I was wondering what people think has been their worst video game purchase. Mine has to be Damnation. Normally I look at reviews before shelling out money for a new game but I saw it, saw that it was steampunk and went right out and bought it as soon as it was out. And it was rubbish. And they knew it when I went to trade it in. So I didn't get much. Never again will I not check reviews.
Call of Duty: Black Ops was also a bad purchase. I had some mindles fun with ti but it wasn't worth the 60 bucks I paid for it at the time and I wish I hadn't, same with BFBC2 really.
I've given up on buying CoD. I rent them and then buy them when they're dirt cheap. As for Spore, I have to agree. So much potential but so dumbed down!
Slarg232 wrote:Bayonetta, Knights Contract, and Darksiders.
All three of htem looked really cool, but none of them played/felt right.
I enjoyed Darksiders, although it wasn't as good as God of War. And Bayonetta? That was supposed to be quite good by all accounts.
The gameplay wasn't the problem, Bayonetta herself was offputting. The whole "You want to touch me?" while her legs were wide open was just plain wierd......
purplefood wrote:Rage...
£40 for about 4 hours of gameplay...
Really rubbish gameplay...
I rather enjoyed Rage, even though the ending was crap... though, tbh I enjoy Borderlands a million times more.
Some games I really regret:
Duke Nukem Forever
Lost Planet 2
Army of 2: 40th Day (which really sucks, because I really liked the first title in the series)
Kane & Lynch 2
Eat Lead: The Return of Mat Hazard (this one was so bad, that I had to dig through the gamestop website for the name, i had purged it from memory... I thought it was so bad, that I could barely get through the tutorial)
RIFT and City of Heroes/Villains/Going Rogue. RIFT was pretty good, but I almost felt that there were too many choices for class selection. I kept feeling that every time I made a choice to get an ability, I'd make the wrong one. Plus, in the early days, when there were nine billion people playing, it was impossible to do anything in the game's fancy world events that got so much hype.
City of Heroes...dear god, was that a dull game. The interface sucked, the controls were wonky, the graphics were terribad (yeah, I know, it came out in 2004, but still) and every quest, at least in the beginning was some variation on "go to X cave and kill Y monsters (occasionally for Z item)." I mean, at least with Cataclysm, World of Warcraft flipped the script and added some fun quests that change things up.
Other than that, I'd just have to say a number of Steam games that made me go "Eh, screw it, it's five bucks. I'll pick it up." I bought the X3 pack on sale, and found it to be an absolute mess with a confusing interface and controls. Gave Monday Night Combat a try and while it was pretty fun, it felt a lot like a Team Fortress 2 knock-off. I was recommended to get Empire: Total War, and got completely lost trying to figure out how to play. And people keep trying to get me to play Dungeon Defenders, but I just flat-out don't like the game.
AI (Individual Soldiers' AI I mean) was fething broken as feth with the enemies rigged to the 10th level. I watched in horror on easy as 2 Armored Cars 1 shot 3 Panzer IVs and 1 Valentine kill 4 Panzer IVs in 4 shots yet they missed nearly 13 shots
Not to mention the slowed features such as having to babysit your troops, (I want to command soldiers, not manage their fething pistol ammo, if they are using the gun they are trained with, or if they have a fething helmet or not)
Knights of the Old Republic 2:
I HATED the story on top of the fact that you can tell the game isnt even close to being finished.
Assassin's Creed Revolutions easily..........
The game was dreadful on assassin legs. Ubisoft screwed with too many of the old mechanics so that also let it down, the ending was fudged up sooooo badly I may never recover. And the map of Constantinople was smaller than the map of Rome in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood which annoyed me so, yeh I was preety cheesed at it.
I think at one point I owned 7 of the 10 worst XBox games of all time.
A few examples: Loons.
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Nightcaster.
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Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions.
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Kakuto Chojin.
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Note that this game was actually pulled because it used the Qu'ran in a (supposedly) offensive way. I think Microsoft just wanted an excuse to drag this turd off the shelf.
I should also probably include Morrowind, simply because it crashed all the freaking time. There were certain parts of the map where I feared to go because the game always crashed when I went there. Good game otherwise.
If you're looking for a terrible game, ask me for a recommendation.
War of the Rings and Battle for Middle Earth were both excellent, although the former was a bit much of a warcraft clone for my liking. It was nowhere near the WORST though.
A few of them are already mentioned, but Superman 64. If I still have it and ever start Orks then think is going to become a dread or something decent for once in its existence.
That game was a nut-cruncher. The only other thing I've put that much effort into with so little reward was a woman. And just like the woman in question, I dumped this game ASAP.
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Chowderhead wrote:I quite enjoyed Okami for the Wii. It was a pretty good move to port it, as the motion controls feel a lot smoother than the stick for the paintbrush.
I suspect that you did not play Okami on PS2. The port was hypothetically an excellent idea. Only hypothetically.
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Chowderhead wrote:Conquest wasn't that bad.
blood reaper wrote:Agreed, it's Instant Action was really good, along with any of the Battle Front games not on a Hand held system.
I always hear that younger people these days are spoiled and picky ingrates. But you guys prove that you're much more forgiving and tolerant than your reputation.
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Melissia wrote:War of the Rings and Battle for Middle Earth were both excellent, although the former was a bit much of a warcraft clone for my liking.
I played the crap out of BoME and it was far from excellent. I'll give it to you that of all the schlock branded with the LotR name that I've played, this might have been the best. But it's a low bar. I can't speak to War of the Rings because I did not play it. I learned my lesson from BoME.
That game was a nut-cruncher. The only other thing I've put that much effort into with so little reward was a woman. And just like the woman in question, I dumped this game ASAP.
Fair. Not everyone enjoys that type of game, but I do enjoy pain.
Well this is without doubt the worst I have ever had the misfortune to come across, a glitchy unplayable and If I remember complaints from those who forced through the early levels uncompleatable game.
Controls made this 3DO beat em up nigh unplayable, or was that the pad. Not sure, but I am sure it was games like this one that speeded the 3DO to its end.
It seemed so cool at the time, make your own entrance, put your own songs on your wrestlers intro. Unfortuantely it looked and played like a brick.
Really liked the idea behind this, all female cast, more show than the typical wrestling game. Sadly it played awful with a counter system that made no logical sense and nigh impossible for a mortal mind to use, but for a Computer, well, it was not uncommon to have everyone of your moves countered in a match.
The Bouncer. It came bundled with my PS2, making up the numbers with GT3 and not only was The Bouncer a terrible game but also one of the biggest let downs in gaming history. It was supposed to be a cross between Tekken and Final Fantasy - sounds good right? Well it sucked.
I loved the concept behind Rumble Roses. I swear the meeting went like this:
Producer: "Alright, we're gonna try this new idea for a game, it's an all-female cast of wrestlers, so like there's tits everywhere." Developer: "Okay, but what about the gameplay? We need to make sure it plays smoothly, or nobody will buy it." Producer: "You're not getting this, man, tits dude, tits!" Developer: "But-" Producer: "TITS!"
And so Rumble Roses was born.
I'll never quite get why people think that we want to see games solely about sexy girls wrestling. I mean, there a dozen websites that I can go to to see something like that, I don't have to pay money for it, and I get to see some actual sexy action going on. Why would I buy an awkwardly controlled, poorly handled video game for the express purpose of not seeing any real boob action, and I can't do the boom she-nasty without putting down the controller?
Oh. I forgot another game I hated along the lines of Rumble Roses.
Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball. It's a massive lie. Volleyball is not even in it that much! Even when you are playing Volleyball, the mechanics are crap.
Who wants a game where you do nothing but put hot chicks in skimpy outfits and have them pole dance? Not me. I came for the volleyball, Dammit!
I think those who bought Brink must've left their brains in a bucket under their desks... or next to a bin
On Spore, it depends what you wanted from it. I own a copy and i find it great fun until you push the wrong button in the Space Stage Damn you Gravitation Wave replacing the Laser No, Spore is one of those games that you have to really get into and personalise somewhat to get something out of it. It's no good creating a random monster then progressing through the stages not really liking your monster or houses for said monster or the vehicles it drives about.
On topic: Worst game I have bought & played would have to be Space Marine, only because when I tried to replay the campaign it felt poorly paced and somewhat tedious when you remove the ideology of seperating an Ork from his innards. However this cannot be compared to the worst game I have recieved and played. No, that little award goes to the Terminator Salvation game. I actually thought this game was going to be alright - you shoot Terminators and it would probably have a decent story and gameplay. Oh no, this one drove me mad. The cover system is obsessed with hidng you behind a wall, the guns are underpowered, navigating from cover is downright slowed and the story is nowhere near what the film story was (as if it was going to be similar).
@Locclo - For me Rumble Roses, was an interest as in my RPG games I have a lot of female characters, and I was looking for a game where women where the focus so I could recreate some of my fave npcs.
When I got it, your board meeting note is pretty accurate, had they made the gameplay on par with the WWE titles at the time, put in multiple belt options, tag teams that worked, and speciality matches like Cage matches, and rip off of Hell in a Cell, elimination chamer etc, it would have been a fave game for me.
Sadly it was lacking in all departments. Hell if WWE would allow female characters to play in all match types I could at least play one of those, but sadly they've restricted what matches they can be in for a number of years.
Chowderhead wrote:Who wants a game where you do nothing but put hot chicks in skimpy outfits and have them pole dance? Not me. I came for the volleyball, Dammit!
Chowderhead wrote:Who wants a game where you do nothing but put hot chicks in skimpy outfits and have them pole dance? Not me. I came for the volleyball, Dammit!
Melissia wrote:I think people are just using this thread to spout off against games they marginally dislike, as opposed to THE WORST GAMES EVER.
Note the title one more time.
Both of those are wrongs.
What the the worst games you have purchased? I COULD list a few games that I think are far worse but I didnt buy them so Im not including them and the worst games ever I have never played because Im actually careful with my purchases.
Manchu wrote:I played the crap out of BoME and it was far from excellent. I'll give it to you that of all the schlock branded with the LotR name that I've played, this might have been the best. But it's a low bar. I can't speak to War of the Rings because I did not play it. I learned my lesson from BoME.
I don't know, I pretty much ignored the LotR action games like i've been ignoring movie licensed "action" games since the late nineties.
I mean have ANY of them been good?
Though rarely are any of them truly offensive. They're just bland.
winnertakesall wrote:What was wrong with EVE? It was the best MMO I have ever played.
It's an MMO for people who like spreadsheets, so it's not for everyone.
winnertakesall wrote:
What was wrong with EVE? It was the best MMO I have ever played.
Zaps rock.
Zaps rock.
Zaps rock.
It had the same problems that every preceding MMO had, primarily focused on the existence of a grind. Though, really, every MMO I've ever played has been awful. Chat rooms with graphics, basically.
blood reaper wrote:AVP for the Xbox, truly the worst game of all time.
Yes that was pretty terrible. Was the first and last time I have ever bought a game without reading a review first. Asked the guy working in the shop for his opinion on it, he said it was fine. I was back in the store an hour later for an exchange, and he wouldn't make eye contact.
Perhaps some of the most truly awful games were from the 8 or 16 bit era. Had a football game on the NES (World Cup Soccer or something?), absolute gak even by the somewhat lower standards of the time. I think if anyone played it now they would probably have an aneurysm.
However I think some of the truly worst were some of the Arcade ports of new arcade games which developers tried to port onto ageing home machinery. Probably the one that I remember the most (or rather was disappointed by) was Space Harrier on the ZX Spectrum. Absolutely appalling, just found a video of it on Youtube actually if anyone wants a laugh.. (watch the arcade version then go about 1:25 in for the Spectrum version).
any call of duty ever, with so many good shooters out there im suprised that tripe actually makes money, ok maybe MW1 was ok, but the rest are pure garbage
CoD1 was so good it saved Activision from Bankrupcy and this was back when 'Activision' was the butt end of a joke and no one ever took them seriously XD
BlueDagger wrote:I am shocked no one has mentioned the infamous Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde NES game. It should go down in history as the worst game ever created.
There are plenty of worse games than Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.
Hunted: The Demon's Forge. I was so excited for the game because it had so much potential, I didn't listen to reviews. I tried to like the game, I tried so hard, yet, it just gathers dust.
Demon's Souls. I spent twenty dollars on it, I still regret it. I don't like it when games frustrate me like that!
To be controversial... Marvel versus Capcom 3. Yes, you heard me. In my opinion, it shot for the stars and fell flat on its face. Every character essentially plays the same, just are faster or slower and have different "acting" moves. Maybe I was too young to remember, and MvC 1 and 2 were the same way (forgive me if that is the case), but I like a fighting game like Soul Calibur or Mortal Kombat, where each character feels unique. I even brought it to play with a good friend who was extremely excited for it, after one match, he said it was too simple and it bugged him.
I'm surprised someone said Gears of War 3. I thought it was by far the best in the series, and I absolutely loved 1 and 2. Sure, online is full of ridiculous people, but what game isn't? Not to mention, Horde and Beast are incredibly fun!
Brink wasn't bad. The only reason I traded it in was all my friends did and FPS games can only keep my attention when I'm playing with friends.
Now the Worse game I've ever bought was Tales of Symphonia 2.
That game was SO damn bad I almost gave up on the Tales Series completely (I did give up on them for a while, then they ported Tales of the Abyss to the 3DS. Swear to god I just need to sign my paychecks to GW and namco.)
The Characters from the first Symphonia made quick pop ins, for no other reason to say, "HI, My name is....". Every conversation the characters would say each other's full names at least 4 times for each person in the conversation. EVERY. SINGLE. CONVERSATION. and the Story was absolute gak.
"Lloyd(main character from first game) saved us from the Apocalypse. KILL HIM!" was the WHOLE premise of the game. The graphics looked horrid for a Wii game (they would have looked bad for a Gamecube game.) and to top it all off, the controls sucked more than....I'm so fired up about how bad it was I can't even think of something to compare it to.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the worst game I have ever purchased was Two Worlds on the Xbox.
That game was completely unplayable. I had just been on an RPG kick, and all the previews said it was going to be such a great game with so much to do.
That load of **** was so godawful I don't know how it shipped. Everything lagged, combat was terrible, the sound effects and voice acting were the most wooden garbage I've ever seen. This is one of those games that could have benefitted from NEVER having anyone speak.
I traded it in the very same day I purchased it. The clerk was confused, and I told him, "You are not allowed to sell this crap to anyone. EVER."
I only got half the money I paid for it back in credit, but that was fine, as I knew as soon as word got out about how terrible that game was, it would be worth fifty cents in a few more days.
The Fragile Breath wrote:Demon's Souls. I spent twenty dollars on it, I still regret it. I don't like it when games frustrate me like that!
I bought the game a while before I actually figured out how to play it. I would put it in the PS3, die 20-30 times, get frustrated, then put it away for a month.
Turns out, the first area (after the tutorial) requires more than simply "walk forward, hit guys". You have to dodge, attack from the side, and avoid the enemy. But once you get to the first 'checkpoint', you'll likely be hooked. It really is an excellent game.
I made the mistake of buying magic the gathering: battlegrounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_%E2%80%93_Battlegrounds Was installed for about 1hr before I got bored of it. Doesn't really share any mechanics with the card games and the storyline told in text boxes in between increasingly repetitive battles...
It's about the only game I've ever regretted purchasing
My pick would be Dungeons of Dredmor I guess. Even though it was 1$. A waste of a good dollar.
I do not own many games and almost everything I buy I try to play at least once so my pick may not be the greatest.
(Let's say some games in Humble Bundles don't count because they were a bonus to the true purchase)
Borderlands. Even after getting it at discount price. I don't know what people saw in it, everything about it was boring and monotonous. This coming from a Diablo fan.
Brink to a smaller degree. Being awesome in asthetics does not make a game good.
Never understood what was BAD about Warhammer Online. It was great fun to me PvE wise, never got too heavy in PVP but what I did play was fun. Also never got the hate for Neverwinter 2. Sure it took a different approach to playing than NWN1, but it was still solid, and the characters were stereotypical and oddly likeable.
The Fragile Breath wrote:To be controversial... Marvel versus Capcom 3. Yes, you heard me. In my opinion, it shot for the stars and fell flat on its face. Every character essentially plays the same, just are faster or slower and have different "acting" moves. Maybe I was too young to remember, and MvC 1 and 2 were the same way (forgive me if that is the case), but I like a fighting game like Soul Calibur or Mortal Kombat, where each character feels unique. I even brought it to play with a good friend who was extremely excited for it, after one match, he said it was too simple and it bugged him.
Personally, the only fighting game I've yet to play where every character feels unique is Blazblu.
MK has a place in my heart, it was the only game I loved playing before I considered myself a gamer (Way back at the age of 3), and let's face it, Mortal Kombat is the best fighting game ever made, bar none, no contest, don't even try (Seriously, it's the only fighting game with an actual story; Soul Calibur is the closest to it, and that's basically just "Evil sword is evil, go find and destroy it"). But I can play Johnny Cage and play Rushdown, or Sonya and play Rushdown, or Kabal and play Rushdown. Or I can play Sub Zero and play Zoner, or Noob Saibot and play Zoner, Reptile as a Zoner, Sektor as a zoner, or play Lui Kang, Kano, or Smoke and use one combo input to do all of my fighting.
You could have taken the character roster down into a fourth of what it was and not have lost anything.
It isn't so much of a learning curve as a learning vertical line, with no tutorial to speak of, so many hotkeys scattered around the keyboard by default, the inability to pause and fiddle with the options panel whilst paused, and in-game instructions which don't actually work.
I've played (I say played, I mean tried to figure out what the feth to do once the game starts) less than 30mins of it and I already regret the purchase; good thing it was on sale.
It isn't so much of a learning curve as a learning vertical line, with no tutorial to speak of, so many hotkeys scattered around the keyboard by default, the inability to pause and fiddle with the options panel whilst paused, and in-game instructions which don't actually work.
I've played (I say played, I mean tried to figure out what the feth to do once the game starts) less than 30mins of it and I already regret the purchase; good thing it was on sale.
It gets worse. Even if you understand the game, your permanently hosed in so many ways because almost every system in X3 is fundamentally flawed. The trade system, combat tiers, combat mechanics, and don't even get me started on game balance.
Avatar 720 wrote:It isn't so much of a learning curve as a learning vertical line, with no tutorial to speak of
There's a tutorial . It's optional, but it's right there in front of you as you start the game. He will give you the basic instructions on how to fly your ship, purchase items, and so on and so forth. Even has voice acting in it so you aren't just reading text.
Avatar 720 wrote:the inability to pause and fiddle with the options panel whilst paused, and in-game instructions which don't actually work.
There is no such inability.
LordofHats wrote:almost every system in X3 is fundamentally flawed. The trade system, combat tiers, combat mechanics, and don't even get me started on game balance.
The trade system is intentionally flawed to start with. It allows for you to plug holes in the system and make money off of said holes. Especially once you get enough money to get a space station.
The combat tiers aren't really broken, either, and I haven't found that combat is either. I've gone on the warpath many times and been able to take down ships both bigger and smaller than my ship-- as long as I prepared for it. The bigger ships are powerful yes (as they should be?) but they're also ludicrously expensive, and highly vulnerable to large missiles.
That's the tutorial? Fat lot of help that was. I got to shooting stuff when he gave up giving instructions and I was stuck drifting through space without ever knowing how to fire a weapon (due to the instructions being wrong).
As for the pausing, I tried it several times, all pause does is pause the game until you press a button or click the mouse, which means that as soon as you try to bring up the menu, the game unpauses.
Avatar 720 wrote:That's the tutorial? Fat lot of help that was. I got to shooting stuff when he gave up giving instructions and I was stuck drifting through space without ever knowing how to fire a weapon (due to the instructions being wrong).
... they weren't wrong. I completed those instructions myself numerous times... It depends on what you set them to if you changed them, but it should give you the right instructions (mind you, the first thing I did was customize my controls anyway... my fire buttons were mouse1 and ctrl, and my fire missile button was mouse4).
Avatar 720 wrote:As for the pausing, I tried it several times, all pause does is pause the game until you press a button or click the mouse, which means that as soon as you try to bring up the menu, the game unpauses.
Try just opening the menu without pausing first? It should automatically pause.
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The control schemes changed quite a bit from X3: Reunion to X3:TC... it's hard to explain, but simply the way you fly your ship is pretty different. TC added in numerous classes such as the bomber, heavy corvettes, missile frigates, etc as well as the Terran race and the unique Terran questline, and Albion Prelude added in a war going on and numerous economy changes.
They were wrong for me, I tried doing it several times in several ways, then resorted to trying to change the hotkeys for them to no avail. I collected the first piece of debris he dropped for me to shoot since I couldn't fire any weapons and drifted into it before I could slow and turn, he dropped a second and told me how to do it again, then buggered off.
After ~10mins of trying to get anything to fire something at it, I just ran into it to collect it and hopefully spawn another one, but nothing happened after that and I couldn't find him anywhere in the starting area.
For the pausing, I have to open the menu first, but it doesn't pause, since I remember having to quickly unpause several times in order to brake or turn quickly so that I didn't crash into an asteroid.
I'll open up Prelude and see if there's options that I picked that will give me what I have after lab.
As an aside, I think your problem may be that either your ship doesn't have a weapon, or it isn't equipped and is just sitting in cargo. Usually the starting ships begin with a basic laser though...
X3 is kinda like Minecraft in a sense, there's absolutely no shame in looking up the FAQs and asking for help because it's a big, free open universe which doesn't tell you what to do. Which is great if you're able to play it, but if you can't figure it out it's a big confusing mess.
Some aircraft shooter - I LOVE aircraft sims but this was pop icecream on a stick, fallen to the floor and lapped up by your neighbours overwieght dog :(
Avoid peeps!
Honourable mention, Rift - the absolute worst of what MMOs aspire to.
I bought Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for the PS2. Well lets just say that I played through it multiple times and tried my hardest to find something fun to do. Literally the only thing in that game that I enjoyed was the later missions for the Pirate faction... fething forklift skeet shooting, how could that not be fun?
It isn't so much of a learning curve as a learning vertical line, with no tutorial to speak of, so many hotkeys scattered around the keyboard by default, the inability to pause and fiddle with the options panel whilst paused, and in-game instructions which don't actually work.
I've played (I say played, I mean tried to figure out what the feth to do once the game starts) less than 30mins of it and I already regret the purchase; good thing it was on sale.
X3 really isn't for everyone. I, too, had multiple problems with trying to get started, mostly in that I apparently missed the Tutorial somewhere. I only played it for around 20 minutes before I gave up, but half the time the game recommended I check the manual to read about the controls. Which I would have done if not for the fact that I literally have not seen a game require the manual for controls info in years.
Yeah, alright, I didn't give it much of a shot. But I think I actually got the game for free anyway during the holiday sale, so I'm not all that miffed about it. I mean, I've heard it's a pretty good game, so I won't say that it's really bad or anything, but it is a ridiculously confusing system, with (IMO) a very clunky interface. It's one of those games that just thrusts you straight into the world without any sort of help, which isn't necessarily bad (I mean, Minecraft is one of those, and it's one of my all-time favorite games) but it's just not a whole lot of fun if just the basic controls are difficult to grasp, much less doing anything else. In Minecraft's case, the few lessons you need to learn are the various crafting patterns, not to stay out at night, and a basic idea of how to mine.
Just my two cents on X3. I'm sure it's a fine game, I'm sure it's got plenty of fans. But to me, it's just not much fun, given how you're just thrown into the game without much explanation on anything.
I purchased Dungeon siege 3 for 4.99$. I want my moneys back. It has nothing to do and nothing in common with the other games. The combat system is beyond boring and you have little control over your character. Your character development options are a joke, customization is a joke, its all just a huge terrible joke really. They could have simply made the game a clone of the older games with better graphics and they would have been more successful. Honestly, the game was 60$ initially. I got it for 5$ 5 months after it came out. I officially hate Obsidian entertainment now.
Doctadeth wrote:Starcraft 2. I played it for an hour, put it away and put it on the whitegoods pile the next week.
What did you dislike? I was sceptical at first, but was really happ with it. Although I only played the (entertaining) campaing and the custom map StarBattle (Ship to ship combat, without respawn) on mulitplayer.
Skycrawler wrote:I bought Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for the PS2. Well lets just say that I played through it multiple times and tried my hardest to find something fun to do. Literally the only thing in that game that I enjoyed was the later missions for the Pirate faction... fething forklift skeet shooting, how could that not be fun?
Was that the game with the appalling draw distance/pop-up? I think someone was telling me about that..
Doctadeth wrote:Starcraft 2. I played it for an hour, put it away and put it on the whitegoods pile the next week.
What did you dislike? I was sceptical at first, but was really happ with it. Although I only played the (entertaining) campaing and the custom map StarBattle (Ship to ship combat, without respawn) on mulitplayer.
The unit balance earlygame is just stupid and I found I could bumrush the campaign, beat about 4 missions of it rather easily. Plus there is very little incentive to build up lategame, its more just numbers rather than finesse, which starcraft 1 had a bit more of.
Doctadeth wrote:Starcraft 2. I played it for an hour, put it away and put it on the whitegoods pile the next week.
What did you dislike? I was sceptical at first, but was really happ with it. Although I only played the (entertaining) campaing and the custom map StarBattle (Ship to ship combat, without respawn) on mulitplayer.
The unit balance earlygame is just stupid and I found I could bumrush the campaign, beat about 4 missions of it rather easily. Plus there is very little incentive to build up lategame, its more just numbers rather than finesse, which starcraft 1 had a bit more of.
OK. I've had enough of your little pop guns. Time to bring out the WMD.
Also known as
A.P.B.
Cops 'n' robbers MMO that included customisation and vehicles. Except the vehicle physics were so ropy you couldn't get going properly. Got shut down before the end of the free period I got in the game.
A$$ water of the first distillation. If I recall correctly, even the reboot fell flat on it's face!
H.A.W.X 2. The original was great fun, the sequel was appalling. Ropy graphics, dodgy controls, and stupid mechanics (like having to refuel after a mission...UGH).
I won't hear anything said against Bayonetta, Darksiders or Rage though. Bayonetta is the most fun I've had on a game for a long time, Darksiders is like a really fun, well drawn interactive comic, and Rage has some of the best gunplay and graphics I've ever seen.
I'll third starcraft II, enjoyed the campaign enough one time but there was just so little changed from the first game and little to encourage re playability beyond new portraits
spore - Could have been a brilliant game if done correctly. Dumbed down hugely and made into a quasi-collectible game at the end.
Far cry 1 and 2 - What the HELL was I thinking. Probably the most irritating games I have played. Yay for healthbar generic game with unrealistic weapons and cars.
Ummmm, a tough one this. I have an awful track record when it comes to games.
Daikatana has to be up there, closely followed by The Lawnmower Man on the Megadrive and hot on the heels of that particular stinker there was Ultimate Soccar (also on the Megadrive) and finally I'd have to say Assasins Creed. Awful beyond the ken of mortal man.....
winnertakesall wrote:
What was wrong with EVE? It was the best MMO I have ever played.
Zaps rock.
Zaps rock.
Zaps rock.
It had the same problems that every preceding MMO had, primarily focused on the existence of a grind. Though, really, every MMO I've ever played has been awful. Chat rooms with graphics, basically.
That was mining. Try PVE or PVP. No spreadsheets, just killing and looting (looting optional but advised).
Far cry 1 and 2 - What the HELL was I thinking. Probably the most irritating games I have played. Yay for healthbar generic game with unrealistic weapons and cars.
Far Cry 1 had a major problem in that it was supposed to be a stealth shooter, but the enemies could spot you a mile away and hit you with pin point accuracy, kinda like the first ghost recon actually
"Hey this is a cool ga-" Takes an AK round to the head 100 meters from the starting point on the first level
I liked Pokemon snap, I never bought it but 3 years ago i found a copy of it when we were moving the electronics section of the store around. Snagged it for free along with a copy of Legacy of Goku II on the GBA.
Anyways, worst game purchase might be Civilization V because I paid full price for it. I got Hunted: The Demon's Forge for $10 bucks so even though it sucked it wasn't too much of a waste.
I was uneasy of them taking the setting underground after Red Faction Guerrilla. Sure, they had the nice destruction engine but most of the game was underground. Not much to really destroy in small caverns.
Plus Sy-fy thought they needed to write a story for the game. That was probably the biggest downfall. Only sy-fy could write a worse story than Red Faction guerrilla.
Necroshea wrote:Borderlands. Even after getting it at discount price. I don't know what people saw in it, everything about it was boring and monotonous. This coming from a Diablo fan.
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I absolutely loved borderlands. How far did you get?
Doctadeth wrote:spore - Could have been a brilliant game if done correctly. Dumbed down hugely and made into a quasi-collectible game at the end.
Basically this.
Spore's Civilization stage was probably the best part. Space Stage. NEEDED THAT.
I wanted a fleet. Not one ship!
I wanted to rule the gaxaly but instead I got one stupid ship taking over one planet every 10 minutes. FETH THAT.
So I unlocked cheats and started blowing up every planet i landed on.
Twisted Metal (2012). Holy monkey f%^$ was that a let-down.
EvE Online. Back when it costed like $49.99 to download/buy at the store. I can honestly say I learned more about economics and finance from this game than college.
blood reaper wrote:AVP for the Xbox, truly the worst game of all time.
Uhh, why? My views are obviously skewed because I bought it for 3 dollars in a STEAM sale (Im a PC gamer mostly), and I though the campaigns were awesome for the short time they lasted. Also a very difficult game, but quite fun. And the Alien campaign was different from what you'd see in most FPS games. All in all, an okay game, but not the best out there.
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Manchu wrote:Every game with "Lord of the Rings" in the title.
Hey! "Return of the King" and "The Third Age" were awesome!
The Third Age was the only turn based strategy game that I've enjoyed (apart from Worms)
Heck, even Battle for Middle Earth was a decent RTS. ALso LOTR online is pretty awesome.
blood reaper wrote:AVP for the Xbox, truly the worst game of all time.
Uhh, why? My views are obviously skewed because I bought it for 3 dollars in a STEAM sale (Im a PC gamer mostly), and I though the campaigns were awesome for the short time they lasted. Also a very difficult game, but quite fun. And the Alien campaign was different from what you'd see in most FPS games. All in all, an okay game, but not the best out there.
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Goliath wrote:
Manchu wrote:Every game with "Lord of the Rings" in the title.
Hey! "Return of the King" and "The Third Age" were awesome!
The Third Age was the only turn based strategy game that I've enjoyed (apart from Worms)
Heck, even Battle for Middle Earth was a decent RTS. ALso LOTR online is pretty awesome.
IIRC the AVP game for the original xbox (Extinction?) was a poorly rated strategy title in the vein of C&C - assuming that's the one that GD was referring to - and not the quality FPS of similar title.
Oh yes I was referring to the FPSlol. Yes the FPS is quite awesome, especially because it was only 3 dollars Nobody seems to play the multiplayer anymore though, which is the main reason I got the game.
I'm normally very picky when it comes to video games, so I'm not disappointed very often....but this game was nothing but garbage. I'll always consider this my worst purchase
C&C 4 tibiran twilight- it was terrable- No base building (the main aspect of C&C games of ANY kind EVER) the leveling up to get the units needed to get anywhere in the campaign. EA- stop trying to fit COD/BF3 into everything, RTS GAMES SHOULD NOT HAVE LOCKED UNITS IN MULTIPLAYER OR ANY OTHER MODE EVER!!!!
when the AI has better units than you do its fething impossible to enjoy a game
Rage...
It was okay for the most part but it was so short and you couldn't go back to the areas you explored...
And the plot kinda got really boring after a bit and then very confusing...
biccat wrote:There are plenty of worse games than Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde.
E.T., for example.
That was the first video game I ever purchased (I was, what, 8? Little did I realize that the price included not only my allowance, but children's tears as well). So ... awful ...
I've got a plethora of games that I've purchased over the years that I would put in the "bad" category, but none of them really touches E.T.
A cool concept when I got it (the ability to fight in space, air, land and sea and traverse each one almost seemlessly) but why the hell did they make it so confusing and NOT supply a manual?
Single player is fine. I'm trying to play with two of my friends. One time one of them was indefinitely blockaded by a ship that, though visible, couldn't be attacked. It was like the game 'forgot' the ship was there. I actually went through wikis for the game looking for some technology or special rule or something that allowed that to happen. Couldn't find anything.
The last time we played, one of them wiped out a civilization entirely, but when I went to try to establish contact with him though what used to be the civilizations home system, their system was still there, in the possession of the civ that was wiped out, and they started attacking me. Following some talk on vent about WTF was happening, we all had different accounts of where the game was. We quit the game and found out that everyone had radically disparate scores being reported.
I am unsure there's been such unreliable multiplayer since Unreal 1 Internet play.
purplefood wrote:Rage...
It was okay for the most part but it was so short and you couldn't go back to the areas you explored...
And the plot kinda got really boring after a bit and then very confusing...
agreed, although i liked the races otherwise spore or genesis rising... i want my money back!
Not sure if the game itself was bad or not, but Bioshock 2 tried to break my PC. Did something with my BIOS that I don't believe has been fully corrected yet. Talked to the computer guy at the firm I worked for then, and it did exactly the same to a works PC they had spare. He was able to do something about theirs as it was identical to several they had, mine he couldn't do anything much for but get it back on it's feet. Never been the same since though.
Deathshead420 wrote:Tell that to my 3 rrod xboxs troll.
And that...Is why the PS3 will always be better than the 360.
Serious mode for a second, I ain't trolling, I like PC gaming, and regularly play Dawn of War 2, Team Fortress 2, and Spore. Sadly PC gaming loses out to my PS3 because installing new games is such a faff. With my PS3 it's just put disc in port, install, done. With the PC you have to make sure you have the right type of drivers, graphics card, plugins and players...Ugh. Then there's Steam, which nearly stopped me playing Dawn of War 2 (Although after the initial mess of downloading it, it's great). Also, if your computer is capable of playing newer games it sometimes stops it from playing older games (I can't play Fire Warrior because it needs an obsolete DirectX or Shockwave player or plugin, whatever) whereas consoles can play any game that was released for them. Also, my lack of techno skills means that many of the benefits of PC gaming, like modding and server hosting, are irrelevant to me.
So, sorry PC, but you will always come second to my PS3.
There are other more comfortable PS3 controllers available that aren't made by Sony (licensed products, perfectly legal). I think Mad Catz make some good ones. Personally I like the Dualshock, but I can understand why you might not, it doestake some getting used to.
I think that Brink might be mine. It is by no means the worst game that I have ever bought, but it is the worst for the price i got it at. I bought it right away at 60 dollars, beat the thing and played some online, but i feel it was probably worth about 20 to me, so i think it was my worst.
I really hated Diablo 3 because of the story being SO OBVIOUS!
The gameplay was ok, but NOT worth full price...
I wish I could get the money back. It's the 2nd time Blizzard screws me over, first they banned my WoW account for no reason, then came Diablo which I really looked forward to.
derFarseer wrote:I really hated Diablo 3 because of the story being SO OBVIOUS!
The gameplay was ok, but NOT worth full price...
I wish I could get the money back. It's the 2nd time Blizzard screws me over, first they banned my WoW account for no reason, then came Diablo which I really looked forward to.
Yes Diablo 3 was rather disappointing as the Sp part is concern. I was not surprised once during the game
THEE UBISOFT!!!!111!!!
Damn you Gravitation Wave replacing the Laser 
No, Spore is one of those games that you have to really get into and personalise somewhat to get something out of it. It's no good creating a random monster then progressing through the stages not really liking your monster or houses for said monster or the vehicles it drives about.
