What's the absolute worst game you paid money for in the 7th generation?

Brink or Defiance, likely.

I'll go ahead and give the crown to Brink. Defiance had a really interesting set of gameplay mechanics built into a terrible world that lacked polish.

Some dev out there could probably make an awesome game out of the ideas of Defiance. (That doesn't teeter into "oh my fucking god what is going on" factor of Planetside 2.)
 
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I actually really enjoyed Puzzle Quest on DS. I was into the match-3 mechanics mixed with (admitedlly very generic Western) RPG world. But this... I couldn't stand more than 15 minutes of Galactrix
 
Diablo 3 and Dead Space 3 were huge disappointments for me personally, but I could see how someone else could like them.

On the other hand, Final Fantasy XIII is just a disaster in every conceivable way. That team does not understand what is enjoyable about games in general and jrpgs in particular.
 
mishakoz said:
First time through I selected a sign that prevented me from recovering magic, I tries to break in somewhere in the imperial city, guards arrested me, still don't know how lockpicking works. Also picked up every item I could find not knowing I could be encumbered Or whatever.

Second time through got to that dungeon right outside the sewers, went it, discovered I had some magic spell the entire time and the game never pointed it out to me, got frustrated with other mechanics never explained such as waiting (or sleeping) and a lack of indication where to go, still can't figure out lock picking.

Years later I come back to it and choose another character from the ground up, somehow (I forget how) I run into another sign related problem, I give up.

Bought skyrim expecting the same thing to happen, nope, they explain everything and don't force you to chose a sign out of the gate, finished the game with about 80 hours of playtime.

Oblivion just sucks at explaining things. I don't mind difficulty, or having to figure out stuff, but I felt like I had to figure everything out and still didn't know a lot, and that frustrated me.
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These are all pretty terrible reasons not to like Oblivion.

I did not experience any of this, because I bothered to read when making decisions.

Choosing a sign clearly describes pros and cons
Choosing a race clearly states if and which magic spells you get
Not understanding lockpicking is not reading the in dungeon tutorial
You have a map marker and a marker on your compas where to go.

While I respect you just not getting into Oblivion,, your reasons are odd to me. It seems to me you missed out on something due to not reading the text that is forced upon you in the first two hours.

edit: Over encumbrance? Was Oblivion your first RPG?
 
The Incredible Muffin said:
These are all pretty terrible reasons not to like Oblivion.

I did not experience any of this, because I bothered to read when making decisions.

Choosing a sign clearly describes pros and cons
Choosing a race clearly states if and which magic spells you get
Not understanding lockpicking is not reading the in dungeon tutorial
You have a map marker and a marker on your compas where to go.

While I respect you just not getting into Oblivion,, your reasons are odd to me. It seems to me you missed out on something due to not reading the text that is forced upon you in the first two hours.
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But the thing is, I know nothing about tamriel. I know nothing about what spells do what or how many potions I can find or Get, so being forced to make decisions at the outset is a terrible way to play.

Its like if there was a sign: the star of the goddess allows you to heal in healing ponds. Okay, so how many healing ponds are there? Are their a lot? What are the other ways of healing?

For the lockpicking thing, yes you are given a basic lockpick to bust, but I never figured out how to do it. I beat it by accident since it is the simplest one in the game and came out not knowing really how to do ones with more the one... Notch? I don't know what they are called.

Also, the map marker is so... I don't know, but the fact is they put two pieces of eye candy right in front of you when you leave the sewer, the dungeon and the city, and you are supposed to go to this other place? Okay, then do I complete this stuff or ignore it?

Like I said to someone else, I loved skyrim, but oblivion tells you very little (and as you mentioned, through blocks of text) you are literally introducing the player to a whole new world with magic and races and knights and gods, as a player all I expect is a little guidance and knowledge of what to expect.
 
mishakoz said:
But the thing is, I know nothing about tamriel. I know nothing about what spells do what or how many potions I can find or Get, so being forced to make decisions at the outset is a terrible way to play.

Its like if there was a sign: the star of the goddess allows you to heal in healing ponds. Okay, so how many healing ponds are there? Are their a lot? What are the other ways of healing?

For the lockpicking thing, yes you are given a basic lockpick to bust, but I never figured out how to do it. I beat it by accident since it is the simplest one in the game and came out not knowing really how to do ones with more the one... Notch? I don't know what they are called.

Also, the map marker is so... I don't know, but the fact is they put two pieces of eye candy right in front of you when you leave the sewer, the dungeon and the city, and you are supposed to go to this other place? Okay, then do I complete this stuff or ignore it?

Like I said to someone else, I loved skyrim, but oblivion tells you very little (and as you mentioned, through blocks of text) you are literally introducing the player to a whole new world with magic and races and knights and gods, as a player all I expect is a little guidance and knowledge of what to expect.
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I do understand that. I ended up making a new character 3 times because I regretted race or sign choices.

If you can stand the lesser graphics you might want to go back to it. After Skyrim you should be able to handle Oblivion just fine. Ideally on PC with a couple nice mods.

In the end I enjoyed Oblivion far more than Skyrim. Why? Couldnt tell you ;)
 
Brink - Virtually unplayable lag for the two weeks I had it. Gave up and sold it.

Homefront - Ugly game. Short campaign. Multiplayer servers overloaded and matches were way too short. Loved how the game was on sale a day after it was released too. Sold it after a week.

Sim City - Small plots. Couldn't play for the first couple of days due to not having enough server capacity.
 
It's not necessarily a bad game per se, but King of Fighters XII was definitely my worst purchase. Bought a PS3 version, a 360 version and the guide on launch day only to find that the netcode was completely fucked, an unplayable slideshow. After people started complaining, Ignition contacted SNKP and...found out that the staff had taken a vacation for Golden Week. When they finally did patch the game, they just smoothed out the visual lag so it didn't look laggy, but behind the scenes it was still borked. The few matches I did get to play involved people picking projectile spammers and using the easy input right stick mode to throw endless fireballs that the netcode made it impossible to dodge/counter. I completely gave up.

A few months later I saw that they had released DLC for it, which piqued my interest again since the lack of stages/characters/modes was the other main complaint of the game. Load up the XBL store and...find that they released music packs of old KOF songs for fucking $5 a pop. barf

Luckily KOF XIII was awesome, but MAN was XII rough. Full retail for a Prologue-type game with broken netcode and a development team that didn't give one shit about US players. No surprise Ignition dropped them after this shit.
 
GTAV for my Xbox 360.
Laggy, ugly and buggy as hell.

I really like the gameplay but all that above madeit unplayable.

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Perfect Dark Zero LCE

whenever I read something on GAF or elsewhere and I laugh wondering how someone could post something so stupid, I remember that I bought this game
 
brandonh83 said:
Not the worst game I bought, but I feel ya. Anyway...



Not a terrible game, but it was just another visual showcase with bland gameplay, uninspired art direction, a lack of creativity compared to its predecessors especially coming off the heels of GOW2, extremely short, bland story and a letdown ending. Very anti-climatic.
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gonna agree with this, after loving god of war 2 i barely reached the midgame on this one, bored the fuck out of me
 
I've never said "What the fuck?!?" as many times in my life as I have while reading this thread. Some of my favorite games being listed as the absolute worst games of the 7th generation. Bioshock? Uncharted? Oblivion? Alrighty then.
 
Sorcery. Picked it up for dirt cheap to give my move some use but got rid of it after playing for about an hour. I usually consider my purchases carefully so I never tend to regret buying a game but this was a complete turd.
When people go on a rampage because of sony cancelling a game I'm always reminded of this one. It gave a good first impression at E3 and people would probably have raged if it had been cancelled but that's exactly what should've happened.
At least they seem to have learned their lesson and are axing games that are a waste of time.
 
Holy shit! Some of the people in this thread never played a bad game. I wonder what handful of the best games they must've been playing all gen long for them to list games like Uncharted, GoWIII, Halo 4, DmC, Mass Effect, Just Cause 2 etc as their WORST GAME EVER.
 
mishakoz said:
Like I said to someone else, I loved skyrim, but oblivion tells you very little (and as you mentioned, through blocks of text) you are literally introducing the player to a whole new world with magic and races and knights and gods, as a player all I expect is a little guidance and knowledge of what to expect.
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If Oblivion was too complex for you, try out Morrowind.
 
Jesus, this kind of threads could make explode a flame shitfest about people's taste.
I love NeoGAF.
However, I think I can say mine was Jericho for 360 but to be honest I bought a lot of crap in this gen thanks to the used market.
I think I should feel guilty for wasting my money like that but hey, then I always remember that my little brother bought Shellshock 2 for 30 Euros and I immediately stop feeling dumb. :D
 
Ikuu said:
Ni no Kuni
Final Fantasy XIII
Universe at War
Dragon Age II
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Ni no kuni, yes. That would have to be my biggest regret. So damn boring. Ugh. I listened to GAF on that one. I still have faith in you guys, but it was hindered just a bit with the suggestion of that game.

Edit: sorry about the double post!
 
Toss up between LA Noire and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.

I was so pumped up for both....now they are 2 games I rarely play. Both turned out to be different than what I expected. Both reminds me I need to at least watch some type of brief play thru on Youtube.

That has helped me make decision on some others.
 
Oh no, I just remembered The Mark. It was $1.50, I thought maybe it'd have funny writing and performances.
I was actually correct in thinking that, but...the game, actually playing it...it's not just that it's the worst, it's actively harmful to ones wellbeing and may very well open a portal to hell. I've never before felt physical discomfort from playing a game, but it's like they made this with the intent to punish players.

So, The Mark is incredibly substantially worse than anything else, it wins by the distance of a small galaxy.
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There he is, the mark himself.
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Jagsrock said:
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Fuck this game especially after 07-08 were actually decent and had pretty cool controls.

Its like the cover is mocking me.
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LOL@ the cover mocking you...he does have that troll face...

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Whats wild is most of the games I bought for the Wii were decent. I didnt list any...pretty sure most I have I dont consider bad. This game is one I passed on after watching some of it on Youtube... eeww... I skipped every Madden for the Wii tho.
 
Army of Two on PS3. I returned it within two hours of buying it and got a refund so I didn't really waste money, but yeah that game was shit.
 
I bought Duke Nukem Forever as a gift (I also gifted LA Noire so maybe I'm not a bad person...maybe) so technically that is it.

However as far as one I have played go Double Sequence: The Q-Virus Invasion gets my prize (does DS count as 7th gen?).
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It is clearly inspired by Meteos given all the planets and stuff but the text is not fun to read (many of the reviews throw around that pretentious word). The puzzles are not fun to solve either as sometimes they are 50 steps long and making a single mistake means you have to start over as there is no undo button (something I found myself clinging to in Tetris Attack where puzzles were no longer than about 7 steps...). It has potential and if you can give it some time it might be okay but things like no undo button are serious QC issues if you ask me.
 
In that order:

Batman: Arkham Asylum
GTA IV
Lightning Returns
Red Faction Armageddon.

The last one especially hurt because Guerilla is actually one of my all time favorite games.
 
brandonh83 said:
Not the worst game I bought, but I feel ya. Anyway...



Not a terrible game, but it was just another visual showcase with bland gameplay, uninspired art direction, a lack of creativity compared to its predecessors especially coming off the heels of GOW2, extremely short, bland story and a letdown ending. Very anti-climatic.
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dat damn art direction and creativity....please

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i thought this was actually the highlight of the series even though the story was the same ole, but at least they introduced different gameplay dynamics
 
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Even though I ended up buying (and owning to this day) games such as Eat Lead, Stranglehold, Perfect Dark 0 and some others that I've forgotten, this takes the cake.

Worst purchase ever. Never again.
 
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