What's the worst game you've ever played?

[Everlong]

I've actually been pretty lucky over the years. I don't ever really buy any games that I'm not completely certain that I'll like, so I haven't played many games at all that I wound up just utterly disliking. So I've never owned a game that I thought lacked any good qualities at all.

I've had some games that I thought were big disappointments (Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed 3 come to mind) but none that I thought were just flat out bad. But maybe I'll remember some as I think about it more.

What about you?

[SlightlyJames]

Hate to go for the cliché answer but it's the honest one. Superman 64.

[ShaneOfan]

Rage for PS3. What a piece of crap. Played it for like 30minutes then returned it.

[Settee]

Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Tenkaichi. That was was such a piece of shit. The combat was the same 2 moves over and over again. Most DBZ games have a large variety of moves etc.. but not this one. It was the worst game I have ever played, and unfortunately bought.

[Hanley!]

Part of me would like to yell 'Halo' or some other bland yet popular game that I can't understand the appeal of. Or some major disappointment like LA Noire. But I'd feel dishonest. There are worse games out there, without a doubt. I've owned a few terrible ones in my day.

My usual answer for this question is Rise of the Robots. This was a beat em up game for the Sega Genesis. I was probably 7 years old when this came out, it looked fantastic visually and it featured robots fighting more fucking robots. I need not tell you that the 7 year old Hanley! lost his fucking mind waiting to play what must clearly be the best video game of ALL TIME.

It didn't work out that way though. I was a fan of beat em ups, but the controls on this one were really unresponsive and horrible. The advanced graphics had led the developers to include very few moves for each character. And in the one player mode you were forced to play the very crappest robot, as he fought against others much larger than him. With a much longer reach. Things only got worse in 2 player mode, where player one still had to play as the crap robot, while player 2 could play as a variety of robots, many of whom took up about half of the screen and could reach the opposing player from anywhere on the screen.

It was hilariously bad.

[iMike]

Fable 3, so boring I quit after 30 minutes.

[Messiah]

Fable 3, so boring I quit after 30 minutes.

THIS THIS THIS!

How anyone could find that game entertaining, I do not know.

I want to say LA Noire with it being the most disappointing video game I have played (this game was getting crazy hype before it came out) but like Hanley said, there have certainly been worse games. LA Noire, despite being disappointing, was still fairly interesting/entertaining.

[PorkChop]

Bin Man.

My mate in school gave it to me to borrow, and it was hilariously shit.



You just went round collecting bins.

[Hanley!]

Fable 3, so boring I quit after 30 minutes.

THIS THIS THIS!

How anyone could find that game entertaining, I do not know.

I want to say LA Noire with it being the most disappointing video game I have played (this game was getting crazy hype before it came out) but like Hanley said, there have certainly been worse games. LA Noire, despite being disappointing, was still fairly interesting/entertaining.

I wouldn't say fairly interesting/entertaining, just not the worst game ever.

In fairness, I did enjoy the missions early on, mostly for the atmosphere. But the gameplay mostly involved ticking boxes, the sandbox was utterly pointless and it was just generally ill conceived. Something great could have been done with the concept, but it ended up being style over substance to a ridiculous extent.