Now I'm not talking about bad as in completely soulless and creatively bankrupt games like Gollum or (insert zombie survival asset flip here) but more like the games that promised the world but missed their mark massively and became commercial failures.
Tomb raider angel of darkness widely known as what killed the franchise and Core design for me is actually a really enjoyable and completely absurd experience. The game has a fever dream like quality to it that i find quite mysterious and alluring. I sense an attempt at an immersive sim but eidos didn't seem interested in letting the team finish it.
Sonic 06. I can't explain it but it has an allure i can't quite explain. On all fronts its bad but I can't stop thinking about it. With better controls this game could have been a lot better than it was.
Operation winback on the ps2. Brilliant game, my favourite third person shooter with a really high skill ceiling its just fun to master. Subtitles are in comic sans which means its perfect.
Drakengard. The monotonous gameplay and ear grating music amplify the games core themes and the general madness as the story unfolds.
Goldeneye rogue agent. An odd one considering the era had no shortage of brilliant bond games yet this one seemed to ensare me more than others.
Ff14 1.0. 1000 polygon flower pot need i say more? I really want to have some private server snapshot of this game to play because it just doesn't look real.
Haze. Thematically quite an interesting game but executed very poorly, the game that killed free radical and why timesplitters will never come back.
Alone in the dark 2008. Its a stupid game filled to the brim with such brazen stupid I can't help but adore it. It's definitely unique I'll give it that.
Two worlds 1 and 2. Honestly somehow my favourite RPGs there's something deeply wrong with me.
So these are the most notable bad games I enjoy. Anyone else got any?
The Cursed Crusade is a hack-and-slash with local co-op that delightfully full of jank and gave me one of my all-time favorite gaming memories.
One of the core mechanics is that your character can briefly swap between "Earth" and "Hell" versions of the level. If you stay in Hell too long, Death approaches and kills you instantly upon reaching you.
We triggered a cutscene late in the game, but the game didn't switch out of Hell mode for whatever reason. The entire time the characters were talking, Death was in the background, walking closer and closer. We tried to advance the dialogue quickly, but Death eventually walked right up to my character and killed him mid-cutscene, and we had to restart the level.