Homeworld was pretty but the campaign had this retarded feature where you carried over the resources from previous missions into your next missions so if you didn't clear the map of asteroids (a long and tedious process that of course I didn't think to do) you can run into a totally unwinnable situation later on with no way to fix it. Also the tactical gameplay itself was just horseshit.
Indigo Prophecy had a bunch of neat concepts but a godawful plot and spastic pacing and generally poor storytelling and asides that went nowhere and game-lengthening bullshit like the claustrophobic detective's breathing regulation in the archives holy shit what the fuck and also the game would have had a fine supernatural story if they'd just stuck to one magical serial killer but instead they fucking of course have to make it a story about you saving the fucking world from like five different evil conspiracies that will MAKE THE WORLD WAY TOO COLD UNLESS YOU GET THE MAGIC CHILD who they do not fucking explain whatsoever. also the claustrophobic detective falls in love with the protagonist after knowing him for like 5 fucking minutes.
Max Payne because the best way to play was seriously to fucking slow-mo dive around instead of walking. Slow-mo dive didn't eat up any of your bullet time so you could do it infinitely, so you end up fucking throwing yourself at the ground every few feet, shooting every motherfucker in the head on the way. It was funny to do that but it was fucking stupid and also the story was a shit sandwich and the fucking blood-trail dream sequence jumping puzzles were probably the worst thing ever put into any fucking videogame ever.
Thief: The Dark Project was a game I really fucking wanted to like, and I played the first level of it like over and over because it was awesome, you sneaked past these guards and you were all over this city doing cool thief stuff and distracting people and putting out lights and like, being a clever thief guy. And then they have like all these zombies and spiders and shit that were frankly made creepy by the terrible terrible terrible animations that they had for them, like, when you woke a zombie up it would just fucking stiffly sort of rotate from lying-down into standing-up and sometimes it would not even do a walking animation or make any noise until you got closer so it was extra fucking fucked-up to just have zombies popping into your face and then staring at you. also they were fucking immune to the sword and also the normal guards might as well have been, you would not believe how many swordblows to the head it took to kill a motherfucker. I quit and uninstalled this game once I saw a dinosaur, yes, a fucking dinosaur, walk past a tunnel I was in. I was like "I did not sign up for dinosaurs. This game was started by geniuses and finished by retards. Goodbye."
Every Worms game after Worms 2 was a godawful fucking disaster. The coolest thing about Worms 2 was a fully-featured and detailed weapons editor that you could use to make interesting shit happen. After Worms 2 they took it completely fucking out and then refused to put it back despite popular demand. They just came out and said "No, we're not going to put that back in," I remember reading that in an interview. I don't know what the differences between Worms Armageddon and Worms World Party and all that shit was supposed to be, anyway, it was always the same backward technology BS that fucking didn't god damned work correctly and the online servers had fucking nobody on because the games were the same garbage over and over and half the time you got unlucky starting placement and half your worms got fucked right away. Also they gradually kept making the ninja rope harder to use which is fucking retarded. They had a neat game and just kept fucking ruining it year after year.
honorable mention: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, fuck you for finally having an online play component and then not even letting the players pick the fucking map, half the time the map is some stupid fucking red-side-starts-with-7-cities-and-blue-starts-with-1 bullshit that is clearly intended for solo play and also fuck you for taking out the battle room and unlockable shop which was one of my favorite parts of the old game and fuck you for having a god damned awful campaign that, once again, launches itself into retardo-difficulty and making that campaign fucking necessary to unlock all the COs.
warcraft 3, god damn it i've written about this game before but fucking a, you should have either stuck with a hero-based game or made a decent RTS and not tried to fucking mix the two together.
civilization 4, 8 hour multiplayer games that you can't stop halfway through and that drag even worse if people have wars (which is half the game) are just plain bad fucking ideas.
every battlefield game (except BF:Vietnam) was fucking awful, you can't make an FPS and put most people on foot and then make the map retardo huge so that people have to hike around to objectives and then when they get near there they get shot and start over again because the damage model is "realistic".
samurai warriors, fuck you for castle levels, i forget what i hated about them but it involved a lack of healing items i think
animal crossing, fuck you, make a game with something to do besides fish for fuck's sake, even a "job" where you just play double simon for an hour would be better
defcon, you had a neat concept but you were very poorly fucking paced, either you set it so you had enough time to organize your fleets at the start and then the game dragged from then on, or you went too quickly for anything to be done right, and anyway the world map was unbalanced and there should have been more than one map for this game anyway
every zelda game, blow me i'm tired of you
every final fantasy game, fucking get over yourself
portal, fuck you for being 2 hours long, where's my fucking new puzzles you shitstains
okami, christ be quiet
left 4 dead and left 4 dead 2, fucking A you have a great engine here for tactics and communication, stop wasting it on zombies and make a real fucking tactics game, like a full spectrum warrior style FPS, the multiplayer would be killer
SHIT I FORGOT SPORE
FUCK YOU SPORE
YES YOU CAN MAKE WHATEVER CREATURE YOU LIKE... COSMETICALLY SPEAKING
BUT YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY GAMEPLAY
SO YOU JUST FUCKING SUCK
I HATE YOU