RED_NOVA'S PROFILE

I was talking about games that just aren't well made. Etrian Odyssey and rougelike games aren't exactly popular, true, but they are well made games. (At least the ones I've played). Well thought out, relatively glitch free. High scores on review sites like Metacritic. Etc. Popularity wasn't really a factor. If you didn't like them, it was more a matter of personal preference than the game itself being bad.

I was talking about games that WEREN'T like the above. Games that were terribly made. Buggy, unfair, and about as polished as sandpaper. And yet, for some reason, they are fun. Maybe there's that one redeeming factor that you enjoy? Maybe because you really like the concept the developer(s) had and could derive enjoyment from that? Or maybe you're just a masochist that enjoy playing terrible games.

Games that you like despite how bad they are.

Here's my experience with the topic bug:

I go to create a topic, and it waits for about five minutes. Then, it takes me to an error page. I hit the back arrow then. But before I try to create the topic again, I open up a second tab to check the forum to see if the topic had been created. Nope.

So I go and repost the topic again. This time, while I wait for five minutes, I kept refreshing the second tab keeping an eye on the forum that I created my topic in. About three minutes later, I see that my topic has been created, but the first tab was still trying to create a new topic. So I closed down the tab before the process could finish.

As I'm writing this, I still kept refreshing my page. And yep, soon a duplicate topic was made, even though I closed down the tab first. So I guess a temporary solution would be for topic creators to just be patient and wait. Even though the error message will occur, the topic will be created.

There are good games. There are bad games. There are games that had wonderful potential but squandered it. And there are games that you enjoy for some reason even though, by all rights, you should hate them because of how terrible they were developed. This is a topic about the latter.

For me, a game I strangely enjoy is Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Yes, the A.I is terrible. Yes, the story is stupid. Yes, the characters were all HUNK wannabees. Yes, the Spec Ops fights were garbage. Yes, the set pieces were terrible. By all rights, I should have played it for about ten minutes then traded it in.

But I noticed when I was fighting zombies that I was, I can't believe I'm saying this, actually having fun! With hundreds of zombies, limited ammo, and a risk of becoming a zombie yourself with every hit you take, I really felt like I was in a survival situation where I had to pick my shots and use all my abilities to the fullest to escape with my life. When I went online and played with a friend, he had the exact same response.

And then we played online multiplayer, and we were still having fun. I guess bad enemy A.I really bogged down the offline campaign, because when we were playing against actual humans, it was loads of fun!

Honestly, if Operation Raccoon City was JUST about shooting zombies, I would have given the game an 8/10, with the terrible A.I bogging it down two pegs. The Spec Ops fights, unfortunately, brought the game down to a 4/10 for me.

I see what Slant Six was TRYING to do. The concept was absolutely brilliant, and the mechanics were very well implemented, like shooting a soldier in the stomach to make him bleed so the hordes of zombies would go after the enemy and not you. But too many little details ruined the overall game for me. Yet, for some reason, I keep coming back for more. I keep playing the missions where you only fight zombies, and I'm still having fun, despite constant taunts from my other gamer friends.

So what about you? What's a game you enjoy even though you shouldn't?

I love how both you and Marrend both pull me back into Game Mak constantly. You two are like the twins from The Shining.

"Don't go... come make games with us. Forever. And ever. And ever..."

Why are none of you taking the threat against my life seriously?! Oh god!

But I'm alive! I put ten locks on my door, set up security cameras all around my house, and installed gun sentries. Oh yeah, and I also bought a Rottweiler. That scared the little punk off!

And now I'm back to keep you entertained for days on end! And I have a new Rottweiler. I think I'll name him Happy.