Last horrible game you played

[Demaar]

Yes, I'm incredibly original, seeing that great game thread and reversing its meaning!

Actually, that wasn't my only inspiration. I also had a go of Need for Speed Most Wanted on DS, and man... I can't remember playing a crappier game (I must have, but I fail to remember it).
The controls are just bad, it plays worse than racing games of the 8/16 bit era. The graphics are even pretty bad for a DS game. Maybe if they threw in some touch controls it may have been fun in a "well, this is rather novel!" sort of way. But no, standard crappy controls in a standard crappy game.

Oh, I got it for free with my DS by the way, so you don't need to go lynching me for being what's wrong with games these days.

[Kaatridge]

Mario Teaches Typing. Don't even bother asking.

[Dan]

King's Quest V.

I'm convinced it is the worst game ever made.

[Kaatridge]

Donkey Kong Land for Game Boy. A spinoff of Donkey Kong Country. The game honestly isn't that bad, too bad all I can see is black blurs.

[Usernamehere]

EDIT: FF3 isn't such a bad game, actually. The fighting is solid and there's always a lot to do. You need to grind, though.


I was enjoying it until my DS touchscreen decided to believe that I was always holding down the stylus in the bottom right corner of the screen. Fun.

[Farvana]

Wow. Yeah. Comparing games with a 20 year age difference works well.

[matte_k]

Viva Pinata for the PC. I imagine the 360 version is quite similar, and i'd heard rave reviews about it, not to mention it looking fantastic, but...

Well, I got round to playing it and it drove me mad. In between continual popup speech balloons for the tutorial that taught me far more than I could absorb at such a rapid pace, I realised my garden was suddenly filled with a heap of things i knew nothing about, without resorting to the in-game encyclopedia. So, start a new garden, take the pace more gradual...still irritating.

And don't even get me started on the (lack of) camera controls or options. The height was so limiting, it was a pain to track what was going on in other areas. Yes, there's a top down sort of thing, but it's crap.

Shame, was looking forward to it...

[Demaar]

Yeah, I've played just the demo of Viva Pinata on 360 and skipped long, boring tutorials... then had no idea what I was doing. I just remembered I still need to delete that...

[aubergine]

I played the first level of Goldeneye Rogue Agent before ejecting it forever. One of only two games I've ever taken back to EB. Unbelievably bad.

[Nick]

Probably Empire Earth 3 or Maple Story, both awful, awful games.