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Fizzter:

Well this is a pretty interesting topic.. I'll need some time to think about this one, since I have played so many games. (Many of which were not long-lived by any means, but a pick up, try, and say "no thanks" kind of thing…)

It's interesting to see the dynamic in here. Maybe I'm getting old (yay my birthday is on Sunday!)  but I notice a lot of you listing 'relatively' new games. Obviously, that doesn't disqualify them from being bad, but going back a little ways I can remember how 'bad' games really WERE bad on a fundamental level.

Today, a game can be bad on a number of levels, but mostly it misses marks when gameplay is either too tedious or too boring. i.e. "oh man! Another generic shooter?!"

But there are a number of other levels that concern developers also. Graphical and audio presentation really come into play. If game development gets delayed too long, as with the 'stalker' post above, then the game suffers because the presentation lacks behind other games. There are also a number of other factors… price, length, how good the ending is.. Even delivery options - What platform(s)? Is it available for download? All these can be tied to a game's demise. The list goes on...

 

Back in the day, this playing field was much more level. All games generally dealt with the same level of graphical and sound capabilities, until 'the next breakthrough in game engines' would come along. But in the day where games only had a few release patterns and all dealt with 8-bit graphics, you had to TRULY have a lemon on your hands to botch a game. I mean, it REALLY had to suck. :)

 

First to mind is a game called Dragon's Lair for the NES system. This game was truly awful. Rather than explain while, I'll link to this video done by everyone's favorite "Angry Videogame Nerd" fellow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00xIvTOLrYA&feature=player_profilepage

(Be forewarned, it contains foul language)

I'll keep thinking to see if I have any others to top that.

 

(Man these <fill-in-the-blank>-of-all-time questions are tough! This is why they are normally limited to a specific interval… like… worst game of 2009?)

-fizz

Im an 80s kid who play a bunch of games, but todays games are released in a lot worst shape because developers have the mentality of "we can patch it later". So to me most games today are unpolished garbage. Games back in the days pre-internet gaming, they were polished and released at near perfection. Not so much anymore.

If we want to talk about TRUELY bad games... lets talk about a game called E.T...

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Just about every single Tomb Raider sucked in my opinion. Only a few of them are any good.

Alone In The Dark was another which really was atrocious.

And SimCity4000 and SimCopter.

Respectfully,

PROACEX1

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Alien Logic

Gateway

Big Mutha Truckers

Most recently Far Cry 2

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Turok....one of the biggest let downs..purely boring

PROACEX1:

Just about every single Tomb Raider sucked in my opinion. Only a few of them are any good.

Alone In The Dark was another which really was atrocious.

And SimCity4000 and SimCopter.

Respectfully,

PROACEX1

As a helicopter pilot enthusiast, I loved simecopter...

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Freezrburn:

The worst I think I played on PC was probably Secret Service.  I couldn't get past the first sequence on it.  I still don't know where all they were firing from but they tore me up.  I tried this 2-3 diff occasions and just never loaded it up again.

 LOL.  Same thing happened to myself.  I tried a few times to get past opening sequence, but eventually gave up and never played it again.

I personally found it to be crappy as nothing else. Especially in retrospect, I couldn't believe I had played all the way through it.

Even though I have to admit I had fun killing massive amounts of people by landing on top of them...

Respectfully,

PROACEX1

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