Worst game ever...

Awww thats way to hard to answer! Wont stop me trying.

Most bad games i usually turn off after a few minutes, and in order to have a decent opinion i'd say you would need to play a good portion of the game to judge it correctly.
Most recent one i quit on pretty quickly was Black and White 2. The tutorials were patronising, the presentation sucked and didnt pull me in at all.
The last straw was that bit where you have to throw the rock at that blockage in the waterfall....i tried for about 10 minutes just to do that and failed every time. CD ended up flying towards the wall

Anything SIMS related i despise as well, simply because of the giggling idiots in my office who think them "playing"

Nothing wrong with social gaming- just look at CS:S, TF2, and L4D. I think it may be casual gamers you hold such disdane for.

For me... hmmm... There was some GT game i downloaded the demo for on steam, that was pretty horrific...

'Mansion of the hidden souls' on the Sega Saturn, what a steaming pile of dog doo that was. It was an FMV horror fest that was about as scary as a can of coke, I completed it in under an hour.

I use the term 'completed' loosely as it had no real gameplay to speak of, I took it back to the shop and asked for a refund because it was s#!t .. and I got it.

+1 Captain Blood ... what a 'game', who ever designed that must have been tripping or something at the time .. a true 'king kong's finger' of a game.

Any game based off a movie on any platform.

Whilst Generally true there have been many excellent star wars games.

God I nearly brought that on Saturday, it was either that or Toms Clancy’s Ghost Recon.

Worst game ever? Sega Worldwide Soccer on the Sega Saturn, that was pretty dire. S

o far I haven’t been able to get into Mass Effect for the PC. The frame rate is rather dire and I’m not exactly running it at the highest settings either (C2D @ 3Ghz, 8800GT, 2Gb DDR2800), the fight sequences come off as awkward, I collect stuff but I don’t know what I need it for or what it does, team commands don’t work that well especially in combat, I have 4 guns all of which feel and work and sound the same. I don’t want to call this a bad game as I know it has a lot fans but so far I just haven’t been able to warm to it.

I'm sure I've played lots of crappy games on my Amgia 1200 and Atari 520 STE but I can only remember the good ones, like Wolf, Starglider 1 & 2, Midwinter 2: Flames of Freedom, Wing Commander and Elite!

I nominate Fable on the PC.
It just didn't work, totally broken.
It was great on the XBOX though.

Rocky and Bullwinkle - NES
Any game with a 3 second delay in controls wins hands down.

I vote Rotech Battlecry
The controls are...different and multiplayer is terrible.

Black&White
"Worshipers want food... worshipers want wood..."

check out this guy's reviews of bad console games, its hilarious especially when you had one of the games. I really like his take on the sega cd and 32x (both of which I owned).
http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesNintendoNerd

The worst game I've had the misfortune of playing was probably "Braveheart", the PC game. It was buggy as hell, and exceedingly difficult to actually play because of odd quirks. The game was pretty obviously unfinished when it was released (the company that made the thing went under apparently also, so pretty much no patching to hear of).

The most infuriating thing was that I really enjoyed the concept they had, and the vision for the game, it's just that the thing wasn't polished enough to be released, and all it's quirks and problems ruined it.

Movie based games deserve a category all of their own, that's why E.T. hasn't even been mentioned yet.

Well I havent played them all but the worst game I have played is

Crysis .


what a turkey

I think "worst game ever" has to be divided up into various categories. Like I said earlier movie based games deserve a category all of their own. They almost universally suck but then again you have to realize that most were made with no effort other than to be a movie tie in. It's kind of like singling out a McDonald's happy meal toy as the worst toy ever.
Secondly, while everybody is entitled to their own opinion I have to object to obviously good games being named "worst game ever" just because an some people personally didn't like it or even if the game was somewhat of a flop compare to the hype. Crysis, Far Cry, HL2, Sims, WoW just don't belong in a worst games every list. Maybe a biggest disappointments list, but say Crysis had been made by some obscure developer and was never hyped at all, would there really be much bad to say about it?

When I think of worst games ever I personally try and pick out those games were somebody obviously put some real effort into but just utterly failed at. I know I've played a lot of games like that but can't really remember too many of their names because they were that bad. One I can think of which takes the cake for sports genre is the first World Series Baseball game for the Sega Dreamcast. The game looked and sounded awesome but they kind of forgot about to put in that part about actually playing the game. And I'm not just talking about poor gameplay or controls, but literally the utter lack of being able to actually do anything other than tell the pitcher what type of pitch to throw or the batter what type of swing to take. Fielding and base running was as I can remember it 100% ai controlled. Imagine a baseball simulator with great graphics but none of the in depth simulation stuff.

If it made you sick, that doesn't make it the worst game every seeing as how nobody else has had this problem.

Oh it was,,,

move, got hit by bat, sit still get hit by bat, fly got hit by bat, land - get hit by bat . die

i got on the lower levels but with low energy levels... I just gave up in the end to be honest.. just wasnt bothered anymore and for that to happen and it sticks in your mind it must be crap..

When i meant worst game ever graphics is a factor but most of all playability.. or down right boredom.. Cauldron sank to become boredom for me..

Personally i hated it. The story arc was dumped in favor of something else. Never forgave it for that. Plus the guns are teh suck.

I know that Half Life 2 is considered to be a critically acclaimed game, but Hellboy (who started the thread) asked us to name games which we hate personally. There are actually quite many people who get very strong motion sickness from Half Life 2. I googled it once to try to find a solution to the problem and found a great number of similar complaints. One of the biggest reasons for the motion sickness is that HL2 has a much more narrow field of view than other first person shooter games.

cod 5. i loved cod 4 but five was just a little bit rubbish
it had laser guns and zombies