The worst games you have played?

[80sFREAK]

Oh, boys, sounds like you never tried Bokosuka Wars for Famicom

As for Doom haters - it was made by ID Software, same company made FoxBase, which was(at the time) leap ahead from Clipper

 

[Harrison]

Even if you are rubbish at Ridge Racer, how on earth could anyone say it's the worst game they have ever played? for that to be true said person must have only played a handful of the top games in existence in their lifetime. It's just not possible to be a gamer and not to have played a game that is worse than Ridge Racer in my opinion.

Some people really haven't played all that many games.

 

[paalrosen]

Even if you are rubbish at Ridge Racer, how on earth could anyone say it's the worst game they have ever played? for that to be true said person must have only played a handful of the top games in existence in their lifetime. It's just not possible to be a gamer and not to have played a game that is worse than Ridge Racer in my opinion.

Some people really haven't played all that many games.

It is not entirely true, have played a lot of games, but Ridge Racer is not on the list of good games for me

That said, I do not like Doom either, sorry folks.

wolfenstein 3d ends up in the same box for me, even though it was new and many liked it.

I think civilization on the amiga is great, many are certainly disagree. It's good there's something for all of us out there.

Resident Evil, the first one, ohh i love it
Silent Hill 2 also

 

[Harrison]

That is so true. If we all liked the same games we would not have the huge diversity of genres, styles and artistic approaches to gaming. Very similar argument to why we have to many makes and model of car.

Regarding Wolfenstein 3D, I also never really got into it beyond a quick pick-up and play when it came out. I thought the 3D graphics were cool but the game quickly became boring for me. It was a complete contrast for Return to Castle Wolfenstein as that remains one of my all time favourite games. It also wasn't the same for Doom.. I loved the original. Maybe because a few friends were also playing it and we were competing to complete levels.

 

[-Acid-]

Everyone has got their own preferences yes, but when someone states a game is one of the worst games they have ever played is only saying to me that they dislike it. The point i'm making is I might not like a game and think it's rubbish but that doesn't make it the worst game I have ever played.

 

[AmiNeo]

Everyone has got their own preferences yes, but when someone states a game is one of the worst games they have ever played is only saying to me that they dislike it. The point i'm making is I might not like a game and think it's rubbish but that doesn't make it the worst game I have ever played.

Very true. Most people under 25 today would probably say any C64 game they have tried is the worst game ever, but that's because what they think of as 'a game' is relatively and technically more impressive and that's what they're used to seeing. Too many people today judge games on first impressions. Most people I know in Uni won't even give FF7 a go because of how it looks and even laugh at Resident Evil saying how 'bad' it is.

 

[Somelie]

Predator on the Amstrad CPC464. Sweet Jesus, that was bad. Brian Lara Cricket on the Amiga, which was terrible enough anyway, and became really annoying when it crashed every five minutes.

More recently, I have to say Aliens: Colonial Marines on the Xbox 360. Not only is it full of glitches and terrible graphics, but also the story is idiotic and makes no sense when you consider the events of the movies. It seems to have been written by someone who only watched the films once, and that must have been when in a drunken fug…

 

[NinjaRabbit]

lemmings 64 on ( nintendo)

To the very best of my knowledge, there is no such game. I don't suppose you have a link to more info on this, please?

 

[AmiNeo]

lemmings 64 on ( nintendo)

To the very best of my knowledge, there is no such game. I don't suppose you have a link to more info on this, please?

Maybe he means the NES version?

 

[paalrosen]

lemmings 64 on ( nintendo)

To the very best of my knowledge, there is no such game. I don't suppose you have a link to more info on this, please?

Maybe he means the NES version?

Sorry, my mistake. I see now that it was lemmings 3D on PS1

not 64 on nintendo

 

[AmiNeo]

To the very best of my knowledge, there is no such game. I don't suppose you have a link to more info on this, please?

Maybe he means the NES version?

Sorry, my mistake. I see now that it was lemmings 3D on PS1

not 64 on nintendo

Ah that one. I think I tried it once, I don't recall a lot about it though.

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just load and TRY and play HardDrivin C64 go to be the worst ever.

going through Slow Motions like Snail

Stuntcar Racer on C64 was slow as a dog too!

 

[Amiga Forever]

Stuntcar Racer on C64 was slow as a dog too!

What are you expecting on C64? It got 1MHZ and 64KB Ram.......I dont think you expect miracle to run so fast unless you got SUPER CPU with more ram!

What is the faster racing game on C64 if you know or can remember

 

[AmiNeo]

Outrun and Turbo Outrun were pretty good. (Much faster). Others I recall being pretty smooth are: Night Racer, Monaco GP and Pitstop 1 and 2 ... Buggy Boy, too perhaps?

 

[Harrison]

I loved Buggy Boy on the ST. That was great. Another racer I liked on the St was Enduro Racer, but I've heard that is really bad on some other platforms. Has anyone experience of it on any 8-bit systems?

 

[edd_jedi]

There are a lot of games that were simply tosh, but I agree with many that the most disappointing in history has got to be Street Fighter 2 on the Amiga. I was only about 12 when it came out and SF2 was the massive craze of the time. I played it in the arcade and at my friends houses, but I didn't have a SNES. I remember the first time I played SF2 on the Amiga and thinking "WTF is this rubbish!?" it is literally nothing like SF2 apart from the graphics. Animations, feel and gameplay are miles out. I also can't believe it scored 80% in AF! More like 20%.

What a wasted opportunity, I have no doubt the Amiga could have had a proper version, perhaps just with less characters. SF2 is probably the biggest and longest lasting video game craze I can remember, so a decent Amiga version could literally have saved the computer from death.

 

[AmiNeo]

I loved Buggy Boy on the ST. That was great. Another racer I liked on the St was Enduro Racer, but I've heard that is really bad on some other platforms. Has anyone experience of it on any 8-bit systems?

I used to play it on C64 a lot as a kid. Don't remember it being slow, but I was a kid.

I believe it also got ported to the Sega Master System.

Edit: just found this vid that compares versions of the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYFzLLAPnSc

C64 was pretty bad afterall, lol. Not graphically though at all.

Looks like the Master System version was almost an entirely different game,

 

[NinjaRabbit]

Maybe he means the NES version?

Sorry, my mistake. I see now that it was lemmings 3D on PS1

not 64 on nintendo

Ah that one. I think I tried it once, I don't recall a lot about it though.

The strange thing is, Lemmings 3D is one of my all-time favourite games. I found it very clever (and still do - I'm re-playing it at the moment), and it helped me to learn some useful skills with regard to solving problems in three dimensions.

 

[Harrison]

..Another racer I liked on the St was Enduro Racer, but I've heard that is really bad on some other platforms. Has anyone experience of it on any 8-bit systems?

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Edit: just found this vid that compares versions of the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYFzLLAPnSc

C64 was pretty bad afterall, lol. Not graphically though at all.

Looks like the Master System version was almost an entirely different game,

Oh dear, the C64 version does indeed look really bad. Who would of thought it was the worst one out of them all. And other than a similar camera angle not really anything like the original arcade game.

The Spectrum/Amstrad versions are the most faithful to the original.

I remember playing the Spectrum version on a friend's system and it played identically to the arcade original, and the graphics even look faithful, copying the arcade graphics really well, but obviously in B/W. The Amstrad version is sadly just a direct Spectrum port, which was very annoyingly common due to very lazy coders/publishers and the fact it was easy to alter Spectrum code to run on the Amstrad. When a game was directly written for the CPC it really showed it.. look up Gryzor f.ex.

The Master System version is a completely different game. Mad. Especially when you consider the original arcade game was Sega Enduro Racer!!! :double:double:double:wooha::wooha:

Here is what the original arcade version looked like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5dus3aDQ84

Shows how close the Spectrum version was.

 

[AmiNeo]

Hmmm... Looking at that I would actually say the C64 version was closer. I guess its the music and colour graphics.

 

[Harrison]

Have a look at the Atari ST version. My favourite one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5RKzomOzdQ

The C64 version did have the best 8-bit music (not surprising), and not that different to the ST versions music. The biggest issue with the C64 version, other than the dire graphics, was how slowly it played.