What are some of your "guilty pleasure" games?

[yungmysterymane]

I don't necessarily mean YOU feel bad about enjoying it. But I mean stuff that maybe you'd go "oh I love that game I've beat it like 10 times," that would evoke everyone staring at you like you're crazy. For me, I think it's gotta be Neopets: The Darkest Faerie on PS2. Yeah that game has some jank going on and it's absolutely a budget 3D Zelda-like, but I kinda love it both because of and in-spite of that. It's so charming.

I think another one is Drakan: The Ancients' Gates. That game is weird, kinda ended the franchise on a cliffhanger, and definitely had issues. But damn, I think back in the day, my playtime with that game was second only to Morrowind. I can't explain it, but I remember really liking it.

 

[Faust03]

the first shadow the hedgehog game

 

[qw90700]

This is the most: https://retrogametalk.com/repository/nes-roms/tiny-toon-adventures-usa-europe-japan/

I was playing this game "in secret" from my friends. I was hiding this game when one of my friends came over. If they had figured out I would lose tons of street rep!!!!! But I liked to play it with my mother too lol. The game is too cute goddammit!!! lolol

 

[Tonberry]

I don't really have any, I think, but I usually answer with WoW because it's kind of scary to mention you actively play and like it because you either get old farts with vietnam flashbacks calling you an addict because they were, or people who never played it who only know Blizzard from their controversies.

I guess "Tales of" games also to a degree, because they have pretty juvenile writing so it's a tiny bit embarrassing to play them without headphones because people hear the corny dialogue lol.

 

[Kamako]

 

[KaiserMk7]

Does the entire incremental genre count? What about RPGMaker games?

 

[qw90700]

Does the entire incremental genre count?

IMO: Yeah.

What about RPGMaker games?

It depends.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Electric Pen on Nintendo 64.

It's just... yes.

 

[KaiserMk7]

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Hey, A Bug's Life on PlayStation and Piglet's Big Game on Gamecube are very decent and playable. Linear, level-based collectathon platformer with a per-level growth system and straightforward adventure with collectathon elements and a mildly challenging battle system, respectively? Pretty damn engaging.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos which is known for having a questionable roster of both SNK and Capcom and as well as the issue of balance that some characters are stronger than others and others weaker and with an improvable gameplay and with mechanics that could have been better and as well as its inconsistent learning curve even at level 1 that the opponent is beatable but sometimes gets on the sidelines in cheap mode that beats you in seconds especially Goenitz (Who doesn't stop spamming the Yonokaze ), the inability to play as a team as in the previous installments of the Franchise but it is 1 vs. 1 of a lifetime and etc. but despite problems the game is not bad but it could have been better although I used to play the Super Plus version that contains all the hidden fighters already unlocked by default which for me is what the base game could have been at least and at the same time that it is a slightly better version than the original game.

 

[Kamako]

Hey, A Bug's Life on PlayStation and Piglet's Big Game on Gamecube are very decent and playable. Linear, level-based collectathon platformer with a per-level growth system and straightforward adventure with collectathon elements and a mildly challenging battle system, respectively? Pretty damn engaging.

I can only speak to PSX A Bug's Life, because I haven't played Piglet's Big Game, but A Bug's Life has way more strengths than weaknesses. I like the slippery movement, the collect-a-thon elements, the power ups, the level design and the faithfulness to the film. I think it could have benefited with slightly clearer signposting as to how to achieve your objective, and also some of the puzzles/bosses are very difficult to beat if you die once and lose your power-ups. Definitely qualifies as a guilty pleasure for me.

 

[techno-boytoy]

ham-ham heartbreak... it's just so cute and happy. i also love ham-hams unite!

 

[blindpr0phet]

Sonic R
Cooking Mama
Fallout 3 (At least in my friend group, anyway)

 

[MemeAlert]

Sonic Heroes

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Ace Combat
Eroge games
Wangan Midnight Maxi games

 

[otogirisou]

death stranding 2

 

[IzzyIVXX]

ehrgeiz Namely the quest mode

 

[qw90700]

Ace Combat

Never ashamed to play Ace Combat 3's Japanese version, be ashamed to play Ace Combat 3's Non-Japanese version or other games in the series and hate the series believing there was no decent Ace Combat game ever existed. Be ashamed so much always sing this song!!! lolol:

 

[Aziamuth]

ham-ham heartbreak... it's just so cute and happy. i also love ham-hams unite!

Sorry but this is not a guilty pleasure because this is a real 10/10

 

[qw90700]

Sorry but this is not a guilty pleasure because this is a real 10/10

Most men wouldn't admit they play Hamtaro IRL, hell gender you have wouldn't even matter when people are adults so society would be like "WTF you playing" because of such games lolol.

 

[Max]

Sonic 3d blast

 

[SonicRSoundtrack]

See username.

Other than that, i have a lot of nostalgia for the first Madagascar game. It's not as bad as other licensed games from the era, but it is pretty short, easy and overall just a rather mediocre platformer, still i played it hundreds of times as a kid, the level with the penguins was the best one.

 

[diet_orange]

Some of my the games in my Sega Genesis "Favorites" list are worthy (mainly the ones I rented from Blockbuster). Virtual Bart being one of them. I always liked the premise but the mini-games themselves are impossibly frustrating (even with the Redux patch installed). I still pop it on every once in a while to see if my opinion has changed on it and I still feel like there's a good game in there somewhere

 

[Sunnyside]

Games I enjoy but wouldn't be caught dead playing in public:

Yoshi's Story (kiddy aesthetic)
Arcana Heart 3 Love Max (fanservice)
Sakura Wars V (dating sim elements)
Beach Spikers (fanservice)
Panel de Pon (girly aesthetic)
Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus (fanservice)
Conception 2 (dating sim elements)
Onechanbara Z2 Chaos (fanservice)

 

[diet_orange]

Sonic 3d blast

IDK man, the game blew my mind as a six year old. That being said, I prefer playing the Mega-Collection version because trying to control Sonic in 3D Blast with a D-Pad is a fool's errand. Also the Special Stages are impossibly easy and it feels more like a spiritual successor to "Flicky" than it does an actual Sonic game