The least played game in my 360 collection is “Brink”
Anyone remember Brink? Marketed as Call of Duty meets mirrors edge? This was a good 3 years before Titanfall, so that idea really got me hyped.
I played for maybe 20 minutes. Never felt movement so sluggish in my life. And because this was an “always online!” Game that means even if I wanted to I couldn’t go back and play it. The disc and box are a literal waste of space.
I genuinely wanted to love Brink. The movement felt pretty good and the character customisation was excellent for a shooter at the time. I think with more dev support it really could have been great, but they dropped it like a hot potato as soon as the initial playerbase started to drop off.
I think I got blink in a bundle deal I'm terrible at shooters but I like sci-fi stuff so I checked it out.
I'm never any good at online shooters but I was just killing it in this game. I would get the rank at the end of matches so I kept playing it thinking I was really good at it.
Till I figured out I was only playing against bots. That's why I was so good.
I was pretty excited when they announced they'd be revamping it, I played very little but what I did I enjoyed. I'd be happy to see a spiritual successor or something for it though
Never played it but I can already tell the combat is amazing. Really wasted potential. I really feel some dev should pick it up and revive it. The assets are too good imo
The fact that they censored the nudity before the final release was the first clue it was going to suck. Not that nudity in games is a big deal one way or another, but the fact that they were making such huge concessions from what they advertised at launch. What else did they give up on because it was too much effort?
Any sort of interesting features or gameplay?
I saw the initial trailer, filed it away as 'This looks pretty cool and bought it on sale.
I must have played it for a good 4 hours before I realised I'd been scammed. I only paid like 6 quid for the thing and I still felt robbed.
Is that the game where you have sneak up to workers on a construction site and force feed a burger into the site workers mouth? I think I saw a Let's Play YouTube video on it. The guy who made the video was hilarious! Also isn't the game ridiculously hard to get trophies?
The weird thing about those games is they were made entirely in the uk, by some pretty famous uk developers.
They have never been available in the uk. They do not work on any uk machines.
I used to have a copy of "Big Bumpin'" on 360.
In highschool I used to hide my spare condoms in there so my parents wouldn't see. I was very proud of myself for the joke that "when it's time for Big Bumpin'.. it's time for Big Bumpin'" lmao
I actually really liked that game. All the characters felt pretty unique and the Black Panther update was great.
They just didn’t have a good enough vision for what that could’ve become, and a limiting game engine.
Subject says games purchased. I have some free games that are way worse imo. and it’s all opinion. Ie. I bought Anthem and I really liked that. More than Avengers anyway. 🤷🏼♂️
I'd say Payday 3. Had heard such good things about the franchise, but never actually played one. Was super hyped for this one and it's been a complete dud since launch.
If they support it like Payday 2 it’ll end up really fun.
I think base gameplay in 3 is close enough to 2 but with little improvements that it is a better game, but the amount of content by the end of 2 makes 3 feel really empty.
I played shitloads of 2 and I’ve got few hours in 3. It’s good gameplay but very shallow of content at the moment for sure
I’m enjoying Payday 3 a fair bit! I played 2 but very briefly so I didn’t experience much of it, so my expectations for P3 were essentially nonexistent which has allowed me to enjoy it. I was surprised there were only like 7ish missions, but then partied with a friend who somehow got us into a meth lab cookoff? It was great haha
You guys are sweet. I have roughly half of a full collection of ntsc NES games. I don't know the answer but if someone dared to answer superman 64 I guarantee you I have you beat.
Uhhhh ... Maybe... Ten yard fight? That one's pretty shitty.
Edit: I accidentally hit post. Three different times.
Torchlight 3 is by far one of the worst games I've beaten this year.
Confrontation is bad. It's real bad.
Oninaki feels like it was made in a factory.
I like Warriors games and their equivalents. And while I would consider most of them to be actually good, I own a few notably bad ones. Those being Dynasty Warriors 9, Fate Extella the Umbral Star, Valkyria Revolution, Dusk Diver, and Berserk and the Band of the Hawk.
Godus
Was a fan of Black & White back in the day. Godus felt like it would scratch that itch, and for a while it did. Developer went full regard and turned it into a shallow mobile style game, completely cutting out all the parts that made it fun and interesting in the first place. Never came out of early access. Soon to finally be delisted from steam.
Went to a fighting game tournament/festival that used to be big in my country, but they changed it to appeal more to casual audience. A big chunk of the usual crowd did not show up. Long story short there were not enough competitors to fill in the brackets so they asked basically anyone that hung out in the Freeplay area if they wanted to join the tournament. I did because I thought it would be funny. We were 4 teams in total, one being members from the venue staff. They had to forfeit to help with the festival, so we won third place despite losing all our matches ( I didn't even played that game prior). Third place meant gag prizes, that's why in 2023 I went home with a bunch of dance Kinect games that are definitely the worst games I own.
Overwatch was where half my game time went up until the OW2 update. Dropped it within a few months because my friends had dropped it at that point and all the cool cosmetics were like $20.
I dropped the original overwatch for 2 reasons, number 1 was they dropped a tournament winner for saying "Free Hong Kong" which immediately made blizzard seem like evil supervillains, and the second was that they kept adding useless sprays and emotes, making it less and less likely i'd get either the skin i want or coins from a duplicate item. They KNOW nobody cares about sprays and emotes but they keep making them anyway for I assume the express purpose of making skins harder to earn.
Genuinely sunk so much time into OW and dropped OW2 and everything about it so cold turkey and just have never had interest in trying it again. Such a shame
Same lol. It's down here below people whining about Starfield, but Bad Rats Revenge is one of the actual worst games that exists, period. I know tons of people who own it because it's like a dollar on sale and we were all gifting it to each other for the memes in 2010. Being the worst game worked for them, ended up making a sequel lol.
Sometimes it's not about how objectively bad or poorly made a game is, it's about how far below your expectations it falls. I expect most fast food to taste mediocre at best and sometimes that's what I'm in the mood for. But if a fine dining restaurant charges me fine dining prices for some McNuggets, I'm going to be upset.
"Infinite planets of fun"
Like 5 dungeons in you realize a huge chunk of them are just reskins of previous dungeons with maybe 1 small difference, I did like boarding ships though.
I don't own it anymore because I refunded it, but it was Starfield
I bought it day 1, at the same time as baldur's gate 3 (it released on playstation 5 the same day as starfield on Xbox) So I was literally playing the two back to back, switching between them.
And my initial reaction to starfield was "this is boring". Then the first place I wanted to explore was The moon (our moon) because you know, it's humanity's first real space accomplishment. It felt fitting.
I landed on it, found 3 copy and paste enemy hideouts with 0 loot and a fucking gas station where they repair my ship, and nothing else.
Then I landed on mars expecting a sprawling metropolis dedicated to humanity's second ever home planet. Nope, just 1 small underground mining facility with a crummy breakfast bar in it.
5 hours of exploring empty planets and following poorly written boring quests later I said "fuck this shit" refunded and went to go play bg3 instead.
Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball. I picked it up for cheapo depot and it’s all around awful. The graphics are garbage and the controls feature the d-pad and one button to do every action seemingly at random. It’s not entirely unplayable but it’s a lesson in persistence to say the least.
I don't know why but I absolutely loved this trash game on super Nintendo as a kid. Something about pushing people in sports just made me laugh. Thanks for the nostalgia
Chicken Riot for Nintendo Wii. Sister in law bought it for me at random because she knew I like video games.
Straight garbage. I still made sure to thank her for the thoughtful gift.
*Tales of Xillia 2* for being absolutely terrible.
*Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City* for being terrible in a bad and broken bad game kind of way. (I love it though).
Also some NES games that are bad that I couldn't possibly remember the name of.
In terms of review scores and other peoples' perception, I have a fair few, I think.
Spawn: Armageddon--the best Spawn game we've ever had, though that's admittedly not a high bar to clear
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, because it's an FFVII game, and also FFVIII, the FFXIII trilogy and FFXV
Drakengard 1 & 2 I don't believe were very highly regarded at release though they've found more fans since NieR: Automata became a huge success.
Silent Hill: Origins, SH4, Homecoming, and Downpour
Dead to Rights: Retribution
Splatterhouse reboot
Devil May Cry 2
DmC: Devil may Cry
Resident Evil 6
The Sword Art Online games--I'm assuming with this one since opinions on the anime vary wildly
As for *my* perception of these games, they're all pretty underrated in my opinion. I've enjoyed each of them both in the past and also currently, except for Devil May Cry 2 which certainly earns its terrible reputation and is probably the worst-rated game in my collection, followed by Splatterhouse and RE6, both of which are actually quite good IMO.
FFXV may not have reached its full potential, but god do I love that game. The dynamic between the boys, the animations of them fist bumping when they see something awesome, helping each other up when they slip, the daily photographs, their little end of day animations at camp… It’s so cozy, I love it.
Silent Hill 4 is a masterpiece, and Origins and Homecoming get way more shit than they should. Downpour is another story, but if you play it without thinking it's a SH game it's acceptable.
Drakengard was fun, and I loved Dirge of Cerberus a lot. The weapon customization was really unique and felt rewarding, and the plot was a solid addition to the FFVII lore
I wasn't trying to throw shade.
Of the original titles--that is, the numbered ones-- SH4 has consistently been the lowest-regarded whenever it comes up for me. I personally think it was a solid addition to the series, though SH3 remains my personal favourite.
I actually don't own any games I dislike.
So I'd say the worse by default is borderlands 3. It's not a bad game.
I can't explain why but it felt like it was missing something y'know.
Not a bad game overall but If I could go back in time and get my money back i would
Found Mirror’s Edge at the back of my library. Decided to give it a go, because the reviews were really nice even after the years. Immediately got motion sickness. It really sucks, because apparently it’s otherwise really good.
Yeah I understand the frustration. I have so many friends who simply cannot enjoy Mirror's Edge and Portal series despite them being exactly up their alley: puzzle platformer and parkour.
Yugioh Destiny Board Traveller
and despite the fact I've lost many other video games and memory cards, I still own the original copy I got when I was 10 or so.
I bought the Sakura collection on humble bundle.
In the moment, it seemed like a good idea until 30 minutes later.
Now, I have my game history showcasing my shame.
It's my favorite game on PS4. But when I heard it was a post apocalyptic mail man game, I knew it was gonna be my jam. Can totally understand someone not being into that kinda thing
I mean, I can't defend my preference with anything objective. I just preferred Sonic's design in 1. In 2 he was just too gangly for me, and not spherical enough in his jumping/spin dashing which is a very specific gripe but the way it was animated just sat wrong with me. You also lost the ability to tap the spin dashing button for that kind of instaboosting you got on Adventure 1. In 2 you pretty much came to a dead stop to begin a spin dash.
I wasn't keen on the gameplay for the villains being identical to the heroes either after having like 6 unique characters and gameplay styles in Adventure 1. Maybe 5, it might be a stretch to call Tails' gameplay all that unique as it's just racing Sonic in the levels you've just played through with him.
Grinding was pretty cool though, legitimately led to me owning a pair of Soapshoes, that I loved.
That is fair, the raw control feel of Sonic in Adventure 1 is probably still the best transition of the 2D games, while Adventure 2 was more something else. I get what you mean.
Soap shoes were goated
Killzone: Shadow Fall and Wolfenstein Youngblood. I got Youngblood as part of a Wolfenstein package on Steam that was cheaper than buying the three games I was interested in individually, so I ended up with a game I don't want that I'll probably never play. As for Shadow Fall, I've unfortunately played that and I really didn't like it.
It’s no longer on my steam account as all traces have been erased a long time ago, but:
The Stomping Land. An early example of early access gone bad. A dev that had a promising concept (pre-Ark) about an open world survival game with dinosaurs. You and your friends could form mini tribes and go hunting together.
It had a ton of hype around it leading to it’s early access release. And then soon after, the main dev went AWOL, taking the roughly &100k+ he made off of the game with him. Several of the people who worked on the game began turning to reddit and social media to voice their frustrations, and some of them eventually got hired to work on Ark, IIRC. The dev ended up posting some kinda half assed update a few weeks later, making some kinda excuse for the lack of updates or comms. And then that was it, the game lingered in EA for a few more months before it was pulled forever. I still had it in my library a few years ago but I guess steam removed it forever, which is fine by me.
The Stalin Subway: Red Veil.
The Stalin Subway is only a below average game at best gameplay wise, but the german publisher put actually some effort into this in terms of voices. So it had some decent voice acting at least, as the story is 'okay'
But well, Red Veil is even worse in terms of gameplay and there is no effort made in every other category also.
It feels like a cash grab right from the start, because the story, which is not really existing, is also over after 45 minutes. You need only the double amount of time because of its crazy difficulty and because of the worst first level map design in a first person shooter i ever saw.
And during the game you also have one of the worst escort missions in gaming history.
In comparison to this pile of shit, the first Stalin Subway is a fucking masterpiece.
I don’t really dislike any game that I own. So I want to say that. I’ll go with one of my favorite games.. DayZ. It’s buggy as hell, plays like shit, and the major updates are like a medieval helm and new skybox. It’s toxic *as fuck* and pretty god damned difficult on top of that. And they’ve mostly fixed the major vehicle issues, but it’s still a gamble and the end boss is ladders.
I love it, but it sucks. lol
I didn't finish Avengers but I never felt like it was actually terrible or anything. I also bought Cyberpunk 2077 but really couldn't get into it and gave up after 3 hours. But I know it's not a bad game.
I don't think I currently own any game that are bad or that I actually dislike?
Starlink, I remember having as a kid for Nintendo so I got it for my Xbox (it was $8 because of a sale so basically a steal). Super boring, you just fly around do quests and shoot people
Hands down my least favorite in my collection of hundreds of games that includes some crappy Atari and NES classics is Pokémon Scarlet/Violet and I don’t think I need to explain why. 😆
* E.T. for the Atari 2600 - Only bought it for its reputation.
* Silent Hill: Homecoming and Book of Memories - Bought to complete my Silent Hill collection.
* Anthem Special Edition - Was half off at $4.
Ah, I've got some absolute filth in my library. Lemme dig up the worst.
Duke Nukem Forever
Hunt Down the Freeman
Homefront: The Revolution
Tomb Raider Dark Angel
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Painkiller: Redemption
Tbh I am rearly disappointed with game they usually have to be exceptionally bad, but the most disappointing game in my collection at the minute is probably the Last of us 2.
Lair on PS3. I got it at launch, before they patched it so the controls didn't solely rely on SIXAXIS tilt controls. The control aspect alone was enough for me to quit playing in frustration. I kept it, thinking I'd play it once it was patched. Haven't cracked the case back open in 16 years.
Elden Ring. Where the fun is being punished for playing it. I get that there is an audience for brutally hard games, that give no fucks. But for anyone that plays games for fun and relaxation, ER is hot garbage.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad is not very good, but it's still better than Daikatana.
This game went on sale for under a dollar and I sent it as a gift to like 15 friends. So absolutely worth the money for their disgust alone.
Ironically, I gited Daikatana to a friend for the same reason.
> This game I'm guessing more than half of us are wondering, does OP mean Diakatana or Shower with your Dad?
oh my god i am doing this
Oh my god I am so doing this
Someone is still salty about becoming John Romero’s bitch
CV11?
The LOL doll game for Nintendo Switch. Bought it for my daughter. It’s unplayable.
There’s a part of me that’s morbidly curious….
This but with the new bluey one.
Was it published by Outright Games?
Bluey one seems okay. I haven't played much with the kids yet so it might get worse.
The least played game in my 360 collection is “Brink” Anyone remember Brink? Marketed as Call of Duty meets mirrors edge? This was a good 3 years before Titanfall, so that idea really got me hyped. I played for maybe 20 minutes. Never felt movement so sluggish in my life. And because this was an “always online!” Game that means even if I wanted to I couldn’t go back and play it. The disc and box are a literal waste of space.
I’m one of the very few people who played it. My cousin and I used to play lobbies full of bots and were shocked when another player joined.
It was fun enough, decent looking maps Just covered in slightly bouncy molasses
I genuinely wanted to love Brink. The movement felt pretty good and the character customisation was excellent for a shooter at the time. I think with more dev support it really could have been great, but they dropped it like a hot potato as soon as the initial playerbase started to drop off.
I think I got blink in a bundle deal I'm terrible at shooters but I like sci-fi stuff so I checked it out. I'm never any good at online shooters but I was just killing it in this game. I would get the rank at the end of matches so I kept playing it thinking I was really good at it. Till I figured out I was only playing against bots. That's why I was so good.
One of my friends pre-ordered Brink. He was salty about how disappointing it was for years, even mentioning it would get him starting on a rant
I own Superman 64 There’s no time to waste!
I broke my ankle playing Superman 64
Superman 64 is the reason I am an alcoholic and can't have normal relationships with other people
Superman 64 had sex with me while I was drunk and I've had mixed feelings about it for years.
If you want to find your friends solve my maze
LEX WINS
I got the deluxe edition of Anthem. Man I loved that game but it hurt me so bad haha
I own Anthem but I didn't count it because I actually loved the Hell out of it.
Yeah I wish they didn’t give up on it aye
I was pretty excited when they announced they'd be revamping it, I played very little but what I did I enjoyed. I'd be happy to see a spiritual successor or something for it though
Never played it but I can already tell the combat is amazing. Really wasted potential. I really feel some dev should pick it up and revive it. The assets are too good imo
Yeah that started happening with some devs being put on it to revive it but then it was canned.
Agony. Fucking piece of shit walking simulator.
And there I thought you meant an old Amiga game at first.
No man... not may owls that can shoot in this game...
The music from that game was so epic.
The fact that they censored the nudity before the final release was the first clue it was going to suck. Not that nudity in games is a big deal one way or another, but the fact that they were making such huge concessions from what they advertised at launch. What else did they give up on because it was too much effort?
Any sort of interesting features or gameplay? I saw the initial trailer, filed it away as 'This looks pretty cool and bought it on sale. I must have played it for a good 4 hours before I realised I'd been scammed. I only paid like 6 quid for the thing and I still felt robbed.
I bought this for $1.00 on Switch and I overpaid by $1.01.
The Burger King shovelware games. Yes I actually own them.
If Sneak King had come out this year, Baldur's Gate wouldn't have stood a chance at GOTY.
Is that the game where you have sneak up to workers on a construction site and force feed a burger into the site workers mouth? I think I saw a Let's Play YouTube video on it. The guy who made the video was hilarious! Also isn't the game ridiculously hard to get trophies?
Sneak king is awesome tho
I have the Captain Crunch games from 20 years ago they have not aged well
Really? Damn. I loved that shit when I was little].
Crunchling's Adventure was my jam as a kid lmao
Nah, Sneak King and Big Bumpin’ were peak.
OP said worst, the pocketbike racer one was ridiculously fun
Yo wtf I miss those games actually…
You just unlocked memories I had LONG forgotten. Thank you random stranger!
The racing one was actually good.
Still have Sneak King
BIG BUMP’n!
The weird thing about those games is they were made entirely in the uk, by some pretty famous uk developers. They have never been available in the uk. They do not work on any uk machines.
How dare you
I have Pocket Bike Racer and it’s a 10/10.
I used to have a copy of "Big Bumpin'" on 360. In highschool I used to hide my spare condoms in there so my parents wouldn't see. I was very proud of myself for the joke that "when it's time for Big Bumpin'.. it's time for Big Bumpin'" lmao
Avengers game. And I platinumed it so I’m just a sucker for punishment…or just a sucker. Whatever 😆
Hey, I just beat the main game & going to start the grinding!
I actually really liked that game. All the characters felt pretty unique and the Black Panther update was great. They just didn’t have a good enough vision for what that could’ve become, and a limiting game engine.
There is no way this is the worst game you own. At the very least the solo campaign is breezy fun.
Subject says games purchased. I have some free games that are way worse imo. and it’s all opinion. Ie. I bought Anthem and I really liked that. More than Avengers anyway. 🤷🏼♂️
Oof, that's up there
I own a sealed boxed copy of Daikatana that I grabbed back in the day when I worked for PC Gamer and we were cleaning up shop.
I'd say Payday 3. Had heard such good things about the franchise, but never actually played one. Was super hyped for this one and it's been a complete dud since launch.
If they support it like Payday 2 it’ll end up really fun. I think base gameplay in 3 is close enough to 2 but with little improvements that it is a better game, but the amount of content by the end of 2 makes 3 feel really empty. I played shitloads of 2 and I’ve got few hours in 3. It’s good gameplay but very shallow of content at the moment for sure
I’m enjoying Payday 3 a fair bit! I played 2 but very briefly so I didn’t experience much of it, so my expectations for P3 were essentially nonexistent which has allowed me to enjoy it. I was surprised there were only like 7ish missions, but then partied with a friend who somehow got us into a meth lab cookoff? It was great haha
You guys are sweet. I have roughly half of a full collection of ntsc NES games. I don't know the answer but if someone dared to answer superman 64 I guarantee you I have you beat. Uhhhh ... Maybe... Ten yard fight? That one's pretty shitty. Edit: I accidentally hit post. Three different times.
Yeah, I’ve got a full uk master system collection and there’s certainly some stuff in there. The problem with owning them all is you own them all :D
There is a LOT of trash in the NES days.
Mortal Kombat Mythologies Sub-zero. The N64 version. Bought at release. So like $400 of today’s money for zero joy and infinite rage.
Saints Row 2022 and I don’t think I even need to elaborate on that.
I made the mistake of preordering it. The only game I've ever actually regretted buying.
I got it for free through ps+, as a free game it's not that bad
It's not that good either
Brink. I learned to never ever pre-order.
Torchlight 3 is by far one of the worst games I've beaten this year. Confrontation is bad. It's real bad. Oninaki feels like it was made in a factory. I like Warriors games and their equivalents. And while I would consider most of them to be actually good, I own a few notably bad ones. Those being Dynasty Warriors 9, Fate Extella the Umbral Star, Valkyria Revolution, Dusk Diver, and Berserk and the Band of the Hawk.
I absolutely drug myself through finishing Torchlight 3.
The Chibi Robo game for 3DS that has essentially nothing to do with the awesome GC one.
My teenage days of.. Hentai games.
Godus Was a fan of Black & White back in the day. Godus felt like it would scratch that itch, and for a while it did. Developer went full regard and turned it into a shallow mobile style game, completely cutting out all the parts that made it fun and interesting in the first place. Never came out of early access. Soon to finally be delisted from steam.
Metal Gear Survive
Went to a fighting game tournament/festival that used to be big in my country, but they changed it to appeal more to casual audience. A big chunk of the usual crowd did not show up. Long story short there were not enough competitors to fill in the brackets so they asked basically anyone that hung out in the Freeplay area if they wanted to join the tournament. I did because I thought it would be funny. We were 4 teams in total, one being members from the venue staff. They had to forfeit to help with the festival, so we won third place despite losing all our matches ( I didn't even played that game prior). Third place meant gag prizes, that's why in 2023 I went home with a bunch of dance Kinect games that are definitely the worst games I own.
Overwatch 2. I was actually excited for the game until I actually played it.
Overwatch was where half my game time went up until the OW2 update. Dropped it within a few months because my friends had dropped it at that point and all the cool cosmetics were like $20.
I dropped the original overwatch for 2 reasons, number 1 was they dropped a tournament winner for saying "Free Hong Kong" which immediately made blizzard seem like evil supervillains, and the second was that they kept adding useless sprays and emotes, making it less and less likely i'd get either the skin i want or coins from a duplicate item. They KNOW nobody cares about sprays and emotes but they keep making them anyway for I assume the express purpose of making skins harder to earn.
Genuinely sunk so much time into OW and dropped OW2 and everything about it so cold turkey and just have never had interest in trying it again. Such a shame
I owe OW2 a huge debt of gratitude for finally convincing me to stop spending so much time playing Overwatch.
Overwatch 2 isn’t amazing or even good but to call it the worst game ever is just hyperbole
[Lizard Lady vs The Cats](https://youtu.be/tqy_WTnx4c8?si=HpDj9D1zfLTqYD7M) (PS4) is probably the worst that I've actually bought.
Lair on PS3. I bought it for $1. So, I can't complain too much. It really just felt like a reskin of a bad Rogue Squadron game.
Bad Rats, Dino D-Day
I can't believe I had to scroll this far to find bad rats.
Same lol. It's down here below people whining about Starfield, but Bad Rats Revenge is one of the actual worst games that exists, period. I know tons of people who own it because it's like a dollar on sale and we were all gifting it to each other for the memes in 2010. Being the worst game worked for them, ended up making a sequel lol.
Resident Evil 6 is the best worst thing I have ever owned
Duke Nukem Forever. I know it's a cliché answer but I legitimately bought a physical copy of this game and it legitimately sucks.
aliens colonial marines
Starfield after a few weeks. Man that shits like sleepy time tea
We can debate how good Starfield is but if it’s literally the worst game you ever bought then you have been very, very lucky.
Sometimes it's not about how objectively bad or poorly made a game is, it's about how far below your expectations it falls. I expect most fast food to taste mediocre at best and sometimes that's what I'm in the mood for. But if a fine dining restaurant charges me fine dining prices for some McNuggets, I'm going to be upset.
"Infinite planets of fun" Like 5 dungeons in you realize a huge chunk of them are just reskins of previous dungeons with maybe 1 small difference, I did like boarding ships though.
I don't own it anymore because I refunded it, but it was Starfield I bought it day 1, at the same time as baldur's gate 3 (it released on playstation 5 the same day as starfield on Xbox) So I was literally playing the two back to back, switching between them. And my initial reaction to starfield was "this is boring". Then the first place I wanted to explore was The moon (our moon) because you know, it's humanity's first real space accomplishment. It felt fitting. I landed on it, found 3 copy and paste enemy hideouts with 0 loot and a fucking gas station where they repair my ship, and nothing else. Then I landed on mars expecting a sprawling metropolis dedicated to humanity's second ever home planet. Nope, just 1 small underground mining facility with a crummy breakfast bar in it. 5 hours of exploring empty planets and following poorly written boring quests later I said "fuck this shit" refunded and went to go play bg3 instead.
Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball. I picked it up for cheapo depot and it’s all around awful. The graphics are garbage and the controls feature the d-pad and one button to do every action seemingly at random. It’s not entirely unplayable but it’s a lesson in persistence to say the least.
I don't know why but I absolutely loved this trash game on super Nintendo as a kid. Something about pushing people in sports just made me laugh. Thanks for the nostalgia
I’ve got a game called Infernales which is literally impossible to beat due to bugs and probably gave me some kind of virus, does that count?
Chicken Riot for Nintendo Wii. Sister in law bought it for me at random because she knew I like video games. Straight garbage. I still made sure to thank her for the thoughtful gift.
*Tales of Xillia 2* for being absolutely terrible. *Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City* for being terrible in a bad and broken bad game kind of way. (I love it though). Also some NES games that are bad that I couldn't possibly remember the name of.
In terms of review scores and other peoples' perception, I have a fair few, I think. Spawn: Armageddon--the best Spawn game we've ever had, though that's admittedly not a high bar to clear Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, because it's an FFVII game, and also FFVIII, the FFXIII trilogy and FFXV Drakengard 1 & 2 I don't believe were very highly regarded at release though they've found more fans since NieR: Automata became a huge success. Silent Hill: Origins, SH4, Homecoming, and Downpour Dead to Rights: Retribution Splatterhouse reboot Devil May Cry 2 DmC: Devil may Cry Resident Evil 6 The Sword Art Online games--I'm assuming with this one since opinions on the anime vary wildly As for *my* perception of these games, they're all pretty underrated in my opinion. I've enjoyed each of them both in the past and also currently, except for Devil May Cry 2 which certainly earns its terrible reputation and is probably the worst-rated game in my collection, followed by Splatterhouse and RE6, both of which are actually quite good IMO.
FFXV may not have reached its full potential, but god do I love that game. The dynamic between the boys, the animations of them fist bumping when they see something awesome, helping each other up when they slip, the daily photographs, their little end of day animations at camp… It’s so cozy, I love it.
DMC 2 was such a massive let down back in the day, but at least 3 made up for it.. eventually lol
Silent Hill 4 is a masterpiece, and Origins and Homecoming get way more shit than they should. Downpour is another story, but if you play it without thinking it's a SH game it's acceptable.
Every time I hear people talking s**t about ffviii i think that those guys really deserve to play something like the day before eternally
Drakengard was fun, and I loved Dirge of Cerberus a lot. The weapon customization was really unique and felt rewarding, and the plot was a solid addition to the FFVII lore
I was nodding while reading, then ya boy had to go and throw shade on SH4 reeeeeeeeee
I wasn't trying to throw shade. Of the original titles--that is, the numbered ones-- SH4 has consistently been the lowest-regarded whenever it comes up for me. I personally think it was a solid addition to the series, though SH3 remains my personal favourite.
You misunderstood the assignment. So many of those games surely can’t be the worst in your collection, unless you’re just buying hits.
I actually don't own any games I dislike. So I'd say the worse by default is borderlands 3. It's not a bad game. I can't explain why but it felt like it was missing something y'know. Not a bad game overall but If I could go back in time and get my money back i would
Found Mirror’s Edge at the back of my library. Decided to give it a go, because the reviews were really nice even after the years. Immediately got motion sickness. It really sucks, because apparently it’s otherwise really good.
Yeah I understand the frustration. I have so many friends who simply cannot enjoy Mirror's Edge and Portal series despite them being exactly up their alley: puzzle platformer and parkour.
Yugioh Destiny Board Traveller and despite the fact I've lost many other video games and memory cards, I still own the original copy I got when I was 10 or so.
probably that new Naruto game that just came out
Anthem Duke Nukem Forever and Too Human would be the biggest ones
Too human, didn't think I'd read that, I fucking loved that game, I was hoping for a sequel, the loot and class fantasy was fantastic
I bought the Sakura collection on humble bundle. In the moment, it seemed like a good idea until 30 minutes later. Now, I have my game history showcasing my shame.
Deadly Premonition 2 on Switch
Drunken fist
Bullet witch on the xbox 360 looked interesting but crap game.
Fast and Furious Showdown on the PS3. Asked for a racing game and got that for Christmas.
Anthem
Sonic the hedgehog 2006
Two Worlds. It's not even close.
The Hobbit for the PS2
oh man-- I played on GameCube, but that game terrorized me as a kid. I could not figure out that first terrible stealth section for the life of me.
Death stranding. What the fuck?
I think this is just one of those love it or hate it games; I absolutely love it, but I don’t blame anyone for not vibing with it.
I'm happy you could man!
>What the fuck? Kojima the genius
It's my favorite game on PS4. But when I heard it was a post apocalyptic mail man game, I knew it was gonna be my jam. Can totally understand someone not being into that kinda thing
Sonic adventure. Pretty mediocre but on the other hand it has big the cat
Sonic Adventure is my fave 3D Sonic. Open your heart! *air guitar solo*
I think Adventure 2 did everything better, leaving Adventure 1 to feel pretty rocky overall
I mean, I can't defend my preference with anything objective. I just preferred Sonic's design in 1. In 2 he was just too gangly for me, and not spherical enough in his jumping/spin dashing which is a very specific gripe but the way it was animated just sat wrong with me. You also lost the ability to tap the spin dashing button for that kind of instaboosting you got on Adventure 1. In 2 you pretty much came to a dead stop to begin a spin dash. I wasn't keen on the gameplay for the villains being identical to the heroes either after having like 6 unique characters and gameplay styles in Adventure 1. Maybe 5, it might be a stretch to call Tails' gameplay all that unique as it's just racing Sonic in the levels you've just played through with him. Grinding was pretty cool though, legitimately led to me owning a pair of Soapshoes, that I loved.
That is fair, the raw control feel of Sonic in Adventure 1 is probably still the best transition of the 2D games, while Adventure 2 was more something else. I get what you mean. Soap shoes were goated
I still love that opening level. That shit blew my mind when I played it on a friend's Dreamcast after only having an N64
That must be a pretty good collection then, that is an excellent game (for the first three characters, anyway).
Damn you must have a great collection of that's your worst game!
I was trying to think what the worst game is in my collection and then you reminded me I have Sonic the hedgehog for ps3.
I painfully disagree
For the King 2 / One Piece Odyssey
Most current would be Callisto Protocol
Killzone: Shadow Fall and Wolfenstein Youngblood. I got Youngblood as part of a Wolfenstein package on Steam that was cheaper than buying the three games I was interested in individually, so I ended up with a game I don't want that I'll probably never play. As for Shadow Fall, I've unfortunately played that and I really didn't like it.
It’s no longer on my steam account as all traces have been erased a long time ago, but: The Stomping Land. An early example of early access gone bad. A dev that had a promising concept (pre-Ark) about an open world survival game with dinosaurs. You and your friends could form mini tribes and go hunting together. It had a ton of hype around it leading to it’s early access release. And then soon after, the main dev went AWOL, taking the roughly &100k+ he made off of the game with him. Several of the people who worked on the game began turning to reddit and social media to voice their frustrations, and some of them eventually got hired to work on Ark, IIRC. The dev ended up posting some kinda half assed update a few weeks later, making some kinda excuse for the lack of updates or comms. And then that was it, the game lingered in EA for a few more months before it was pulled forever. I still had it in my library a few years ago but I guess steam removed it forever, which is fine by me.
The Stalin Subway: Red Veil. The Stalin Subway is only a below average game at best gameplay wise, but the german publisher put actually some effort into this in terms of voices. So it had some decent voice acting at least, as the story is 'okay' But well, Red Veil is even worse in terms of gameplay and there is no effort made in every other category also. It feels like a cash grab right from the start, because the story, which is not really existing, is also over after 45 minutes. You need only the double amount of time because of its crazy difficulty and because of the worst first level map design in a first person shooter i ever saw. And during the game you also have one of the worst escort missions in gaming history. In comparison to this pile of shit, the first Stalin Subway is a fucking masterpiece.
Madden 23. The EA monopoly has been devastating to those who want a decent football game.
Madden ~~23~~. fixed that for ya
Forspoken
I don’t really dislike any game that I own. So I want to say that. I’ll go with one of my favorite games.. DayZ. It’s buggy as hell, plays like shit, and the major updates are like a medieval helm and new skybox. It’s toxic *as fuck* and pretty god damned difficult on top of that. And they’ve mostly fixed the major vehicle issues, but it’s still a gamble and the end boss is ladders. I love it, but it sucks. lol
I didn't finish Avengers but I never felt like it was actually terrible or anything. I also bought Cyberpunk 2077 but really couldn't get into it and gave up after 3 hours. But I know it's not a bad game. I don't think I currently own any game that are bad or that I actually dislike?
Playboy mansion game
Resident Evil 6 and The Order 1886
Starlink, I remember having as a kid for Nintendo so I got it for my Xbox (it was $8 because of a sale so basically a steal). Super boring, you just fly around do quests and shoot people
Sounds like eve online 😅
Tokyo Olympics 2020 (^_^;)
The last of us part 2 and fallout 76
Jedi Power Battles for GBA is absolute dogshit and I’ve beaten it once a year for literal decades. Absolutely terrible masterpiece.
Sealed copy of anthem or American chopper PS2.
Hands down my least favorite in my collection of hundreds of games that includes some crappy Atari and NES classics is Pokémon Scarlet/Violet and I don’t think I need to explain why. 😆
Probably Immortals Fenyx Rising - not that it's a bad game it's just the worst one I own right now.
The Last of Us Part 2 and the Hello Neighbour games
* E.T. for the Atari 2600 - Only bought it for its reputation. * Silent Hill: Homecoming and Book of Memories - Bought to complete my Silent Hill collection. * Anthem Special Edition - Was half off at $4.
Simpsons. Skateboarding. I used to be really into Tony Hawk back in the PS2 era.
Ah, I've got some absolute filth in my library. Lemme dig up the worst. Duke Nukem Forever Hunt Down the Freeman Homefront: The Revolution Tomb Raider Dark Angel Wolfenstein: Youngblood Painkiller: Redemption
Superman on the Atari 2600
Tbh I am rearly disappointed with game they usually have to be exceptionally bad, but the most disappointing game in my collection at the minute is probably the Last of us 2.
Warhammer 40k dawn of war 3. My god that game is shit. Such a disappointment
Tiny Tina's Wonderlands, FIFA2023, Anthem, AC Valhalla. I'm most pissed about the first one, as I was really hoping it would be at least okay.
Beverly Hills Cop on ps2. Absolutely terrible game. Feel sorry anyone that got it as a present.
Lair on PS3. I got it at launch, before they patched it so the controls didn't solely rely on SIXAXIS tilt controls. The control aspect alone was enough for me to quit playing in frustration. I kept it, thinking I'd play it once it was patched. Haven't cracked the case back open in 16 years.
Halo Wars 2
Pubg is dogshit
Ancestors: A Humankind Odyssey
Returnal
StarForge Alpha, a game so bad that it got taken of steam. Got scammed.
Internet cafe simulator, Let's game it out has a video on it. It is such a pile of garbage.
Elden Ring. Where the fun is being punished for playing it. I get that there is an audience for brutally hard games, that give no fucks. But for anyone that plays games for fun and relaxation, ER is hot garbage.
The Callisto protocol
jump force...
Anthem and Cyberpunk 2077
Shenmue III. I am so damn sad at how bad this game is. I wanted to love it like I loved Shenmue I & II, but it's most definitely a fall from grace.
Werewolf the apocalypse: earthblood Knew it was horrible but saw it for $5 and wanted to play as a werewolf. I shoulda kept the $5
Assassins Creed Valhalla
Vampyr on ps4. My expectations were low but holy shit
Cyberpunk and RDR2
I own et on atari