The worst thing you can do in the video game industry is release something forgettable. Is it a decent game? Sure, that’s the goal, but if things go wrong, you might be able to save face and get public attention by creating something so bad that people want to play it anyhow.
After all, morbid curiosity exists, and if your terrible video game has a unique selling feature, you could have just created history. It may not have gone as planned, but reputation is still important.
The games on this list aren’t always the worst, but they were generally panned when they were first released, typically for good reason.
So, what is it in any of these games that makes them so terrible? It extends beyond poor game decisions or financial limits. Anyone can have this experience. Poor game design is more widespread than you may think.
Shadow The Hedgehog
Sega capitalized on Sonic’s broody bro Shadow the Edgelord’s fame by giving him his spin-off in 2005.
How would people distinguish it from other Sonic games? Why not put a pistol in his hands and watch what happens? I’m sure we can all agree that the notion was right in front of us.
Hatred
It irritates and bothers me even to offer this game text lines. The player takes on the character of a bitter, nihilistic spree murderer who has had it with civilization in the 2015 PC shooting game Hatred.
The game’s drab black and white color scheme become tiresome quickly, and the violent, unrelenting violence, while somewhat exciting, becomes tiresome quickly. A game with so much cringy edginess should not be this one-note.
Shaq Fu
Shaq Fu’s fame was built on its lack of quality. Even though it wasn’t horrible, it didn’t have a chance against Super Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II’s home debuts.
Shaq’s foray into video games was so loathed that a group of gamers decided to take action, making it their mission to destroy as many physical copies of the game as they could.
For so long, Shaq Fu has been on every list of the “worst games of all time,” that people appear to have been conditioned to tremble uncontrollably once they hear the phrase.
Rogue Warrior
After the success of Modern Warfare 2 in 2009, we were all still reeling.
So, what could be better than a terrific third-person military stealth game? That is not the case with Rogue Warrior.
Rogue Warrior is a game that follows the unlikeable real-life Richard Marcinko on a fake expedition to North Korea in order to revenge fallen friends and stop missiles, or something along those lines.
South Park
At its peak, South Park was a juggernaut in merchandising and tie-ins. As a result, South Park needed to release a game, and it needed to release it quickly.
South Park’s debut video game was a straightforward first-person shooter with much of the series’ charm and potty-mouthed humor, using the Turok engine.
The fact is that South Park is ugly and restricted in breadth because it was released so quickly to the public. Levels are repetitive, as is having to retry the entire game if you die owing to a lack of checkpoints, and the game suffers from a severe lack of music and voiceover diversity.
On top of that, the hideously low draw distance to disguise its flaws made it unbearably uninteresting to look at.
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