What is actually the worst gaming experience you've had?

Preachan · June 2014

That guild leader makes me sad and angry.
Dr. Klein is indeed hard, and I was always happy to have supportive team mates, who are willing to teach stuff and be patient, even if stuff doesn't work right from the beginning. The game is meant to be not easy on NM, so if it doesn't work at a time, so be it. No need to be such a *** towards teammembers.
(And people who are mean to the healer are the worst to me)

Sorry he spoiled the group content for you

Spiritreaver_ESO · June 2014

Irritating Stick on the original Playstation......i paid money for it. Actual money....

Pele · June 2014

Sendarya wrote: »

I loved The Secret World, great story, quests with puzzles and creativity, best immersion I have ever had, much like this game, but they made endgame content just redoing existing content but made insanely harder, Hmm... sounds familiar.

Anyway the only time I ever ragequit a game in 20 + years of gaming was there, Nightmare Ankh dungeon, getting past Dr. Klein.
I was in a guild where the leader was an old hardcore Wow raid leader, and he claimed he was done with that, just wanted to be more casual. I swear he was the Infamous -50 DKP guy, he had the right accent.

Anyway, as we progressed he started getting more competitive, and by the time the devs released the 4th rehashed NM dungeon, Ankh, he was getting pretty serious. I had healed the previous 3, managed the steep combat learning curve, etc. but when we got into Ankh I just hit a wall. We were undergeared to do it, and it is one of the hardest boss fights in existence, I swear it.

Anyway, the battle takes place on a very narrow bridge, and Klein puts waves of crap alternating down each side, that is pretty much insta kill if you do not dodge it. Then about 1/3 down, this little minion starts casting a spell that did over 1k dmg per second to the tank, and you have to react instantly, hopefully no waves of crap to dodge, pop all your healing cd's and hit a perfect rotation. Many guilds actually had dps both pop healing buffs as well, but not my guild leader, he said I needed to learn to solo it.

Some number of wipes later I wanted to call it. I was stressed and doing worse each attempt not better, and he and another guy started chewing me out, hard. I ended up crying and shaking so hard my husband actually came over and unplugged my computer.
I quit right then. I came back a few months later just to enjoy the new solo quest content they had added, but That pretty much destroyed my desire to ever do serious difficult grouping ever again. Heck, I have been raid healing off and on since EQ, but no more.

So yeah, that was the worst.

Ankh is one of my favorite TSW dungeons, and Klein one of my favorite bosses.

The nightmare version is extremely hard on healers [Dreaming Shroud, eek!]. Although Ankh is directly after 18s on the dungeon branch, it should not be your fourth dungeon due to the degree of difficulty. It should be your fifth or sixth. It's sad that your cabal leader ruined that experience for you as the dungeon, and that fight, can be fun once you get the hang of it.

Preachan · June 2014

And it's like dancing over that bridge.

Nox_Aeterna · June 2014

Mate , i played some pretty crappy games over the years , that is what you get for playing tons of indie and underground stuff.

If you think ESO is bad , you have seen nothing yet.

Still , that is what i expect from that kind of game , not from a AAA game with major backing and using a huge franchise like ES.

LadyDestiny · June 2014

kip_silverwolf wrote: »

Dragon Age 2
No more to say really. Those who suffered through it will understand. Those who haven't, consider yourselves having been spared the torture.

Being a Dragon Age fan, I really loved Origins. DA2 in itself was not a bad game, story was fairly good and I enjoyed the characters. The problem was the excessive use of the same maps over and over again. Being stuck in the city(Kirkwall)?, was just so boring after awhile and everytime you loaded into a zone, it always seemed like the same little path with some grass and a rock, caves were all the same.....lol Just hope they really make up for it in DA Inquisition and do a great job.

Bangstin · June 2014

domainsfreakb14_ESO wrote: »

Simple way to put it. Wildstar was my worse experience I have ever as an mmorpg it's a joke.

wat?

Worst gaming experience without playing the game. That's pretty bad...

edu.journeymanub17_ESO · June 2014

All my worst gaming experience was with EVE Online.

Eight years playing, as CEO or Director of some Corporation/Alliance, planing vendettas, assassinations, ambushes, posting on the forum and being flamed to the bones (there are professional trolls there, you know).

It kept me playing for that long, yes, but I was stressing more than relaxing, if you know what I mean, and after some family/friends/medical advice I had to leave for greener pastures for my own health sake...

I still love that game tho.

Zubba · June 2014

WoW for simply being a very boring game.

Eve Online was my best experience and I played for many years.

ESO I was nice until I started getting "Login timeout" error. Depending on how long it will take them to fix my issue, I will decide...

Izatar · June 2014

Worst game experiences are forgotten, but for games that are worthy to remember, my personal worst experience was when the ShadowBane servers were rooted. Ok, so they got hacked. But UBIsoft denied it ever happened. This was beyond the pale: the hackers toyed with the players and put them all at the bottom of the ocean. It boggles the mind that the company tried to deny that it happened every player on the server was delusional.

zhevon · June 2014

captain_awesome wrote: »

Age of Conan. Funcom. I don't believe I have to say anything further than this. AOC was in all honesty the Game with the most potential I ever saw. It was ruined. Funcom worst company ever. Worst support ever. Most hacked game ever. Must unbanned hackers after 6 years. Worst balance. Worst pvp. Most launch bugs in game after 6 years. I actually hate funcom, which is sad (and i know it).

Came for AoC reference ... Satisfied.

On a serious note - can't entirely blame them for the balance issues; PvP vs PvE is always going to be problematic.

On a personal note - the AoC launch and the immediate couple of months afterwards was a disaster and also shows the designers incompetence. It launched grouping was broken - not just an occassional weird problems like ESO. Everytime you grouped people would get dropped out of the group randomly. Much of the time group chat did not work. Only way to solve the problems temporarily was to reform the group. In itself this was annoying but they insisted that their precious instanced dungeons had to be done as a group at the proper level. So shortly after release they essentially started blocking working content from "high level solo'ing low level" scaling everything dramatically - not just a little to make it interesting. Instances would scale that way to the highest level in the group - so if you joined a lower level group - they would die. So essentially my main was would sit there playing auction house to prevent me from being overlevelled for the content.

Plus there collectors edition was a smelly pile and to lure people back when it was allegedly less broken - they offered a measly 10 days.

rayeab16_ESO · June 2014

@‌ woolenthreads
im not sure who/what KOTD stands for, but the full info on that was it was on the fraghause Krynn hardcore ruleset server back befor any neverwinter nights expansion packs were created. (i havent seen if that server still exists, but since the gamespy net went down i think its probably gone, and even then, probably changed a lot as soon as the new expacks arrived)

the place has some drekky 'on heartbeat' script running that meant, if you wanted to stand about and chat, you had to use an interior cell. if you were high level (read, anyone that was over lvl 5 or so on that server, becasue difficulty was set to max in game, and the HCR was also set to max difficulty, making it nearly as bad as a hardcore game where you could die and go back multiple levels till you were lvl 1 again so hard you bounced XD)
you needed to be in an inside cell or you lagged the server. the GM told them multiple times (a group of lvl 5-6 chars. about 5 or so of them were clustered together outside the door to the inn of the last home) to go inside if they wanted to stand about and just chat. they ignored him. so he warned everyone on the map to go inside or get out of that piece of map.
then he hit the map with the cow bomb variant.
i was behind buildings well away (as i thought) from the incedent. it was my very first online play of the game, i had managed to make it to level 2, i was chuffed with myself lol. i saw the described scene and then i was talking to the silver dragon in the abyss, becasue i should have been lvl -3 XD they critted me for so much damage, i hadnt even got the hp for even a 5th of it.

the worst part was when i went to the forms to ask what the frell just happend, i got called names ect, told it was my own fault and that i should have just 'logged out for 10 mins' or gone inside a building.
they treated newishness like it was a plague or a comunicable desease.
well i found a much nicer place after that lol, and never looked back. (and never played hardcore maxed again ether in nwn)

@ phaneub17 i know that game i think lol.
that was likely to be 'hero's of the lance' - a dragonlance game.
yeah, it would be confusing if you havent read any of the books. i have the sinclair spectrum and megadrive versions of the game and have read many of the books series, and i still found it hard to use.
the amiga sequal 'shadow sorcerer' was just as bad XD you would die lots, get moved to other party members and it would jump about so much it was confusing.
even to one intimately knowledgable about the series, who has the 1st edition ADnD sourcebooks for the dragonlance saga, the 'dragons of' novels and maps and other books XD

Woolenthreads · June 2014

edu.journeymanub17_ESO wrote: »

All my worst gaming experience was with EVE Online. .... but I was stressing more than relaxing, if you know what I mean, and after some family/friends/medical advice I had to leave for greener pastures for my own health sake...
I still love that game tho.

I, personally, left the game because I was bored. I was enjoying levelling the skills for a couple of years and then helping run a Corp as a Director, organising mining and manufacturing. I did get stressed with the 3 Alliances which we joined, all of which got stomped on at some point (BRUCE was my favourite of those). However I reached a point where all of my skills were on 1+ month, I was bored with ratting/mining, I was losing money on manufacturing and the conversations in-corp/alliance seemed same-ish. So I donated everything to the Corp and left the game.

rayeab16_ESO wrote: »

im not sure who/what KOTD stands for....

KODT = Knights of the Dinner Table, an on-going comic about a group of table-top Gamers. I still read it for equal measures of amusement and facepalming.

I remember "Heroes of the Lance" but I'd read the books and played prior D&D Games.

Two other lacklustre gaming experiences I had, purely due to failed expectations, were Homeworld 2 and MOO3. I still go back and play HW and HW:C. I'm not sure it's even possible to run MOO2 anymore

GreySix · June 2014

MOO3

No further explanation needed.

edu.journeymanub17_ESO · June 2014

Woolenthreads wrote: »

edu.journeymanub17_ESO wrote: »

All my worst gaming experience was with EVE Online. .... but I was stressing more than relaxing, if you know what I mean, and after some family/friends/medical advice I had to leave for greener pastures for my own health sake...
I still love that game tho.

I, personally, left the game because I was bored. I was enjoying levelling the skills for a couple of years and then helping run a Corp as a Director, organising mining and manufacturing. I did get stressed with the 3 Alliances which we joined, all of which got stomped on at some point (BRUCE was my favourite of those). However I reached a point where all of my skills were on 1+ month, I was bored with ratting/mining, I was losing money on manufacturing and the conversations in-corp/alliance seemed same-ish. So I donated everything to the Corp and left the game.

rayeab16_ESO wrote: »

im not sure who/what KOTD stands for....

KODT = Knights of the Dinner Table, an on-going comic about a group of table-top Gamers. I still read it for equal measures of amusement and facepalming.

I remember "Heroes of the Lance" but I'd read the books and played prior D&D Games.

Two other lacklustre gaming experiences I had, purely due to failed expectations, were Homeworld 2 and MOO3. I still go back and play HW and HW:C. I'm not sure it's even possible to run MOO2 anymore

LoL, I played with BRUCE as well, the teacher got us in a war against BoB. I must say the best FCs I found in all that 8 years I played was in BRUCE, the folks there were really nice ppl, agreed 100%.

Tannakaobi · June 2014

I've downloaded a ton of F2P mmo's that have been really bad so take your pick.

I probably say though that A Realm Reborn is the biggest pile of horse dung ever created. But, I should have known better than to bother. I haven't played a decent FF game since what 9, 10 maybe... nah, 10 was rubbish. It just looked really good but... meh! I don't know why FF moved away from there turn based style combat. Can you imagine the 1v1 PVP of something like FF8. Epic....

but, to be fair. I got my money back, which is more than I can say about most dud games, so my vote goes to Dragons Prophet although that was free.

swtor should also get a mention. It was a good game, but it was the biggest disappointment. They should have named it WoW in space.

ExiledKhallisi · June 2014

Worst gaming experience for me was playing as a workhorse for a select "click" of officers in a raiding guild in both EQ and WOW. These clicks are in all mmo's and usually abuse guild point/DkP systems. Favoritism and greed is rampant. You get the picture.. don't even get me started on certain female players of past guilds who were shown favoritism in these clicks based on their sex. What made it particularly sad was how blatantly obvious it was. When you have DPS showing up for weeks pulling near double the DPS/effort the "click" members were and getting nothing. I see this abuse of power happening in ESO where only select members have access to the guild leaders free stashh...I mean guild bank.

zgrssd · June 2014

Woolenthreads wrote: »

While I accept people are unhappy here occasionally, it simply isn't that bad. Anyone else have tales, not about ESO, of terrible electronic gaming experiences?

DC Universe Online. When t went F2P thier server population increased tenfold (!). Simply put as non sub/prefered you had such a low priority that it might take minutes for damage events to reach you in certain areas. Not that you saw the enemies to dodge them in the first place.
Despite having a much higher priority even the subs had issues with lags.

So what you are having as issues with lag right now? Take that times 60. That is what I have suffered.

CASP3R421 · June 2014

Skate 3, a box covered in pictures talking about how you can customize your game and make your own graphics to send to the game. Black Box (the dev) goes bankrupt, EA decides to push the game forward without a team working on it/fixing it/taking bug reports, which was still fine. then one fateful day without warning, the games website counterpart vanished, leaving the box that talks about customization to be little more than false advertising.

a game that was all about customization and creativity, having all the creativity taken out of it. now that sucked.

seneferab16_ESO · June 2014

It was when Mythic nerfed resticances and was totally fine with people LOS facehugging walls to cast the most powerful AoE in the game in complete safety.

I loved the *** out of Warhammer Online, and it was by far the most fun I have ever had in a game. Sure it was buggy and a bit ugly, but omfg that community was awesome and the faction pride intense.

After the nerfed resistances there was not really much anything could do against the army of Bright Wizards, except counter them with an army of less dangerous Sorcs. It was the beginning of the end for our server, and when it went belly up I couldn't bring myself to transfer. I really loved that game and I really loved that server.

RIP Burlok.

Pellaeon · June 2014

Cendyen wrote: »

My biggest disappointment in any game was SW:G with the Combat upgrade and NGE ... Man, I loved the hell out of that game. I know I would have stuck with that game another couple years had SOE not fubar'd it. I had a great guild, great friends that I had come to know and frankly, adore. Even with the lack of structured content, we always had something to do. Whether the daily run around and gather materials from my harvesters, helping to maintain the guild city we were in, and looking for the perfect resources for the crafters in the guild, who made amazing weapons... /sigh Then the random holding down of a tavern in a city dominated by the other faction lol that always made for a story.

And overnight, it died. I still get nostalgic when someone mentions that game.

I'd literally drive 15 minutes home, play for 15 minutes, and drive 15 minutes back to work on my lunch breaks. (and hope I had enough time to eat something.)

I agree, but I was happy to see they have emulators for it. I started a pre-CU emulator that I have been playing and it brings me back to the good ole days.

SWTOR was a little bit of a let down for me, but I think thats just because I was used to SWG.

Dungeon Siege 3 was complete crap for me, as I loved the first 2, along with anything else made by Obsidian.

CASP3R421 · June 2014

Pele wrote: »

Sendarya wrote: »

I loved The Secret World, great story, quests with puzzles and creativity, best immersion I have ever had, much like this game, but they made endgame content just redoing existing content but made insanely harder, Hmm... sounds familiar.

Anyway the only time I ever ragequit a game in 20 + years of gaming was there, Nightmare Ankh dungeon, getting past Dr. Klein.
I was in a guild where the leader was an old hardcore Wow raid leader, and he claimed he was done with that, just wanted to be more casual. I swear he was the Infamous -50 DKP guy, he had the right accent.

Anyway, as we progressed he started getting more competitive, and by the time the devs released the 4th rehashed NM dungeon, Ankh, he was getting pretty serious. I had healed the previous 3, managed the steep combat learning curve, etc. but when we got into Ankh I just hit a wall. We were undergeared to do it, and it is one of the hardest boss fights in existence, I swear it.

Anyway, the battle takes place on a very narrow bridge, and Klein puts waves of crap alternating down each side, that is pretty much insta kill if you do not dodge it. Then about 1/3 down, this little minion starts casting a spell that did over 1k dmg per second to the tank, and you have to react instantly, hopefully no waves of crap to dodge, pop all your healing cd's and hit a perfect rotation. Many guilds actually had dps both pop healing buffs as well, but not my guild leader, he said I needed to learn to solo it.

Some number of wipes later I wanted to call it. I was stressed and doing worse each attempt not better, and he and another guy started chewing me out, hard. I ended up crying and shaking so hard my husband actually came over and unplugged my computer.
I quit right then. I came back a few months later just to enjoy the new solo quest content they had added, but That pretty much destroyed my desire to ever do serious difficult grouping ever again. Heck, I have been raid healing off and on since EQ, but no more.

So yeah, that was the worst.

Ankh is one of my favorite TSW dungeons, and Klein one of my favorite bosses. The nightmare version is extremely hard on healers [Dreaming Shroud, eek!]. Although Ankh is directly after 18s on the dungeon branch, it should not be your fourth dungeon due to the degree of difficulty. It should be your fifth or sixth. It's sad that your cabal leader ruined that experience for you as the dungeon, and that fight, can be fun once you get the hang of it.

"NO DAMMIT A DPS HAS TO RUN UP TOP! WHY ARE YOU STANDING IT THE RED? MOOOOOOOOVE!"

ahhhh nightmare ankh. the grind of TSW is what eventually killed that game for me. talk about freedom in building your deck though, i had a pvp build that did bleed damage and negated healing in 12 enemies per attack (chain lightning/pistols) which i spent countless hours pissing off templars with. but when they released that issue with the battle simulations and didnt even pretend to have anything but a grindfest i had to walk.

coryevans_3b14_ESO · June 2014

I have to go with Dragon Age Origins 2. Mainly because Dragon Age Origins was one of the best rpgs in the history of gaming. If you haven't played it, check it out. Then DAO2 came out. Wow, was that a pile of crap.

dkaneva · June 2014

Worst game ever? Do a youtube search for Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing! Game had no physics. You could drive through mountains, go the same speed backwards or forwards, and if you drove too far off the road the games code would show on the screen like the matrix, until you inevitably fell through the screen and had to restart.

ET for Atari was horrible.

Worst MMO exp? SWG CU. Destroyed the game.

AngryNord · June 2014

A game called Merlin. No, it was not about King Arthur's Wizard... It was marketed as a helicopter simulator, with a high degree of realism. It turned out that all you could do was land a Merlin (a type of helicopter) on the rear deck of a destroyer out at sea. Graphics were poor even for the mid-90s.

DireKit · June 2014

Nazon_Katts wrote: »

NGE

Jep.

Dis.

Heraclea · June 2014

The closure of City of Heroes.

Shaun98ca2 · June 2014

Red Light Green Light.

Green Light was OP.

Tannakaobi · June 2014

coryevans_3b14_ESO wrote: »

I have to go with Dragon Age Origins 2. Mainly because Dragon Age Origins was one of the best rpgs in the history of gaming. If you haven't played it, check it out. Then DAO2 came out. Wow, was that a pile of crap.

LOL, I played the demo and thought better of it. How you go from 1 to 2 is beyond me. It's like painting the Mona Lisa on day one and then.....

Jobs a good un....

Qumulous · June 2014

Worst experience i had in a game was in Everquest. I love the game and still log in and say hi to old friends. I had the worst luck in this game, and remember EQ started it all. I started a human shadownight and started in East Freeport. Remember this is like 1998 so MMO's are just starting. Humans had the worst racial traits and were blind as a bat. I was wondering around in the freeport sewers and fell into a pool of water and drowned. You use to have to run back to your body and loot your gear as you respawned naked. I couldn't find my body so i started over, lol i was pissed i actually had about 20 gold.

When i finally figured out the game i was around level 20 and decided to take ship across the ocean of tears to go to Butcherblock. The boat rides so sucked in that game. At the first stop i had this wood elf npc jump on the boat and kill me. I had to come back naked and if you remember Ocean of tears was a huge zone still one of the biggest in all of EQ. I was looking for my body for 2-3 hours, wrote a petition because i couldn't find it. Turns out my body stayed on the boat and was let off the boat on the edge of the map. I had 3 people helping me and had to drag my corpse and swim forever before i could loot my corpse.

Oh the early days of everquest are the best! Funny how far MMO's have come.