Crappy games that you love anyway?

[AuraLancer]

Yeah, I don't consider any of those games on Koopaul's list crappy. Except maybe Barrel Blast. I haven't actually played that one so I can't say.

[Kriven]

Star Fox Adventures is honestly one of my favorite Star Fox games, even if it really is a Zelda game. I loved that it gave the Assault development team the push to use on-foot missions, and the franchise would have been greatly served by learning from and blending all of those identities...

Imagine being able to explore each of the planets with as much depth as you could explore Sauria in SFA, but also able to take to the skies/stars in the Arwing for some traditional 3D SHMUP stuff. Each character with their different weapons preferences and playstyles (for instance, Krystal could continue using the staff and play very similarly to SFA, but Fox might prefer using a blaster and dodging around).

There was so much room for that franchise still to grow, which is part of why Zero is disappointing to me so far x.x;

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Games I like that people usually pan? To be honest I really like Flappy Bird. I like that it takes the video game formula way back to the arcade highest-score routes (but without the need for tokens!), and I think that the character(s) is/are cute and work well into the stolen Super Mario 3 aesthetic. I like to pretend that Flappies are a species, like Yoshi, and each loss is literally that bird's death. You have failed that bird. Here, try again with another one. Because the first one is dead. There are no extra lives!

[Koh]

My main problem with Flappy Bird isn't so much the gameplay, but everything else. The gameplay is as simple as it gets, like Pong. So it's whatever. but the graphics are bland, even for a simple aesthetic; there are no environment changes, there's no parallax scrolling for the background, there's not even any music. What makes it even more offensive is that something like that got as big as it did, when there are so many other, much more polished and well made titles out there that don't get that kind of attention. Shit like that is what makes my blood boil xD. Neeeerd Raaaaage~

[Kriven]

I hear where you're coming from, because I didn't want to like it. But I do.

Kind of like a few eShop cheapos I've been trying lately, like Turtle Tale... which is basically a Newgrounds Flash game with the most bland character design, why is it so enjoyable?

[Monobrobe]

I gotta agree with Jazz. I could care less about Sonic Adventure 2's actual gameplay. But that Chao garden. That's the only thing that brought me back. I'd spend HOURS grinding Chaos Drives and then like an hour or so just playing with my Chao. My siblings and I would play with them all the time while we were growing up. We got kinda emotionally attached to them.

Also I only learned recently that apparently everyone hates Yoshi's Story??? Why??? I loved that game.

And... the biggest one I KNOW many people hate with all their being: Skylanders. I love the character designs, and I just think it's really innovative. At least, you've never really seen anyone else do what they did successfully before in the video games department. And after that Amiibos and Disney Infinity came out. So I personally think that Skylanders kinda paved the way for those. Of course I could be totally wrong and it's all just a huge coincidence. I don't know.

[Benny The Miraj]

Also I only learned recently that apparently everyone hates Yoshi's Story??? Why??? I loved that game.

And... the biggest one I KNOW many people hate with all their being: Skylanders. I love the character designs, and I just think it's really innovative. At least, you've never really seen anyone else do what they did successfully before in the video games department. And after that Amiibos and Disney Infinity came out. So I personally think that Skylanders kinda paved the way for those. Of course I could be totally wrong and it's all just a huge coincidence. I don't know.

I think people hate it for being too short and easy.

Also, I second Skylanders. People hate the fact that they shoved Spyro into it, but I actually don't mind Spyro's design. I'll admit, the game can get a little childish at times, but I'll admit that I had fun playing as and collecting the figures. I have all the original 32 except for Wham-Shell.

[Jermungandr]

I've never personally played Skylanders, but I have seen people play it and think they look like genuinely fun co-op games that I would enjoy. My big issue with them is the amount of money you have to invest into them what with all the figures you have to buy and such. I just don't have that much cash to be throwing around.

[Pik]

Chulip for PS2 is a pretty amusing game. I don't know if it was panned, more that people were very confused by it

[NICKtendo DS]

Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 are on my list, but I don't really consider them crappy. They have issues (glitches, Big the Cat and Big the Cat), but crappy? Maybe I'm just biased because of nostalgia. I even liked the non-Sonic/Shadow stages. Except Big's. Fuck fishing.

Another game I'd like to highlight is YuGiOh Dungeon Dice Monsters on GBA. I played it on emulator back when I was a morally-challenged teenager. I remember really enjoying that game.

[Koopaul]

Yeah, I don't consider any of those games on Koopaul's list crappy. Except maybe Barrel Blast. I haven't actually played that one so I can't say.

Huh. So many people tell me those games are bad. I don't have a problem with Code Name S.T.E.A.M. but a lot of strategy fans tell me it's a bad game. I'm not really big into strategy games so I wouldn't know. I'll take their word for it.

But yeah, all of those games I listed I've heard more people complain about than praise.

[Terminal Devastation]

For me... well there's a lot of mediocre games that I enjoyed..

But there's two stand outs:
Dynowars: Destruction of Spondylus for the NES

And a pokemon like mobile game called paramon.

Dynowars is really a rather dull and sort of cheap and yet easy platformer, but it was Giant robot dinosaur mecha before zoids was a thing, and the first ever game I beat.

The other, well... its glitchy cash grab powercreep grind fest, but for a time, I had fun, and actually managed to be invited into a top guild and even have some noteworthy monster on my team (I took a lower level starter type monster and managed to raise it into something that could challenge the top monsters at that point in the game.) I don't play anymore, because the power creep was just too much, but I'll always remember it for the memories, and the fact it's victory screen is burned into my phone screen since I played it that freaking much for a while.

[Arcrom]

I always enjoy playing the Dynasty Warriors series, but to be honest they really flaw in several aspects. I really don’t mind the repetition from this game, but I always found that the voice acting from certain characters and the imprecision of the game’s history an issue.

[miyabi95_]

Zelda II is probably the most under-appreciated game of the franchise, but I really like its quirkiness. If I were alive back when it came out, I would have been very pleased to see a game company experimenting with their games.

[Koh]

I liked a lot of ideas about Zelda 2, but boy did they fuck up the execution. The sword range sucks, there are some Nintendo Power section of the game that no normal person would have been able to figure out otherwise (and the Internet wasn't a thing back then), and it's also grindy. Max level everything is required, so why make it such a pain in the ass to get? Fake Longevity and Fake Difficulty.

[miyabi95_]

I liked a lot of ideas about Zelda 2, but boy did they fuck up the execution.  The sword range sucks, there are some Nintendo Power section of the game that no normal person would have been able to figure out otherwise (and the Internet wasn't a thing back then), and it's also grindy.  Max level everything is required, so why make it such a pain in the ass to get?  Fake Longevity and Fake Difficulty.

Which is pretty funny as it was released the same year as Castlevania II, which pretty much suffered from the same afflictions.