Have you ever bought a game that was labelled crappy just to experience its crappiness first hand?

[IamSofaKingRaw]

If not, have you ever wanted to?

I have. With Superman Returns. I was repeatedly warned from the guy at the front how terrible the game is but I still bought it just so I could experience it. I also want to play that E.T. game and Superman 64 for the lulz

 

[7777777777444]

Yeah, Did that with E.T... And I regret it. It was fun to destroy the thing after words though...

Don't judge me on that ending, please.

 

[Vausch]

I want to play Alone in the Dark or Mindjack, but I keep finding paying 6 dollars for them would be overcharging.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

I actually kind of want to try Alone in the Dark too...

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

I'm waiting for Duke Nukem to do exactly that and drop to £5 before I buy it. If I'm going to invest in something that's probably going to be terrible I don't want to pay a lot.

 

[yuval152]

Duke nukem forever apparently it really was that bad.

 

[Von Ribbentrop]

Dead to Rights (not the rebooted one). The game is hilariously bad.

 

[eclipsed_chemistry]

You could probably get a way to play ET on an emulator.

...and no. I try not to spend my money on bad games. Every game in my game drawer has some appeal to me, from FF12 to Singularity. This is because my gaming budget is big enough for me to buy multiple games a month, but not big enough to just haphazardly buy games whenever I want to. Plus there's the whole thing about playing games for entertainment; I tend to want to keep my hair when gaming. I just don't have the time nor the patience for bad ones.

But then, most of my games are shooters and my standards for shooters seem to be "if it controls well."

I'm the same exact way for shooters except I have one other standard. The guns have to FEEL powerful. It doesn't matter if they actually do a ton of damage or not, but the sound has to be appropriately loud and sharp, and the rumble feedback has to feel appropriately powerful. I'll play a shooter with no semblance of story or good graphics as long as the game feels good to play.

 

[Aiden Raine]

once.. a game called State of Emergency. I bought it for $2 at gamestop because it was incredibly cheap and I wanted to see just how bad it was. it was a waste of $2.

 

[Don Savik]

My brother bought a game for 5 bucks called Necrovision, had zombies and shit WW2 style. Turns out he hated it so I took it off his hands for the lulz.

AWMAHGORSHSOFUN

Now if you can ignore the cheesy dialoque and dated structure (graphics are really good though....), its quite fun blowing off zombies and vampires heads. Plus theres a scene where you pilot an experimental nazi mech and BATTLE A GIGANTIC ROBOSCORPION.

I like games that I can have a good time with, doesnt matter to me how bad people think they are.

 

[sgt. soap mctavish]

Good timing for the thread, Because I just got Man VS. Wild the game. I am in for a horrible trip.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

My brother bought a game for 5 bucks called Necrovision, had zombies and shit WW2 style. Turns out he hated it so I took it off his hands for the lulz.

AWMAHGORSHSOFUN

Now if you can ignore the cheesy dialoque and dated structure (graphics are really good though....), its quite fun blowing off zombies and vampires heads. Plus theres a scene where you pilot an experimental nazi mech and BATTLE A GIGANTIC ROBOSCORPION.

I like games that I can have a good time with, doesnt matter to me how bad people think they are.

Necrovision was awesome, I can't see how anyone wouldn't like it. Unless he never got past the first couple of levels, which were admittedly kind of slow. Or if he expected it to be a serious WW1 shooter or something, which frankly the name "Necrovision" and the picture of the Bruce Cambell wannabe blasting zombies while spouting one-liners should have hinted away from.

Also, not only do you get to mech battle a giant roboscorpion, but you also get to ride a dragon and kill Cerberus, then lead a kill team of vampires into hell and ride a magic golem in battle against Satan. Seriously, that game was metal as all get out.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I'm waiting for Duke Nukem to do exactly that and drop to £5 before I buy it. If I'm going to invest in something that's probably going to be terrible I don't want to pay a lot.

I'm looking to do the same thing. I really liked Duke Nukem 3D back in the day (notably when I was much younger and my sense of humor was far more crude...), but I didn't buy Duke Nukem: Forever when it came out because I knew it wouldn't live up to that many years of expectations. So now I'm waiting for it to be at bargain bin price.

Which incidentally, is today. It's apparently on sale on Steam today for $9.99 USD. Still more than I'd really like to pay... but it's very, very tempting. And also very amusing that it's already dropped that low. Is that a record for a AAA release?

 

[Keeru Lazy]

Against my better judgement, Crackdown 2

 

[The Pinray]

I rented Duke Nukem Forever from Redbox just to give it a whirl. God, what a terrible game. Does that count?

 

[Fiad]

The new Alien vs Predator game, got it with a bunch of other games when a Blockbuster around here got closed. Sold their entire stock. Managed to pick up a bunch of games cheap. Though I knew it would be terrible I was hoping it would be decent enough, I mean AvP 2 was awesome. But nope. It sucked.

 

[badgersprite]

Oh hell yeah. If I see a relatively new video game being marked as $8, I'm like, "Shit, well now I have to play it."

I'm just too curious for my own good.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Yes, but thankfully it was pretty cheap.

Spoiler

I'll buy Duke Nukem when it drops to the sub $15 level.

EDIT:

Steam Sale: $9.99

...SOLD.

Will it be as bad as the negative hype? Only time will tell...

EDIT2:

Yep, I bought X-Blades

To this day I still haven't played past the first level, which was also the demo level...which I had already played

ugh, I forgot about that one. I had the exact same experience.