Any Bad games you enjoy?

[Ihateregistering1]

Splatterhouse (the reboot). This game had issues coming out its ears: it was buggy as hell, the QTEs got incredibly boring and easy very quickly, and the load times were absolutely atrocious, but I loved it all the same. I loved the "Re-Animator" and Lovecraftian feel to the story, I thought the idea of playing as this savage monster who quite literally beats his enemies to death with his bare hands was awesome, and the mask made me laugh (most of the time). Plus I'll give it credit that the collectibles were piecing together nude photos of your super hot GF.

Although it wasn't panned quite as bad, my second nomination is Dante's Inferno. The QTEs were absurd (they never change!!), parts of the game were insanely frustrating, and the last 3rd saw a definite quality drop from the first 2/3, but I still loved it. The game was downright unflinching in its brutality and twistedness of showcasing hell, I liked that there was no way you could unlock all the upgrades in a single playthrough, and I liked the "holy vs. unholy" skill tree.

If you had told me that a studio would ever have the guts to release a game with 'glutton demons' that shit and barf on you, or 'lust demons' who shoot tentacles out of their special purpose, I'd have told you no freaking way, but the developers of that game were willing to go the extra mile.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

I actually really enjoyed Naughty Bear. Yeah, it was a bit of a technical mess but it was almost the perfect slasher-movie simulator. But with teddie bears.

Sneaking through the levels and offing them one by one... sabotaging their escape routes and filling them with absolute terror... just so fun.

Maybe there's something wrong with me.

 

[McMullen]

I'm enjoying Skyrim for what I wish it were, rather than what it is. Unfortunately it's made by people who have no interest in quality work (and it's not because it's a big game; there are highly visible (and irritating) bugs that the community has fixed by changing a single numerical value, that are still in the vanilla version after Bethesda stopped patching the game. It's not that the game is big, it's that not a fuck is given by Bethesda). At least the fans care enough about the game to do the dev's job for them and fix the game, but in a way that's even sadder; they've paid people to do a job they didn't do, and are now doing that job for them for free. I think every Bethesda employee should owe half their wages back to the modders.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

I think my pick is an old PS2 game called Samurai Western. It's not really good by any means - I mean, the graphics are awful, brown and boxy, the character design is nuts, the cast is poorly voiced (especially the main lead who has an awful, borderline-racist voice track), the music is either not there or horrendously tepid, the level progression is weird and the story is completely mental. I mean, this is a game that starts out promising enough - the lead, a samurai, goes to the Wild West (natch) to track down and kill his brother who abandoned the samurai way of life. By the end of it, the samurai has fought typical Western bandits, two midgets who jump like Yoda and wield Wolverine claws, a horde of gun-toting robo-bandits dressed in Georgian clothing, a massive camp black man who wields a steam-powered gatling gun, saved a comedic fat black Sheriff called Donald from being lynched and stopped a tyrannical land-despot with his 50% Hulk and 50% beard armed from... errr... buying more land, I guess? Basically, it's off the wall nuts. But, the combat is actually quite slick and flows beautifully once you get the knack of it, especially the dodge mechanic which sends your samurai zipping all over the place and the armor customization mechanic is hilarious as you can run around with, say, a 6 foot giant parrot on your shoulder, or wearing an entire steam train as a costume. It's terrible, but also terribly good fun.

 

[WildFire15]

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is, unfairly if you ask me, put down as a bad game but I love it. Can spend hours constructing ridiculous contraptions and playing around with them.
I have a feeling the game would have been more accepted if it wasn't Banjo Kazooie, but it doesn't bother me. Mainly because I didn't think all that highly of their N64 outings (not bad, but I didn't think they were great)

 

[Battenberg]

Matrix Path of Neo and Enter the Matrix.

*runs for the hills*

EDIT: Okay, okay, I guess I have to justify it.

I liked the real world sections in EtM, and I like PoN because I played it obsesively as a child.

Thing is though, I haven't played either of them in the last 5 or so years since I became a PC Gamer.

So I don't know, perhaps(most likely) they are tripe sandwiches, and I was just incredibly naive as a child because *OOH SHINY!*

They're considered to be bad games? I thought they were both excellent!

Also I'd have to say A:CM but solely for multiplayer. I found the campaign irritating and buggy most the time and shallow and too far from the films the rest of the time. The multiplayer was just as buggy and broken but I still think it's good for a laugh, especially when playing with mates as you all get to revel in the extreme buggibess together.

Also I don't know if it counts but Alpha Pritocol. It got crap reviews when it came out but it seems to have been seen in a whole new positive light since then. I mean there's a ton of stuff that needed changing/ fixing bit a lot of the core ideas were very good and quite well executed.

 

[Dragonlayer]

Lego Rock Raiders the video game. Playing that as a kid oh my god it is fucking amazing and I still like this with mods. But i checked the meta critic for it just out of curiosity and it was not looking pretty there.

For the people saying Dead space 3 I never knew that was considered a bad game? Just too derivative from previous titles for long time fans.

Holy shit, I remember Lego Rock Raiders! Oh wow, you just flooded my mind with nostalgic memories! I rented that game several times in my youth, although even at the time I thought it was a bit rubbish. I honestly don't know what compelled me to keep playing - maybe a subconscious desire to be a miner?

I know Dead Space 3 is considered lackluster but I thoroughly enjoyed it; even more so with the co-op campaign (although since me and my chum had both completed it seperately and *he* was the secondary character, he got the most out of the co-op only goodies).

 

[Chester Rabbit]

Darkvoid ? You know it doesn?t even feel right mentioning it in this thread, but I do anyway because I know the majority considers this game to be awful. To me it?s not even a bad game it?s certainly not remarkable but it works. The shooting mechanics are standard but are just as enjoyable as they are in Mass Effect; but for me it?s the flying that really sealed the deal. I honestly consider this game an over hated hidden gem.

Now! Time for a game that is bad that I enjoy!

Resident Evil Operation Racoon City ? with a game like this you would think they would have tried to put as much fanservice in this thing as possible for old fans of the series with nice subtle references to the older T-Virus games and some easter eggs to really get a chuckle out of us. Instead this game just feels empty and it is soooo very obvious what a cold cash in it was.
However all that aside, I still enjoy it. I like seeing Lickers again or being chased down by Mr.X.(even though that mother never bothered to run after me before...)
The combat again is serviceable. It works fine and really all that is enough for me to enjoy this game (it also helps that I only paid 15 bucks for it so I feel like I am getting my monies worth here)

 

[josemlopes]

Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon

Now, the Destroy All Human games are fun but overly flawed games, I thought the first 2 were classics and while the Wii game choked balls with its horrendous controls, Path of the Furon was a pretty fun game, the meta-critic rating for this game is like 35 or something, so it definitely counts, the game looked like ass I admit.

I always wanted to try a Destroy All Humans game, I had the demo for the first one and it looked fun but after taking a look at the reviews for the last one I just let it go.