What would you declare as "The Worst Game" on any given platform?

[Firenoh]

Has to be Chaser; everything about it was mind-numbing and tedious. Game has 25 mission and I wanted to quit by mission 6.

 

[Kamako]

Hugo 2 (PSX) for poor controls.
Cyberpunk 2077 (PS4) at launch for releasing in a buggy unplayable state.
And I'm sure there're many other games I'm forgetting that I've played which were released in an unwinnable state.

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Also, any modern pay to win game, and any game designed to extract money from vulnerable players by offering the "incentive" of reducing the time it takes to play. That ethos is pretty antithetical to how I enjoy games

 

[Pearly]

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Was wondering how far I'd have to go to find superman 64, first page, did not disappoint.

That game needs to be played to be believed.

 

[Firenoh]

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I know I guy who's played all these games.

 

[starseeker300]

I suppose I should Finally answer my own question now. There are a few candidates.

Infinite Dunamis: an rpgmaker rpg made by kemco, which the name alone should tell you enough, but if you don't know, they are a company that turns out crappy, tropey in a bad way, grindy, derivative rpg maker rpgs. And also really bad licensed games before that. I made the mistake of playing this as a teenager and it was pretty boring front to back, It did have one redeeming quality in that weapons got stronger the more you used them and also had an attack tied to them that you could use at any time once you mastered the weapon. Hope an actually good game does something like that.

Ice Age GBA Tie in game: Standard tie in game slop, what makes this stand out as bad is that it has both 2d platforming sections and top down exploration puzzle solving sections, and they both suck, I played this at a friends house as a kid and never got past the second exploration section because even as a naive child I could not be bothered, I'd rather be playing lego star wars, mx unleashed, larryboy and the bad apple, and crash bandicoot wrath of cortex with my childhood best friend on his ps2. or catching frogs in a nearby creek with him during the summer.

Young Justice Legacy: It was marketed as a canon tie in to the tv show and as a big fan when it was airing I got it to play with my brothers, it looked and played poorly, we kinda just stopped halfway and never picked it back up, it was a slapped together rush job. I don't even have anything "bad" to say about it since it was such a nothing burger of a game, i could say that it was a 1-3 player beat em up, but that just a descriptor of the gameplay than anything else. Actually there is one thing, there were these boxes in the levels that prompted you to open them but when you did nothing happened, what was up with that, were there supposed to be upgrades or pick ups in them that were never implemented. I genuinely have no idea. That game was just unfinished in full reflection. Still if you like superhero shows or just action in general, I would recommend the 1st season of the tv show, pretty entertaining.

Batman Arkham Origin: the game is a barely functional buggy glitch mess, My save data got randomly corrupted twice and I had to start all over, also the load times are atrocious, the people who say this game isn't that bad are blinded by nostalgia for the death stroke fight which is the best boss fight int the arkham series, the rest of the game is barely playable though, which is a shame, I wish it was good but it just isn't, it needed a lot more quality assurance time that it just didn't have for some reason.

And before I get to the actual worst game I've ever played, I'm gonna throw in a quick (dis)honorable mention to to LEGO Bionicle for GBA, its not terrible but it has pretty clunky movement controls and questionable collision but a halfway decent inventory system where each tool you have does something unique and useful. Its also pretty short and entertaining for what it is. It doesn't really deserve to be here but I've already wrote this much on it and don't want to delete what ive said

Now as for what I consider the actual worst game I have ever played I would say it is SMT: Devil Survivor. It is even more grindy than Infinite Dunamis and the time based system is poorly explained to the player, (Just imagine an infinitly worse version of Majora's Mask and Lightning Returns day cycles with no way for the player to record or review events they've seen or know about but missed.) The combat is a weird mix of a tactical and traditional rpg that tries to do both at the same time but is good at neither because of it. you go to fight an an enemy on the tactical battle map, and are taken to a separate battle screen where your character has to fight a squad of enemies, and you have a limited number of turns to beat them or the battle just ends and the entire enemy squad heals to full health (its been a while so im not sure if the part about them all healing is true for all enemies or just certain ones), as a result combat is super slow and tedious, this stretches what should be a couple hours of playtime into like 10 (that may or may not be an overexaggeration). It made me wish I was either playing fire emblem or pokemon past the first couple encounters of the game. The game also expects you to grind a lot and promotes gambling, too, basically the structure of the game is like this, do a main battle, grind for money, go to shop gamble for a better demon than the ones you have now, then fuse those demons and hope the resulting one has good stats, then grind some more to get it up to level, then do the next major events until the next battle, repeat. It is tedious and not fun at all.

AND finally to address the elephant in the room, you play as characters who partake in the practice of demonology. Now I understand that less religious forum members wont really care about that so to those people you can just skip to the end now. Those that do want to hear can read the spoiler tag below this

Spoiler: Discussion of religion, only read if you want to.

now as for more religious members of the forum: this game advocates for devil worship, I cannot say it enough. It is the single most heinous and wicked pieces of media I have interacted with. If you are a practicing Christian (or Muslim or Jew too), I implore all my fellow believers to destroy any copy of this game or any other smt game they come across. (You may be wondering, why did you play it if your faith is so important to you, the answer is I played it before I became a Christian). This thing is from hell and should be sent back there

Overall, this game just tries to be pokemon, and srpg, and a resource management game at the same time and fails on all fronts and just wastes your time on purpose

tldr;
this game is pure evil and want to steal your time and life

Sorry for turning this into a mini article, guess I had a lot to say

 

[Kid Dynamite]

That's easy. Joust lol

 

[Jvsouza11]

My worst game of all time has to be Ancient roman power of dark side, Holy Shit this game is so ass!

 

[SpaceCadetGenocide]

When I was around 13 maybe, I bought a game called "Tennis" for the nintendo switch, even though it was only $8 it was possibly the worst game I had ever spent money to my memory, objectively I've gotten worse but this one is the only one I remember just because of how scammed I felt, I never got a refund either

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I really regret buying a Gran Turismo game for the PS3. It was bland, boring and not all that engaging... plus, it made me download a gigantic patch right off the bat.

It was sitting back in the store two hours later.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I bought this blind, hoping for a simple Action Game romp, and ending up disappointed and frustrated.

 

[Eclipse14]

The Simpsons Wrestling on the PS1. Fortunately, I was only getting it to try it out, and within the next couple days I was back at the same place to exchange it for something I also had interest in.

The worst I still have would be the Transformers Famicom game. It sits separate and unrecognized from the rest of my collection.

 

[Tonberry]

'Dissidia Final Fantasy NT' is probably the worst game I've spent big money on. But that feeling is exacerbated by how utterly disappointed I was with it.

 

[RageBurner]

I really regret buying a Gran Turismo game for the PS3. It was bland, boring and not all that engaging... plus, it made me download a gigantic patch right off the bat.

It was sitting back in the store two hours later.

I guess it's hard to beat Gran Turismo 4 Spec II.

As for me, it was probably a stupid Mario Paint clone for the Mega Drive

In my youthful innocence, I was certain anything with Sonic in it would be good... it was a harsh lesson.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Time and Eternity on the PS3.
It pissed me off so much that i stopped playing video games for 6 months. Effectively killing my motiviation and made me reflect my reason for playing video games in the first place

 

[Stookymalarkey]

Earthworm Jim 3D. I hated the controls and the camera, and it was boring collectathon platfomer with none of the creativity the first 2 had.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

I guess it's hard to beat Gran Turismo 4 Spec II.

As for me, it was probably a stupid Mario Paint clone for the Mega Drive

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In my youthful innocence, I was certain anything with Sonic in it would be good... it was a harsh lesson.

Wouldnt that be Gran Turismo 5 or 6? If you find Gran Turismo boring, then im assuming simulation racing games arent for you. @Waffles I could be wrong. I 100% GT6 and thats after i beaten 1-4. Didnt touch 5 since it was inferior to GT6.

 

[Glimbo]

Batman Beyond on PS1.
The cartoon was cool and I played some batman games before so I figure I'd get it.
The back of the case said you could save your game. Nope, can't. No checkpoints either so if you die it's back to the beginning.
Really repetitive combat with poor animations as well.

I always got to this room got stuck because I thought you had to jump out the window on the right to the next building. I had enough of it and just cut my losses.

 

[J.F.C]

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Wouldnt that be Gran Turismo 5 or 6? If you find Gran Turismo boring, then im assuming simulation racing games arent for you. @Waffles I could be wrong. I 100% GT6 and thats after i beaten 1-4. Didnt touch 5 since it was inferior to GT6.

I honestly have no idea.

I do like simulation racers, but this one just wasn't doing it for me.

 

[RageBurner]

Wouldnt that be Gran Turismo 5 or 6? If you find Gran Turismo boring, then im assuming simulation racing games arent for you. @Waffles I could be wrong. I 100% GT6 and thats after i beaten 1-4. Didnt touch 5 since it was inferior to GT6.

I agree. GT5 feels like an incomplete version of GT6.

 

[Zekr20000]

Lust for darkness on switch, o man what a bugfest with many fps drops

 

[rklone]

i'd have to say super mario maker for the 3ds, paid full price 60€, the game was fine but it lacked a ton of the features that were later added to super mario maker 2, a real shame.

 

[Big Finger Jim]

X7 is the worst thing I've ever played, BUT I also got it with the two Legacy Collections so it was only a 20% waste of money.

That god damn Avengers game, though. I'd say I was a stupid child, but I was at least 17, when it came out so there's no excuse. I paid full price for it having seen barely any of the gameplay and it sat on my shelf for two years before I actually decided to play it. It was so shit, dull, obnoxious, and terribly written. I actually fell asleep while playing the first Hulk level and that's when I put it in a box to rot away. What an entirely worthless piece of media.

 

[Ness-Emo]

This thing. I never played the other ones.

 

[Kamako]

I'm glad for every game I've played, even the bad ones. I guess one answer though would be Splatterhouse for Xbox 360. Had some great voice acting and a truly militant soundtrack with Lamb of God, The Acacia Strain etc, but the combat was really generic, the monster designs weren't all that memorable and the levels weren't as colourful or abstract as I was hoping for.