gaming Poorly Made Games

[Castle Bleck 19,376]

The most recent example, IMO, is EA's Star Wars Battlefront.

 

Features and options that can be counted on 1 hand, the Season Pass that makes you pay almost double the actual game's price just to bump the count up to 2 hands, etc.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srRWJzRhuzo

 

The only thing keeping it from having the same shelf life as the Jem And The Holgrams remake, IMO, is the Heroes and Villains.

 

But other than that, I swear this game has the potential to be to EA what E.T. 2600 was to Atari.

[1Bit 1,531]

Many games can be classed as poorly made for various reasons, and I would agree, that Battlefront is severely lacking in many features that would make it a 'good' game, although I would not say it is completely poor in delivery; it does at least have a very faithful vibe in both style and sound to the original films but that's as far as praises for the game can go.

 

Brink was another game that springs to mind and was the sort of game which, when you look back on, made you think "Why was this even made?"

[Kivil 1,721]

The MLP GEN3 game for DS made me look back and ask why this was made. But for different reasons

 

when you look back on, made you think "Why was this even made?"

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[Grtxkkyz 388]

Atari's E.T game is a prime example. There's also the Star Wars: Episode IV game for the NES, which is filled of sheer nonsense. Luke with black hair? Monsters that can shapeshift into Vader as the bosses? Luke piloting the Millennium Falcon? Vader himself on Yavin IV? Makes you wonder if the team who created it watched the whole movie.

[Magic Note 2,748]

Atari's E.T game is a prime example. There's also the Star Wars: Episode IV game for the NES, which is filled of sheer nonsense. Luke with black hair? Monsters that can shapeshift into Vader as the bosses? Luke piloting the Millennium Falcon? Vader himself on Yavin IV? Makes you wonder if the team who created it watched the whole movie.

 

I remember that game. Sadly, that's Namco who developed it and it wasn't their best effort. The LucasArts/Beam Software version released at least followed the movie, though it spiked in difficulty in the Death Star.

 

Oh, speaking of Star Wars and getting back on topic, I think the Empire Strikes Back for the NES was an exercise in bad game design. You can get mauled by enemies because of there being no mercy invincibility and some tend to move everywhere. The game also slows down a lot, resulting in you being targeted by cheap hits. The basic blaster deals pitiful damage, and once you find the Lightsaber, you can actually deal damage to enemies. Though that uses force energy, and if you're out of force energy and can't backtrack to find force energy, you're screwed.

 

To top the frustration even more, you only have one life and only finite continues, and there are one-hit kills in the game. Thankfully, Sculptured Software (the developers of the NES Empire Strikes Back) learned their lesson and made the Super Star Wars trilogy, though I hear those games are very difficult.

[El Duderino 879]

Star wars Battlefront suffers from the same problem that Titanfall did. The content that is there is done very well, there just isn't much content to begin with. They can save it if they add more good content via dlc (as long as it isn't overly expensive)

 

Total War : Rome 2 sucked balls.

A lot of people hate the Sims 4 because EA striped the game of half of its features. It's like if GTA 5 had linear missions instead of an open world.

[Jammo 986]

I had a game called The Simpsons: Escape from Camp Deadly on Gameboy.

It was frustrating, tuned too hard and was just generally a vary tiring, depressing game.

 

I'm not gonna name the obvious choices, games which people rarely play, but demonize due to popular opinion.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,704]

Chivalry Medieval Warfare on Xbox One.

 

PC game? Great, awesome.

 

Xbox One port? Terrible, done with no care whatsoever at all. Such a shame too because I know that game is awesome, when done by people that care about it. That port just wasn't. 

 

That is a recent disaster.

 

I also think that Destiny is a very poorly made game, not from a technical standpoint, but from a business standpoint it is quite abysmal and the story is...not a story. 

[Moony the Cat 3,702]

Well there is the obvious cheap made games like Zombie Attack, Realms of the Dead and games like that.

They have often no real storyline, are very short and have very cheap graphics.

 

Another game that was poorly made for me was Silent Hill 2.

I know, critics say its one of the best Video Games ever made, but i found the Other Worlds to be very disappointing. Many of the Other Worlds looked almost the same like Silent Hill looks normally. The Prison was the only very scary place for me, but all the older Places...kinda meh.

I know, its symbolic and the places are supposed to look depressing, but still...i didnt liked it. Other than that the game was good.

 

The Silent Hill Mobile games are also not very good. Little enemies, almost no story in some and the graphic is really not good.

I mean okay, i guess they cant make a really good looking game on mobile. 

 

And Ghost Vibration for the Ps 2 was a little poorly made. Because you couldnt really move your character around, you could only decide how fast he goes and the last cut scene of the game implies, that there is at least one more room, that you simply cant explore, because it wasnt put in the main game.

Ridge Racer was kind of disappointing with his only one road and the Ps 1 port of China ( i think its called china in the english release ) doesnt work.

The programmers for some reason forgot to put one item there. Its missing.

So i cant progress in the game. And i have no idea how you can lose an item by porting a game to another platform and then dont notice it.

Or maybe my copy is broken...but my cd looks okay...so...i dont know. 

[Megas 27,748]

I think almost everyone can agree Battlefront's biggest problem is the lack of everything, especially compared to both the past Battlefronts and Battlefield games. It's just another addition to the long list of games that prove that visuals aren't everything

 

My personal pick is Megaman X7. X6 had a lot of issues, but it was still playable and had it's moments. But X7 is a nightmare to play, full of bugs and glitches and the worst gameplay I've ever seen in a Megaman game, which is a series that usually prides itself on simple but tight controls

[Codelyy 1,286]

I'm going to say the new Star Wars Battlefront. I mean it's not "Horribly" bad but I don't even think it should be considered a battlefront game just because it isn't basically XD.

 

It doesn't have the same feel that the other two battlefronts had and where all the classes, levels and the prequels stuff.

I understand that a lot of people don't like the prequels and the game is only meant to be the based on the originally movies but to tell the truth... I like the prequel. I can't tell you how much I loved playing as a destroyer droid in battlefront 2 but i can't in the new one.

 

EA have done what they do best and that's ruin games. The new Battlefront is call of duty with a skin. Nothing about it relates to the other two battlefronts apart from it's about Star Wars.

[Passion 3,484]

PS version of Lord of the Rings: War in the North.

 

Not sure about the PC ones, but PS version of this game was just... uh...

Let me say it this way: The gameplay, world itself, enemies' design, lore etc were great (maybe excluding some logical errors, like using a battle shout with dwarf as a medium AoE attack that caused explosive barrels to... well... explode, for some odd reason [remember kids, don't scream near explosives]), there was just one thing that made this game terrible. Bugs. BUGS, BUGS, BUGS.

 

No game can deliver the expected gameplay when you're not able to play it. The game had very weird checkpoints and impassible walls (in form of some force fields) that disallowed you to continue in certain places until you defeated all the enemies. However, these enemies sometimes decided to run away from you. Behind the force field you can't pass. And not come back. It happened on multiple occasions and forced me and my friend to load the game in order to continue COOP. We've experienced a series of different issues with it too, like disappearing gear or gear not giving correct stats etc. But we finally gave up during one of the boss fights. When you entered the valley in which you fought him, a force field appeared behind you to disallow you from backing off. However, if you failed and died, the checkpoint spawned you BEHIND that force field, effectively disallowing you from entering the valley again and breaking the gameplay. What's worse, SAVE GAME too, because once you died, game saved itself. With you standing in front of the valley you cannot enter anymore to confront the boss and continue the game.

 

Even though Skyrim had tons of bugs, they weren't usually game-breaking to the point where you couldn't play they game anymore after you've spent hours in it already.

 

 

As for Battlefront hate train: This game represents something wrong with itself, that being the DLC content that people agree to pay for so willingly. It seems that it's now the era of DLC content in certain areas of gaming, but honestly? What happened to games being sold FULL for a set price rather then being partitioned and sold for 4-8x their original worth altogether? EA and similar companies just found a way of milking the cow by offering limited experience from a game for a regular price and promising full game experience once you pay them even more.

SW: BF II was one of my favorite games, mainly due to the wonderful space battles it had (seriously, the ability of landing inside the enemy cruiser and disabling its systems from inside? Yep, sold. I take it). But the new Battlefront not only REMOVED the space battles aspect (unless you pay for them of course), but also openly stated it'll limit the amount of campaigns (unless you pay for them again of course).

Let me get it straight, EA: You took an old, awesome game; removed one of its core gameplay aspects that made it unique and placed it on exclusive access to people who pay you even more for a product that's basically nothing more than a remaster of an old but great title, just with more limited functions and gameplay?

I love the SW gaming franchise (titles like BF II, Republic Commando, Jedi Knight, KOTOR), but I'll never buy Battlefront, period. It's not worth for me to fuel the fires under EA's greed.