What's the worst game you actually paid for?

[Dinner]

So what is the single worst game you ever bought? I'd have to say it was Pool of Radiance 2 because it was released WAY to early, was barely playable, and crashed all the time due to the numerous bugs. SSI just did a piss poor job on the game which was so disappointing given how much I loved playing the original Pool of Radiance game on my C64 back in 1989-1990.

[Whoha]

Nightmare Creatures.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Outpost

[Riesstiu IV]

Civilization IV. :vomit:

[Dinner]

It's amazing how some poorly done games end up as fairly nice finished products. I remember buying the Temple of Elemental Evil game when it first came out back in 2003 (I believe that was the date) but found out Atari had so rushed it that the game was barely playable and would crash constantly. True to form Atari released just two small patches before abandoning the game all together.

This was a huge disappointment given I was really looking forward to this game since back in my old AD&D days we played the Temple of Elemental Evil module and I remember it being a nicely balanced module with role playing as well as plenty of hack and slash. Fortunately, after Atari abandoned the game a dedicated group of modders over at co8.org picked up the challenge of polishing Atari's turd and actually turned it into a very nice little RPG. They basically hacked the code and designed their own custom patches to fix many of the bugs Atari left in the game then they modified it to include a lot of stuff originally in the D&D module but which Atari left out. Heck they even added in a new city, new NPC, did voice work so that dozens of NPCs now actually talk instead of just having to read what they say on the screen, and then added in all sorts of new quests and encounters. They basically turned ToEE into a damn good game where as Atari rushed it to market and left it with tons of bugs. Hell, Circle of 8 has even made a new expansion for the game recreating the classic AD&D module Keep on the Borderlands.

I'm really happy I recently decided to reinstall ToEE and looked up the Co8 mod pack. We're talking hundreds of MBs worth of patch code and new stuff which people have added just because they didn't want a classic like ToEE to be left botched by Atari.

[Aeson]

Paladin II (dos)

Calling that a game is kinda stretching it. The other games I bought around that time made up for it though. Civ I and Wizardry 7.

[Lancer]

Trouble. You had dice in a bubble and had to move around a board. The bubble dice was the draw however and interest tended to wane pretty quickly. Though I bought Rockem Sockem Robots around then and that was excellent.

[Fake Boris]

Axis and Allies.

The AI was incredibly bad, it would crash often (especially in multiplayer), and there were even mistakes in the rules implementation that they never corrected.

Sometimes aircraft landed on carriers would just disappear on the following turn, making the game practically unplayable.

[Ninot]

I bought Outpost. I dont think I played it for more than 10 minutes. So bad.

[Dinner]

Oblivion was kind of a disappointment too. On paper it had everything and the publishers even spent time patching it but something about the game was just kind of boring and repetitive.

[Riesstiu IV]

Oblivion was a disappointment for me as well, although it was pretty. It didn't help that everything else in the game leveled up as you did. High level glass armor sure didn't feel that special and rare once you came across bandits wearing it.

[Edan]

Emergency Rescue: Firefighters The reviews don't do the game justice to how truly horrible it was.

[asleepathewheel]

outpost was terrible.

the worst game I've ever been given was Star Voyager for the NES. terrible.

[BlackCat]

Destiny. It's a civ game where you go from flint knifes to nukes. It's way more complicated than CivX; it's stable, don't crash etc but the interface sucks EXTREMELY.

[Pekka]

Hmhh... I think it was called Hell. Maybe it was back in 95? There weren't so many cd-rom games back then but it was on cd and it had cool packaging. Good enough of a reason to buy a game, sure it is!

It SUCKED! It was just some puzzle actually, and it was so dorky and difficult anyway... man I hated that game.