The Worst Game Ever

[FordSVT]

Not sure what the worst game I have purchased is. But as for the worst game I have heard of, I would like to nominate...
Cosmic Race:



When I was a kid I had a subscription to Game Players magazine, and they rated their games on a scale of Cosmic Race to 10.

That was the first game I thought of. Zero collision detection, the vehicle would often travel right through obstacles or even through the ground at random. Totally buggy shit, it's amazing it made it to store shelves.

The N64 Superman game was an abomination. AVGN review.

 

[Hoser]

The worst game that I have legitimately played is hands down without a shred of a doubt Superman 64.

I don't have the words for this so i give you this video.

(Skip to the 3:18 mark to get past the intro and setup.)
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dJXgJ1c4vY[/yt]

It really was horrible. I remember being excited, playing Superman would be awesome! Then I plug in the game....hmmm, go through hoops. Well, maybe it's a tutorial.....no, next level too....third level....aw crap.
Only game I ever sold back to a store. :/
Of course, Master of Orion 3 holds the distinction of being a game I looked forward to for a year and then never bothered to finish.

 

[Immolatus]

modern warfare 2 has to be the worst game ever, I mean really russians invading the U.S. and the graphics!

 

[Chaos Descending]

For me it would have to be Master Of Orion 3. I loved the first one which left me very dissapointed when I tried #3.

I completely agree, although I preferred MOO2 to the first one.

Oh, I forgot to mention that we had ET for the Atari 2600 way back when.

I... ummm... I actually liked that game.

 

[Sparky]

For me it would have to be Master Of Orion 3. I loved the first one which left me very dissapointed when I tried #3.

I completely agree, although I preferred MOO2 to the first one.

Oh, I forgot to mention that we had ET for the Atari 2600 way back when.

I... ummm... I actually liked that game.

I liked ET as well. It had a title screen with recognizable music! How many other 2600 games had that. The graphics were decent for the hardware and the gameplay was more involved than many 2600 titles. The game actually had a defined beginning and end. Yes it was a victim of the programmer only having 6 weeks to make the game but in 6 weeks it was a game with much more scope than most 2600 titles at the time.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

For me it would have to be Master Of Orion 3. I loved the first one which left me very dissapointed when I tried #3.

I completely agree, although I preferred MOO2 to the first one.

Same here. MOO2 was the kind of sequel that expanded and improved on the gameplay of the original without becoming a totally different game.

I have no idea what the makers of MOO3 were thinking. There are hints of a good game in there, buried under mountains of micromanagement. If a game is so complicated it includes an AI to do most of the playing for you, you've gone seriously astray somewhere.

 

[Sephiroth]

*clears throat* Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde for the NES *walks away*

 

[Neumann]

STALIN VS. THE MARTIANS!!!

 

[FPAlpha]

Recently Transformers: War for Cybertron

Huge franchise but they produce a generic shooter where you control robots with a gun who can transform into a vehicle that has a different gun

Extremely disappointing. Didn't even make it through the first mission before deinstalling it and that is a first for me.

 

[Hoser]

I never thought 2600 ET was all that bad. 2600 Pac-Man, though, was horrible.
I thought of putting Evony up as well, but I'd feel weird considering I played it for six months. Then again, that's the reason why, it took six months to do what most people would do in any other game in about a half hour.

 

[LitmusDragon]

I vote Total Recall on the Amiga. Movie translations typically make terrible games. This was one of the worst I can think of offhand.

(Batman on the NES was great though)

 

[Aragorn]

Apparently that high pitch is supposed to be screaming.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWa9kTeLAGU[/yt]

 

[Ryan]

Oh, I forgot to mention that we had ET for the Atari 2600 way back when.

It feels like such a cliche to pick that game but it really was that bad.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

I've had a lot of games that had absolutely DREADFUL voice acting. Jeff Bennet really wasted his talent on Jedi Academy.

But for just God-awful horrendous games you have to go for the World of Harry Potter box set. The first three main titles and the spinoff Quidditch World Cup are just terrible in every way imaginable. Half-baked voices, obvious puzzles, the most boring combat this side of Hogwarts.

Now don't even get me started on Frank Herbert's Dune...

 

[Reverend]

Now don't even get me started on Frank Herbert's Dune...

...yeah, I couldn't get past the "run away from the worm" bit. Or rather I realised I'd bought a turd and uninstalled it so fast it made the .DLLs spin.