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List your Worst games of the year!

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2nyRiggz said:
Gears of War 2, Devil May Cry 4 and Ninja Gaiden 2 was the worst games I played this year.

I actually bought Left 4 Dead over the weekend and I think its a good time waster....single player is absolutely sh** though.

List your Worst games of the year....sounds like a good thread.

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Except that.... I'm not doing that again. I was sore for hours, and the rash still hasn't fully cleared up...




So my worst games that I have played this year... in no particular order

Gears of War 2
Ninja Gaiden 2
Mercenaries 2
Valkyrie Chronicles
Left 4 Dead
StarWars : Force Unleashed
WiiMusic
Midnight Club Racing
Need For Speed : Undercover
Fracture
Lost
Enemy Territory : Quake Wars
Conflict : Denied Ops
No More Heroes
The Incredible Hulk
Ace Combat 6
The Bourne Conspiracy
Army Of Two



edit: burnout paradise was poop too :)
 
Valkyria?! GEARS?! Left 4 Dead?

*turns in disgust* MRU, you don't like fun. :D:p


Fable II for me. Peter Molyneux, biggest shame in the gaming industry.

Spore. Got bored before I got anywhere NEAR the space age (which still looks lame)

Thats about it really. I don't buy crappy games :p
 
I thought this when I read 2nyRiggz's post quoted above in it's original thread, and I'm thinking it even more now -

Why the hate for Gears 2? I thought it was really fun! Sure, it wasn't changed much from the original, but I always say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

Spore is also my choice for worst game I played this year. I lost interest after the second stage.

sikkinixx said:
Thats about it really. I don't buy crappy games :p
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Ditto. I only buy games that are loved by reviewers and my friends.
 
Pain - apart from an initial chuckle or three.
Super Smash Brothers Brawl - the fun wore out quickly.
Burnout Paradise - open world boredom, might as well have been a NFS title.

I wisely stayed far away from the RPG and FPS genres, so this list is shorter than it might otherwise have been.
 
Jumper on the Wii.

That's about it really, I purchase games carefully but it was BOGOF at Game and I figured I might as well give it a shot seeing as it was free...I certainly wouldn't pay for it.
 
sikkinixx said:
Valkyria?! GEARS?! Left 4 Dead?

*turns in disgust* MRU, you don't like fun. :D:p
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This is a personal choice thing, and what rocks one person doesn't mean it will rock everyone right.

All those games just did absolutely nothing for me, and playing them just wasn't enjoyable for me.

barr08 said:
I thought this when I read 2nyRiggz's post quoted above in it's original thread, and I'm thinking it even more now -

Why the hate for Gears 2? I thought it was really fun! Sure, it wasn't changed much from the original, but I always say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
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I didn't like Gears either though...... Again I fully accept that it's well produced and of good quality, just that it doesn't do it for me and hence the reason it made it into my worst games list.

Remember there's no right and wrong. It's your personal choice.
 
Honestly, I can only go by the demos, cause I only buy games that I know I'm gonna like. But judging by the demos, the worst were:

- Fatal Inertia EX
- Siren: Blood Curse
- Wall-E
- Haze
- Mercs 2
 
Burnout Paradise, easily the biggest let down, I loved Revenge, but Paradise was a hideous step backwards, I don't know if they were trying to be all revolutionary, but it was so backwards I couldn't be bothered, it got too serious...
 
Yeah they decided to take the FUN out of the game, and trawling back to restart a race was hideous.

I hope they go back to the roots and bring back proper race tracks (so that your not staring at a tiny map, you can actually enjoy the race) around a city and inject the game with a large overbite of FUN once more.
 
Gears of War 2 by far. My drunken slovenly brother is a huge fan of the "series" so far so I thought I'd give it a proper go.
No story, such epicly basic gameplay, the utmost horrific dialogue I've ever heard outside of Hollywood. I don't know what people see in it. No depth, just cheap tat with texture loading problems (even when playing from the HDD). Maybe that's why people like it though, sorta like the Scary Movie films.

And runner up goes to GTA IV. That's not because it's a bad game as such, just it was hyped as being amazing and clearly wasn't as good as the earlier games in the series. I still prefer to run around GTA SA than any other.

Throw in some Unreal Tournament 3. Just another disappointing sequel that traded in fun for psuedo-realism, brown graphics and motion blur.

Seriously chaps, in 2009 please try to keep fun in games. Realism doesn't make a game good. Thx.
 
I agree with all the comments on Burnout. However, I still found it pretty fun and far from being one of the worst games this year. :) If you force yourself to forget about the format of the older games, and see it as an individual piece of gaming, it's still pretty good for what it is.
 
raggedjimmi said:
And runner up goes to GTA IV. That's not because it's a bad game as such, just it was hyped as being amazing and clearly wasn't as good as the earlier games in the series. I still prefer to run around GTA SA than any other.
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Ahh totally forgot to mention this one, but I completely agree with you.
 
I'm going with ET: Quake Wars. My honorable mention is Star Wars The Force Unleashed. There just wasn't enough to this game, the story seemed shallow, the character was utterly boring, aiming was off, yada yada yada...

Why can't Lucas Arts make KOTOR 3 an RPG, not a MMORPG? That's all I really wanted for the last few years...
 
Wasn't Quake Wars released last year? I'm sure I recall the demo being out around the time of the TF2 beta.
 
Spore sucked so much, I didn't even finish it, biggest disappointment of the year and the single reason I don't respect Will Wright anymore.

I'll post some more later but I was also heavily disappointed by Far Cry 2.
 
sikkinixx said:
I forgot to add mine. Fable II. I already whined in another thread. How that won X-Play's GotY is BEYOND me. It beat Fallout 3 BUT lost to Fallout 3 for Best RPG? Say wha?
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X play caters to MS (im sure there is a money exchange somewhere), if you haven't figured that out by now then you need to see someone for professional help :p
 
Except that.... I'm not doing that again. I was sore for hours, and the rash still hasn't fully cleared up...
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Can I add to my list since this is the official?

Unreal Tournament 3...A pile of disappointment
Sonic Unleashed...WTF seriously?
Conan Game
Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts......just pure garbage
Tomb Raider Underworld...The controls just destroy this game for me.
HAZE.....facepalm...thats all I could do.
Too Human....WTF is this sh**?
Lost Odyssey....Almost got turned off of RPGs because of this game.
Army of Two.....Bulls***...Ed knows what I'm talking about.


I really didn't like the first Gears and part two just fell in line with its brethren.

Note: GTAIV was really bad as well.




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hai guys heres a list of top selling games i say r the worst of the year. give me some attention pls. thanks.
 
Based on the games Ive played probably Far Cry 2, the world was boring and the missions were more repetitive than Assassins Creed, always being attacked by every person you saw just got annoying.
It beat Fallout 3 BUT lost to Fallout 3 for Best RPG? Say wha?
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Fable is a multi genre game, it might not have better RPG elements than Fallout 3 so they gave it to Fallout 3. Now what is stupid is when games at the Spike awards win GOTY but dont win best game for their respective console, that makes no damn sense.
 
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