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Been playing some not so great games. On purpose.
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Why, are they not DRM-locked licenses anymore? Terrisus' post about Steam is spot-on.
TheFLYINGManga_Ka
Member
You know what's funny, some of my most enjoyable games have been the not-so-great games.
Velvet Assassin: Underrated stealth game. Unique premise and it looks pretty beautiful on a PC!
Wet: it's actually quite good!
Bullet Witch: Really bad but still kind of fun.
Blood Knights: Really B-movie stuff but I'm enjoying it, LoL!
Blood Stone: best Bond game and TPS I've enjoyed!
Remember Me: One of the better protagonists in games I, er..., remember! I like it even though the combat kind of stinks.
There are more but those are some examples.
Velvet Assassin: Underrated stealth game. Unique premise and it looks pretty beautiful on a PC!
Wet: it's actually quite good!
Bullet Witch: Really bad but still kind of fun.
Blood Knights: Really B-movie stuff but I'm enjoying it, LoL!
Blood Stone: best Bond game and TPS I've enjoyed!
Remember Me: One of the better protagonists in games I, er..., remember! I like it even though the combat kind of stinks.
There are more but those are some examples.
Eclectic Jabber Monkey
Member
Thanks, I'll look into it!
matthewwhatever
Member
If you really want bad, you need to see the DS version of X-Men Destiny. It makes the console version look like the greatest game of all time. It's easily one of the worst games I've ever played, and I play a lot of terrible games for fun.
Most recent terrible game: Adam's Venture: Chronicles, a Christian adventure game that just came out on PS3 a week or two ago. Without even looking at the message behind the game (which managed to simultaneously be heavy-handed and incoherent), everything about it was awful. Terrible graphics, awful voice acting, unlikeable characters, nonsensical plot, puzzles based largely on randomness...technically, it doesn't fall under the "played for fun" category, since I was only playing it because I was asked to review it, but I did see it all the way through to 100%, which is rare for me.
The last terrible games I played for fun: I closed out 2013 with a triple combo of Spongebob on PS3 (better than you'd expect, but absurdly short -- you can beat the whole game [all three levels of it] in about 2 hours), Smurfs 2 and Young Justice: Legacy (which was genuinely bad in every respect). It's fun to play non-GOTY contenders every so often...it makes the good stuff seem even better.
I actually agree. Played 30 minutes and was incredibly bored.
Metal_slime
Banned
I had more fun playing Vampire Rain than 99% of games I played last gen.
Agreed. I played some very bad jrpgs before too. On occasion I play some terrible indie underwater games because there's no more games in that genre. I do this with survival horror genre too because I love it so much.
itzknickknac
Member
Strangely, this is one of the bad games I want to play. I prefer the first game though if it was on PS3
TangoAlphaLima
Member
This is mostly just a list of non-AAA games. They aren't bad.
DiabolicalBagel
Member
If that's the worst game you have in your library, you have excellent taste in games. E.Y.E was great fun, played it through co-op with a friend and had an absolute blast.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Yeah I enjoy playing a poop game every once in a while. Working on The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct right now.
Jimnymebob
Member
I actually enjoyed F.3.A.R. The fact it was a cover shooter was dumb, and it wasn't scary/tense whatsoever, but the guns felt good to shoot.
F**king Run! seemed like a fun mode to play as well, too bad the online was dead by the time I got it.
F**king Run! seemed like a fun mode to play as well, too bad the online was dead by the time I got it.
cascardian
Member
I encourage you to try out Illbleed. Its pretty laughable in both mechanical design and story judged by today's standards, but it's also balls-to-the-wall crazy and goes some legitimately fun places story-wise.
If you want to experience something of the so-bad-it's-still-kind-of-bad-but-at-least-the-voice-acting-makes-you-laugh variety, play Michigan: Report from Hell. Choice quote: "Ooh myyyy Gaaaaaaawwd!"
If you want to play the most melodramatic (but stranglely fitting) survival horror you've ever seen, go straight to D2. It gets progressively more boring, though. Playing D beforehand is not required and, Jesus Christ, not advised.
Speaking of survival horror, if you're in the mood for a bad RE clone with even worse voice acting but an interesting setting, Deep Fear has got you covered. It's slow and it's lumbering--by God, it is--, but it definitely can and does provide for some awkward entertainment.
If you want to play a bad, more anime-ised MGS, go for Spy Fiction. It's got some genuinely fun (if slightly abusable) mechanics, but the story and character development range from boring to non-existing. I actually can't quite make up my mind about the game as a whole, though.
And if you finally want to torture yourself some more, look no further than the 90s' FMV adventures. Yes, I'm talking about stuff like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties here, too, but apart from that one infamous example and some slightly better stuff like Night Trap, I'm talking about the nearly unknown MODE. Yes, MODE. That game is something I can only imagine to have come into being under the influence of hardcore hallucinogenics. It makes absolutely zero sense and, with a psychedelic spring in its step, likes it that way.
Now, you may be wondering why I'm subjecting myself to so many bad games. I don't really know. Maybe I gain some perverse pleasure from it. You'll notice at least that all the games mentioned have at least something interesting in them. These are games that would never have seen the light of day if someone somewhere pitched the ideas in today's boardrooms. If you also happen to like watching bad 80s action flicks, you know the ground you're about to be treading: Enjoy these things for what they are--or don't.
Edit: By the way, if you're ever thinking of trying out the Zelda CDI entries... don't waste your time. They actually are simply bad. Apart from the hilarious cutscenes, you'll mostly just curse the frustratingly unresponsive controls.
If you want to experience something of the so-bad-it's-still-kind-of-bad-but-at-least-the-voice-acting-makes-you-laugh variety, play Michigan: Report from Hell. Choice quote: "Ooh myyyy Gaaaaaaawwd!"
If you want to play the most melodramatic (but stranglely fitting) survival horror you've ever seen, go straight to D2. It gets progressively more boring, though. Playing D beforehand is not required and, Jesus Christ, not advised.
The colour puzzle in the garden will make you want to break something if not simply for the slowness of the video sequences.
Speaking of survival horror, if you're in the mood for a bad RE clone with even worse voice acting but an interesting setting, Deep Fear has got you covered. It's slow and it's lumbering--by God, it is--, but it definitely can and does provide for some awkward entertainment.
If you want to play a bad, more anime-ised MGS, go for Spy Fiction. It's got some genuinely fun (if slightly abusable) mechanics, but the story and character development range from boring to non-existing. I actually can't quite make up my mind about the game as a whole, though.
And if you finally want to torture yourself some more, look no further than the 90s' FMV adventures. Yes, I'm talking about stuff like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties here, too, but apart from that one infamous example and some slightly better stuff like Night Trap, I'm talking about the nearly unknown MODE. Yes, MODE. That game is something I can only imagine to have come into being under the influence of hardcore hallucinogenics. It makes absolutely zero sense and, with a psychedelic spring in its step, likes it that way.
Now, you may be wondering why I'm subjecting myself to so many bad games. I don't really know. Maybe I gain some perverse pleasure from it. You'll notice at least that all the games mentioned have at least something interesting in them. These are games that would never have seen the light of day if someone somewhere pitched the ideas in today's boardrooms. If you also happen to like watching bad 80s action flicks, you know the ground you're about to be treading: Enjoy these things for what they are--or don't.
Edit: By the way, if you're ever thinking of trying out the Zelda CDI entries... don't waste your time. They actually are simply bad. Apart from the hilarious cutscenes, you'll mostly just curse the frustratingly unresponsive controls.
Clockwork5
Member
Recently played Dante's Inferno. I hated every moment of it. It was not reviewed terribly but I thought it full of cheap pointless nudity, boring button mashing combat and horrible qte overload.
2/10 exposed breasts
2/10 exposed breasts