What are some genuinely bad games you enjoy?

[Spike's iconSpike]

Farlight84. quick rush of dopamine, cheater infested cesspool.

 

[neromero]

Does romhack games count? If yes, it's the pokemon snakewood on the gba ^u^ most people hated it for its unclear story and sprites but I genuinely enjoyed it

 

[NotGodlike]

I'd always revisit Sonic 2006 at some point. It's very bad, but still kinda feels good to play occasionally

 

[Deleted member 99901]

Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls. It's looked down on, but I had fun with it.

 

[Stookymalarkey]

Ride to Hell: Retribution on the PS3 is so amazingly bad and janky. But since it takes itself so seriously, the cheesiness really shines.

 

[DJPlace]

Nightmare on Elm Street on NES. i got so use to it... it's on my i have to beat before i die game list also tom and Jerry NES is that list has well.

 

[Hourai]

Pulling this from the other thread...


I enjoy Megaman Battle Network 4. It's kinda just really bad, having a script that was functionally an afterthought (the A plot happens in the background until the last 90% of the game, and most of the B plot is just filler and making you do obnoxious challenges because otherwise it would be two hours long) and was translated so poorly that you can feel the untranslated Japanese breaking through the text, has the absolute worst new game plus system, the new Doublesoul system was unbalanced, the game flat-out locks you out of the postgame if you don't play how it wants you to, so on and so on and so on.

Interestingly, I love it because playing the way the game doesn't want you to is fun. Dark chips provide a massive amount of immediate power, but come at the cost of fucking with you for the rest of the battle and permanently reducing your max HP by one. It's supposed to be to a maximum of 501 below your pre-darkchip max, but the game is bugged and functionally goes to like -800 if you do a normal run to NG+2. It's high risk, high reward. Which is really fun compared to the low risk, obscenely high reward of playing light. The final boss also "purifies" you, but he does it in a way that made it obvious this was never supposed to be something you should do to begin with. You're still treated as evil by the mood screen, and so can't enter the double damage Full Synchro or Anger status, nor Doublesouls. You can't use normal or SP versions of chips, which you can't use while dark. You aren't experiencing a newfound redemption; you're being made to play with the drawbacks of being evil but none of the benefits. Lastly, you enter the new game still as evil as you were before.

The issue is that in order to enter the postgame, you need to give the base version battlechip of every boss. This isn't something you can do for Shademan, one of the only three villains in the game, because he doesn't have a fixed encounter that drops it guaranteed. And a side effect of being dark is that you always get the DS chip (only version usable by dark Megaman) outside of the fixed encounter. You can't leave the deep darkness (which you are inevitably in, if playing dark) unless you get something incredibly deep into the postgame, which requires you get something you need to be out of the darkness to get. Thankfully, you can trade with other players.

It has a great soundtrack, too. (There's supposed to the the tournament battle theme here, but I can't edit the message to grab the link from my post).

 

[Viviana Santos]

Shadow The Hedgehog (2005) is definitely not a good game, but I unironically love it, I love its atmosphere and soundtrack, I also like its story even though it's not very good, I like the characterization of Shadow in this game, it's definitely my guilty pleasure.

 

[Retro Doomer]

A Classic never played it myself but the name is well known in the dark underworld of gaming as where they quietly whispers its name.

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Another game that i never finished but it was enjoyable for a while probably because i was a kid and had not taste,i heard the Endings Sucks but i never finished it

 

[Alex1111]

Need For Speed Undercover, and Need For Speed Hot Pursuit for the Wii, this last one is peak

 

[RebelofDaNeonGod]

For some reason, people be hating on Heavy Metal Geomatrix, but it's legitimately awesome and looks great. I do take into consideration that my tastes and sense of aesthetics does tend to allow me to enjoy even the worst looking games, so take it with a grain of salt, but it plays great and once you get into the swing of things, it's a blast.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Shadow The Hedgehog (2005) is definitely not a good game, but I unironically love it, I love its atmosphere and soundtrack, I also like its story even though it's not very good, I like the characterization of Shadow in this game, it's definitely my guilty pleasure.

I also really like Shadow the Hedgehog even though it's a bad game -- though it's still a better game than Sonic the Hedgehog 2006. I'm just glad I own the game for Xbox and Gamecube and got both for cheap because the price is crazy nowadays.

 

[Leviafen]

Shadow The Hedgehog (2005) is definitely not a good game, but I unironically love it, I love its atmosphere and soundtrack, I also like its story even though it's not very good, I like the characterization of Shadow in this game, it's definitely my guilty pleasure.

i absolutely adore this game and its great to see other people giving it love. its absolutely not not as great as i let on with my circles, but its such a great game to turn your brain off to and play. also

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

What annoys me is that Shadow The Hedgehog is genuinely doing nostalgic throwbacks much better than Forces or Frontiers (yes I said it).

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

It gotta be Jersey Devil, just played it too much as a kid so it has that nostalgic value

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I love this game too. It's good until it isn't but I still love it.

 

[DPRWesley]

Ephemeral Fantasia is my drug of choice here. Everyone lambasted this game when it came out, but I positively adored it. Encounter rate was excessively excessive mind you, but I dug it's vibes. The game starts out with your main character and his talking guitar explaining their plot to rob the castle blind, and ends with a series of time loops. It's dope, love it.

 

[Esidemoken]

Although many fans of the saga don't like it (I understand why) I really enjoy Castlevania 64, it's the closest thing to the classic saga in 3D compared to the hack n slash that were the PS2 ones, although I admit that the part I hate the most is the magic nitro.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Castlevania: The Adventure, easly the worst of the GB trilogy (You walk like mollases and lose upgrades by blinking too hard) yet it has some charm, of course i still prefer Belmont's Revenge AND definitively Legends, but The Adventure has a unique charm that i still apreciate

In a similar note Super Mario Land, hardly a BAD game, but it feels too different in the wrong ways to be good, despite that i still give it a shot or two, also Daisy debuts here

 

[Deleted member 58254]

View attachment 61261Shadow The Hedgehog (2005) is definitely not a good game, but I unironically love it, I love its atmosphere and soundtrack, I also like its story even though it's not very good, I like the characterization of Shadow in this game, it's definitely my guilty pleasure.

I noticed your pfp
Is this just a trans thing because I also fucking love shadow the hedgehog :3

 

[shadowcat]

Screw the haters, this game was fun!

 

[MonkeyMondays]

Seek and Destroy for the PS2

I always wanted an over the top tank game and this is the closest it got, you get all sorts of weird weapons for a tank, and you even fight a flying tank, and a giant tank that squishes you like a cartoon.

 

[χKai]

.hack//G.U. is repetitive and somewhat uninspired with it's game mechanics, and it's story isn't the greatest, but I can't help but love the characters despite this.

 

[Piper Halliwell]

I have two actually, Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. I've beaten both and will boot it up every so often to do trial runs. Always trying to beat my highscore in the time taken to complete the courses LOL

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

The Beyblade games.

They are soulless and kinda boring, but satisfying nonetheless.

 

[Deleted member 58254]

The Beyblade games.

They are soulless and kinda boring, but satisfying nonetheless.

that reminds me i love the bakugan ps2 game lol