What is your most hated game of all time? One that made you want to punch babies?

[Soodmeg]

By far the game that pisses me off more than any other game in the world is.....any version of Madden Football.

I had given up and sworn off playing any madden game again back in 05 but all my friends and familly seem to think that i still love the fucking thing so i can count on getting the newest one for my b-day/christmas/ any present giving day.

Now before you ask why dont i just trade it in, I dont trade in games for any reason to any store. I dont ever sell it because i wouldnt want to sell it unless someone paid me 50 or 60 bucks for it.....the cost of a retail one which is not happening because of the age of the interweb.

So whats yours?



Total controllers smashed: 8
Holes in wall: 2
Curse said: 563478583746573478567834657863478378657
Disk Broken
because of punching: 3

[WhipSmartBanky]

Bayou Billy for NES

[I AM WILLIAM H. MACY]

Either fuck or $$$$er

[Liquid 2]

Call of Duty 2 (360) on veteran.

[2poor]

F-Zero GX

[naes]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

How the fuck do you play?

[chosen1s]

F-Zero (SNES)
Madden (all of them)
FPS (All of them)

I know, those of you who are good or even competent at FPS games probably don't understand why I hate them, but this is the genre that the new generation left me behind with. I am bad at them the way the average 45-year-old man is bad at Super Mario Brothers and the way the average 75-year-old man is bad at operating a remote control. No matter how much I put into them I still suck, and have come more dangerously close to breaking valuable home furnishings over these games than any other.

[WeaponX2099]

friday the 13th (NES)

[The Crotch]

Return of the King. It gets a pass on account of the co-op, but the Helm's Deep 2 Minas Tirath level almost made me stop playing. Horrendously unclear mission objectives and the most useless map in the history of videogames? Why, the only way this could be better is if the level was cluttered with useless allies whose sole purpose is to get in your way when you're running from ladder to ladder!

[Soodmeg]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

How the fuck do you play?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6M_4Yqk65f8

[smarkbran]

E.T. on the atari...:)

and i agree with the guy who said madden...i just cant dig those games.

[jer7583]

If we want to talk about mainstream, popular games.. I can't stand all those cookie cutter NIS Strat/RPGs that the supposedly "hardcore" flock to just because it's 2D and got anime characters.

They churn out copycat shovelware worse than EA does, but somehow people are blind to it because it's atlus, and disgaea was rare at one point. I would keep a copy of phantom brave around if I ever needed a sleep aid, however.

[2Fast]

Batman Forever or The Rocketeer for SNES.

[ZForce]

Hooray for the AVGN!

[johnmirra]

terminator 2 for snes, hes a terminator how can some biker thugs punches kill him

[Graystone]

The Wizard of OZ for SNES. My cousin gives me his SNES when PS1 came out. But he only gave me one game with it Wizard of fucking OZ.

That game was so creepy, and super fucking hard.

AHHHHH!!!

I feel better now.

[RelentlessRolento]

Driver 2... how many fucking times do you want me to drive 200 miles in Cuba to pick someone up only to die 90 min into the mission and start over again?

[daroga]

Two games come to mind.

From the "What in the heck am I even supposed to do?" camp: Back to the Future II & III for the NES

From the "This game is so hard it makes grown men cry" and/or "Thank God for the Game Genie" camp: Battletoads for the NES.

One game has death by manhole covers. The other has the accursed jetski / hover bike level. And yet that didn't stop me from playing both, a lot, growing up. I guess I had a lot more patience back then (or a lot fewer options).

[furyk]

Mission Impossible for the NES. Let's play through a shitty Metal Gear rip off to get to the final level where you need to put in a five digit password to disarm a bomb. That password is no where to be found in the actual game. You've got 30 minutes (just enough time to call up the Nintendo Tip Line!). Battletoads is a close second though.

If we extend this beyond the actual game, the whole Final Fantasy VII fandom pisses me off.

[dastly75]

Batman and Robin for the Sega Genesis

[Gameboy415]

Ghostbusters on SEGA Master System.

I couldn't even get the car to move! :(

[VAD3R or Fro]

Im going have to agree about Madden. All it is is a football game with slightly better graphics every year and new players and stats. Stadiums are the same. Gameplay is the same. But for some reason ALL of the kids at my school recommend it to me. And I was just never interested in it. I tried playing a demo but I could never get into it.

[Z-Saber]

Driver 2... how many fucking times do you want me to drive 200 miles in Cuba to pick someone up only to die 90 min into the mission and start over again?You obviously never played Driv3r. I know I didn't, but I watched my dad and criticized him the entire time for purchasing it. Ugh.

I'll have to think about mine. As for the guy who mentioned F-Zero GX, you apparently have played three or four games in your entire life. That's the only way that can be the worst you've ever played.

[scdoanintendo]

TMNT and Ninja Gaiden for NES, Blast Corps for N64, Ninja Gaiden for Xbox on hardest difficulty, Viewtiful Joe 1 for any system on hardest difficulty, and Ghouls n Ghosts on any system ( how is it possible to beat this game! ).

[BREVITY]

Metroid Prime 2: Got all the way through the boring game and made it to the end and played the last boss like 30Xs w/o beating him. I gave up with much anger.

[Rasen]

If we want to talk about mainstream, popular games.. I can't stand all those cookie cutter NIS Strat/RPGs that the supposedly "hardcore" flock to just because it's 2D and got anime characters.

They churn out copycat shovelware worse than EA does, but somehow people are blind to it because it's atlus, and disgaea was rare at one point. I would keep a copy of phantom brave around if I ever needed a sleep aid, however.

First, NIS is NOT Atlus.

Second, the reason why "hardcore" players flock to it is because the games make it so that in order to beat the special bosses, you have to POWER-LEVEL to level 200 like a mo-fo, restart your character at lvl 1 so that he has better starting stats, POWER-LEVEL again, and repeat. And then after ll this, you have a decent chance of beating the special bosses. (One of my friends ABSOLUTELY loves this. If he had free-reign to design a game, Disgaea with its insane power-leveling trials is what he would have done. I call him crazy.)

But yes, they are cookie-cutter Strat-RPGs.

[sallyballs]

Ghouls n Ghosts on any system ( how is it possible to beat this game! ).


Honestly, the one game that made me cry. Forget anger and frustration....that series of games made me cry.

[GuilewasNK]

By far the game that pisses me off more than any other game in the world is.....any version of Madden Football.

I had given up and sworn off playing any madden game again back in 05 but all my friends and familly seem to think that i still love the fucking thing so i can count on getting the newest one for my b-day/christmas/ any present giving day.



It's not the game that bothers me, it's the online cheesers in Madden that bother me.

The only game I ever really hated was Time Lord on the NES. Getting past level two was impossible no matter how many times you tried.

[Puffa469]

Im gonna stay away from NES era games, cos yeaah, many of those games were asskickingly hard, but thats was pretty standard back then.


In more recent times, there was a Gamecube WWE wrestling game that I really hated. It was either WM18, WM19, or DoR1, I forget which. But it had the cheapest, most frustrating story mode ever found in a wrestling game.

The story mode did not involve matches in the ring, that would make too much sense. This game had you fighting at construction sites againt construction workers and security gaurds. They would attack you 3,4,5 at a time. Theycan all focus on you and hit you, but of course you can only focus on one of them at a time. To further compound the frustration, your focus immediately switched to whomever hit you last. So you would be going to town on a guy, about to lock up and hit him with a devestating move, and a punch from a security gaurd would turn your focus away. :bomb:

Then if you managed to beat back the hordes of blue collar workers, you got to climb high up the construction site and face off against an actual wrestler. Of course the wrestler had more security and construction minions to stop you from actually having a chance at winning. And you would always get thrown off the top and take a ton of damage and have to climb back up. I think there was even a time limit to make this mode that much more fun.

And of course, you needed to beat endless levels of this horrid story mode in order to unlock edit points and caw features. Making the game nearly worthless unless you beat the mode.

That was one of the rare newer gen games that made me throw my controller. I stopped playing without ever beating the mode and never played the game again. I traded it in in fact.

Worst story mode in a wrestling game EVER! :bomb:

[schuerm26]

First, NIS is NOT Atlus.

Second, the reason why "hardcore" players flock to it is because the games make it so that in order to beat the special bosses, you have to POWER-LEVEL to level 200 like a mo-fo, restart your character at lvl 1 so that he has better starting stats, POWER-LEVEL again, and repeat. And then after ll this, you have a decent chance of beating the special bosses. (One of my friends ABSOLUTELY loves this. If he had free-reign to design a game, Disgaea with its insane power-leveling trials is what he would have done. I call him crazy.)

But yes, they are cookie-cutter Strat-RPGs.

Man that really sounds hardcore. Definitely not boring, tedious, or repetitive. :roll:

[johnnypark]

I, too, am going to avoid the NES era of games, because plenty of them made me baby-punching mad but that doesn't mean I hated them.

Out of recent games, the one that comes to mind is Final Fight: Streetwise. I had a review copy for the site I was working for at the time, and I was surprised that I didn't hate it at 1st. Arena fights where you earn cash and learn new moves, a little free-roaming...it wasn't bad. Then you get to the goddamned burning building! It's a timed level, but it's way too easy to get hurt by the fire, so you have to be really precise. Be careful, waste time. Be sloppy to move quickly, and die. My blood boils just thinking about it.

[GuilewasNK]

Ok, avoiding NES era there is one game I have a huge love/hate relationship with.

Star Trek: Invasion on the PS One.

The game is gorgeous and fun, but there is one part in the middle of the game in which you have to tractor beam a ship to safety while under a RIDICULOUS amount of fire. It is a near-impossible scenario to complete because even if you gameshark invincibility in for yourself, the ship you have tractored is still vulnerable and the enemy flocks to it like a moth to a flame.

[Mex25]

Rise to Honor - wow I thought it was a decent fighter but instead I get shit just pure shit. Using the analog stick is ok for fighting but the system is definitly not meant to fight more then two enemies at once. This becomes even worse when you facing 6-8 enemies. There are no countering moves, the blocking sucks, the shooting sequences are even worse. The best part is when I hid behind a wooden crate and enemies were shooting at the crate and it didn't even break. I never knew wooden crates in japan are bulletproof.

Any NFL Blitz game - the cheap A.I. literally had me screaming and cussing at the tv. I could be up 20 or 30 points and out of nowhere the cpu would intercept every pass I threw and would tie the game.

[Puffa469]

Man that really sounds hardcore. Definitely not boring, tedious, or repetitive. :roll:

The thing about NIS srpg's, they are meant for the hardcore. So releasing multiple cookie cutter games is what fans of the series want. Srpg's are a very niche genre, so why try to attract new people to the genre? Instead NIS has chosen to focus on keeping faithful fans of their games happy.

Are they cookie cutter? yes. Is that a bad thing? Not to fans it isnt.

I can appreciate any criticism of NIS's games cos those critics are right, but if your in love with the gameplay then none of that matters.

Besides, NIS releasing a cookie cutter new SRPG every year is no different that what 20 other developers do. Do we need a new Madden, or Tony Hawk, Need for Speed, or Splinter Cell game every single year? Well, if your a fan of those games then yeah, you probably do.

[Mr Unoriginal]

It's not the game that bothers me, it's the online cheesers in Madden that bother me.

The only game I ever really hated was Time Lord on the NES. Getting past level two was impossible no matter how many times you tried.

This is exactly the game I was thinking of when I first saw this thread.

[bmulligan]

Batman Dark Tomorrow for the Gamecube was the second most ridiculous piece of shit ever made for a game system.

The first craptacular game of all time for me was Dragon's Lair for the NES. I can't even describe how infuriatingly bad this game was. Even now, thinking of it makes me want to commit great bodily harm to some programmer responsible for its creation.

[afedock]

When I was younger, my parents banned me and my brother from renting Burger Time. We would flip out playing this game, crying, throwing our controls into the TV, was just something about those damn burgers.

[Rasen]

Man that really sounds hardcore. Definitely not boring, tedious, or repetitive. :roll:
And how else are you supposed to make a tactical RPG hardcore? If you wanted to, you could challenge the bonus stuff without the power levelling, see how well you do. (spoiler: badly)

[Spades22]

Only one game I can think of...MAPLESTORY! I want to kill that game it's such a time sink what a piece of crap...can't believe I spent a month or two playing it!

[jer7583]

Well I said NIS and Atlus in that post because Atlus releases just as many crappy games that sell based on japanophile appeal alone.

Puffa cought exactly my point, that NIS is no more "honorable" or "hardcore" than EA or Ubi.. they milk their customer base just as well, but without all the polish and variety in their games.

Frankly I think the games are crap, I got cought up in the Disgaea 2 bandwagon, and sold that as soon as I could while it was worth anything.

As for what I think they should do? I'm not sure. I don't really know if they're capable of creating something outside of that "hardcore" (read: obsessively nerdy) customer base. I'm sure if they tried it'd have absolutely crippled gameplay and not be well recieved by either group.

[Apossum]

Rambo on the NES. I couldn't get out of the hanger, where you start the game, for hours I was actually in tears over it (I was about 7 years old at the time) because I swore the game was broken. it was a big disappointment to get a game about the 2nd most badass character next to the Terminator (at the time) and have it suck so bad.

Eventually I figured out that you had to press up on some random, unmarked part of the background to get out. then you went into the forest and fought spiders...you lost against the spiders most of the time.

that's right, before Rambo even gets to the main battle, he gets eaten by tarantulas.

[hx214]

The fuck cheating AI in NBA Jam for Sega Gen really pissed me off. Unless you were winning by more than 3 at the end of the game, they would gang rape you and throw up that wind-mill full court hail mary and make the shot every fucking time!!!

I wasn't allowed to play the game anymore, after I spit at the TV and chucked the game down the hall. Oh it makes me so mad thinking about it, I want to go home and take a sledge hammer to it.


If we are talking about hyped games that never came close to living up to what they were suppose to be, the A-1 winner there is Fable. I threw up in my mouth when I finished that game..... The only game I ever pre-ordered....I was so pissed.....

[BattleChicken]

Advanced D&D: Heroes of the Lance for the NES.

Description:
Based on the later parts of the Dragon Lance book Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the heroes are descending into a ruined city in search of the disks of Mishakal.

The gameplay consists of horizontal fighting with a maze like map using doors to change the view. The party consists of the 8 Heroes of the Lance, using one at a time and you can switch between them at any time. Each character has different types of attacks and spells making them more suited to fighting different enemies as well as acting as lives.

One of the AD&D games that make a break from the usual RPG style.


Translation:
Every character's (except tasslehoff) normal attacks go over the heads of the enemies at the start of the game - so you'll get stabbed in the nads to death by shrimpy goblin things... that or you'll fall in pits and die. -- WORST GAME EVER.

[karkyco]

When I was younger, my parents banned me and my brother from renting Burger Time. We would flip out playing this game, crying, throwing our controls into the TV, was just something about those damn burgers.

Fuck...I think I'm having an heart attack from laughing too hard after reading that. Burger Time?!?

I could see that with Congo Bongo, but not Burger Time.

For me, NES era (Atari doesn't count, as since most of those games had no endings, I didn't have that drive to "beat" the game, just master it as much as possible if I really wanted to):

Athena - cheapest, glitchiest piece of shit ever "coded", if you can even call it coding. I got to the fucking lobster final boss ONCE. You should thank whatever higher power you pray to if you've never been subjected to the pure torture this game is. Right up there is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Battletoads - great game, but sweet Christmas that other guy was right...this game would make baby Jesus cry.
Ghosts n Goblins NES - all of the other versions/sequels to this are a cakewalk compared to the NES port of the arcade classic Ghosts n Goblins.

Sega Master System: some of those Alex Kidd games, my God were they ridiculous.

After NES/Master System, there weren't many games that I experienced that gave me absolute hatred, at least not due to the challenge or cheapness. I guess I got lucky as I had limited funds so had to be very selective with what I bought, and tended to pick winners. A couple of shitty RPGs on the SNES I can't remember, one of the Batman games for the SNES was just ridiculously difficult (the first few enemies were practically invulnerable...just common thugs), oh and Captain America and the Avengers on the SNES. Just awful.

[jshendel]

Any NFL Blitz game - the cheap A.I. literally had me screaming and cussing at the tv. I could be up 20 or 30 points and out of nowhere the cpu would intercept every pass I threw and would tie the game.

YES! I forgot how much I hated that game, esp. on the more difficult levels.

[judyjudyjudy]

Probably FFX. I think I reached my breaking point for JRPGs with this game.

[Rozz]

TJ Lavin's Ultimate BMX for the PSX and Katamari Damacy for the PS2. Here is why I didnt like Katamari Damacy (http://pgvideogames.blogspot.com/2006/06/review-katamari-damacy.html). I know some fanboys are going to be angry after reading this.

[blandstalker]

E.T. on the atari...:)
Oh, come on.

This game deservedly gets a lot of hate, but it is playable and is far more dull and boring and stupid than frustrating. I didn't find E.T. hard at all.

Ghouls n Ghosts on any system ( how is it possible to beat this game! ).
When I was in college, I watched a guy playing the arcade version. He made it all the way to the end, then did it all again (the game makes you). He never lost a life and the whole thing seemed completely effortless.

I know I'll never manage that.

Let's see, what would I nominate...Kuru Kuru Kururin -- good, but hard.

And The Incredibles. The Dash levels are bad and hard. How this game ever got to Greatest Hits, I'll never know.

I'll second Heroes of the Lance. Gah, that was bad.

[Snake2715]

Fuck...I think I'm having an heart attack from laughing too hard after reading that. Burger Time?!?



Athena - cheapest, glitchiest piece of shit ever "coded", if you can even call it coding. I got to the fucking lobster final boss ONCE. You should thank whatever higher power you pray to if you've never been subjected to the pure torture this game is. Right up there is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.




Hey I have Athena boxxed and ready for you in my trade list!

[niceguyshawne]

Ghostbusters on SEGA Master System.

I couldn't even get the car to move! :(


Be glad you didn't get any farther, when you get into the building the game gets really difficult.

[Rasen]

Well I said NIS and Atlus in that post because Atlus releases just as many crappy games that sell based on japanophile appeal alone.

Trauma Center? Riviera? Shin Megami Tensei?

Puffa cought exactly my point, that NIS is no more "honorable" or "hardcore" than EA or Ubi.. they milk their customer base just as well, but without all the polish and variety in their games.

They're also selling to a targeted market. What they're making works for that customer base. Why would they change that if it works?

As for what I think they should do? I'm not sure. I don't really know if they're capable of creating something outside of that "hardcore" (read: obsessively nerdy) customer base.

....I didn't ask what you thought they should do, I was asking how else can you make a tactical RPG "hardcore" outside of ridiculously powerful enemies that require extensive power-levelling.

The obsessively nerdy comment is uncalled for, I think. There are some people that just ENJOY games with crazy levelling-schemes. Like the people that enjoy top-down shooters with 1 billion + bullets onscreen.

[Z-Saber]

They're also selling to a targeted market. What they're making works for that customer base. Why would they change that if it works?

...

The obsessively nerdy comment is uncalled for, I think. There are some people that just ENJOY games with crazy levelling-schemes. Like the people that enjoy top-down shooters with 1 billion + bullets onscreen.With that kind of argument, you can't disagree with sports titles in any way. They're selling to a targeted audience, and by the looks of the sales figures, it continues to work.

[SpottedNigel]

Sonic Heroes. Bought it on day one... and I damn near swore off playing another Sonic game ever again. Thankfully Rush and (for the most part) Secret Rings have made up for it.

[derder]

Why am I the first person to have said Mario Party 3+. It is easily the most retarded game ever. I remember playing a 4 hour game and lost all my stars in the last 5 minutes. Games based entirely on chance are just fucking stupid.

[sallyballs]

Advanced D&D: Heroes of the Lance for the NES.

Description:
Based on the later parts of the Dragon Lance book Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the heroes are descending into a ruined city in search of the disks of Mishakal.

The gameplay consists of horizontal fighting with a maze like map using doors to change the view. The party consists of the 8 Heroes of the Lance, using one at a time and you can switch between them at any time. Each character has different types of attacks and spells making them more suited to fighting different enemies as well as acting as lives.

One of the AD&D games that make a break from the usual RPG style.


Translation:
Every character's (except tasslehoff) normal attacks go over the heads of the enemies at the start of the game - so you'll get stabbed in the nads to death by shrimpy goblin things... that or you'll fall in pits and die. -- WORST GAME EVER.


GAHHH!! I had this game too!! Putrid pile of dreck

Bought it, played it, beat it, and punched myself in the face as punishment all in the same day.

When I was in college, I watched a guy playing the arcade version. He made it all the way to the end, then did it all again (the game makes you).

Yeah about that whole "You made it to the end, now fuck you and do it all over again." If the guy who thought of that is allowed to pro-create, I'll track his sons down and punch them all in the face.

[jer7583]

I've got no beef with trauma center, but Riviera? SMT? Snooze fests. No thank you. Why waste my time when I could be playing something good..

NIS=EA, but without all the money and rappers.

[Rodimus]

Bayou Billy for NES

Second this one.

[GenDV138]

Driver 2
Stuntman

[johnnypark]

Why am I the first person to have said Mario Party 3+. It is easily the most retarded game ever. I remember playing a 4 hour game and lost all my stars in the last 5 minutes. Games based entirely on chance are just fucking stupid.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/untitled33/20070129.gif
:rofl:

[willardhaven]

The leveling part of NIS games is annoying, but NIS games are like Chess with a story.

They may not mess with the gameplay too much, but at least there is value in its art/comedy.

[HeadRusch]

I dont recall too many games I actually paid money for and hated due to frustration, its more "levels" or "difficulty" within certain areas of a game.

Most of the games you guys have listed are old 8bit titles.....where the only way they could give a game longevity was to make the game impossible to finish :)

For me, an example of controller-throwing frustration would be: Gears of War (recently), some of the levels..like that damn "assault the Pump House" mission on Hardcore.....after 30 tries I finally beat it, then cried myself to sleep.

Or the Mission from VICE CITY where you gotta race that guy in the car...I finally had to cheat to beat the level. The one where after 10 feet your car is wasted by the half-dozen cops that pounce on you because you are street racing, meanwhile the PS2 races its car perfectly.

So you gotta try to block the road, or you gotta try to park a faster car near there, or you gotta do this or try that or this or that....to me, thats horseshit.
It almost ruined what was otherwise my idea of a perfect game.

[VAD3R or Fro]

Or the Mission from VICE CITY where you gotta race that guy in the car...I finally had to cheat to beat the level. The one where after 10 feet your car is wasted by the half-dozen cops that pounce on you because you are street racing, meanwhile the PS2 races its car perfectly.

I actully remembered that one. :-&

[Rig]

Either ET on the 2600 or Conan on the NES.

Both are terrible.

[danny-o]

LOZ Majoras Mask.

[Roufuss]

If we want to talk about mainstream, popular games.. I can't stand all those cookie cutter NIS Strat/RPGs that the supposedly "hardcore" flock to just because it's 2D and got anime characters.

They churn out copycat shovelware worse than EA does, but somehow people are blind to it because it's atlus, and disgaea was rare at one point. I would keep a copy of phantom brave around if I ever needed a sleep aid, however.

omg, someone finally gets it.

I kept my copy of Disgaea to give it a serious playthrough, but yea, it seems most of NIS's games are just recycled off of one another with only a little bit changed... which sounds an awful lot like Madden or Dynasty Warriors.

But since they are Nippon Ichi they get an automatic pass.

[Secret Turtle]

Fester's Quest was the worst game EVER.

[ViolentLee]

Why am I the first person to have said Mario Party 3+. It is easily the most retarded game ever. I remember playing a 4 hour game and lost all my stars in the last 5 minutes. Games based entirely on chance are just fucking stupid.
I freaking hate the Mario Party games. Every time I had to review one, it was torturous. Here's one of my MP reviews: http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/812E7AA9-CC71-4580-A7A6-D760C349F47D.htm

Or the Mission from VICE CITY where you gotta race that guy in the car...I finally had to cheat to beat the level. The one where after 10 feet your car is wasted by the half-dozen cops that pounce on you because you are street racing, meanwhile the PS2 races its car perfectly.

So you gotta try to block the road, or you gotta try to park a faster car near there, or you gotta do this or try that or this or that....to me, thats horseshit.
It almost ruined what was otherwise my idea of a perfect game. I honestly don't remember that part, so I guess it wasn't too bad. I played the entire game in one week for a strategy guide. I put in literally 90 hours at the office that week, but I still absolutely loved the game and gave it a 10.

I'd say the newest Sonic the Hedgehog (next-gen) is my pick. It's so bad, I actually show it to friends for us to ridicule. My favorite part is when Silver the Hedgehog comes back from the future to kill Sonic, and the first mission he does is USE HIS TELEKINESIS TO HELP SOME OLD MAN GATHER APPLES! Not only is it ridiculous, but the load times are horrendous, and you aren't even given instructions on HOW to gather the apples. I had to look at GameFaqs to find out how to actually do it, even after a good (bad) 25 tries!

[Roufuss]

I freaking hate the Mario Party games. Every time I had to review one, it was torturous. Here's one of my MP reviews: http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/812E7AA9-CC71-4580-A7A6-D760C349F47D.htm


:rofl:

So you're the evil Game Informer guy who gave them a rep as Nintendo bashers... nice ;)

[Kendal]

TJ Lavin's Ultimate BMX for the PSX and Katamari Damacy for the PS2. Here is why I didnt like Katamari Damacy (http://pgvideogames.blogspot.com/2006/06/review-katamari-damacy.html). I know some fanboys are going to be angry after reading this.

I will avoid your reviews at all cost! Anyway....


Halo. I hate these games with a passion. I have never beaten a single one of them and can never get into the story. The gameplay is boring and doesn't excite me one bit. I can't even see why it has a following. After every fight it looks like a raver got killed and his glow sticks got splattered all over.

[ViolentLee]

:rofl:

So you're the evil Game Informer guy who gave them a rep as Nintendo bashers... nice ;)
I wish I could take all the credit for it, but we literally got a plaque from Nintendo joking about our Mario Party scoring before I ever reviewed one of 'em. :)

[karkyco]

Hey I have Athena boxxed and ready for you in my trade list!

HAHAHAHA sweet, I can't wait to get it so I can play Hulk Smash with it, then toss the remnants into a furnace. Let me go see what I can dig up for a trade.

[karkyco]

Yeah about that whole "You made it to the end, now fuck you and do it all over again." If the guy who thought of that is allowed to pro-create, I'll track his sons down and punch them all in the face.

HAHAHAHA and a donkey punch for all his daughters!

[HeadRusch]

I honestly don't remember that part, so I guess it wasn't too bad. I played the entire game in one week for a strategy guide. I put in literally 90 hours at the office that week, but I still absolutely loved the game and gave it a 10.


I think its one of those parts where you either got lucky on your first run through it, or you got stuck like a priest in an alterboy, and had to run through about 200 times to finally pass it.

Its right at the end, one of the last missions...the guy you race becomes your wheelman when you rob the bank at the end of the campaign....he drives one of those Sabre Turbo's (red with the white or silver stripe down it), meanwhile you get some shitbox BMW clone that can't hope to keep up. I honestly have no idea how people pass that mission without cheating, and I've played a game or two in my time :P I finally gave up and cheated with the trick that cars can fly...5 seconds after he takes off down the road VROOOOM! Up into the air he flies :D I then hit the "lower your wanted level" cheat and coasted to easy victory.

Partially pissed at Rockstar because I had to resort to that to finally complete the game, forever preventing me from getting 100%....


does is USE HIS TELEKINESIS TO HELP SOME OLD MAN GATHER APPLES! Not only is it ridiculous, but the load times are horrendous, and you aren't even given instructions on HOW to gather the apples. I had to look at GameFaqs to find out how to actually do it, even after a good (bad) 25 tries!

Once upon a time I owned a brand new Atari VCS. A few years later there were games like this available for it.....enter the great video game crash of 1983. The writing is on the walls, fellas! :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983[

[swetooth9]

nba live (any of them)

all of the nba live games pale in comparison to the nba 2k series games...when playing live, it just doesn't feel right...it feels unnatural while playing...

[Trakan]

I will avoid your reviews at all cost! Anyway....


Halo. I hate these games with a passion. I have never beaten a single one of them and can never get into the story. The gameplay is boring and doesn't excite me one bit. I can't even see why it has a following. After every fight it looks like a raver got killed and his glow sticks got splattered all over.
You do realize there reason the Halo series is so revered is because of it's online play/multiplayer, right? Have you even tried out the online play at all?

Nobody really argues that the campaign is less than stellar.

[lordwow]

TMNT for NES.

[Brak]

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7366/arknd7.th.jpg (http://img441.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arknd7.jpg)

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/2506/106920399600qd9.th.jpg (http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=106920399600qd9.jpg)

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/2281/114224514800sq6.th.jpg (http://img340.imageshack.us/my.php?image=114224514800sq6.jpg)

[Puffa469]

Or the Mission from VICE CITY where you gotta race that guy in the car...I finally had to cheat to beat the level. The one where after 10 feet your car is wasted by the half-dozen cops that pounce on you because you are street racing, meanwhile the PS2 races its car perfectly.

So you gotta try to block the road, or you gotta try to park a faster car near there, or you gotta do this or try that or this or that....to me, thats horseshit.
It almost ruined what was otherwise my idea of a perfect game.

I hated that effin mission! I think in the end I made a 2 garbage truck roadblock to stop that guy. And he still caught up and I barely beat him.

[Transformah]

Top Gun for NES. I used to pretend that the end of level 2 was the end of the game so I wouldn't get so frustrated at the later levels.

[ViolentLee]

I think its one of those parts where you either got lucky on your first run through it, or you got stuck like a priest in an alterboy, and had to run through about 200 times to finally pass it.

Its right at the end, one of the last missions...the guy you race becomes your wheelman when you rob the bank at the end of the campaign....he drives one of those Sabre Turbo's (red with the white or silver stripe down it), meanwhile you get some shitbox BMW clone that can't hope to keep up. I honestly have no idea how people pass that mission without cheating, and I've played a game or two in my time :P I finally gave up and cheated with the trick that cars can fly...5 seconds after he takes off down the road VROOOOM! Up into the air he flies :D I then hit the "lower your wanted level" cheat and coasted to easy victory.

Partially pissed at Rockstar because I had to resort to that to finally complete the game, forever preventing me from getting 100%....

NOW I remember it. You were right to bitch. I just spent half an hour digging for the issue w/my strategy guide in it, to see how I actually beat it. What I said wasn't all that helpful -- probably because it's ALWAYS tough:
Hilary is far better than the psychos in Vice Street Racer [an earlier mission]. His car is better than yours, and you can't really push him around. Plus, you're given two stars from the start. How do you beat him? Don't let him get too far ahead of you. He will mess up a few corners and may get turned around, which you can use to take the lead. He won't be down for long, though. There are a few places where, depending on whether you're winning or not, two cops will try to sandwich you from opposite ends: the right turn where the bridge to the mansion is on your left, and the right onto the bridge after the destroyed building.

[Mr Unoriginal]

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7366/arknd7.th.jpg (http://img441.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arknd7.jpg)

Fuck this game so hard. I played this a lot and could never figure out anything. From where the game starts, if you walk one screen south you fall off the friggen map. So painfully confusing.

Also reminds me of the Swordquest series for Atari 2600 which was ball breakingly frustrating.

[wageslave]

Dragon Warrior IV

Why do you ask?

It was a fantastic game back in the day and I really got into it. I Was really getting into the story and having a good time. Then my Nintendo would start to blink and my save would get erased. I restarted the game a few times and this was always the result.

They should have recalled all front loaders and replaced them with toploaders. Anybody who bought the original NES should get a DS lite for free. That system was such a piece of shit hardware wise - and there was no internet to get a 72 pin connector from and how is a kid going to get one anyway? How ironic the greatest system ever was the worst designed ever.

[Kendal]

You do realize there reason the Halo series is so revered is because of it's online play/multiplayer, right? Have you even tried out the online play at all?

Nobody really argues that the campaign is less than stellar.

Yes, still bleh. I also don't like having little kids calling me a $$$$er or $$$ot or some other slur. I also noted that the gameplay was uninteresting to me. That means I find the game in general boring, online and off. I have played so many better games online than Halo, I still don't see why the game is followed so rabidly. Maybe I have been spoiled by PC FPS gaming. Perfect Dark offline mulitplayer is hands down better than Halo. Hell, I would take Timesplitter 2 over either Halo game solo or multiplayer..

[Steggy]

halo 1 and 2...

[Kendal]

Dragon Warrior IV

Why do you ask?

It was a fantastic game back in the day and I really got into it. I Was really getting into the story and having a good time. Then my Nintendo would start to blink and my save would get erased. I restarted the game a few times and this was always the result.

They should have recalled all front loaders and replaced them with toploaders. Anybody who bought the original NES should get a DS lite for free. That system was such a piece of shit hardware wise - and there was no internet to get a 72 pin connector from and how is a kid going to get one anyway? How ironic the greatest system ever was the worst designed ever.

Are you fucking retarded? I have two working launch NES systems. PSX/PS2 are the shittiest in design. Go smoke another rock.

[ChaoticClimax]

Gunvalkyrie for xbox really stands out to me as one of the few games I detested because of it difficulty (mainly because of its shitty controls and how it required pinpoint accuracy platforming at some points). I did waste my time finishing it though.

The more I think about the more I want to fucking punch something.

[GuilewasNK]

Yes, still bleh. I also don't like having little kids calling me a $$$$er or $$$ot or some other slur. .

I don't even bother with in-game speech unless I am playing with people I know aren't jackasses. It really isn't necessary in casual play anyway.

[Soodmeg]

You know....I really fucking hated Shadow of the Colossus. Fuck that game and fuck everyone who said it was good.

So boring....so clunky...ugly to look at. Wow a whole 13 boss fights with nothing to do inbetween. Great i get to spend 20 min riding on the back of so fucking monsters ass just to figure out how to jump onto its back...just to fall off and spend another 20 min climbing back up.

God i hated that game soooooo much.

[captainfrizo]

Spec Ops on the PS1.

Lousy controls, bland environments, and not being able to kill an enemy shooting an entire clip of ammo into his head at point blank range yet you can kill someone from a mile out with one shot to the leg. It was pretty damn hard too (although the seemingly broken gameplay likely had something to do with that). I truly hate that game.

[PapiChullo]

I'm going to have to go with Wall Street Kid on NES. That game made me go WTF, no clue what to do.

[ViolentLee]

You know....I really fucking hated Shadow of the Colossus. Fuck that game and fuck everyone who said it was good.

So boring....so clunky...ugly to look at. Wow a whole 13 boss fights with nothing to do inbetween. Great i get to spend 20 min riding on the back of so fucking monsters ass just to figure out how to jump onto its back...just to fall off and spend another 20 min climbing back up.

God i hated that game soooooo much.
I got nothing out of that game, either. I played maybe 2 levels and shelved it permanently. I usually have enough patience for 2 levels from a game; if it doesn't grab me, I'm out -- especially if I don't get Achievement Points for 'em. ;)

[dastly75]

I got nothing out of that game, either. I played maybe 2 levels and shelved it permanently. I usually have enough patience for 2 levels from a game; if it doesn't grab me, I'm out -- especially if I don't get Achievement Points for 'em. ;)
yeah imo SoTC is overrated, if the game had stuff to do in between boss battles and a more fleshed out story, it would have been epic

not to say that the collosus battles weren't epic, the game just coulda been so much more

[thekeybladewars]

Banjo Kazooie for N64 BLEW ASSS!

[daroga]

yeah imo SoTC is overrated, if the game had stuff to do in between boss battles and a more fleshed out story, it would have been epic

not to say that the collosus battles weren't epic, the game just coulda been so much moreI agree. While I really liked SotC, it could've been so much more, graphically and game wise. I think it's precursor, Ico, though is far more overrated. One giant escort mission with mundane puzzles. It did have some neat atmosphere, though.

[Mex25]

I agree that SOTC is definitly overrated. Another game I hated was Jaws for nes. My god was this a piece of shit. All you do is move a ship, which looks more like an anchor, and randomly you would move around the water and fight stingrays, crabs, and starfish. Deadly starfish that will kill you if you even touch it. Not only that you randomly collect shells, which to this day I still have no idea what they do besides points.

Finally when you do meet jaws it takes at least 2 hours just to sit there and shoot him because it would take about 20-30 shots just to take one life bar away from jaws. Then half the time jaws would disappear and you would have to repeat the whole process again. I swear they should have renamed jaws to you just bought a big pile of shit, congratulations!

[C_A]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/BaTEA_NES.PNG/260px-BaTEA_NES.PNG

[daroga]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/BaTEA_NES.PNG/260px-BaTEA_NES.PNGAh, a great game to rip on: http://www.bumscorner.com/bumnuke/index.php?module=ProdReviews&func=showcontent&id=181

[ECW_fan]

Smash TV for the Nes and Malice for the xbox.

[karkyco]

never mind

[tangytangerine]

Ghosts and Goblins
Ghouls and Ghosts
Odama(GC)

The last one is simply cause the soldiers don't follow orders fast enough. I'll sit there and yell commands while they literally walk right into the Odama ball.

[Krymner]

Joe & Mac. And...um....Joe and Mac 2.



I hate them.

[blandstalker]

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7366/arknd7.th.jpg (http://img441.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arknd7.jpg)

Okay, I had my say about E.T. already. Raiders is a bizarre game, but I think it's really pretty neat. For a 2600 game, there were a lot of screens and a lot of different gameplay elements. It was hard, and it didn't explain itself, but you could figure it out. It had its own weird but internally consistent logic.

Of course, my friends hated it.

I still say E.T. and Raiders are playable. Here's an excellent article on E.T. (http://2600connection.atari.org/et.html) that I agree with. When you consider the 2600 games that are just unfair or broken or horrible, horrible travesties (Swordquest, Ssssssnake, Sky Skipper, Super Cobra, Laser Blast, Space Jockey), it's unfair to put E.T. or Raiders anywhere in their league. Spend 5 minutes with any of these games and you'll be begging for E.T.

And those are only the bad 2600 games I "played". There were many more, especially right around the crash, that were far, far worse.

[Mr Unoriginal]

Okay, I had my say about E.T. already. Raiders is a bizarre game, but I think it's really pretty neat. For a 2600 game, there were a lot of screens and a lot of different gameplay elements. It was hard, and it didn't explain itself, but you could figure it out. It had its own weird but internally consistent logic.

Of course, my friends hated it.

I still say E.T. and Raiders are playable. Here's an excellent article on E.T. (http://2600connection.atari.org/et.html) that I agree with. When you consider the 2600 games that are just unfair or broken or horrible, horrible travesties (Swordquest, Ssssssnake, Sky Skipper, Super Cobra, Laser Blast, Space Jockey), it's unfair to put E.T. or Raiders anywhere in their league. Spend 5 minutes with any of these games and you'll be begging for E.T.

And those are only the bad 2600 games I "played". There were many more, especially right around the crash, that were far, far worse.

I always tried Raiders as a kid and couldn't figure it out, maybe I should try it again with an emulator.

What was wrong with Space Jockey? I loved that game with my Atari and don't remember any big problems with it.

I am with you about ET. I got it when it came out and beat it a few times. Sure it is boring in hindsight but not really better or worse than many things that were out during the time. Christ, most Atari games couldn't be beat and ET could so that has to at least say something.

[onetrackmind]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d3/BaTEA_NES.PNG/260px-BaTEA_NES.PNG

agreed!

[jesusjones]

Space Griffon VF-9 for PSOne. Yuck. Absolutely hideous, and the ending (which I played to because I had no other games I hadn't finished at the time)...sets up...for a...sequel...must...destroy...:bomb:

[blandstalker]

I think it's precursor, Ico, though is far more overrated. One giant escort mission with mundane puzzles. It did have some neat atmosphere, though.
Ico, I thought, was a very good game with some questionable mechanics. The combat was there to fill space. Some of the puzzles were lackluster.

But, more often than not, it felt like a real place and felt like a good number of the puzzles evolved from the environment, not from a god-like game designer setting up a puzzle box from on high.

Despite some difficulty, I never felt like throwing my controller or giving up. The game also had a number of things that I'd look at and say "No fucking way." and then minutes later I'd be doing it.

Ico is one of those games where the total is better than the sum of its parts. I really enjoyed it.

[Kain Vincent]

Wolverine (NES)
Maximum Carnage (GEN/SNES)

[onetrackmind]

X-Men on Sega Genesis, that fucking game was impossible

[blandstalker]

I always tried Raiders as a kid and couldn't figure it out, maybe I should try it again with an emulator.

I don't know. Good for then and good for now are sometimes not the same. If you think of Raiders as more of an adventure and discovery game instead of an action game, you might like it.


What was wrong with Space Jockey? I loved that game with my Atari and don't remember any big problems with it.

I don't remember. I remember renting it and I remember "ew" and I remember thinking it was broken, but that's it.

It might be like Laser Blast. Try and play it normally and it might seem okay. But there are easy ways -- they're not even cheats or exploits -- to make the game so easy it's boring. With Laser Blast, you could swoop in and destroy all the enemies right off the bat before they even got off a shot...and repeat it endlessly. Once you can do that, what's the point of playing?

Or I could have the name wrong. ;)

[lordwow]

X-Men on Sega Genesis, that fucking game was impossible

Was there a SNES version of that? Cause I remember an X-Men game being awful for SNES as well.

[tangytangerine]

Was there a SNES version of that? Cause I remember an X-Men game being awful for SNES as well.
No, the Genesis one was developed by Sega and was completely different from X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse by Capcom for the SNES.

Genesis: http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3043/xmenac8.jpg SNES: http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/1355/xmen2gp0.jpg

[lordwow]

No, the Genesis one was developed by Sega and was completely different from X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse by Capcom for the SNES.

Genesis: http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/3043/xmenac8.jpg SNES: http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/1355/xmen2gp0.jpg

Ah good to know. Thanks!

[SNKMat]

Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike

Awful Graphics/Gameplay/audio/it would freeze

[sallyballs]

Are you fucking retarded? I have two working launch NES systems. PSX/PS2 are the shittiest in design. Go smoke another rock.


Seriously, if you have two working launch NES systems that have never been a problem, go to the nearest casino immediately. That is like getting hit by lightning twice on the same exact spot.

[RudyPants]

WCW: Backstage Assault. Worst game ever, well except for TMNT for NES.

[PapiChullo]

WCW: Backstage Assault. Worst game ever, well except for TMNT for NES.
The first one? TMNT was a great game, IMO.

[ViolentLee]

Space Griffon VF-9 for PSOne. Yuck. Absolutely hideous, and the ending (which I played to because I had no other games I hadn't finished at the time)...sets up...for a...sequel...must...destroy...:bomb:
You're breaking my heart here! I absolutely LOVE Space Griffon; it's one of my favorite games that nobody ever played. I think the graphics were great for first-gen PSone, the story is really good throughout, and the RPG elements are slick. I thought it was way ahead of its time, and is still an awesome game. Plus, the main VO actor is on Iron Chef -- how can you hate on that?!

[Soodmeg]

Another one....Counter Strike. I fucking hate counter strike. I hate the community, I hate the game, I hate the media surrounding it.

[HeadRusch]

Counterstrike desperately needed larger maps and a deathmatch mode, but noooooo..they wouldn't give it to us. So every public map turned into camping douchebags waiting for some other camping douchebag to cross their path while everyone else sat around and waited for the round to end.

[Yoohoo1231]

F-Zero GX. After the couple chapters I suck.

Batman for the NES. I can't get past that first ninja boss guy with more than one life left. Ever.

[CaptainCarnage]

every public map turned into camping douchebags waiting for some other camping douchebag to cross their path while everyone else sat around and waited for the round to end.

have you ever played socom? it's the epitome of camping douchebags. i used to love playing it, but i just can't anymore.

[Soodmeg]

have you ever played socom? it's the epitome of camping douchebags. i used to love playing it, but i just can't anymore.

:applause::applause::applause:

You are right as fucking rain man.

I loved Socom 1. I kinda liked Socom 2. I hate socom 3. Socom 3 is by far one of my most hated games. In fact i traded that in for Battlefield 2 for Ps2.

Maps were so big that you would run around for the entire round looking for people. Not only that 95% of the people were snipers that just sat around and did nothing.

The controls were bad..the aiming was bad..the hit detection was even worse.

[BattleChicken]

Rise from the Grave...! bump

Homeworld.. I liked the multiplayer, but the missions made me want to shank a puppy.

I kept capturing every ship up to this mission where you fight the first
enemy carrier.. and then I would get slaughtered.. ships would pop up out of literally nowhere.. I beat that mission once, with more than a couple ships left, and ended up getting murdered by some asteroid field level.. Arg..

[HotShotX]

Every single Hannah Montana game ever made. Not only does she look like total trash on the cover, but they market this shit to children on the Disney channel.

~HotShotX

[ZForce]

It used to be the Tomb Raider series up until Legend and the remake came out and salvaged the series. (That being said, part 3 through Angel of Darkness were all absolute garbage)

I'd have to say the True Crime series or any generic war game that gets hyped up (Ones that are legitimately good like Call of Duty are excluded from this) All the crappy thuggin games that get burped out also make my blood boil

[Mr Unoriginal]

Amagon for NES.

[Transformah]

The original Castlevania. How in the world do you get past the Death level?

[SpecTrE3353]

Tradewars 2002

[skid]

The Simpsons Wrestling.
That game had such potencial, but ended up being one of the worst games I've ever played.

I also LOVED the original Driver for PC, but then Driver two only came out for the playstation which is the first part that pissed me off not having one back then, then I ended up borrowing a Playstation to play then game. The game was awful as some of you know.

[tehweezner]

i really hated Xenosaga II and Legend of Dragoon. two shitty RPGs that i felt compelled to continue and then hated myself for doing so. SUCH A WASTE OF TIME OMG :bomb:

[refusedchaos]

i really hated Xenosaga II and Legend of Dragoon. two shitty RPGs that i felt compelled to continue and then hated myself for doing so. SUCH A WASTE OF TIME OMG :bomb:

aww i loved Legend of Dragoon:cry:

[furyk]

Mischief Makers. Everyone seems to love this game, but the bland platforming combined with the awful, awful voices earned this a special place in my heart.

[Javery]

This is an easy one for me even thought I've played hundreds of shitty games over the years (Ikari Warriors 2, Friday The 13th, Clay Fighter 64, anyone? I could go on and on) but the one that stands out above the rest is definitely Star Fox Adventures. Utter trash. I want to punch something just thinking about it. I doubt I'll ever play something that horrible again.

[Gentlegamer]

The original Castlevania. How in the world do you get past the Death level?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4hOil-_9pw

Not a Rick Roll, I promise.

[Magus8472]

Has to be Hoshigami. Sucks that I ended up reviling it so much, as I was pretty excited about it right before I started playing. I think it was that whole shoot system thing and those weird puzzles that just ended up being way more effort than they were worth. And then there's the fact that the game difficulty spiked numerous times to the point of annoyance. Ick.

[Brak]

Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure (GCN) and E.T. (Atari 2600).

Need for Speed: Most Wanted is an honorable mention.

I can't say I "hated" it... but it pissed me the mother-fuck off.

[Skexis]

Definitely Street Fighter 3 for me. I was used to Alpha 3, so the engine overhaul sent me for a loop. No air blocks, the supers are all fucked up, and the character selection is pretty shitty comparatively. Even so, it's tolerable when I'm playing friends, but against the CPU, well, let's just say it's the only game I ever genuinely threw across the room in rage.

[integralsmatic]

Definitely Street Fighter 3 for me. I was used to Alpha 3, so the engine overhaul sent me for a loop. No air blocks, the supers are all fucked up, and the character selection is pretty shitty comparatively. Even so, it's tolerable when I'm playing friends, but against the CPU, well, let's just say it's the only game I ever genuinely threw across the room in rage.


just to get the facts straight it wasnt an overhaul in the engine. SF III has absolutley nothing to do with Alpha and i mean nothing. its two totally different engines and designs. its like going from Street Fighter II to Alpha. its going to be a new learning curve. how about take some time to learn the nuances of third strike like parrying, links,chains, etc...and then maybe you would enjoy it more. I was like you...i hated this game. It was nothing like alpha or marvel vs capcom. after i played and learned it..it became my favorite fighter and barley tops tekken in my list.

to answer this old thread i have to say Double Dragon 3. that bitch marion always gave me fits like no other.

[Halo05]

Ghosts and Goblins
Ghouls and Ghosts
Odama(GC)

The last one is simply cause the soldiers don't follow orders fast enough. I'll sit there and yell commands while they literally walk right into the Odama ball.

An incredible illustration of how very different people are. Ghouls N' Ghosts is my single favorite game of all time. Anytime I pick it up and try and 1cc it again, I have a blast. There's no other game that I've been regularly playing as long. I spent nearly a whole year (early 2000 - early 2001) playing it for about an hour every other day at an arcade near my house. Eventually I got to the point where I could 1cc it. By far my most impressive videogame accomplishment.

Anyhow, the game that made me want to punch babies was Star Ocean 2 (or whatever the PSX one was). There I was, trying to get into the story when suddenly one character, or the other would stop talking only to have a huge retarded emote appear, anime-style over their stupid big head. It was jarring, frequent and annoying. I sold that crap and everytime I see someone raving about Star Ocean anything, my eyes nearly roll out of my head.

[Skexis]

its going to be a new learning curve. how about take some time to learn the nuances of third strike like parrying, links,chains, etc...and then maybe you would enjoy it more.

Did that. Is it beyond you that someone could actually take the time to learnt he system and still hate it?

SF III has absolutley nothing to do with Alpha and i mean nothing. its two totally different engines and designs.

I believe that's what I said, yes.

[integralsmatic]

Did that. Is it beyond you that someone could actually take the time to learnt he system and still hate it?



I believe that's what I said, yes.

well no...but i assumed you didnt learn it all. if you did and still hate thats fine..its your opinion to begin with.

[Mr. Beef]

Zelda 2: Adventures of Link, or whatever the fuck it's called. Fuck that game. Right in the ear.

[ViolentLee]

Zelda 2: Adventures of Link, or whatever the fuck it's called. Fuck that game. Right in the ear.
That's one of those games I've given multiple chances to impress me, and it never has. Others include Morrowind and REZ. Franchise achievement award goes to Silent Hill: I've played 2-4, and disliked every one.

[Halo05]

Zelda 2: Adventures of Link, or whatever the fuck it's called. Fuck that game. Right in the ear.

Again, I must have insane/stupid taste in games because I think Zelda 2 is possibly the best one. I mean, at least it's hard. The SNES one, the GBA one, the N64 ones, they're all cakewalks. Granted, it might be hard to find all the little hidden things but the boss fights and whatnot are a breeze.

[seanr1221]

Saga Frontier. What a load of shit that was. I can't believe I spent hours on it when I was a kid.

[Mr. Beef]

Again, I must have insane/stupid taste in games because I think Zelda 2 is possibly the best one. I mean, at least it's hard. The SNES one, the GBA one, the N64 ones, they're all cakewalks. Granted, it might be hard to find all the little hidden things but the boss fights and whatnot are a breeze.You're right about those versions of Zelda, they are pretty easy. My favorite is Wind Waker, actually. But Zelda 2? That game was balls to the wall hard. I beat 2 dungeons, then couldn't find my way to the next town because I couldn't find anyone to tell me in-game where the next town was. After a week of trying, I quit.

[lokizz]

ill say it once and ill say it again donkey kong 64. the game was amazing when it first came out freakin beautiful and i loved it until i realized how much damn collecting and back tracking there was in the game. in the end the colored bananas killed me and since then i could give 2 shits about 100 percent completion in any game.

[Halo05]

Zelda 2 is forever burned into my brain thanks to playing it incessantly at my friend's house back when it was relatively new. I'll never not know where to go next. But now that I think about it, that whole maze of caves down south would be a nightmare without my subconcious knowledge.

[The Mana Knight]

E.T. on the Atari 2600. That was the worst video game I ever played. No game comes close to that.

[rxdoga]

Sword of Sodan and Last Battle on the genesis. Both of these games had me about to stomp my Genesis to death.

[evadwolrab]

Gears of War online

It's full of complete a$$holes, whose apparent only joy in life is antagonise and annoy people. And there's no way to stop them from being an a$$hole.

[chronojin]

God i hate all Madden's. If EA didnt have it maybe they would try to make decent games instead of relying on that fucking cash cow

[Loyaltist Shinra]

PSO on the GCN. bascially I collected all the items in the game got FSOD and deleted by mistake. Got FSOD again after collecting everything for the second time. Also the Fire 3 affected my eyes.

[Bonesinski]

Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600. What the hell are you supposed to do? I could grenade a hole in the wall at the starting screen and parachute along that stupid branch thing, but after doing that nothing else seemed to work or make sense.

Now for a more modern example - Skies of Arcadia Legends. It really isn't hard except I'm stuck at a save point where I can only do one thing and that is fight this airship battle and my airship is shit compared to this big spider looking monster thing. I lost my patience and haven't touched it since. Too bad too because I was actually enjoying it to that point.

[bmulligan]

Dragon's Lair for the NES is the most frustrating POS game ever made. It's slow, unresponsive, and unrelenting. And that's just the first screen. It gets worse from there. There's simply no excuse for crafting a molded plastic game cartridge filling it with crap.

Actually, Batman Dark Tomorrow gave me the exact same feeling. When, after 3 minutes, you find yourself saying, "Why am I even bothering with this," you know you have a bad game.

[buterbals]

Forsaken 64, that game was just bad. The graphics were crap, I could never really tell what was what. The music was also pretty bad. The game in general was just plain bad.

[arthurRWD]

mostly licensed NES crap

Terminator 2 (NES) : Did anyone ever get past the frickin' "outrun the semi" part of this game. I think it was like Level 2? I still can't...

Addams Family : I paid $60 for this new when I was a kid. Allowance was horded for weeks, maybe months, to get this crap and play it, and realize that it's the hardest thing in the world. (I've almost recently beat it by saving every 2 steps using an emulator, and it is still impossible.

[davo1224]

Easily Sonic Heroes for the GC. Poor poor poor poor game. The last boss in particular is really aggravating. It's not a hard game by any stretch as far as actual gameplay goes but the camera and the lack of overall control make it tough in precise situations.

[CocheseUGA]

Mega Man, Metroid.

[davo1224]

Oh yeah I also can't forget Peter Jackson's King Kong. It's the epitome of useless fetch quests and poor boss fighting.

[The Mana Knight]

As for popular games though, my most hated are:
GTA (any)
Zelda
Most Mario games after Super Mario 64
Gears of War
Call of Duty
Any game developed by Bioware
Tom Clancy anything

[Mr Unoriginal]

As for popular games though, my most hated are:
GTA (any)
Zelda
Most Mario games after Super Mario 64
Gears of War
Call of Duty
Any game developed by Bioware
Tom Clancy anything

Someone is starved for attention. 'I'm too cool to like what other people do. Yeah.'

[BattleChicken]

Someone is starved for attention. 'I'm too cool to like what other people do. Yeah.'
That is the impression that I get too.

Much of the list there defined or redefined entire genres.. with the exception of the clancy games.. and perhaps Mario after 64 (which itself defined the benchmark for a 3d platformer).

[Logg]

That dude would suck off Sony if he could.

[coltyhuxx]

Return of the King. It gets a pass on account of the co-op, but the Helm's Deep 2 Minas Tirath level almost made me stop playing. Horrendously unclear mission objectives and the most useless map in the history of videogames? Why, the only way this could be better is if the level was cluttered with useless allies whose sole purpose is to get in your way when you're running from ladder to ladder!

A-f'ing-men.

I did stop playing once I hit that level. That map is just absolute crap.

[Halo05]

As for popular games though, my most hated are:
GTA (any)
Zelda
Most Mario games after Super Mario 64
Gears of War
Call of Duty
Any game developed by Bioware
Tom Clancy anything

Good lord, you fucking suck. I mean seriously... you seriously *hate* all those games?

*Anything* developed by Bioware?

*Any* Tom Clancy game?

*All* Zelda games?

I'm... I'm just flabbergasted by your list and really it shows that you have terrible fucking taste in life and that's why you're a 24 year old virgin who doesn't drink because his parents would be "disappointed". You could kill yourself and the entire world would instantly become 10-15% cooler.

[PyroGamer]

I'm... I'm just flabbergasted by your list and really it shows that you have terrible fucking taste in life and that's why you're a 24 year old virgin who doesn't drink because his parents would be "disappointed". You could kill yourself and the entire world would instantly become 10-15% cooler.
:lol:

Dear God this thread makes me laugh.

[whoknows]

Batman and Robin for the Sega Genesis
OMG!!

You don't mean the one where you are constantly throwing batarangs, do you?

And this thread is damn old.

[BattleChicken]

OMG!!

You don't mean the one where you are constantly throwing batarangs, do you?

And this thread is damn old.

This thread is totally sweet, and doesn't deserve to ever die.. ever.

[PyroGamer]

The most frusterating game I've played in a LONG time has to be SSX: Blur for the Wii.

I despise that game and I want to kill its developers and their families.

[hohez]

Turok Evolution. Not just because it was an unplayable mess, but because they took a franchise i really enjoyed and stabbed me in the back. To this day it is my worst gaming purchase.

If we want to talk about mainstream, popular games.. I can't stand all those cookie cutter NIS Strat/RPGs that the supposedly "hardcore" flock to just because it's 2D and got anime characters.

Sounds like someone got killed by Mid-Boss in Episode 4. :lol:

I have no idea what kind of NIS fans you've been exposed to, but I adore them for the insane depth of customization and side quest volume.

[PyroGamer]

To this day it is my worst gaming purchase.
My worst gaming purchase was Mech Assault 2 at launch, and that was a pretty damn good game.

I regretted buying it because I couldn't really afford it (I only bought it at launch because I wanted the XBLA disk that came with it... which was stupid, I could have gotten it for free, and it was rather dissapointing anyways).


What can I say? I'm VERY selective about my videogame purchases. The only games I've bought for full price at launch besides Mech Assault were Halo 2 and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (actually, I paid more than full-price, as I got limited editions of both).

[lokizz]

oh yeah superman 64. the cartoon got me so hyped up for this game i preordered it and everything. release day i rushed to ebgames, took my copy home and went on one of the longest curse word tireades ever. no game has ever been that much of a letdown to me ever the only decent part of the game was flying aroudn everythign else was complete. first and only game ive ever taken back the same day i bought it.

[Mr. Beef]

oh yeah superman 64. the cartoon got me so hyped up for this game i preordered it and everything. release day i rushed to ebgames, took my copy home and went on one of the longest curse word tireades ever. no game has ever been that much of a letdown to me ever the only decent part of the game was flying aroudn everythign else was complete. first and only game ive ever taken back the same day i bought it.Please don't taint the cartoon's good name by associating it with the n64 game. Us fans like to forget such things.

[MadFlava]

While I love Grand Turismo games, I can't stand the license test they make you do in every game. I remember the countless hours trying to get "bronze" on those test just so I can drive in more races. Not to mention trying to get gold to obtain the special cars. The A license and Expert license test seemed to become even difficult to obtain in GT3 and GT4. Some of my most frustrating gaming moments where I when I think I'm about to get a low enough time to pass the test and I miss it by .01 seconds. Those were moments I wanted to throw my controller out a window.

[daroga]

While I love Grand Turismo games, I can't stand the license test they make you do in every game. I remember the countless hours trying to get "bronze" on those test just so I can drive in more races. Not to mention trying to get gold to obtain the special cars. The A license and Expert license test seemed to become even difficult to obtain in GT3 and GT4. Some of my most frustrating gaming moments where I when I think I'm about to get a low enough time to pass the test and I miss it by .01 seconds. Those were moments I wanted to throw my controller out a window.Amen. I went through them on the original game. I've tried every game in the series since then because I always forget (or hope they removed) the tests to really get into the game. Horrible, horrible design choice. I'd much rather get my butt handed to me in races and learn in-game than assume I will fail because I can't take a hairpin turn fast enough to finish a lap at the right amount of time.