Top 5 *worst* games?

[versello]

Since there's a top 5 (best) games, why not make a worst? :D

Out of the games I've tried and from my collection, I'd have to say:

1. Congo
- Game based on movie = lesson learned.

2. Jedi Knight II
- Absolutely couldn't stand this... it was so boring.

3. Neverwinter Nights
-I know some people love this game, but I just can't seem to enjoy it everytime I fire it up... something just doesn't "click". I'm an RPG fan too.

4. Soldier of Fortune II
- Same as SoF.

5. Warcraft III: Frozen Throne expansion
- My most recent purchase; I'm utterly dissapointed.

[Black Hawk]

Jedi Knight II isn't one of the worse games. Infact IMHO it's one the best. Just the originality puts it up there with the rest of them.

[Coaster]

Postal and Postal II, I know some people here will love it, but COME ON!

[Rot Katze]

personally...I hated Icewind Dale...the 2nd one was great, but I hated the first one...

I also didn't like Star Trek Away Team

[paroxym]

1. Sniper: Path of Vengeance
Total Utter Crap.

2. Diakatana
see Sniper: POV

3. Postal 2
Another masterpiece.

4. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Looks good, plays like a cow on roller skates.

5. Tomb Raider 3 and up
Enough already.

[McBain]

I think this is straying a bit from a topic. The games you guys are listing sound more like the most disapointing, not the worst games.

[paroxym]

Originally posted by McBain
I think this is straying a bit from a topic. The games you guys are listing sound more like the most disapointing, not the worst games.
Now that you mention it, you're totally right.
I think the games listed are the first coming to mind as we tend to remember the big let-downs as supposed to the truly horrible games that kinda just slip under our radar.
So, have any contributions? :p

[Lincoln Imp]

Postal 2 - never really played the first one
Hooligans - No Comment.... ;)
FIFA soccer series - Looks great but the controls etc... sheesh
ISS 3 - PC version anyway.. not seen the console version.. the first one was amazing though
Moon Tycoon - Only saw the Demo, i admit... but unless they really pulled something outta the bag between that and the release code... *shudders*

[Ed^Chigliak]

Dungeon Seige... I still can't get over how utterly boring they made the combat & magic. Weapons did more damage but monsters had more hit points and that was the depth of the RPG... erm doesn't that just make gameplay and difficult exactly the same all the way through!!! Magic caused damage or healed damage... what happen to variety like sleep, slow, blind, confuse, hold, invisible, teleport etc Anything, anything at all to add some variety and interest.

Utterly shallow hack-n-slash. Looked nice and had no load screens but that was about it. Waste of a good graphics engine if you ask me.

Don't even get me started on what a good RPG should be like... you have been warned. :)

Ed^

[Ed^Chigliak]

Dungeon Seige again... my party would stand on the exact same spot inside each other and fire arrows. Utterly ridiculous!!!

I'm going to stop thinking about it now it's making me feel ill with the disapointment of it all.

I don't think anybody buys the really bad games like 50% and below in the reviews. I guess you might get one bought as a present by you grandparents or something but I mostly they just flop big style or become almost instant budget buys.

I notice the latest installment of tomb raider is getting some pretty bad reviews and with all those delays prior to release and it's still bad. How come it's in the top 10 charts. Who is buying it?

Ed^

[PyobliE]

Originally posted by Lincoln Imp

FIFA soccer series - Looks great but the controls etc... sheesh


Wash your mouth out you dirty little ..... How dare you? The FIFA is THE definitive games series on ALL platforms since about 1989!! I have spent more of my childhood playing on FIFA games that I did doing anything else!

You disappoint me Imp.

[Rot Katze]

I like Dungeon Siege

lol

[T-BirD]

Yeah, I don't think anybody here has played more than one or two truly HORRIBLE games that don't even deserve the title "game", as I'd like to think everybody on these forums is more intelligent than that. However, I'd like to nominate:
ET for Atari 2600
Gods and Generals for PC (recent)

As for games I've actually played.
1. Quake II for PC (Shortest time on HD by a long shot - it's a crime against humanity to name that piece of garbage after the brilliant Quake I)

2. Hydlide for NES

3. Dark Reign for PC (2nd shortest time ever on hard drive)

4. Wrestlemania - The Arcade Game (SNES, Gen, 32X) All I can say is...W...T...F?!?!

5. I'll add something after I get home and get a look at my collection.

I'm sure there are some Commodore64 games I'm forgetting.

Honorable mention goes out to Crimson Skies (PC) for being such a horribly buggy mess (that never got patched) that I never could get this promising game past the title screen before it crashed on THREE different PC's.

Honorable mention to Kingpin for being all cussing and no gameplay.

[Coaster]

Honorable mention to Kingpin for being all cussing and no gameplay.

Agreed, but the multi-player was better ;) Never played past the first level on Single player, but IMP will tell you the hours I played on Multiplayer :)

[PyobliE]

I completed Kingpin, It wasnt great, but it was playable.

[versello]

Originally posted by PyobliE
I completed Kingpin, It wasnt great, but it was playable.

I agree.

I liked the atmosphere of kingpin.

[TheBaron]

alright, i'm going to nominate a sierra game

Betrayal at Antara

now before i say anything else, i DID finish this game, but only out of respect for Betrayal at Krondor (which sierra gave out free, and i had waaaaaay too much fun with, even though it looked like cow ass).

that said, the storyline is totally rediculous, the game play is unfathomably bad, and the game is like some sort of scar on my brain

[Captain Bort Bortson]

Aliens vs. Predator 2 = worst game I purchased so I'm glad I got it on a major sale for $10 so it wasnt a total loss. You would think a sequel would have similar gameplay to the first, and improve graphics ect. AVP2 has similar graphics but the funniest and albiet worst player models Ive seen. They completely ruined the Alien play, which was my favorite. Instead of levels with plenty of places to hide, climb, sneak and do your Alien thing, they made the Alien levels a confined corridor where climbing on the wall resulted in death and you had to rush people and hope not to die. Probably played a few levels on each side, quit, came back the next day to see if it was still crappy, still is.

Other bad games would be Ace Combat 3, a crappy version of Ace Combat 2, one of my favorite PSX games of all time.

Metal Gear Solid, I figured that if the rental store had 10 copies of it it might be worth renting. Was cool at beginning, then it boiled into a wierd ass game. My favorite was Solid Snake (uncool name btw) and his constant wasting of my playing time by hiting on the numerous talking heads on his radio before getting to the damn point 10 minutes later so i could continue. Also the fact you have 20ish weapons but using anything but your pistol makes the base go apeshit and spawn infinite guards who dont stop. The hardest part was the first boss who isnt hard at all.

Lets see, Top Gun for GC was crappy, glad I rented it, made my two friends who are Top Gun fanatics quite disappointed to play it.

That Yakuza mission game for X-box sucked hard, sorry Pigflipper for suggesting you buy it, hope you saved your receipt.

There are more games out there, but those are the ones i can remember that wasted my time.

[T-BirD]

As we've already established in the "top 5 best games" thread, I totally disagree with you on AvP2. I will, however, grant that the multiplayer levels totally failed to give the Aliens an environment appropriate to them. I expect to have to worry about them bursting through ceiling tiles and eating through the floor for example (the Red Faction engine might have been useful there). AvP2's multiplayer was an example of wasted potential. The single player was absolutely Brilliant IMHO.

Nominees for worst expansion packs:
AvP2 - Primal Hunt
Medal of Honor - Spearhead. I understand it had decent multiplayer additions, but the singleplayer was WAY too short and broken (incredibly easy to break the level scripting and you'd have to reload and take the exact path the game wanted you to.)

[supern0va]

First off, Warcraft 3; The Frozen Throne is one of the best expansions of this entire year. you should go in a closet and shoot urself, second Postal 2/Superman 64, is by far the worstever.

[TheBaron]

postal 2 may have been slightly rediculous, but i dont know what makes you call it bad. the game entirely lives up to the genre it creates for itself. if its because the game Bothers you, does that necessarily make it bad? i had fun with it

[slippery sid]

Vietcong

Spider Man

Incoming Forces

Beach Life

Everquest

I actually liked Daikatana :p

[pigflipper]

If you like Daikatana then your opinion is not valid.
Also knocking on Dungeon Siege for not being a real rpg with "real" spells is kinda stupid, it wasn't meant to be anything more than a hack and slash game.

[Rot Katze]

I just got done playing Dungeon Siege


I love that game

[TheBaron]

how on earth can you dis EQ? thats just wrong. i would agree with you that after all the expansions and their attempted upgrades EQ does really suck, but i was a huge fan of the original game (i could stand kunark, but that just about does it for me). if you're going to bash an MMORPG, bash AC2

[Captain Bort Bortson]

AVP2 is nothing compared to AVP. The Alien levels like I said before are terrible and not what I would expect from a sequel. Its almost like the AVP2 team never played AVP. However, I will try the game again as I recently found gold in a game i dismissed originally, Operation Flashpoint, a game I bought at the same time as GTA3 and obviously set aside. Now I cant stop playing, so maybe lighting will strike twice and maybe I will find AVP2 tolerable. If not oh well.

[slippery sid]

Originally posted by TheBaron
how on earth can you dis EQ? thats just wrong.

Then I must be wrong, wrong, wrong.

Tried it for five hours or so, had more fun watching paint dry. It sucked, IMHO.

As for Daikatana, pigflipper, I know the game sucked, but it was fun in a perverse kind of way.

And my opinion is valid, as it's mine.

[TheBaron]

but still, "worst game ever"

just because you never got into it ...

i wasn't saying your opinion was invalid

edit: oops i should have read more closely, nm

[danball1976]

Um, let me see.
1.) Railroad Tycoon
2.) Microsoft Train Simulator - Horrible graphics.
3.) Stardock systems game that you attempt to take over the business world and become a monopoly.
4.) Maxis Sim Theme Park

[lynch03]

this game called extreme paintbrawl it was dbbed to be the first non- violent shooter (LoL NON-VIOLENT SHOOTER) this game just down-right SUCKEd every aspect ( the sound track wasnt that bad..I guess)

[versello]

Originally posted by lynch03
this game called extreme paintbrawl it was dbbed to be the first non- violent shooter (LoL NON-VIOLENT SHOOTER) this game just down-right SUCKEd every aspect ( the sound track wasnt that bad..I guess)

haha, I remember reading about that game

[panzerkw]

I couldn't really get into Neverwinter Nights either, the multiplayer games is where the real fun is at.

[Captain Bort Bortson]

I remember the game paintball from one of those gaming magazines worst games or worst rated games. They said it took two weeks to create and shipped w/ no ai but i think there were two worse games. Some that I can remember w/o going upstairs and finding that issue are Skydive, Test Drive 7 (or the latest installment) Swamp Buggy Racing. Still havent gotten around to retrying AVP2 to confirm/dispute the opinions on the game. Too much Operation Flashpoint.

[Massive_gas]

I can't really think of anything that's bad because I don't play games I know I won't like. So.....here's the games I won't play because I think they are CRAP!

Warcraft (all of them)
Starcraft
Everquest (I got it as a birthday present a few years ago...I had no fucking idea what a MMORPG was, so I opened it and registered a total BS name that I don't remember then found out you had to pay to play --the type was small on the box so I didn't know before hand--...totally preventing me from returning it for another game.)

Conflict: Desert Storm (Received it this christmas for Xbox...well well well I was pissed off because I had read bad reviews...but I had to keep it cuz my whole family thought I WOULD like it because they think I'm into 'war games.'...i still haven't played it)

[Massive_gas]

Originally posted by Captain Bort Bortson
I remember the game paintball from one of those gaming magazines worst games or worst rated games.

I think you mean Paintbrawl...I have it and it's not terrible at all, it's great.