Is that the lost cousin of Knack?
What was I thinking. Just a boring, ugly, janky ass game.
What's the absolute worst game you paid money for in the 7th generation?
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C.Olimar788
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There are certainly other games that I bought that are worse from an objective viewpoint, Sonic 06 immediately coming to mind, but no other game makes me more frustrated and upset simply by existing. And to think I paid a full $50 for it...
akidnamededdy
Banned
Final Fantasy XIII. I read up enough here and at other sites to avoid the real stinkers, but in terms of sheer disappointment, FF13 takes the cake. I will never understand how anybody can like it or its terrible sequels.
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
Not sequels, spin-offs. People usually like one or the other.
Petrae
Member
Worst: Brütal Legend. Played the demo, loved it, bought the game on launch day. Then the RTS bullshit made its appearance. Traded it back in same day, never touched Double Fine games again.
Runner-up: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Bought this for PS3 at midnight launch on blind faith because of the Castlevania name. This wasn't Castlevania. It was... something else. Perhaps there was Castlevania If I could've forced myself to play the game more, but the poor frame rate, unintuitive play mechanics, and weird puzzles prevented me from doing so.
Runner-up: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Bought this for PS3 at midnight launch on blind faith because of the Castlevania name. This wasn't Castlevania. It was... something else. Perhaps there was Castlevania If I could've forced myself to play the game more, but the poor frame rate, unintuitive play mechanics, and weird puzzles prevented me from doing so.
Nicktendo86
Member
I kinda liked it. I knew it wasn't great, but I enjoyed it.
keisuke999
Member
Hyper Dimension Neptunia. Lol oops.
Fbh
Member
Just remembered, if we go by "launch day"/full price
I loved D2 but wasn't expecting much from D3 ... yet somehow I fell into the hype (it got decent reviews and several friends got it so, hey, why not).
God this game is terrible:
- Gameplay got no upgrade or innovation at all....except single player lag
- Story sucks bigtime
- Vissuals are terrible, even on "high/ultra"
- Level design is boring (can't expect much from random dungeons)
- It's incredibly short
- You don't sort of "validate" it online like Starcraft 2... no, you play the game online. Someone started downloading something and I would get LAG in my SINGLE PLAYER. Hell sometimes I would get lag for no reason.d
- Drop rate is terrible to make people use the auction house (at least at launch, I know it's better now)
- "Multiplayer" is a bare bones coop
- Physical release of the south american version forced you to play with the terrible spanish dub
I'll admit that because I initially didn't read much about the game I didn't know about some of these issues. But still.
Finished it once, uninstalled and never touched it again.
Would have been great if the Ps3 had released at the same time, at least that way I could get some money back by selling it
I loved D2 but wasn't expecting much from D3 ... yet somehow I fell into the hype (it got decent reviews and several friends got it so, hey, why not).
God this game is terrible:
- Gameplay got no upgrade or innovation at all....except single player lag
- Story sucks bigtime
- Vissuals are terrible, even on "high/ultra"
- Level design is boring (can't expect much from random dungeons)
- It's incredibly short
- You don't sort of "validate" it online like Starcraft 2... no, you play the game online. Someone started downloading something and I would get LAG in my SINGLE PLAYER. Hell sometimes I would get lag for no reason.d
- Drop rate is terrible to make people use the auction house (at least at launch, I know it's better now)
- "Multiplayer" is a bare bones coop
- Physical release of the south american version forced you to play with the terrible spanish dub
I'll admit that because I initially didn't read much about the game I didn't know about some of these issues. But still.
Finished it once, uninstalled and never touched it again.
Would have been great if the Ps3 had released at the same time, at least that way I could get some money back by selling it
I fell for the hype surrounding The Conduit and ended up being extremely disappointed. A terrible campaign mode that I finished in a day and online multiplayer that was filled with hackers. I didn't bother with the sequel.
Goldeneye Wii ended up being the kind of game that I was hoping The Conduit would be.
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Banned
I mean, it wasn't as good as Origins, but man, that's harsh.
Sato Koiji
Member
Even the turd Sonic 2006 was more enjoyable than this pos Imo (dead serious).
This was the biggest dissapointment of all time for me.
That trailer piano music had me rolling in excitement when I saw and heard the char design and music choice...I said it out loudly in front of my monitor that this couldnt go wrong...
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Banned
I strangely liked it for a while. New system hype for sure. At the time, it had great textures.
badnewsbeers
Member
Or he just has different taste than you. I thought the game was trash too.
illmatic22
Banned
A tie between Genji and NBA Live 08.
I got Genji for dirt cheap despite the negative reviews since I liked the first game. I learned my lesson.
I hadn't played a b-ball game in a bit so I impulse bought Live 08 used. It was also trash.
Didn't really like Bayonetta either but that was a rent.
I got Genji for dirt cheap despite the negative reviews since I liked the first game. I learned my lesson.
I hadn't played a b-ball game in a bit so I impulse bought Live 08 used. It was also trash.
Didn't really like Bayonetta either but that was a rent.
BadAss2961
Member
Far Cry 2. It's as if the game wanted you to hate it.
I don't know what gen 3DS falls into but
You know when a game controls are broken when the publisher had to ship an alternative stand for a handheld game.
This had the dubious honor of being the only game I traded in.
And 3DS is 8th.
CharminUltra
Member
Man, I'm having trouble coming up with one. I guess for me it'd be Final Fantasy XIII. It was below average and I wish I could still get my money back, bit it's been years 
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Banned
I can't say it was the worst, but it was definitely the most disappointing. I know this will be controversial because many loved it, but for me it was Fallout 3 - New Vegas.
I spent countless hours exploring Fallout 3 and maxing out my character. Beat the game. Great fun.
I put in New Vegas expecting something really cool, but lo and behold.... it was the same shit. Same exact shit. Desert, VATS, etc. I killed 3 or 4 baddies and turned it off. Shit was getting way to repetitive at that point. I was hoping they would give us something at least a little bit different.
I spent countless hours exploring Fallout 3 and maxing out my character. Beat the game. Great fun.
I put in New Vegas expecting something really cool, but lo and behold.... it was the same shit. Same exact shit. Desert, VATS, etc. I killed 3 or 4 baddies and turned it off. Shit was getting way to repetitive at that point. I was hoping they would give us something at least a little bit different.
funkystudent
Member
Duke Nukem Forever
Finished it as well. I needed to know. I had to see it through.
Finished it as well. I needed to know. I had to see it through.
Brink. Fell for the hype. Full price at launch. Got home and just couldn't stand it. I was trying so hard to like it, which was a first itself for me, but it just wasn't possible =/
Luckily the high mobility shooter was done right in Titanfall, which ironically has turned into my favorite game so far this new generation!
Luckily the high mobility shooter was done right in Titanfall, which ironically has turned into my favorite game so far this new generation!
DigitalDevilSummoner
zero cognitive reasoning abilities
It is my very own personal assumption that the 360 version of game accounts for at least some of the very vocal negativity for this very unique game. I mean the very concept was for it to feel like a very cinematic experience and the lowered visuals, DVD quality prerendered scenes and the disc swapping must have taken it down several notches. For a linear cinematic game presentation is everything.
neurosisxeno
Member
It's a completely different game than at launch. Even before RoS came out it was leaps and bounds better--and that's coming from someone who enjoyed the game even at launch.
doctorblurg
Banned
Crackdown 2 was my most crushing purchase as I couldn't even bring myself to play more than 20 minuets of the thing after I paid $60 for it. Also Dead Island a total piece of trash but at least I beat about 3/4ths of that one.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Record of Agarest War and Mugabe Souls are roughly the same level of terrible. Mugen Souls has better art and writing, so I'd say Agarest is far and away the worst.
Really? I thought it had the best 4 player co-op of any game last gen.
I'd have to say FFXIII was the worst one for me.
Dre_G_Writer
Member
This game SINGLED HANDLED made me stop pre-ordering and buying a game at release.
Day one, $60 Still mad about it.
NEVER again will a developer burn me like that. I've lost ALL trust from that point forward.
darkSector was pretty mindless and colorless. I didn't care for the Blue Dragon treasure hunt but at least it was good to look at. darkSector was just "game." I'm sure I could think of others, but I'm also docking it points because it was more interesting to me as a "generational reveal" than the final, exorcised product.
Definitely LA Noire for me. This game had a lot of promise. With Rockstar helping I thought they couldnt screw things up, but I was wrong. I loved Red Dead Redemption from the year before, so I figured I was in for a treat.
Driving around old LA is incredible, but the gameplay especially the interrogations/questioning of suspects was horrible. On paper trying to find out if someone is lying or holding back information based on facial expression sounds like a good idea, but they failed miserably pulling it off. Maybe if they used better actors it would have helped, but trying to read if someone is lying to you or if they are just horrible actors is frustrating. I thought the developers would have screened and paid for better actors since they hyping their facial recognition system as revolutionary, but it seems like the actors struggled with the concept.
It doesnt help that Cole goes from best friend mode to madman and then back again with every question he asks. It is comical at time how quickly he melts down. I still enjoy breaking out the game time to time just to drive around in old LA, but I doubt I will ever bother solving any more of the cases.
Driving around old LA is incredible, but the gameplay especially the interrogations/questioning of suspects was horrible. On paper trying to find out if someone is lying or holding back information based on facial expression sounds like a good idea, but they failed miserably pulling it off. Maybe if they used better actors it would have helped, but trying to read if someone is lying to you or if they are just horrible actors is frustrating. I thought the developers would have screened and paid for better actors since they hyping their facial recognition system as revolutionary, but it seems like the actors struggled with the concept.
It doesnt help that Cole goes from best friend mode to madman and then back again with every question he asks. It is comical at time how quickly he melts down. I still enjoy breaking out the game time to time just to drive around in old LA, but I doubt I will ever bother solving any more of the cases.
PapaEmeritus
Member
It's always funny how 'worst game' pretty much turns into 'game that wasn't up my alley or just horribly disappointed me' on GAF. A lot of stuff in here that simply did not live up to hype or just wasn't enjoyed as much as others did enjoy it and thus make it a big turd apparently.
That said, I'm going to be a complete hypocritical dick and answer Assassin's Creed 3. Now, this like many answers here is mostly because it didn't live up to the hype and because I simply don't buy many bad games, but even without that context it's a pretty horrible game. The pacing is bad, the side content too unfocused, the story a bore and the gameplay unpolished. They wanted to do too many things at once and glimpses of a great vision shine through, but unfortunately the final product was all over the place. Once a mission in which you had to throw crates of tea in the ocean popped up and was ridiculously hard and frustrating for 0 reason I realized I wasn't having fun at all and just stopped playing. I was an enormous AC fan back then and even I couldn't be bothered to finished that damn thing (until recently, and surprise surprise the last part of the game was even more of a mediocre waste of time).
Luckily, they turned the best part of AC3 (The Naval missions) into its own game with way more polish and focus so I forgive them for fucking up once.
That said, I'm going to be a complete hypocritical dick and answer Assassin's Creed 3. Now, this like many answers here is mostly because it didn't live up to the hype and because I simply don't buy many bad games, but even without that context it's a pretty horrible game. The pacing is bad, the side content too unfocused, the story a bore and the gameplay unpolished. They wanted to do too many things at once and glimpses of a great vision shine through, but unfortunately the final product was all over the place. Once a mission in which you had to throw crates of tea in the ocean popped up and was ridiculously hard and frustrating for 0 reason I realized I wasn't having fun at all and just stopped playing. I was an enormous AC fan back then and even I couldn't be bothered to finished that damn thing (until recently, and surprise surprise the last part of the game was even more of a mediocre waste of time).
Luckily, they turned the best part of AC3 (The Naval missions) into its own game with way more polish and focus so I forgive them for fucking up once.
This game SINGLED HANDLED made me stop pre-ordering and buying a game at release.
Day one, $60 Still mad about it.
NEVER again will a developer burn me like that. I've lost ALL trust from that point forward.
Fuck, I completely forgot I got this game on day 1 too on steam. Luckily I got it for $40 or so but still, I tried to like it but it ran like shit and was so boring.
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Couldn't find a bigger picture ey?
TrueGrime
Member
Even the turd Sonic 2006 was more enjoyable than this pos Imo (dead serious).
This. And they keep milking this garbage. Square always milks the garbage and blows off the stuff that fans really want.
PapaEmeritus
Member
Sorry on my nookdidnt realize size and also it was that big a turd haha
darkSector is the definition of a mediocre game, but it's probably the most fun I've had with a Gears of War clone. I at least finished it (terrible final boss), which is more than I can say about a lot of mediocre or bad games. I don't have a lot of patience, I never feel any kind of obligation to continue playing a game I'm not having fun with.