What are some genuinely bad games you enjoy?

[Jediuser]

The ultimate guilty pleasure game for me.

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I've heard of it more as a "cult classic" kind of deal. Don't know for myself, though.

It did come with high expectations. It was apparently the first game of its generation to be revealed.

 

[Big Finger Jim]

There are no bad games, only bad players.

Dawg, you're saying when your franchise houses X7

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This Garbage right here
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*This is actually my all-time favorite Zelda game honestly*

That is NOT a bad game.

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People love to hate this game for good reason because it has a genuinely one of the worst story of any video game ever released, however it has a really good gameplay , amezing graphics and one of the best videogame OST, which makes a very good game with a very big flaw.

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I don't know nowadays but for awhile you could get this game for free in Xbox store backwards compativle, and for a game that you can get for free it's not terrible, I really like the right analogue to attack idea, even if it isn't polished

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Personally a bad game that I like is a PS3 game called Last Rebelion.

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NISA even apolozided for publishing it, and while I don't think this is a good game , it's a short game and I had fun while playing it

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Another game that I would like to mention is Left Alive a game.

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I wish I could play but I have performance issues when I try to play it on a emulator.

Hearing a game is shit with that man's artwork on the cover is genuinely soul crushing.

 

[Jediuser]

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Shadow the Hedgehog, it gained traction after the 3º Sonic Movie, this game is a mess, it is a 3D platformer with multiples endings where your kill count determines what final you get alongside the type of enemy you decided to face, but with all the chaos happening, explosion there, short cutscene here, time counting down, it is pretty easy to lose track or make a mistake and ruin the chance of getting the ending you wanted, the controls are good, but sometime seems like the floor is wet, but still, my first AAA Game from my first Videogame Console, I am very grateful for this game

The director of the Sonic movies actually started out doing animation for this game.

 

[Sheepy765]

I think people generally dislike this one, but I love almost everything about it.

 

[iamthemilkman]

Is this really a 'bad' game?

I loved Dark Sector back in the day. It was a 7/10 game like Singularity, Dark Void, TImeshift, etc. I even have a Dark Sector pre-order hat somewhere in storage.

That said, I always wanted the tech demo version that plays like a stealth game. While it may look like Warframe, and yes you can sneak in Warframe, this was not live service slop. This was the first 7th generation tech demo that I can remember. As you can see, though, a lot of the ideas and assets were used in Warframe, from the suit, to enemies, to the ship, to just about everything.

 

[BitterEnd]

Probably my favorite bad game is...

As a kid, it fascinated me since as a rental game, it was pretty good back in the day. Wasn't as gripping as your Final Fantasies or your Mega Man Xs, but the world in the game was fun to explore and poke.

The box art there looks worse than it is, the actual box had holographic 'turn it to see things happen' stuff of Pac running to the edge. Which might've been a part of the whole 'interactive cartoon' thing they advertise there too.

As an adult, it still fascinates me. It's a game of a genre you typically only saw on PC once or twice, but deeper. Everything you do in the game is fucking around and finding out, learning through trial and error until you get the answer and move forward. Or move somewhere else, there's a lot of environments and a lot of things to interact with and a lot of unique weird spritework that sometimes only shows up once? The game despite being kind of a shit game at the end of the day reeks of effort and care, misguided though it sometimes was.

It was an experience. Not necessarily a deep one or anything, but it kind of makes me sad in a 'what does the alternate timeline look like' kind of way where more of these might've been made. Maybe there would've been a good one or two?

Incidentally, there's an arcade in the town that you can go to and just play regular Pac-Man, and if you find a few things, you can also find Mrs. Pac-Man carts and go play that as well. Both of those are the first ports Pac-Man had on the SNES, until a couple years later I found out after a bit of research. There even exist romhack patches to just remove the entire rest of the game and just get those instances of Pac-Man and Mrs. Pacman.

As a side note, the Genesis version of Pac-Man 2 had Pac-Man Jr. instead of Mrs. The same romhacks exist to surgically remove them.

It's a very weird little bit of gaming history. Part of me loves it despite the goofy fuckup it is sometimes.

And before I forget, several things I've said here may have been paraphrased from other retrospectives and reviews I've seen on the topic. I wanna talk about it, but I also don't wanna just... repackage the things people more talented than me have said on my first post.

 

[CanicheSlayer]

I think it was already my choice, on a similar topic :

I admit it's an ugly and repetitive game. But I had so much fun (I have a twisted sense of humour, I confess) that I finished it four or five times (on three different platforms).

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

The director of the Sonic movies actually started out doing animation for this game.

Those movies are some of the few where I've watched it with director's commentary, and yeah. He did!

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I think it was already my choice, on a similar topic :

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I admit it's an ugly and repetitive game. But I had so much fun (I have a twisted sense of humour, I confess) that I finished it four or five times (on three different platforms).

That is one of the more replayable games I've ever played, purely for its post-game unlocks. I don't know many other games that let you unlock and swap out character models/animations for new game+!

 

[χKai]

Dawg, you're saying when your franchise houses X7

Capcom stopped stealing my ideas after Megaman X4. I didn't contribute to that crap!

 

[Boo Man]

Dirge of Cerberus
Awful story and boring cutscenes with mediocre gameplay still fun though.

yeah i actually enjoyed Dirge of Cerberus as well
i remember the camera & controls being half the battle
FFX-2 is another "bad" game i kinda liked
dont tell anyone though

 

[What's His Face]

Mine would have to be Jim Power The Lost Dimension in 3D.

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This is the SNES port of a 2D action platformer on the Amiga. It's not very good for many reasons. One of the worst parts is the visuals. They messed up the parallax scrolling in the SNES version. The background just doesn't move the right way. Some people can't even look at the first stage without getting ill. It arguably gets worse during the shooting stages where the screen never stops scrolling. It's really distracting even if it doesn't provoke a visceral response.

The difficulty is also pretty brutal and requires a lot of trial and error memorization. You die in one hit and have limited continues to beat the game with. I've beaten it on emulator with save states between levels, but even then it was really hard.

The game isn't all bad. The soundtrack was composed by Chris Hueslbeck of Turrican fame and was really good. The music for the first stage gets some flak because it sounds really similar to the lava cave theme in Y's 3. I like the Amiga versions better, but the SNES has a few exclusive tracks that sound decent. Some of the SNES exclusive stages are also kind of alright if a bit heavily deriving from the top-down stages in Contra 3.

If I had to explain why I like it, I guess it would be a combination of the soundtrack and the really horrible scrolling. It's weirdly charming in spite of the rather tedious difficulty. Here's a longplay if you're curious.

Can't watch the video without getting violently ill...but...that music sounds so familiar...

 

[PhrawzT]

I used to play these games all the time as a kid and didn't understand why my friends hated them.

 

[BitterEnd]

yeah i actually enjoyed Dirge of Cerberus as well
i remember the camera & controls being half the battle
FFX-2 is another "bad" game i kinda liked
dont tell anyone though

Think I remember hearing that X-2's job system was actually quite good, which would at least make for the nice brain chemicals you get for watching some synergy come together. No shame, this is a safe place.

 

[KenShjIN]

Deadly Premonition.Maybe not that bad but let´s say underrated.Flawed and sometimes so bad it´s good.You either love or hate it there is no between.Twin Peaks,Xfiles,Resident Evil,Silent Hill crossover and damn it is strange....

 

[fake-kun]

People only say it's bad because they're salty about the difficulty and don't want to git gud.

 

[Deleted member 862719]

The Witcher 1 original it was so bad omg

 

[Big Finger Jim]

The Witcher 1 original it was so bad omg

If the backtracking wasn't so shit, ESPECIALLY in the swamp, I'd call it decent, and honestly the combat is what I wish the KOTOR games had.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

Deadly Premonition.Maybe not that bad but let´s say underrated.Flawed and sometimes so bad it´s good.You either love or hate it there is no between.Twin Peaks,Xfiles,Resident Evil,Silent Hill crossover and damn it is strange....

It does feel like a mix of all of those things and yet manages to really stand as its own thing by the end. Deadly Premonition is such a fascinating game.

 

[Ain_Gamer]

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I know it's a really bad game in many aspects but I still love it.

The Story of this game is actually pretty decent if a bit tropy, my issue with this game, I found it not fun, it was clunky to play and levels weren't interesting to play and fight enemies and especially bosses for the most part was pretty dreadful

 

[TacoMeister]

dreadful

Wrong game.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

This game goes hard in the most hilarious and random ways.

 

[RandomHajile]

Is 7th Saga considered bad? I've always been a huge fan of it. I wish I hadn't sold it 15 years ago, because it meant a lot to me. Very underrated JRPG

 

[maciintosh]

The Hyperdimension Neptunia series. None of the games are particularly great in any way (especially the first few RPGs), but I can't help but love it regardless. It's entertainingly bad in a way that few other games are, to me.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

The Hyperdimension Neptunia series. None of the games are particularly great in any way (especially the first few RPGs), but I can't help but love it regardless. It's entertainingly bad in a way that few other games are, to me.

I'll always have a soft spot for Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 though. It was my entry into the series, and the first RPG I played after I got my PS3. It was also kind of a gateway to finding other games, with the amount of meta references to other game franchises.

 

[sockesocke]

The third birthday, dmc devil may cry reboot. Both awesome games if you can look past the story.