Worst game ever?

Adagio · March 6, 2003, 06:42

What is the most dissapointing game you have ever played?

I'm not talking about some game you wouldn't like anyway... but some game that (if done right) could have become a great game, but for some reason they didn't do it right (bugs, annoying interface, etc)...

I'll come with mine later, I gotta go now...

Btw, this is no vote, you just write what game you're talking about, and why you think that game is a dissapointment...

EDIT:

Actually the thread should have said: "The most dissapointing game ever"...

Datajack Franit · March 6, 2003, 07:33

Anything from Microids

Syberia is probably the only decent game they produced ever

Adagio · March 6, 2003, 08:07

microids? Never heard of them...

One of the worst game I have ever played (and bought

), was American Dream...
An unknown game, about creating some fast-food stores, near the dessert... On the slowest speed (Don't remember if you actually could change the speed), the only thing you could do, was in the "buy" area, since you had to keep clicking "buy", in order to buy something... What I bought, was sold the same second I clicked buy, so if I wasn't in the buy screen, I was loosing money...
and this was in the beginning of the game... you could upgrade your fast-food store, but what's the point, when you sell faster than you produce (or should I say "buy" the food) with the smallest store avaliable...
After 2 days, I figured it was wasted money... and I can't get refund back, when turning in the game

Skanky Burns · March 6, 2003, 08:26

Star Wars Rebellion.
It was a strategy game set in the Star Wars universe. How could it possibly be bad?

Well, the interface was so badly designed that it felt as though you were fighting the interface, not the game.
The combat system was so lame that it was better not to use your fighters at all - they didn't affect the outcome of the battle at all, only wasting resources and dying.
The AI was so inept that (playing as the imperials) I had built a deathstar in almost all the systems, just for something to do. I crushed the rebel fleet early, and they never recovered.
The whole premise was also pathetic. Rather than the imperials starting with a majority of planets, especially all the core planets and the rebels occupying some outlying planets (as is the situation in the movies), both sides started out fairly similar in strength.

The whole thing had so much promise, and fulfilled so little of it.

I don't like this thread - now I'm depresed.

Datajack Franit · March 6, 2003, 08:44

Skanky - I'd be more depressed thinking at the whole lot of bucks I wasted in crap games, 50$ each at least

Skanky Burns · March 6, 2003, 08:58

Well, it has had a good benefit of making me more wary.
2 years ago, I would have rushed to the store as soon as Moo3 was released. Instead, I waited for other people's reviews, possibly saving myself from wasting my money.

The last few games I have bought were only after I had played those games for a significant period of time.

DrSpike · March 6, 2003, 09:46

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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
The last few games I have bought were only after I had played those games for a significant period of time.

Hehe I do that as well. Usually I want to play MP, so I have an incentive to buy the game properly if I like it.

Alinestra Covelia · March 6, 2003, 11:06

Yes, Star Wars Rebellion (or Supremacy, as it was called in Europe) was a let down. I was working on a Civ2 ToT scenario that would replicate it (and which would in all honesty probably be better than the original) but never finished it.

I should dig it up from wherever it got to and try it again.

St Leo · March 6, 2003, 18:27

I believe that Extreme Paintbrawl is widely believed to be the worst game ever.

Juggler · March 6, 2003, 19:14

Astrotit, Orbiter and some other pathetic EGA examples.

Dauphin · March 6, 2003, 19:23

Most Star Trek games.

They sold on the basis of the Star Trek name rather than their quality. If done correctly you could make a good TBS, RTS or FPS out of them. Instead we got the likes of BotF and Armada.

vee4473 · March 6, 2003, 19:55

I kinda liked Armada...it gave me a "star trek space combat with shields glowing" type of fix.

pg · March 7, 2003, 00:00

quake 2?

in all seriousiness, black and white!

faded glory · March 7, 2003, 01:18

Extreme Paintball is upthere. Pretty much anything from Valu-****.

Anything from Lucasarts is gonna suck...

But the worst was definetly Bf1942

Adagio · March 7, 2003, 05:30

Could you please write some specific reason, why you don't like the mentioned games?

Skanky Burns · March 7, 2003, 05:51

Lucasarts released high quality games back in the day. Monkey Island 1 and 2 were superb. They lost their touch though.

Dauphin · March 7, 2003, 08:12

MI3 was good too. They lost it when they went 3-D for Escape from Monkey Island.

DrSpike · March 7, 2003, 09:35

We have discussed Curse V Escape before SD, so no need to go over old ground (SD is wrong btw

), but either way there is no way any lucasarts adventure would be within 1 million miles of the worst game ever.

Most people don't play the truly worst games, since hardly anyone buys them. As for most disappointing games, there are lots. Even though I think it is a good game Civ3 probably disappointed me more than any game ever, because of my expectations.

Alinestra Covelia · March 7, 2003, 09:42

Lucasarts do good point-click adventure games, and exceptional flight sims. Of course, these were "back in the days"... I haven't played many of their present games but quite a few of their Star Wars output titles have garnered disappointing reviews.

There was one Nintendo 64 game that came out in 2000, and which everybody hoped would be an amazing FPS, called Perfect Dark. I remember our entire household loved Goldeneye 007 before it, and this game was going to bring a Mature rated plotline and gritty realism and full motion capture animations to the Nintendo 64.

Well, as far as gameplay went, the game was superb. But it quickly became apparent that the plot was definitely not worth the Mature rating that it received - being as it was a childish mish-mash of vaguely spooky X-Files mixed with a dose of appallingly corny B-movie AlieNZ type script. The weapons were pretty retarded too, featuring such idiotic offerings as an assault rifle that came with an *undetachable* proximity mine, an assault rifle that came with a threat detection computer, a submachine gun that came with a bullet-powered cloaking field, and a machine gun that featured a rotating blade grinder head attachment for close combat.

They should have named the game PURFIKKT GUNZZZZ!!!! and been somewhat more honest about the less-than-grown-up target audience.

"Mature audience." Pah.

Dauphin · March 7, 2003, 09:42

DrSpike, horses for courses....

Dauphin · March 7, 2003, 09:44

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Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia

"Mature audience." Pah.

What's not mature about an alien called Elvis?

DrSpike · March 7, 2003, 09:48

Yes, SD (or BC as we should call you now, though it makes you look old) you are free to prefer Curse to Escape. You are not free to even consider Escape for the worst game ever in either case, because that is simply ludicrous.

Adagio · March 7, 2003, 10:44

Quote:

Originally posted by DrSpike
Most people don't play the truly worst games, since hardly anyone buys them. As for most disappointing games, there are lots.

Yeah, dissapointing games should have been the title instead of worst... since it's actually the most dissapointing game this thread should be pointed to...

MBD · March 7, 2003, 15:42

Don't forget about Outpost, which was supposed to be like SimCity in space. The game was missing many of the features mentioned in the manual and on the box and was basically unplayable.

Edited to add that I wrote this before I saw that there's a thread about this game already, and I was dumb enough to actually buy the game when it came out!

Adagio · March 7, 2003, 16:01

Reminds me of Car Tycoon... on the box it said (or so I've been told) MP was included... but it has still not been released (MP that is)... and it's not some years since release...

The game was filled with bugs, so the game was pretty unplayable (you had to start a new game, to be able to load a game... pretty strange)... but the idea was great

Nubclear · March 7, 2003, 16:10

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Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
Lucasarts do good point-click adventure games, and exceptional flight sims. Of course, these were "back in the days"... I haven't played many of their present games but quite a few of their Star Wars output titles have garnered disappointing reviews.

There was one Nintendo 64 game that came out in 2000, and which everybody hoped would be an amazing FPS, called Perfect Dark. I remember our entire household loved Goldeneye 007 before it, and this game was going to bring a Mature rated plotline and gritty realism and full motion capture animations to the Nintendo 64.

Well, as far as gameplay went, the game was superb. But it quickly became apparent that the plot was definitely not worth the Mature rating that it received - being as it was a childish mish-mash of vaguely spooky X-Files mixed with a dose of appallingly corny B-movie AlieNZ type script. The weapons were pretty retarded too, featuring such idiotic offerings as an assault rifle that came with an *undetachable* proximity mine, an assault rifle that came with a threat detection computer, a submachine gun that came with a bullet-powered cloaking field, and a machine gun that featured a rotating blade grinder head attachment for close combat.

They should have named the game PURFIKKT GUNZZZZ!!!! and been somewhat more honest about the less-than-grown-up target audience.

"Mature audience." Pah.

Perfect Dark is HARDLY the "worst game ever"!!!!

I'd have to with The Sims. Ugh.

Dauphin · March 7, 2003, 16:12

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Originally posted by DrSpike
Yes, SD (or BC as we should call you now, though it makes you look old) you are free to prefer Curse to Escape. You are not free to even consider Escape for the worst game ever in either case, because that is simply ludicrous.

If they had kept the cartoon 2-D based graphics from MI3 then I may have enjoyed MI4. It just infuriated me to have poor graphics after the smoothness of its predecessor.

I don't think its the worst game ever, not even close. Its the second best MI out there. Its just that it was a step in the wrong direction IMHO.

DaShi · March 7, 2003, 16:31

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Originally posted by Datajack Franit
Anything from Microids

Syberia is probably the only decent game they produced ever

Be glad you never played a game called 'Roids.'

And it wasn't about space.

Adagio · March 7, 2003, 17:58

Quote:

Originally posted by Tassadar5000
I'd have to with The Sims. Ugh.

Well... maybe The Sims is the worst game ever, but was is a dissapointment? What expectations did you have about this game... and was the game, the way you expected it to be, then it's not a dissapointment... boring, maybe, but not a dissapointment...

Dauphin · March 7, 2003, 18:10

I think the most disappointing games are the ones that never were. Colonization 2, StarCraft 2.

If that changes I certainly would not be disappointed.