Worst Games In History

X_Stickman · May 2005

Star Trek: Invasion. I don't know all the consoles it was on, but I had it (well, I still do) for the Playstation and wow... It's just... not fun. At all.

Never mind the fact that it's using single seater fighters with a locked forward-firing pulse phaser in the STAR TREK universe (remove Worf's voice, call the fighters "X-Wings" and it's a star wars game), it was just boring, and unfun. Plus a single fighter-carrier could take on a Borg Cube and actually blow it up, using only one turret.

Aside from the storyline issues, I just hated the game. Wish I'd never bought it.

BlackMage · May 2005

blackmage's vb pong clone
buggiest pong clone. EVAR.

BlueNovember · May 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Omega Death @ May 29 2005, 07:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Easily the worst game I've ever played was Frank Herbert's Dune. I bought it for $10 and though hey it can't be that bad. It was. The character animation is terrible at best. During dialog scenes the camera zooms in on the character's faces and half the time the lips don't move whatsoever and the other half they choppily move up and down not in sync. The game wasn't even fun to play or faithful to the story of it's namesake. The funny part is that ign gave it and 8.5!

<a href='http://www.3dgamers.com/games/dune/' target='_blank'>clicky</a> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
:o
Dune 1 (*edit, wrong, see below*) was probably the first game I ever played start to finish, and was the first RPG I ever played. It's truely awesome. So good in fact, I installed a copy of Win98 on my PC just to play it. (Well, that, "Colonisation" and "The lion king" :$)

Dune1 =/= Frank Herbert's Dune.
Dune1, the first Dune, simply called "Dune", circa1999, is the one I've played.
The one you mentioned truely does suck. <a href='http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/frankherbertsdune/review.html' target='_blank'>http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/frankher...une/review.html</a>. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (My good ol mate CN)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Jesus Blue, how do you find these things? They play that sort of game on your side of the pond?
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<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />
I win at the internet. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />
I can just imagine the "Big Rigger" custom title
Or not. That implies that I'm some sort of fat builder.

I resent the implication that Brits have no taste in games. You are to ignore my earlier points about my obsession with The Lion King.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sub Zero)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Enough of big rigs please stay on topic and do not forget to say why you dislike the game in your opinion.

I would say a game called gladiators it was not worth the 2 bucks i payed for it

Lacking both game play and map design.
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De'railed!

Novakoala · May 2005

Cower, mere mortals. For you truly have not experienced the full crapness of some of the world's most utterly rubbish games. Big Rigs is merely a taster of the lost legions of games expelled annually by slave-labour run development houses around the globe. These previous submissions are but paltry trifles!

A few years ago, just after Christmas, I had in my travels come across Electronics Boutique (as it then was). Inside lay a game. A game that sold for 29p (perhaps 60 cents in your new-fangled dollars). A game that would seize roughly seven hours of my young life and cradle them like a witch with a newborn child.

<i>Far Gate</i> is, in short, a imitation of (the fantastically better) <i>Homeworld</i>. You will be besieged by problems from the moment you place that disc in your computer's terribly innocent drive. It won't install. Then it will install. Then it decides that it has not, in fact, installed at all. You need new drivers. You get the drivers. You install the drivers. The game doesn't like those drivers. The game likes strange Russian drivers.

The game spreads over your monitor. Excitement! Oh. It's the epilepsy warning. Scroll to 'Okay', signing away in one moment your right to sight and your immortal soul. A menu! It's just obviously a jpeg with windows buttons on top of it, but that's okay, right? This game clearly has production values. It's got a box and everything.

A cutscene now. Voice-acting provided, naturally, by the talented young voices of the developers and some random people they found in the street/pub/nursery. Do we see people talking? No, crappy little avatars are all these full-of-life characters need! How about a story or a plot? Oh, yes, this game has an extremely original plot. About humans in space fighting aliens. But - wait for it, children - some of the aliens are good aliens, and some of them are <i>bad</i> aliens!

We're in the game. What do we do? Can we select that ship and move it or something? No, no, no! This game doesn't like you selecting ships by clicking on them. This game likes you to select them by clicking on them in the toolbar. The toolbar which shows itself when you move to the edge of the screen, but vanishes when you try to move back to click on something. Eventually we get it to work by locking the bar in place (through the obviously infernally tainted and unbelieveably unhelpful options menu). Oh noes! Aliens! 'We've got to fight back!' says the extremely literally square-jawed hero. But we can't! The game has the most retarded movement system in the universe and won't let us move our ships to intercept. They're going to orbit with that planet now. The planet that just flickered into existence because of a rendering bug. Look at them fly... oh dear. The aliens and the blackness (sorry, weird blueness) of space has claimed us. Time to load a savegame. Oh, what's that? Savegame file corrupted? Aww. How sad.

/me fumes

I want my 29p, the seven hours of my life and the lamp that I eviscerated in a moment of fevered animosity. And I want the developers to explain to me how in the name of hell and it's bells they got this game into a box.

Pulse · May 2005

That game has nothing on Breed. You've heard hilariously bad voices, but have you heard acting that is so bad that it is physically painful to listen to? Have you seen aliens that look like they're from A Bug's Life in a game that takes itself seriously? Have you ever tried to fly a plane that tries to be realistic with the delicate controls of a first person shooter? I think not.

Sub_zer0 · May 2005

i have breed i preordered it when it had hype and now look im stuck with a game where the dev said "Hey we dont need actors we can do it our self's" and my god they cant the gfx are good, here is the hype you can pilot a ship from a large carrier go down to aaplanet from space have a nice little battle return in multi player you can fight other carriers

here is what happend you get to watch a unscipable cut scene then after this go into a ship then go down to the planet and if your lucky enough for game not to crash so you can watch the cut scen again or if your lucky enough not to die and watch it all over again (no saves only checkpoints) you then get to face the utterly outstaning vegitables of ai which stand tehre and get shot or run around and miss you with there weapons. and if you still played more you get the amazing amount of bugs the out standing lack of a good multiplayer and of course to top it all

A to be continuted for an ending WOO

(sorry for seplling cant be arsed to go check it via spell check i wish ns would put a spell checker in here it would solve so much!

xKORExslim · May 2005

I'd like to say that The Sims is not that bad at all, it just has too many damn expansions... The idea is original, it's like no other game. The gaming industry today lacks ORIGINALITY. Fortunately we have Maxis to remedy the situation.

Like it was said, the name of this thread should be "The game that YOU hate most." Normally, when judging the "Worst games in History" You tend to ignore genre and try the game for what it is. Is it easy to learn? Is it fun? Are you going to keep it on your HDD for more than 6 months? Is the storyline any good?

I'd like to say that one of the worst games ever has to be Bible Adventures. Good lord what a horrible game. In terms of gameplay you played Jesus for most of the game, just so ****. Games based on religion don't sell at all. Anyways, It's a bad game because the idea just wouldn't sell to gamers. And priests sure as hell arent going to buy it.

Dubbilex · May 2005

Myth III <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' />

Sub_zer0 · May 2005

Yes title could be changed but i also stated in your opinion becuase every ones opinion is diffrent

Petco · May 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AlienCow @ May 30 2005, 05:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Ever had fun reading an FAQ? Read the Big Rigs <a href='http://db.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/big_rigs.txt' target='_blank'>FAQ</a>.

Heres some tasters:

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>6.4 LEVEL 4
There is no level 4. Seriously. The preview screen is just pure white,
and every time I select it, Big Rigs closes. Maybe you're supposed to be
driving around purgatory. There is a little snapshot, but you can't tell
much from it.
I'm not sure if you can get this level through Random Race. I hope not.
Difficulty level: N/A
My tips for Level 4:
-Don't choose it.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>*-*-*-*-*-7.0 HIGH SCORES SCREEN-*-*-*-*-*
This screen takes you to a gallery of your high scores. I'm not sure
how you can get a high score in a game like Big Rigs, but you
apparently can.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>*-*-*-*-*-9.0 KNOWN GLITCHES-*-*-*-*-*
-You can go through everything.
-You can go over water.
-You can go through bridges.
-There are no boundaries, you can cruise through purgatory.
-Your opponent does nothing. Seriously.
-You can go through your opponent.
-There is no limit to the speed you drive at.
-You can stop almost instantly.
-It is impossible to lose. Others and I have explored the game's
files, but nobody has found anything indicating that is is
possible to lose. ...Big Rigs is a good game for children in
this way.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Sorry for taking up space, but this is the best worst game ever.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Also </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>6.3 FORGOTTEN ROAD
I'm not sure why Forgotten Road is called Forgotten Road. There's lots
of houses and buildings.
It's nice and sunny, and you've got to drive. Follow the road, and
make sure you go through all the checkpoints, Big Rigs is really
strict with that. Sometimes you're not winner even if you go through
them all.
Difficulty level: 1/10
My tips for Forgotten Road:
-Stay on the road
-Ignore bridges, you fall through them
-You aren't in a rush, your opponent isn't going anywhere
-You don't need to be focused, if you fall off the hills, you can climb
back up
-Go through all of the checkpoints</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Xyth · May 2005

Metal Fatigue. This game was fantastically horrid. It was basically a RTS that allowed you to command units on 3 levels (Underground, sky, earth), and build generic units. There were 3 diffrent races you could choose from, each with un-pronouncable names, don't let that make you think that there units looks any diffrent from each other, because it doesn't. The only neat quality of this game was the robots, basically each team had giant robots you built, then armed them with various weapons. They were actually pretty well modeled, and the fighting between giant robots was pretty good. Except these guys were incredibly over-powered. No unit in the game had a chance against these guys, no defence no anything. The story mode was terrible, the graphics on anything other then the robots were terrible. You will hate yourself for ever playing this game.

Pithlit · May 2005

I found that one actually quite fun, even if its grafik and gameplay wiso not the top.
But gigantic robots make my day, no matter what ^^
And the fractions are not unpronouncable:
They are Rimtech, Newropa and Milagro i think, if i remember correctly ^^
Milagro owns all, with super heavy armor and carpet bomber arms ^^

But ontopic a quite bad game in my eyes is Subarine Titans. its basically Starcraft, but without any story, submarines and overcomplicated gameplay and user interface.
just horrible to play!

Splinter_Steve · May 2005

YOU'RE WINNER! Jesus christ, that is the first time I've actually been driven to tears laughing, and it was a good hour's worth between the review, the video, and the message boards.

There was a game called Rune for PS2 I believe. Wow is the only word to describe it.

Pulse · May 2005

Heh, <a href='http://www.planetdaikatana.com/dk2/#IV.16' target='_blank'>funny story</a> about that one.

GWAR · May 2005

This is a little relic back from when game revolution wasnt a ad-ridden cesspit:

<a href='http://gr.bolt.com/games/pc/sim/survivor.htm' target='_blank'>http://gr.bolt.com/games/pc/sim/survivor.htm</a>

I'm not quite sure if its as "Winner" as big rigs, but I think it comes close <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />

Sky · May 2005

Oh god I have that game, I have no idea why. All I know is, it's a waste of a cd.

But omg that review is hysterical. "Contrary to popular belief, this game does not have 'graphics' " <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

Liku · May 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sky @ May 30 2005, 07:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Oh god I have that game, I have no idea why. All I know is, it's a waste of a cd.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Whoa whoa whoa... how?

Black_Viper · May 2005

HL2!!!

<span style='font-size:6pt;line-height:100%'>Jeezes I was jsut kidding</span>

I wouldnt be supprised if that Superman game on the N64 takes the cake.

MedHead · May 2005

My contribution. These are the games I disliked in the past ten years or so. I don't have a lot of money to waste on bad games let alone good games, so I haven't come across any truly horrid games.

<b>Battlefield 1942</b>
Uninteresting single player missions, frustratingly large multiplayer missions, poor netcode.

<b>Black & White</b>
Promised feature(s) missing, graphics glitches, frustrating micro management, tiring animal raising requirements.

<b>Daikatana</b>
Obvious.

<b>Counter-Strike</b>
Aggravating physical limitations, random cone of fire, monotonous gameplay, boring game style.

<b>Jet Moto 2</b>
Took what made Jet Moto an interesting game, hyped it up on speed, and removed everything good.

<b>Nightmare Creatures</b>
What was an interesting concept in the demo became a chore in the full game. Buggy hit detection, poor quality graphics and a terribly difficult and unfair final boss (coupled with a dissappointing final scene) made this game a tear-jerker: tears of anxiety, that is.

<b>Jurassic Park</b>
The movie: a family is stranded on an island filled with dinosaurs. The game: Dr. Alan Grant has crashed in a jeep on what appears to be an island, and is doomed to two dimensional chaos, fighting primarily only small dinosaurs, white water rapids and electricity. Typical movie to game drivel.

Seph_Kimara · May 2005

Worst game I've ever bought? Project IGI. Because apparently it hates ATI cards, thus I could not play it (shame they didn't mention it on the damned box)

Worst game ever? Likely to be Shaq Fu. That game changes people. Not in a good way.

Chrono · May 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Seph Kimara @ May 30 2005, 08:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Worst game ever? Likely to be Shaq Fu. That game changes people. Not in a good way.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
yeah seeing a giant black guy doing agile kung fu moves is freaky

Soylent_green · May 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Condizzle @ May 29 2005, 11:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ May 29 2005, 10:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Im with him on that, Everything The sims related sucks and needs to be purged from the earth. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Amen. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Where they burn games, they will soon be burning people(or something like that anyway <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />).

Big rigs: over the road racing any game look like a master piece in comparison. It's unfinished, bugged to hell, makes claims on the case that it can't remotely fullfill(such as the game having any gameplay or coherent goal, it doesn't), fugly and generally just awfull. The review linked earlier in this thread doesn't even do it justice, this must seen or played to be believed just how bad it is.

SoulSkorpion · May 2005

Black & White was a poor game, but I don't think it deserves to be a candidate for "worst game ever". It's more of a proof-of-concept than a game, and its deficiencies were due to the developers simply forgetting to think about them while the game was being made - things like what the actual "way to win is", how the singleplayer campaign progresses, even how the menus behave. It's not like they produced a steaming mound of crap; what they made isn't really a game. Kinda like the Will Wright school of thought.

Red Faction was pretty horrible, but honestly I think it was just a few factors that torpedoed what could have been a really good game: poor storyline and frustrating AI behaviour. There was nothing fundamentally <i>broken</i> about it.

Maveric · May 2005

- Anything with a excessive amount of NPC "cheating"
This includes red-alert serries, where the computers would ALWAYS build multiple vehicles while you could only build 1 vehicle at a time

- Anything with a <b>large</b> multitude of IDWs (Instant Death Weapons) or IDSes (Instant Death Situations)
This includes games which allow for damage multipliers -- games like Counter Strike and their head hitboxes. Some exceptions may be made.

- Anything with excessively long "level up" times
Basically every RPG ever made. Some exceptions may be made.

- Anything that isn't "fun" or "fair" or "ballanced"

Swiftspear · May 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Maveric @ May 31 2005, 03:29 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> - Anything with a excessive amount of NPC "cheating"
This includes red-alert serries, where the computers would ALWAYS build multiple vehicles while you could only build 1 vehicle at a time

- Anything with a <b>large</b> multitude of IDWs (Instant Death Weapons) or IDSes (Instant Death Situations)
This includes games which allow for damage multipliers -- games like Counter Strike and their head hitboxes. Some exceptions may be made.

- Anything with excessively long "level up" times
Basically every RPG ever made. Some exceptions may be made.

- Anything that isn't "fun" or "fair" or "ballanced"  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
that's alot of "worst game ever made"s...

AlienCow · May 2005

You dont like the concept of shooting someone in the face to kill them quicker? Oh, I've always thought that was a wacky idea myself.

R_A_C · May 2005

Red faction's story did suck. and the ending was lame. after fighting a really lame boss that was very similar to the first, you have to disarm a nuke which consists of pressing buttons in the right order and haveing no way of figuring it out except trial and error.

But I liked the weapons although some were a bit over powered. But multiplayer at a LAN was pretty sweet.

My vote for worst game ever that I've played would be some motorcycle game very similar to that big rigs game as it had no goal. But worse in the fact that it would crash loading the level. Every. Level. I'm glad I can't remmember the name of that b0rked ****. I can't tell you how bad the gameplay was because I never actually got inside a level. Atleast I was smart enough to not waste more than an hour on this. I got it for my 15th birthday along with mechwarrior 3. I had asked for half-life and mw3. I think the M rating scared them away and they wanted to give me 2 games and saw the motorcycle game and were like "oh, he likes motorcycles doesn't he?" Except, I don't and never have.

Sid · May 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (R A C @ May 31 2005, 06:53 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> My vote for worst game ever that I've played would be some motorcycle game very similar to that big rigs game as it had no goal. But worse in the fact that it would crash loading the level. Every. Level. I'm glad I can't remmember the name of that b0rked ****. I can't tell you how bad the gameplay was because I never actually got inside a level. Atleast I was smart enough to not waste more than an hour on this. I got it for my 15th birthday along with mechwarrior 3. I had asked for half-life and mw3. I think the M rating scared them away and they wanted to give me 2 games and saw the motorcycle game and were like "oh, he likes motorcycles doesn't he?" Except, I don't and never have.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Road Rash? XD

Damn, I loved that game for the Sega and the PC!

R_A_C · May 2005

yea, well it didn't work so well for me.

esuna · May 2005

<b>Breed</b>
I waited for this one for ages, whenever it got coverage in PC Zone or the like, it sounded really cool, then the demo came out and it turned out to be Halo, but even worse.

<b>The Sims + 24532525 expansions</b>
Sorry, these games are terrible. No direction, no goal, no story, hell, no <i>gameplay</i>. Sure it might be innovative, but i call it damn lazy game design. Hell, the game can quite easily play itself, if you want it to. And why has it sold so well? It appeals to the non-gamer market and the very casual gamers out there, not many games do that, and virtually anyone can pick it up and play it. God i hate this game so badly.

<b>The Sims 2 + Expansion(s)</b>
See above. Shinier graphics, still no game to be found.

<b>Mortyr</b>
Why did i plague my hard drive with this dire shooter?

<b>Dai****na</b>
You know as well as i do why.

<b>Men In Black</b>
The reason why i never trust film licenses anymore.

<b>Prince Of Persia 3D</b>
If you never had the misfortune of playing the third in the Prince of Persia series, count yourself as one of the lucky ones. Buggy as all hell, looked like crap, and was pretty much one of the worst things ever invented.

<b>Tresspasser</b>
While i'm all for giving this fps game credit for being the first game (that i know of) to implement a full physics system (Years before HL2, i might add) and actually add a body you can see to the character you play, it was a terrible game that should never have existed.

<b>Prince of Persia: Warrior Within</b>
Christ, what did they do to Sands of Time to make this piece of ****? It essentially ruined the great atmosphere of the first, tore away any innocence, screwed up the combat system, and tried to make everything ok just because it has boobs in it.

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