I'd argue that it's relative to our time, so games as bad as ET relative to us are possible.

ET isn't even that bad, first of all. That's just a meme. It's bad if you don't know how to play, but so is any game.

And yeah, there are malicious developers out there who just release some broken shovelware with no intent to ever fix it. Or incompetent developers who had a vision, but failed in every conceivable way to deliver it--or perhaps a developer's vision was so out-of-touch with the interests of his consumer base that he puts out an offensively bad game. A game that's not only bad, but offends you on a conceptual level--think something along the lines of Hatred.

All of these certainly have the potential to be the worst game of all time, depending on how big a failure it is, and depending on your tastes (obviously). The fact that your game was released in the current year does not exempt it from criticism--in fact, as the years go by, I would hope that we'd start holding games to even more scrutiny--because there are still a lot of people out there who don't take video games seriously as an art form. And games like Ride to Hell: Retribution aren't helping.

However, that being said, I would say that it's nigh impossible for any big AAA game developer to put out the worst game ever, simply because they have budgets and competent devs who know what they're doing (and you're a fool if you deny that). They want to rake in big profits--and they know that the best way go about that in this industry is to make a good fucking game--or at least an enjoyable or playable one. That's their bottom line.

That's not to say that a big game studio can't make a bad game--they certainly can, and have. But they're still all manufactured by professionals to be enjoyed by a large group of people. It's their job not to make the worst game ever--and in my eyes, they've by-and-large done their job pretty well.

The worst game ever produced by a AAA game developer over the past 10 years is probably Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), which is approaching its 10 year anniversary. As bad as that game is, it's not the worst game ever--I'd give a 2/10, with its only merits being how so-bad-it's-good everything about it is. Still, the game is a monument for how NOT to design a video game, and modern game devs are trained to actively avoid "pulling a Sonic 06." A shittier game hasn't been released by a big developer--find me one.

Compared to some of the highest quality games today, with the current technology it's pretty spectacular when a horrifically bade game is created.

Like, old games I can give some leeway because of the limited tech back then but there's no excuse today unless it was extremely rushed or the developer was actively trying to make garbage.

Only one person will ever play the worst game ever. It'll be the dev of some never heard "company" in a garage having a quick playtest and commenting "Man, this is shit".

Ride to Hell says hello

"Upon its release, the game was criticized for its broken gameplay, poor controls, voice acting, writing, offensive portrayal of women, and dropping the originally planned open-world concept in favor of a linear layout."

seems right up your alley, actually

Here's your worst game of all time.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/242800/

I dunno, isn't the next Destiny title meant to be released next year?

it was supposed to be this year iirc but it looks like they're just doing expansions instead of actual sequels and such

hell, rise of iron isn't coming to last gen. consoles and neither are any of the new updates.