Games you enjoyed but shouldn't have.

[Thoraxe_The_Impaler]

Post your favorite games that you shouldn't have enjoyed. For example: games that got terrible reviews, were intended for a younger audience, etc.

For me it's the Harry Potter series and Enter the Matrix.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

Mine also was enter the matrix.

 

[scnj]

If I enjoyed a game, what's to say I shouldn't have?

 

[MiracleOfSound]

If I enjoyed a game, what's to say I shouldn't have?

Popular opinion, critics, yahtzee... you know all the people who think they know better than you what's good and whats not...

 

[teisjm]

Guitar hero, because i should rather spend the time bettering myself on the real guitars.

 

[Space Spoons]

I agree with the topic creator on Enter the Matrix. All the critics demanded that I hate it, but darn it, it was just too much fun. Maybe it was the mild euphoria I'd been experiencing from seeing The Matrix: Reloaded in theatres four times. Maybe it was the fact that I'd only just gotten a working PS2, and was essentially jumping up from Crash Bandicoot. Either way, it was amazing.

Also, I'm constantly told that I shouldn't enjoy Halo 3, simply because there are better shooters out there. Well, I say screw 'em. Halo 3 is plain ol' simple fun, any way you look at it.

 

[Vrex360]

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Also, I'm constantly told that I shouldn't enjoy Halo 3, simply because there are better shooters out there. Well, I say screw 'em. Halo 3 is plain ol' simple fun, any way you look at it.[/quote]

Damn straight

 

[Thoraxe_The_Impaler]

Guitar hero, because i should rather spend the time bettering myself on the real guitars.

Lol ya, I actually have a real guitar but I never play it, guitar hero is just so much more fun.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Lost Planet, for some reason. It sucked, but it was really addictive.

 

[Aqualung]

For me it's the Harry Potter series and Enter the Matrix.

The Harry Potter games are the bomb. Especially the second and third ones.

And I probably shouldn't still be playing Pokemon, but.. They're good games.

 

[teisjm]

Guitar hero, because i should rather spend the time bettering myself on the real guitars.

Lol ya, I actually have a real guitar but I never play it, guitar hero is just so much more fun.

I do play on my real guitars as well, but it's just soo much harder to play anything and make it sound good

 

[willard3]

I actually enjoyed Turok (on 360) for a while, until I got to the ridiculously-spaced checkpoints later in the game.

I also rather liked Enter The Matrix, because you can actually often afford to go out of your way to do wall-kicks and bullet-dodges...enemies go down fairly quickly if you're in a tight spot.

On the same note, Path Of Neo was also really really fun for quite a while...then it started getting repetitive. The "red pill" missions were REALLY awesome...too bad there were only three of them, I think. Still, this game got average reviews compared to EtM's fairly poor ones, so it doesn't count as much. I liked Gamespot's description of focus: "it definitely ups the effectiveness of your attacks, as well as your dodge moves, which go from neat to damn near spectacular in bullet time." Good times.

 

[Stryc9]

If I enjoyed a game, what's to say I shouldn't have?

That was my question too but to answer the OP's question, Oni and Enter the Matrix, and Postal 2.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Lost Planet, for some reason. It sucked, but it was really addictive.

I know. I really got into it as well.

Anyway, I say Dark Sector. Looking at it from a cold, clinical perspective, it shouldn't have been fun, as little of it was more than a substandard rehash of all kings of old gameplay features. Critics didn't like it either. But damn it, controlling the Glaive as it cuts someone in two is fun.

 

[RavingPenguin]

Mine also was enter the matrix.

I, too, enjoyed Enter the Matrix. I also liked Onechanbara which got terrible, terrible reviews. I found it fun none-the-less.

 

[Edible Cyanide]

Postal 2 and fallout 3 (FLUT3 with Bloody Mess on) because my dad and my mum think i'm physcotic just for thinking its funny.

 

[jad4400]

Enter The Matrix

 

[cheesecake123]

maelstrom

 

[Thoraxe_The_Impaler]

Enter The Matrix

Wow... maybe I should have just started a thread for fans of Enter the Matrix. You know, as far as shooters go it was pretty bland, but I just couldn't get over the fact that you could jump out from behind a pillar and mow people down while flying through the air in slow motion. The hacking minigame was also pretty cool.