I have yet to play PoP:TWW, but I really don't see why that should be there. It's one thing to be an atrocious game, and a whole other thing to just have an atrocious /style/. It sounds to me like the game is still more or less great, just slathered in XTREME.

Ditto on Typing of the Dead by the way.

awww...i liked elf bowling

"…or better yet, how about “The Ten Worst Reviews of All Time”? Sadly, that list cannot easily be compiled due to the thousands of idiotic reviews that are published each DAY. "

fix'd it for you

I love how a maginzine that deals mostly with PCs tries to judge console games. This is why I'm not a PC gamer.

And yes, dragging Warrior Within into this was a low blow. Is it really so evil to try to get a extremely niche game into the mainstream? Also, the article bitches on and on about the changes to the characters, but hardly even touches on how the gameplay stood up. Truth be told, I half-expected them to go into a rant against Halo 2 and Quake 4 as well.

Look, asshat PC World guys - Super Columbine Massacre RPG dealt with a touchy subject. Granted. You don't have to like the idea of a video game that deals with it in the manner SCMRPG did. That's fine.

But to compare it to Daikatana, Etc. - games with poor gameplay, execution, programming, and the like - is just plain dumb.

In fact, SCRPG was actually fairly well put together, for a one-man operation. Look, I'm not going to defend the context, Danny LeDonne can defend his work all by himself.

But calling out a game you don't subjectively agree with from a contextual point of view in the same grouping as games that are technically and operationally -bad, shows you to be nothing more than an asshat. Look PC World can write all the "I hate Super Colombine Massacre RPG" columns it wants. Go for it! You don't like the subject matter? Awesome - you're an opinionatatd asshole! Welcome to the 300 Million Club!

But SCMRPG isn't one the "Worst Games" when looked at from a technical standpoint, like the others on the list. Not even close. And that's ignoring the painfully obvious commercial/homebrew disparity.

Rachel0: SCMRPG wasn't any worse than any other RPG Maker-made game. There are worse. I've seen KKK-glorifying Rm2k games, WW2-era Rm2k games which glorify the Nazi regime, porn-themed Rm2k games, and worse. I've also seen a lot of games which are worse on a purely technical level.

We're not saying it was a good game. We're saying that it has no place alongside a list of otherwise commercially-made games and that if non-commercial games were included there are a HELL of a lot worse that deserve to take the top spot here.

Obviously there are too many idiots in the world.

Even more obviously too many of them work at PC World.

Bleagh, I always hate these X Worst Games ever lists. So many of these people are focusing on the negative aspects and totally ignoring the context of the content they're lambasting.

1) ET: I won't comment on this one much. To be quite honest, ET wasn't all that bad when you compare it to some of the other dungheaps released on the Atari. It's only more famous because 4 million cartridges were produced and Atari bought the license for $25 million. I can see this one having a place on the Worst Marketing Decisions list, perhaps.

2) Super Columbine Massacre: In bad taste? Yeah. One of the worst games ever? That's pretty funny... As someone who's actually played more than his fair share of RPG Maker 2000 games, I can confidently state that there are games far more offensive AND far less well designed. Again, this is just noted because it's famous.

5) Pac-Man (Atari port): See the notes on ET. This one was pure marketing badness combined with a horrible rush job.

8) Marky Mark Make My Video: On the objective scale of badness, I'd rather see Criss Cross on this list than Mark Wahlburg. At least he helped bring us The Big Hit.

9) Warrior Within: This title has no place at all on this list. It might stand out as the worst of a trilogy but that's it. The game still features genre-defining platforming at it's peak and rich graphics. Yeah, the Prince has more 'tude than most people can stand but that was a marketing decision. Look at it this way... If we hadn't gotten this we might not have gotten a sequel at all... Sands of Time didn't sell all that well and the game might not have gotten any backing at all if the dev team didn't implement the changes the marketing team wanted.

how can you put games like Warrior Within and Super Columbine and leave out Superman on the N64. I mean come on that game was so bad that playing it give you cancer of the eyeballs

This was a really dumb list. He says himself he tries to cram every possible definition of Worst Game Ever, including the Antiquated-Cultural-Practices view of violent games=bad!!!11!

Postal (runner-up list)? Prince of Persia? His criticisms to these and Super Colombine are entirely about content rather than gameplay. And while the content of games can affect the quality (Grim Fandango, Jet Set Radio), it (usually) doesn't define them. I don't think of the motivation or narrative concerning Tetris blocks, but the game isn't any less enjoyable.

SCMRPG was the title story of this and his write-up of it is exemplary: he talks about it's its content (God forbid art address touchy real-life issues!) and only in his last phrase says anything remotely related to gameplay with "As a game, [it] is appalling." Now the reader begs to know... why?

With aforementioned garbage like Big Rigs and Superman 64, small indy pet projects that promote thinking don't belong on the worst-games list of any publication. PC World lost any credibility here.

Hey! Grim Fandango was a classic! I still don't know why so much was dumped on that game. The humor was a little more dry than most LucasArts games, but it was still an enjoyable adventure.

I'm guessiong Super Columbine Massacre RPG was the "flavor of the month" entry? also, I have to agree I don't know what PoP is doing there. Espically when the rest of the list is made up of obvious "given" titles like E.T and Daikatana.

In fact, let's ask the bigger question: Why'd they bother with this list in the first place? It's not a gaming mag, there's no information of note in it for those who'd care (We already knew ET and Atari Pacman sucked!) and the writer seems to have a confused point on top of it all. So why did they do this? Maybe they needed a quick filler article?

If making games about columbine is politicaly intollerable,then making games about WW2 should be even worse.

God I love the elitists worst/best game lists Daikatana is a prefect example of a overhyped game that was just mediocre but still more fun and interesting than something like Quake 4 that was not over hyped and is not even mediocre.......
Let go threw the list since its obvious the reviewers didn't

ET: at a time when hafl the games were shoty to bad to worse...get over yourself..
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SCM RPG:why is a non retail game in this lsit? are they working for jacko trying to have all games baned by looking at the more questionable things that crawl up from the home brew community?
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Custer's Revenge:at least you had the balls to put a bad game on the list...
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Daikatana:you either bought the hype or never played the game...or both..
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Pac-Man :they went cheap on porting a cheap game for a cheap system...SHOCK....
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Smurf Rescue :haven't bother to try and play the wash of current sat morning cartoon to games or any of the 90's have we? they they run longer and deeper and the scars will last for a life time...
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Shaq Fu:mmm this or weapon lords at least shaq fu was playable...
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Make My Video :limited yes but not the worst FMV game if you liked Marky Mark, Kriss Kross, and C+C Music Factory,at that time *L* I do recall acouple more games in this vein they didn't make many more after that the whole pre fab vid editing thing is pretty bad as a grene.
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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within :a mere annoyance makes this one of the worst games of all time? WTF LOC:BLood Omen is 10X worst than this and yet no mention of it?? and their are games even worse that it....for christ sake put down your pen and walk away from the desk!
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Elf Bowling well what do you know out all the worest puzzle games you pick a bad one I am almost shocked

1 game dose not belong
5 games are not the worst of there grene to date
4 games so far are bad

its like you are afraid to get sued to call some of the more current games bad when they are in fact BAD Q4 being a prefect example its had poor sells was poorly thought out its sad when games like Q1-2,DUke3d and Blood still have the most comprehensive level design since they couldn't get lost in physics or graphics they have to focus on well laid out level design....

Keaton2008
when reviewers base their ratings on the sales mark and "current" standards of what video games are they fail and become corporate propaganda machines.

Big Rigs, worst game of all time. E.T. and elf bowling are pretty crappy too. I hate elf bowling. It reminds me of hell, which I no longer fear.

Forgot to add to above

Elf bowling has brought joy and variety to christmas time. I still play tho mostly elf bowling 2.

Why does anybody really care? The game was some underground GBA-Graphics game. Hell. If you tried hard enough it could probably find a Flash-Player version of it. It isn't on any major systems or anything like that. So why do people complain about it? I get the subject matter is touchy because it's based on the deaths of several people. But does it really deserve this much coverage? On this sight, yes it does. But you see it on the news (Fox...Dateline and other places...) If the news hadn't shown it, I think it is pretty safe to say no one would have discovered it as much as it did.


Also, I agree it was a piece of crap. Gameplay wise.