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Arsenal - Taste the Power, the worst RTS I played in my life
Command & Conquer 4 the game that destroyed an entire franchise. No base building. Stupid uint caps so you only had a few units at a time. Storyline that made you go wtf this is not the ending that kane deserved all in all a pile of rubbish mixed in with some dog dirt.
Fallout 3.


<i kid, i kid... or not?>

1) Wanted Guns
2) Crusader of Might & Magic
3) Inquisition
4) MetalHeart: REplicants rampage
5) Fallout 3 - Mother ship zeta
Hm, I don't know, I find it kind of hard to distinguish between bad games, games that were disappointing only because of bugs or because they don't run smoothly on my rig, and games I just don't like no matter what. And then there's so many of them ... :D

Anyway, I was quite disappointed with Demon Stone, even though I was prepared because I knew it wasn't that good, but I found it kind of insulting nevertheless. And talking of insulting, Law & Order Legacies from Telltale is pretty bad, too, and so far I couldn't bring myself to like The Walking Dead either (I haven't touched Jurassic Park, but I expect it to be similar or worse). It feels like they don't really need a player and all interaction is just a pretense so they can put the label "game" on it.

Then there's cheap garbage like Astro Tripper, for example, and other boring or badly designed games I got from bundles and that should better have been freeware than commercial, or not created at all ... And I bought the small indie horror game Home because it was so cheap and seemed to have an interesting premise focused on new ways of storytelling, but by the time I had played through it, I was quite annoyed with it and thought it was just pretentious and a great waste of my time, even though it's only about two hours long (but you have to play through it in one sitting because there is no save function, grrr; and I could have watched a good movie instead). Retention, an indie about creating your own story by choosing between photographs, was a similar disappointment despite the interesting concept, because of its sloppy and inconsistent presentation.

And some games in my collection I just don't like at all and wouldn't mind not owning, despite many gamers praising them, like Frozen Synapse or Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games. I also have trouble getting into SpaceChem and will probably never play Defcon. But I know these are not bad games per se, I guess they're just not my cup of tea as I don't see any fun in neither the premise nor the mechanics nor the graphical presentation (although I have to admit I like the pixel portraits and voiceovers in JA: DG, but that's not enough for me to enjoy it ;) ).

EDIT: Yeah, Fahrenheit was a disappointment for me, too, because of the stupid QTE gameplay (I can't judge the story yet because the QTEs prevent me from experiencing it). It's not just that I don't think these mechanics are anything similar to fun, I also find them very distracting and unsuited. First the game establishes an immersive atmosphere unlike most other games I've played and then it ruins it all with the most immersion-breaking type of gameplay. But I wouldn't say it's one of the worst games I own, because I still like everything about it that it's not QTE. It could have been a very enjoyable and innovative action-adventure if they had actually allowed you to control your character during action scenes, and in a way that's fitting for a PC game.
Post edited August 27, 2012 by Leroux
Fahrenheit (why did they release it on PC, they didn't even try to make it playable on it).

Dungeon Lords (I've tried and tried and tried to convince me it had been a worthy acquisition, just ended losing ridiculous amount of time hoping for it to get better).

Storm over Gift 3 (nothing to say, it's just bland, cute but bland).

Doom 3 (basically house of the dead with better lighting effects).

and possibly :

Dead Space (is that from the same team as Fahrenheit ?).
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Austrobogulator: First thing that springs to mind is Beyond Good and Evil:

*Completely and utterly broken camera controls.
*Some very frustrating gameplay - especially the awful stealth sections.
*I thought the story was pretty incoherent, especially the deus ex machina ending =\
*Terrible character design - ugly character models and horrible voice acting, even to the extent that some characters verge on being borderline racist.
*Poorly thought out game design - the game gives you an airship, of sorts, then a spaceship later on - yet having access to these doesn't open the game world up at all, in fact, upon getting the spaceship, the game world just closes off completely.
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darthspudius: um is this because you didnt like it or because it truly is a bad game? I thought it was great.
Well, I just explained why I didn't like it; although, I will admit that some of my dislike for the game perhaps stems from disappointment based on the hype surrounding it. Regardless, I just did not have a good experience playing the game; I did like the photography mechanic though...
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. I had never heard of it when I received it as a gift. It's a port of a console fighting game. Combos are easily broken and most are of dubious usefulness. A number of the situations are gimmicky and only done by repetition. The game must be completed twice to unlock some other characters and bonus levels, but it seems like a poor reward to get to do more stuff I didn't enjoy the first time. Maybe this is typical of the genre, but I really disliked it.
Post edited August 27, 2012 by Syme
Serious Sam Double D

The horror.... the horror of playing that game still haunts me. It looks like it was made by a 10-year-old in some freeware game maker. And plays, and feels like it.
Post edited August 27, 2012 by keeveek
By a wide margin: Chaser.

Even if you ignore the spotchy story and the grinding combat the final cutscene that essentially turns the whole game into a "you're a gullible idiot" insult, rendering all your efforts obsolete without giving you any input in the matter is a giant meddle finger by the developers to the player.
Arthur's Quest: Battle for the Kingdom
Western Outlaw: Wanted Dead or Alive

No description needed. I'm sure even most of you never heard about the game before. Maybe i'm bit harsh because it was a low budget game.
as always in these threads, I'm amazed by some of the answers. Beyond Good and Evil? Seriously? The worst game you own?? Osmos? I can see it not appealing to everyone, but for what it was trying to do I thought it did a pretty damn good job. Doom 3? Certainly nowhere near the best FPS out there, but nowhere near the worst.

I guess if those are the worst games you own, you must have one awesome game collection :P

OT: Without question, Beastly (a videogame version of a made-for-tv Twilight ripoff). My brothers and I bought it for something to riff on, but even we weren't prepared for the sheer level of horrible that awaited us. Bar none, the worst game I have ever played or heard of. Yes, worse than Superman 64, by a long shot. I really need to do a review of it someday...
Empire Earth
And no, it's not like "the worst game among good ones". It's just crap and the fact that this game went on to become successful does not say anything good about its quality - it says a lot of bad things about those people responsible for its success. It's an insult to any other representative of the RTS genre, it's an insult to anybody who knows anything about history, it's even an insult to Windows. No OS should be able to run this moronic "History Channel meets Stalin vs Martians" experiment. What? I just screwed up the chronology? So what? That makes this statement adequate to the quality of this game. The game is so obviously bullshit, it does not deserve any arguments to be used by its critics. You know book burnings? That's the kind of treatment this game would have deserved. They should have shipped all the boxes to the Burning Man Festival and build the Burning Man out of them. If there was a Nobel Prize in Idiocy the developers should have been awarded this one - twice. That's how stupid the game is. You could call it the "Batman & Robin" of video games but that would actually be a compliment to Joel Schumacher's cinematic work. Empire Earth? More like Empire Turd. It should have gotten an ERSB rating of "I for Idiots".
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Care to share what's so bad about Empire Earth? I'm not a fan of RTS, but based on the clear 'hatred' of the game from your post i think it deserves some explanation and backing points.
My choice is Resident Evil 4 pc edition. It's very embarrassing that this thing was actually allowed to be released.