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Title: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: spyrofanx on July 07, 2020, 10:01:20 pm
The worst game I’ve ever played is this PS1 game called Shellshock.
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Post by: kamikazekeeg on July 07, 2020, 10:38:41 pm
It's hard to think of the really terrible ones, especially nowadays, it's rare that I end up playing something crazy bad, but I'd definitely say Superman 64.  It's pretty well known now, but I actually played it as a kid on my N64 lol I can't remember if I owned or rented it, but I was certainly not happy with it.

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Post by: megasilverx1 on July 07, 2020, 11:09:00 pm
I'd have to go with Terminator 2: Judgement Day for the Super Nintendo.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: oldgamerz on July 07, 2020, 11:11:31 pm
1: Robocop for the NES, I just don't have fun with it, or the patience


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Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: bikingjahuty on July 08, 2020, 12:42:59 am
Panic on the Sega CD


It can barely even qualify as a game to be honest. it's like some wierd, point and click experimental game with a bunch of random, unfunny shit mixed in. I actually contemplated donating it to James Rolfe to end up in an AVGN episode, but I needed the money more at the time so I opted to sell it. Good riddance.


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Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: seether on July 08, 2020, 06:21:37 am
Vampire Rain for Xbox 360
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: kashell on July 08, 2020, 08:56:01 am
I've played some real stinkers. For now, I'll go with Growlanser: Heritage of War.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: telekill on July 08, 2020, 09:38:36 am
Naughty Bear was pretty bad.

Skyward Sword on Wii was a dark spot for me due to the forced motion controls. Ruined the game for me. Hell... ruined me on Nintendo for the rest of the Wii and the entire Wii-U generation. I was done with Nintendo after that until Switch stated I could play how I wanted and emphasized their Pro controller over motion controls.

Outside of console games though.... most mobile games are pretty horrible.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: shawndude82 on July 08, 2020, 11:27:25 am
This is more of a personal opinion, but Marble Madness for the NES.

I grew to LOATHE that game as a kid.  I could never get past this one part and I got so frustrated with it.

That game is the reason I swear so much today.
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Post by: sworddude on July 08, 2020, 02:04:29 pm
Link faces of evil CDI
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: byron on July 08, 2020, 02:23:55 pm
Faces of Evil at least imparts a small amount of joy with its unintentionally hilarious cutscenes. I have never played any other game mentioned so far, so I can't say anything about them.

Back to the Future for NES stands out to me as a game with no redeeming qualities. The levels are all terrible and the music is grating and it all repeats over and over like some cyclical Hell you're trying in vain to escape from. There is not one moment between turning on the console and turning it off again in which you do not feel some level of misery.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: sworddude on July 08, 2020, 02:28:34 pm
The cut scenes are so bad that they are funny yes, sadly that's where the fun ends  ;D

Still is where talking skyward sword It's imo a solid title and the motion controls where pretty fine

Let alone that skyward sword has the best story and cast in the entire zelda series pretty rough so see that title as the worst game ever for some

The wii in general had solid titles if you gave it a shot, operation rainfall with 3 solid rpg's, the best mario kart in the series, twlight princess wich imo is superior over botw the best 3d mario series that is mario galaxy and not 1 but 2 unique 3d mario platfomers on a single console not to mention gems as a shadows tale and sin and punishment don't get the hate for wii, it literally has some of the best nintendo titles ever. Better than the best new titles on switch. if where ignoring indi releases I'd easily take the wii library of first and even 3rd party titles over switch.

All first party titles are worse than they where on wii in wich a ton of series where at their peak or at least above average I'd say only smash is better on switch other series where all better on wii if where talking first party titles alone.
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Post by: crazy on July 08, 2020, 03:23:18 pm
Fortnite
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: baileykun on July 08, 2020, 04:02:30 pm
I manage to mostly avoid bad games, but holy crap, controversial opinion, I loathed Breath of the Wild as soon as I got past the sip test. It was miserable. Constant enemy fights that took several minutes, broke all my good weapons, dropped a crappy stick in return for all my effort. It made exploring a nightmare so I just stayed put on roads avoiding most of the game, then they threw in the ninjas, literally. I never could bring myself to go defeat Ganon even after completing all four guardians. It was all far too tedious. I felt so defeated for not getting why this was the "best" Zelda ever. I think I'll probably skip the sequel.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: sworddude on July 08, 2020, 04:11:11 pm
I could see why botw was so appealing towards a far larger audience, it's a solid game mainly the openworld aspect and freedom if I had to guess. The explorations was really nice. I personally loved them breakable weapons for the survival aspect not a flaw imo hope it returns in the sequel make the player a bit less op especially in master mode in wich fighting is way less favorable and a waste of weapon durability so a more stealth and steal approach was better.

That being said the main flaws with botw was the lack of notable music, compared to other zelda titles wich was intentional and fitting but it's still a minor nitpick it still had some good tracks but definitely a low point for the series. Shrines where getting old at some point and most of them where really short, the dlc ones where pretty good though. The lack of actual dungeons, the beasts where nice and all but man where they short, a few minutes for some. The big bosses felt samey usually the high points in any 3d zelda yet not for botw with just 2 or 3 exceptions dlc included. let alone the lack in variety of subbosses and normal enemies wich have 5 to 7 different variants. While finding memories where nice and the story was decent, it pales in comparison to prior zelda 3d Ttitles.

Even if they don't fix these flaws I'm still looking forward to the sequel. botw was fun but it ain't the best 3d zelda ever it's a different experience though wich isnt a bad thing. boss varierty should be an easy fix though considering they've always done that pretty well in past titles botw is the only time in wich it was bad.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: kamikazekeeg on July 08, 2020, 05:30:09 pm
I manage to mostly avoid bad games, but holy crap, controversial opinion, I loathed Breath of the Wild as soon as I got past the sip test. It was miserable. Constant enemy fights that took several minutes, broke all my good weapons, dropped a crappy stick in return for all my effort. It made exploring a nightmare so I just stayed put on roads avoiding most of the game, then they threw in the ninjas, literally. I never could bring myself to go defeat Ganon even after completing all four guardians. It was all far too tedious. I felt so defeated for not getting why this was the "best" Zelda ever. I think I'll probably skip the sequel.

There's gotta be something worse than BOTW that you've played lol I love the game, it's one of my favorites, even with some of the issues I have with it, and it's totally fine to not like that game, but it's still objectively a good game even if you weren't a fan of some of the decisions they made.  If it is the worst to you, I gotta say, you've had quite the good gaming life then lol
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: wartoy on July 08, 2020, 07:06:53 pm
Portal Runner ps2 was the worst ever imo.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: spyrofanx on July 08, 2020, 07:09:38 pm
I manage to mostly avoid bad games, but holy crap, controversial opinion, I loathed Breath of the Wild as soon as I got past the sip test. It was miserable. Constant enemy fights that took several minutes, broke all my good weapons, dropped a crappy stick in return for all my effort. It made exploring a nightmare so I just stayed put on roads avoiding most of the game, then they threw in the ninjas, literally. I never could bring myself to go defeat Ganon even after completing all four guardians. It was all far too tedious. I felt so defeated for not getting why this was the "best" Zelda ever. I think I'll probably skip the sequel.

Oh yeah, I totally feel ya with that one. I hate the idea of all weapons you have breaking. Honestly, if this is a feature certain games MUST have, then I’d just have the more powerful weapons able to break and have the more basic weapons be unbreakable. Also, I’d maybe have an item placed in the world that gives ALL the normally breakable weapons unlimited durability, but make it a challenge to obtain.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: spyrofanx on July 08, 2020, 07:10:37 pm
Portal Runner ps2 was the worst ever imo.

Huh, I’ve never heard of that one. (Although that’s probably a good thing tbh.)
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: Cartagia on July 09, 2020, 08:54:54 am
I manage to mostly avoid bad games, but holy crap, controversial opinion, I loathed Breath of the Wild as soon as I got past the sip test. It was miserable. Constant enemy fights that took several minutes, broke all my good weapons, dropped a crappy stick in return for all my effort. It made exploring a nightmare so I just stayed put on roads avoiding most of the game, then they threw in the ninjas, literally. I never could bring myself to go defeat Ganon even after completing all four guardians. It was all far too tedious. I felt so defeated for not getting why this was the "best" Zelda ever. I think I'll probably skip the sequel.

This sounds more like a case of a "least favorite" game rather than "worst".
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: telly on July 09, 2020, 09:17:42 am
I had some pretty terrible games on the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance as a kid. The one that comes to mind for me us SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula

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Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: sworddude on July 09, 2020, 10:20:42 am
I manage to mostly avoid bad games, but holy crap, controversial opinion, I loathed Breath of the Wild as soon as I got past the sip test. It was miserable. Constant enemy fights that took several minutes, broke all my good weapons, dropped a crappy stick in return for all my effort. It made exploring a nightmare so I just stayed put on roads avoiding most of the game, then they threw in the ninjas, literally. I never could bring myself to go defeat Ganon even after completing all four guardians. It was all far too tedious. I felt so defeated for not getting why this was the "best" Zelda ever. I think I'll probably skip the sequel.

This sounds more like a case of a "least favorite" game rather than "worst".

least favourite game is still worst game ever played so that's not going to make a difference.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: Cartagia on July 09, 2020, 10:28:20 am
I manage to mostly avoid bad games, but holy crap, controversial opinion, I loathed Breath of the Wild as soon as I got past the sip test. It was miserable. Constant enemy fights that took several minutes, broke all my good weapons, dropped a crappy stick in return for all my effort. It made exploring a nightmare so I just stayed put on roads avoiding most of the game, then they threw in the ninjas, literally. I never could bring myself to go defeat Ganon even after completing all four guardians. It was all far too tedious. I felt so defeated for not getting why this was the "best" Zelda ever. I think I'll probably skip the sequel.

This sounds more like a case of a "least favorite" game rather than "worst".

least favourite game is still worst game ever played so that's not going to make a difference.

Not in the slightest.  That's the same as saying that you can't like a game even though it's bad.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: sworddude on July 09, 2020, 10:36:45 am
I manage to mostly avoid bad games, but holy crap, controversial opinion, I loathed Breath of the Wild as soon as I got past the sip test. It was miserable. Constant enemy fights that took several minutes, broke all my good weapons, dropped a crappy stick in return for all my effort. It made exploring a nightmare so I just stayed put on roads avoiding most of the game, then they threw in the ninjas, literally. I never could bring myself to go defeat Ganon even after completing all four guardians. It was all far too tedious. I felt so defeated for not getting why this was the "best" Zelda ever. I think I'll probably skip the sequel.

This sounds more like a case of a "least favorite" game rather than "worst".

least favourite game is still worst game ever played so that's not going to make a difference.

Not in the slightest.  That's the same as saying that you can't like a game even though it's bad.

If your personal experience for a certain game is that bad, no matter how good the game is in the eye of the general consensus, for that person it is the worst game that they have ever played their personal experience was rough after all.

Just because a game is praised by many and being objectively great overall, doesnt mean that there are some people out there who actually find it to be the worst game ever. Different Opinions exist.


Maybe the guys hasn't played animal crossing amiibo festival yet
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: tripredacus on July 09, 2020, 11:45:52 am
I'm not sure if I can think of a "worst game ever" to put down. There are many bad games but what makes them bad to me? If the game was released buggy, does that mean it is bad? Or does that make it not count? What about multiplayer games with no servers or those that do have server but have no players like Battlefield Bad Company 2? Certainly the single player of that game was good, but the multiplayer while existing had no other players so you could only just wander around the maps all by yourself.

What about games that have annoying control schemes, or ok controls but bad cameras? Is Castlevania: Lament of Innocence a bad game? I would never know because I could never get past the jumping phase of the tutorial.

I do have in mind, a game that might be good, but I class it as the "Best Looking Worst Game I've Ever Player" and that is Forsaken on PC. Running on a Pentium III with Glide mode enabled, the game looked absolutely amazing... but it ran too fast. Too fast to do anything besides crash into walls and explode constantly. Even using a joystick.

Or perhaps I should just say Daikatana and get it over with. A game I played when it came out, and had no problem with. I don't recall it looking as terrible as people said. I probably played it with cheats. The worst thing about it is that I apparently have no recollection of the game itself, other than it had a lot of green and there were annoying frogs. Having re-watched some modern reviews of the game from Civvie on Youtube, apparently I have no other memories of the thing and it was as if I had never seen what the game looked like.
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Post by: oldgamerz on July 09, 2020, 06:17:03 pm
Another un-fun game I don't like is FIFA 64 for the Nintendo 64, it was the vary first EA Sports branded Footbal/Soccer game on the Nintendo 64. The CPU is ruthless, and can often score on you within 3 second of gameplay and before you even know how to play on the easiest difficulty setting,

 if you can get the ball at all then the CPU just steals it back and scores again, I am not a fan of video games that you need to be fast at them to win. I like to relax and just play all games at my own pace, and I like games even more if they actually are easy on easy then harder on other difficulties.

If I was back in my teens then maybe I could figure out how to play FIFA 64 properly. I am not alone because N64 Glenn Plant on Youtube does not like that FIFA 64 game either
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9 people have the NA version on their wishlist, I'd recommend that they don't buy that game, unless they want terrible graphics and a ruthless CPU.

I'd recommend this one below $100% instead of FIFA 64


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Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: ferraroso on July 10, 2020, 01:10:46 am
I am sure that there were many other bad games that I've played in life, but the ones that first come to my mind are the traumatizing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade for the mighty Master System and the unplayabe Heavy Nova for the Mega-CD.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: undertakerprime on July 10, 2020, 08:00:42 am
Even when I was younger, I was pretty good at not wasting my money on absolute shit, so I haven’t played a lot of the truly horrible stuff. Of course, however, some garbage inevitably crept in.

Probably the worst game I ever played...
E.T. on Atari 2600. My parents and I had this for our Atari and there was just so little fun to be had. Very slow, very tedious, and the controls to float out of pits were awful.

Dishonorable mentions:
AD&D Heroes of the Lance (NES) - I didn’t actually buy this one, it was a birthday gift. Horrible game design and hit detection.
Winter Games (NES) - Awful graphics and sound, somewhat playable but not a lot to it. Only 4 events available.
Fist of the North Star (Game Boy) - A one-on-one fighting game like Street Fighter, but with comically high jumps, maybe 3 moves per character, and (IIRC) no blocking. I sold this game because I couldn’t stand it.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: grose on July 11, 2020, 09:58:13 pm
I will list the some games that are really bad, not these that I don't like.

Dragon's Lair on NES
The SNES version of Pit Fighter
Terminator 2 on SNES
Superman 64 that is hors-concours
Aquaman on Gamecube
Criticom on Saturn
MTV Sports: Skateboarding on Dreamcast
Sonic Shuffle on Dreamcast
Sonic Heroes on PS2, there are so many glitches
Sonic the Hedgehog on PS3

I love Sonic games, but these are some play really bad.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: pzeke on July 13, 2020, 12:05:21 am
They're mainly SNES for me, but out of the top of my head...

Brutal: Paws of Fury
Shaq-Fu
Weapon Lord
Justice League: Task Force
Ultraman
Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
Claymates
The Lion King
Mario's Time Machine
Hook
Cool Spot
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge
The Adventures of Mighty Max
Dennis the Menace

Out of all of those, Brutal stuck with me the most since I remember I got it in a BOGO at Toys'R'Us and mainly because my kid-self got awestruck by the cover art. I mean, free is free, but goddamn it did the game suck! Not to mention it's a fighting game, which is a genre I've never been an avid fan of. And what's funny is the fact the first game I bought to get Brutal free was Killer Instinct. In my defense, I thought Brutal was some form of beat 'em up.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: byron on July 13, 2020, 09:44:17 am
How can you categorize the flawless gem that is Shaq-Fu as anything not in the pantheon of greatest games ever to bless this world with their existence? The accursed Earth doesn't deserve a game of Shaq-Fu's purity to grace its surface. Mankind is unworthy to play such a game of truth and excellence, yet the gods have allowed us to experience this game. Not a game, a way of life. An affirmation of all that is goodness and light. A shining beacon which man, though he aspires to, will never reach for all his so-called progress.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: burningdoom on July 16, 2020, 12:36:32 pm
(https://www.video-games-museum.com/en/screenshots/Nes/3/4770-ingame-Conan-The-Mysteries-of-Time.jpg)

Conan for NES

The absolute worst game I have ever been subjected to.

Terrible controls (you press down to jump!), floaty and lagged character response, terrible graphics (this was 1990 on the NES, games looked much better by this point), and completely random respawning enemies. Like enemies that would respawn mid-jump and kill you (which you can't move once you jump, you are committed).

I hear the computer version of this game that the NES game is ported from is much better. But I've never played it, personally.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: burningdoom on July 16, 2020, 12:47:32 pm
I manage to mostly avoid bad games, but holy crap, controversial opinion, I loathed Breath of the Wild as soon as I got past the sip test. It was miserable. Constant enemy fights that took several minutes, broke all my good weapons, dropped a crappy stick in return for all my effort. It made exploring a nightmare so I just stayed put on roads avoiding most of the game, then they threw in the ninjas, literally. I never could bring myself to go defeat Ganon even after completing all four guardians. It was all far too tedious. I felt so defeated for not getting why this was the "best" Zelda ever. I think I'll probably skip the sequel.

This sounds more like a case of a "least favorite" game rather than "worst".

least favourite game is still worst game ever played so that's not going to make a difference.

Not in the slightest.  That's the same as saying that you can't like a game even though it's bad.

If your personal experience for a certain game is that bad, no matter how good the game is in the eye of the general consensus, for that person it is the worst game that they have ever played their personal experience was rough after all.

Just because a game is praised by many and being objectively great overall, doesnt mean that there are some people out there who actually find it to be the worst game ever. Different Opinions exist.


Maybe the guys hasn't played animal crossing amiibo festival yet

I personally LOVED Breath of the Wild. But then I've always loved open, exploratory adventures games and RPGs. Easily my favorite type of game. And this one knocked it out of the park. Literally took away 6 months of my life, and I didn't mind a bit.

That's not to say it's absolutely perfect. I do have a couple SMALL gripes.

1. Cell-shaded graphics. Never been a fan of that. I get that a lot of people like that it ages better than realistic graphics, but I'm not one of them. Still, it's a small complaint and hardly breaks the game.

2. Crappy weapon durability. Who thought this was a good idea?! It is a very annoying mechanic. However, the rest of the game is so damn good I can overlook it and still play the game.

3. Music. There are parts where the music is absolutely stunning, but it seems that's mostly just in scripted events you trigger. The regular gameplay music is too ambient. But then, that's kind of common with a lot of these open-world games. So it comes with the territory, I suppose. Hasn't always been that way, though. The King's Field games were early experimenters with open 3D worlds, and the soundtrack for those games are just so damn good and atmospheric.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: turf on July 16, 2020, 02:01:56 pm
(https://www.video-games-museum.com/en/screenshots/Nes/3/4770-ingame-Conan-The-Mysteries-of-Time.jpg)

Conan for NES

The absolute worst game I have ever been subjected to.

Terrible controls (you press down to jump!), floaty and lagged character response, terrible graphics (this was 1990 on the NES, games looked much better by this point), and completely random respawning enemies. Like enemies that would respawn mid-jump and kill you (which you can't move once you jump, you are committed).

I hear the computer version of this game that the NES game is ported from is much better. But I've never played it, personally.

Conan is a huge turd.
It’s still probably not the worst game on the NES.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: courtlyhades296 on July 18, 2020, 03:32:30 pm
Ninjabread Man. I would honestly rather play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde than this game.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: ghostsweeper on July 23, 2020, 05:30:25 pm
Off the top of my head, Last Action Hero on SNES was bloody awful. Running Battle on the Master System just sucks. And whoever's played the Megadrive version of Dark Castle will have unpleasant memories flooding back.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: pzeke on September 30, 2020, 03:40:54 pm
Hook

After two months and some change later, I'm here to make a correction: Hook for SNES is actually a decent game; however, the NES version not so much, which is the one I had in mind while making my list. The only thing I like about the NES version is the covert art. The soundtrack is crap as well.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: burningdoom on September 30, 2020, 03:45:10 pm
Hook

After two months and some change later, I'm here to make a correction: Hook for SNES is actually a decent game; however, the NES version not so much, which is the one I had in mind while making my list. The only thing I like about the NES version is the covert art. The soundtrack is crap as well.

I love Hook on SNES. Fun action platformer with colorful graphics and a fantastic soundtrack. Never have played the NES version.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: turf on September 30, 2020, 05:26:32 pm
Hook

After two months and some change later, I'm here to make a correction: Hook for SNES is actually a decent game; however, the NES version not so much, which is the one I had in mind while making my list. The only thing I like about the NES version is the covert art. The soundtrack is crap as well.

Think that’s bad?  You should give the GameBoy version a spin. I made the mistake of buying that one as a kid.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: pzeke on October 01, 2020, 08:44:35 am
It's essentially the NES version, just in monochrome. It was one of the many games I played back when I discovered emulation, and it was effectively a one-and-done experience.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: oldgamerz on October 01, 2020, 11:50:13 am
(https://www.video-games-museum.com/en/screenshots/Nes/3/4770-ingame-Conan-The-Mysteries-of-Time.jpg)

Conan for NES

The absolute worst game I have ever been subjected to.

Terrible controls (you press down to jump!), floaty and lagged character response, terrible graphics (this was 1990 on the NES, games looked much better by this point), and completely random respawning enemies. Like enemies that would respawn mid-jump and kill you (which you can't move once you jump, you are committed).

I hear the computer version of this game that the NES game is ported from is much better. But I've never played it, personally.

Not sure how long it will last but the game callod Connan The Barbarian (edit) Conan: The Mysteries of Time for the NES is going for a lot of money
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: soera on October 01, 2020, 04:22:37 pm
E.T. (Atari)
F-16 fighting falcon (SMS)
AD&D: Heroes of the Lance (NES)
Tooth Invaders (C64)
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: astralsoul on October 01, 2020, 09:48:09 pm
Depends on the context. Some bad games I play on purpose because of their noteriery. I feel like that's kind of cheating though. But based on that I'd say....

Custer's Revenge (Atari 2600)
Bubsy 3D (PS1)
ET (Atari 2600)


But taking in a different context, or I go into a game expecting something halfway decent, or completely unaware of how bad it really is, I'd have to choose these...

Ballz 3D (SNES)
Unlimited Saga (PS2)
The Guy Game (PS2) - I didn't expect it to be good but I didn't quite realize the level of abomination it really is
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: kashell on October 03, 2020, 09:28:40 am
Growlanser: Heritage of War (mentioned in my first post)
Dimentium: The Ward
Bendy and the Ink Machine
Spectral Force 3
Spectral Souls
Shining Force Neo
Lunar: Dragon Song
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth
Unlimited Saga
Forever Kingdom
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: smudgy on October 14, 2020, 01:20:57 pm
If by worst you mean had the worst time with it, one stand out is Automobili Lamborghini for N64. Renting a bad game was inevitable back then when you're just looking at game covers, but this one always stuck out. Me and my brother could not for the life of us make the first turn on the first track in the game. We were stunned by how bad it controlled, and it was a running joke between us for years, the setting of the bad game bar for us ("That game wasn't as bad as Lamborghini", etc.).

And on the topic of racing games, Sonic Riders. I got it thinking it would be Mario Kart-like, but instead it's an incredibly technical and complicated racing game with a steep learning curve and brutal AI. I never could get into it when I frequently took last place and just gave up on it. I bought the sequel on Wii a few years later out of curiosity, but the disc I got was defective and wouldn't go past the title screen. I just took that as a blessing in disguise.
Title: Re: What’s the worst game you’ve ever played in your life?
Post by: turf on October 14, 2020, 03:41:47 pm
The worst game ever is a pretty big question to tackle
I’m going to vote for one of those 80’s computer simulation games that was made into an NES game. Thy just don’t work.
It’s either Gary Kitchen’s BattleTank or Infiltrator

They are both terrible. Superman 64 and ET are masterpieces compared to these pieces of something less masterful.