the WORST Empire building game youve ever played(Turn based or RTS)

[Case]

I'm pretty careful with what I buy, so I've never bought a truely bad game.

That said, I'd nominate Simcity 3000 as the least good empire-building game I've plaed. While not a bad game, it disappointed me due to it's useless in-game advisors and various problems with the city growth model which acted to cripple city growth at certain city sizes and population structures for no good reason.

EU-2 was also underwealming. While fun, it's interface was painful to deal with - everytime war broke out I got buried in pop-up messages, even when I turned these down to the minimum necessary.

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Did I mention Birth of the Federation?

I actualy finished two games with it, but could not face another one. It is not the worst, but was a disappointment. It did have a cool combat, but you really only watched it.

Sort of like Deadlock2, not good nor awful.

Deadlock I was awful, but not the worst.

[Spaced Cowboy]

What made BotF bad for me was the conversion of the other races with diplomacy. Just made the game way too easy.

MoO3 is the worst game ever. Post patch/pre patch, doesn't matter. It is just terrible.

Rebellion was also very bad.

Ascendancy was not too bad, very nice interface and good graphics for the time, but 4X space games with warp points are really stupid. Chokepoints in space...give me a break.

[DrSpike]

BotF wasn't great to be sure, but its nothing like as bad as some of the other games mentioned here.

[General Ludd]

Yeah, BotF atleast had some potential. Where as a game like MOO3 really has no redeaming features at all.

[moomin]

Moo3 takes the crow as the worst piece of thrash to pollute anybody's hard drive ever. I'd be happy install a boatload of spyware on my computer before I even consider touching Moo3.

You can't really compare it to anything else out there; there are bad games, terrible games, BC3k and then, all in it's very own lowest circle in the TBS abyss, there's Moo3. If they tried to fill land dumps with unsold Moo3 copies they'd have to drill the stuff down into the core to prevent the toxic waste from utterly wrecking the Earth's environment, that how bad it is.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by moomin
Moo3 takes the crow as the worst piece of thrash to pollute anybody's hard drive ever. I'd be happy install a boatload of spyware on my computer before I even consider touching Moo3.

You can't really compare it to anything else out there; there are bad games, terrible games, BC3k and then, all in it's very own lowest circle in the TBS abyss, there's Moo3. If they tried to fill land dumps with unsold Moo3 copies they'd have to drill the stuff down into the core to prevent the toxic waste from utterly wrecking the Earth's environment, that how bad it is.

Don't hold back moom, tell us how you really feel about MoO3!

[vmxa1]

While I felt I got ripped with Moo3 I at least play a few games and got a little someting out of it. Outpost did not give me anything. So while M003 was a bigger rip off, outpost was a worse game. Yeah I know Moomin that is hard to believe.

Now all this talk has me thinking about firing up Ascendancy/Pax or maybe just a good ole Moo1 game. I need a Civ break anyway.

[The Rusty Gamer]

I'm sorry, but I don't agree with all the negativity about MOO3. It has a steep learning curve and requires some patience. I'm currently playing a game with a small universe - a cluster, not an arm - aganst 3 other races. I thought I'd start off relatively small to get the hang of it. Anyway, maybe I'll get disappointed down the track, but for now I like it.

[vmxa1]

I hope you enjoy Moo3, a few people claim to like Outpost, not sure I believe them though. It won CGW coaster of the year way back then and still gets mentioned as a worst of.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Of course, I also like the Deadlock games. When the original Deadlock demo first came out, I was mad about it, trying to see how much I could do within the limited 40 turns and held more breath for months until the game proper arrived. The sequel ironed out some of the limitations of the original, made the tech tree better etc - my main disappointment was the ugly graphics - I wish they'd stuck to the cutesy ones of the first version.

[da_hal]

the orignal release of civnet. first cd i intentionally destroyed. i'm amazed civnet 2 is considered one of the best ever made, considering how bad the original was.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Civ net 2? Never heard of it! How different was it to civnet 1?

[Jac de Molay]

Call to Power was just real....clunky. Some good ideas, but a lousy user interface and complete lack of flow to the game. Didn't have that Sid magic.

[vmxa1]

CTP was not my cup of tea, but come on it was not in the running for the worse game. You could at least finish it, many games where not even playable.