Bim

Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City, Crappy side scroller, using basketballs as weapons. Powering them up by dunking the ball or somethign like that.

Superman 64, I still rember the comerical claiming "YOU. . . ARE. . . SUPERMAN!" pfft, when was the last time Superman had to fly through a bunch of rings.

Sonic 3D Blast, that set camera 3 quarters view was awful for a sonic game.

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Irishsean

1. Myst
2. Morrowind
3. Midnight Club 2

I kinda take pride in the fact that the 3 games I hated most are almost universally loved.

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BigJ11

Star Wars Galaxies started to be good, but was over hyped and over bugged.

Next i have to say City of Heroes, again cool at first, but boring doing the same crap over and over.

Last I haev to say Crash Bandacoot. Great for little kids, but it came free when you bought the system and for those of that were broke at that point, it was all you had!

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jonjon42

C&C:Tiberian Sun just for sucking so much
C&C: Generals for stopping the promise new beginnings of Red Alert 2
FF7 boring...

Scarface2436

duck hunt, superman 64 & highheat baseball 2001

shadowalker

E.T. for the atari

Superman 64 for the n64

and aquaman for the xbox,

These are the 3 WORSE games ever produced.

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t3m3st

War Gods
StarCraft for N64 (what the HELL were they thinkinh!?!?)
Rogue Squadron 3... Robotron with starwars characters

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heccubusiv

any wrestling game with combos instead of grapling, Stock Market Mania(not sure if that was the title) for NES, Bubble Ghost for the game boy

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Shizukana

Seriously... where are Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, Total Recall, and Die Hard in these lists? Or maybe the Avoid the Noid game? How about the game with the old Spot mascot from 7-Up?

NWN?? FFX? Max Payne? WTF! You folks clearly need to play more crappy games from the late 80's/early 90's.

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adysav

I think he's implying that there aren't even 4 good games on the X-Box.

Cool Spot

I dont believe someone said C&C Generals, it beats red alert 2 into the ground. I must've played it every day since it was released.

Mall Tycoon for the PC
ATV Mudracer, you'll be sickened that this game was released in 2004.
aaaaand... erm... I think it'll have to be Rise of the Robots for all the hype it got, only to be the lamest fighter ever.

Tusko

"At the top has to be Paperbay for nintendo (early 90's"


What?! Paperboy kicks ass. Death, tornadoes, women with rolling pins, car wrecks, and a stunt course at the end. Classic.


"almost all of sega genis games!!!! they just sucked"

wow, someone has obviously never played Phantasy Star or Shining Force

Jared Jones

Bout time someone recognized the Phantasy Star and Shining Force series. How about Warsong, great game for genesis.

Arc101

Rise of the robots - I had totally forgot about that. One of my friends brought it and he was so pissed off at wasting so much money.
Unreal 2 - so disappointing considering the first one was brilliant
John Deere: American Farmer - never played this so a bit hypocritical but with a name like that it has got to suck !

adysav

It does. Don't worry, I didn't buy it

mkultra

Yeah, my vote is for all the full motion video games like that. There was a slew of them that came out all at once. Except the Tex Murphy detective ones. Under a Killing Moon rocked.

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The worst games definitely came from the sega cd. Double Switch, that football classic(49ers and cowboys), Sewer shark, Night trap. All seemed interesting at first, but damn were they bad. Third World War was great, but I can only recall 2-3 even decent games for that system.

Beyond the Beyond for the Playstation was bad too! Every two steps, it was another random battle.

SteelGlider

This is tough, as there was lots of crap for mega popular systems like Atari 2600 and C-64. ET, Swordquest: Earthworld, and Bomber Attack (a little known game by Avalon Hill for the C-64) are some of the worst ones I remember off the top of my head.

And I agree, the movie games on the Sega CD were total crap. Loadstar: legend of Tully something or other was one of the worst. Sewer Shark, Ground Zero Texas and those awful make your own video atrocities are up there too. Some of those turds can't even be considered games.

NavySEAL

E.T.!

alansmithee

Worst games are ET for atari and anything on the atari jaguar. And I don't understand all the Morrowwind hate. That is probably one of the BEST comp/x-box games ever. I can understand not enjoying it, or even liking it, but only people with 5 second attention spans would consider it one of the worst ever.

shakran

Another vote for ET here. Population: Tire is more entertaining

my other two are Police Quest: SWAT and The Sims. The first was a horrible mishmash of crap that had almost no plot. The second is just the electronic version of playing with dolls

crossova

2 pages worth of post and nobody has mentioned.....(cue the drum rolls)

-Dynamite Cop (dreamcast)
-Crazy Taxi

ForwardtoDeath

I dunno about top 3, but state of emergency was pretty damn bad. I was looking forward to that game too, which makes it even worse.

Kadath

crossova: Crazy Taxi was apparently bad for the 'Cube and PC, but for the DC it was incredible, and it was solid for the PS2.

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Man/Amazing

Superman 64

Mummy Returns

Gunship

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Bim

Crazy Taxi!? no no no. . . you sir are the one that is. . . wait for it. . . Crazy! Muhaha.

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coash

this guy talking about duke nuken forever? ahhahaha..I guessed in may 03 it was a laugh but now it's gotten ridiculous

Kirkland

Mine would have to be...

Return Fire 2: The origional Return Fire was awesome. I played that for 20 hours straight with my brother. Return Fire 2 they changed to much stuff, and they turned it into a 3d game. Ran very bad on even the latest hardware.

Independence war 2: pretty much the same thing as return fire 2.

Everquest: Because it ruined my life.

rascalus

thank god someone added in shaq fu.

my top (or bottom) three include E.T. for Atari, Corridor 7 and Solstice of NES.

rhapz

Shaq fu is incredibly bad wow
definetly have to add "Xtreme Paintball" for the PC

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What?!?

Ripsaw

Daikatana
Any Ultima after 6.
Wolverine's Revenge
Splinter Cell (If I shoot you in the face six times, I expect you to die.)
Redneck Rampage

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little bit back
gt 64 nintendo 64
tombraider .?. well the last couple don't know the last one's title they shoud have stopped after the first that one ruled well the second was quite cool too
guess you never heard of this one "" floating runner "" playstation
the guy at the store said hey man this is a mario killer man i was so excited couldn't wait to get it in the playstation back than ...
man i was so disappointed this was the worst game i played in my entire life ...

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Leefy

1. Shaq Fu
2. Shaq Fu
3. Shaq Fu

pottsynz

Any movie license for the NES.
Total Recall comes to mind.
Arnie + video games = usually crap.

Oh yeah, ET for the Atari 2600...apparently it was so bad they dug a big hole in New Mexico or somewhere and buried a while lot of the carts. I've never played it though, I'll have to get the ROM one day Any here who mentioned it actually play much of it?

Doc4

As the title is "top three worst games ever" and not "top three games I just bought and quickly hated", I would have to agree with several posters and add 1 new one...

1) E.T.
2) Superman 64
3) Tresspasser (PC) <---- No one has mentioned this?!?!


Tresspasser was an overly-hyped game set in Jurrasic Park made around 1998. It touted the use of physics as a integral part of its gameplay (a possible first) with realistic dinosaur behaviors modeled (hunting, resting, etc).

It had two hollywood actors handling the voice work (also a relatively new idea at the time) Richard Attenborough & Minnie Driver.

The game essentially boiled down to you spending tens of minutes trying to stack small crates with a wacked out arm that moved in impossible ways. After stacking crates you could then jump up to a new area or similar sillyness. Oh and the dinosaurs were simply terrible.



Here's a PREVIEW!

http://sharkyextreme.com/games/dreamworks_trespasser_p/



The guys at Old Man Murrray knew their stuff...

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/longreviews/726.html



If you have a gamasutra login try reading this postmortem of the game by the designers. I haven't read this in years so I'm not sure if they still have it.

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19...spasser_01.htm



A demo if you are a user of Fileplanet? Sweet lord that is just not right.

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/10000/11067.shtml

crossova

I had it for the DC...besides being inudated with placement ads from KFC, Levis, and a whole array of companies. the game had zero replay value. i lost interest in it in one week.

crossova

so what are your top three of the worst games ever.

im glad some1 mentioned shaq fu...what about the michael jordan game when he had these basketballs of fire/ice.


FF7 boring???? blasphemy (sp?)....i spent over 90hrs on it and still never beat it (damn u sephiroth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

fordluvr

I'm really dating myself here, but:

1) As mentioned by others here, "ET" for the Atari 2600. This is the undisputed grandfather of high-dollar licensing gone horribly awry. I think I just took mine apart with a hammer to test my theory that there was actual, bonafide shit inside the casing.

2) "Wall Street Kid" for the NES. This bottom feeder was basically a text-based "simulation" of being a stock broker. The real kicker is that your goal is to make a lot of money so you can buy things for your girlfriend and impress her father. Everyhing about this game is just wrong.

3) "Technocop" for the Sega Genesis. I could go on and on about this horrible piece of crap, but it's claim to fame is that it was the first console game to ever warrant a parental warning. The issue that parents had was that when you shot a bad guy, he basically disintegrated but did not disappear. Instead, he collapsed into a big red splotch on the floor but the head stayed intact. I am ashamed to this day that I ever owned this bucket o' chum.

I wonder what those parents think of GTA3 or Leisure Suit Larry?

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Pheer

Sure ive played my fair share of crappy games but Only 1 game can make me forget about them and Stand on top SHAQ FU IS THE WORST GAME THAT WAS EVER MADE!!!!

crossova

everyone is saying Shaq Fu....why would you even play it to begin with?