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

[VetLegion]

This is a great thread and it is great to see many of you have really played some weird ones

If someone wants to transform his/her justified disgust with a particular title into something more constructive, you are wellcome to describe the abomination in the format of the table in my signature, and I will add it in for all to see.

[DarkCloud]

The Rise and Rule of Ancient Empires... a civ type game. But so buggy that I couldn't play past day 1... It was released by Sierra in 1996-98 or something of the sort.

VetLegion, you might like to add it to your list if anyone else has played it... as far as I'm concerned it's unplayable

[Tamerlin]

As far as I am concerned all the Real Time Strategy games fall into the "bad game" category.

The only Turn Based Strategy game that have made me angry is Civilization 3, my greatest game related disappointment so far.

[The Rusty Gamer]

What! Even with the latest add-on?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
The Rise and Rule of Ancient Empires... a civ type game. But so buggy that I couldn't play past day 1... It was released by Sierra in 1996-98 or something of the sort.

i played the demo - a boring civ clone, IIRC.

[Qilue]

Civ:CTP tried to be a great game. The reality being a steaming pile.

I liked playing Civ3, then I bought Civ3:PTW, then I hated playing Civ3.

[DrSpike]

But PTW made very little difference.

[Qilue]

It did.

Pre-PTW, the game was stable and ran smoothly. After I installed PTW, it was unstable and clunky.

[DrSpike]

I've not seen anyone else post about stability problems introduced in PTW.

[The Rusty Gamer]

But I mrean the latest Conbquest add-on. That actually makes the game playable for single and multi now - plus the real power of creating scenarios.

[Qilue]

Ah yes the old 'I'm-not-having-any-problems-so-it-must-be-you-fault' reply . I received much the same response in the Civ3 forums when I asked about it.

Doesn't really matter, I'm going to spend my $50 on something other than another Civ3 addon.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Qilue
Ah yes the old 'I'm-not-having-any-problems-so-it-must-be-you-fault' reply . I received much the same response in the Civ3 forums when I asked about it.

Well if others experienced similar problems one would likely conclude the problem was with the game. But if one person does the conclusion should be that the problem is with your configuration or setup. Is that faulty logic? I don't think it is.

Just because you had problems with playing it doesn't make it the worst empire building game ever IMO.

[Theben]

Like the 1st poster, I'll say Pax Imperia. That game sucked royally.

[centrifuge]

Originally posted by Qilue
Civ:CTP tried to be a great game. The reality being a steaming pile.

I can think of a lot people that would disagree about this assessment This is a common reply from people who expected it to be a civ2 clone.

[Father Beast]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
The Rise and Rule of Ancient Empires... a civ type game. But so buggy that I couldn't play past day 1... It was released by Sierra in 1996-98 or something of the sort.

VetLegion, you might like to add it to your list if anyone else has played it... as far as I'm concerned it's unplayable

I have to agree, Since That was my choice for worst. Save every turn because it'll probably crash, Micromanagement hell, pathetic help or documentation, no percievable point. I played for 50 turns with my teeth gritted, then let the AI do itself for another 200 turns while I watched. I could look at the other civs at any time IIRC, though maybe that was a cheat. in all that time, I never had any battles with my rivals. So I didn't get to see how badly that was done.

it burned itself onto my mind as the worst piece of strategy gaming I'd ever seen.

A lot of people on this thread cite disappointments instead of truly bad gaming. Like Civ3 wasn't all they hoped it would be.

But Rise & Rule was truly the worst I've ever played. What a pile!