Another weekend, another discussion! This time around we’re talking about guilty pleasures – i.e. those games that you know, deep down, are bad, but games that you can’t help but love.
I think just about everyone should have one of those. I have plenty! Now’s a good time to join the discussion too.. there’s a little matter of points to be earned 🙂
As always, enjoy!
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I'll kick things off with quite possibly the greatest example of a guilty pleasure ever – Two Worlds 2. Make no bones about it, this is a bad game. Terrible voice acting, clunky interface, weird combat system.
And yet I love it – like I love B-grade fantasy movies (like, say, Conan). It's a massive game and there is something oddly compelling about the whole thing.
So that's mine!
I would say Super Meat Boy, but that game has gone from a guilty pleasure to a game I don't enjoy on any level.
It would probably have to be a game like Shaun the Sheep (DS), where I know it's not really a good game, but as a fan of the show it's a dream come true. I can forget the gameplay and just wander around the lovingly recreated environments.
P.S. Sorry to bug you about this (here and NL), but I sent you a DM on Twitter.
Pocket Planes!
I just can't stop flying these stupid planes around. I've just gotta get that one more city and the next plane!
Probably the Agarest War games. I know a lot of people don't like them and they don't score real well, but I thoroughly enjoy them.
I still plug in my Nintendo64 every few days and rip up some Mario64 I have beaten the game 33 times. That was the first game that when I was in 7th grade I played instead of doing homework daily. love it
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I'm with you on that. Anyone who doesn't like those games just has bad taste though 😛 I maintain they are very good games.
I was so excited about this game and pre-ordered it on Steam then played to to death. Well, 16+ hours for me is pretty much 'to death'.
There are lots of great things in there and I made it through a number of levels (a+ even), but it got so difficult and I was low on time so I haven't made it back.
Crazy Taxi is a bit of a guilty pleasure. Though it's not quite the same without the original sound track even if the driving is fun.
GTAIII is another even if it's a good game. You know we all just wander around and screw with people instead of playing the game from time to time.
The original Rygar for NES was a pretty bad and buggy game and yet somehow I have really fond memories of it. Had some seriously great music though.
Still my favorite Mario of all time!
If you don't have an official Microsoft Xbox PC controller, then it's pretty hard to play. That's my issue with the PC version of SMB.
The game had a really terrible and slightly offensive sense of humor, and that's probably what annoyed me the most, besides the difficulty of playing it with a keyboard, as Slapshot said.
I have a thing for games that are stupidly hard, utterly incomprehensible, massively alienating or utterly baffling. I have no idea why, as they're not exactly enjoyable. I guess I like figuring out how they work, and then I lose interest. I'm thinking of DCS Black Shark here (a helicopter sim where there's a 40-step procedure to start the engine – IN RUSSIAN), and I'll be buying A10C Warthog for a similar level of befuddlement. I like Paradox games too, but they're a doddle in comparison 🙂
I have a weakness for bad 3rd person shooters. Your game is only average? The plot is cheesy? Maybe even a bad console port? But it goes boom? I have to play it! And I have to admit that I do enjoy those games most of the time.
In that case, BUY E.Y.E.: DIVINE CYBERMANCY. IT'S ONLY $4 ON STEAM AND YOU WILL LOVE IT.
Red Steel? I don't even think it's bad…just underrated. I would love to see Red Steel redone with updated motion controls though, and even online multiplayer added to it. If they did Red Steel again for Wii U, and I get the system, it would probably be a day one purchase for me.
Been playing that with our oldest (3) over the last month, and he enjoys just running around the game. The biggest benefit though? Now when I ask him, "What's Mario say?" he says, "Itsa me, Mario!"
I actually enjoyed Red Steel. 🙂
Using a controller, especially a 360 does help a great deal. Though you do miss out on bragging about how l33t/hardcore you are on the steam forums for using keyboard.. 😮