Bad games to avoid...

[Oberron]

Yeh, Reactor. The audio is a mix of decent to unfitting. The soundtrack never shuts up and the only way to shut it up is to go into options. Air Control is a contender for the worst game ever, read Gamespot's review.

[Big C]

Dear Overkill Software:

I used to love Payday 2.

Not anymore.


With no love whatsoever,
~Big C

[wildweasel]

Today, in "Games I Bought Because They Looked Weird and Cost Less Than A Dollar":

Egg Returns Home.

I imagine the dev(s?) of this game wanted to bank entirely on their really weird concept of a physicsy egg with a moustache bouncing through levels, and didn't really think about how the physics and controls do not work well together and there's not really much of a reason to play it because the fact that the game even exists is the only real payoff of it.

[Kombine]

Dear Overkill Software:

I used to love Payday 2.

Not anymore.


With no love whatsoever,
~Big C

I feel the same way about Valve and Team Fortress 2.

[gerolf]

Gore Galore and Depth Dwellers are two of the worst FPS games ever.

Casper for PS1, X-Squad for PS2, and Forsaken 64 (though hearing Duke Nukem talk in it was cool) are also some I have on my list.

[Clownman]

Count how many stolen Duke and Doom assests are in here.

[TheBadHustlex]

I don't see your problem. I'd love to go to Satan World.

Honestly, it looks like an old TC that lacked a bit of polish.

[Clownman]

Also that voice acting may be quite possibly the best "worst" I have ever heard honestly.

"KIZZA MY ASS"

Dear Overkill Software:

I used to love Payday 2.

Not anymore.


With no love whatsoever,
~Big C

I swear to god Microtransactions is going to fucking kill gaming.

[Oberron]

Engrish at its best. OK, moving on. Streets of SimCity is a poor game, plagued by bugs, and un-recoverable errors. The reason why it sucks: Adversaries are spaztic, the control is lame, the graphics look bad with ugly texturing, and low framerate on a Pentium 3. So get a Pentium MMX instead if you want to run this broken game. On top of that, the game is past the radar, and one of the songs in-game is past the ESRB rating, along side the word "crap" being used. Other 90's games like Close Combat, had cattle carcasses (and blood effects) on the gravel, Atomic Bomberman having cuss-words used for NO REASON, (this was possibly a joke by the developers) Albion had nearly visible breasts (this led into controversy!) and Motorhead, which had weird moaning noises. But heck, do not attempt to run it on a XP machine... this could lead to AI going up and down, the vehicle going uncontrolable, and of course you'll launch into air if you crash sometimes.. other issues lead like having to go through trees and fuel stations.

[Boreas249]

Count how many stolen Duke and Doom assests are in here.

And Hexen. And Radix...

Dat midi track tho... *barf*

Lmao and what's up with the Predators being the main alien race? What...

Gold, just gold right there.

[Reactor]

Here are some more bad PC games to look (don't look) at:

Akimbo kung-fu fighter
Well I'm glad the 2D-platformer genre is not dead, but when I actually played this crap, I thought otherwise for a short time. This game should not be made at all. It look all-right, even the visuals are acceptable and the graphics are nice Prehistorik 2-style,but the gameplay itself is horrible. First of all, the game speed is unimaginibly slow, it nearly takes 5 seconds just to walk a metre long distance, the hit detection is very piss-poor, enemies are ridiculous, and the one-hit deaths heavily sabotage all the progress you make. Fighting is also extremely disappointing. The game has a few redeeming factors alright, like many different levels in many environments, secret places all over the levels, and a somewhat good music.

Heat of war
Did I mention this game before? Wouldn't be surprised, this game is so outstandingly bad, I'd warn the entire population of Earth not to play it. What we got here this time is a Japanese-themed FPS shooter from City Interactive with millions of serious gameplay bugs. These include little to no ammunition, shitty and unusable weapons (the knife, on the other hand, is an instant kill), absolutely no medikits whatsoever, serious clipping errors, stupid AI,a catastrophic saving system, and awkward hit detection. It does have a few good features, such as color war footages, collecting souvenir items, but that's about it. Avoid at all costs.

Marine heavy gunner Vietnám
I've already talked about this game with Sgt. Shivers, as far as I remember. This is one of the better made City Interactive games, however, it's still an unimaginibly glitchy and boring game. At most of the time - around 90% - you're just sitting in place glued to a gun, and shoot enemies as they appear, much like Frontline Berlin. The game crashes constantly, especially when loading a saved game, and you can't even quit when this happens. The friendly AI is deplorably bad, your fellow soldiers are completely useless. Thankfully, there are medikits, enough ammo, and you can actually save yer game wherever you wish (it'll crash anyway).

Power Surge
This...thing here...was meant to be a drag racing game. Only drag racing, nothing more, so it gets extremely boring after 5 minutes. And once you figure out that all y'need to do is set the timer, you shall win every race, you don't even need to beat the opponent at all. It's not possible to complete the game anyways, since it crashes when selecting the third course (and yes, the game features only 3 courses alltogether).

Scooter Pro
Ugh, this piece of turd makes me want to play a Glassyman wad. Basically what we got here is a scooter "simulator", where you need to navigate a guy on a scooter thru an obstacle course, obtaining X-tokens. Once you grab them all, the level is finished. Or is it? Oh no no no no, you stay there for about 10 more levels, collecting the same tokens, only in different colour and different order! The controls are beyond god-awful: unless you go, like, 1 meter per hour, you can't steer or go backwards at all, the scooter will just slide straight like it's on ice. Jumping is also next to impossible, but it's unusable as well since you can't really dodge anything by jumping (must be some kind of infinite vertical hit-detection problem). All in all, you won't even advance from the first level, so the best idea alltogether is to skip this clunker.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

i remember Medievil: Resurrection being rather terrible myself. i played it for about 10 minutes and turned it off and never came back to it. admittedly, i never owned the first Medievil, so i don't know if the base game was any better, but considering that the wikipedia page mentions the developers of the original game not being quite what they expected, i guess i'm not in the wrong here.

Worms: Open Warfare 2 is also not very fun. sure, you can create levels, but the physics in the game aren't very fun to deal with, the humor kind of falls flat, and the music is really boring. there are better Worms games out there. in fact, i'd wholly recommend Worms 3D or Worms 4 Mayhem over it, if only because i actually liked the single-player a lot in those two games (seriously, they're a lot better and more imaginative than any of the other 2D ones. and i know this is a multiplayer series, but i rarely if ever had anyone to play the games with.)

[YukiHerz]

I'm gonna add White Knight Chronicles Origins to this thread.

I've played far too many psp games to be counted, but none was as much of a letdown as that game, terrible gameplay, unpolished visually, shouldn't have been released at all, at the end of the day i removed it and kept playing Phantasy Star Portable 2 and Toukiden Kiwami.

[TheMightyHeracross]

I feel the same way about Valve and Team Fortress 2.

How come?

[Clownman]

Sonic 2006 is the worst the Blue Blur has had, huh?

Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sonic Free Riders say otherwise, honestly: at least 06 is somewhat functional. ((I can't believe I am saying that.))



Especially don't play Free Riders unless you want to fracture your own bones.