Best & Worst Video Games

[Wilgrove]

So what are the best and worst video games?

I'll break my list down in genre.

MMO:
Best: The Matrix Online
Worst: Runescape

Simulator:
Best: Microsoft Flight Simulator X
Worst: 18 Wheels of Steel (God such an unstable software...)

Racing Games:
Best: ARCA Sim Racing '08
Worst: rFactor (if nothing else, for the simple fact that add on have ruined it)

Now present your best/worst games list.

[South Lorenya]

You know, of course, that there's no good way to compare games from different consoles/time periods. Zelda 1 and Oblivion were both awesome games, but given that they were ~20 years apart, there's no agreed-upon way of determining just how much to even out the technology difference...

[Dashret]

One of my favorites is Sword of the Samurai. A classic DOS-era game where you get to take over Japan. It's sort of like a very primitive version of Shogun: Total War, with more minigames.

One of my current favorites is Tropico 3. I am loving that game. It's almost exactly like Tropico 1, but shinier. And with some cool new features. It's how you do a sequel right

Worst games ever, well...Empire Total War on its initial release has to be up there. When you pay $60 for a shiny DVD that doesn't actually do anything you feel a little ripped off. And when you finally DO get the game working and it's so riddled with errors that you can hardly play...well...

Really, a lot of current-gen games seem to fit that stereotype...

[Kashindahar]

There is no game worse than ET.

[Dashret]

There is no game worse than ET.

Say what you like about ET, the game actually worked.

[Lord Tothe]

Ratchet & Clank was awesome. Everything about that entire series is pretty much perfect. I've played a few boring games - Project Eden comes to mind - but I don't recall playing any games that were unplayably broken due to programming issues.

*edit* and while the other games in The Orange Box are solid, Portal pwns all. Plus it's available on several platforms so no one is left out of the awesomeness!

[Astholm]

Caesar IV - great 3D game, although you'd probably have to use Sun VirtualBox to get it to run since it's not that Vista-compatible.
Second best, the SWAT series of games. Both are enjoyable, for good reason!

They're not just plain "shoot-em-up" or "kick-and-jump" but actual logic puzzle type games.

[Kashindahar]

There is no game worse than ET.

Say what you like about ET, the game actually worked.

True, there were no bugs.

It was still worse than any other game you can mention, assuming that you can get said game to work at all.

[Whiskey Hill]

Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, which is saying a lot because I normally don't like RPGs.

This affected me a lot:

Yet it had its cold sense of lonliness that you were alone in the world, without anyone to trust or even any family.

[sic]

No matter the mods, or how far one progressed in the game, there was a sense I felt that my character was different from everyone else, I had a destiny, I would understand the secrets and innerworkings of the world, and I had a duty which others could not fathom. They could never understand me or my purpose. There was simply no way for me to communicate it to them. The loneliness and dreariness of struggling through Vvardenfell, even as a great hero beloved by the people, but as an orphan of history, destined to be alone and without a partner, or even a meaningful friendship, was something I loved.

[Lord Tothe]

Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, which is saying a lot because I normally don't like RPGs.

Morrowind is better than Oblivion in many ways, despite the dated technology. It had its bugs, but I like how the community was encouraged to mod that game by the developers. That also allowed the entire community to correct any glitches (and there were glitches) immediately.

[The Tofu Islands]

I don’t know about worst, but I’d have to hand best (at least in simulation) to Dwarf Fortress. Despite the fact that it’s still in alpha.

[Dashret]

Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, which is saying a lot because I normally don't like RPGs.

Morrowind is better than Oblivion in many ways, despite the dated technology. It had its bugs, but I like how the community was encouraged to mod that game by the developers. That also allowed the entire community to correct any glitches (and there were glitches) immediately.

I wrote a whole huge rant about Morrowind vs. Oblivion on another board...basically it boiled down to:
1. The setting was better and better developed. A somewhat original fantasyland vs. Generic Medieval Thing #5120
2. Voice actors (Dark Elves in Morrowind are sexy beasts. Face it.)
3. A better interface. Really. I liked Morrowind's more.

I'd copy/paste the whole thing if I wasn't lazy. Maybe tomorrow when I'm not so tired.

[Jalanat]

Best games:
Morrowind and Pokémon Platinum

Worst Games:
Every game that has been reviewed by the Angry Video Game Nerd.

[Kashindahar]

I don’t know about worst, but I’d have to hand best (at least in simulation) to Dwarf Fortress. Despite the fact that it’s still in alpha.

Given Toady's obsession with detail, I'm pretty sure it'll still be in alpha until it's a working simulation of the universe at the quantam level.

Nevermind how bad the user interface is, mind.

[The North German Reich]

Best: Hmm I quite like Battlefield bad company and Medieval 2 Total war.

Worst: Hmm..... dunno

[The Tofu Islands]

Given Toady's obsession with detail, I'm pretty sure it'll still be in alpha until it's a working simulation of the universe at the quantam level.

I’m not sure he’ll go quite that far. But it still needs a fair bit done (rivers flooding when dammed, disabling perpetual motion, et cetera).

Nevermind how bad the user interface is, mind.

What’s wrong with it? I find it fairly easy to use... The only thing I’d like is to make it work better on laptops.

[Whiskey Hill]

Best: Hmm I quite like Battlefield bad company and Medieval 2 Total war.

Worst: Hmm..... dunno

Medieval II= more attractive, less interesting version of Rome Total War. Classical just beats Medieval.

And I appreciate the comments supporting Morrowind. A brilliant game.

The Father is a machine and the mouth of a machine. His only mystery is an invitation to elaborate further.

The Mother is active and clawed like a nix-hound, yet she is the holiest of those that reclaim their days.

The Son is myself, Vehk, and I am unto three, six, nine, and the rest that come after, glorious and sympathetic, without borders, utmost in the perfections of this world and the others, sword and symbol, pale like gold.

There is a fourth kind of philosophy that uses nothing but disbelief.

[Libertarian Governance]

Socom 3 is the best, worst is probably The Legend of Zelda

[Kashindahar]

Nevermind how bad the user interface is, mind.

What’s wrong with it? I find it fairly easy to use... The only thing I’d like is to make it work better on laptops.

There's nothing wrong with it, it's just incredibly unappealing.

[Tagmatium]

Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, which is saying a lot because I normally don't like RPGs.

Morrowind is better than Oblivion in many ways, despite the dated technology. It had its bugs, but I like how the community was encouraged to mod that game by the developers. That also allowed the entire community to correct any glitches (and there were glitches) immediately.

Morrowind is the way forward.

I still play it, and keep an eye on the mods which are out there for it.

Medieval: Total War was probably one of the better games of the Total War series.

[North Suran]

Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, which is saying a lot because I normally don't like RPGs.

Morrowind is better than Oblivion in many ways, despite the dated technology. It had its bugs, but I like how the community was encouraged to mod that game by the developers. That also allowed the entire community to correct any glitches (and there were glitches) immediately.

Morrowind is the way forward.

I still play it, and keep an eye on the mods which are out there for it.

Morrowind just played like an uglier version of Oblivion with even worse combat, IMHO.

Medieval: Total War was probably one of the better games of the Total War series.

Shogun: Total War is the original and best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZA-gqJL9Is

[Tagmatium]

Morrowind is the way forward.

I still play it, and keep an eye on the mods which are out there for it.

Morrowind just played like an uglier version of Oblivion with even worse combat, IMHO.

Ah, yes. I forgot about that.

The fact that you can't cast whilst still having a weapon out is a bitch, and the way that it uses probability and ability to work out if you've hit an opponent is a bit of a bitch, as it means that early on in the game you're flailing like a moron, but not landing a hit.

The story's a bit less generic, as is the setting. It's also not ridiculously shiny, nor as generic fantasy visually.

Medieval: Total War was probably one of the better games of the Total War series.

Shogun: Total War is the original and best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZA-gqJL9Is

Never got my hands on it. I mean to, though.

[North Suran]

Morrowind is the way forward.

I still play it, and keep an eye on the mods which are out there for it.

Morrowind just played like an uglier version of Oblivion with even worse combat, IMHO.

Ah, yes. I forgot about that.

The fact that you can't cast whilst still having a weapon out is a bitch, and the way that it uses probability and ability to work out if you've hit an opponent is a bit of a bitch, as it means that early on in the game you're flailing like a moron, but not landing a hit.

The story's a bit less generic, as is the setting. It's also not ridiculously shiny, nor as generic fantasy visually.

I must admit, I never advanced enough to really make a critique of the story or setting.

It wasn't the graphics (I'm a nostalgic fan of ugly old games) or the poor combat (although this certainly augmented it), but I could never really get into Morrowind.

Medieval: Total War was probably one of the better games of the Total War series.

Shogun: Total War is the original and best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZA-gqJL9Is

Never got my hands on it. I mean to, though.

My brother had it when it first came out.

I'd never go back and play it, for fear that it would not meet the standards demanded by my rose-tinted memory.

[Conserative Morality]

Worst games ever, well...Empire Total War on its initial release has to be up there. When you pay $60 for a shiny DVD that doesn't actually do anything you feel a little ripped off. And when you finally DO get the game working and it's so riddled with errors that you can hardly play...well...

I had no such problems, and my computer can barely run it.

[Jeffgordonville]

Worst games ever, well...Empire Total War on its initial release has to be up there. When you pay $60 for a shiny DVD that doesn't actually do anything you feel a little ripped off. And when you finally DO get the game working and it's so riddled with errors that you can hardly play...well...

I had no such problems, and my computer can barely run it.

Ditto.

It's hard for me to specify a particular game as bad, since all of the ones I've played are good in their own ways. The lone exception to this would be Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), which was an absolute trainwreck of a game.