What "bad" games do you love?

[eagle5953]

Before websites that reviewed games, we had to buy games based on word-of-mouth and what was on the box. As such, we have all ended up with some pretty bad games.

That said, I have looked at reviews for some of my favorite old games, only to find that they received very poor reviews. I didn't know they were bad games until then!

Using Gamespot for my reviews, here's my list:
- Cybertiger (N64) : 3.8 out of 10
- Sarge's Heroes (N64) : 4.2 out of 10
- Crus'n World (N64) : 5.9 out of 10
- Demolition Racer (PS) : 6.4 out of 10
- Diddy Kong Racing (N64) : 6.6 out of 10

What supposedly 'terrible' games did you love to play?

[AfroLH]

Do they have to be old?

If not, I have alone in the dark for the 360 and it got some worse reviews than I thought.

[Oniak]

Do they have to be old?

If not, I have alone in the dark for the 360 and it got some worse reviews than I thought.

Same

[palmertech]

Pokemon Stadium 2 did not have stellar reviews. However, I loved that game to death.

Also, did you know that IGN gave pokemon yellow a perfect 10.0?

[Aguiluz]

The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night (PS2)

Got a 3.5 on IGN. You know why? Because they say it is too difficult and the reviewer soon gave up the game. There was another review that gave it a 4/10 on a forum I used to go. Same reason: The reviewers were so blown by the game's difficulty and gave it low marks. Heck, one of them had headaches playing it.

I loved it. I took 3 days to pass a single section of the whole level. (It was that hard.)

[eagle5953]

Gamespot did a little better and gave it a 5.0, calling it "frustrating" and "unoriginal."

I think I have the previous one, A New Beginning ( 5.8 ), but I haven't played it yet.

[Aguiluz]

I don't really care about the reviews. The storyline/plot is awesome.

[eagle5953]

I think the trick is this: figure out what 'negatives' don't bother you. The best way to do this is to look at poorly-rated games you enjoy. Based on that, you can usually pick out a pattern.

For example, these are not negatives to me:
- "short" : Unless it's really, really short, I don't care. I don't have 60 hours to play one game. Plus, the length almost always ignores multiplayer modes.
- "lacks multi-player" : While this can be a knock on a game, plenty of good games don't have/need multi-player.
- "unoriginal" : If it copies good games, it can be pretty good too. Plus, I may not have played the game it is cloning. How different can you really make a racing game that people will play?
- "easy" : Obviously, if we are talking about a kid's game, that's one thing, but I don't want to have to go online to figure out how to get past a point. Having a stupidly confusing puzzle or hidden location is a poor/easy way to pace and lengthen the game.

</my thoughts>

[AfroLH]

Do they have to be old?

If not, I have alone in the dark for the 360 and it got some worse reviews than I thought.

Same

Do you like the game?

I love it, but its really hard.

[Aguiluz]

- "unoriginal" : If it copies good games, it can be pretty good too. Plus, I may not have played the game it is cloning.

DJMAX Portable is a Beatmania clone. I loved the music tracks and the gameplay. Didn't play Beatmania. It didn't catch wind here in North America unfortunately and Konami is sueing DJMAX.

[sgtpepper]

The first one that comes to mind is "Carmageddon" for the N64. Apparently it was one of the lowest rated N64 games of all time, but I found that its ridiculousness was what made it so great!

The Nintendo 64 port was ill-received, being N64 Magazine's lowest rated game at 8% from 1999 till 2004. The magazine encouraged gamers to "take it off the shelves, rip up the box and throw the cart repeatedly at the wall until it breaks"

[Oniak]

Do they have to be old?

If not, I have alone in the dark for the 360 and it got some worse reviews than I thought.

Same

Do you like the game?

I love it, but its really hard.

Yeah its good, I'm not a fan of the controls and the whole movie style skipping thing, but its a good game overall

[eagle5953]

The first one that comes to mind is "Carmageddon" for the N64. Apparently it was one of the lowest rated N64 games of all time, but I found that its ridiculousness was what made it so great!

It's the second worst game on Gamespot, only above the universally reviled Superman 64.

[Sun-Wukong]

I don't have to bother posting review scores, the statement alone explains it all. Every new Sonic game except for Sonic 06 (haven't played it) and Sonic Riders: Zero gravity (played it, sold it, piece of crap). I think they're all just wonderful. In fact, the first Sonic game I even played was Adventure 2: Battle for the GameCube, and as much as I enjoyed the old games after I played them, I also love the new games. Even Shadow the Hedgehog.

[Valium]

Definitely Michael Jackson's Moonwalker.