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

[Metatron]

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.

I do think there is still a big difference between games like Skyrim and Mass Effect which are still kinda good for what they are trying to do (be it a hiking or romance simulator) or a complete failure like Dragon age 2 or Oblivion that can't even get the parts it's supposed to excell in right.

 

[tuluse]

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.

I honestly think Fallout 3 is as bad as a game can be without being broken to the point of unplayability.

 

[undecaf]

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.

I can willingly admit I'm lacking in the shit department - there are, no doubt, much worse games out there (which I haven't touched).

Then again, I also consider that a sign of a better overall judgement.

 

[Xavier0889]

Ruins of Myth Drannor for the armageddon bug. It wasn't even a great game anyway.
Diablo 2 and Lionheart, for the same reason: good build up, but there was a point where I didn't knew what I was doing and didn't really cared tbh.
Ultima: Ascension, for the lore rape. Dupre's resurrection wasn't funny at all. The graphics were good for its time though.

Dragon Age 2 was a bad game, but I didn't expected it to be something different than that.

 

[aVENGER]

I never could bring myself to play Bethesda's Fallout 3. As far as I'm concerned, a third installment was never made.



One of these days, I might give New Vegas a try though.

 

[octavius]

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.

I honestly think Fallout 3 is as bad as a game can be without being broken to the point of unplayability.

I've never played it, so I'm curious...
Does it fail because it's not a "true" Fallout, or does it also fail as a FPS?

 

[sea]

I've never played it, so I'm curious...
Does it fail because it's not a "true" Fallout, or does it also fail as a FPS?

It's a very mediocre game, but not the worst game ever or anything. It still has solid art direction (despite shit engine), it has a great sense of open world exploration with tons of stuff to find, despite balance issues the character system actually is not that bad, etc. As a Fallout game and a pure RPG it is not so great, but as Elder Scrolls with guns it's hardly unplayable. New Vegas was far better in almost any way but I don't think that really diminishes the fact that Fallout 3 did do some stuff well, especially as there weren't really any other games to compare it to at the time other than the Elder Scrolls series. If it wasn't called Fallout, I think a lot of people would have just said "oh, cool post-apoc shooter-RPG, 7/10" because there wouldn't be the same expectations for it.

 

[tuluse]

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.

I honestly think Fallout 3 is as bad as a game can be without being broken to the point of unplayability.

I've never played it, so I'm curious...
Does it fail because it's not a "true" Fallout, or does it also fail as a FPS?

It fails as an FPS, an RPG, having characters that don't make want to kill them all, having a beginning that doesn't make me want to kill the developers, and plenty of other things.

It's supposed to have good "exploration", but I only played for a few hours before giving up.

I'm sure you can find more detailed descriptions of why it sucks from people who had it fresher in their memory than me.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Fallout 3 is a hiking game that quickly makes hiking completely pointless and obsolete through its own design so I don't see how anyone can see it as anything else than a complete failure. And it's not the only serious problem that this game has by the way. Well worth of putting on every '"worst games ever" list. Of course I'm talking about lists where we mention games well-known to wider audience, not some shareware titles from early nineties.

 

[taxalot]

I saw quick videos of Descent to Undermountain, it didn't look that awful. What is so wrong with that game besides bugs and crashes ?

 

[Primordial Soup Nazi]

I've never played it, so I'm curious...
Does it fail because it's not a "true" Fallout, or does it also fail as a FPS?

It's a very mediocre game, but not the worst game ever or anything. It still has solid art direction (despite shit engine), it has a great sense of open world exploration with tons of stuff to find, despite balance issues the character system actually is not that bad, etc. As a Fallout game and a pure RPG it is not so great, but as Elder Scrolls with guns it's hardly unplayable. New Vegas was far better in almost any way but I don't think that really diminishes the fact that Fallout 3 did do some stuff well, especially as there weren't really any other games to compare it to at the time other than the Elder Scrolls series. If it wasn't called Fallout, I think a lot of people would have just said "oh, cool post-apoc shooter-RPG, 7/10" because there wouldn't be the same expectations for it.

Pretty much this.

Honestly, I can get past the crashes and bugs (mods help with the latter), character imbalances, lack of challenge, VATS (which is easily avoided), so on and so forth, but IMO, the game deserves all the scorn it gets for two reasons:

1. Its not Fallout. Not even close. Neither in flavour, nor in gameplay is this game a Fallout sequel.

2. The writing and voice acting. Jesus "The Toolman" Christ, could they possibly have made this game any more retarded and lulzy? I mean, really, you're going to have a relatively small handful of actors voice a game of hundreds of NPCs, and give them no direction whatsoever? Every NPC voiced by a given actor is virtually the same across the board, in terms of inflection and tone. Weak. And annoying. And holy shit, the writing...wow. I'm not looking for a literary masterwork, but fuck-me-sideways, Bethesda is rolling in dough, they can afford to hire somebody to flesh out a quasi-non-retarded setting, and write some believable dialogue; they have no excuse. Its like they felt they needed to one-up Fallout 2 on the disbelief scale.

"Ooh, I've got an idea, lets have a major town built around an active nuclear warhead! Oh, and lets shoe-horn super mutants and the Brotherhood of Steel! Hm...oh, dig this: a DLC on a spaceship! Dualing comic-book characters! Portable nuclear weapons! STEEL BE WITH YOUPOAHDSGOIUHSADIFUSHGDKUSDHFKSDFFUCKFUCKFUCK"

Mods can undo a lot of Bethesda's poor design decisions, but they can't (or at least, don't; its not practical) fix shitty writing and redundant voice acting.

Speaking of Bethesderp, how does Skyrim compare to Oblivious/Fakeout 3 in terms of writing and voice acting? I'm holding out till the Ultimate Game of the Eon edition drops.

 

[octavius]

It's rather tragic that the voice acting should become so bad in Oblivion and Fallout 3.
To me Morrowind (with BG2) is the game that really did the voice acting right. Both quality, diversity and not least: in moderation. Thanks to illiterate idiots we now "must" suffer through every fucking line spoken by a handful of voice actors, in addition to much less flexibility when it comes to editing or adding dialogue.

 

[SCO]

It's rather tragic that the voice acting should become so bad in Oblivion and Fallout 3.
To me Morrowind (with BG2) is the game that really did the voice acting right. Both quality, diversity and not least: in moderation. Thanks to illiterate idiots we now "must" suffer through every fucking line spoken by a handful of voice actors, in addition to much less flexibility when it comes to editing or adding dialogue.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

"I like to PLAY my games, not READ them."

Gets me every time

Still, sea is right. I think most of the disgust towards it comes from being a poor sequel to the wet dream game of many codexers, because otherwise the game is not very different from others in this generation - if it was called Post-Apoc Adventhur it would most likely be laughed off as lulz material like Planet Alcatraz and quickly forgotten.

 

[Papa Môlé]

What's the point of threads like this? It's just going to be your typical insecure fags around here trying to fit in by listing off the usual AAA suspects, and then a few idiots either trying too hard to troll and/or butthurt they have shit taste saying Arcanum and the like is over-rated. The absolute worst games are going to be crap you've never heard of, like some indie Russian RPG and we all know everyone here doesn't like Oblivion.

 

[Metro]

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

Because it's barely an RPG. The C&C is largely illusory and it has even less character development/progression than Diablo and Gothic. Oh, that and it's a completely on-rails experience where you can't even jump. You're locked into little narrow predetermined corridors.

 

[Excidium]

you can't even jump.

lol

 

[Deleted member 7219]

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

Because it's barely an RPG. The C&C is largely illusory

You kidding? If the C&C in Witcher 1 is 'largely illusory' then so are the C&C in Fallout. They're the same thing, only difference is Witcher doesn't have the art cards at the end of the game - it has them in the game itself.

and it has even less character development/progression than Diablo and Gothic.

Really? You had Strength, Dexterity, Stamina and Intelligence - and about 20 skills in each to choose from. And the same in each of the five magic schools, and six weapon schools. I think that has enough depth for an RPG.

h, that and it's a completely on-rails experience

The maps are huge for a game that is based on the NWN engine. What were you playing? Did you expect an entirely open-world game like Elder Scrolls?

where you can't even jump.

Couldn't jump in Fallout, Torment or Arcanum either. Jumping isn't a prerequisite of a good RPG.

You're locked into little narrow predetermined corridors.

I don't see how you could have played the game and still make statements like that.

 

[Seolas]

Dragon Age II was horrendously bad, one of the worst games I've ever played. And I liked the first.

 

[Baxter]

Oh, this should be fun.

Gorasul-Legacy of the Dragon : Mind blowing awful
Dungeon Lords : Hideous bad.
Ultima IX : Pretty, but that's it. Awful voice acting, bugs, lore destroyed
Space Siege : Dungeon Siege wanna be. Terrible and empty
Gods-Land of Inifinity : Zero, yes ZERO indoor locations.
Descent to Undermountain : Pitiful
Legends of Valour : Shit in a box
POR-Ruins of Myth Drannor : .......
Realms of Darkness (C64) : Please do yourself a favor and play it in a emulator. Then attempt to slit your own throat in anger.
Darkstone : You sir, are NOT Diablo.
Tunnels and Trolls : DO.NOT.ENTER.

 

[Necroscope]

I just vote for Oblivion and leave it at that. This game is the best proof that time travels are impossible, because someone would have certainly blanked it from the pages of history. And it's shit not only because it's shit, but also because it become so popular in its shittines that FO3 and Skyrim iherited most of it.

 

[DraQ]

"I like to PLAY my games, not READ them."

Gets me every time

I like to PLAY my games, not WATCH nor LISTEN to them.

 

[taxalot]

<JessicaHepler> You guys are both in the wrong! <JessicaHepler:>

 

[Wolfus]

Dragon Age 2

 

[aleam iacis]

Games which I ended up uninstalling before beating them(rather than leaving them on my drive in hope).
Mass Effect 1 (I uninstalled it the first two times I tried to play it, then the third time I enjoyed it and beat it)
Deus Ex : HR(technically I beat the final boss but I refused to select an ending, I've had more fun grinding in JRPGs)

Games I uninstalled within 1 week
Dungeon Siege
Fallout New Vegas (I guess I'm one of the few here who liked Fallout 3, but I thought this was boring)


Games which I uninstalled within 1 day
Dragon Age Origins (I reinstalled and uninstalled it a few times since it was so popular, and since I had preordered the goddamn collectors edition because ... I was mislead as to the nature of the game)
Mass Effect 3 (garbage popamole)
Dragon Age 2 (the precursor or 'origin' of the garbage popamole copied into ME3)