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Oh my god, you're right. My entire life view has been changed, and gosh darn it I should just retroactively remove this thread from existence because you don't like the premise. Oh, wait. That would be my reaction if I actually cared and weren't an asshole. Hint: I don't and I am. | |
Skyrim An overrated and joyless massive pile of Medieval cliches. How this won so many awards is something I will NEVER understand. | |
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lol... using the shotgun in bioshock... i used the wrench even against the final boss... i just never felt the need to use my precious ammo... Resonance of Fate, steampunk jrg third person shooter... sounded great until you find out that every fight requires you spend more time in the air like a circus clown than a gunslinger... :/ | |
I'd say Dear Esther. I knew it was about an hour long and I knew it had no gameplay, but I at least expected a story. It doesn't have that either. Intentionally obscure poetic rambling does not equal story. I even searched forums about it after I finished it, and there are speculations but noone seems to actually know what the game was about, if it was about anything. Braid was obscure too, but the ending gave you the outline of a story that you can interpret in different ways, in Dear Esther I could not even piece together that, there's just several people that may or may not have not some things, and are not connected in any visible manner. At least it had an amazing soundtrack, so that's something I guess, but highbrow bullshit like that really pisses me off. | |
Haven't played Skyrim yet, probably won't until cheap-ass computers are good enough to run it. I played Oblivion and hated it and don't imagine Skyrim to be that much better. Bethesda's games bore me to tears. Fallout 3 was okay, I guess. It lacked the charm and the humor and all the other cool things about Fallout 1 and 2, and the DLCs were mostly shit, and you had to buy a DLC just to be able to play the game after the ending which I thought was pretty stingy on Bethesda's part. The main quest is just boring, you just do a bunch of fetch quests for the Imperial Legi...er, I mean Brotherhood of Steel and when you get right down to it, it's just a first person shooter with clunky controls. Fallout New Vegas just plain sucked. It was buggy to the point of being nearly unplayable, ran at about half the speed of Fallout 3 despite being exactly the same game, and the whole thing about picking sides between the different factions was really poorly done. The graphics sucked too. New Vegas is a grey, full-bright eyesore with neon lights taped to it and the worst part is the Caesar's Legion camp which is just a big brown hole in the desert. Geckos with stupid gaping grins run at you with only their legs animated and nothing else, guns are unresponsive and often glitch out, rotating in weird directions until you load a saved game. It seems like something a team of amateur modders would make, not a professionally-made game. Oh and when you finally get the coolest armor in the game, the Ranger battle armor, the thing you've been waiting for the whole time; guess what? All your guns clip right through the middle of the fucking trench coat because the developers were too lazy to fix it, even after a bazillion updates that introduce more bugs than they fix. Even though they hired some of the original Fallout team, New Vegas is even shittier than Fallout 3. | |
Any FPS with regenerating health. Any FPS with a cover mechanic. Any FPS with 2 guns or less. Exception being TF2 because giving infinite gun use in a team based game would off balance it. 99% of all third person shooters ever made. Diablo 3. (real money pay to win house + no customizable stats + limit on amount of skills I can use + infinite respecing = Do Not Want) WWE games. Sports games. Every Need For Speed game made after Underground 2. (exception being Carbon which was fun) Any game without any form of combat or feeling of competition. Journey would be a prime example. Mass Effect 2. Mass Effect 3. Dragon Age 2. Anything Nintendo has ever made with the exceptions of Brawl, Mario Kart, and Pokemon. Civilization 5. (let's ruin the combat with 1 unit per tile and dumb down the diplomacy while making the AIs be even dumber @ there own game than before sounds like fantastic ideas /sarcasm) Any 2D fighting games. Most JRPGs made from the time FF 10 was released until now. For most due to them going away from the combat systems from the days of FFs 4 - 9. (kinda bad where fing Pokemon has some of the best turn based combat out of games made in the last 10 years. even as a Pokemon fan that saddens me) Anyway the exceptions to this are Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey both being epic in there own ways. And it must be said Dark Souls mainly because I personally never considered the souls series a JRPG but instead a WRPG that happens to be made by a Japanese company. | |
Resonance of fate. I honestly thought I'd never find a JRPG I didn't like. Then this skidmark came along. | |
The most blatant one for me has to be Duke Nukem Forever. It's rare that I'll feel ripped off when I pay £2.50 for a game, but I do. | |
Final Fantasy 13, It rewards you with nothing and I was so bored playing it. You know you failed making a game when sleeping is more exciting than playing that pile of ass. Strangely, I thought FF13-2 was FAR superior and I gladly played it post-ending and with a few DLC. | |
Exactly, like only one guy mentioned Big Rigs and that is one of the best examples for a game that isnt worth playing, the rest of the guys seem to just choose one game of the popular ones and say how much they dont like it. | |
The PC port of Saint's Row 2. I decided to check it out, when it was on the cheap, since I recalled Yahtzee had expressed a like for the title. What I failed to research, was how absolutely abysmal the port from console to PC was, with terrible framerates on hardware that outpaces the original console target several times over and controls that are mapped all over the keyboard (the two controller sticks are each mapped to a set of keys, etc...) and sends a vehicle irrevocably lurching over a certain number of degrees, at the merest tap of a key - only way to stay on the road is to keep zig-zagging. Virtually unplayable - a publisher with any self respect would remove it from the market. | |
Well, I guess we'll just have to live with it. It's just another one of the inevtible thing that happens on the internet. Just be thankful that so far no one seems to have had their feelings hurt by what some random stranger, who probably means next to nothing to them in reality, said about a game they like. | |
Yeah, it's a shame when potentially good threads are derailed like this by people who read "games not worth playing" as simply "games I hate and think are overrated". God knows we have enough of the latter. I was looking forward to some snarky and potentially useful posts, but I guess I should have known better. Are games like BioShock and Fallout 3 and Skyrim so shamelessly, horribly bad that they have absolutely nothing to offer to anybody, ever? Really? Really? OT: I've never had the pleasure of playing it myself, but PepsiMan (not that many would ever consider playing it in the first place). Unless you're playing it for laughs. | |
Dragon Age 2. Playing it was like eating classroom paste; yeah you could do it, but it wasn't enjoyable or nourishing in any way. I'd also like to nominate FFVIII and any of the ones that came after number 10 in that series. Too stodgy and obsessed with appearances but devoid of enjoyment. | |
Front Mission Evolved or whatever it was, really they turned an awesome turn based Mech RPG into what is essentially Armored Core (which is a great series, well I thought so before it went all DBZ-speed) But 1 infinity times worse. Seriously there's nothing redeemable about the game, everything was retarded down (an even greater version than the normal dumbed down) The graphics suck, the customization is awful and pointless, characters/voice acting were terrible, had a stupid bullet time and a bunch of other things. Seriously I would rather be subject to ET for the Atari or Two Worlds or Duke Nukem Forever, for all eternity than play this piece of garbage (which was totally my fault for buying, I saw FRONT MISSION and just bought it... Taught me a very good lesson) | |
Very well, no point talking the apathetic. I can only hope in the future you think before you post, not of a singular person but the community you're a part of and realise you'd be doing us all a favour by keeping dribble that will result into frivolous flame-wars (which are against the forums rules) away from The Escapist. | |
Sonic 2006. It's a terrible experience and for even the most dedicated of Sonic fans it's worth ignoring. (Which is helped by the fact that its ending basically negates anything/everything you did) I've played games, but Sonic 2006 is the only one I've played that should never ever be interacted with. | |
Sorry but I respectfully disagree. I thought Other M was an awesome game. It was challenging, fun and fast paced. Sorry but no matter how you look at them, the primary aspect of a game is to be fun, which Other M was (so was Mass Effect 3). You can't say a game isn't fun because of some bad voice acting/writing. | |
There's at least a 60% chance I'd fuck shit up somehow, so no promises. Seriously though, if someone can't see what certain games have to offer, than I guess they simply don't see it. A lot their choices are bullshit, I will admit that. But their choices are their choices, so there. Now, here are a few games that no one should ever play is this: Superman 64. Seriously, fuck that game. Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days. It could've been goo-no, who am I kidding, that game was shit! Call of Juarez 3: The Cartel...fuck the driving sections, the gun play, the murky washed out colors...just fuck everything about this game. Dark Void. The jet pack can only make the game so enjoyable until everything else catches up to it and drags you down. The Force Unleashed 2. ...how did they manage to take everything that was good about the first game and destroy them? Sonic 06. Hey Sonic Team, why not release a finished game next time? Oh, and Silver was a terrible idea...and that cutscene that I refuse to mention. Seriously, this game was so bad it made me appreciate Shadow the Hedgehog: The Game. | |
Spore. Everything past phase 1 was downhill... | |
Need For Speed: Unbounded: | |
i really dont know. i could name a few but on the other hand i learned a lot from playing really awfull games. besides that, its a matter of opinion/grey area. for me it was | |
Okami All of those games are just downright terrible.
And maybe you should do the same before making a post like this that only serves to start one of those frivolous flame wars. Seriously, what other kind of reaction do you think you're going to get when you're such a massive asshole to people? The only thing posts like yours accomplish is other people calling you out on your bullshit, and thus your post is far more likely to be the cause of a flame war than this thread. | |
Wii shovelware titles....sooooo much crap out there. | |
Here is another game from the PS1, you could create your own characters and their attacks, like frame by frame, but the tools for it were so bad that usually this would be the end result: | |
Yeah, they could have tried more variation on the combat. Also, I saw loads of stuff about Yoda being in it, lol. | |
It's not even worth playing to understand the plot of Defiance, especially since that game has the entire backstory right there in the manual. My example is without question Metroid: Other M. You already knew about the character assasination, but what you didn't know about was the shallow, uninteresting, unfun, unchallenging gameplay that will absolutely bore you to tears. Oh, and the real final boss is Phantoon. Yay! | |
Seriously dude? Next to Xenoblade Chronicles, it's probably the best JRPG of the current gen. | |
Haha oooooh yes, yes you can. If the voice-acting is so awful that you spend more time laughing at the apathetic-sounding third-grader doing what appears to be a poorly worded schoolplay than you spend trying to follow the storyline, then the fun stops. Or, actually, you are enjoying yourself by laughing AT the game, but this gets old very quickly.. | |
did you play the first FF XIII? Because I actually fell asleep during the first cutscene, what kind of shit is that? OT: Games not even worth playing? Damn, that's actually a tough one, but I have to go with three games: Empire Earth 3. No, don't even think about getting it. It dumbs down so much of what makes an RTS a RTS that what you have left is like a Playskool "Baby's first videogame" playset. Masters of Orion 3. FUCK THIS GAME, FUCK IT WITH UNUSED COPIES OF E.T. FOR THE ATARI. I believe it is solely responsible for the decline of 4X games in recent years. The game is so obtuse to play you might as well let the computers duke it out for your own amusement, but even then they get confused from time to time. Mount and Blade. Prepare the flame shield, I mean the first mount and blade game, it has no multiplayer and really has no point other than for LP's, I have to say though, if you want to play a great game, get M&B: Warband, gives you multiplayer and the expansions are fucking AWESOME. | |
I actually bought that as a launch title for my 360. I Hated it so much. -Bad level design, and the game knows it by having little arrows guide you to where you need to go if you stay still for more than 20 seconds. | |
Do you mean like this guy? I'm honestly only quoting 7Sins for the benefit of the first person I quoted, the only thing I even want to touch about your post is that I believe you meant "Any game withOUT any form of combat or feeling of competition". As for myself, Rage. I have no clue if it's any better now than it was on release, but when it was released it was nothing but a glorified tech demo, and a terrible one at that. Half of the textures that they touted as being "revolutionary" new technology looked murky, washed out, and low res because of how much compressing they needed to do, it had bugs out the ass, crashed one out of every three times I went through a loading screen, and had functional but mediocre gunplay at best. It was a waste of 20+ GB on my hard drive. | |
So all in all, you don't like what...almost all recent games for the past few years. You sure picked the right hobby | |
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Me too ! The only major complain I head about TFU 1 was the long loading times.
TFU 2 was boring. Not only did they get rid of the cool combo's, but they gave you almost every force power from the beginning :/. No character progression at all.
The boss battles were a joke as well (seriously, Darth Vador was boring to fight). I kinda like the jedi battles in TFU 1, even if they could've handled them better.
Also, how they handled combat. I can see what they were trying to achieve by giving each enemy it's own weakness, forcing you to combine Force powers with the lightsabers, but they screwed up. You weren't combining anything. It was just Enemy Type A with Attack A,Enemy type B with attack B etc... Those bigger enemies with the QTE were just meh. The first one you see is cool, but if you have to repeat it like 10 times in a 6 hour game ? :/. Just lke the "falling from heights" parts. Yeah they were cool, but repetition made them tedious.
Storyline was a joke. Just when it got some resemblence of momentum, the game ends. Can't believe I payed 60 euro's for that.