The problem with very bad games is that (unless you are highly masochistic, without taste, or an edgelord desperate to have something to whine about) you usually give up on them fairly quickly, so you don't know them in their entirety, having only played the beginning.
For instance, playing the first half of the first dungeon of Pool of Radiance 2 was enough to convince me that the game was utter shit and most definitely not worth my time. Is it one of the worse CRPG of all times ? I strongly suspect it is, but I'll never play the rest of the game, so I can't be completely sure.
I use the metric from Top Gear's 'Worst Car in the History of the World' special. It's not enough for a game to simply be bad like an FSO Polonez, because as anvi mentioned, a lot of the truly wretched shit was produced by one or two people on a budget of approximately nine Zimbabwean Dollars. The worst RPG ever made has to be from a group of genuine professionals with the time, skill and money to produce a quality video game, and who should have known better than to design and release such an awful game. For this reason, I'd agree with the nomination of Dragon Age 2 and I'd probably say Fallout 3 as well. Oblivion and Skyrim are pretty bad, but they have a certain appeal in deciding who and what you want to be, even if most of it is LARPing. Dark Souls 2 is also a putrid game in comparison to what came before and after it in the same series.
Edit: If we include JRPGs, the five hours of Final Fantasy 13 that I played was one of the most miserable experiences of my life.
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