Games you keep as your "dark little secret"

[Joeshie]

Final Fantasy X-2

Not really a dark secret in the sense that I liked it (because I hated it), but because the entire game was a horrible disaster and embarassment to the Final Fantasy series. Worst game purchase of my entire life.

Not sure why I haven't sold it off/shattered the disk yet...

 

[000Ronald]

Mortal Kombat Armageddon; I suck at it and it sucks back, but the charachter customization is fun. An I think it's funny that when you punch someone, a gallon of blood shoots out of their nose.

Apologies abound.

 

[CosmicStorms]

And pieces of manure, such as:
Empire of the Ants, Firewarrior, Machines, SimEarth, Starwars: The gungan frontier, Breed, Startopia, SW: Droidworks, G-Police, Dark colony, Arx fatalis, Thunder Brigade and a load of others i've yet to try.

Droidworks was amazing, a friend of mine brought it round ages ago and we played it for some 7 hours straight. The dancing robots was pure hilarity as well as purposely killing your droid. My 'dirty little secret' would have to be Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War for the pc, all my friends hate it for being Warhammer but it's an amazing RTS.

 

[Count_de_Monet]

Giants: Citizen Kabuto...

The last time I was playing it a friend of mine walked up to me and promptly said "What the hell are you playing?!". He probably said this because I was flying around shooting fire at guys as a scantily clad reaper vixen in graphics that wouldn't make my pocket calculator struggle, much. For all it's faults, both gameplay and programming, I love that game beyond any other.

 

[Jolly Madness]

Rayman Raving Rabbids, on PC, singleplayer.
The problem is that my circle of friends loves the game, so why in Bermuda am I feeling guilty pleasure when playing it?

 

[Protagonist]

Enter The Matrix, for the Game cube. Yes, it was so bug filled, but I loved the "hacking" mode. Must have played through it twice.

And I bought both Animal Crossing games. I loved them at first, but I haven't touched them for like.... forever. >.>

 

[Nerdfury]

Mine is probably Okami. This is a conversation I had with one of my friends about it:

"So what's this new game you got like?"
"Well, you play as the sun goddess of ancient Japanese mythology in the form of a wolf."
"...cool... um, so you can probably pwn the bad guys pretty well since you're a god."
"Well, yeah, but mostly you draw stuff with an ink brush."
"....."

Okami is my favourite game of all time, and if you feel bad for owning it then you don't deserve to play games at all! It's just a pity that Clover Studios got bought out, which probably means no sequels.

I love that game so much. I bought the guide book, the art book and both soundtracks!

 

[Sparrowsabre7]

Nintendogs and Marvel Nemesis though for different reasons...
p.s. To be honest though I don't hide Nemesis from anyone I just figure I should've put it here due to the (in my opinion unwarranted) hate it receives.
Oh and the Little Mermaid...but that wasn't my fault I inherited it along with my (female) cousin's Game Boy along with Super Mario Land 2, Qix and Yoshi

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Mine is probably Okami. This is a conversation I had with one of my friends about it:

"So what's this new game you got like?"
"Well, you play as the sun goddess of ancient Japanese mythology in the form of a wolf."
"...cool... um, so you can probably pwn the bad guys pretty well since you're a god."
"Well, yeah, but mostly you draw stuff with an ink brush."
"....."

Okami is my favourite game of all time, and if you feel bad for owning it then you don't deserve to play games at all! It's just a pity that Clover Studios got bought out, which probably means no sequels.

I love that game so much. I bought the guide book, the art book and both soundtracks!

I love it too, and I'm not ashamed at all. Oh, and I heard it's coming out for Wii in the near future. It's just a remake, not a sequel, but still. I have found that the Cursed Shinshuu Plains songs help me concentrate. Just as a minor tip for the soundtracks.

 

[NickCaligo42]

I bought not one but two DBZ games and enjoyed them at the age of 19. I felt shamed and dirty the instant the menus started sputtering obnoxious dialog at me.

 

[Nerdfury]

I love it too, and I'm not ashamed at all. Oh, and I heard it's coming out for Wii in the near future. It's just a remake, not a sequel, but still. I have found that the Cursed Shinshuu Plains songs help me concentrate. Just as a minor tip for the soundtracks.

Rumours of a Wii release have been floating about for a while, but the game wouldn't play terribly well on the Wii, unless they totally revamped the control system to suit. You can't just change the brush over to the motion sensing and assume it'll work.

 

[Dimsey]

I'm not embarrassed or ashamed of them in the slightest, but a couple of games that I love that people might probably think I should be ashamed of would be the Pokemon games and The Sims 2.

Pokemon I only played the Blue version of when I was a kid, but a while back I picked up Diamond and found it to be just as fun.

The Sims? Even I can't really explain my fascination with it. It's fun.
And you can say what you like about EA pumping out expansions for it, it means that by the time I'm bored with the game theres generally a new expansion out with new stuff for me to do. It's just continually fun. You wouldn't think so, but it is.

 

[catland creator]

Öuhm... It'd have to be this strategy/rpg game a friend sent me once. It's great fun and very deep (deeper than... say Bahamut Lagoon) with lots of challenging levels, advanced strategic options, class changes and the like. The problem is that it's simultanously a hardcore hentai game : P

It doesn't bother me much personally, but I think it qualifies as something you wouldn't want to be caught dead playing, regardless of why you play it : )

Is it... I can't remember the name, but is was some post-apocalyptic setting. If we're on the same page.
I'd have bought it, but I'm like 13 and have no credit card.

 

[richtm]

Final Fantasy X-2 as a few have said.

I really liked this game for what it was and still play it. It's pretty rare in these save the world type games that you actually get to see the result of your work and a half-destroyed world that has gone from doom and gloom to j-pop. Love it or hate it that kind of made sense to me.

Yeah some of the girl power moments made me bang my head against the TV but you could nullify random battles almost immediately in this game so it's trading one annoyance for another. Most Final Fantasys have me on the verge of throwing the game out the window before end and I'm only "playing" to find out what happens. In this one it was getting past the beginning that was the hard part.

 

[Tanthalos]

Harry Potter Quidditch
The last Ecco the Dolphin for PS2

 

[Yan-Yan]

I'm afraid I must now add "My French Tutor" to my list of "games I'm ashamed of".

I know it's completely educational, but it has games that are actually fun to me. Word searched, multiple choice, and 'wack-a-mole' are the only ones I've unlocked so far, but it makes learning French fun. It's not that it's bad to learn a new language, but I can't really see myself trying to verbally justify buying a DS. To learn French. Even if it wasn't the primary reason.

Maybe, when I'm good enough, I can justify it IN French.

 

[gibboss28]

Harvest Moon 64 is mine.

 

[itsoutthere]

I'm surprised no one has said this yet....WoW
Yes I play it the shame....I love the game its really fun but its not exactly social friendly to admit it
Also the DBZ tenchaichi series....all of them
Those are me and my brothers favorite fighting games
We 18 & 19 =S