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Trolling aside, I’ve sold all my discs, so I don’t own many crappy games anymore. I think the worst game that I own digitally is probably Halo Spartan Assault or something like that.

Halo 4 and Mass Effect 3 also adorn my wall of shame.

There's only one game I actually own that I really hate, and that's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The first time I played it was some multiplayer matches at a sort of LAN party. It was a few years after it had been "a thing" and everyone else there was nostalgic for it (read: they were people who had played it a lot). I kid you not, I got one kill the entire time. It was the worst gaming experience I can recall, in my life. I think that was either the beginning of, or a major boost to, my gradual realization that I didn't especially like competitive shooters anymore. Then, some time later, I bought it (used, for peanuts) because although I hadn't enjoyed the multiplayer, the controls and everything worked fine, meaning that it wasn't functionally bad. Also, it was a significant game in the industry, and since I like discussing games and design theory with people, I thought that I should play the campaign so I'd know what it was like. It was... meh. At least to someone playing it several years after it was a new thing. Much like the multiplayer, there wasn't anything functionally wrong with it, but I just couldn't find the fun.

I hate Need for Speed: Underground almost as much, but it would be inaccurate to say that I own that one, since I intentionally destroyed the disc and threw it in the garbage, reckoning that would be more fun and satisfying than actually playing the game any more (I wasn't wrong).

What are some of the absolute worst games you have ever purchased? Pick the worst from your collection and describe why.

I have to limit your list even more to games I've actually completed. I own games that are probably worse that are still in their shrink-wrap, and I've probably given up on worse thinking or still hoping that they'll get better at some point when I get back to them.

The worst I completed was COD: Black Ops. It stuck to the rails so much I felt like I was on a ride. I am bad about not selling games I'm done with (I always think I'll play them again). I sold that one right away.

Unlike stabbim, I like CoD 4: Modern Warfare. Black Ops is the last CoD game that I've completed.

Lego Star Wars - I've never played it by myself though, only with my (at the time) 2.5 year old son. It was the most frustrated thing ever. The shared screen co-op was rage inducing.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - I don't remember what I payed for this game or if it was a game with gold but I just remember playing it for 20 minutes and being confused, annoyed and frustrated.

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - This is when Rock Band was all the rage and they turned the GH Franchise into garbage music designed to use a full ensemble instead of focusing on the guitar hero aspect.

Contra: Shattered Soldier (PS2) - This game had all of the difficulty of the NES Contra games but ramped up due to all the PS2 power. My goodness this game was obnoxiously hard.

Flatout 2 (Xbox) - The original Flatout was super fun, glitches and all. To this day one of my favorite racing games. But Flatout 2 was the ramped up sequel that lost the racing aspect and focused more on nitros and crashing into debris.

But the worst...THE WORST...ABSOLUTE WORST GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED

Steven Segal is the Final Option

What are some of the absolute worst games you have ever purchased? Pick the worst from your collection and describe why.

H4 and MCC, but I'll get banned if I go any further. :P

Tom Clancy's HAWX, and CoD Advanced Warfare definitely make this list. HAWX could be fun, but man. It's hard to describe. They had a nifty idea I suppose, but no. Until Advanced Warfare, I hadn't played any CoD games since MW2. It looked interesting, I got it at a discount, so why not? Welp, I pretty much have no desire to get another CoD game ever again. I mean, unless they remaster MW2 or make the original work on Xbox One.

I know you said worst, like maybe you were just asking for one, but these four are pretty bad. Don't know if I could choose a #1 from this list.

I'm not sure I own, which I'm interpreting as "Spent Money On", any games that I don't like. There is nothing I play right now where I feel a need to declare that it's the "absolute worst". I have purchased games though where I went "this isn't for me" and returned or traded in. In the two instances that I can recall at the moment, both are because I was hoping for something to fill a niche at that time. Both these instances that I recall are for the Xbox 360.

A very very early launch game for the 360, Chromehounds lost my interest in the tutorial. It's foggy, but I found it to be slogish or slow er... something. I was hoping for something with MechAssault type game play.

The second game isn't a bad game. It just wasn't for me, not what I was looking for. Hitman: Absolution was my first and possibly last Hitman game. Y'all may have been made recently aware how much of a unfiltered Splinter Cell fan I am, and at the time... I really wanted to play a stealth game proper (among other reasons). The tone of that game just wasn't... "me". While Splinter Cell is often smart, Hitman: Absolution was crude. I could never get "myself" into the game. It felt 3rd person + 3rd person... I... I'm not sure exactly how to explain it more.

Having said all that, there is one franchise of games that counts as the worst that I own right now.

It's Destiny. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We'll see.

Driv3r. The physics are horrible. The AI is horrible. The survival mode is so ridiculous that it gets into the "so bad that it's good" zone. The only tactic the police have is to ram your car at 100mph. The police cars are so overpowered that they often do wheelies when they start moving. Hitting a lamp post can either send you flying over buildings or stop you dead in your tracks. Once one police car pins you against a wall, the other 20 ramp over you at high speed and go flying everywhere.

Mute the sound on this one.

This will probably come as a shock to everyone, considering how big of a Sonic fan I am, but in terms of games I still own, it would have to go to Sonic:Free Riders.

It's a Kinect Required game(see, already that's enough) and there are so many reasons this game screws it up.

First off, the game wants you to stand at a 90 degree angle from the TV itself—like a surfboard—but on top of that, the sensor won't read you at all if your face isn't facing the TV! So YOU'RE at a 90 degree angle, looking at the TV at a 90o angle, all while waving your arms and legs wildly. The crick in my neck from that game is permanent.

The menu design has me scrambling for my copy of Sonic 06. To switch options, you have to spin the screen in one direction like a globe, but it only moves ONE SPACE! And when you put your hand back down to spin AGAIN, the stupid-ass sensor identifies it as spinning the OTHER way! So you have to slowly lift your hand, swipe upward, then CRAWLINGLY bring your hand back down to your side and slowly bring it up AGAIN! And when you find the option you want, do you hold your hand over it and the little circle fills up like every single Kinect game ever made? Nope. You have to pick it up and drag it to an "OK" box like a Star Trek spin-off! It's terrible!

Not to mention, the risk for injury is insane. There are plenty of ramps and jumps in the tracks in this game, and for some reason(I guess points) they grade you on how you handle each jump. If the Kinect doesn't recognize you jumping, you get an F. If it does, you get a C. To nail an A+ jump, you have to launch yourself off the ground AND spin in a full 360 circle to get that critical grade. And land on your feet, 90 degrees. So let's add all that up.

90o standing+90o facing+jumping in a small room filled with furniture+spinning 360o in that same room filled with furniture+ landing on your feet without falling and breaking everything+90o angle standing again.

That equals deaths and mayhem. What a freaking waste. The worst part is, the tutorial almost plays itself and earns an achievement for it, so it's stuck on my gamercard forever. Just kill me.

Oh, and the Spider-man game. I burned that one.

I guess I don't OWN it, because it was free... but it's dumb. Intriguing in concept, hilarious for about 30 seconds, then dumb.

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.

But games these days don't even launch without a certain level of polish. I assume we are discounting any shareware stuff, and I'll just list stuff I think I still have a box or cartridge around here for.

Dakatana - Even if John Romero had not made this sound like the second coming of Jesus before launch the delays and budget overruns and just bag gameplay and visuals would have made it bad. The hubris, though, made me buy it even knowing it would be terrible.

Superman 64 must be around here somewhere. Do you want to fly around being Superman? NO YOU DON'T and this game will prove it to you using upwards of 40 polygons and one single mechanic: Fly through a ring in 3 dimensional space using 2 dimensional controls.

Custers revenge - I'm already breaking my rules about cartridge ownership, but I do have the ROM. This was an Atari 2600 game where you sprint around a sparse cactus forest dodging arrows shot by Native Americans. That's pretty basic and repetitive, not to mention somewhat problematic for today's audience and may affect your enjoyme…Oh no, look: now you are naked and suffering priapism now the game has you rape a woman who is tied to a cactus. What the actual fuck? The worst part is I know I played this as a kid and don't remember it at all so now it's a coin flip whether I repressed the memory as too awful and it sits in my brain waiting to explode, or if I blithely didn't understand what was happening.

I don't still have it, but as long as I'm complaining about old games I had as a kid,
Any of the Philips CD-i Nintendo games, where you played as off-model Mario or Zelda where the game was laggy, the hit detection was lousy and they rendered FMV scenes animated from MS Paint drawings as a "reward". Ugh. Pure nightmare fuel.

As opposed to the best/worst, Thunder in paradise, the FMV game! Press a button to watch me drive a boat, brother!