When I was in elementary school one of my classrooms had Stratego among the board games meant for bad weather days or waiting after school.
I had previously played Stratego and liked it, but every single other kid in this classroom read that the ‘Spy’ piece could kill the ‘General’ (the most powerful) piece and concluded that the ‘Spy’ could therefore kill any piece on the board. I was shouted down by everyone for pointing out the actual wording of the rules and that a ‘Spy’ is called that because it’s obviously supposed to be a sneaky piece.
Nobody agreed and just played the game with the ‘Spy’ as a rampaging super piece killing everything. That was pretty miserable.
Stratego is a great game I’d completely forgotten about. Using your sappers to defuse bombs
Also an infuriating game
We like to play it with random piece setup so everyone doesnt just stick the flag in the corner surrounded by bombs. Its way funnier when its random.
I have had the displeasure of playing the two worst video game of all time. E.T. The Extra-Terestrial and Custers Revenge. Both were Atari games released in 1982.
Custer’s Revenge is bad, but it’s not really the kind of bad like when you think of ET. Cuz it’s not so much how it runs or plays, but how it’s a game about raping native american women and is in extremely bad taste.
I feel like if it was just anybody doing it, that would actually be somewhat better. The title implies Custer earned it, which is messed up in multiple ways.
No… the game play was shit as well.
You might be interested in the work of this hobbyist who updated Atari’s ET game to fix many of its biggest faults by decompiling the game and patching it.
When I was a kid I bought an Atari with the cartridge holder stand for it and a ton of games for $5. ET was fucking awful, but there were a few gems in the collection.
Nobody should answer “Monopoly” because it’s intended to be un-fun, as an object lesson in why monopolies are bad.
Also, no one actually plays it by the rules in the rulebook, which would dramatically shorten the game.
Appropriately, the “house rules” that keep the game going longer and make it “more fair” is actually just socialism
I used to play it that way on an old Mac that came with monopoly, and it was really fun. I loved the auctions.
Monopoly is not intended to be un-fun, it’s intended to be unfair, which is different. People find it un-fun because they changed the rules to make it less unfair, but if you play the game by the rules it’s not bad, but the winner gets picked at random very early in the game, and there’s nothing you can do about it, which would be bad for a long game, but Monopoly is meant to be very short if you play by the rules.
I rented Superman 64 at Blockbuster once.
Don’t reccomend.
Much broken.
Such bugs.
Wow.
I owned it. Still do. I was a foolish child who liked Superman. Still do!
The most insulting part was using GameShark to level skip and realizing the rest of the game wasn’t much fun (or finished) either.
They could have done so much better by removing the timed rings thing and just let you fly around a mostly empty city, blowing up Lex’s robots or something. It would at least have felt Superman-esque lol.
Monopoly. Tragically boring.
Totally valid feeling but also monopoly was designed to intentionally be awful to get across the point that real monopolies are terrible for the world. So arguably it is exactly how you should feel about it.
Ha, nice, I didn’t know that! This was a couple decades ago and the 3 ppl I played with seemed to enjoy it. I was very confused as to why 😂
Always ended with someone flipping the board at my house.
Haahaha
Mario Party.
I. Fucking. HATE. Mario Party.
yea
Its like monopoly. Always ends in a fight.
This is how I feel about the Overcooked (and similar) games.
Overcooked is great the key is actually playing through the singlepkayer with a fried before hoping into competitive matches. My daughter and I love it
7-yo me hated the original Ghostbusters game on NES. So much so that I devised a plan to get my birthday money back.
Toys R Us would only refund unopened games, but you could get an even exchange if a game was ‘defective’. So I made up some mumbo jumbo about how something didn’t work in the game, and my mom got it swapped for me (she was nervous for some reason). Took the unopened game to a different Toys R Us location and got my money back. I felt like a criminal mastermind.
I can’t really remember what I didn’t like about the game…probably I had a certain expectation as a big Ghostbusters fan that no NES game could meet.
I’ve done similar tricks with returns.
I stole a CD once that had no CD! Then I bought a dvd that had two lmao. Fast production, shit happens.
When I worked retail, someone came in, complaint there was there no disk in the case (PlayStation 3 or something), exchanged that thing with no further questions.
you should check out the 2009 ghostbusters game, many consider it to be the true ‘ghostbusters 3’
Thanks, I believe I will!
Ghostbusters for the NES was really bad, it wasn’t just you.
Aww, I actually liked that game. That and back to the future
Arc: Survival (dinosaur game). Shit. Played for 15 minutes. Poor optimization and almost 1tb of space needed… wtf.
I’m currently playing Ark for the first time with a couple of friends who’ve played the game 1k and 3k hours. I’m 150 hours deep but I would have been in your shoes if I had nobody to show me the ropes. It is an amazing game but a huge mess at the same time
Just don’t play with devs, or they’ll ban you the moment you raid their base.
We’re playing pve on a private server
Same. Several friends raved about this game and wanted me to get into it and I hated it. Same with Grounded to be honest. It just felt like the game was entirely made for the devs to giggle about kicking the players’ asses over and over again with very little apparent payoff (unless you spend more hours in the game than any other game you’ve ever played apparently).
10-player game of munchkin. Could feel my soul trying to crawl out of my mouth after the 3rd hour.
Oof yeah, this one should have been called “Crabs in a Pot”
Our game group imposed a 4 player max with that game after several 5 player games ran for way too long.
Mario Party 9 was so bad I think I only played it one time.
The moment I saw the car thing and read that there was no way to get around it, we quit and went back to the older games.
My roommate and I bought it, booted it up, played like 4 rolls in, boxed it up, and returned it. Whoever thought that removing one of the fundamental mechanics of Mario party was a good idea should be forced to work in Nintendo’s legal department, where fun is banned.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Shadow Madness was an amazingly bad PS1 RPG. The details have faded with time, but I remember it was an incoherent hodgepodge of every RPG trope, every party member was a bad cliche, the random encounter system was this terrible “red light, green light” thing. It was insultingly easy, and Harv-5 was like someone’s shitty Shadow the Hedgehog OC of Bender from Futurama.
I have had a grudge against this terrible game for 25 years.
Space Station 13 is simulteanously the worst and best game I have played depending on the station you choose. I’ve been one a shift where we fought back every monstrosity thrown at us with ease. I’ve also been on a shift where I am the only medical crew and the capitan is a traitor and why is the ship already on fire its been 10 minutes?
Space Station 13/14 are fun because of that chaos though!
“Please. Make me a pizza.”
Maybe a hot take but I stand by it.
Red Faction: Armageddon. It was just so very boring and inferior to its 3-year-old predecessor. THQ actually tried to claim that no one was interested in the franchise anymore because of the lacklustre sales of that game. But the franchise is excellent, Armageddon was just a bad game.
I bought Sonic 2006 when it came out. It was my first experience with a truly terrible, broken game. I’d played things that weren’t up my alley or were subpar somehow, but that was the first time I was truly blown away by how bad a game could be.
