Video Games you regret admitting you like..

Seems to be a "Video games you regret.." theme on Sega-16. In that vein, what are the games you shamefully admit to liking? Just horrible games you still come back to. I'll start with my top 5:

1. Super Pitfall
This game gets a bad rap. Negative comments from "Mario clone" to "horrible music" get thrown at this title. To be honest, every system gets its typecast genre. N64 had 3D platformers. SegaCD had FMV games. NES just had many side-scrolling platformers. What killed Super Pitfalls music wasn't lazy composers: they tried to be faithful to that limited music heritage it had including Pitfall II.

2. Battlemaster
Okay, this game scrolls like a granite block on rubber. Cheap sinkhole traps and overpowered enemies abound. I guess the fact you could cheat back and long distance spam kept me going.

3. Mixed Up Mother Goose
This tells you the power of Sierra back in the day. As long as it used the AGI system I was on it even if the title was meant for bed-wetters on down.

4. Saga Frontier
Oblivion game designers should have been forced to play this before implementing "level with you" enemies. Oh, and the stories in English made less sense than Romancing Saga in Japanese - and I can't READ Japanese!

5. As teenagers me and my classmates would sarcastically joke about snagging a copy of Shove-It. Just the name begs for degradation. Sadly, I now own a copy and love it! So many levels! I actually dig the 80's FM groove cheese that they chose to go with for music. Hey! if you like Sokoban then you can Shove-It!

None. I keep it real.

Yeah, I don't really have any guilty pleasure games. I pretty much consider them all guilty pleasures.

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Originally Posted by segaddict

None. I keep it real.

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That's very cool of you man. I'm glad you have never played a game someone else doesn't like.

Still, you should take a break from Toilet Kids someday.

P.S. Joking of course. No offense :) I'm glad people have a good attitude and an open mind about gaming.

If I like it, you'll know it. Shame isn't even in my gaming dictionary. Retrogamer and proud, now that's what it fucking is.

Okay, maybe I tried to stick with the "Video games you regret.." theme too hard. Anyone care to list their LEAST mainstream/popular game they like?

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Originally Posted by slobu

Okay, maybe I tried to stick with the "Video games you regret.." theme too hard. Anyone care to list their LEAST mainstream/popular game they like?

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If you put it that way Sakura Wars. But I will openly admit I love them. I made my friends sit there and watch the first 2 hours of the game when it was all dating sim before you get to the first battle. They absolutely hated it and didnt understand why I would play it. Like its all worth it for the challenge of the battles.

Awesome idea for a thread! I will start with Sword of the Berzerk and Draconus Cult of the Wyrm on Dreamcast, and Quartet on the Master System.

Sonic Spinball, though it does piss me off sometimes. It seems if I play it with no care at all, I blast right through it, but as soon as I put any effort into playing it, even the most simple task takes forever.

For the record, I've made it up to the final stage before with no Game Genie or anything. I lost all my lives because the last stage is really hard.

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Originally Posted by Clessy

If you put it that way Sakura Wars. But I will openly admit I love them. I made my friends sit there and watch the first 2 hours of the game when it was all dating sim before you get to the first battle. They absolutely hated it and didnt understand why I would play it. Like its all worth it for the challenge of the battles.

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It's strange. I have no problem declaring my love for dating sims and cleavage based RPGs like Ar Tonelico. When it comes to Battlemaster my friends just sit there in silence like I just told them about the first puppy I accidentally threw in the washing machine.

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Originally Posted by sheath

Sword of the Berzerk

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Im gonna have to say if anyone doesn't like that game they can go burn in hell and die. Its so fucking awesome and the graphics fucking blew my mind when it first came out.

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Originally Posted by sheath

Awesome idea for a thread! I will start with Sword of the Berzerk and Draconus Cult of the Wyrm on Dreamcast, and Quartet on the Master System.

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I'm afraid Clessy is right. Sword of the Berzerk rocked with iron fists of steel! Pretty intense graphics and definitely comparable to PS2. I played the royal hoohaa out of that game and I DONT like 3d action / FPS games. Never played Draconus. I can say Quartet graphics were a real turnoff even back in the day. Nothing wrong with the gameplay though.

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I'm afraid Clessy is right. Sword of the Berzerk rocked with iron fists of steel! Pretty intense graphics and definitely comparable to PS2. I played the royal hoohaa out of that game and I DONT like 3d action / FPS games. Never played Draconus. I can say Quartet graphics were a real turnoff even back in the day. Nothing wrong with the gameplay though.

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It's really that good? I've never played it before, but I guess it's another great reason to buy a Dreamcast.:)

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It's really that good? I've never played it before, but I guess it's another great reason to buy a Dreamcast.:)

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Im not gonna lie the DC makes me cry of huge Sega fanboyism but, it really has tons of worthwhile games. I've never seen a system push out so many must have titles in 1 to 2 years. Sword of the Berzerker is a game I play almost once a year. I think i've had a DC hooked up after system launch. Well until recently when it got thrown away in my move. If I wasnt saving up for a trick to Canada i'd go out and buy another one.

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Originally Posted by slobu

Okay, maybe I tried to stick with the "Video games you regret.." theme too hard. Anyone care to list their LEAST mainstream/popular game they like?

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Mine would probably be the Dynasty Warriors series. They get a lot of hate and claims of "repetitiveness", but I've always enjoyed playing them.

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Originally Posted by Clessy

If I wasnt saving up for a trick to Canada i'd go out and buy another one.

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You come all the way to Canada just for prostitutes?

Anyway, I like Toilet Kids. I was just playing it today with a friend. It's always good for a laugh. The spiders at the end of level one crack me up.

I really can't think of any game I regret admitting I like. When I was a kid in school, I didn't tell anyone that wasn't my friend that I liked RPGs. I would only admit to playing sports and fighting games.

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Originally Posted by Guntz

Sonic Spinball, though it does piss me off sometimes. It seems if I play it with no care at all, I blast right through it, but as soon as I put any effort into playing it, even the most simple task takes forever.

For the record, I've made it up to the final stage before with no Game Genie or anything. I lost all my lives because the last stage is really hard.

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This right here seems to be my problem with everything. If I care, I am terrible at it, if I don't care I win like hell. What is that?

I never really liked it, but I certainly felt like a queer buying Sonic Unleashed a few years ago. Usually when I buy a Sonic game I feel the need to buy something respectable along with it for the personal image I project.

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Originally Posted by Breetai

You come all the way to Canada just for prostitutes?

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Damn typo's. Trip! I had to renew my passport (220 usd and a rip off ) then get tickets $600, then a hotel $350 which was super cheap wii then I need about $1000 just in spending. Plus Canada currency is worth more than the usd right now which sucks.

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Originally Posted by sheath

This right here seems to be my problem with everything. If I care, I am terrible at it, if I don't care I win like hell. What is that?

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The same thing happens to me all the time! But no, I unfortunately cannot explain this phenomenon.

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The same thing happens to me all the time! But no, I unfortunately cannot explain this phenomenon.

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Some things are unexplainable. I once was not able to beat a series of bosses in Romancing Saga PS2 sober but nevertheless woke up with a hangover and underwear on my head with ALL the bosses defeated. How did I beat all those over-leveled bosses like that? And why did everything smell of peppermint schnapps?

We need to get Watermelon or Super Fighter Team to make a game that will help us all think about this problem.

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Originally Posted by Breetai

You come all the way to Canada just for prostitutes?

Anyway, I like Toilet Kids.

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Those two completely unrelated sentences are made of win.

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Originally Posted by sheath

We need to get Watermelon or Super Fighter Team to make a game that will help us all think about this problem.

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The new lineup:

Pier Sarcasm
and the great under text

The Hobo Formerly Known as the Begger Prince

Super Fighting Rooster Battles

Mango Biter 2

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Originally Posted by Clessy

Im not gonna lie the DC makes me cry of huge Sega fanboyism but, it really has tons of worthwhile games. I've never seen a system push out so many must have titles in 1 to 2 years.

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I've never seen a system have such a high ratio of good games... Which makes Sega quitting out the Dreamcast even more annoying. At least you could argue they had quit with a good system =P

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I've never seen a system have such a high ratio of good games... Which makes Sega quitting out the Dreamcast even more annoying. At least you could argue they had quit with a good system =P

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I hate to bring my topic even further off-topic but once peeps figured out how to run burned CDs the homebrew scene really went berserk. Crazy good homebrew and emulators. The only thing that comes close is PSP dev.

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4. Saga Frontier
Oblivion game designers should have been forced to play this before implementing "level with you" enemies. Oh, and the stories in English made less sense than Romancing Saga in Japanese - and I can't READ Japanese!

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I actually love SaGa Frontier, even in its unfinished, badly-translated state. The battle system and character progression is just so much damn fun, and I love all of the different regions and intersecting stories. I actually finished the game with every character, and then fought all of the super bosses in the developer room. I spent something like 150 hours with my playthrough of Frontier, and I enjoyed every minute of it!

Definitely one of my favorite PSX games.

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I actually love SaGa Frontier, even in its unfinished, badly-translated state. The battle system and character progression is just so much damn fun, and I love all of the different regions and intersecting stories. I actually finished the game with every character, and then fought all of the super bosses in the developer room. I spent something like 150 hours with my playthrough of Frontier, and I enjoyed every minute of it!

Definitely one of my favorite PSX games.

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Am playing that right now. I have a friend that beat the developer room just out of spite and NEVER touched the game again. I actually did enjoy Romancing Saga 1 better on the Super Famicom. One of the rare Japanese RPGs I beat despite some very poor reading skills.

Bug! for the Saturn. Loved that silly little game.

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This right here seems to be my problem with everything. If I care, I am terrible at it, if I don't care I win like hell. What is that?

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This is what I call the Lightening Force syndrome. The game is utter generic shit with stroke victim slowdown and I hate it and own it and can thump it. Fireshark almost put me to sleep for 5 levels straight = 1LC 2-4 loop. So Gekirindan, Layer Section, Panzer Dragoon, Gun Frontier, all my favourites... = the Continue Screen Lounge. I can't finish Gun Frontier with turbo and infinite continues, and I've developed a block against PD which 1LCing should be a walk.
---Sakura Wars does not count. And it's the mech combat that sucks. Sakura's annoyed animations are the funniest I've ever seen.
---Saga Frontier: Why does everybody assume when the dialogue makes no sense it was badly translated? That whole game is broken. Not that it doesn't have more worthwhile elements than most smoothly running games.
---Punky Skunk anyone? No? No.

Virtual Call is mine. It's insultingly cheap, there just aren't any animations, nor much voicing to make up for it. With either it could've been quite good, though some of the dialogue makes me tap at shooter speed. It's fucking stupid, but I like it.

Briganty (PC98)
Night Slave (PC98)
Steam Hears (PC98)

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I never really liked it, but I certainly felt like a queer buying Sonic Unleashed a few years ago. Usually when I buy a Sonic game I feel the need to buy something respectable along with it for the personal image I project.

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Buy it online then. ;) @Guntz regarding Spinball: Has anyone beaten the game? Robotnik seems invincible, no matter how many times I strike a hit, he still lives.

Lion King (Genesis) and Rise of Nations (PC).

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Originally Posted by sketch

Bug! for the Saturn. Loved that silly little game.

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I liked that too :O

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Originally Posted by opwuaioc

Lion King (Genesis) and Rise of Nations (PC).

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o_O?!? Why? Those are good games.

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o_O?!? Why? Those are good games.

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Don't understand Rise of Nations but movie games are usually wack like crack. Still, every movie game should be given the benefit of the doubt unless:

A. LJN made it or
B. The title starts with "Street Fighter: The Movie"

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Originally Posted by Kamahl

o_O?!? Why? Those are good games.

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I agree, but 1) what slobu said, and 2) who still plays RoN in 2011?

People should be ashamed for liking Sonic R.
I know you're out there.

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Originally Posted by opwuaioc

I agree, but 1) what slobu said, and 2) who still plays RoN in 2011?

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Who still plays the Mega Drive in 2011? ;)

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Originally Posted by Olls

People should be ashamed for liking Sonic R.
I know you're out there.

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Never! I will defend that game until the bitter end!