Worst Game You've Ever Played
 

Pretty straight-forward.

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For about 30 seconds this is the most fun game ever, and then you play a second stage....and burn the cartridge.

Pretty much every promotional movie-game I've ever played...

Easily this:
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The controls were counter-intuitive and the game itself was just frustrating.

The Waiting Game. Followed closely by

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Can I get my money back?

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and I did play it :/

Expecting this to not be bad is like bending over in front of a raging homosexual dude who's pants is down, the condom is already strapped and you've got lube in your asshole and you expect him to not fuck you in the ass. -_-

:rofl:

Congrats, man.

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Heavy Gear - 1997 - with the popularity of the Mechwarrior franchise gamers were more than eager for another giant robot type game. this one promised even faster action with smaller mechs that were more like oversized power armour suits. mobility like a space marine with the weapons of a mech... how could it go wrong?

... by having the most heavy handed, cliché, and just plain bad story you could wrap a video game around. the entire campaign ALL OF IT revolves around retreating from a disputed border area. the whole scope of playing this new series is to withdraw to the north... awesome. what an amazing sense of accomplishment! we retreated back to the safety of our side of the border.... fantastic.

i realize the story in video games is usually just a backdrop for the action but in this case the main characters you interact with (though cut scenes) are so narrow minded and one dimensional it really makes you wonder how any of them were able to achieve any sort of position of power.

**spoiler alert - though no one should care**

worse offender. the Admiral on your ship. in your first mission you get busted doing recon with his son by the bad guys. while imprisoned your character somehow manages to break free from his restraints - then you turn and unlock the Admiral's son. who then refuses to leave the POW camp because there are rules and laws governing conflict and being that they were caught fair and square, they would be released the same way once conflict resolution negotiations happened. yeah - he gets shot in the face and you get personally blamed for the rest of the campaign.

until... the discovery of a traitor in your midst. gee, a botched scout mission with the Admiral's son, there couldn't possibly be a traitor. turns out it was the 2nd in command. even with video evidence of her putting the gun to the son's head the Admiral still blames you for failure. then challenges you to a duel. yep everything being about policy and protocol flies right out of the window.

by the end of the game pretty much every main character the player is introduced to tries to kill him. all so that you can retreat. awesome. i kept playing hoping that there would be some point where you had the option of switching sides or negotiation some sort of peace treaty, or somehow taking over the continent. nope, once you protect your main ship's slow ass retreat back across the border it's done.

Wtf. Populous? That game rules.

Anyway.

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And yes, I HAVE played it.

Really? I liked the game, wasn't the best ever, but I don't think it belongs here with the Barbie and Smurf game.

I think this game is widely recognized as the one of the most unplayable in history

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The multiplayer in this game was a complete abysmal failure. I'm not going anywhere near any future Epic Games titles, and I'd advise you all to do the same.

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ET is the worst game ever. It was decided in some countdown thing I watched.

Gears of War 2? WHAT????

I only played the single player campaign but it was really damn awesome. And I'm saying that as someone who isn't a real big shooter fan.

Have you ever played it though? I mean this is "Worst Game You've Ever Played". I don't mean to sound like a di*k, but it's less personal if you're just reading off a list of games generally considered to be the worst ever.

Anyhow the worst game I've ever played still has to be Superman 64. I was young and completely oblivious to the unanimous hate the game incurred from the critics. The graphics were god awful with Superman looking like a flying log in tights, and there was this "fog" around everything so you really couldn't make out any backgrounds. Superman controlled like sh*t, making the fuc*ing ring challenges next to impossible to complete. I'm assuming the "action" portion of the game was sh*t because I never made it far enough to actually participate in any. The game was so bad it was bad for you and I returned it that day and asked for either a free rental or my money back, which Rogers Video was happy enough to comply with.

I was responding to RVCA's post, not the OP's.

Sorry I couldn't tell because all I get is a big white box for MobyGames

People if you're just going to post the pictures, make sure they work.

I've played most of the games that the Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed and I can tell you, he's rarely ever wrong about a game's awfulness. Though I did like M.C. Kids, dunno why he hated that one so much. :(

He's already covered many of the most notoriously sh*tty games but one he has avoided like the plague is ET. :laughing:

I haven't played it either, I have an Atari 2600 emulator so maybe one day when I have way too much free time on my hands.

I didn't play this one, but I played the sequel. I could not for the life of me figure out wtf was going on with this game. Actually, if someone could please explain the whole concept and wtf you were supposed to do this would clear up a mystery of my life that has been bugging me for years.

In my defense, I got the game in a Bullfrog games bundle with no instructions(along with other ****ty games with a similar concept as Populous...the only half decent game was this one called Syndicate)...and I was like 5. Every few months I would decide to load that thing up and try to figure it out, but I could never get it.

@Pete: Woops, it worked for me. Briefly. Funny that we posted the same game though, and yeah, I do remember playing Superman. I was rather young

@booboo: operative word being "multiplayer"

@james: oh yeah, I've heard about ET as well. Never played it

Have you played Silver Surfer???!!!

It's a god game, probably the game that invented that whole genre. Basically you play some kind of deity and you guild a budding civilization and help it grow. Pretty straightforward premise really.

It's no Sim City, but it's an enjoyable game if you like sims (I do) and it's also worth checking out at least once for it's historical significance.

Holy mother of f*cking god yes.

Hardest game ever, at least the hardest that isn't really broken.

What about Ninja Gaiden? Never played them, but they're notorious for being ridiculously hard

It's probably my favourite video of his.


"It's easier to pick fly **** out of some pepper wearing boxing gloves"
Haha

The Ninja Gaiden games are hard but unlike Silver Surfer they are beatable, and they're great games regardless. Enemies respawn like mad and you fall back Simon Belmont style which is annoying, but if you can't handle that then you're just not man enough for the NES I say. They're very fun, well designed games with enough to keep you playing no matter how much they wipe the floor with you. Great music too, and surprisingly intriguing storylines and impressive anime style cut scenes, by NES standards anyway. One of the best game trilogies.

Also my favorite AVGN vid is either the Silver Surfer one or the Dick Tracy one, that one is very long but the way his anger just builds and builds is great.

Hah, I love Ninja Gaiden. I actually beat Master Ninja mode on NG2 and that was the hardest **** I've ever done. They're brilliant games though.

As for worst game I've ever played. Easily this:

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I haven't played that but man I've heard some horrible things about it.

The worst Sonic game I have played though is Sonic Labyrinth for the Game Gear. You won't believe how goddamn bad that game is until you try it, I can't describe it as anything other than torture.

For your sanity's sake, keep it that way. Even if you see it in a store used for $0.01, don't buy it, that penny could be used for better things like 1 M&M at the penny candy section of a candy shop.

I've never played Sonic Labyrinth, and from what you say, I should probably keep it that way.

It's too bad, I remember Sonic Adventure 2 (GC) being quite a fun game.

Well, I got that much out of it. I just could never figure out how to actually play the damn game. I almost feel like downloading it to see if I could figure it out now...

Yeah that's one of my favorite Sonic games.

Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles are probably my two favorite Sonic games.

Well, people will obviously post the games that indeed do suck. Expecting Barbie to be good...well read Dr.Seussicide's post.

This game ****ing pissed me off. It felt like a bad rip off of God Of War. Repetitive gameplay, annoying button tapping puzzles, lack of good enemies, just horrible in my opinion.

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When I was a kid I used to play this quite a bit despite the fact that, even at the time, I thought it was a pretty crappy game. It only had four levels, very little variety and hilariously ridiculous music. Basically it felt like a ColecoVision quality of game but it was on the NES.

i don't think games obviously meant for young children belong here either. they're not expected to be good, they're expected to entertain a 6 year old.

as for 'ET' i did play it - on an actual Atari in the 80s. it sucked. but it was NOT actually the worse game i played back then. sure it had very little to do with the movie, then again aside from Dune2 have there actually been many other games based on movies that didn't suck monster amounts of butt? i think a lot of the notoriety stems from the fact that manufacturers overestimated the crossover appeal (especially with a lackluster product), the rest of the hate comes from idiots reviewing an antique within modern contexts. it's like calling a Model-T a horrible car because it doesn't meet modern emission standards.

the worst Atari game i remember was a drag racing title incidentally called Dragster. you had 2 cars on screen and you had to tap the button just right to rev up your engine during the countdown to get max acceleration. if you tapped it too much your engine blew up. this was in an era before touch sensitivity. you were either 'flooring' it or not. i don't ever remember being able to get past the starting line. at least with ET i could explore a forest and sometimes avoid falling in a hole. the whole point to Dragster was to beat the game in under 6 seconds.


@ Duga - Bullfrog is actually one of those studios i REALLY wish rebooted ALL their franchises. they were consistently putting out great games. Syndicate was not half decent - IT WAS AWESOME! though i can understand why it would be frustrating to a 5 year old.


as for the Ninja Gaiden comments. challenging is not the same as bad. the games were hard (very hard at times) but beatable. i used to be able to get to the first of the final bosses in the original ninja gaiden on NES without losing a life back in the day. never did beat the 2nd final boss though. only ever saw the final final boss and ending on an emulator years later. that game made me punch my NES controllers SOooooooo much hahaha.

Yeah there's the good kind of challenging, like Ninja Gaiden and many similar action games.

And then there's the bad kind, like Dragon's Lair for the NES or Bebe's Kids for the SNES, which are just broken beyond repair.

Also, once upon a time not ALL movie/tv show licensed video games were bad, in the 8 bit and 16 bit days it was more like a 50/50 chance of being good or bad. Capcom, Konami, Sega and other good developers did a lot of quality licensed games back in the day.

Nowadays almost every other licensed game is THQ. They're turning into the modern LJN.

Oh yeah speaking of which.

If you find any old games with this logo...

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stay away.

To quote the AVGN, there's no gold at the end of that rainbow.

I've been meaning to play Populous for the longest time since I bought and enjoyed the first Black and White game years ago. I'm looking at Bullfrog's titles now on wiki and I didn't realise they were the ones who made the 'Theme' games... I liked the Theme Hospital demo when I played it in the 90s but I preferred Hasbro's Rollercoaster Tycoon to Theme Park.