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Originally posted by Maikel@Aug 14 2004, 11:42 AM
So tell me..which games did you hate the most??
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The worst game I ever reviewed was a little-known Italian title, Where's Fat Lou? It was released for less than a month in the US, then withdrawn. It was a succession of linked miniature games in a rigid hierarchy with poor graphics and no imagination. But The Ring, a French title of about 7 years ago, was perhaps worse because it was more pretentious. It contained almost an hour of orchestral material drawn from a recording of Wagner's Ring cycle of operas, and had a trailer with great graphics--who cares? The game itself was an awful graphical adventure, with perfectly logical choices leading to your death--open a door like any other, and you'd get a black screen stating you'd died, start over. Thrills galore, that. :blink:
But among very visible titles, I'd say the worst was Ultima IX. Garriott could get away with claiming Ultima VIII was bad because of his lack of involvement, but he had no excuse, here: awful AI, rigid storyline, an action game rather than an RPG (as claimed in the press releases) with a terrible graphics engine and a ton of bugs. The distance between Ultima VII and Ultima IX was the distance walked by a stubborn developer who knew better than all his fans and everyone working around him about what made a good game.