Worst rpg you ever played : Othor Games

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:21 am

I wouldn't call Dark Messiah an RPG.

Neverwinter Nights 2 bored me, had clunky camera controls, forced companions onto you, and performance was bad even on a high end PC.

Alpha Protocol is pretty bad too, but I still kinda liked it, the dialogue and choices saved it. It's definitely the RPG with the most wasted potential that I've ever played. It could've been so much better if the gameplay outside the dialogue had been better. Better stealth, combat, non-linear level design... Basically take that Deus Ex inspiration a few steps further. I never had any problems with bugs though.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:11 am

Runescape.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:17 am

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Why do people like any of these games? I can name an infillion amount of better ones!\11

If you really can, than my taste is so different than yours that I'm just plainly uninterested. :shrug:

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:49 am

If you really can, than my taste is so different than yours that I'm just plainly uninterested. :shrug:

Some people just want to disagree for disagreements sake, or want to be viewed as non-mainstream, by, in this case, claiming that virtually every major RPG franchise that has a significant following is crap, and that they have played games so much better. That, or he was being extremely sarcastic, taking the earlier "it's an opinion, not fact" as far as it can be taken.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:04 pm

Neverwinter Nights <_<
It's one of a select few games I genuinely have a grudge against

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:57 am

I also dislike SO3, but for an entirely different reason: The dungeons. SO3 has, by far, the lamest, most boring dungeon designs I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with. Every single dungeon is just a giant maze with nothing interesting to look at, almost nothing to interact with, the only obstacles being monsters that are too powerful to bother fighting for experience.

Which brings me to another problem I have with SO3: The monsters. Throughout the first third of the game, they're not too bad. Challenging at times, a breeze at others. But then they just went BAM, tough as nails, take full combos from the party to die (each!) and can instantly KO any of your party members whenever they feel like it. And should you somehow manage to win against a group of these atrocities, they'd barely give any freakin' experience.

But as far as the story and characters are concerned, I found them both average. They're nothing I haven't seen before in JRPGs and, actually, interact more with each other than in most JRPGs I play.

I don't know if we were playing the same game then. I didn't have that trouble with the monsters in SO 3. They were challenging yes, you just had to know how to use skills while conserving MP and HP, which wasn't all that complicated. The only gripe I had with the game is that you basically needed a guide to craft the best items. But everything else I loved about the game.

Anyways I've enjoyed almost every RPG I've played except Dungeon Lords. (This includes every FF, all the Fables, and even Two Worlds)

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:20 am

Neverwinter Nights 2. Crappy camera, outdated controls, crummy story, annoying characters, ugly as sin graphics despite high system requirements, sluggish gameplay, terrible AI, and horrid level design. Not a single redeeming quality to be found.

I just realised all of those (except outdated controls and ugly as sin graphics despite high system requirements) apply to Dragon Age 2.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:29 pm

NWN2 and Silverfall. :yuck:

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:17 am

I can't recall ever having played a truly bad RPG, both because I haven't played that many compared to some people here and I am usually pretty good at spotting whether or not I will enjoy a game before I buy it. Dragon Age had a dreadfully boring story, but interesting characters and great gameplay. NWN2 had a piss poor finale, but I still enjoyed most of the game. Despite its flaws I also greatly enjoyed ME2. Same for KotOR 2.

My greatest disappointment however was Oblivion by far. It's not a really bad game on itself, but I made two fatal mistakes. The first was expecting the game to be as good as Morrowind, the second believing everything Beth announced during development. Now I expect Skyrim to svck, so maybe I will be pleasantly surprised this time.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:15 pm

Huh, i've been playing NWN2 for a week now, and don't hate it (after learning to live with the camera and inventory systems and disabling environment shadow that killed the framerate on my rig that wasn't even imagined when the game was released). Also after playing DA2 i felt the need for a less mainstreamed RPG and reinstalled NWN 1, and don't still hate that either (and now i actually understand what 1d6+1 means :hehe:).

Though it has occured to me that i'm apparently unable to hate any game, everything is "meh" at worst to me. And boy was DA2 "meh" :hehe:

Any Zelda game

Legend of Zelda an RPG? You're doing it wrong

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:41 am

Mine would probably be Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. While I use the term rpg loosely when talking of this game, it is still a prime example of an action rpg that aims for the middle and strikes quite a bit too low. Weak graphics, shallow and uninteresting gameplay, horrid voice acting and about as meh a story as you can think of. Yeah, this game was far from a home run for me.

Probably Final Fantasy.

http://img.listal.com/image/1806064/600full-final-fantasy-nes-screenshot.jpg

Not to say I wouldn't play any other FF games, it's just I never got passed the endless grinding in that old game.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:06 am

Dragon Age 2.

Origins was one of the best modern RPG's there, and then Bioware manages to [censored] entire series...

This. Ooh ooh ooh this, this.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:03 pm

Arcania. Yes, that was worse than Two Worlds. Expectations and promises and such stuff. Bah. And I did not think the series could sink any lower after the rushed G3. No, just add promises to the original fanbase, a game design that goes completely against that, interviews after release about how you didn't even plan to aim for the original fans of the series... BAH!
Something less recent, and still on the not subjective bottom resting place: Descent to Undermountain. Horrible.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:28 am

I might be the only one, but I didn't like Neverwinter Nights ( gold box, so it might have had more..). The story was boring and predictable, the quests were dull, and coming from the BG series, it just seemed..off :shrug:

I consider it worse the Icewind Dale, as that I knew going in wouldn't have too much of a story and was more of a hack-n-slash version of an cRPG.

Then there was the Macho Women with Guns series (pnp)....a bad game, but good in a B-Horror movie kind of way

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:55 pm

I might be the only one, but I didn't like Neverwinter Nights ( gold box, so it might have had more..). The story was boring and predictable, the quests were dull, and coming from the BG series, it just seemed..off :shrug:

Yes, the original campaign is darn awful and dull. Let's hope Bioware don't get lower in copying their own story schematic than this, ever.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:55 pm

Dragon Age 2, I rented it for a week and realised pokemon is more of an RPG, choices mean little to nothing and it recycles like no damn tomorrow, all of the blood mages hand in the same warehouse, all shady deals happen in the same warehouse, all the passages to everyhting happens in the same cave, but to disguise the re-use in caves, they put huge stone walls on the bleeding doors, as if no-one will notice and as if no-one would think it is a secret passage, as the map continues after it (Kirkwall used to be a prison, I see no reason why it should continue like that).The combat is hack n' slash, spam buttons and win, no real thought in there.
And the choices! Oh the choices!

Spoiler

You can kill Lelianna in Dragon Age: Origins, the option is there, yet she is still alive in DA2, and David Gaider pretty much said on the forums "your choices of who is dead and who is not means nothing, we decide who's alive or not you must now use your imagination on how this person survived having their head cut off".
And the ending? Seriously... "The tenplars are going to wipe us out! They think we are blood mages! WELP! Better prove them right!" *Orsino warps into a disgusting abomination of Blood magic*. I just agreed to help them! We killed the invading templars! We could have held out and liberated the mages without war! But no...

Bioware used to make good RPG's now my respect is out the window.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:24 am

I've got one - http://www.loki-game.com/en/. An incredibly and remarkably uninspired piece of crap.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:56 pm

The worst that I can remember (if something is so bad that it can be called the "worst ever", it really isn't worth remembering):. Oblivion and Two Worlds were quite bad RPG's (although, from those two, TW was better as an RPG), and Fable 2 was a steaming pile of.... boiling vegemite with strawberries. Fallout 3 wasn't too good either, but far from the worst. I'd also list ME 2 there, but meh, is it really an RPG or just an action adventure with some light RPG coating.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:22 pm

Kids these days have it good if they can cite Dragon Age 2 as their wurst evar. Or they just give in to the current rage trend. Can't blame them, really. ^_^
Others should just be more precise. Bad roll-playing or bad role-playing?

I've got one - http://www.loki-game.com/en/. An incredibly and remarkably uninspired piece of crap.

Oh yes, that was bad. Horribly bugged, the worst random levels ever, awful graphics. An intriguing story premise is just not enough to make a game good.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:39 pm

Kids these days have it good if they can cite Dragon Age 2 as their wurst evar. Or they just give in to the current rage trend. Can't blame them, really. ^_^
Others should just be more precise. Bad roll-playing or bad role-playing?

Oh yes, that was bad. Horribly bugged, the worst random levels ever, awful graphics. An intriguing story premise is just not enough to make a game good.

If it wasn't Black Isle or Bioware corp i couldn't give a rats backside.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:38 am

Oh yes, that was bad. Horribly bugged, the worst random levels ever, awful graphics. An intriguing story premise is just not enough to make a game good.

Well as for bugs, developers other than Bethesda release patches until they're all ironed out so I believe the latest patch should remove nearly all if not all of them, but everything else you said is right on. They svck you in with the awesome premise hiding the fact that in fact the game svcks. Sneaky.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:16 am

developers other than Bethesda release patches until they're all ironed out

That made me laugh harder than it should have. I love my up days.

Anyway, I still consider Loki very buggy. Besides being horribly unbalanced, a fact they only partially addressed in the patches.
Great, now I even more want the vodou in Risen 2 to be grand.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:43 pm

Either Temple of Elemental Evil or Demon Stone

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:56 pm

Either Temple of Elemental Evil or Demon Stone

ToEE is the best roll-playing game ever. And Demon Stone is not an RPG at all, by any definition. It's an action-game with upgrade points in the Forgotten Realms.

» Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:47 pm

For me it's a toss up between Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World and Star Ocean 4. Just...ugh.