Bad games that you love.

[Jessweeee♪]

I don't mean poorly-received games that you think are good, I mean games that you personally think are bad but for some reason you just love playing them!

As for me, I'd have to say the Phantasy Star Universe series. There are so many things about it I don't like, but I have so much fun. It doesn't make sense to me!

[NorthernChaosGod]

I have never enjoyed a game I thought was bad.

[Jessweeee♪]

Yeah I think there might be something wrong with me. But oh well. I have PSU!


The best thing about this series is the music.

[Wolf Kanno]

Gungrave and Evil Zone come to mind.

Gungrave is kind of a poor attempt at making a 3D brawler with guns and its basically just you gunning down palette swaps of the same types of enemies over and over. The boss fights often range on ridiculously hard and its plot is pretty minimal (the anime is awesome though, especially if you like Mafia type stories). Still it had some clever things in and I just can't bring myself to actually hate it. Its just a fun "turn your brain off" game. It also used the whole "make the player kill the final boss in an emotionally charged cutscene" long before MGS3: Snake Eater was around.

Evil Zone... is a "fighting game" that basically pits together every single anime cliche and stereotype you can think of with the exception of a magical princess sailor girl. I don't really know if that was the designer's intentions either, I feel with the amount of details listed in the game they were actually trying to make something legitimate, which makes it even more funny. Combat is odd cause its based on projectiles and using psychic powers to trap people as the throws and well... it s really hard to explain this game. Its funny as hell, even if the dub is awful, and beating the game with characters unlocks massive amounts of background story and plot elements you didn't think this game needed. It' a pretty simple fighting game and most of the cast plays the same so it mostly comes down to who you like most.

[nirojan]

White Knight Chronicles! OMG the most cliched over used story EVAR! It's one of those games that when you play 5 minutes of it, you can guess the next 30 minutes of the story. The combat was slow and extremely unpolished imo. But for some odd reason I couldn't put it down. We seemed to have a JRPG drought that time and it was fixing that itch i had! FFXIII and GOW3 quickly replaced it though after they released.

Wierd seeing a Level-5 game I didn't like. Even now im curious as to WKC2, even though I can probably guess the story!

[VeloZer0]

Jaws: Unleshed. It is an open sandbox game where you swim around as Jaws and eat swimmers, sink boats and destroy waterfront property.

Sadly they obviously didn't have enough money to develop good controls for it, but the concept is just so fantastic.

[Loony BoB]

For me, if a game is enjoyable, it can't be bad, because a game sets itself out to be enjoyable. I suppose if it was really glitchy but still enjoyable then it could make sense. I can't think of anything off the top of my head, though... I enjoy a lot of games, mind you. xD I'm rather easily pleased. I'm so glad for that, too, or else I'd be constantly disappointed.

[Yeargdribble]

I'll second White Knight Chronicles which is a laughable caricature of a JRPG with a lot of painful sections to play with overly slow battle, but it's charming as hell for some reason.

Also, FFXI. After an initial 3 year addiction, 2 years off and a 1 year follow up I know the game is ultimately terrible in so many ways, but it's so awesome in so many other ways. I love the flavor of it more than any other MMO I've played.

[Psychotic]

I enjoyed XII and XIII while I was actually playing them, but looking back on them I don't entirely know why.

Also, Halo. It's a smurfing terrible game. Why can't I stop playing it?

[G13]

Combat Evolved is great. The others I could live without. And I really enjoyed XIII, but I absolutely hate XII and yet I still play it.

Alundra 2 was another one I hated but couldn't put down.

[Vyk]

Also, Halo. It's a smurfing terrible game. Why can't I stop playing it?

Its kind of relieving to see someone say that lol

My tastes are so off kilter from the norm, I think it'd be easier for me to list what games that are good that I don't like, than list games that I consider bad that I do like. I can't imagine playing through a game I think is bad. Its hard enough for a good game to keep my interest. Like I can not stand Grand Theft Auto IV, even though it was heralded as a pinnacle of gaming in its time. And I've tried like three times to play it. And the only thing I can say is the graphics and voice acting are okay. But the controls/gameplay mechanics and story and characters themselves just totally turn me off. And nothing is more horrendous than its driving mechanics. Like driving in the snow with a rear wheel drive car, ALL THE TIME. If you ever get up to full speed, it takes you three blocks to skid to a stop and you probably end up taking out two other cars and a telephone pole in the process

I guess I could list some of my early childhood games since I had no standards back then. Not like when you bought a game, you had a lot of choice afterwards. You either play it or remain bored. And I had some atrocious winners on the Genesis and NES. But I'm not sure anyone would know them. Devilish, Storm Lord, and Abbadox come to mind..

[Chris]

"Zapper" is so bright and colorful, but otherwise horrible. But I just can't help but having so much fun playing it!

[jdj5585]

Final Fantasy X-2 comes to mind...haha

[Dreddz]

Shenmue comes to mind. One of my favourite games but if you break it down its quite terrible actually.

[Unbreakable Will]

The recent Medal of Honor game, I absolutely hated the storyline but had so much fun sniping that I keep playing it.