What Were They Thinking: The Worst/Weirdest Game Ideas Ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DTjLG3usQo

Explanation: Awesome... ET

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuBgGoV_eF0&feature=related

Explanation: Platoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKwA066rNn0&feature=related

Explanation: LOOOOOOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E4hod4mGDQ&feature=related

Bible Adventures Part 1: HILARIOUS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T_mjSJE9cs&feature=related

Bible Adventures Part 2: DEAD HILARIOUS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzYYevCIbKs&feature=related

Bible Adventures Part 3: EXTRA HILARIOUS!

Trust me! they're the absolute WORST!

Machine Head. Between shoddy graphics, a terrible story line, zero tutorial, and controls that were sub-par at best, every time I dared to put it into my PS1, a part of me died inside.

Stormrise.

The idea sounded very promising. Whip select in theory should've worked a lot better on a controller than having to scroll the view to a unit and then clicking to select. But they failed spectacularly in several ways:

1) Lots of units = lots of cluttered icons on the edge of the screen, making it very hard to whip to the unit you want. Throw in a moving camera if your current unit is moving...

2) Whip select shifts camera view to center on the selected unit. Which means, if you want to order multiple units *quickly*, you can't, since your camera jumps around like a wild monkey.

3) The only way to select without shifting camera is an absolute chore. You have to hold down a key, rotate the camera until you land on the unit you want, click it, move the camera back to what you want it to do, and click again.

4) You can only group 3 units.

What they *should* have done for the game is keep the unit counts low, which is where whip select shines. And they should have kept the camera focused on the current unit when using whip select, so you could quickly and efficiently order the other units. It boggles the mind how they thought their UI decisions made any sense, and sadly it made the game a failure.

Spore.

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Runescape, but I still play it rofl

Plants Vs Zombies

Need I say more

Spider-Man 3.

1) The graphics were utterly terrible. Was released in 07, but the world looked like it was made in 02 or so. I swear, some parts of OCARINA OF FREAKING TIME looked better than this version of the big apple.

2) Game flow bored me out of my skull. While the H-bombers looked kind of cool, the missions were mindless and there was quite literally nothing to do after you beat the game except wander around and look for those stupid spider emblems to get back the black suit, which is useless since all of the bad guys are weak, anyway.

3) Combat? WHAT combat?! All you had to do was keep hitting and periodically grab a health pickup. I can only remember dying one time in the entire game.

4) Controls are ok, but the thing makes absolutely no use of the wii's remote system. The NES was more immersive.

5) Story was arguably worse than my second grade Santa letter, and not only because of the corny dialogue. ("Don't bother going to  the beach, the beach is coming to you." ) Waaaaay too many subplots, none of which are given enogh time to develop. Also, none of the bad guys have any rhyme or reason for their actions.

Over all, it's not worth the CD it comes on, much less the 40 bucks (American) Gamestop managed to get out of me.

I think a lot of the old adventure games (usually by a name with "___ quest") derserve a lot of "weirdest" awards. Although they were fun anyways .

Why did adventure games die anyways? It was a fun genre.

Etherlords...and I paid full price.

They lost out to shooters and hack n' slash games. Nowadays many gamers like to keep the point of the game simple: kill all the enemies. With adventure games you have to explore to get the full experience.

Adventure games aren't really dead though. They just have more action than they used to. Uncharted would be a good example.

Duelin' Firemen

http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2007/04/duelin_fireman_all_you_ever_wa.php

Read the article, the name is very misleading.

You think you have to duel other firemen in a contest of badassness but no.

You race to the scene of the fire only to duel each other by singing the goal of which is to earn a recording contract.

Never saw the light of day but it could have been one of the most badass games ever,

Myst was very big on the WTF factor. Anyone who beat a level of myst could either attest to its (and their own) brilliance, or admit that they were just pressing random buttons. For those of us who could actually solve a level, the game was actually amazingly good. And amazingly frustrating.

Same here. I have every one of them, and I have to admit that the 5th game was a big disappointment. Todelmer was cool, though.

Worst: Sins

Worst-er: Demigod

(JK) :-p (not even close to bad; both of em)

-Phal

Worst games are movie based games (well most of them)

And my idea for the most wierd/evolutionary game:
build 20 small robots that loots like tanks and with lasers (not the sci fi lasers)
the sort of lasers that just hit sensors and mark it as a "hit".

throw those wireless robots in a huge field, connect them to a wireless router and from there to the internet
so that people will pay like 5$ to rent 1 robot for a day, and then you can controll it from your home
and battle your freands, this is a true real life graphics, physics, and game. 
(every robot got a camera build in it, and 1 laser gun, with 20 sensors around it)
when you are hit, you loose points, and disabled for 1 minute.
when you see that you are running out of battery, you drive back to a spacial place
where the operators switch the battery for you. 
the operators also can be summond if you are stuck or have a techincal problems 

the game can be played during both day and night, and during any weather
so you can enjoy a muddy dirty battles, or night stealth battles
with top rank winners recive money rewards

This idea can also be modiefied to paint guns battles, capture the flag battles
(with magnet arm that drops the flag if you are disabled)
or king of the hill battles.

the one who will make this game first can turn out to be very rich and famouse
I could do it if only i had the money to rent a location and to buy such robots

this idea can also be used to promote real war mashines for the use by military
controlled by remote operators, who are, former gamers :]
 

Sounds like fun. How about go-carts with paintball gun turrets? Racing combined with a shooter.

The U.S military currently use SWORDS. This is a combat robot that can use an assualt rifle, sniper rifle, light machine gun, heavy machine gun, rocket launcher or 6 barrelled grenade launcher.

I've never played it, but I've heard of Custer's Revenge. When I read about it, I thought that it was disturbing and sick. If you don't know anything about it, then don't satisfy your curiosity. Maybe somethings are best left unsaid.

Most Wii games and the console itself. Need I say more

Now, now. Prime 3 was a great game. Granted, that Raman thingie was a TITANIC flop, but not all of the games are like that.

I said most, some are good but the majory are sad minigame colections or result in you flailing your arms like an idiot trying to execute combos or just control the darn thing, but to no avail. I have yet to find a game where the motion controls work like they are suposed to, let alone a fun one. Even if you can find a game that works and is worth playing its still not worth the $200 investment for the console itself. And Wii Fit, epic fail.

No More Heroes + Killer 7 = wierd in all the right ways

I vote Harvest Moon for one of the wierdest ideas ever.

I'll admit to putting an obscene amount of time into the series, but think about the premise. It's a videogame where the point is to do manual labor.

I'd also like to add Super Mario Brothers as another of the weirdest. I feel as though this one needs no explanation.

I am suprised no one mentioned Big rigs. Technicaly its not a bad concept, just really buggy but still, its a classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMnMOEB1zmE

Did you ever see custer's? I caught my friend playing it, but I didn't even know it was porn till he'd told me himself.

lol I have a weird idea... what about a computer game where you can play like the real life... that would be paradox... you have to stear a person and have to tell it to go to the toilet and cook and eat like every 6 hours  

And then you have to go to work  imagine how boring that is!

I bet nooone would buy this game   

Oh wait... there is such a game, called "the sims" and the best selled game in the world