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Probably Daggerfall tbh lol

I kind of can't stand them at all these days.

I miss the old days when they were the mindless genre instead of the read this textbook about creating a character and don't eff it up or you'll end up with an unviable build and not realize it until 30 hours into the game where the internet's only response is "why didn't you read the textbook" genre.

Skyrim was the most boring RPG I had ever attempted to play

Beyond the Beyond, maybe

Menzoberranzan

Sonic Chronicles. At first I kept getting lost in the weird maps and falling asleep during combat (which is a problem because executing attacks and skills requires timed touchscreen prompts). Years after starting, I went back and finished it and it was incredibly meh.

Final Fantasy 13

Beyond the Beyond. Someone here recently mentioned it. I never tried these but I bet a lot of those newer Kemco rpgs sucked. Oh yeah Tecmo Secret of the Stars! I didn't like that game and I liked a lot of stuff back then.

There is probably something more modern I tried that I did not like, but can't come up with it at the moment.

Kamil posted...

I never tried these but I bet a lot of those newer Kemco rpgs sucked

They actually don't suck. They just feel like generic JRPGs you would have played back in the day on the SNES.

Define bad.

Like Sonic and The Dark Brotherhood, I can't even remember it at all despite finishing it.

Or like the Tales of Symphonia sequel. "Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality." Need I say more?

MagiMarthKoopa posted...

Skyrim

You're very fortunate if Skyrim is the worst rpg you've ever played

I feel like there was a Dragon Ball GBA game I bought and beat in less than a day and returned it to EBGames. They didn't want to take it back but somehow I successfully argued that it couldn't possibly have been worth my money.

Anyway, that aside, of more well known titles. I'd say Hyper Dimension Neptunia. I was super excited for a turn based RPG and it was fanservice with clunky ass gameplay. The fact that it kept getting games in spite of it being garbage seems surprising. But dudes are always thirsty, so it tracks.

Tyranthraxus posted...

They actually don't suck. They just feel like generic JRPGs you would have played back in the day on the SNES.

Yea maybe I just meant they were a sort of blandness that has no built in nostalgia already. I know Lufia 1 isn't great, but I enjoyed the hell out if it. I doubt I'd be able to put up with those mazes now. I really did like Soul Hackers 2, but now I am mentioning flawed games I liked so I'll stop.

Cross Edge. It was an old cross over RPG from the Xbox 360 era.

To which the game had absolutely no redeeming qualities beyond that premise. The OG characters were dogshit, the story was dogshit, music was dogshit, the graphics were dogshit and not Becuase it was in 2D.

But the gameplay, mechanics and balancing were the worst Ive literally ever experienced in a RPGs. Itd take ages to explain why.

The other was sonic chronicles, which was almost 1-1 with the above minus the writing at the least which I thought was entertaining and carried the game. Along with the plot twist later.

Kamil posted...

Yea maybe I just meant they were a sort of blandness that has no built in nostalgia already. I know Lufia 1 isn't great, but I enjoyed the hell out if it. I doubt I'd be able to put up with those mazes now. I really did like Soul Hackers 2, but now I am mentioning flawed games I liked so I'll stop.

Yeah although I definitely feel like the majority of Kemco games (really exe create games, kemco is just the publisher) are much better than Lufia 1.

From a pure gameplay POV they're about the same as Breath of Fire 2. Story wise they're all pretty bland and uninspired.

I remember CrossEdge on the PS3 being universally panned. Never played it but it was some crossover rpg franchise thing that didn't work on many levels. Never tried it myself. Just I am not going to react to every post now, but heh I recall that coming out.

Paladin's Quest
Arcana
7th Saga
Drakkhen

Kamil posted...

I remember CrossEdge on the PS3 being universally panned. Never played it but it was some crossover rpg franchise thing that didn't work on many levels. Never tried it myself. Just I am not going to react to every post now, but heh I recall that coming out.

I played it for a bit. Though it was kinda fun. Went on the board to look up some info on crafting. I saw there were alternate endings. Looked up the requirements for the true ending and immediately ejected the disc and threw it away.

You would have to pay me to do that shit.

I might catch heat for this, and I don't think they're the worst RPGs I've played, but the Star Ocean kind of sucks. Second Story was the best one I played, but it honestly had a lot of jank with a thin plat and I don't think it really stands out as a great game from its era.

I tried Till the End of Time and The Last Hope and both of those felt like they were massively behind the curve compared to other games coming out at the time.

Drakkhen sucked but the others were fine.

I actually love Paladin's Quest. I don't see much wrong with it, even today.

Wait I remember now. It's Chaos Wars.

Here's some voice acting:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ccVTCGpBcdU

Kamil posted...

I actually love Paladin's Quest. I don't see much wrong with it, even today.

Using HP as MP is a bad system but TBF I haven't gotten very far in the game.

Arc Rise Fantasia. I always link videos from it when talking about bad voice acting lol.

https://youtu.be/zygDzAkothQ?si=XnRN9g9Ssk0YWP5m

The "worst" RPG I've put any significant time into was FF6. The only other RPG at least that old I put significant time into was beating Mother 1, which was very dated but I much prefer the setting.

VeggetaX posted...

Using HP as MP is a bad system but TBF I haven't gotten very far in the game.

I think it's clever plus reminds me how in SMT certain skills used to cost HP. It really made ya think if it was safe to go all out with a strong attack knowing it would cost your hp.

TBH as long as you fought your battles along your way and paid attention casting spells using your hp was not that bad unless the player just intentionally spammed spells unnecessarily and never healed in Paladin's Quest. The merc system was really neat too.

VeggetaX posted...

Using HP as MP is a bad system but TBF I haven't gotten very far in the game.

In Star Ocean Till the End of Time, you'd die if your MP reached 0. And the game made you aware of that fairly early on by having early game enemies that dealt MP damage lol

NoxObscuras posted...

In Star Ocean Till the End of Time, you'd die if your MP reached 0. And the game made you aware of that fairly early on by having early game enemies that dealt MP damage lol

Gah I am still posting. The thing about that is that enemies can do MP damage (so can the player of course). So there are strategies to mp kill some bosses but someone like Cliff maybe didn't have a lot of Mp so getting hit by a few strong mp attacks was death.

Mp death I wasn't a fan, but action combat is different than turn based.

Witcher series, couldn't finish any of them.

the game of thrones rpg

NoxObscuras posted...

In Star Ocean Till the End of Time, you'd die if your MP reached 0. And the game made you aware of that fairly early on by having early game enemies that dealt MP damage lol

Yes it's a part of the reason why I didn't like the game as well.

Lunar: Dragon Song

NoxObscuras posted...

In Star Ocean Till the End of Time, you'd die if your MP reached 0. And the game made you aware of that fairly early on by having early game enemies that dealt MP damage lol

I must be weird. I kinda liked it, to a certain extent. Makes sense if you mentally exhaust yourself to that point. Plus it works against enemies as well. It's just so terribly unbalanced for the player characters in it's execution imo.

I honestly wonder if giving the player a certain amount of time to heal it once it hits zero would've made it more tolerable...

Chrono Cross and Tales of Vesperia.

Suikoden IV probably

Quest 64 was pretty awful

Secret of the Stars

I did like the party swap mechanic between the 5 "main" cast and the supporting cast with the ability to swap people in and out, but everything else about it was so bland. The combat balance was wonky, the storyline was generic, and the music and graphics were nothing special.

Don't bother/10.

Kamil posted...

Gah I am still posting. The thing about that is that enemies can do MP damage (so can the player of course). So there are strategies to mp kill some bosses but someone like Cliff maybe didn't have a lot of Mp so getting hit by a few strong mp attacks was death.

Mp death I wasn't a fan, but action combat is different than turn based.

It definitely kept you on your toes, that's for sure.

VeggetaX posted...

Yes it's a part of the reason why I didn't like the game as well.

Smiffwilm posted...

I must be weird. I kinda liked it, to a certain extent. Makes sense if you mentally exhaust yourself to that point. Plus it works against enemies as well. It's just so terribly unbalanced for the player characters in it's execution imo.

Oh don't get me wrong, I didn't hate it. I had a lot of fun with the game. But back then, it just really caught me off guard, because it was something I had never encountered before.

Smiffwilm posted...

I must be weird. I kinda liked it, to a certain extent. Makes sense if you mentally exhaust yourself to that point. Plus it works against enemies as well. It's just so terribly unbalanced for the player characters in it's execution imo.

I honestly wonder if giving the player a certain amount of time to heal it once it hits zero would've made it more tolerable...

How does reviving a character from MP death work in SO3? Obviously an HP-only revive spell or item would be useless.

The Legend of Alon d'Ar, I think it was. We rented at Blockbuster with a friend and thought it was so bad, it became an inside joke for many, many years.

EPR-radar posted...

How does reviving a character from MP death work in SO3? Obviously an HP-only revive spell or item would be useless.

Been a long time since I played it, but I think using a revival 'spell' or item restored both HP and MP?

Chaos Wars. Certainly was the worst dub ever.

Does the frequency of top tier games in this thread just mean people have primarily played good games?

Fable 3, unlimited saga, and magna carta are terrible games

BlackScythe0 posted...

Does the frequency of top tier games in this thread just mean people have primarily played good games?

Fable 3, unlimited saga, and magna carta are terrible games

Well for my post the RPGs I got growing up were top tier. Pokemon Emerald, Diamond, Mystery Dunegon, Mario & Luigi 2, off the top of my head. So during the part of my childhood where I'd be stuck with a bad game to play if I got one I just lucked into not getting any bad RPGs. FF6 is just old and relatively simple, I felt like I cleared it just picking the strongest attacks over & over & over.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Does the frequency of top tier games in this thread just mean people have primarily played good games?

Fable 3, unlimited saga, and magna carta are terrible games

Opinions vary from person to person. Just like your called Fable 3 terrible, I thought it was a fun game. The weakest of the Fable games, but not terrible by any means

BlackScythe0 posted...

Does the frequency of top tier games in this thread just mean people have primarily played good games?

Fable 3, unlimited saga, and magna carta are terrible games

Magna Carta was fine and had some amazing music. More people should have played it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MJ9Y-Tjst0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTH1W7VRTi8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLAfR2MkCFw

Unfortunately YouTube is polluted with super low quality uploads so it's hard to find more stuff

Quest 64 and Chrono Cross were pretty bad

hey TC you never answered me in your other topic, how many times have you tried to play Daggerfall and how far have you got? me, just once, and about 10 minutes. i would definitely put it in the running for worst RPG i've ever played, but i couldn't really say for sure, since i put so little time into it. there's a lot of RPGs like that, that i noped out of real quick because they just weren't clicking with me at all. Kingdom Hearts, Secret of the Stars, Brandish, old Ultima and Ultima-style games.....

the worst RPG that i actually spent a considerable amount of time with though would probably be

Blackestmage posted...

The Legend of Alon d'Ar, I think it was. We rented at Blockbuster with a friend and thought it was so bad, it became an inside joke for many, many years.

for me, my older brother bought it for me for my birthday because i played and really liked FFX and apparently he saw some marketing that favorably compared the two. it really didn't measure up lol, but i still played through it because it was a birthday gift.

actually i think i remember figuring out some way to farm a shit ton of exp really easily and i got way OP and it became a little funner after that, lol.

Probably Sonic Chronicles.
I remember kinda liking it tho

BlackScythe0 posted...

Does the frequency of top tier games in this thread just mean people have primarily played good games?

More likely what it means is they just particularly hated that one otherwise well-regarded game.

Like, honestly aside from my ultra obtuse "durr all the modern ones" answer above, my pick would be Star Ocean 2, a game literally everyone loves. Why? Well, I had issues with the menu system, I hated how many skills were just outright useless (or even actively a bad thing, like Flip) and the final boss kicked my ass hard af until I grinded more than 60 levels and finally gave up and learned how to craft shit so I could make that one cheat armor where you take no damage from enemies and just drain health constantly instead. It was just an overall miserable experience.

But I've played and enjoyed my share of poorly regarded ones too, like FF8 (I'm convinced the hate is just a "me too" train in the wake of the Spoony review which was admittedly so damn funny I must have watched it all the way through ten times) and... well, like FF8 anyway.

DoesntMatter posted...

hey TC you never answered me in your other topic, how many times have you tried to play Daggerfall and how far have you got?

I never got outta the starter dungeon I played maybe an hour or so