Not if you play on the xbox :D

Then again.. I second your nomination.

I guess any outright broken game would qualify, as it is hard to go lower than zero value:-P Of the relatively modern and complex games I've played I'd have to say Ultima IX. It offers:

Awkward combat.
A mixture of platform gaming (Lara Croft style) and RPG, but with platform jumping that consists of only putting the cursor at your target and pressing the jump button.
Lots of "find the switch" type puzzles.
Extremely slow, unskippable spoken dialog with retarded-sounding voice actors.
Bugs galore. My favourite is when I had an enemy with an item I needed to pick up spawn on an unreachable rooftop (the game for some reason got the height coordinate wrong).
An approach to skills and levelling which I strongly dislike. You level up at certain fixed points in the game.
An inventory that gets filled up way too quickly (aka the unmodded baldurs gate syndrome).

It had a few redeeming points, seemless transition between outside and dungeons a la Gothic, high interactivity, and most of all good music, but its not enough to redeem the game. Gothic is much better if you want a linear story-driven RPG with a relatively interactive gameworld.

It's the only truly awful recentish game that I've installed and tried to play. Otherwise I hear of a lot of games in my other favourite genre TBS that are outright broken, but I usually dont get those.

I agree totally! Ultima IX was an absolute disgrace. I was so disappointed by it, especially since I think Ultima 7 is the best game of all time.

I completly agree, for I felt much the same when I first started playing the OC. Luckily, the game has managed to redeem itself since. Firstly, through the massive amount of excellent roleplaying mods that came out. There are now so many of those that I'd probably classify NWN as the best value for money game to date. I also liked the two expansion packs. Only a few days I was playing the first part of chapter three of Hordes of the Underdark and wished that the entire trilogy had been like that.

The concept of a worst game ever is a bit too much for me really, given that we're only here for a finite amount of time. However, I will agree with you Vesselle - RoMD was dreadful, probably the worst cRPG of recent times and a travesty to the original game. Here's another thread which attests to it, click if you dare. ;)

http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/cg...=000851#000000

Where are you now Guiness? Your quote is gold. :D

Might and Magic 9!

Bah, I finished Might and Magic 9 - its not as bad as most people make out, but granted, its probably the worst of the Might and Magic series.

[ 05-23-2006, 07:47 AM: Message edited by: CerebroDragon ]

i didn't think myth drannor was that bad. but now i can't try it again to make a second opinion. was going through my cd racks the other day and i can only find cd1.
most of the others i haven't played. will get another opinion on doom 3 when i can play it at a decent frame rate - more than 10. and dungeon siege was ok for a diablo clone with no load times whatsoever - apart from starting the game.

This has to take the cake, this one.

Big Rigs has to win handsdown, first thing I thought of when I saw this thread!