Favorite "bad" game

TheMarvell · September 30, 2007, 12:55:45 AM

Everyone's got that one game that they know sucks royally but they can't help but love it all the same. For me, it's definitely Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles on Playstation 1. You could pick from 5 different jedi: Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Mace Windu, Plo Koon, and Adi Gallia. It was a level based action adventure game, and its chock full of glitches to the point where anyone with half a brain would know how terribly developed it is. And yet I loved it. Despite it's flaws, of which there were many, it was still fun killin droids as a jedi, especially with a 2nd player. Never mind the fact that you could fall through the floor at any time for no reason, or get stuck on a wall without warning, with a friend you could laugh about it and continue to have fun. Most professional reviews gave this game like a 3/10, and it was near impossible to kill Darth Maul with Plo Koon because he was so damn slow, but it was fun.

For this generation (or rather, the one that just ended) I'd have to say my favorite "bad" game is Marvel Nemesis. The game is horribly imbalanced and crappy, but I can't help but laugh in glee when everything you throw blows up and I manage to knock Wolverine out of the ring. :)

ok, so admit it. What's your favorite bad game?

lugaru · September 30, 2007, 05:34:09 AM

The Punisher: console port so that comes with some texture problems. The gameplay is off. And... I dunno. So many people hate it and right now I'm having a hard time finding faults with it.

Vampire Bloodlines: great game, very smart, lots of options, great action and... TONS OF BUGS. Put some memory leak on top of that and honestly I cannot recomend the game to people who arent very patient.

Total overdose: It seems to be grand theft auto without any repercusion to your actions and takes place in a bizzare urban legend version of Mexico. Then again the music is all done by Molotov, 3 delicuentes and Control Machete and the action is fun. That re-wind trick also rules.

Oblivion: at this point we make fun of the games many features such as doom 1 level combat A.I. and sudden crashes. Still it's pretty and I want to play the mods people make...

Carravaggio · September 30, 2007, 06:03:36 AM

Quote from: lugaru on September 30, 2007, 05:34:09 AM
Vampire Bloodlines: great game, very smart, lots of options, great action and... TONS OF BUGS. Put some memory leak on top of that and honestly I cannot recomend the game to people who arent very patient.

Yes...I love that game, so much to do but so much they got wrong, and yet because its just about the only one of its kind (atmosphere + options) i still have it installed on my PC.

TheMarvell · September 30, 2007, 01:08:42 PM

Quote from: lugaru on September 30, 2007, 05:34:09 AM
The Punisher: console port so that comes with some texture problems. The gameplay is off. And... I dunno. So many people hate it and right now I'm having a hard time finding faults with it.

I played the Xbox version of The Punisher and actually thought it was a pretty decent third-person shooter. It's not perfect, and I hate how they had to semi-censor the torture scenes by making it black-and-white, but I wouldn't consider it a bad game at all.

zuludelta · September 30, 2007, 10:24:20 PM

Quote from: lugaru on September 30, 2007, 05:34:09 AM
Vampire Bloodlines: great game, very smart, lots of options, great action and... TONS OF BUGS. Put some memory leak on top of that and honestly I cannot recomend the game to people who arent very patient.

That's probably the buggiest big-studio game I've played in the Windows 98/Windows XP-era of gaming. I didn't even want to use the disc as a beer coaster cause I was afraid it would overturn my drink :lol:

BentonGrey · October 01, 2007, 03:09:17 PM

Haha........well....I imagine if anyone really thought about this, they'd figure it out. Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis for the XBox. Ohh man, this game has nothing to really recommend it. It's angry bearded Aquaman, it has a pretty terrible combat system, it goes from painfully easy to painfully hard and back in the blink of an eye, the comic cutscenes are pretty weak, and you pretty much fight the same villains again and again and again. The only use of Aquaman's control over sea-life is to call in a shark or dolphin once or twice a level.

Still.......it IS Aquaman, and it is cool to zoom through the water at mach speeds. I'm trying to force myself to beat it so I can unlock classic Arthur....but it's not easy!

zuludelta · October 01, 2007, 08:05:22 PM

Quote from: BentonGrey on October 01, 2007, 03:09:17 PM
Haha........well....I imagine if anyone really thought about this, they'd figure it out. Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis for the XBox. Ohh man, this game has nothing to really recommend it.

I'm actually more surprised by the fact that you were able to get a copy. I remember reading, I think on IGN or Gamespot, that the game's pre-release reception was so bad that TDK Mediactive (the game's publishers) tried to get it pulled from shelves in North America.

BentonGrey · October 01, 2007, 09:41:22 PM

The glories of Amazon my dear ZD, I got it for a price that makes the games problems not so bad. ^_^

lugaru · October 02, 2007, 03:57:59 AM

Quote from: TheMarvell on September 30, 2007, 01:08:42 PM
Quote from: lugaru on September 30, 2007, 05:34:09 AM
The Punisher: console port so that comes with some texture problems. The gameplay is off. And... I dunno. So many people hate it and right now I'm having a hard time finding faults with it.

I played the Xbox version of The Punisher and actually thought it was a pretty decent third-person shooter. It's not perfect, and I hate how they had to semi-censor the torture scenes by making it black-and-white, but I wouldn't consider it a bad game at all.

I read a funny review once for the PC version where they used a code to remove the 'censor' and ended up putting it back on. They decided that the black and white just looked more dramatic than the punisher killing so-so looking models of mobsters. That's why I never bothered removing mine. :D

zuludelta · October 02, 2007, 04:39:10 AM

Quote from: lugaru on October 02, 2007, 03:57:59 AM
I read a funny review once for the PC version where they used a code to remove the 'censor' and ended up putting it back on. They decided that the black and white just looked more dramatic than the punisher killing so-so looking models of mobsters. That's why I never bothered removing mine. :D

Actually, the code does more than remove the black-and-white filter in the interrogations scenes, it also adjusts the camera so that you can actually see what happens when the Punisher decides to >ahem< "punish" the offenders (since the standard setting has the camera's focus shift to the Punisher's face at the moment of the perp's demise in the more explicit interrogation scenes). This works better in some cases, making the interrogation scenes more hilariously over-the-top (the wood-chipper and grinsdstone ones, to be exact) but it doesn't really improve a lot of the other ones.

Glitch Girl · October 02, 2007, 07:14:21 AM

This is going to sound odd, but back in college, my guilty pleasure game was "Revolution X", a completely mindless shooter centered around Aerosmith. It wasn't deep, the plot was a joke, the acting from the few video bits was awful, but DANG it was fun, even if it did make several "Worst Game" lists.

Night Dragon · October 02, 2007, 12:04:13 PM

Quote from: Glitch Girl on October 02, 2007, 07:14:21 AM
... a completely mindless shooter centered around Aerosmith.

♪GG's got a gun! Now everybody is on the run! GG's got a gun! ♪

One 'bad' game I loved was "Chiller" , an older shooter that was rather violent back in the day. (This could explain much about me :lol:)

lugaru · October 02, 2007, 04:52:55 PM

Quote from: Glitch Girl on October 02, 2007, 07:14:21 AM
This is going to sound odd, but back in college, my guilty pleasure game was "Revolution X", a completely mindless shooter centered around Aerosmith. It wasn't deep, the plot was a joke, the acting from the few video bits was awful, but DANG it was fun, even if it did make several "Worst Game" lists.

DONT GIVE UP!

Metherian · October 26, 2007, 11:15:30 AM

QuoteEveryone's got that one game that they know sucks royally but they can't help but love it all the same. For me, it's definitely Star Wars Episode 1: Jedi Power Battles on Playstation 1.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2

This game could have been so much more than it is, but with Lucasarts and their complete abandonment of it, you have to wonder why people play it at all. As an FPS, it's really not that good ... but, in some weird way, I still find it fun. Jetting around as Jango Fett, blowing heads off of rebels is a nice, easy way to relieve stress.

vortex · October 28, 2007, 10:33:07 PM

Oh man, there was an old game for the Commodore 64 called Bad Street Brawler. It was soooooo bad, but my friends and I used to play it for hours - laughing our asses off the whole time! PaRappa the Rapper for the Playstaion was quite the similar experience. I have some of those songs still in my head to this day! Currently, Wario Wares: Smooth Moves fits the bill pretty well.