Your Guilty Pleasure Games

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A few other people mentioned them and I'm 100% all about fucking Hamtaro games.
Unite and Heartbreak was pretty much baby's first Adventure Game for me, I really adored them as a kid. The Hamster dictionary tickled my autism in all the right ways and the puzzles and minigames weren't too hard for me who at the time really sucked at games. But the best fucking one was Ham Ham Games, the little Olympics themed rhythm game. Sure it had that weird kind of pointless friend trading card shit but the actual game parts are still pretty fun.

Besides that I really like weird shit, not even pretentiously I don't really give a shit about the whole games as art debate at this point, I just love weird games especially broken ones. Like those depressing Russian games on steam about painting women with your soul. I love that shit.
 
Jester said:
I will probably be eternally damned for this but...

Sonic 06. Not just because of the glitches, which are damn hilarious and entertaining... But just because I didn't find it as bad as people made it out to be? I guess I have high standards.

Now Sonic Boom, THAT'S a bad game. Even Sonic 06 had at least an amazing soundtrack, while Sonic Boom's is boring and forgettable.
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To me, Sonic 06 at least had some amount of potential. If they just replaced Sonic and his woodland creature entourage, heavily revised the story, kept the setting and music the same, and make the overall gameplay more focused and polished, perhaps it could have been good. There were inklings of a good game in it, but they're all smothered by both technical issues and general design issues.

Vorkken said:
A few other people mentioned them and I'm 100% all about fucking Hamtaro games.
Unite and Heartbreak was pretty much baby's first Adventure Game for me, I really adored them as a kid. The Hamster dictionary tickled my autism in all the right ways and the puzzles and minigames weren't too hard for me who at the time really sucked at games. But the best fucking one was Ham Ham Games, the little Olympics themed rhythm game. Sure it had that weird kind of pointless friend trading card shit but the actual game parts are still pretty fun.

Besides that I really like weird shit, not even pretentiously I don't really give a shit about the whole games as art debate at this point, I just love weird games especially broken ones. Like those depressing Russian games on steam about painting women with your soul. I love that shit.
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I also really enjoyed some of the Hamtaro games as a kid. In fact I still kinda have a soft spot for them. I remember spending a lot of time with the dancing mini game in Heartbreak, where you use the numerous animations of Hamtaro and Bijou to dance along to the several songs throughout the game.

I could never figure out that one dancing competition puzzle though. So I had one word in the hamster dictionary that I never unlocked. Shame, I completed everything else in the game. :(
 
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scorptatious said:
I could never figure out that one dancing competition puzzle though. So I had one word in the hamster dictionary that I never unlocked. Shame, I completed everything else in the game. :(
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It's been years and I know exactly what you're talking about, the fucking hula contest. That was the last thing I got in that game because eventually I gave up as a kid and ended up cheating and looking up the word order for the dance. :heart-empty:

Jester said:
Sonic 06. Not just because of the glitches, which are damn hilarious and entertaining... But just because I didn't find it as bad as people made it out to be? I guess I have high standards.
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scorptatious said:
To me, Sonic 06 at least had some amount of potential. If they just replaced Sonic and his woodland creature entourage, heavily revised the story, kept the setting and music the same, and make the overall gameplay more focused and polished, perhaps it could have been good. There were inklings of a good game in it, but they're all smothered by both technical issues and general design issues.
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I never played the thing because by then I was over Sonic games for sometime but I have gotten curious about 06 from time to time if just because it looks similar to the first Sonic Adventure. I liked the dinky sorta open world parts of that game enough that I like 1 more than 2.

I can't speak for my opinion on the Sonic Adventure games as an adult to be honest because I've never properly replayed them, I just go mess around in the Chao Gardens every time I try to.
 
exball said:
I love prototype on the most primal level. There are few things as awesome as bringing down an infected hive while slaughtering tons of hunters.
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I like that game, too. The concept of a mad scientist developing Lovecraftian super-powers caught me and never let go.
 
Bronchitis that Lingers said:
Holy shit, does anyone remember Humongous games like Pajama Sam, Spy Fox and Putt Putt? I remember I found Pajama Sam for PS1 about eight years ago and ran through it in a nostolgia fueled afternoon. I wish I could find the older stuff, but like @Golly I have a Mac now, so that complicates things. (Your post made me think of this and sperg, fucking Macs man)
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Humongous games are fucking glorious. My dad worked at Humongous inc before it was bought out, so We had all the games for free, and I dearly loved every single one of them.
Balloon-o-rama was so addicting ;_;
 
Megahertz said:
Humongous games are fucking glorious. My dad worked at Humongous inc before it was bought out, so We had all the games for free, and I dearly loved every single one of them.
Balloon-o-rama was so addicting ;_;
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No way! That's so rad. I only played the adventure games like Freddy Fish, Pajama Sam, etc. can't say I remember Balloon-o-Rama unless it was one of the side games? Like that one sub game on Spyfox's watch? Oh god does anyone remember that?! There were stalagmites and stalagtites and you had to navigate through the sea? ANYONE?

I would kill to play some Spyfox right now...somewhere, 2000 miles away in my parents' attic, there's a Windows94 with a bunch of H! games collecting dust that's calling my name...worth a trip home, in my opinion.
Or you know, I could just emulate them. But that isn't as magical.
 
Waifu said:
I feel kinda lame playin' Tomodachi life... but I play it literally every day routinely.
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I tend to play that every now and again. I once made a Mii of Chris and made a few of his songs some of his videos. Like the Heavy Metal song is Chris Loses It. He even appeared in a news report allegedly running "A Dating Ed Class"
 
Shadow The Hedgehog is a big guilty pleasure for me.

It's bar-none one of the funniest games ever made because of how pants-on-head stupid it is about everything single thing.

Shadow's animations are rubbery and the guns alternate between replicas of real firearms and brightly colored spaceguns. The main villain is called Black Doom. The branching storylines mechanic is needlessly complex while also barely affecting the gameplay. Shadow acts like a goth kid's fursona. The plot is corny as hell and messy.

And it's all taken so very, very seriously. It's video gaming's The Room. It's terrible but just playable enough for its goofy charm to really shine through.
 
Bungleboy said:
Shadow The Hedgehog is a big guilty pleasure for me.

It's bar-none one of the funniest games ever made because of how pants-on-head stupid it is about everything single thing.

Shadow's animations are rubbery and the guns alternate between replicas of real firearms and brightly colored spaceguns. The main villain is called Black Doom. The branching storylines mechanic is needlessly complex while also barely affecting the gameplay. Shadow acts like a goth kid's fursona. The plot is corny as hell and messy.

And it's all taken so very, very seriously. It's video gaming's The Room. It's terrible but just playable enough for its goofy charm to really shine through.
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Can I also add that the guns, as stupid as they were, actually worked pretty well from a gameplay standpoint
 
Sonic Heroes was the first 3D Sonic game I played and enjoyed. The dialogue is no doubt corny, though.
 
The WWE 2K series. They're awful, glitchy, stupid, and the fighting itself is slow paced and akward compared to more traditional fighting games, but goddamn if I don't love playing them.
 
Hood Warfare. Not because its embarassing so much as because it is just the lowest effort garbage you can imagine. It is as pure of an FPS as you could get, run in, shoot, get instantly shot down. No frills at all.

Some examples of it being garbage:
It has PS2 graphics, which could be fine, lots of PS2 games look good. Can even be a stylistic choice. But despite choosing PS2 looking graphics, it still has issues with outfits clipping and I once shot a chair and saw a bullethole appear floating in the air.
Can't see your own score after a match
Spawn kills are so bad most of the game modes are completely unplayable
No music at all
No skyboxes, the map will just terminate into vast empty green fields
No good map design, it turns into a meat grinder at the middle every time
 
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Phantasy Star Online. I've never played a Sonic game, but damn have I memorized the lyrics of the songs as a result of playing Phantasy Star. Used to play on SCHTServ before they became immensely retarded instead of just normal retarded. The battle system is shit, the plot is shit, but it's so enjoyable.
 
Yooka-Laylee i guess, it's not a perfect game, but most of it's flaws never bothered me that much, i actually liked having gigantic levels to just run around exploring and collecting shit, and the minekart segments and the shitty final boss weren't bad enough to be a deal breaker for me.
 
Soulcalibur 3; fucking love that game; nothing better than beatin the shit outta weak ass hoes with a giant sword.
It would be MK Aramagoaddon if I wasn't too damn pussy about the gore
 
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