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I'm a bit confused, if it's worst game of 2012 why are people saying Battlefield 3 when that came out last year? As for mine, it would be Assassins Creed Liberation, it's slow, combat is pure crap and the sound quality is disappointing, at first I thought it was just the Vita's speakers but then I played Uncharted on it. | |
It isn't bad, more just a wasted opportunity, it's just rushed, unfinished and so ridiculously bland that I literally remember nothing about it except it was kinda brown and had THE WORST MENU SYSTEMS I HAVE EVER, EVER(!!!) EXPERIENCED. OT: Doorfighter. Wasted potential and as above. Good job EA, finally getting tat you need to stop chasing COD? Another year in development and some fresh ideas and it might not have sucked. Um, I didn't mind Resi 6 though it was frustrating at times. Ass Creed 3 is literally the only game to ever make me throw a controller across a room in anger at the god damn broken shit in the game. (Played pre-patch, chases are fixed I here, don't wish to experience the Charles Lee bullshittery again thanks and it should have been functional and not retarded on launch). Also it's really boring, the world is boring, the characters are boring excet for Haytham who you actually see very little of, the game is too focused on making you fucking Batman and forgets about sneaky sneaky stabbing. Can't think of much else tbh, been an okay year though I didn't buy too many games. 2011 was a better year for me I think. | |
Just how on EARTH are the games being listed here WORSE than AMY?! | |
Prototype 2: The ending somehow managed to be worse than Me3's. They replaced Alex with some whiny jerkoff, and when Alex does show up, they completely ruin him! I thought a big part of the first game was that he was at least better than the original, but no, here he's a genocidal Saturday-morning cartoon villain who tries to kill his beloved sister. Y'know, the one he literally tore the city apart to save? Amy: Literally nothing I can say about it that no-one else hasn't said before. Anna: Incomprehensible logic, rubbish graphics, worse controls and interface, head-ache inducing sound design and stupid artistic pretensions. Can someone remind me why I bought it again? Resident Evil 6: The returning characters are ruined, the new ones bland, the healing system is stupidly complicated, there's no ability to pause so I hope you enjoy having to wait until the next autosave to go to the toilet and the co-op is dreadful. Assassin's creed 3: Just plain boring. | |
Worst game I personally played this year was Resident Evil: ORC Even though I had a fair amount of fun playing it with my friends. It's the sort of fun you get from experiencing a train-wreck with your buds. The game itself has a lot of good ideas, and a lot of it sounds good on paper, but almost all of it suffers from botched execution and incredibly shitty design choices. I think it's the worst game I experienced this year because the whole thing is a sloppy mess, slapped together like shit.
I stayed away from it, so I can't comment on how much it truly sucks lol. | |
I don't think a game being disappointing is fair to call it "worst". In my opinion, most games in the last couple years have been disappointing, but it won't stop me from saying that they were still great. My best game of last year was The Witcher 2, but the ending was a disappointing cliff hanger. Everything leading up to it was great. I agree with your points on Mass Effect 3 though, I still don't think I could call it worst game, as much as I feel I should. The thing is Max Payne 3 is good because it keeps, for the most part, the style and theme that past Max Payne games have had. A broken man, down on his luck, trying to be the good guy, he's fighting to stay alive but doesn't actually care what happens to him. It even keeps the same mechanics while improving on them. It felt like a Max Payne game while improving itself mechanically. | |
I would say that being the same thing every year is a good reason for considering it for worst game, but then again, those opinions sure are wacky aren't they? | |
There is no 3DS pokemon yet so I won't point to that for you, the latest Pokemon titles are normal old DS games. The 3DS i a bit of a drag I think thus far I have 3 games for it, the most enjoyable of which is Theatrhythm because it's actually interesting. Super Mario 3D Land is fine, but it's hardly fresh or interesting, it's no Sunshine or Galaxy. (NSMB2 looks shit, 4 games into the reboot and the same 8 level themes each time? Fuck you Nintendo). Kingdom Hearts 3D; got into it a bit, it's okay, don't like the constant switching between the two characters, not as good as Birth By Sleep, when do we get Kingdom Hearts 3?. So yeah. 3DS. Mine's gathering a bit of dust sadly. | |
We call this phenomenon of playing bad and unfinished games with friends and finding it enjoyable anyway Lost Planet syndrome. | |
Hell yes they are! As such, I don't care why you think the way you do. | |
Of course it's fair. "Worst" is entirely relative. If I play three games in a year one of them has to be "worst", doesn't it? I qualified my rant about ME3 by saying it wasn't really a contender for "worst" the way truly atrocious games are, but it was certainly the worst game *I* played this year, and it's a pretty hardcore contender for most disappointing game I played in 30 years of gaming. Ultima IX probably beats it by a nose, but my expectations were already low there due to VIII. There are very few games I'd view as so objectively good as to be "critic proof", and Max Payne ain't one of them. If Zhukov hated it, we're not really in a position to say he's wrong for hating it. Sometimes games just rub people the wrong way. I wanted to throw Metro 2033 out the window and it's a sacred cow on these forums. | |
Way of The Samurai 4. It was download only, and it was short and the combat got repetitive and obnoxious. Also, go on youtube and watch some the cut-scenes involving water. It truly has the best water physics of any game of our generation. If Way of the Samurai doesn't win awards for best gameplay, it will at least win an award for best water physics. | |
I didn't mean to imply that I thought anyone was wrong for choosing one game or another for worst. Perhaps I'm just indecisive and can't find justification to label a game as "worst". | |
My worst game of the year. ME3 dumb, boring and buggy inconsistent and that before the crap that was the ending. | |
Damn, I agree with every point you made for both games though its Max Payne 3 for me, Amalur was quite a good time sink. Story was shit though. Now to my picks Diablo 3 Like many other gamers out there, this game is what made me sever ties with Blizz. The problems of this game are many but the people who took enough time to rant about it are ever more than that. I won't bother justifying this one cause I'll just be parroting what everyone else has said. Assassin's Creed 3 Don't get me wrong, it is an awesome game. However, comparing it to the previous games I can't help but feel that this one was disproportionately full of fluff. A lot of the missions feel like mini-games. What the hell happened to the core game play of me finding about a billion different creative and fun ways to kill people. The game has its merits but I can't shake the feeling this sequel didn't live up to any the standards of the entire series as a whole. The last mission IMO was the most anti-climactic ending mission I've encountered in the series so far. The ship thing was great though. I have to admit, I'm actually putting this game here out of sheer spite for Ubisoft. I love Assassin's Creed but their newest entries are starting to ruin it for me. | |
The correct answer is Star Wars Kinect. It has no redeeming features. | |
You can't be serious! It's brilliant! Brilliant! It's so bad it's absolutely fantastic. With a team of geniuses working 24/7 I couldn't have come up with something that ball numbingly horrifying. Those guys deserve some kind of prize. | |
That would be Diablo 3 for me- They clearly don't know how to write plot twist/ plots involement without TELLING you about it. The stats in the game is not useful at all. The game become boring and a total grindhouse and they still want the game to be played long terms? | |
Revelations 2012. See you next year, people! | |
Certainly my Most Disappointing game this year, if only because it looked like it was going to be good and I got really excited. Should have paid attention to Yahtzee's Gamer Matrix. | |
Since i never even touched the really shitty games i'll follow everyones else's example and pick a decent game as the worst thing that happened to gaming in 2012. Kingdoms of Amalur: reckoning. I really love rpg's, but this one felt like a not so great mmo without the social stuff, didn't even bother to finish it and i don't plan to. And everything that nintendo made this year because for some reason i dislike their consoles and their kiddy game sequels that they keep making since the dawn of time. | |
Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning Played the demo, kinda interesting, picked it up cheap, glad I didn't pay more. All the other games I picked up this year have had flaws (ACIII, a main character more boring than Desmond? Impossible! ME3, that ending) but are games I will go back to and continue to enjoy, Kingdoms of Amular however, you couldn't get me to go near again if you paid me. | |
I think this abomination just won this thread.. After watching that video for 1 minute i wanted to punch myself. | |
What... what the fuck was that? I... what? Oh god. /shudder You win... just, make it stop. Please. (I will now have "I'm Han Solo, Solo" stuck in my head all day. Fuck.) | |
Did you look at the dance moves? They have names. Like "Chewie Hug" and "Trash Compactor". Seriously though, it's passed the magic threshold of "so awful it's amazing". There's a perverse genius to it. | |
Can we judge worst game while taking into account price point? If so, then I choose most military shooters that cost 60 bucks, have focus on multi player and have a tacked on, linear, set piece filled single player about Americans going "fuck yeah!". So the big two are fairly obvious. | |
Isn't that how most of these threads go down around here? OT: Well, I'm not sure I've really played any bad games this year. By word of mouth, I could mention Amy or Revelations 2012, as those seem to be some of the most poorly-received games I've heard of this year. Neverdead at least got points for its gimmick. | |
Huh. I thought there was one out by now.. So the game I see most people playing on their 3DS isn't even a 3DS game. | |
I use my DSi XL to play DS games because the 3DS does some weird reactive contrast thing that makes rpg's suddenly dip and rise in brightness if it's a DS game. Or mine is defective, but it doesn;t do it for anything else. Weird. BUt yeah, I think there's a pokemon rumble or something on it but unless it's a main-series pokemon game idc. | |
This year as in where released in this year: Kindoms of amalur or something like that. Pretty bland and boring. Meh Combat. So averaguey. I guess that comming right after Skyrim didnt help, but still, I dont think it was going to change my opinion very much. I played this year but was relased in some other year: Dragon Age. Unbeaten champion ultimate number 1 as the most boring, bland, brown, badly done combat, linear, (Insert at least 15 other reasons as to why this game is not merely bad or horrible but the very worst of the worst) Videogame that I have ever played (And for that matter seen, too- I rather play Big Rigs, that game seems like it could be worth playing if just to laugh at how bad it is- Dragon age is so fucking bad it somehow manages to pass that line of so bad its good and plain be horrible) I try, I really try to understand why people enjoined that game, dammit I TRIED but I just cant...Fuck you Dragon age! /rant. Okay but seriously. Dragon age is really the worst game that I have played in 2012 (And for that matter of my 16 years of gaming). | |
From least offensive to the worst: XCom - I had high hopes because I'm a huge XCom fan and I hope they can do something with Apocalypse as well - and hopefully more effort than this. This XCom was thrilling for maybe the first several hours. Then... I feel like I'd already played it all year, and the game just ends up being absolute routine just so you can finish the game. The game just feels very limited. That and the game is seriously buggy in the levels where you're mostly indoors - I end up misclicking 70-80% of my units moves simply because it cannot decide if my perspective was on level 2 or 3 or 2.5 or 3.1. Mass Effect 3 - I think I enjoyed perhaps the first couple of hours of the game but then the whole thing started to feel like it was beginning to lose momentum. I think it was a lot of wasted potential, and if anything, I think everything towards the ending was rushed to meet a deadline - thus giving us the choice of 3 fatalistic endings each slightly worse than the others in a different way - and telling every ME player "F--- YOU AND ALL THE EFFORT YOU WENT TO MAKING YOUR SHEPARD STORY ABOUT MAKING EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSE GET ALONG, THIS IS NOT A CHOICE, NO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ANYTHING DIFFERENT, BECAUSE SHEPARD'S GOING TO BE A REAPER'S BITCH IN THE END NO MATTER WHAT YOU CHOOSE". Worstest game evar in 2012: Diablo III. Please don't even bother defending the game. I agree with a comment I saw above - "It's like a complicated slot machine" I can't agree more. If anything, I feel like this game was entirely designed around the marketplace, and the game and story itself took a backseat on a carriage where the actual engine of the train had taken off without it. I swear - not allowed to choose a class specialisation and build your character stats your own way? do you know how BLAND that makes the gameplay? Blizzard ended up making a totally pedestrian game made for pedestrians where grinding > gameplay and dynamics. Seriously Blizzard, this behavior is so EA it's not funny. Go ahead and design more of your games for farming our cash instead of designing a game for the sake of enjoyment, emotion, and inspiration - and of course, for the sake of gaming itself - you can make yourself the biggest joke for a game developer right up there next to EA. | |
I haven't encountered that particular problem. Actually, the best thing I can say about my 3DS is that its manufacturing quality is superb. No dead pixels, speakers work exactly as advertised, battery life isn't that bad if you leave the wireless off... Does it happen only in specific games?
I had flashbacks to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance after seeing it in action.
Eh, fair enough, but I still put it on my list because it brought out the worst in the gaming community. And since I had to put up with a solid month of people stumbling over the word "entitled" for no good reason, I'm keeping it on my list, just out of spite. (oh and the ME3 multiplayer rewards kill stealing and passive-griefing. Great design work there Bioware.)
Agreed, and lest anyone forget at least Torchlight 2 was playable on launch, rather than 2 weeks later. | |
Um yeah mostly just with pokemon games it's odd, it's as if the backlight is adjusting to the screen or something dumb like that. Haven't noticed it with any other games or any 3DS games. It's not a deal breaker because I have my DSi but it is kinda annoying. Lighting is one of those things I get pissed off about really easily, it's 95% of the reasons I dislike Battlefield 3 and it's dumb engine ¬_¬. Want destructo -phsyics? Yeah? Well sorry, we made those shitty in exchange for obnoxious flashlight mechanics and bloom! Yeah see, I like FFTA, it's enjoyable enough and can be challenging at times even though it doesn't scratch the strategy itch the same way as something like Disgaea does. I got bored of Disgaea after the second, for the record. Too much fucking grinding and healers are worthless mostly. Been playing company of heroes, that's scratching my strategy itch nicely. Tis not an itch I get often mind. Edit: Know what I'd like on 3DS? An old school Final Fantasy, not a remake, a brand new game with a brand new story, but done in the style of 3 through 6. ATB system + gorgeous sprites + gripping 40 hour plus non-angst-ridden tale = A day one buy. | |
Out of the games I have played, AC3 is probably the worst one. I guess I just don't play enough bad games, luckily...
Because most people never played Amy. | |
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Okay, THAT would be a bad reason, but I haven't seen anything like that... yet.