What's your guilty pleasure game?

Ben Soto

Ben Soto

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What's that game that, by all accounts, should suck but managed to somehow still be fun to you, even when everyone else around you wouldn't stop complaining about it.

For me, it's Skyrim. For all it's flaws, I think it's a great game, yet I know it's very obviously flawed. It's got a shitty story, repeititive gameplay and characters that are just SO. GOD. DAMN. FLAT. Yet I find myself coming back to it again and again.
 
Probably Dark Souls 2 for me, liked it a lot less than DS1 but there was more stuff to do in the game and the online was active so I could really sink time into it mucking about with neat builds and just helping other people.
 
Duke Nukem Forever. It wasn't that bad of a game. A 7 out of 10 all things considered and the multiplayer was really fun at the time despite the massive flaws. It is certainly better than I expected even with the awful fucking load times. Granted some of it is the fact that I waited on the game ever since this magazine came out in the 90's..

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The humor was fine and all the faux outrage over rapey tentacles is nonsense when tentacle porn is so popular.
 
I agree! Duke Nukem Forever was fine. And the DLC The Doctor Who Cloned Me was fine as well.
 
I consider both Skyrim and Fallout 4 guilty pleasures, both are just a waste of time and background noise. They work well as an interlude between better games.

In terms of other guilty pleasures, well, I like the Dead or Alive franchise, for obvious reasons.
There's also the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy which I think gets too much hate.

Also a little known PS1 indie game called Clone, I've not heard much about it on the internet. But it's a kind if FPS that while isn't impressive or anything, has decent atmosphere given the age of the hardware and the fact that it pretty much has minimal sound.
Basically, imagine a horror version of Doom which isn't Doom 3.
But yeah, I consider it a guilty pleasure just for the fact that it's an obscure game that no one would really care about if it was released today. In fact, it's only 3 levels long.
 
Millim said:
I consider both Skyrim and Fallout 4 guilty pleasures
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Was gonna say exactly those two

Used to dick around a lot with Sims 2 too, but it eventually grew old. I managed to do almost everything I could think of possibly doing. I think some highlights were recreating (with precise facial traits) my closest friends, and make them cover the house in pee, fight non stop (die of starvation between fighting), as well as eating and shitting non stop (shit right there in the kitchen, then eat more, no sleep, pass out, then piss and eat more)
as well as building a whole beautiful family solely for the purpose of having the teenager go to sleep with the stove on, for then to block exits with furniture, and have everyone (except him) burn to death, and then have him decay, piss all over the floor, and see ghosts all the time

oh yeah, pissing pants and passing out in public too, it takes a bit of planning and effort, but it's fun

but yeah
it got old

:v
 
Ben Soto said:
What's that game that, by all accounts, should suck but managed to somehow still be fun to you, even when everyone else around you wouldn't stop complaining about it.

For me, it's Skyrim. For all it's flaws, I think it's a great game, yet I know it's very obviously flawed. It's got a shitty story, repeititive gameplay and characters that are just SO. GOD. DAMN. FLAT. Yet I find myself coming back to it again and again.
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I don't find Skyrim as bad as most people on here so i would not call it a guilty pleasure.

Fallout 3 is more like it even if my last playthrough was 90% + done with all locations/quests finished with a really small ones that i didn't get to finish up.
APB Reloaded was a guilty pleasure for a long time but i can't even be arsed to launch the game anymore.

I guess the rest is good/great games i play?

TorontRayne said:
Duke Nukem Forever. It wasn't that bad of a game. A 7 out of 10 all things considered and the multiplayer was really fun at the time despite the massive flaws. It is certainly better than I expected even with the awful fucking load times. Granted some of it is the fact that I waited on the game ever since this magazine came out in the 90's..

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The humor was fine and all the faux outrage over rapey tentacles is nonsense when tentacle porn is so popular.
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I put it as a 5/10. It is so mediocre in every way but it is not worse than that. I still have the PC gamer with the first screenshot of a car in some desert looking landscape.

I was so hyped for THIS!

 
I don't know if I would consider these two games guilty pleasure but:

Age of Empires 3 Complete Edition - many people hate this game because it's not as good as Age of Empires 2, but I enjoy playing it and always have it installed on my computer.

Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour - I am not sure if people hate this game or not, but it's another game I usually have installed and play. Although I haven't installed it yet on this "new" laptop (I own it on the first decade disks and those are a pain to install and then mod).

I miss RTS like those two games... Haven't found a more recent one that was fun to play for a long time.
 
Risewild said:
I don't know if I would consider these two games guilty pleasure but:

Age of Empires 3 Complete Edition - many people hate this game because it's not as good as Age of Empires 2, but I enjoy playing it and always have it installed on my computer.

Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour - I am not sure if people hate this game or not, but it's another game I usually have installed and play. Although I haven't installed it yet on this "new" laptop (I own it on the first decade disks and those are a pain to install and then mod).

I miss RTS like those two games... Haven't found a more recent one that was fun to play for a long time.
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Nah, most people love Zero Hour.
In fact, it's my favorite C&C release.
 
Deadly Premonition, by all standards is a mediocre budget game that rips off Twin Peaks too much, but it's full of charm and personality.
 
Millim said:
Nah, most people love Zero Hour.
In fact, it's my favorite C&C release.
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Red Alert 2 is better IMO but Zero hour got more playtime than most other RE titles tbh.

Walpknut said:
Deadly Premonition, by all standards is a mediocre budget game that rips off Twin Peaks too much, but it's full of charm and personality.
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The game looked so fun but i did not make it much longer than the intro level when i played it. Maybe i should pick it up again some day.
 
Halo

The game which represents the beginning of end of many good things about FPS - autoheal and two weapon limit, namely - not to mention that it's one of the heralds of decline of PC gaming because of console influence, along with franchise milking, which is also one of those bad things that really got popular with Halo (in the video game industry, that is).
It's design and look have also inspired many shitty stuff - power armors, marines, weapons, design of aliens, whatever. All the things I came to loath in other titles for being unoriginal.

However, all of it is so well made in this game and fits it really well. Design, story, gameplay. Everything. Dunno why. I just like it.

I rarely play it, but I guess I could call it a guilty pleasure.
Never played the sequels.
 
Sims 4. It's inferior to 2 and 3 in so many ways but I no longer have Sims 2 and Sims 3 is unbelievably dog shit performance wise. I made an army of painters that I locked up in a basement who would pump out masterpiece paintings constantly.
 
I never got why people consider The Sims as a retarded video game or a guilty pleasure. First two titles in the series are downright brilliant. With an occasional hiccup and questionable business model, but still.
3 was kinda weird tho but okay, and I haven't played 4.
 
Sims 3 just had too much DLC.

Sims 4 is a downgrade to Sims 1 in terms of mechanics and lack of variety in customization for the sake of "streamlining" it with a shit load of DLC too.
 
Atomkilla said:
I never got why people consider The Sims as a retarded video game or a guilty pleasure. First two titles in the series are downright brilliant. With an occasional hiccup and questionable business model, but still.
3 was kinda weird tho but okay
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I'd say 3 is great in terms of pure customisation of sims, what with traits and everything, also how sims can kinda live there own lives without your interference(Though I wish it could be toggled off) but it took huge steps backwards from 2 in many other areas.

For example: How you are limited to one identical looking neighbourhood unless you download additional ones, as opposed to Sims 2 which gave you blank slates of neighbourhoods, which(with Business and Nightlife) could potentially be expanded to infinity.
 
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