The worst RPG you ever played?

[Xenich]

From what I can think of right now, Elex 2 is definitely near the top. Everything about it is just Elex: But Worse!, took a ridiculous amount of time to make considering it's 2/3rds asset reuse, etc.,

How did they accomplish that? I mean, I don't get it... how do you go from a fairly solid engine, game system, etc... then essentially recreate the same game, but make it look like it was some proto type throw away testing build for the first game?

[derami991]

Probably Two Worlds. It had potential, but those clunky controls and cringy dialogue... yikes.

[Oyster Sauce]

Probably Two Worlds. It had potential, but those clunky controls and cringy dialogue... yikes.

Guessing you haven't played Gothic then

[Tweed]

Probably Two Worlds. It had potential, but those clunky controls and cringy dialogue... yikes.

Guessing you haven't played Gothic then

MUH TREASURE CHEST!! WHARE IS MUH CHEST?! MUH SHIP ARRRGGGRRRRBBLBLBLBLBLBL!!!!

[Oyster Sauce]

Probably Two Worlds. It had potential, but those clunky controls and cringy dialogue... yikes.

Guessing you haven't played Gothic then

MUH TREASURE CHEST!! WHARE IS MUH CHEST?! MUH SHIP ARRRGGGRRRRBBLBLBLBLBLBL!!!!

this woman is hysterical

[Vergil]

and cringy dialogue... yikes.

Post your skin tone you swarthy ape

[Roderick]

Surprised no one mentioned DA Inquisition.

[DrSneed]

Cisquisition shitting all over the Qunari lore was incredibly gay. Mmm yes these nazbol muslim racial supremacists would totally tolerate trannies and non-Qunari as anything other than useful idiots.

[Tweed]

Guessing you haven't played Gothic then

MUH TREASURE CHEST!! WHARE IS MUH CHEST?! MUH SHIP ARRRGGGRRRRBBLBLBLBLBLBL!!!!

this woman is hysterical

This femboi gets mad when he doesn't find piles of gold everywhere.

[Wretch]

I've played some really shit things in my time so it's hard to pin it down, but even having played slop like Pillars of Shiternity, Dragon Age 2, and Fountain of Dreams I think the worst RPG I've ever played is still Fallout 3.

Fallout 3 is cargo cult experience from beginning to end by a company that didn't comprehend what made Fallout good. Bethesda took the basic elements of Fallout, threw them into the Frankenstein Gamebryo engine and then slopped it with their magic touch, hoping that somehow it would work out. So you get crap like people lived around an unexploded atomic bomb because that's weird and post-apocalypses are supposed to be weird. You get the 1950s art style going from background dressing to being the all-consuming motif of the Fallout universe. You get mandatory trudges through boring as fuck subways stations because of convenient piles of rubble blocking your progress.

That's only the start of what's wrong with this pile of shit. Everything is bad about Fallout 3. FEV vats in vaults for the excuse of having more super mutants, mercenaries who attack you for the crime of having good karma, and THREE DAWWWWWGGGGGG. The game insists that water is in short supply, but never bothers to show you that much the same way Skyrim insists that there's a war going on, but aside from a few camps and the chance to participate in two or three whole missions, you'd never be able to tell.

And who could forget the vampires? You don't grow fangs, but you'll get to use pre-war blood bags to restore your health! There's other real winning moments like wasting a perfectly good GECK to make a water purifier and Little fucking Lamplight, and just a few of its sins. Nothing about this game makes any sense and big hack Emil stealing an entire episode of Star Trek: Voyager didn't help. The ending of the puke-green tinted shitfest is the best part. The game wants you to heroically kill yourself when there's no less than three companions capable of turning off a radiation spewing water purifier (that shouldn't be) without suffering any problems and if you have the DLC installed you get chided for being a coward instead of throwing your life away like your father did. Fuck this game, when Bethesda finally goes under for Starfail and TES6 it'll be karma for ruining Fallout.

Yes, even having played Fountain of Dreams, I think Fallout 3 is still the worst RPG I've ever played. So, what's the worst you've ever played?

Still upset they didn’t let you fuck the dog companion?

[Tweed]

Still upset they didn’t let you fuck the dog companion?

Please ban this zoophile, he can't stop talking about wanting to fuck dogs.

[Xenich]

Probably Two Worlds. It had potential, but those clunky controls and cringy dialogue... yikes.

That was it's surface turn off, but it had a charm in its play even with all of its faults. Honestly, it was one of the better games I played, but like you said... right away it turns people off. I tried to get some friends to play it (solo, group game sucks and is too chopped up) but they absolutely could not get past those things.

[Tweed]

Two Worlds is a HIDDEN GEM. It's hilarious and a true masterpiece of a game.

[ThulsaDoomer]

Surprised no one mentioned DA Inquisition.

DA:I is my close second for absolute worst, for sure.

Bioware started to listen to Tumblr more and more ever since DA:O for the series and it shows beautifully in DA:I, although Fenris and shit in DA2 was definitely starting to mark the fact the games were designed for women over men. As someone brought up already, my biggest gripe was neutering the Qunari and validating troon idealogy in the lore. Funnily enough the woman who wrote Sten, all the Chantry verses, etc, was fired last year. Can't have people who respect religion on a team of feminist and trooned out atheist's.

[Tweed]

Surprised no one mentioned DA Inquisition.

DA:I is my close second for absolute worst, for sure.

Bioware started to listen to Tumblr more and more ever since DA:O for the series and it shows beautifully in DA:I, although Fenris and shit in DA2 was definitely starting to mark the fact the games were designed for women over men. As someone brought up already, my biggest gripe was neutering the Qunari and validating troon idealogy in the lore. Funnily enough the woman who wrote Sten, all the Chantry verses, etc, was fired last year. Can't have people who respect religion on a team of feminist and trooned out atheist's.

The writing was on the wall when romances became the most important and biggest advertised feature of every Bioware game.

[Tinky Winky]

Not the worst RPG but Dark Sun Wake of the Ravager turns out to be a letdown. Bad performance, ugly sprites, generic plot (macguffin collecting #1442, which is a decline from the first game), and worst of all, puzzles that are based on crappy 80s adventure "games".

[Fitz]

I'll give me two cents on this before reading up on the previous pages.
I saw Fallout 3 and Dragon Age 2 being mentioned so I'll start with those.

Fallout 3 I booted for a few hours and then gave up on, as the controls made me feel like I was driving a tank and I couldn't really get the humour/vibe they were going for. Since then I've watched some youtube snippets of later stages of the game and it looks like it does get better the more you play it but still the first impression it left me with was so displeasing that I didn't want to put any effort into playing any further.

Dragon Age 2 on the other hand I finished but the entirety of the game made me constantly ask myself "what the hell am I playing?". It didn't feel like a Dragon Age game and it certainly wasn't good enough for me to finish it if it didn't have Dragon Age in the title. Still tho I managed to play it through to the end regardless of how insipid everything was. I guess the whole thing had a specific charm of its own but the whole experience felt like a betrayal to what Dragon Age Origins was for me. Not to mention that the companions were very meh too. Maybe if the Adventurer's Guild hasn't played it yet and decides to play it I will find the will in me to play it again. But as it stands the whole game was so bland that I dread the idea of installing it and playing it anew.

However, the cRPG that I think was the worse that I've ever played is Swordcoast Legends. Buggy, forgettable, bland story, horrendous UI, bland companions - I have no idea what the companions were because I don't remember any of them other than there was a dwarf, a mage and a elf; very unsatisfying combat, no depth to the mechanics and builds you can make. Overall a massive disappointment for me as I was looking for something to rival Origins. It's really hard to recall anything from this game other than some of the boss fights, but even they weren't done well enough. What I meant by this is that I don't remember any of the fights I had with them but just how the models looked. It's really hard to say what this game did right. Maybe some parts of the music? The only thing that I remember with absolute certainty is how little fun I had with it.