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#1  Edited By sodiumCyclops

Let us take some time to remember the worst game rental experiences you had during your gaming years.
 
I will get the ball rolling with Pariah for the original Xbox. It was pretty good for maybe an hour, then it all fell down really fast after that.

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#2  Edited By BlackIrish05

I tried to get into the beginning of The Last Remnant. It was pretty bad.

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#3  Edited By mesklinite

Hahaha, o pariah, how I love the. For me it was a yoge the bear nes game.
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#5  Edited By hatking

Pariah haha... pretty terrible game.  I think the one reason I rented it was for the level builder, which if I remember barely ran. 
 
I'm sure I have plenty of awful games I've rented but I can't think of any off the top of my head.
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#6  Edited By nukesniper

Mine would be Penny Racers for the Nintendo 64. The thought of building my own tracks became much less fun when I saw how simple it was and how boring the game was. 
 

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Hour of Victory. Even the clerk knew it was bad, he asked "Are you SURE you want to rent this?" he never asked me with any other game.
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#10  Edited By Th3_James

uhhhhh, i don't remember the name of the worst game i rented, but it was for genesis and had these mechanical fish or some shit. It was later given to me as a gift or i just accidentally kept the game after renting it. Either way, from what i remember as a kid it was shit. I think i lost or threw it out about 10 years ago.... 

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#11  Edited By Barrock

From what I can remember? X-Men Last Stand. For Xbox.

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@Vito_Raliffe said:
" Tamagotchi: Party On! for the Wii "
Oh my god. Yes. I bought that because my girlfriend at the time wanted it. I can't believe that was a game. Its like Mario Party, without any minigames at all, everything fell to the luck of the dice. 
 
"Oh I lost, too bad there was virtually nothing I could do to prevent that..."
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@Tarsier said:
" i just rented bayonetta and i can't get into it at all.. just not my type of game i guess.  i should have known though, i've never been into button mashers. "
Hah, no wonder you couldn't get into it. It's not a button mashing game at all. But yeah the setting and stuff is really Japanese.
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#15  Edited By Farley_Lives

Daikatana, I think I played it on the N64. Specifically remember that game being god awful.

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#16  Edited By Mmmslash

The Godfather 2

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#17  Edited By KEITH1437

Superman 64.  Nuff said.

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batman and robin for the PS1.  god...

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#19  Edited By Cornman89

Eternal Sonata.
 
Wasn't horrible, but then I don't rent games much.

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#20  Edited By Coombs
@Th3_James: 
I remember playing that, Good times, Good times......
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#21  Edited By Mariek430

Bruce Lee game for xbox, Dark Void, for odd some reason I bought Dante's Inferno but should of rented it.

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#22  Edited By rjayb89

That WWF monster truck game.  I ended up returning it days after it was due.

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#23  Edited By sodiumCyclops
@K0rN said:
" Hour of Victory. Even the clerk knew it was bad, he asked "Are you SURE you want to rent this?" he never asked me with any other game. "
You know what my most worst memory may have been? I bought Hour of Victory for $98 USD.........
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#24  Edited By Hailinel
@Cornman89 said:
" Eternal Sonata.
 
Wasn't horrible, but then I don't rent games much. "
Dude, I love that game.
 
When I was in high school, I had my wisdom teeth removed and was high on pain killers for most of the following weekend.  My mom rented a bunch of movies for me and, at random, Quest 64.  The pain killers were able to mask how bad it was pretty effectively until they wore off.
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#25  Edited By Skogen

Glover...

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#26  Edited By Cornman89
@Hailinel: Well, it did have its moments. Like this. And this. And this.
 
I'm not averse to discussing it, but if you want the short version (apologies if you don't), I thought the combat was repetitive, the story brittle, the characterization halfhearted and the ending totally impenetrable. Not even Chopin's awesome top hat could win me over. Or maybe it did, since I beat it?
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#27  Edited By sodiumCyclops

Ninety Nine Nights was pretty bad, i returned it within 4 hours of renting.

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#28  Edited By MrKlorox

 Never ask your mom to rent you a random game.
 Never ask your mom to rent you a random game.
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#29  Edited By TheGreatGuero

Far Cry Instincts Predator on Xbox 360 is probably the worst game I've rented on this generation of consoles. But I've been renting since the SNES/Genesis days, and that was a long time ago... It's hard to remember bad games from that far back. By now I've wiped most of those ones from my memory.

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Some awful tank game for the N64 that had you blowing buildings up and killing other tanks to save some damsel in distress.  It looked horrible.  It was entertaining multiplayer for about 5 minutes at least.

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#32  Edited By TheHT

spider-man and x-men for the snes. not that it was terrible, i just couldn't get past the beginning. the VERY beginning. RIGHT WHEN YOU START AS SPIDER-MAN!!! my young impatient mind couldn't handle it.

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#33  Edited By Hailinel
@Cornman89 said:
" @Hailinel: Well, it did have its moments. Like this. And this. And this. I'm not averse to discussing it, but if you want the short version (apologies if you don't), I thought the combat was repetitive, the story brittle, the characterization halfhearted and the ending totally impenetrable. Not even Chopin's awesome top hat could win me over. Or maybe it did, since I beat it? "
I won't say that that game doesn't have its flaws.  And to be honest, my view of the game may be forever colored by the fact that it came out on the very same day that I suffered one of the absolute worst humiliations of my life (on this, I do not exaggerate).  While they're far from the deepest, Eternal Sonata's story and characters were what pulled me through a very turbulent time; there's just something incredibly heartfelt about it; about this dying man's dreams, that I just found moving.  Does it get long-winded and pretentious at times?  Yes, but I forgive it for that.
 
The gameplay was really just what I wanted from the game.  Not too simple, not not strategically taxing, though there is a bit of strategy in terms of positioning characters in light or darkness.  I found it fun and engaging enough that it never felt like a chore.
 
And Chopin's top hat is indeed awesome.
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#34  Edited By Cornman89
@Hailinel: Heh. Well, I can't begrudge a little comfort gaming. ;-)
 
...Oh god, I'm having my wisdom teeth removed this summer!
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@TheHT said:

" spider-man and x-men for the snes. not that it was terrible, i just couldn't get past the beginning. the VERY beginning. RIGHT WHEN YOU START AS SPIDER-MAN!!! my young impatient mind couldn't handle it. "

I own this one,
And the first level while not the hardest is easily one of the most frustrating in the game.
But not as much as the swimming level, It always made me think of the swimming level in that ninja turtles game, 
MOTHER FUCKING ELECTRIC SEAWEED!!!!!!      I'M A FUCKING TURTLE I EAT FUCKING SEAWEED!!!!!
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#37  Edited By jangofett88

Unfortunately I own Rumble Roses XX.

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#38  Edited By DocHaus

Most recently, I'd vote for Damnation. Hands down.

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#40  Edited By Hailinel
@Coombs said:
" @TheHT said:

" spider-man and x-men for the snes. not that it was terrible, i just couldn't get past the beginning. the VERY beginning. RIGHT WHEN YOU START AS SPIDER-MAN!!! my young impatient mind couldn't handle it. "

I own this one, And the first level while not the hardest is easily one of the most frustrating in the game. But not as much as the swimming level, It always made me think of the swimming level in that ninja turtles game,  MOTHER FUCKING ELECTRIC SEAWEED!!!!!!      I'M A FUCKING TURTLE I EAT FUCKING SEAWEED!!!!! "
If you're a regular turtle, sure.  But if you're a ninja turtle, you'd only eat seaweed if it were on a pizza.
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#41  Edited By ImperiousRix

Wow, being that I used to rent games every week since the days of the Genesis, I've rented some terrible crap. 
However, probably the WORST that I can recall was an N64 Blockbuster Rental Exclusive called Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals.  It was a God-awful fighting game using the Beast Wars franchise.  Being a kid, all I saw was "Transformers!  COOL!", but little did I know how I wasted that weekend with that hunk o' crap.

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@Farley_Lives said:
" Daikatana, I think I played it on the N64. Specifically remember that game being god awful. "
So, I guess we can assume that John Romero did not make you his bitch.
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#43  Edited By drowsap

super man 64  bad game and my little brother lost it for like 2 weeks and i had to pay a 20$ late charge havent rented a game since

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#44  Edited By sodiumCyclops
@drowsap said:
" super man 64  bad game and my little brother lost it for like 2 weeks and i had to pay a 20$ late charge havent rented a game since "
oh wow, bad experience much?
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#46  Edited By Shadow

Dragonball Z Budokai 2 was total shit

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#47  Edited By immike

Recently (since I don't remember that far back) it was Darksiders. It was probably because I don't like Zelda games. Idk why, I just don't, so the game itself probably isn't sucky, but I found it pretty bad. The backtracking, puzzles, and vagueness were infuriating. They weren't hard, but they were maddening for whatever reason.

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#48  Edited By Andorski

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.  It's the only game that I rented and returned without beating it.

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#49  Edited By Milkman

I used to go to Blockbuster just about every other weekend when I was a kid to rent games and I'm sure at some point I must have rented some pretty horrible ones but I don't really remember. But looking through my GameFly rental history here, I realize that I rented Odama for the GameCube about 4 years ago. I also apparently rented Alone in the Dark but I'm pretty sure I returned that without playing it.

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#50  Edited By Soap

When I was young my mum rented me a game to keep me happy while with a baby sitter while she went out, she didn't know what the hell she was doing and ended up bring back a ps1 game that was pretty bad. All I can remember about it was it had some kind of arena based combat with women with boobs that bounced faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar to much. I'd say it was dead or alive but I could literally move around on a 3d plane. 
 
It's safe to say I chose my own rentals after that.