What are some of the worst games you've ever played?

[doristrueb]

I've encountered a few games with terrible controls, serious bugs that made them unplayable, and absolutely no entertainment value. The kind of games you give up on after just a few minutes.

And of course… **Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing** is always mentioned.

[bizzgeburt]

Hugo 2 (GameBoy)

It's the worst I've ever played. Some might remember the Hugo dial in game shows back in the 90s ... this game is a simple recreation of the 4 different games shown in the TV show. Every single one out of the four is a pain in the S to finish alone, yet this insult of a cartridge requires you to finish all four in one go to finish it. Ridiculous! Even if it weren't that unfair on difficulty, the minimal size of game content shown in this game makes me call this a mere scam. Unbelievable that people paid full price for this back in the day and didn't rush stores to complain about it. Hugo was a money printing machine back then, and this Game Boy Game surely was one of their ways to rip off fans of the Show.

[kamikazekeeg]

It's hard to remember bad games sometimes, but I was one of the people that played Superman 64 back in the day, on a N64, so you get like the worst controller with the worst game for all around terrible lol

[bikingjahuty]

Probably the worst is LSD Simulator on the PS1. Like most modern art, it's pretentious crap that doesn't deserve to be on such a great console. It's essentially a janky walking simulator that runs at 5 frames per second and has zero point.


Other pretty crap games I've played:
EX Zeus (Arcade)
Dragon Ball GT Final Bout (PS1) - I have a lot of nostalgia for this game, but even that doesn't redeem this turd
South Park (N64)
The King of Fighter Maximum Impact games

[ssj4yamgeta]

Even though I usually watch reviews to avoid playing bad games, I have played some stinkers over the years:

Dark Souls II:
Dark Souls I and III are hard because they're designed to be challenging. Dark Souls II is hard because it's poorly designed. The game was handed to a new team who didn't understand what made the first game so great, and the result is like playing those 'extreme' fanmade Mario Maker levels. An overpowered early-game boss who stalks you throughout the game Nemesis-style and respawns if you do manage to kill him, bosses with 12 hard-to-kill enemies standing between your last save point and the boss door, a swamp with so many powerful long-range magic enemies in it that you can only cross it by running from cover to cover like it's Vietnam, and that's not even half of the BS. I may be a fan of soulsborne games, but I hate this one with a passion. I regard my clear data as a trophy, because I will never play it again.

Tomb Raider III:
Same story as Dark Souls II. New team, didn't understand the first 2 games, made an overly aggressive F-You of a sequel that salivates at the thought of screwing you over. And they didn't even have the decency to polish what they made. There are genuinely game-breaking bugs in certain levels.

Resident Evil 6:
I think Capcom was taking too many cues from the mediocre live-action films when they made this. It plays like a bad hollywood action movie. There's never any sense of horror in this game, only action setpiece after action setpiece. There may be a lot of different campaigns, but only Leon's is any good, and even that is mediocre at best. Some of the final bosses are horribly designed as well, especially the big mutant bug you fight as Leon. In its final phase, there are lightning rods on the floor, and you have to stab the bug with them under specific circumstances so lightning will strike it. Not only does the game not tell you this, it gives you zero indication of how or when to use the lightning rods and the boss just keeps regenerating if you don't.

Valhalla Knights:
Probably the most poorly designed RPG I've ever seen. The sound design is so bad that just listening to your character walk around grates on your nerves. Bought this for the Wii over a decade ago, played it once for an hour, then never played it again. Just bad, low-effort game design.

[marvelvscapcom2]

1. NEED FOR SPEED 2015 game Need for speed is up there.  Everything about that game annoys me. Every character within is a bad stereotype.  It's like if you asked a 53 yr old Pantera fan to write characters that they think Millenials sound and act like you'd get this game.   "Hey dude. I'm chucking revs at old ladies and drinking white claw. Come commit felonies with me or you're a square dude" uninteruptable phone calls mid race. Mid chase. Brrrr. Brrrr. Brrr. "Hey its Ashley. Dude you totally owned the pigs today.  Smell ya l8er dooooood"   always online EA nonsense mixed with terrible design options.  Limited garage space.  Rainy night time all the time. No day. Vampire level.  Poor environment. Terrible plot.   Plot is essentially "here is an iconic japanese car builder. Race him for no reason to earn street cred.   Brrr brrr brrrr. "Hey.  Bro. I'm in Juvie. Come blow spit wads at a nun with me. Yeahhh totally bro. Rad. Monster energy and cussing at my mom.  Yeahhh"    im so over it. Im over the always online server bound to go offline. I think its a dark cog in the need for speed machine. To have no pause menu in a racing game with cops is already hell. To have a game that forces you to answer the phone mid race. Or hear constant vibrating of a phone.  Its like please make it stop. It's torture.

2. NFL Tour  - Imagine nfl street 2 with none of the cool moves, no gamebreakers and terribly cheesy commentators.

3. Pokémon lets go pikachu   sold it in 2 days. I love pokemon yellow. Its a top 15 game all time imo and here comes the long awaited remaster or revision.  To put it bluntly... I beat brocks onix with a pikachu.  Yes you heard that right. I beat a gym leaders rock type with a low level ungrinded electric type without even trying.  The game is so easy that it doesnt push back at all. Its a waste of time. Even for a 3 yr old. And a game has to have SOME challenge.  Even easy games like mario world have some platforming and boss timing to be done.  Back in the fay. We felt accomplished beating a boss.  That butterfly feeling not knowing if you are high enough level.  Having to find a pidgey and some grass types and grinding until you could face brock. Their was skill involved. Some games get away with being easy. But turn based rpgs arent one of them.  It's easily my least favorite pokemon. 


4. Parappa the rapper  new addition.  Its a timing game that has bad timing.  Its a rythym game with input delay.  Thats about all I can even say about it im so offended by its existence lol.


I know their are worse games like superman 64 and stuff but these I had so much hope for. So I think it stings more to be let down. 

[nintendopresents]

Side Pocket for Super Nintendo. You'd think a game about billiards with a KILLER soundtrack and awesome title screen would be fun but it's just trick shots with limited attempts otherwise game over and you gotta start over. A standard chill pool game against AI was too much to ask for apparently. But yeah due to this, the game can get very boring and tedious pretty fast.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors for Switch. Originally on the Super Nintendo, Zombies Ate My Neighbors is one of the coolest and challenging games of the "survival" genre and dare i say "zombie" genre (though not really cause zombies are only 1 of many different enemy types). The game features a really cool George A Romero style menu/title screen with very eerie music and the game soundtrack itself is very great sometimes even anxiety inducing on certain levels (IYKYK). Anyway, the Switch pretty much took the charm away by removing the title screen/menu, and all the audio is slightly pitched up higher and ends up sounding ridiculous thus killing the awesome vibe it originally had.

Also Rogue Warrior but it's fun to hear all the ridiculous inner dialogue.

EDIT: I was typing this all up at work and ran out of time, i still have more complaining to do.

uhh mfkn uhh South Park Chef's Luv Shack I don't even have to say why for this one. How did Acclaim and Iguana drop the ball 3 times with South Park Rally and South Park also!? From the devs who made the legendary Turok 2: Seeds Of Evil, you'd expect high quality fun from at least one of them.

SSX Tricky GBA port i cannot even get it to play, sometimes when the planets allign and the moon is full, i can get the character to do a spin in the air. Probably a skill issue on my part. 

[bikingjahuty]

Side Pocket for Super Nintendo. You'd think a game about billiards with a KILLER soundtrack and awesome title screen would be fun but it's just trick shots with limited attempts otherwise game over and you gotta start over. A standard chill pool game against AI was too much to ask for apparently. But yeah due to this, the game can get very boring and tedious pretty fast.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors for Switch. Originally on the Super Nintendo, Zombies Ate My Neighbors is one of the coolest and challenging games of the "survival" genre and dare i say "zombie" genre (though not really cause zombies are only 1 of many different enemy types). The game features a really cool George A Romero style menu/title screen with very eerie music and the game soundtrack itself is very great sometimes even anxiety inducing on certain levels (IYKYK). Anyway, the Switch pretty much took the charm away by removing the title screen/menu, and all the audio is slightly pitched up higher and ends up sounding ridiculous thus killing the awesome vibe it originally had.

Also Rogue Warrior but it's fun to hear all the ridiculous inner dialogue.

Man, that's really disappointing to hear. One of my best friends growing up had Zombies on his SNES and we both loved it. I was really happy when they ported it to modern consoles, but looks like I'll just be sticking with the ol' trusty SNES version.

[zenimus]

Dark Souls II:
... I will never play it again.

Wow, what a tough take! I know it's not as good as the first, but I had fun with it. You didn't like the level with the weird lions and scorpion people? I liked that you could double wield weapons too for special combos. I'd like to go back and try it again sometime.

[snyderec3]

The SNES port of Pit Fighter is a strong contender for worst game on the console. The Arcade game was alright, but the SNES port had reduced content, awful graphics, awful controls and was needlessly difficult.