ElectricBlanketFire
Member
I'll say The Conduit.
First and last time I fell for IGN's hypejob.
First and last time I fell for IGN's hypejob.
What's the absolute worst game you paid money for in the 7th generation?
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DieAntwoord
Banned
I'm torn on this.
The actual stealth and gunplay were great. And I loved being in a room/building full of clickers and bandits as I saw those as giant dynamic puzzles requiring solving on the fly.What bored me absolute death was the fact the exposition was so terrible. Walking for 30 minutes solving the same 2 types of puzzles got boring fast. What's funny to me is that I watched a walktrough just to see how it ended and I didn't realize I was literally 2 hours away from completion. The actual narrative was fantastic though.
I find this weird considering I enjoyed the night watch mission early on Red Dead Redemption.
Dorimukyasuto
Member
Skyrim - most boringest shit ever
I'll take Oblivion any day
I'll take Oblivion any day
For me it has to be The Last Remnant. Bought it full price on the 360 because I was desperate for a JRPG and what I got was trash. A buddy actually talked me into opening the game (I was going to take it back due to reviews) and he apologized after the first five minutes of game play. I heard the PC version is much better, but I still feel like I got burned to this day. What a waste of $60.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
Doublepost.
DANNYJUNIOR
Neo Member
Red Steel. Got it on Wii launch day, and to this day I have never completed that game.
Magnet_Man
Member
I didn't pay for it per se but I did have a Game Fly account that I needed to pay for...
Other M once again. I could do lectures on all the ways this game fails.
Other M once again. I could do lectures on all the ways this game fails.
Barry Burton
Member
Not counting HD collections/remakes...
WORST: No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Wii)
The first game was hardly anything special, but at least some of the boss fights lived up to their billing, and the open world had (some) charm to it. This game was really bad. Grasshopper probably only got the go-ahead to make a sequel if it had a tiny budget, and it showed.
Runners-up:
Dead Space 3: First game was great, second one was alright...this one is apathy in video game form.
Heavy Rain: A game that really appealed to me and one that I was really hoping would be good. But the writing and acting were both sloppily executed, and when that's the foundation for your game, well...
LittleBigPlanet: A platformer where the platforming itself is really crummy.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Staggering drop-off in quality from MGS3. Unremarkable both as a stealth game and as an action game.
Resident Evil 6: 30 hours of mediocrity. Probably the final nail in the coffin for what was once one of my favorite series.
WORST: No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Wii)
The first game was hardly anything special, but at least some of the boss fights lived up to their billing, and the open world had (some) charm to it. This game was really bad. Grasshopper probably only got the go-ahead to make a sequel if it had a tiny budget, and it showed.
Runners-up:
Dead Space 3: First game was great, second one was alright...this one is apathy in video game form.
Heavy Rain: A game that really appealed to me and one that I was really hoping would be good. But the writing and acting were both sloppily executed, and when that's the foundation for your game, well...
LittleBigPlanet: A platformer where the platforming itself is really crummy.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Staggering drop-off in quality from MGS3. Unremarkable both as a stealth game and as an action game.
Resident Evil 6: 30 hours of mediocrity. Probably the final nail in the coffin for what was once one of my favorite series.
joecanada
Member
Fable is dead until proven otherwise...
Love Deterrence
Member
In terms of which game I regretted purchasing the most: Grand Theft Auto V. The mechanics were fine and it was technically superb, but it bored me to death and I didn't find it to be much fun as a video game, which is what video games should be all about (or at least primarily about). The worst game I played in terms of gameplay (design, mechanics, etc.) would probably have to be Bullet Witch... Maxwell Cougar is a pretty good dude, though.
Dark Octave
Banned
Golden Axe Beast Rider.
It had an intersting combat counter system but that was about all it has going for it. There is nothing here for a Golden Axe fan as it has nothing to do with the old arcade games at all. Not even the amazing music from the arcade games are in this.
The only reason I got it was because it was on sale at Amazon for $10. I already knew it was bad but Gamestop was buying the game back for $20 so I played it for a while and sold it to Gamestop for a $10 profit.
My only regret was not buying multiple copies.
Oh yeah, I got this too. Who thought driving around with malaria would be fun?
Admiral Woofington
Member
I actually bought Two Worlds.
WHY
WHY
TheVisualizer
Banned
Madden 06 (360)
Madden was my most played game on PS2 and I followed 06's development on Operation Sports so I knew something was up when they didn't release any gameplay videos before launch and figured they wouldn't get it to look like the infamous "target video" but it was giant step backwards from the PS2/XBOX versions. Total piece of junk that I took back to the store 2 days later.
Madden was my most played game on PS2 and I followed 06's development on Operation Sports so I knew something was up when they didn't release any gameplay videos before launch and figured they wouldn't get it to look like the infamous "target video" but it was giant step backwards from the PS2/XBOX versions. Total piece of junk that I took back to the store 2 days later.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Easily Bioshock Infinite. Hated that game so much and hated myself more that I spent $60 on it. Even managed to get way more enjoyment out of stinkers like FF13 & Time and Eternity than I did out of BI.
Willy Wanka
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It is Hyperdimension Neptunia by quite some distance. Absolute garbage.
MaximusPayne
Member
Some of you must play no games at all based on your choices of worst games of last gen. Bioshock Infinite? Diablo 3? Skyrim? Lols all round.
Worst for me goes to Brink due to being fooled by the hype. Second place goes to Perfect Dark Zero for being huge pile of shit. Third place to Dragon Age 2 for just being terrible and making me hate a virtual city.
Special runner up goes to Burnout Paradise for not being a Burnout game.
Worst for me goes to Brink due to being fooled by the hype. Second place goes to Perfect Dark Zero for being huge pile of shit. Third place to Dragon Age 2 for just being terrible and making me hate a virtual city.
Special runner up goes to Burnout Paradise for not being a Burnout game.
Basketball
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Doctor_Thomas
Member
Goodness, some of you have been very lucky in your bad games.
My vote, as always, goes to RAGE. I paid £10 and still felt ripped off, the PS3 version was just awful. A game where you rotate 180 degrees and reloads textures has something seriously wrong. It was also boring to play and just never felt right
Syndicate is a close second.
Saint's Row The Third is definitely up there.
My vote, as always, goes to RAGE. I paid £10 and still felt ripped off, the PS3 version was just awful. A game where you rotate 180 degrees and reloads textures has something seriously wrong. It was also boring to play and just never felt right
Syndicate is a close second.
Saint's Row The Third is definitely up there.
RobFox64tm
Member
Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks.
Why the fuck did I think a touch control based Zelda could be improved upon?
Why the fuck did I think a touch control based Zelda could be improved upon?
MaximusPayne
Member
Pretty much this..
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
People post the games that they remember. Hype + disappointment = bitter memories.
Blitzrules240
Banned
On sale for 10 dollars at my local Best Buy. Seems like a cool concept... no way this is gonna suck.
Honorable Mention:
This was my launch game choice for Xbox and I must have been a kid with minimal patience because this game fucking pissed me off. Fuck this stupid cat.
Amazeballs
Member
Bioschlock Infinite: I've played worse, but in the case of Infinite I bought into the hype and paid full price.
MagneticDeath
Neo Member
Splatterhouse for PS3, got it for nostalgia reasons and knew it was gonna be shit. Played maybe half of it and gave up.
TheMan
Member
ff13- the reasons why this game is fucking garbage are well-known at this point
tekken 6- not actually a bad game per se, but i found it super dull. i don't have any friends who play fighting games and the online mode was unplayable at launch, so playing the cpu got boring fast. sold it on craigslist with the quickness
tekken 6- not actually a bad game per se, but i found it super dull. i don't have any friends who play fighting games and the online mode was unplayable at launch, so playing the cpu got boring fast. sold it on craigslist with the quickness
My pick as well. So much so, I have been very apprehensive about GTAV, but responses are generally favorable.This garbage
Out of my collection this is the game I hate the most and I paid $60 for it purely based on hype. It was my first GTA game and god it's so fucking boring. I gave it a shot, twice, but I just couldn't keep going. Luckily GTAV is amazing and it restored my faith in the franchise.
Halo 4, the multiplayer is garbage CoD in space and the single player was okay but I had no interest in going back to it after beating it once.
This,
The game is a frankenstein of a mess IMO. And the game should never have left Epic's hands and because of this game, I fear what Black Tusk are going to do with the series.
Also, Dead Space 3 (what a turd of a game after DS2)
This game never happened. Forget it ever existed.
God help us if Black Tusk fucks it up.
Hallondricka
Neo Member
At full price...
Rage, FF13, and Twilight Princess were three of my favorites of last gen. They might be not what you expected or wanted, but you can't call them bad.
On the consoles the only purchase last gen I regretted was Midnight Club Los Angeles, I paid $30. I really enjoyed the first three and assumed it would be the same except HD, but it just wasn't fun. I bought a ton of cheap junk on Steam though, the one I most regretted based on paying more than $20 for it and it not coming in some kind of bundle was Anno 2070. And I'm not sure it's a bad game mechanically, I just couldn't stand the euro-techno-enviro-blandness compared to the relatively classy previous games.
edit: I forgot I actually bought Gears of War 2 and hated it so much I traded it back the next day.
On the consoles the only purchase last gen I regretted was Midnight Club Los Angeles, I paid $30. I really enjoyed the first three and assumed it would be the same except HD, but it just wasn't fun. I bought a ton of cheap junk on Steam though, the one I most regretted based on paying more than $20 for it and it not coming in some kind of bundle was Anno 2070. And I'm not sure it's a bad game mechanically, I just couldn't stand the euro-techno-enviro-blandness compared to the relatively classy previous games.
edit: I forgot I actually bought Gears of War 2 and hated it so much I traded it back the next day.
Rickenslacker
Banned
I dunno, don't you guys see a hint of irony in pointing that out then picking games like RAGE, Saints Row The Third, and Burnout Paradise? I don't know what makes a game immune from being considered one of the worst a person's played, expectations are different all 'round.
