RPG Codex - Top 50 WORST RPGs YOU'VE PLAYED vote thread

[DwarvenFood]

That I played..

Fallout 3
Dragon Age 1
Oblivion
NWN 1

 

[Excidium]

Some loose definition of RPG ITT

Anyway, games labelled as RPGs by codexian consensus that I find horribly overrated:

Arcanum
Neverwinter Nights 2
Daggerfall
Morrowind
VtM Bloodlines
Dragon Age
Fallout New Vegas
Ultima VII
Might and Magic VI
Temple of Elemental Evil
Baldur's Gate 2

Note that I'm only listing games I've bothered to play, and I'm excluding games that are too old/primitive. Also note that I actually like many of them.

 

[MaskedMan]

Dragon Age 2
Mass Effect 3
Lionheart (Avellone why you hurt me so )
Might and Magic 9
Throne of Darkness
Ultima 9
Oblivion
Neverwinter Nights OC
NuBardsTale
Diablo 2
Diablo 3 Beta
Jade Empire
Fallout 3
Fable
Bioshock
The Mark of the Ninja

 

[SCO]

NWN
Throne of Cheese Bhaal
Ultima 8 (i guess... taking into account expectations. I learned to like it though)
I didn't actually like Albion too much, but i completed it.
Icewind Dale 2 (seriously, fuck that worldbuilding)
ToEE & Bloodlines (broken; buggy; incomplete) can't do this.
MM6 ehhhh.

JRPG's of course.
Especially the Persona 2 (both), basically the kings of grinding.
Dragon Quest 1-3 or whatever it was was also all-around bad.

 

[ForeverdarkWoods]

Here are a list of really shitty ones I've actually tried to play (not beaten all, or even most, of these):

Oblivion (I saw an unfinished game the other day, horrible creatures.)
Dungeon Siege (Almost a stretch to call it a game, since it plays with itself more than you play it)
Dungeon Siege 2 (Tries some new things. Fails horribly at all of them. Tries to do Bioware style party banter but it always gets interrupted by combat and broken, combat is shitty, party limits based off of diablo style difficulty levels is retarded, list goes on.)
Mass Effect (Shit RPG and shit TPS.)
Dragon Age (Last Bio game that tried to be an RPG. Failed at it. So many trash mobs, such shitty characters, why the hell does a character as retarded as Morrigan exist? List goes on.)
Arcania (Unplayable mess of fetch quests and broken combat with retarded stunlocks.)
NWN2 OC (This one was just really, really boring, and tops it off with some of the most retarded camera controls I've ever seen in a game.)
NWN OC (That is, if we are considering only the OC and not the whole package, lots of fun was had with modding and persistent worlds and stuff with SoU + HotU. Doesn't keep the OC from being trash though.)
Nightstone (This is a really terrible Diablo clone I had the misfortune of owning as a kid. Think it still lies in a box somewhere around here.)
Might and magic 9 (Everything is wrong with this unfinished mess)
Lionheart (starts promising, quickly wanders into the dreaded "shit-tier Diablo clone" swamp.)
Konung 1 (Horribly broken game, some codexers seem to consider it decent. Almost falls under the category "shit-tier Diablo clones". Can not understand those codexers' point of view. If you think the infinity engine had terrible pathfinding, you are in for a treat as you spend minutes getting your guys to walk across a bridge in Konung rather than getting stuck on the edge of the cliff.)

If jRPGs count, I can name more, including but not limited to:

Grandia 2 (Owned as kid. Sucked.)
FF8 (Grindy as shit. Story sucked. Characters were knee deep in shitty writing.)
Legend of the Dragoon (Game just generally sucks. Retarded QTE combat doesn't help.)

I'm gonna get flak for this from the resident weeabos, but Persona 4 also gets an (dis)honorable mention. There are some things it does well, but that doesn't excuse the retardedly broken combat and RNG dungeons. At least Arcanum combat is generally fast. P4 combat isn't. It's like a lot of the things that were really good with P3 got taken out and replaced with retarded shit. P3 uses a fatigue system to encourage breaking up the dungeoneering, as well as the fact that it doesn't force you to waste day blocks. P4 basically encourages you to take on the whole thing at once to unlock your social links and not lose time, which is retarded. P3 dungeons are also less retardedly broken.

 

[Lady_Error]

Most overrated RPGs:

Arcanum
Baldur's Gate 2
Betrayal at Krondor
Elder Scrolls
Ultima 1-9 (except the Underworld series)
Wizardry 8

 

[wormix]

Dragon Age 2
Lionheart
Ultima IX: Ascension
Eternal Sonata
Oblivion

 

[Volourn]

"Mass Effect"

But... but... I';ve been told by the Codexian rpg 'expertys' that ME isn't a RPG but a shooter. How cna you be the worst of something when youa ren't part of it.

It's like me saying my friend 'Tom' is the worst black eprson i ever met even though he isn't black... but he dated a black person once.. LMFAO... LAME


Anyways, my worst rpgs ever..


EOTB
EOTB2
EOTB3 (I cna continue with these but I can't remember how many of these shit games exist, lol)
Half the GB/SB DnD games
Twitcher 1
Sonic:RPG
ES series (all of them!)
Twitcher 2
Gothic 1
Gothic 4
Descent to undermountain
SOZ
Lionheart
Dungeon Seige series (all 3 parts)
Alpha shit.. Protocol
A whole many more...

I could In forget FO3.. FFS

 

[Humppaleka]

My list:

Space 1889
Whale's Voyage
Whale's Voyage II
Legacy of the Ancients
MegaTraveller I: The Zhodani Conspiracy

May I ask a qualified opinion why these games are here? I haven't played these games yet and fully intend to do so, should I just steer clear of them (most likely will play them anyway)?

 

[Volourn]

"FF8 (Grindy as shit"

There's no need to grind in FF8. It's not like the other lsoer FFs or the FOs.

 

[HotSnack]

Keep in mind that I tend to avoid games that I know I will not enjoy (like the dungeon siege series). Also while this is my WORST RPGS EVAR list, only one game has genuinely made me instead of say just disappointed/apathetic towards. With that out of the way:

NWN OC
TES Oblivion
Fallout 3
Dragon Age: Origins

And honourable mention goes to:
Fallout 2

 

[tuluse]

I don't like this trend of voting for games that you think are "overrated." This basically means what other people think about the game is more important that what you think about it.

Search your feelings, vote with your heart.

 

[Crooked Bee]

May I ask a qualified opinion why these games are here? I haven't played these games yet and fully intend to do so, should I just steer clear of them (most likely will play them anyway)?

Basically, they're bad at everything they do and there just isn't a single thing they do well, imho.

I don't really feel like analyzing each of them in detail, but let's take Space 1889 as an example. It has an open world, yet it is amazingly boring to explore and the game only lets you do quests and talk to relevant NPCs in a fixed sequence; it has different cities and even different planets, yet they are all the same; all enemies are the same too; it has secrets and secret passages, but they all lead to same terribly designed "dungeons" (not worthy of the name); it has a lot of character statistics, yet they don't actually influence anything (!); it has some of the most terrible combat in the history of the genre and a pointless time-wasting space navigation minigame; it features different spaceship designs, but they also have no bearing on the gameplay; same for different weapons; etc.

 

[Oesophagus]

As "played" I understand "for more than 15 minutes", so Skyrim and DA2 don't count.

Mass Effect 1
Fallout 3
DX:IW
Dragon Age

I'm unsure of Kingdoms of Amalur, which is more of a hack n'slash, and it's not that bad, except it gets incredibly repetitious and boring after a while

 

[Monocause]

KoA is a sad story of a game with fun basic mechanics but too large a budget and too lenient company culture resulting in the whole package being bloated to the extreme and unfulfilling at any moment except, perhaps, the first two hours of gameplay. Looking at the game in retrospect I believe everything about it was fun in concept but got expanded upon, and expanded more, until no one was able to sew all the pieces together into an enjoyable game.

This thread was tried before and won't deliver anything productive or interesting. I believe that in a matter of hours it'll boil down to hardcore shitflinging that will need 20-30 pages to die. Just you wait.

 

[hoverdog]

Most overrated RPGs:

Arcanum
Baldur's Gate 2
Betrayal at Krondor
Elder Scrolls
Ultima 1-9 (except the Underworld series)
Wizardry 8

ban Lady Error

 

[Vibalist]

With people actually listing stuff like Witcher and Baldurs Gate 2 in this thread, I predict a huge overlap between the Best Of and Worst Of list.

Anyway, onwards with my own list:

Oblivion. Fucking Oblivion. Just thinking of that piece of shit makes me full of rage.
NWN OC
NWN 2 OC


Umm, yeah. There are a lot of sub par games out there, but I really can't think of any others that are downright bad (that I've played). People coming to this thread listing stuff like Bloodlines and New Vegas with a straight face is just downright laughable and proves some users here are morons. They may be flawed games and unsuited for some people, but they don't in a million years belong on a "worst of..." list.

 

[toro]

...
Gothic 4
...

What the ... fuck!?

 

[Lady_Error]

Most overrated RPGs:

Arcanum
Baldur's Gate 2
Betrayal at Krondor
Elder Scrolls
Ultima 1-9 (except the Underworld series)
Wizardry 8

ban Lady Error

Another butthurt Brenda Brathwaite fanboy... I see Wizardry 8 among your favorites, but not Wizardry 7... That pretty much explains everything.

 

[Daemongar]

DA:O, Skyrim, DE:IW, and LoL2. Out of all of them, my least favorite is DA:O, though. The horror, the horror...

Also, I think that people shouldn't feed certain types of creatures. Just sayin', hoverdog

 

[hoverdog]

Also, I think that people shouldn't feed certain types of creatures. Just sayin', hoverdog

Yes, the 'hurr durr brenda' shtick is kinda obnoxious.

 

[Harg Harfardarssen]

The all time worst rpg I ever played was Double Dungeons for the TurboGrafx 16. Possible the worst game ever.

Both Fallout 3 and NWN 2 OC actually sapped my will to play within hours.

Fable gets an honorable mention shallow action mechanics and the single dumbest morality system ever made.

 

[Kosmonaut]

Dark Souls
Skyrim and Oblivion

 

[Fens]

Two Worlds
Fallout 3
Lionheart

 

[agentorange]

Neverwinter Nights
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Mass Effect
The Witcher 2 (Not the worst really, but the most disappointing. Even more so than Fallout 3, since considering it was being made by Bethesda I sort of knew it would turn out dire, whereas I didn't expect CDPR to go so off-course).
Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption
Final Fantasy 7
KotOR