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Without going into super obvious stuff like the $1 switch eshop game you bought on a whim.

Death Stranding

Superman 64

EDIT: I could add the NES Back to the Future games. There was a top-down Digimon title for Playstation I could never figure out.

I can't think of a singular standout experience. There were a ton of shitty games back in the Atari/ColecoVision/Intellivision days and honestly even on the NES there were some terrible games.

My mind's kneejerk reaction was Black Ops 3.

I'm sure I've played worse, but, man, Blops 3 was bad.

team fortress 2

Telltale's Game of Thrones.

Insulting in the way it develops and executes plot lines. Any buildup leads to a wet fart of a payoff. It seems to fundamentally misunderstand the original materials storytelling, and attempts to replicate it with something approaching misery porn. A lot of the writing is just bad. The show characters turn up with very little justification. And the performance was dogshit.

I bought this game twice.

Doki Doki Literature Club

Clearest one I can remember is Superman 64.

I also rented some weird side-scrolling fighter game on PS1 a long time ago that was rather terrible compared to other games on the platform. Don't remember the name though.

Prob discworld 1. It's just nearly unplayable without a guide imo. You'll end up with like 50 inventory items (many are not essential) and since many of the solutions don't make logical sense the games forces the player to use every individual item on random things/npcs in the environment. There are many locations in the game so this can take a while. Also pretty sure you can get soft locked by going the wrong order in at least one part of the game. Super screwed if this happens and you are guideless lol. Could waste hours upon hours of time for nothing

That said the game is not bad with a guide. I think its very entertaining. Good voice acting and humor imo. I like its art style and music too l

But I went guideless for like 20 hours befofe I folded and used a guide. Was barely making progress. I got sick of hearing rincewind say "that doesn't work" hundreds of times. So the game gave me such a terrible impression.

Project x Zone comes to mind for an actual, widespread release that I played that was that bad.

The cool crossover stuff lured me in, but the story was nothing, the strategy element was very drawn-out and tedious, and the individual combats were all exactly the same and grew stale extremely fast. I fell asleep playing the game multiple times because it was that boring, and I eventually conceded that I couldn't keep going when I realized I still had several chapters to go and was already despising the game.

There might be some random shovelware game I've played that's worse and that I've forgotten, but in terms of a major release that I bought at full price? PxZ has to at least be near the top. For a game that looks as flashy and cool as that one, it's the video game equivalent of watching paint dry.

E.T. the Extraterrestial on the Atari 2600. The game was so bad that thousands of unpurchased cartridges were buried in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA

Dark Souls 2.

The blatant drop in quality in terms of mostly everything is still jarring to this day.

Dark Castle on Genesis. Imagine being whatever age I was as a kid, getting that, and not knowing what the literal fuck the game was or how to play it.

Captain Planet on NES

dotsdfe posted...

Project x Zone comes to mind for an actual, widespread release that I played that was that bad.

The cool crossover stuff lured me in, but the story was nothing, the strategy element was very drawn-out and tedious, and the individual combats were all exactly the same and grew stale extremely fast. I fell asleep playing the game multiple times because it was that boring, and I eventually conceded that I couldn't keep going when I realized I still had several chapters to go and was already despising the game.

There might be some random shovelware game I've played that's worse and that I've forgotten, but in terms of a major release that I bought at full price? PxZ has to at least be near the top. For a game that looks as flashy and cool as that one, it's the video game equivalent of watching paint dry.

Wasn't that made by the Xenoblade Devs or something to? Or maybe it was the fire emblem guys. Something like that.

Project X Zone was Monolithsoft. I liked the sequel but I only played the demo of the first one

Video game: Ephemeral Fantasia
game in general: The Great Dalmuti was hot such hot garbage that I will not willingly play that game ever again.

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties

Do Tiger Electronics games count as real "games"? In that case, Sonic the Hedgehog on one of those.

Pit Fighter on SNES

I mean, look at this shit
https://youtu.be/-HNUL4CHvvk?si=Y1J2_tNeDkm6wrdl

ET on the atari.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I actually had it as a kid.

Tagin' Dragon

I hate it

Hydlide, nes.

Pure vomit.

Ratchetrockon posted...

Prob discworld 1. It's just nearly unplayable without a guide imo. You'll end up with like 50 inventory items (many are not essential) and since many of the solutions don't make logical sense the games forces the player to use every individual item on random things/npcs in the environment. There are many locations in the game so this can take a while. Also pretty sure you can get soft locked by going the wrong order in at least one part of the game. Super screwed if this happens and you are guideless lol. Could waste hours upon hours of time for nothing

That said the game is not bad with a guide. I think its very entertaining. Good voice acting and humor imo. I like its art style and music too l

But I went guideless for like 20 hours befofe I folded and used a guide. Was barely making progress. I got sick of hearing rincewind say "that doesn't work" hundreds of times. So the game gave me such a terrible impression.

Oh yes. If that wasn't so funny I wouldn't have tried for so long.

I got stuck, and used a guide, to pass some alleyway mouse hole puzzle.

Some early 90s PC and Game Boy stuff, probably.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

I actually had it as a kid.

Condolences. That's my pick too

That Universal Studios game on Gamecube. It seemed like a fun idea, exploring an amusement park and the rides being turned into mini-games. But it was so so bad. I think it was the only time I ever returned a game to the store.

For reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVf9-wEzGvc

Your favorite

Garabandal posted...

Condolences. That's my pick too

funny, I am watching AVGN's video on beating it, just came out yesterday. Looks awful.

X-men on the NES. Kids today just do not know the sheer suckitude that garbage company LJN was capable of.

Men in Black for the Playstation 1. Without fail it kept crashing my console at a specific part of the game.

Maybe not the worst game ever since I never really bothered to play my copy that much, but Chaos Wars for the PS2 is infamous for its absolutely terrible voice acting. The Jackass CEO of the localization company literally just hired his relatives to do the voices and it shows, lmao.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ccVTCGpBcdU

For the games Ive beaten at least probably Cross Edge. A terrible game all around with the worst gameplay of any RPG Ive ever played.

Castlequest for the NES. (It isn't really, but it's not good). I always thought Bayou Billy was quite shit for the NES. Thankfully I never played Superman 64 so I can legally not include that.

Prismsblade posted...

For the games Ive beaten at least probably Cross Edge. A terrible game all around with the worst gameplay of any RPG Ive ever played.

Glad someone else shares this opinion. Came in to say this and Hyper Dimension Neptunia and everything that followed it.

Superman 64

I was so hyped for that game and it was just a complete dud.

Resident Evil Remake

Nirvanas_Nox posted...

Glad someone else shares this opinion. Came in to say this and Hyper Dimension Neptunia and everything that followed it.

I played only the first one in the franchise. And while Ill agree it was godawful but I at least liked the characters, and the premise was kind of cool in my opinion.

So many games on the old Atari consoles were basically unplayable. It was hard even calling some of them a game. The jump in quality and depth from that caveman crap to the NES era was massive.

DragonBall Z Taiketsu for GBA

Whatever that prince of Persia was that was after the t rebooted series but before that cell shaded one.

The prince moved like his pants were full of sand, the animations were super stiff and it just looked like ass despite the devs coming off of Two Thrones which was such a fun game.

I bought it at a GameStop and returned that afternoon, thankfully there was a guy working who pretty much understood what my issue was and let me return it for a full exchange. Thats when Red Dead Redemption caught my eye.

i rented a game on N64 that was a japanese import, i think it might have been Bushido Blade, or something similar. It was a fighting game in all japanese. I didn't know what to do really, and i tried my best to enjoy it, but it gave me a dang headache

Street Fighter 1

Everything in this game was completely random if it worked or not.

I've played several bad games over the years, so I'm just going with the one I most remember playing that wasn't good.

Michigan: Report from Hell. This game doesn't suffer from bad or broken gameplay mechanics as other bad games tend to do. It's just kind of boring to play. It's a horror game where you play as a cameraman in the style of the Blair Witch Project/Found Footage type of movies. You're following around a news reporter lady and the boom mic guy around various locales in Michigan. Occasionally running into a monster here and there, though the game suffers from not giving you much to do in between the long gaps when enemies show up.

You spend the bulk of the game watching various NPC dialogue and them slowly moving around at a snail's pace from place to place. The action in the game is pretty much quick time events and telling the reporter lady where and when to shoot her handgun at the monsters. I don't remember much of the game's story as it's been a lot of years since I played it, other than it not making much sense in what was going on. Voice acting was also bad. Although I do want to some day return to that game just to see if I can learn anything more of the game's story.

Independance Day on PS1.

The Last Rebellion. It was so bad that the publisher apologized for releasing it, and they publish nearly every Idea Factory game in a 8 year time span.

dirge of cerberus

InTheEyesOfFire posted...

Whatever that prince of Persia was that was after the t rebooted series but before that cell shaded one.

The prince moved like his pants were full of sand, the animations were super stiff and it just looked like ass despite the devs coming off of Two Thrones which was such a fun game.

I bought it at a GameStop and returned that afternoon, thankfully there was a guy working who pretty much understood what my issue was and let me return it for a full exchange. Thats when Red Dead Redemption caught my eye.

Forgotten Sands. That was the one that came out like right after the movie