RoboCop for the NES. Just terrible.
Arc: Survival (dinosaur game). Shit. Played for 15 minutes. Poor optimization and almost 1tb of space needed… wtf.
I can’t pick between “Bioshock Infinite” and “Borderlands”. I did push through Bioshock though, because the worldbuilding was cool, as with previous entries. But Borderlands was so utterly boring I must have played 2hrs tops
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for the NES. Unreasonably difficult first level, vague hit detection boxes, enemies can stunlock you into a cheap death, pathetic reach of your weapons. Still beat it because I was a kid in the 90s and there was shit else to do.
Maybe a hot take but I stand by it.
Red Faction: Armageddon. It was just so very boring and inferior to its 3-year-old predecessor. THQ actually tried to claim that no one was interested in the franchise anymore because of the lacklustre sales of that game. But the franchise is excellent, Armageddon was just a bad game.
Monopoly. Tragically boring.
Totally valid feeling but also monopoly was designed to intentionally be awful to get across the point that real monopolies are terrible for the world. So arguably it is exactly how you should feel about it.
Always ended with someone flipping the board at my house.
Mario Party.
I. Fucking. HATE. Mario Party.
Its like monopoly. Always ends in a fight.
yea
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.
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.
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.
Holy shit! I remember that game and playing the hell out of it because I could be Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from At The Drive-In/Mars Volta. I wonder if you can still find that anywhere.
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.
I’ve done similar tricks with returns.
I stole a CD once that had no CD! Then I bought a dvd that had two lmao. Fast production, shit happens.
When I worked retail, someone came in, complaint there was there no disk in the case (PlayStation 3 or something), exchanged that thing with no further questions.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
10-player game of munchkin. Could feel my soul trying to crawl out of my mouth after the 3rd hour.
Oof yeah, this one should have been called “Crabs in a Pot”
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.
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.
