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

[Calen]

Damnation for the Xbox 360. This game was weird. It was like it was trying to be a third person shooter and Prince of Persia. The story was nonsensical and filled with annoying platforming.

[aileron]

Me & My Girl's post jogged my memory about bad Atari console games. I can't say which one specifically was the worst. There was an awful PacMan clone. I had a Coleco Vision at the time with this adapter that would let you play Atari games, but most of them were @#$&. Two colors and giant blocky graphics. The Coleco games had sixteen colors I think and many more pixels.

[Inkdipper]

I wana say it was probably a mobile game, but I've also played a couple of scuffed indie shitters on steam that make those intrusive-ad-filled-paywall-gotcha scammers feel like a half decent game.

[Me & My Girl]

Easily E.T. the extra-terrestrial on Atari.

My name is mayo is a close second place.

These kids nowadays have no idea of what a bad game is. E.T. is also the top on my list. My friend owned an Atari, and we played that game for a few days. 90% of the time climbing out of the hole.

[LordSparkleButt]

Power Rangers Dino Thunder for the PS2 it came out in like 2004 I think.

[Garrett]

Thief 2014. Sometimes I'm not actively remembering that it exists and then I'm reminded by the fact that I start wondering why the world doesn't seem like such a bad place all of a sudden. I've seen games that tried to do nothing and failed, Like Big Rigs. I've seen games that tried to do one thing well and failed, like Max Payne 3. Some games that tried to do everything and failed are the best games ever made, like Deus Ex 1. But there is only one game that tried to do everything wrong and succeeded. I refuse to believe that it was the result of incompetence. It's not possible to be so incompetent that you can avoid doing at least something accidentally right. It crosses the line where the fact that the game actually works, as in it runs properly is a negative thing. And believe it or not, even that aspect used to be even worse, since the main menu of the unpatched game ran at 3000fps and almost fried your GPU. Maybe it was trying to save us.

[Onion Snatcher]

Star Wars on the Kinect, I think I legitimately suffered permanent brain damage from playing that "game".

[MadMummy76]

It would probably be Star Wars the Force Unleashed II

[LadyErica]

I don't want to say Vanguard: Saga of Heroes... but sadly, I will. When I first played it at launch, it was a complete mess. I got kicked from the server every five to ten minutes most of the time, though sometimes got to play thirty minutes, or even a whole hour occasionally. The main quest chains were broken. The whol game was divided into the three sections: Adventuring, crafting and diplomacy. Adventuring and crafting was the usual stuff, but diplomacy was supposed to let you lower the taxes for everyone in a region, increase selling prices, drop store prices, and stuff like that. It... didn't work. At all. There were glitches and bugs everywhere, making the game literally unplayable. Even worse, all content from level 10 and up was scaled for groups ONLY, so you couldn't even play it solo. To make that even worse, there were quite literally no other players around. I found three or four other players in two whole days after launch.

I was invited back a year later, and this time, the game was mostly fixed. Servers were stable, quests mostly worked, and the content was scaled for solo play. There were even other players around, and I somehow found myself in a guild eventually. Should have been fun times... should have. I had a lot of fun the first week or two, but after that, I kept asking myself what the heck I was doing. And to be honest, most of the time, the answer was the same. "I don't know." Why was I killing those wolves? Who were those people? What was the name of that town I just came from? What was the whole point in the game? What was the end goal? What. The. Heck. Am. I. Doing? It felt like I was running around aimlessly, doing chores for random people for no reason other than having something to do. The diplomacy was mproved a lot, but even this was still not working as intended. So after two weeks or so, I just gave up. On a technical perspective, it worked fine. Most bugs were fixed, diplomacy was working, more or less, and the servers were stable enough. But "technically working" is like saying a book is great because it has words in it, and not many spelling errors. We need more than that. If you play a game every day for two weeks, and still don't know what the heck you are supposed to be doing or why, something is seriously wrong somewhere.

[PartTimeJedi]

Atari E.T. I am old enough to remember that 80s xmas. Ughhhh what a cluster#[email protected]&

[EngulfingDarkness]

In last couple of years the biggest one has to be Andromeda and i really wanted to give it a shot.

[Noobc0re]

Dark Souls was pretty ass.

Proteus was a garbage game.

Speed Runners was shit.

Mark of the Ninja was thoroughly unimpressive.

Pro Cycling Manager 2013.

Lawbreakers had no idea what they were doing.

Clustertruck, the controls were heinous.

I am Bread...

Those are the ones that come to mind. I'm sure there's a whole heap free/shareware garbage games that barely started that I've forgotten.

[ItsThatTedGuy]

Brink. The game that singlehandedly convinced me to never buy a new release game ever again.

I will always give a game at least two weeks to decide if I’ll buy it now.

Its saved me from such flops as 76, the division, and bf5.

So, in a way, Brink might have been the worst game I ever played, but it’s saved me at LEAST $180 USD in the long run.

[Solid AVJO]

Looney Tunes: Back in Action for the Nintendo Gamecube... I don't know why, so please don't ask why. I just don't know.

[Magvel]

Asterix and the Great Rescue : If you want to know a great french youtuber watch Joueur du Grenier (there's english subs in his videos, he's basically the french AVGN with less poop jokes and maybe I'm biased but JDG's videos are better imo), as he said hitboxes make the game harder than it should, also fun fact : when I played it with a friend our heads started to hurt after 1 hour because of how awful the sound and the visuals were.


Life Is Strange : I said it in another post, the problem with those types of games where the story and characters is 95% of the game is that when they suck, the game sucks. They sucked. Hard.

Also there is no choice in this game, it's a lie. Only 1 decision matters and the devs didn't anticipate anyone choosing one of them (no seriously look at how lenghty one is compared to the other, I mean I chose the longer choice because it was the more logical but still it looks like when they tested the game they were like "huh we forgot to make players do an actual choice u know there's that bigass "YOUR ACTIONS WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES" everytime you made a decision that won't matter anyway because it doesn't affect the ending).