Guilty pleasures?

[Opapete]

To me the entire Driver series is kinda like that, with most people never making it past the first mission (and free mode being horrible in D1 as you can't lose cops or repair at all), second was too easy since wanted status reset on swapping cars, and third was broken on release.

There's also San Francisco and Parallel Lines that I never played, those have mostly positive reviews.

Driver was Grand Theft Auto before GTA 3. And sometimes less is more because minigames and shooting in GTA distract from the driving, often too much... I recently finished that garage trials several times and the first Driver keeps being hard after, it was the PS1 Battletoads, everybody wanted to play it, very few people could progress.

You have to play Driver: San Francisco. Only problem is actually getting it, you can't get it legally anymore, although I know a friend who knows a friend on the seven seas.

As for the original Driver, I haven't really played it, but Driver 2, oh man, that game is tough, although the recent ReDriver2 Decompliation did make it so much more playable, if you get that set up, then you'll have the certified 60fps ps1 style game everyone is always clamoring for! (that's what everyone clamors for, right?)

Driv3r was broken on release, yeah. Again, the mod fixes most of the bad bugs and the pc version is usually considered to be the best vanilla version afaik. Driv3r was so broken it started it's own "gate" with Driv3rgate about well, game journos being bought. (man, between driv3r, kane and lynch and a whole bunch of lesser known cases, it does make you wonder why people even had game journos up in high regards)

 

[Leifang]

You have to play Driver: San Francisco. Only problem is actually getting it, you can't get it legally anymore, although I know a friend who knows a friend on the seven seas.

As for the original Driver, I haven't really played it, but Driver 2, oh man, that game is tough, although the recent ReDriver2 Decompliation did make it so much more playable, if you get that set up, then you'll have the certified 60fps ps1 style game everyone is always clamoring for! (that's what everyone clamors for, right?)

Driv3r was broken on release, yeah. Again, the mod fixes most of the bad bugs and the pc version is usually considered to be the best vanilla version afaik. Driv3r was so broken it started it's own "gate" with Driv3rgate about well, game journos being bought. (man, between driv3r, kane and lynch and a whole bunch of lesser known cases, it does make you wonder why people even had game journos up in high regards)

I don't think anyone ever really cared about gaming journalists much or held them to high esteem, it's just before YouTube and platforms like Steam there wasn't really any other place to get user reviews. It was either mags or word of mouth.

Nowadays in post-truth era there's the opposite major problem with user reviews, when things get review bombed (even when justifiably as, say, fans protesting against a bad update, it skews the perception of overall game), and grifters who sometimes never played the game farming outrage.

So it makes professional reviews relevant again, because I want to know if the PC port has smooth framerate and mouse support, whether it works on ultra-widescreen and so on, not if a random of text that offends someone on 4chan.

There's NO WAY I will trust user reviews on AC: Shadows or MGS3 remake after the bombing Veilguard got (or BG3 on release before everybody ignored them and they shut up). Takes from guys with millions of subs like "I hope they don't add politics to Metal Gear" make IGN seem like a good option in comparison.

In fact, with GameFAQs only helpful for old games and Steam not covering everything, I feel like gaming part of the internet regressed to the point I had to rely on pro-written articles major websites for walkthroughs and tips again, like it's 2005 or something.

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Anyway, back to topic. I haven't played missions much but Driver 2 free roam was extremely easy since you could just walk out of car and get a new one, endlessly.

So I checked and I have Driver: Parallel Lines on Steam, is it worth it or I should just skip it and play San Francisco instead? It had a Steam version but not GOG?

 

[kanesha]

>scoff at big heads and baby faces everywhere I see em
>go play assault android cactus all by myself

 

[Opapete]

I don't think anyone ever really cared about gaming journalists much or held them to high esteem, it's just before YouTube and platforms like Steam there wasn't really any other place to get user reviews. It was either mags or word of mouth.

Nowadays in post-truth era there's the opposite major problem with user reviews, when things get review bombed (even when justifiably as, say, fans protesting against a bad update, it skews the perception of overall game), and grifters who sometimes never played the game farming outrage.

So it makes professional reviews relevant again, because I want to know if the PC port has smooth framerate and mouse support, whether it works on ultra-widescreen and so on, not if a random of text that offends someone on 4chan.

There's NO WAY I will trust user reviews on AC: Shadows or MGS3 remake after the bombing Veilguard got (or BG3 on release before everybody ignored them and they shut up). Takes from guys with millions of subs like "I hope they don't add politics to Metal Gear" make IGN seem like a good option in comparison.

In fact, with GameFAQs only helpful for old games and Steam not covering everything, I feel like gaming part of the internet regressed to the point I had to rely on pro-written articles major websites for walkthroughs and tips again, like it's 2005 or something.

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Anyway, back to topic. I haven't played missions much but Driver 2 free roam was extremely easy since you could just walk out of car and get a new one, endlessly.

So I checked and I have Driver: Parallel Lines on Steam, is it worth it or I should just skip it and play San Francisco instead? It had a Steam version but not GOG?

The missions of Driver 2 were tough, for driver standards even. If you already have it, sure play Parallel Lines, it doesn't follow up into San Francisco but it's still fun afaik.

As for your upper statement about AC:Shadows user reviews, all i'm gonna say is, imagine outraging an entire country over a shitty game after having dropped the G.O.A.T. that is Driver: San Francisco. It is infact, comical.

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Totally forgot to mention but, just sail on the seven seas for that copy of Driver: San Francisco. They do not sell it anymore as before said.

 

[Leifang]

The missions of Driver 2 were tough, for driver standards even. If you already have it, sure play Parallel Lines, it doesn't follow up into San Francisco but it's still fun afaik.

As for your upper statement about AC:Shadows user reviews, all i'm gonna say is, imagine outraging an entire country over a shitty game after having dropped the G.O.A.T. that is Driver: San Francisco. It is infact, comical.

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Totally forgot to mention but, just sail on the seven seas for that copy of Driver: San Francisco. They do not sell it anymore as before said.

And you don't need to do a lot to outrage an entire country that votes for corrupt billionaire felons, these snowflakes get offended over everything, Doom was blamed for Columbine, Fox News tried to cancel Mass Effect, and let's not forget GTA Hot Coffee scandal. Remember, the rapist they just elected already blamed school shootings on video games.

Conservative Americans are always offended over everything. That's because they have very poor education. One of the funniest things about their fragility is they banned Kinder Surprise eggs. Seriously!

Unless you mean Japan? But Japanese aren't outraged by Yasuke existing, since they aren't as racist, plus he was a real dude, and he's actually already a character in several Japanese historical games now, playable in Samurai Warriors 5 and boss in Ni-oh. But yeah, Americans are REALLY angry at videogames for some reason... instead of at unelected foreign billionaire sieg heiling while destroying their economy and infrastructure right now.

P.S. I was asking if San Fran was on GOG because those are DRM-free and it's better than finding a crack for Steam version, which end up having different folders for saves or just inconvenient. It's also far, FAR behind in my backlog.

 

[Opapete]

And you don't need to do a lot to outrage an entire country that votes for corrupt billionaire felons, these snowflakes get offended over everything, Doom was blamed for Columbine, Fox News tried to cancel Mass Effect, and let's not forget GTA Hot Coffee scandal. Remember, the rapist they just elected already blamed school shootings on video games.

Conservative Americans are always offended over everything. That's because they have very poor education. One of the funniest things about their fragility is they banned Kinder Surprise eggs. Seriously!

Unless you mean Japan? But Japanese aren't outraged by Yasuke existing, since they aren't as racist, plus he was a real dude, and he's actually already a character in several Japanese historical games now, playable in Samurai Warriors 5 and boss in Ni-oh. But yeah, Americans are REALLY angry at videogames for some reason... instead of at unelected foreign billionaire sieg heiling while destroying their economy and infrastructure right now.

P.S. I was asking if San Fran was on GOG because those are DRM-free and it's better than finding a crack for Steam version, which end up having different folders for saves or just inconvenient. It's also far, FAR behind in my backlog.

Driver:SF is not on GOG. Infact, it's best to just get a pre-cracked copy, the online servers are down anyways.

Also, Japan was outraged at the blatant disrespect to a Clan, the whole half torii gate disaster that Ubisoft decided to call "merch" and pretty sure SW5 and Nioh never had anything to do with proper historical accuracy, might be wrong though, if I am, someone correct me on this.

May I need to go on about how they used One Piece merch for promoting their game? Or does the outrage in Japan and literal lawsuits constitute as enough?

I didn't even play Assassins Creed besides like the first one at a friend's house and they still managed to make me want to not even try it if a friend recommended it to me, because they dropped the ball harder than Ezio dropped from a tower.

I like Driver. I want Ubisoft to go bankrupt so someone else could purchase the Driver IP and make a new Driver. This has nothing to do with AC:Shadows shaping up to be Driv3rgate numero dos. Game journos hyping up a game that will be broken and buggy at launch, now with cultural insensitivity only a cultural sensitivity consultancy team out of San Francisco could come up with.

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Oh, by the way, at least for PC games, gaming journos aren't even useful for technical details, at least not post release, there's PCGamingWiki for that instead, even has older games and how you could get them running or improve them, such as say, Driver: San Francisco or perhaps Driver: Parallel Lines?

 

[Renirambus]

My guilty pleasures are dropping the little penguins off the cliff in Mario 64, breaking the pumpkins in Ordon Village in Twilight Princess, and shooting Lord Woo Fak Fak while he's belly up as Submarine Banjo in Banjo-Tooie.

 

[Don Patch]

I'm not sure, but maybe that's gonna be The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap. Not a bad game of course, but I love coming back to this one game. Maybe because it's one of the last games with them cute and incredible looking sprites
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No reason to feel guilty there. Minish Cap is one of Zelda's high points, IMO

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Dude I love anything Joan of Arc related

Have you ever seen the incredibly intense silent film from the 20's?
It's an absolute masterpiece of film:

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (with music and subtitles) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Do you pretend to have been sent by God?In order to save France... It is for this I was born.

archive.org

It's largely bases off the court room transcripts from when she was caught and tried by The Church of England.
Not a lighthearted affair by any means. But moving, none-the-less.

 

[Yousef]

Dropping games.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Jersey Devil on PS1. It's not a very good game but I love the goofy Halloween atmosphere.

 

[DunkeyKong]

No reason to feel guilty there. Minish Cap is one of Zelda's high points, IMO

Of course! Despite being one of the weakest Zelda, it is the one that I've enjoyed the most

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

I love shlocky, C-Tier PS2 action games

 

[kanesha]

I love shlocky, C-Tier PS2 action games
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one of those things is not like the others

one of those things is unprecedented and never since replicated masterpiece with top-tirer hack and slash mechanics, litterally > dmc, reeeeeeeeeee

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

one of those things is not like the others

one of those things is unprecedented and never since replicated masterpiece with top-tirer hack and slash mechanics, litterally > dmc, reeeeeeeeeee

I know, I know, Beatdown is incredible.

 

[Nidoking's iconNidoking]

Well @RanmyakuIchi already covered Chaos Legion, which I love, but I wouldn't really call it a guilty pleasure; I just think it's objectively good.

One I could at least see argued, though...

I really enjoy Castlevania 64 and wish it got a little more respect. Is it great? Definitely not, and I feel like it's perfectly justifiable to call it pretty bad... but only if you focus on the flaws. It does have a lot of issues, the camera and oddly slippery movement being key amongst them, but there are mods that greatly improve those issues. That's why I put it in 'guilty pleasure', if a game needs those sorts of things actively fixed for most people to even be able to tolerate it enough to enjoy the good qualities? And then you say you enjoy it even WITHOUT those fixes? Yeah... I can see it.

But it really does have good qualities, with some really fun platforming and even combat, an amazing sense of atmosphere, and some really solid boss fights and enjoyable areas to explore.

Another one for me...

I really, really love DMC2. Yes, it can get really monotonous and everything seems to take about a year to kill (even common fodder enemies.) Yes, it drastically changes Dante's personality. Yes, it does objectively take a lot of elements from the previous game and just sort of rehash them worse... but it's just so enjoyable to me, especially when playing as Luccia.

First of all, just being able to play the game as two VERY different characters straight out of the gate. Both have different stories that occasionally converge, including many new bosses and areas, and it gives the game a lot of playtime. You actually don't get the full experience without playing through as both of them. Even the final boss is different for each of them. Yes, one of them has a final boss that is possibly easier than the final boss of Deadspace... but it's visually pretty impressive giving the scale and surroundings, and it just looks super cool.



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[iamthemilkman]

And you don't need to do a lot to outrage an entire country that votes for corrupt billionaire felons, these snowflakes get offended over everything, Doom was blamed for Columbine, Fox News tried to cancel Mass Effect, and let's not forget GTA Hot Coffee scandal. Remember, the rapist they just elected already blamed school shootings on video games.

Conservative Americans are always offended over everything. That's because they have very poor education. One of the funniest things about their fragility is they banned Kinder Surprise eggs. Seriously!

Unless you mean Japan? But Japanese aren't outraged by Yasuke existing, since they aren't as racist, plus he was a real dude, and he's actually already a character in several Japanese historical games now, playable in Samurai Warriors 5 and boss in Ni-oh. But yeah, Americans are REALLY angry at videogames for some reason... instead of at unelected foreign billionaire sieg heiling while destroying their economy and infrastructure right now.

P.S. I was asking if San Fran was on GOG because those are DRM-free and it's better than finding a crack for Steam version, which end up having different folders for saves or just inconvenient. It's also far, FAR behind in my backlog.

Hillary Clinton and Leland Yee were Democrats. Just sayin'. They rallied against GTA alongside Jack Thompson.

 

[Leifang]

Hillary Clinton and Leland Yee were Democrats. Just sayin'. They rallied against GTA alongside Jack Thompson.

Only heard about the "russian reboot" freak from these three. Didn't someone promise to arrest her, but lied, like always?

Have you heard of this guy? He tries to turn USA into North Korea. I heard he has a bigger government role now, kissing president Musk's feet:

 

[moonbits]

guilty pleasures? I'm not catholic

 

[Toppis]

I still play Penny Racers despite being horrible at it just to watch the cute graphics XD

is that choro q game?

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

is that choro q game?

Yep.

 

[Big Finger Jim]

KIng's Field games. They are sluggish as shit and I probably would've dropped 'em without save states, but the atmosphere and rustic visual design is great.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Only heard about the "russian reboot" freak from these three. Didn't someone promise to arrest her, but lied, like always?

Have you heard of this guy? He tries to turn USA into North Korea. I heard he has a bigger government role now, kissing president Musk's feet:

You brought up the GTA Hot Coffee thing, only mentioning conservatives, so I felt the need to correct you. As stated, it wasn't only conservatives, it was also Democrats. Be honest.

 

[Leifang]

You brought up the GTA Hot Coffee thing, only mentioning conservatives, so I felt the need to correct you. As stated, it wasn't only conservatives, it was also Democrats. Be honest.

But USA has no Conservative party? You confuse them with UK, who do. In United States, both Democrat and Republican parties are conservatives. I said:

Conservative Americans are always offended over everything. That's because they have very poor education.

Notice I never mentioned Republicans, but you thought about them yourself when I mentioned uneducated morons who are constantly scared of everything. I said that about AMERICANS. In general. Sadly, that's not exclusive to 50% of US population that are confirmed as mentally handicapped after last elections, actually even more of them are idiots. The "parents worried about" conservatives, or the terror by "house owner association", any Karen, or cops shooting kids on the street...

I meant what I said. Americans BADLY need a color revolution, because now their state acts like Western Belarus right now. I heard people get persecuted by HOAs for having a centimeter of lawn not conforming to their 1984 standards, like other people tell them what they keep in THEIR gardens. This is insane levels of bolshevism at this point! Basically like ratting out to KGB. Press getting heavily censored if they not echo the far right. US is more similar to russia than to Europe. States are extremely backwards!

And that's even a bigger problem when the (still, but not for long) richest country in the world is ruled by an unelected boer caveman from apartheid South Africa, it's like a post-Soviet oligarchy now, speedrunning the 90s with Nazbol kleptocrats at the helm. Videogames are the least of their worries when department of education is literally replaced with pro wrestlers. That's called Idiocracy.

But yeah, back to gaming, when any new game that launchers, you always get a bunch of extremely conservative Americans bitching in comments why they got triggered by inclusion of black people, or women, or non-English language, or accessibility... Last I heard from dumbest people in the world was "Lara Croft is DEI", imagine if USA forced publisher to change Tomb Raider to a white male, lmao!

 

[faceless0man]

PLAYİNG horror games knowing ı have heart problems and dont like horror games

but the fear is good enugh to make me jump from my seat and screaming every 2 seconds

 

[abu2411]

Closest thing I can think of to a guilty pleasure is the Transformers movie NDS games, but I think those were pretty good DS games so idk.