We have all heard what your favoerite game is but what about your least favorite game.

I have got to say that the worst game that I have played is...

Pirates of The Carribean.

Sure the Sea Graphics looked all nice and stuff but it was glitchy and gameplay flat out sucked.
In the middle of a game I would be playing and the game would just crash. So sorry Bethesda

Lets hear about yours.

Once again this will all come down to a matter of opinion, but actually I have played one which is universally kak.

Ultima 9

The final game in a legacy spanning 20 years! I still have an interview from Richard Garriot where he makes promises regarding the gameplay features. We were supposed to receive an isometric viewpoint of a beautifully detailed world. We would have been able to do anything and pick up everything, ride dragons, have companions...

Instead, EA buys Origin out, fires all the original staff and churns out an awful, AWFUL 3rd person 3D action adventure. The dialogue was disgustingly child like, with none of the complexity of previous titles. The game was bug ridden, gameplay was shoddy and it was completely linear.

It was more fun getting an enema with a firehose.

Hm, excluding the truly awful games that can't even be played, here's three I can think of right now:



1) Star Wars: Force Commander. Inevitably, they had to make a Star Wars RTS game. And they decided to go with the new innovation of a 3d world and free camera. Which of course made the game unbelievably frustrating to play. I didn't even make it out of the tutorial mission before quitting the game and deleting it. The cause: spending at least a minute rotating the camera around trying to find an angle that would let me select my unit... and then having to start all over again to click an enemy to tell it to shoot.

2) World of Warcraft (and probably every MMORPG ever made). Quest guide:

1) Kill 10 of monster X.

2) Kill lots of monster Y and bring back 15 copies the item they have a 25% chance to drop.

3) Repeat quest #1, except now monster X is cunningly replaced by monster X2, with the huge amazing difference of doing 2x more damage.

4)Repeat quest #2, except now monster X is cunningly replaced by monster Y2, with the huge amazing difference of doing 2x more damage.

Now, most rpgs start their early quests with things like this, and that's understandable. But I was a level 20 character and STILL doing the same exact quests, and my level 40 friend was too!

3) Battlefield 2: A perfect case study in poor optimization. Despite having higher system demands than any other game I've tried to play, it looked horrible. Unbelievably horrible... like something out of 1995. And this was on a computer that runs Halflife2 at nice fps (ok, at slightly lower than max detail... but it still looks 10x better!). Add in a horrible friendly fire/TK system, the worst server browser I've ever seen, a pathetic excuse for a single player game (come on, at least give us bots for single player/lan games!), and you have a massively overrated waste of disk space.

A question I would like to know is did the players of these games ever finish them? If it's a game you really don't like, don't you just give up on it? In my case there are quite a few I couldn't be bothered with. If they don't catch my interest quickly I don't keep on with them. So I can't really say the games were 'bad' simply that they didn't appeal to me. One hyped series I found intensely irritating was MYST. It had such good reviews I expected it to be intriguing. I gave up after getting to the third set of puzzles.

I finished Ultima 9. I think it's quite an achievement, because the further you got, the worse it became.

I allways finish games, even though I don't like them. The worst game I have ever played was "loony-toons at the carneval" or something like that, for NES. Total crap...

The worst? Hmm... I think it would have to be Chameleon Twist. An old platformer game on the N64 with some of the most torturous, clunky, difficult, and unsatisfying gameplay ever conceived.

As for on PC... probably Icewind Dale. It's Forgotten Realms, which is usually a bad sign. Bad gameplay, stupid difficulty (even on easiest setting your whole party can be wiped by the first encounter unless you have a very specific combination of classes that actually works). The character dolls are lazy (they all look like half naked elves with sticks almost completely regardless of what you equip them with or what race they are). It's just plain unenjoyable. The storyline and atmosphere isn't too bad as I recall, but it needs to be a lot more if it's going to compell me to play through it.

Chameleon Twist I played a fair way through, until I finally gave up. Icewind Dale I played a few hours into before finally dropping it.

This is all a matter of opinion of course... However I fail to conceive how anyone could possibly enjoy either of these games. I have heard of some fans of Icewind Dale though.

I have Icewind Dale bedsheets, a mural of an elf painted on my wall, the game's soundtrack, a home made movie depicting events in the game, customised action figures, 2 gigs of fan made characters and saves, the expansion packs (and both games), the novels based on the games, the official Icewind Dale Anal Bleaching Kit, carseat covers and a desktop theme.

I quite enjoyed Icewind Dale (the original) when it first came out. Think I must have been about 14 when it came out. I tried to get into Icewind Dale 2 about a year and a half ago and it was absolute poo, I couldn't understand how I liked the original. Meh, now I'm undecided. The one good thing I liked was having 6 characters from the offset that you could build however you liked; which I don't think you could get in BG2.

To add on to Pregrines tale of Force Commander the every time i played the game the music would freeze up which was really freakin annoring after a while. Although the opening music was pretty cool. I'm hoping that the new Star Wars RTS coming soon will be a lot nicer then this one. Star Wars: Empire at War.

Ultima 9??? No fun?? Come on, are you telling me you never tried to climb Stonegate Tower in your underwear with the help of 3 loaves of bread, a scroll and a couple of sticks?

Ok, the storyline was poor and the dialogue cringeworthy, but there was so much fun to be had using the amazing object properties.


As for the worst games I've played, that's a tie between Myst III - Exile and.. dare I say it.. Daggerfall.

I bought Myst III - Exile because friends had raved about the Myst series. It was boring, and the 'good guys' you were meant to help were so irritating that I invariably let the bad guy win.

And Daggerfall... don't even get me started on 'randomly generated'... After getting the same quest for the third time I decided that I Daggerfall was marginally less exciting and fulfilling than doing the laundry.

There were several features that will always attract me to Daggerfall, but I will be the first to agree that it was over ambitious and severely flawed.

As far as using Objects in Ultima 9, I saw a guy use loaves of bread and potions to travel across the ocean.

Worst Game I have ever played... Starship Troopers BY FAR

-Your primary weapon has no clips, infinite ammo, and no cooldown... so basically you hold down X 99% of the game...

-There is a mission where you have to "protect a fort" and "attack" the waves of "dangerous" aliens... If you just stand there and do NOTHING you complete the mission because they dont attack... they are just bodies to fire at, nothing more...

-Terrible, terrible outdated graphics.

I didnt play very far really just cause my thumb started to hurt from holding down a button for several hours. They should have made it a toggle feature, haha.

My three least favourite games that I wish I never spent money on;

Vampire Bloodlines

Pirates of the Carribean

and bottom of the barrel...

Knights of the Old Republic: Sith Lords

I threw a tantrum when I finished sith lords, and the others I havent cause of the bugs in Vamps and the stupid game controles in Pirates

>I jumped up and down on the sith lords box till it broke <

Lol. I wasn't to impressed by the Sith Lords ending either. Good thing I never bought it. I hate games that leave you hanging like that.

Hmm

Let's see, for the PSX I'd have to say a game called Apocalypse starring Bruce Willis. Any game that generates hype based on familiar people or movies I will not play anymore . They tend to have horrible graphics, clunky mechanics, crappy story (exactly the same as the movie usually) and their only selling point is that player's can associate themselves with someone of fame.

I also disliked FF8 - it was fun at first, but after a while the story became boring and the Junctioning system cumbersome. 9 probably would have been better if I'd played it when it came out, but I didn't even buy it until last year so the graphics and lighting (especially exteriors) made it difficult to play (hard to see things, easily distoriented, etc).

For the SNES I couldn't stand Populus. Mostly though, that was my inability to get the hang of it. Some old Bugs Bunny game I also played (either SNES or NES) was also really horrible. it was basically Pac-Man with a bugs bunny character, gravity and ladders.

I can't stand most sports games but that's a matter of taste.

There were two games i cannot bear to play.
1) Icewind dale. Impossible to play, no chance for a custom party unless one has been heavily seasoned with baldurs gate and the like and it was so confusing, it felt horrible to play, none of the smoothness and enjoyability that games like shadow flare offer. (but i suppose its quite a different form of game..)
2) Vampire the masquerade, bloodlines. What an awful, trajic game. Useless powers. In my oppinion anyway. unrealistic player - object interface. And rather confusing at that.
I never completed these games.
I would be a horrible weight on my concience.
Totally and utterly Trajic.

Well, I've not played Daggerfall, so I don't care about that. But Myst III?!?! Come ON! So the Myst games are slow, and there's about as much character interaction as a rock having a conversation with... um... another rock. But look at the scenery. Listen to the music and the SFX. What about the MOOD they give you. I know I'm wasting precious text-breath here, as the Myst games are one of those "love 'em or hate 'em" jobs, but that shocked me. I may even have shed a tear...

As for MY worst game.. EVER... I'd have to say Myst IV. Haha, no. Seriously, though, I think the Resident Evil games lack something very important. Immersion. Those DAMN doors, and the 'oh-so-scary' zombies and mosters. Pfft. Compare that to Silent Hill and you just know that they've scraped the dried up remains out of the "Barrel of Horror-Cliche's" and mashed it all together. With painfully long door opening scenes. The newest one, 4 I think, was a TEENSY bit better, but they need to change ti considerably to make me pick p a controller again... Did I mention the doors?

Yeah, true. If you look at IwD, then at something like Baldur's Gate or Planescape Torment, you can see what CAN be done with that irritating isometric perspective. Shame, a real shame. The scenery was poor, too.

Oh, and Kingpin. That was awful, too. Especially if you try it AFTER playing Half-Life 2...

Ok, Ok, My turn!

1.) I have to agree with Peregrine for bringing SW:Force Commander up. Not only is the game a crappy Star Wars game, but is an insult to the entire RTS genre. Played the demo, played the whole game on a friend's PC and I hated it. Seriously.

2.) I'm surprised nobody has thought of this: Daikatana. Arguably one of the most anticipated FPS games in the past 15 years and it turned out to be nothing more that a glorified hill of wet, squishy, stinky, smelly rhino feces. A combo of Q1 and HL engines presented, in the lack of a better word, ugly graphics, the A.I. was more of a comic relief than an actualy gameplay element. (This one NPC that follows you, Superfly, IIRC, gets stuck in this door - porta vulgaris - and ends up getting killed by it. The door, I mean. Yes, that's right. The door.) And of course there are the most important aspect of any FPS. Guns. Those were crap too.
Oh, I almost forgot: John Romer wrote a load of, yet again, rhino feces in the game's read me. Reading those lines, you can't really tell if he knew the game sucked beyond belief or did he just go insane during the process.

3.) My personal favorite is Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Oh. My. God. This comes as so much more painful strike, me being a ST fan and all. I say again: Oh. My. God.

1.spyro 1 on the ps1 terrible cant stand all spyro games

2.crash bandicoot seriously this game pissed me off i hate it! its the same basic game 'cept your a bandicoot with a floating heat to help you instead of a dragon+dragonfly

Guardian of Darkness.

Say no more.