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.

In before Two worlds..


Also Two worlds.

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 Crappy camera, outdated controls, crummy story, annoying characters, ugly as sin graphics despite high system requirements, sluggish gameplay, terrible AI, and horrid level design.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'm going to laugh when I read Two Worlds repeated over and over and over again. If this was facebook, people would like this post.

EDIT:

See, somebody already beat me.

Every single Elder Scrolls game.

Get the pitch forks boys and girls...kidding..that was sarcasm right?

Also Schnakers, I don't say Two Worlds just because it's kinda known for being bad. I bought it, gave it a chance. It was terrible.

I actually liked Dark Messiah, I had no problems with the game and the graphics were nice at the time of release and the melee combat was really fun for me, its just not an RPG game that's all


I would go with Gothic 3, and not because it wasn't a good RPG, its because the game didn't [censored] work.

If that's the case, then why do you have a usename in the traditional style of male Orcs in TES?

Also I do hope you're joking.

Sarcasm it was.


Joking? Of course I was. TES is one of the best RPG series I have ever played.

Damn, I got this pitch fork and torch already out....oh well....

Sorry :/

mass effect 2.

Two Worlds was a fine game if you didn't take it to seriously. To many people thought it was going to be an Oblivion Killer, and were sorely let down when it turned out to be quite campy. NWN2 was a fine game, it just paled in comparison to the Original NWN(another game I notice that gets trashed on a lot here, which really, is no surprise, since this is the forums for a great Open World sandbox RPG, and NWN is much more linear, and is also geared towards D&D players specifically)(To further make my point, on the NWN forums, I often see Morrowind and Oblivion trashed, though not quite as much as NWN gets trashed on here. It's really just down to the individual player and their style preferences. Not everyone is like me and enjoys all styles of RPGs and really, almost all styles of games)

I'd have to say, the worst RPG I ever played, was Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. Poor graphics, lousy story, crappy gameplay, easy as crap bosses, paper-machete(sp?) characters with no substance, and over-all not deserving of wearing the moniker "Final Fantasy". Other then that, I've yet to play an RPG that I did not like in at least some way.

hmmm....well i bought this game for my xbox called dark messiah of might and magick, i picked it up for 20 bucks, i couldn't bring myself to load it up in my xbox after the first time i played it. I also played two worlds, i wasn't impressed.

Dragon Age Origins. Oh, what a steaming pile of stilted dialogue, repetitive combat and boring story.

Agreed, Dark Messiah is an excellent game and I've played thru it multiple times

The worst I've played is probably Might & Magic IX. Or at least the one that currently comes to my mind. I'm not particulary fond of VIII either, but IX takes the cake

Any game that's on Facebook... and Dragon Age Origins.

I'd like to think I've done a pretty good job of picking my games over the years, so I haven't really played many that were all that bad on a technical level. Most on my "worst" lists just don't suit my tastes rather than being poorly developed, etc.

Fable II
Oblivion
Final Fantasy XII
Enchanted Arms

You just made me very sad. :cryvaultboy: Be this another case of sarcasm?
Also, I forgot about Might and Magic IX. I take back my original choice, that game was a pile. Played that thing for about 45 minutes and never touched it again. Rotting in some box up in the attic.

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

Jesus turns..... you just destroyed my emotional attachment to the game because of this..... :mellow:

Really? Your opinion is so easily swayed by a couple of words from a random person on the Internet?

But even more importantly... Turns's first name is Jesus?

Wow...not only are people listing some decent (or at least passable) RPGs, but they're all recent ones. I mean, DA:O? Really? Story or dialog opinions aside, the PC version of that game was worth playing just for being the first game in years to have decent tactical group combat. I mean, if that's the worst RPG someone's ever played I have to venture a guess that they've played very few RPGs. Anyway, these are nowhere even close to the worst. Anybody remember Ghost Lion for the NES? Drakkhen? There are so many horrible, horrible RPGs (either barely playable or just completely painful to play from the first 10 minutes of playing and not getting better from there)...it hurts my head to think about it.

Worst ever? Might and Magic IX. Absolutely awful. The graphics "upgrade" ended up making the game look worse than before, since with IX they didn't bother to make any of it look colorful or inviting. And less enemies? What? I consider Might and Magic one of the few series of RPGs in existence that lets my party take on dozens, sometimes hundreds, of enemies at one time. [censored] that game. [censored] it.

Second worst is Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. It's a game that not only blatantly rips off the battle system of Final Fantasy X, it does it terribly. Also, on any difficulty level above Easy, the enemies - the random [censored] enemies - get so powerful by mid-game that it takes several minutes on average to finish a fight with them, and by the Return of the King section, random battles become ten to twenty minute long spam fests.

Let me describe a single battle on Pelennor Fields on Medium difficulty: You cast every single party buff with Berethor, and buff everyone else with their separate, individual buffs. You debuff the enemy party leader and unleash your most powerful, 5-hit attack on him, doing 60k damage. His health bar is down by a quarter. The enemy then hits Berethor one time, striking off half of his life. The enemy then casts a Mirror spell on itself, making all of the damage you inflict reflect back to you.

You hit for over 10k and your life is well below that value. While you cannot kill yourself with Mirror, it ensures that you are never above 1 HP through the whole fight. It takes five grueling minutes to kill just one [censored] enemy, then the next battle is even worse, I hate that [censored] game with a [censored] PASSION.

Guh, The memories. At least Third Age had some competence and potential. While it pissed me off more than Might and Magic IX, the latter is still the worst RPG I've ever played.

Honorable mention goes to 7th Saga on the SNES. Grind for hours before you're strong enough to handle the enemies in a dungeon, then you have to grind for hours in order to handle the enemies on the world map on the other side of the dungeon. That's the whole game.

Quest 64.
Radiata Stories
Unlimited Saga