Worst game evar?

[Special J]

Master of Orion 3   

Yeah that was going to be my pick. It made me cry. Being a massive MOO2 fan, I was so excited too.

I thought I read somewhere that you could just hit 'Next Turn' and win the game; Or at least it seemed that way.

Edit:  Wow. IGN gave it a 9.2/10.  I can't read it; It hurts too much.

[Yegolev]

Ultima Online.

[Jain Zar]

Worst commercial game: X Men for the NES.
Guess who made it?  JLN, kings of shitty NES games!

Biggest disappointment game sucky: Final Fantasy 8, which was basically where I stopped liking the JRPG.  Of course Fallout 2 came out around the same timeframe IIRC, and playing pure awesome next to some weeaboo angstfest with a shitty CCG that got worse the further into the game you got, punished you for levelling up, and had a magic and attribute system designed to make you hate life itself is gonna make it look worse than it already is.

[Margalis]

I can't think of a single game I bought that was way below expectations. I guess I have low expectations.

Maybe the Tactics Ogre game for the GBA, just because it was a major step backwards from the SNES version. For some reason they stripped out all the good stuff.

[pants]

Black & White.

I bought into the hype.  I read the interviews with Molyneaux.  I loved the idea of a Pokemon who could eat villagers and gradually morph into the personification of my psychotic personality.  The concept of having monster battles sounded fantastic, complete with differing tactics and strategies.  Revolutionary new symbol-driven control system that would throw out the old idea of buttons and icons on the screen.

I got a horse that would eat its own poop while sitting there watching my idiot peasants swarm around waiting to be micromanaged or starve.  Every time I swirled the mouse around trying to throw a fireball at it I would invariably slap it in the head or just make silly squiggles in the air.  Then the enemy god would turn up and its badger or whatever the hell it was would either wander through slaughtering my idiot peasants while my walking glue factory ate more poop, or it would wander off into the ocean and eat its own poop.

My wife will still occasionally say to me 'At least its better than Black & White'.

[Morat20]

Black & White.

I bought into the hype.  I read the interviews with Molyneaux.  I loved the idea of a Pokemon who could eat villagers and gradually morph into the personification of my psychotic personality.  The concept of having monster battles sounded fantastic, complete with differing tactics and strategies.  Revolutionary new symbol-driven control system that would throw out the old idea of buttons and icons on the screen.

I got a horse that would eat its own poop while sitting there watching my idiot peasants swarm around waiting to be micromanaged or starve.  Every time I swirled the mouse around trying to throw a fireball at it I would invariably slap it in the head or just make silly squiggles in the air.  Then the enemy god would turn up and its badger or whatever the hell it was would either wander through slaughtering my idiot peasants while my walking glue factory ate more poop, or it would wander off into the ocean and eat its own poop.

My wife will still occasionally say to me 'At least its better than Black & White'.

God, I keep thinking Spore will end up like Black and White. I'd hate to add Spore to this list, for pretty much the same reason you were excited about Black and White.

Admittedly, I did like slapping my pet around. Stupid fucking animal couldn't get anything right.

[Wolf]

Worst game that I have ever played is something called Narc for the Xbox. I have no idea why I had a press copy but it was so fucking bad.

Most disappointing would be a toss between Oblivion and Daikatana.

[Azazel]

World of Warcraft.

9 Million People. All the same shit we've seen.

It's the diet crystal clear pepsi of games.

So you enjoyed Vanguard more?

As mentioned, we've split the concept as of the OP.
There's a big difference between WORST. GAME. EVAR. and "Most disappointing game I have played".

My answer to the first.. I'm not sure. The second would be Fable.

[Sutro]

Worst game that I have ever played is something called Narc for the Xbox. I have no idea why I had a press copy but it was so fucking bad.

Most disappointing would be a toss between Oblivion and Daikatana.

You had expectations for Daikatana?

Kind of like having expectations for Shadowbane after the beta leaks.

[rk47]

Ultima 9.
Look its THE last of the series. What a way to crash n burn.

[Wolf]

Worst game that I have ever played is something called Narc for the Xbox. I have no idea why I had a press copy but it was so fucking bad.

Most disappointing would be a toss between Oblivion and Daikatana.

You had expectations for Daikatana?

Kind of like having expectations for Shadowbane after the beta leaks.

Hey it was the dark ages of gaming. I only had a dial up that was used to download quake demos and nuddie pictures. And I had read in a magazine about a game made by one of the dudes that made nq. I was psyched :)

[Ironwood]

2nd Vote here for SW:G.

Marrow.

Most dissappointing ?  Bards Tale 3.  Awful.

[Fabricated]

Ultima 9.
Look its THE last of the series. What a way to crash n burn.

But what other game lets you build a gigantic tower of bread up to the sun?

[raydeen]

Star Wars: Rebel Assault. It even had the word 'Ass' in it. I should've realized.

Interplay's Descent to Undermountain. Space Shooter engine used for 3D RPG. Oh yeah, that should've worked.

NES Hydlide. Horrible game with music that made you want to smash your TV speaker if you hadn't already smashed your NES and TV screen.

[cmlancas]

Worst game ever? Probably Power Rangers for the n64.

[Raging Turtle]

Master of Orion 3   

MoO 3 broke my heart.  I tried so hard to love that game spreadsheet.  I probably played over 20 hours just trying to find those few fleeting moments of fun that reminded me of MoO2.

[Trippy]

Interplay's Descent to Undermountain. Space Shooter engine used for 3D RPG. Oh yeah, that should've worked.

I see your Descent to Undermountain and raise you Stonekeep.

[Special J]

Black & White.

I can't remember exactly what caused it, but a switched flipped in my head when playing this where I went from completely engrossed to never wanting to gaze upon that massive shitpile again.  There was no decline, the change was instant.

[Roac]

I could never really figure out what to do in the game. Sometimes I would fall into a hole and then I could float out, and sometimes the hole had a flower in it or something...what the hell was the point of the game?

To get home.  I think what you were supposed to do was get the pieces for that radio broadcast thingy that was in the movie - there were three or four pieces you had to find and put together, or something.  Oh, and you had to keep finding Reese's Pieces to keep your energy up.  I was little when I played that, but I did manage to beat it - you watch ET launch in his space ship.  In retrospect it was a bad game, but I was too young to be critical about gaming or anything else.  Just "don't like" or "like".  I remember liking it alright at the time, but I wasn't hyped up for it.  I don't remember getting hyped up for any game at that age - I just played whatever my parents brought home. 

What I did have real issues with was the Indiana Jones game we had.  I remember there was a room you go to where you could buy things, but it also had snakes or something running around trying to get you while you did.  And a cliff you would fall off if you wandered off the edge of one screen, and you could *maybe* save yourself, but not likely (for me, at that age, anyway).  For as much as I recall loathing the confusing and difficult nature of that game, I sure did play it often.  Oh, to be young again.

[Signe]

Black and White really pissed me off.  I don't know if it was the worst but every time I think about it, I get pissed off again.  Hard to come up with something else when I'm that pissed off.  Most disappointing, however, was Wish.  Entirely disappointed that it wasn't released so I could raise an army of goats and kill every other goat in the game.  I had plans.  My disappointment had nothing to do with the game, itself.  I actually quite enjoyed picking berries and chopping wood.  It made me feel busy.

[Sky]

I see your Descent to Undermountain and raise you Stonekeep.

I actually enjoyed Stonekeep. The spell system was interesting and it was one of the last of the tile-ish 3d games, and I played those AD&D "3d" games a ton. Descent to Undermountain is the one I was going to name here. Total turd, first complete AD&D crpg failure I can remember.

I'll also give the nod to Civ 3/4, Morrowind/Oblivion, and Black & White. The first 4 because dumbing down consolizing streamlining your game is not what pc gaming is about. While Bioshock is an overall disappointment compared to Irrational's previous work, at least it was a fun game. Civ 3 I only played because it was newer, and finally got used to the sub-par version. Civ 4 I don't even like, it took FfH2 to make me feel like I got my money's worth. I wish Brian Reynolds would return to TBS and ditch RTS crap. Or just legally change his name to Sid Meier.

Black & White was just a turd. As much as I'm a massive Spore fanboi, it could easily head that way if too much focus is put on making it a 'game'. Black & White was actually enjoyable on the first level, when you were just questing and goofing around with stuff. It's when it turned into a shitty RTS that it fell apart completely (I never finished the second level, just replayed the first).

Pete Molyneux....hasn't made a decent game since Dungeon Keeper. Maybe he and Sid should just be locked up so they can jerk each other off on how great they were ten years ago.

[Murgos]

I don't think MOO3 was that bad.  If it had been called 'Space 4x Game' instead of MOO it probably would have gone down in history as a quirky title that tried for too much and didn't get it but had it's fans.  You could not actually hit Next Turn and win the game.  It was true that you actually had to click next turn until about turn 350 before anything interesting started happening though.

Auto Assault though?  Just massive disappointment all around.

[Trippy]

Pete Molyneux....hasn't made a decent game since Dungeon Keeper. Maybe he and Sid should just be locked up so they can jerk each other off on how great they were ten years ago.

At least Peter is still trying to make interesting games, even if he comes up short.

[Ironwood]

What's wrong with Stonekeep ?

Apart from the training bug ?

[Trippy]

I'm probably thinking of a different game.

[schild]

The best thing about Stonekeep was the box and the lore book it came with. I think it was one of the 3-4 times I actually read a lore book.

[Rasix]

I remember that game having a lot of GameFaqs moments where you had to do completely unintuitive crap to get past certain puzzles.  The ending pissed me off pretty bad also.   

[schild]

I thought it was just a stinker.

It's also been made completely and totally obsolete by Etrian Odyssey.

I do remember the style of stonekeep having a certain charm though. Like claymation that fell into the uncanny valley.

[Ironwood]

Funny Story.  I still have Stonekeep in my bookcase.  Just checked.

Heh.  I must resist the urge to install it now.

[Rasix]

Hah, I think Stonekeep is the first game I ever applied a patch too.   

[schild]

Funny Story.  I still have Stonekeep in my bookcase.  Just checked.

Heh.  I must resist the urge to install it now.

So do I. The box was awesome.

[Signe]

I have it but I don't have any desire to play it again.  For some reason, after all this chatting about it, I have the desire to play this again:



which I also have.  Yay.

[HaemishM]

Pete Molyneux....hasn't made a decent game since Dungeon Keeper.

See, I disagree with that. I thought both Fable and the Movies were decent games, just not spectacular games that lived up to any of the hype Molyneux put into the games. They both could have used 6 months to a year more to really make them sparkle. And the Movies should have just ditched the game part completely and focused on the movie making aspect.

Black & White, though, was fucking balls. Awful in every way. Molyneux's biggest problem is that he can't fucking shut up about how innovative his games are going to be during development.

[Ironwood]

Dungeon Keeper was a bit of a dissapointment, considering what it was meant to be.

[Yegolev]

I am reminded that I was disappointed with Magic & Mayhem.