[Gaming] Hey Halforums, what's the worst game you've purchased?

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SeraRelm

Value isn't under debate, practical significance may be. Like I said, if they suddenly gave the content away for free ( :trolol: ) or it disappeared from existence, it would be moot.
 
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SeraRelm

Freedom isn't free, it costs folks like you and me a buck o' five.
 
Adam

Adam

And if we don't all chip in. We'll never pay that bill. Freedom isn't free. No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
 
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SeraRelm

No, the statement from which these actions derive still stands, unless someone deleted it.
 
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Soliloquy

Back on topic

I actually own a game that I consider "So bad it's good." It's called Future Tactics, and playing it was the most fun I've had with a PS2 game because it was mind-mindbogglingly awful in all the right ways.

Its plot managed to be both incomprehensible and cliche at the same time. Its gameplay mechanics were fundamentally broken and easily exploitable when combined with the idiotic enemy AI. Dialogue that wasn't cringe-worthy was more the exception than the rule.

But there wasn't a single thing about the game that was frustrating, unfair, or made playing it not fun.

I played through it twice. It was awesome.
 
Gared

Gared

OK... getting back to the original topic:

Spore - That game had so much hype, and delivered such a steaming pile of crap. Or, you know, giant dick monsters.

Fable 3 for PC - I have no idea how the console version of the game is. I've wasted enough money that I'm never going to attempt to find out. The PC port is absolutely terrible. Apparently, and I'm guessing here, in the console version there are points when you have to hold a button down until "just the right moment" before releasing the button for an awesome effect. In the PC port, this just means holding the keyboard button down for a set amount of time, and it's always the same amount of time, for whatever action you're attempting to perform. Movement is horrible, pathing is horrible, performing actions is horrible (you have to hold buttons down for 2 - 3 seconds before the game will acknowledge that you've pressed them), it's one of the shittiest ports I've ever seen.

Shadowrun for the 360 - I don't think I ever even made it out of the tutorial. They managed to break the one inviolable rule from cannon before you even made it out of the tutorial (no teleportation). On the plus side, the game wasn't any fun and the gameplay was horrific.

GTA4 for the 360 - I loved Vice City. I thoroughly enjoyed San Andreas. GTA 4 just sucked. It's like they said "man, people love driving fast and completing all of these little side quests, and getting credit for awesome jumps... we should really put a stop to that."

Whichever Final Fantasy came after X but wasn't an MMO - Just, just no.

Suikoden 3, or maybe 4 - The first two were awesome, for what they were. The third (or maybe 4th, it's been a really long while) removed most of the fun elements.

I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of any right now. There's probably a Heroes of Might and Magic or two in there that I really hated. Maybe a Settlers game.
 
Frank

Frank

Lost and the Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony Liberty City Stories were fucking awesome. Way better than regular GTA4, but I guess they weren't that popular. It bums me out that so many people had so many issues with New Vegas since it was a better game underneath the bugs than Fallout 3.
 
Bowielee

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Necronic said:
I rarely purchase games that I'm not 100% about. Pretty much never to be honest. The only two games I've regretted buying were:

Demigod - Terribad release. Stardock may be my absolute favorite developer, so I assumed demigod would be amazing. It was....ok. Turns out stardock didn't develop it, just published it.

WoW - I had a lot of fun with this game, I'm not going to lie, but when I saw what happened with the first major expansion I realized how terrible the mudflation would go, and then saw how they started homogonizing everything in a policy of appeasement (that's right, I went there). So, while it was fun, the amount of time I invested in it, only to see everything start going down an unsustainable path made me pretty furious. It was like hiking to the top of a mountain for the beautiful vista, only to find a McDonalds and a Super Walmart there.
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The only thing that was regrettable about Demigod was the buggy release and the fact that people didn't realize what an awesome game it was.

As for WoW, one of the worst games? Really? That's hyperbolic at best.
 
Jay

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LordRendar said:
What did you hate about San Andreas? That game was awsome.Freaking huge map,interesting quests and characters.
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There were some cool things about the game (working out, getting fat, customization, girlfriend, skills)... but the storyline was basically... as non-racist as possible, "YO,YO,YO,YO, Ni^$#@" stereotype bullshit that in my honest opinion, just turned me off.

It's just my opinion.

It just wasn't for me... and a huge letdown from Vice City... which I LOOOVED.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Jay said:
There were some cool things about the game (working out, getting fat, customization, girlfriend, skills)... but the storyline was basically... as non-racist as possible, "YO,YO,YO,YO, Ni^$#@" stereotype bullshit that in my honest opinion, just turned me off.

It's just my opinion.

It just wasn't for me... and a huge letdown from Vice City... which I LOOOVED.
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Good, I'm not the only one who found SA racist as hell.
 
Jay

Jay

Yes... but San Andreas was for me at least, beyond acceptable levels and hearing 20+ hours in my ears people talking the way they did was beyond my tolerance.
 
LordRendar

LordRendar

Da fuq did i just watch?

I keep waiting for something to happen and all I see is impotent rage.
Is this a metaphor for this forum? ;) then you postet this in the wrong thread.
 
GasBandit

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Worst game I bought was probably... I don't remember the exact name but it was a WWF wrestling title for the dreamcast back around 2000-2001 or so. It was so bad I microwaved the disk then threw it as hard as I could against the wall, causing it to shatter.

Worst game I played, though, was probably Necrovision.

Also, I liked Demigod more than I later liked LoL. Why? LAN, better bots, greater variety of levels mostly. The "new" mode in LoL was basically trying to copy what demigod did right.
 
Adam

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Way back in the Nintendo era, everyone was all about Mario and Zelda. My parents took a young, naive Adam to a computer store and told him, as a birthday present, he could pick out one NES game. This store didn't have Mario and Zelda, and the old guy behind the counter pushed this strange non-Mario, non-Zelda game on me saying it was very popular. So, I took it home and played it and found it quite good. However, in comparison to the flagship Nintendo franchises I always felt that I was ripped off.

That game: Little Nemo, The Dream Master. Damn hell if that game wasn't awesome.
 
Necronic

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Bowielee said:
As for WoW, one of the worst games? Really? That's hyperbolic at best.
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Well, WoW gets judged on a different standard because you put a LOT more money into it. Like, 60$ upfront and then another 180$ a year. So, since I'm paying so much more for it, I judge it a lot more harshly. And when the first xpac came out I was like "oh wow ok well there's a TON of money down the drain."

Also I'm going to add Mass Effect to that. I know everyone else loved it, but I quickly realized that it wasn't a very good FPS. And it really wasn't a good sandbox RPG (like Bethesda games). And after playing like 10 hours of it I realized that you were pretty much required to have a high def TV to use the in game menu......and I never played it again. I don't even know where it is.
 
Frank

Frank

Necronic said:
Well, WoW gets judged on a different standard because you put a LOT more money into it. Like, 60$ upfront and then another 180$ a year. So, since I'm paying so much more for it, I judge it a lot more harshly. And when the first xpac came out I was like "oh wow ok well there's a TON of money down the drain."

Also I'm going to add Mass Effect to that. I know everyone else loved it, but I quickly realized that it wasn't a very good FPS. And it really wasn't a good sandbox RPG (like Bethesda games). And after playing like 10 hours of it I realized that you were pretty much required to have a high def TV to use the in game menu......and I never played it again. I don't even know where it is.
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If WoW and Mass Effect are the worst games you've ever purchased you've lived a charmed life.
 
Necronic

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Dude, you turn into a gecko and eat bubble gum while the animal makes that awesome "meep" sound.

Maybe the best game ever.

Edit: You have to understand, I don't buy many games at ALL. I thoroughly research a game before I purchase it (or I simply trust the developer intrinsically.) I never care about being the first to play it.

I am a king and I let the plebs taste my food for poison. The only thing is that their inadequate pallettes can't identify subtle design flaws (like those in ME or WoW) that drive me nuts, but don't bother most people. Like the princess and the pea.

Basically I am royalty so BOW DOWN. Or get the Kinglayer.
 
Adam

Adam

Frank said:
Little Nemo was rad as hell, Capcom was a bastion of quality in the NES era.
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No doubt. Even the games that should have been fail were amazing. Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers and DuckTales being two examples of games that were far superior for their licensing.
 
Necronic

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There was also that awesome ninja game where you would jump around through the trees and then get THE SQUIRREL OF POWER or something like that and the game would become all hardcore techno and the screen would flash.

I have no idea what it was called but it was pretty boss.

Oh yeah and I really should add HOMM4/5 to that list. They were both terrible but I only have myself to blame for buying them.
 
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