Worst game you bought to date?

I'm stuck between Matt Hazard or Blue Dragon. Matt Hazard was really bad but I kind of like it because of that. It was bad in a kind of entertaining way. Blue Dragon was just so incredibly mediocre that it didn't even have the "enjoyable" bits of a bad game. Yeah Blue Dragon.

@blackichigo said:

Forgot about that game...

It was pretty good from what I can remember

Probably Blazblue: Whateverthefuckversion.

No Man's Land

A comatose wreck of an RTS suffice to say.

• The campaigns are horrible and buggy- On several of the missions, one wrong move, badly placed structure, or closed gate can force you to redo a mission because you unknowingly ended up breaking the ending cutscene.
• The skirmishes are horrible with how blatantly the AI cheats
• The graphics are rubbish
• The unit behavior settings- and thus the controls- are annoying.

Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters. I really don't care for this game at all. I bought this game after I played Deadlocked thinking I'll like this game as much as I liked Deadlocked, but man I was wrong.

Worst game that I ever bought? Probably a tie between Hyper Dimension Neptunia and Dragon Age 2.

Between playing demos of, reading about, listening to podcasts of, watching gameplay of, and straight up piracy if I still can't make up my mind, I'm pretty good at not getting invested in a game I know I'm gonna dislike.

Worst game I bought expecting a bad game? Avatar the Last Airbender. I saw it for $0.99 brand new at the local dollar store (as well as Saints Row 1) and for that price I had really nothing to loose. Still haven't played em.

Worst game I bought expecting not a bad game? Probably Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction. It was my first time playing a Ratchet & Clank game and I went in not knowing what the game was going to be all about. The game has a great sense of humor with some fun wacky weapons but the lack of difficulty pushed me away. I only put in a few hours though so I have no idea what the challenge level is like during the later stages.

@Brodehouse said:

@JoeyRavn said:

I didn't think there could be a game that I enjoyed less than Bastion,

You are history's greatest monster.

I usually get that when I say that I didn't like Bastion. I really don't understand what made that game so good. And I beat it twice.

@JoeyRavn: Why would you play something bad twice? I beat it once and liked it.

My worst purchase is proooobably this: The Hobbit, that or the shitty Tomb Raider game set in Paris. Angel of Darkness I think.

This was not a purchase BY me, but I begged for it for months, and no matter how much I tried to like it, it was just abysmal.

Most recently, I paid full price for Diablo 3 only to find that the only fun to be had is searching the gold Auction House every four to five levels for better stuff than you can hope to find yourself. Gee, who the fuck thought that was going to be ten years of fun?

Latterly, I paid full price for Final Fantasy XIII, wherein the elements that make a good FF game are nowhere to be found. It might have been an ok game under a different title. Probably not.

Hmm... I can think of plenty of games, but I'd say it's more of a disappointment than the game being "bad," although that's certainly the case with a few of these.

I managed to get all the way through Final Fantasy XIII , and I have no clue why. By the time I got to the open world section I was so burnt out on the game that I rushed to the finish.

Resident Evil 5 is another game that was so ridiculously un-enjoyable that I returned it immediately after I finished it. You should never force people to play co-op with an AI buddy. Ever. Also, having a "downed state" in single player Mercenaries is stupid. I don't want to mash A repeatedly while a bunch of dudes huddle around me. I should either be dead, or I should have that life so I can actually shoot my fucking gun or use the herb in my pocket. Speaking of pockets, fuck the inventory in that game. I'm going to stop myself before I write a bigger paragraph. Just listen to Zero Punctuation's review of RE5 when they talk about the inventory. Man, that pissed me off.

Other than that, I never really had money as a kid & talking my parents into buying me games made me very cautious about what I bought. I don't think they bought it for me, but Sonic Heroes was fucking bad. Worst part was that was the first sonic game I had really payed attention to since the genesis era. Sigh...

two worlds

It's either Sonic 06 or Operation Darkness for me

I currently use it to keep the disc tray in my Xbox from fucking up. Thank God I only payed five bucks for it.

The Xbox remake of N.A.R.C. I have the ability to usually bang through even the worst and most tedious of games but I can't express with the English language how bad this game is for so many reasons.

Im amazed I haven't just walked into traffic and ended it all after playing it.

That's a hard question considering the amount of games I have purchased in my lifetime, but I would say it's a tie between Techno Cop on the Sega Genesis and Lester The Unlikely on the SNES.

Superman 64. I bought Superman 64.

Dead Island. I wish I could get every penny back.

The Baconing is not so great. Also, Kane and Lynch 2.

LA Noir .... the only purchased I have regreted enormously

Superman 64 is objectively the worst, but Dragon Age 2 disappointed me the most.

FF13. Started my ban against all Square games forever.

Sprung, it was cheap and I thought it was like a college kid version of leisure suit larry, boy was I disappointed.

Ohhh... probably I'm Not Alone... or Bella Sara.

MUA2

"Enter the Matrix"

Edit: "Vexx" would be a fairly close second.

Infinite Undiscovery

Dead Rising.

@blackichigo said:

I played a shit load of Quest 64, it's the only rpg the N64 had at the time.

I'd say for me it was probrably Dragon Ball Z Sagas, terrible game that I finished in an afternoon. That, and also Batman Beyond on N64, got it cause i was young and didn't know better, was really terrible.

Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. There's nothing to do in that game!

@Ravenlight said:

Homefront: Fuck. That. Game.

The devs took such a promising concept and smeared layer-upon-layer of shit on top of it until nothing good remained. I did get a Genuine-quality TF2 hat out of the deal, I guess.

left this thread satisfied knowing this was here.

Damnation

Urban Reign on the PS2. Everything about it just seemed a mess to me.

I didn't buy it but my parents did when I was little. I really wanted a gameboy but my parents couldn't afford it so they got me one of those Tiger Electronics R-Zones which advertises themselves as a knockoff gameboy. The problem was this thing was freaking huge it was like the XL version and it took like 4 c batteries to use it which were pretty expensive as well. I remember the game that came with it was a Toshiden Battle Arena cartridge, always felt guilty for my parents buying me something pretty lame so I tried to play it in front of them and carried it to school sometimes just so they knew I was playing it. For those whoever played any Tiger Electronics fighting games, man they sucked so much.

Dungeon Siege 3.

I was led astray

Monkey Hero. Slow as fuck of a game! Also because I got stuck in an endless loop due to falling off the screen. It didn't help that I saved the game as I'm falling, thought it would help >:(

The worst game I bought, I stole - AKA shoplifted in my early teens. No regrets there. Some SNES game I don't remember the name of. 3D dungeon crawling RPG or something.

The worst DVD I ever purchased? I've got a good answer there, so bear with me. Ecks VS Sever with a gift certificate. It was overpriced as all hell (40$). The jewelcase was defective. The dvd was scratched. And the movie is the worst garbage I've ever seen. It's so unremarkable in its horribleness - so boring - it's the worst DVD experience I ever had.

Pimp My Ride the Video Game

Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Loude... not as bad as LSL: Box Office Bust but still nothing to write home about. Thankfully I typically follow coverage and read reviews for games I'm interested in before I buy them. Definitely saved my ass a few times.

http://www.giantbomb.com/leisure-suit-larry-magna-cum-laude/61-17050/

@MAGZine said:

@Ravenlight said:

Homefront: Fuck. That. Game.

The devs took such a promising concept and smeared layer-upon-layer of shit on top of it until nothing good remained. I did get a Genuine-quality TF2 hat out of the deal, I guess.

left this thread satisfied knowing this was here.

Was the multiplayer really that bad? Looked interesting, from where I was sitting - but I was sitting in the pilot chair of a Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam expansion Huey, listening to CCR while hovering and evading incoming RPGs, rockets and tank shells, and racking up one flawless game after another. I was pretty much Air Wulf, the best man/killer/machine in the skies. So I never really cared about Homefront either way, in its heyday.

I used to buy a lot of bad games for the N64 becaue I was 8 and didn't know better. However, since then I tend to make better choices. The 2 games that come to mind are Brute force for the Xbox and Red Steel for the Wii.

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun

This year I bought Shadow the Hedgehog, it has almost no redeeming features. I really dislike Lost Planet 2, but I dunno if it's one of the worst I have bought. Maybe a game called The legend of Kay for the PS2. It had a cat with a sword fighting against evil monkeys... I thought it would be a nice timewaster between Jak & Ratchet games, it wasn't.

Dragon's Lair for NES. Awful horrible game

I think it was Bad Boys, although my most dissapointing game is different and personally worse.

Medievil 2 on PS1 was the absolute worst. When I bought it, the guy at the register took care to tell me I could return it within 7 days. I did. I don't like returning things, I really don't, but I was happy to get my money back.

As a young man, my brother always bought the games, so by the time I had the resources to spend money on them myself, I usually knew right from wrong and was always very careful when buying a new game.

Until one day...

I bought Dragon Age II. :(

Any one of the struggling MMO's I bought at full price when they launched. Age of Conan, Aion, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Star Trek Online, Star Wars: The Old Republic. One some level, it's a little crushing to know you bought something that is now basically free for everyone. And you still won't touch it.

Outside of those, Dragon Age II takes it. Full-priced game I could only play for three hours before I quit in disgust.