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What's the absolute worst game of 2018 you played?
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These people sum up my feelings. I have never seen a more beautiful, amazingly detailed and vast world that was so incredibly boring to play.
I am much more enjoying the game now that i'm watching a story playthrough on youtube.
It took 5 posts before someone said God of War is their worst game of 2018. I mean did you only played that game in the entire year? Jesus Christ, Era!
I guess I tried Fortnite for the first time this year and I really didn't like anything about it. I've liked almost every other BR game to some degree, but not Fortnite. Its mammoth popularity kind of makes it worse.
Beyond that it's been a pretty solid year, at least for games I've chosen to play.
Beyond that it's been a pretty solid year, at least for games I've chosen to play.
Grain of salt and all because I played a lot of good games: DOOM 2016 - it gets universal love but it did nothing for me. I liked the old school DOOM better for its day.
Fallout 76 beta. Yikes...
It was kind of a novelty though. I always wait for reviews and refuse to preorder games, so haven't played an objectively bad game in years. It was so bad it started to feel good, in the "I can't wait to see what the next bug/glitch is" kind of way.
It was kind of a novelty though. I always wait for reviews and refuse to preorder games, so haven't played an objectively bad game in years. It was so bad it started to feel good, in the "I can't wait to see what the next bug/glitch is" kind of way.
I'm pretty sure Far Cry 5 would be the worst game I played this year if I actually played it. I don't see the controversy.
Read Dead Redemption II.
Yeah I know, but I swear I'm not trolling. I'm very selective in my gaming choices and RDRII was the worst of the bunch. The game I played this year with the poorest controls, game feel and player agency. But I've talked about it plenty already so I'll stop there.
Yeah I know, but I swear I'm not trolling. I'm very selective in my gaming choices and RDRII was the worst of the bunch. The game I played this year with the poorest controls, game feel and player agency. But I've talked about it plenty already so I'll stop there.
I've not played anything I deeply disliked this year, but OnRush was pretty bad. Got it with ps+ and even then I couldn't stick with it. It's just so dull. The racing game nobody wanted.
This Is the Police 2 is a game made entirely out of someone's complete inability to read the room
Pocket Rumble by far. It was advertised as an easy to get into fighter yet the controls sucked and I had trouble doing even basic moves. The tutorials were bad and the overly complicated controls made me think what in the hell the devs were thinking. I deleted that game from my Switch a week later, even the icon is gone. I want to forget I made that purchase.
Tiny Hands Adventure
i have a high tolerance for mediocre/middle of the road 3d platformers & this game liberally cribs the crash bandicoot formula so i figured itd be okay enough as platforming junk food. boy was i wrong
lousy controls, awful level design, a weird mishmash artstyle (some enemies/objects look so dramatically better than the rest of the game i wouldnt be shocked if they came from an asset store), ugly ui, horrible blaring stock music that doesnt match the game, tedious boss fights. its incredible how every facet of this game manages to be terrible. the main mechanic is each boss gives you a new set of arms but instead of being new moves you just use them at predetermined points, press a button, and get a gem. theres weird 2d levels where the floors you walk on get out of sync with the scene and paralax scroll in weird ways.
i played a few wholly unremarkable but decent enough for a weekend 3d platformers this year (funk unplugged, suzy cube, freckles & flynn) and i figured this would be in line with those instead of an absolute gutter tier mess.
i have a high tolerance for mediocre/middle of the road 3d platformers & this game liberally cribs the crash bandicoot formula so i figured itd be okay enough as platforming junk food. boy was i wrong
lousy controls, awful level design, a weird mishmash artstyle (some enemies/objects look so dramatically better than the rest of the game i wouldnt be shocked if they came from an asset store), ugly ui, horrible blaring stock music that doesnt match the game, tedious boss fights. its incredible how every facet of this game manages to be terrible. the main mechanic is each boss gives you a new set of arms but instead of being new moves you just use them at predetermined points, press a button, and get a gem. theres weird 2d levels where the floors you walk on get out of sync with the scene and paralax scroll in weird ways.
i played a few wholly unremarkable but decent enough for a weekend 3d platformers this year (funk unplugged, suzy cube, freckles & flynn) and i figured this would be in line with those instead of an absolute gutter tier mess.
Same here played the beta and really dislike it. The game just didn't know what it was trying to be. It wasn't a good Fallout game that's for sure.
I rarely stumble on egregiously "bad" games, so most of the stuff that up being comparatively bad tend to just be games I just don't like. Either way, the game that came to mind for 2018 was Secret of Mana. Not a huge shocker though, since I think the original release is of a similar quality. Aesthetically questionable, buggy, vague, combat I don't find engaging, a magic system I find annoying, nothing characters, and boss fights that I want to be over almost as soon as I start them. Also for some reason a lot of empty, copied-and-pasted rooms that make you not want to bother exploring. Still has simple co-op joys, but it just makes you appreciate the person you're playing with, and not really the game. The only thing the remake does worse than the original, is attempt to remaster the music. The original game had good, albeit short tracks, and this remake tries to lengthen and modernise them. These updates are consistently worse, but at least you're given the option to use the old music.
Man the hot takes .. like did you only play AAA Games..? there should be a lot of bad games mentioned here, because crap games sell in a big way on Nintendo Switch e-shop..
Like I played CABELA'S® THE HUNT and BASS PRO SHOPS® THE STRIKE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION... and they are bad games.. like really bad games.. Wii games ported to switch to make some fast cash.. those are the worst games I have played this year..
Like I played CABELA'S® THE HUNT and BASS PRO SHOPS® THE STRIKE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION... and they are bad games.. like really bad games.. Wii games ported to switch to make some fast cash.. those are the worst games I have played this year..
Mostly, yeah. Some AA games like Darksiders 3 or Valkyria Chronicles 4 too.
Honestly, RDR2. It has an amazing looking world but that's honestly it. I find the gameplay atrocious, the story started good but completely goes to shit, the missions are not interesting at all, especially later on. I don't know, this game just isn't as good as people are claiming it to be in my opinion.
Came out in 2017,
But Battlefront 2 pre-progression update. And to be honest, probably post progression update as well. I really wanted to like it. It's Star Wars. However, the lack of any real commitment to the game just put me off. By the end I just gave up on it. Though it's nice to see it FINALLY getting some content, but it's just to little to late for me sadly. EA really fucked the dog on that one.
But Battlefront 2 pre-progression update. And to be honest, probably post progression update as well. I really wanted to like it. It's Star Wars. However, the lack of any real commitment to the game just put me off. By the end I just gave up on it. Though it's nice to see it FINALLY getting some content, but it's just to little to late for me sadly. EA really fucked the dog on that one.
So, if we are talking "Games I played this year" my choice would be "The Fractured But Whole" it just seemed the laziest, soulless sequel to a game that was genuinely amazing and funny, the jokes were shit, the battle system was ass and I don't remember a single thing being as memorable as fighting Khloe Kardashians aborted Nazi Fetus.
If we are talking "Games released in 2018" Then my choice would be RDR2, it's a meticulously crafted old west experience and it bored me to tears, I managed to force myself to play to the cemetery mission for that Italian dude and I just stopped mid mission and haven't picked it up since, I got the game release day and I got to that mission a week after getting it, I honestly went back to Diablo 3 and had masses more fun than I did with that bloated boring mess of a "Western Epic".
I should clarify I don't think it's a bad game per se, but for how hyped I was for it and how much I loved the first one? It was just a bitter, crushing disappointment
If we are talking "Games released in 2018" Then my choice would be RDR2, it's a meticulously crafted old west experience and it bored me to tears, I managed to force myself to play to the cemetery mission for that Italian dude and I just stopped mid mission and haven't picked it up since, I got the game release day and I got to that mission a week after getting it, I honestly went back to Diablo 3 and had masses more fun than I did with that bloated boring mess of a "Western Epic".
I should clarify I don't think it's a bad game per se, but for how hyped I was for it and how much I loved the first one? It was just a bitter, crushing disappointment
Either The Quiet Man or Past Cure. Finished the former as it was so LOL, refunded the latter after 45 mins.
Maia, a scifi basebuilding game. I didn't kickstart it, but it 'released' out of early access recently and it sounded like my kind of thing. It's actually an ugly broken mess with a terrible UI and AI that literally doesn't work. As in your settlers will starve to death despite having plenty of food or die of exhaustion because they couldn't be bothered to lie down on a bed. Or stand in a fire and die. Or not complete tasks with absolute no indication as to why. It's a pathetic unfinished mess and frankly shouldn't be sold. Also, it thinks it's funny, which is just adding insult to injury
Fortnite by a mile. Tried it out on PS4 and Switch now. I just really hate everything about it.
It's sad to see one of the absolute best games this year (Hollow Knight) mentioned on this thread lol.
The last kinda bad game i played was Battle Princess Madelyn. Soulless Ghosts 'n Goblins clone with rather bad controls. Had hard time to stop yawning during the handful of hours i tried to play this.
The last kinda bad game i played was Battle Princess Madelyn. Soulless Ghosts 'n Goblins clone with rather bad controls. Had hard time to stop yawning during the handful of hours i tried to play this.
I'll echo that it was RDR2 for me. It's a really pretty world, some well acted characters, but gameplay wise just does nothing for me. Rockstar's mission design just isn't compelling to me, because they regularly restrict player agency needlessly, and their core mechanics feature clunky controls on top of combat just feeling shallow. To be fair, they get slightly better each time game mechanics wise, and I can appreciate some of the simmy survival systems, but too often I'm just bored, and the game ends up coasting on its presentation.
I'm expecting stick for this but honestly has to be Undertale.
Bought it on Switch after I saw people raving about it and found it was just awful, the level design I found utterly boring, the characters something out of a kids picture book with dialogue to match and the combat hardly as revolutionary as people had made out.
Maybe I just didn't 'get' it but certainly a personal worst game of the year for me.
Bought it on Switch after I saw people raving about it and found it was just awful, the level design I found utterly boring, the characters something out of a kids picture book with dialogue to match and the combat hardly as revolutionary as people had made out.
Maybe I just didn't 'get' it but certainly a personal worst game of the year for me.