Bottom 5 Worst RPGs You Ever Played

[Modron]

Played all those besides Dragon Age 2.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Man, this is tough. There are lots of ways you can measure bad. I could go with some games that seemed unfinished and lacking playtesting like WarWizard or Ruins of Myth Drannor. Or something that was just bland and disappointing, like Oblivion or Fallout 3. I guess I'll go with a mix of games that were poorly designed and too disappointing.

1. Ultima 9. Man, this game broke me. I was a huge fanboy of the Ultima series. I even completed Ultima 8 and didn't think it was that bad (nor good, tbh). I thought Origin would be around forever. I gave up on this after the starting area, and that's after a few attempts at getting the game running at all.
2. Dragon Age: Origins. I'm not trying to be edgy here, but this game was a big disappointment after going through the Gold Box games. It was made a couple of decades after Pools of Radiance and by a company known for RPGs, yet somehow the developers couldn't figure out how to make town guards respond to bandits running around in their town or a combat system that was actually tactically sound. And the story was cringe all around. I finally got the hint in the Deep Roads and stopped playing BioWare games after this.
3. Outer Worlds. I played the first two Borderlands games and they are alright for time wasters. I walked into this game not expecting much, and was still shocked at the poor quality. I don't know how you fuck up cloning Borderlands' simplistic story and gameplay, but Obsidian managed it while also making it several degrees uglier. Round of applause to all of you boys at Obsidian... you truly have a gift for crap.
4. Final Fantasy 12. I used to like the Final Fantasy series, but this was the last one I played. There were some misses like Final Fantasy X (though FF X-2 was a guilty pleasure for the job system and campy story), but this is the first game that added the crime of being boring. Square Enix should have kept it to the four characters (Princess, soldier trying to clear his name, Han Solo knock off with sexed up sidekick) and dropped the two annoying tweens. I did recently pick up the Zodiac Age version since I'm a sucker for jRPGs with a job system, but stopped again after the first hour. The game is just that fucking boring.
5. Neverwinter Nights. I do appreciate what they were trying to do here. The developers were trying to create a replacement to the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series with a new game engine that would allow for people to create their own modules and run them for friends. And they also incorporated the new D&D 3rd edition rules. They got the modulation part right along with the new ruleset, but the engine made gameplay cumbersome, slow, and graphically ugly. Again, I appreciate the effort but it still fell short.

 

[Fargus]

1. Age of Decadence - Codex poster child and glorified visual novel with tryhard combat. Hard to believe it took a decade to make and feels like a game that only a handful of autists would enjoy.
2. Kingdoms of Amalur: The Retardo - I never played a game so bland, tedious and repetitive in my life i felt like someone stealing my life energy while i was playing. Truly it's just offline mmo trash.
3. Fallout 1 - Overrated game. Only great if you're excitable 11 year old and don't know anything about it or rpgs. If you're replaying it the game falls apart quickly and doesn't survive a test of time. Never been so disappointed with my nostalgia.
4. Shallowrun: Returns (back to the trash) - Fucking 14 hour long mobile game. Nuff said. At least they somewhat redeemed themselves with Dragonfall.
5. Pillars of Eternity. Disappointing, bland and souless kickstarter trash. Nowhere near as fun as infinity engine games. Marked the death of Obsidian for me.



Honorable mentions:
6. Mars: War Logs - Just hilarious suggar coated biowaresque trash from french bioware wannabees. It's bad all around but some people actually say it's a good game lol. All of their games are shit but War Logs is like supreme turd.
7. Underrail. I actually have mixed feelings about it, but the amount of tedium that goes hand in hand with Underrail and how overrated this game on codex makes it worth mentioning. The game has 100+ hours of gameplay but half of it just loot dragging and selling, crafting, backtracking half empty metro tunnels and killing monsters that respawn.
8. Bonus. Everything Bioware made since Deranged Gay Age 2.

 

[Lhynn]

urmom.

This shit is so retarded, all you get is edgy posters and from the actually honest ones you get nothing useful.

Shit thread.

Also pillars of eternity is the worst game i have ever completed, theres nothing that comes close. Even dragon age 2 was better, and i fucking hated that garbage.

 

[KateMicucci]

2. Dragon Age: Origins. I'm not trying to be edgy here, but this game was a big disappointment after going through the Gold Box games. It was made a couple of decades after Pools of Radiance and by a company known for RPGs, yet somehow the developers couldn't figure out how to make town guards respond to bandits running around in their town or a combat system that was actually tactically sound. And the story was cringe all around. I finally got the hint in the Deep Roads and stopped playing BioWare games after this.

What's wrong with the story?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Also pillars of eternity is the worst game i have ever completed, theres nothing that comes close. Even dragon age 2 was better, and i fucking hated that garbage.

I'll actually agree just because of how angry I was at the last second fedora tipper.

 

[plem]

Shallowrun: Returns (back to the trash)

nice burn dood

 

[NerevarineKing]

Gothic 3

Ultima 2

 

[Crispy]

5. Dragon Age 2 - Just oozes mediocrity and lazy design

4. Fallout 3 - I will admit I completed this, but its aftertaste was really horrible

3. The Outer Worlds - Gets my vote for top five due to its incredibly bad dialog and utterly childish presentation

2. Gothic 3 - Really bad because I wanted it to be good

1. Oblivion - You knew I had to have this as my #1, right?
















Right?

 

[agris]

Lots of cope in this thread, wherein NPCs are forced to confront that their precious is not, in fact, distinguished beyond the utterly mundane.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

4. Shallowrun: Returns (back to the trash) - Fucking 14 hour long mobile game. Nuff said. At least they somewhat redeemed themselves with Dragonfall.

Dead Man's Switch was basically a trial run for the gameplay systems that were subsequently employed in making Dragonfall and Hong Kong tbh.

 

[Humanophage]

From most bad to least bad:
1. Mass Effect 1 - cutscene console snoozefest with actiony combat. Made me go WTF at how Bioware declined. Indicates the apex of decline to me. Very, very upsetting. Didn't play the other two.
2. TES: Oblivion - level scaling is probably the most inane design decision I have ever seen in an RPG.
3. World of Warcraft - things have gotten even worse afterwards, but it was truly appalling after coming there straight from Ultima Online. Dropped everything good, upped everything bad like the instances, the questing, the levels.
4. Lionheart - legendary post-Barcelona bummer.
5. Fable - not as actively bad as the others, but memorably bland. A lot more bland than NWN OC.

I haven't played new Fallout including New Vegas, Dragon Age except briefly, Dark Souls and the like, new Deus Ex games, and JRPGs except a couple forgettable ones. Overall, it became easier to identify games I probably wouldn't like.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

I haven't played new Fallout including New Vegas

You should definitely try NV out. One of the better RPGs of that period.

 

[Beans00]

If we take just pure trash into account:

1. metal heart
2. lionheart(lol)
3. konung 2
4. gorasul
5. sniper path of vengeance


There's better games which I hate more because i got conned into buying them as a teenager (nwn 2/invisible war)but those are objectively the worst.


Morrowind is also garbage and I hate it but if someone managed to force me to play MW or any of those 5 I'd choose morrowind.

 

[Daemongar]

Eh, I'll name bad games I did finish, and aren't jrpgs or just plain garbage tier rpgs:

1. Dragon Age: Origins. I just felt bad after finishing it. I did like the beginning, but it just got more and more console as I went along. I fought through it as I paid full price for it, dammit. I obviously wasn't their target market.
2. Ultima 8: That engine was just terrible. Did finish this game more than once as I kept looking for more, but just kinda depressing overall. Felt like LB was deep into alcoholism or getting divorced when creating it.
3. Ultima III: Played it after Ultima IV. I can play Ultima 1 & 2 til the cows come home, but III just seems too much work for too little payoff.
4. Skyrim: Ok, I don't remember if I finished this, but I think this was the dullest time I've ever had with a game in my life. Probably just me as I never stopped being annoyed with 3 stats, and it just got more annoying over time. Also I didn't care for combat, which is most of the game.
5. Diablo III: Wow. That looked nice but boring nonetheless. I finished it just to see it through (and it was a gift) but I never went back. Overproduced - like later Boston albums.

 

[Lord_Potato]

If we take just pure trash into account:

1. metal heart
2. lionheart(lol)
3. konung 2
4. gorasul
5. sniper path of vengeance


There's better games which I hate more because i got conned into buying them as a teenager (nwn 2/invisible war)but those are objectively the worst.


Morrowind is also garbage and I hate it but if someone managed to force me to play MW or any of those 5 I'd choose morrowind.

How rpg-y is Sniper really? Never played the game, just saw some reviews on the net.

Also, how far you managed to reach in Metalheart? I get burned out in first town, which is like second location after the desert you crashland. I'd like to see what's next but the gameplay is bkand and the translation butchered, so I never found the strength.

 

[Cyberarmy]

1-Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader: Worst part is, Barcelona really starts good. But it is downhill from there, really fast...

2-Gothic 3: My first dissapoinment in gaming, left a huge scar that never fully healed...

3-Cyberpunk 2077: Cyberpunk was the sole reason I picked this nickname back in 90s . Whole game is a sacrilage anything Cyberpunk related.

4-Dragon Age 2: First game wasn't even great, but as usual our developer overlords, in their finite wisdom decided to make the game worse in every possible aspect. Truly a huge achivement.

5-Oblivion: After played it a few hours with my friends I was shocked how they butchered a good, solid game foundation (Morrowind) instead of upgrading it. Even more shocking thing was all my home mates liked it a lot... It was their first true RPG after "Knight Online" but still...


Edit: Torment Tides of Numanuma, I don't even accept this as an RPG. An adventure game with forced turn based battles. I just replay Sanitarium instead of playing this one ever again.

 

[Nortar]

I've played so many bad RPGs it's hard to rate them.
They are all shit, who cares which one smells more or less than the others.

But one game stands out because while being just the kind of game I usually enjoy, I could not even bear to finish it.
It got so boring I just stopped half-way through and never once had any urge to get back and see how it ends.
It is Pillars of Eternity 2.

 

[luj1]

1. Pillars of Eternity - shit core systems, shit writing, shit world, shit ruleset. Incredibly everything is shit, i would rather play Dungeon Lords forever
2. Numenera - too simplistic and boring, Effort mechanic is the most idiotic design decision in the last 20 years, it destroys everything RPGs represent
3. Kingmaker - instead of a traditional quest structure you have a barebone minigame to facilitate gameplay, shat onto the whole experience which could have been fairly good. Plus annoying mandatory companions and SJW stuff
4. Tyranny - smaller retarded brother of PoE, everything is bland and boring, companions are annoying and mandatory
5. Pillars of Eternity 2 - they ignored huge red flags with first game and focused on pointless eye candy and petty shit like parrots, retains much of the problems of first game, plus minigame bloat with ships. Obviously sold like shit and buried Soyers career

 

[luj1]

like all the stuff mentioned here such as Lionheart, Gorasul and Dungeon Lords I would much rather play than the above (and have already)

 

[luj1]

I would list Skyrim, FO3-4, Oblivion, Cyberpunk, DAI and MEA but these dont have RPG format, just character elements

 

[Hag]

Hard to say since I stop playing very quickly any game I don't really enjoy, but :
- Final Fantasy VIII : terrible story, terrible characters, boring fights, good music. You watch for dozens hours a helpless gang of morons running around a static bland world for idiotic reasons. Stopped playing right before the end, bored to hell.
- Diablo : click click click click click click click click click click click gulp gulp click click click click click click click click click click gulp click click click click click click click click click yeah level cleared click click click click click click click click click click click click etc. Your only respite : finding objects that let you click click click click click click even better.
- Some old mecha roguelike. Maybe not that bad, but when you are a roguelike you're ugly and you can't afford to be bland at the same time.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Underworld: Ascension

I never managed to play Underworld Ascension. I pledged to the KS but then forgot to reply to some email and I think I never got a key, or something like that. Maybe I should try pirating it just to try out.

My fabulously optimistic posts can still be found in the UA thread.

 

[Ismaul]

I only play games I think will be good, so I usually like what I play.

My list:

• NWN 1 OC
• Baldur's Gape 2
  
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Morrowind
• Shadowrun: Hong Kong

 

[Serus]

Hard to say since I stop playing very quickly any game I don't really enjoy, but :
- Final Fantasy VIII : terrible story, terrible characters, boring fights, good music. You watch for dozens hours a helpless gang of morons running around a static bland world for idiotic reasons. Stopped playing right before the end, bored to hell.
- Diablo : click click click click click click click click click click click gulp gulp click click click click click click click click click click gulp click click click click click click click click click yeah level cleared click click click click click click click click click click click click etc. Your only respite : finding objects that let you click click click click click click even better.
- Some old mecha roguelike. Maybe not that bad, but when you are a roguelike you're ugly and you can't afford to be bland at the same time.

Why Diablo (1) though. Or why Diablo in the first place. There are other (even) worse Diablos (and Diabloclones). Much worse ones in fact. It is like saying that Skyrim is worse than Oblivion. Can't be, it has much more and much better quality of sex mods. Ok, maybe not the best of exemples but you get what i mean.