It does, but as much awesome work as they have done(a lot!), the AI leaves much to be desired.

Around here someplace is a video of two guys that used to work at Sierra in customer service, being pulled in on their weekends to be used in the cut screen videos and telling the history of it. They talked alot about the 30 day garrentee. If I remember right Outpost came out right after Sierra was sold to a conglonerate, so they didn't have any control over it and it got pushed out the door.

Many years ago, my brother found a PC game called "Blood Bowl". Near as i can recall, it was basically a board game of American Football or something vaguely like that, but instead of fit young men, the players were Orcs and Goblins and such.

I think.

This was back in the DOS days. When computers actually were quite pricey.

So after weeks of my brother's pleading, I went to install it...

and...

Where the heck did your brother find that CD? I hope it wasn't some street corner seller!

That game is still around, and seems like it has good reviews too.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/58520/Blood_Bowl_Legendary_Edition/

That was it! *Shudder*

I bought this one and it was bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe_Commander

Said he got it from a guy on his university campus... I think what happened is they put a drive-wiping virus on a blank CD and then did a water transfer of the "Blood Bowl" logo.... I don't believe this CD ever came from the factory where the proper game was being made.


Buuuuut... to me when I hear the words "worst game purchase" that one will never leave my mind!

This may be a little off-topic but you mentioning the 'drive-wiping' virus,have you seen those flash drives that destroy the device they are plugged into? At worst the device is hosed,but usually the USB port(s) and rendered useless.

Reading this thread, I note to myself that I haven't bought anything that I would call a really bad game in years. Some I may not have cared for but nothing actually terrible. I imagine there are more bad games now than back in the earlier days of gaming due to digital distribution practices--the continuous dump of games onto Steam being a prime example. But the easy availability of reviews/opinions currently available lets the customer be more informed now than ever before. Previously it was only gaming mags that did reviews and coverage and timing across the breadth of gaming was spotty--not so much now.

I played the hockey version on Sega Genesis. It was hilarious. LOL
Very little to do with hockey.

When it comes to sports games it's exclusively auto racing for me (mostly Formula 1 and rally racing). I haven't played a NASCAR racing sim since 2005 when "NASCAR SimRacing" came out.

I got that in a 4 pack with some other sim games. It was like having bonus dvd content where the directory just screams at you until you shut the movie off.

iRacing has the best Nascar right now but its MP only. No idea why they stripped out the Nascar 2003 AI code I'd love to be able to race any track with AI and some friends instead of the dirtbags online.

Yeah, MP with human opponents only and the a la carte pricing scheme made "iRacing" a DOA game for me.

I hear you. I just want iRacing content with coop and AI without a monthly fee and without individual content fees. FFS why cant a game company make that game? Instead they try to make Nascar appeal to non sim fans by jazzing it up and making it crashy. Those people dont #%&*$# want a Nascar game... They will never buy a nascar game. Why are you trying to sell games to people who dont even play your game! Make it for the hardcore sim racers where there are hundreds of thousands of who would buy the game!

Why? WHY!!!!!

They are marketing them as if they were mobile games. There is a NASCAR Heat game on Steam that is $30, and currently has $82 in DLC items. Mixed reviews too.

Yup, I passed on Heat due to the bad reviews. Apparently it was way too much like a console game and too little like an actual PC simulator.

Its junk too. The physics are a joke, there is no proper control customization and the AI doesnt even recognize where the player is so they crash into you on the straight. But all dem console players obviously jumping at a chance to play nascar!

I've bought many, many budget games over the years. I can't even remember them all. One of the last one's I bought was Sniper: Art of Victory by City Interactive. Pretty terrible. I tried, really tried but I could not even past the first mission as towards the end it was bugged or had some slightly obscured enemy that could not be reached.

Not all of them are so bad though. City Interactive has gotten a little better and I stress the "little" with things like the Ghost Warrior series. They still aren't great but at least 1&2 are significantly better than Art of Victory.

Another budget game that I remember liking was "Deadly Dozen" and also the "Conflict" series.