I remember renting Shaq Fu for SNES and it being a type of awful that I hadn't experienced before. Tough question, but that's what comes to mind.

For me, uh... I don't know.  I mean, I really think most games suck, but I never have expectations, so I'm never particularly let down.  In all seriousness, I have to go with a NES game called Color a Dinosaur.  It came out AFTER Mario Paint came out on the SNES.  It lets you color 16 dinosaurs.  Sixteen.  That's it.  You can't even draw your own dinosaur.  It might be the biggest step backwards ever made in a single game.

Here is a link to a Java version: http://www.nintendo8.com/game/9/color_a_dinosaur/

Another reason why it is the worst game for me is because it helped start the game-music-composing career of Tommy Tallarico.  The music is fucking horrible and repetitive, and he actually blames the limitations of the NES hardware, as if all NES music was poor and limited.  This game was made in 1993, 8 years after Super Mario Bros, but the music sounds like it was at least one generation earlier.  And now Tommy Tallarico hosts his dumb concert (playing right down the street tomorrow night but I can't afford to go!) where they play the Super Mario Bros. music from 1985, but somehow ignore his own Tallarico-Jams from 1993.  Limitations of hardware my ass.

No way!!!  Are you serious?  If it's still bothering you, they remade it for DS so you can finally figure it out and have some closure with it.

I loved it and played it for a really long time.  I will gladly answer any questions you have.  Basically, you're G-d, and you can morph the terrain as you see fit, mostly to flatten it out so the tribe that worships you can build their village and prosper.  Then you tell your tribe to fight the opposing village, which has its own G-d working for it.  You can also try to mess with their terrain to get in the way of their building, and slow them down.  You do this on several stages in several worlds.

It was even one of the main influences for one of the phases in Spore.

A couple years ago, a friend and I came across 2 copies of Shaq Fu.  $2 each.  We didn't even say a word, but immediately bought both copies, went back to my house, and played it all night long, and had the time of our lives.  That game ages like a fine wine.  I had much more fun with ClayFighter when they were both new (1994), and the theme song is still in my head, but ClayFighter didn't age the same way.  ClayFighter got worse and Shaq Fu got better.  I dare you to revisit both games.  You will have more fun with Shaq Fu.

The reason is that ClayFighter tried to be intentionally campy, so the jokes quickly wore off.  Shaq Fu didn't mean to be so campy, so the sad unintentional joke just gets better and better.  It's like the worst action movie ever, and I love it.

But also, did you really have any expectations for Shaq Fu at the time?  Why did you "give a damn" about it?  I've never understood why people were so disappointed with a basketball player's 2-D fighting game, which was released when both Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were in their prime.  I will have no more Shaq Fu bashing in this thread.

for me it would have to be legend of legaia 2. but is not because i dont like it i like the game a little bit. well i like all rpgs jejeje. but this game compared to the first is an insult to the franchise. i mean legend of legaia is for me one of the best rpgs of all times and legend of legaia 2 is poo compared to the first and to others rpgs. but i still like it thought.

Gears of War. It just seems like a total ripoff of everything from Madden football Augustus Cole to Resident Evil 4 the scene where you go down into the cave with the emulsion and fight the giant spider starts off with a FFX temple mine cart ride and then removes the scene where Leon goes underground to fight actual giant locusts. Then Marcus Phoenix is an attempt to make a bigger, bulkier Sam Fisher with some of Master Chief and Kratos qualities mixed in as well. Finally, you have a short Junker scene that tries and fails to be as cool using the Warthog in Halo, squad mechanics ripped out of The Thing, a cover system from .killswitch, and you have Gears of War. All that said, the game does have impressive graphics at times and I do find The Rendezvous trailer for Gears 2 to be quite poetic.

I'm not a stupid gamer so I almost completely avoid games with bad reviews, fan, site, magazine, etc. It was only when I was a kid and reviews weren't as easy to come by in the NES, SNES era that I may have asked for bad game. Thing is, even most bad games of that era still had redeeming qualities in my mind. So I luckily haven't played many games I'd consider to be horrible. Although a friend of mine got this game for the N64 and told me about it, that he bought it used for a cheap price and said he liked it so far. I came over to check it out along with some of his other games. He puts the game in and I'm playing it and right away know it sucks. He knows it too but doesn't want to admit it. Sure enough, it was Superman. Horrible.

The only other bad game I played was RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 for PC. The game actually wasn't bad but it kept crashing, moving slowly and all type of annoying garbage. I've never been good with computers so I wasn't sure if it would play of mine due to technical details and it didn't. A friend of mine however built a computer for gaming and it could play all the top notch stuff of the time yet even that computer had trouble playing it. A shame too since it seemed like a really fun game and I loved the first two. I think that game single handedly killed the franchise they had going. And it also turned me off from computer gaming since I know console gaming is superior anyway. I just hope Atari or whoever has the right decides to make an RCT4 and for consoles.

Since i'm a gamer from the 2600 days, i lived the E.T. experience, and that, my friends, is priceless... What a horrible game, especially after such an awesome movie... That day i learned my lesson to double-check a game, so i reduce the amount of letdowns...

Still, there are some games that i couldn't escape from, like Superman 64 or X-Men for NES... incredibly awful, but will never replace E.T. in my list...

The game that sucked for me because of poor design choices as opposed to bug, glitches or stability issues was "unlimited Saga". I spent several hours on it hoping it would start until I realized that, that was the game. If I wanted a game that used my imagination for graphics I would have bought a pen and paper RPG. I had bought it used but that 4$ price was WAY TOO MUCH.

anyone want it for free (u pay S&H).

I guess Neopets: The darkest faerie would possibly be the worst game I've played. Why? It was very buggy, repetitive, boring, had tons of glitches etc..

Suikoden 4... very muchly dissapointed me
one of my fave series ever and they went and made that

Crash of the Titans almost killed Crash Bandicoot imo...

ermmmm... Superman 64 takes the title tho

Oh yeah almost forgot...
Anyone who says FF7 is the worst game of all time, you officially suck

I'll chime in with game i most want to love, but can't. Here comes the blasphemy... Super Mario Brothers 3. That's right! I love all Mario games, but for some damn reason, I really suck at Mario 3. I couldn't beat it when it came out when I was a teenager and even now after re-buying it on the Virtual Console, I still can't beat it. I think it would have been a much better game if it had the same structure as Mario World for the SNES. Overworld structure with the ability to save your progress at certain points.