What is the worst non-RPG game you ever played?

[SpaceWizardz]

Aliens: Colonial Marines

 

[Mark Richard]

Republic: The Revolution

This game had such an amazing fucking concept. I even own a boxed copy.
But HOLY SHIT it's boring.

Didn't Republic: The Revolution have a 3D environment that was completely superfluous? The top-down district map was far easier to navigate and had everything one needed to play. Imagine if a Paradox grand strategy board game could switch to a 3D environment that contributed nothing. It's just there!

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Perfect Weapon for the PS1.

A beat 'em up with tank controls, fixed camera, the worst hit detection ever experienced, retarded level layouts and... ooooh... this is one of the first games I bought with my hard earned money as a little paperboy for my brand new Playstation in 1997. Do you know how fucking awful it is being a paperboy? You get up super early, you put together the papers, you carry them around in a bag or cart, you evade numerous pedophiles and druggies that look like rejects from The Crow, you have to deliver regardless of snow or rain or some other hellish weather condition, you do all this so you can get that glorious ten dollars you need.

So I saw this game in a GamePro ad, it looked SO cool. The guy in it was doing a splits-kick to two enemies and it had weapons and weird alien creatures and it just looked like a great purchase for my new generation console. I finally scrounge the money, all while eye-fucking this game every weekend at the local game store. When I used to really want a game I'd "reserve" it Harlem style. For you non-NYers, Harlem style reserves is code for taking the game and hiding it somewhere in the store. So I hid this game in a bargain bin of games nobody ever bothered with because they either sucked or were educational. The real tragedy? This game was initially sandwiched between Resident Evil 1 and Tomb Raider. Yeah, my eyes thought Chris Redfield and Lara Croft weren't good enough compared to PERFECT WEAPON.

Anyways, I eventually get the money needed, I proudly walk into the store, I unearth Perfect Weapon from the pile of Math Blasters I hid it beneath as though I located the evil Pazuzu statue from The Exorcist, I proudly SLAM my money on the table and I very calmly and coolly tell the cashier "keep the change" (I was a real jackass of a kid). I take the bus home, I take off the wrapping, I put it in the PS1 and I'm ready.

Well one hour later I take the game out, put it in its case, and throw the case at the wall in pure anger that this game completely fucking sucks.

All that work for NOTHING. The ad lied to me, the game title lied to me, the cashier at the store even lied to me because surely they knew I was about to buy the worst controlled, worst made beat 'em up adventure hybrid put on this planet. That was the first time in my life I could ever remember wanting to kill something brutally.

Perfect Weapon is a steaming pile of shit and if you ever see it, do me a favour and destroy it. This game must not be allowed to exist. Even if you see a ROM of it, take that site offline until they remove it from their downloads. Fuck this game, fuck this game, FUCK this game.

This game will bring out the rage in us all, all right. Deep breaths, deep breaths.

 

[Tweed]

Bioshock Infinite without a doubt. Right from the get go its running a race against you to try and keep you preoccupied with all the pretty visuals in the hope that you'll never notice that there's actually nothing going on. The deep2u racism was so very safe and pathetic that it made no difference, just like nothing in the game ever made any difference because of muh "illusion of choice". All of this without even mentioning the hideously boring gameplay and riding around on magic rollercoasters that go nowhere while Ken Levine's second-rate Disney Princess tosses you crap because she's strong and don't need no man.

And that ending, Jesus, why didn't Ken just come out from the shadows and admit he'd completely ran out of ideas and end the game right then and there? I mean he could have just copied System Shock 2's plot elements again like he had already done 3 times for Bioshock and its expansions, what was one more going to hurt at that point?

 

[Tehdagah]

DMC3 camera is also terrible. Possibly the most overrated game ever made, but that's for another thread.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Probably Knights Of Legend, where it takes hours to fight a small group of the lowest lvl enemies. You don't want to know how long it takes to fight a small group of the highest lvl enemies. It's a game for autistics where their time perception is such that 1 hour equals 1 minute., then the battles only take about 5-10 minutes..

ETA: Sorry, the OP asked for non-RPGs. KOL is an RPG, but it's also the worst game I ever played...period...so maybe it fits in this topic... sort of.

 

[samuraigaiden]

Big Sky Trooper. It was a LucasArts game for the SNES, so I expected Day of the Tentacle/Full Throttle levels of quality. What I got was one of the most repetitive, ugly and just awful games in the console's library.

 

[anvi]

Probably Knights Of Legend, where it takes hours to fight a small group of the lowest lvl enemies. You don't want to know how long it takes to fight a small group of the highest lvl enemies. It's a game for autistics where their time perception is such that 1 hour equals 1 minute., then the battles only take about 5-10 minutes..

ETA: Sorry, the OP asked for non-RPGs. KOL is an RPG, but it's also the worst game I ever played...period...so maybe it fits in this topic... sort of.

It is ok. I only said non-RPG because they are only about 2 that are not complete garbage.

 

[Micormic]

For pc

Sniper path of vengeance.


Although it tries to rip off deus ex and has some rpg elements it's really just a really really shitty shooter, lol.


For consoles IDK, I played a ton of shitty platformers as a kid.





For pure insult based on earlier iterations I liked in series


Rome 2 total war is up there
Hearts of iron 4 to a lesser extent
Homm 4 but again this one had some rpg elements



There's been a ton of crap shooters I've had that I literally just can't remember their names.

 

[Jimmious]

I hated Gods Will Be Watching. Tried 3 times to play it, but this obscure trial and error puzzle gameplay is extremely annoying

 

[Space Nugget]

Without mentioning games that are clearly unfinished/underfunded/rushed, I would say the early Assassin's Creed games.

I could just stop at "Desmond Miles", but no, there's more: the whole genetic memory affair, the most dumb and pretentious convoluted story/narrative in gaming (putting the likes of Kojima to shame), over-designed and automated gameplay, shitty mouse & keyboard controls (the worst I've ever experienced in a 3rd-person game)... Fuck Ubisoft for coming up with this cancerous, atrocious, retarded junk of a product.

 

[sser]

Sword & Sworcery is the worst game I have ever played and by a long shot.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]

Alone in th dark inferno port for PS2 (I think the PS2 version is not called inferno, but whatever). What an absolute incomplete, unfinished pile of vomit.

 

[Kaethar]

Assassins Creed 1 was boring as fuck.

 

[Daemongar]

Bioshock Infinite. Hands down. Fancy, fancy graphics, but nothing else. I quit because I felt like an idiot.

 

[The_Mask]

I think it's a great way to learn game mechanics. It's more rewarding, sticks with you better and feels great when you overcome a challenge.
Most children learn riding bicycles through trail and error and don't give up just because they fall on their bums once or twice. If someone is not willing to spend 10 minutes to learn how to play a fucking video game, doesn't deserve to have fun at all.
Dark Souls isn't even punishing or super challenging, it's the middle of the road really, shines with it's atmosphere, exploration and it's simple but effective combat.

I think I love you.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

the republic.

 

[A horse of course]

Soulsbabbies, please remember there is already a containment forum for your shit taste.

 

[what am i doing]

AssCreed 2. I uninstalled fairly early on. It's actually the only time I can remember that I uninstalled a game without at least completing it once. I was just bored out of my mind and had zero attachment or motivation to continue. I did complete the first game, which was also shit but at least a bit of a novelty when it came out.

 

[Atlantico]

I would go with Firewatch. It is barely a game. But I would love harm to fall upon the makers of it.

Gone Home, absolute trash tier. Firewatch apparently shares the same universe. Make of that what you will.

 

[Falksi]

Grand Theft Auto 4

Seriously, wtf? A game supposed to be all about stealing, killing, fast cars, violent chaos.....and I'm fucking about playing a life-sim.

Awful

 

[fantadomat]

Asscreed and Arcania: Gothic 4

anvi looking at your tags i do get it why you hate firewatch. Must have been quite a challenge trying to read the dialogue without a pause button.

 

[anvi]

I only have 1 tag and mine says "possibly" retarded, which is better than yours which with no ambiguity, says "DUMBFUCK!!!" Also Firewatch barely has any dialogue, it is all spoken, and doesn't need pausing because nothing happens. Sorry to let facts get in the way of your endless whining and bandwagoning with your fired moderator buddy.

 

[fantadomat]

Also Firewatch barely has any dialogue,

And yet again,you prove your tags justice. The game is mainly dialogue,but sadly you are too dumb to get it that you have to press a button to initiate it. Also you don't have all your well deserved tags because you bought off infi to remove them......or crispy.

 

[anvi]

No it barely has any dialogue after the first 2 minutes. And don't pretend you have played it because we both know you haven't. Why can't you ever think of anything to say other than tags zomg tags or made up crap about games you haven't played? Why even come here if you have nothing to say..