Mediocre/bad games you just can't stop playing.

[RJ 17]

star wars the force unleashed. yes I i know I need to be checked into the looney bin.

Aside from being too short and having a main character that makes Hayden Christensin's (spelling) acting look like Harrison Ford's, the Force Unleash games are fun for the same reason as the Dynasty Warriors games: mindless god-mode slaughter of countless swarms of cannon fodder.

Well I'm 'struggling' through Dead Island...it's so painfully mediocre but I'm still playing.

Dead Island is/was pretty terrible...what with the glitchy mechanics (i.e. zombies charging straight through you to start beating your ass from behind) and the absolutely RETARDED fucking ending. Buuuuuut still many people who don't like the Left 4 Dead series due to it being too linear in it's format of "just get from point a to point b" liked the fact that it actually gave a point to the running around...even if said point was "just get from point a to point b, clear out the zombies, grab something, then come back to point a". It wasn't all too bad of a game...but the epic retardedness of the dning made me really not wanna play through it again.

 

[jaoblia]

Primal Rage, Such a cool game but so terrible.

 

[RJ 17]

Primal Rage, Such a cool game but so terrible.

Was that the old, old, old game that was Double Dragon-like but instead of being a couple street-fighters you played as a couple werewolves or something fighting other mythological creatures? I thought that game was cool but I always remembered getting my ass kicked by it.


Oh, and I can't take it anymore...time to play some Dragon Age 2...well, at least load up my most "recent' playthrough which I believe will have me starting a couple quests away from the Qunari war.

 

[Fogold]

Although I wouldn't consider Ghost Master a bad game, or even mediocre, but it isn't perfect, or even all that great. Yet, although logically I wouldn't consider the game addictive, I can play this game 2 or 3 times in a row. Something about it is just fantastic fun at times.

 

[Courier_87]

Far Cry 2, I finished it not long after it came out, was fed up by the 2nd map but wanted to finish the story, glad it was over by the end. However, every few months I get the urge to play it again and again, only to be reminded in a matter of hours why it irritated me the first time

 

[Captain Booyah]

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I think I remember the case you're talking about, is it the one with the die-hard communist and the guy that's got a past history of violence towards women? I think that's the one where you literally might as well flip a coin because they both lie to you through the entire interogation, both have lousy alibies, and both have a mountain of evidence against them. I do confess to fingering the wrong guy first before reloading my game and picking the other one (Hey, I wanted my five star achievement damnit!)

But speaking of achievements, going for the one of collecting all the cars was a pain in the ass. Took me a few days of straight dickin' around to get'em all. Got down to two cars. Searched EVERYWHERE for them. Decided to look online and see if there were parts of town where you were more likely to find'em...turns out one of them can only be found at the very beginning of the case about the british boxer, when you first leave the arena it's in the parking lot. So I load up that case and pick it up before loading up one of the arson cases (just because I like that partner the best) to continue my search for the last car. As soon as I spawn in and get outside, I hop in a cop car and, as I'm pulling into traffic, the last car I needed rolls right on by. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

I think that's the one. The two I remember struggling with was that one, and another case in homicide where you have to choose between the dodgy husband who lied about his shoe size (his shoe size!) and the creeper who kept lurking about the high school car park and spying on girls. I know I failed at least one of those cases, because I remember Captain Donnelly tearing me a new one for charging the wrong guy. >_> I hated how you kind of had to think like a corrupt cop if you wanted a five-star rating, like, "Well, it'll look good if we charge the pedo, right?" The worst thing was that it ultimately didn't matter who you chose anyway, none of them was the real killer.

I haven't even attempted the car achievement yet. It scares me. There are dozens you need to collect and I can't tell cars apart for shit. I'd started achievement-gathering once I'd finished the game, collecting the golden reels and everything, and then I saw the car one and was like "...I'll leave that one for now." It was like the flag-collecting in Assassin's Creed -- there's hundreds of 'em, and it feels like a hopeless endeavour before you even start. I swear to God I'll get that Auto Fanatic one day, though. One day... *sigh*

 

[lemby117]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if you asked a kid today "Who's Mewtwo?" they'd have no clue who the hell you were talking about.

Depends on the age, my year at school (14 years old) were all brought up on the TV show so we all know Mewtwo, but sadly your right for the most part.

OT Alpha Protocol, I have played through it 3 making pretty much all the same decisions

 

[dills2]

Half life 2... by today's standards is boring and repetitive.)____________
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its still epic by today's standards also i play la noire which i think is mediocre

 

[RJ 17]

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I think that's the one. The two I remember struggling with was that one, and another case in homicide where you have to choose between the dodgy husband who lied about his shoe size (his shoe size!) and the creeper who kept lurking about the high school car park and spying on girls. I know I failed at least one of those cases, because I remember Captain Donnelly tearing me a new one for charging the wrong guy. >_> I hated how you kind of had to think like a corrupt cop if you wanted a five-star rating, like, "Well, it'll look good if we charge the pedo, right?" The worst thing was that it ultimately didn't matter who you chose anyway, none of them was the real killer.

I haven't even attempted the car achievement yet. It scares me. There are dozens you need to collect and I can't tell cars apart for shit. I'd started achievement-gathering once I'd finished the game, collecting the golden reels and everything, and then I saw the car one and was like "...I'll leave that one for now." It was like the flag-collecting in Assassin's Creed -- there's hundreds of 'em, and it feels like a hopeless endeavour before you even start. I swear to God I'll get that Auto Fanatic one day, though. One day... *sigh*

Ohhhh yeah, I remember that one. A lot of the homocide cases were messed up because EVERYONE wore the same-sized shoe and EVERYONE lied to you. But I think in that particular case there was some crucial evidence found in a car, like a jumpsuit or a nametag or something, that officially pinned it on the pedobear.

As for the car situation, I remember thinking that it was an overwhelming task as well. But during my playthrough of the game I was just car-jacking any random car that I thought I hadn't seen before yet, so by the time I beat the game I only had like, 30 something cars to collect, and 10 of those (give or take, forget the exact number) were the secret cars that spawn in set garage locations. But I remember thinking "God, if there was a video out there that even just showed a completely unlocked showroom so that I could see what these damn cars look like, it would make this so much easier. Turns out there was such a video on youtube, and turns out it did indeed make it much easier.

 

[JackandTom]

I've seen a lot of people saying Borderlands was mediocre?! That game was f*cking amazing. I've played through it many, many times and the DLC must be some of the best out there. As for other mediocre games, I've played both Kane and Lynch games and enjoyed them immensely. Also, if we're judging my Metacritic scores, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries was considered mediocre and I've lost count of the hours I put into that.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I'm currently playing though Dreamkiller. It's a fast paced run-and-gun shooter about a woman who can enter people's dreams to cure peoples phobia by KILLING ANYTHING THAT MOVES.

There are a lot of problems with it and it never lives up to the full potential of the concept...but hot damn is it fun. WHEEEEEE *burns enemies with a gun that shoots sunbeams, before switching to his minigun THAT HAS A ROCKET LAUNCHER ATTACHED *

So yeah, not the best game, but for $2.50? Yeah, I got my money's worth.

 

[Lunar Templar]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
It's a mediocre fighting game that isn't that special...but it's just so much FUN.

hehehe, i remember that game, it was awesome , for a movie tie in >.> was WAY better then the movie was to.

OT though: not a single game .... try a developer/publisher.

Perfect World Entertainment, they make ... meh ... grade MMOs, that are thankfully all free to play, even the 'action MMO' Rusty hearts has been done better elsewhere already(its a shallow, less interesting version of Vindictus)

and yet ... i keep going back for various reason, a spiffy sounding race (Forsaken World), a class that is RIGHT of my ally (War of the Immortals/PWI) not to mention its all really pretty o.o the part of me that actually likes pretty shuts the part up about the game play being very ... meh ...

 

[putowtin]

The Force Unleashed I & II

you can't beat picking up a AT-AT and crushing it!

 

[Drop_D-Bombshell]

Alone in the Dark 5. It's buggy, controls are terrible, plot fails at the end and i find myself without any means to defeating overpowered enemies....WHY DO I LOVE IT SO MUCH??

 

[Breaker deGodot]

I had this sort of problem with Postal 2. It was a total piece of shit, but something about the utter wanton cruelty that could be dealt onto the NPC's kept me coming back for months. I'm over it now, though.

 

[Espl]

The Dynasty Warriors games. That shit is like crack.

I agree. Everytime I play I simply HAVE to personally kill every enemy soldier. One man army!

 

[Super Six One]

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.Ks games, nothing fantastic about them but i love playing them.

 

[RJ 17]

The Dynasty Warriors games. That shit is like crack.

I agree. Everytime I play I simply HAVE to personally kill every enemy soldier. One man army!

lol I remember back when the "gates" along the side of the maps didn't have Guard Captains that you could kill to seal them off...they just kept pouring more and more soldiers onto the battlefield until the enemy army's Morale was at 0.

But good god, saying that just reminded me of the Shu battle called Nanman Campaign in (I think) DW 5. Your only condition for losing is if Zhuge Liang dies, and the last part of the battle is that you've got to escort him from your base to the enemy's. In every DW game, I always remember thinking to myself "Why the hell do they give you 90 minutes per battle? Who's taking 90 minutes to finish a fight?" Yeah, of the 90 minutes it gives you to fight, I ended up using at least 80 of them when I did that battle on Chaos difficulty....and a good 70 of those minutes were spent stuck with Zhuge Liang at one gate along the side of the map (note: those times are not an exageration. I don't remember exactly how much time was spent where, but I DO remember getting the red countdown clock that starts when you've only got 10 minutes left in the battle, and I remember sitting at that gate for a VERY long time).

By this time all allied officers were dead, the Nanman's morale was off the charts, and so I was just stuck there slaughtering waves upon hordes upon endless masses of generic Nanman troops. If I dared to leave Zhuge Liang's side, he would instantly be turned to vapor, and so I went from Shu's top general to Zhuge Liang's personal body guard. Every now and then an enemy general would wander up and I'd kill him. That'd take off a little bit of pressure...but still it was nearly an endless fight. At long last there simply was no one left to kill. I proved to be an immovable object as Zhuge's shield. And so we triumphantly walked across an empty battlefield to the enemy camp that was now only ocupied by Meng Huo and his personal guard and we won the day. Grand total of soldiers slaughtered by me: over 3000.

Funny thing is, on the Wu campaign there's an identicle battle only you're with Zhou Yu instead of Zhuge Liang. I didn't really have that much trouble with the fight that time, but I think that's because for the Wu I went "assassin mode" and just charged across the map as fast as I could on a head-hunting mission to take out as many enemy generals as possible. Screw trying to pull off all your traps and ploys, I just wanted to make sure that there'd be no way I'd have to fight the tribal zombie horde again.

That was the single hardest and most epic DW battle I had ever been in and would ever be in. It was also the battle that solidified and crystallized my absolute loathing for the Nanman.

 

[MurderousToaster]

2009's Wet isn't a particularly good game (nor would I say it's bad) but it has a personality, and that's more than can be said for a lot of modern releases. It also reminds me of Stranglehold in the best way possible and is a lot of slow-motion fun. Even if I did have to turn the film scratch effect off because it made me feel ill.