What's the worst game you've ever played?

[Wineblood]

I can't think of a really BAD game I've played, but there are a few that were hyped up and they felt so much worse than I expected. The one that comes to mind is GTA V, I played it for about 5 minutes and the way it handled made me want to throw my controller against that wall. I calmed down and got my refund and that was that.

[Sorain]

Achron. But not how you likely think.

See, Achron has a god damn brilliant idea behind it. It has an engine allowing you to manipulate the timeline in real time, along with something like 7 other players.

The developers basically came up with an idea, managed to make an engine that could do it and then went 'How do we demo this?' their answer being a 'Meta-time Strategy Game' but they were so focused on that mechanic, so limited in budget and so focused on making it functional that the result is nothing short of embarrassingly ugly.

The game is remarkably hard to control and that's not their fault. Meta-Time is a freaking nightmare to think with, it just is. Your brain is literally not built for thinking in ways that deal with it. The RTS part of it is ludicrously basic, they don't have experience in this design and it shows. They couldn't make it micro intensive because time manipulation, they couldn't make it macro intensive because time manipulation.

The hope they had was that it would show the meta-time engine's value and someone would licence it to make a proper game. But because of the above, it's never happened. To say that Achron upsets me, personally, is an understatement. The software design that lets you screw with the timeline is likely to end up lost to history, because they didn't manage to deliver a game that could get it the attention required.

Worse, they seem to have a pretty interesting plot going in their single player campaign, but I just can't stand playing the game to slog through it. It's the worst game to me, because I can SEE the potential there, and I'm fairly sure it'll never go anywhere. Imagine Superhot but with you and the enemies screwing with the timeline the whole battle, that's just one example of what we're never going to see now.

Couple dishonorable mentions to Space Hulk: Deathwing for failing to deliver on a solid premise and Company of Heroes 2 for a Russian campaign that goes beyond merely mangling history into being so bad about it as to earn a ban I actually feel is justified.

[Sorain]

Wasn't that the MMO that had a cardgame for Diplomacy? Because I remember that game being a mess and thinking "If only the Diplomacy card game was playable separately, I actually ENJOY that!"

[Jokerthefoolio]

The worst game I ever played was Ride to hell Retribution

[Sorain]

The only good thing about Dark Stone for PS1 is a song. 'The Dark Stone will shine.' is still stuck in my head. I pity you for playing the SNES version of that, good lord that game. It's a good idea and a modern take on it (perhaps by the Killer Instinct people?) could be great.

[Necromancerx69]

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight.

This was the day I stopped buying EA products and also the day that make me hate the company with all my heart for what they did to the C&C franchise.


Quick summary of the game:

)> The story campaign was mediocre.

)> The leveling system is trash and slooooooooooooow.

)> Locked army units with leveling system on Skirmish mode is also a big no, NO.

)> DRM, always online just to play solo..

)> You no longer build buildings or harvest resources (the biggest blasphemy of this game).

)> Maps where boring.

)> This was meant to be a F2P game... Crazy right.

)> The nail in the coffin for C&C games.

[PriestTroit]

When I was a kid we used to go to a Exchange store and I would always get to rent a video game or something. One time I got Superman 64.... big mistake.

[Mike]

Tomb Raider - Angel of Darkness

Controls are so bad that I can't even get past the tutorial. The game only works as a drinks mat.

and

FIFA 64

As N64 games go...it's worse than Superman. A migraine-inducing mess. I can't believe anyone who designed this game had either watched a game of football or played a video game before in their lives.

[RedHawkDirewolf]

Agony, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5, or Brink.

[Verhoven 69]

100% I get what you said. Hence the like vote from me for this.

It really is frustrating but sometimes, its really a hit or miss in the implementation, gamewise or storywise (I'll pull this outta nowhere but FFVII and FFXIII's plotlines are almost a carbon copy but the latter really sucked in the implementation while the former got to big for its britches that the dropped the obvious 2nd option resurrection of you know who part and lets not get started with Xenogears)

[Irritablesquid]

Superman on the n64.
I was giving it by a family member who clearly hated me.

[Toasty!]

Earthworm jim 3D/ 64 fuck that game

[Bidzin]

Two worlds 2. After this experience i stopped buying random steam codes

[Lynk Former]

The authors wanted to make Samus human, vulnerable and not just some badass ballz of steel Ripley clone. But given how it was rated Teen.....yup, painted itself into a corner, it wasn't really that bad. Maybe it there was a dual JP dub, it could have neutralized the sappy American dub.

On the gameplay, blame it on the forced use of the Wii mote by Nintendo. They didn't know whether to be 1st person or 3rd person. That part I agree with you. But kudos, it makes for an extremely niche collectible.

I know what they were trying to do, it's pretty obvious. The problem is that the execution of everything they were trying was beyond terrible. They tried to make Samus human and emphasis the whole "maternal" angle but ended up falling flat on their face while hitting you over the head with "THE BABY, THE BABY, THE BABY" constantly as if you didn't know what they were trying to get at. Most of what happened in Other M would have made more sense if the story was set before every other Metroid game and told the story of how Samus overcame her past trauma to become the badass bounty hunter we know her to be now.

And yeah, I am aware of the whole ridiculous direction Yoshio Sakamoto took the control scheme and his intent with the game being more streamlined and "cinematic". Like I said before, the guy wanted to play out his fantasy of what Samus/Metroid is and not what the character and the series actually is to the rest of the world, especially outside of Japan where it is actually popular. Inside of Japan, not a whole lot of people care much about Metroid which is why they spent so long trying to come up with ways of showing Samus outside of her suit cause tits and ass show you're human *thumbs up*

[Hyperweasle]

I like the character designs, they look cool with that sci fi cowboy look. The gameplay looks really janky though