Mario Party.

I. Fucking. HATE. Mario Party.

Monopoly. Tragically boring.

For me, I was most disappointed in Turning Point: Fall of Liberty. The premise was fascinating and I looked forward to it. They put out a demo on PS3 and it seemed okay. The launch game was worse than the demo. Just garbage. I finally actually played the entire game like 15 years later. It was very interesting and worth a lazy play, but not a very good game.

Otherwise, bad games to me are ones that are just endlessly difficult and frustrating.

Deep-cut but does anyone remember a game called like “the emo game” or something. It was browser based, would’ve been out around the 2010s. Super dark edgelord humour. I’m certain it was fucking terrible but I played through it all. I think about it from time to time but have never found it again.

I bought Sonic 2006 when it came out. It was my first experience with a truly terrible, broken game. I’d played things that weren’t up my alley or were subpar somehow, but that was the first time I was truly blown away by how bad a game could be.

Lunar Genesis/Dragon Song. It looks like ass, the story is told with the eloquence of a farting butthole, and the gameplay… Mein gott, losing HP for running on the field isn’t even the Game Arts’ worst design decision in this game. There’s nothing to save here.

7-yo me hated the original Ghostbusters game on NES. So much so that I devised a plan to get my birthday money back.

Toys R Us would only refund unopened games, but you could get an even exchange if a game was ‘defective’. So I made up some mumbo jumbo about how something didn’t work in the game, and my mom got it swapped for me (she was nervous for some reason). Took the unopened game to a different Toys R Us location and got my money back. I felt like a criminal mastermind.

I can’t really remember what I didn’t like about the game…probably I had a certain expectation as a big Ghostbusters fan that no NES game could meet.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

I played some kind of sex-themed bullet hell game where you were a disembodied penis flying around shooting things with little sperms. And if you got shot, instead of dying you would go limp and you could somehow slowly get erect again. Maybe it was popping pills or catching porn or maybe it was time based.

Anyway, that’s not the worst game I’ve ever played, but it was one of the more memorable ones that popped into mind.

The worst would probably be some free or dirt cheap PlayStation game. It was not an indie gem. They had one mechanic: stand in the middle of an arena, spin/move around, and shoot the charging enemies until you killed enough and went to the next completely identical level.

I have played many, many games. I remember some of the best. I forget the others. Why would I remember the worst?

10-player game of munchkin. Could feel my soul trying to crawl out of my mouth after the 3rd hour.

If you enjoy going in depth, there’s a podcast called How Did This Get Played that is now called “Get Played” because they couldn’t bear subjecting themselves to these misfortunately made games for too long. But the early many episodes were chock-full of titles.

Master of Orion III, a 4X game from around the turn of the century. The two previous instalments were fun strategy games. This one was like playing the world’s prettiest spreadsheet.

I rented Superman 64 at Blockbuster once.

Don’t reccomend.

Much broken.

Such bugs.

Wow.

Primal on ps2