What's your guilty pleasure?

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#1  Edited By TheGamerGeek

What's your guilty pleasure and what is a game that you really just don't understand all the hype around it?

My guilty pleasure would probably be WWE Smackdown vs. Raw '08 and the game where I really just don't understand the hype around is Halo 3. The game is good, don't get me wrong, but it's still not as good as the first two and I think I'm the only one that thought the ending blowed.

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#2  Edited By Player1

Guilty Pleasure- Animal Crossing. 

Can't understand the hype... Burnout Paradise. I just can't get into that game...even though I really want too. 
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#3  Edited By TheGamerGeek
Player1 said:
"Guilty Pleasure- Animal Crossing. 
Can't understand the hype... Burnout Paradise. I just can't get into that game...even though I really want too. 
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Ah, I completely understand the Burnout thing. I won't to get into it so bad but I always wreck during races and it infuriates me way too much to continue.
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#4  Edited By Black_Rose

Guilty Pleasure: Dragon Ball Z Sagas and Apocalypse starring Bruce Willis, those games are terrible and i still like them >_>.

Can't understand the hype: Halo series.

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#5  Edited By Carlos

Pokemon pearl is my guilty pleasure and the game I cant figure out the hype about is MGS4, I find it boring but thats just me... I guess I dont hate it but I find other games way better.

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#6  Edited By whackmypinata

Animal Crossing. Best guilty pleasure, ever.

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#7  Edited By NeoTheta

Guilty Pleasure: Soldier Front (it's so bad, yet so good!)
Can't understand hype: Halo 2 and 3. I love Halo 1, but to me, they TOTALLY went downhill after it. 2 and 3 are ONLY redeemed by their decent multiplayer. Otherwise, they're awful.

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#9  Edited By jakob187

My guilty pleasure...and man, are people gonna flame me for this...is the "Warriors" games.  That's right.  I LIKE Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors, and Warriors Orochi.  I don't know why.  I just have a thing for being a loot and leveling whore!  =  (

As for hype that I don't understand, I absolutely understand why a lot of the "hyped" games get the hype.  I could use this as a moment to rag on games that everyone but me seems to enjoy, like Gears or Halo 3 or Oblivion or Soul Calibur.  However, I won't...because this is a question about "hype".  The one game that I don't understand the "hype" around is Fable II.  There is a solid reason for this, so hear me out before you flame and bash:

Fable II has this hype to be this incredible and amazing game, very much the "coming of the Messiah" type of hype we see all the time.  The first game got fairly good reviews, but there were such HUGE criticisms about the game - what was promised and what it lacked of those promises.  Molyneux has done this with almost every game, and it just surprises me that there is SOOOOO much hype around Fable II...even with people knowing what the first game lacked.  Count into that the thinned-out pre-order package, the lack of online co-op at launch, and all this other stuff...and I would think the hype would have lowered some, but people are just getting crazier about it.  It's so weird.
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#10  Edited By Dalai

My guilty pleasure?  Text-based baseball management sims like the Out of the Park series.

I don't understand the hype behind any SquareEnix games... I... I just don't get it.

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#11  Edited By Gunner

Guilty pleasure - all of the WWII games i own, that setting never gets boring for me for some reason.

I don't understand the hype behind Bioshock, it was a good game but the gameplay wasnt all that great.

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My guilty pleasure would be Raving Rabbids 2.  No other game has made me laugh as much.


I don't get the hype around The Sims.

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#13  Edited By Dimsey

Guilty Pleasure? The Sims series. Don't look at me like that.
Don't understand the hype behind many JRPGs. Only type I can get behind are the "tactics" style games, like Final Fantasy Tactics or Ogre Battle or Shining Force or whathaveyou. Those I like.
The average FFgame or FF clone? Dunno. Just meh.

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#14  Edited By whyzenheimer

My guilty pleasure is turn-based strategy.  Mmmmmm tactics games.  NIS games, Final Fantasy Tactics (even FFTA and TA2, though they don't compare really), Tactics Ogre, and Advance Wars are just the beginning.  I beat Onimusha Tactics for the love of Pete!  I haven't played any other game in the Onimusha series, I just saw "Tactics" and bought that bad boy.   You give me a grid and some 2d sprites to level up, perhaps a fifth of decent bourbon to keep me mellow, and I'm a happy man.

A game I didn't understand the hype for was Sins of a Solar Empire.  It wasn't a heavy advertising campaign, but all my friends who like strategy games raved about it like it was the second coming of Jebus.  I just could not get into it for some reason.  I'd say it was because I don't like 4x games but I love me some Civ, so who knows.  The game just bored me to death somehow.  Wish I had more concrete reasons for absolutely loathing it, but sometimes games just don't click the same for people.

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#15  Edited By Lies

Guilty pleasure is TFU, I just don't get any sort of JRPG like Final Fantasy.

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#16  Edited By Subway

Guilt please: Blacksite? Over hyped: Oh so many, Burnout Paradise, Zelda, Resistance, GTA, Halo to an extent, Final Fantasy, I could keep going.

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#17  Edited By DARKIDO07

Gears of War 1

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#18  Edited By Bennyishere

Guilty pleasure.... I'm not sure, but Ninja Gaiden II got a lot of criticism and I absolutely loved that game. I don't really see the problem with the camera (no pun intended).

A game I don't understand the hype around is Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. It's gorgeous, it's Banjo, but vehicles? Really?

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#19  Edited By LuckyWanderDude

Aside from heroin, I totally enjoy Battletanx.

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#21  Edited By Relys

Playing Oblivion.

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#22  Edited By Dr_Feelgood38

Hmmm... Guilty pleasure? Maybe Crysis.
I don't understand the hype around all of the Madden games, I mean... It's just madden 08 with like 3 new features. Why get so excited about it? (this also goes for all Mario Party games).

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#23  Edited By c1337us

I dont have any guilty pleasures. Dont understand the hype = HALO + many more.

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#24  Edited By MasturbatingBear

Dont understand the hype for metal gear solid 4. I didn't like it that much. I dont really know whats a guilty pleasure. it really depends on someones opinion.

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#25  Edited By Hamz

Guilty Pleasure? - Peggle Extreme, just cant get enough Peggle!

Can't understand the hype around? - Console gaming in general.

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#26  Edited By tekmojo
Hamz said:
"Guilty Pleasure? - Peggle Extreme, just cant get enough Peggle!

Can't understand the hype around? - Console gaming in general."
$4.99 on steam this weekend, i may pick it up
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#27  Edited By m1k3

"h-games" whoooo

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#28  Edited By PitifullPete

My guilty pleasure: every year I install either a) Ultima 7: the black gate b) X-com: Terror from the deep or c) Jagged Alliance 2
I can't get the hype around: Halo and many other more generic sci/fi or ww2  shooters. Hell, they just look so arbitrary to me. (There are also alot of shooters I enjoyed).

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#29  Edited By Tordah

I'd say my guilty pleasures are the Lego games. I should be too old for them but they're just too much fun to avoid.

I don't really understand the hype around Final Fantasy in general. Don't people ever get tired of the series?

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#30  Edited By theshadow027

Guilty Pleasure: Runescape even though I hardly play it now.

Games that I don't understand the hype about: Mario Party because it's just a little collection of mini-games and it's almost the same game every time.

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#31  Edited By Jayge_

My guilty pleasures are waaaay too crazy to list (in terms of games).

Games that I don't understand the love for? Most fighting games.

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#32  Edited By Discorsi

Guilty Pleasure: Halo 3

Don't understand the hype: LitleBigPlanet.  You want to create something?  Go to metal shop or draw something.

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#33  Edited By h8smikemoore

procrastinating

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#34  Edited By LoZone

my guilty pleasure is playing madden 09, alot of people hate ea but i love madden,  online record so far 6-2.

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#35  Edited By Claude

Guilty pleasure: Ticket to Ride
Don't understand the hype: GTA IV