[game_preservation] Worst game ever made

[Billy Cain]

I feel bad for the developers of most "poorly reviewed" games.
Schedule pressures, lack of funding, deaths of key staff, etc. all
contribute to these crap scores.

Now there is always the case where the team, company, and publisher
agree to ship it and they thought it was good...

And then there are the games that get released because the "leaders"
think it is ready when the team knows that there is no way it will be
successful.

That is the worst one of all because it deprives you of the ability to
make the game polished and rocking, not to mention bug-free.

So I guess what I am saying is that we should not blame the developers
in all cases. They are sometimes just pawns. Of course the scores
should be arbitrary in the grand scheme. Let the rankings commence!

On 1/14/10, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, 6 reviews is a bit. I wonder how many of these were done after the

> game had achieved its notoriety. In this day and age, it is pretty awful to

> have a commercial product published and sold in stores that is that

> unfinished and terrible.

>

> -Devin

>

> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Andrew Armstrong

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:

>

>>  Yeah, kinda infamous, but I am sure there are worse (not-reviewed)

>> incomplete and unfinished games, or just ones from the tape era which

>> really

>> didn't deserve reviews. I guess this is the main one published in recent

>> years though.

>>

>> Andrew

>>

>>

>> On 14/01/2010 02:54, Devin Monnens wrote:

>>

>> Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Read this for a good laugh. It has a

>> score

>> of 3.83% on GameRankings out of 6 reviews, making it the worst game ever

>> made. Let's just say there's a patch out there that brings the game UP to

>> version 1.0.

>>

>>  http://hardcoregaming101.net/bigrigs/bigrigs.htm

>>

>> --

>> Devin Monnens

>> www.deserthat.com

>>

>> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>>

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> Devin Monnens

> www.deserthat.com

>

> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

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