The worst game youve played this generation (Debate) that you actually bought.

Its one of those topics butas the consoles get better, so to speak, are the games getting better. I can recall over the last 3 years some of the worst gaming moments ive ever experienced and im a guy who was playing ataris at the age they were targeted at. 7 ish.

I want this to be a thread which analyses the current games we are playing.What has been the worst game you have played over the last few years.

For me the all time worst for me was Lair.

I can remember waiting for e3 and all the game conventions and looking at how they presented this game. Mouth watering aint the word. Although i must say the production values of the game are up there butwhat was the point of that mammoth spend of money whensome of the top spotters at the momentcost 3x less.The gameplay was shockingly bad, controls were . . .well i think the less said the better. Ive recently put this game back in the system and really tried to make it work for me. The good news was that soon enough you got used to it, bad news is, ill never play the game again.

Games which are following this (bar shovelware which im not counting as they fit their purpose and probably make more revenue than they expect) are Hour of victory, Metal gear solid 3(email me for reasons if you really want, I didn't like it) and Haze. Just as a contrast the best, Oblivion, Halo3, Wipeout, Fallout, Forza 2, Gears 2, Punchout and Dead Space.

pretty easy.

For me it is Far Cry 2, the gameplay mechanics are really not well thought out (like doing the same exact mission 5-10 times to get a weapon you want).

It is overly repetitive, the respawning is a pain, and the story is somewhat skizofrenic, in execution (not a bad story in itself, just the execution).

The thing about FC 2 is that the game sounds so darn awesome, and when you play it, you can see the very good things about the game underneath the poor design.

The gfx engine is solid, sound aint bad, physics are allright, and thus it frustrates me even more that they had such an opputunity to make a really incredible game, but fell so short. I really wanted to like the game :\

In the end I hoped this would be a more polished, brighter STALKER like game, but no, it was anything but. The gamelength is stretched artificially, The illness (while I do get the political point they were making) is a pain, the same 4 missions over and over, and having to drive across the map all the time, it baffled me that each mission were as FAR away from you as humanly possible, and the monotonus respawning checkpointswere a pain in the end.

Bottom Line, It is the worst game I playied this gane, because it had the potential to be one of the best, butthey dropped the ball onsome of themost important things in a game

on console - Tomb Raider Underworld, its got so many glitches and bugs, it became really annoying (including plenty of game killing glitches)

on PC - Red Alert 3...... its not good, and I found it to be very boring

Boom Blox Bash Party. I really disliked that game.

Rainbow Six Vegas, the graphics don't hold up and the story is uninspiring.gbpackers94

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Ninja Gaiden 2 easily. I bought it thinking it would be good like NGB but I found broken mechanics, terrible camera, pathetic story, ridiculous characters, and unbalanced gameplay.

Too Human. That game was like feeding a donkey 10lbs of exlax, and then sticking your head up its ass.GodModeEnabled

i was actually happy with too human, i enjoyed the game and because basically no one else liked it i got it for £22 a week after release.

the worst game i played was face breaker...the create a player was fun, what with the use of photos and such...but the fighting was terrible, there was no steady progression of difficulty it was just a constant struggle to win every battle, i like a bit of a challenge in my games but it really wasn't fun.

Without a doubt Infinite Undiscovery. What the hell were they thinking?

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

I just remember that game having awful controls. At the time, I was playing this along with Call of Duty 2, which is way better.

pretty easy.

For me it is Far Cry 2, the gameplay mechanics are really not well thought out (like doing the same exact mission 5-10 times to get a weapon you want).

It is overly repetitive, the respawning is a pain, and the story is somewhat skizofrenic, in execution (not a bad story in itself, just the execution).

The thing about FC 2 is that the game sounds so darn awesome, and when you play it, you can see the very good things about the game underneath the poor design.

The gfx engine is solid, sound aint bad, physics are allright, and thus it frustrates me even more that they had such an opputunity to make a really incredible game, but fell so short. I really wanted to like the game :\

In the end I hoped this would be a more polished, brighter STALKER like game, but no, it was anything but. The gamelength is stretched artificially, The illness (while I do get the political point they were making) is a pain, the same 4 missions over and over, and having to drive across the map all the time, it baffled me that each mission were as FAR away from you as humanly possible, and the monotonus respawning checkpointswere a pain in the end.

Bottom Line, It is the worst game I playied this gane, because it had the potential to be one of the best, butthey dropped the ball onsome of themost important things in a game

Maddie_Larkin

I agree with everything this guy said.

I bought a few stinkers at EB at 5, like Vampire Rain and Superman Returns.

For me it's close between Far Cry 2 and Spore+Expansion. I did get Far Cry 2 for free so I'm going to have to say Spore was the worst game I bought so far this generation, sure there is a lot of content but it just isn't fun past a certain point.

The expansion for Spore did add a lot to the game as well but it honestly felt like it was made for children roughly around the age of eight or so, and I was faced with absolutely no challenge at all while playing Spore and the expansion.

I also found myself thinking about what could have been better about the game rather than what was good about it the majority of the time I was playing it. After beating once I uninstalled it right away and now it collects dust on the shelf :P .

Big Rigs (or whatever that truck game was called).

Indiana Jones and the staff of kings.

MGS4. Cool at first, brought down by moronic A.I., absolutely terrible so-called "storytelling", irrelevant, overly elaborate cutscenes that were made worse by lack ofcompetent editing, and other small issues I won't get into here. Funny thing is, it's the reason I bought a PS3. Traded it in and have no regrets.

Far Cry 2.

I hated it.

I HATED it.

Dark Sector. The game just flat would not run correctly, even though my software was fully updated and my hardware exceeded recommended requirements.

Fortunately, I was able to obtain a refund from the store.:)

Too Human. That game was like feeding a donkey 10lbs of exlax, and then sticking your head up its ass.GodModeEnabled

That would be Sonic and the Secret Rings, ugh... how could they screw up a Sonic game, especially on Wii.

Iam going to have to go with RSV2,

The game is pretty ugly, mulitplayer felt like such a hassle to even get in a match.

Also I have given the game a lot of chances, I have played the game quite a bit and every time I turn of the console in disgust.

Assassin's Creed; Too bland, too repetitive to even finish.

I rented Far Cry 2 but I'll mention it anyways because it was just so god damn awful. I'm baffled at the decent reviews it seemed to garner.

I don't buy games that I know are bad but I bought Prince of Persia and Valkyria Chronicles and didn't like either.

thats very easy. superman returns. the game is horribad....

MGS4. Cool at first, brought down by moronic A.I., absolutely terrible so-called "storytelling", irrelevant, overly elaborate cutscenes that were made worse by lack ofcompetent editing, and other small issues I won't get into here. Funny thing is, it's the reason I bought a PS3. Traded it in and have no regrets.

Rekunta

I bought Saint's Row 2 for PC. :(

It's horrible! :cry:

I rented Far Cry 2 but I'll mention it anyways because it was just so god damn awful. I'm baffled at the decent reviews it seemed to garner.

MrWednesday14

I regretted buying Lair.

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MGS4. Cool at first, brought down by moronic A.I., absolutely terrible so-called "storytelling", irrelevant, overly elaborate cutscenes that were made worse by lack ofcompetent editing, and other small issues I won't get into here. Funny thing is, it's the reason I bought a PS3. Traded it in and have no regrets.

crazboy84

I loved MGS and MGS 3. The original is one of the better games I own. MGS4 was something I wished to play, not to watch. The ratio of movie to gameplay was ridiculous. Even if the story was well written and told in a comprehensible manner, it STILL would have been too long.

As for the worst game this gen, that's in my opinion of course (not speaking objectively, MGS4 is obviously not the worst). I tend to dislike it even more because it's so worshipped when such glaring obvious flaws are right there staring people in the face. Despite what all say, MGS4 is not perfect. It's not the worst game this gen, but it certainly isn't the best.

Cross Edge is pretty bad. Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World is also a candidate from the little I've played of it.

Nothing in this generation.

The only bad games that I actually own are several Gameboy games.

Mirror's Edge.

Honestly, the most self-indulgent piece of crap to come out the backside of 2008. It's mostly a case of the game being pretentious beyond belief - the dialogue, the cutscenes, the story, the art style, the theme tune... it just wasn't something I attached to like a lot of other people did.

The game is horribly frustrating to play as well. The controls to pull off some of the more complex moves are too fiddly for my liking. The level design also doesn't owe itself well to one of the basic concepts of the game: speed. Pits of doom, tricky hallways full of acrobatics and tight corridors do nothing to show off the excellent sense of inertia that the game can produce. It's a real shame, as I could sense some potential gleaming through the muddy soup that was Mirror's Edge.