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Top 11 Worst Games - My Collection

These days, it's almost a form of entertainment to find bad games and point out the flaws that they hold. Well, it's not so funny when you spent $30-$50 thinking that what you were buying was worthwhile. In this list, I'm going to list my personal top 11 least favorite games that are collecting dust in my game collection. To quote the Nostalgia Critic: "Why top 11? Because I like to go 1 step beyond..." Let's see if you can share in my frustration as we delve into my top 11 worst games:

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  • In recent years, Sonic Team has been notorious for its awful Sonic releases. I believe that this game is the first of these atrocities. Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg was the first game developed by Sonic Team outside of the Sonic franchise. From its shallow, uninspired plot and characters to the horrible controls and level design, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg takes the #1 spot as my least favorite game of all time. And don't even get me started on that theme song and the in-game music. Most reviewers and players who play the game claim that this is the "hidden gem" of the Gamecube and that it is "highly underrated." If this is their treasure, I'd hate to see what they think is bad.

  • My first home console was the Nintendo Gamecube, so naturally I missed out on the once-coveted Nintendo64 as a kid. I had friends, however, who owned N64s with Pokemon Stadium and I LOVED it - much like I do the Pokemon franchise. When I heard that Pokemon Colosseum was coming to the Gamecube, I thought that this would be my chance at having my own Pokemon Stadium. I was tragically mistaken. The "snatching" feature of this game is ridiculous, the "story" is a joke, and the blocky, dehumanized characters make me sick. Pokemon Colosseum takes everything we know and love about Pokemon and smashes it on the ground. All I learned from this game is that Genius Sonority needs to stay away from Pokemon games.

  • Final Fantasy is known to be the grand-daddy of JRPGs. When I picked this game up for the GBA, I really wanted to experience the classics as they were in their starting days. That's what I got all right. There is something crucial that you must have when dealing with NES games - the manual. In those days, the manual was essentially half the game which explained (at length) the story, characters, and even included maps and information that you need to know to get by. This game, other than updated sounds and graphics, is a direct port of the NES game to the GBA (with some extra content afterwards.) The ridiculously large overworld map (which, by the way, I had to print out to navigate), annoying random encounters, and non-existent story deliver this game to the #3 spot on my list.

  • Unlike the game pictured to the left, the game I own has only Supersponge on it. If you're my age, you watched Spongebob whether you admitted it or not. That show was in its prime in those days. Naturally, wouldn't it be cool to run around Bikini Bottom punching bad guys and stuff? Even when I was younger, I hated this game. Even though it's on the GBA, Supersponge uses an NES-esque password system (at least it's only 4-characters per password) to access each level. Otherwise, you have to sit down and play the whole freaking game. The graphics aren't bad, but it's difficult to distinguish between places where you can stand. The music is obviously inspired by the songs from the show, but did they even bother to use any of them? The annoying tunes that come out of the speakers make me question whether THQ even go the rights to using music from the show. All in all, this game taught me to NEVER buy games based off of TV shows or movies - a valuable lesson indeed.

  • Everybody has played Mario Party. Everybody. When I was younger, I used to love playing Mario Party with my cousins and friends. That stuff got intense sometimes. Anyway, I got Mario Party 7 as my first and only Mario Party game. It is awful. This was the second game to use the Gamecube's microphone (the first was Mario Party 6.) The microphone is worst part - it scarcely recognizes the words you're screaming into it and the mini-games they implemented for it are boring and frustrating. Besides the peripheral, this game put a spin on Mario Party that was definitely different and definitely stupid. In Mario Party 5, when you played on teams, a unique team name would be generated for each pair of characters. Well, in 7, there are only 2 teams - dolphin and seagull. Don't even ask where those came from. These are not the most of the game's flaws, but they are definitely mistakes. Along with Mario Party's usual problems, we can add poorly designed boards, uneventful rounds, and useless extra features and modes. Do yourself a favor and stick to the Mario Party games you know.

  • In 1997, Hasbro Interactive released a 3-D Frogger game on PC and PS1. Although most people hated it, I loved it to death as a 5-year-old and I still do. 3 years later, Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge was released on PC. I also enjoyed this game. There was also a game known only as Frogger 2 on the Gameboy Color. I own this game, and it is BAD. Often times, Frogger won't jump as fast as you're pushing the buttons, the game doesn't detect whether you landed in the water or on a lilypad very well, and the graphics make it hard to tell what I'm looking at. The music is also pretty terrible. The worst part about this game is the save system. I have no idea what is saved on each slot in this game. On one file I open it and I'm placed in the very first level, on another I'm a few levels ahead and I have no idea how to tell ahead of time which result I'm going to get. These factors, among other things, caused this game to escape the realm of nostalgically valuable and become a haunting memory of the past.

  • I don't own the original NES version of this game, but I do own the Classic NES Series installment on the GBA. Like some other franchises, the second game ever is famous for its completely different style of gameplay when compared to every other installment. You start out on an overworld map, much like other Zelda games, but when you encounter enemies, you are transferred to a close-up, 2-D side-scroller which reminds me of Castlevania. Most of the time you're asking yourself what you're supposed to be doing and talking to the people in the villages helps in almost no situations (this is the game where the infamous "I am error" guy comes from.) I haven't gotten very far in this game, but it's certainly no worse than the higher entries on my list.

  • I was so excited when I was in 4th grade to get this game at the school book fair and play it on the family computer. This game froze every time on the ol' Windows 98 and I was devastated. Later on, we upgraded to a newer computer and I finally got to play it. If you can imagine a slow, dumbed-down version of Mario Kart, that is essentially what this is. Your car, unlike what is shown in the intro video, goes a whizzing speed of about 20 mph (or so it feels) going through unimaginative tracks and badly placed obstacles. Unlike a lot of the games on my list, this game does have some plus sides: you get to customize your own car and the game allows you to destroy your opponent's cars (and your own) piece-by-piece along the way. Aside from those two features, this game is just not fun.

  • I love the Fire Emblem series... or at least I DID before this game came out on the Gamecube. My first experience with the franchise was, like the rest of North America, Fire Emblem 7 on GBA. I loved the game to death. I also enjoyed Sacred Stones, even if not as much as FE7. Path of Radiance was like a punch in the face after the first two. Although the story was decent enough and its core gameplay mechanics are similar to the GBA games, there are several reasons why this game made it to my list. The biggest reason I dislike Path of Radiance is its level of disappointment, as I mentioned before. This simply did not live up to its two preceding relatives. Besides that, the battle animations are stiff and awkward, a lot of the characters are extraneous (unlike in the previous games where nearly every character had a place), and most of the maps are forgettable. Not only is it my least favorite installment of the series so far (followed by Radiant Dawn on Wii), but it is officially one of my least favorite games of all time.

  • If it even matters, I am blessed enough to own Nintendogs: DACHSHUND Edition. Yeah, I'm not really sure if it makes a difference or not, but there were 3-5 versions of this game. Maybe it has to do with certain puppies you could or couldn't get between each version, but it really doesn't matter because it's still pretty bad. The first few days of owning this game will be a blast. Then you come to a realization - why didn't I just adopt a real puppy? Yeah, playing this game is literally like a summary of what it's like to take care of a real dog. The DS's built-in microphone which you use to scream at your puppy hardly responds correctly to what you're saying, the baths, walks, and competitions get repetitive and produce no effect in me, and it's just not fun after 3 days of owning the game. With so many pet simulators coming out now with a Nintendogs sequel, EyePet on Playstation Move and Kinectimals on 360's Kinect, I fear for the game industry.

  • Wii Sports comes bundled with every Wii (I'm assuming), so the loss that I experienced with this game only concerns time. An early use of the Wii's motion controls, Wii Sports was fun for about half an hour when you opened up the Wii on Christmas morning, wasn't it? After that, you began to get suspicious, right? From waggling the Wiimote to get by in Wii Tennis to rigging the system to get a perfect 300 in Wii Bowling, not only do you not feel like you're playing sports, but you're not even having fun. It's the holidays and your relatives are coming to visit. As you're vacuuming the hallway and dusting the shelves in preparation, a horrible realization hits you: You own a Wii. That means you own Wii Sports. The pieces of the puzzle fall into place and then you know that you'll be playing Wii Sports with your family ALL. SEASON. LONG. When a game literally fills you with dread, you know it deserves to make the list.

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