Guilty Pleasures?

[stika]

Anyone here has any guilty pleasures in gaming? Games that everyone hates or that you know they are/should be bad, but for some reason you love them?


Mine's gotta be O.D.T. for the PS1, it's a Tomb Raider clone back when gaming was flooded with those. But honestly, I think this game is better than the Tomb Raider games in nearly every way, the setting and lore are more interesting, I love the steampunk nature of it all, it had RPG features, 4 characters to choose from (plus 2 secret characters) and multiple endings.

you also had a nice variety of weapons for the genre at the time

[Numbers]

Anyone who has followed my posts knows that Mask of Eternity is my guilty pleasure. I think the game falls into so bad it's good territory, as opposed to KQ7, which I think falls into so bad it's horrible territory. Again, that's just my viewpoint.

[stika]

heh, for me it's the other way around, KQ 8 is a bad King's quest game but an okay action RPG

King's quest 7 is baaaaad, but it's the entertaining kind of bad

[Blackthorne]

Castlevania 2 - Simon's Quest.  I dunno why, but I love it!  I also love that there's been some real quality fan-remakes on the web!  Another little indulgence of mine is finding fan-made remakes and sequels to some of my favorite 8 bit and 16 bit games - there's some great ones out there!


Bt

[stika]

Simon's quest is a pretty good game imo, it's only dragged down by  how cryptic it was (how the hell was I supposed to know I had to kneel to summon a tornado?) and some places where you just had to know the levels by memorization, like the pit floors that aren't even colored differently

[Cathenah19]

Phantasmagoria 1. I can admire the game for the ambitious game that it was at the time, and it did have an interesting story at its heart. The technical difficulties of executing that game and the hastened pace it was released to stores probably accounts for why so may people today deride the game. It has not aged very well.

The vapid main character did not help the game either. Since she did not have an internal monologue to describe the things she saw or her impressions, the player only could only conclude that Adrienne's mind as as blank as the green screen background. On the flip side -- I love Crazy Don's laugh, especially in the later parts of the game.   That green screen must have tasted awful from all the scenery that he was chewing. 

Perhaps I enjoy it a little more today than I would because it was a forbidden fruit when it first came out and my highly conservative parents controlled all of my game purchases.

As far as the sequel, only Spoony could make that train wreck of a game enjoyable. It had such a convoluted plot that seemed to cobble together so many different plot elements from different genres that the game felt the way that [spoiler]Curtis's real body in Dimension X looked -- a combination of slime and random alien body parts. [/spoiler]

[stika]

I remember I kind of Liked Phantasmagoria 1 as a kid/teen, but it was mostly because of how advanced it all looked, what can I say? i never had or met anyone with a Sega CD so I didn't know how bad these games were

[Numbers]

"I heard that, Curtis."

[kyranthia]

Jazz Jackrabbit.  Yes, it was a Sonic the Hedgehog knockoff, but it was silly fun, regardless.

[Neonivek]

I will honestly defend that Phantasmagoria 1 is a seriously under rated game and that it is a lot better then people give it credit for. Is it flawed? Yes... But I feel like it is good for legitimate reasons. It is a goofy 7/10 not a goofy 6...

It is also the horror game that holds its hands the longest. You are actually 5/7ths of the way through the game before it actually becomes scary.

Which today where horror means "I got a shot gun, now where can I shoot the monsters?" I can appreciate.

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Anyhow... guilty pleasure game I love... hmmm

I like Wizard101... like... a lot

and that is for small kiddies.

Heck I like Pirate101 but it is way too slow.

[stika]

Jazz Jackrabbit.  Yes, it was a Sonic the Hedgehog knockoff, but it was silly fun, regardless.

I'm not sure if I'd consider it a guilty pleasure, Jazz Jackrabbit is considered to be an awesome 2D platformer the PC 

[GrahamRocks!]

Hooray, another Wizard101 fan! Although, I don't consider it a guilty pleasure, I consider it a great game!

Haven't tried Pirate101 yet though.

[stika]

Oh, I read Wizardry and I thought Wizardry: Proving grounds of the Mad Overlord

[HitBattousai]

I guess recently I'd say the new Castlevania game on 3DS Mirror of Fate would be my guilty pleasure.  The game got critically somewhat panned.  It's not a "traditional" Castlevania game was the primary reasoning I saw, but to me it is a well-executed God of Vania type game.  I wouldn't consider it great by any stretch, but it's solid.

[Neonivek]

Diablo 3

No not because of the gameplay, no not for the cool characters, not for anything like that...

But for its story... for its hilariously terrible story!

To quote: "This will solve everything!"
Me: "Well why didn't I hear about this in Diablo 1?"

[stika]

regarding the castlevania games.... I miss the old formula

you know the NES, Gameboy, SNES and Genesis formula

[Bludshot]

King's Quest V.  I love that game for all the wrong reasons.

[Neonivek]

King's Quest V.  I love that game for all the wrong reasons.

Is it the falling death screams?

Because KQ7 wins that contest hands down.

OooooooaaaoaaaAOAaoaAoaoAOoaoaoaaaaaaa!

[Numbers]

Nah, the KQ7 falling death screams are just grating. By themselves, that is. If you played the KQ7 death scream at the same time as the KQ5 death scream, as well as the MoE burning-to-death scream, the Wilhelm scream, the YOURAAGH scream, that wail that Tobey Maguire makes at the end of Spider-Man 2, and maybe the Howard Dean scream, just for the heck of it...you would have an unholy sound effect from the pits of hell that would kill everything in a five mile radius.

So, what are you waiting for?

[snabbott]

Hmmm... maybe Phoenix Online should have used that for the Banshee wail in TSL. Then again, that might negatively impact our fan base.