The worst game I can ever remember playing was called Echelon for the C64. It was a combination spaceflight/adventure game that left you roaming for hours in a wire frame landscape with no clear objective. The best part of the game was a sound recognition headset that fired the weapons every time you spoke. Of course, the novelty of saying "Fire!" over and over again soon wore off.

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The worst game I ever played, or actually couldn't even play, was Shattered Steel by Logicware. The damned thing couldn't even run out of the box. Had to get a "update" from their page that allowed the thing to work. Then it wouldn't let you play multiplayer which is why I got it in the first place. I actually wrote the programmers and they gave me some run around crap and told me to try their new beta patch which didn't work either. That was probably 2 - 3 years ago and they never got past the beta update that they told me to try. The bastards. All their software sucks ass unlike Ambrosia.

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[This message has been edited by Guyman (edited 06-01-2001).]

Probably Earth 2140...That's a dumb game, and a terrible rip-off of Command and Conquer.


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I think the wors game I ever played was the great light bulb surch. you go around and try to find a light buld. The graphics where so bad it would have been a improvement in they wheren't there!

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I'm a bomb technician. If you see me running...try to keep up!--Rogan

Hmm... Talk about a bad-hair day for grammar!

As for my worst game... Probably Snoods since my whole school became addicted to it. I played it so much I think just seeing a little snood face makes me cringe.

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Hmmm... I agree with Captain Skyblade here.... Earth 2140 was just a terrible pile of crap. I also have a strong distaste for F.A.K.K Heavy Metal.

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...No, just joking! Don't shoot me!

Seriously, it's got to be the swarms of GameMaker Lite and HyperCard games that blow serious chunks. A select few are amazing, I'll admit that, but 90% of them are pure garbage.

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Hmm.. I know LOTS that I could name but I'll limit myself to 2.
1. Deadlock- I just HATED it! You could almost win, then the computer would move it's enire base just out of your attack range! Maybe it was a bug, but it sucked major ass.
2. Rainbow Six for PSX- Damned graphics sucked and the controls were screwy. I died more than once thx to the damed controls. It ends up so that you have to hit stuff like L1+R1+O to fire and that just gets damn annoying when an enemy is shooting you with an AK-47.


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Snakes Alive

A game that I came very close to beating and haven't since touched it for three years. Terrible because it is annoying.

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There is nothing like a catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button

Earth 2140 came to my mind as soon as I saw the question,
and then I saw that two others said the same.

I was appalled by the poor quality of what I saw in the demo.
Graphics. Sounds. Interface. Controls. Storyline. All wretched.

I wanted to like Epic, too, because they seem pretty involved
in development of material for the Mac.
Sorry excuse for commercialware.

I also remember thinking pretty poorly of Spaceship Warlock and
a couple of other examples in that genre. I think one called
Labyrinth, or some such.

That brings to mind Journeyman Project and Rebel Assault II.
Way too linear.

I was going to say something else, but I forgot what it was reading all the posts about the Earth 2K whatever demo. I never figured out of there was anything you could do in it before it hit the trash due to what I thought was a broken interface due to a bug or something. I remember laughing at the pathetic unit movement and firing mechanics and the fact that the units were practially copied and pasted out of C&C (which I don't like that much - blasted annoying unit death sounds - however I have a certain degree of respect for it).

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Worst game was one that I expected to be a game but wasn't. I bought Pyst, a parody of Myst, some years back expecting to be able to walk freely around a trash heap. Instead, it was a slideshow of about 10 pictures...$15 down the drain.

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I have to say Cythera. Having sleep troubles? Play a hour or two of this game!

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Avernum I and II. My brother likes it and plays it alot, but when I played it it SUCKED. It has a bad storyline, BAD characters, VERY bad graphics, and the 'turns' and 'battle mode' things just really sucked.

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Perhaps you should try Exile I and II, which Avernum I and II are remakes of. The turns and Battle mode you speak of are still there, but the graphics are a bit more likeable (none of this hokey isometric view stuff). Exile III and Blades of Exile are even better, since they have an improved interface, better graphics, and, in the case of Blades, you can use User-made scenarios (after you register, that is...) However, combat is still done the same way.

For worst game, it would be a toss-up between TeamAngband (annoying as heck to play) and that old Apple II game Apple Panic. I never did figure out the point to that one...

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Where's the beep?

Geez, I don't know.

It's a toss up between Driver (at least the demo) and Deadlock.

Driver because the audio sucks and the graphics are sub-par; and Deadlock because it is so freaking boring.



That makes two of us. Only two weeks to go!

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I am the magical fairy who can avoid crappy games! althou 4x4 Evolution was pretty crappy...

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Has anyone played clanlord? is it just me, or is that a really bad game? it's slow, needlessly boring, and just weak weak weak!!
AND there's also the little game called frankenstien: through the eyes of the monster...ugh...bad bad bad...even though it has a hilarious performance by timm Curry..ugh...nitemares

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A self important human once said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" but in the case of the [rocket launcher] you have one majorly explosive cigar!

[This message has been edited by Bean * (edited 06-05-2001).]

I hated Deadlock. I don't even know why I bought it or continued to play it in my spare time. That's the worst knockoff of Starcraft I ever did see.

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heh....I don't mind Deadlock, it's not THAT bad. As for bad games, the whole Tomb Raider series (change the record guys).

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uhh, knockoff of starcraft? they're two different types of games! ones a realtime strategy game, one is a turn based one. they are quite different.

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Not to mention that deadlock came out several years before starcraft.


Worst game ever? Windows

Or Daikatana, perhaps thundra.

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Tomb Raider. It's hopelessly bad: the graphics are obviously good, but everything else right down to the killing is bad.
Journeyman Project I kind of liked, but I would agree that Earth 2140 sucks.

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Let's see...they're diamonds on wheels. Cool.

Worst game ever? I've thought of it now.

Dogz. The fourth most pointless game in existence.

Third? The sequel, Catz.

Second? Oddballz.

What's the first you might ask? It's not a computer or console game.

It's the card game War, the biggest waste of time ever invented. I bet whoever invented War probably said to him or herself, "Zounds! I'll invent this card game, and when people play this card game, it will waste hours of their life they will never get back!!!
Mua haa haahaaahaaahhaaa!"

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[This message has been edited by DualBlade (edited 06-05-2001).]

oh...wait..I though of a game that's worse off than any mentioned before...it was a little game back on the Genesis years back called Lord of the Rings (I think)...horrible graphics, horrible gameplay...the only thing about it it was that there was a code taht let you replace the opening Naughty Dog logo with one of a topless woman...and a poorly drawn one at that! oh...and the old PSX game Shell Shock..or..somethin like that that had the squadron of black dudes taht dispensed justice around the world in tanks? cool premise..but...lets say it wasn't executed well..haha

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A self important human once said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" but in the case of the [rocket launcher] you have one majorly explosive cigar!

hmm.. my worst game? probably Cythera. so non-intuitive that i give up trying to use that bloody key on the door.. once i DID get past that 'tutorial', only to be able to wander around and die.

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Pascal - A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it.

I'll have to give some thought to the worst game, but a game that annoyed me recently was the demo for Sonic 2 for Dreamcast. Every time something cool is happening (like going through a loop), you can actually let go of the controller and realize you're not really playing, you're just watching. The computer takes over for you during the really cool stuff. That's lame.

Other bad games: Nanosaur, Bugdom, Cro-Mag Rally.

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"I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox

Snood? I have to disagree... but whatever.

For me, it's a toss-up between SimIsle, which was possibly the worst game Maxis ever made, and Final Fantasy 2. Ugh.

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Critical acclaim for Obormot:
"You think so highly of yourself that you're forced to view everyone else as complete morons."
"He can finish any conversation he's a witness to."
"He the world's foremost expert on everything."

and throwing her off a cliff and bashing her brains in ISN'T?

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Pascal - A programming language named after a man who would turn over in his grave if he knew about it.

I have played numerous games that I could easily consider "Bad". Some of them had cheap graphics, others had horrible storplay or music that annoyed the heck out of you, some were just plain cheap, but there was this one that was really bad. It was some kind of card game and it had some rather inappropriet pictures on it, but I won't go into detail. We deleted it immediately. I can definitely say that that game was one of the more worse games I've seen.

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I would say Hydlide, an "RPG" for the original NES. Maybe if it had had the instruction book included when I rented it, it might have been workable. As it was, I couldn't figure out how to leave the first map (some sort of strange building/maze thing surrounded by a grassy lawn), view my inventory, find out what was going on plot-wise, or attack the monsters who wandered randomly around within the building. In all seriousness, I couldn't figure out how to do *anything* except get killed by the monsters. Now that's a bad game.

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Another, this time real, horrible game:

Uncharted Waters: New Horizons for SNES. Endless and boring.

And by the way, I personally liked Cythera. If they made the game
window bigger, that would have been better, I'll admit that, but
it was like a new Ultima game, but better.

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"Oh, meltdown. It's one of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus."
-Mr. Burns

If you play the origional, it ain't that bad. It just takes to damn long to get ships to fight, and you're always worried about taking too little food and water so yuo get so much that you don't have the cargo space to make a profit.

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Stop that, you made my heart stop beating. I was just about to shoot when I scrolled down and saw you were kidding.

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Please don't write out of the space.

I rather like FF2, its a classic. What didn't you like about it?

and for my worst, it was to be Weekend Warrior, agh.

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The time to withstand the tides of battle is now. Set your defenses for you must not be swallowed by the madness.

You do realize that you can adjust the size of the main window to just about anything, right?

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Where's the beep?

Well, There are dozens of old NES games that majorly suck by today's standards. It's probably best to judge games in the context of their time.

Among PC games, the worst games are probably obscure freeware, or ones based on Barney/Bible/etc that are even more obscure... There are so mane sucky games it's hard to tell what's the worst.

I remember "Super Scope 6" for the SNES. THAT sucked. That was a waste of $50 (which was more like $70 back then).

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I can't believe everyone is dissin' Deadlock. That game kicks ass! I only have the demo, which only gives you 40 turns, but half the time I win, and thats enough to keep me hooked.

The worst game ever is Pokemon Yellow. Pokemon Red and Blue were OK, but Yellow just sucked ass.

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Angel came down from heaven yesterday.

I didn´t even know there existed pokenom games

All i know is my littlesister on seven realy likes them:rolleys:

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They're hellishly addictive, if game boy games can still make you suspend disbelief (lack therof is the reason I haven't "beat" pokemon, even though I wasted numerous hours on it).

Oh and to those who don't like Cythera, well what can I say... I always thought it was impossible for an Ambrosia game to be bad and Cythera was no exception for me; I absolutely loved it when it came out and I still do... It helps to have some notion of patience.

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hmm... the worst game I've ever played was BlackThorne, made wayyyy long ago by Blizzard. All the levels are "shoot the monster grab the bomb", and I always thought it was unrealistic to dodge bullets in hallways in a 2D-side scroller....

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Time is the best teacher, yet it kills all of it's students.

"Kill Bob"

You have to kill that Church of the Subgenius guy while his sayings appaer on the screen. If you shoot him, it sings "Bob loves bob loves you".

Addictive, but just plain stupid.

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I'll have to say that my least favourite game was Driver. I only played the demo, and although it was very addictive, I found it INCREDIBLY frustrating when the cop car just kept on driving into you (so much that I pounded on my keyboard, and unplugged my computer to shut it off).

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[This message has been edited by Lord Gwydion (edited 06-30-2001).]

POKEMON!!!!!!!!
IT'S SO STUPID!!!!!
it's a discrace of an RPG


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"There is no spoon." - Neo

can't count how many times i've done this (HSed too)

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"There is no spoon." - Neo

i've noticed alot of pplz saying driver and cythera
i think you ppl need to give it a chance, they are both VERY against mainstream games, but once you master the differences they are very enjoyable games

what makes driver hard is the INSAINLY low turning radious of the cars, the handbrake is ment to be your stearing wheel i recently beat it (w00t!) it unlocks bout 10 cheats and a new city! (w00tw00t!)

cythera has an odd GUI, but it's fun once you figure it out

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"There is no spoon." - Neo

haha same here at my school, so we loaded the tribes demo on like half the computers so we could have a real game, well kind of real...

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just take my post, and imagine everything is speeled right.

I thought it was quite intuitive, if a bit odd.

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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

if you can call it anything(this may be a bit off topic): Star Trek Starship Creator