Games that are unplayable

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What games have you played that are just unplayable to the point where you never care if you see the ending?

My list:
Megaman Network Transmission - Random chips given before a stage... no true 'robot master' weapon obtaining... limited shots with the chips... haphazard stages... BORING... the MMAC easily smokes it...

Star Wars Bounty Hunter: Never got past stage 2 where I had to find the stolen hovercraft... it ended up with me running around the city for 15 minutes, even with a guide... and no dice...
 
One for PS1.. terrible controls, camera and obscene difficulty. I tried that game 4 or 5 times and gave up when I never did get past level 2. 40 enemies coming at you at once when you cant see a single one of them = problems.
 
ONe deffnitely way playable granted the camera could get weird in a few select situations but deffinitely not unplayable as a whole
 
McFarlane's Evil Prophecy sucks. I played for about 10 minutes (5 of which was incredibly boring story with text and no voice-overs). Maybe I didn't give the game enough time, but I doubt it. I think it might be the worst game I've ever played.

I agree that SW Bounty Hunter sucks too.

I bought Alter Echo for $5 but couldn't get into it.

Shinobi, Altered Beast, and Gauntlet Dark Legacy all on GBA sucked IMHO.
 
[quote name='hutno']ONe deffnitely way playable granted the camera could get weird in a few select situations but deffinitely not unplayable as a whole[/quote]

From IGN's review.

Running down a corridor is fine, but controlling John Cain in any other environment is a challenge. His movement is almost too loose, resulting in missed jumps that should be incredibly easy. After dying numerous times on something that shouldn't be a problem, the game begins to get frustrating.

Which leads me to One's main problem: it's too damn hard. Any good game has a steady learning curve: it's easy at the beginning, so you get to know the control and how the game works, and then steadily gets more difficult. One starts tough and gets worse. But the really mean thing about One is the way you die. One makes you learn to do new things so you will have to die 20 times to figure it out. And the save points are spaced incredibly far apart so you have to keep starting over. Note to future developers: this is not fun.

Trust me, the game is near unplayable.


And... this is not terrible games, its unplayable games.. big difference.
 
Played RE: Dead Aim for about 15 or 20 minutes yesterday, and I really don't have any motivation to pick it up again. It seems as though it is a shooter without the frantic action (what makes shooters FUN), and an RE game without the false sense of fear instilled by the lack of seeing anything in the camera angle the designer chose. No offscreen zombies? Actually knowing where and what you're shooting at? What kind of RE experience is that?

Did I mention that it took about 10 minutes before I saw my first zombie? And there wasn't even a cool cutscene to introduce the zombie! Where's the brain munching?
 
Cygirls. The controls are terrible, the camera is extremely claustrophobic and hard to control, and the game is just incomprehensible.
 
I would have to say Bouncer, mainly because there really wasn't any time where you played :wink:
I love a good Movie scene, but I would also like to play.
 
Megaman and Bass (GBA). Very disappointing. Controls were sluggish at best.

Animal Crossing. I just didn't get it. I was instantly bored with it. What the hell is that idiot on the train in the beginning talking about?

Eternal Ring. Worst. Game. Ever.
 
Wow, a lot more than I thought. :oops:

GBC:
Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble

GBA:
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul

PC:
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

PS1:
Digimon World 3
Spyro: Year of the Dragon

PS2:
Silent Hill 2
 
I would have to list the 2nd half of Genma Onishima for the Xbox (which is different from the PS2 version).
 
[quote name='digioverload']Wow, a lot more than I thought. :oops:

GBC:
Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble

GBA:
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul

PC:
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

PS1:
Digimon World 3
Spyro: Year of the Dragon

PS2:
Silent Hill 2[/quote]

just curious, what is wrong with silent hill 2? i like the first one a lot, what is so bad about the second?
 
Golgo 13 for the NES. Lots of people liked that game but I hated it.

Also Spelunker for the NES. The controls and collision detection were horrible and totally unforgiving. I never made it past the second level (of course I haven't played it since I was like 10).
 
[quote name='dracula'][quote name='digioverload']Wow, a lot more than I thought. :oops:

GBC:
Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble

GBA:
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul

PC:
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

PS1:
Digimon World 3
Spyro: Year of the Dragon

PS2:
Silent Hill 2[/quote]

just curious, what is wrong with silent hill 2? i like the first one a lot, what is so bad about the second?[/quote]

No kidding, I'd say Yu-GI-Oh, Spyro: YoD, and Silent Hill 2 were all decent games, let alone very playable.
 
[quote name='WildWop']Played RE: Dead Aim for about 15 or 20 minutes yesterday, and I really don't have any motivation to pick it up again. It seems as though it is a shooter without the frantic action (what makes shooters FUN), and an RE game without the false sense of fear instilled by the lack of seeing anything in the camera angle the designer chose. No offscreen zombies? Actually knowing where and what you're shooting at? What kind of RE experience is that?

Did I mention that it took about 10 minutes before I saw my first zombie? And there wasn't even a cool cutscene to introduce the zombie! Where's the brain munching?[/quote]

You've got to get a little into it before it picks up speed. I thought it ended up being a nice blend of RE horror and shooter franticness. You've got crazy zombies running at you like a normal shooter, but you've also got extremely limited amounts of bullets. Of course, I had the added benefit of playing with a friend - one of us used the Guncon to shoot, the other the controller to move.

The game is freakin' hard tho. The first few times, we barely found a typewriter before we were slaughtered.
 
[quote name='digioverload']PS2:
Silent Hill 2[/quote]

That is complete bullshit and you know it.

As for unplayable games...
Batman Beyond (PSone)
And of course Drake
 
Rainbow Six for the GameBoyColor
They tried so hard to copy the real version, but all you have to do is run in and shoot people.
Even worse, some levels require night vision goggles, and you cant walk while using them.

YuGiOh: The sacred cards. Sometimes, the computer would screw up the calculations and make such dumb choices as a 2000attack monster getting killed by a 300attack monster.

MY CYBER ALLIGATOR WAS ONCE DESTROYED BY A KURIBOH!!!
even worse the computer seems to know when these errors will happen
 
Cygirls. That game is terrible. The controls are crappy and the camera is very claustrophobic and impossible to control. All in all a game that is unplayable.
 
[quote name='digioverload']Wow, a lot more than I thought. :oops:

GBC:
Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble

GBA:
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul

PC:
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

PS1:
Digimon World 3
Spyro: Year of the Dragon

PS2:
Silent Hill 2[/quote]

tilt and tumble was an extremely fun game.. i didnt find it unplayable at all..
 
Batman Dark Tomorrow is the worst game i've ever played, half the villians are taken out in the cgi and the other half are completely lame.

Also anything Simpsons related.

I severely disagree with SW: Bounty Hunter. I never could get through the last few levels but the game was a lot of fun and it had a jet-pack which alone qualifies it for greatness.
 
mtv skateboarding for ps1 terriable load times + terriable graphics and controls makes it impossiable to play
 
[quote name='Backlash']Golgo 13 for the NES. Lots of people liked that game but I hated it.[/quote]

I liked it back in it's day and played it start to finish many times. I tried playing it just recently but didn't last five minutes :)
 
Speaking of unplayable skateboarding games:

Simpson's Skateboarding for PS2. I got it as a free rental from Hollywood Video a couple years ago, I still want my 2 hours of my life back!
 
I can't believe no one has said this yet, but Stake: Fortune Fighters, but then again I am probably one of the only people that ever bought it. It runs the gamut on every aspect of a game that can make it crap, from the graphics to sound to characcter animation, even the characters themselves are generic knock offs of Street Fighter characters like the green one that looks like Blanka. It houses bad graphics, bad animation, horrible frame right, bad textures, horrible gameplay, clunky controls, need I continue. Truly, an unplayable game.
 
dark cloud 2 ps2- too fucking hard and annoying beyond belief
harry potter and the sorcerors stone ps1- got bored and never beat it, same for digimon world 1
robin hood defender of the crown- not explanation needed
 
[quote name='AlbinoNinja']Rainbow Six for the GameBoyColor
They tried so hard to copy the real version, but all you have to do is run in and shoot people.
Even worse, some levels require night vision goggles, and you cant walk while using them.

YuGiOh: The sacred cards. Sometimes, the computer would screw up the calculations and make such dumb choices as a 2000attack monster getting killed by a 300attack monster.

MY CYBER ALLIGATOR WAS ONCE DESTROYED BY A KURIBOH!!!
even worse the computer seems to know when these errors will happen[/quote]

thats not bad calculations the game was also based on the monsters element, so kuriboh was probably the element that kills alligator sword automatically, but besides that yea the game is fucking terrible, I beat it out of boredem.
 
ET for Atari is the worst ever. I still have no idea what the hell you are supposed to do in that game
 
Digimon world 1 is another example of an unplayable game. the graphics are so-so, when you move it is very clunky, the puzzles are stupid, you don't seem to be going anywhere in the game, battles are boring. I agree with what you said nirvanaguy777 it is a bad/unplayable game. I had nearly forgotten about it. I think I'm repressing my memories of it.
 
Dark Cloud 2 and Silent Hill 2 are both great games, whoever mentioned those are crazy. Also I just went through Eternal Ring last week and thought it was a lot better than what people said about it, then again I did own Kings Field 1 and 2 (got 1 for 2.99 and the other for 4.99).
 
Custer's Revenge. Now, I like watching Indians getting raped as much as the next man (which hopefully is not so much liking but more of sickened disgust), but that game is just impossible to play.
 
[quote name='Nirvanaguy777']dark cloud 2 ps2- too shaq-fuing hard and annoying beyond belief
[/quote]

I agree. I heard all of these great things about Dark Cloud 2, but I was just disappointed by it. The controls are crappy, I hate the inventing system, and it is just ungodly hard.
 
Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness, totally sucked. I even waited and got it for $9.99 I didnt even get past the training level before I took it EBgames and got $3 in trade for it. Boy did EBgames get screwed.
 
Sacred for the PC. Unless you go to thier website and get a patch, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get past one of the stages without cheating. They actually LEAVE OUT a key item that triggers the scenario that lets you leave the stage. Without cheating, you're doomed to stay in that level FOREVER!
 
Golgo 13 for the NES - totally agree with whoever posted earlier. I liked it until the "dungeon" section, which sucked so bad I gave up.

Battletoads for NES - Yes, an AWESOME game, but so so SO SO SO SO hard I'm still bitter about it. I have gone back and beaten every game I ever wanted to beat except this one. I never want to see it again.

Madden (Any of them) - Sorry, but the "realism" sucked all the fun out of it for me to the point I didn't want to play anymore. I can honestly say Madden is singlehandedly responsible for the death of my enjoyment of football video games. I know you guys love it, flame away, I openly admit to lacking Ditka-like knowledge of the intricacies of the sport and the complexity sucked all the fun out to the point where I haven't picked one up since probably Madden '99.
 
Worms 3D- worst game ever. I loved the 2D versions but in 3D it is impossible to aim and it is a poor excuse for a game. Worth about....nothing
 
Some people seem to be bewildered by my choices, so I'll explain a few of them.

Silent Hill 2 (PS2)
I heard it was good and I wanted to give the survival horror genre a try, but after playing for a few hours I found the entire concept of survival horror to be extremely stupid. Solving simple puzzles that are stretched out with backtracking while avoiding enemies is not fun to me. Making combat purposely slow and difficult just seems stupid. I don't understand how the entire genre is supposed to be fun. That doesn't mean the game is bad, but for me at least, this game is completely unplayable.

Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul (GBA)
I get irritated that no matter how well I do, there's always a chance that bad luck will suddenly cause me to lose. Combine that with that fact that the gameplay almost never changes in the least, and there's not incentive to continue. "Hooray, you won a battle! Now you get to do the same exact thing you were doing when you first began this game!"

Spyro: Year of the Dragon (PS1)
I loved playing this game, I just have no desire to finish it. I included it because this thread is about games "you never care if you see the ending". To get to the final boss, you have to collect a lot of something (I forgot what) that you never had a reason to collect before in the game. So suddenly at the end I found that I was going to have to go back and replay through levels searching and searching to find what I needed. That didn't really seem like much fun to me, and since the endings of Spyro games never seemed that great, I didn't really care if I finished it or not. No matter how many times I play that game, I doubt I'll ever finish it. The game was fun, but the extra work required for the ending doesn't seem worth it.

Kirby's Tilt 'n' Tumble (GBC)
Whenever I play this game, all I end up doing is fighting against the terrible controls. If it wasn't for the badly-implemented tilting you had to do, the game would have been very easy and I could have beaten it with no problem. I've never found fighting against bad controls to be fun, and I'm having the same problem with the terrible combat in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time right now, which I currently hate.

There have been lots of games I hate that I still finished due to cheating to get through with them quickly, such as Digimon World, Dark Cloud, and Dr. Muto. But my Gameshark won't work for Spyro:YotD or Silent Hill 2 for some reason, and I don't have a cheat device for my Gameboy.
 
Want "unplayable"? Remember that Battlecruiser 3000 AD abortion from Derek Smart DEREK SMART DEREK SMART a couple of years ago? Out of the box, you couldn't even run it.
 
[quote name='Rodego']ET for Atari is the worst ever. I still have no idea what the hell you are supposed to do in that game[/quote]

Find the landfill and jump in. Victory!
 
[quote name='coolcps']Dark Cloud 2 and Silent Hill 2 are both great games, whoever mentioned those are crazy. Also I just went through Eternal Ring last week and thought it was a lot better than what people said about it, then again I did own Kings Field 1 and 2 (got 1 for 2.99 and the other for 4.99).[/quote]

I agree. I've enjoyed all of From's FPRPG games except Shadow Tower. I could never get past the first floor. Going to GameFAQs was no help. There is supposed to be a PS2 sequel that may already be out in Japan but no word of a US release.

BTW, did you ever encounter the Queen Wasp with the 10-foot extensible stinger? You have to really dig into Eternal Ring to find it.

I can recall other games that had instruction manuals that appeared to make sense but much of what the manual covered didn't seem to actually be in the game. Valkyrie Profile, Heroes of Might & Magic, etc.
 
Jet Grind Radio for GBA was unplayable, at least for me due to the extremely crappy controls. It was too bad too because the game looked fairly good and reminded me of the old dreamcast version.
 
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