What's are some of the worst (but still playable/enjoyable) games you've ever played?

SeantheMan

In a similar vain to the other thread
"What's the hardest (but still playable) game you've ever played?"


What are the games you have played where you thought...."Jesus this is pretty bad, or knew it was a bad game..... but stuck with it...maybe because there were some points you enjoyed...or in the hope that....surely it will get better at some stage ?

For me it would be the likes of "Dino Crisis" or "Chase the Express" for PS1 , and definitely "Back to the Future 3" for Megadrive.
I think for Dino and Chase, they had a Resident evil feel with the camera and puzzle aspect, but I knew they were brutal games while playing :P....and BTTF...well..you didn't have an immense library of games back then as a kid, and stuck with what you had.

Add : South Park on the N64 , South Park Chefs Luv Shack (quiz) for PS1 and Simpsons Wrestling

richymcdermott

Sonic 06: It deserves every criticism it gets but I had a good laugh with just how broken it is :L

Magill

How are fallout 3 and NV some of the worst games you've played ! dafuq ?

titan18

Dino Crisis was a very good game, got worse with sequels but I'd love a game like that now

Only one I can kind of think of, and it's cos I was young and was fun to play with my brother, is Small Soldiers on the Playstation

richymcdermott

Magill wrote: »

How are fallout 3 and NV some of the worst games you've played ! dafuq ?

woops i read the title wrong

TerrorFirmer

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty. No idea how, or why, I played that game to the end. One of the most lacklustre FPS games I've ever played - one of those awful games that's not so irredeemably bad you just can't play it, but so bland, cliched, undercooked yet functional that you end up finishing it and then immediately ask yourself 'Why did I waste time on this?'

Homeland was another one that I felt pretty much the same about, but it was marginally better.

deathrider

I love me a good terrible game. One of my favourite bad ones has to be Gealic Games Football too. It's awful, but it's still so much fun. I've no interest in the sport at all, but any time the boys come round for a few drinks, the PS2 GAA titles are broken out for giggles.

TerrorFirmer

Deadly. Never played it, have no interest in GAA, but I'd love to come home after a night out and give that a go with the lads.

Mal-Adjusted

I agree that GG: Football was crap but the Hurling one was good (with the exception of the laughably bad A.I.)


Anyway, I might add URU: Ages beyond Myst and it's expansion pack, Path of the Shell. The puzzles were unfairly complicated and were often thrown at you with no logic or in-game consistency. There are also no NPC's to interact with in the various worlds. There is one guy who gives you hints at the first area in the Nevada desert but he specifically states that others have gone on ahead. You even see tools and stuff they left lying around. The story (as such) is told through monotonous reading of dozens of journals scattered around the worlds.

Still though, once you've solved the various ridiculous puzzles (one of which involves standing in a corner for fifteen real-time minutes without moving...with only the vaguest of hints a few hours earlier) it's nice to wander through the huge abandoned city and towns, as well as collecting pages that gets you stuff for your house.

Actually, now that i think about it, it was the single player portion that acted as an intro to a MMO which was quickly pulled due to lack of subscribers. Maybe it's unfair to criticize it as it was never intended to be an off-line, single-player game but f*&k it, they saw fit to package and sell it like that.

corcaigh07

Definitely Driv3r for me, I bought it new for 50 euro at the time, was very pissed off with myself for buying it and the makers of the game for making such a crappy game (ike, Driver 1 was a great game, how did Driv3r happen).

I just got really stubborn with it and had to beat it. And I did despite some of the game being absolutely ridiculous. Some of the driving missions are insane, you literally have to drive perfectly, no slow corner taking, no contact with anything, you have to be up your target's hole or else you "lost them". Some decent let's play video of this game on Youtube.

Bizarrely, the final boss is incredibly easy, just shot him in the head from distance, he never shot back or moved out of the way, I'd called it dumb A.I except in this case, there was no A.I at all.

deathrider

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

I agree that GG: Football was crap but the Hurling one was good (with the exception of the laughably bad A.I.)

The first one was muck alright, but the second football game was great craic. I'd imainge it's pretty useless in one player though. As far as the hurling goes, I found it damn near impossible to see the ball in it. It was tiny.

Call Me Jimmy

corcaigh07 wrote: »

Definitely Driv3r for me, I bought it new for 50 euro at the time, was very pissed off with myself for buying it and the makers of the game for making such a crappy game (ike, Driver 1 was a great game, how did Driv3r happen).

I just got really stubborn with it and had to beat it. And I did despite some of the game being absolutely ridiculous. Some of the driving missions are insane, you literally have to drive perfectly, no slow corner taking, no contact with anything, you have to be up your target's hole or else you "lost them". Some decent let's play video of this game on Youtube.

Bizarrely, the final boss is incredibly easy, just shot him in the head from distance, he never shot back or moved out of the way, I'd called it dumb A.I except in this case, there was no A.I at all.

Loved that game, despite the glitches and the final 'boss' just spazzing out, felt bad for shootin him ha

corcaigh07

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

Loved that game, despite the glitches and the final 'boss' just spazzing out, felt bad for shootin him ha

it was a love/hate relationship though for sure. I think it was just such a poorly designed game, it made it a bit fascinating, I mean if it was a mediocre GTA clone, it would have been easier to ignore it.

YouSavedMyLife

None? If a game is bad i simply wont play it. But as for games that are generally regarded as being bad? Then yeah i have played a few. Dynasty Warriors series springs to mind

nesf

Puzzle Quest.

J. Marston

Haze, if I remember right it was hugely hyped but it was god awful.

The Sopranos: Road To Respect, another steaming pile of poo.

joe swanson

A soccer management game on ps2. Originated in japan. Cant remember the name. Kept on playing it although it was total dung.

Paulie Gualtieri

Road Rash on the ps1 , getting away from the cops , actually no it was a good game for the time. ill go with flimbos quest on the c64 .

Retr0gamer

I kind of enjoy playing really bad games. There's always some fun in them or at the very least you can get a laugh out of them.

Far, far worse than a bad game is something so mediocre and middle of the road it doesn't even have the common courtesy to be so bad that it's actually interesting.

There's a few games in that category I played to completion. Legend of Dragoon is the worst offender. As a piece of programming it works fine. As a game it's the most offensively boring JRPG ever made with a story so bland it feels like deja vu. Why people like this game I'll never know.

There's a few games that have horribly broken mechanics that I really enjoyed because they did everything else so well. Rule of Rose has probably the worst combat system of any survival horror game I've played but the atmosphere, soundtrack and story make is worth sticking with.

Fragile Dreams on the Wii has a naff battle system as well but it's such an excellent emotional journey that I couldn't put it down.

To end I'd just like to say that anyone that thinks Puzzle Quest and Dino Crisis are bad games needs their head examined.

Dave_The_Sheep

Rugby Challenge was muck, still got a decent few hours out of it and had a fair bit of craic playing with mates. Same with the EA Rugby games. Awful stuff, but if you play it with mates, decent craic.

Kerplunk124

Deadly Premonition....absolutely TERRIBLE..but somehow ended up being one of the greatest games i've ever had the pleasure of playing

Potatoeman

Drop ship on the ps2. It was a flight combat game with great mission video replays until the escort mission from hell. I replayed it for hours to beat it then never played again.

Orim

Colonial Marines.Throughly mediocre, lacklustre FPS but I grinned like a damn loon throughou the game. Running around Ripley's pulse rifle and then whipping out Hick's shotgun just never got old.

Ride to Hell is supposed yo be one of the worst tilted ever released but when I saw it for €4.99 on Steam today I had to get it

nesf

Ride to Hell is no Big Rigs. Seriously. Just imagine TB getting the preview copy of this gem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f3HDsgLV68

TerrorFirmer

nesf wrote: »

Ride to Hell is no Big Rigs. Seriously. Just imagine TB getting the preview copy of this gem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f3HDsgLV68

Hilarious video, can't help but notice the music is ripped off from unreal tournament 99. Especially in the middle, it's exactly the same.

Retr0gamer

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Hilarious video, can't help but notice the music is ripped off from unreal tournament 99. Especially in the middle, it's exactly the same.

The way you say that you'd swear the creaters of big rigs gave a ****

briany

I don't think I've ever played and stuck with a bad game but I have played bad games which I didn't know were bad at the time because I had little else to compare them to. I, shamefully, not only owned a copy of FIFA 64 but played the hell out of it. I think even then I knew it was kind of bad - headers were almost impossible to pull off and I knew that shouldn't be. I persisted with it, though, because it was new at them time and this was when 3D games were new and we all thought they were amazing. It wasn't until I rented ISS 64 that things were put into perspective.

SmurfX

LOST: The game

There's always some weird attraction to playing the game of a show/movie you're watching at the time even though you know its absolutely awful. It's fun to see how poorly they recreated it.

Otherwise I can enjoy games that are objectively bad or mediocre if they're in a field where there's just no better alternative and is your only option for a game on that subject. Like rugby games or some really awful football management games on snes and psone (thinking player manager by anco) before I had a PC for championship manager.

super_furry

Lair. I really enjoyed it, thought it was a lot of fun and looked (for the time) great. My opinion of it might be slightly clouded because it was the first PS3 game I played but I'm still surprised by the level of vitriol aimed at it, I mean it's Rogue Squadron with dragons.

corcaigh07

SmurfX wrote: »

LOST: The game

There's always some weird attraction to playing the game of a show/movie you're watching at the time even though you know its absolutely awful. It's fun to see how poorly they recreated it.

Otherwise I can enjoy games that are objectively bad or mediocre if they're in a field where there's just no better alternative and is your only option for a game on that subject. Like rugby games or some really awful football management games on snes and psone (thinking player manager by anco) before I had a PC for championship manager.

Good call, I strangely enjoyed that one too. The fact it was short, helped. I only liked the show up to Season 3 and I think the game was set around Season 1/2 so that helped too.

CiDeRmAn

Fire Warrior, apparently, on the PS2.
Everyone tells me it's awful but I had a great time playing it
Halo ODST, again, most on Boards thought it sacked but I really enjoyed it, aside from the smooth jazz soundtrack!

COYVB

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I knew it wasn't a great game, but I had an obscene amount of fun playing it. It even made it into my top 10 games of the year that year, so I felt strongly enough about it to publish a list that included it, regardless of the abuse I let myself in for :P

Must dig it out some day actually

TerrorFirmer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Fire Warrior, apparently, on the PS2.
Everyone tells me it's awful but I had a great time playing it
Halo ODST, again, most on Boards thought it sacked but I really enjoyed it, aside from the smooth jazz soundtrack!

The only PS2 game I have left is Fire Warrior, don't even have a PS2 anymore. Great game though. On the contrary, I only ever heard decent things about it, critical response was decent as well. Very tough game though.

um7y1h83ge06nx

briany wrote: »

I don't think I've ever played and stuck with a bad game but I have played bad games which I didn't know were bad at the time because I had little else to compare them to. I, shamefully, not only owned a copy of FIFA 64 but played the hell out of it. I think even then I knew it was kind of bad - headers were almost impossible to pull off and I knew that shouldn't be. I persisted with it, though, because it was new at them time and this was when 3D games were new and we all thought they were amazing. It wasn't until I rented ISS 64 that things were put into perspective.

Was that the FIFA where it was hilariously simple to score mad goals from the halfway line? My cousin had it and I think I remember that you could steer a shot into the goal from ridiculous distances.

CiDeRmAn

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

The only PS2 game I have left is Fire Warrior, don't even have a PS2 anymore. Great game though. On the contrary, I only ever heard decent things about it, critical response was decent as well. Very tough game though.

At last, someone else who appreciates Fire Warrior!
It is certainly streets ahead of Space Marine that came out last year.
I never found out particularly hard though.
Best FPS on the PS2 is Coldwinter though, a fantastic game, reminding one of the best parts of Goldeneye, quite long too.

CiDeRmAn

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Fire Warrior, apparently, on the PS2.
Everyone tells me it's awful but I had a great time playing it
Halo ODST, again, most on Boards thought it sacked but I really enjoyed it, aside from the smooth jazz soundtrack!

Fire Warrior was really well recieved by critics and I assume gamers. One of those games I sunk days into and fondly remember. Really must get a copy as I recently got my PS2 out and have been meaning to buy it again.

deathrider

COYVB wrote: »

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

I knew it wasn't a great game, but I had an obscene amount of fun playing it. It even made it into my top 10 games of the year that year, so I felt strongly enough about it to publish a list that included it, regardless of the abuse I let myself in for :P

Must dig it out some day actually

Great game! It was dumb as hell, but that was all part of it's charm, I reckon.

Mal-Adjusted

I think the negativity for Fire Warrior started with Warhammer fans who kept on winging about how whatever gun should be more/less powerful and that you shouldn't be able to mow down Space Marines and it just spread from there. I really like it...played it a bit last week.

TerrorFirmer

I actually thought Space Marine was a great game as well. The online multiplayer was particularly brilliant - though I did enjoy the SP campaign as well - put a lot of time into it and that aspect of the game deserved much better than the attention it received.

deathrider

I have a soft spot for 18 Wheeler: America Pro Trucker on PS2. Partially because playing the arcade cab with the massive sterring wheel was great craic, and partially because I like trucks... It's a pretty awful game though.

briany

Elena Large Self-reliance wrote: »

Was that the FIFA where it was hilariously simple to score mad goals from the halfway line? My cousin had it and I think I remember that you could steer a shot into the goal from ridiculous distances.

Possibly. No memory of anything like that particularly sticks out for me but then it has been about 15 years since I last played the game.

GTR63

The Sherlock holmes game on the Xbox particularly Jack the Ripper one. Totally unpolished but I enjoyed them.

FortuneChip

Ultimate Soccer Manager 98 on the PC

It had all the necessary features you come to expect from a management game;
Buy/Sell players
Set your training schedule as you see fit
Choose your formation and starting 11
Change the price of burgers
Create set-piece tactics
Improve your stadium
Change the price of hotdogs

zero19

Duke Nukem Forever, enjoyed it for the sheer wtf factor.

CiDeRmAn

Deleted User wrote: »

Fire Warrior was really well recieved by critics and I assume gamers. One of those games I sunk days into and fondly remember. Really must get a copy as I recently got my PS2 out and have been meaning to buy it again.

Nope, it wasn't.
It was felt by many critics to be mediocre, but those who have played it quite liked it, which has pushed it's metacritic rating up somewhat since then.
And I still love it, though I haven't played it in over 6 years, at least!

CiDeRmAn

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Nope, it wasn't.
It was felt by many critics to be mediocre, but those who have played it quite liked it, which has pushed it's metacritic rating up somewhat since then.
And I still love it, though I haven't played it in over 6 years, at least!

I don't know if it's just me but most of the reviews on metacritic are quite positive. Granted they may not be rave reviews but the majority of critics seemed to enjoy it.

tok9

Definitely Deadly Premonition.

I've just started playing it and the game itself is terrible. There is not one thing it does well from a gameplay point of view imo.

However as a big twin peaks fan, I love the characters, soundtrack and dialogue so far. It's blatantly ripped off from the show.

So I'm just rushing through whatever game there is to watch the story play out. :P

Seaaan

Far Cry 2. The graphics were great and all that, but I genuinely found it THE most boring game I've ever played. Only thing I played for were graphics. There was nothing else appealing about it.

krudler

Seaaan wrote: »

Far Cry 2. The graphics were great and all that, but I genuinely found it THE most boring game I've ever played. Only thing I played for were graphics. There was nothing else appealing about it.

God yeah, the getting sick thing was stupid, and it was dull as ditchwater to play, haven't played 3 yet but it looked to be a big improvement from what I saw my housemate playing of it.

Seaaan

krudler wrote: »

God yeah, the getting sick thing was stupid, and it was dull as ditchwater to play, haven't played 3 yet but it looked to be a big improvement from what I saw my housemate playing of it.

Never really played past the first mission. Set things on fire but then got bored.. Number 3 was good, a friend had it and I played a bit. Still not too fond on the UI