What game do you absolutely love that you know yourself is bad, but love it anyway?
For me, it’s Callisto Protocol. Loved that it was just more Dead Space. Not good by any metric but I liked it.
Wrestling games.
What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?
Submitted 4 months ago by Theprogressivist@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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hpucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
EonNShadow@pawb.social 4 months ago
Love me some Far Cry games
It’s the only time I’ll ever get an Ubisoft game, and usually I’ll pick them up on deep sales
But for whatever reason they just scratch a particular itch
I hated the ending of 5, but it was otherwise alright
6 was whatever, but overall not as bad as the reviews made it out to be imo
Greenbeard@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I’ve wasted so many hours looking at tiny circles go up in Game Dev Tycoon
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Pocket Pool.
Not to be confused with pocket billiards.
Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Pokemon pinball for the GBA anyone?
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
My god, that game is a masterpiece.
Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Indeed, it didnt get the respect it needs.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Skyrim. Load up some new mods, play a completely different character. The magic of Bethesda’s old games is that they leave the player free to imagine what they are. The upside of having the PC have no personality is that you get to project whatever personality you like onto them. Don’t initiate the main quest, don’t bother with dragons, play pretty much the entire game as if it is your own sandbox. It’s grand.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sonic 06.
If you try to play it casually it’s absolutely awful because there’s no guidance on what to do and some of the tasks are awful if you don’t know how to skip them.
But if you watch enough speed runs and LPs of the game you start to figure out why the game breaks, how to do the bad parts, and how to intentionally mess with it. And it’s hilarious to do so. It’s like an unintentional broken sandbox. And the best part is even when you’re not trying to it breaks anyway.
dingleberrylover@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Turok 2 for GameBoy Color. It was one of my first games for the GameBoy and I still love it, although, objectively speaking, it might not even be average. The translation was bad and left me confused (non-native English speaker), the levels were not particularly well designed and the platforming and shooting was very bland. But I did not care and it really threw me into the Lost World (was a huge fan of the Lost World movie based on the novel and also the cheesy 90s TV series). The music was great, though, to the point that I would consider it to be in my top 3 all-time gaming OSTs (I think the composer was Alberto Gonzales). I replay it from time to time, nowadays on my retro handheld. Despite the general forgettable nature of the game, I still have fond memories playing it and the music plays a big role in this as well.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Kingdom Hearts. The writing is equally sappy and edgy fanfic crossover slop. But there’s something so satisfying about the combat, especially after the introduction of the command deck.
FatVegan@leminal.space 4 months ago
I remember back when streamers and big YouTubers weren’t a thing. I watched a complete play through of kingdom hearts when i was sick. No commentary nothing. I’m still not convinced that game isn’t a fever dream. Somehow i never really heard of it, just the name and i don’t know anyone who has played it.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 months ago
Hentai games are my guilty pleasures in that regard
FatVegan@leminal.space 4 months ago
Are they like good at all or is it just anime girls?
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 months ago
There are a few that are actually fun as games, Tifa Tanx2 being the only example that comes to mind, it’s a fun Kung Fu (NES) like beat’em up with easy combos. There are even some work-safe gameplay videos of it on YT
A lot of the games are visual novels, this is where you find a decent variety of styles, though a lot of them use daz3d models, which I don’t like. I’d wager that hentai games are like 60% VNs, 30% RPG Maker, 10% everything else
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 4 months ago
It’s also squids.
kazerniel@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I guess Genshin also counts. The monetisation is horrible, the character designs are facepalm-worthy, the localisation is so bad it makes me wince, Paimon is the worst, but damn, I love the exploration gameplay, landscapes and music 🤷 (Also it helps that I’m f2p, so at least I’m not supporting Hoyo’s predatory practices…)
kazerniel@lemmy.world 4 months ago
all those Artifex Mundi hidden object games :D
They’re essentially reskins of the same simplistic gameplay and weak stories for like 15 years, but sometimes I still get in the mood for one :D
I love the better ones’ environmental art, but I’d be wary to pick up ones made in the last few years bc I’m pretty sure they started to use AI as soon as it became available, due to the conveyor belt nature of the genre.
EDIT: Ok apparently I was wrong, and they just altogether stopped releasing their games on PC since the pandemic O.o
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sometimes I want to blow things up and get headshots. So I’ll see if there’s a Call of Duty on sale and just play the single player. It’s rare though, and at the moment my blowing things up itch is being scratched by Space Marine.
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is whybI play Ravenfield. Sure, it’s bots. But an hour session usually scratches the itch for a few months. Plus I don’t have to deal with awful lobbies and trash talk.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh I’ll have to try it out! Added to my wishlist.
FatVegan@leminal.space 4 months ago
Have you played Titanfall 2? That game is often on sale for 5 dollars and it’s the best single player campaign i have ever played.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes it’s an excellent game, I enjoyed it thoroughly and played the co-op defense for a while as well!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Don’t worry BT I’m not going anywhere
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Heroes of Might and Magic III, although I don’t think the game is bad.
What’s bad is that there’s really nothing new to it and yet from time to time I sink lots of hours into a new campaign.
It’s a kind of time machine bringing me back to more innocent times…
For the same reasons I need to beat some computer opponents in Broodwar on Big Game Hunters every once in a while.FarmTaco@lemmy.world 4 months ago
have you played HoTA? its a community made expansion rebalance of HOMM3, I found out about it this year and I have lost soooo much time to it, new towns new maps new artifacts…
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I haven’t and truth be told I wasn’t even aware of it.
Thank you for your support in wasting some more time with HOMM 🤗
pathief@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I played a bunch of HoM 3 but I don’t think I understood how to really play the game. That game is a lot more complex than it initially seems and it’s not trivial to me when to add new heroes, explore and split your units.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What puzzles you is the core of each campaign and highly depends on the layout of it.
You gotta try and if you fail, try a different approach.Saving the game from time to time helps avoiding catastrophic failures without having to start from the beginning.
urandom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lego Tower. It’s a silly game with almost nothing to do. And I put more hours into it than anything else
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
It’s interesting to see what people genuinely consider to be bad, or maybe they just missed that word? 😅
For me, it would have to be Under The Skin; a solid 6/10 game, in a world where 7/10 is considered average!
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think some of the people posting comments don’t know what “guilty pleasure “ means.
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Links Awakening, it’s just been a favorite of mine since I was a kid.
bravesirrbn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’d downvote this comment because it’s not a guilty pleasure at all, but I’ll upvote it instead because Link’s Awakening is a beautiful game, and I had it as a kid too :)
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 4 months ago
Random my little pony and other young kid games. Hate to admit it but even the paw patrol games are entertaining in this way.
They are short and easy, and kinda junk, nice palate cleanser, and often very cute and encouraging. You don’t know a silly morale boost until you play something that says “you’re doing great!” periodically on the easiest thing you’ve done all day.BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Anything from Paradox, but right now it’s Europa Univeralis V. I really like some of their grand strategy staples, even if it’s an abusive relationship where they sometimes release updates that make the games worse and annoy you into buying overpriced DLC to make the last update slightly less bad. The new Crusader Kings 3 DLC is excellent, though. I hope they do more like that.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As a Stellaris player, nothing is more infuriating than Paradox putting out an update that breaks the save of your 2 month multiplayer game when you havent even reached the endgame lag yet. At least we can downgrade versions.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Escape from Tarkov, but single player (SPTarkov, not the paid upgrade). Lots of controversy surrounding the game, but I quite enjoy it playing at my own pace and difficulty
andxz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same same. It’s a whole other game when you can progress at your own pace and don’t have to worry about resets.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you got friends, grab project fika mod and enjoy pve with friends. It’s a ton of fun and works great.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Goddess of Victory NIKKE.
I try to be careful where I play it because the character designs are pretty uh… well the characters have huge personalities, usually. That’s not why I play the game, but I recognize some people have more of a problem with that than others so I try to be respectful about it. Also, NIKKE is a mobile gacha game, which a lot of people dislike. So I would say it counts as a guilty pleasure, although I don’t really feel guilty for playing the game.
For me, I don’t really spend money on it. Except for their two collabs with Neon Genesis Evangelion and one collab with NieR, because for me it is literally the law that I pay at least a little for IPs I really like. I am not a Whale (Richard Nixon impression lol), I am not even a Dolphin(?) I think I am called a Minnow. Whatever they call a basically F2P player that spends so rarely they might as well not spend at all. Besides, I have played for 3 years and only spent $60 total, I think that’s a pretty good deal so far.
Anyway, I like the gameplay. I realize to some people this might sound like I am saying “I read Playboy for the articles,” but hear me out.
When I was younger, I really enjoyed going to arcades. In the tail years of the arcades, newer games started to pop up, among them being lightgun games. I really enjoyed playing Time Crisis and Lethal Enforcers, and later on playing Silent Hill The Arcade, Alien, Terminator, and others. It was fun while it lasted, but now arcades are dead and game developers don’t really make those kind of games anymore. Beside my home arcade cabinet where I emulate the older games (and get a worse experience because I have neither the pizza grease and cigarette smell, nor the different shaped controllers), I don’t have new options for lightgun games these days. Then NIKKE came out and the gameplay was close enough for me that I felt that same fun of a lightgun game. I enjoy my time with the game mostly because it reminds me of the fun I had in actual arcades with lightgun games.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Stellar Blade has got some personalities as well…
yacodes@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Final Fantasy VIII impressed me in my childhood and since then I’ve finished it 4–5 times. The story is a bit of a mess and doesn’t make sense sometimes, the fighting mechanics are peculiar, but the game is very dear to my heart. Thinking about giving it another go now, ha!
KaChilde@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
As a kid I picked up VIII before VII (thanks to demo discs) and it has always been my favourite FF game despite its predecessor’s huge shadow. Learning all of the quirks of the games systems felt really rewarding, though I can understand why it didn’t appeal to many.
bravesirrbn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My hypothesis is that the first Final Fantasy you play will forever be your favorite
pathief@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I also played ff8 before ff7 and largely prefer it. The combat system is a mess but I’ve grown to like it.
caut_R@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Far Cry games at least until 4. I like mindlessly collecting 300 map markers sometimes. Funny enough, I don‘t like 5 cause there doesn‘t seem to be a collectibles map that lets me just move up and down the map collecting everything lol
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fortnite. No story to catch up on, no true goals besides winning, no long-term strategizing. I’m sure PUBG is the same/better, but my SO is entertained by the cartoonish nature of FN. It brings us excitement when I’m close to winning. With the introduction of zero build, I fair well. I used to feel more guilt for it being a “bad” game and for not giving time to the betrer story/campaign titles, bur you know what? I’m tired and my time is limited as an actual adult. I’ll take my dopamine where I can get it, thank you.
I’m replaying Ace Combat 7 right now. I can’t believe how bad the writing is. I played it in 2020 and had a grand time with probably 6 runs for the various achievements. Turns out, I remember basically nothing of the story. It’s definitely amusing to revisit the AI story aspects now that “AI” is in full swing. I guess AC5 set my standard for AC stories, but maybe that doesn’t hold up well either. Regardless, I’m in it for the fun, respectable flight physics. Just don’t ask me where I keep 144 missiles stored.
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Is it really bad writing, or just anime tropes?
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Is it? I actually just played the mission where you find out Mihaly has 20 names and thought “this must be a joke, right?”. If it’s anime tropes, I’m totally unaware. The subreddit was just full of meta memes so I didn’t learn anything useful in my reddit days
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
My kids play fortnite and I sometimes join them. Was watching some tournament on a stream and the “meta” at a high level of this game is just completely bonkers.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I quit around 2019 because I just didn’t stand a chance anymore. I’d place 2 walls and a ramp in the time it took most top-25 players to build a small castle with a wine cellar, jacuzzi, and escalator (or so it felt). I can’t keep up with these goddamn Ritalin-riddled kids.
It always cracks me up when my go-to move (in zero build) is to just stand still when it gets to close quarters. They start jumping like a cracked out kangaroo and miss shot after shot. I only do pitch/yaw and some sideways strafe, no jumping. It lets me use my Ps1/Ps2 era PvE experience.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball.
Yes the DoA franchise has a solid fighting game mechanic, but this was made purely for the fan service.
s3rvant@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Polarity
You’re essentially just trying to make less mistakes then your opponent but the semi-hovering magnets have an awesome table presence
Gonzako@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Skyrim! I always boot it up at least once a year
njm1314@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You think Skyrim is bad?
Gonzako@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Not bad per de but Its defo really dated
Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Tons of bugs. Rereleased on every platform. Zero fixes. Special editions fix nothing of note either.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 4 months ago
When it comes to games, I have no guilt anymore. I enjoy some games and despise others. I think the only one that comes to mind for this category is E.V.O. The Search For Eden (SNES). I prefer it with a patch to improve the translation.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
A classic. I loved how in the last phase you could make the right combination of nonsensical choices and end up with human and do really well. Not as well as my hyper-evolved Rhino-montser, but really well.
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
For me is Dragon Ball Dokkan Battle. Its a Gachal so it has its share of nasty monetization strategies and dark patrerns but since its PvE only, its not as agregious as other titles focused on PvP. I really enjoy the Character attack animations and the team building.
northernlights@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Schedule I. I did everything the game has to offer at the present moment but i still go back to spend an ingame day or 2 making silly drug mixes, selling, doing dumb stuff like pickpocketing cops… It’s just pleasant.