Not everything is worth the price we pay for it. In fact, some games aren’t worth the disc they’re printed on.
Today I thought I’d ask you guys about the worst games you’ve ever bought, the ones you really regretted purchasing. You could’ve put that money toward a new blender, or a cool pair of pants!
Weigh in in the comments, and please include the name of the game, and why it was the worst game you’ve ever bought.
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184 responses to “What’s The Worst Game You’ve Ever Bought?”
Kingdom hearts, because it was 2 things i loved disney and square but it was total shit
While i’ll refrain from the many rude comments i’d like to say. What i will say is that i don’t think you’ll find many people that’ll agree with you
Kingdom Hearts… Shit?!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?!
Ehh, your opinion I guess…
…BUT OPINIONS CAN BE WRONG! >:(It took me a while to get into but after that you just lose yourself in it, figuring out if your key has really sharp teeth or if your actually bludgeoning the enemies
Wow. I clicked on your score expecting to see you only had up votes because people were clicking it to balance out the down votes because people were pissed at you trash talking their favorite game.
No downvotes… (as of typing) I appear to have underestimated the maturity of the Kotaku.au community,
While I’m tempted to say Lair or Haze, I’m going to go with Far Cry 2. Absolutely hated that game.
Reasons: Horrible AI, super boring missions, and I feel as though it lacked any form of purpose.
Those re-spawning checkpoints were the worst – If that alone could have been fixed I would have loved Far Cry 2.
I’m pretty sure that option did get added in a patch, but I think it was something like a year or more after it was released.
It really WAS crap wasn’t it?
That and ‘There’s two factions on the island… but we’re secretly working with them both but we’re not telling them so we’re secretly against them both!’ meaning ‘we’re too fucking lazy to code friendly AI…
You mean that small squad of mercenaries that helped you out, whenever you got into serious trouble ? Seemed pretty friendly to me…
Personally, I loved Far Cry 2, and was able to see past its idiosyncrasies. I can’t think of a game that doesn’t have some failings in it.
If the checkpoints didn’t respawn, most people would have cleared the island in just over an hour. Ram checkpoint with jeep, detonate explosives attached to jeep, firebomb the huts, shoot the ammo, checkpoint cleared. Rinse repeat.
It was a game balancing mechanism, otherwise you would be able to race around a wartorn country in full conflict, without encountering any of the bad guys.
When I discussed this with friends a few years back we decided a middle ground would have been much better – respawning checkpoints after 24 or 48 hours would have been just about perfect. Setting it as a reasonably random time would ensure you don’t go rushing across the map unless ou just cleared them out on the current mission – which is when it was most annoying.
I got Far Cry 2 bundled with my xbox when i bought it. I played it for 20mins tops before trading it in.
Far Cry 2 was only bad because it was SO GOOD but then they added a layer of badness which took all that goodness and stomped on it.
I have NEVER understood how it happened. They release a very expensive game, apparently without ever getting anyone to just sit down and play it from scratch. Because I cannot imagine that anyone who did so would not have warned them that the checkpoint stuff and stupid missions ruined an otherwise amazing game.
You think FC2 was bad ? You should try FC Predators on X360… Worst. Game. Ever.
Test Drive Unlimited 2. The first one had its problems but I loved the idea. Really thought they would have improved the second one but it had all the same problems and more.
Yeah I loved the first, because it was just fun to drive around and do stuff. The second, I don’t think I even got to a point where I could do that before I gave up.
I don’t know it’s name but there was also some Need For Spped game which was horrible. NFS:Shift, possibly. Where it wasn’t fun, had too much bullshit.
The physics in that game were terriballs.
I’m going to say Brink. So much hype and then we get that crap. I was skeptic of Titanfall’s parkour because of Brink but I played the beta and it is awesomely awesome.
I got way too hyped for Brink, only to be severly let down. So many of my friends got burned on this one too 🙁
Haha yeah, I was thinking really hard about mine, but yeah, it was def Brink for me also.
I agree 100%. While I didn’t mind the game and played it a bit (Hey there aren’t enough car MMO’s), they ruined what could have been a somewhat AMAZING and EPIC game. Too bad that Atari games have been terrible for the past 10 – 15 years (Or atleast all of the atari games I’ve played).
Here’s my request for another Car MMO but more along the lines of Gran Turismo and Forza. (I haven’t played Forza Horizons due to not owning an Xbox, plus the arcade gameplay kinda really deters me :|)
Lunar Genesis, aka Lunar: Dragon Song. I’ve played some bad JRPGs before but that one was utterly terrible in every way. You move at a glacial pace, constantly being attacked by random monsters. If you run, it drains health. You can’t choose targets for your characters during the turn-based battles, so can’t focus on one enemy. It also looked like arse. I don’t think I lasted 15 minutes with it.
EDIT: Eurogamer said it best. “Lunar DS is a disastrous, ruinous game. It devolves every RPG convention to its lowest common denominator until all that is left is a primeval abortion of a videogame.”
“The battle system is comfortably the worst in 20 years of RPGs ”
“Lunar: Dragon Song could, should and would have been the DS’s first great JRPG, especially considering its lineage. But rather, what we have here is a wasted opportunity; one that turns your anger to frustration then to plain, empty sadness.”
Heh, I think I bought that, and it was the only time I’ve ever taken a game back to EB because it was so terrible. Not being able to target in turn based battles… Couldn’t believe it.
Aliens colonial marines. Hands down
Duke Nukem Forever.
Not down with the Far Cry 2 hate. I never played the original so had no expectations and for some reason the whole “Groundhog Day Violence Safari” thing really worked for me.
CoD: Ghosts. An impulse buy on XBone a few days before the console release – what a waste of 70 bucks that was.
Before that my biggest disappointment was Shinobi on C64. I saved up all my money as a kid and handed over my $40 when it came out and it was a terrible port. To make matters worse the original game really isn’t that good and I repeated the mistake when it was released not too long ago on XBL Arcade. At least this time, when I wasted $5 when it was on special I could play it for a few hours and shelve it forevermore.
I must quote someone… @liondrive lol
Ehh, your opinion I guess…
…BUT OPINIONS CAN BE WRONG!Arcade Shinobi was THE SHIT in its day!!!!! A fantastic game only superseded by Shadow Dancer!
But yes, C64 Shinobi was *dire*
I think it didn’t help that I was seriously terrible at playing it (and still am). I finished the C64 version eventually – and I think the XBLA release just reminded me of the mistake I’d made all those years ago.
Need for Speed Rivals
OMG, between the gift cards and discount, i only paid $15 for this game and i still feel ripped off. Forced online play thats laggy and just eh. I pretty much gave up with this game when all the racers in this game, started doing circles in and out of a repair garage meaning the cop players couldnt do anything about them or earn EXP
Enter the Matrix was actually an awesome game. hahah.
The concept for it made it one of the more entertaining movie tie-in games, but even so I didn’t think it was great as a standalone title.
Iv got a few… Empire Earth 3, i loved the first two and was REALLY looking forward to the 3rd… Until i got it. Of course, the new simcity it even worse!
I think that’s the one my friends and I pirated to try out but couldn’t even figure out how to upgrade after an hour. One of our friends did it accidentally but had no idea how.
Agree about the new Simcity too. They told us in the previews and interviews that we could follow a denizen throughout their day suggesting there was some seriously cool person level simulation happening. Instead we have that crappy agent system that runs so predictably that creating a working city is no longer about style, preference and denizen choice – it’s about gaming the system. We know the simulation for Simcity 2k worked in a similar way – but it was never advertised to give us the next generation of simulation either.
Medal of Honour for the xbox 360. Returned it the same day. Laggy. Oh so laggy. BF4s launch was nothing compared to this steaming pile of crap. I think all the servers were based in the USA too.
It’s so weird seeing Medal of Honour spelled correctly.
Is that The Matrix: Reloaded for Xbox as the main image? Because I loved that game…
Looks like Enter the Matrix to me.
It is and I bought that… And it was terribad….
AND SPORE!
Ugh, Spore. I got burned on that more than most because, like a chump, I bought the collectors Edition because the game’s going to be SO GOOD.
On the upside, the shirt that came with it was pretty good and still wear it on occasions. Was still one damn expensive shirt.
I concur, I was really looking forward to spore and followed it all the way to release. Biggest disappointment of my life, so far….
Ahh Enter the Matrix. It seemed kind of cool, maybe a bit rough around the edges, at the start. Then it got vastly more broken and unfinished as you progressed o.0
First few levels were fun, but after that… oh dear.
But I have to say, even though it was bad, the true pinnacle of awfulness had to be Syndicate by Starbreeze. Not only nothing like the original, the ending was so weak it was pathetic.
Bring on Satellite Reign !
Hahah glad I avoided the Syndicate reboot thing through laziness then 😛 Sat Rain does look pretty damn promising. As for Enter the Matrix, I actually finished it (or at least one of the storylines, can’t remember fully now) and I can remember playing the last level manning a turret fighting squiddies. Damn it was amazingly broken. It was a perfect demonstration of why pushing a release to coincide with a movie feature is a bad idea. Sooooo unfinished o.0
Yeah I loved that game too, but i did only hire it for a weekend
America’s most wanted….. Yes i was the guy that bought it :P.
Manhunt
I thought Manhunt was great.
Really? How come?
Please explain yourself.
Manhunt was awesome, only got BETTER when it hit Xbox and the controls got refined and the graphics got upgraded somewhat!
I loved Manhunt, rented it from the video shop (on PC) before it got banned, never got around to finishing it, think I had to format my hard drive for some reason.
I found an NTSC copy on PS2 in a Cash Converters about 5 or 6 years ago and snapped it up, sucks that I don’t have an NTSC/modded PS2 to play it on.
Edit: Also found a PAL version on XBox in a shop once, snapped that one up too, sadly I don’t have it anymore, stupid me gave it to a friend. Hmmm, I might have to borrow it off him when I visit him next.
I managed to snag a copy of it off ebay last year. I wanted to get it as I had just found out about how it got banned and was really lucky to get a copy. I guess I misread the question, I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad game, but I got so frustrated with the controls, AI and graphics that I only just made it through the first level before storing it away to (hopefully) be sold for millions one day.
My parents bought me a copy when it was out on PS2 still have it tried to trade it into EB about 5 years ago and they refused it so has been gathering dust ever since.
do not understand that, man hunt was incredible…
EDIT; ah i see your reason, yeah i suppose if i played it recently id be disappointed, but back in the day… man
Yeah I can imagine. I wish I had it when it was in its prime.
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.
The game makes no goddamn sense, you have no idea what you’re doing or what the hell everything is and they never explain it. Every level is just a long stretch of super repetitive combat in unchanging levels.
Plus you have to get to NG+ to get access to a HUD so you can see your health bar in the stupidest design decision ever.
‘Saints Row the Third’. Or perhaps ‘Of Orcs and Men’
I was tempted by ‘Of Orcs and Men’, on the box it looks good, but since I had never heard any buzz about it what-so-ever I decided against it.
I wouldn’t say it was bad. Mediocre at best but not terrible. It had an interesting idea but didn’t really do anything with it. Just went a bland safe route with everything.
Derp, didn’t mean to reply to your comment with this one 😉
I absolutely loved that game. Not having a go, I know everyone has different tastes. That was probably one of the very few games that left me feeling satisfied with my purchase probably because it was bizarre and strange.
I agree with you on this one. From a creative and visual standpoint, this game was great. There was something new every 5 – 10 minutes. I enjoyed it on that basis alone.
Gameplay was interesting and combat was too with the different blades but nothing special.
I bought El Shaddai, never played it and couldn’t trade it in because it wasn’t rated properly. Gave it to my little cousin for his birthday haha.
Resident evil 6, I still haven’t gone back to it after playing for 1 or 2 nights back when it first came out…
Final Fantasy X-2, I loved FFX, this game shat all over it and turned the characters into J-Pop stars. I finally gave up on it while playing the mini-game/mission where you had to massage the baddie. Any game that makes me think “if I hear someone coming I’ll quickly turn off the TV so they don’t see what I’m playing” is about to be turned off for good.
There’s probably 1 or 2 more but I can’t think of them right now…
I bought Resident Evil 6 on sale for $12.
You would have had to pay me far more than that to play the game beyond the first half hour.
Oh hey some deja vu…
Sonic Generations for 3DS. Grabbed it because it was $10, figured it couldn’t be that bad for the price.
I was wrong.
Yet the console & PC version are just the best thing ever!
Dunno if it’s the worst but I bought the “Balls of Steal” Edition of Duke Nukem Forever, was so hyed and devastated at its crapness, Also CoD: Ghosts super spensive edition with the sh#$%y camera, I wanted a couple of games with my PS4 and thought eh CoD it’ll be more of the same……. nope, somehow they made everything about it the least fun CoD ever, I’ve literally put about 45 minutes into it.
Edit: I just remembered Sonic and the Secret Rings, my sister got it free with her Wii and gave it to me, I still feel ripped off, worst gameplay, music & concept for a sonic game ever. Totally linear gameplay, sonic just runs forward and you steered him with motion controls, so hideous (If I find that I still own it I may have to burn it)
People like to give crap to Sonic ’06, but it’s entertainingly bad. By contrast, Secret Rings is off the deep end of the Critical Spectrum.
Battlefield 4, traded it in within hours of getting it, don’t understand the appeal of that game.
Also EA is the devil
Single player is total Shite! No doubt about it and no one will disagree – but the multiplayer is unbeatable. Especially with the patches finally stabilising and now re-balancing the game. It’s only going to get better and better. Plus Except for Metro the Second Assault pack is all kinds of awesome on XBone.
Just make sure you have a mic and chat to the guys you’re playing with – which is easier on everything except the XBone currently. Once you get a little teamwork going you’ll be hooked like the rest of us.
unbeatable is a far stretch, i enjoyed it for a bit…. but no way would i call it unbeatable… COD4 and CS are unbeatable…. and maybe BF1942.
Eh each to their own, it was my mistake for buying it FPS’s haven’t done it for me for a long time thought this might be different but alas same old song and dance, traded it in for AC4 never looked back.
I’d say Duke Nukem Forever but that’s almost cheating, plus I returned it for a full refund, PLUS even that mish mash of bad jokes, shitty combat and long load times pales in comparison to Too Human, a crappy, lazy yawnfest based vaguely on Norse mythology where you fight things by ice-skating into them, death is nearly impossible to avoid and every time you do die your main punishment is having to watch a six hour* animation of a valkyrie carrying you into the heavens before you respawn onto the battlefield. I could probably have forgiven the questionable gameplay decisions of the story and characters and voice acting had been in the least bit interesting.
*might be slightly exaggerated
best bit of duke nukem was the air hockey table, I had the most fun playing that.
My wife spent a good 20 minutes making Duke play with the poop she found in the toilet in the locker room, just to hear him whine about it.
I tried to give the monster on the strategy whiteboard a huge penis, but the controls to draw anything were amazingly unintuitive.
haha, yeah such a wasted opportunity. 🙁
After waiting for it since its announcement when I was 11, I bought the poster, action figure and the game the day before release for $90. I also bought it on Mac just to see if a computer port would have had better handling. I just like torturing myself in punishment I guess.
i got your reference 😉
The Simpsons: Bart vs the Juggernauts on gameboy was the first game I ever paid for as a kid and it was terrible. Being a little kid and loving the Simpsons I wanted it to be good and played it non stop but there was no mistaking its crappiness
The Final Fantasy MMO that came out just after 360 launched. I bought the 360 copy, spent hours installing it and minutes playing it.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/02/tell-us-dammit-what-is-the-worst-game-youve-ever-bought/
A fortnight ago it was Revolution X, I haven’t bought a worse one since then….
It was actually one of my brother’s purchases, but Destroy all Humans: Path of the Furon was pretty disappointing. The first two games were great, but the series really lost its way after Pandemic stopped working on it.
The game was essentially unfinished and badly balanced. And rather than having humour that drew on the stereotypes of the time period it was set on, this game just got offensive in a number of places.
You speak a great deal of truth. Sad, sad truth 🙁
Naughty Bear, took it back almost immediately.
Rascal.
My first EVER psone game and it was a complete flop. Focused on a boy using a bubble gun to save his father. Ridiculously bad controls and difficulty spikes.
Fuck you Rascal.
Risen 2….and Ryse
Oh man, Risen 2 was so bad. Loved the idea, but the controls and the combat were just so crappy. Played it for about 5 hours hoping it would get less infuriating; nope.
I brought AMeranican Mcgee’s bad day LA for $2………..I really thought about returning it for my $2 back.
Somthing fairly recent actually.
Name: Adventure Time: Explore the dungeon, Because I don’t know
Why: this offensively dull affair takes the repetitive nature of the typical dungeon crawler, and distills it down to its most banal, wearying essence, and titrates it directly onto your screen.
I love all games. I love gaming. but this… not worth the bandwidth i used to download it. AVOID
We played it for I think 2 hours, 4-player. This is after my friend saying it’s the worst game evar. Confirmed.
Ashes 2013. What a crazy debacle that was. I bought it days before it was pulled. Thankfully I did get the refund via Steam but had to lodge a ticket against it rather than happen automatically like was meant to happen.
Far Cry 2 and Aliens: Colonial Marines.
I started to play both games but quit half way through and never had the motivation to finish them.
Although i did not technically buy it the worst game i received as a gift was America’s Most Wanted, a game where to win you had to beat up Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden or others on the America’s Most Wanted list.
hahahaha I remember Americas Most Wanted, just hired for a weekend, entertaining in a stupid way, but yeah, no way I would’ve put money on it
As I said on the AU version of this topic a couple of weeks ago…
Golden Axe: Beast Rider. An defilement of a childhood favourite and the only game I’ve broken a controller over. Literally: I got so frustrated and disillusioned at one point that I hurled my Dualshock across the room, breaking the right trigger. I try to be calmer these days.
What I took away from the experience is that franchise reboots are like burying things in Stephen King’s Pet Semetery: sometimes dead is better.
Didn’t we have this topic not too long ago? I remember replying to it.
Also making the comment that people will try to be a smartass by listing a popular title, or one that wasn’t as bad as it seems.
Anyways, one of mine was Ninja Gaiden 3.
Without question it’d have to be Brink.
And Simcity would be a close second. FU EA for ruining a great game.
BRINK! Hands down, what a load of broken promises!
Totally agree – got so hyped and it was so broken that by the time it was patched the community had already given up.
It has also been one of my main fears about Titanfall – though the solid BETA has put that fear to rest.
Brink was SO bad. Had so much potential too, I was so excited when I bought it, and then I played it.
Nope.
Does no-one remember playing Daikatana? Or am I just showing my age?
Now that game was steaming heap of horrible level design and the dumbest AI to ever grace a computer screen. Plus the textures were horrible.
No-one remembers playing Daikatana because it stank, we all got warned off buying it, and it bombed. You must have been the guy who bought it and warned the rest of us. We thank you.
I remember picking it up in a dollar store, installing it, getting killed by frogs in the first area, and never playing it again…
Brink. So disappointing.
Driver & Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22
At the time I was just happy to own a dbz game but in hindsight Ultimate Battle 22 was bad, cool intro though. Super Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi, now those were two dbz games I hated immediately.
The best 2 DBZ games for me were Budokai 3 and the first Budokai Tenkaichi (didn’t get into 2 & 3 but I assume they were good too)
Sniper. The first one not the second.
And only because you’d be running to get somewhere, or from someone, and the whole game would freeze for about 10 seconds while it saved!
Sniper 2 was much much better!
Heavy Rain. Awful story, awful gameplay, annoying main character.
SPORE SPORE SPORE…. The answer is SPORE
ET on the Atari.
This isn’t a fanboy thing. I’m 36 and we literally DID buy it back then. Back then we even knew how shit it was. We kept trying to play it though… god it was terribad.
ET for the Atari 2600
Agreed, but for nearly single-handedly destroying the video-game industry during its infancy in the early 80’s.
Hope you’ve still got it – and in the box – you just know it’s going to end up as a collectors item in years to come.
Nah it got thrown around late 80s unfortunately. *cries inside* Probably in landfill somewhere. How poetic.
I still have my copy and the manual , but the box is long long gone
I’m generally fairly careful with my purchases. I think the worst full priced game I ever picked up was Duke Nukem Forever. I had a fair inkling of what I was going to be in for, but I just needed to see it for myself after all those years.
Haha yeah, DNF. I sort of enjoyed it until about half way and I got to a boss fight that was just so bloody unfair, I rage quit so hard.
The Getaway PS2 – so much hype, yet the game didn’t deliver in the slightest.
I actually didn’t mind that game
On reflection maybe I didn’t give it enough of a chance. At the time I immediately compared it to GTA III and was let down.
Yeh it was no GTA, but I thought it had some cool features like actual licensed cars, a clutter-free HUD, the proper mapped out London and I actually thought the story was good. The driving mechanics were shithouse though.
Agreed. I got it on launch day. What a disappointment.
It dated horribly quickly and the car controls were hard to deal with but I loved it when it first came out. Possibly because I lived in London back then – I was at uni at the edge of the map and knew the streets well enough to navigate the London Lite of the map really well. Plus the writing and acting was gold. “My manor? MY F-ING MANOR???” Also first game I encountered that liberally dropped the c-bomb…
Star Trek: Starship Creator
ALSO: Command and Conquer 4.
Lately? TMNT: Out Of the Shadows. unplayable.
There were probably some appalling NES games, although in those days I tended to rent games from the local video store.
The worst one in the past couple of generations was probably Starhawk. The biggest shame was that it had potential, wrapped in an appalling multiplayer system and a joke of a single player campaign.
I’m also tempted to say Gran Turismo 5. Certainly the most disappointing and frustrating.
Going back a long way, SimLife was terrible. I had such high expectations based on SimCity and SimEarth, and man that game was the epitome of “quick, rush out another game with Sim in the title!”.
Jumper for the Xbox 360, inspired by the movie. And the stupid thing was, you can’t jump in the game!!
Im going to have to go with Duke Nukem forever aswell cant give that Crap away now
It has to be either “Kane & Lynch: Dead Men” or “Army of Two”.
Kayne & Lynch had some of the worst controls of any PS3 game, it basically made the game unplayable. Army of Two was just extremely generic, boring and way too easy.
Space Engineers
Thunderbird’s for Game Boy advanced > whole other level of crap that game!
Alpha Protocol- A lot of the time, I can look past the flaws in a game and appreciate what was different about it (looking at you I Am Alive). I want a good narrative driven spy game. This one was just wrong. I so wanted to like it.
Sad to hear you didn’t enjoy it, I really did, though yeah it was so broken. So much wasted potential with it.
Fuel……. That is all.
In terms of an actual finished game (or so they lead you to believe) that has a ridiculously high potential to be one of the greatest shooters ever (once they bloody fix it): Battlefield 4
Parappa The Rapper. Worst game i ever owned.
Wow, I really had suppressed all memory of playing that game. “Kick, punch it’s all in the mind”
Aww man, I loved Parappa the Rapper growing up and I still do haha. Sure, it might have been a rip back in the day if you bought it full price, but price aside, I still think it’s a solid game and holds up well today.
I find it hilarious that some games have longer load times than the Valkyrie animation, but people don’t whinge about that anywhere near as much.
Anyway, you must have sucked at the game, because dying 100 times was the last achievement I got (completed my epic set, finished all areas without dying, etc. before I unlocked it). :p
I was disappointed by the game (but then reading lots of prerelease hype will do that), but I still enjoyed it for what it was (and Duke for that matter).
X-Men Destiny was so much worse. Poor Silicon Knights, what happened to you? 🙁
Jesus this is a hard question.
I guess, this isn’t the worst game I have ever bought, because I love these games on 360…
But Assassin’s Creed and LA Noire on PC. TERRRIBLR.
I got home after buying them both for $50 a piece, and installed them and patched them. I chose to play LA Noire first. I booted it, and it crashed. Booted it again, and it worked, and I started playing. Then, the problems started. SO MUCH FPS LAG. I have a beefy gaming PC, and it was just dying in the ass. Such a horrible port. To this day I still haven’t played it on my PC. Same goes for AC.
Other than that, I think the worst game I have ever bought would have to be Rise of Nightmares.
I had the same issue with L.A. Noire, and a beefy PC. It was a poor port in that it wasn’t optimised for multi core CPU’s (hence the terrible frame rate and crashing). You had to run a command line prior to running the game to lock it to only recognise a single core.
Once I had that sorted it was a really great game to play and well worth getting back into.
I ended up just buying it for 360 when I saw it at EB for $15 lol.
Such a great game, has a lot of re playability too, as you can go back and do certain investigations again to try and get it all to 100%. I think I got it 94% completed and then I had a child, so I haven’t had the time to sit down and do some sleuthing.
Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.
If you played it, you already know why.
If you have not played it…. do not play it.
Driv3r for ps2, pants down the worst. The parody in san andreas was pretty accurate
ghost recon: advanced warfighter 2 on xbox, WORST. PORT. EVER.
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. I loved the hell out of the first one, was expecting bigger and better things with the second……and they somehow made it shit..
Alpha Protocol was a pretty bad purchase as well. But then again, it was made by Obsidian, so I should’ve known better (Not saying that Obsidian make bad games, just that most of the time they are unfinished or buggy as hell….Alpha Protocol however just wasn’t any good)
Gota say asuras wrath the only game ive ever returned after 2 days and unfinished at that
Ka-Ge-Ki for the Megadrive.
Had a cool cover (which was one of main things you judged a game on back then) and was a fighting game so I assumed it would be good.
Horrible. Beat the game in half an hour too. “Eeeehhhhh, he’s not baaaaaad”. Ugh.
Probably ‘One Must Fall: Battlegrounds’. Unbelievably clunky and limited combat. All around terrible, and I was so excited about a new OMF.
It’s far from the worst game, but Max Payne 3 is probably the most disappointing for me. Boring, generic story, badly designed, none of the atmosphere or style of the first 2, and Max was nothing at all like his former self.
Aliens Colonial Marines – I bought the CE with the figurine – the game was horrible, but the Box was still worth it.
About 100 years ago, my mate bought Xenon 2 on his Atari ST specifically for the sample-filled Bomb The Bass soundtrack. He didn’t realise it only appeared on the Amiga and STE versions. I laughed my arse off and he started crying.
If I had to pick one, it has to be Too Human.
The soundtrack was OK, but that was it. The rest was mediocre yet sloppy at best.
GTA IV (PC) – I think it was only $8 on steam or something and I still asked for a refund. Worst port ever made.
There are obviously worse games but if it doesn’t even work then it gets a 0 score.
Facebreaker for Xbox 360 – animations were funny but the gameplay was horrible!
Hands down Final Fantasy XIII. Friends warned against it but as a long time fan of the series, I had to try. First I’ll give reasons without comparing it to previous titles.
-It starts out gameplay wise as ‘run into battle and press X until it’s over’. It then proceeds to repeat this, steadily giving more options in battle but is still overly simple.
-The game is kind enough to offer a map which literally looks like a single squiggly line for most areas of the game. Exploration is non existent.
-Details of the story only make sense when reading an in game encyclopedia and even then, the story is mediocre at best.
-Any treasures you missed out on disappeared behind the point of no return, which is at the end of every single area. No backtracking with the exception of Pulse.
I’ve actually played more interactive games on a friggin’ mobile phone. Take ‘The Room’ for instance.
Now the reasons with comparisons to the series.
-Where other titles would be packed with towns, NPCs, shops run by people and random events, there is nothing here to make me believe that I’m immersed in the world of Coccoon. It’s all enemies and digital/mechanical vending machines.
-The pace doesn’t let up, it’s battle after battle after battle. Ironically, the game was designed to do away with repetitive grinding but ended up providing a much more repetitive experience. Where other titles have minigames and sidequests to engage in once tiring from the grind, the only respite from this mind-numbing activity is to literally stop playing altogether.
-You only control the party leader, you can’t even have your teammates revive you if you fall.
-If you want to grind to get an edge over your enemies, forget it. When you get to Pulse, you get that liberty but that’s just too little too late.
-Purely subjective, but I really miss Nobuo’s music. I can’t warm up so much to this new stuff.
This game, at least for me had nothing going for it. Fortunately, I picked this up at half-price.
Rome 2 for myself.
Such a crushing disappointment that generates zero excitement and interest for me while playing, that 9 patches later has not really improved at all to a point that I can play it for more than an hour. I haven’t even been close to finishing a single campaign.
You can’t patch out terrible design ideas (or at least it is very rarely done, they did at least remove a bunch of the ludicrous ‘capture the flag’ maps).
Meanwhile I can still very happily play M2TW mods for hours with multiple campaigns
Painkiller: Overdose… played it for 5-10 minutes then I actually drove back to EB Games (back when I bought games from there) and returned it.
Ultima IX: Ascension. The first most buggiest game ever released. I can’t remember any game before that one that was released SOOOO broken.
It’s a toss up between Shaq-fu and Cool Spot.
Bullet Witch.
The Forsaken N64, when shopping to this day I remind myself, nothing good ever came out of the bargain box!
A few are in here:
Call of Duty: Ghosts (PC) – Black Ops 2 was very fun and the campaign and graphics were awesome in my opinion (it was also my first CoD game I had bought since 4, but I have played the others that came between). Ghosts looked like to improve on that, but instead turned into a pile of shit, especially on PC. For fuck’s sake, you can’t even check your ping or filter by ping, no dedicated servers (migrating hosts is not dedicated servers IW), moving your mouse 1 cm makes your character have an epileptic fit due to mouse acceleration, the lack of HUD scaling (BF4 also garners grumbles from me for the fact that subtitles are huge. Are the size of the subtitles the new one-upping thing?) and the fact that every game I join is a lagfest.
Dawn of War: Soulstorm (PC) – SPAHCE MARHEENS
Secret Agent Clank (PS2) – Terrible port from the PSP of a terrible game
A Game of Thrones Genesis. Rubbish
The Simpsons Bart vs the Space Mutants on PC.
Ouch.
CIV V.
COD: MW3
The SP was just tepid and dull. Then the MP was by far the worst COD in the franchise.
I have barely played ghosts, never finished SP, but that was no where near as awful as MW3.
Heavy Rain
Chicken Run and Rugrats Paris for the Gameboy Colour. Shitty tie-in games.
Resident Evil 5. Painful to play, and disappointing after how much I enjoyed 4.
I didn’t read all 4 pages but… Dragon age. All you do is mash X
The latest Simcity is probably the one I’ve regretted purchasing the most. Mostly because of the hyped up expectations surrounding the game. It was a total let-down.
I have bought plenty of mediocre games over the years though. I remember Heroes of the Lance on SEGA Master System II stands out. I was really into D&D when I was a kid, and had read the Companions Sextet numerous times, so to have that game be a disappointment was gut crushing at the time.
Everything I bought on the Wii in the two months I owned it. The worst was the virtua cop style Ghost Squad that came with a gun controller mount for the wiimote but the game didn’t let you remap the controls so YOU COULDN’T USE THE WIIMOTE TRIGGER TO FIRE THE GUN WHAT THE CRAP. Worst garbage ever.
Beyond: Two Souls.
I loved Heavy Rain, but I felt with Beyond they took all the best features of Heavy Rain and through them in the bin. I wasn’t a fan of the continually jumping around of the story I felt it gave no chance of character growth between the two lead characters unlike The Last of Us which has some of the best character growth in a video game I have ever seen. The game felt too linear and far too boring.
There have been so many bad purchases… Spore, From Dust, The Witcher, and really anything from Ubisoft (because of the bs. DRM hoops they make me jump through) but my worst purchase experience has to be Warhammer Online…. Not because it was a bad game (not the worst MMO ever), but because the Australasian box-copy SHIPPED WITHOUT AN EXECUTABLE FILE!
Fail….
Haha what!!!?
Probably The Matrix: Path of Neo. I loved it as a kid but I went back and played it… I should’ve gone for Metal Arms: Glitch in the System that day.
Nintendogs. I was dumb enough to trust Fumitsu at that time.
Hidden and Dangerous on the PS1 – words cannot describe how bad this game was. I still vividly remember the eb games shop assistant telling me how good this game was…. 🙁
Mega Man Battle Network on the GBA – I thought I was buying a Mega Man games instead it was some long winded RPG and without an instruction booklet (bought it 2nd hand) I was completely lost as to what to do!
Dragon Age 2.
Silly me bought it on release.
-Constantly recycled graphical assests.
-A RPG with a stupid inane storyline.
-A RPG with lipservice to morality and determinisim while railroading the entire gameplay script.
-Stupid baddie mechanics that pidgeonholed npc combatants into singular roles and types.
-A release from the 2nd largest gaming company in the world that played and looked like a 20 man indie title while selling at a triple aaa pricetag.
-Meaningless DLC that destroyed ingame item placement and balance
-A game is many things, the only saving grace of DA2 was the mechanical aspects within the gameplay. Things like cross class combos and massive aoe/cleaves on everything that effected everyone, party members and baddies alike. Unfortunately these aspects relied on a ‘tatics’ system that could not operate correctly past 5 conditional statements.
Which leaves the player setting up a ingame Rube Goldberg machine (mousetrap) only to watch it fail miserably and rushing to trigger each jammed part as they fail.
It still stuns me that EA could make a game of such tripe and then actually release this drivel.
oh god the matrix ps2 game holy shit my brother traded in tenchu 2 for that game it broke my heart
Master of Orion 3. UGH.
Aint played many games in your lives aye, guys? 99.9% of games mentioned here are averge or sub par. Worst games you’ve ever bought….lols. Ever played The Sniper 2 or Amerca’s Most Wanted! E.T??
I could go on, but this generation of gamers obviously hasn’t been exposed to the truly dark underworld of horrible titles.
Either Medal of Honor: Rising Sun or Spy VS. Spy, both for the original Xbox.