RL Link wrote:

James2250 wrote:

I look and I see touhou. Even if they had their bad moments they can't be called the worst games unless you have only played like 3 games in your life D:

Played them all. Realized all of them are the exact same shit. Does that help?

Many other games also have the exact same shit on their sequels too, and if we'll follow your logic then a lot of other games are candidates for 'worst game' then.

I personally don't find Touhou as being a game that I would contribute myself fully in (to be fair it's actually kind of hard to add more elements to basic vertical bullet hell shooter games, and ZUN successfully did actually add something new in TH12.8), but I can't even imagine myself making it a candidate for 'worst game ever'. (I am truthfully speaking from a video game player's point of view)

But that said, I have played a lot of bad games, but since they were bad I don't even remember which ones they were. Go figure. The fact that I can remember a game pretty much means that it's not a bad one.

And on a bit of an unrelated note...



EFF YEAR

what's a metriod?

Zekira wrote:

Many other games also have the exact same shit on their sequels too, and if we'll follow your logic then a lot of other games are candidates for 'worst game' then.

It's also due to the fact there are much much better alternatives if I want to play a shoot 'em up. Horizontal is superior, so if I want to play a shoot 'em up I'll play Gradius, Life Force, etc.
Why so defensive?

Edit: Oh right, the reason why I mentioned all of them were the same is because he mentioned that I probably only played 3 of the games(At least, I assumed it was partly directed at me). So I backed it up by mentioning I did, in fact, play all of them.

Arusha Shuna wrote:

what's a metriod?

SKREEEEE

Zekira wrote:

to be fair it's actually kind of hard to add more elements to basic vertical bullet hell shooter games

That is a horrible statement. It isn't really that hard at all, it's just that the bullet hell market is niche piece of shit that makes the same sorts of (sometimes incredibly good) games over and over again.

Neo@lex wrote:

R-Type rotated 90 degrees CCW

I see what you did there



@RL Link I don't think it's fair to compare shmups to bullet hell games. In my experience they're different enough to be classified separately, and even though I enjoy shmups (I am bad at them) I could not enjoy a bullet-hell game. Bullet-hell games are just too...scripted. It's not reactive, it's memorization. You memorize hitboxes and "safe zones" within bullet patterns.

I prefer my careless fumbling around and real-time reaction in shmups to a scripted path.

I'm having trouble deciding which would be the absolutely worst game I've ever played. I could shoot off a list, but that would defeat the point of a worst game.

For those of you putting hard games in there. Looking at you KRZY. Grow a pair of strong plentiful balls.

awp wrote:

Neo@lex wrote:

R-Type rotated 90 degrees CCW

I see what you did there



@RL Link I don't think it's fair to compare shmups to bullet hell games. In my experience they're different enough to be classified separately, and even though I enjoy shmups (I am bad at them) I could not enjoy a bullet-hell game. Bullet-hell games are just too...scripted. It's not reactive, it's memorization. You memorize hitboxes and "safe zones" within bullet patterns.

I prefer my careless fumbling around and real-time reaction in shmups to a scripted path.

I'll be honest, that caught me off guard because I immediately thought of the vertical stages in Gradius II.

Also, you do have a point awp.

Maplestory

Two wrote:

Maplestory

You haven't seen any other online games that tried to be alike Maplestory.
Good for you that you didn't tried them.

You memorize "safe zones" within bullet patterns.

Actually that mentality has been destroyed ever since TH11 came out, which was around 4 years ago or something, IDK. TH02-10, I agree with that statement though. All you can really memorize about patterns now in the newer games is how they look.

Actually right now I'm playing the most recent games of the Strikers series and...

...the techniques I'm using there don't really differ much to the ones I'm using in Touhou :< Less bullets but more fast-paced? There's still no denying the fact that a bullet can only have two directions: towards you and not towards you. Knowing that basic rule, the overused technique of streaming pretty much works with both bullet hell and shmups alike. The main difference though is the random factor, which contributes to the monotonous play of bullet hell, and is probably what sets it apart from shmups too.

To be fair, Touhou (since I really haven't played other bullet hells yet, I'm going to go safe here and only mention this one) already has its fair share of unscripted bullet patterns already, and that safespots don't really exist that prominent anymore. My friend who normally plays Lunatic couldn't even finish the newest Touhou's (TH12.8) Easy in the first 3 tries. And I can't even contemplate how fast the reflexes have to be in order to clear Lunatic (the average speed of bullets there is that it can cross the entire vertical screen within 1.5 seconds), and this time it actually feels like you need more reflexes than memorization now. ZUN's probably trying to remedy the inevitable fact that Touhou, is indeed, getting more monotonous every time, and that there are other bullet hells now that are rivaling the difficulty of Touhou, which is one of Touhou's biggest selling points as a video game.

So faggots defending touhou in less than three pages.

Good job.

I think it has to be that one game with the little girls shooting lasers at each other...
I can't remember the name, I think it started with T or something.

Wipeout the Game. Althoughgameplay is good and graphics are, too. But the problem is the Sweeper. EVIL LAGS!!! >:

Zekira wrote:

and that there are other bullet hells now that are rivaling the difficulty of Touhou

News flash, there are bullet hell games as hard as Touhou and they've been around for years.

lol by 'now' I'm pertaining to 10 years ago.

Oh whatever lol, it's not like I play much nowadays

The_Priest_In_Yellow wrote:

So faggots defending touhou in less than three pages.

Good job.

I didn't know they would be that faggy. I expected them just to talk about the worst games they played. Ah well.

RL Link wrote:

The_Priest_In_Yellow wrote:

So faggots defending touhou in less than three pages.

Good job.

I didn't know they would be that faggy. I expected them just to talk about the worst games they played. Ah well.

Don't blame yourself, I was expecting more as well.

Zekira wrote:

lol by 'now' I'm pertaining to 10 years ago.

Oh whatever lol, it's not like I play much nowadays

They were also around 10 years ago, though...

Talk shit about Touhou, people get butthurt. Christ, take it like an adult, peeps (especially the people defending Touhou; some people have opinions, guys).

Anyway, back on topic. While I already mentioned the worst game I ever played, another contender is Shaq Fu (another obvious casualfag choice I know but still).

This is awesome

I played Shaq Fu for about 5-10 minutes.
...I somewhat enjoyed myself.

Edit: So, I've had a good think about it and I either can't remember the horrible games I've played or I haven't played them because I don't like playing shit games.

So here's the two that stick out in my mind.


1942 for the NES
This would just be a mediocre game if the music weren't so fucking horrible. I mean, seriously, who the hell thought anyone would enjoy that? A series of seemingly randomly placed bleeps and bloops until it gets to a point where it plays something that's actually decent just to mess with you, and then we're back to the fucking bloops.


NSFW (Who am I kidding, your work mates probably won't even be able to recognize what any of this shit is supposed to represent...)

/NSFW

Custer's Revenge for the Atari 2600
Putting aside the subject matter of you walking across the screen to rape a native American woman who is...tied to cactus, this game is just piss poor.
Still, at least it has slightly better music than 1942.

Mogsworth wrote:

While I already mentioned the worst game I ever played, another contender is Shaq Fu (another obvious casualfag choice I know but still).

I thought Shaq Fu was okay. I mean yeah, it was pretty bad, but it wasn't horrid. I have two fighting games for the Genesis: Shaq Fu, and Weaponlord. Weaponlord has some neat mechanics, but the difficulty is so grueling that I just can not enjoy it in the least.

looking at some of the games listed in this thread makes me want to go watch the videos the angry video game nerd did on youtube about them
(yes I have too much time on my hands sometimes)

Glover for the N64. Made absolutely no sense and who would want to play as a discarded living hand throwing balls.

WeegeevsWeegee wrote:

Glover for the N64. Made absolutely no sense and who would want to play as a discarded living hand throwing balls.

Glover was charming...

Tetris - I miss it so much it became worse :<

Carnival games... my step brother made me play it with him and I nearly fell asleep.

Ghosts 'n Goblins makes me wanna break my keyboard.

Crazy Hit Pokemon (PSX). It's bad. It's reaaaaly bad!

I once played this crappy clickbeat ripoff called "osu!"
Shit sucked.

I hate picking shit like "the worst game evar" or "the greatest motherfucking CoD evar".
So here's aran five and I bet I'll remember some more shit in ten minutes that will make this list completely outdated.

5. The Thing.
Oh you motherfuckers why are you doing this to me hnnrgh. I know, games licensed off of movies are more often than not shit, but I couldn’t help getting excited about this because hey ! How could they fuck this up !

Well they found a way. Between awkward controls, stiff characters and boring enemies, you had to work against bugs and tedious fuse box "puzzles". Not to mention the horribly strained story.

4. The X-Files (Game).
I so wanted to love this. It's a fucking x-files game, how could you not succeed. Oh, it's a full motion video title on seven disks. Ok cool, I played Myst : Riven. While the game does offer… nnnnsome entertainment (mostly by being a prick to everyone), it quickly bogs down in "try everything on everything" and "sit there and watch". Some if not most of the acting is outright hilariously bad, I'm getting the feeling neither David Duchovny nor Gillian Anderson was particularly excited about acting for this thing. Another grand fault is that you only have one way to go in some moments of the game, while I do like linear, this takes it to the extreme. You more or less need to memorize the path you need to take in certain places through brute force trial and error until you get it right. Nice atmosphere though.

Oh and by all the neutron stars, can't you come up with a better title than "The X-Files Game" ?

3. Bible Adventures.
Sighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsighsigh.

2. Castlevania (Nintendo 64).
Why. Bad controls, bad camera. Horrible 3D, alright it was early 3D but it was still horrible to look at and poorly animated. How aim whip in 3D ? Maybe it's just that I prefer Castlevania in the 2D sidescrolling fashion, but oh gigahertz.

1. Two Worlds.
I know this isn't an old game either, but I think it more than qualifies. I don't know what it is, it just bores me to death. I've tried playing it about ten times now and I have yet to complete more than two quests. There is just something about the game that makes it utterly unplayable, not even for laughs. The horse controls like a drunkard, a drunkard on speed when you try to gallop. The graphics aren't really that bad, not really that good either, just really uninspiring. Voice acting is… okay, I guess. Sounds is pretty nice, gameplay not horribly broken.

It just falls into that category of games that are just so generic that they cease to exist. Two Worlds feels like a chore to play, I think that's what I'm aiming for, a game should never feel like a chore. Nothing redeems this title. The X series (X : Beyond the frontier – X2 : The threat – X3 : The Reunion) may be tedious to play, but it never feels that way. Where those games shine, this title fails and is quickly forgotten.

The_Priest_In_Yellow wrote:

4. The X-Files (Game).

I watched my brother play through this ages ago. I think I had more fun than him.

I am one of the few people on the planet who enjoyed Castlevania for N64 but I apparently won't pay 11 dollars for it

I actually enjoyed that game myself. Well, I only played through 2 stages. I'm assuming it gets worse?

Metal Slug 4 and Earthworm Jim 3D

gabrielwoj wrote:

Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing.. Much people says it's a bad game...
IT'S FRICKIN AWESOME!!@!@!@!@!
Thanks for remaking my thread, another version!

Well, Big Rigs is the worst game evar

that game is fuckin win

worst game i ever played is "Mickey mouse and the magical mirror" its gaaaayy, does everything for u =.=

awp wrote:

I am one of the few people on the planet who enjoyed Castlevania for N64 but I apparently won't pay 11 dollars for it

10 year or so ago I actually found it pretty enjoyable, the camera wasn't great but I got used to it for the most part (these days I prob wouldn't like it as much)
D:

Batman Forever for SNES. Its suckiness became such a running joke between me and my brother that I got it off eBay for $5 and gave it to him as a prank birthday gift a decade later before giving him the real present, just to see the reaction. When he saw it, he silently lowered his head and buried it in his hands.