It must have been Muzzle Velocity created by Digi4fun in 1997 (similar to modern Red Orchestra). I enjoyed shooting down airplanes using tanks and destroying tanks using heavy machine gun. The graphics was also terrible where I wasn't able to tell an enemy soldier from my own men :) You could win every battle if you had enough artillery and a single mobile unit :)

Probably "And Yet IT Moves" or Bit.trip runner".

Both games were clearly made with the aim of leeching of the indie hype. Both could have been desigend by a fifteen year old with limited developing experience and they try to make up for it by being extra pretentious.

"It's not bad design, it is a feature": Yeah, right ...

This may be controversial but Tropico is the first thing that comes into my mind. Just never could get on with it, don't know why, I just didn't like it

hhhmm there is a few really bad games i have played in my life.

I think that x com enforcer rates as one of my worst games played

Shellschock 2 i played for like 5 minute before i felt like breaking the game but being a download version i could not snap the disk.

Motyr 2093 -1944 was just crap.

First thing that pops into my head is Torchlight but I think that's because I was lured into buying it due to all the praise it was getting from gamers. I played it for a couple hours and then quit. Did not like.

What exactly is bad about it? I enjoyed And Yet It Moves for a while but I didn't finish it as it became rather hard at some point and I became distracted by something else.

GTA 3 (on PS2, PC version was actually better if only by half) would have been on top spot because of the controls which I deemed the worst controls ever.....but then I played Daggerfall on default control scheme.

Still GTA 3 was not a masterpiece, only a benchmark for future 3D open world games.

(Even though Everquest 1 already accomplished that)

I don't think I share SimonG's hatred towards indies (just kidding), but Lugaru HD was pretty damn awful.

I've also played some terribad games back in the SNES/Genesis and early PS1 days, but I'm too lazy to make any amount of effort to remember them.

Fight Club for xbox 1. Worst $5 I ever spent. Even worse than the $3 I paid for Daikatana.

Edit: For a reason, the game controlled horribly, looked bad, and wasn't fun at all. It was a random buy and a bad one at that. Daikatana I knew what I was getting in to, but figured what the hell for the cost.

Yeah, these are among a ton of other indie games that get a lot of attention and hype because of politics, not fun or good game design. For every Meat Boy or Resonance there is a piece of shit people only talk about to look smart or different. Fucking hipsters!

Anyway...

In the "AAA" space I would say either Rogue Warrior or Shellshock 2. Rebellion have a way of making everything crap. Rogue Warrior was hilarious though, intentionally or not, so it's a good kind of bad.

I love indies, I truly do. I still buy more indies than I play just to reward the devs. But I hate shitty indies that exploit the reputation of the genre.

I think of so many, but one i regret my purchase (though, from the series bundle on Steam) is Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Mummy.. I tried several times to form a correct mindset and get into it, really.. But i get motion sickness from the 360 panoramic with a lens effect, and the game itself seems to be no more than a following of terribly obscure puzzles.

This game is horrible, to quote AVGN.. :(

Dead Horde. Never thought that someone could spit out an effortless game like that. everything in it is shit

Hmm, I remember some really shitty shareware game called Blood of Evil (or rather "BLUD OF EEEEEVIILLLL!!!" according to the title screen shouting at me).

It was a sidescrolling hack&slash. Problem was, your sword had so little reach that you constantly took damage from anything you came across. It was beyond awful.