Games

The entire Dynasty Warriors series and most of its spin offs like Samurai Warriors, Warriors Orochi, and the one where you play alongside a bunch of anime characters or whatever. They've never been good. All the games made with other IPs like Hyrule Warriors are significantly better. Even stuff like Kessen was better. I've stilled played all of them because they got me interested in Chinese history, media, and culture from a young age which influenced my entire life direction through uni and after. The soundtracks rock.

Shadow the Hedgehog. It was extremely hated, but as a kid I loved the idea of a 3D Sonic game with guns and a multiple-choice, branching story mode.

call of duty: finest hour, tbh i mainly like it because it was the first fps i played

objectively bad but one nice thing about it is the soviet campaign, in particular there’s a level where you get to play as a lady sniper in the red army

Sonic adventure 2. City escape is just so good and then its just a steady decline for the rest of the game.

That weird Yoshi game were you had to tilt your GBA for things to move on screen

Lots of DOS games we had as either floppies or magazine coverdisks. For example, The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure was not dogshit but not an especially good platformer, but I still played it a lot because there weren't many platformers on PC.

Yugioh. Mucho texto the cardgame.

River City Ransom on NES.

Heh, this reminds me of that PS2 "Dogs life" game where you play as a dog, it was not very good but they committed to the idea of being a dog alright I suppose.

taco bell gave out some games on floppy disk in the late 90s

not exactly nostalgia, but i have a soft spot for lichdom: battlemage. absolute trash-boring enemies and levels put to shame by basically any other fps, but fiddling with the spellcrafting and every single "weapon" being a flashy exploding charge-up shot really tickles my brain in a certain way

Giants: Citizen Kabuto is kinda dogshit in a lot of ways but I really liked it having squad based shooter elements and base building strategy game stuff and I always like me a game where you get a jetpack

Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning. At no point is the plot actually interesting, the gameplay is quickly trivial if you side quest at all, but I love the daggers and twinblades esp combined with some magic so much.

Also the Fable games, esp Fable 2, but those I'd put a tier above dogshit. Cat-breath?

Edit: As a kid I had Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures on my SNES and I never really got it, certainly never beat it, but I'd put it out every now and then just because there was nothing like it. For those who don't know (probably most of you) you don't control Pac-Man, you control a slingshot which you use to shoot things in the environment, hopefully pointing Pac-Man in the right direction, but often making him suicidaly mad or outright "killing" him. You could also shoot Pac-Man. Its still one of only a handful of second-person games I know of.

Im obsessed with The Settlers, Tetris, and some farm game on GameBoy

Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters. It's the only game my dad ever sat down to play with me.

It wasn't that he wasn't around or didn't spend time with me, it's just that my parents were pretty anti-videogames to the extent that I had to buy all of them (consoles included) by saving up my lunch money, so playing them with me was a tacit approval of me having them. Goldeneye was too violent. GTA was right out. Even story-based games had to be shared evenly with siblings by time.

They wonder why I'm low-contact.

Tecmo Secret of the Stars had dated graphics, an incredibly bad translation, really generic story and a bit of old school grind to boot.

But I really enjoyed that you had two parties that you swapped between, each of them could go through colored gates the other couldn't, and it also had a town building aspect that at the time was not as common in console games especially. I think the fact that I was only able to play this by finding it at a local rental place, no store in my area ever seemed to actually sell it, made it feel more special than it actually was. But I got this one from the rental store multiple times since no nearby stores actually sold it. At least not near Christmas or my birthday, which were the only times my parents would even entertain spending what little money we had on video games.

Ascendancy (DOS), while looking cool and polished, is an incredibly easy and unbelievably tedious (in the late game) Master of Orion clone. I somehow had it as kid and loved it. Master of Orion 2 is way better mechanically but I somehow only played that way later. Still remember Ascendancy fondly though.

They made a patch that makes the AI slightly less dogshit, but it's still like hours of busywork to crush enemies that are hopelessly outmatched by any kid's second attempt.

So many terrible "girl games" on those old flash game sites. My favourite was a "teddy bear dress up" that was technically not Care Bears... the joys of "legally distinct rainbow teddy bears". I did so many cool things with the panda bear colour option. No, I wasn't a commie then, I was like eight, I just thought panda bears were cute.

Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2, because I used to play it with my sibling

For some reason on my 3DS I have like 130 hours of playtime of Paper Mario: Sticker Star

I think back then I was so excited about "Paper Mario in Stereoscopic 3D" that I failed to notice all the things I liked from the previous games were gone

You ever played Cell Damage? Either gamecube or PS2?

Well it doesn't apply to this thread because it was awesome.

Pirates: The Legend Of Black Kat.

I remembered it as a game where you fight and not as a game where you play cop and arrest people but it still had parkour, cars and funish melee mechanics. I also remembered the game letting me use a mouse without janky movements and not being so buggy but I guess my memories are a lot more buggy.

Second post because I forgot this game is generally seen as bad.

Star Wars: The Old Republic has eaten more of my life than any game but World of Warcraft, and I wasn't a teen during my time with SWTOR. Combining MMO Tab-Combat with Bioware dialogue made my brain spit out the feel good chemicals during the worse of my autistic-burnout/depression that lasted from 2018-2023. I still go back to it now and again, but during that time I played through the base game on every single class, and multiple times on some of them. I even played through all of the expansions on 5 characters, one a remake of another to choose a different romance / endstate. Never did any group content though lmao.

Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga on the Wii was an aggressively mid ARPG that looked like ass (courtesy of the Wii's limited hardware) and has some truly abysmal review scores, but I keep wanting to dust off Dolphin to give it another spin. Honorable mentions go out to Arc Rise Fantasia (another Wii JRPG) and maybe EverQuest: Champions of Norrath, which was a Diablo knockoff that Sony made for the PS2.

Oh shit, and the Rune Factory series, especially Frontier (again, on the Wii). Think Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley, but intensely weeb with dungeon crawling elements.