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Ichirou

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Worst games you've ever owned
« on: March 14, 2010, 09:05:12 PM »
Emphasis on owned, not just random games you picked up and rented or downloaded, but stuff you actually spent money on only to discover that you had just bought a piece of crap.


1. Beyond the Beyond: The definition of "shit game." Unfun battles, uninteresting story, ridiculously high encounter rate.  I can't believe they chose to translate this over the original Arc the Lad just 'cause it was 3D.  Fucking Bernie Stolar.  It's incomprehensible to me that this game was made by the same folks behind the Shining Force series.


2. The Granstream Saga: Pretty sure I bought this game when there was an RPG drought on the PSX.  What a crap game.  Character models had no faces so it looked like you were talking to fucking mannequins.  You had a stupid talking parrot thing for a sidekick.  About the only thing that made this notable is that it's the first video game I ever played that had nudity (animated FMV cut scene of some chick's ass).  Played about three hours and never touched it again.  I think it's one of the few games I've ever traded in (I like to collect shit so I very rarely get rid of games).


3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:  Still has one of the best cover arts for a TMNT game ever, IMO.  Unfortunately, the game itself is crap.  Shitty platforming sections, lame enemies...the arcade games shit all over this.


4. Jaws: Another game I bought as an impressionable youngster because the cover art was awesome.  Unfortunately the bulk of the game is spent shooting manta rays and collecting seashells from the ocean floor.  Along with TMNT, they were two of my first NES games.  It's a miracle I wasn't turned off on gaming forever.


5. SaGa Frontier: It's weird to put this one on my list since I'm actually a big fan of SaGa Frontier 2. But the first one is terrible, disjointed, disconnected, incomprehensible, and, the biggest sin of all - BORING.  The battle system is crap because the way you gain skills and increase your stats seems completely randomized (as I remember), the way your character interacts with the CG backgrounds makes everything look incredibly fake, the game world seems like they took a bunch of random CGs from fantasy, horror, and contemporary settings and just pasted them all together, etc., etc., etc.

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Re: Worst games you've ever owned
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2010, 09:08:30 PM »
Star Wars: Episode One for the PS1.



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Re: Worst games you've ever owned
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2010, 09:12:41 PM »
Dragon Age
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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2010, 09:17:52 PM »

Sssssnake for the 2600.  There were plenty of shitty games for the 2600 but I remember buying this in a clearence bin for 50 cents (seriously) and I still felt ripped off.


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« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2010, 09:34:59 PM »
The dumbest moment in gaming.
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Re: Worst games you've ever owned
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2010, 09:36:09 PM »
that I myself bought:


I thought it was a good story and fun game at the time.  I grew up  since then.

the worst game that anybody has ever bought for me?  probably this:



Of course I asked for it because it initially looked like that FUN NES simpson's game that I would play at my friend's house.
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Re: Worst games you've ever owned
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2010, 09:38:25 PM »
probably some stupid jap game gaf overhyped.

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Re: Worst games you've ever owned
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2010, 09:39:40 PM »
If you thought it was a fun game at the time, then it's definitely not one of the worst games you've ever owned, nintenho.
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« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2010, 09:39:57 PM »
South Park for the N64 :fbm

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« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2010, 09:42:27 PM »



Real List:

Still in the shrinkwrap. I will never open it and I don't know anyone dumb enough to buy it at a good price.


I actually borrowed this from a friend and we lost contact. Me and my cousins had some good laughs with this game. I sold it to Gamestop eventually.

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« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2010, 09:42:56 PM »
Persona 3?  Wow, you're lucky if that's one of the worst games you've ever owned...
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« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2010, 09:44:42 PM »
If you thought it was a fun game at the time, then it's definitely not one of the worst games you've ever owned, nintenho.
the krusty game looked fun until the controller was in my hands.  I was trying to be lenient on MGS:TTS because I just discovered gaming forums praising MGS and was trying to give it a fair chance.

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« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2010, 09:45:03 PM »
Persona 3?  Wow, you're lucky if that's one of the worst games you've ever owned...
You missed the part where I said "real list". You took my Himu bait. :lol

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« Reply #14 on: March 14, 2010, 09:47:44 PM »
I totally missed that part. :lol

I did play Bloodrayne.  What complete crap...I can't believe they actually made a movie adaptation out of it!
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« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2010, 09:51:42 PM »
About two thirds of my Playstation library is downright shameful, but this takes the cake for unplayability:



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« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2010, 09:55:01 PM »
I played the demo of that game!
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« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2010, 09:56:32 PM »
Real List:
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Still in the shrinkwrap. I will never open it and I don't know anyone dumb enough to buy it at a good price.

But I liked this game.  :'(

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« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2010, 09:58:30 PM »
But I liked this game.  :'(
Want an unopened copy for collectors purposes? :lol

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« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2010, 09:59:21 PM »
Give it to me Beezy.
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« Reply #20 on: March 14, 2010, 10:00:20 PM »
But I liked this game.  :'(
Want an unopened copy for collectors purposes? :lol

I think the developer/studio that made it is now bankrupt.
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« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2010, 10:02:55 PM »
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About the only thing that made this notable is that it's the first video game I ever played that had nudity (animated FMV cut scene of some chick's ass).

That's the only thing I can remember about this game.  :lol

My dad was watching me while that cutscene came up. He got kind of mad.  :-\
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« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2010, 10:05:03 PM »
Pretty much the only interesting thing about the game, I think. :lol

Well, that and at the end you had to choose which of the female characters lived or died.
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« Reply #23 on: March 14, 2010, 10:06:16 PM »


its shit
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« Reply #24 on: March 14, 2010, 10:08:57 PM »
Give it to me Beezy.
Sorry, I wasn't giving it away. :(

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« Reply #25 on: March 14, 2010, 10:10:29 PM »
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The battle system is crap because the way you gain skills and increase your stats seems completely randomized (as I remember)

It's based on what you do in battle.  But more to the point, how could you hate this and like Saga Frontier 2 when they both use more or less the same progression system?
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« Reply #27 on: March 14, 2010, 10:11:40 PM »
Enchanted Arms for PS3. Bought it for $60 and returned it a month later for $3 credit toward another game.  :yuck
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« Reply #28 on: March 14, 2010, 10:11:51 PM »
Metal Gear Solid 4 is a big one for me.
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« Reply #29 on: March 14, 2010, 10:12:17 PM »
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« Reply #30 on: March 14, 2010, 10:12:20 PM »
Give it to me Beezy.
Sorry, I wasn't giving it away. :(

Beezy I just hooked you up with over 3 years of Live. I dont get a free shit game?
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« Reply #31 on: March 14, 2010, 10:12:33 PM »
Pretty much the only interesting thing about the game, I think. :lol

Well, that and at the end you had to choose which of the female characters lived or died.

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« Reply #32 on: March 14, 2010, 10:12:39 PM »
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The battle system is crap because the way you gain skills and increase your stats seems completely randomized (as I remember)

It's based on what you do in battle.  But more to the point, how could you hate this and like Saga Frontier 2 when they both use more or less the same progression system?

SGF2 rox.  SGF1 sux.  That's why.
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« Reply #33 on: March 14, 2010, 10:14:03 PM »


God this game sucked. I remember EGM giving it a 10, and I bought it on day one. what the fuck.
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« Reply #34 on: March 14, 2010, 10:28:46 PM »
Give it to me Beezy.
Sorry, I wasn't giving it away. :(

Beezy I just hooked you up with over 3 years of Live. I dont get a free shit game?
Not this one. I'm willing to giveaway my weeaboo version of Jump Superstars though. It's only missing the manuals.

Did that game ever come out over here btw?

Edit: It's actually Jump Ultimate Stars. I don't remember where I got the case for the older game. :lol
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« Reply #35 on: March 14, 2010, 10:38:03 PM »

I loved the genesis game but hated the hell outta the Xbox version.
Bought this back when gamestop had its 7 day "rental" returns, got it home looked at it and noticed I had more fun with virtual tennis... Ended up going back and getting panzor dragoon orta which was returned as well for Bloodwake...

FUCK THIS GAME! I couldn't play this game for the life of me. It was just shit.

I thought It was the poor man's syphon filter but it ended up just being crap.

Brought out towards the end of the dreamcasts life and the fact that I had a PS2 before buying one I was all hyped for online console gaming. This shit didnt even work 10% of the time. Thankfully gamestop had its return policy, oh how I miss it.

as for this one I got it as a gift, no one thought to find me a damn dreamcast gun... being that I was in hickville at the time none of the stores had them and so I never got to play this game till I played the arcade version disappointment...
and a crap more that I'm glad I either don't own or have forgotten I own.

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« Reply #36 on: March 14, 2010, 10:39:26 PM »
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I actually borrowed this from a friend and we lost contact. Me and my cousins had some good laughs with this game. I sold it to Gamestop eventually.

I got this on the Game Cube over the other versions back when I was briefly a Cube whore.  It sucked on GC, but was okay on Xbox and PC.  This was back when it was easy to return stuff to Gamestop, so I'd "rent" games like this one all time.  The sequel was a big improvement.



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God this game sucked. I remember EGM giving it a 10, and I bought it on day one. what the fuck.

Yeah, I bought this because of the GAF hype train and EGM review.  So fucking boring.
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« Reply #37 on: March 14, 2010, 10:46:18 PM »
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FUCK THIS GAME! I couldn't play this game for the life of me. It was just shit.

Awesome game. :bow2
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« Reply #38 on: March 14, 2010, 10:52:15 PM »
I think the worse game that I can remember paying real money for (not counting when I ironically bought Superman 64 for $5, or all those SegaCD games I got at a flea market) was the REAL ULTIMATE JAPAFAG EDITION of Growlanser Generations.



Only $90, and you get a keychain, a watch, a CD soundtrack, a map, some other bullshit, and then two games that look like they were rejected SNES titles. Shocking surprise that Working Designs went out of business.
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« Reply #39 on: March 14, 2010, 10:52:23 PM »
Wow, did Bz really list Goemon? You fat piece of shit. Dont come back.
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Re: Worst games you've ever owned
« Reply #40 on: March 14, 2010, 10:54:33 PM »
Otogi, Fable 2, and pretty much anything I've ever played from Ubisoft.

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« Reply #41 on: March 14, 2010, 10:55:19 PM »
Oh yeah, also Fable. :yuck
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« Reply #42 on: March 14, 2010, 11:01:30 PM »
Wtf, Goemon was great.

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« Reply #43 on: March 14, 2010, 11:34:47 PM »
I think the worse game that I can remember paying real money for (not counting when I ironically bought Superman 64 for $5, or all those SegaCD games I got at a flea market) was the REAL ULTIMATE JAPAFAG EDITION of Growlanser Generations.

I thought Growlanser II was mediocre, but Grow III was great.
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« Reply #44 on: March 14, 2010, 11:53:23 PM »
Oh yeah, also Fable. :yuck

I liked Fable too.  :(

Man, I might have horrible taste.

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« Reply #45 on: March 14, 2010, 11:55:56 PM »
Bad Company 2.

jk. Kind of.

Probably Bart vs the Aliens or whatever that NES Simpson's game was
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« Reply #46 on: March 15, 2010, 12:24:23 AM »
Probably Metal Gear Solid 2.  Or ICO.  Whichever.
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« Reply #47 on: March 15, 2010, 12:38:48 AM »
E.T.
Journey Escape
Towers of Darkness
Ultima NES
Top Gun (NES)
Dragon's Lair (C64)


lol I'm old

After 1989, I rented everything. Or I would buy it .. beat it in a week and return it for full price (back when you could do something like that).




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« Reply #50 on: March 15, 2010, 01:07:34 AM »
:bow May his groove forever be smooth :bow2
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« Reply #51 on: March 15, 2010, 04:14:26 AM »


So bad its unplayable


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And this was just awful. Ruined RPGs for me for a good 6 years

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« Reply #52 on: March 15, 2010, 04:18:10 AM »
some billiards game for the genesis

it was wretched, and i couldn't even do the double return at toys r us and get my money back because they had started opening the games at the service when you did returns

and realsports football for the atari 5200, what a goddamned hunk of shit that was
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« Reply #53 on: March 15, 2010, 04:32:28 AM »
I own things like Superman 64 and ET on the 2600 but they're kinda popularly bad I guess.  I didn't exactly have expectations for them.

In the past couple years, I'd say maybe Prototype or SOCOM Confrontation.  Don't know why I haven't sold them yet.  There are a lot of games I own that I wish I just rented, like Brutal Legend.

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« Reply #54 on: March 15, 2010, 06:16:47 AM »
I owned Knight Rider, Werewolf and Beetlejuice for the NES.

I wasn't too wise in game selections as a kid. I should have let my friends pick out the games. The best choice I ever made back then was Arch Rivals.

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« Reply #55 on: March 15, 2010, 10:52:18 AM »
When I bought my Duo from ebay, this was one of the games I got with it (along with R-Type, Ys Book 1 and 2, the Gate of Thunder/Bonk 1/Bonk 2 disk, all of which are amazing games):



Graphic style is very original, it uses lots of bright colors - the art is well-done, slightly offputting and maybe a tad macabre. Best thing about the game though... the rest of the game is extremely broken, it's entirely possible to get totally stuck and have to reset the game. This is first apparent if you head to the right (like you would do in all sidescrollers) instead of going left and jumping in a well.

Some other games I bought but hated:

-Legend of Mana (I wanted to like this game, it looked and sounded absolutely beautiful for instance, but the total lack of challenge and the sloppy/confusing story didn't help matters... plus the crafting system and 'world building' system was not well done at all)
-Gears of War (Bought when I got my 360, I couldn't stand this game)
-Xenosaga (soooooo slooooooooooow, cinemas dragged on forever, awful characters, battle system moved like molasses. 35 hour game that felt like 90 hours)
-Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage (there are much worse games out there, I just picked to buy this game over the incredible Shinobi 3 when I was younger, so I have a bit of extra hate for this)
-Eternal Sonata (looks beautiful, but everything else about this game was the pits. Worst big-name RPG of this gen so far)
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« Reply #56 on: March 15, 2010, 10:55:26 AM »
mmm... i bought this second hand for some euro before ffx got ever released

to be fair it wasn't that bad but i guess it's the best i can come with it

otherwise someone gave me this for free,i guess that doesn't make it count?

it was badbadbadbadbadbadbad but it should be no surprise considering it's a kawazu game
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« Reply #57 on: March 15, 2010, 11:15:54 AM »
Ring of Red wasn't THAT bad, but since you couldn't save mid-game and the matches took FOREVER, it was a serious fucking chore to play.  I don't know anyone who didn't play more than a few rounds at most before calling it quits for good.

As I was driving to work this morning, I remembered that owned Where's Waldo? for NES for a short period of time:



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« Reply #58 on: March 15, 2010, 11:52:29 AM »
Probably the worst game I've ever owned was either Superman 64 [although it was unintentionally hilarious for a few minutes] and this football game on the Sega CD that was showed you come FMV cutscene after you picked a play.
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« Reply #59 on: March 15, 2010, 12:13:28 PM »


THIS. Good lord. THIS!! Talk about crap!! This game was unplayable. The backgrounds are all pre-rendered, terribly I might add. It all blurs together into one big diahrrea looking mess. The controls make Resident Evil's tank controls look precise and perfect.

This is hands down Acclaim at their worst. I can usually find something redeeming about a game but this crap has none.