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

[Den MDM Den MDM]

OMGGGG I fcking hated Agarest Generations of War it was just soooooo bland unpolished unappealing and grindy I left it at about 75 hours to never touch it againnnn

Also GTA 5 ofc most boring game of all no doubt

 

[Klonoa7]

The GBA port of Crazy Taxi did not look or play good at all. I ended up returning the game for a full refund.

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

Is GT6 any good? That game has sat on my shelf untouched for years. The loading times in GT5 were atrocious.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

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

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Sonic Colors Ultimate: "If you pre-order this game, you'll get some extra music!"

Me, who got excited about this because I pre-ordered the Legacy Collections of Mega Man for this feature: HELL FUCKING YEAH

Then I find out it costs $60 for all the DLC which I can't even separate btw

"Bit of a red flag, but whatever"

Game comes out

I don't see/hear any new music in my preordered game

I later find out the "new music" was the new remixes of Planet Wisp made specifically for the game alongside all the other levels

SEGA ripped me the fuck off

I cry, knowing I wasted all that money

the remixes weren't even that good either

 

[moonbits]

Sonic 06

 

[frankied85]

Montezuma's Revenge for the Sega Master System. Money was a lot harder to come by for a 10 year old kid back then, and it wasn't that good of a game.

Psycho Fox on the other hand...awesome.

 

[Den MDM Den MDM]

Sonic Colors Ultimate: "If you pre-order this game, you'll get some extra music!"

Me, who got excited about this because I pre-ordered the Legacy Collections of Mega Man for this feature: HELL FUCKING YEAH

Then I find out it costs $60 for all the DLC which I can't even separate btw

"Bit of a red flag, but whatever"

Game comes out

I don't see/hear any new music in my preordered game

I later find out the "new music" was the new remixes of Planet Wisp made specifically for the game alongside all the other levels

SEGA ripped me the fuck off

I cry, knowing I wasted all that money

the remixes weren't even that good either

Well... I mean, why didn't you just wait until the remixes just showed up on yt?

 

[Pokenami's icon Pokenami Pokenami]

The Last of Us Part 2.

Not only did I pre-ordered the game but I also bought it digitally.

 

[Cu-Neo]

DBZ Battle of Z, on Xbox 360

 

[Den MDM Den MDM]

The Last of Us Part 2.

Not only did I pre-ordered the game but I also bought it digitally.

I've always been against pre-ordering but with a game with so much hype it would be impossible to avoid spoilers if you haven't played it in the first days, I guess.

 

[Big Finger Jim]

The Last of Us Part 2.

Not only did I pre-ordered the game but I also bought it digitally.

You can't even get rid of it now. It AIDS-infected your console.

 

[Yithan]

When I was a kid, we passed by a game store with my brother. Our dad could only buy us one game (for the Psx), my brother wanted Pandemonium while I wanted a bike game (I don't even remember the name). We argued a lot, and since I was the youngest, our dad ended up buying me the one I wanted... I played it like two times and never touched it again. The handling was terrible, you only had like 4 bikes to choose from, and overall, the game was boring. That's probably the earliest memory I have of a regretful purchase. My brother still brings it up too

 

[SpectreOverflow]

While I've never usually regretted game purchases, mostly because I look way too much into games before getting them, probably the worst purchase I've made is Mojo!, a game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
I got a copy sealed for like $5 so it really wasn't that bad for how much I paid, but good lord is it one of the most generic looking games I've seen on PS2. Moreso, it was developed by FarSight Technologies, a developer that is probably known more nowadays for their pinball simulators that I've heard are actually somewhat decent, so the fact that this game's marble physics are as janky as they are is rather amusing.

 

[Pokenami's icon Pokenami Pokenami]

I've always been against pre-ordering but with a game with so much hype it would be impossible to avoid spoilers if you haven't played it in the first days, I guess.

I actually finished the first game a couple months before the second game released and I figured since I really like the first game and had extra PSN funds on me, I decided to buy the second game just to see where the story was going to go.

This was my first time pre-ordering off of the PS Store.

 

[SpectreOverflow]

DBZ Battle of Z, on Xbox 360

I've heard this is among the worst DBZ games, and unfortunately it's the only one that made it to PlayStation Vita. I wonder how it compares to the other oftenly-seen-as-bad DBZ games like Ultimate Battle 22.

 

[Den MDM Den MDM]

When I was a kid, we passed by a game store with my brother. Our dad could only buy us one game, my brother wanted Pandemonium while I wanted a bike game (I don't even remember the name). We argued a lot, and since I was the youngest, our dad ended up buying me the one I wanted... I played it like two times and never touched it again. The handling was terrible, you only had like 4 bikes to choose from, and overall, the game was boring. That's probably the earliest memory I have of a regretful purchase. My brother still brings it up too

Sounds like big rigs with bikes lmaooo

 

[destinyduelist]

I bought Silent Hill Homecoming unfortunately

 

[E0N]

Dragon's Dogma 2. I bought it for $52 (using coupons) during the launch day but the game performed so bad that it was unplayable especially in the city. I've never regretted buying a game in my life before and promised myself that I will never buy a game above $30 ever no matter how hyped it is.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

I bought Saints Row 5 at launch for 70 euros

 

[Swabbleflange]

It's a little muddier in the past 20 years or so with digital purchases making up the majority of my game buying, and so many of those disposably cheap. I'm sure I've played stinkers but I've just moved on, and I've been way more willing to just ditch something that isn't working out for me.

However, as a kid with modest means I was plentifully stung after handing over my precious pocket money for some budget range garbage on the ZX Spectrum. Two always fix themselves in my memory: Molecule Man, and Rapid Fire. £1.99 most definitely spent poorly. Take Head over Heels or Ocean's Batman, remove any charm or visual interest and make it especially clunky, boring and unforgiving, and you have Molecule Man. Rapid Fire also hails from the time I would make a correlation between the excitement of box art and the product within. Endlessly tedious, barely playable rubbish.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Well... I mean, why didn't you just wait until the remixes just showed up on yt?

For one, no one ever labelled the remixes as being preorder bonuses, in fact I think most people STILL didn't know
Also because playing music in game is way cooler than just on my phone. It feels eh otherwise. I also assumed the music would be numerous and customisable, like the ability to set it to a level similar to Generations

Basically:

What I expected: Multiple different remixes whether from Colors or other games
What I got: Remixes of Planet Wisp that play for Act 1-3 that are so minor that I didn't think they were the preorder bonus

 

[Bonkers225]

Growing up during the 16 bit era, with no internet, and too young to read reviews from Game Magazines, I've bought games like Batman Forever, X-Perts for $70+ at my local K-Mart.... Well my parents did of course.

 

[ladyerrant]

Carnaval. Games. Wii. My son wanted it SO BAD and he was too young at the time to understand when I told him it would suck. It did. Very. I think he played it twice. Then my brother came over and we hate-played it to completion. Just about broke our wiimotes.

 

[mariokarthero]

Not the worst game I've played, but my biggest regret purchase is easily Super Mario 3D All-Stars fpr Nintendo Switch. I paid £50 for a half-assed collection of the earlier 3D Marios. 64 was the Shindou Edition, Sunshine had a lot of issues that Nintendo didn't account for and Galaxy with a Pro Controller is just awkward. Well at least in the way they mapped it. Little extras in the form of music, no Galaxy 2 or 3D Land. The overall collection felt rushed and the limited release sealed its fate for me.

If anything, that collection made me second guess buying remasters/remakes going forward.

 

[Karnik 2.0: reboot]

In the late eighties,  Soccer for NES and F-1 Race for DMG-001: as often happened, the attractive box covers were deliberately misleading. Having learned my lesson, I later always consulted the vg magazines before purchasing. ??‍

 

[throughdarkness]

I didn't purchase it myself but it cost me an even rarer resource: my parents money. The abomination that is Quest 64. I cannot adequately express the disappointment. I had begged for an N64 because how could I miss out on all the great upcoming Square titles? (child me assuming Square would continue to develop for Nintendo) Well, an RPG finally comes along in the form of Quest 64. While all the cool kids at school are enjoying Final Fantasy VII. I had more fun reading the FFVII players guide over their shoulders than playing this absolute slog.