What's the worst game you have ever bought ?

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invunerable with 3-4 artifacts 2 hours into the game, easy as pie from there, that and bioshock, this fake fps/RPG genre people are trying to start, they increase stats of the "hero" and everyone else stays mostly the same. Both games are semi challenging for a hour or two then its 4-10 hours or running about with a care in the world almost completely invunerable and no punishment for dying on the rare occasion you would. Also a lack of, well, change, lack of increase in difficulty which is really one of the main staples of FPS play, more and harder bad guys slightly offset but more and better weapons and more ammo for better weapons the further into the game you get. Bio and Stalker completely ignored that part.

Also the best battles in Stalker are the scripted ones , even the first farmhouse but mainly the car junk yard, where they actually track you down and search, spread out, get you in crossfire. The rest of the game you suddenly can shoot from range and most of the unscripted "natural" AI simply had them run to the nearest thing to hide behind and run from one end of it to the other. Complete tosh.

I hate that people seem to link linear gameplay and scripted events, sure you can have both together, many games do, and many games do it brilliantly. At the end of the day AI will never be "fantastic" it might get merely good, while a scripted event can bypass 90% of the bad AI as a real human with a brain that can use real tactics can fight you.

THats essentially what happened in that stalker junkyard fight, you're playing against a human opponent moving his units where he wants in an inteligent way to kill you, which is basically missing in unscripted attacks.

Both games have all the best content in the first hour or two and then complete boredom with that feeling of finishing for the sake of finishing rather than really wanting to. Bioshock especially Big daddies way to early in the game, then they become insanely easy to kill very quickly and nothing bigger and badder comes along to be smacked about.
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Did you try playing the games on a higher difficulty?
 
I bought numerous Amstrad CPC games back in the late 1980's that were utterly appalling and far too obscure to mention here. But seeing as most of them only cost two quid, you couldn't really argue too much. :D

Since then I've had a reasonable knack of avoiding the real dross, with the notable exception of Frontier: First Encounters. I will never know what the developers were thinking making that. They took Frontier: Elite 2 and removed everything that made it a fantastic game.

More recently, the worst titles I've bought would be Arma (and this is from a Flashpoint fanboy) and Star Wars: Empire at War. The latter being so bad I bought it twice just to see if it really was as bad as I remembered. It was, and I resold it a week later.
 
I've bought literally hundreds of games for a plethora of systems over the years.

I was short of ideas for the absolute worst until somebody mentioned Ghostbusters 2. I had that on the Spectrum and it sure was ****. Nobody I knew at the time could get five minutes into the game.

No swearing. Please star the words out fully - Zefan.
 
Vanguard: Sage of Heroes.

Bought a spare copy off a friend for £5. And that was £5 too much. I started it about 2 months after it had come out, so I only saw single digit players during my attempt to reach level 20.

Found everything such a chore that I wasn't even tempted take advantage of a free month of subs around December time.
 
Chesterpot said:
Did you try playing the games on a higher difficulty?
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yes, with artifcats you can get one with what i forget, i think +400% health -100% bleeding, 3 of those were VERY easy to find very early on, thats +1200% health and bleeding , which is a pretty much the biggest damage you take, is reduced by 300%, which means you stop bleeding almost instantly.

The first weapons are poor the basic AK you stop, kneel, aim at same spot on wall at any distance and it would literally go anywhere, completely unrealistic. You get the modded AK and do the same thing and half your shots are instantly pinpoint accuracy and do more damage, most weapons from then on are ludicrously accurate and they only get more powerful and as i mentioned, theres no hard fights at all in the game past the junk yard as the AI refuse to search and attack you en masse, you can shoot people from range and they just run around a block of concrete letting you head shot them one at a time without taking a single shot. AI, poor, RPG increase in stats are massive and the enemies get easier and more stupid due to lack of real fights.
 
Lunatic Dreyfus said:
More recently, the worst titles I've bought would be Arma (and this is from a Flashpoint fanboy) and Star Wars: Empire at War. The latter being so bad I bought it twice just to see if it really was as bad as I remembered. It was, and I resold it a week later.
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LOL, so bad i bought it twice :p

Other than Stalker and Bioshock, well i don't know. ITs so hard to remember how good a game actually was rather than how much you didn't like it compared to some other game out at the same time. I loved SOF2 so my standard was raised for other games, i also seem to have a really bad memory for things i didn't like, i just forget about them.

I really disliked Perfect Dark, again though because Goldeneye was "THE" game of the era really, it was just a prettier version, but to ofset the higher graphical quality they had to give it that blury/hazy feel to hide that it was slower.

Then you can probably safely put about 90% of tv show/film spin off games into the category of so bad they are unplayable.
 
In absolute terms, I'm not sure.

Relative to my expectations, Deus Ex 2, without a doubt.

After the masterpeice that was DX, this substandard piece of bug-riddled tripe was hard to stomach. Universal ammo? Come on...
 
I'm surprised no one has gone for Two Worlds in this thread.

Or does no one want to admit to buying that monstrosity of leasure activity:p

**I understand even pirates/downloaders have been returning it for a refund:o
 
worst game ive EVER bought has to be when i was quite young, back in the days when the SNES was the most up to date console lol, i remember buying animaniacs the game, and right after buying it i distinctly remember walking out the shop and on the way out seeing super marios time machine on another shelf

when i got home i was so annoyed that the game i bought was crap and really really wanted the mario one :p
 
Neverwinter Nights 2 - rubbish camera, rubbish interface, rubbish controls, rubbish.
Unlimited Saga - looked somewhat nice, but turned out to the most boring piece of crap ever. Came in a nice box, had a demo of FFX-2 (with gameplay that you didn't get in the actual game) but was awful. Worst Squeenix game I've played.
 
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