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[Victor Omega]

I'm lucky to have played some great games this year.

With that said, has anyone been lucky and lalyed some bad games?

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

None of the games I've played this year have been bad. Oh wait, I did try Redfall.

 

[Spyxos]

Wanted Dead, Forspoken and Redfall. Gollum should be as well really bad, but i haven't played it.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

I think Redfall will top the list mainly due to the availability of the game, but it seems like Gollum, Return to Moria and Quantum Error are in the running. I doubt many people will buy those games to find out, though.

EDIT: And I shouldn't forget Skull Island: Rise of Kong. That looks like complete shit.

 

[Punished Miku]

I think Redfall will top the list mainly due to the availability of the game, but it seems like Gollum, Return to Moria and Quantum Error are in the running. I doubt many people will buy those games to find out, though.

Almost no one will ever come close to playing the worst game of the year, which is how these always go. It should just be read as most disappointing game of the year.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Redfall easily. They tried to make a Borderlands and fell on their face. Stick to what you're good at. Rocksteady about to learn this same lesson.

 

[Alexios]

Probably a game you never heard of because it's such a mess nobody gave it more than a 5 second look. People who post about some known name are trolls or ignorant of their hobby, there's always some complete technical & conceptual disaster around as just about any script kiddie can launch.

Although, I suppose the King Kong game might qualify (and if it didn't have that IP nobody would have given it more than a 5 second look and we wouldn't have known it exists, but in today's tabloid games media dumb clickbait is their job more than informing folks of unknown great games)

 

[Fart Knight]

Forza Motorsport

 

[Chuck Berry]

Spider-Man 2

 

[diffusionx]

in terms of high profile games, it's gotta be Redfall. I know that MS memoryholed it but this really was their big early year tentpole release

 

[skit_data]

Gollum was the worst idea leading to the creation of the worst game.
When critics and players deemed the game the worst game of the year they followed with the worst apology.

It is in my mind the worst game of the year on several levels.

 

[Magic Carpet]

The last case of Benedict Fox gets my Nominose.

 

[LordCBH]

Of the games I’ve played? Redfall. It’s the worst game I’ve played since Ride to Hell.

Overall? Gotta be Kong.

 

[Imtjnotu]

redfall was pretty bad.

Callisto was also really bad

 

[Werewolf Jones]

FF XVI.

 

[Punished Miku]

Hey MudoSkills , what was the worst game you played this year? Just curious, no reason.

 

[mortal]

I wouldn't consider any titles I've played this year to be bad. More like most enjoyed to least enjoyed, and none of them were perfect experiences lacking any flaws.
I try not to waste my time and money on games I know will be bad going in.

 

[Little Mac]

In terms of sheer disappointment ... Diablo 4, Redfall, or Final Fantasy XVI.

 

[Solidus_T]

For the hype it received prior to release, Redfall. - but overall it's gotta be that Kong game or Gollum.

 

[Aion002]

I would say Redfall, but at least I realized from the beginning that it was a terrible game, so I dropped it really fast, so there's at least that.... While Starfield on the other hand, tricked me in to thinking that the game would get better, and I really wanted to like it a lot, so I ended up spending quite sometime on it, until I realized that it was also trash.


So yeah... Starfield for me.

 

[Chuck Berry]

redfall was pretty bad.

Callisto was also really bad

Callisto came out in 2022

 

[DeepSpace5D]

Gotta be Gollum, right?

 

[Topher]

Probably the worst one anyone actually heard about was Gollum.

Worst first party game? Redfall

Forspoken needs a mention as worst......something. Not sure what but it was bad.

 

[MasterDerico]

Wanted Dead, Forspoken and Redfall. Gollum should be as well really bad, but i haven't played it.

Wanted Dead is a hidden gem imo!
Loved!

 

[MiguelItUp]

Probably Gollum, but I didn't play it.

Personally, I think the worst game I've played was probably Mortal Kombat 1. I was going to say Starfield, but, I could see them doing things to Starfield that will bring me back. Be it mods, or whatever. But with Mortal Kombat 1, I really don't see myself going back. The game isn't a broken mess but it just feels so shallow and lacking compared to other games in the genre. I mean, it didn't launch with crossplay, and it has a ton of missing QoL features that other fighters launched with. Add the shitty monetization and honestly I really don't know if I'm ever going to bother going back to it

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

It's a game possibly not a single person here has played, or even knows exists.

I can guarantee the worst game you can mention and you have actually played this year is not the worst game released this year by a long, long shot.

 

[BigLee74]

I will answer on behalf of James Sawyer Ford with Starfield.

For me, Redfall. Absolutely disgusting condition on release with 30fps and poor texture loading. I thought the game looked broken with pixelated fish flopping on the ground with awful shadows, and could only assume it was an artistic choice. Nope, just broken. It looks and plays far better now, but damage already done.

 

[DenchDeckard]

I tried redfall
..

 

[Punished Miku]

I tried redfall
..

I finished it. 7/10. Love the setting. I played worse this year for sure.

 

[MudoSkills]

Hey MudoSkills , what was the worst game you played this year? Just curious, no reason.

Definitely not undisputed GOTY (possibly even GOAT) Goodbye Volcano High.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Starfield sadly. Wish that wasnt the case but I just could not give it more than 6. Hell it's not only the worst game it's prolly the biggest disappointment ever. We already get EXTREMELY rare sci-fi operas and to wait so many years to get....this trash...was...fuck. Fuck Bethesda, Fuck Todd, TES6 is fucking doomed.

 

[SJRB]

With Redfall we knew it was going to be bad, we just didn't know how bad.

Starfield however, had all the pretense of a once in a generation game but fell short in pretty much every possible way. It is overwhelmingly mediocre and a huge, huge disappointment.

I would never recommend it to anyone.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

Greyhill Incident

 

[tommib]

Layers of Fear.

 

[delfrickintree]

MGS master collection. Extremely low effort cash grab with no unique features. An insult to the franchise

 

[Cattlyst]

The true answer is probably one of those shitty android asset flips stinking up the Switch eShop that maybe 3 people were tricked into buying because the title is a random jumble of the words: modern, combat, warfare, simulator, parking, zombies.

 

[ungalo]

The worst game i played was Wild Hearts, and it's actually one of the rare games that i purchased and didn't play on Gamepass this year. And it was expensive.

I desperately want to believe in new IPs, it's a major flaw of mine.

The game is not terrible but the visuals made me want to puke after several hours. The monsters are very annoying to fight unlike Monster Hunter, it's the difference. The game had some very interesting ideas but i didn't enjoy myself.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Maybe wild hearts

 

[SJRB]

Greyhill Incident

So much potential. I wonder what went wrong.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

I will answer on behalf of James Sawyer Ford with Starfield.

For me, Redfall. Absolutely disgusting condition on release with 30fps and poor texture loading. I thought the game looked broken with pixelated fish flopping on the ground with awful shadows, and could only assume it was an artistic choice. Nope, just broken. It looks and plays far better now, but damage already done.

Starfield is the biggest disappointment, but the demo I played of Forespoken was worse

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

When you say worst game you probably also mean bad game, and not game I liked the least.
Nothing really comes to mind for "worst" game, I'm sure I played something that was terrible and then just promptly forgot about it, but nothing I've played was actually bad.
I mean lamplighter's league literally had a game breaking bug that prevented me from progressing until a patch was issued a few days ago, so I guess that was the worst one since it was literally unplayable, but what I was able to play I still enjoyed.

I guess it's probably redfall, since it was just mostly boring and buggy, though there was still some fun there in co-op

 

[Laieon]

That King Kong game.

 

[ReBurn]

Redfall was the game I enjoyed the least

 

[Muffdraul]

When I hear someone say they don't think FFXVI sucks absolute ass, I assume they're taking part in some elaborate prank conspiracy.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

So much potential. I wonder what went wrong.

I would say too ambitious for a dev of there scope, but there only other game is this. So possibly just your typical steam shovelware dev.

 

[Elysium44]

Resident Evil 4 remake. RE6 got panned by the critics but it was much better than RE4 is imo. Also Forza Motorsport and WRC fell well short of where they should be. Standards are plummeting in the industry, although most people's expectations and willingness to be easily pleased seem to be following suit.

 

[Badlucktroll]

MGS master collection. Extremely low effort cash grab with no unique features. An insult to the franchise

I think they will somehow make MGS 4 run worse than it did on PS3, and i will still buy it.

 

[Roberts]

Didn’t play Redfall at launch, only when they kind of fixed it. Completed the game - it is not great but not a disaster either. Wild Hearts is worse, Minecraft Legends was also disappointing.

 

[DryvBy]

Call of Duty by a long shot since it's literally $70 DLC.

 

[Rac3r]

Redfall, Forspoken, Starfield (massive disappointment)