What are your gaming guilty pleasures

With PSN down I was looking at games that I haven't Touched in a while and saw Tekken 6. After booting It up I started the scenario mode that I have barely  touched, and I couldn't believe it; I loved the Scenario mode. I could tell it was bad, like really bad, but something kept drawing me forward. The beat up game-play mixed with the loot grinding elements, and using characters I loved was really sick. It defiantly wasn't something I would recommend to fighting game fan, or a diablo fan.... or a person. but I liked it!

The only games that I enjoy that I'm somewhat embarrassed about are the Kingdom Hearts games. I'm pretty self-confident, but even I have trouble sometimes justifying why I'm spending some time by myself playing an action-RPG crossover between Final Fantasy and Disney with a convoluted, melodramatic, saccharine plot as a 25 year old man.

There are many great offline single player games. Not all of us live online. If anything, most games that focus on online play are "bad".

Dynasty Warriors, and any game of it's ilk. I keep telling myself to stop being part of the problem and to stop playing them, but eventually I do, And evertime it's the same deal, I go into a trance  until I finish them, not being able to play anything else, and it always makes me feel a little dirty inside.

I think there was a thread like this....

Britney's Dance Beat.

Mirror's Edge is one of them.  I like that game way more than I should and it deserves.  I think I like the idea of that game more than the actual gameplay.

I also put Beyond Good and Evil in my top 10 games of all time.  I know why someone wouldn't like that game but I really, really enjoyed it at the time and have replayed it over and over again and have enjoyed as much as the first time each time I play it.

" There are many great offline single player games. Not all of us live online. If anything, most games that focus on online play are "bad". "

" The only games that I enjoy that I'm somewhat embarrassed about are the Kingdom Hearts games. I'm pretty self-confident, but even I have trouble sometimes justifying why I'm spending some time by myself playing an action-RPG crossover between Final Fantasy and Disney with a convoluted, melodramatic, saccharine plot as a 25 year old man. "

I had so much fun with Prototype, even thought that game was rough as hell. It was just so funny to go into military bases, seek up behind people and consume them without anyone noticing, until it's just you and one last dude who can't quite put together that something's wrong, despite that fact that his whole squad is missing and you're gliding around the air. And then you go outside, kick a helicopter, fly away, run up the side of a building and dive bomb into a busy city street. Man that game is stupid. And awesome.

I don't have anything I feel guilty about enjoying. If I like it then I like it and will look for more games that are similar.

" I don't have anything I feel guilty about enjoying."

" I don't have anything I feel guilty about enjoying. If I like it then I like it and will look for more games that are similar. "

fatality

I play quite a lot. Of bejeweled 3, especially the totally useless Zen mode...

I will admit to the ultimate guilty pleasure.

Lost Planet 2. I can see how bad that game is, but give me mechs and giant bugs and I just don't give a fuck.

I sometimes take the disc, lube up the hole and then I put my...oh, wait...you didn't mean that kind of guilty pleasure...never mind!

I actually enjoyed Final Fantasy X-2, and for reasons beyond the fact that I was a twelve year old boy...but mostly because I was a twelve year old boy.

Otherwise, no game I'm really guilty of. I should replay that game, see how it holds up.

Edit: Oh! I also really like Drakengard, but I'm not guilty of that at all so I don't know if it counts.

I kind of like Sonic Unleashed. Kind of.

Going through tutorials when I already know how to play.

Spice World, Barbie Make-Over games, the first DoAX was pretty good, Surf's Up, Enchanted Arms...

Ghostbusters, because god damn am I huge GB fan and boy oh boy did I get caught up in the hype machine for that one. I got the special limited edition I have since thrown the stickers away, and the Slimer statue got busted up because of my girlfriends fat-ass cat not knowing how to jump on a ledge a tad too narrow for him. It wasn't a bad game per say, just very middle of the road. 

anything with MUSIC!
Ima sap when it comes to singing,dancing or playing some kind of fake instrument!

Jedi power battles. I used to play it alot when I was a kid, probably still like to play it because of the nostalgia. Just did a multiplayer run a month ago with a friend who is equally nostalgic towards the game. We had to restart the Darth Maul fight over six times because he was utterly incapable of exiting the stage correctly (got stuck into walls, started to doing infinite number of air jumps into a random direction etc. etc.) That game was buggy as hell on top of all the other bad stuff, but we loved it :)

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@crusader8463 said:

" I don't have anything I feel guilty about enjoying. If I like it then I like it and will look for more games that are similar. "

so you don't enjoy any games you know are bad, or you just don't think any game that you do enjoy could be bad? "

LOTR: The Third Age..... yes it is a LOTR game but it is one of the better ones at least. I have played that game so much since I got it when it first came out.... years ago.

Tron Evolution was a pretty good game if you ask me

X-Men Origins: Wolverine, seriously, that game is frikin rad. That's right, rad!

I also love P.N.03 more than I should according to a lot of people, but hey.

If I like the game why would I think it's bad or be ashamed of it? It can have problems, but why would I ever be ashamed of liking something? I don't understand that. If I like it, then I like it. I'm not going to hide it under my bed, pretend I never played it, or act like it's some deep dark secret that I can never reveal to anyone who asks me about it.

It's a dam video game. It's not some kinky sex fetish you need to hide from people out of fear of being ostracized or ridiculed.

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" X-Men Origins: Wolverine, seriously, that game is frikin rad. That's right, rad!I also love P.N.03 more than I should according to a lot of people, but hey. "

Oh, well in that case, Yu-Gi-Oh! games. I haven't played one in years, but ohhhh man do I think about them all the time. Most of my childhood was spent dueling in the laundry rooms of American Apartment Buildings wherever I went. I just can't let it go... No matter how bad the shows have gotten(Although the new cards are pretty nice).

I still love the Duelists Of The Roses. That game was so rad.

" LOTR: The Third Age..... yes it is a LOTR game but it is one of the better ones at least. I have played that game so much since I got it when it first came out.... years ago. "

I guess it has to be getting silent hill shattered memories for the ps2 last year great game but super dated graphics especially when I been  playing games on the PC for 6 years now.

" Mirror's Edge is one of them.  I like that game way more than I should and it deserves. "

Alot of Japanese RPGs.  A few recent examples include Ar Tonelico Qoga and Hyperdimension Neptunia.  Played them both and really enjoyed them.  I'd also have to say that I really enjoy visual novel style games on the DS like 9hours 9persons 9doors.

Also I really enjoyed WET

" X-Men Origins: Wolverine, seriously, that game is frikin rad. That's right, rad!I also love P.N.03 more than I should according to a lot of people, but hey. "

Yeah there was a thread on this, but my two guilty pleasure would be:

I'd say my guilty pleasure would be Super Street Fighter 4. This guilt is due to the amount of hours I've spent playing that game. If they real world had any true idea, they would be ashamed.
In terms of bad games I still enjoy, Stronghold Crusader. I see many flaws, I know there are loads of newer, shinier and better balanced RTS games out there yet it draws me back like a moth to a broken flame.

LEGO games. I enjoy them way more than I probably should.

" @crusader8463 said: 

If I like the game why would I think it's bad or be ashamed of it? It can have problems, but why would I ever be ashamed of liking something? I don't understand that. If I like it, then I like it. I'm not going to hide it under my bed, pretend I never played it, or act like it's some deep dark secret that I can never reveal to anyone who asks me about it.

It's a dam video game. It's not some kinky sex fetish you need to hide from people out of fear of being ostracized or ridiculed.

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umm... I'm not sure if you quite got what a guilty pleasure IS. Its not a game you're ashamed of liking per se, it's a game that you know has flaws, but for some reason you like anyhow. For example childhood nostalgia, or the game being attached to an IP that you really enjoy. "

Superman 64, but only when there are other people watching. I realize the irony of a guilty pleasure that can only be enjoyed in the presence of others.

I feel a bit ashamed that I liked Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

" @TechHits said:

" @crusader8463 said: 

If I like the game why would I think it's bad or be ashamed of it? It can have problems, but why would I ever be ashamed of liking something? I don't understand that. If I like it, then I like it. I'm not going to hide it under my bed, pretend I never played it, or act like it's some deep dark secret that I can never reveal to anyone who asks me about it.

It's a dam video game. It's not some kinky sex fetish you need to hide from people out of fear of being ostracized or ridiculed.

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umm... I'm not sure if you quite got what a guilty pleasure IS. Its not a game you're ashamed of liking per se, it's a game that you know has flaws, but for some reason you like anyhow. For example childhood nostalgia, or the game being attached to an IP that you really enjoy. "

By that description then every game ever made, because they all have flaws. "

" With PSN down I was looking at games that I haven't Touched in a while and saw Tekken 6. After booting It up I started the scenario mode that I have barely  touched, and I couldn't believe it; I loved the Scenario mode. I could tell it was bad, like really bad, but something kept drawing me forward. The beat up game-play mixed with the loot grinding elements, and using characters I loved was really sick. It defiantly wasn't something I would recommend to fighting game fan, or a diablo fan.... or a person. but I liked it!

What are some of your gaming guilt pleasures, that is stuff you know is bad, but like anyhow. 

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" @JasonR86 said:

" Mirror's Edge is one of them.  I like that game way more than I should and it deserves. "

What's wrong with Mirror's Edge? I'd say it deserves a whole lot of appreciation. "