Worst Game You've Ever Played [Archive]

RJF

06-21-2007, 11:03 AM

Mcdonalds the game.
You can't make games out of fecking restaraunts!Make them out of movies,books,whatever,but there is no way that the purchase of food can lend itself to a game.Oh yeah,and smarties the game.Jesus,what a shit idea.Although it does make me want some smarties.
family guy the video game.
just utter shit.
Really?I thought it was sub-par,but not terrible.Probably better than futurama the game.

gonz

06-21-2007, 11:07 AM

Really?I thought it was sub-par,but not terrible.Probably better than futurama the game.

holy crap.

Mister 'nohomers.com' 2007

06-21-2007, 11:07 AM

F1 World Grand Prix, on N64.

Gatorgod

06-21-2007, 11:21 AM

Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure (GameCube)
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I dont own it, but I've seen "White men Cant Jump" on a game collectors handheld Atari/Jaguar. Pretty bad

altoids30

06-21-2007, 11:26 AM

"Karate" for Atari 2600 is the most laughable game that I've ever played. I've oly played it using emulation though.

NoOneFamous

06-21-2007, 11:40 AM

Pretty much every Atari 2600 game is laughable today. They shouldn't count.

Moni

06-21-2007, 11:42 AM

Rocko's modern life.. super nes.

mohammed jafar

06-21-2007, 11:45 AM

unlike most kids i never wanted to be an astronaut but if i had im sure "space shuttle" for the atari st would have put me off. im almost 100% sure it wasnt even slightly intended for 10-year-olds (or however old i was) and the interwebs seem to imply it was some sort of crowning achievement in programming but i dont give a shit; it was boring and difficult and i hated it and it made me cry (probably). im pretty sure you could have trained and graduated as a real astronaut in the time it would take to learn how to work the fucking thing properly

altoids30

06-21-2007, 11:47 AM

Pretty much every Atari 2600 game is laughable today. They shouldn't count.

Only if you equate game quality with graphics. Plenty of 2600 games are still playable. "Karate" isn't playable.

DAntae

06-21-2007, 11:49 AM

good call. a lot of those atari titles were just way too complex for the system and the target audience. thus making them "unfun".

as for the family guy game, yeah it was a bad licensed game...but that is saying nothing. almost every licensed game is bad.

also would like to toss out blinx. it didnt look the worst, didnt play the worst, but it was supposed to be something of a major platformer for the xbox and oh how did it suck.

sacrelicious

06-21-2007, 12:48 PM

Crappy games, where to begin?

Once my mom took my sister to rent a game for the NES. She came home with "The Little Mermaid." From E.T. to Superman, add it to the list of why movies shouldn't become video games.

As far as ones I actually wanted to care about I think Pac Man for the Atari 2600. Don't get me wrong Pac Man is cool, but the port to the 2600 gave the world a horrible bastard version of Pac Man. You are better off not knowing what that one is like. And I've got to mention Where's Waldo for the NES. :yell: That one was pathetic.

DAntae

06-21-2007, 01:02 PM

as for newer titles, a couple of years ago a new dragon lair game came out... yeah that was buzzkill city. actually looked forward to it, then it was just bad in about every sense of the word.

Magnum

06-21-2007, 01:05 PM

It's hard to name one. After some searching I came up with...

E.T.
gambling sims
vintage Football games
Sword Quest and Star Raiders for the 2600
Out of This World for the Odyssey 2
(insert laughable sport here) games
Rambo, Platoon, F-15 City War and Action 52 for the NES
Sim Earth
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure for PS1

But maybe the most laughable, failed concept I have ever seen would be Helicopter Rescue for the Odyssey 2. Quite possibly every stereotype of home gaming in the late seventies can be found here.

You slowly lift off from one side of the screen, position yourself over the little guy on the other side, sloooowly drop a basket to rescue him, and then sloooowly lift it back up. Then you slowly go back to the other side of the screen and make several slow attempts to land. The object is to get as many as possible before the timer runs out.

E.T. wins out as a better game, if only because of more variety.

I am Lugash

06-21-2007, 01:24 PM

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure for PS1

How didn't you see that coming? A Strategy RPG that plays out like a musical that was targeted towards kids hardly seems like fair game. I too bought it and was dissapointed(it was made by Atlus, why not give it a shot); but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever played.

The worst game I've played is also part of a series of horrific games:

Hydlide- NES
Super Hydlide- Genesis
Virtual Hydlide- Saturn

altoids30

06-21-2007, 01:29 PM

"Out of This World for the Odyssey 2"

Yeah I imagine that a rotoscope game wouldn't translate well to such an older system.

BigButtSkinner

06-21-2007, 01:32 PM

Mcdonalds the game.
You can't make games out of fecking restaraunts!Make them out of movies,books,whatever,but there is no way that the purchase of food can lend itself to a game.

Are you talking about McKids? That game actually wasn't horrible. Yeah it featured Ronald McDonald and a few McDonald's characters, but it wasn't BASED on McDonalds. Personally I didn't hate it. Although this guy (www.angrynesnerd.com) disagrees.

Anyway, agreed on the Where's Waldo game, I can't BELIEVE that game was even made. As for me I hated the SNES version of Beavis & Butt-head. The Genesis version was awesome but the SNES game sucked balls.

Magnum

06-21-2007, 01:48 PM

How didn't you see that coming? A Strategy RPG that plays out like a musical that was targeted towards kids hardly seems like fair game. I too bought it and was dissapointed(it was made by Atlus, why not give it a shot); but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever played.Somehow it never really dawned on me that it could have been aimed directly towards kids, being a Strategy/RPG. But I guess it wouldn't be the first. Thought it was more for 15 year old anime nerd girls than anything.

Still felt like a good cheap shot.

Yeah I imagine that a rotoscope game wouldn't translate well to such an older system.yeah it really, really didn't turn out right

altoids30

06-21-2007, 02:18 PM

How didn't you see that coming? A Strategy RPG that plays out like a musical that was targeted towards kids hardly seems like fair game. I too bought it and was dissapointed(it was made by Atlus, why not give it a shot); but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever played.

The worst game I've played is also part of a series of horrific games:

Hydlide- NES
Super Hydlide- Genesis
Virtual Hydlide- Saturn

I kinda liked Super Hydlide. Not that bad besides for the graphics. The slow gameplay (due to the "realism", eg. being weighed down by your inventory) might have turned off lots of players.

conor.

06-21-2007, 02:22 PM

the first tmnt for the nes, had so many glitches that it nearly made the game impossible to play

grissom

06-21-2007, 05:04 PM

I haven't played any of those older terrible games, and I'm sure they'd be much worse than this, but I remember Simpsons Skateboarding being pretty horrible. It was just a really lifeless and boring game. The level designs were generic and the actual skateboarding was boring as hell. Terrible game.

thecapecoddah

06-21-2007, 05:12 PM

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altoids30

06-21-2007, 05:30 PM

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At first I thought this was a picture of Screech. It's uncanny.

thecapecoddah

06-21-2007, 05:30 PM

confusing dustin diamond with seth rogen is just wrong

oh and...

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'sup skittlebrau

Moni

06-21-2007, 05:36 PM

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luigi in your sig looks like nicholas cage...

skittlebrau

06-21-2007, 05:52 PM

OH NO YOU DI'NT, ERIC >: Honestly though, I thought you'd be a lot quicker than that, haha.

God, Back to the Future was horrible. HORRIBLE. Agreed with phil and the Angry Video Game Nerd. Game makes me wanna punch a hole in my wall.

Kiyosuki

06-21-2007, 06:51 PM

Man where do I start..

-Ghostbusters for the NES. For pretty much every reason AVGN said in his review. Its bullshit.
-Resident Evil Gaiden
-Sonic for 360 and PS3 (Tried it out at E3, tried someone else' final version. Maybe it gets better if I finish it but the gameplay is so bad I'm not sure if I'd be able to.)
-The Simpsons Wrestling
-This driving game where you can drive through hills because the programming was so bad, I didn't even bother remembering its name.
-Primal Rage (I played the home versions.)
-Back to the Future
-Devil May Cry 2 (deserves every bit of its notoriety)
-Some Japanese Sunrise giant robots video game I can't remember but no one here will know it anyways, just as well.
-Quest 64

I'm sure there's another legion I can remember if I try hard enough)

Magnum

06-21-2007, 10:02 PM

oh man I remember seeing that half-assed racing game on X-Play. PC game I think.

wish I had a copy

kupomog

06-21-2007, 10:56 PM

Either Mafia for PS2 or Wall Street Kid for NES.

Mafia because of the sloppy controls and lack of detection and AI and everything about that game are horrible and broken and stupid and I couldn't even stand playing more than 5 missions before I said FUCK IT and sold it back to GameStop which was even dumber because they're cheap as hell. I have a lot of patience for less-than-great games...

I played Oni for PS2 all the way through and managed to get through fine and halfway liking it...I played Dog's Life and had way more fun running around doing repetitive sniffing and collecting tasks and once in awhile taking a shit in front of someone's house...

Mafia pisses me off so royal that it's not even funny. I have no idea why people liked that game so much, maybe the PC version was actually capable of being fun, but I'm not going to bother trying. Neither the Xbox nor PS2 version gave me something to like. The only thing I remotely enjoyed about Mafia is driving around on my own through the town or countryside 'cause it looked like a somewhat faithful representation of an era I have no real clue about, I even enjoyed having to obey traffic rules. But that got boring very quickly when my crappy slow car skid all over the place just trying to make a sharp turn at half-speed.

Wall Street Kid is just...ugh, what the fuck are you supposed to do in this game. I sit at a desk for hours and I read newspapers and pick stocks and they're always the wrong ones and then I call some slutty bitch who drains me of all my money and I lose the game in 3 days 'cause I can't pay for shit. God I hate this game. Why do I even have it...

Channel Surfer

06-21-2007, 11:29 PM

Honestly, probably some of the random online games we have here. :-X

Even as a kid I was pretty good at filtering through what games I would and would not like, so anything I say could never hope to match the kinds of vulgarities others here have endured. That said, "Quest 64" did a lot to kill any excitement I once had towards RPGs, even if I know it hardly represents the genre fairly. And "Indigo Prophecy" is a good runner-up, the single most embarrassing, self-congratulatory piece of shit that I've ever bothered to see through to its miserable end.

Tab

06-21-2007, 11:46 PM

family guy the video game.

just utter shit.

I agree.
I wasted $7 renting the game.

Nebuchanezzar

06-22-2007, 12:35 AM

South Park Rally: The games maps were meant to be realistic. I guess that's not a bad idea, you know, it'd be a change but the maps were confusing as hell. That alone makes this one of the worst games ever. There was no enjoyment to be had from this game. None.

Streets of Sim City: I can't really fault the developers for coming up with the idea of exploring your Sim City in a car. It's a cool idea. Unfortunately, my expectations of a nice looking game were instead replaced with reality - a virtual world consisting of endless slabs of granite (buildings), blue squares of land (water) and green blobby things that were meant to resemble trees. That's all there was, and to liven up the fun Maxis inserted weapons to...fire at cows...and other vehicles that happened to pass by. Fun for about three point five seconds, at which time the faulty control scheme (drive into a tree and you'd be stuck there for five minutes pressing fowards and backwards repeatedly to get yourself unjammed) caused one to throw an actual slab of granite at the screen.

Adamm R)))

06-22-2007, 04:22 AM

-Resident Evil Gaiden

Haha, I need to play that game sometime.

As the biggest failure, I'd say Sonic 3D. That game is really horrible.

conor.

06-22-2007, 07:20 AM

same as cole, quest 64 pretty much turned me off of RPGs entirely

DAntae

06-22-2007, 09:03 AM

I actually dug quest 64 alot, still got my cartridge today. had a fuckload of lame random battles...but that is still the norm for a load of rpgs.

Ninjendo

06-22-2007, 09:24 AM

I didn't like Pokemon Channel either...

DAntae

06-22-2007, 09:47 AM

anybody remember deadly towers for the nes? so bad, so bad, but also so bad you got to play it at least once.

blueguy

06-22-2007, 09:50 AM

I don't remember the bad games. It was so long ago that I rented crap, I probably spent 10 minutes playing, took it out and forgot about it. I think the only bad one I can recall would be Terminator 2 on the NES. That damn bike stage. uggg.

grübermeister

06-22-2007, 09:58 AM

-The Simpsons Wrestling

You're joking right? This is almost the best game ever made! Except it is only possible to win with Willie and getting past Bumblebee Man is shit hard becsuse he use his damn chihuaua.

For me it has to be Batman: Dark Tomorrow brillliant cutscenes but i couldn't see what was going on the screen and the gameplay was excruciatingly hard, and don't get me started on the graphics.

The msot recent awful game i bought was Superman Returns, the scenery was grim and uninspiring and the fights were repetetive and annoying (especially the guy who could make thousands of copies of himself). The only good part id throwing cars into petrol stations, oh and playing as bizzaro was a nice feature. And can somebody please tell me what the hell Mr. Myxixplyxstyx (or whatever) was talking about at the beggining. And the kittens were just confusing with all the vibrating and shit...I'm sorry let me just pause to catch my metaphorical breath.

Also, the first pirates of the carribean game was pretty mind numbing. Too little boundaries if you ask me, i just got lost alot. And what's up with you being "Nathaniel Hawk" instead of Jack Sparrow or Will Turner. Odd. Though there was an aura of freedom about it which i enjoyed, always finding new places. What was with the sea battle? Virtually impossible to have a fight with another ship and whenever i got a chance to board a ship i just got killed by poisonous skeletons. The views were pretty breathtaking though.

Magnum

06-22-2007, 10:23 AM

I also enjoyed Quest 64 at the time. but I was pretty desperate

RJF

06-22-2007, 10:46 AM

Are you talking about McKids? That game actually wasn't horrible. Yeah it featured Ronald McDonald and a few McDonald's characters, but it wasn't BASED on McDonalds.

That and Mcdonalds treasure hunt.It's not really the game I hate so much as the subject matter.However good it is,it's still basically an advert for mcdonalds.
I just hate anything that has absolutely no reason to be a game and is made completely for financial reasons.Some ideas lend themselves well to games(James Bond,Spiderman etc.).But then there's stuff like Wayne's World the game(He runs around shooting stuff with his guitar,um,just like in the movie)and Desperate housewives that just make no sense whatsoever.

Gunstar

06-22-2007, 11:12 AM

No mention of Superman 64?

Or was that one just too obvious?

DAntae

06-22-2007, 11:54 AM

pretty much, its kind of like throwing out aqua man. its unspoken

Kiyosuki

06-22-2007, 12:07 PM

I never played Superman 64 and I plan on keeping in that way.

DAntae

06-22-2007, 12:15 PM

do yourself a favor and try it. bad games need to be played just so people can appreciate middle of the road titles more.

Gunstar

06-22-2007, 12:21 PM

I think Caveman Games needs a mention here.

It is fucking impossible to beat any of the events other than the mate toss.

Kiyosuki

06-22-2007, 12:24 PM

do yourself a favor and try it. bad games need to be played just so people can appreciate middle of the road titles more.

Yeah I definitely see that, I love watching really notoriously bad movies and sometimes with games too. I don't have a 64 anymore though, and I really doubt we're going to see this thing on Virtual Console. Maybe I'll try to give it a shot the you know..other way. But still its Superman 64. lol I'll try it if I get the chance but I don't know about putting that much effort into it you know what I mean?

I think I can still appreaciate things with or without it though. For me if something reaches a certain level of bad it doesn't put anything in perspective, its just bad.

DAntae

06-22-2007, 12:38 PM

sacrelicious

06-22-2007, 02:28 PM

anybody remember deadly towers for the nes? so bad, so bad, but also so bad you got to play it at least once.
Always one to take DAntae's advice I played it once and once is enough. I don't get the point of that game at all. Even if someone were to tell me the point, the gameplay is stupid enough to prevent me from coming back.

Kiyosuki

06-22-2007, 02:45 PM

true, but it will make you laugh. after some frustration and then the realization of how bad it is. remember a lot of people bought it on when it came out. kind of glad reviews come out far enough ahead, so you get a few more opinions than you did back then.

You know one thing I gotta say now, thats sort of a mixed blessing is how we get reviews so widespread and easilly accessible now to warn us of games like that. Remember before how like, a review in a gaming magazine way after was kind of it? Most of the time it was trial and error. Even on earlier days of the internet it was like that. Its like there's no "pleasant surprises" anymore. I kinda miss it.

But then again, I think thats just the nostalgia talking. My rational side says its a good thing.

SubSane

06-22-2007, 09:30 PM

QUEST 64!!!

The horror... the unspeakable horror...

Ninjendo

06-23-2007, 05:52 AM

The Sims: Bustin' Out for the GBA, I hated that game. I traded it almost straight away.

jim

06-23-2007, 06:23 AM

Ive played so many bad games, but bad games are usually unmemorable too so its hard to remember. At the moment the worst currently available game I have is X-Men: The Official Game on the 360. Wow, what a peice of crap. The gameplay is mind numbingly dull and unoriginal and the visuals would look dodgy on a gamecube.

Another one is Turok on the first Xbox. That game sucked something terribile.