[game_preservation] Worst game ever made

[Devin Monnens]

I simply find it interesting that a game this buggy got released. It's like
the people who ordered it published hadn't even looked at it. PC games must
be easier to release in this shape. There have been some buggy console games
(Blacksite: Area 51 runs VERY choppy and is pretty boring to boot) but
nothing CLOSE to this that I am aware of.

That kind of development documentation you mention is crucial for our
understanding of bad games. I think it's useful to have this type of
material with bad games as well as good games because it helps us analyze
success as well as failure. Makes me think we need more postmortems of games
that absolutely failed.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Billy Cain <
bcain at criticalmassinteractive.com> wrote:


> 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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