Favorite Terrible Game

[Aeryn Seoung]

Final Fantasy 10-2. It was cheap, terrible - and I only played it out of curiosity. I then got addicted to 100%'ing... everything.

 

[Inconspicuous Trenchcoat]

I always liked the Bubsy the cat platformer games, but I later learned that they are considered to be bad. I thought they were pretty awesome with some really wacky, but neat level designs. The games had a huge verticality to them (even more than Sonic 2's Casino or Chemical Plant zones). There's like one level, where the top was water slides, the mid top was floating islands, the middle was a Disneyland's Main Street-looking town full of malevolent parking meters and gumball machines, and then the underground was a bunch of leaky pipes to navigate. And that was all in one level! The gigantic roller coaster stage was neat too, you could start running so fast down a slope you'd crater into a wall--which I guess was a cheap death, but it was part of its charm for me back then.

Note: I may be remembering this horribly wrong, but I do know I like them. I'm also talking about the 2D ones. The 3D Bubsy on Playstation was like playing a particularly bad student project.

 

[Hollyday]

QWOP
IT'S TERRIBLE BUT WHY DO I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

Spoiler

HOW DARE YOU! QWOP is the most amazing, inspirational game I've ever played! You've gotta love it

I showed it to some of my students and they won first time, whereas the furthest I've ever gotten is 8.4m (they managed it by dragging him with one leg straight out behind him, it took about 30 mins but was totally worth it for that gold medal!)

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos on PS1. It has wonderful music, a lively and engaging world...but the controls are ASS.

I loved this game! Haven't played it for years upon years now though - I wonder how awful it'd look these days?

 

[drummond13]

Jericho. I love that game, and yet when I read the negative reviews I couldn't disagree with a single critique. Still love it.

And a much older game called Shadow Watch. Sort of like a shorter version of X-com with a graphic novel art style and no aliens. It has some SERIOUS design flaws. And yet I love it.

 

[Jorec]

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos on PS1. It has wonderful music, a lively and engaging world...but the controls are ASS.
My heart, it's melting!

Holy shit! Someone actually remembers that game! Oh man, I gotta go play it now.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

Mercenaries 2.

In many many respects, the game is complete ass, but somehow it is also some of the most fun I've ever had playing a game.

The whole game is pretty much storming into a nation locked in a sectarian conflict, bringing entirely unreasonable force down on anything that moves, and then stealing all the oil. It was the only thing that's ever given me any insight into how Republicans must feel.

[sub][sub]Yes, I went there. Come at me bro![/sub][/sub]

I agree with you completely, to me that game was just just cause 2 with a funnier story, better and better vehicles and shit qte along with a worse grapple hook.

 

[josemlopes]

It has to be this

I used to play this with my sister and I have very fun memories of this game,but god it was bad...

If you never seen this game before look it up on YouTube,it's bloody awful.

Them tits...

 

[excalipoor]

Croc: Legend of the Gobbos on PS1. It has wonderful music, a lively and engaging world...but the controls are ASS.

I loved this game! Haven't played it for years upon years now though - I wonder how awful it'd look these days?

The graphics are great I think. It was one of the later PS1 titles, so it doesn't have that horrible early 3D look. And I love the game to bits, but controlling Croc just feels like controlling a slippery tank.