We argue a lot about the best game ever. How about the WORST game ever?
We argue a lot about the best game ever. How about the WORST game ever?
My__ favorite game
probably some worthless atari shovelware
depends on the metric
most impact on the game/console devs
least sales
most catastrophic damage to the industry as a whole
most trauma caused to players
genuinely just the lowest nothing quality piece of shit in existence
each metric has a different game to fill that local minimum
I vote for The Culling 2 as I'm pretty sure there were never enough players online for anyone to actually play it.
>most impact on the game/console devs
Daikatana singlehandedly destroyed Ion Storm and the career of the man who fucking made Doom
>least sales
>most catastrophic damage to the industry as a whole
>most trauma caused to players
>genuinely just the lowest nothing quality piece of shit in existence
Probably all ala E.T., an avalanche of garbage nothing games with square blocks going bleep boop with no real design, that were all so worthless they turned people off of buying video games entirely and crashed the video game industry for years.
Honestly Gollum is up there. Even discounting the bugs and horrid gameplay it's a game about being a miserable rat slave, too stupid and weak and broken to fight or resist against anyone, doing miserable slave tasks for no reward until you either die miserably or survive to drag yourself to another day of suffering.
it's a game about being a miserable rat slave, too stupid and weak and broken to fight or resist against anyone, doing miserable slave tasks for no reward until you either die miserably or survive to drag yourself to another day of suffering.
that accurately describes like 90% of Eastern European games and people love Stalker and Pathologic so i don't think that's necessarily a game ruiner
Concord is up there what with being a massive financial disaster
that's just the slavic experience in general
ZX Spectrum version of SQIJ!
an avalanche of garbage nothing games with square blocks going bleep boop with no real design, that were all so worthless they turned people off of buying video games entirely and crashed the video game industry for years.
Seems like history is soon to repeat itself with an endless tidal wave of low effort AI generated crap conjured up by talentless "ideas guys"
Sounds a lot like death stranding
More of a discussion about where the minimum "real game" bar is, otherwise it's just some random shovelware that barely functions at all.
make a game set in the LOTR universe
main timeline is already established; best you can do is side quests like Shadow of Mordor
put one of the most feral characters you could control into one of the most tame, restrictive environments imaginable
Seriously we should have been sneaking up behind people and tearing their ears off so we can steal their food, not cowering in the presence of fucking uruks.
have this character experience lore that amounts to fuckall as he's treated as a literal pething to be pitied
the entire adventure amounts to fuckall and can be mindwiped from the populace and nothing would change about humanity's future
What the FUCK were they thinking?
StarField and Concord lol
even then, I'm sure more enjoyment has been gotten from big rigs over the road racing than concord
DOOM: The Dark Flops
In terms of the game which personally offends me the most, it's a tie between Glitterman Grove and Tower Unite. The former because it killed the Frog Fractions 2 meme, the latter because the devs were huge faggots who DMCA'd any reuploads of GMod Tower content.
damn someone made a game about me??
I know this is a really normie take but aliens colonial marines was one of the most disappointing games out there although it didn’t really damage the gaming industry as a whole.
I figure the "worst game" would have to be something that isn't bad in a way you can laugh at. Something that is just unpleasant grey sludge, and not in an intentional way where that's the desired experience.
I'd say something like Bubsy 3D falls into that category, there's just not a thing to actually like about the game
No. The glitches made the game genuinely charming. Watch any streamer like Joseph Anderson play it. I think it was a really stupid game, but it knew what it wanted to be…a silly game about gollum. If you don’t think Gollum won the argument then you’re not heckin valid
I'd say something like Bubsy 3D falls into that category, there's just not a thing to actually like about the game
I think there's someone who would disagree with you on that. The game has speedrunners, so there's people extracting entertainment from it on some levels. I also enjoyed it as a dumbass 5 year old because of the goofy cartoon death animations.
Also I forgot to mention, Super Meat Boy Forever. The cutscenes are its only saving grace, otherwise that game can fucking burn in hell.
Multiplayer is passable. There's gotta be worse out there.
People speedrun literally anything.
youtu.be
Daikatana didn't destroy Romero. Romero destroyed Romero. He was an insufferable employee, after Wolfenstein 3D he quickly fell behind on the programming game and did nothing besides play Doom multiplayer during company hours until his eventual firing. He milked Eidos for contract money like a scumbag. He burned cash and drove people crazy in that penthouse for years while making Daikatana. By the time Quake 2 came out, Carmack was so far ahead in the game, Romero couldn't even comprehend the code anymore. But at least when it came to the tournament Carmack gave one of his Ferraris away, Romero was still at the top of his deathmatch game, for all that's worth.
Expedition 33, Black Myth Wukong, Space Marines 2
Wouldn't Gollum winning the argument meab it's the worst game?
Get out of here Carmack
Gollum is epic
Super Meat Boy getting a sequel is a pretty good idea.
Having it be a mobile type game with generated levels and autoscroll is not how to go about that idea.
Alien Hominid Invasion was disappointing too but I'd still call that game genuinely fun for a little bit. There just isn't much to the progression side of it.
Shut the fuck up
yeah, he was too busy spending his money on hookers and blow to realize video games require coding work
This piece of shit
I mostly agree, but I would say worst would be something that provides absolutely nothing at all. Maybe I'm just fucked up at this point, but a game that makes me angry, a game that makes me think in one way or another is genuinely preferable to a game that makes me feel nothing, because at least I can complain about a bad game. A mediocre, unremarkable game that does nothing well, but isn't even bad enough to complain about, it may as well not even exist.
For me personally in recent times: Elex 2.
That shit was actually lucky to be released one week after Elden Ring so it went completely under the radar of most people and would've otherwise probably ended up on a lot more "worst game of the year" lists.
ET nearly killed home consoles then SMB saved it. So that's the worst and best game as far as console babbies are concerned
Genuinely the most miserable experience I've had playing a game.
Funnily enough, Gollum isn't even the worst LOTR game, that would go to this stupid piece of shit
Bubsy 3D isn't that terrible. It's just very very clunky and difficult to understand when you've had SM64 as a basis for 3D platforming (which released a month before meaning that it didn't have any basis to do 3D platforming well). It's not good and I'm not tempted to replay it, but it does get a lot of shit for no reason, especially when the SNES Bubsy games were much worse.
Lmao
For me it's God of War Ragnarok and TLOU 2.
I get to shoot people in Stalker and slay monsters in the void (it's also got sexy eye candy)
can't do shit that's cool in gollum
At least Shadow of Mordor and War were actual fun games that made you feel like a badass
Fuck you Amung the Elder and Blorg the Corrupter I hope you die in orc hell for the brief moments you were a warchief and my arch nemesis
Well, I don't think any game has made me more mad than Cyberpunk, so I'm going with 2077.
Elden Ring
Elden Ring is the best game released in over half a decade at least
As if Carmack was a saint. You should know how Quake's development went as well. Carmack giving grades to people's performances and turning the office into big brother. Let's not pretend either of these people were infallible.
Daikatana singlehandedly destroyed Ion Storm
They did make Anachronox after it. It was alright game. And it's not like it was long established studio.
Big Rigs over the road racing might have been the worst at some point, but I'm sure you can find plenty of worse unfinished broken messes on steam. It's only notable because it released in a completely broken state when that was basically unheard of. Excluding completely broken games, or obscure shovelware, ET might be the worst, but I've never actually played it.
So honorable mention to Superman 64 for being the biggest piece of shit I've actually played. The multiplayer was really the highlight of that game.
That sandnigger Uncharted rip-off was hilariously bad.
Dumbass fromshill
sounds like a girl's average Sims game
That sounds like Fear and Hunger
Dustborn somehow is more shit due to the sum of its parts.
obscure shovelware
It would take months to just find and list even a fraction of it all. There's so many worthless games, most people don't even have a concept of it.
all those bargain games they've tried to sell you at Office Max and Staples for the last 30 years
the 10000 games/programs made by whoever for the Commodore 64
all the long forgotten awful shit made for Colecovision, Atari 7800, and Intellivision
1600+ Wii games and most of them are straight to Target $20 slop where you juggle babies or some shit
So many of them are literally unfinished, untested junk that barely works. Shovelware.
The worst shovelware I personally ever encountered was a PC RPG I bought from Staples in 2005 for $5. It was a Baldur's Gate 1 rip off but done cheaply like it's an NES game. You could only get to level 3 and then there was no where else to go. Like one hour of content. I think it was called Avida or Arcana, something with an A. Waste of $5.
Even Wild Woody has speedruns, I don’t think that’s a sign of a game being good
I wish the game could've been something more like a Gollum life simulator. Explore caves, hunt for food, fight weaker enemies, avoid stronger ones, maybe for a story he loses the ring and needs to find it but that's pretty much it. None of this silly business of all this epic LOTR stuff going on except you're a weakling who can't participate in the actual story going on.
the only gollum webm you'll ever need
I don't think so
That sounds like Scorn.
You guys remember Scorn? What a fucking piece of shit nothing burger avant garde piece of crap that was. A true fart in the wind.
ENTER
me when I post a sóyjak handcrafted specifically for the situation
KEKAROO
ENTER
Custer's Revenge, easily.
Probably super 64 or some obscure DOS game
nah this game is at least funny and the concept is kinda cool its just how shit the game is I think concord is the worst game ever made desu just from all the background stuff graphics characters everything was just trash
I have no idea why Sony wanted to make THIS playable on modern hardware of all things
ET might be the worst,
ET doesn't make sense, it's mystifyingly complex for a 2600 game with one button, but it's finished and you can play it through.
There's shit that came out around the same time as ET that's not even half as polished. ET was the straw that broke the camel's back. Everyone was sick of shovelware and then this difficult licensed game based on a popular IP got churned out and everyone just lost their faith in the video game market.
Genuinely, the worst horror game I've ever played.
Desert Bus
Power Wash Simulator
games made to torture people
Not even the worst JRPG on PSP; games like Dragoneer's Aria or Mimana Iyar Chronicle are way worse.
Power Wash Simulator is quite popular and rated well tho.
I hate arthouse trash that uses shit JRPG gameplay but tries to make up for it with "le atmosphere". Undertale, OFF, Omori, Black Souls, Yiik, Persona, etc.... horrible fucking games. Vidya's equivalent of $200,000 tax evasion paintings of splatters being gawked at by media outlets and critics.
For sure these games have the biggest disconnect between the mountains of praise they get and the wretched "quality" they have. Everybody shits on the low-effort movie tie ins or app store shovelware, yet at any given moment Deltatroons or Expedition 33 faggots will have a dozen threads sucking those game's cocks.... disgusting.
One of those was made by the same developer I think
It wouldn't even be that horrible if the movement and battle speed wasn't so fucking slow
That's what you got when you only have two rating options so "it's alright" count the same as "it's amazing". Five stars system would be much better. Or at least give me the middle "mixed feeling" option for bloody sake.
I think there's someone who would disagree with you on that
ulillillia?
Think gollum studio had some sort of weird investor bullshit going on where a guy gutted the company, didnt hire any talent to do their 3d game and then sold it off to some investment firm.
They made competent 2d puzzle adventure games prior to it.
Persona's popularity feels a lot more organic to be fair. The setting and character dynamics appealed to a lot of people the wider SMT series hadn't up until that point.
This fucking game, horrible and unfun puzzles, poorly done combat, slow movement, technically disastrous, has an outrageous and clunky frame rate, stupid story, this game is the definition of 'bad'.
Yup, Daedalic. It's a sad story.
Man, this was one of my first GBA games, and it was really bad.
It was like a horribly unbalanced JRPG with incredibly slow animations and ugly graphics. Gandalf in particular looks horribly hunchbacked.
But at least when it came to the tournament Carmack gave one of his Ferraris away, Romero was still at the top of his deathmatch game, for all that's worth.
Be honest Anon Babble. If Romero challenged you to a high stakes game of Doom 2 DM where the loser has to suck the winner's dick at any given time the winner wants for an entire year, would you feel confident enough to challenge him today?
1v1 DM, Dwango5 MAP07 of course.
gollum is a sony moviegame without all the polish and paid reviews
i remember playing the demo and it was mostly very meh in all categories except the god awful VA
Fallout 76. I don't think a game should be considered the worst ever just for being buggy, and yet F76 managed to not only be buggy as shit on release but to also have some of the worst art design, gameplay, sound design, and writing of any game ever released. For any other game I can highlight some positive things about it, even if they're insignificant. There's nothing noteworthy to say about F76 besides it being an asset flip that managed to be universally awful in every way imaginable.
that reminds me
youtube.com
People play those games for the writing, music, visuals and etc. Not everything is about the gameplay you retard. Also Undertale barely plays like standard JRPGs its more like a bullet hell.
I remember making this when this game came out lol