Well we have the Best game ever thread, so why not start a wors game ever thread.

Im gonna have to think about this for a while.

I didn't have to think very hard, most folks my own age will likely nominate the infamous E.T. as it was credited with the near death of home video gaming. But for those of you 25 and younger, I nominate both Drake of the 99 Dragons (multiplatform) and Aquaman (XBox). Both games were so horrifically bad, I will not post screenshots because I do not want the blame for any brain damage they might cause.

Hehehe.... I remember E.T.

I nominate Sea-World Adventure Park Tycoon, for the PC.

It was just a boring rip-off of Roller-Coaster Tycoon.

The Zelda games that were released on the obscure Phillips CD-i were absolutely horrible, if I can recall. And let's not forget Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

YOU'RE WINNER !

Ohhhh...that game did suck alien slime...

I never cared for pitfall either...and then they had to make a new pitfall for the NES..blah

ET.....Why couldn't he just make a movie?

What is the name of the game where you fly around as a Mosquito Biting people?Because that game suked. The Jaws game was pretty bad too. It was fun at first, but then quite monotnous(sp?)

I would say Empire Earth III is the worst. Check this out
I mean what the hell !?! Even the first's graphics was better ! I mean, I bought the damn game, and what did I see ? Some stupid idiots bashing each other with crappy voices ! It's like cartoon graphics ! The next day I sold it on eBay !


1 - graphics
3 - gameplay
1 - sound
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overall : 2

A year ago I bought the second, the graphics were cool, but sooo not user friendly. I would be clicking the damn marine : ''Commander?'' ''Commander?'' ''Commander?'' - ''Yes sir !'' ''Yes sir !''

It was soo frustrating ! The authors didn't even bother making cinematics for the campaign

7 - graphics
1 - gameplay
3 - sound
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overall : 5


But the greatest and most fun was the first one. I became so addicted to it back then. Sure, the graphics weren't that good, but what do you expect from an old RTS game ? Anyways the graphics made it that special. Multiplayer was so fun. Sound was so and so.. but I think it was the best of all.

6 - graphics
10 - gameplay
8 - sound
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overall : 8.0 - 8.5

Anyways I really enjoyed it, too bad my cd broke

And there you have it folks, in conclusion : Sierra - Empire Earth III = sucks !!

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

That game (if you can even call it a "game" ) is infamous for being a complete and utter waste of resources. No collision, no AI, no physics, no anything really. I wonder how someone could have let that slip through and onto store shelves...

If any worst game is to be listed for me, it'd be the very first Zelda game for NES. Like you only get to slash your sword up in front horizontally, and you only have to move up and down, left and right, and enemies might even top you off guard. But since the released Zelda games like TP, WW, OOT, and MM, they were ok. A bit easier too. At least the 3D Zelda games are not all that bad, but the very first one sucked! That's my opinion about what I think about the very first one.

Definitely the WORST game ever made. nuff said.

I've never played it, but I saw its score on metacritic... it must be pretty goddamn awful to do so badly!

It's pathetic. No point of playing the game. I also saw it's score. Very low. I pray to God that I never get this game, because it's utter crap, and I am definitely not getting that junk. I don't think so. This game Big Rigs : Over the Road Racing should be rated the 1# worst game in gaming history.

Hey, give Nintendo some slack - what else did you expect from the hardware during the '80s? If it wasn't for the first game, we wouldn't have had the rest of the series (imagine a world without ALttP, TTP, or even OoT )

It is actually.

Well, I'm not much of an 80s guy, because I was born in 1991. I don't blame anyone who likes the game. If you like it, that's ok. I respect that. It's just my opinion obviously. Not trying to give Nintendo some crap for it, but it's quite difficult for me to beat, so that would be 2nd, for me. Plus, if this game didn't exist, we wouldn't know the Zelda games by now, and they wouldn't exist. I'm a huge Zelda fan, but however, the first one was complicated for me.



Oh good. It's not just me then.

Oh, sorry about the misunderstanding - I didn't mean anything by it

Apparently every review for the game was scathing - I don't blame 'em I'm still baffled that the ESRB didn't stop this game from reaching the market

You think that game sucked? What about the game that was so terrible that no one even wants to acknowledge it's existence, the game so bad that it's not even listed on game sites? This horrible abomination is none other than Ethnic Cleansing.

Ah, I forgot about that game. Read that Wikipedia article a few months ago, though. That game definitely wins, I don't care what you say.

Holy F__K! I guess trolling isn't limited to online forums anymore

LOL How did a bunch of neo-NOTzis gather the brain cells needed to make a video game?? LOL

OMG..they are still trying to selling it for $14.88...geeez lest they are too dumb to keep making new versions.

But then again they make that stuff so people will do the big freak out and start screaming about it. I wouldn't have even known it existed...if it wasn't for ninja_lord666's freak out...

hey ninja_lord666 got one you probly will like
biblefight

here is another tasteless game LOL
http://www.adultswim.com/games/fiveMinutes/

The Adult Swim games are tasteless and retarded on purpose, that truck racing game and the nazi game were actually meant to be taken seriously )and even paid for). That's sad.

I have something I'd like to add, not a specific game, but a whole genre. Military training 'games' that are released to the public with the intent of showing kids that being in a combat situation is just like playing a game. Looking at you America's Army. I actually led a big 'campaign' against this practice when I was active duty. There's no reset button in a real warzone.

That's sad, wrong, and utterly stupid. The big difference between virtual reality and the real world is that, as you put it, there's no reset button (or pause button, or any other button). What I find even more disheartening is the fact that "normal" people (and by "normal", I mean someone who's life is based around games) are actually trying to blur the lines between fiction and fantasy. It's ludicrous.

damn! I thought I was the only person who remembered that the Phillips CD-I even existed! yeah that zelda game was an insult to the entier series!




shhhhucker, man! (hehe sorry sensoring mysself ) You're going to get flamed for saying Zelda was a bad game. We grew up in the 80's, and whitnessed the evolution from Atari 2600 to Atari 7200, to just about everything nintento, Sega, turbo graphix 16

anyway, I suppose I can forgive you but if you were born in 1991, you -cannot- critique any game older than you, simply because you didn't grow up when "that's all there was" ^_^

okay having said that, I think the worst game was: *drumroll*
Columbine Massacre RPG

it was for windows.. but for those that are not popular with that game, then I have a second close: *second drumroll*
Daikatana It was by Eidos Interactive (if you even remmeber them, and came out in 2000.

I clearly remember Daikatana was an effort by former id employee John Romero (after he was given the boot for a difference in vision). Let me tell you, it wasn't pretty

NFS Pro street, it's great, but comparing to underground 2 or most wanted, this seems more like a rushed project then something taken time in. Free roam is removed, so are hot pursuits.

I agree with the others in naming E.T. as the worst.
It was the ultimate example of a company depending on name recognition to sell a product & was a horrible game.

After checking out the GameSpot site under most disappointment I would have to say I think the game Planet of the Apes is my #1 disappointment.
This game has some really great elements, it kind of blends all (except the latest) the movies into it & builds on them, great story, characters, good graphics (at the time).
The reason it is a big disappointment is that although released in 2001, it has no mouse support, I mean none at all, 100% keyboard. Back then I could handle that (my style was still all keyboard on some games like doom) but all my friends that tried playing it stopped because of the controls.
Too bad because I finished it & actually really liked it, it had stealth & problem solving as well as some good old fashioned shooting (the Baboon guards were tough).

I’ve seen things like this before, business execs just go brain dead from time to time (like Bethesda with the Morroblivion thing), the company’s decision makers just allowed one of their games to come out with no mouse function at all, must have been the only one in about 4 to 5 years, dumb de dumb…..dumb.

I would agree to that...the army making a video game to get kids wanting to join is wrong.
There used to be a flight sim game that the air force took on tour. The targets were oil rigs in a middle east environment...hmmm
It was a good game at the time..I tore it up. But after I was thinking...why oil rigs? They worked real hard at making it look like being a piliot was not dangerous...and you get to blow up things.

If I play a military like first shooter....there needs to be aliens and such. I am not into the realness of combat sims where you kill people. I know..not very sensitive to aliens...

Whoa..maybe WoW is the worst....for other reasons...
check out a yahoo story I just saw...
http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com...arcraft/1186366

Well that doesn't mean WoW is the worst game. You must learn to control yourself. If that guy was a computer junkie, it's his fault, not Blizzard's.

Anothter really bad game was the one where you were a dog, I think its Dogz Life. Instead of caring for one you ARE one. It sounded like an....innovative(cant thinl of another word)game. And it was, but it was on the lame side.

How about the flying log otherwise known as Superman 64? That was terrible.

Couple musings about posts on this thread...

What you got with the original Zelda game was whatever technology was available at the time. Those were the days when cell phones had just come out and weighted 3 pounds

E.T. was pretty bad, not even kids enjoyed.
Big Rigs racing: depends on the demographics. 5 year olds love it because they just need 3 buttons to control the truck, it never breaks, and never gets stuck because there's no collision

There were some awful titles during the times of the live-actor games... one in particular stands in my mind, it was named either "Ghosts in the Park" or "Phantom of the Park" or "Murder in the Park" with actress Mariel Hemingway.
... or Dark Seed II, which only allure was the Giger illustration.

... as for the Ethnic Cleansing game... the subject matter may be offensive to some (or many), but that doesn't make it a "bad" game per see.

Serious Sam. You walk into a big room, and 100+ enemies run out at you. Strafe in a huge circle and shoot into the crowd until everyone's dead, get a health pack, rinse and repeat, move onto the next big room.

Serious Sam was actually decent game I thought (albeit no plot whatsoever), if just for the absolute thrill of laying to waste hordes of baddies with the biggest gun I had (the Serious Bomb was my favourite tool for this ) Of course, that's just my psychopathic nature I guess

From games that I have played, Busby 3D for the PS1 (I believe that's the right console) & the Postal series (Postal 1&2) for the PC are the worst games for me. They both have horrible graphics, and horrible gameplay.

I see what you mean, and in that case SS would be great...But I usually play games with deep storylines/meanings, and where the producers really put some thought power into the making of the game (Like Half Life 2 or FEAR, though the FEAR EP's are losing it). When I feel like going psychopath I'll load a save in Morrowind in which I became a werewolf, and if you don't know werewolves are very powerful characters in Morrowind, and I go to each town and kill every soul and watch my bounty skyrocket.

Theres a game where you play as Elmo and hop on like a pogo stick and collect letters. Some kind of elmo game. It was pretty bad. I remembered my cousin playing it like 8 years ago. Crap, i was only 4 or 5 and i thought it was bad

I thought Majesty was the worst ever. I think I played the first mission, and got so bored with it, right after I kicked out of the game, I uninstalled it right off the bat.

Totally! Dude, I can't stand that kind of in-your-face repetition. At least other bad games try to hide it with plot, even a weak facsimile of a good story. (Third gen X-men games, anyone?)

Let's not forget Blood Omen 2: The Legacy of Kain. That game was horrible on too many levels to mention without foaming at the mouth. Try impaling someone through the chest then watch them get up like nothing happened. Now replace "someone" with "human guards". Now replace "chest" with "head".
And they had the nerve to consider making it a stealth action game. Kain, the vampire tyrant sneaking around port authority. Not bloody likely.

While I'm on stealth, every Tenchu after part two. Sad how they broke that mighty ninja.

The first blood omen: legacy of kain was a very good 3rd person game. It's secrets could still have you scratching your head and the story was decent, and nothing took away from the action part of the game. Every "Kain" game afterwards matured the plot until it's almost (actually it 'is') a novel and you really need to play 'all' the games to understand how they all interlink, but really de-evolved as far as how I wished they had progressed.

It became a 'puzzle game' more over an action/adventure title (the series as a whole) so it may not be the 'worst' series, but I do think this is one of the series that really took a large tumble down a slope

No, this is the worst game ever. This little gameplay movie says it all.

Hehe, yeah Doomjockey remembers the very first game. And while he does wish they had retained that style of immersive gameplay, it's true the overall plot hardly suffered for it. Also, he actually has played every installment and found it, overall, quite gripping. Who hasn't looked at a choice she made and thought 'if I just had a second chance'? Perhaps they'll continue the series but, sadly, without Tony Jay. RIP.

But as far as the "worst series", hardly. Doomjockey only meant the one game when you consider the much better titles proceeding it. If you want a bad series you'd have to look no further than Fable.

Fable? That's just a matter of opinion. I liked the game.

Ditto. But I think everyone is looking for the 2nd worst game. We already know Big Rigs is crowned champion of the worst games in history.

No, you're wrong. Big Rigs pulls in second. Ethnic Cleansing cruses Big Rigs worse that the blacks. If a games condones violent racism, it's the undisputed leader of s**tiness. We're currently looking for the third worst game in history.

No, Ninja. You can believe Ethic Cleansing is a bad game and should be rated first place, but you're still wrong. You should check the Gamespot flat out worst game award. Look at it and tell me that I'm wrong. Ethic Cleansing is pretty bad, so that will be 2nd place. Big Rigs is the world's worst game, because it's broken, low quality, you name it. Period.

I'm only gonna say this once.

Ethnic Cleansing is so bad, that it isn't even at Gamespot! Besides, you're stating that racing trucks in a world with no gravity is worse than militant racism. Do you really want to go down that road?

Just because the game you're talking about has racism, still don't beat the fact that how the games should be rated on it's performance. Of course racism would be very offensive in ways, so I rate the game you're talking about 2nd place, and Big Rigs is rated 1st place for me. In fact, Ethic Cleansing shouldn't be a game at all. Due to it's racism, It should be long dead. End of discussion.

Performance? That's it? From what I've read, Ethnic Cleansing has pretty good controls, some nice graphics, and nice first person combat. So, does that mean Ethnic Cleansing is a good game? It's performance is good, so it must be. Games are rated on performance and content, and the extreme racism of this game is enough that it's the worst game ever, despite the several gameplay flaws of Big Rigs.