ToriJ's Top 11 Worst Video Games List

[Slothy]

smurf every lightgun/lightgun-esque RE. I'm ashamed to say I played some Umbrella Chronicles. It was free through PS+ and it still makes me feel ripped off. I'll never get that time back.

[Ayen]

Didn't know the Chronicles games moved to PS3. Doesn't surprise me, nothing RE related ever stays on Nintendo.

[Bubba]

I wish I had something to say on these games but I haven't actually played any of them. Will take your word for it that they are pretty bad though.

I'm just waiting for a game to come along that I like so I can be suitably offended.

[Ayen]

7.

You'd think a game that's about playing as the actual starships from Star Trek in space would be fun, that there'd be no way for them to screw that up. They screwed it up. They managed to turn something that should be fun and exciting, into the most boring and tedious experience possible. You're doing space tricks, and most of all you're starting with the ship from Enterprise that most people didn't care about, so it's even more tedious. But can I be surprised? You have the people who made Fallout 3, and Ubisoft. Star Fox 64 was more fun than this and that was limited to the N64! This is the PS2 for Christ sake we know you can do better than this! Did they give you virtually no budget? That would be fitting all things considered.

If you want a good Star Trek game, play Star Trek Online. They're the only one I know that actually got the ST experience down. Only took them a good couple of decades. Well, I suppose there's a decent TNG game for Super Nintendo or something, but I haven't looked much into that game. Star Trek Encounters? More like Star Trek BORING! Yeah.

[Slothy]

The lack of good Star Trek games in existence is a shame. I really just want a single player StarTrek game that treats the galaxy like an open world Bethesda type game ironically. Let me explore and kill some smurfing Cardassians and Romulans damn it!

[Fox]

You guys:

Bridge Commander.

I'm not gonna tell you it's a perfect Star Trek game by any means, but still. You could (and did!) do far worse! Also Elite Force, but that's set on Voyager.

[Ayen]

I like Voyager.

And that statement may cause more outrage than anything I added to this list.

[Vyk]

Voyager amused me but I agree the franchise deserves a good game. Hell it deserves a great game. I'm wondering if it can even be done as an RPG but it saddens me be believe it would not work. At least not in a traditional manner. Characters don't power up in that show. They don't massively get healthier or more resistant to things. But it definitely deserves something of the caliber of KotOR

[Ayen]

6.

Depending how old you are and if you grew up on X-Men, chances are you got this game. And chances are you regretted it almost instantly. The over the head view is crap even for NES standards. The computer A.I. is stupid and you're better off playing two player, and the controls are crap. I had the misfortune of being able to replay this game for the first time in two decades (btw I can play old NES titles now) and I couldn't bring myself to play more than two minutes. The Uncanny X-Men is so bad it makes X-2 Wolverine's Revenge, look like X-Men 2 Clone Wars. Speaking of Clone Wars, if you want a GOOD X-Men game that will blow your mind, get Clone Wars. That is the ideal X-Men collection game for any X-Men fan. After playing Uncanny, I just washed my throat down with some of that goodness. I can also play old Sega games now.

[Ayen]

5.

Hey, I have a good idea for a game. Let's make a game about Godzilla where you just walk around for hours on end. Let's make the map so slow that it feels like you're following a snail around Tokyo. Let's look at the same dull, boring images on the screen over and over again and make the payoff fights with no interactivity. Let's take one of the greatest monster movies of all time and turn it into the video game equivalent of watching paint dry! It's smurfing Godzilla, how do you mess that up?! HOW?!

*takes cartridge out of SNES and destroys it with his atomic breath*

[Skyblade]

Well, I mean, it's Godzilla. Incredibly powerful, and basically completely unstoppable. All it does is wander through the city, walking straight through buildings and destroying stuff just by being there. Not exactly the most thrilling life, to be honest. That's why you bring in other super-foes like Mothra and such for him to fight. Otherwise, Godzilla just gets bored.

[Polnareff]

They can't have sold that well, it must take a lot for them to learn a lesson. Capcom has been in a bit of hot water lately for being ignorant, and backhanding their fans. Now I see that it is actually not a new problem. No wonder they're losing all their best creators and have stagnated over the past few years

But I don't really know the whole story, and I don't want to derail the thread into business politics of a supposedly failing Japanese company that can't let go and listen once in a while (though there seem to be a lot of those these days)

Capcom is the prime example of a company that can't win. Fans asked them to revamp Mega Man, they do that, and nobody is satisfied. They're asked to revamp RE, and it worked.....with RE4, at least. When fans asked for more action gameplay in RE, Cap made RE5, and......fans didn't like it. The smurf? So then Cap blends the original RE games' gameplay and the later action gameplay, for RE6......still complaints.

Fans begged Capcom to bring out a new Street Fighter game. They do it and everybody complains about it. Irony is, it still sold 6 million copies.

Bionic Commando, MERCS, and Strider had requested sequels for years. Capcom makes sequels to them, finally, and nobody buys them. Same with 1942: Joint Strike. They were all good games, except for maybe the big BC reboot (Bionic Commando: Rearmed was choice, though).

Other requested games like the Dungeons and Dragons games (which people wanted ported for a long time), the DuckTales remake, and others indicate that Capcom did try to listen to the fans. But I think they realized that listening to the fans is a rather stupid thing to do in most cases. What people say they'll play is not necessarily what they'll buy.

And for the record, most of Capcom's current failings are remnants of when Keiji Inafune still worked for the company.

[Vyk]

Make me feel bad for them, why don'tcha :P

It's funny, because none of that stuff mattered to me. Though I though people adored Mega Man 9 and 10, and Street Fighter IV got tons of praise, and lots of sales. Only problem is, they Street Fighter II'd it and made a million versions of it

I never had many problems with those other games, but then again, I wouldn't have ever really considered myself a huge Capcom fan, sadly. They've always been there, but I always felt they were making games for other people, rather than for me. So I didn't really expect them to make me happy

You make a good argument though, in that context it is obvious that they definitely indeed did try. But what's this about Inafune? How did he cause their woes? I thought he was just a developer under their hood, and mostly just known for Mega Man

[Ayen]

Well, I mean, it's Godzilla. Incredibly powerful, and basically completely unstoppable. All it does is wander through the city, walking straight through buildings and destroying stuff just by being there. Not exactly the most thrilling life, to be honest. That's why you bring in other super-foes like Mothra and such for him to fight. Otherwise, Godzilla just gets bored.

Rampage made destroying buildings awesome, no excuses.

Hell, the buildings actually take away life when you destroy them. When did the buildings in Tokyo get so strong?

[Loony BoB]

*patiently waits for a game he has played* xD