Games we know are horrible, but we played through anyway.

[ExtraSensory]

Anybody have any legitimately terrible games that they played all the way through, despite knowing that they were horrible?

I'll start with my example. Def Jam Icon.

Commence discussion.

[CyberTractor]

I beat "I Wanna Be The Guy."

... :(

[ExtraSensory]

Niice. And desert bus doesn't count. 'Twas for the children.

[Cheeseonfire]

So many.
Red Steel is the one that comes to mind.

[ExtraSensory]

Orphen: scion of sorcery.

[Cureless_Poison]

I beat "I wanna be the guy" in a few hours without complaining, I thought it was a good game.

As for playing through a horrible game, "World of Warcraft".

[Red Charlie]

I beat "I wanna be the guy" in a few hours without complaining, I thought it was a good game.

As for playing through a horrible game, "World of Warcraft".

I'm sorry but you can never complete World of Warcraft. Disqualified.

I would say Gemmi Force for the Megadrive (Gensis). Freakn game's difficulty just escalated towards the end and if didn't have the right weapon mix you wouldn't win.

I can't remember the combination but there was a fire one and a green one that would automatically attack your target. All you had to do was dodge.

[Emperor Gum]

Spellforce. Actually the combat was alright, but the dialogue and voice acting was almost as bad as House of the Dead II. And it's about twenty times as long.

[Kara]

Red Steel is the one that comes to mind.

Yes.

I would say Gemmi Force

lol, yes.

I can't come up with any others off the top of my head, but they'll come to me.
Uh, pretty much every Harvest Moon game EVER. (I love them, yet I KNOW how stupid they are.)

[ExtraSensory]

I absolutely CONQUERED a bunch of bad games for the N64. A few that come to mind are
Rocket: Robot on wheels
and
Jet Force Gemini.

[Matt]

Final Fantasy 8

Trash.

-m

[Dominic Appleguard]

Jet Force Gemini.

You're entitled to your opinion, but Jet Force Gemini has an 80% on Metacritic, including an 81% from IGN and an 88% from Gamespot. So it's not really, objectively, a bad game.

[Evil Jim]

I was a big Simpsons fan back in the day & was excited to receive Bart Vs the World for my birthday back when it was new. I don't know how I had the patience to play all the way through that lousy game. Probably because it was free & getting new games back then was a rare & special event. I won't have anything to do with it anymore.

To see just how bad it is, check out the Angry Video Game Nerd review.

[Cheeseonfire]

Final Fantasy 8

Trash.

-m

You beat that?
It was so bad...and long.

Although Quistis...yummmm..

[ExtraSensory]

Final Fantasy 8

Trash.

Yeah, despite the Gunblade being AWESOME.
And 8 (VIII) being the last Final Fantasy before all the characters started looking like women.
It was hella broken, and had the lamest plot of the entire series.
I think you all talked about it on a podcast at one point though.

ExtraSensory wrote:
Jet Force Gemini.

You're entitled to your opinion, but Jet Force Gemini has an 80% on Metacritic, including an 81% from IGN and an 88% from Gamespot. So it's not really, objectively, a bad game.

I stand corrected. I didn't mean that so much as an example of a bad game as an example of a game I beat the tar out of. I think it deserves a next gen remake.
A good one. None of that Turok nonsense.

Oh, here's another good one.
Gundam: Journey to Jubaru

[Hawkaris]

The 3d Sonic games. All of them. I don't know why I keep buying them; they're actually getting worse with each new release.

Here's to hoping Sonic Unleashed is decent.

[CanCarter]

Two words: Shaq Fu

[DmitriW]

Two words: Shaq Fu

You poor, poor bastard.

[MaybeNotMan]

I beat I Wanna be The Guy on the hardest difficulty.I cried during...

Also when I first started Touhou games...oh lordy...

[Lyinginbedmon]

Having gotten it for Christmas, House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return for the Wii.

Really bad voice acting and storyline, but the gameplay is darn addictive.

I have Red Steel, and I like it quite a lot. Now, granted, it has it's faults, which is really only natural considering how early it came out (For many it was bundled with the Wii itself soon after release). The sword mechanics are a little wonky and the targeting could be better, but overall I consider it a fair game with a reasonably decent storyline.

[Dominic Appleguard]

Here's to hoping Sonic Unleashed is decent.

HA!
Hahahaha.

[What?]

Eh, I beat FF8. It wasn't that bad. 12 was worse.

Now, X-2, that was bad. And I beat it. Twice. I'm stupid like that.

[Dr Frankenjam]

Oh soooooo many, I've been reviewing games for years now so I have to get sent some proper shit to be eligible for the good stuff;
+ Xmen 3: The Movie
+ The Incredible Hulk
+ Phantasy Star Universe
+ Perfect Dark Zero
+ Spyro the Dragon... the newest one (not finished the review yet, just a heads up it's rubbish)
+ NBA Homecourt Street Ballers or something

Oh oh oh and of things i've actually bought,
Assassin's creed springs to mind... OH GOD. SO BORING!

[Mats]

King Kong for the 360, if it weren't for the extremely easy achievements I would have stopped before I was even half way through.

[DmitriW]

ExtraSensory wrote:
Jet Force Gemini.

You're entitled to your opinion, but Jet Force Gemini has an 80% on Metacritic, including an 81% from IGN and an 88% from Gamespot. So it's not really, objectively, a bad game.

I stand corrected. I didn't mean that so much as an example of a bad game as an example of a game I beat the tar out of. I think it deserves a next gen remake.
A good one. None of that Turok nonsense.

Actually...I found the business of "you can't get to the FINAL final boss until you collect all the impossible-to-reach villagers" to be utter nonsense, personally. That kind of made me hate the game, though I'd had lots of fun with it up until then...