Worst game(s) you ever paid good money for?

[nokori3byo]

Yeah yeah, so any of us could drone on for days about the worst games we've seen or played, but what about the ones you actually paid for? Did anyone actually buy "Drake of the 99 Dragons"? Has anyone ever bought a good, knowing full well that it would be bad, just for shits and giggles?

My top pick would be:

Pacific Strike (PC, 1994) I picked this up thinking it would be a worthwhile melange of the sci-fi classic Wing Commander and grittier WWII flight sims of the time. What a disappointment. You could fly Japanese planes, but if you looked out the left side of the cockpit you could see American insignia on the wings!! What kind of cutrate nonsense is that? Also, I once survived crashing directly in to the bridge of a Japanese carrier. I then flew my kite back to base and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for my imporbable deeds.

[Dog--]

I actually PAYED for this HORRIBLE game, it was so TERRIBLE.. I.. I just.. It's really bad, ok. It was called HALF-LIFE 2. TERRIBLE!

..

hehe.. I'm joking.. Put the pitchforks and torches away, please..


My real answer to the thread would be Fantavision for the PS2. Full price.. ugh.. It was at PS2 launch, and I thought it'd have spectacular graphics to showcase the power of PS2.. omg.. It's just really bad.. I'm also cursed with keeping this game, because when I try to sell it to EB games or something, they don't take it, not even for free (yes, I've offered it to them for free).

[Qonfused]

Stuntman.

And "WCW vs. NWO" for the original Playstation. It was $80. Yeah, $80 for the PS1. For some shitty wrestling game. Sigh.

[Tick]

Guild Wars

[Jintor]

Crash Bash.

Actually, maybe Pac Man World.

[Qonfused]

Actually, maybe Pac Man World.

That was an awesome game. :(

[TCfromBN]

Guild Wars???

What?? That game lasted me an entire year. Just the origional.


I'd have to say... Hitman: Blood Money for x360. It was over too fast and almost no replay value imo.

[AmishSlayer]

Doom 3

[nokori3byo]

I actually PAYED for this HORRIBLE game, it was so TERRIBLE.. I.. I just.. It's really bad, ok. It was called HALF-LIFE 2. TERRIBLE!

..

hehe.. I'm joking.. Put the pitchforks and torches away, please..



It's a good thing HL2 didn't suck. Valve payed 40 million dollars of good money for that one.

[Darkside55]

Few years back I moved to a new apartment and had no internet (was waiting for them to put DSL in the area and cable wasn't an option at the time), and I was fiending for TFC.

So I went out and bought Quake 3 Team Arena.

I look back and think, "I must've been possessed."

[KagePrototype]

Killzone.

Seriously, it was such utter bollocks. Why do people still like it urgh >.<

[$kelet0r]

Lock On Modern Air Combat - dunno about the game but I bought it and only discovered afterwards that it came bundled with the ever delightful starforce

I don't think I've ever bought a bad game ... although Medal of Honour was probably the least worthwhile

[MadThief]

Gears of war for having horrible non next gen MP and it felt rushed. Halo 2 for not being fun PERIOD!

[Robert-]

Tony Hawk's Project 8 on PSP. Worst mistake I ever made.

[Combine Hybrid]

final fantasy 7

this game can go to ****ing hell

[Bad^Hat]

^ NO U.

Call of Duty 3 for X360. I'm actually a fan of the series, and it wasn't really an awful game, but it felt a waste considering the single player was over in a day and I honestly just could not get the multiplayer to work. Even after they patched it, even after I tried that port forwarding crap, to this day it just sucks and won't let me into any games. Other 360 titles - no problems.

Add to that the fact that I traded a few of my older games in to EB to get it cheaper. In retrospect that was pretty ****ing stupid...

[RoyaleWithCheese]

I loved the sp for COD3 xbox360, it took me a week on veteran, heh

But I'd have to say: soldner. What a piece of crap that was.

[Beerdude26]

Ebola. A friend of mine paid like 40 euros for it. It's so incredibly bad, history itself has attempted to erase it. It's already done it for the web

[Warbie]

Gears of war for having horrible non next gen MP and it felt rushed

Gah! GoW is the most 'next gen' multiplayer game i've played this generation. An excellent tactical teambased shooter and a breath of fresh air.

With the amount of reviews floating around these days it's quite easy to avoid shite games. Disappointing ones are more of a problem for me. PDZ, Mario Sunshine and MK Double Dash are guilty of not being what they should have been!

[Shift]

The worse would be 007: Rogue Agent for the Gamecube, payed like 35 quid for it and it was absultely shocking.

Others would be Call of Duty 3, I couldn't even be bothered finishing it, it was just Call of Duty 2 with much, much crapper missions, the tank missions had me in stiches because of how shit they were. Im a huge fan of the series too.

Hitman: Blood Money, I barely got halfway with it, I mean the balance was all wrong, yeah ok, you can create accidents and get Silent Assasin, so you went and did that in every mission. You are given all these high powered weapons, but you dont want to use them, hard to explain really. The AI was absultely terrible.

GRAW 2, brought it when it came out so it cost around 35 quid. Very, very average, the battle system was just lackluster, and about as gripping as a modern day horror film. Barely got halfway through before I gave up.

Spiderman 3 started off very promisingly but as you get deeper into the game it just becomes ludicrous, mainly the battle system. Becomes incredibly tedious, and you are put into impossible fights, like 10 enemies that take about 200 hits each to die, not only that but their attacks are majorily damaging and you cant even stay mid air because they have ranged attacks too. You are forced to just button bash until your hands bleed, which puts a waste to numerous combos you get, and STILL you die.

Just Cause I felt was just an average version of GTA with lots of explosions. Very short storyline, tedious mini missions, poor graphics, poor combat system and some of the worst AI I have ever seen.

Eve Online started well, but just decended into it a blackhole of tedium. Luckily I had only payed for one month before realising the mistake, so I cancelled it immediately.

[Darkside55]

I left my review of EVE Online in the "Games You Recently Played" thread.

Good God, if I would have paid for it, I would've shot myself. I could not have lived with such a mistake; that's a blemish that marks you for life.

For LIFE!

[Beerdude26]

Oh, and I also wasted cash on Hesperian Wars. God, that game was shitty.

[Sui]

Heh, I usually just read reviews and avoid all the shite.

[Lt. Drebin]

Far Cry...dear god. Far Cry, to me, was like playing through a Uwe Boll directed game. Yes, I know he's directing the movie...so, it should be just as bad as the game. At least he's not gonna trash a beloved franchise.

Killzone is #2 for me. Speaks for itself. A great looking turd.

[Shadow-warrior]

Oblivion and NWN2.

Horrible uninspired peices of junk, following on from excellent games before, dumbed down buggy shiney bouncey crap for the masses.

[Warbie]

Was NWN2 that bad? I always found the first to be a poor mans Baldur's Gate, saved only by the multiplayer, and was hoping the sequel would be a return to form.

[Samon]

Pariah.

[Darkside55]

Heh, I usually just read reviews and avoid all the shite.
That unfortunately doesn't always work. Numerous mags and online sites gave Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance rave reviews.

Never have I returned a game so fast after renting it. Literally five minutes. One battle was all it took. Now I can't trust anybody on video games.

[Asuka]

Pariah is all i have to say...

[MadThief]

Gah! GoW is the most 'next gen' multiplayer game i've played this generation. An excellent tactical teambased shooter and a breath of fresh air.

With the amount of reviews floating around these days it's quite easy to avoid shite games. Disappointing ones are more of a problem for me. PDZ, Mario Sunshine and MK Double Dash are guilty of not being what they should have been!

I said that because it mimicked CS (expect that you switched sides each round)and it copied Winback and Killswitch (even though KS copied Winback).
If you look at the MP maps their is nothing next gen about them: mirrored levels, copy pasted cars and textures. Thats why GOW was a waste of my money and my opinion on why it's not a next gen game.

[Loke]

The Bouncer probably, I didn't pay full price for it though as I bought it from a friend.

[Jintor]

That was an awesome game. :(

Don't blame me, I played it when I was 10.

[lePobz]

Crystal Kingdom Dizzy - in 1992 for my 128k Spectrum +2.

I saved up lots of pocket money for this game, It cost about 12gbp which was a lot of money for a game back then. Anyway, I took it home, played it, and couldn't get off like the first 3 screens. It was so completely insanely frustrating... I remember crying about it. I was just a child.

Dizzy, why did you betray me?

[Blinxx]

The Sims 2.

Oh the days of being addicted to the Sims.../shudder. We've all been there...right?

[soulslicer]

how can you see d3 sucked. i think it was good..

[Aki]

Pariah.

Oh god. Seconded.

At first, it didn't seem so bad. And the health system was actually kinda nifty, better than "walk on medpack to regain health".

Then the story went to absolute shit and just getting worse. Especially in Anvil or whatever. Guys are fighting, and I'm like "WTF is this shit. What the hell is going on here?". Culminating in the worst ending for a game in which the boss had to be fought tooth and nail.

ARGH... :sniper:

[Samon]

Don't forget shit gameplay.

[Aki]

Don't forget shit gameplay.

Yeah, the gameplay wasn't too good, but still, the story has to be my biggest complaint. How can anyone even begin to think "This is a well-structured and satisfying game plot"?

[Samon]

Oh, yeah, it was horrible. Made no sense, was poorly written, and just sucked the big one. I ****ing rofled hard when I learnt the character I was playing was working for the bad guys all along.

[Warbie]

This talk of Pariah has reminded me of Unreal 2. Bought cheap under the assumption it really can't be that bad - after all, the original was a fps great - yet was horribly wrong. Total shite.

[Evo]

The ID collection....Samon told me something about it two days later

D:

[Aki]

Oh, yeah, it was horrible. Made no sense, was poorly written, and just sucked the big one. I ****ing rofled hard when I learnt the character I was playing was working for the bad guys all along.

I rofled at the boss fight before that, myself.

I HAS A VIRUS, SO I CAN DRAW ULTIMATE POWAR FROM GENERATOR THINGS. :laugh:

Oh, and the way the shroud assassin treats it as if this virus was "The Force", saying how you're powerful but inexperienced and shit.

[Gorgon]

The Matrix :| PC

[Samon]

I rofled at the boss fight before that, myself.
I HAS A VIRUS, SO I CAN DRAW ULTIMATE POWAR FROM GENERATOR THINGS. :laugh:

That didn't even make ****ing sense. Mason had the virus, and so did the woman, so why didn't they draw power from those generators? Why did the bad black guy have a shield thing? What the **** were those generators...why were they there? What did they do? It's a ****ing Dam. It has nothing to do with the virus. Also, "Escape from the bad guy." So you spend the level escaping, but somehow bump into him in his chamber anyway.

Wow. I hate Pariah. I could tear it about fifty assholes.

[Beerdude26]

This talk of Pariah has reminded me of Unreal 2. Bought cheap under the assumption it really can't be that bad - after all, the original was a fps great - yet was horribly wrong. Total shite.Oddly enough, I rather liked Unreal 2 (it seems that everyone on this forums wants it to die a horrible and painful death). Maybe the story wasn't incredible, but SURELY that was corrected by your briefer's gigantic cleavage?

[KagePrototype]

This talk of Pariah has reminded me of Unreal 2. Bought cheap under the assumption it really can't be that bad - after all, the original was a fps great - yet was horribly wrong. Total shite.

I remember PC ZONE giving it 95%, lulling me into a false sense of hope.

I avoid magazines like the plague now. >.<

[Harryz]

That Matrix game for the PS2, what was it called?

[Tarkus]

That Matrix game for the PS2, what was it called?

Enter the Matrix, and yeah, also bought it for full price and also was dissapointed

[Nabobalis]

Maelstrom springs to mind, will need to check my collection because I have quite a few shit games that I played good money for.

[phantomdesign]

Doom 3 ("It's the game that never ends, it goes on and on my friend! People started playing it not knowing what it wassss! PEople started playing it for ever just because . . . ")
World of Warcraft (The real price? Your soul!)
Oblivion (the game that never was)
Thief 3 / Deus Ex 2 (same game, just awful, and WTF at the level design?)
Halo PC (I only paid $5)

[Warbie]

World of Warcraft (The real price? Your soul!)

Amen brother. I'm suprised by the the hole that WoW has left after giving up.

[Bad^Hat]

Hmm... even though I enjoyed a good portion of my time on it, I'm gonna have to say WoW too, just for the sheer cost of it when it all adds up. I've actually been meaning to calculate just how much money I've put into it, but I know it's gonna make me wanna confiscate my own balls.

[L3adCannon]

Battlefield 2
Counter-Strike Source

[sea]

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on the GameCube. What a load of shit. I pirated it on the PC soon after because I was so frustrated with how mediocre the Nintendo version is.

[Warbie]

Hmm... even though I enjoyed a good portion of my time on it, I'm gonna have to say WoW too, just for the sheer cost of it when it all adds up. I've actually been meaning to calculate just how much money I've put into it, but I know it's gonna make me wanna confiscate my own balls.

It's not the money that's scary - it's the time put in. I stopped checking /played months and months ago as it was too disturbing. I guess the same could be said about most people and watching the tv, but still, it's not healthy to spend this long playing any game.

For the Horde!! ahem. I don't miss it. Really :/

[CR0M]

Unreal 2 - craaaap storyline, characters, graphics and AI.
Freelancer - craaaap storyline, characters, graphics and AI.
Chrome - craaaap storyline, characters, graphics and AI.
Gothic 3 - didn't work. still doesn't work. will never work.

Chrome I actually got refunded at PC World. The other 3 I gave away.

[dekstar]

Counter-Strike Source
... Because you suck at it :).

Uhm for me it would probably be Quake 3 for the Ps2. I honestly don't know that the hell I was doing but really. GAH. No keyboard/mouse support either that UT has at least.

@ Phantom. I know loads of people hate Deus Ex 2, but I actually liked it better than Deus Ex 1. that's just my opinion though.

[phantomdesign]

It's not the money that's scary - it's the time put in. I stopped checking /played months and months ago as it was too disturbing. I guess the same could be said about most people and watching the tv, but still, it's not healthy to spend this long playing any game.

For the Horde!! ahem. I don't miss it. Really :/
The money doesn't bother me THAT much; it's the time. I forced myself to quit, 18 months later came back thinking "I can play this casually," I was wrong, quit again.

The interesting thing about playing it a SECOND time is I was reminded of all the OTHER reason I quit (other than time & money) . . . instances, no customization (of playstyle, character, class, spec, or gear in the END), endless nerfs, how all your endless grinding to 70 so you can FINALLY play the game is really so pointless, the thought of leveling the class(es) you REALLY wanted to play to 70, etc, etc.

I did kind of miss it for the first week, but then I started to wake up and see all the crap that needed to be cleaned up, things I was procrastinating, etc (including my Appartment, lol, which is VERY CLEAN now). After a while you lose sight of the real reason you quit, but don't go back . . . it will be the same cycle eventually, it catches up to you (I avoided it till around level 63 suprisingly enough, it's unavoidable at 70)

[phantomdesign]

... Because you suck at it :).

@ Phantom. I know loads of people hate Deus Ex 2, but I actually liked it better than Deus Ex 1. that's just my opinion though.
^Agree with reason why he probably hates CS

I thought the level design of DeusEx 2 was the worst part; it's sooo...WRONG, not completely sure how to describe it, but the proportions are so wrong and the game feels just (sorry for using this word) icky! Thief 3 was EXACTLY the same way (probably because it was made by the same studio a the same time)

[L3adCannon]

... Because you suck at it :).
OH NO YOU DIDNT, NO YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT!


Uhm for me it would probably be Quake 3 for the Ps2. I honestly don't know that the hell I was doing but really. GAH. No keyboard/mouse support either that UT has at least.
beacause you suck at it :D

CSS is still pretty crap for me, I play it from time to time (45min every month) but that`s about it.

[CyberPitz]

I would have to say Halo. I bought it in the attempt to give it a chance. Got about...1/4 through the game before I was so bored I was about to dig out my own eyeballs...so I uninstalled, threw the box somewhere, gave up on Halo forever.

[Kyorisu]

Unreal 2 - craaaap storyline, characters, graphics and AI.

Unreal 2 crap graphics?

Freelancer - craaaap storyline, characters, graphics and AI.

Storyline was so so, characters where alright, graphics where pretty good for a space game and hey the game play was fun. Still an active internet community somewhere.

Chrome - craaaap storyline, characters, graphics and AI.

What is it with you and crap graphics? The rest I agree with, although I liked the level editor and it's hax way of filling a level with vegetation.

Gothic 3 - didn't work. still doesn't work. will never work.

Buy a new computer, I'm deadly serious. If you can't get it working there is something horribly wrong with your system. As far as Gothic games go it's very nice and all the towns to visit are great.

[-Psy-]

If I have ever bought any bad games, there's probably a good reason why I can't remember them. :|

[staticprimer]

Freelancer - craaaap storyline, characters, graphics and AI.


KILL THE BLASPHEMER!!! :flame:

Anyway, for me, Oblivion and Guild Wars.

[alehm]

Star Wars Rebellion

[jimbo118]

Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30 on PC

**** this game sucked, the reviews for it were great, but after finishing it i felt it was arguably one of the most overrated games ever.

[Shift]

Yeah it wasn't really that great tbh, I got a bit from the end but gave up. The graphics really iritated me.

[Atomic_Piggy]

Mafia. D:

[Zeus]

Right now the steam version of Thief 3. All it has done so far is crash my computer.

[Rapstah]

I'd say Big Rigs.

But I bought that after knowing it'd suck :p

What's this talk about Hitman: Silent Assassin being that bad? I'm loving it.

[Mac]

tribes 2
PlanetSide
Halo PC

[CR0M]

What is it with you and crap graphics?

I'm a designer. I have high expectations.


Buy a new computer

That's always an easy excuse to fall back on when things are rosy for yourself, but is as uninformed as it is ridiculous. Piranha bytes has admitted to releasing a broken product. A new computer to replace my existing rig that runs Oblivion and STALKER just fine and dandy (bugs permitting), is hardly the answer to a broken game. Unless you're buying..? :cheese:


Oh and how could I forget Daikatana...

[Warbie]

Oh and how could I forget Daikatana...

I was going to mention that, but in the end I went against my usual code of conduct and pirated it. Daikatana was a game I had to experience yet couldn't bring myself to pay good money for.

[joule]

Enter the Matrix

Pre-ordered it and all. I think I spent over $60 for it.

[Dog--]

The Sims 2.

Oh the days of being addicted to the Sims.../shudder. We've all been there...right?

I actually got it for free when it came out, I never played Sims 1, but with Sims 2 I was addicted (more like just making a neighborhood of crack-heads, with furniture on the lawn, etc.), then I pawned it a few days later. Got a free $20 credit at EB Games with that game! Woo!

[xcellerate]

I couldn't even finish oblivion it was so boring and frustrating, and not even frustrating in a challening way but frustrating as in how the guards know that I'm stealing stuff when I'm inside a house? I didn't realize we had de-evolved away from x-ray vision since the ye' ole days.

[Pulse]

Planetside: Core Combat - What the **** Sony?
Turok - Uh.
GTA 2 - No comment.

[Bacons]

Battlefield: Vietnam, the game was so ****ing bugy that my head exploded tbh. It was the same shit as Eve of Destruction for BF1942. :|

When I asked my Uncle for Call of Duty 2 for Christmas of 2005 instead of Half-Life 2, bad mistake.

[evil^milk]

And "WCW vs. NWO" for the original Playstation. It was $80. Yeah, $80 for the PS1. For some shitty wrestling game. Sigh.

Dude, wtf, that was an awesome game to play (with four other dudes playing with you). But $80 bucks for a game is ridiculous :|

[TollBooth Willie]

I have bought so many it's hard to tell, but I'll go ahead and say Dino Stalker for now.

Cheap ass Dino Crisis spinoff that requires a light gun to ****ing aim straight. Horrible controls...Felt more like a straight port of a bad arcade light gun.

[DEATHMASTER]

Worst game I spent money on was probably Unreal 2...although I got it free with some other stuff so I'll say UT2003 just because I got it like a month before UT2004 came out. I don't buy bad games.

[The Brick]

Enter the Matrix (though I switched it for C&C Generals the day after)
Stuntbaan racer 2 (don't ask)
Quake 4

[Samon]

Quake 4 and Perfect Dark Zero. I payed upwards of 40 quid for these and they both sucked cock.

[ríomhaire]

Halo 2. Deus Ex: Invisble War.

Heh, I usually just read reviews and avoid all the shite.
My mistake with the above was assuming that they would at least be as good as the original games so I didn't read any reviews. I was so wrong.

[Wanted Bob]

Hmm... I rarely have bought a horrible game. The worst I guess would be Chromehounds. That game felt unpolished and the offline component is so boring.

[Docm30]

I bought Battlefield: Vietnam expecting an even more kick-ass version Battlefield: 1942; what I got was the worst game ever made.

Doom 3 was a pretty big waste of money, too.

[Robert-]

Another waste of my ****ing money was Harvest Moon for the gamecube. A shitty ass game on a ****ing shitty console. So basicly I've wasted money on a console and a game!

[Shift]

on a ****ing shitty console.

GTFO!

[Warbie]

Some poeple have no taste :eek:

[Absinthe]

Hmmm... Kingpin? That's not entirely true, actually. I did have fun playing it, although I never finished the game. At the time, I had no choice but to appreciate the constant, unnecessary swearing and gib-licious violence.

I have to say I can't really recall any game I regret buying. Ever since I first began having to buy games with my own pocket money, I've been pretty damn cautious with my purchases. I don't really amass grand libraries of games throughout the year, and I always derive a satisfactory level of enjoyment from the ones I do get.

[Evo]

First Brothers in Arms - just never got into it =/
BF Vietnam - was crap compared to 1942

Unreal 2 - loved it, heck may have been a mad shit story but was a great laugh. Much better than Halo!

[Robert-]

GTFO!

Wait wut.

[AHA-Lambda]

Crash Bash.

Actually, maybe Pac Man World.

Crash bash as well. Also pac man world was awesome ;(

[Danimal]

Enter the Matrix - $45.

Dude, wtf, that was an awesome game to play (with four other dudes playing with you). But $80 bucks for a game is ridiculous :|

Here, when a new game comes out, it's 99.95.

[Tick]

Lock On Modern Air Combat - dunno about the game but I bought it and only discovered afterwards that it came bundled with the ever delightful starforce

I don't think I've ever bought a bad game ... although Medal of Honour was probably the least worthwhile



Lock-On is the best flightsim ever made

[Kyorisu]

I'm a designer. I have high expectations.

Compared to other products at the time everything must have had crappy graphics then. Afaik there has to be something wrong with your hardware or OS for Gothic not to run, theres are issues within the game itself but not getting it to even load is another matter which must have to do with your configuration.

[comoxer]

STARSHIP TITANIC complete ballz, recall paying over 40 quid for it,
chose it over quake 2 aswell :o

[Solaris]

Enter the Matrix - $45.



Here, when a new game comes out, it's 99.95.
Yes, but thats Australian dollars, which I believe are worth even less than dollars?

[CR0M]

Afaik there has to be something wrong with your hardware or OS for Gothic not to run, theres are issues within the game itself but not getting it to even load is another matter which must have to do with your configuration.

Didn't say it didn't load, I said it doesn't work. It's broken. Textures are missing. Sound is screwed. It crawls. It grinds to a halt. It locks up. It crashes. it. is. a. pile. of. shat. in. an. elevator.

But it does run. If you call shuffling with a Great Dane humping each leg running. :D

[Danimal]

Yes, but thats Australian dollars, which I believe are worth even less than dollars?

iirc, $1 AUD = $0.8something US.

Shouldn't be that expensive, should it? >_>

[Shift]

Wait wut.

The Gamecube was not a shitty console by any means, it had loads of awsome games on it.

[sea]

Another waste of my ****ing money was Harvest Moon for the gamecube. A shitty ass game on a ****ing shitty console. So basicly I've wasted money on a console and a game!Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader. Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Battalion Wars. Super Monkey Ball. Super Monkey Ball 2. Viewtiful Joe. Viewtiful Joe 2. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Metroid Prime. Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. Resident Evil. Resident Evil Zero. Resident Evil 4. Animal Crossing. Wave Race: Blue Storm. Super Mario Sunshine. Star Fox Adventures. Donkey Konga. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. Ikaruga. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean. F-Zero GX. Pikmin. Pikmin 2. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Super Smash Bros. Melee. And that doesn't even include multi-platform games like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, TimeSplitters Future Perfect, SSX 3, Soulcalibur II, and Beyond Good & Evil.

Yeah, just... stop.

[Xendance]

Your all gonna hate me.. but I aint enjoyed Day of Defeat Source yet...

[DEATH eVADER]

Starcraft, yeah STARCRAFT!

-Terrible unit pathfinding ("Oh, a guy is walking up a Ramp, its taking so damned long, I'll take the long way round")
-Not even 800x600 resolution? (practically every computer and monitor supported it during the games release)
-No persistent upgrades.
-Terran Vs. Terran fights were boring (Its like punching the mirror reflection of your self)
-Limiting Squad size

The story was the only redeeming factor for the game, God kows why S. Koreans play this game in multiplayer.
I only hope Starcraft2 can vindicate this game

[Sui]

Because contrary to your opinion it's actually really, really good.

[Shift]

Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader. Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Battalion Wars. Super Monkey Ball. Super Monkey Ball 2. Viewtiful Joe. Viewtiful Joe 2. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Metroid Prime. Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. Resident Evil. Resident Evil Zero. Resident Evil 4. Animal Crossing. Wave Race: Blue Storm. Super Mario Sunshine. Star Fox Adventures. Donkey Konga. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. Ikaruga. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean. F-Zero GX. Pikmin. Pikmin 2. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Super Smash Bros. Melee. And that doesn't even include multi-platform games like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, TimeSplitters Future Perfect, SSX 3, Soulcalibur II, and Beyond Good & Evil.

Yeah, just... stop.

No arguments with that list, Timesplitters 2 and Freedom Fighters to name two other multiplatform.

[Drackard]

lol .. I totally disagree with your list sea

Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30 on PC

**** this game sucked, the reviews for it were great, but after finishing it i felt it was arguably one of the most overrated games ever.

I quite enjoyed it actually, was a bit of a challenge towards the end but fun overall imo.

[Wanted Bob]

Here, when a new game comes out, it's 99.95.

Most expensive game I saw when I was there was Far Cry for $120.

[sea]

Starcraft, yeah STARCRAFT!

-Terrible unit pathfinding ("Oh, a guy is walking up a Ramp, its taking so damned long, I'll take the long way round")
-Not even 800x600 resolution? (practically every computer and monitor supported it during the games release)
-No persistent upgrades.
-Terran Vs. Terran fights were boring (Its like punching the mirror reflection of your self)
-Limiting Squad size

The story was the only redeeming factor for the game, God kows why S. Koreans play this game in multiplayer.
I only hope Starcraft2 can vindicate this gameThe fact that it is probably the most perfectly balanced and yet tactically diverse real-time strategy game of all time despite its three very unique factions seems to make up for the minor technical flaws in the eyes of just about everyone else who's ever played it. Please don't start yelling at me about Total Annihilation - the Arm and Core are the Orcs and Humans.

[Destructo-Bot]

Master of Orion 3 :(

[Kyorisu]

iirc, $1 AUD = $0.8something US.

Shouldn't be that expensive, should it? >_>

Pro tip: You earn more doing a job here than doing the same job in the US. You can always work the mines for 100+K a year as well plenty of job vacancies. Added bonus of driving huge Tonka trucks.

Yes, but thats Australian dollars, which I believe are worth even less than dollars?

Pro tip: Australian dollars i.e. AUD. American dollars i.e. USD.

Didn't say it didn't load, I said it doesn't work. It's broken. Textures are missing. Sound is screwed. It crawls. It grinds to a halt. It locks up. It crashes. it. is. a. pile. of. shat. in. an. elevator.

But it does run. If you call shuffling with a Great Dane humping each leg running. :D

The only problem I've ever had is the one where your screen turns white when you have the camera at a certain angle and I think that was fixed by a patch or something because it stopped happening at one point. I still stand behind my your computer sucks argument.

[KineticAesthetic]

The Matrix: Path of Neo.

And I was SO looking forward to it.

[Stingey]

Far cry, you know there's a problem when you install longer then actually playing.

[Krynn72]

Blazing Angels for PC. Its a ****ing dogfighter game, but it has no support for joysticks at all.

[Markdude]

Lock On Modern Air Combat - dunno about the game but I bought it and only discovered afterwards that it came bundled with the ever delightful starforce

I don't think I've ever bought a bad game ... although Medal of Honour was probably the least worthwhile

You must have bought Lock On: Gold, which includes the expansion pack "Flaming Cliffs", because the original Lock On doesn't use Starforce. If Starforce is freezing up and not letting you play the game (like it did for me), I think you can generate some kind of crashlog and send it in an e-mail to Starforce and they'll give you some kind of command you can enter that fixes it. The next expansion ("Black Shark") is thankfully not going to use Starforce.

I think Lock On is a great flight sim for just having fun. The graphics are pretty damn good and it doesn't have a terribly high learning curve. It's also pretty fun to play online. But I'm usually drawn to getting the most realistic experience I can, so most of the time I'm playing Falcon 4: Red Viper.

As for the topic at hand, I'd have to say Deus Ex 2: Invisible War. It's a decent game in its own light, but I was pretty pissed when I bought it and it turned out to be the way it is. It really doesn't deserve to bare the name "Deus Ex".

[French Ninja]

I have bought so many it's hard to tell, but I'll go ahead and say Dino Stalker for now.

Cheap ass Dino Crisis spinoff that requires a light gun to ****ing aim straight. Horrible controls...Felt more like a straight port of a bad arcade light gun.

I beat it in under an hour. Absolutely horrible game.

[DEATH eVADER]

Blazing Angels for PC. Its a ****ing dogfighter game, but it has no support for joysticks at all.


Didn't you try the demo? :P

My joystick partly worked, try to pitch the nose up and your aircraft would veer left and crash (whilst still on the runway). The settings couldn't reconfigure the controls, and neither could the software that came with the stick.

[Acepilotf14]

Left Behind: Eternal Forces.
30$. I don't think I ever installed it. Anyone want it?

[xlucidxassemblyx]

Resident Evil 4 for the PC.
'Nuff said.

[Bob_Marley]

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union.

Now, I love the combat system in this game and the gun porn that is the vast, vast selection of weapons and accessories.

However, the in game music is annoying, the translation is poor, the voice acting is rubbish, the maps are too small, not enough buildings are enterable, the storyline is weak, the environments are bad, there are many (some game breaking) bugs, path finding is downright insane at some points, the AI can be rather questionable, the world doesn't feel "alive" and the graphics are poor. Oh, and I had to import it from the states, though thats probubly not the game's fault.

The combat system is very, very good, but the rest of the game lacks polish and at times feels like I paid for a beta test. Though I look foreward to the sequel, 7.62, as it promises to have the vast majority of those problems sorted out.

But until then Jagged Alliance 2 is still the king of tactical squad combat games. Which is sad, considering its nearly 10 years old.

[Operational]

Civilization III, Civilization: Call to Power. Not that they were bad games per say just that I only played them once or twice before going back to Alpha Centauri until Galactic Civilizations/Civilization IV came out.

Black & White 2 was one I would have bought if I had the money at the time, now that would have been a huge mistake.

Star Wars Rebellion
That game is awesome.

[TaoFan]

Unreal 2 - Dull.
Quake 4 - Ugh, grimy and 'orrible.

Doom 3 may be too long, too repetitive and even predictable, but I liked it more than HL2.

Oh, and avoid Star Trek: Bridge Commander like the plague. It takes an absolute age to install and basically copies 20,000+ INDIVIDUAL files to your HDD, unlike most games which pack the data files into big huge wad files. And the battles take WAAAAAYYYY too long, too.

[Wanted Bob]

Black & White 2 was one I would have bought if I had the money at the time, now that would have been a huge mistake.

???

I really liked that game. It was absolutely gorgeous, and the much improved creature AI added some sort of roleplaying to the game.

[Operational]

I really liked that game. It was absolutely gorgeous, and the much improved creature AI added some sort of roleplaying to the game.
I'm supposed to be a God not a city planner. The gameplay of B&W 1 was superior.

[$kelet0r]

I'm supposed to be a God not a city plannerlol
quote of the day.

[Yar Jar Rar]

One of the worst games I've bought was Halo 2. It was like Halo 1, but a lot worse. Pretty much all of the levels were inside, and it was dumb. You can tell Bungie that they just lost a customer for Halo 3.

[Samon]

Bungie you just lost a customer for Halo 3.

[Pulse]

One of the worst games I've bought was Halo 2. It was like Halo 1, but a lot worse. Pretty much all of the levels were inside, and it was dumb. You can tell Bungie that they just lost a customer for Halo 3.
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the Halo series is terrible.

[Uriel]

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the Halo series is terrible.

I thought most people did.

I'm with you by the way. Bleah, so bland and plain. Cept the colors, there's too much of that.

[Docm30]

I thought most people did.

I'm with you by the way. Bleah, so bland and plain. Cept the colors, there's too much of that.
Right, that's way Halo 2 sold 8 million copies. :rolleyes:

[Samon]

Right, that's way Halo 2 sold 8 million copies. :rolleyes:

Most of them being retards.

[Shift]

Right, that's way Halo 2 sold 8 million copies. :rolleyes:

OH MAN did you just walk into a trap there lol

[AHA-Lambda]

Update to my previous bad games:

Red Steel. Oh God Why did I trust my best friend who said it was good. Oh god why?

On the plus side I got it for ?15 on ebay maybe I can get a profit if I trade it in at gamestation. I want to get trauma center second opinion anyway.

[Ennui]

Republic: The Revolution

[99.vikram]

Right, that's way Halo 2 sold 8 million copies. :rolleyes:
It was hyped to be the killer app from day one. After Halo's success, Xbox gamers would have accepted even a mediocre sequel, only mildly better than the first.

But somehow Bungie managed to actually remove the best elements of Halo 1 till a pile of reused levels and subpar gameplay was all that was left. They even broke the multiplayer with the plasma sword.

[Qonfused]

Right, that's way Halo 2 sold 8 million copies. :rolleyes:

Copies sold =/= quality.

Most of them being retards.

.

[Ennui]

Mediocrity sells, apparently.

[Samon]

Republic: The Revolution

That game rocked.

[Ennui]

It was a cool concept but the implementation was lacking imo.

I liked how it was all in Russian though :D

[Bacons]

Doom 3: It's damn obvious, isn't it?
MVP Baseball 2005: The controls were so infuriating.
The original Ghost Recon.Just some additional ones.

[Gray Fox]

Doom 3: It's damn obvious, isn't it?
MVP Baseball 2005: The controls were so infuriating.
The original Ghost Recon.Just some additional ones.

Wait kami, don't you live in Canada?

[Bacons]

Wait kami, don't you live in Canada?

Vut? No, are thinking of that dude in hl2world?


Perhaps I should ask a moderator if he can change mah name. When I made this name, it just came to me; But I don't recall how I came up wth it, but then I was reminded when I went to hl2world one time do I remember where I got it from. Now it was too late, and people are getting me confused with someone else. My utmost apologies for the confusion.

[Solaris]

There is a member here called kamikaze too

[Docm30]

I should clear-up that the fact that I hate Halo, I hate it with all my heart, but that doesn't change the fact that it sells very well.

[Bacons]

There is a member here called kamikaze too

I know whom you speak of, sir. He registered a few years before I did though, 2003.

[L3adCannon]

Doom 3: It's damn obvious, isn't it?
MVP Baseball 2005: The controls were so infuriating.
The original Ghost Recon.Just some additional ones.
Give me your adress so I can come over and murder you.

[Bacons]

Give me your adress so I can come over and murder you.

I didn't like it because I never got past the first level. :(

But then my next sequence was MOH:AA (I loved playing Stalingrad rifle's only servers), then I went to Battlefield 1942! :D

[Ridge]

Battlefield 2142
Falcon 4: Allied Force

[Headcrab Pie]

Doom 3

[Rapstah]

Doom 3 was scary enough. It didn't overdue the fear like F.E.A.R. and felt more like a ten hour Ravenholm. Repetive, yeah, but a good game.

I still have to beat the first mission of Ghost Recon.

OH AHD BTW I BOUGHT BIOSOCK OVER STREAM AND I DIDNT GET TO PLAY I MEAN WTF

[Shift]

Battlefield 2142

Wasn't as good as BF2 but it was still awsome on the right servers. Some of the battles I had were amazing.

[Mesz]

I've never really liked the Ghost Recon series as they're always over too quickly. I've never bought these games but I've rented them and I only need to rent them for 2 days to complete it. Waste of a weekend to be fair. And the online gameplay for GRAW2 is so crap...

[Langolier]

I would say the worst game I ever played was Final Fantasy XI. A friend of mine introduced me to it and I was instantly hooked. Thankfully, I got my copy free from my friend (who had accidentally ordered two). I think I played the game for just about three years straight before I finally quit. There were plenty of fun times to be had but the end-game and attempting to complete the Chains of Promathia expansion made me more miserable and nasty than I've ever been in my life. Now I just wish I could get all those play hours back. I think I had something like 250 days logged in when I quit.

[V-Man339]

I think you all know this one.
I had bought Half Life 2 retail and then bought the classic pack or whatever it was called. I though "It's not complete without Counter Strike Anthology Pack".
Good God.
Counter Strike 1 was outdated and was useless.
Counter Strike Condition Zero had a pitiful "singleplayer" game, and the community as we all know sucks because it's a Counter Strike game.
Deleted Scenes was one of the worst single player experiences I've ever had, even if it wasn't a complete one.
Counter Strike Source though is really just having the same crappy Counter Strike community, only now with added porn sprays that make you want to puke.

Then there was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Melee...
Don't even ask about that one just look at the reviews.