What's your guilty pleasure game?

[Neoncrotch]

I'm talking about a video game considered to be horrible but you just love playing it. So what's your favorite bad game?

Mine would be Wet for PS3.

[MrPlinkett]

CoD

[TheKlown]

Well kids now adays only care about graphics, so I'm sure kids now adays think the lego block graphics in Final Fantasy VII make it the worst game ever. I however love the lego block graphics and the story in Final Fantasy VII. I remember when I gave my Nephew the greatest game in the world and he looked at me like I gave him a crappy Christmas present. Ridiculous really, because the only game these kids play now adays is call of duty.

[Dean]

I'd probably have to go with Two Worlds. Everyone seemed to hate that game yet I loved it. I was actually playing it one day when someone on my Xbox friends list sent me a message asking why I was playing something that bad. Sure, it had some bugs and terrible voice acting but I thought it was a pretty great action RPG. The world map was so varied, there were a ton of cool monsters, some areas were deadly until you levelled up and there were freaking dragons!

Why did nobody like this game :(

[Dean]

At 2/19/14 12:10 AM, TheKlown wrote: Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII always seems to be near the top of "best game ever made" lists, so I'm not sure that'd qualify as a guilty pleasure.

[DeIirium]

i guess nightmare creatures, friday the 13th on nes and clock tower 2 are considered pretty bad but i like those.

[Ketzelkab]

Any old pointy clicky adventure game.. Best example, Gabriel Knight. Although I will stand by it being a great game, I don't blame anyone else for thinking it's shit.

[Mismo]

Heavy Rain would be mine I guess. I could also say Sleeping Dogs but I genuinely think it's a good game and don't deserve all the hate it's gets.

[TheKlown]

At 2/19/14 02:19 AM, Dean wrote:

At 2/19/14 12:10 AM, TheKlown wrote: Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII always seems to be near the top of "best game ever made" lists, so I'm not sure that'd qualify as a guilty pleasure.

I was making a joke towards all the kids now adays that think graphics make a game. There's a lot of people that won't give Final Fantasy VII the time of day because of its lego block polygon graphics.

[Painbringer]

The Sims 2 for Xbox.

Sure, you cannot build up, have children or perma-die, but the emphasis on you being the main character; interacting on a personal level with NPCs, completing set challenges and unlocking places just makes it so much more immersive, memorable and even nostalgic than the great big building and breeding toy that is the PC version.

[Captain-Slugworth]

At 2/19/14 02:56 AM, DeIirium wrote: i guess nightmare creatures, friday the 13th on nes and clock tower 2 are considered pretty bad but i like those.

nightmare creatures was great in my opinion, I must re-play that sometime in the week. :)

ever played Medieval for the PS1?

[Atlas]

I can't think of any awful games I really enjoyed lately but I used to play Sneak King a good bit. I thought that game was hilarious. You have to surprise people with their Burger King food as the BK King.

[SuperElroy]

Sim Ant

[The-Great-One]

My guilty pleasure game is Superman 64. I know that sounds a bit generic, but I absolutely love playing it. I was never a Superman kid while growing up (Batman all the way) and I knew that this game was bad. I saw gameplay footage, I heard about people playing it. My brother outright gave it to me to own and it is my guilty pleasure game. It is horrible, but I love it.

[weasleman]

Duke nukem forever.

[orangebomb]

Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. Probably the most amount of intentional fan service that is jammed in a game, especially when you control half naked women all the time on a beach resort, and that's pretty much all there is to it. While it's pretty limited in terms of gameplay, it's actually fun to play, and it clearly knows what it is, and doesn't apologize for that.

I certainly wouldn't mind going to that island for an extended vacation, if you catch my drift.

[The-Great-One]

At 2/19/14 03:18 PM, orangebomb wrote: Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. Probably the most amount of intentional fan service that is jammed in a game, especially when you control half naked women all the time on a beach resort, and that's pretty much all there is to it. While it's pretty limited in terms of gameplay, it's actually fun to play, and it clearly knows what it is, and doesn't apologize for that.

I certainly wouldn't mind going to that island for an extended vacation, if you catch my drift.

I will grant you that it is direct fan service, but the controls work very well, the music is astounding, the sound effects are awesome, and the graphics are some of the best of that generation. There are a lot of positives to this game, albeit a bit shallow in terms of how it presents all of this.

[orangebomb]

At 2/19/14 04:00 PM, The-Great-One wrote: I will grant you that it is direct fan service, but the controls work very well, the music is astounding, the sound effects are awesome, and the graphics are some of the best of that generation.

Really, I didn't see any of that on DOA Xtreme 2. That's not to say they were bad by any means, and for 2006, they were impressive, but they're aren't the best graphics by any means in that generation. The game itself was obviously not meant to win any serious awards at the time, and a sizable amount of people put it down because of what it is, not realizing that mass sex appeal is a common trademark of the DOA series.

I don't intentionally play really bad games on purpose, so in a way DOAX might be the worst game that I've played that I've actually had fun playing, make of that as you will.

[Oliver]

Bejeweled.

[oobooglunk]

Sonic 3D Blast. I heard loads of terrible things about that game and, being a Sonic fan, I did what most Sonic fans tend to do: buy anything with the blue hedgehog's face slapped on it. I expected my choice to be followed by waves of regret, but I ended up overestimating the badness of Sonic 3D Blast, at the very least.

Sure, it's a slow-paced isometric platformer with heavily padded gameplay that comes in the form of four obnoxious birds, but what else is really bad about it? It has good graphics for a Genesis game (and that's coming from someone who enjoys looking at Super Mario Bros. more than, say, Heavy Rain), great music, and a pretty sweet final boss. Sure, I wouldn't go out of my way to play it again, but I had fun with it for at least three full playthroughs before I finally quit.

Now, Sonic Spinball, on the other hand...

[Jester]

At 2/18/14 11:55 PM, Neoncrotch wrote: I'm talking about a video game considered to be horrible but you just love playing it. So what's your favorite bad game?

Mine would be Wet for PS3.

Was Wet bad? I was digging the fuck out of the demo a few years ago.

[Neoncrotch]

At 2/20/14 06:20 AM, Jester wrote:

At 2/18/14 11:55 PM, Neoncrotch wrote: I'm talking about a video game considered to be horrible but you just love playing it. So what's your favorite bad game?

Mine would be Wet for PS3.

Was Wet bad? I was digging the fuck out of the demo a few years ago.

Yes, it had bad reviews and low scores. I liked the demo as well so i decided to buy the full game. I really liked it unfortunately nobody else did.

[Gameaddict1994]

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords. I know the ending is a huge let down but I can't get enough of it.

[Chdonga]

Sly: Thieves in Time. I hear nothing but hate for this game but I think it's great. Or at least better than Sly 3.

[kisame]

Shining force.

[Madjasper1]

Bus Simulator 2009, or Driv3r.

Most likely Driv3r.

[wolfe]

Be quet about this one but i've got a really big addiction to flappy bird.

[stevenhearnn]

At 2/18/14 11:55 PM, Neoncrotch wrote: I'm talking about a video game considered to be horrible but you just love playing it. So what's your favorite bad game?

Mine would be Dragon Age 2 I guess. That game does so many things wrong. I just love it when a game lets you create a character, customize their appearance and have control over their dialogue, personality and relationships.

[Darthdenim]

RapeLay.

[PotensVeneficus]

Pokemon, as most non-Internet people think it's borderline pedophilic for anybody over 10 to like pokemon.