What game did you know was bad/awful, and yet you still played it?

[Sacman]

Recently?

Battlefield Bad Company 2... I knew it was just gonna be MW with a different name and I was right but it was 10 more frustrating and annoying with every instant they try to innovate coming of as gimmicky and annoying, I'm looking at you smoke because I can't see anything else...<.<

But I played it all the way until the disappointing ending that left on a cliffhanger to a story about characters I don't care about... and than when I went to go try the multiplayer I find out the someone stole my CD key and I can't play online because I can't register it and I can't take the problem to EA because I bought it on Steam and I can't take the problem to Steam because it's an EA game, so Ijust said fuck it and played Counter Strike...

 

[mireko]

and your thoughts on The Witcher 2 mireko? ....if you didnt play it, I understand, but seeing as its been hailed as the Next Coming, I would appreciate any thoughts you have

Haven't played it. I can understand that some are able to look past the flaws of TW1, especially people who are fans of the novels, but I certainly couldn't. I'll concede that the sequel sounds good on paper, though.

From what I understand, they changed the combat system, hired some actors who didn't come from space and made the protagonist less of an unlikeable douche. If true, that solves three of the problems I had with the game. I will probably end up trying TW2 at some point, just not rushing out to grab a copy right now.

 

[Pearwood]

Bayonetta.
It was only 9£, so I thought I might as well buy it, but I was filled with disgust the entire time. Never been so happy a game ended that fast.

I hear a lot of people criticise that game but I really don't know why, the design is a little over the top to say the least but the gameplay is solid and the enemy designs are unique yet still easily identified enough you know when they're about to attack.

I'd say Orange Box for the PS3. I knew it was a porting disaster but I thought "oh how bad could it be, TF2 has been updated fifty billion times since release so all that's bound to have been fixed"... how wrong I was.

 

[AgentNein]

Rule of Rose for the ps2. I play through the game every year or so since it came out. I know why, it's got a really well done storyline (I've read reviews saying that it was obtuse. Absolutely not, if anyone is at all paying attention, the story is fairly straightforward.

But with that said, yeah I concede that the gameplay is absolutely abhorrent. Bad even by classic survival horror standards. But you see, I've got a pretty high tolerance for survival horror gameplay. I even enjoy it one might say. But with that said this game is still rough to recommend to people.

 

[BelmontClan]

Final Fantasy XIII. I had read about its new combat system and how you can only control the party leader and how if he\she gets knocked out you lose right then and there. I knew it was gonna be a bad game because of it but I still gave it a try.

Persona 3 uses the same style of combat and that's one of the better games I've played. Makes me wonder what they did to screw it up in FF13

 

[Talon_Skywarp]

Fahrenheit...(or Indigo Prophecy)

Started out great, then gradually morphed into something mediocre, then for the finale turned bat-shit insane.

I kept playing because the set up was really very good, being thrust into a terrible situation and playing the characters off against each other. And hell, it tried to do a lot, and it was very different...Unfortunately it just went bad, as if a whole other development team took over half way through, or they fired the writer.

The story was apocalyptically bad by the end, I just wanted it to end but it just got dumber and dumber. So yeah, finished it while hating every moment intensely.

I found trying to get people to commit suicide over pointless things was the only way to cope towards the end.

BTW, WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON AT THE END!

OT- New Golden Axe. I was determined to enjoy it and beat it. 2 hours later I put it in a box and thought about burying it, just so it wouldn't be near me.

 

[Dalek Caan]

Really hard to think of a game. If I hate it I will avoid it at a costs. Although there was Luxor 2 which was completely horrible but I kept playing just to get achievements.

 

[DanielBrown]

Bayonetta.
It was only 9£, so I thought I might as well buy it, but I was filled with disgust the entire time. Never been so happy a game ended that fast.

I hear a lot of people criticise that game but I really don't know why, the design is a little over the top to say the least but the gameplay is solid and the enemy designs are unique yet still easily identified enough you know when they're about to attack.

To each their own, you know. It was too over sexualised for me.

I prefer to keep games and porn separate.

 

[Gaiseric]

Alpha Protocol. I bought it for 10 bucks recently and am still playing it.

 

[Jimmy_Mac]

HAWX 2, I knew it would be terrible but something told me it might just be better than the 1st.
It wasn't...

 

[pspman45]

Too Human, it started out okay but I ended up finishing it out of spite. Fucking Nerf guns

that was the first game that I fell asleep while playing
not at midnight, around 6-7ish
it was just so boring...

 

[LCP]

turok, (the new one)

nothing could be worse than turok

 

[Souplex]

I played through Half Life 2 and it's episodes to prove a point.
My friend said I couldn't judge it after the first time I played it because I only played through Ravenholm (The section where you're forced to use the shoehorned in gimmick weapon that's just a glorified Grab/Throw button) and hated the hovercraft section. (Quite possibly the worst vehicle section in gaming history)
I also played other M, because it was a learning experience.
They took one of the greatest franchises of all time, gutted almost everything that made it amazing, then forced you to sit through poor writing. Occasionally glimmers of the old Metroid games shows through, but otherwise it's not.

"The worst vehicle section in gaming history" actually went to Mass Effect 1.

I must have missed that part.
Was it between all those awesome Mako sections?

 

[Cogwheel]

Not to spam this answer or anything, but Metal Wolf Chaos. Terrible game. Gloriously so.

 

[DeadpoolWins]

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, Legendary, Naughty Bear... all terrible games, all gave me hours of fun.

I thought i would never remember Legendary, thank you for that.....

 

[DeadpoolWins]

Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 (yeah, that's the actual title), the weird part is that I actually had a blast with it.

That's because that game is the shit, P.S. I haven't lost a 1v1 with some1 in 2 years