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Evolution on the DC is the worst JRPG I have played. Also absolutely hated Galaxy Force 2 on the Megadrive. (Although I have never really liked the on rails shooter genre as a whole. So I think that one is just me). I have played worse F2P mobile games and even a couple of cheap paid for Indies but those are the 2 worst full priced retail games I can think of. |
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PazJohnMitch 17,276 posts
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NES Turtles although probably not the absolute worse was just an excercise in abject misery once you got past the start. So unbelievably unfair iirc. -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years agoA few stinkers I've played:
- Frontier: First Encounters: horribly broken at launch (in the days before widespread internet access) and even if you could get the patch to fix the crippling bugs, the game still failed to deliver what it said on the back of the box.
- Lair on PS3, which I played before the controls were partially fixed via a patch. Basically unplayable at launch, with hideous motion controls knocking an otherwise 6/10 game down to 0/10.
- Mad Dog McRee: a very old first-generation CD-ROM title, which my dad was absolutely obsessed with, but which was a truly dreadful FMV shooting gallery with barely functioning gameplay on top of terrible video.
- Sonic 2006: that kiss wasn't even the worst thing about it (though it was pretty awful).
- Final Fantasy XIV - before the Realm Reborn relaunch. With FF14 now basically the best and (by most measures) most popular subscription MMO around, it's easy to forget how awful the original launch was. Virtually no content, insane timesinks, ridiculous design decisions and a server-hosted UI with servers only in Japan (so huge input lag on every menu). -
Samildanach 641 posts
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Registered 5 years agoQuite a few BBC Micro games played like absolute dog shite, but as that was all I had experienced in the 80s, then I didn't know any better. Since then I've had plenty of experience with Gameboy, Mega drive, some SNES, Old school PC games and all the Playstations and it is hard to think of even one game that is truly bad. Maybe I've been lucky and careful with my choices, or maybe I'm just a crap critic, but yeah; some crap bbc micro game where you have to jump hazards on a water jet but the speed and inertia made it impossible very quickly. That's the worst. -
JamboWayOh 25,236 posts
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Registered 8 years agoadamasunder12 wrote:
That doesn't make them garbage games though just because you found them hard.
NES Turtles although probably not the absolute worse was just an excercise in abject misery once you got past the start. So unbelievably unfair iirc. -
JamboWayOh wrote:
True although it was unfairly hard as I remember. Not opposed to hard games at all.
adamasunder12 wrote:
That doesn't make them garbage games though just because you found them hard.
NES Turtles although probably not the absolute worse was just an excercise in abject misery once you got past the start. So unbelievably unfair iirc.
I think I remember reading it was horribly unbalanced a while back. -
https://kotaku.com/that-time-a-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtle-game-was-litera-1778291066
Literally unbeatable. Many a sore afternoon on it.
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Oh that was PC. Nevermind then. I was just shit.
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askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI remember being bought some JoWooD-published sci-fi strategy game on PC ~2000. Like a C&C rip-off.
Also The Lost World: Jurassic Park on GameBoy.
And all those demo games that used to come packaged with graphics cards. -
Rhaegyr 5,499 posts
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Registered 10 years agoHeavy Rain.
Absolutely the worst the medium has to offer. Can't think of a single facet (except maybe the soundtrack) that isn't dogshit.
This is coming from someone who bought the A-Team on the C64 too. -
Alastair 24,828 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThere was a terrible Star Wars game on the Cube...
it must have been shit because I completed it within 24 hrs of purchase. So it went back to Game/Electronics Boutique.
Edit - Rebel Strike, I think.
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Alastair 24,828 posts
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Registered 20 years agonudistpete wrote:
I can certainly see what you mean.
Probably Doshin the Giant, the only game I've ever returned for a refund. It's one of those games people think are "charming" and awesome because we got a PAL release while the US didn't get it. I just didn't "get" it. Awesome music, though.
I quite enjoyed it, but was perhaps caught up in the 'charming' hype.. -
JamboWayOh 25,236 posts
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Registered 8 years agoWhat was the Command and Conquer 3rd person game that Westwood unwisely made, you played a Commando and I remember it being dreadful. That and Daikatana. Fucking Daikatana. Oh and Duke Nukem Forever. That was also a stinker. -
minky-kong 14,787 posts
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Registered 13 years agoadamasunder12 wrote:
I'll vouch for the unfairly hard part, could never complete it over what must have been 10 years of trying on and off. The jetpack cunts in the Technodrome level were absoulte fuckers.
JamboWayOh wrote:
True although it was unfairly hard as I remember. Not opposed to hard games at all.
adamasunder12 wrote:
That doesn't make them garbage games though just because you found them hard.
NES Turtles although probably not the absolute worse was just an excercise in abject misery once you got past the start. So unbelievably unfair iirc.
I think I remember reading it was horribly unbalanced a while back.
I've played worse games though. -
I don't even remember where I got to. Just remember hitting a brick wall.
I've probably played worse but it left an indelible mark. That and ghost busters on the c64. Mainly for the instafail and subsequent 15 minute reload which then might not even load.
Kids these days eh? -
pyper777 272 posts
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Registered 13 years agoCarmageddon64 and all these C64 games
NATO Assault Course, Crazy Cars, Tintin on the Moon, Short Circuit, The Munsters. -
ChiefGB 13,815 posts
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Registered 10 years agoChrist almighty, too many spectrum games and the like that were just shit, and considered “full price” back in their day. -
monsieur-Cosmo 652 posts
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Registered 7 years agoThere were many,
But I can't remember any.
One tends to remember the good, but forget the bad.
Uh, Nightmare Creatures (PSX)? -
nudistpete 1,273 posts
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Registered 4 years agoChiefGB wrote:
When I racked my brains to answer this question, I couldn't hand-on-heart think of any speccy games I thought were truly shit back in the day. In hindsight 90% of them are bobbins, but I can't remember one game I thought "fook that, not loading that piece of crap again", not even any of the 4,000,000 games I had on C90's.
Christ almighty, too many spectrum games and the like that were just shit, and considered “full price” back in their day. -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years ago@JamboWayOh If you got past the first episode - the bit in the demo - then Daikatana managed to scale the heady heights of averageness. It just front-loaded its worst bits. -
Rogueywon 12,387 posts
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Registered 16 years agoGenuinely shit games, as opposed to disappointing ones, seem to come in waves. There was the famous Atari crash right back in the early days, mostly spurred by "too many shit games". The early PS1/N64/PC CD-ROM era also threw up a bunch of horrors as part of the awkward transition to CD and 3D. Then things improved again until the mid-2010s mobile and indie boom mined a fresh layer of shite. -
Chug666 768 posts
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Registered 14 years agoMy megadrive came with the Fantasia game, which was impressively dreadful. I don't think I ever got through the fist stage, the collision detection was impossible to second guess and then I got Streets of Rage 2 so out it went. -
PazJohnMitch 17,276 posts
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Registered 14 years agonudistpete wrote:
I had not included C64 games as I inherited my C64 and therefore did not select the games I had. I did try most I had though and the clear worst was one called Purple Turtle. What was worse is it had a £6.99 sticker on it which meant my cousin got royally screwed buying that.
ChiefGB wrote:
When I racked my brains to answer this question, I couldn't hand-on-heart think of any speccy games I thought were truly shit back in the day. In hindsight 90% of them are bobbins, but I can't remember one game I thought "fook that, not loading that piece of crap again", not even any of the 4,000,000 games I had on C90's.
Christ almighty, too many spectrum games and the like that were just shit, and considered “full price” back in their day.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/purple-turtles
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minky-kong 14,787 posts
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Registered 13 years agoOh remembered Altered Beast, that was utter shit. -
neilka 24,021 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe concept of Shadow Gangs -
challenge_hanukkah 14,394 posts
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Registered 8 years agoThe worst game no one will ever play. -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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fontgeeksogood 12,913 posts
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Registered 3 years agoThe Colorado level on Hitman -
Your-Mother 8,172 posts
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Registered 5 years agoJamboWayOh wrote:
It was terrible in single player but multiplayer was legitimately great. Vehicle combat and being able to go inside multi-level buildings (albeit with generic identikit interiors) before that was really a thing for FPS games, even some base building stuff. When it worked it really felt like you were inside a C&C map. But getting a good multiplayer game was rare even at launch, so yeah.
What was the Command and Conquer 3rd person game that Westwood unwisely made, you played a Commando and I remember it being dreadful. -
Chug666 wrote:
I absolutely loved Castle of Illusion and I was super hyped about Fantasia. Despite the shit reviews I bought it, and forced myself to complete it, several times, as I only used to get one or two games a year so didn’t have much choice. It was awful.
My megadrive came with the Fantasia game, which was impressively dreadful. I don't think I ever got through the fist stage, the collision detection was impossible to second guess and then I got Streets of Rage 2 so out it went.
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