ToriJ's Top 11 Worst Video Games List

[Ayen]

Ever since the great Pilgrims came to these lands from their hometown of Chicago, people have enjoyed lists. We have lists for everything, video games, TV shows, movies, books, everything and anything. People love lists. People want to make love to lists, fearless of paper cuts! But all these lists have always been of things people like. Today one man/woman/other dares to be different. Today Tori is going to talk about the games that fill him/her/other with a burning RAGE! There will be no mercy! No regrets! I shall harness the anger of Bruce Banner, Vivi22, and Wolf Kannon, and spark the biggest fire the North has ever seen!

Now that my dramatics and references are out of the way. Let's kick this bad boy off.

(SPOILER)The List
1.) WCW Nitro
2.) Superman 64
3.) Power Rangers: Full Tilt Battle Pinball
4.) Fighter Maker
5.) Super Godzilla
6.) The Uncanny X-Men
7.) Star Trek Encounters
8.) Resident Evil Survivor
9.) Devil May Cry 2
10.) F.E.A.R. 3
11.) Spider-Man 2 Enter: Electro

11.

It pains me to find this game on this list, it really does. The Spider-Man games for the PlayStation were my favorite games to play as a kid, but GOD ALMIGHTY have they not aged well. Spider-Man 2 is the biggest offender of the two. Filled with B-list villains, horrible voice acting, cringe-worthy dialog that would make FFXIII envious, and riddled with glitches! The audio will fail, henchmen will attack you during a cut-scene, and the control schemes is a piling bag of burning trout! Some glitches are so bad you have to restart the stage to get around them. How did this get past beta testing? How did it get past alpha testing? SMURF ACTIVISION! Why isn't this higher on the list?

Stay tuned.

[Rez09]

I had the first one, and I loved it to no end, but I never ended up buying Enter: Electro; with what you've said, that may have been a good thing. How'd the boss battles end up in the game? I remember some of those being pretty good in the original, especially that last chase sequence after the final fight.

[Slothy]

Still going to buy it. Don't care what you say.

[Bolivar]

Yeah, I thought the first one was great, do you feel both haven't aged well or is this one just that bad?

[Ayen]

I had the first one, and I loved it to no end, but I never ended up buying Enter: Electro; with what you've said, that may have been a good thing. How'd the boss battles end up in the game? I remember some of those being pretty good in the original, especially that last chase sequence after the final fight.

The Shocker and Lizard fights are next to impossible to beat if you don't do it the way the game wants you to. You need to web yank crates on Shocker to beat him, which wouldn't be so bad if you didn't move slower than every single enemy in the game. You need an upgrade to your webbing to take out Lizard. Just getting up off your ass takes forever, but it was the same way in the first game so that's nothing new. The three different ways to take on Electro wasn't half bad.

Yeah, I thought the first one was great, do you feel both haven't aged well or is this one just that bad?

I know some of the glitches carry over from the first game, but I don't know. When I replayed the first game I didn't notice as many flaws as I did with the second, but I also replayed the first after playing a ton of old PS One games. When I played 2 I've been going through more recently released games, so I think the age showed a lot more as a result. The game was hard more from the glitches and the poor design choices than any legitimate difficulty. In one level I fell through the floor. That never happened in the first game.

Either way, 2 still wins because the developers had the chance to iron out any of the problems found in the first game, and they just didn't seem to bother. I'm afraid to replay the first game now.

[Slothy]

I can confirm that the first game is objectively awful on many levels compared to the likes of Spider-Man 2 and Ultimate Spider-Man.

[Ayen]

Childhood ruined.

10.

Anyone who has followed my reviews won't be surprise to see this one on here. You know what's a great idea for a game? Taking everything that the last one was building towards, and troutting all over it! The FPS elements are generic, the horror isn't the least bit scary, Alma is reduced to a useless pregnant lady, and the main villain looks like a rejected Doom 3 monster design. The online mode is even more uninspiring than the main game, and maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I could play with others, but naturally nobody was online to play this troutty game in the first place. This game is so bad Day 1 ended up bankrupted! "Don't worry, Tori, the game is better on co-op." Yeah, I have your co-op...

Right here! The game designers couldn't even be assed to fill up the whole screen! Look at all that black space! I could fit portraits of members on this site in all the space they left behind. I can barely see what's going on in front of me when I have the whole screen, I could barely tell what the smurf was going on on this thing. Why does it take more shots to kill a man with a gun than it does when you knife them? And for smurf sake, pick a design for Alma and stick with it!

[Vyk]

They staggered two 4:3 aspect ratio screens... why not stagger two 16:9 aspect ratio screens. Like any normal game. I actually loved that about Resident Evil 5. Sure, there was black space, but on a wide screen it wasn't much, and each screen kept a cinematic feel. Hunted: Demon Forge did the same thing, but it took it one step further and put HUD information outside the screen into that black space on multiplayer, which was even better. I can't imagine how any poor soul playing this on an older CRT TV could manage. That looks like it'd be bad enough on a wide screen. But on a standard screen, everything would be so scrunched x_x;

[Psychotic]

I disagree, Fear 3 was a pretty fun co-op romp. The splitscreen didn't bother me in the slightest though I mostly played on Xbox Live. I also disagree about the FPS elements being generic, they did have some real originality to them - the whole Fettel moveset for one, but also Point Man had some good little moves too like the baseball slide. Lastly we had a blast on the online mode too, definitely one of the faster paced, chaotic and intense "horde" modes you can get.

The main negatives are that it's not really that scary in the bits where it is meant to be. I say meant to be because the tone shifts from horror to sci-fi which really doesn't help. The story is a bit silly too, and the campaign is pretty short.

Why does it take more shots to kill a man with a gun than it does when you knife them?

That's a common game design element. It's risk/reward. It's harder to get up close to somebody than it is to stand back and shoot them so you reward it by having it do greater damage.

[Pumpkin]

I have played neither of those games

[Old Manus]

Spiderman 2

It's over between us.

[Bubba]

I wonder if there will be any Final Fantasy on the list?

[Ayen]

There's no way I'm beating BoB's record, so I may as well continue this now that the Ciddies are over.

9.

Devil May Cry seems to be reversed Star Trek. The odd number games are good while the even number games are bad, making DmC its Star Trek Nemesis. DMC2 takes everything that was great about the first game and sucks it out with a vacuum cleaner. The story is practically non-existent, the villain couldn't be any less interesting, the stages and boss fights (with the exception of the final one) are forgettable, and Dante's personality does a complete 180 from the laid back, pompous ass, to a super serious shell of his former self who thinks he's Two Face with no story explanation whatsoever.

The only cool things about this game is the artwork, one scene where Dante feels like his old self, and I guess Lucia isn't so bad, but there is nothing else about this game that makes it worth playing. You wouldn't miss anything of relevance in the rest of the series by skipping this title. It's so bad that both Capcom and fans just straight up forgot about it and will probably stab me for even mentioning it. They should have just taken Dante and Devil May Cry out of it altogether and make the game about Lucia. Because it technically already is. Dante is just along for the ride.

And if I'm supposed to be at the peak of my power, why do I run around like I have led in my pants?!

[Ayen]

DMC2 is so bad no one can think of anything to contribute.

8.

Were you expecting something else? Whoever thought making RE an FPS was a good idea needs to be shot! Those graphics do not work for a first-person game! This removed everything that was good about the last three games and replaced it with nothing but crap. You know how people complain about the older games not having enough ink ribbons? This game doesn't have enough typewriters! I played it for several hours straight and looked all over the place and I still couldn't find a save place. Did I just bust a rhyme? This game is so bad it has me rapping! I had to turn off the game without saving. Smurf doing all of that over again! The main character has amnesia, never seen that before! The only good part in the whole game is when the guy falls out of the helicopter, it's all downhill from there. Thank Yevon this is the only time they ever made--

Resident Evil Survivor 2 Code: Veronica

Resident Evil Dead Aim

The Umbrella Chronicles

The Darkside Chronicles

A first-person-shooter

[Vyk]

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)