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OS Neutral The Worst Game You Ever Bought?

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I was looking down over my list of Steam games, 93 games there, and I have to say Arma 3 considering it's top dollar price (when I bought it, it's now listed for $40), although it does a military simulation well, and it's rated 9/10 at Steam, it seemed to be most completely without focus, unless you want to do background work to set up a scenario. This is not what I wanted. :( Standing by to get slammed by someone. :)
 
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SimCity 2013. Luckily I got it from Amazon, who happily refunded me.

I really wanted Spore, but luckily I experienced a friend's copy first. Narrowly avoided.

T'hain Esh Kelch said:
Several few dollar indie games I got in Humble Bundles.
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Does that really count? I only buy bundles if it's worth it for the games I actually want.
 
Civilization VI.

Civ V was a delight to play, but the revision to Six completely destroyed the experience. Too cluttered and too complicated it stands between the player and enjoyment. It is almost as if the designers had run out of ideas to improve the game and instead went over the top in designing something completely different. A minor cleanup and tweak would have been sufficient.

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lizardofwoz said:
Civilization VI.

Civ V was a delight to play, but the revision to Six completely destroyed the experience. Too cluttered and too complicated it stands between the player and enjoyment. It is almost as if the designers had run out of ideas to improve the game and instead went over the top in designing something completely different. A minor cleanup and tweak would have been sufficient.

Thumbs down for this one.
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I'm not disagreeing with you, but have a gamer friend who loves it. For myself, having played Civ5, it was been there, done that so I did not bite.
 
lizardofwoz said:
Civilization VI.

Civ V was a delight to play, but the revision to Six completely destroyed the experience. Too cluttered and too complicated it stands between the player and enjoyment. It is almost as if the designers had run out of ideas to improve the game and instead went over the top in designing something completely different. A minor cleanup and tweak would have been sufficient.

Thumbs down for this one.
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I am going to agree with you here.
I have played the original Civilization (I) through to V and with every release from III I have become more and more disinterested. I gave Civ VI a go and it moulders unplayed.

IMHO, somewhere along the line the magic was lost.
 
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Hydlide... I had bought Hydlide as a kid for the NES. I had 20 dollars, I wanted a new game, all other games were 30... Hylide was 20. Worst game ever made, I dare anyone to prove differently.
 
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Tekken 4 for the PS2, waaaay back when. Absolutely loathed it. Completely took away the magic of timing and heralded the age of the button basher.

Mind you, Tekken 2 is my absolute favourite, even above 3... so I doubt I'll be getting many agreements. :oops:
 
For me it has to be Command and Conquer 4.

To be fair I thought C&C Generals was weak, but finished it. But the system implemented on 4 was a disgrace in my opinion, by limiting the number of units you can control. I'm sorry but C&C was about the sheer number of units on the map.

Never finished the game.

The other more recent that I didn't finish, upon seeing what final part of the game it had to be Mass Effect 3. Loved the first two games and third is quite nice until that point. It feels like the game from that point forward was rushed to be completed, to be release as soon as possible. The story lacked any sentiment of closure for Sheppard. Sure was nice to see what happens to other characters, but man that final lacks cohesion in story wise. It jumps all over the place. My only hope is that Mass Effect Andromeda, doesn't feel rushed, or it will be Mass Effect 3 V2.0.
 
arkitect said:
I am going to agree with you here.
I have played the original Civilization (I) through to V and with every release from III I have become more and more disinterested. I gave Civ VI a go and it moulders unplayed.

IMHO, somewhere along the line the magic was lost.
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Yea. The rewarding part of Civ was building a large and unrealistic empire. And get all the luxury resources. Those are no longer there. Instead, the game is super annoying with barbs, useless vassal states/cities, very complicated tech tree and religion, esp those pesky priests. :(
 
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Black Ops: Declassified was probably the biggest disappointment to me. Maybe not the worst but certainly the biggest gap between expectation and reality.
 
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