothing else to play at the time and Halo 3, so boring it took me a year to take it back up after the first stage.
There's been far worse games I've played but I don't usually finish them.
There's been far worse games I've played but I don't usually finish them.
Love Deterrence
Member
Dude, if that's the worst game you've played... You've played some all-time historically great games.
Arc Christelle
Member
This and Shadow the Hedgehog for story line purposes. Ironically these two games were so bad that I ended up becoming primarily Gameplay focused afterwards even to the point I could judge a game's depth through a video.
sixpackrules
Member
For me it's Bioshock.
I played it to understand what all the hype was about and by the end, I still didn't understand what all the hype was about.
This, i understand what people saw in the game, but it hit all the wrong notes with me every one of them.
On another note afterfall insanity is a pretty bad game, but a really "good" bad game for me i don´t recomend anyone to play it except if they are into the insane sci-fi movies of the seventies, eighties
Other one is Rage, it did so many things wrong, except the character movement and the shooting wich for me was great and made me went to the end, but is a game with too many problems, but i liked the shootgun and the pistol with the big mommas? bullets, can´t remember its name, but i could expend hours shooting those guns, and in fact i did
Pryor
Member
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Bought it on the back of the AC II / BH hype train. I got platinum in II and everything but a couple of MP trophies in BH so I came into this thinking the good times would continue to roll... How wrong I was.
It started off bad and it got worse as it went along. I hated it but the need for closure drove me on. What was my reward at the end of this horrible journey? A slap in the face!
Bought it on the back of the AC II / BH hype train. I got platinum in II and everything but a couple of MP trophies in BH so I came into this thinking the good times would continue to roll... How wrong I was.
It started off bad and it got worse as it went along. I hated it but the need for closure drove me on. What was my reward at the end of this horrible journey? A slap in the face!
muyricosuave
Member
Because of boobs? I'm ashamed to say that's probably the only reason I played till the end. My waifu kaguya had me coming back for more.
Messofanego
Banned
Also, this. The bow and arrow headshots and general shooting was good, but everything else was just a really predictable boring experience.
That's too bad that it felt like a waste of time to you. One of my favourite audiovisual games, love the last chapter especially and one of the best stories I've experienced in a game but I can see if you got tired of the combat encounters or platforming (triple jumps tho) as it's very drawn out. I like to crank it up to Nightmare because I love the combat and have played it twice, though.
Uhm, I don't know. I mean, I've played and enjoyed games that are commonly thought as bad, so, even if technically Gears of War is considered good or even great by most, it really didn't click with me.
Mostly because I strongly dislike the cover mechanic and I much prefer action games like Max Payne 1&2. But also because I didn't care for the story and the characters at all and the visuals of the game didn't "wow" me at all.
Worst game ever played? How much games have you played? Was really suprised that i had more fun with Binary Domain as expected. Good gunplay. Story... well. Would say a solid 8.
The Horror the horror
Banned
Wii Party U
It's the worst game Nintendo has developed and published this generation.
It's the worst game Nintendo has developed and published this generation.
Not worst game I've ever played, worst game I've *fnished*. I'd probably give it a 6.5 or a 7. I don't generally finish truly terrible games!
Senor Kami
Banned
Eternal Sonata I played the majority of it while high that got me through that part. Then I started playing it sober and was like, "main this is pretty easy". I kept waiting for the "action-packed battle system that continually keeps you on your toes" (Kevin Van Ord, Gamespot) and "the pseudo-real-time system has a surprising amount of depth" (Erik Brudvig, IGN) to kick in. It never did.
The game is a joke. It's ridiculously easy. I don't know if my favorite characters from the story ended up being the ones that completely break the gameplay, but the combat is crazy easy. The most difficult thing is moving your character to the enemy but the controls are fine and the enemies are stationary so it's not like this is a deep task. Hell, one character has a bow and you don't even have to move. You don't even have to aim it despite being given the option to (when I was high I was trying to aim and that challenge made it seem a lot harder than it was).
Every evolution of the combat system, which IGN described as "just when you think you've got it all down, the combat system evolves and new options emerge as it becomes faster and more intense," actually just makes the game even easier. You can only land one major super attack, then it evolves to easily let you land two back-to-back. It got to a point where I had to setup a person thing that if I couldn't beat all enemies in one turn, I'd consider that as a failure and try to start over.
There is a light and dark mechanic where certain attacks only work in one or the other, enemies transform in one or the other, or enemies become stronger in one or the other. None of it matters. I had a healer for a while and her first heal spell could only be cast in the light. I thought maybe that would be challenging because I'd have to maneuver her around to not be in shadows and any night battle would be rally tough. A few level ups later she gets a night time heal so it doesn't matter. Everything is like that. You get ass kicking attacks in light and shadow. Enemies are easy hell so it really doesn't matter if they transform or get stronger. You can blow through them with button mashing in a single turn anyways.
As for why I kept playing it, I did like some of the characters (although my favorite disappears from the story for like half the game), I played much of it while intoxicated and didn't know any better, and I did kinda want to see how many powers I could get.
I did beat it though. Terrible final boss. I didn't even know he was the final boss until the credits started rolling. Having said all of that, I've heard that the PS3 version is way harder and makes the light/dark thing actually a serious factor. If it gets down to like $10 on PS3 I'd probably buy it and play it again. I did like the cute little moe girls who would wisecrack and the elf chick with the bow.
The game is a joke. It's ridiculously easy. I don't know if my favorite characters from the story ended up being the ones that completely break the gameplay, but the combat is crazy easy. The most difficult thing is moving your character to the enemy but the controls are fine and the enemies are stationary so it's not like this is a deep task. Hell, one character has a bow and you don't even have to move. You don't even have to aim it despite being given the option to (when I was high I was trying to aim and that challenge made it seem a lot harder than it was).
Every evolution of the combat system, which IGN described as "just when you think you've got it all down, the combat system evolves and new options emerge as it becomes faster and more intense," actually just makes the game even easier. You can only land one major super attack, then it evolves to easily let you land two back-to-back. It got to a point where I had to setup a person thing that if I couldn't beat all enemies in one turn, I'd consider that as a failure and try to start over.
There is a light and dark mechanic where certain attacks only work in one or the other, enemies transform in one or the other, or enemies become stronger in one or the other. None of it matters. I had a healer for a while and her first heal spell could only be cast in the light. I thought maybe that would be challenging because I'd have to maneuver her around to not be in shadows and any night battle would be rally tough. A few level ups later she gets a night time heal so it doesn't matter. Everything is like that. You get ass kicking attacks in light and shadow. Enemies are easy hell so it really doesn't matter if they transform or get stronger. You can blow through them with button mashing in a single turn anyways.
As for why I kept playing it, I did like some of the characters (although my favorite disappears from the story for like half the game), I played much of it while intoxicated and didn't know any better, and I did kinda want to see how many powers I could get.
I did beat it though. Terrible final boss. I didn't even know he was the final boss until the credits started rolling. Having said all of that, I've heard that the PS3 version is way harder and makes the light/dark thing actually a serious factor. If it gets down to like $10 on PS3 I'd probably buy it and play it again. I did like the cute little moe girls who would wisecrack and the elf chick with the bow.
Mr_Miyamoto
Banned
Prototype because I had to review it. Playing that game felt like you just lost a bet.
Violence Jack
Member
Crysis 2. I kept hearing about how awesome it was hoping that it would get better. I was wrong.
More recently, Lightning Returns. I don't think I've cussed out a game so much in the last decade. Of course, since I spent time reading up on the story from XIII and XIII-2 (and a twist ending), I wanted to force my way through all the mindless fetch quests and shoddy graphics. It wasn't worth it.
More recently, Lightning Returns. I don't think I've cussed out a game so much in the last decade. Of course, since I spent time reading up on the story from XIII and XIII-2 (and a twist ending), I wanted to force my way through all the mindless fetch quests and shoddy graphics. It wasn't worth it.
SentryDown
Member
I finished many bad games because of my job but the worst one was Adams Venture Chronicles. If you don't know it yet, it's a kind of mix between christianism, Uncharted and a boring point & click, without any violence/shooting, simply with badly designed puzzles.
And they told me I was lucky to play video games all day
Either Knights Contract or Quantum Theory.
Knights Contract I played because I enjoyed Game Republic's output and wanted to see what their final game was like. Quantum Theory I have no idea about, I guess I wanted to punish myself and play a really, really poor Gears of War clone...
Knights Contract I played because I enjoyed Game Republic's output and wanted to see what their final game was like. Quantum Theory I have no idea about, I guess I wanted to punish myself and play a really, really poor Gears of War clone...
SoldnerKei
Member
Resident Evil 6
because I left Leon Campaing for the end.. I wish the whole game would have been like that and erase Chris campaing from the game completly, I was playing that shit in autopilot, at least with Sherry I had an ass to look at
because I left Leon Campaing for the end.. I wish the whole game would have been like that and erase Chris campaing from the game completly, I was playing that shit in autopilot, at least with Sherry I had an ass to look at
PhantomHound
Banned
KillZone Shadowfall is my most recent.
PhantomHound
Banned
The fuck is this shit?
Similar thread I made like a year ago:
What's the worst game you've actually finished?
My pick? SW The Force Unleashed, what a piece of a shit of a game. I finished it because 1) I'm a huge fan of Star Wars and 2)It was my first PS3 game and I was hyped like a stupid monkey.
What's the worst game you've actually finished?
My pick? SW The Force Unleashed, what a piece of a shit of a game. I finished it because 1) I'm a huge fan of Star Wars and 2)It was my first PS3 game and I was hyped like a stupid monkey.
SkeptiMism
Member
I'm not sure if I have ever actually finished a game that I've thought is legitimately bad.
Final Fantasy 7 is probably the closest one. Played it last January. It's not a bad game really, but I don't think it's a good one either, and I quite disliked the game personally. But still I wanted to finish it as it is sort of a classic and as it's quite highly regarded I wanted to see if my opinion would change. But nope, it pretty much got just worse towards the end. Felt so incredibly bloated even for a JRPG.
Edit:
Starcraft 2's (Wings of Liberty) single player campaign is one legitimately bad part of a game (the multiplayer's good obviously). I was always a huge fan of Blizzard games, and the narrative of the original Starcraft and its expansion Brood War was awesome, but I don't know how they managed to mess it up so bad for SC2. Such a bad, generic story full of stupid cliches. I still finished it as I hoped it'd get better towards the end. Not buying the other 2 parts of SC2 now.
Final Fantasy 7 is probably the closest one. Played it last January. It's not a bad game really, but I don't think it's a good one either, and I quite disliked the game personally. But still I wanted to finish it as it is sort of a classic and as it's quite highly regarded I wanted to see if my opinion would change. But nope, it pretty much got just worse towards the end. Felt so incredibly bloated even for a JRPG.
Edit:
Starcraft 2's (Wings of Liberty) single player campaign is one legitimately bad part of a game (the multiplayer's good obviously). I was always a huge fan of Blizzard games, and the narrative of the original Starcraft and its expansion Brood War was awesome, but I don't know how they managed to mess it up so bad for SC2. Such a bad, generic story full of stupid cliches. I still finished it as I hoped it'd get better towards the end. Not buying the other 2 parts of SC2 now.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Rogue Warrior.
I have no idea what I was thinking.
I have no idea what I was thinking.
Great description that largely mimics my experience as well. It's a game I desperately wanted to like more than I did because it's brimming with beauty and imagination, but it's also the poster child for overstaying your welcome. They could have trimmed hours of content from the game and it would arguably have been much better.
That said, the worst game I ever finished was almost certainly Sphinx on the Xbox. Someone somewhere described it as a great game in the Zelda vein, and while the Zelda influence is clear, it is most certainly not a great game.
chrominance
Member
In a few weeks it'll probably be Starlight Inception. Just an unfortunate game from top to bottom--it's as though the devs didn't know about a decade's worth of game mechanics and development practices, and set out to recreate them from scratch. First-person mouselook doesn't work the way it's worked in every other game for the past two decades. If you hit the keyboard or mouse while playing the game with a controller, the game switches to M/KB input and doesn't let you use the controller again until you escape back to the settings menu and reset the input device manually. And so on and so forth. The storyline is also pretty amateur, with plenty of jargon-y modern military phrases thrown in just because. I feel bad because the people behind Starlight Inception seem like very nice people (I backed their Kickstarter), and it doesn't seem like it'll be that long so I'll try to finish it. But yeah, an abysmal first, second and third impression.
Before that, I probably would've given the award to Homefront or Hydrophobia, but both those games were at least somewhat competent when it came to core mechanics.
Before that, I probably would've given the award to Homefront or Hydrophobia, but both those games were at least somewhat competent when it came to core mechanics.