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What are some of the worst games you've purchased or rented?
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Akiba's Beat.
Budget is an understatement, writing is horrible, and it's like discount Tokyo Mirage Sessions with Tales of combat.
Budget is an understatement, writing is horrible, and it's like discount Tokyo Mirage Sessions with Tales of combat.
My answer would be Fallout 76 if I hadn't come around to considering it a better game than Fallout 4, another game I purchased day-1.
I guess it's been a long time since I bought a game that I consider to be genuinely, like, SHIT though.
I mean, the games I've bought in recent years that I don't like, or dropped because I didn't enjoy them, are:
Valkyria Chronicles 4 - ranking system prioritizing turn count over everything else, dictating that I play not like a strategist but like a fucking madman...
Pokemon Sw/Sh - makes games that are too easy look too hard in comparison
Fallout 76 - broken as fuck at launch, have had more frustrating experiences with the game than I can count
Fallout 4 - lame, all the time, every time, not even mods can fix this
Battlefield 5 - sublime gunplay and game feel but the patches over time were Uncharted 2 MP levels of "damn why'd y'all have to go and do that" and Firestorm was a misstep
Looking back... I guess I just know how to pick 'em. The worst game I've ever bought was... Project X-Zone. Yeah it's a fanservice game first and foremost but you don't even gotta use your brain and for a tactics game that's regrettable. There are so many worse games that I guess even X-Zone hardly ranks against some of the shit we're bound to see up in here.
I guess it's been a long time since I bought a game that I consider to be genuinely, like, SHIT though.
I mean, the games I've bought in recent years that I don't like, or dropped because I didn't enjoy them, are:
Valkyria Chronicles 4 - ranking system prioritizing turn count over everything else, dictating that I play not like a strategist but like a fucking madman...
Pokemon Sw/Sh - makes games that are too easy look too hard in comparison
Fallout 76 - broken as fuck at launch, have had more frustrating experiences with the game than I can count
Fallout 4 - lame, all the time, every time, not even mods can fix this
Battlefield 5 - sublime gunplay and game feel but the patches over time were Uncharted 2 MP levels of "damn why'd y'all have to go and do that" and Firestorm was a misstep
Looking back... I guess I just know how to pick 'em. The worst game I've ever bought was... Project X-Zone. Yeah it's a fanservice game first and foremost but you don't even gotta use your brain and for a tactics game that's regrettable. There are so many worse games that I guess even X-Zone hardly ranks against some of the shit we're bound to see up in here.
Unlimited SaGa will always be the worst. What they did to the SaGa franchise is a crime against humanity.
Honorable mention:
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Honorable mention:
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Rise of the Robots has to be one, though in that case I find the game weirdly fascinating and own most of the versions.
Other than that, Sonic 06. I completed it, I tried to convince myself it wasn't that bad, but yeah, it was.
Other than that, Sonic 06. I completed it, I tried to convince myself it wasn't that bad, but yeah, it was.
Rented a few times. Worst fighting game I've played.
Friends pressured me into buying it. Found it boring as hell. Friends quit playing after a week. Waste of $60.
Friends pressured me into buying it. Found it boring as hell. Friends quit playing after a week. Waste of $60.
Sword of Sodan for Genesis.
Rented out because the graphics looked good on the back of the box, but it was a terrible game.
Rented out because the graphics looked good on the back of the box, but it was a terrible game.
i have never purchased a single-player game, played through it in it's entirety, and thought that it was a complete waste of money. i did play cyberpunk, but i did not pay for it
i own sonic 06 but i enjoy it enough and got plenty of entertainment value for the like 20 bucks i spent on it so i don't even consider it a "bad game" even though it definitely is
i own sonic 06 but i enjoy it enough and got plenty of entertainment value for the like 20 bucks i spent on it so i don't even consider it a "bad game" even though it definitely is
*Insert famously excellent game to be edgy and cool*
Honest answer is probably this shower of shite:
Honest answer is probably this shower of shite:
I rented this once and I've never forgotten how garbage it was. One of those games you rent and immediately realize you just ruined your weekend.
I traded my entire SNES collection of games (including Mega Man X, Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country) at FuncoLand to buy a brand new copy of Art of Fighting. I had just gotten into fighting games and was playing a lot of Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat and Samurai Showdown in the arcade and decided that I was going to become an expert at one of these games and for some reason decided on Art of Fighting. The SNES port was horrible. It was so bad that I had an actual physical reaction to the purchase and felt a vague sense of nausea and dread the entire night. I realized that given my families financial situation this was the only thing I was going to be able to play for the next few months.
This dumb decision had a big impact on the games that I would play because I began to resent my SNES and that game and when an opportunity to trade it for a Sega Genesis appeared I jumped at it and I mostly stayed away from Nintendo during the N64 and GameCube years. I went from Genesis to Playstation to Dreamcast and Playstation 2. Had it not been for that horrible decision to get rid of my beloved SNES games I probably would have gone the N64 route. As great as those N64 games were I can't imagine it would've compared to the PS1 era with Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, Silent Hill, Final Fantasy 7, Xenogears, Tomb Raider, etc.
This dumb decision had a big impact on the games that I would play because I began to resent my SNES and that game and when an opportunity to trade it for a Sega Genesis appeared I jumped at it and I mostly stayed away from Nintendo during the N64 and GameCube years. I went from Genesis to Playstation to Dreamcast and Playstation 2. Had it not been for that horrible decision to get rid of my beloved SNES games I probably would have gone the N64 route. As great as those N64 games were I can't imagine it would've compared to the PS1 era with Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Gran Turismo, Silent Hill, Final Fantasy 7, Xenogears, Tomb Raider, etc.
Robots for the Nintendo DS was one of the first times I bought a game with my own money and god did it feel like a consequence for not picking literally anything else in the store.
I'm pretty sure I only paid like $20 for this but it was still pretty bad. I basically forced myself to play it because I was like 11-12 years old at the time and couldn't admit to myself that I wasted my money. I'll never forget part of the second level of the game where you go on a boat and the water is entirely a flat texture (not even transparent) and there's probably just as much fog as an N64 game.
I rented glover a bunch of times. Clayfighters 63 1/3 too.
when my family and I would visit Colombia in the 90s and 2000s I would buy and play a bunch of pirated dbz games, including Final bout. Those games were all bad but had dope intros.
Mind you, I don't make buying bad games a habit. But...
Sonic 06 - Worst part? I bought it twice (once for 360, once for PS3). I still maintain it could have been mildly enjoyable Sonic Adventure style game if it had one more year in the oven, but...it didn't.
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - Poor design leaking from every corner. Temple of the Ocean King can go to hell. Lots of DS gimmicks, most of which do not land. The only Zelda game I've ever played that I truly dislike.
Pokemon Shield - A hollow, cheap, content starved game that's so handholdy and overly linear it makes FFXIII blush. Also, hope you like raids, because that's literally all there is to do outside of the awful campaign.
Sonic 06 - Worst part? I bought it twice (once for 360, once for PS3). I still maintain it could have been mildly enjoyable Sonic Adventure style game if it had one more year in the oven, but...it didn't.
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - Poor design leaking from every corner. Temple of the Ocean King can go to hell. Lots of DS gimmicks, most of which do not land. The only Zelda game I've ever played that I truly dislike.
Pokemon Shield - A hollow, cheap, content starved game that's so handholdy and overly linear it makes FFXIII blush. Also, hope you like raids, because that's literally all there is to do outside of the awful campaign.
Man, there are some bad takes in here. Sonic CD? Last of Us 2? Mario Odyssey? These are among the worst?
I was disappointed buying Wacky Waiters for Vic 20, Atomic Challenger for C64, and Donkey Kong 64 for N64. For rentals, Quad Challenge on Genesis sucked ass.
I was disappointed buying Wacky Waiters for Vic 20, Atomic Challenger for C64, and Donkey Kong 64 for N64. For rentals, Quad Challenge on Genesis sucked ass.
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Some real Karen energy on that boxart there.*Insert famously excellent game to be edgy and cool*
Honest answer is probably this shower of shite:
Considering Mario Odyssey was literally the first response I'd say we have a new speed record. :)
FYI, if Mario Odyssey or TLOU2 is the worst game you've ever purchased, you have lived a charmed life. :)
Rented:
Mega Man Soccer - I was a huge Mega Man freak at the time and wanted to play something that wasn't X. I played it for like half an hour and put it back in the case and didn't touch it until it was time to return it. This might be the first time I rented something and felt disappointment. lol
Wolverine: Adamantium Rage - I was curious to find a Marvel game I didn't know about. Wish I hadn't bothered. I couldn't even get past the first stage. The only thing I remembered from the game is the cheesy rap intro.
Universal Studios Theme Park Adventures - HOLY SHIT a game that had Jurassic Park, ET and, most of all to me, Back to the Future shit in it?! I was so excited to rent this... ruined my weekend. lol
Bought:
Resident Evil Survivor - At the time I bought anything that was RE... shoulda read the reviews. I think I sold it to towards getting a Dreamcast game?
Evil Dead: Hail to the King - I was hardcore into Evil Dead and wanted to experience the supposed sequel to Army of Darkness. Found a pretty lame RE clone. The sequel Fistful of Boomstick wasn't much better.
Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku - The first American-made DBZ game that was top-down RPG action like Zelda? Neat! The intro got me hyped up but when the game actually started it was a pain in the ass to play with clunky combat and lame level design.
Lord of the Ring: Fellowship of the Ring (GBA) - A bug ridden mess of a game that I ended up selling only a few days later. The Two Towers game (the first GBA game to be based on the movies) was decent in comparison.
Ghostbusters (DS) - I bought all three unique versions of the 2009 Ghostbusters game as I'm a huge GB nut. Had a great time with the 360 version, a fun co-op experience with the Wii version... Detested the DS version. A lifeless game that was a chore to finish despite being the only version where you could drive Ecto-1.
Mega Man Soccer - I was a huge Mega Man freak at the time and wanted to play something that wasn't X. I played it for like half an hour and put it back in the case and didn't touch it until it was time to return it. This might be the first time I rented something and felt disappointment. lol
Wolverine: Adamantium Rage - I was curious to find a Marvel game I didn't know about. Wish I hadn't bothered. I couldn't even get past the first stage. The only thing I remembered from the game is the cheesy rap intro.
Universal Studios Theme Park Adventures - HOLY SHIT a game that had Jurassic Park, ET and, most of all to me, Back to the Future shit in it?! I was so excited to rent this... ruined my weekend. lol
Bought:
Resident Evil Survivor - At the time I bought anything that was RE... shoulda read the reviews. I think I sold it to towards getting a Dreamcast game?
Evil Dead: Hail to the King - I was hardcore into Evil Dead and wanted to experience the supposed sequel to Army of Darkness. Found a pretty lame RE clone. The sequel Fistful of Boomstick wasn't much better.
Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku - The first American-made DBZ game that was top-down RPG action like Zelda? Neat! The intro got me hyped up but when the game actually started it was a pain in the ass to play with clunky combat and lame level design.
Lord of the Ring: Fellowship of the Ring (GBA) - A bug ridden mess of a game that I ended up selling only a few days later. The Two Towers game (the first GBA game to be based on the movies) was decent in comparison.
Ghostbusters (DS) - I bought all three unique versions of the 2009 Ghostbusters game as I'm a huge GB nut. Had a great time with the 360 version, a fun co-op experience with the Wii version... Detested the DS version. A lifeless game that was a chore to finish despite being the only version where you could drive Ecto-1.
That kind of reminds me I rented some Wii sidescrolling shooter called "Blastworx" based on Nintendo Power pumping it up and whew, fastest I ever knew I made a mistake. Usually they never steered me wrong. I'll have to take another look at it some time to see if there was anything redeeming about it.
I bought it, played it for an hour, and walked right back to the GameStop to return it.
Lol at Mario and TLoU2.
I traded Super Mario Kart for Ren and Stimpy: Vidiots as a kid. That was A bad trade.
I traded Super Mario Kart for Ren and Stimpy: Vidiots as a kid. That was A bad trade.
FarCry on the Wii, it was soooo bad. Framerate, textures everything was bad, but the worse were the controls my god where the controls bad on that game. I paid full price for it too, so many regrets.
I'll never not be salty about being hyped beyond belief for a Condemned sequel and it turning out to be such a dud compared to the original
I also bought left alive for full price based on the names attached to it and yeah we all know how that turned out
I also bought left alive for full price based on the names attached to it and yeah we all know how that turned out
It's probably not the worst I've ever bought, but in recent memory: Watch Dogs Legion. I bought it because I wanted to try a new game on my Series X and was in the mood for a GTA-like game.
Game's boring and it was dumb of me to buy it over some of the other games that were available at a similar price at the time.
Game's boring and it was dumb of me to buy it over some of the other games that were available at a similar price at the time.
I bought Lair on the cheap, thinking it couldn't be as bad as the internet said it was.
It was as bad as the internet said it was.
It was as bad as the internet said it was.
thinking about it, i might still be too stubborn to admit something I bought was terrible.
so the only thing that comes to mind is metal arms ps2. it gave me motion sickness immediately
so the only thing that comes to mind is metal arms ps2. it gave me motion sickness immediately
Spot on. The only game where I feel sad knowing I won't get the time back I wasted on it. Played it through to the end just to get a friend off my back.
When the Switch came out I bought some game called Has Been Heroes to play in between Zelda sessions. I hadn't heard about it at all but it looked cool, sort of like a mix between tower defense and a rogue-like.
Maybe I just didn't give it enough of a chance but I played it for about an hour and couldn't make heads or tails of it, I kept getting my ass handed to me and had no idea whatsoever what I was doing wrong. I never touched it again after that single session.
Maybe I just didn't give it enough of a chance but I played it for about an hour and couldn't make heads or tails of it, I kept getting my ass handed to me and had no idea whatsoever what I was doing wrong. I never touched it again after that single session.
*Insert famously excellent game to be edgy and cool*
Honest answer is probably this shower of shite:
Yeeeeeeep, classic shit in threads like this lol.
For me, worst bought has to be Darkstone on the PS1. I can appreciate the ambition of the game, and it genuinely looked pretty good, but it's a bit of a stinker.
Worst rented is hard because I have rented alot of shit in my time. But I guess I could give it to Lion King on SNES, that second level is like hitting a brick wall and I never wanted to rent that fucking game again. A shame because I figured it would be great like Aladdin was before it.