your least favorite game

[coyotecraft]

That you own.

Unlimited saga. It gave me a headache. It had nice writing. Nice music. The animated hand drawn battles were nice. But I couldn't get over moving a figurine on a map like a common board game. Whoosh clink. Whoosh clink. I couldn't wrap my head around how LP damage was calculated either.

 

[Ellie]

Harry potter PSX. It is just so far from the books, and ultimately has no gameplay at all. And is so short. And has awful graphics for the era. And unreadable text. And horrible repetitive music loosely based on John west.

I know his name isn't John west, I just can't in my head not confuse him with the Tuna manufacturer. Thus, from now on Tuna composed the Indiana Jones score.

 

[Sated]

Pom Gets Wifi.

Fuck that game and everyone who's contributed to its proliferation; in the face with a fucking rake.

 

[Ellie]

Yeah I think I'll skip that one.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

@Princess Amy: John Williams? I don't think we have John West stuff in the US.

My least favorite game might have been Ren & Stimpy for the Gameboy. No joke, beat the game in 15 minutes. But no, there was a game much worse than that:

Final Fantasy 8. I don't know how many hours I wasted drawing magic out of enemies instead of killing them. And then I never cast the magic because I had it all tied up boosting my stats. Never found the ingredients for upgrading any of my weapons, missed about 75% of the summons, and wandered my way into the last battle without knowing it was the last battle. I thought "I just started the last disc, so there must be at least a few more hours of gameplay on here," but I was wrong.

A friend of mine told me once about some old reincarnation of Lord of the Rings as a computer game. He was wandering around, ran into an army that wanted to join the Bearer of the One Ring, simply walked into Mordor, the army provided cover as he wandered over to a volcano that looked interesting, and beat the game. 3-book epic story reduced to 5 minutes of strolling through the lovely Mordor countryside.

 

[Ellie]

The PC edition of Final Fantasy VIII lets you press a button to top up all your drawn magic to 100. The game's much better that way.

 

[ZenVirZan]

I've only played VIII on PC, and even though I really dislike fiddling with RPG pacing/experience, I would not have played as much of it as I have without the free magic.
The vanilla magic system is completely broken. Did anyone actually test that game before it was released? .-.
I need to get around to finishing it soon too - gotta finish the game before I can cosplay with confidence.

As for my least favourite game. . . I really don't think I have one. All of the ones I've played have seemed alright at the very least. Clearly I need to play more games.
I really didn't like DMC2, but I don't think it's a bad game, just me nitpicking.

 

[Ellie]

For some reason I only really like battles in RPGs as a plot device anyway. Extremely difficult battles are pointless to me. They can be tough, but that toughness should have some kind of narrative to it.

 

[coyotecraft]

I know there are games that made me rage quit. I just can't think of them.

 

[united washcloth express]

Final Fantasy 8 was a card game. Everything else was filler.

 

[Spoo]

While we're on the Final Fantasy train, I'll throw XIII into the mix. Exploration was dull, combat was repetitive, and characters had the cheesiest of names I've ever seen.

WHAT WAS WRONG WITH CLAIRE. IT WAS A FINE NAME.

 

[Nathaniel3W]

I actually want to try out some of the new FF games (XIII included). I just don't have a current-gen console. Acutally, I don't have a last-gen console either. I haven't played a new Final Fantasy since X, and a few years ago I picked up XII for $5 used somewhere... I could buy the PC ports of the games, but I never pay more than $10 on a game now (seriously, how many good $5 games are on Steam that I still haven't played yet?), and I refuse to pay a subscription, so I'm just not a Squeenix customer anymore.

I didn't like VIII's card game because of the "random" rule that you pick up somewhere. That rule meant that I wasn't allowed to pick just my good cards, and I never won a match after that. I did kind of like IX's card game though, after I actually learned how to play it.

 

[ZenVirZan]

I actually want to try out some of the new FF games (XIII included). I just don't have a current-gen console. Acutally, I don't have a last-gen console either. I haven't played a new Final Fantasy since X, and a few years ago I picked up XII for $5 used somewhere... I could buy the PC ports of the games, but I never pay more than $10 on a game now (seriously, how many good $5 games are on Steam that I still haven't played yet?), and I refuse to pay a subscription, so I'm just not a Squeenix customer anymore.

I'm not saying you should try pirating them to try before buying, but you should try pirating them to try before buying
Apparently XIII is bad, so there's no way I'd buy it straight up. Especially considering how I'm unhappy with Squeenix (you call em the same thing i do :O) at the moment.

 

[coyotecraft]

Every series has its black sheep. I haven't played much outside of rpgs in a while. Tomb raider angel ox darkness is probably them most buggy game I've played.

 

[Injury]

I actually want to try out some of the new FF games (XIII included). I just don't have a current-gen console. Acutally, I don't have a last-gen console either. I haven't played a new Final Fantasy since X, and a few years ago I picked up XII for $5 used somewhere... I could buy the PC ports of the games, but I never pay more than $10 on a game now (seriously, how many good $5 games are on Steam that I still haven't played yet?), and I refuse to pay a subscription, so I'm just not a Squeenix customer anymore.

I'm not saying you should try pirating them to try before buying, but you should try pirating them to try before buying
Apparently XIII is bad, so there's no way I'd buy it straight up. Especially considering how I'm unhappy with Squeenix (you call em the same thing i do :O) at the moment.

I bought it, and it sucked. I have a Xbox One controller and I had to un-plug and re-plug my controller back in to navigate the menus. I didn't even get past the first 10 minutes of game-play because of this. Fuck that nonsense.

 

[Ellie]

Ah, that was another thing about VIII. The lengthy tutorials. That stops me replaying too much as the tutorials are just so lengthy, with a few words here and there a few seconds apart, with poor flow, that you can't skip.

The tutorials are useful, but the way they're lain out you get bored and stop paying attention anyway and have to revisit them later on.

 

[coyotecraft]

I remember being able to skip tutorials in ff8. Press triangle. The whole junction thing was more complicated than it needed to be.
But I needed a guide to get through the sewer and later to find the white seed ship.

 

[Ellie]

If... if that's true I... I have wasted so many hours of my life;

 

[Nathaniel3W]

Hahaha. Well, if FF tutorials were the most useless thing you've ever sat through, you'll be OK. You just reminded me of the between-chapter scenes in FFT:

T h e y w e r e s o s l o w . . .

And they had such awkward use of "quotation marks."

Misuse of quotation marks is whatever, but what really gets me nowadays is when people misuse the hyphen. Everyone does it now. They hyphenate adverb-adjective combinations, like "already boring," where a hyphen doesn't belong, and they fail to hyphenate every other type of combination adjective where a hyphen does belong. But I digress.

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

It's hard for me to REALLY dislike anything, including games. Especially what I own. I have some that are basically shows/movies in game form.

THOSE ARE THE WORST. They are usually never very good.

Though Middle-Earth based games get some decent ones for some reason. o.o