I was amused by this article at MSNBC about the worst video games for console systems. Though it wasn’t even rated as most-bad, “Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure” was still impressively bad:
[...] Jaws, Jurassic Park, Backdraft, and Back to the Future have lines in front of them, and the only way to get in is to buy hats specific to each attraction.
And how, you may ask, do you buy the hats? Why, by picking up garbage.
I am not making this up. Walking around this virtual version of the Universal Studios Theme Park, you will find wadded up garbage littering every street. Picking this garbage up and hauling it to trash cans earns you points that you can redeem to purchase hats. […]
Here’s my list of some of the WORST videogames ever made:
1) Daikatana
Slow loading times, green-colored levels, spending the whole time shooting nothing but robotic frogs and mosquitoes. And I’m quite surprised that John Romero, the creator of Doom and Quake, was the ome who created this pile of shit.
2) Star Wars Force Commander
The worst Star Wars RTS ever made.
3) O.D.T.
What the FUCK was Psygnosis thinking when they released this pile of slop. The game’s theme was “Escape Or Die Trying”, but it should have been renamed to “Die Often From Falling Off Ledges Because Camera Has Mind Of Iis Own And Controls Are Lame”.
4) Any game with “Extreme” as part of its name.
I am starting to get sick of companies trying to cash in on fads by releasing mediocre shit disguised as sports games.
5) Basically EVERY SPORTS GAME in general.
If you played one game, you played them all.
6) Tomb Raider.
Same old game, same old engine, same old blocky Lara Croft character, same old gameplay. And people STILL keep buying every “sequel” that Eidos makes. Perhaps it’s because you get to stare at Lara’s polygon boobs and ass all day long while mindlessly roaming around shooting a few animals scattered across the levels.
7) Any Final Fantasy game made after 1994.
And yes that includes Final Fantasy 7,Tactics,8,9,10,X2, etc. All these games are examples of how you can make tons of cash by overhyping a game, including TONS of FMV, writing a compelling storyline for the game, spending so much time on the graphics that you forget about gameplay and replay value, and spanning the game across five CDs, most of the space used for hours of FMVs.
8) Parappa the Rapper
A game about a rapping dog is no game at all.
9) Spice Girls
Horrible character design, horrible gameplay, horrible EVERYTHING! I’d rather watch Spice World than play this game.
10) Any Oddworld game made after Oddworld 2.
I loved the first two Oddworld games. They were hilarious, interactive, even the death scenes were funny. What the Hell was GT Interactive thinking when they decided to go 3D, because the new Oddworld games just didn’t capture the feel of the oldskool games.
11) Every 3D Sonic the Hedgehog game
Where’s the speed? The tough bosses? The multiple routes? sonic Adventure is the worst offender because of the shitty dialogue that made the Sonic cartoons worth watching again.
then what games do you like?
I quite like first-person shooters, such as the Quake series. And, I also have a soft-spot for old skool arcade games such as Arkanoid and Q*Bert.
Megaman games are all the same, if you’ve played one, you’ve played all, but I can’t deny It’s challenging to play MM in any version and I really love to do it (getting frustrated with moving plattaforms and fighting bosses with different attributes can get pretty interesting). It also reminds me of the good old times of plattaform gaming. I’ve just finished Megaman Network Transmission for Gamecube, it took me a weekend and the graphics are disapointing (I was hoping to play MM with GC 3D amazing graphics, but instead I felt like I was watching a SNES game! I know it’s based on the GBAdvance MM Battle Network games, but this game is far from impressive). As a MM fan, I can say that MM Network Transmission was the worst way for MM to make his debut on a powerful console.
Other worst games:
Evil Dead: Hail to the King.(PS/DC)
A very strange game called Taboo for NES
Every South Park game
And… The underground and very rare version of Street Fighter II for NES!
It wasn’t made by Capcom and it was INCREDIBLY HORRIBLE! You must see this one if you haven’t, because it actually existed!. I’m sure there’s a rom for a NES emulator of this game somewhere in the net.
And the worst ending for a decent game:
The Lion King (SNES)
The game started with a beautiful landscape and the voice of Mufasa saying the phrase “Everything the light touches is our kingdom”
And guess what beautiful landscape and what phrase were waiting for you at the ending of the game.
C’ya
Tomb Raider
Angel of Darkness
Controls are the wordt i’ve ever seen.
after 10 minutes of play, i just dumped the game in the wastebin.
NEVER EVER BUY LARA GAMES AGAIN!
i was almost wanting to agree in accordance with everything that “the player” was mentioning in regards to the worst video games ever made, until he hit upon the final fantasy games. i think he needs to reconsider his statements regarding these masterpieces from square-enix. maybe he played the games and didnt enjoy them-and thats fine, final fantasy games arent for everyone-just the dedicated fans that they appeal to. but even if you like rpg’s the least bit, then you already know that final fantasy 3 and 7 were very key games, especially FF7,.that helped to redefine the rpg genre and helped make rpg style games go mainstream.
thank you for the job, I really love this series!