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Terribly balanced, a fully MIDI soundtrack on a PSX game during the middle of the system's lifespan, boring story, and hard as fuck. The single most unenjoyable game I've ever played. Too bad it was a TRPG.
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
Ok

But imagine a game that fails from a game design point of view, in terms of writing, in terms of presentation, AND is a disaster technically, not at all functional and runs like crap.

I mean, we're talking about a game where none of the buttons does anything except make your character jitter in his oscillation between two really awkward frames of animation. A game where, if you manage to hack your way into providing actual workable control, bombards you with an enemy that stands on top of you dealing contact damage, too close for you to shoot (remember, the projectiles spawn at the end of your arm cannon), and runs faster than you, so you can neither destroy it nor escape it and your only hope is to just ignore it and haul ass to the end of the level before you run out of HP.

And the one that got my pick was that game's even worse sequel. Whose title is Mega Man III even though there is no Mega Man II.
That is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. That game is completely unplayable.
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Garabandal posted...
That is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. That game is completely unplayable.
I'm not saying DJMH is good, but I have a copy in my NES right now and I'd definitely play it over the MM DOS games.

Never did beat level 6 though. The barrels are just too much.
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ImAMarvel posted...
There are movies that excel from a technical standpoint that get lower ratings on RT.

Yes obviously there are games that are broken pieces of garbage but there are games out there that run or control perfect fine but are just bad.
Sure. There are some games that are broken technically but still have something interesting enough about them to rival a game with just spectacularly bad design.

Mega Man III for DOS is not one of those games.
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I've skimmed this mostly but from what I've seen I'm glad I'm seeing legit answers rather than triple A games that wherent that bad but just didn't live up to expectations. Those people always make me wonder I'd they have ever truly played a bad a game
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the 2nd and 3rd games are phenomenal, though
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Well I bought Plumbers Dont Wear Ties Definitive Edition, which is probably up there.

Its easy to pick some old retro throwaway licensed titles like Swamp Thing on Game Boy or American Gladiators on Super NES,

But probably one of the worst games I played in the past 10 or so years that I was expecting to be at least decent was Sonic Forces. That. Game. Was. Turds.
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I personally can't believe people love this game so much. You just run around and turn generators on...that's it
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HeroFlyChao posted...
But probably one of the worst games I played in the past 10 or so years that I was expecting to be at least decent was Sonic Forces. That. Game. Was. Turds.
Ah man, if I had to pick 2 games where me and my friends+brother legitimately expected them to be good and thus we pre-ordered was resident evil operation raccoon city and left alive.

Operation raccoon city for the concept of you and your buddies playing a co-op rainbow six-like squad based game where each character brings something to the table and womg you kill the resident evil heroes!!,l. Suped for left alive because my brain just assumed it would be this cool-aas action/stealth based 3rd person game with 3 playable characters thus 3 separate stories set in the front mission universe, and occasionally hoping in and out of wanzers would be similar to that old SNES game metal warriors. Also the box art is drawn by the metal gear solid guy so the game has to be awesome right!?

....Jesus christ I got burned so bad by these im still missing the money spent years later. lol
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Saints Row Reboot, between the stupid glitches, the sub par (in my opinion) voice acting and the dumb storyline, it was bad.

Rebooting a well loved franchise was a bad idea and poorly executed.

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stevo6452 posted...
I don't know if it's the worst, but Stuntman on the PS2 was a massive disappointment.
What? I had a lot of fun with it.
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Baron_Ox posted...
Death Stranding.

it's trash in every area outside of visuals and performance (I experienced no bugs or crashes).


I reckon it would have been much better as a movie than a game.
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even though I wasn't a fan, the actual traversal wasn't too bad.

the writing and characters sucked, though, so I think it would only work as a movie if it had a different writer.
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Most Atari games barely qualify as games, they're mostly like a BASIC school project that someone got bored of halfway through and never finished.
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Mr_Karate_II posted...
Saints Row Reboot, between the stupid glitches, the sub par (in my opinion) voice acting and the dumb storyline, it was bad.

Rebooting a well loved franchise was a bad idea and poorly executed.

Thank you for the laugh.

So lets see now you didn't mind all the bugs and glitches that you got in the other Saint's Row games right? According to tvtropes Saint's Row IV is the most buggiest game there is. When I first played Saint's Row The Third Remastered the game crashed/froze up on me over 21 times. I was taking to saving every two minutes so I wouldn't loose everything. The game has never been patched fully. Where as in the reboot I have barley had any bugs or glitches.

Poor voice acting? Er nope. The voice acting was fine.

Dumb story? Oh really? So you think that storyline is dumber than the story of IV where The Zin take over and destroy Earth or the storyline of Gat Out Of Hell? Er nope. IV has the dumbest story in SR and Gat Out Of Hell gives it a run for it's money.

So er want to try again? The real reason none of you like it is because "Wahh they got rid of Johnny shitty Gat Wahh"!

Saint's Row reboot is a very good game.
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Enchanted Arms, one of the first 360 games, was pretty bad and grueling to get through. I think because of that game when games afford the opportunity to adjust your stats I focus on speed cause wtf why you gotta run so damn slow.

At least because it was one of the earliest 360 games it was easy to 100% the achievements, literally "just beat the game".
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Starfield

I understand being disappointed, but the worst ?
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There were a lot of really bad Atari games. The NES had some stinkers too. There isnt any one holy grail bad game for me but a number of them sucked. But that was when gaming was really in the early stages.

A lot of the games people claim are bad now are still much much better than bad Atari games.
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Most broken that ive played is probably the Sims 3 Pets. Lots of glitches and things not working properly, and also crashes in ways that can corrupt save data. Still overall enjoyed it though.

I dont really touch shovelware at all and ive only played a few games id consider extremely niche so i dont often have to deal with games being broken.
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Kradek posted...
I understand being disappointed, but the worst ?
12 years waiting for elder scrolls or 8 for a new fallout instead we get mehfield
discodancer77 posted...
Legacy of Goku 1 on GBA

the 2nd and 3rd games are phenomenal, though
Man when I was a little kid, I used to play the game just to watch that short intro that plays whenever you start up the game.
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That Universal Studios game on Gamecube. It was the only game I've played that was bad enough that I took the time to return it to the store. AVGN did a review on it if anyone is curious about it. It was so bad.
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Probably some game i got from a bundle on pc.

If we are talking more mainstream, probably Sonic Forces. At least 06 was funny. Forces was just cringe
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I was a kid so I tried to stick with it until the end. Eventually I got stuck in a dungeon wall and there was no way to get out. I think I saved while stuck or something. That's my last memory of that turd.
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Hard to say. Usually if I play a bad game I drop it immediately or try to stay away from them altogether if I read ahead on it.

In recent memory the worst games Ive gotten far in or completed I would say are FF13 and FF15. Got pretty far into 13 and just couldnt keep pushing another 30 hours of nothing happening.

15 I beat and the lack of a finished story makes it trash.
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The worst game I can remember the title of is Superman 64, but there's definitely been worse games that I've played if you count random web games.
CassandraCroft posted...
Thank you for the laugh.

So lets see now you didn't mind all the bugs and glitches that you got in the other Saint's Row games right? According to tvtropes Saint's Row IV is the most buggiest game there is. When I first played Saint's Row The Third Remastered the game crashed/froze up on me over 21 times. I was taking to saving every two minutes so I wouldn't loose everything. The game has never been patched fully. Where as in the reboot I have barley had any bugs or glitches.

Poor voice acting? Er nope. The voice acting was fine.

Dumb story? Oh really? So you think that storyline is dumber than the story of IV where The Zin take over and destroy Earth or the storyline of Gat Out Of Hell? Er nope. IV has the dumbest story in SR and Gat Out Of Hell gives it a run for it's money.

So er want to try again? The real reason none of you like it is because "Wahh they got rid of Johnny shitty Gat Wahh"!

Saint's Row reboot is a very good game.
IV isn't the buggiest game but go off.

The reboot was trash and was poorly received.

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Telltale Game of Thrones always springs to mind for me. Offensively cheap storytelling with show characters shoehorned in for no reason. It's more like a parody of game of thrones. Also the technical performance was comical.
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Likely mentioned a bunch of times, including the poster four posts above me. Superman 64.

I was around 10 years old when I rented the game in the latest nineties. Couldn't get past the first level after several dozen tries. You have to be absolutely perfect to fly through all the rings in the extremely limited amount of time your given. It was so annoying whenever you miss a ring, or your not sharp enough on some of the turns that it costed you some precious seconds.

The game developers made it excruciating tough on purpose. Likely so you can't proceed to far to play the later broken levels, as shown in AVGN's two reviews of the game.

The game really should be renamed Lex Luthors Wins: The Video Game. That guy can't stop winning and Superman is a loser who flies threw rings for no reason.
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Mr_Karate_II posted...
IV isn't the buggiest game but go off.

The reboot was trash and was poorly received.

Oh look is that all you can say?

Can't admit your lame miserable excuses can apply to a lot of the Saint's games eh?

Can't admit your just jumping on the "There is no Johnny Gatt so it now sucks" bandwagon eh?

Oh look you think it has a dumber story than Enter The Dominatrix or How The Saint's Saved Christmas? Er nope.

Give me my Boss, Neenah, Eli and Kevin any day over utter garbage like the one note boring as hell Johnny Gatt, and the rest of the pathetic Saints except for My female boss, Shaundi and Kinzie anyday.

Listen the game isn't flawless. I am furious at Volition who listend to the sadsacks that went "wahh we do not like humour in our games wahh take it out"! Or listening to all the speedrunners and making the level cap only 20! I mean what the bloody hell! 20 is fine for a small game like Gat Out Of Hell but not a game this size. Even level 50 was too small in The Third and IV. Having such a small level cap can make the rest of the game pointless as there is nothing to go for.

You musn't have played many games if you think this is the worst you have ever played.

The reboot is very good.
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Look, Johnny Gatt was always just another character. No idea why the series and fans got so obsessed with him. It'd be like if the silent hill ending dog got his own game.

Also saints row stopped being good after 2 anyway.
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FurryPhilosifer posted...
Look, Johnny Gatt was always just another character. No idea why the series and fans got so obsessed with him. It'd be like if the silent hill ending dog got his own game.

Also saints row stopped being good after 2 anyway.

1 was meh 2 was awesome 3 was fun but nothing amazing 4 was fun but way too over the top for me to enjoy. 4 shoulda been a new IP where you create your own super hero. Cause it would felt fitting as a super hero game.

Haven't played reboot.

And gatt was coold I wouldn't say I'm as in love with him as a lot of people. He was a gangster with a 100% fuck you attitude while the others just felk like random people that somehow ended up in a gang. I mean a stoner hippie? Really?
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FurryPhilosifer posted...
Look, Johnny Gatt was always just another character. No idea why the series and fans got so obsessed with him. It'd be like if the silent hill ending dog got his own game.

Also saints row stopped being good after 2 anyway.
It's Johnny F-ing Gatt, the only man Zinyak was literally afraid of. He's badass personified.
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Not the worst game I've played, but probably the worst in recent memory, but The Evil Within 2 was absolutely terrible. I played 1 and 2 back to back, and 2 was just so much worse than 1.
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The Dark Pictures: Little Hope, because the ending completely invalidates everything you've done in the game and ruins any attachment you may have had to any of the characters.

The Devil In Me was also bad, just from a technical perspective. Also just wasn't a fan of the characters outside of maybe Charlie. I've never played a buggier mess that that game. Graphical glitches, puzzle glitches, dead characters still showing up for scenes and conversations, etc.
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