Mediocre/bad games you just can't stop playing.

[RJ 17]

I have to go with Borderlands: it wasn't a remarkable game when it was released by a lloonngg stretch, and solo'ing the campaign is an exercise in shaving thru your patience with a cleaver, but it's a hoot with a decent forum member (or three). I consider it the proto-Dead Island meself. :3

On second thought, I can also say I've sunken hundreds+ more hours than fathomably comprehensible into games like Resident Evil 5 & Vanquish. I chalk this up to my oldfound(?) bias towards the BIOHAZARD/Resident Evil franchise, and 3PS over FPS: I was never much of a PC/FPS gamer, and (IMHO) third-person renders a better sense of "tactile/peripheral visual awareness". 3PS camera angling conveys a closer proximity to human vision, even from behind or "over the shoulder" than FPS shooter/rail/RPG/whatever games can manage to implement up to this point. But the second a technology allows devs to "stretch" or expand the visual range of a shot, a la the J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Enterprise's viewscreen, a bets are off...

Oh I definitely hear you on Borderlands. It's a VERY simple-minded game but I think it was pulled off very well. Its sense of humor, for instance, is absolutely fantastic. And I've gotta say that the DLC for that game is, to date, some of my favorite DLC ever. Zombie Island was hilarious (the opening and ending videos make me bust a gut even now). Crimson Armory was hilarious as we listen to a decorated general who's superior is apparently a 9 year old child. That game was very mediocre, and yet so very enjoyable.

The Dynasty Warriors games. That shit is like crack.

Yes, i know it's shallow gameplay. Laughable voice acting. Butchered retelling of the romance of the three kingdoms. It's a cheap, arcade trashy brawler. And you know what? I love it. I love it so much that i've got almost every DW game from the PS2 up until now. Yes, that includes the shitty Empire ones. There's just something so very cathartic about hacking legions of mooks to bits. People tell me that supporting that type of game production is hurting the industry, but you know what, fuck 'em. I don't care how objectively 'bad' it is. I like what i like, and that's that.

One reason to love Dynasty Warriors: Lu Bu. That man is a GOD.

Good god, don't even get me started. I joined up with DW 4, got DW 5 and DW 5 Empires. Got Orochi 1 and 2. That got me interested in Samurai Warriors so I picked up SW 2 and SW 2 Empires. Got DW 6 and DW 6 Empires. At that point, like a fat-ass at a buffet I had to actually forcefully push myself away and say "I'm fucking full...can't eat another bite." I LOVE those games waaaaaaaaaaay more than I should, but I made a promise to myself that after DW 6 Empires I was done...that doesn't mean I haven't felt the itch to pick up Strike Force and DW 7. I just have to look away and shout "TEMPT ME NO MORE, SATAAAAAAAAN!" As for my favorite character, Lu Bu's too much of a cop-out. I mean he literally is a god . So it really depends on if we're talking with the DW 6 format or not. In DW 6/DW 6 Empires, think my favorite would be Gan Ning, least favorite is Dian Wei (such a god damn shame that they made him so shitty in DW 6). But before DW 6...hmmmmm...I like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei but they're both too slow. I'll go with Zhao Yun, he's always been a badass no matter which variation of the game you're playing.

 

[Raika]

Final Fantasy XIV comes immediately to mind.

 

[RJ 17]

Well, i actually enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever, and its DLC. And that was in most peoples eyes the mother of all bad games. But to me it just did everything i expected it to The fact that its "out of time" was pretty much expected.

Earth defence force/ insect armorgeddon (more so) I keep playing again and again. And that was considered average by most. Must. Keep. Shooting.

I also sometimes come back to Tenchu Z and Alien vs predator (The newest one) despite both being mediocure. Probably because both provide an experience that no other game has been able to match really. That being STEALTHY Ninja's and Aliens vs predators.

Thats all i can think of for now

I actually picked up Tenchu Z for $5 a couple weeks ago. Despite the fact that it's just the same 7 levels over and over again for 50 missions, I gotta say I really enjoyed it. If they could make a game that crossed Assassin's Creed's free-roaming style with Tenchu's in-depth assassination missions (clearing a perimeter to infiltrate houses and such) I think that game would be all kinds of bad-ass.

The Dynasty Warriors games. That shit is like crack.

Yes, i know it's shallow gameplay. Laughable voice acting. Butchered retelling of the romance of the three kingdoms. It's a cheap, arcade trashy brawler. And you know what? I love it. I love it so much that i've got almost every DW game from the PS2 up until now. Yes, that includes the shitty Empire ones. There's just something so very cathartic about hacking legions of mooks to bits. People tell me that supporting that type of game production is hurting the industry, but you know what, fuck 'em. I don't care how objectively 'bad' it is. I like what i like, and that's that.

One reason to love Dynasty Warriors: Lu Bu. That man is a GOD.

OH NOES: Double Post but oh well.

I have always wanted to try one of those games, pretty much for the same reasons as you. I know it is a "bad" game. But slaughting hoards of enemies with a sword looks like good fun. Which game would be recommended? *note* i would probably only get ones that were on the 360.

I'd personally suggest getting Dynasty Warriors 6. If you ask me it has the best combination of gameplay and telling of the story. Also you get to play in a fictional campaign as Lu Bu in which you just run around China thrusting yourself into famous battles that have absolutely nothing to do with you and literally kicking EVERYONE'S ass.

Edit: The only thing I REALLY don't like about it is the horse system. Where as in other DW games you just had to meet certain conditions on certain battles to unlock the best horses, in DW 6 it is 100% pure luck.

 

[Gralian]

I have always wanted to try one of those games, pretty much for the same reasons as you. I know it is a "bad" game. But slaughting hoards of enemies with a sword looks like good fun. Which game would be recommended? *note* i would probably only get ones that were on the 360.

Honestly i'd probably say DW6 is the best one on the 360. I also have the crossover games "Warriors Orichi" which is a crossover of the Samurai Warriors characters and the Dynasty Warriors characters. Bizarre but still great fun. DW7 unfortunately can sometimes feel a little bit cheapened when you get powerful weapons and the levels (especially in that campaign mode map thingy) feel like they're over way too fast. DW6 really captured the spirit best of all from the ps2 days, so i'd go with that.


NOTE: Dynasty Warriors 6, NOT Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires

 

[Something Amyss]

Heh heh, fair enough. Personally, though, if you ask me the first generation of Pokemon was the best...long before they started making pokemon centered around religious beliefs and sexual orientations (exagerating/joking, obviously ). I honestly wouldn't be surprised if you asked a kid today "Who's Mewtwo?" they'd have no clue who the hell you were talking about.

Gen IV was the first one I really cared about since Gen I because the others seemed mediocre by comparrison.

Magic 2012 (and the prior DotP) is my best example. Sure, it freeze a lot, it's got horirble AI, and it's got most of the glitches from the last gamer, but there's something fun about stomping three opponents at once.

 

[Dandark]

Too Human. I know it's terrible, I know it's a badly designed piece of garbage yet I can't stop going back and playing it.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Fable 2 and 3 they are like chocolate éclairs. They full of empty calories and I really shouldn't be consuming them but now and again I just stuff my face.



Whyyyyyy.

 

[RJ 17]

I have always wanted to try one of those games, pretty much for the same reasons as you. I know it is a "bad" game. But slaughting hoards of enemies with a sword looks like good fun. Which game would be recommended? *note* i would probably only get ones that were on the 360.

Honestly i'd probably say DW6 is the best one on the 360. I also have the crossover games "Warriors Orichi" which is a crossover of the Samurai Warriors characters and the Dynasty Warriors characters. Bizarre but still great fun. DW7 unfortunately can sometimes feel a little bit cheapened when you get powerful weapons and the levels (especially in that campaign mode map thingy) feel like they're over way too fast. DW6 really captured the spirit best of all from the ps2 days, so i'd go with that.


NOTE: Dynasty Warriors 6, NOT Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires

I don't see what you've got against the Empires games, personally I thought DW 6: Empires was awesome. I just like the fact that you can create your own characters and thus make yourself out to be your own personal badass officer in the employ of your favorite ruler, or make yourself into a ruler and slap that smug smirk right off Cao Cao's face! Oh, and lets not forget one of my favorite mechanics: TURNING TRAITOR AND SWITCHING SIDES IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE! God I loved that simple and wicked pleasure! Especially if you had been approached by the enemy before the battle so there was a special deal. I'd always beat the crap out of the enemy until all that was left was the main camp, then switch sides and take everything back.

 

[jurnag12]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
It's a mediocre fighting game that isn't that special...but it's just so much FUN.
And Fable 2/3.

 

[RJ 17]

Heh heh, fair enough. Personally, though, if you ask me the first generation of Pokemon was the best...long before they started making pokemon centered around religious beliefs and sexual orientations (exagerating/joking, obviously ). I honestly wouldn't be surprised if you asked a kid today "Who's Mewtwo?" they'd have no clue who the hell you were talking about.

Gen IV was the first one I really cared about since Gen I because the others seemed mediocre by comparrison.

Magic 2012 (and the prior DotP) is my best example. Sure, it freeze a lot, it's got horirble AI, and it's got most of the glitches from the last gamer, but there's something fun about stomping three opponents at once.

Oh I love me some Arch Enemy play. xD it was funny as hell, when the expansion came out, it came with an achievement for simply creating a multiplayer game as the arch enemy. So I go ahead and set up a game, pick Ancient Depths for my deck. Turn one: Scheme card "I Believe Introductions Are In Order" (search your library for a creature and put it in your hand or put a creature from your hand on the battlefield). So I got to turn one Ulamog...and everyone quit. xD

 

[Gralian]

I don't see what you've got against the Empires games, personally I thought DW 6: Empires was awesome. I just like the fact that you can create your own characters and thus make yourself out to be your own personal badass officer in the employ of your favorite ruler, or make yourself into a ruler and slap that smug smirk right off Cao Cao's face! Oh, and lets not forget one of my favorite mechanics: TURNING TRAITOR AND SWITCHING SIDES IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE! God I loved that simple and wicked pleasure! Especially if you had been approached by the enemy before the battle so there was a special deal. I'd always beat the crap out of the enemy until all that was left was the main camp, then switch sides and take everything back.

Honestly, it was just all that management beforehand. Man i don't want to be dealing with troops and all that crap. I just want to get in there and wreck the place. I haven't got time to be worrying about my cannon fodder! I just dive in, make a mess, and hope that whatever comes out leaves me with a victory.

Although i haven't touched the Empires games in years so maybe it's not as bad as i'm remembering it to be...

 

[Pebkio]

Minecraft. Oh burn!

...Final Fantasy Tactics. Ha! Burned again!

Oh wait... these were already covered. But, I have to say... the "cheap wine" game I keep going back to is Oblivion.

 

[RJ 17]

I don't see what you've got against the Empires games, personally I thought DW 6: Empires was awesome. I just like the fact that you can create your own characters and thus make yourself out to be your own personal badass officer in the employ of your favorite ruler, or make yourself into a ruler and slap that smug smirk right off Cao Cao's face! Oh, and lets not forget one of my favorite mechanics: TURNING TRAITOR AND SWITCHING SIDES IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE! God I loved that simple and wicked pleasure! Especially if you had been approached by the enemy before the battle so there was a special deal. I'd always beat the crap out of the enemy until all that was left was the main camp, then switch sides and take everything back.

Honestly, it was just all that management beforehand. Man i don't want to be dealing with troops and all that crap. I just want to get in there and wreck the place. I haven't got time to be worrying about my cannon fodder! I just dive in, make a mess, and hope that whatever comes out leaves me with a victory.

Although i haven't touched the Empires games in years so maybe it's not as bad as i'm remembering it to be...

DW 6 Empires removed the unit management. Basically all you had to worry about was upgrading your weapons (which is akin to unlocking new weapons in the standard DW games) and buying Red Hare. After that it was doing nothing but buying bonuses such as "Enemies can't call reinforcements during this battle" or "Increases attack when health is low." Or, just for you, Lu Bu's card was called "The One and Only" and it GREATLY increases his strength and defense if he is sent into battle alone.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I can't stop playing the Heroes and Heralds mode in UMVC3, it's basically the game mode where everyone takes a bunch of unfair buffs, throws them at your carefully constructed team and dices them to pieces.

So many bullshit card combos like 2 Luke Cage's (health buffs) and a main Sabretooth (health regen) so they have bullshit health and they can just run away for a bit and they're still full cocking health!

It basically comes down to are you a bad enough dude to down Hulk in one combo? The answer is of course, no. You cheap, dirty, skanky [CENSORED DUE TO UNNECESSARY RUDENESS] whore.

I just want my Miles Edgeworth, Franziska Von Karma and Godot cards and i'll be happy with my Ace Attorney deck of awesomeness.

 

[Rariow]

Minecraft. It's wonderfully fun, and I don't think I've played a more addictive game in my life, but you have to admit, it's not very good subjectively. Crappy graphics, no effort at world-building at all, and pretty basic programming. Doesn't mean a LOT of effort has been put into making the game as fun as it is, but it's still a lot "worse" than even a bad AAA game would be.

I guess The Hobbit PC game could be considered so. Not stellar, but I get an amount of enjoyment out of that game that I think might be considered illegal. I've sunk more hours into that game than into Skyrim (Though, admitedly, Skyrim is a lot newer than it is).

 

[LostCrusader]

I have to go with Borderlands: it wasn't a remarkable game when it was released by a lloonngg stretch, and solo'ing the campaign is an exercise in shaving thru your patience with a cleaver, but it's a hoot with a decent forum member (or three). I consider it the proto-Dead Island meself. :3

On second thought, I can also say I've sunken hundreds+ more hours than fathomably comprehensible into games like Resident Evil 5 & Vanquish. I chalk this up to my oldfound(?) bias towards the BIOHAZARD/Resident Evil franchise, and 3PS over FPS: I was never much of a PC/FPS gamer, and (IMHO) third-person renders a better sense of "tactile/peripheral visual awareness". 3PS camera angling conveys a closer proximity to human vision, even from behind or "over the shoulder" than FPS shooter/rail/RPG/whatever games can manage to implement up to this point. But the second a technology allows devs to "stretch" or expand the visual range of a shot, a la the J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Enterprise's viewscreen, a bets are off...

Oh I definitely hear you on Borderlands. It's a VERY simple-minded game but I think it was pulled off very well. Its sense of humor, for instance, is absolutely fantastic. And I've gotta say that the DLC for that game is, to date, some of my favorite DLC ever. Zombie Island was hilarious (the opening and ending videos make me bust a gut even now). Crimson Armory was hilarious as we listen to a decorated general who's superior is apparently a 9 year old child. That game was very mediocre, and yet so very enjoyable.

The Dynasty Warriors games. That shit is like crack.

Yes, i know it's shallow gameplay. Laughable voice acting. Butchered retelling of the romance of the three kingdoms. It's a cheap, arcade trashy brawler. And you know what? I love it. I love it so much that i've got almost every DW game from the PS2 up until now. Yes, that includes the shitty Empire ones. There's just something so very cathartic about hacking legions of mooks to bits. People tell me that supporting that type of game production is hurting the industry, but you know what, fuck 'em. I don't care how objectively 'bad' it is. I like what i like, and that's that.

One reason to love Dynasty Warriors: Lu Bu. That man is a GOD.

Good god, don't even get me started. I joined up with DW 4, got DW 5 and DW 5 Empires. Got Orochi 1 and 2. That got me interested in Samurai Warriors so I picked up SW 2 and SW 2 Empires. Got DW 6 and DW 6 Empires. At that point, like a fat-ass at a buffet I had to actually forcefully push myself away and say "I'm fucking full...can't eat another bite." I LOVE those games waaaaaaaaaaay more than I should, but I made a promise to myself that after DW 6 Empires I was done...that doesn't mean I haven't felt the itch to pick up Strike Force and DW 7. I just have to look away and shout "TEMPT ME NO MORE, SATAAAAAAAAN!" As for my favorite character, Lu Bu's too much of a cop-out. I mean he literally is a god . So it really depends on if we're talking with the DW 6 format or not. In DW 6/DW 6 Empires, think my favorite would be Gan Ning, least favorite is Dian Wei (such a god damn shame that they made him so shitty in DW 6). But before DW 6...hmmmmm...I like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei but they're both too slow. I'll go with Zhao Yun, he's always been a badass no matter which variation of the game you're playing.

Strike Force was bad enough that it killed the entire series for me.

 

[daveman247]

A Ninja game like that would be epic. Its a bit weird that there is a lack of games like that :/

 

[Mike Lemus]

Whenever I need some good mindless fun, I just turn on the old-school Schmups like Raiden Fighters on XBLA. Infinite lives and tons of little planes and tanks exploding in old-school sprites? Yes please.