What is the worst computer game you have played?

Far Cry 2 sticks out the most for me in this category, dumbed down, consolized, repetitive game play, suicidal jeeps and cars at every cross road, being spammed with unending re-spawn. Mentally challenged AI, worthless "story", I use the word story loosely as what was in Far Cry 2 barely passes for a story. The nonsense ending or multiple endings if that is what you want to call it, was just **** icing on this garbage cake. I really hate to pick on this one but whenever I see this type of questions Far Cry 2 springs to mind immediately (I have played Alone in the Dark and Turning Point as well), but really I have been gaming since the 80's seen a lot of crap, but so far Far Cry 2 tops the list, and I had hoped it would revolutionize the PC FPS, instead it just took a few steps back.

 

I'll chime in on FarCry 2, while I loved the scenery, openness, really funny jokes (in Afrikaans) and conversations (WHO?, you THINK?), the gameplay itself was, like already mentioned, way too repetitive.
It's one of the few recent games I've never replayed.
MMORPG's are horrid imao (I'd rather play FC2 for the rest of my life) but I've never (really) played one.

 

I have to admit, I've always said "The worst things about MMORPG's are other people", but I've found I do actually enjoy them. I'm a little surprised by the people who say "I've never played them, but I hate them" - shouldn't you at least be neutral until you've actually had some hands-on experience?

I'm not a fanboy - you're free to hate them if you like, heck there are several I'm not very fond of. Just thinking it'd be more fair to try a few first...

 

I don't spend my time ragging on MMORPGs, but I did mention in my earlier post that I won't play them. For me, it's more a matter of the time commitment, learning curve, and the need to interact with other players to accomplish certain goals in the game. I also don't care for the fantasy medieval themes and settings of many of these games. I've sat by watching friends play Dark Age of Camelot and World of Warcraft and I just didn't find it interesting no matter what they told me about the game and its mechanics, and I used to be an avid Diablo II player years ago, so I wasn't completely oblivious to the concept of character development.

Without having played it, what makes Far Cry 2 an undesirable game to me is the infinite respawning of enemies as well as the mega-ambush on you the moment you step into enemy territory. Well, that, and the DRM. Anyway, if I wanted that kind of game, then make the game an arcade-style zombie shooter.

Crysis isn't really overrated if you frame it properly. It's really a playable graphics benchmark program.

I played the BioShock demo on the 360. I don't know how representative of the whole game the demo was, but I didn't find it that enjoyable. I never got into the plot because I thought it was a bit too disturbing for a game.

 

Wolf 3D................

 

Just Cause, BloodRayne 2 and GTAIV.

All had the potential to be great games but all were brought to their knees by bugs, glitches and poor optimisation

 

Space invaders...

 

tetris, got bored in the first 10 years of playing.

 

I don't really play low rated games..ever. I check reviews on games before i ever attempt to even check them out. But i must have missed a beat when i played Prey and Turok. Prey was just terrible. Turok had so much potential-- a dinosaur hunter-- and just ended up failing. I can tell you best game of all-time: Goldeneye64.

 

Oh man, I thought I was bad at 15 years! Sheesh!

 

Recently, I can only recall one game that was a waste of my money: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2: Advanced Warfighter. My criticisms:

- Game performance was terrible, graphics were very unimpressive (everything is brown in Mexico, apparently)

- Terrible storyline, voice acting
- mission briefings were long, boring and the movies were cheesy

- Enemy AI is ridiculously accurate and all-knowing
- Enemy AI does not use the environment as cover; soldiers eventually just advance slowly in the open
- Difficulty is insane; one hit can kill you on the easiest difficulty

Squad AI... where do I begin?
- Squad AI often does not return fire when fired upon
- Squad AI sometimes gets stuck or does not respond to commands
- Squad AI doesn't use environment has cover

The AI problems were extremely frustrating, given that Ubisoft had released Rainbow Six: Vegas the year before with excellent AI and squad controls; and the game mechanics of R6V were very well-thought out. But Ghost Recon 2 was terrible in almost every way.

PS; I would rank Oblivion as another game that I despised...

 

In the last five years,Farcry2

 

Space Siege for me...

I still have it installed on my HDD hoping that Chris Taylor will make it right...

Co-operative Dungeon Siege in space, if done right, would have been so cool...graphics are good, but control scheme is troublesome...and not enough doo-dads, like WoW, to make you want to keep playing...

 

new games i hated so much : assasin's creed and bioshock
as for my all time worst game ever it's "navy seals"
i don't know if u have played it , but i can assure you that minesweeper or tetris are like 10000 times more fun

 

In recent years, Soldier of Fortune III: Payback is the worst I played. What an insult to the FPS world! Go look at reviews/videos to see why.

 

I want to chime in and defend Far Cry 2 a bit. It's not necessarily terrible, just over-ambitious and dealing with some fundamental flaws.

The day/night, weather, and fire systems are very impressive. Environments are gorgeous. AI's actually pretty solid.

The issue with repetition is a serious one. I think the game designers expected YOU to mix things up by trying different approaches to the game. Getting tired of driving into a camp and getting attacked and swamped? Maybe you'd better try another way of handling the situation: sneaking in and capping people with a sniper rifle or blowing stuff up seems to help.

I'm getting an abnormal amount of entertainment out of it, but I'll readily admit it's VERY repetitive. Still, there's something satisfying about sitting on the top of a hill and just picking off five or six mercs with your sniper rifle.

Anyone who bags on some of the more popular stuff like Assassin's Creed or especially Bioshock, though...is just trolling. You can say that you do not LIKE the game. But Bioshock is a fantastic game. There are great games that just aren't my speed, but just because I don't like them doesn't make them terrible. I think Dead Space is mediocre and can't understand the hype (it's really predictable to me), but it's still leagues from the worst stuff I've played.

 

If you're referring to my criticism of Oblivion...

 

i agree with pulp..farcry 2 is fun....playing throught it again right now....as far as worst pc game ever played....frontlines: fuel of war

 

I have to revoke this statement and put Portal at second worst. AoC or Age of Conan has to be the worst game ever. Constant instability, patches every minute and a terrible instancing system that would allow you to be in a separate zone instance then your party. AoE smash and grab game play, with poor grouping during lower level content. Quite the disappointment minus the graphics, which were quite enjoyable at 1920x1200 on my dell. But hey what good is a nice looking environment when its bugged and crashing?

 

Far Cry 2 is ~nice~. But gets a little repetitive and I got bored with it somehow.

In other games, I'm a Will Wright fan, but I think Spore also put me down... Waiting for Sims 3.

 

I found Frontlines a lot of fun. I like the fact that you can control remote control vehicles. It doesn't have a lot of replay value, and the multiplayer sucks, but I did enjoy the single player game.

 

As far as let downs, Spore was the biggest let down video game-wise in my entire life. It made me a very sad panda, as I had been waiting for it for a year.

I don't understand why Crysis is even in the running. I've replayed that game more times than I can count.

 

I had been following Spore since the day it was first announced. It had a great concept, and sounded like it was a great game. Then the reviews started pouring out, and they were pretty bad . I ignored the reviews, bought the game at full price on the first day of release (which rarely do), and started playing. I played the game for 2 days, put it away and haven't touched it since.

Not only was the game extremely dissapointing, but the DRM also broke my wireless drivers. No joke. Had to completely uninstall the game, the DRM, and reinstall my wireless drivers for them to return to normal.

 

Same. It's a shame, really.

EDIT: 200 posts on such a sad subject : \

 

:S
i played SOF 1 and 2 double helix
both were great
i am a big fan of SOF ,anw i'll check the reviews

 

I certainly agree that Crysis was generally overhyped and overrated. I even agree that it kinda sucked on an absolute scale; nothing wrong with a shooter being linear, but there just wasn't much variety in the game. Also, it had ty coding. Sure, it might be pretty, but what the hell is the point in that if it's running at 2 frames a second?

Spore... meh. Overhyped, maybe, but not overrated, if only because the actual ratings weren't really that high.

At any rate, both of these games wouldn't even begin to match up to the standards set by some of the reaaaally bad games out there. I get that "worst game" is kinda subjective, but really. There's gotta be -some- sort of general measure of absolute quality out there, and I highly doubt that Crysis and Spore fall below the "THIS-GAME-SUCKS" line.

More? Maybe. But what about most? And does it being nonsensical and repetitive necessarily mean that it's a bad game? Tetris is (in my opinion, anyway; why is it raining bricks?) nonsensical. And it's quite repetitive, no? Doing the same old things over and over again. Doesn't mean that it has to be a baaaad game.

Yeah, I'm with this guy. I thought Dead Space was pretty boring on the whole. Play the first two hours and you've played the rest of the game. Oh look, this thing's broken. Go fix it and you can move on. But wait! This other thing's broken! Now go fix that! Repeat ad nauseum. And hey, you even get the best overall weapon in the whole game as your starting weapon.

And the plot twists? Ha! TWISTS? Kinda. Twists. With huge billboards every mile for the 100 miles before you hit 'em saying "WATCH OUT, SO-AND-SO PLOT TWIST IS COMING".

But it's not a bad game! Dead Space is not scary, the plot twists fail at surprise, and it's bloody (hehe) repetitive. What Dead Space is not is a bad game. It's an alright game.

 

Far Cry 2, the game is too repetitive. It basically goes like this: Get in car, drive for a long time and encounter 2-3 enemy jeeps and 2-3 enemy checkpoints, complete your mission which is absurdly simple and boring, and continue driving, Ugh!!! I can't believe I wasted $50 on that game.

 

Lol this thread should be changed to "Have a rant at Far Cry 2"
I have to agree it is a very poor game however.

 

Wow, was Crysis that bad? I've never actually played it but from game reviewers like Gamespot and IGN it seemed like the best FPS of the last few years.

 

Halo
Doom 3

I bought these two at the same time as Far Cry (original) and after the lush, open beauty of this game, I was totally underwhelmed and thoroughly bored by the repetitive interiors and enemies of Halo and the claustrophobic dark interiors of Doom 3.

Assassin's Creed:

Unlearnable controls and very repetitive gameplay = boredom.

On the other hand, I actually like Far Cry 2 and Crysis. With the vast, open landscapes and clever AI, you can deal with any situation differently. Calling it repetitive is stretching the definition of the word a bit. If there's only one way to do a task or mission and you have to do it over and over, THAT's repetitive (see Assassin's Creed).

 

Crysis Wars (multiplayer component) of Crysis is quite good, but it is plagued by lack of players and buggy servers/lag. If more people played it and the lag issues would be fixed it would have been a MUCH better game. Too late now I guess.

 

no , crysis is one of the best FPS games
if u are not that much into FPS games u may not like it
but crysis is incredible , absolutely the best grafix i've ever seen , and the AI is something else , i finished it many times and every time i use a new method (almost) really fantastic , however i thought it was very easy , they could have made the health and power take much more time to recharge becz it was too easy

 

Okay, I am a hardcore FPS fan and I hated Crysis.
They needed to do two things.
1) Make switching modes on the suit easier
2) Made the suit's power last longer... by a lot.
To balance the better suit, they could have given you much less weapons.

I know they didn't want you to rely on the suit, but what makes you so different from the enemies is primarily this suit you have. The suit was almost worthless because its power drained so quickly.

I'd love to have been able to cloak, walk behind enemy lines, quickly switch to speed, run up and an enemy, switch to strength, punch them 25 feet into the air, then speed away again. Because of the switching system, this was clumsy, and because of the short charge, I could only do this from a very short distance.

In the end, I found myself running through the jungle for most of Crysis, going "where the heck am I getting shot at from?"
The AI would spot you from miles away.

 

My problem with Crysis, besides the unspeakable racism which kept me from playing it for a long time, is that it jumps the shark the same way Far Cry does.

Far Cry was great until they took all your weapons and left you to fight the Trigens. I can't imagine what possessed them to forego the great AI skirmishes that made the game so good in favor of a straight-forward killfest for the rest of the game.

Crysis had the same problem. The instant you go into the alien ship, the game is pretty much over. The aliens don't require new strategy. They don't require ANY strategy. They just turn the game into a twitch shooter.

Of course, this is ignoring the ridiculously good nanosuit, the bizarre weapon balance, dismal performance and optimization, insulting racism (game pandering to Americans made by non-Americans), and so on...

 

The first two were pretty good games, but the third . . . very disappointing. I recommend not wasting your money.

 

Söldner: Secret Wars

 

Saint's Row 2. Worst port of the year IMO.

 

Hmmm...probably Runescape. That and Football Superstars.

 

Purble Place - the cake making game
waay too hard, there is no way a 5-year old (or whatever the intended audience may be) is going to be able to get through this game

 

Just what are you supposed to do in this game?

 

i had a go on it and i had no idea what to do and im 21

 

LOL. I tried this game too. It sucked. At first, it was cake (haha, I made a joke), then I was swearing at the computer and had to stop. What kind of mind f*** are they doing to our kids!?

 

Worst game ever for me was Shadowrun.

Why? Because it cost $50 and it was a total POS.

Bad & Limited servers, only a handful of stages & weapons, total let down.

 

well, since its more of a "most personally disappointing game for you" thread,

id say
farcry 2 - same reasons every 1 else listed
crysis/cw - overhyped. really just run-of-the-mill fps game that IS poorly optimized (part of my 3d programming class was discussing commercial games, and reviewing codeing errors etc)
left 4 dead - was expecting ALOT more of the game. 6 weapons, and two secondary weapons. and four maps, only two can be played multi? what the hell were they doing througout the dev cycle? gta 4 is a whole city completed roughtly twice the amount of time... i absolutley love l4d (untill last patch anyway, now its so stupidly easy to win if you are survivor, it used to be winning was all about killing the other team, now its about outrunning them) the game basicly boils down to just mash your melee buttong and win =-/

gta4 - holy wowness. what a mess of a port. so horrificly poorly coded and totally not optimized. a machine with 1/10th the power at best can run it beautfiully, but a machine 10 times as powerfull gets 3 fps... riiiiight. they are fixing it with the latest patchs' but its still disapointing

 

Oh man, I just remembered a game I bought one time for like 3 dollars.
No One Lives Forever 2. It was so bad, I didn't even play through more than like an hour of it before quitting.

 

I would vote spore. I have a cousin who was saying he wanted to try it and I had a copy but told him that I thought he would hate me if I gave it to him. It's a horrible game. The Hype was absolutely wrong and I will make it a point to try before I buy in the future when it is an EA game.

 

I remember some Dungeons and Dragons computer game I got. I couldn't stand it, but the computer was pretty crappy at the same time. Also, worst multiplayer game ever, for me, was Aliens Vs. Predator 2. Way to take an awesome multiplayer game and turn it into total fail. I get angry thinking about it.

 

Wasn't the first aliens versus predator multiplayer the awesome one?
I seem to remember something about lan and online waves of aliens attacking, and getting progressively harder while you and friends could all be marines fighting wave after wave of aliens. I have to agree the 2nd one sucked.

 

Hahaha graw 2 was a walk in the park compared to graw 1.

It's for a specific kind of play... not stealth, not heroic running in, but actual "Hide-ShootAccuratly-Hide"

That said AI could be more responsive.

 

ANY online game!