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The only game I stopped playing because the gameplay was horrid.

Jane's Advanced Strike Fighters. ITS THE WORST sim ever. Its so arcadey, and it needlessly limits you to about 1/2 what the aircraft can do.

I don't think I managed to stomach playing more than 10 minutes of Frank Herbert's Dune. - The weird anime-ish style RPG version of the book/miniseries/film that had completely messed up looking characters.

I also have to put in Star Wars Force Unleashed 1 (PC Port).
I have absolutely no idea how they managed to make playing as Darth Vader going around slaughtering wookiees and jedi utterly boring.

Another thing where I didn't get past the opening level.

xruslanx wrote:
Dawn of War 2. It was just really, really bad with very little to do. Take cover, throw grenades, advance. Yawwwwwn.

That or World of Warcraft. Talk about a snorefest, I have better things to do with my time than sitting here clicking on boars for three hours.

Are the Dawn of War 2 expansions any better?

Second sight. So unbelievably clunky. Everyone also has googly eyes, which creeped the hell out of me.

Any truly bad games I either enjoy for some quirky reason, or I stop playing immediately and forget about. I remember being really disappointed by Settlers: Heritage of Kings; and anyone who reads the video games forum ought to know my feelings on the new XCOM.

I don't remember playing too many bad games (I've probably buried those memories by playing so many good games). I try to read at least a couple reviews before buying a game to get an idea about whether it will be a game I like.
But, as Master of Orion 3 was mentioned, I do remember trying to play it, and then just going back to MOO2 instead.

Combat Arms.

Or maybe that was just the hideously stupid playerbase.

Soldner was atrocious for me.

 BrookM wrote:
Soldner was atrocious for me.

what's that?

Half Life and portal not original in anyway nothing new everything had been done before

 sing your life wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Soldner was atrocious for me.

what's that?

Apparently it's a tactical shooter game, a little like Call of Duty when they were making their games based on world war 2. Looked it up on Wikipedia so don't take my word for it though.

It's not a WWII shooter though. Just a horrible, bad shooter that I thought would be cool but really, it is gak.

theninjabadger wrote:
Half Life and portal not original in anyway nothing new everything had been done before

When, exactly, did you play them that they "aren't original"?

theninjabadger wrote:
Half Life and portal not original in anyway nothing new everything had been done before

lolwut

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Second sight. So unbelievably clunky. Everyone also has googly eyes, which creeped the hell out of me.

Whaaat? I loved Second Sight


Well, I played Big Rigs but only because of it's "fame".

X-com Enforcer.

I've been playing games on a PC since 1990 (when I swapped it for my old Comodore and I have seen some pretty dreadful games in my time. But two old ones stand out.....

The first is an old game from 1990 called "Rorke's Drift" depicting the battle of the same name. It was simply awful even by the standards of the time. It was slow moving, repetative and required you to give individual orders to every single one of the 120+ defenders. Did I mention that the interface was terrible and non-intuitive?
http://www.myabandonware.com/game/rorkes-drift-103
It really is too bad that the game was so awful as Rorke's Drift is a subject that simply screams out for a good PC game treatment.

The second is a gem titled Universal Military Simulator.
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/663/
This was yet another game that failed to live up to the promises that the publisher made. The interface was so bad and the game play so uninspiring, that I gave up trying to play it after about an hour and never installed it again. It's one of the few PC games that I felt totally cheated for buying.

TR

Melissia wrote:

theninjabadger wrote:
Half Life and portal not original in anyway nothing new everything had been done before

When, exactly, did you play them that they "aren't original"?

Ouze wrote:

theninjabadger wrote:
Half Life and portal not original in anyway nothing new everything had been done before

lolwut

I second the question and the reaction. I will also add;

theninjabadger wrote:
Half Life and portal not original in anyway nothing new everything had been done before

Obvious troll is obvious.

I didn't care for la noire. Which surprised me.

 Macok wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Second sight. So unbelievably clunky. Everyone also has googly eyes, which creeped the hell out of me.

Whaaat? I loved Second Sight


Well, I played Big Rigs but only because of it's "fame".

How exactly does one 'play' Big Rigs?

I love the Paradox strategy games, I play them excessively, but EU: Rome was terrible. While Crusader Kings II and Victoria II captured the time period, Rome didn't at all, and it was just complex to be complex It was disappointing.

In a similar vein, Pax Romana was pretty bad.

xruslanx wrote:
Dawn of War 2. It was just really, really bad with very little to do. Take cover, throw grenades, advance. Yawwwwwn.

Seconded, I played it for a few hours and then uninstalled it, as a massive 40k fan I was quite let down by this. I keep thinking I should force myself to go through it, but my general rule of thumb is that if I'm having to force myself through it, I'm just not going to enjoy it.

Also Overlord, I really love the game but I have had constant issues with it, picked it up with Overlord 2 and some expansion stuff in a steam sale impulse purchase but it crashes constantly or doesn't render/load properly.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 Macok wrote:
Well, I played Big Rigs but only because of it's "fame".

How exactly does one 'play' Big Rigs?

Just as the review video shows:

1. Stop your truck.
2. Go into a reverse turn.
3. Move so fast you tear a hole in the space-time continuum.

I quite enjoyed Dawn of War 2. Just finished Retribution a couple weeks ago.

It's weird how the DoW1 fanboys come out of the woodwork to claim DoW2 is "ermagerd DA WORTS GAEM EVAR" yet again, like cockroaches in a rotting old run-down hotel. Even if you get pissy over the fact that it wasn't a direct clone of DoW1 with no changes because you're a boring person, the claim that DoW2 was the worst PC game ever is absolutely ludicrous and ignorant. Believe me, there have been far, FAR worse games than anything Relic's produced.

Mind you, even my post about Combat Arms was just joking around and me hating on its really crap fanbase so I can hardly judge you for it

Well, while I think it's self-evident that DoW1 was, like, a bajillion times better than DoW2 (except for networking) and anyone who feels differently is probably getting kickbacks from the DoW2 development team to say so publicly, I definitely would not say DoW2 was a bad game, let alone "the worst game".

Also, I just remembered Extreme Paintbrawl. That might be the worst game I ever played - I bought it for $10 at CompUSA and spent longer on the bus home than I did in game.


Still I reiterate that when I saw this thread title, before reading the contents, I immediately, much like a rorschach test, thought "Aliens Colonial Marines"; like the other person before me.

I admit, when I saw the thread, I immediately thought about saying Starcraft just to spite the obnoxious Blizzard fanbase.

Please don't spam the boards.

Reds8n

 Melissia wrote:
I admit, when I saw the thread, I immediately thought about saying Starcraft just to spite the obnoxious Blizzard fanbase.

As a Total Annihilation fanboy, I see no problem with this.