Hate to Love/Guilty Pleasure

[efAston]

What game do you like more than you would like?

I just finished Assassin's Creed the other day, and thought "good riddance to all that auto-aim console rubbish", but then found myself missing it because it managed to poke the exploration spot of my brain, without me fully realising it. It's doubly embarrassing because I have so many gripes with open-environment games, and as a rule will proudly stand by linear design.

My first guilty pleasure would have been Diablo II. I know it's completely unbalanced and there's heaps of cheesy stuff about it, but the lava in hell looked so cool - and you get to fight Satan! I guess I could rationalise it by comparing it to Final Fight and Double Dragon, but it is a thorn in my side every time I vouch for Icewind Dale II as the way RPG's should be.

I know plenty of you will disagree, it's all moot, I'm not interested in convincing anyone of anything, just want to know what you hate to love.

 

[efAston]

Also yay me, my posts just hit a power of two .

 

[ShasOMiKael]

Final Fantasy... All of them!

Can i have my soul back Square Enix?

 

[Gustof26]

Mine is Just Cause 2. It's not a good story, the game play is repetitive, and the characters unlikeable. Still I find myself hook shooting around the island finding more and more ridiculous ways to die.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Game that I should hate but I love? The Goemon's game is full of japanese weird..dness, but it's so fun that you can't really hate it. I mean....look at the game over screen...


As for movies, I have a soft spot for Jennifer's Body and the dare I say...Rush Hour trilogy.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Halo: Reach multiplayer I guess

 

[Iwata]

All the critics say I should hate Naughty Bear, Legendary and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, but they gave me hours of fun, so I'm not complaining.

And Persona 3: FES has all the video game elements I hate, yet I love the game to bits. Don't know why. Maybe because it does JRPG well, for once. Go figure.

 

[WaReloaded]

It hasn't been released for a great deal of time but Orcs Must Die!. It's just one of those games that's relatively simple to pick up and play whilst retaining the depth (if you consider trap placement and strategies depth) of a bigger, more expensive and developed title despite essentially being a Tower Defence game.

 

[LilithSlave]

I don't like the concept of having "guilty" pleasures. And that people seem to like to impress upon people the idea that pleasures that don't hurt anyone are "guilty".

All too much the wretch idea that there are objectively good and objectively bad and "embarrassing" things. And that we have to spend our time on the things that other people like, instead of praising the things that we do.

The Goemon's game is full of japanese...

That's a feature that should make you love it more.

 

[ChupathingyX]

I don't like the concept of having "guilty" pleasures. And that people seem to like to impress upon people the idea that pleasures that don't hurt anyone are "guilty".

All too much the wretch idea that there are objectively good and objectively bad and "embarrassing" things. And that we have to spend our time on the things that other people like, instead of praising the things that we do.

I thought a guilty pleasure, at least in this sense, was a game that we, ourselves, can find many faults in and yet we still love to play?

Not a game that many people hate, but you love.

 

[Cyrus Hanley]

I like Call of Duty and that is contrary to my attitude towards publishers who like to fuck over their consumers.

But I justify it by saying that it's not an Ubisoft game and that if I had a decent gaming PC then I'd be playing Half-Life mods all day every day.

 

[Savagezion]

Tropico 2. It really isn't a good game. However, it does institute quite a few good ideas in it for a simulator. Having to kidnap people for your economy and having to simultaneously attend to the needs of 2 very different social groups. It may be because there isn't many games out there like it as to why I like it so much.

 

[efAston]

All too much the wretch idea that there are objectively good and objectively bad and "embarrassing" things. And that we have to spend our time on the things that other people like, instead of praising the things that we do.

Sure, but if I spend time lamenting games that are open-environment and consoly, because they're killing the genres I love, I'm my own bane if I find myself indulging in something that's both. It is a bit tongue-in-cheek, of course.

 

[efAston]

All too much the wretch idea that there are objectively good and objectively bad and "embarrassing" things. And that we have to spend our time on the things that other people like, instead of praising the things that we do.

Sure, but if I spend time lamenting games that are open-environment and consoly, because they're killing the genres I love, I'm my own bane if I find myself indulging in something that's both. It is a bit tongue-in-cheek, of course.

 

[Random Argument Man]

The Goemon's game is full of japanese...weirdness

That's a feature that should make you love it more.

By the standards of everyone I know, it's too weird. However, the weird things in this game makes it so fun.

Come on...You play ninjas and the first castle (dungeon) is on fire and you need to climb it to jump on a giant robot's head...WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE!?!?