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

[downloadingshit]

Hmm I've played quite a few bad games but if I were to think of some

Sonic Spinball - Genuinely miserable to play, controls were ass, music was ass, only beat cause I was on an emulator

Bubsy 3D - Textbook example on how not to make a platformer. It's true when people say the entire game looks like an unfinished alpha build. Controls are fucking clunky, camera is ass, Bubsy's voice is fucking annoying, music is ass. I think I stopped playing around the water levels.

Major/Minor - Furry visual novel I played in high school. No skip system, only can save when the game stated you could and im pretty sure it was made in RPG maker of all things, all the cast had one sprite only, reeked of writing by someone who had no clue what Japan was outside of anime, and all the characters had only a singular smiling sprite. Dropped after the ch1 demo.

Dragon Slayer - I respect it from a historical context and how it brought Falcom to where they are now, but from a modern day perspective it's genuinely just fucking boring and a slog.

 

[χKai]

Some of the ones I remember for the NES were

 

[Leon]

Bubsy 3D - Textbook example on how not to make a platformer. It's true when people say the entire game looks like an unfinished alpha build. Controls are fucking clunky, camera is ass, Bubsy's voice is fucking annoying, music is ass. I think I stopped playing around the water levels.

Dragon Slayer - I respect it from a historical context and how it brought Falcom to where they are now, but from a modern day perspective it's genuinely just fucking boring and a slog.

Dragon slayer should get a bit of a pass for another reason, the action rpg genre is basically considered to have started with dragon slayer, there were a few that came close before it, but the first game in the genre is generally considered to be dragon slayer, that said yes the game is extremely archaic.

So about bubsy 3D:

Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection games list announced

Atari and Limited Run Games have revealed the list of titles included in Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection, the upcoming Bubsy games collection.

www.gematsu.com

Yes, bubsy 3d is getting a rerelease, why, i donno.

 

[downloadingshit]

Dragon slayer should get a bit of a pass for another reason, the action rpg genre is basically considered to have started with dragon slayer, there were a few that came close before it, but the first game in the genre is generally considered to be dragon slayer, that said yes the game is extremely archaic.

Yeah you got a point there with Dragon Slayer. I honestly wanna try out Xanadu as I heard it fixed and improved on a lot of the groundwork DS set.

So about bubsy 3D:

Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection games list announced

Atari and Limited Run Games have revealed the list of titles included in Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection, the upcoming Bubsy games collection.

www.gematsu.com

Yes, bubsy 3d is getting a rerelease, why, i donno.

Yeah I saw that, I don't know why they think anyone is really that nostalgic over Bubsy. I don't even think that bargain bin new one they released a few years back even really did anything? I think there was some mobile game sequel?

 

[starseeker300]

@Waffles

This is a duplicate thread

The Worst Game you ever played

What was the worst game you ever played for any amount of time and what made it so bad? I wanna hear all about the shovelware that you all might have touched that makes us appreciate the good games all that more

retrogametalk.com

 

[Sinmenon]

To be honest, despite how bland Forces is, I think I'd still take a functional game over the glitch fest 2006 was...

And even then I managed to not fall too much into them but the slowdowns and loadings are really putting more frustration.

Either this or Sonic Blast on the Game Gear.

Apparently there are some fans remaking 2006 and I heard good things about this project. That, underneath the piles and piles of glitches, there is a very solid game design with good levels underneath.
But, of course, the road to hell is paved with good intentions....

 

[UnDubious]

I'm still surprised when Mario World, a SNES game, managed to run better on the GBA than Sonic.

How is that surprising? Sonic is faster than Super Mario World, and the Genesis had a faster CPU than the SNES. It's not easier to port.
In the end it's just bad programming and quality control, the GBA could have handled a good port of course.

 

[Leon]

Apparently there are some fans remaking 2006 and I heard good things about this project. That, underneath the piles and piles of glitches, there is a very solid game design with good levels underneath.
But, of course, the road to hell is paved with good intentions....

2006's gameplay in itself wasn't the problem, it was just broken and had the worst story in a sonic game (not to mention how creepy the sonic/redhead romance is), which says alot considering the genesis games had literally no story.

 

[Nidstang]

Ninja Bread Man

 

[Ikagura]

Apparently there are some fans remaking 2006 and I heard good things about this project. That, underneath the piles and piles of glitches, there is a very solid game design with good levels underneath.
But, of course, the road to hell is paved with good intentions....

To be honest despite the level design being nice (which I still consider it under SA1 and SA2's speed stages) it still has that clunky homing attack and low inertia.

At that point I'd rather see a Boost gameplay 2006 remake to make it worthwhile.

 

[Anti-Law Savior]

Do PVP online only games count?

Post automatically merged: May 8, 2025

Good question

Worst game ever? Real life thats short answer

God ain't that the truth...

 

[Deleted member 3864]

Do PVP online only games count?
View attachment 67005

Post automatically merged: May 8, 2025

God ain't that the truth...

I *almost* admire that they basically treat mobile suits like a game of World of Tanks, but holy shit they were allergic to fun with this. (Also, ruthless monetization schemes, but that practically goes without saying with F2P games).

 

[Leon]

I *almost* admire that they basically treat mobile suits like a game of World of Tanks, but holy shit they were allergic to fun with this. (Also, ruthless monetization schemes, but that practically goes without saying with F2P games).

If i'm being honest the most likely control scheme for mobile suits would be more closely to what G-Gundam's control scheme, where it would be mapped to your muscle movement.

 

[Aisf]

This game just makes me very mad because I love one piece. That and ain't no way they took more than 4 - 5 months on this game. Ussop is too fucking OP (I've tried to beat him three times and I've failed every single time.)

 

[legsrjust4show]

For everyone talking about Superman 64, you also should try the Batman Beyond one. It manages to be as bad or worse.

I remember as a kid that I always heard from everyone that it was real bad and one of the worst. But if what you're saying is true and that it's somehow worse than the fan favorite of trash Superman 64 then I need to check it out.

 

[ZengarZombolt]

The PS1 demo to Shadow tower, it had a bit where you lost life for every step -_-

 

[TheSoulWalker TheSoulWalker]

I think the worst game I've ever played was Metropolismania for PS2

This game had no real purpose outside being a Sim City grab with Animal Crossing like objectives. It's very much a game where I'm just thinking "Pick a lane, which game are you trying to be?"

 

[Carlnshake]

Idk which was mine tho

The game of love

 

[Theriise]

Lunar Dragon Song

This game is built on lies!
Everything good that Lunar had, the stellar game play, the video sequences, the music, Everything!
It went into the Bin and then they decided such beautiful and wonderous game play ideas such as:
- What if Running makes you lose HP?
- What if you had to choose between Items/money or Exp at the end of battle?
- What if the characters were flat and unmemorable?
- What if we insulted the fans of an already amazingly good franchise by making this game?

 

[Leon]

Lunar Dragon Song
View attachment 68612
This game is built on lies!
Everything good that Lunar had, the stellar game play, the video sequences, the music, Everything!
It went into the Bin and then they decided such beautiful and wonderous game play ideas such as:
- What if Running makes you lose HP?
- What if you had to choose between Items/money or Exp at the end of battle?
- What if the characters were flat and unmemorable?
- What if we insulted the fans of an already amazingly good franchise by making this game?

For what it's worth (which isn't much) i believe someone made a mod that removes the exp/money and hp loss on running problems, doesn't make the story good though.

 

[Theriise]

For what it's worth (which isn't much) i believe someone made a mod that removes the exp/money and hp loss on running problems, doesn't make the story good though.

If someone had a mod that made the story good, then it would be a different game entirely

 

[Yuniheim]

has someone said League of Legends yet?

 

[TinRattler]

ALF on the sega master system

Played it once still trying to sell it for the last 20 years

 

[Yousef Yousef]

KH3, or sonic heroes.

 

[Duke_11037]

Ronde is the worst smt to be made, terrible "combat" and story. With the most dogshit music. Although there's other games in the series that I can say the same for (persona 3 & 5).