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

[Larendav]

Descent to Undermountain, Mistmare, Dragon Age II, Legend: Hand of God, most JRPGs, Game of Thrones, Konung 1 & 2, Blade and Sword, Metalheart: Replicants Rampage, Call of Heroes: Pompolic Wars, Restricted Area, Ultima IX: Ascension, Ultima VIII: Pagan, Loki: Heroes of Mythology, Lands of Lore III, Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader, Descent to Undermountain, NeverEnd, Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods, ArcaniA: Gothic 4, ArcaniA: Fall of Setariff, Harbinger, Paradise Cracked, Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor, etc.

I'd put Oblivion, Mass Effect, Neverwinter Nights OC, Fallout 3, and various other hated games on the Codex on here, but there are a lot worse RPGs actually. Those mentioned Bethesda & BioWare games simply bored me (though I put up Dragon Age II because that walking & talking simulator is an abortion that I'd like wiped out of my head), not sure if I'd say they're Metalheart or Konung bad though.

 

[Johannes]

Keywords being YOU'VE PLAYED. I don't think many people who weren't playing rpgs in the 80s have a strong incentive to try a twenty old game now about which they've read that it's supposed to be shit.

Well, if we do want that whole monocle thing to have some actual merit one might expect a bit of interest in the roots of the genre.

I've tried a lot of obscure, old RPGs that were total crap, but don't expect me to remember their names, or much anything else really. I'm fine with blocking such memories.

 

[Kalin]

Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Neverwinter Nights
Neverwinter Nights 2
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

The list would most likely be longer if I had actually played crap like post-SoA BioWare titles or Obsidian Entertainment games. Fortunately, screenshots, reviews and partial playthroughs have warned me to stay clear of said abominations.

 

[Xzar]

Planescape : Torment
Arcanum
Gothic (entire series)
All Diablo clones (including Torchlight and Titan Quest)
Diablo 2 and 3
Last Remnant
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Dragon Age 2

 

[Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

Dragon Age 2

 

[taxalot]

It is funny how all the games listed there are actually not that bad. People play an RPG and find it awful, but most other people would love it.

There are some bad games out there. Really bad ones. Broken games with ugly graphics and a silly plot which were forgotten in the DOS era, amateurish stuff that is plainly awful as well as proffessional ones. Shit, RPGMaker got lots of awful things.

But then again, this would require a "Bad RPGs no one played" thread.

 

[HobGoblin42]

Gothic Series
Might and Magic Series
Final Fantasy Series
Sacred 1+2
Diablo Series
Legend of Grimrock
Dungeon Siege Series
Torchlight Series
all Spiderweb Games
Neverwinter Nights 1+2
Dragon Age II (ok, this deserves its own list: Biggest Fails in CRPG history ever)

 

[Roguey]

Damn look at that developer edginess. I'm still biting my tongue.

 

[Cassidy]

worst games
Wizardry 8

best games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3

Also

2/10

And here is my list. No other "RPG" or RPG I played deserves to be put in such a list, in my opinion. Were I to play New Vegas there would be a third one in the list, but I won't make such a mistake.

1) Alpha Protocol (why I expect nothing good from Obsidian)
2) Fallout 3 (still a gigantic shit after > 10 GB of mods, fails equally as a shooter and as a CRPG)

 

[Minttunator]

It is funny how all the games listed there are actually not that bad. People play an RPG and find it awful, but most other people would love it.

There are some bad games out there. Really bad ones. Broken games with ugly graphics and a silly plot which were forgotten in the DOS era, amateurish stuff that is plainly awful as well as proffessional ones. Shit, RPGMaker got lots of awful things.

But then again, this would require a "Bad RPGs no one played" thread.

You hit the nail on the proverbial head there - there are lots of awful games out there, but most people haven't played them, so they're not getting a lot of votes. It seems that many of us are mostly voting for disappointing sequels (I know I am).

 

[HobGoblin42]

I thought I was posting in the thread "Top 50 MOST OVERRATED RPGs YOU'VE PLAYED". People read what they want to read.

 

[Konjad]

I made my vote comment in the other thread about the best RPGs with some good discussion coming out of a single sentence.

With that out of the way, I believe it would be remiss for the Codex to miss a golden opportunity to discuss the worst RPGs and WHY(if possible) they are that way.

I'll kick off with my list, which includes games that I have either played or completed.


Might & Magic 9 - The engine change along with its rushed state make it a pretty obvious choice.
Swords of Xeen - A fan mod which showed that modders throwing something together to make it stick doesn't make a good game.
Descent to Undermountain - Even though I would classify the game as a dungeon crawl action RPG, it still deserves to be on the list. There was a good engine that was made into something pretty bad.

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/codex-cursed-trinity.52797/

 

[Turjan]

By the way, if games count that I didn't play more than an hour, Dungeon Lords tops my list.

 

[Absalom]

The really only good example I could think of was BG-II, any rpg's I played earlier than that are ones I barely remember. I'd also say nethack too maybe

 

[octavius]

The really only good example I could think of was BG-II, any rpg's I played earlier than that are ones I barely remember. I'd also say nethack too maybe

You think BG2 is the worst CRPG ever and Raymond Feist one of the finest Fantasy writers?

 

[Absalom]

The really only good example I could think of was BG-II, any rpg's I played earlier than that are ones I barely remember. I'd also say nethack too maybe

You think BG2 is the worst CRPG ever and Raymond Feist one of the finest Fantasy writers?

Whoa whoa! Let's not take things to extremes here. Raymond Feist is passable - Most Fantasy writer try too much to be like Tolkien - and I thought BG was overrated (The combat system and character creation were interesting, but too much silly dialogue).

 

[Absalom]

I never said Raymond Feist is a great fantasy author - I merely said I find his work to be readable; and I'm biased because he wrote a novelization of Betrayal at Krondor.

 

[deuxhero]

Worst that I actually played?

Knights of the Old Republic
Oblivion

KotOR somehow managed to make me like I wasted wasted money when I got it for a negative amount (I bought the Best of PC collection because it was cheaper than I could get Outcast for standalone). Only once has anything ever come close (Star Ocean: Till the End of Time for free)
Oblivion was just a waste of money. Nehrim is passable with mods on top of it, but still suffers from poor choice of base game.

 

[Aeschylus]

Well, this is promising... My qualification of a 'bad' RPG is one I'd never think of going back and playing again, so under that criteria...

Gothic 3
Gothic 4
Neverwinter Nights (OC)
Neverwinter Nights 2 (OC)
Dragon Age 2
Betrayal at Antara
Dark Sun 2
Eye of the Beholder 3
Ultima 1-3 and 9
Risen 2

A lot of the well-despised things here (FO3, Mass Effect, Oblivion/Skyrim, etc.) I've never actually played, so I can't really comment.

 

[Metro]

Oblivion
Fallout 3
Arcania
Mass Effect
Witcher
Deus Ex Invisible War

 

[tindrli]

The Bard's Tale (2004) i just remmember that i end playing this shit when i saw a guitar somwhere in the game
Fallout 3 one of the mayor disappointment of my life and shit i was waiting this game for more than a decade
Mass effect Series no comment
Dungeon sieges all of them the third installment cant be even called a game
Dragon age 2 install/uninstall

will edit if i remember more

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I really don't get why so many people hate The Witcher.

 

[aVENGER]

For me, the No.1 spot definitivelly belongs to Gothic 3. I loved the first two installments to death, and I really had high hopes for part 3. Unfortunately, it felt like a completely different game which had with very little in common with its predecessors. Even with all the fan patches, it still couldn't measure up. The only good thing about that game was the awesome soundtrack.

Honorable mention: NWN1 OC. After the greatness of BG2 (pre ToB), this just felt like a slap in the face.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

I really don't get why so many people hate The Witcher.

I agree. I understand why some don't like the Witcher 2, as it simplified a lot of the initial game. I guess it's unpopular because it's a click-happy action game, but plenty of people here are fans of games like Diablo which is more so. And Gothic also did much of the same with its perspective and solo character, and that game is also popular here. I liked the alchemical elements of the Witcher and the changes one had to consider with weapons and so forth. And it had puzzles one had to figure out, such as during the autopsy. Overall I enjoyed it.

 

[Metatron]

Gonna rank the worst of worst I've played. Not really enamored with Mass Effect or Morrowind either but I feel those games have at least some redeeming features which can't be said for the following list

Might & Magic IX. Terrible conclusion to one of my favorite rpg franchises. Nothing makes my heart bleed like this trainwreck.
Birthright: the Gorgon's Alliance. This thing had an rpgish part that was absolutely horrible. I remember "clues" about traps being pinned on the throne and stuff like that. I guess the king had a severe case of amnesia.
NWN OC. We don't need a decent campaign because of the mod stuff, right?
NWN Shadows of Undrentide: campaign felt like a poor showcase for a few new features, like going from snowy landscape to desert landscape just because that were the 2 new tilesets they added.
Dragon Age 2. People are going to buy this copypasta anyway because of the name, right? (And so they did).
Oblivion. I actually tolerate Morrowind (decent atmosphere and lore/setting) & Skyrim (at least it had some great landscaping) but the level scaling going full retard alone makes Oblivion unplayable. Also, the world feels very clinical which is the one thing a sandbox should try to avoid.
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. The only game that removed everything else as well when you uninstalled it. That'll teach you.
Beyond Divinity: I know they had their heart in the right place but this was seriously disappointing brainless hack 'n slash after the excellent Div Div.
Lionheart: Black Isle's Waterloo
Final Fantasy 8: This faggotery turned me off jrpgs forever.
Vampire The Masquerade - Redemtion: Thank God we got Bloodlines afterwards, at least one good World of Darkness rpg.
Betrayal @ Antara. Like betrayal at Krondor but whitout a decent story, rewarding exploration, combat or anything else that makes an rpg worth playing.

 

[sea]

Probably Ultima: Ascension, and maybe in recent years, Inquisitor. A lot of people point out that Fallout 3, Dragon Age II etc. are terrible games... yeah, they're not great, and supremely disappointing, but if you think those are truly the worst RPGs ever, then you clearly haven't played enough completely shit games.