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    Worst game you actually parted money for?

    In keeping with the current trend of these threads here's a different one..

    Worst game i actually bought with my hard-earned was Valhalla on the Speccy..£14.95 totally wasted on a bugged, basic written, heap of horse watsit. Twenty-odd years later i'm still kicking myself..lol..

    What's yours?

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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    I think two games fall into that net, first one I-War, however the worse game that I really wanted to be good so was even more disappointed by was master of orion 3.

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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    Pariah.
    Not because it was the worst game I have played (it was average), but the bugs in it utterly killed any attempt you made to actually complete the game.
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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    Archlord.

    I already had an idea it was a bad game, but a few mates were playing it, so i told them i would buy it and join them. (When it cost money to buy that is)

    It took me about 8-12 hours to patch it using the built in downloader/patcher because it was so damn slow.

    When i finally booted the game up, i played it for 5 minutes then binned it, what a waste!
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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    Daikatana is one that sticks in my memory, I may still even have it. Recently, Monster Trucks Nitro on Steam was pretty awful.

    Oh, and the Grey's Anatomy game on the Wii, that plumbed new levels of bad (purchased for a fan of the TV show).
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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    I think it was called Armoured Command. Only a fiver on release, and quite fun, but about 2 minutes long.
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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    There's probably tons but my memory's shot and I can only recall the most recent as Turok on the Xbox 360, I know it was never going to be a touch on the N64 version but I hoped

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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    Although i never bought it downlaoding the demo qualifies as a cost Too Human - i mean seriously that game was LOL and not in the funny sense.
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    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    Club Football 2004 and 2005 I think they were? Made by Codemasters, and the big selling point was the attention to detail, because each one was tailored to a different club. Except the footballing side of things was utter rubbish. World Cup 98 might've only had 8 directions to run in, and an infallible chip button, but at least it resembled football.

    Club Football 2004 was more like rugby. I spent half my time launching my players at the oppositions' legs (the ball for most intents and purposes was irrelevant), it wasn't possible to pass the ball forwards (unless you passed to the opposition), if you tried to send the ball up the pitch it usually sailed 20 yards over the bar (albeit between the posts), and once you got within 20 yards of the end of the pitch, the only thing the players had any intention of doing was sailing over the byline on their arses avec ball, akin to synchronised diving. More or less, at least.

    So that went back a day later and was swapped for Dynasty Warriors 4, which despite all the obvious flaws was fantastic.

    Then about a year later I picked up its successor while out shopping, thinking that it must've improved from the year before, and was given it as a gift. I won't bother with the rest

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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    Killing Floor.

    played it once.

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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    Weird Dreams on the Amiga. I just didn't understand the gameplay and the surreal plot.

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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    the one that stands out most was one of the thief games i think it was number 3 it was so buggy it was awful, the game itself had real potential. Lost on the 360 also.

    also club football liverpool


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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    i reckon Star Wars Battlefront, it's a fairly straight clone of Battlefield and I got it to play with some mates who promptly decided it was cack and never played it again. Also around 50,000 copies had a bug in the installer on the cd so it didn't install properly (Work around was to copy all the files off the discs to the harddrive and install from there).

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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    Far Cry 2
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    Re: Worst game you actually parted money for?

    For me I thought Army of Two was pretty crap, Driver 3 was also bad but the worst one I've ever bought had to be Shadowman on the PS1, it was terrible! Mind you I loved the N64 and PC version (playing through it again on the PC now and its great)

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