What's the absolute worst RPG you've ever played? My vote goes to Everquest. To much down time(healing, meding, waiting for spawns), broken economy(sure I'll pay 185pp for a dagger; making nothing but cp at 10th lvl ;) ). I think its a cool concept, but they killed it. Hopefully Horizons will do better. *Crosses Fingers*
Oh yeah, my vote for worst pen and paper game goes to Toon, lol what a silly little game that was [img]smile.gif[/img] .

On-line RPG'ing? Well, I'd have to say the Wheel of Time MUD. That stank! As for stand-alone on the PC: DungeonKeep (sanctioned by TSR) - Utter rubbish and massive waste of good money.
Paper 'n Pencil ones: I've only played AD&D (2nd Ed.), Alternity, and Marvel Super Heroes (great if you don't take it at all seriously). I haven't come across one that's really bad. Yet.

[ 01-16-2002: Message edited by: dominions ]</p>

Worst RPG?

Well, it's not the worst, but I belived the hype so I bought that
silly little game called NOX. Yuck that was one ugly, bad stupid unoriginal piece of "you-know-what".

Bought it when it was brand new so it sett me back quite a bit.


WCZ


Just gimme a couple off days and I'll remember something much worse

Nox was one of the worst RPGs I've played. I just didn't like it...

Yeah NOX sucked.
Its like Diablo only much worse.
brrrrr........

I remember NOX, and it wasn't an RPG: it was a realtime action game.

Bad RPGs? There was one terrible port from a Japanese product about two years ago called Blaze and Blade: one of the dullest games I've ever seen, with an interface that was so convoluted I spent more time learning that than playing the thing.

I didn't like Icewind Dale one bit. Sure it's not soo bad in graphics, sound or gameplay, I was just used to Baldur's Gate and then playing Icewind Dale was just a letdown.

I seriously question whether MMORPGs like Everquest should be called RPGs in the first place. [img]smile.gif[/img] It's sort of hard to role-play in a setting where there is never anything going on (except guild politics and cyber dating) and when the entire game is based on power-gaming. Then there are the hordes of people running around with the most unimaginative names possible whose idea of role-playing constitutes greeting people with "Hail", then proceeding to talk about their day at work, and what the guild is going to be "camping" on that particular evening.

That being said, the worst MMORPG I've played is Anarchy Online. Everquest might have been boring and time consuming, but at least it worked. It's pretty bad when you take the game out of the box, go to install it, have it crash halfway through installation repeatedy, and then find out that everyone else you know has had the same problem. :D I won't even go into the actual gameplay issues.

The worst single-player (or not online) RPG that I've played (albeit not for long) was Magic and Mayhem (pretty sure that's what it was called). I don't know where they got their voice actors or their writers, but let's just say that there was no way I could have taken that game seriously.

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Well, the most boring CRPG i have is Silver...

Orphen. That game had horrible, I mean horrible voice acting. There was no sound most of the time, and it was really difficult to stay awake.