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I wouldn't put the 4th Monkey Island in there, although I didn't think much of it. Found myself fighting a control system that did't add anything to the game.

Whilst personally the only game I've ever taken back to a shop is TOCA Race Driver (not a patch on the previous version), and IWD II only just missed out (no time to). I wouldn't say either was the worst I played.

 

I once played a 'game' called Akalabeth. It was the game released by the guy who called himself Lord British before he created the Ultima series.

reepnorp has covered it before, but I'll mention it again. The main character is a box with an X in it, nothing on the map is understandable (I thought I started in a lake. It was a city.), and due to our computer being so VASTLY superior to the ones Akalabeth was meant to be played on, the game moved at warp speed. Even if it was slower, taking one 'step' (about the size of a city tile) and starving to death wasn't fun. We never got off the starting screen. Ugh.

If you really want to see it, I'm sure it can be found at some stupid warez site, or you can do like we did and be forced to get it. See, we bought the Ultima Collection. It came with Ultima I - VIII, and as a bonus, it also included Akalabeth. Oh joy. (The box was cheating. It showed only cinematic scenes, and a couple of shots from Ascension, which it said in tiny letters wasn't included.)

 

Touche. Point taken.

 

A lot of the much older games are a lot better than today's games, simply because they had a better plot or something like that. The original Eye of the Beholder, I thought, was better than the new one they made for GBA.

 

Windows.

Seriously speaking... oh, I *was* serious. So, strictly concerning games, I don't know the worst ever one. I only know what disappointed me. The greatest disappointment was probably Might and Magic 8. I refused to play it.

Really stinking ones: Horde, Saga: the Rage of Vikings (IIRC the original title).

 

For me the greatest disapointment was Lords of magic. I played the demo and I found it intersting but when I played the full version, well it just sucks.

@Chevalier

Rage of vikings is not a great game but it has a feature that I have not seen in any other game. You have to place a male and a female in a house in order to produce a new unit.

[ June 21, 2003, 10:06: Message edited by: BOC ]

 

Worst game?
Any that comes with your computer. Especially Myst III. That p****d me off. I couldn't find where to go despite wasting 3 hours of my life looking around.

 

Of course, everyone here probably knows that Mechwarrior4 holds a special place in my heart.

That said, I might agree with anyone who says Obsidian or Riven.

Obsidian was one of the Myst clones. But the puzzles were SO abstract, that without mind-altering drugs or dreaming about the game, you stood very little chance of completing it. There was like, one or two logical puzzles in it. The rest was pure crack. Not coca leaves; crack.

Riven sucked because the plot was terrible. And that one puzzle with the marbles was so abstract and obscure, that it stuckered people for an enormous amount of time. The pictures and sounds were pretty, and everything. But the puzzle formation was just abysmal.

I haven't played Daikatna, even though I still have the disk on a spindle somewhere. It's on my to-do list, as is Soulbringer.

 

*ALL* of the myth games, the most recent civilization game, and Dune 2000.

 

Hey! A fellow text adventure fan! I was beginning to think I was the only one on this forum who even knew what a text adventure was.

Worst game I've ever played? Can't remember off hand. Generally if games are incredibly bad I throw them away and try to forget that I wasted my money on them.

But worst recent game has got to be Pools of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. To think I'd just finished BG2 and came along POR and the first thing that went through my mind was: "ah, another epic RPG! I bet this'll be as good as BG2! Great!"

Several hours later the game was being deleted and I was shuddering at the sheer horror of it.