Games you love despite huge flaws

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Darth Pope

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*Dons flame suit*

Sonic Adventure 2. In spite of it's flaws,certain things about it just come together and click somehow.
 

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I can't love a game with huge flaws but there are a few I like.

Starfox Adventures immediately comes to mind when I saw the thread title. The game isn't that hard at all except some of the mini-games, the difficulty is all over the place and a lot of it felt rushed, especially at the end of the game.

Rock & Roll Racing 2 had a short and very easy (even on the hardest difficulty) single player adventure but still like it for it's multi-player which gives you a lot of options. Also it's glitchy as hell.
 

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Another one for BloodLines. I'm rather surprised to see so many people here that played it, thought it was far more unknown. Sweet.

Also, Phantasy Star Online. Few areas, repetitive gameplay, lack of melee or ranged skills, very few magics... and yet, I can't bring myself to dislike it. *sigh*.
 

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I loved Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, despite the awful controls and the high chance on every move that something terribly bad would happen (lara gets stuck on a wall, fall through the floor, get improsened in an interdimensional loophole, alucinate with monster, or the whole game crushing), the cutscenes not working, I still enjoy the diferent environments, the plot and the puzzles to solve. Was also not only last Core Design game but last kick ass Lara with a tomb raider personality.
 

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Fallout 3 for the same reasons OP mentioned on Oblivion. It's still one of the, if not the most favorite game for me. I played it on PC around 150 hours, and later bought goty for ps3 and am 30 hours in, still playing every couple of days.
 

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Aydin Chronicles: The First Mage - Despite being ugly, not aging well, etc. I have a soft spot for one of the first turnbased strategic combat RPGs out there, where a dead character cannot be magically revived, and where monster levels are not level based, meaning you have to pick and choose fights.

HardWar - A fun little sandbox game for Dos and early windows that was a nice predacessor to Freelancer.

Daggerfall - Need I say anything about this one?
 

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Mirror's Edge. The ultimate example of "It gets more fun when you're good at it", "It gets better later", "It's most fun when there aren't any enemies", and "If at first you don't succeed, try try again and again and again and again and again and again and again...".

It's also my favorite game of all time.

OF ALL TIME!
 

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Empire: Total War for me. It was released as a buggy, crashing mess yet I couldn't stop playing it. After 6 patches there are still rather huge problems with it, most notably the constant campaign save corruptions. But it is still one of my favorite games of all time.
 

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Vitor Goncalves said:
I loved Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, despite the awful controls and the high chance on every move that something terribly bad would happen (lara gets stuck on a wall, fall through the floor, get improsened in an interdimensional loophole, alucinate with monster, or the whole game crushing), the cutscenes not working, I still enjoy the diferent environments, the plot and the puzzles to solve. Was also not only last Core Design game but last kick ass Lara with a tomb raider personality.
It is also the ONLY game to have the character's feet properly sync with the stairs (if you went straight up or down), that's got to be worth something.
 

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Jennacide said:
Out of morbid curiosity, plus my personal revelation that two games I thoroughly enjoy are flawed out the yin-yang, what games do you guys and gals love despite being a buggy or badly designed mess?
Viking, something about that game is very satisfying, maybe the simplicity of it and the ability to sabotage armies... or maybe its the fact that you're one man against patrols of 200 or so units.
 

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Assassin's Creed 1, I just wanted to run around the holy land during the crusades. Haven't bothered with 2 yet, I don't care how much of the rest of the game got fixed, I just wanted the first game's setting. That, plus I'm a PC gamer; thanks Ubi.

I've always loved Covert Action, a series of spying minigames with Sid Meier's patented grading your career performance. It's usually the first game I fall back to on dosbox when I'm remembering the good ol' days.
 

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AnAngryMoose said:
Judge Dredd: Dredd vs Death. Epic game.
I think I ended up arresting half the population of Mega-City One in that game..mainly for hamster related crimes :D

For me it's probably the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It crushed my spirits so many times but then pulled me right back up again and caused my computer to haemorrhage its brain out.
 

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I completely agree with who said Morrowind and Oblivion. Thankfully, mods make it so that some gripes with those games can be corrected. I second Thief Deadly Shadows and Sonic Adventure 2, too. Thief is cheesy and glitchy, but I am completely in love with it, even compared to the first two. Sonic Adventure 2 has some fun stuff in it, but it was showing that the end was really near for Sonic games. Last one I ever liked.

Also Marathon: Durandal is one of these, I guess. Not the original one, but the one that came out for the XBL arcade. I loved it even though I felt sick whenever I played it.
 

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A few I can empathise with; Oblivion (RPG with scalable enemy difficulty), Morrowind ('Dirty Disk Error') VtM:Bloodlines (pretty much the whole game) but they were all games I thought would be at least pretty good. I have played every Tomb Raider except AoD and ever since Chronicles I have known that they would be awful, but those wobbly breasts and the exploring keep pulling me back in......I think I may have a problem.
 

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loudmouth said:
Morrowind, The game play and glitches call for high endurance just to play the damn thing, but it just was a beautiful game and had so much detail that was just lost in oblivion ( and later games).

I love this game so much i'm on my tenth play through, or maybe even more.
Only your tenth? I've played Morrowind so many times I know my way around it better than my own town. I introduced a friend of mine to it the other day and she found it strange that I could direct her in detail through large areas of the game whilst in the kitchen making lunch.
 

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Onyx Oblivion said:
Earth Defense Force 2017.

Technically a mess, ugly as hell. Fun...It's got it.
Dear god this. That game was a mess, but dammit me and my friend rampaged all the way up to, and through, hardest in one sitting. We couldn't put it down.