WORST VIDEO GAMES YOU'VE PLAYED THIS YEAR

Hmm... Bad games?

Well, there were a few that I had unpleasant experiences with- Dark Cloud was bearable up to Queens only because I've nulled myself to mindless, repetitive gameplay via E.V.O. (which is actually an amazing game) Dark Cloud had a nice premise to it, and I was interested for as long as I was. Then I gave up because they took a really nice idea (putting the village together) and bogged it down with hours of droning, excruciating dungeon gameplay and horrific combat systems. Yuck.

Growlanser Generations was fun, and the music, gameplay and battle system had it's charm. But there was only nine hours of gameplay- not really long enough to try and incorporate the personality-building factor that they did. The main character was cute and all, but pretty hair and funny arm-sleeves can only get you so far. I don't want to be saving the world at level 23.

I heard that a lot of people disliked Saga Frontier, but my best friend absolutely loves that game to death, and she has impeccable taste in games. Just had to stick up for it.

While I liked .Hack 3, using PREGNANCY and DIGITAL CATS to robb me of both my mages and making me scavenge the earth for endless hours trying to find that stupid "I" gate key was NOT COOL. So I stopped playing.

I played the first Halo earlier this year. I love first person shooters, but this one just made me sick. Physically. But it was just from the spinning camera. (How Halo makes me sick and not things like Metroid and Doom, I don't know.)

I think those are all my bad game experiences thus far.

author=Komodo Gallant link=topic=842.msg11688#msg11688 date=1207706445
I heard that a lot of people disliked Saga Frontier, but my best friend absolutely loves that game to death, and she has impeccable taste in games. Just had to stick up for it.

SaGa games are great but it's important to note that they are not video games but are rather modern video art sort of like a three-station brass urinal in the shape of a crucifix would technically still works as a urinal but is not really very well suited for that purpose even though you'd assume that would be its primary use (as it is after all three urinals arranged in the shape of a cruxifix). This is especially true of Romancing SaGa on PS2 which is one of the most broken, surreal RPGs I've ever played.

author=Craze link=topic=842.msg12140#msg12140 date=1208340879
That said, there was one boss that I died against in DQ8 because I thought that I was supposed to loose (it was also back-to-back with another boss battle that sapped nearly all my mana).

Is that the boss in the middle of the game that is sort of a climax to the first half and is actually probably the hardest battle you'll ever fight?

But yeah it's so sweet than in DQ8 you don't have to fight both forms of a multi-part boss several times in a row. It seems sometimes like it is designed for you to lose the first time, but since you're already halfway through the battle, you have less to deal with the second time.

Mario and Sonic at the Olympics (DS)
Argh, what a waste. No wifi multiplayer lol, I was tricked! I don't know what I was expecting but once I played it for a while, I knew Nintendo never made this game, Sega did.

An insatiable urge to play something really bad?

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author=WIP link=topic=842.msg12322#msg12322 date=1208471181
An insatiable urge to play something really bad?

Well at least it didn't star a clitched main character who was some spikey-haired cartoon character who always fought the bad guys gosh.

Yes, it did.

Spiky Hair - He had it.

Cliched - Emofuck/WHO AM I, WHAT IS MY PAST

Cartoon - He was in it.

The Bad Guys - He fought them.

author=brandonabley link=topic=842.msg12357#msg12357 date=1208479764

author=WIP link=topic=842.msg12322#msg12322 date=1208471181
An insatiable urge to play something really bad?

Well at least it didn't star a clitched main character who was some spikey-haired cartoon character who always fought the bad guys gosh.

You know, one could make the case that NOT fighting the bad guys is cliche now. Example:

Game starts, youre presented with some bad guys. You kill them, yay.

But turns out, those bad guys were actually charity workers. You were actually doing some evil mastermind's bidding.

You find the evil mastermind, but it turns out he's being controlled by what appears to be a perfectly legitimate government of some country.

You go kill that country and it turns out that was the nation defending against a giant horde of evil demons and undead ready to cover the earth with death and sorrow.

You kill the horde of evil demons, only to find out they were just lonely and wanting to play.

Well, basically, every game made after a movie has always sucked anyway. Except maybe Spider-Man.