Sacman:
sports games because y play a videogame of other people playing sports when u could just get off ur lazy ass make some actual friends and play football or soccer or baseball.

thank you thank you thank you!!!

the worst is when people who play the sports start playing them, why bother???

World of WArcraft

just 'cos it's popular doesn't mean it isn't fantastically stupid

what about.....Hitler:Bunker Life it ends when you kill yourself with your world collapsing around you

Sim Crackwhore

Quaidis:
Any game about kids playing a card game. This could be done successfully if it was, say, a PC game... Like Solitaire. But to watch a game taken after a cartoon about kids sitting around playing cards is really anti-social and wrong in my opinion. Why on earth do that when you could, for far less money, buy actual cards of the same game from your local store and meet actual people to play against. The point of battle cards is to meet and have fun with friends, playing a single-player game where you battle imaginary people completely rips that point away.

You CAN do both you know...

zen5887:

Quaidis:
Any game about kids playing a card game. This could be done successfully if it was, say, a PC game... Like Solitaire. But to watch a game taken after a cartoon about kids sitting around playing cards is really anti-social and wrong in my opinion. Why on earth do that when you could, for far less money, buy actual cards of the same game from your local store and meet actual people to play against. The point of battle cards is to meet and have fun with friends, playing a single-player game where you battle imaginary people completely rips that point away.

You CAN do both you know...

Lies, Lies! I refuse to accept it.

poleboy:
Sim Crackwhore

Actually, I think that Sim Pimp would be pretty fun. You would slowly become the head of a ruthless crime organization, by dealing, pimping and making friends in high places. Social options would have to include 'Slap a bitch' and 'tap ass' or else I would destroy Will Wright as well as Maxis.

the monopoly guy:
game tycoon...oh wait

a sequel to GRAW and RSV...oh wait

sim auschwitz...oh wait

barbie horse adventures...oh wait

ok so I have nothing original but..oh wait! gran turismo 5 traffic jam racer

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i am seriously hoping there is no game at all similar to "sim auschwitz"

ccjav:

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i am seriously hoping there is no game at all similar to "sim auschwitz"

Link

How about this:
Ultimate Time-Teller: Mustache Edition!

Myself0101:
World of WArcraft

just 'cos it's popular doesn't mean it isn't fantastically stupid

World of Warcrap

just 'cos it's the worst game ever invented.

Not saying Blizzard comes up with stupid ideas... they just don't come up with any of their own. They only have two games, which were ripped-off of other games entirely. Every other game is either a spin-off of their own games, or, in World of Warcrap's case, a merger of two. I really like how they announced Starcraft: Ghost, an FPS of an RTS, like a week after Command and Conquer Renegade, an FPS of an RTS, came out. First came CoX, then came GW, then came WoW and its blatant rip-offness of the whole HUD and gameplay example, only it cost about a month's paycheck just to pay for a single month.

(Does WoW still cost over $25/mo to play?)

Wow, did I ever go off-topic here. In conclusion, Blizzard doesn't come up with stupid game ideas because they don't have any game ideas lol

Punisher, the gameplay is good, but the story is in a new form of stupidity!

A game where you have to manage a diner or bake cakes. seriously, what the fuck, what is the fun in serving people who get agitated after 30 seconds of not getting their orders and earning virtual tips? If you want to do that just get a job in a diner or a bakery, at least you earn some real money there, jeez...

Stammer:

Myself0101:
World of WArcraft

just 'cos it's popular doesn't mean it isn't fantastically stupid

World of Warcrap

just 'cos it's the worst game ever invented.

Not saying Blizzard comes up with stupid ideas... they just don't come up with any of their own. They only have two games, which were ripped-off of other games entirely. Every other game is either a spin-off of their own games, or, in World of Warcrap's case, a merger of two. I really like how they announced Starcraft: Ghost, an FPS of an RTS, like a week after Command and Conquer Renegade, an FPS of an RTS, came out. First came CoX, then came GW, then came WoW and its blatant rip-offness of the whole HUD and gameplay example, only it cost about a month's paycheck just to pay for a single month.

(Does WoW still cost over $25/mo to play?)

Wow, did I ever go off-topic here. In conclusion, Blizzard doesn't come up with stupid game ideas because they don't have any game ideas lol

City of Heroes and WoW were released the same year. Guild Wars came out six months after WoW. Your argument is on fairly shaky ground sir.

You do have a point about Starcraft Ghost though, man that game was...wait it was never released was it?

The Fifth Element game.

Sim Nagasaki.

once you get halfway through, some yank levels it with a nuke.

Hmm if I say Portal or Half-life I will get my nostrils raped (MPHG ref) so I'll say Cooking Mama its the work of cooking without the tasty ending.

A game where you manage a garden to appease a bunch of pinatas? Where they breed by dancing? So popular it is a freebie with the 360 pack? IT EVEN HAS A F*CKING SHOW!!! WHERE IS YOUR GOD, NOW?!?

Super Columbine Massacre RPG!

Yes, it exists. Oh, yes. Fucking Google it, it exists.

ultra_v_89:
A game where you manage a garden to appease a bunch of pinatas?...

Actually the Show was before the game.

Harry Potter The Game, Little Britain The Game and Jackass The Game.

Examples of their complete opposites in quality are Max Payne, Hitman: Bloodmoney, Asssassin's Creed (when you get beaten by Assassin's Creed in the story area, you've got to hire a new writing team), Mass Effect and GTA: Vice City.

For my High School WWII project I did mine on Auschwitz death camps and Hitler's Final Solution. I half assed a map using Starcraft map editor change the names of a couple units and showed it off to my class. I got a B+ for creativity and I did do the research, but I didn't get an A because I made the class laugh at a speech about Auschwitz.

flyingh1ppo:
Oswald had a scope and the motercade wasn't going very fast. 100 yards is well under the maximum range for the carcano rifle that oswald used and, assuming the scope was sighted in, that shot should have been easy.

Could YOU do it?
Easily?

nilcypher:
City of Heroes and WoW were released the same year. Guild Wars came out six months after WoW. Your argument is on fairly shaky ground sir.

You do have a point about Starcraft Ghost though, man that game was...wait it was never released was it?

I don't need any further proof. Since Guild Wars is an entirely identical game (in terms of mechanics) to CoX, that's obviously not a rip-off. But my proof is in the fact that Blizzard fails at originality.

SC: Ghost wasn't ever released. For something like 3 years they kept postponing it, but they just canceled it altogether. Starcraft II... same graphics and few new units. I swear, it's just an expansion pack, not a sequel lol

Worst game ideas ever... lol Big Rigs. Barney Hide-and-go-Seek. I've seen both. They both suck.

That new 50 Cent game, and the High School Musical game.

Virtual effing slots. All the egalitarian randomness of Roulette, with none of the strategy. I mean, whiskey tango foxtrot?

The dumbest ideas I've heard of is making games out of TV shows that have little or no action in them. For example, I saw a game made from Lost. That show is pathetic. What do you do in it? Argue with all the characters and wander around a lot? That's about all they do in the show.

ShyWinter:
The Sims.
A game about average life. I just don't get it. What's so exciting about watching someone watch TV, eat, sleep? Though it was a bit fun watching them pass out on the floor.

It's fun setting fire to them.

Anarchemitis:
The Fifth Element game.

Doesn't really count. With very few exceptions, all movie-based games suck and suck hard.

How about Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the SNES? I don't know if anyone's said this yet but it really exists. It involves doing some of Michael's classic dance moves and "saving little girls." I kid you not, that's really what you do.

Yahtzee has a written review for it on his site.

A boy and his blob: the title says it all.

Anyway, I think the "sim" line can be expanded here.

SimIsle: an interesting idea poorly executed.

SimTower: WHY THE FUCK DO HALF MY TENANTS MOVE OUT EVERY QUARTER?! Not to mention that a quarter is all of eight days, so I spend more of my time fixing things that aren't broken than expanding my building, not to mention going very much into debt for no reason. These people should be selling their condos to other people, not back to me! Again, interesting, poorly executed.

SimAnt and SimEarth: never played them, never heard good things. Spore had better be better.

SimCity: never really liked the original, love 2000 (note the lack of past tense), like 3000 well enough, gave up on 4 once my city reached equilibrium (I think my city profits all of $86 a year), and after the review of Societies, I wouldn't touch it with someone else's computer.

Let me just quote Wikipedia's "plot line" for this game...

"In the game's storyline, O'Neal wanders into a kung fu dojo while heading to a heavily emphasized charity basketball game in Tokyo, Japan. There, he stumbles into another dimension, where he is forced to rescue a young boy named Nezu from the evil mummy Sett-Ra."

Yes, that's right Ladies and Gentlemen... Shaq Fu for the Sega Genesis!

the 50 cent games. I still can't believe they are making a sequel where he goes to the middle east to kill terrorists that is the stupidest idea for a game I have ever heard in my life.
When are people going to get over this stupid thug rapper bullshit?

Harvest Moon. I still don't know why so many people like that series-- perhaps I never will.

mwhite67:
the 50 cent games. I still can't believe they are making a sequel where he goes to the middle east to kill terrorists that is the stupidest idea for a game I have ever heard in my life.
When are people going to get over this stupid thug rapper bullshit?

I just found it amusing his game was called "bulletproof" when the fact he's been shot 9 times begs to differ.

nilcypher:
Starcraft II... same graphics and few new units. I swear, it's just an expansion pack, not a sequel lol

What the FUCK? Have you even SEEN some of the gameplay photos/videos of either of the games!? Starcraft was an isometric RTS. Starcraft II is a 3D RTS. GEE, SEE THE DIFFERENCE!?!

Tell me now, how is THIS or THIS (Starcraft II)

The same graphics as THIS or THIS? (Starcraft I)

I know this isn't a game concept so sorry it's a bit off-thread, but the stupidest idea by a developer has to be the decision to steal material and, from what I've seen on this site, entire areas from 'Oblivion' (amongst others), for 'Limbo of the Lost'.