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[Muigi]

So folks, name me the worst games (in your opinion) you've ever bought in your entire lifetime. They don't have to be the worst games ever, just ones where you felt like you wasted your money.

I can name one right off the bat.

Dragon Ball Z Sagas

Hooooly fuck, where did I go wrong? This game tricked me into thinking it was another fighting game. BOY WAS I WRONG. Instead, I get a lame-ass 3D beat-em-up that would make Final Fight on the PS2 blush. The gameplay was dull, the graphics were blah, the voice acting was laughable at best, and at the end of it (Only to Cell Saga? What, does Buu apparently not exist?) I felt like I wasted $30 on a 3D version of the first Legacy of Goku game. GRAAH.

[Icy]

It was pretty bad…

[Dis]Honorable mention:



This game was REALLY bad. I don't understand how anyone at all could enjoy it. Just a terrible game in every way. (Gameplay, controls, concept, story, characters, etc, etc, it just completely shattered anything that was good about Star Fox and DS games in general)

Still, it wasn't a bad deal for $7. It helped complete my Star Fox collection so you know.

[TriumphForks]

The worst game that I evergot out of my whole 16 year career as a gamer would probably be....

Mass Effect

I thought it was going to be one of the best RPGs I ever played, turns out they had to make it one of the most complicated games I ever played, so I returned it and I had never been happier.

[Zero]

New Super Mario Bros.

Why? There's nothing new about it. Levels are all the same standard fare, Mega Mario is basically just a Star, Mini Mario is absolutely useless, Shell Mario is less practical than just carrying and throwing a shell, and you need to unlock two of the eight worlds. Beat it once, have never played it since.

I've played worse games, for sure. But that I've personally bought? NSMB.

[Farore]

Dynasty warriors 4 Empires.

I am a Dynasty Warriors fan and when I bought this one I thought it was like DW4's sequel, wrong. It was just an extension of the game with free mode features where you can make your own "strategies" and create/arrange your own party to build your empire, but it wasn't that exiting, it was basically the same but without the 'story'. It was a waste of money.

[Muigi]

Farore, on 16 February 2012 - 12:09 AM, said:

Dynasty warriors 4 Empires.

I am a Dynasty Warriors fan and when I bought this one I thought it was like DW4's sequel, wrong. It was just an extension of the game with free mode features where you can make your own "strategies" and create/arrange your own party to build your empire, but it wasn't that exiting, it was basically the same but without the 'story'. It was a waste of money.

Koei was doing it way before Capcom! D:
[I fell for the same trick. It just didn't feel the same.]

Speaking of Capcom...here's a much more recent example of wasting money.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3

HOOH BOY, where to begin? First off it's bad enough I was lured in by how well Tatsunoko vs Capcom played, and I stupidly thought it'd play the same. NOPE. Not only was the system broken to pieces JUST so people had an excuse to make infinites, the game actually ENCOURAGED infinites with the X-Factor system. YOU DON'T DO THAT IN A FIGHTER. Fighters [regardless of who's in them] are supposed to be balanced on both sides, not completely one-sided curbstompings. It's the one reason why I couldn't stand MvC2's community: Every match I saw was completely one-sided, and that's somehow legit for tourneys? That's not how you make a frantic fighter, you dolts! I basically bought a $50 broken fighter all due to hype in itself.

There's also the fact that the game barely had any good features outside of multiplayer. Mission Mode, where it teaches you useless combos that you'll never use. Online Mode, where BUTTON LAG remains supreme. Story Mode, where it shoehorns Galactus for fuck all and gives you an ending for each character that becomes a slideshow instead of being something charming. And Capcom had the balls to LIE to their own fanbase about why certain characters couldn't make it in the game, only to put them in months later when they would RE-RELEASE the same game titled ULTIMATE MARVEL VS CAPCOM 3 with only 12 characters and 8 reskinned stages that are sponsored as BRAND NEW. Sure there's new modes, but no one outside of new players are gonna care about 'em. Oh, and there's no way to download it all onto the original game since Capcom refuses to put all this stuff online available for those who bought the original, so they're S.O.L. unless they buy the Ultimate version for $40.

THAT IS H O R R I B L E MARKETING. And it shows by Ultimate's sales that most people don't appreciate getting ripped off.

[Icy]

Yeah, I agree completely with that. I forgot I even bought MvC3 or I would've said that too. Traded it in a few weeks later and then was appalled to hear of UMvC3.
Capcom is dead, really. To their "fans", at least.

Another game I remember buying that was really bad was Test Drive Unlimited 2 for PS3. The framerate was just HORRIBLE. The "advanced car physics system‎" was an absolute joke, seriously. The voice acting was unbearable. The story was forced upon the player even when the game advertised a huge open world. (Don't get me wrong, you could free roam, but they were always pushing for you to do this, do that, meet me here, blah blah, all in their terrible voices)

The animations for the characters (normally I don't care, but really) were just awful.
The whole game was way too stiff in everything it did and I kept wanting to tell it to loosen up. But it wouldn't listen.

Of course, there were some fun moments. Once in a while when you got a quiet moment you could drive around in the rain and turn on your car radio. Fun times. It was also realistic with letting you turn on/off your headlights (but the way it did this was REALLY SLOPPY) open windows, etc.
An okay game. On the PS3 the FPS was just too inconsistent to be able to play it. The whole game was just a big failure, but it still had a few fun moments. Few and very far between, though.

[EponaLuv]

I love the Lego games ... batman, indiana, pirates... so I bought Harry potter one bored afternoon and I gotta say its the worst most retarted one out of all lego games!! wouldnt recomend it to anyone!

[GambitGamer]

Probably..... Mario VS Sonic Winter Olympics is terrible!

[Noah]

Call of Duty