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Arctik_Firangi wrote:Fire Warrior was okay if you managed to block out that it was supposed to have anything to do with 40K or its normal rules... and turned the sound off... and ignored the multiplayer... and that annoying 'kill all of the snipers' bit...

Ahem.

I wonder what non-wargamers thought of it.

I actually really liked Firewarrior, I just wasn't good enough to actually beat the game... on easy >.<

Final Fantasy X-2. *shudder*

WarlordGaz wrote:Final Fantasy X-2. *shudder*

I really wanted to play X-2. I thought it looked like it would be something totally different and interesting.

Grignard wrote:

WarlordGaz wrote:Final Fantasy X-2. *shudder*

I really wanted to play X-2. I thought it looked like it would be something totally different and interesting.

If you can get it, play it.There were certainly some interesting parts, and the take on battles was actually quite good. They tried too hard to make it all 'girly' and...well, I still have mental scars.

My missus went to have a go, she saw the intro and her reaction?


she took the game out and set it on fire.

WarlordGaz wrote:

Grignard wrote:

WarlordGaz wrote:Final Fantasy X-2. *shudder*

I really wanted to play X-2. I thought it looked like it would be something totally different and interesting.

If you can get it, play it.There were certainly some interesting parts, and the take on battles was actually quite good. They tried too hard to make it all 'girly' and...well, I still have mental scars.

My missus went to have a go, she saw the intro and her reaction?


she took the game out and set it on fire.

I don't know, I just think the idea of a RPG from this "girly" perspective is very interesting.

Big Rigs over the road racing. Absolute WORST game ever...EVER.

Where to start...First of all its just trucks racing which is a bad concept to start with. The graphics are no better than a preschool finger painting. you can drive through and over ANY obstacle. Through trees, building, bridges, up steep hills, everything, and you will not even slow down at all. Not only that, but no matter how much you screw around and try NOT to win, your 'opponent' will never finish the race. You could spend an hour spinning backwards at -88888888 MPH and you would still be able to win the game. Finally, to add insult to injury, once you win you are congratulated with the "you're winner" screen.

I challenge anyone to find a worse game.

I totally forgot about Big Rigs Over the road Racing. Well, I didn't forget about it, I just couldn't remember the name.

Definetly a contender for the worst game ever. You totally forgot that going in reverse makes you speed up until you eventually end up going thousands of miles per hour.

Now that is a terrible game.

Grignard wrote:

WarlordGaz wrote:

Grignard wrote:

WarlordGaz wrote:Final Fantasy X-2. *shudder*

I really wanted to play X-2. I thought it looked like it would be something totally different and interesting.

If you can get it, play it.There were certainly some interesting parts, and the take on battles was actually quite good. They tried too hard to make it all 'girly' and...well, I still have mental scars.

My missus went to have a go, she saw the intro and her reaction?


she took the game out and set it on fire.

I don't know, I just think the idea of a RPG from this "girly" perspective is very interesting.

the girly perspective is fine...but the pop song intro is just painful.

I suppose I should mention the one titled Worst Game Ever on Adultswim.com.

Axyl wrote:Big Rigs over the road racing. Absolute WORST game ever...EVER.

Where to start...First of all its just trucks racing which is a bad concept to start with. The graphics are no better than a preschool finger painting. you can drive through and over ANY obstacle. Through trees, building, bridges, up steep hills, everything, and you will not even slow down at all. Not only that, but no matter how much you screw around and try NOT to win, your 'opponent' will never finish the race. You could spend an hour spinning backwards at -88888888 MPH and you would still be able to win the game. Finally, to add insult to injury, once you win you are congratulated with the "you're winner" screen.

I challenge anyone to find a worse game.

Molecule Man on the ZX Spectrum.

It was a timed game, that didn't tell you what you needed to do, nor how to extend the timer. You just sort of spent 30 seconds wandering around the various screens avoiding the baddies before you seemingly died of boredom. And remember. This was a game that took five minutes just to load.....

Lordhat wrote:
I actually really liked Firewarrior, I just wasn't good enough to actually beat the game... on easy >.<

I could. Beat it on medium, too. I liked it as well. A mate had trouble with the final big-bad, until I told him to only shoot the body (head hits didn't count.)

Bloodrayne. Was. complete. and. utter. crud.

Mario anything. The movie was preferable. As bad as it was.

Lordhat wrote:

Arctik_Firangi wrote:Fire Warrior was okay if you managed to block out that it was supposed to have anything to do with 40K or its normal rules... and turned the sound off... and ignored the multiplayer... and that annoying 'kill all of the snipers' bit...

Ahem.

I wonder what non-wargamers thought of it.

I actually really liked Firewarrior, I just wasn't good enough to actually beat the game... on easy >.<

I liked it too(but could beat it). The story was crappy and the Multiplayer was a bit crap, but I had fun playing it.

Devil May Cry 2 - after the first one how Capcom could put its logo on that piece of crap is absolutely beyond me.

Any Tomb Raider game that was not on the Playstation 1.

Castlequest on NES


There, thread over, you can all go home now.

Phoenix wrote:Hexen. This one stands out because it was a first person shooter that was mostly without levels. You just had to unlock more parts of the same huge level, so you flip a switch somewhere and have to use telepathy to read the f***ing minds of the game developers to figure out where the door it opened is.

I had mercifully forgotten about that. I'll forward you my therapist bill.


and Top Gun for NES was awesome!

Railguns wrote:Castlequest on NES


There, thread over, you can all go home now.

I still think Mappyland was worse.

Fantasy World Dizzy!!!!

I'm throwing in Shadowgate on the NES.

Dungeon crawly puzzle game. The puzzles made no sense at all so you ended up trying to use every combination of items and commands to get any further, and this was for every freaking room!

Didn't help that many actions caused instant unavoidable death.

But the worst unavoidable death? Your character has a torch with him that he uses to light the way. Once it goes out you immediately die because "you stumble in the dark and break your neck". Of course there was no good indicator of how close your torch was to burning up except for a 'half burned up torch' graphic that replaced the 'full torch' one once it was half way.

Utter crud

BAWTRM wrote:I'm throwing in Shadowgate on the NES.

Dungeon crawly puzzle game. The puzzles made no sense at all so you ended up trying to use every combination of items and commands to get any further, and this was for every freaking room!

Didn't help that many actions caused instant unavoidable death.

But the worst unavoidable death? Your character has a torch with him that he uses to light the way. Once it goes out you immediately die because "you stumble in the dark and break your neck". Of course there was no good indicator of how close your torch was to burning up except for a 'half burned up torch' graphic that replaced the 'full torch' one once it was half way.

Utter crud

Now see, I really liked Shadowgate, probably for the very reason that you dislike it. The torch timer thing was a little dumb, I'll give you that, but otherwise I think it is a wonderful puzzle game with very atmospheric visuals. I believe the artists and developers for that one must have been some of the most talented and creative people who ever worked on NES games. Even the music was great, which is saying something for an 8-bit NES cartridge. I never beat it, and have always been frustrated enough that I looked up PART of the solution to the game a year or so ago, which is probably 15 years or more since I last played it. I have seriously considered getting an old NES just to play that game and a couple others, like Solstice and Mario 3. I might look and see if someone has it emulated on the PC.

Turok: evolution
bad controls
unimaginative weapons (inexcusible in a sci-fi shooter)

And last, but not least:
An unbelievably racist antagonist with zero depth who rides a T-rex that you kill by chopping down a tree on him.

but the multiplayer was alright.

This is easily one of the worst games ever. So bad that the company, Acclaim, went under.

I think the worst game I ever bought was "Drake and 99 Dragons."

I bought it for cheap because at the time the cover art reminded me of the Bruce Timm Version of Batman. Yeah I have no ideas why it reminded me of Bruce Timm Art THEN but that's what I was thinkign when I payed $10 for it.

I'm still not too sure what the hell the game was about. It's just a dude running around horrible hotel lobby-like levels, flailing his arms about, and firing a gun in almost random directions while "mobsters" try to run through corners of rooms or get hung up on doors. Maybe the attack you sometimes...if you waitn long enough.

Dark Reign 2 was pretty awful.

GUN was another one. It's the only game I've ever actually returned. I even kept Force Commander.

BYE

Chrysaor686 wrote:I understand the whole Fight Club thing completely. Yes, a very broken game. Not worth anyone's money.

But when people start putting up stuff like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Final Fantasy, and Everquest (?), it just makes me wonder if anyone has actually had to suffer through any truly terrible game. I mean, games so broken that you can just laugh at how terrible the programming is. Games that make you wonder how that game even got published.

Like......Warhammer 40, 000 Squad Command?

Seriously, the graphics look like my grandmother's tried to make a cake out of DOW. And the first mission can't be completed, as you can't get LOS to the heretics behind the rocks, and if you get up close you still can't see them because the camera doesn't work.

The PSP version is a bit better, as far as I can tell.

Desert Bus.

Wait, what? Desert Bus is quite possibly the best game ever.

ungulateman wrote:

Like......Warhammer 40, 000 Squad Command?

Seriously, the graphics look like my grandmother's tried to make a cake out of DOW. And the first mission can't be completed, as you can't get LOS to the heretics behind the rocks, and if you get up close you still can't see them because the camera doesn't work.

The PSP version is a bit better, as far as I can tell.

Are you talking about the DS version? Because the first mission of that is EASY

King's quest, I forget which one. An old PC game that involved searching every square inch of every environment to find hidden items. Also you have to go around and talk to a bunch of people, but if you mess up the order, you can't progress. I never got out of the opening area. Fail.

Duke Nukem Forever

Two Worlds

I was speechless as to how bad it was.

AKA 'Boo Worlds'