Name the Worst RPG You've Ever Played

[slerch666]

and name the system it was on. We've done plenty of name great RPGs, but I don't recall ever seeing a thread dedicated to shitty ones.

And since this is name THE worst, list only one game, please, but tell us why it sucked as well.

Mine goes to Saga Frontier 1 on the PSX. It's the only game I ever returned to EB because I thought it was total shit (I also returned Half Life when it wouldn't run right on my PC at the time, then rebought it when they patched it and I could get it for $10). It was so bad that I believe I played it all of once before returning it, and at this point I can't even remember why I thought it was so bad. I think part of it was the battle engine was shit.

 

[roker]

Chrono Cross

It took everything that made Chrono Trigger great and shit on it

 

[gmw]

This is actually a tough question - I've played a lot of stinkers in my time. For now I'll say Drakkhen on the SNES. What a piece of shit - for some unknown reason I actually played many many hours of this turdware on release in 91 or so.

 

[Nesagwa]

Okage on PS2.

Just plain bad RPG.

 

[Freelancer]

I'm not a big RPG fan to begin with.
My biggest recent disappointment was Skies of Arcadia.
Goddamn...talk about throwback to the old days of incessant random battles and plodding pace!

How people could persevere and complete this complete disaster of a game is beyond me.

 

[Hecker]

Secret of Evermore on the SNES. I could never get into and thought it was just a cheap ripoff of the Secret of Mana series. But that was way back then maybe I'd have a different opinion now.

 

[NeoDragoN]

Probebrly get flamed for this but its gonna have to be XenoSaga.

 

[rarehero]

i actually liked saga frontier, but i can easilly see why anyone would not like it.
there was alot of things i didn't like about it too i guess.
dont really think i really come across one i never liked, but my playing of them
was pretty short lived as i've developed a short attention span over the years.

 

[Kirk Foiden]

Oddly enough, Skies of Arcadia was one of my favorite RPGs of all time.

Having an absolute fascination with the Errol Flynn-esque Hollywood Pirates theme (air/sea pirates, whatever), probably helped. From the music, to the characters, to the features, and atmosphere. I was actually more enamoured with that game than any Final Fantasy since 7. Really. And yes, Final Fantasy was just as bad when it came to random encounters that you HAD to deal with, in order to progress in the game. But the load times, for each battle, were much longer on the PSX. Final Fantasy never had Lambda Burst. (The Skies of Arcadia, destroy time spent on most Random Encounters move. And yep, you could skip the Lambda Burst animation, making it much quicker).

My overall worst, I've played, award goes to Dragon Quest 1 & 2. Given that pretty much all the RPGs, I played were of at least some certain level of quality, it made the lowest of them. Of course, those who first got started on console RPGs and never played the Computer RPGs available since years before, might not see it the same way. But for me, those Dragon Quests were like the poor man's Ultima clones. They attempted to do an Ultima tile-based game, but used a game engine much more basic than the Ultimas that were available at the time. The storyline was paper thin in comparison, and was a very basic-featured game. In terms of RPG-depth, most of today's hack and slashers could beat it. They also included the most useless Paladin class ever made (particularly at high levels). Given that the earlier RPGs already had a concept that if you had a Paladin, and you make it to high level, you were like a 1 man army. DQ made a high level Paladin, the weakest person in the group. Needless to say, I muscled through them just to be able to say I beat them. Considering there really weren't any plot elements to excite you as to *what happens next*, it was definitely an effort. Still if the more advanced western computer RPGs weren't in my *played list*, I might have had a different impression.

 

[genjiglove]

I can see how people would dislike the Saga games. They are definitely a "love it or hate it" series. Most tend to hate them.

 

[NeoTheranthrope]

Worst RGPs:

Hylide on the NES. It's like Zelda, if Zelda was covered by razor blades, thumb tacks, and rocksalt and had ti be rammed into your ass for it to play.

Final Fantisy: Mystic Quest on the SNES. A completely worthless "little brother" RPG which shouldhave come out on the gameboy.

Beyond the Beyond on the PSX. Notable for being the first RPG for the US playstation, well that, and being the worst. Dumb plot, waaaaaay too many random monster encounters and slow loading.

Worst conversion of a good game:
Chrono Trigger (Final Fantisy Collection PSX version) a truely great game mired by horrific slowdown. I mean, from the instant you hit "triangle" it take a full 32 seconds before the menue screen shows up.

Secret of Evermore on the SNES. I could never get into and thought it was just a cheap ripoff of the Secret of Mana series. But that was way back then maybe I'd have a different opinion now.

Fun fact:
Secret of Evermore was the only game produced by Squaresoft USA. It was made by americans who just just "borrowed" the Secret of Manna, er, "engine" to make a wierd dog-sniffing simulation.

 

[Lastblade]

Managed to stay away from alot of bad RPGs.

Beyond the Beyond and Suikoden 3 are two of the worst (but they aren't that bad, I just got bored halfway through them and that's not a good sign for a RPG).

 

[DangerousK]

Here are a couple I just plain did not like even though I thought I would.

-Alundra PS1
-Hoshigami Ruining Blue Earth PS1
-Parasite Eve PS1 (Idea was cool....game was so boring for me)
-Dragon Warrior 7 (Just didn't care for this)

I prefer 16 bit RPG's overall.

 

[Arcademan]

Part RPG and part fighter, The Bouncer for the PS2 gets my vote. A lot of glitz and hype, crap for game play

 

[Insaneclown]

Frontier for Playstation as I think that is what it's called. That game sucks ass.

 

[Dancing Mad]

>Tecmo Secrets of the Stars.
>Lufia & the Fortress of Doom let alone the brain hemorrage inducing Lufia 2(Last time I played this, I actually fell asleep and the controller slipped out of my hand as if I died while fighting Gades at the beginning of the game. The same happened to me on TSotS.

 

[Hecker]

>Tecmo Secrets of the Stars.
>Lufia & the Fortress of Doom let alone the brain hemorrage inducing Lufia 2(Last time I played this, I actually fell asleep and the controller slip out of my hand as if I died while fighting Gades at the beginning of the game.

God, Lufia 2 gave me headaches.

 

[Mike Shagohod]

Cosmic Fantasy 2
---PCE DUO {Turbograx 16 w. CD-ROM}

*This game had some bitchin' anime sequences, but getting to them was just plain flat ridiculous. You seriously can't take more than 3 or 4 steps anywhere on the map {or in the dungeons} before you're warped into yet another turn based battle. I lost interest half way though the game, got the debug visual code and saw the ending that way.

MERCENARY X99

 

[Dancing Mad]

God, Lufia 2 gave me headaches.

Heh at least I found it more mentally stimulating than part 1.

And I had a friend that could thrash Lufia 2 like a god. If he was still living in my hometown, I'd record a superplay video of him solving those devious ass puzzles.

 

[Curt]

Quest 64 - Nintendo 64

 

[Mr.Nemoperson]

Not really the worst but Final Fantasy 8 kinda sucked hard. Persona was kinda shitty with all those random battles, and that first person view. And Beyond the Beyond was a snoozfest.

 

[Lets Gekiga In]

Eh, I don't think I've ever played a single bad RPG, but then again I've only played a handful.

I've played Phantasy Star I, Phantasy Star II, Xenosaga, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy I, Final Fantasy VII, Skies of Arcadia and Grandia II. I've enjoyed all of them.

Do more people count Tenchi Muyou! Game-Hen as a strategy game rather than an RPG? If it's an RPG count it in my favs (for RPGs).

 

[Buro Destruct]

Chrono Cross.

The single reason I've yet to play another RPG other than Xenosaga since then. Total disgrace to the masterpiece that is Chrono Trigger.

 

[punkGuyta]

eternal ring for the ps2
just plain sucks i think

 

[bendor]

i played Koudelka (PSX) for about 10 minutes before i returned it to EB. I can't remeber why i did. maybe someone else knows.