What game do you depise?

[IceFlash78]

Hey.. sorry if its been done already, but again.. i didn't see any topic like this recently, so I decided to start one.

What games do you depise? what games made you cringe just to think about them? Did you hate them immediately or did they annoy you after a while?

Please... no flaming... opinions WILL differ so try to refrain from bashing each other... stating reasons for disliking the games would be helpful also...

Me: Myst and Riven... I tried to like them, i really did... I liked the concept, but i hated the games. It was just too confusing figuring out what I needed to do. Why I bought Riven knowing it'd be just the same as Myst, i have no idea...

[愛]

I absolutely hate Final Fantasy VIII. Terrible combat system, terrible magic system, terrible attribute system, and blurry ass graphics. The story was decent and the music was good, but that's it. A God awful game pumped out by Squaresoft. You guys f*cked up bad.

[Spitfire]

I dont like a few games
Manhunt - I bought it and I found it to be really hard and not very fun. It was very talked up and highly overated.
Halo - Played it for hours with friends and didnt find it to be very fun when stacked up to other FPS games. I also found this to be highly overated.
God Of War - This game was short and extreamely easy. The puzzles were stupid and you would have to really suck at video games to die even on the hardest setting. Another one that's highly overated.

GTA games in general tick me off. Their just a bunch of mainstream stuff what ever is popular at the time. The newest was okay the two player helped but the 2 player needs alot of work <_< The games so overated I dont see whats so fun about running up to someone sensely beating them taking their cash and running off. Okay that was kinda fun the first time but the 600 times afterwards it starts to loose my intrest. The mission can get pretty dumb too.

EDIT: Almost forgot Devil Mat Cry 2 - RUINED THE WHOLE STORY LINE! GAH! This game sucked so hard on every level...except the music which I enjoy

[XERO]

Superman 64. Stupid tornadoes... :evil:

[ThirdMarioBro]

Okaaaaay....here we go in no particular order...

1. GTA [Insert Subtitle Here] - It's not as much the game I hate as the influnce it has had on other people's vision of game design.

2. Manhunt - See Above...

3. Driv3r - See Above

4. God of War - See Above

5. The Legend of Zelda The Wand of Gamelon - Dog sh*t cranked out by Phillps due to a screwup in Nintendo's legal department and licensing issues between the two. They need to lynch the people who designed this crap.

6. Sonic Heroes - After playing SA1 & SA2 and loving them both to death, this sh*t scared me on Sonic. I feared it would always be like this, but after playing Shadow the Hedgehog at E3, I assure you, it's golden and restores the Sonic brand ti it's former greatness. Die Sonic Heroes.

7. Mario is Missing - Don't even ask me to explain why

8. Maddan 20XX - *ahem* moving on...

9. Anything with the words "Tomb" and "Raider" in any arrangment

10. Harry Potter, ANY Star Trek game, and whatever other cheap licensed stuff I've forgotten.

[Barkworm]

Nothing comes to my mind, I never buy a game until I'm sure I'll like it (or I get it cheap). Oh no, wait. PIKMIN! I'm sure the gameplay is great and stuff but I just couldn't play a game that was so disgustingly cute. I usually have no problem with "cute" games (Yoshi's Island is still my favourite game after all) but this was just horrible. *shudders*
EDIT: I'm not the kind of guy who would bash games I've never played but I'd never ever touch this particular game (http://ps2.ign.com/objects/733/733364.html), even if it got the best reviews ever. I can't describe how much I loathe that crack-dealing, sexist asshole.

[EZweasel]

7. Mario is Missing - Don't even ask me to explain why


i loved this game back in the day. i remember playing it with my cousin all night trying to beat it. we finally did. heck i loved the one for super nintendo also. It was a good game, but deffinatly not a favorite.

[Mecha Cow]

The Legend of Zelda The Wand of Gamelon
Hey hey. I've never played it (Wouldn't touch it with a 10ft pole), but the 'cutscenes' had me in tears. That's gotta count for something. Besides, who could take this game seriously anyway? ;)

Anyway, I really dislike the GTA series and similar games for the reason TMB mentioned. Glorifying violence is not cool. It really annoys me when games try desperately to be 'mature'. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (I don't care if the game is good or not, I'm talking about its 'attitude') and that 50 Cent 'game' Barkworm mentioned (Why the f*ck is that chump getting his own game anyway? I thought real ganstazzz didn't play videogam...Oh wait, I forgot the PS2 was the coolest console ever created. My bad.) come to mind.

I'm also not a big fan of all those cookie-cutter RPG's everyone is so crazy about. Square-Enix' games in particular. Guys, make a FINAL Fantasy already, people are starting to notice it's the same damn game every time.

[Barkworm]

I don't see how every FF game is the same. The Zelda series hasn't changed that much either (at least for the last four games).

[Mecha Cow]

Comparing Final Fantasy with Zelda is like comparing apples and oranges. They are two completely different types of games.

Zelda doesn't need to change drastically because it is gameplay-driven. It doesn't get old.

Final Fantasy is story-driven. Something that is story-based should constantly present new stories to keep things fresh. In my opinion every Final Fantasy game (and most other RPG's as well) are riddled with the same old cliches and don't offer anything new to keep the player interested. All it has is the story, and it gets old really fast.

Whatever, this is just how I see it. If you enjoy the games, good for you.

[Anarky]

Final Fantasy: I just don't see how these games can be great, also I don't like all the propaganda they make for the games. The movie was great (animationwise) though
Wizards and Warriors: Or something like that. I just know that it was that game, which my brother loved. I then tried it, deciding to be a mercenary with a big ass sword. OK, I go into a forest, a skeleton appears. The battle begins. I am allowed to hit that f*cker once, then it's his turn and I don't even get to see my big ass sword. That was just lame.

That's it for the first round, maybe some more come to mind later.

[Spitfire]

I'm not the kind of guy who would bash games I've never played but I'd never ever touch this particular game (http://ps2.ign.com/objects/733/733364.html), even if it got the best reviews ever. I can't describe how much I loathe that crack-dealing, sexist asshole.
I love how almost all of those screenshots are him beating on white people in buiness suits <_<

[愛]

I'm disappointed in all of you! :cry:

[Anarky]

I'm disappointed in all of you! :cry:

Why is that, Ai? People have different tastes, otherwise the world would be a rather dull place.

[DrSpengler]

I didn't like the first Ninja Gaiden game on the NES. Yeah, the sticking to walls-thing was cool, but you couldn't climb over the f*cking edge. So if you just barely missed a platform and clung to the wall you had to let go and drop. Real good.

The Ghostbusters games for the NES were also pretty pathetic. Ghostbusters II didn't even have a final boss, and if you actually managed to make it to the top of the Snador building int he first game, and beat Gozer, all you got was a message saying "You have proved the justice of our culture."

[Jed]

The PAL version of Resident Evil: Outbreak. Online wasn't included and the single player mode just doesn't hold up on its own. I got it on sale and I still wish I never bought it.

Driv3r was such a terrible game. Lamposts and stuff just pop out of nowhere and you go smashing into them, failing the mission eveytime, fantastic :roll: The controls were dodgy and the missions were all the same.

I'll post more if I think of any.

[KROW]

7. Mario is Missing - Don't even ask me to explain why
Christ. That game would cure insomnia.

[Peanut]

I don't really hate much. Only a couple.

Square RPG's. Final Fantasy has got to be the worst thing I've ever layed eyes on...ever. How those piss-poor "games" continue to sell, I'll never know.

Metal Gear Solid. It's an interactive movie, and the stuff you do get to play isn't even all that good.

THPS. If there's any game that ever influenced a group of idiot kids, it's this one. The large amount of "skater kids" that began to pop up after these games hit was ridiculous. Gotta love the posers.

[Kid Icarus]

EDIT: Almost forgot Devil Mat Cry 2 - RUINED THE WHOLE STORY LINE! GAH! This game sucked so hard on every level...except the music which I enjoy That... didn't... just... ... ... Wow. :o .


I played that Universal Theme Park Adventure game for Gamecube right after it came out. Most god awful game ever made. Controlls were buggy, graphics were crap, no story, no music. Hell, I could make a better game using BASIC with my eyes closed.

Also, Lost Kingdoms. I thought the game was gonna be great, and it was a fun little distraction, but over all it just sucked. The game's easy, up until the very last boss, then it's impossible.

[Anarchistguy]

I basically don't like RPGs, mostly HYBRID HEAVEN. Anyone else remember that crappy game?

[DrSpengler]

I played Super Mario RPG on my SNES not too long ago and just couldn't get into it. I just don't dig that turn-based RPG crap, and in a Mario game it just bored me to tears.

[Spitfire]

That... didn't... just... ... ... Wow. :o .


I played that Universal Theme Park Adventure game for Gamecube right after it came out. Most god awful game ever made. Controlls were buggy, graphics were crap, no story, no music. Hell, I could make a better game using BASIC with my eyes closed.

Also, Lost Kingdoms. I thought the game was gonna be great, and it was a fun little distraction, but over all it just sucked. The game's easy, up until the very last boss, then it's impossible.
Hey hey evern fanboys have their limits :lol:

On another note I hated Lost Kingdoms too! I wanted to get PSO but it wasnt out yet so someone suggested getting it to hold me over and I did....biiig mistake. I paid 40 bucks for this cheesy ass realtime Yu-Gi-O game pretty much. I only made it to the third level before I had to turn it off for good. Gah even the 2 player sucked

[raphael_is_cool]

Flatout - rubbish driving mechanics

Conflict: Vietnam - terrible control and aiming system.

[ThirdMarioBro]

I don't remember it's name, but that one Yu-Gi-Oh title for Gamecube. DOGSH*T. It was so poorly designed I don't know why it exists. Konami had to make it to get a GBA license. Ugh...

oh yeah...


F-Zero GP Legend - The anime was cancelled in the US and there's a reason why. THE ANIME KILLED THE FRANCHISE...at least for me it did. I can't even look at it anymore. Until Nintendo/Sega develop another real F-Zero title, I'm officilly retiring from the series. It was such an amazing racer. Untouchable by all standards. For the hardest of the hardcore, but that anime fu*ked up the difficulty level (now a baby racer even on Master) story, characters, presentation, and attitude so badly, I just want to bury it and be done. F-Zero used to be cut-throught, badass, demonic, and sort of like what you'd get if you put Nascar, the WWF, and Kiss together. Now it "Rick Wheeler and his kid friendly super racers work together to save the galaxy from the evil forces of black shadow and sell GBA titles while Rick tries to fill the shoes of Captain Flacon who the writers fu*king KILLED OFF AND REPLACED WITH RICK WHEELER).

I quit. F-Zero is dead thanks to that anime, and that game along with it. Nintendo, you screwed up royally with that one.

Time to move to Mario Kart or Wipeout or something. Ah hell, why not both.

[愛]

I remember Wipeout! That game was crap! I had it on a demo disc back when Playstation came out. It gave me a small amount of entertainment before I could actually buy a real game. :ohwell:

[Anarky]

wipEout was a good game, but nothing surpasses my favourite racer: eXtreme G. That game has Speed written all over it.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Extremem G died with Acclaim. True, Wipeout sucks. F-Zero was the only good futureistic racer left in existence and they ruined it.

*sigh*

I'm gonna mope around and play Mario Kart.

[Anarky]

Acclaim's dead? How did that happen? And I just liked the first Extreme G, the others more or less sucked. I still play it today. Okay, I'm unbeatable, using Neon and being way better than the AI, but what the hell...

[ThirdMarioBro]

OOOoooh, I thought you meant the new ones. Yeah, the original pwned.

Acclaim went bankrupt a few months back. They're dead and their assets were sold off. Sadly, Extreme G wasn't sold and has fallen into the public domain meaning, it's basically gone.

Rather sad IMO.

[Barkworm]

This is how it happened:
http://img.penny-arcade.com/2004/20040903l.jpg

[ThirdMarioBro]

This is how it happened:
http://img.penny-arcade.com/2004/20040903l.jpg

Oh god, I remember that :lol: :lol:

[Spitfire]

Werent the only games Acclaim made the Turok series and a bunch of crappy sports games?

[ThirdMarioBro]

Yeah, basiaclly. THey also screwed up some Sega ports to other consoles.

[Leo656]

WCW Backstage Assault for Playstation was so bad, I hear they now offer it to teenage girls in therapy as a substitute for cutting their wrists (because Backstage Assault is way more painful than slowly bleeding to death, of that I'm certain).

[Wingnut]

I mostly play fighters but a few crappy games I found were...

World Heroes-Probably the worst fighting game series of all time.

War Gods- Jeez...

King of Fighters: Maximum Impact- SNK/Playmore...YOU CAN'T DO A KING OF FIGHTERS GAME IN 3D!!!!

The "EX" Street Fighter Games-Not quite as bad as SNK's try at a 3D fighter, the gameplay is what killed this one for me.

Some other random crap.

Manhunt
THPS (Mainly the T.H.U.G. ones)
BMX XXX
Any of the new porno games (The Guy Game, the new Leisure Suit Larry game ect.)

[ThirdMarioBro]

King of Fighters: Maximum Impact- SNK/Playmore...YOU CAN'T DO KING OF FIGHTERS GAME IN 3D!!!!

Amen to that.

[Dr. Doom]

I actually enjoyed it....not as much as the 2D kind, obviously.....it was weird...not a WHOLE lot of replay value....but it ahd a certain charm about it.

[Wingnut]

The game wasn't that terrible, it was just the thought that SNK had bastardized the series by making it 3D. Im not bashing 3D fighters im just saying that when I play a King of Fighters game I don't want to play a "King of Fighters game that's trying too hard to be like Tekken." I just want my 2D KoF.

Besides, I thought SNK had learned their lesson about switching a popular 2D fighter to 3D after the whole Samurai Shodown 64 debacle. Christ, crappy game, crappy hardware....SQUARE CHARACTERS! It doesn't get much worse than that.

[classictmnt3]

the games i dispise are conkers bad fur day gosh! i ahte that stupid stupid immature game it sucks the main character is a dumb squirl (fun to shoot) :D
and i do not like halo 2 anymore because its old o and other i hate would be
backyard wrestling a terrible excuse for a game

[XERO]

the games i dispise are conkers bad fur day gosh! i ahte that stupid stupid immature game it sucks the main character is a dumb squirl (fun to shoot) :D

:blanksta:

[Mecha Cow]

Where are Mr. Period and friends (http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20041103l.jpg) when you need them?

[JameO]

Owned! That game ruled beyond belief. Go Tediz! Anyways, like Peanut I hate the skateboarding game. I love to play them, they are good games and very fun, but they brought along a wave of posers no one can control!

[verminator_x]

dont hate it, but i aint like it either, ok the terminator movies became big buinsess and not to any surprise a lot of games has comed out since 1984.

but after the last game well the best terminator game as far i still hope they can try to make some better ones if their coming more from atari.

castlevania, i bought castlevania 2004 version and i loved the music but thats it, doesent stand up to the older castlevania games.

[U2WaTCHer]

I want double dragon to come back !

[XERO]

Another game I hate is Tomb Raider.

[愛]

I thought the original Tomb Raider was pretty fun. Then I bought the second game and realized it was the same game as the last one. Disappointing.

[Barkworm]

I loved both the first and the second one. Everything after that was crap. I'm really excited about the new one though.

[Ra]

DOG'S LIFE MUST DIE! :evil:

Well, you know :P My parents got it for my little bro as a 'first game'. Or second game. I don't know...anyway, the game is just crap. Shame to...good graphics, background and characters. They also had good sound. They're all belivable, but the storyline, tasks, everything else other than sound and graphics were about as good as a peice of dirt on a stick in the water.

Yes, I really hate the game that much...

[Peanut]

the games i dispise are conkers bad fur day gosh! i ahte that stupid stupid immature game it sucks the main character is a dumb squirl (fun to shoot) :D
and i do not like halo 2 anymore because its old o and other i hate would be
backyard wrestling a terrible excuse for a game

Nobody likes fanboys here, so cram it before you get more of what Mecha Cow gave you.

Thumbs up on that one by the way, Mecha.

[Spitfire]

I just played Fallout....my friend told me it was the best real time RPG out there. I think he's had one bong hit to many because the game sucked. He said it was like Knights Of The Old Republic. It looked like War Craft and I cant even describe how bad it was actually playing it. You run up to something, a cave rat for the first few minutes, and attack it. You only get two attacks so if your character misses*Which they tend to do alot* your stuck waiting a minute for your action bar to charge back up while the enemy rapes you. After that you get to a giant map and get attacked 900 times before you reach a city. So after 5 hours of utterly stupid combat you get to do lame missions for people....This game is nothing like KOTOR I hated it so much >_<

[ThirdMarioBro]

DOG'S LIFE MUST DIE! :evil:

Well, you know :P My parents got it for my little bro as a 'first game'. Or second game. I don't know...anyway, the game is just crap. Shame to...good graphics, background and characters. They also had good sound. They're all belivable, but the storyline, tasks, everything else other than sound and graphics were about as good as a peice of dirt on a stick in the water.

Yes, I really hate the game that much...

Should've waited for NIntendogs ;)

[raphael_is_cool]

DOG'S LIFE MUST DIE! :evil:

I thought it was quite good for a kid's game. Nice idea as well.

[Ra]

Yeah. Maybe it's because my lil' bro plays it all the time. Maybe it's because I've now done everything. Maybe it's because the camra makes me feel really dizzy after awhile. I just hate it :ohwell: I don't understand it myself, but I just hate it :evil: weird, considering I used to LIKE the game...

Should've waited for NIntendogs ;)
*tilts head* what's that about?

[ThirdMarioBro]

Nintendogs - Puppy simulator coming this summer to DS. Big hit in Japan. System sell in fact. Think Tamagochi except deeper, more creative, and actually fun. Cool little game.

[Ra]

Hmm...I'll keep an eye out for it :) shame really because neither my brother or myself will be getting a DS until we leave home. Heck, the only Nintendo thing we have is a five year old Poke'mon styled GameBoy Color - yellow on the front and blue on the back. We can't even get an SP until we sell it :( but it works just as good as when we first bought it home :)

[The Stryker]

Wow I collect those Special editon Gameboys, Ever seen the Tommy Hilfiger GB?

[classictmnt3]

Nobody likes fanboys here, so cram it before you get more of what Mecha Cow gave you.

Thumbs up on that one by the way, Mecha.
ha ur callin me a fan boy omg again its my opinion and you cant do anythinkg about it ok so ha !!!! :lol:

[Barkworm]

God, you're annoying. Try to post something useful or don't post at all. And no, posts like "i dont lik teh game cuz its imatur teh hero is a squirl LOL!!!!1" are NOT useful.

[classictmnt3]

God, you're annoying. Try to post something useful or don't post at all. And no, posts like "i dont lik teh game cuz its imatur teh hero is a squirl LOL!!!!1" are NOT useful.
well the topic is what game you dispise and that is a game i dispise

[Spitfire]

well the topic is what game you dispise and that is a game i dispise
That's fine but the reasons you listed made no sense at all
i ahte that stupid stupid immature game
Or possibly it's just to mature for you to understand it's humor? Maybe list why you find it to be immature?

the main character is a dumb squirl
That is no reason to despise a game.

You listed no sensible reasons for despising the game. Such as boring gameplay, no good extras, to hard, no fun, horrible graphics, bad voice acting...
I'm no fan of the game myself I'm just pointing out why everyone is jumping on you. It would also help is you spelled things correctly and had some form of sentence structure/Grammar.

[JameO]

well the topic is what game you dispise and that is a game i dispise

Where do you live? If I pay taxes to help people like you, im leaving Canada!

Anyways, I hate racing games now, like Juiced, all these supposed "street racers" talking smack and acting cool is just unacceptable.

[Demented Utrom]

The games I depise are Smackdown 3 and Mega Man X7.
Smackdown 3, got rid of Season Mode.
Mega Man X 7 had rotten controls and 3D stages that ruined the game.

That is all the games, I hate.

[Raphael29]

I only hate 2 games, Halo and Halo 2, I think the controls are horrible, I just can't get the two joystick thing down and I find them repetitive and boring.

[Jo Dawn]

I only hate 2 games, Halo and Halo 2, I think the controls are horrible, I just can't get the two joystick thing down and I find them repetitive and boring.

*sobs into her hands*

[愛]

Halo's single player was terrible, but I think they cleaned that up a bit with the second game. It's just better to play Halo 2 online. Sure, you come across morons, but that's half the fun.

[Dane E5R]

Super Mario Sunshine and Super Smash Bros. I tried to force myself to enjoy these games since everyone else seems to love'em... But it just wasn't happenin'.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Mickey's Magic Quest. SNES, GBA, whichever. I hate it. Hate it hate it hate it. Don't know why.....I just do. *shrugs*

Oh yeah, and that stupid Lion King game for SNES too. Rented it when I was little. The stupid Ostrich level is impossible. Damn that game.