Games that were objectively terrible, but you loved anyway

[K12]

The only objectively terrible games are ones which don't function on a programming level.

What I think you mean is the game equivalent of shitty B movies.

I got Bubsy 3D on PS1 as one of my first ever games and loved playing it. I recently went back to it and FUCK ME did I have low standards back when I was 6.

It is definitely the worst game I have ever played but I loved it at the time.

 

[BloodSquirrel]

Depending on who you ask, Halo Wars was either extremely disappointing or an outright abomination of the RTS genre, but its controls were pretty solid and overall it was fun to play. It also has a pretty vibrant and active, if slightly small, fanbase.

If "who you ask" is the knee-jerk anti-Halo crowd, maybe, but the game was generally well received with decent reviews and sales. I enjoyed it.

 

[Andrew Giarrusso]

Mine would have to be Naughty Bear. Full of bugs, badly designed level, only one level, and way over-the-top. But yet, I loved it. The concept of playing as a demented, sociopathic teddy bear that creatively kills the other bears that shunned him is pretty fun to act out, for some reason.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

While objectivity is hard to quantify in such terms, I would go with Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.

It's a lesser known spinoff of the series, made by interplay. Non canoncial as anything and with lukewarm at BEST critical response.

But it was my first experience of the fallout universe, not to mention a Co-Op game my friend had on the PS2. Everyone knows co-op makes something infinitely better as a memory.

 

[BearShark]

The Legend of Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly. I played and loved all of the Spyro games (up until Skylanders), and I really liked EtD. I liked most of the levels that were offered, and loved how much longer they were than the levels in the earlier games.

 

[Sir Rammington Steel]

I can't help but love tropetastic, shallow as hell jrpgs. Be it something like Time and Eternity with it's contrived story combined with interesting combat and pretty visuals, or Hyperdimension Neptunia with its anthropomorphized consoles. I just can't help but play and love em.

 

[aozgolo]

Secret of Evermore, this one is actually getting a more fair view nostalgically but at the time it was panned quite a bit. Mostly due to misconceptions that it was released in lieu of Secret of Mana 2 (which it wasn't). As much as I love Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore I probably spent more time playing, the story was cheap and very basic but the world was really fun and outside of Chrono Trigger I've found few games give you a real excuse to visit all these different worlds, granted there were only four but they were done so well. The prehistoric age, the age of antiquity (think Rome & Egypt at their height), Medieval age, and a futuristic "everything is chrome age". In addition to using the excellent game mechanics from Secret of Mana it had some very cool concepts for it's day that not many games tried. For magic it used alchemy where you mixed ingredients, something I think only Ultima did before it. Each world had it's own currency and exchange rate. You could actually find ingredients in the world by having your dog sniff around for them and they were in logical places (water next ponds, ash next to firepits, etc.) There was also a very cool barter system marketplace where you could trade to get useful items (though some people hated that part). All in all I found the game very enjoyable as a kid and still a lot of fun today. I never understood why it got so much hate when I found out about it.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Numerous 3D Sonic titles, including sonic 06 and Shadow.
Other than that, I thought Wanted: Weapons of Fate was pretty cool.

 

[Ironshroom]

Numerous 3D Sonic titles, including sonic 06 and Shadow.
Other than that, I thought Wanted: Weapons of Fate was pretty cool.

Oh god, I forgot about Shadow the Hedgehog... That game was the hypest shit to me when it came out, but goddamn is it awful...

 

[Sylocat]

Numerous 3D Sonic titles, including sonic 06 and Shadow.

This. I genuinely like '06, even despite the auto-speed levels.

 

[Silvanus]

The original Harry Potter game, for PC.

Very simple mechanics, very linear-- but just for giving me my first feeling of playing in Hogwarts, it gets a free pass.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

If "who you ask" is the knee-jerk anti-Halo crowd, maybe, but the game was generally well received with decent reviews and sales. I enjoyed it.

Nah. Among a lot of RTS people, it's seen as a rather lacking outing. I do agree to an extent; it's solidly designed and it was a good attempt at a console RTS, but... it's a console RTS. Stuff like it and Brutal Legends are beautiful gems, but I honestly do believe that RTSs can only be done justice on a PC.

 

[ThunderCavalier]

The original Harry Potter game, for PC.

Very simple mechanics, very linear-- but just for giving me my first feeling of playing in Hogwarts, it gets a free pass.

Isn't this thread for terrible games? That game was awesome. I loved it.

 

[M0rp43vs]

Fighting Fooooooorrrcceee.

That game was bad? I dunno I always remembered loving it.


One that springs to mind is Digimon World 4. Yea, yea, get your plagiarismon jokes outta the way but I've always liked the Digimon series more than pokemon and love most of their games.

Even then, this one was a weird one, turning the series into a hack and slash dungeon crawler with slow progress, unintuitive design and oh dear god with the loading. That said, when you have a bunch of digimon fan friends over, break out the multitap and just kill an afternoon with a somewhat fun 4 player co op game. Somewhat a rarity throughout gaming.

Also, I wonder if Digimon Rumble arena series counts? I never seen any of the reviews

 

[Ironshroom]

If "who you ask" is the knee-jerk anti-Halo crowd, maybe, but the game was generally well received with decent reviews and sales. I enjoyed it.

Nah. Among a lot of RTS people, it's seen as a rather lacking outing. I do agree to an extent; it's solidly designed and it was a good attempt at a console RTS, but... it's a console RTS. Stuff like it and Brutal Legends are beautiful gems, but I honestly do believe that RTSs can only be done justice on a PC.

TIM SCHAEFER IS A GOLDEN GOD!

 

[Furioso]

I always say the same thing in these threads, but if you can look past the betrayal of a series and other obvious faults in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts just dicking around with building and testing out vehicles can actually be a blast.

 

[camazotz]

I confess I played Aliens: Colonial Marines through on day of release (on PC) and not only had a great time but experienced no bugs. After I finished I then got bombarded with the internet telling me how horrible it was and how I was supposed to have had a terrible time (or was a terrible person with no taste for liking it, in one game journalist's case). What can I say....I got lucky and got to enjoy it before the masses "corrected" me.

 

[prowll]

*reaches back into the way-back-machine* Remember this? Your old Atari 2600?

*reaches back again* Remember this? E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial? On some lists as 'worst game ever made' and arguably the game that killed Atari?

I BEAT THAT GAME. ON HARD.

 

[FrozenLaughs]

Hmmmm..... Honestly the first game that comes to mind is Vagrant Story from SE on the PS1. If I remember it was generally received, but I just thought it was soooo ugly. I hated the graphics, the story never caught my attention, but I loved the combat and equipment system. I could never resist playing it, but could never stomach completing it.

 

[OrpheusTelos]

Hmmmm..... Honestly the first game that comes to mind is Vagrant Story from SE on the PS1. If I remember it was generally received, but I just thought it was soooo ugly. I hated the graphics, the story never caught my attention, but I loved the combat and equipment system. I could never resist playing it, but could never stomach completing it.

Wasn't this thread for games that are generally thought to be bad? Most people I've spoken to regard Vagrant Story as a classic, one of Square's finest (though I haven't beaten it myself yet, I bought it from Playstation Network a while ago).


In my case, it'd probably be the Sierra Entertainment Hobbit game. I don't know if the PC version I had was just buggier than the Gamecube and PS2 version, but it was terribly glitchy when I played- character models looked awful, it crashed constantly, sometimes you'd clip through enemies or textures, walk on water until you drowned in midair... it was a total mess, but since it was based on one of my favorite books, I played the hell out of it.