[game_preservation] Worst game ever made

[Andrew Armstrong]

Never heard of the ET game? :)

There are downright incredibly bad games released on likely every 
console and operating system. Just takes some time to find them - many 
won't have been heavily reviewed or widely released I bet.

Andrew

On 16/01/2010 11:13, Devin Monnens wrote:

> 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 

> <mailto: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

>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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

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>     >>

>     >> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>     >>

>     >>

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>     >

>     > The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>     >

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>

> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

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