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Aethren

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Spore. This game was almost universally hated amongst gamers, who made such vocal points about it not living up to the hype, and EA changing so much. But what IS there is still addicting as hell, and there's a certain charm about taking a creature from Cell to Space, nurturing it as it evolves to your whims.

Maxis games in general grant a feeling of being God amongst mortals, and that is just awesome to me.
 

ThatLankyBastard

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Catherine and Mirror's Edge...

I found Mirror's Edge to be just an amazing piece of work and just loaded the hours into it! It's almost to the point where I can doa complete run through of the game in my head... it's THAT sad!

And Catherine was just fun...

...except for that one 10-High block level... That just fucking sucked... I was stuck there for like 3 days...
 

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Kyrian007 said:
Borderlands. It's such a terrible game in so many ways. It's so much of what I hate about samey samey brownshooters with pretentions of being an "/rpg." But it's just a chest-high wall brownshooter, the rpg elements are entirely unnecessary. But I play it a lot. Gearbox included a splitscreen multiplayer, and some of us actually have real friends. Friends irl, not just the facebook type. Friends who come over and play loads of borderlands because even though it's a terrible game its actually multiplayer, and not just caling its stupid online version the "multiplayer."
Uh wut? Borderlands wasn't brown at all. The desert was the brownest bit about it. The rest of the game was as colourful as unicorn vomit. It was a brilliant game. The RPG elements weren't perfect but pretty solid. I don't think it really counts as a guilty pleasure, it's just a pleasure =D

My personal guilty pleasure is Dante's Inferno. Yes, I know it was a carbon copy of God Of War but I still find it a laugh to play =D
 

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ThatLankyBastard said:
Catherine and Mirror's Edge...

I found Mirror's Edge to be just an amazing piece of work and just loaded the hours into it! It's almost to the point where I can doa complete run through of the game in my head... it's THAT sad!

And Catherine was just fun...

...except for that one 10-High block level... That just fucking sucked... I was stuck there for like 3 days...
Those games shouldn't be guilty pleasures, they're both very critically acclaimed games. They both have a well deserved following.

OT: Probably... this game I have on PS2 called SRS: Street Racing Syndicate. I don't play it much but I guess it's the closest thing I have to a guilty pleasure game. The driving feel of the game is pretty poor and it includes of softcore porn. I ignore the porn bit. I find it insulting to be honest, but I have fun with the rest of the game even though it is a bit crap.
 

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Mercenaries 2, fun and IMO better than Just Cause 2
Mercenaries 2 made my appendix burst.
Sadly, I'm not joking.

On topic, I think Jak II is the best Jak game. Apparently he was oft times considered the worst of them all. Bollocks!
 

CrazyJew

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Modern Warfare 2. I despise the community, I despise what the game represents, but it's fun to pick up and play sometimes. The key is not taking it seriously. My buddy often starts raging whenever things don't go his way, while the key is learning that MW2 is a game for fucking around. Nothing like doing the stupidest thing possible only to realize that it was unexpected enough to pull your team out of the gutter.
 

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ImProvGamr said:
For me it's Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus, though I think it's mostly because it was the first shooter I actually played through (I'm young, okay?) and I didn't have anything to show me how comparatively bad it was. I'd probably hate it if I played it now.
You're not alone here. I like it too, though it is by no means the first shooter I've played. I know it's not brilliant. The controls are weird. Handling is squirelly. But shallow as it may sound I just don't care, purely because it's got Vincent Valentine in it. I would endure far, far worse games, just to hear Steve Blum do that voice for hours.

In fact, an even guiltier guilty pleasure is hopping onto YouTube and watching all the DoC cutscenes like it was a movie.

Sometimes I worry about myself.
 

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Every now and again, I consider resubscribing to World of Warcraft.
Thankfully it passes fairly quickly.
 

HemalJB

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Assassin's Creed. The first one.
Yeah it's very repetitive and cutscene heavy, but it was just fun to roam around the ancient cities from the rooftops.
 

thenumberthirteen

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From what people are posting there seems to be some crappy guilty pleasures. CoD, Fallout 3, Mirror's Edge, Mass Effect??! Those are all really good games which are well loved.

For me it's
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Yeah. I like driving trains about. It's quite relaxing, and since I know jack shit about trains I find it quite funny to look in on this niche hobby and see what they think is really cool and impressive. Though I guess that's the reaction normal people have when they read a gaming website.

I don't buy any of the DLC though since it costs £15-20!!! for a couple trains or a track. I bought the game in a fit of insanity, but I enjoy it.
 

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Alpha protocol . I just loved that game . Sure it had flaws but nothing game breaking . I noticed a trend games have of making pistols overpowered and this game is no exception . The stealth was fun ( kinda like oldschool metal gear solid). There were multiple paths and secrets you could take , you could even go through the entire game undetected if you wanted .

The dialogue was great and funny . Decisions you made affected the story. It was just all around a great game .

I will even dare say , alpha protocol is a better game than deus ex: HR. Hell alpha protocol is a better deus ex game than Deus ex : HR.

Come at me bros.
That's not a guilty pleasure, that's a fantastic fucking game that got buried under bad reviews by incompetent reviewers. The bugs are something you can look past in most cases, the minigames have a crappy difficulty curve and the powers make the game a bit too easy eventually (but then again, when don't they in an RPG?), but the game's still amazing and has the best damn dialogue system ever made.

And yes, I fully agree on your DE:HR comment.

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OT: Oh yeah, guess I should give my 2 cents. Prototype. Awful story, God-awful. Graphics look like they've been shat out of a meat grinder and the buildings are copy pastes of maybe 3 designs. But goddamn it if it's not the most fun PC action game ever. The combat, controls and travel mechanics make the game feel remarkably liberating, it's like the developers pushed freedom of movement until it was at its maximum awesomeness, just before they reached noclip mode. Oh and while the main story is shite, the way the background story is delivered, in short, very numerous cinematic bursts is brilliant. I actually enjoyed the backstory, even though it was the standard virus crap.
 

Rheinmetall

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Like others, the games that I usually enjoy are considered as good ones too. With that in mind one of my guilty pleasures is endlessly slashing zombies in Dead Rising 2.
 

GeneralKrunk

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This is reading like a play by play of my game catalog, mirrors edge, spore, advent rising, wolfenstine (the new one... I know for shame, but it was 4 bucks),and killing floor... or lord do I love that game to much.
 

D Moness

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this



Took me quite a while to track it down. I do not like wresting games but this is fun to play once in a while.
 

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D Moness said:
this



Took me quite a while to track it down. I do not like wresting games but this is fun to play once in a while.
As yes this game, good times.......................
 

Darkmantle

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krazykidd said:
Alpha protocol . I just loved that game . Sure it had flaws but nothing game breaking . I noticed a trend games have of making pistols overpowered and this game is no exception . The stealth was fun ( kinda like oldschool metal gear solid). There were multiple paths and secrets you could take , you could even go through the entire game undetected if you wanted .

The dialogue was great and funny . Decisions you made affected the story. It was just all around a great game .

I will even dare say , alpha protocol is a better game than deus ex: HR. Hell alpha protocol is a better deus ex game than Deus ex : HR.

Come at me bros.
Man, I LOVED alpha protocol, I didn't get all the problems everyone else was telling me they had, I just got lucky I guess Stealth. Melee. Pistol. WIN :)
 

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Gennadios said:
I quite liked Dungeons - I tried the demo. But in the demo I also broke the game (unintentionally), wrote about it on the forums and never got a reply, so I never bought it. Basically, on one of the levels (the only one in the demo) where you have to survive for x amount of time by sucking souls - on about my 4th go I had reached 7000 of all resources, with an ever-increasing soul total, and absolutely no chance I was going to start losing/running out of res anytime soon. If the challenge mode is that easy to break...
 

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Aethren said:
Spore. This game was almost universally hated amongst gamers, who made such vocal points about it not living up to the hype, and EA changing so much. But what IS there is still addicting as hell, and there's a certain charm about taking a creature from Cell to Space, nurturing it as it evolves to your whims.

Maxis games in general grant a feeling of being God amongst mortals, and that is just awesome to me.
Spore is fun; it's just mindbogglingly repetitive for a game with infinite possibilities. From the first play-through and the 'YOU'VE EVOLVED ENOUGH, MOVE ON ALREADY, LOOK THERE'S NOTHING LEFT TO DO HERE; COME BACK AFTER WE RELEASE EXPANSION PACKS!' Ugh. Couple that with the (initial) world ending DRM (and I'm NOT a 'DRM is evil' guy).. rage.

OP: Covert Action
 

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I'm finding quite a bit of the games EA supposedly ruined to be quite fun.

I don't get the hate towards Red Alert 3 or C&C 3 Tiberium Wars.

Oh yeah I like Battlefield 3 too. I'm a sucker for "realistic" warfare shooters.