do you know any bad video games?

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Of you really wanted some bad video games, here's how to find a whole bunch of them. Open the app store (I believe it's called Software Center) in Linux Mint, then look for games which are rated as few stars

final fantasy 8 has a bad battling system

Amnesia: The Dark Descent
It looks like a fun game. Older Son recommended it with a sly wink.
It immediately made me motion sick. Steam say's I've played it 14 minutes since March 4, 2013.
He knew it looked like a game I would be drawn to, but he also knew full well, it would make me sick.
He has a mischievous sense of humor.
He also recommended Doki Doki Literature Club!
IT'S A TRAP! (I knew it was a trap, but I stuck it out until the "end" of the game. 8.7 hours)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nmag_guoFw

"Symmetry" - it's hopeless and I bought it only because it was so cheap.

Metal Gear Survive - a blatant cash grab that takes Hideo Kojima's beloved IP and r*pes it with zombies.

Zelda's Adventure (CD-i).
I.e., if Link: The Faces Of Evil and Zelda: The Wand Of Gamelon had even-clunkier gameplay and lacked the meme-happy cutscenes.

Hunt Down the Freeman - The worst fan made Half-Life game of all time.

Hallow knight - throws to much at you at once.

Ark survival evolved - to much.

hearts of iron IV - i tried getting into it but its tutorial is bad and theres to many buttons.

Plants vs Zombies battle for neighborvile - a bad sequel from the other plants vs zombies games basically just overwatch but a bit better.

overwatch 2.

hunter call of the wild - its heavily pay to win so that instantly makes a game bad in my opinion.

star wars Jedi academy - to much.

pac man the arcade machines one.

skyrim elder scrolls - gets odd later on.

fallout the whole thing - not aligned with what post nuclear war would be like and to odd.

sons of the forest - to much.

a open world mario game but i cant remember its name - it was to odd

grounded - gets to odd later on.

Open world Mario game...the one I can think of that polarized fans was Super Mario Sunshine. Was that the one?

yeah probably looking at the pictures it could be i cant remember as then i just played the game and didn't know the title.

https://imgflip.com/i/agakli

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Callisto protocol

It looks amazing sure.

There's nothing wrong with it technically, it's just very boring and bland. Not at all scary either. One of the very few horror games I gave up halfway through because I was just tired of it.

It's meant to be a spiritual successor to dead space, a game which I really enjoyed.

The X-Men game on the NES. I got it for my seventh birthday, and it is the first game I ever truly hated. It is just poorly designed from the ground up.

"nothing too expensive", ooh, that really narrows it down. I'm always surprised to find out how expensive some games are...
Sometimes I get in a mood for bad games, and for me that's kind of the original XBox era. Lots of Western devs trying to cash in on this new technology, but not really understanding how to make something enjoyable to play.

I know many will disagree, but I always put the GTA games way up there. I do enjoy just mindlessly driving around and enjoying the scenery and the radio stations, but the missions always felt like an afterthought, and straddled the line between boring and frustrating.
I'm sure they got better, I've enjoyed Chinatown Wars (need to finish it), but the 3 Trilogy was not quite there.
(not that 1 and 2 were much better)


I always liked that game, it was one of the first games I ever beat.
I think most of the heat it gets is from people who never actually played it, they just heard it was bad (from someone else who probably never played it).
To be fair, like most 2600 games, I imagine it was probably quite difficult to play without the manual.

Now Pac-Man, that's a different story. I know some people enjoy it, but ehhhhh. His wife's game was so much better, it actually played like the real thing for the most part.


This is not 100% true, and I've never heard it being "recalled" before. There were a lot of returns (not just E.T.) and stores didn't know what to do with them. Atari destroyed them as a tax writeoff. E.T. is probably in the minority as far as the games that were found there...but "There's tons of copies of Defender buried in the desert." doesn't capture peoples' attention.


Oh hey, I kind of worked on that game a tiny bit. Sort of. But not really =)
I did some early work on Nexuiz around 2002, I wouldn't be surprised if some of my code is still in there.