What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?

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• AstroLightz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As weird as it sounds: Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (The OG one).

  On the surface, it’s a shit platformer game for kids, but what makes it interesting is the ways you can break the game and the lively speedrunning community. If you just try to play the game by following its rules, you’re going to have a bad time.

  However, if you use cool speedrunning glitches and exploits, it becomes much more fun to break the game in ways the developers didn’t intend. I tend to play from time to time 100%ing it using exploits to reach locked areas earlier, skip entire sections, and play some levels backwards.

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  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still enjoy the game even as is. It’s well made for a show/movie themed game

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  • Theprogressivist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a classic! I hear the new one Titans of the Tide is really good.

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• jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  2-5 times a year I get really into Enlisted. It’s a really grindy free to play game, it feels like 90% of my teammates fail to work toward the objective, and every other round there’s an enemy player that paid for overpowered equipment wiping us out.

  But man, it is a thrill to charge through whizzing bullets to get into the midst of the other team before firing round after round from a lee enfield bolt action. And if I am playing with friends there is constant strategic and tactical chatter that makes it so engaging.

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  • murmelade@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hah! That game is such a mess. It is so ridiculously mismanaged I doubt it will ever leave beta. There’s no matchmaking, most of the lobbys are 50%+ bots and the bots are laughably bad in all the worst ways, every single update they break something and introduce new bugs so every update has a follow-up “oops” update trying to fix what they broke. Oh man I could go on and on but despite everything the actual gunplay and the buildable spawn point tactical meta game is actually very fun.

    Oh and the community! A janky Russian f2p with low moderation? Yep. It’s bad. Really bad.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably Vampire Survivors or Vampire Hunters: Sometimes it’s just nice to play something where you don’t really have to think too hard.

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• nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For a bit it was Destiny Rising, I quit D2 over a year ago but DR does genuinely do a lot of things much better than the base game and directly addresses a lot of my core complaints that made me quit after 10k hours in the first place. Stupid mobile gacha game with predatory monetization out the ass, and I was shrugging aside the handful of AI NPC voicelines.

  Needless to say I came to my senses and dropped it entirely on a whim. Can’t support the AI bullshit, I found I’d spent much more than I thought on the game already, and the endgame is entirely just p2w or get a handful of mats you need every 2 weeks.

  That entire franchise is just a warehouse full of monkey paws

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  super deepthroat

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  • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    True art.

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• vortexal@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been playing the android version of Bit Heroes. It’s terrible for multiple reasons but I’ve been playing it because the game can be played semi-passively, meaning that I can multitask while playing it. In fact, I’m actually playing it right now while I’m typing this comment.

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• orenj@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Skyrim. I mostly just like to install a fuckzillion mods and not play it, though…

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  • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right there with you.

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• False@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At the risk of pissing some people off, Kenshi has a special kind of jank

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Recently it’s been Chaos Zero Nightmare on my phone. Yeah, it’s a gacha. Yeah it has some absolutely ridiculous gooneriffic character designs that makes me roll my eyes. Yeah it’s poorly translated and the story is garbage.

  But you know what? The actual roguelike deckbuilder game mode is actually a ton of fun. The characters are well balanced enough that I’ve never felt like I was behind on power even with comparably “bad” pulls from the gacha. The game has been generous enough anyway that I have a lot of pulls saved up too. And the mutability and variety in the roguelike mode is just amazing. Tons of combos, tons of variations of every card and tons of opportunities to make niche builds work just because you happened to get one specific rare upgrade variation on one specific card while also stumbling upon one specific neutral card to add to your deck and stuff like that.

  And all for the price of free? I can’t complain.

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still say Enclave was a great game. The reviewers at the time absolutely misunderstood it.

  Most of the complaints from 2003 are things people love about the Souls games now…

  HD version:

  cogconnected.com/review/enclave-hd-review/

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• knowone@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t play them anymore these days, but for me it used to be the Dynasty/Samurai Warriors series. Dunno what it was with younger me but they just hit for some reason

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  • EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You may want to check out the new “One Piece” game on the same engine. It has the same game play loop, interrupted by a accessible surprisingly nicely animated story line.

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    • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I noticed a fair bit of anime adaptations borrow that mechanic, that being one of them.

      Berserk: Band of the Hawk is another.

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• SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Vanquish is so idiot and the story is atrocious but damn the shooting is good.

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• SalamenceFury@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pretty much most of the CoD series… But then again I’m mostly a multiplayer guy, and I only really buy CoD games if I like the beta enough. BO7 is something I kinda do like (MP only with the occasional Zombies) but I have to agree with the fact the campaign is absolute cheeks. It’s like Treyarch wanted to make a horror game campaign but they’re stuck making Call of Duty so they just shoehorned it in.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ravenfield is a stupid shooter with bad graphics but it scratches my itch for destruction without a lot of work.

  If I have a bad day I throw on some metal and shoot those little stick men.

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  • alfredon996@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If only they would add multiplayer to Ravenfield…

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    • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s battlefield but for single player. Even the name is similar.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One reason I like it is because it’s not multiplayer

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  • Theprogressivist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man, I wouldn’t even consider that a bad game. It’s awesome.

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  • RandomStickman@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I've sunken so many hours in that game, half of which is fiddling with load outs to fit the scenario I'm thinking of lol

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    • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ahh yes, the “army of 10 from future is invading army of 100 with WW2 weapons”

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• TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Starstruck Vagabond, Yahtzee Croshaw’s game.

  It’s a well-designed game, and he documented much of the development process on YouTube. It has a dopamine-laden primary gameplay loop that involves either manually piloting your ship around a star system to complete missions, or letting the autopilot fly while you run around your ship making repairs as needed.

  I wouldn’t say it’s fun, but it’s not necessarily supposed to be fun, in the way that Papers Please is not meant to be fun. It’s mostly about the living as a star freighter pilot. What plot there is is driven by other characters coming in and interrupting the drudgery.

  But I love playing it before bed. It winds me down nicely. And it’s perfect for the Steam Deck.

  I used to use Stardew Valley as my wind-down game but I found I was staying up much later because “just one more day-itis” sets in. Starstruck Vagabond I can just save and put down whenever.

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• rozodru@pie.andmc.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stranglehold. I friggin love this game. It’s the John Woo videogame that is technically a sequel to the movie Hard Boiled and has Chow Yun-fat as the lead. I don’t know but I just really dig this game. Similar to it Enter the Matrix I also love. I go back and replay both every so often.

  It’s also a bit of a comfort type of thing as those came out in the early 00’s when I was in my early 20s and still living at home and had more money than I knew what to do with hah.

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  • Theprogressivist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Inspector Tequila was bad ass.

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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess it depends on why you think it’s bad, so for me it’s Wuthering Waves. I absolutely love that game, but it’s “bad” because it’s a gacha game and that monetization scheme is absolutely fucking disgusting.

  The game itself is actually really good and the story/side stories had me cry like 4 times already lol

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does the story actually get good? I tried it out around launch but when they introduced a knockoff Paimon I noped out. I was there for a dark post-apocalypse story, not Sunday morning cartoon. Not that there is anything wrong with it but just not for me. I felt a little mislead.

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    • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It all depends on what you like. It’s a good mix of dark and light and the paimon knock off is pretty chill, they really only pop up at important times in the story they aren’t the constant annoyance always speaking for the player like paimon is.

      The 2.0 arc goes through a fantasy like land that leads to a gladiator/rome themed area so not sure how you feel about that but it gets dark all throughout that. The next area we’re going to is kinda unknown but it seems like it’s going to be much heavier in the “tech” vibe and should give a lot of backstory to the main character since they seem to have some connection to this new place.

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For me it’s Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. It would be super easy to whale out and spend a bunch of money to get the characters and weapons I want, but I (almost 100%) limit myself to the basically fixed monthly costs.

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    • orenj@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was surprised how super in on hoyo stuff I was until I started doing the dailies and the checklists on the regular. I kinda ruined my approach into Honkai because by the time I got into it, I learned from genshin I needed to do those dailies to get a decent shot at getting characters I actually cared about.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On the gacha front, I play Zenless Zone Zero. Parry mechanics are nothing new, but I love both the way they have you parry by swapping in an agent to take the blow, and the very detailed effects and animations they have for each attack.

    It’s still a gacha, and I remind myself to stop playing anytime it bores me; but it manages to hold my attention decently.

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    • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I play that as well as genshin… I have a problem lol

      ZZZ got me to stop spending money though, they’re way too fucking greedy. I went full pity and lost every single 50/50 in that game and almost all of them were nekomata… Hoyo can go to hell lol

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• MoonManKipper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mechwarrior 5 Mercs - stomping around the inner sphere with a 1000 to 1 kill ratio

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I still play that on my PS4 when the mood strikes. Fun game.

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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Man I really want to get into Mechwarrior but I’m just so ridiculously bad at the game and I have no idea how to get better.

    I’ve tried to begin the MW5 campaign three times now and I’ve been priced out of existing every time, I take way too much damage and my repair bills vastly outstrip my income. Combine with having to spend hundreds of thousands of credits in travel fees to get anywhere and I’m very quickly even more broke than I started.

    Just for kicks the other day I set up an Instant Action for testing purposes and I brought two Atlases, a Highlander and an Archer to some random backwater mid-difficulty mission and still barely limped out of there alive, with the Highlander and one of the Atlases downed. That’s just shameful.

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    • MoonManKipper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Play with keyboard and mouse - makes hitting things much easier. Redesign all mechs to have max armour. For most of the campaign bringing as many SRMs to the field as possible is good. Focus fire with your lance mates - makes them much more effective. Remove JJ - useless. LBX10s are great. Remove useless single LRM 5s and 10s from most things - put a lot of lrms on mechs with good quirks - Archer, Longbow

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    • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I like the game but have the same problem. I’m just not good at the avoiding damage part.

      But at least you can still enjoy the lore. There’s Mechwarrior books as well.

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• simple@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Goat simulator and its sequels/DLCs. It’s a dumb shitpost game where you run around and create chaos but I enjoy it without any irony for some reason

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• Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t say I feel guilty about liking these but if we’re talking about mediocre games I love that would be:

  • Drakengard 3 - simple, repetitive gameplay, huge amount of asset reuse and terrible performance if you’re crazy enough to play it on PS3. It also has a really engaging and tragic story, full of weirdness unique to the series (well, the first game anyway, haven’t played D2 yet).
  • Oni - 2001 action game by Bungie. Really cool hand-to-hand combat system, huge empty levels, simple story with wannabe Ghost in the Shell elements.
  • Starbound - lots of hype about Terraria in space, lots of wasted potential and cool features that didn’t make to the final release. I tend to prefer beta versions (mainly “Glad Giraffe” beta) but the final one also seemed alright based on what little I played of it. Definitely not as good as it had chance to be during development.
  • Scarface: The World is Yours - budget GTA clone based on the 1983 movie with Al Pacino (it’s actually a sequel). It looks bad even for the time but it plays well enough and has some neat mechanics which made it stand out, if only a little.
  • Tresspasser - the infamous Jurassic Park game with full control of your arm and focus on physical interactions with the environment. It’s a bit clunky and far from polished but it’s an interesting experience nonetheless.

  That’s all that comes to mind for now, I might update the post if I remember anything else.

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  • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Beta Starbound was the shit. Release was just shit, with no “the”. They took a great game of endless discovery and procedural generation with a gameplay loop that just worked out of beta and filled it with completely predictable set pieces and juvenile hard-coded nonsense. They literally added a poop emoji monster FFS.

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think the final release was “shit” per se, but I was super confused when I played it and expected cool features from the beta. The beta was also very beta and not all of the features were actually good, but I feel like they ran out of time/money/patience and just cut down a ton of stuff to ship it.

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    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The worst part is there’s no “full” version since each beta added new features and removed other ones. I’d give a lot for a build which combines all of the lost mechanics into a single package.

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  • Theprogressivist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dude, I loved Kane and Lynch! I co-op both of them with a buddy of mine. The jank was real but added charm to it. People complained about the violence but that shit was great. Also might be bias because IO Interactive made Hitman and that’s one of my all time favorite series.

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    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was also an unfortunate victim of the time when IOI struggled with figuring out how to transition from “classic” way of making games to the modern, high budget approach. I’m glad they managed to get back into the rhythm with new Hitman games but it’s still a little disappointing K&L had to serve as a stepping stone towards better times.

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wet. The reviews were pretty harsh due to the length and number of loading screens, but the gameplay was extremely fun. It does end with a cinematic and quick time events which was a bit disappointing, but it’s one of the few games I’ve played through multiple times.

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  • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I knew I forgot something! Fantastic style and soundtrack, engaging gameplay and a bit rough in execution - it was great.

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• tiny_mouse@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Counter Strike 2. It’s a toxic community, but I find it oddly addictive.

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  • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The update from CS:GO to CS2 made the game unplayable on my aging hardware which is the only thing that got me to stop playing.

    I’m in a single-player game phase now, and I have to say it’s nice having gaming sessions where I don’t get called every slur imaginable. That being said, Counter-Strike scratches a very specific gaming itch for me, I’ll definitely come crawling back one day.

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    • tiny_mouse@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oof… sorry. I haven’t played it in so long that I think I was playing CS:GO. It does have a certain appeal.

      I also live in a third world country so most games ping is very high. But CS is popular enough that there must be local servers. Because my ping is super low in CS. Another good reason I play it.

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• thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Deadly Premonition. What a sloppy mess but damn it’s fun.

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  • Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A sloppy messterpiece! I love Deadly Premonition! Highly recommend if you want some fantastic nonsense!

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  • simple@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    shame the sequel was so tedious and dull. Somehow they found a way to make the first one look like a masterpiece in comparison

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  • Theprogressivist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just looked it up and looks right up my alley. Especially with the Twin Peaks vibe. Gonna look into this one. Thanks!

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• Auster@thebrainbin.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Final Fantasy II - not Cecil's, but Firion's. If I could see people's faces in FF circles when I say that, I bet they'd be looking at me weird. e.e"

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  • missingno@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Grinding evasion by dual wielding shields and attacking yourself is peak game design.

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    • Auster@thebrainbin.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      defeats the dawn of souls final boss, phrekyos and deumion with the art of slapping

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