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worst gaming experience.
Heilman11085:
The worst gaming experiences I ever came at the helm of Xbox 360! I used to be addicted to playing games solely for the achievements. So I dropped many of hours on games that were shit just to get my gamer tag high. I now realize what a total waste of time this was! Lol! But the one in particular thing that pissed me off the most was when Disney bought out Marvel and overnight removed all the DLC for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Therefore you weren't able to get certain achievements because you could no longer download the characters needed to get those achievements! Arggghhhh!
WolfAlmighty:
--- Quote from: ShaggyB on September 23, 2012, 07:55:17 PM ---Mine would have to be Silver Surfer on NES. Rented that thing so many times and never got far at all. Recently I discovered it has cheat codes you enter on a cheat menu. To access said menu you need to use controller 2...... Literally, this is 25+ years later and I'm still mad about wasting all that time when I could have used invincibility back when i was 8.
If youve not played it, go find it. It'll piss you off too. I found a copy about a year ago for 99c at a local used games store. If you can get it for cheap... its fun to torment your friends with.
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I actually like Silver Surfer quite a bit. I bought it after hearing how hellishly hard it was and beat it shortly thereafter (got it in the mail on Friday, beat it on Saturday) so I was kind of surprised it was a lot easier than I had heard. Since then I've played it through several times, including one time without dying. What's nice about it is that you can practise the five main stages without having to go through the rest so all you have to do is play each stage until you've gotten each of them down, and then string them all together. Of course, there's still the Magik Domain to worry about, but by that time you're probably used to what the game's going to throw at you so it shouldn't be TOO bad. I will say, though, a turbo controller would probably help with that game. By the end of a playthrough my thumb and wrist are pretty damn tired. :D
--- Quote from: Heilman11085 on September 24, 2012, 12:36:20 AM ---The worst gaming experiences I ever came at the helm of Xbox 360! I used to be addicted to playing games solely for the achievements. So I dropped many of hours on games that were shit just to get my gamer tag high. I now realize what a total waste of time this was! Lol! But the one in particular thing that pissed me off the most was when Disney bought out Marvel and overnight removed all the DLC for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Therefore you weren't able to get certain achievements because you could no longer download the characters needed to get those achievements! Arggghhhh!
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This is one reason I don't care much for modern games - they make fake replayability by adding in achievements to prolong the game instead of making a game good that's worth replaying on its own merit. It's one of the reasons Battlefield 3 turned me off so much, because it was more about stats and points and unlocks than it was about actually playing the game. When it came to just playing it, the game itself was very bland and repetitive. But throw in a persistent stat-tracking system and the gamers won't care how repetitive it is, it'll sell like hotcakes. A shame, too...BF2 was such a fun game.
Anyway, my worst gaming experience? Well, I've tried (unsuccessfully) to finish Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde three times now. I can get to the final stage with all the barrels, but that's where I get stuck. It has unlimited continues but no password system, so if you want to take a break and try again, you either have to leave your NES on or go back through the whole slow-ass game just to try again.
Conan (NES) was also a bitter disappointment due to some of the most obtuse controls I've ever seen in a video game. Up makes you jump straight up, down makes you jump up and forward (!), and in order to pick things up you have to stand over them and crouch, which means holding down an attack button and then pressing down. Do it in the wrong sequence and instead of picking up a sword or pitchfork you could likely hurl yourself into a molten lake or off a cliff.
Also, Swamp Thing. He moves slow, he can't avoid enemies easily, his attack sucks (when you punch in mid-air your lateral movement freezes so you start falling straight down).
Garry Kitchen's Battle Tank is another one that had potential but just falls way short of the mark. It's fun until the third level, when the helicopters appear. At that point it goes from a nice dodge-and-counterattack affair with other tanks, to aerial bum-rape.
Despite all that, at least those games I've had the patience to play for more than five minutes. I can't say the same for the last game on this list, which I guess would make it my worst gaming experience, and that would be Last Action Hero. You can't hardly attack without getting hit, there's very little you can do other than run around and punch people, and it's just...meh. I played it very briefly, and will likely never play it again. Even the oft-maligned Wayne's World I found the patience to sit down and play through (and, as a bit of a confession, I actually kind of like that game).
Deadpool:
Gears of War in this generation
and many nes games.
pumanchero:
I love to support new releases for the NES but Dragon's Feet homebrew sucks.
lcvolt:
Rambo NES: you are not told what to do or how to do it, and really bad programming.
Double Dragon 2: the game is great, but the seller lied to me telling me the copy was perfectly fine like new. turns out, the sticker was ok, but not decent enough, and the cartridge looked like crap, it is the worst cartridge i've ever seen. what the hell did they do to it? i dont get it? have you ever put a sausage on a microwave so much time it starts to get blisters? imagine dozens of blisters all around the game, and a really bad looking sticekr. i had to paint it with the first spray can i could. now it doesnt look that bad, but is whiteish gray.
Chrono trigger: imagine playing a great game without knowing anything about its genre. that was chrono trgger to me. i had never played an rpg and wasted hours and hours without knowing what the hell to do. i didnt know english back then, so the story was pointless and the objective never clear. i got onto rpgs waaaay later and played this masterpiece.
TMNT: the first nes game. really hard. i beat it last year for the first time. as a kid, i never had the chance to see what happens after the third stage.
Donkey kong country 2: my favorite game ever. i lent it, got it back and never worked again. i still have the cartridge, hoping someday i learn how to fix it.
GTA: i just find this franchise boring. growing as a teenager i played this game a lot with my friends, but they would only play around doing stupid things wasting time. i know the story is supposedly decent, but i think playing as a drug dealer is just not my thing.
robocop NES: A friend lent me this game. i couldnt play it. next day on the morning i went to the playing room to check it out... it wasnt there. i never saw it again.
General: giving away my old consoles and games. got the nes and its games back, but not the snes, loosing castlevania 4 and megaman x in the way. now this regular games are overpriced. i hate ebay.
Also, my mom throwing the boxes because they were "a waste of space". now they are collectors items, and besides that, the boxes were always so cool, not like the noew dvd cases.
renting a bad game is always bad, but i dont remember very many things
mario party 3: lent the game, got it back, it never worked anymore. i still have the cartridge hoping to fix it. also, this game is looooooooooooong. everytime i had 1/2 of the game clear, some stupid kid would come up and erase it.
mario tennis 64: lost it
zelda OOT: this game is great. and it was great back then. so popular every kid I knew had it. i was never interested on a game until i played it (except if it was a mario game). a lot of the kids were not gamers before zelda OOT, so when i played with them they were only fooling around trying to know what to do. since they didnt know english (i knew little back then) they didnt know how to call aria saria, so they didnt know what to do the whole time. also, they wouldn't let me play, so it was as boring as watching a hacker fool with the game design and editing crap levels.... or playing gta.
uncharted 3: bought the special edition. no figurine included, no belt, no ring, and a stupid despicable horrible looking REGION 4 dvd (ok blu ray). i could change the cover sure, but the thing still says region 4 and has all this stupid text in spanish that takes the amusement away. "now the exclusive latin american game bla bla" "it comes in spanish" (european spanish of course. latin americans hate media on that accent).
enter the matrix had a bad ending, but it was not a bad game. i had it on xbox, so it was only one dvd.
watching the megaman franchise DIE. (have you seen the new game? megaman with playing cards and rpg elements, just make a 2d shooter and you sell, dont yo get it capcom?)
ok this is too much sorry for the long post