Your Top Ten (Worst) Games Ever!!

invinciblePRSTV · 09-06-2010 1:23pm

Mcjmetroid wrote: »

grand theft auto: london(ps1)

What was so bad about this? it had a kicking soundtrack and was identical in gameplay to the previous PSX GTAs.

Mcjmetroid · 09-06-2010 2:27pm

invinciblePRSTV wrote: »

What was so bad about this? it had a kicking soundtrack and was identical in gameplay to the previous PSX GTAs.

yep that's pretty much the problem and there was only 1 previous gta game being the original, I just thought this was an unnecessary clone so I choose this.

I think the original gta was one of the most overrated games of all time. If the only thing it's got going for it is the kickass soundtrack then I'm glad I put it there because let's face it the graphics were very bad for ps1. The series didn't take off for me until gta III, never has a move to 3d been more successful than with gta.

Retr0gamer · 09-06-2010 3:20pm

Ah lay off the original GTA. I think the graphics are fine, loads of heavily detailed sprites being thrown around especially when the PS couldn't do 2D very well. What really mattered was the gameplay which was gold. I remember when I got it I spent the first 2 weeks just running around causing havok. After that I started playing properly and discovered an amazing game in there. It was really arcadey and you couldn't save during the game so it made it really tense. You had to make sure you carried out every mission correctly because if you missed out on the multiplier you would have to go on a rampage to get enough points to finish the level and it made it very tense with mountains of cops after you. It's a damn fine game and even if it wasn't your type of game you can hardly call it one of the worst.

CiDeRmAn · 09-06-2010 3:44pm

You kids are spoiled by the likes of GTA III and IV.
Grand Theft Auto and GTA:London were revelations compared to all that went before, I bought the original at launch for my PC and was blown away.
I mean, a top down perspective at first looked very retro, retro looking for the mid 90's too! But then you see it for what it is, a living city, in 3D as well, but for your point of view.
Sliding cars around corners, between lorries, ducking along pedestrian walk ways, whilst watching your pager, rushing for a ringing phone box on the other side of town and with a bomb timer ticking in the corner! Brilliant!

And then of course there was the "KILL FRENZY", where things got interesting, running down lines of monks etc.

I have it still for the PS1 and it's still got it's charm, as reflected in GTA:Chinatown which is much the same mechanics of the earlier game, despite being separated by 12 years, in fact, I reckon the PS1 could do a fair job of a version of GTA:Chinatown.

As for the criticisms of GTA:London, they would be fair enough if DMA were pedaling it as a new game, but they didn't, it was sold as a mission pack, presumably the first of many but for the development of GTA II and then ramping up to GTA III.

So, don't be so hard on the original GTA and the mission pack GTA:London, and realise the revolution they represented in 97, compared to what was available elsewhere at the time.
And remember that the long time series competitor Driver wasn't released for another 2 years on the PS and PC.

Mcjmetroid · 09-06-2010 5:31pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

You kids are spoiled by the likes of GTA III and IV.
.

I assure you I'm generally a retro- style gamer. I did enjoy gta III and vice city, never really bothered with the rest.

So usually I wouldn't complain about graphics too much. It doesn't date very well and I'm not saying that just because it is 2d.

I know it's probably harsh saying it's the worst game ever,some people seem to enjoy so it must be doing something right. But I didn't get it. It generally wasn't a very popular selling game but over here for some reason people ate it up. Must have been the 18 rating

Gta 2 was a bit better from the little I've played of it mind.

CiDeRmAn · 09-06-2010 6:33pm

Ok, so you didn't like it, fair enough.
One thing though, while the characters and cars were sprites the city itself was 3D, in fact they had an inhouse version running from the first person perspective!
I have it for the PS and GBA and have to say it's still fun, sure it's not a patch on the more modern GTA titles in terms of depth and visuals but in it's day it was revolutionary, and the features that made it so can still be appreciated now.
And fair enough if you are a retro fan, but you were about 9 when the original came out, so perhaps the buzz passed you by.
GTA 2 was not really all that hot, while the different gangs and loyalty was well implemented, the futuristic world grated a bit.
I think GTA sold very well actually, not sure if you mean it sold well in Europe, Ireland or Limerick!
Speaking of which....

Myrddin · 09-06-2010 7:04pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

in fact they had an inhouse version running from the first person perspective!

Ellaborate?

o1s1n · 09-06-2010 7:42pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And fair enough if you are a retro fan, but you were about 9 when the original came out, so perhaps the buzz passed you by.

Lol! Ziiiiing!

I was 13 and my mother wouldn't let me buy it

Had to make do with a time limited demo.

Retr0gamer · 09-06-2010 9:13pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

in fact they had an inhouse version running from the first person perspective!

Eh I don't think so considering that the uses the same trick a lot of saturn games use. The ground is a massive 2D tile based map that is scaled in and out and the 3D polygon elements are synched to scale and scroll with the 2D plane.

Atavan-Halen · 10-06-2010 12:48am

o1s1n wrote: »

Lol! Ziiiiing!

I was 13 and my mother wouldn't let me buy it Had to make do with a time limited demo.

Haha, hate that!

I got GTA and GTA London when I was 5 or 6. Didn't really understand what I was supposed to be doing but enjoyed it none the less. I used to just run around stealing cars. I still like to throw it on every now and again and play (now with a bit more knowledge of wtf is going on

)

Myrddin · 10-06-2010 11:00am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Eh I don't think so considering that the uses the same trick a lot of saturn games use. The ground is a massive 2D tile based map that is scaled in and out and the 3D polygon elements are synched to scale and scroll with the 2D plane.

Thats what I thought, surely a first person version of this game would have needed a whole different engine.

o1s1n · 10-06-2010 11:24am

atavan-halen wrote: »

Haha, hate that!

I got GTA and GTA London when I was 5 or 6. Didn't really understand what I was supposed to be doing but enjoyed it none the less. I used to just run around stealing cars. I still like to throw it on every now and again and play (now with a bit more knowledge of wtf is going on )

GTA at 5 or 6.

Pokemon at 18.

Sense - this makes none :pac:

Retr0gamer · 10-06-2010 12:11pm

Lay off the Pokemon! It might have the cute graphics but it'spossibly the deepest RPG game available :P It's more mature than GTA.

Mcjmetroid · 10-06-2010 3:12pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Lol! Ziiiiing!

I was 13 and my mother wouldn't let me buy it Had to make do with a time limited demo.

ah come on in those days barely anybody took the age ratings seriously, at least my parents didn't and a lot of parents still don't.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

And fair enough if you are a retro fan, but you were about 9 when the original came out, so perhaps the buzz passed you by.

Funny enough the game was massively popular when I was young and I had good times playing it at one time but I admit myself I mostly loved the violence side of it. No games let you do the things at the time. Barely anybody I knew actually did the missions lol

o1s1n · 10-06-2010 3:26pm

Mcjmetroid wrote: »

ah come on in those days barely anybody took the age ratings seriously, at least my parents didn't and a lot of parents still don't.
l

Tell that to my mother circa 1984-95/96. If something had an 18s rating it on it wasn't going anywhere near her children!

CS Hasuki · 10-06-2010 3:29pm

Shame as made by the guys who made Flashback. Amazing game.

Retr0gamer · 10-06-2010 3:32pm

Yeah my parents were the same. I wasn't allowed Mortal Kombat 2 because they said it made me go crazy but what I was screaming at the TV for was the incredibly cheap and cheating AI in the game. I had to sneakily get a lend of it and play it on the sly. Still because of it I ended up playing more street fighter 2 and learned it was a far superior game. That was probably the only one I wasn't allowed. They didn't like me playing Resident Evil either but got over that. Strange thing was they bought me GTA as my first PS1 game

CS Hasuki · 10-06-2010 3:37pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah my parents were the same. I wasn't allowed Mortal Kombat 2 because they said it made me go crazy but what I was screaming at the TV for was the incredibly cheap and cheating AI in the game. I had to sneakily get a lend of it and play it on the sly. Still because of it I ended up playing more street fighter 2 and learned it was a far superior game. That was probably the only one I wasn't allowed. They didn't like me playing Resident Evil either but got over that. Strange thing was they bought me GTA as my first PS1 game

Street Fighter II on Snes. That was just jaw dropping. I remember to this day getting it from Santa.
MK was ok, poor mans SF2 really though. O and Rock n Roll racing-:D:D

AH the fond memories.

o1s1n · 10-06-2010 3:38pm

CS Hasuki wrote: »

Shame as made by the guys who made Flashback. Amazing game.

One of the worst concepts for a game ever. Crappy gameplay.

BUT! Some of the character animations are pretty nice.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah my parents were the same. I wasn't allowed Mortal Kombat 2 because they said it made me go crazy but what I was screaming at the TV for was the incredibly cheap and cheating AI in the game. I had to sneakily get a lend of it and play it on the sly. Still because of it I ended up playing more street fighter 2 and learned it was a far superior game. That was probably the only one I wasn't allowed. They didn't like me playing Resident Evil either but got over that. Strange thing was they bought me GTA as my first PS1 game

I remember the first time I rented out Robocop Versus the Terminator. It didn't have any age restriction on the front, so I hadn't a clue how gory it was. When I got it home and played through I freaked out my mam would see and would quickly turn it off if she ever came into the room.

Similarly to Retr0, She obviously just totally misunderstood its greatness.

I can also remember sneaking Doom into the house.

Fun times! The impending wrath of my mother made violent horror games even more terrifying.

I did win her around in the end though. In fact she drove me all over the place one year trying to find a copy of Silent Hill.

Retr0gamer · 10-06-2010 3:43pm

Actually you reminded me that my parents didn't want me playing Duke 3D so I hid it deep in my PC's file system

They didn't mind doom because my dad got addicted to it for a while

As regards your mum not letting you play RvsT, I think your mum was doing you a favour and has good taste in games.

Mcjmetroid · 10-06-2010 3:55pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Tell that to my mother circa 1984-95/96. If something had an 18s rating it on it wasn't going anywhere near her children!

my sympathies.

You never know you could have turned into a violent killer

o1s1n · 10-06-2010 4:14pm

Mcjmetroid wrote: »

my sympathies.

You never know you could have turned into a violent killer

I'm going to go out now and murder a bunch of people just to prove her wrong.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

As regards your mum not letting you play RvsT, I think your mum was doing you a favour and has good taste in games.

Starting with...you!

Cool, then I also get to hang onto your copy of PDS. Although I'm sure your Ghost would haunt me from beyond the grave.

Retr0gamer · 10-06-2010 4:17pm

Oh you can be sure of that :P

Amalgam · 10-06-2010 4:18pm

o1s1n wrote: »

2. Rise of the Robots (MD)

Infamous.. what were the games magazines payed with, coke and hookers?

The coverage was unreal. Talking of which, has Unreal II got a mention yet?

Retr0gamer · 10-06-2010 4:32pm

Unreal 2 wasn't bad it was just bland with no redeeming qualities at all. Unreal was also really bland and dull as well but got good reviews because of the pretty graphics.

Quigs Snr · 10-06-2010 4:44pm

Can't believe that Jumpman for C64 got into someones list. Its lame by todays standards but back in the day it was an addictive bugger of a game.

justbrian · 10-06-2010 10:51pm

Quigs Snr wrote: »

Can't believe that Jumpman for C64 got into someones list. Its lame by todays standards but back in the day it was an addictive bugger of a game.

My list, and it was never addictive, just lame.

Exclamation Marc · 14-06-2010 2:55am

Some of my most hated games include:

Far Cry 2 (PS3), the enemy checkpoint respawns just brutalised the game for me.

Last Action Hero (SNES) NEVER got past the first level, just impossible.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (PS3) When the sh!t hit the fan for me in the series.

WCW Mayhem (N64) My lord, one of the worst games of all time.

monkeyfudge · 14-06-2010 12:25pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Had a newer version of the quickshot myself, although I was late to the game only getting my C64 at christmas 1990, maybe 1991. I was only 7 or 8 then. I always wanted that bug joystick, they seemed really comfortable iirc.

I had that. Was the best joystick ever for Sensible Soccer. Was great for quickly turning with the ball.

o1s1n wrote: »

Speaking of ****, I remember my cousin had a Batman joystick for the Speccy. Wtf was that about? Most uncomfortable thing I've ever used. Batman is not ergonomically shaped!

I also had a few of these. They were super cheap for a long while so handy for forcing friends you didn't like (or the ones who always broke joysticks) to use when playing multiplayer.

But it had so many sharp and jarring angles on it... really painful to use.

As for worst game.

I think the worst one I ever paid money for and was utterly disgusted by was Malice. It was like a platform game made by people who had only ever read about platform games in a book. And the main character was a horrible Buffy wannabe with the most terrible quips in the history of... well... everything.

Think it was a game that had a quite a long production history to it... I remember it actually looking sort of good at one point too... but the final product was utterly horrible.

Retr0gamer · 14-06-2010 1:27pm

Can't believe I didn't mention Legend of Dragoon. It's a horrible soulless designed by commitee mess. It was made by Sony as an obvious attempt to hop on the FF7 bandwagon. The story is utterly terrible with some horrible characters. The translation that happens to be even worse than FF7's doesn't help either. The battle system is a joke. You can only attack but when you do you have to take part in a rhythm minigame to do maximum damage. Good idea on paper but you do this every time you attack. There's no magic either. When you use an item you have to hammer the X button like it's daley thompsons decathalon to get the best effect out of it. Every so often you can transform into a dragoon that can use crappy magic but it happens very rarely and the magic attacks take ages to load and play out. the random battle encounter rate is really high and the load times for the battles are terrible. The game is by far the worst RPG I've ever played.

Unfortunately the game suffers from final fantasy 7 syndrome were despite not being that great at all people still love the game and proclaim it as the greatest ever because they were 8-12 when they played it and didn't no any better. However FF7 is a good game just not the best game ever people claim it to be, Legend of Dragoon is horrid.

monkeyfudge · 14-06-2010 2:42pm

Maybe I just didn't get it.... but Unlimited Saga on the PS2 by Square was absolutely horrible.

Came in a lovely box though.

Retr0gamer · 14-06-2010 2:52pm

Trust me it wasn't just you. The entire saga series (well maybe not Final Fantasy Legend 2) is regarded as terrible with Unlimited Saga being by far the worst.

o1s1n · 14-06-2010 3:48pm

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Came in a lovely box though.

They all have lovely bottoms...er..boxes.

justbrian · 14-06-2010 7:42pm

Cool spot 2. Cool (groan pun) game.

Cool spot (2) goes to hollywood, turd in box

Skerries · 15-06-2010 1:50pm

Pac-man and Ghost N' Goblins spring to mind for me as they were too effin tough and chewed through my 10p's

Retr0gamer · 15-06-2010 2:26pm

Skerries wrote: »

Ghost N' Goblins

NO! You did not justgo there! It's one of the best games ever made. Just because you are crap at it doesn't mean it's crap.

Myrddin · 15-06-2010 4:19pm

Skerries wrote: »

Pac-man and Ghost N' Goblins spring to mind for me as they were too effin tough and chewed through my 10p's

I think its notoriously difficult, but one of the worst games of all time? Come on man how about Trivial Pursuit on the C64....

Retr0gamer · 15-06-2010 4:22pm

It's not even that difficult. Some games are just impossible but Gn'G is definitely beatable, I've done it on 1 credit.

marcuspheonix · 15-06-2010 8:10pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's not even that difficult. Some games are just impossible but Gn'G is definitely beatable, I've done it on 1 credit.

wow, your great.

i dont think it was one of the worst games ever, however its far from being one of the best either

Retr0gamer · 15-06-2010 8:40pm

Have to totally disagree with you. I think it's one of the best arcade games ever made and I'm sure the majority will agree with me.

batari · 15-06-2010 11:44pm

Love GnG. It's one of those frustratingly hard games that has you gritting your teeth and going back for more. And getting a little further. and dying again.And gritting your teeth. And going back for more. And getting a little fur... you get the picture.

Pure addictive gaming, tho I don't think I could ever afford to play it for long in an Arcade. C64 all the way!:pac:

Retr0gamer · 16-06-2010 12:13am

Super Grafx had the best version as well as the X68000. However if you don't want to had to buy a console with only 6 releases on it or an obscure and highly sought after japanese home micocomputer then the megadrive conversion is arcade perfect other than minor graphical changes.

CiDeRmAn · 17-06-2010 9:42pm

Ghouls and Ghosts, Ghosts and Goblins, two great, tough games.
Hard, but you die because it's your own damn fault!

paultheviking · 18-06-2010 11:04am

(Showing my age here)

Barbarian on the 130xe.. all you had to do was pull back and press fire.. and you chopped off the baddies head.. easiest and worst game EVER!!

o1s1n · 18-06-2010 11:16am

paultheviking wrote: »

(Showing my age here)

Barbarian on the 130xe.. all you had to do was pull back and press fire.. and you chopped off the baddies head.. easiest and worst game EVER!!

Barbarian on the Speccy was the first time I ever experienced proper videogame violence/gore. It blew my mind.

paultheviking · 18-06-2010 11:33am

lol, this tread really brings back fond childhood imemories...
like having to leave the bedroom while BountyBob loaded (OVER 700 counts!!!) because vibration of walking around would cause it to crash!!!

*wipes a tear*:rolleyes:

Myrddin · 18-06-2010 11:47am

paultheviking wrote: »

(Showing my age here)

Barbarian on the 130xe.. all you had to do was pull back and press fire.. and you chopped off the baddies head.. easiest and worst game EVER!!

Jesus after reading that it brought back a memory od seeing a game an a mates old Amstrad. Im certain it was called Barbarian, and the monitor was black & green.

o1s1n · 18-06-2010 11:49am

paultheviking wrote: »

like having to leave the bedroom while BountyBob loaded (OVER 700 counts!!!) because vibration of walking around would cause it to crash!!!

*wipes a tear*:rolleyes:

Well I dare not step anywhere near my xbox 360 when the disc drive is working for fear of a scratched disc. So I guess nothing has really changed in the last 25 years

EnterNow wrote: »

Jesus after reading that it brought back a memory od seeing a game an a mates old Amstrad. Im certain it was called Barbarian, and the monitor was black & green.

Did a little guy come out and drag the severed head away? As kids we found that hilarious.

paultheviking · 18-06-2010 11:59am

kicked the head..

Retr0gamer · 18-06-2010 12:26pm

Hmm.. Barbarian 1 and 2 kind of have the donkey kong country effect. They looked amazing at the time and got really high review scores but are a bit crap now. I read on eurogamer that there was uproar about the games covers since they both featured scantily clad page 3 models.

Your Top Ten (Worst) Games Ever!!

Comments