Dragon's Lair 1 and 2.

How the fuck can those monstrosities be called "games"?

Compounded by the fact that the DOS versions are 100x worse and less responsive than the arcade originals, although known for being very poor.

You sir, seriously need to watch your back. ALL the time :P

My thought exactly ;)

I did not like the game either. I just found it to have an odd mix of too low unit movement speed, units getting killed to fast, to long production time and generally bland presentation. Not the worst game that I've played, far from it, but I just did not enjoy it.

He just got beaten all the time, that's all ;p

I needed a fix for turn-based gaming some time ago, so out of impulse, I bought this game called Star Sentinel Tactics on Gamersgate. No matter how many times I tried to go back to it, I just couldn't bring myself to complete the second level. What a banal shit boring X-COM clone it was.

I guess games evoke a higher emotional response if they are disappointing because of the high expectations you had when buying them, based on other people's praise, marketing hype, or the potential you saw in them yourself at first but then realize has been wasted. Personally I have plenty of games I didn't really give a chance because they don't interest me in the least and I didn't expect anything from them in the first place, but it's always easier to remember those you had high hopes for and got disappointed with, or those where you just don't get what other people like about them. The worst games are often so utterly forgettable that they are bound not to show up even in such threads as this one. ;)

But that's kind of what I meant, it's not easy to discern between personal preferences and "objectively" bad games (unless the latter are seriously broken).

Well, I think I do, yes.

But seriously, I can't think of many games that I've quit feeling as bored as with Doom3, and after having been trying for so long to find it fun. Ah, the soldiers of fortune series maybe. Nicely gruesome but completely generic and dull. But even then, I think I've completed the first one.

In Doom3, I was playing in a pure "is it over soon yet" mindset. Then I realised it. And realised I had no real reason to continue if it was such a chore.

AH AND AH HO HA ALSO, well, yes, someone metionned it, but deus ex 2. Yes, I had bought it. Yes, I own it. And yes, it was horrible and I've rtetried it a few times at different epochs, and always lost interest very very fast. But, I own it.

'Worst' game I own that seems to be universally reviled: Master of Orion III

'Worst' game I own from the perspective that I just didn't like it: Torchlight

I LOVE to collect shitty games almost as much as I love collecting good games, so here's a list of the worst I have in my collection

Ballz (A pseudo-3D fighter for the Megadrive where everyone is made out of... balls)

Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge (I loved the Nintendo 64 installments, so I really wanted to like this one. I truly did, but darn it, the isometric view just doesn't work for this game)

Death by Degrees (A PS2 spinoff of the Tekken games where all the attacks are mapped to the right analog stick)


Fugitive Hunter (A Playstation 2 FPS where the boss fights involve roundhouse kicking terrorists in the face, including Osama Bin Laden)

Rally Challenge 2000 (I watched a video showing every Nintendo 64 game released in America, and I noticed that there were too many boring racing games, and this is one of them. It has poor handling and the voiceover announcer is beyond annoying)

Shaq Fu (Okay, so this one isn't actually as bad as people say, but still: A fighting game that has a 1 1/2 second delay on attacks deserves to fail, and that's not even going into the fact that the main character is a basketball star)

Trigger Man (A 3rd person shooter game where the AI is so bad, they can miss you at point-blank range)

Yu-Gi-Oh Falsebound Kingdom (A coma-inducing RTS/JRPG hybrid for the Gamecube)

Flora's Fruit Farm. Got it in the Eidos Pack in the Christmas of '09 sale.

Physical: Soulbringer. Could never get into it.

Steam/digital: Lucid. Looked neat but it is just boring, there are way better puzzle games out there. I t was 1 dollar, and it is the steam purchase I regret the most.

Don't be bashful - FO3 is a good candidate. I'm torn between Oblivion and Dragon Age 2 myself.

Worst game I own: Pirates of the Caribbean: Legend of Jack Sparrow.

my list

FO3>ES4>DA2

I liked that

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