Curse

Lunarhound · Apr 03, 2005, 03:30 PM // 15:30

Have any of you ever played a game that you know is garbage but you love it anyway? You're completely aware that it's riddled with serious flaws but, for some reason, you just can't put it down.

I ask this because, against my better judgement, I recently rented Inuyasha: The Secret of The Cursed Mask. The reviews were all terrible and, despite being a big Inuyasha fan, I really did expect to hate it. But I don't! I love it! It features the terrible Cartoon Network dub voices, the characters and monsters are badly rendered superdeformed versions of themselves with very little in the way of animation, you hit a random encounter every three steps, and the battles are underwhelming in the extreme, but for some reason, I just can't put it down.

Another, much older example: King's Knight, for the NES. A depressingly difficult fantasy-themed shooter in which you try to get four characters (knight, wizard, monster, thief) through a series of levels so that they can meet up and play the final level together. You get one life per character, and if they all die, it's game over. If you make it to the final level with even one character dead, you're pretty much guaranteed to fail. Another awful game, but I was addicted as hell to it.

Does anyone else know what I'm talking about, here? Any "bad game" addictions to share?

Taranis · Apr 03, 2005, 03:33 PM // 15:33

Many people say Fallout 2 is crappy....still I love/loved it more than any other game, played it for years...I wish I could find it to play it again on 3ghz 1500mb ram xD

Sin · Apr 03, 2005, 03:34 PM // 15:34

Master of Orion II

Whosa Skylore · Apr 03, 2005, 03:42 PM // 15:42

i wouldnt call these games crappy but some of you might

1) diddy kong racing (n64)

2)tetris

3)guild wars

JUST KIDDING

well these are some of my favorite games, dont know if youd call them crappy but some people might.

DarkWasp · Apr 03, 2005, 04:07 PM // 16:07

Madness, it was a flash or java game, and they also converted it to executible.

Graphics arnt good, and it slowsdown quite a bit. But its just fun.

Devil's Dictionary · Apr 03, 2005, 07:49 PM // 19:49

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Originally Posted by Taranis

Many people say Fallout 2 is crappy

Fallout is in top 3 games on any top 100 RPGs list.

I'd say "Arcanum". It was buggy. It had terrible graphics. It crashed and gave me "Save Game Corrupted" errors. The graphics were dull, gray-n-brown and choppy. The game was unbalanced and at level 40 you could kill anyone in one hit. However, despite all that, Arcanum is my favorite RPG of all times.

Fezz · Apr 03, 2005, 08:09 PM // 20:09

Aidyn Chronicles for the N64, one of my favorite consol rpgs, but it got horrific reviews

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Originally Posted by GameFAQs

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Chaser · Apr 03, 2005, 08:11 PM // 20:11

my slinkey! i know its not a video or computer game, but i could play with the dumb thing of coiled metal for hours, going around my town finding stairs worthy enough for my slinkey to go down, while i sing "slinkey, slinkey, it's a wonderful toy

."

Tur713 · Apr 03, 2005, 08:12 PM // 20:12

I live off of playing crappy games! I love them so much! They're so hilarious. They consist of a large number of my games.

Pacman 2: The New Adventures.

Altered Beast (Genesis)

Alex Kidd (Genesis)

Hey You Pikachu! (N64)

Mister Mosquito (PS2)

Big Rigs (PS2)

Cyborg Justice (Genesis)

Sesame Street: Countdown (NES)

Super Godzilla (SNES)

Godzilla Destroy All Monsters Melee (GC)

Fighter Maker (PS2)

Super Monkey Ball (GC)

San Francisco Rush (N64)

And who doesn't love Diddy Kong Racing?

I could say so much about these, but I want to leave room for other people. They're all soooo bad, but I love them. Has anyone played Pacman 2? The best part is killing Pacman. If you want to know about any of these, ask me. I'll be glad to tell you all of their wonderful flaws.

Chaser · Apr 03, 2005, 08:16 PM // 20:16

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Originally Posted by Tur713

I could say so much about these, but I want to leave room for other people. They're all soooo bad, but I love them. Has anyone played Pacman 2? The best part is killing Pacman. If you want to know about any of these, ask me. I'll be glad to tell you all of their wonderful flaws.

Pac-man 2 is the coolest game ever made. i mean cmon, name anyother game where u shoot a slingshot, find flowers, fill up milk bottles, fight multi-colored ghosts, AND

HANGLIDE

. i sure cant

Lunarhound · Apr 03, 2005, 08:20 PM // 20:20

I love Pacman 2! In fact, I don't know that I'd really call it bad. I thought it was a pretty slick, clever little adventure game and hillarious to boot. Remember all the stuff you could do with the drink machine in the city, trying to get something to come out of it? Definately one of the more unique games on the SNES. What, exactly, do you think makes it bad?

Hey You Pikachu... Now there's a piece of junk that's way more fun than it ought to be. I borrowed a Gamecube from a friend just so that I could play that game, and I spent hours with it.

Tur713 · Apr 03, 2005, 08:40 PM // 20:40

I can almost think of those two as pretty much the same thing, only one you can actually talk to the guy instead of the "LOOK! LOOK!" Yeah, Pacman 2 was a great game all in all, especially since it really had almost nothing to do with the original. Chaser, you forgot about the Mine Cart! You can never forget about the Mine Cart, that's one of the best ways to kill Pacman. One of my best combos to kill him was to get him attcked by the hotdog guy and then have the cat kill him. (I had a three part combo before, but I forgot how that one went...)

Arcala · Apr 03, 2005, 08:41 PM // 20:41

Zanzarah: The Magic Portal for PC, and Mario is Missing for the SNES. Especially the last one has gotten horrible reviews, but I like it. The first one is somewhat like Pokémon, but with fairies. I love that game.

Too bad no one plays it online..

-Arc

Chaser · Apr 03, 2005, 08:54 PM // 20:54

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Chaser, you forgot about the Mine Cart! You can never forget about the Mine Cart, that's one of the best ways to kill Pacman. One of my best combos to kill him was to get him attcked by the hotdog guy and then have the cat kill him.

OH CRAP. How could i forget the minecart. my bad. another fun thing was getting pac-man "drunk" in the city level. I'd party w/ him anytine

Tur713 · Apr 03, 2005, 09:00 PM // 21:00

Heh, I got some shots of my combo:

And that's the way it's played! (I took these right now just for you guys

)

CheopisIV · Apr 04, 2005, 04:32 AM // 04:32

Robot Wars..it keeps unloading itself after a few matches, but I played it a lot..
Battletech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception (1988)
Venture (colecovision...youre a smiley face with a bow)
Beamrider, Star Trek, DamBusters, Smurfs (all colecovision games...ahhh, my childhood revisited)

Ren Falconhand · Apr 04, 2005, 04:40 AM // 04:40

I am sure other have listed this already but I love Fallout 1&2 I would still play them even thought I have solved them each about 6 or 7 times. I have FO2 but my PC hates FO and will not let me install it.

Ren

Lansing Kai Don · Apr 06, 2005, 05:34 PM // 17:34

I haven't seen thiese but I have to mention these two crappy games that I fill my time up with because their hilarious:

Armed&Dangerous (gameplay is ridiculously straightforward)
Giants Citizen Kabudo (seems unfinished)

Lansing Kai Don

P.S. What else do you expect me to do in between BWE's?

Taranis · Apr 06, 2005, 05:45 PM // 17:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by DEATH AT THE DOOR

Fallout is in top 3 games on any top 100 RPGs list.

I'd say "Arcanum". It was buggy. It had terrible graphics. It crashed and gave me "Save Game Corrupted" errors. The graphics were dull, gray-n-brown and choppy. The game was unbalanced and at level 40 you could kill anyone in one hit. However, despite all that, Arcanum is my favorite RPG of all times.

Lets say it this way, "I" know many people saying its crap but btw, I loved Arcanum too, I really enjoyed all those skills like crafting weapons, crafting armor etc, I think WoW and many other MMORPGs stole most of their ideas..I still got the CDs somewhere but wouldn't reinstall it, played it ways too often and tested almost everything out hehe, always played the "good guy" tho...remember this first town where some guys are camping at the bridge?? They annoyed me bad...raped them with granades later...lol

Manderlock · Apr 06, 2005, 06:13 PM // 18:13

i have paid for every dynasty warriors game to date. yes yes i know they ALL HAVE THE EXACT SAME STORY, but i cant stop myself.

yes im hopeless