Worst game you ever bought

[Gabz Girl]

Shadow the Hedgehog. Yep, spent 60 Euros on that game (when I still lived in the Netherlands) day one. And what a disappointment it was!

Another, more recent game that I really regret paying full price for is Assassins Creed 3. It started off great but it ended up being a huge letdown, with glitches galore and the worst ending since Mass Effect 3 and LA Noire.

[Vertekins]

 

Oh wow! What utterly incompetent, utterly amateurish shit.

 

even beating-out '06 of all things for the title. But I'd go so far as to say that it's the worst game I've ever bought as well. I don't think any game has irritated me, bored me, mystified me (Considering I thought that Bioware had better standards than this even if it was in the middle of a takeover) and has driven me to as much distraction as Chronicles has from it's combination of it's completely unbalanced battle system with multiple broken aspects, absolutely terrible audio and visuals, exceptionally bad writing and character-usage, a complete continuity snarl of a storyline and the most static and lifeless environments I've ever seen in a videogame.

 

So many terrible choices were made about the aspects of this game, from the ridiculous Chao levelling-up mechanics, the lack of interesting things to seek out and the lack of interesting winnings from battle making it extremely bare-bones are not containing even basic RPG staples, the very obvious foisting of Bioware's pet of a character into the limelight (Shade. See how many lines she takes and how many times she's a compulsory party member compared to other characters) and then not doing anything remotely interesting with her...

 

Yeah, the game is so rounded in it's badness. There's no single area it even remotely excels in. It's awful overrated crap that, bribing rumors aside, leaves me mystified as to why it got such good press

Edited April 17, 2013 by Vertekins

[Scott]

Zombie Apocalypse; an XBLA game. The game is played in that old-school twin stick style, mowing down zombies and more zombies till no more rise. Sounds dun, right?

 

hahahahahahahahahaha..no!

 

It's awful; the characters firstly look like horrendous rip-offs from the characters of Left 4 Dead, there are about 50 levels or something. It's got a good variation of guns and the game plays fine, but the execution? Leaves room for major improvement!

 

The zombies, while there are many of them, some can kill you just by touching you or with one hit; some you can't run away from, leaving going for High scores a little difficult. The character personalities are cringe-worthy, so many re-used levels, a very uninspiring boss fight which you face again and again every so often. SHIT MUSIC. In the second half of the game, the levels get longer with more zombies.

 

Worse of all? It got a sequel

[Kaze_Senshi]

There are a lot of horrible games, personally when someone asks me about it the first game that pops in my head is:

 

Expect No Mercy:

* Shity gameplay;

* Shitty history;

* Shitty graphics;

* Shitty moves;

* Shitty characters;

* Shitty cutscenes;

* Shitty Fatalities;

* Shitty sound effects;

* Shitty music;

 

My recommendation about this game, expect no quality, if you can bear until 3 minutes you can see some "fatalities" in this video:

[Naysu]

sega superstars tennis, I reaaaaaaally loathed it. even the models and animation were so weird... and i payed £15 for it (wii version thouhg, perhaps the animation is clearly better in the ps3 and Xbox 360 versions)

 

and i have to say Sonic 06 for the second one, i was just so tempted to see how bad it was, i liked black knight, secret rings, dark brotherhood, but just couldnt bring myself to like ANYTHING in this game..... such a shame and waste XD

[Emmett L. Brown]

Unlimited SaGa.

 

That game gave me NOTHING positive. Even Sonic 06 and Other M gave me some positive experiences and gave me lots of satirical entertainment from the internet, but Unlimited SaGa gave me NOTHING but wasted time, wasted money, wasted energy, frustration, annoyance, impatience, tedium, annoyance, and eye strain.

 

I paid full price for it. It was basically like walking up to a guy and saying "Hey, I'll give you this wad of cash if you punch me in the eye."

[Tara]

sega superstars tennis, I reaaaaaaally loathed it. even the models and animation were so weird... and i payed £15 for it (wii version thouhg, perhaps the animation is clearly better in the ps3 and Xbox 360 versions)

I got that from GameStop once, but I didn't like it so I decided to trade it back.  I immediately scorned myself because the game I got was broken (I mean, like, physically broken) and they wouldn't go back on the receipt... and now I want it again solely because Sonic is on the cover and I want something to flesh out my Sonic collection. [/addictions]

 

But yeah, it's still a lackluster tennis game and not really worth getting for any good reason.

Edited April 17, 2013 by Akito

[JaidynReiman]

I'm running down the what I'm thinking and I'm really not sure. I tend to at least enjoy the grand majority of games that I buy. There were some games my PARENTS bought that I hated.

 

 

1. PK: Out of the Shadows (GC)

I'd have never bought this regardless. But this alternate version of Donald Duck is horrendous. Game was way two short, easy, and ridiculous. No way to replay levels at all. Also, although I'm not sure about this, it appears that if you don't save enough scientists throughout the game by a certain point in time you CANNOT WIN THE GAME.

 

Saving enough was fairly easy, but there's NO WAY to go back and save them again. You can't replay levels, and you only have a limited number available. They're required to gain access to the final few levels. I never tried doing this, but it certainly appears to be the case.

 

As noted above, though, I did NOT buy this. So I don't think it counts. But I wanted to bring it up anyway.

 

 

2. Crusaders of Might and Magic (PS)

I can't find this anymore, I THINK this is the name of it. Pretty sure I got rid of it. This one I actually DID buy, so its worse than PK in that regard. I still think PK deserves the number one slot though; worst game I've ever owned (I didn't buy it, but it was bought for me technically).

 

Crusaders of Might and Magic for the Playstation just wasn't very good. I've heard some good things about the Might and Magic series. But I've also heard that this one was wretched. Really sucks, too, because it looked interesting when I picked it up out of that bargain bin (my first mistake).

 

 

 

Ok, I'm going to list ONE more. Probably going to get SHOT for it, but before I do, I'm going to say that the following game is NOT THAT BAD. But its definitely the second-worst game I personally have ever bought (I was going to list it above until I remembered Crusaders of Might and Magic).

 

3. Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut (GC)

I've often brought up how much I hate this game in the past. And the things I dislike about it apply to the original game, as well, so its got nothing to do with the fact that I'm playing DX.

 

Really, there's only two things I like about this game. 1.) The plot (somewhat) and 2.) Tikal. The rest fails miserably.

 

 

So, other than Sonic and Tails, every character sucks. And Sonic and Tails' stages are so boring, most lasting for less than five minutes, barely giving me a chance to actually enjoy the game. This isn't rectified until Sonic's final two stages, and by then its too late. And most of Tails' stages are a lot shorter than Sonic's, making it even worse. Sonic's Casinopolis is also laughably bad; its not even a real stage.

 

The voice acting is horrendously bad, sound and music is nothing more than ok, and I really, REALLY don't understand why people like it so much. Big is the worst. His challenges weren't particularly hard, mind you, but who the hell came up with the idea that fishing in a Sonic game would be FUN? SERIOUSLY?

 

 

In the case of Knuckles, I actually found the SA2 treasure hunting stages somewhat enjoyable because I tend to be a fan of puzzle solving. The one part about Knuckles' SA stages I'd have preferred were the additional levels of the emerald radar, but I pretty much hated how in Knuckles' SA stages you were literally just given the emeralds.

 

Overall, SA, I don't like, primarily just because of how easy and boring it is. Most of the missions in SADX sucked bad as well. Worse, though, isn't so much that I didn't like the game, I bought it because everyone else kept proclaiming how good it was.

 

 

 

There are a lot of horrible games, personally when someone asks me about it the first game that pops in my head is:

 

Expect No Mercy:

* Shity gameplay;

* Shitty history;

* Shitty graphics;

* Shitty moves;

* Shitty characters;

* Shitty cutscenes;

* Shitty Fatalities;

* Shitty sound effects;

* Shitty music;

 

My recommendation about this game, expect no quality, if you can bear until 3 minutes you can see some "fatalities" in this video:

 

Omg, wtf did I just watch?!

 

 

 

Someone mentioned Sonic Chronicles above. On that note, I'm going to say this:

 

I agree on several points. Personally, I loved Chronicles. I did think they did some bad things with the dialogue (most was ok, though), and I fully admit; the audio was horrendous. But I liked the story and how it tied up a number of things related to Sonic Battle. I don't like how they shoehorned references to the comics and old cartoons in it, but eh, you take some and you lose some.

 

I also think they played up Shade way too much, and really, she looks way too much like Tikal to me. Yeah, I know in gameplay she is much more "red" looking, but her artworks? Literally identical to Tikal with her dreads sticking up. I actually thought she WAS Tikal at first (which honestly I would've liked), and for a while speculated that she was just Tikal brainwashed by the Nocturnus (having been grabbed during the two-year time gap after Eggman was defeated). Her personality definitely is completely different from Tikal, but her appearance is way too similar.

 

And yes, I know people are going to spout out the "fact" that Tikal is dead, which I've never seen in-game and was never stated. Her spirit was sealed in the Master Emerald, and she was released with Chaos. Chaos is still around, so I don't see why Tikal couldn't be, either. Chaos barely appears, but he is still around (and neither she nor Chaos are in the Master Emerald, considering the fact that Sonic went out of his way to defeat Chaos in order for him to let go of his anger so Chaos didn't have to be sealed in the M.E. again).

[Cobalt_Bolt]

One worst games that I ever bought with my hard earned money was NFS The Run back in 2011 on release day for a number of reasons with the primary reason the shallow content on the single-player and multi-player modes.  The other worst game that I ever bought in 2011 was Duke Nukem Forever for reasons that people have already explained to death in other topics.  Those two games taught me a couple of valuable lessons:  Wait six months for a price drop/sale and check the forums in regards to bugs the game will contain before plunking down money on the game.

Edited April 17, 2013 by Cobalt_Bolt

[MamboCat]

Taz Mania for the Mega Drive.

 

It had two modes; short and long play. I found both incredible dull, the music wasn't memorable, but the sound effects were horrible, the controls felt really stiff (I mean, I was used to Sonic games! XD) and some of the game was just plain mean. The mine cart bit was horrible! In fact when I saw there was a mine cart in Sonic 4 I shuddered a little!

Edited April 17, 2013 by MamboCat

[Strong Bad]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

 

I technically didn't buy it, since I won my Gamestop's tournament with a new copy of the game as its prize, but I went into that Gamestop with every intention of spending $50 on SSBB if I didn't win. Never before have I been so utterly disappointed by a sequel. I take solace in the fact that the community was able to make something good out of it. 

Edited April 17, 2013 by Strong Bad

[KrazyBean]

1) Paper Mario: Sticker Star.

 

What happens when you take away everything good about the previous Paper Mario games and not include anything which makes an RPG an RPG? This game. The furthest I went was World 3-1...then I was like "screw this" and traded it in for Luigi's Mansion 2, a FAR better game by comparison.

 

I am looking forward to Dream Team though for my Mario RPG fix, the Mario & Luigi games are great.

 

P.S - I technically didn't buy this, I got it as a Christmas present, but believe me I had high intentions of buying this game at launch if I didn't get is as a gift.

 

2) Sonic Adventure (HD version)

 

Now bear in mind that I have NO nostalgia for this game and literally wanted to try it out to see what the fuss was about...and what I got for £10 was a game in which about EVERYTHING apart from Sonic's gameplay was just, boring, and even Sonic's gameplay wasn't that great. 

 

I'm sorry, but I just didn't like it. Sure it was probably amazing back in the day but now it's just "bleh", for those who like it, carry on. That is why I'm not buying SA2 HD (another game I have no nostalgia for). I did try out the demo and Sonic's gameplay was pretty great, too bad that is only about 1/3 of the game. If the entire game was like this, then it'll probably be one of my favorite Sonic games.

Edited April 17, 2013 by KrazyBean

[-Mark-]

Sonic Labyrinth and Sonic Blast on the 3DS Virtual Console are probably the flat-out worst games I've ever bought. I did own them before, but that was as extras in Sonic Adventure DX and Gems Collection, so I never paid specifically for those games before.

 

I played each for less than an hour then wondered what the flying fuck I was thinking and why I bought them. I knew they were awful from already owning them twice, yet paid money for them again anyway.

 

I'm also going to throw out my obvious answer of Jet Set Radio Future. This game, I swear. Considering the original is (admittedly, somewhat due to nostalgia) one of my favourite games of all time, Future just crapped all over it and set it on fire. I only played it in 2010, seeing as I never owned an Xbox or a 360 until then. But my god, it's just one of the worst games I've ever played. They took everything that made the original fun and removed it, fixed what wasn't broken and made an entire game out of what was broken. Worse, more irritating level design, visually dull environments compared to the original and a far more forgettable (and in places very, very annoying) soundtrack. Awful.

 

I'm also going to nominate Sticker Star; it's not massively broken or glitchy, it's just full of terrible design choices at every single step. Awful level design and puzzles that leave the player without a clue as to what they should do more often than not, and ridiculous puzzle logic that requires a specific solution from you even if another solution should work just as well if not better. Add to that a total lack of proper plot or characterisation and no partner characters and you're left with a pretty irritating game devoid of any real charm to be honest. 

 

Oh, and let's not forget the fact that there was a huge game-crashing glitch in the last boss. 

[spinny]

 

I played this shit until the first boss fight and never touched it again.

This thing was fucking unplayable. The controls where the worst I've ever seen in my life and the levels where just stright lines.

God dammit, I never regreted playing a single game until I got this.

 

You, sir, pretty much just take the words out of my mouth along with my tongue.

 

I've never really elaborated on why I despise this game with a burning passion that much before, but this is pretty much why in a nutshell. I don't think I even finished Lost Prologue.

Edited April 17, 2013 by Super Spindash

[WarioBone]

The most recent one I can think of is Monster Hunter Ultimate for the WiiU.  What a waste of sixty bucks.

[Da Blu Hedgie]

Oh dear well there's sonic and the black knight, which I beat in a day and had no incentive to come back and mindjack it was just ughh so frustrating. Believe it or not while sonic 06 is a bad game using glitches is very fun.

[Vec]

Krusty's Super Funhouse...

[Gregzilla]

I think everything that can be said about Other M has already been said.

[Lucky]

Taz Mania for the Mega Drive.

 

It had two modes; short and long play. I found both incredible dull, the music wasn't memorable, but the sound effects were horrible, the controls felt really stiff (I mean, I was used to Sonic games! XD) and some of the game was just plain mean. The mine cart bit was horrible! In fact when I saw there was a mine cart in Sonic 4 I shuddered a little!

 

I have a soft spot for the game which is probably out of nostalgia (it was one of my first Mega Drive games and we played it a lot when I was a kid), but that mine cart section is still one of the worst things I've ever experienced. Just played through the game again a year or two back and it was a billion times worse than I remembered!

 

Jet Set Radio Future was the biggest disappointment for me for the same reasons Mark said, and considering it was one of the main reasons I got an Xbox in the first place, it just made it all the worse. I love the original game despite it not being perfect by any means, but Future just stripped out everything that was awesome about it and made an entire game out of the worst parts. I haven't gone back to it since it was released and have no desire to, but I remember the levels being very long and very dull, and the soundtrack (which basically made the first game) was totally uninspired.

 

I will never understand why it still receives so much praise.

 

Oh yeah, and I got a preowned copy of Bubsy 3D for 49p and still feel like I was ripped off.

[#AR]

 

I wish I remembered this game back when the 30 Days of Gaming thing was going on, because out of every game I played, this one was the absolute worst. Just...what were they thinking when this game was made? I mean, just look at this shit.

 

 

Just...WOW.

[Snatcher2047]

I'm a wrestling fan and used to buy a lot of wrestling videogames, although I don't think I've bought one since the early 360 games.  Anyway, years ago, a WWE game was released for the original XBox called WRESTLEMANIA 21: BECOME A LEGEND.  I was actually pretty excited for this one and went to pick it up the morning of it's release.

 

My excitement died almost immediately.  The presentation was awful, the Create A Wrestler was almost unusable (my character sometimes came out with neon hair when I didn't save it that way), and the gameplay was HORRID.  The matches were always long and boring and the controls barely worked.  Just getting up after being knocked down was a chore.  The entire game was almost unplayable.  There were times when the game wouldn't even load (BRAND NEW DISC!)

 

I took it back to the store later that day during my lunch break and explained to the clerk my situation.  He took my disc and put it in a Xbox system on display and after 5 minutes of going through the game, even he acknowledged how awful the game was.  He gave me a complete refund for the game.

 

Just an awful game.  Give me the DAY OF RECKONING (GC) series any day.

 

[MegasonicZX]

seeing as though I haven't bought a game that I haven't liked (that includes sonic 06, its not that bad) the worst thing I have probably rented maybe was Grid, this was basically the game that turned me off of the blandness of simulation racers and mostly the reason why I don't buy them anymore (not that I ever did). The races were boring, it felt like just driving from point a to point b with nothing interesting in between, honestly I will never understand how people can take playing these after I got through with this (though I somewhat understand if anybody does like it).

[KrazyBean]

 

I wish I remembered this game back when the 30 Days of Gaming thing was going on, because out of every game I played, this one was the absolute worst. Just...what were they thinking when this game was made? I mean, just look at this shit.

 

Just...WOW.

 

Supersonic Warriors is sooooo much better than this.

Edited April 17, 2013 by KrazyBean

[Lady Soniko]

Sonic Chronicles - Utter garbage, shit soundtrack (IF IT HAD ONE!) boring, tedious and just fucking terrible, I thought it'd be the only RPG I'd play but eve Sonic couldn't get a full play through out of me.

 

TMNT: Re-Shelled - I was expecting a port of Turtles in Time from the SNES, what I got was a shoddy 3D piece of fucking shit with no relation to the original levels or soundtrack, unbelievable enemy hit boxes and being raped up the shit hole by enemies spamming me with punches when trying to get a hit in, it is so bad.

 

FF XIII - What a boring piece of shit, I literally beat Odin and got bored, for a game that promised a new game play from the standard FF, I was willing to give it a shot, it was still the fucking same Square Enix you lying pieces of fuck! Aaaarghh...

 

plenty more, but I need to reflect on the shit times to remember, will probably be back with more shitty games!

[Vertekins]

I forgot to add this;

 

 

This game really tested my patience. It basically drops you in the deep end from the very beginning. If you waste your valuable money on seeds and plant them in the wrong season, your crop fails completely and you've wasted your investment entirely. The game doesn't even instruct you on which seasons seeds have to be planted in. The game gives you hardly any guidance at all and clearly expects you to know the other villager's routines so you can interact with them in the right time frame. You work your ass off and get fatigued yet have little food to satiate your farmer. Before long, you're running around eating Mugworts and other stuff growing wild outside to hopefully sustain him. The villagers are all cheap ungrateful people who happily take gifts from you but refuse to share what they have.

 

It an incredibly unforgiving, extremely slow-paced, dull struggle that is very unintuitive and quite boring. It's characters aren't very endearing, being either jerkasses, moochers or as interesting as watching paint dry. It's a game that doesn't provide much sense of escapism. I'm sure that it's the kind of game that improves with a real investment of time and knowledge of it's intricacies but It really didn't captivate me enough to make me endure it until that point.