What is the WORST video game you have ever played?

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Mario Kart 8
I keep trying to enjoy it but it's just a terrible game.
Power sliding sucks in this game. In fact, the controls in general are pretty sh***y.
You are only allowed one item at a time. One. This removes so much of the strategy the previous games allowed for.
Speaking of strategy and power sliding, in MK Wii, if you used the Wiimote and Nunchuck instead of wheel, not only did you have far better control over your character, it actually allowed for more strategy in your driving and allowed for more skillful maneuvers. Of course, none of that exists in MK 8...
They clearly tried to make it more fair by making the items far less powerful but that just makes it boring. The good items hardly ever come up, it's usually just mushrooms... woopdy freakin doo. It's extremely rare that I'll get a lightning bolt or bullet, even in last place. I've gone through entire races ONLY getting Mushrooms.
Most of the new courses are terrible. The retro courses are a complete disappointment because they've changed nearly all of them. All the new and old courses have been made ridiculously easy. Wario's Gold Mine was one of the hardest courses in Mario Kart Wii (at least for a while, til you got better at it.. because you used to have to rely on things like skill and all your practicing paying off), it's now dead simple. The obstacles you had to avoid (the mine carts) now give you a speed boost. It's harder to fall off courses, because they put fences where there used to be none.
They tried to build it more around speed... which just isn't Mario Kart. If you want a racer all about speed, play F Zero or Wipeout. The weird thing is, Stars either don't increase your speed or barely do, in a game built around speed, that makes no sense. Plus, they've always increased your speed in the other games.
I could go on but I think that'll do

Games that come to mind:

Sonic the Hedgehog (Xbox 360), broken camera control frustrated me to no end. Controls from what I remember weren't very responsive.

Don King Prizefighter- Love the Fight Night series. Hated this game and returned it to the rental store after 20 minutes.

Hybrid Heaven (N64)- It was interesting to me when I first played it. It was kind of a RPG mixed with action and fighting and wrestling (gameplay wise). More similar to Final Fantasy type of battles. The reason it didn't work is because the story was pretty bad.

TNA Impact- Smackdown wrestling games were better, but were kinda sucking around the time this game came out. It was damn near impossible learning how to kick out of a pin even with very little energy taken out of my bar., yet the opponent could kick out of my finisher with ease after I beat him to near empty health. The game was pretty crappy and lacking game modes as well.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2- worst COD game ever IMO. Way too many perks and kill streak rewards by this point and we already had enough of this rewards crap by the time Modern Warfare 3 came out. Now instead of kill streak, they reward you based off point streak. I could get 7 assists without dying and not contribute anything else and get a care package? what?

Enter the Matrix- couldn't play as Neo, and wasn't even entertaining to play.

If you thought Superman 64 was bad, you haven't played Superman: The Man of Steel for Xbox.

There's no more flying through rings but they give multiple tasks to do in an insanely limited amount of time. The fighting controls are bad, the flying is bad, and the camera is worse. I made it to the third mission and I had to find a satellite dish. I managed to find it no thanks to the camera and the flying controls. Before I had a chance to find where to put the thing, the timer ran out thanks to the camera and the flying controls and did I mention the navigation sucks too?

Markerman Adventures for the Nintendo DS. Biggest waste of money I used on Scholastic's book order handouts in school.

Okay, I got another one: Town of Salem, which can be found on Steam.

This, I actually havent played. But it's one of those rare games where, just watching it, I develop an absolute blazing hatred for it. In this case, because it's absurdly boring.

You'd have to look it up to get an idea as to what it's about and how it works, but one thing about it is that it's a "social" game. Going after your goals... which means taking down enemy players... involves figuring out just what role everyone is playing, and nobody will just outright TELL you which one they are (as this'll get them flattened) so you have to deduce it from things they say and actions taken.

The "things they say" bit is about 95% of the gameplay. In other words, 95% of the gameplay is sitting there waiting for people to spend a few million years typing things that will inevitably either be horribly misspelled, really damn stupid, or both

And with the gameplay part, it's like a bad reality show. Complete with voting. Ugh.

Seriously, I've never found another game that is THAT boring.

My cousin and a friend of mine switched from playing Smite (a moba, quite good) to this. This is irritating because it means I cant join in (me, play a SOCIAL game? Where most of it is waiting? You've got to be kidding...) and also because my friend in particular never shuts the heck up about it. SO tired of hearing about it.

It ends up contributing even further to me being entirely alone all the time when gaming; I now have even fewer interests shared with either of them than before. Aside from fighting games (which my cousin often wont play at all because he gets frustrated easily) there's no shared interests whatsoever. Which is obnoxious.

....it's also annoying because they actually finally pick a PC game for once instead of a console game.... and it has to be THAT.

Argh.

So yeah, that's my most hated game right now. At least the various people I subscribe to on Youtube havent started obsessing over it yet. But it's only a matter of time, really. Sigh.

a whole list:

out of the ones i own:

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship (Vivendi Interactive, a cash-in using the book license)
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (Wii port, never got the bloody controls to work)
Taxi Driver London 2 (unfinished, ugly, buggy unplayable bargain bin cr*p)
Driver (PS1 port, either the port sucks or it really is much worse than i remember it)
Myst (it's not that i hate rather quiet, introspective games, but somehow this irks me)

ones i've played but don't own:

Dr.Jekyll And Mr.Hyde NES (boy, the AVGN wasn't kidding on this one)
Bart Vs. The Space Mutants
Street Fighter 2 DOS port (extremely delayed controls and it's not because of DOSBox, but apparently inherent to this version)

Contrast

It's an adventure/platformer. Despite the neat ideas, like a lot of games, it fell rather short imo. Others disagree and it got pretty good reviews.

Sonic 06 was the the worst game I've ever played. Not only did I play it, but I was a fool and finished the game * the loading screens were absurd and other things that will not be mentioned *. I still can't believe that game exists, and for a while I thought Sega was actively trying to kill Sonic.

Xbox One-Call of Duty Advanced Warefare

The worst game I've ever played was..........E.T. for the Atari 2600. Or Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde for Super Nintendo.

I'm a FPS junkie, but I've twice tried to play Quake 2 on the PS1, and gave up after about half an hour on both occasions. From what I recall, and from some YouTube stuff I've seen as well, the environments and the aliens all seem depressingly similar, and the intense heavy guitar type backing tracks made it feel you had to rush through the levels, rather than creating a suspenseful atmosphere.

Also Gran Turismo on the PS1. I obtained the 'B' driving licence, but the races that it qualified me for were every bit as 'arcadey' as the entry-level game. Then tried to pass the 'A' licence, but couldn't get past the last two tests, presumably because one was supposed to master some sort of powerslide (no help given in the manual). Not worth the bother in the end.