Mario Party.
I. Fucking. HATE. Mario Party.
Its like monopoly. Always ends in a fight.
yea
Monopoly. Tragically boring.
Always ended with someone flipping the board at my house.
For me, I was most disappointed in Turning Point: Fall of Liberty. The premise was fascinating and I looked forward to it. They put out a demo on PS3 and it seemed okay. The launch game was worse than the demo. Just garbage. I finally actually played the entire game like 15 years later. It was very interesting and worth a lazy play, but not a very good game.
Otherwise, bad games to me are ones that are just endlessly difficult and frustrating.
I bought Sonic 2006 when it came out. It was my first experience with a truly terrible, broken game. I’d played things that weren’t up my alley or were subpar somehow, but that was the first time I was truly blown away by how bad a game could be.
Deep-cut but does anyone remember a game called like “the emo game” or something. It was browser based, would’ve been out around the 2010s. Super dark edgelord humour. I’m certain it was fucking terrible but I played through it all. I think about it from time to time but have never found it again.
Holy shit! I remember that game and playing the hell out of it because I could be Omar Rodriguez-Lopez from At The Drive-In/Mars Volta. I wonder if you can still find that anywhere.
7-yo me hated the original Ghostbusters game on NES. So much so that I devised a plan to get my birthday money back.
Toys R Us would only refund unopened games, but you could get an even exchange if a game was ‘defective’. So I made up some mumbo jumbo about how something didn’t work in the game, and my mom got it swapped for me (she was nervous for some reason). Took the unopened game to a different Toys R Us location and got my money back. I felt like a criminal mastermind.
I can’t really remember what I didn’t like about the game…probably I had a certain expectation as a big Ghostbusters fan that no NES game could meet.
I’ve done similar tricks with returns.
I stole a CD once that had no CD! Then I bought a dvd that had two lmao. Fast production, shit happens.
When I worked retail, someone came in, complaint there was there no disk in the case (PlayStation 3 or something), exchanged that thing with no further questions.
Lunar Genesis/Dragon Song. It looks like ass, the story is told with the eloquence of a farting butthole, and the gameplay… Mein gott, losing HP for running on the field isn’t even the Game Arts’ worst design decision in this game. There’s nothing to save here.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
I played some kind of sex-themed bullet hell game where you were a disembodied penis flying around shooting things with little sperms. And if you got shot, instead of dying you would go limp and you could somehow slowly get erect again. Maybe it was popping pills or catching porn or maybe it was time based.
Anyway, that’s not the worst game I’ve ever played, but it was one of the more memorable ones that popped into mind.
The worst would probably be some free or dirt cheap PlayStation game. It was not an indie gem. They had one mechanic: stand in the middle of an arena, spin/move around, and shoot the charging enemies until you killed enough and went to the next completely identical level.
10-player game of munchkin. Could feel my soul trying to crawl out of my mouth after the 3rd hour.
Oof yeah, this one should have been called “Crabs in a Pot”
I have played many, many games. I remember some of the best. I forget the others. Why would I remember the worst?
Learn from mistakes.
To avoid it next time.
I rented Superman 64 at Blockbuster once.
Don’t reccomend.
Much broken.
Such bugs.
Wow.
I owned it. Still do. I was a foolish child who liked Superman. Still do!
The most insulting part was using GameShark to level skip and realizing the rest of the game wasn’t much fun (or finished) either.
They could have done so much better by removing the timed rings thing and just let you fly around a mostly empty city, blowing up Lex’s robots or something. It would at least have felt Superman-esque lol.
When I was in elementary school one of my classrooms had Stratego among the board games meant for bad weather days or waiting after school.
I had previously played Stratego and liked it, but every single other kid in this classroom read that the ‘Spy’ piece could kill the ‘General’ (the most powerful) piece and concluded that the ‘Spy’ could therefore kill any piece on the board. I was shouted down by everyone for pointing out the actual wording of the rules and that a ‘Spy’ is called that because it’s obviously supposed to be a sneaky piece.
Nobody agreed and just played the game with the ‘Spy’ as a rampaging super piece killing everything. That was pretty miserable.
Stratego is a great game I’d completely forgotten about. Using your sappers to defuse bombs
Also an infuriating game
We like to play it with random piece setup so everyone doesnt just stick the flag in the corner surrounded by bombs. Its way funnier when its random.
If you enjoy going in depth, there’s a podcast called How Did This Get Played that is now called “Get Played” because they couldn’t bear subjecting themselves to these misfortunately made games for too long. But the early many episodes were chock-full of titles.
I enjoyed the Custer’s Revenge episode where the hosts get lectured about tokenism and how it was fucked up of them to ask their Native American friend to play a racist game for podcast content. I genuinely respect them for posting the episode and admitting their mistakes.
Played an old LoTR game for the SNES that was so full of bugs, it actually held my interest longer than it should have because I was curious whether the game could even be completed.
