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Anything that is not graphically appealing to my friends and colleagues.
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En Gardevoir wrote:Anything that is not graphically appealing to my friends and colleagues.
That, and games that have their... problems I guess.

One of those games (and one of my abosutely favourite games) is The World Ends with You. I already said that I love it plenty of times here already, but to be honest, the battle mechanics are very, very hard to master. Granted, you can switch between different difficulties, but you only get really useful pins (attacks/spells) on Hard and Ultimate, which both require good skills.
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Any tower defense game. I feel like tower defense is objectively dull, but I like to waste my time on it.
And Final Fantasy VIII. I enjoy the story because it deals with alienation in a nonsensical world, but it's nowhere near good. I might still recommend it for the junction system if you're the kind of person who likes fiddling with builds and breaking the game.
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En Gardevoir wrote:Anything that is not graphically appealing to my friends and colleagues.
Oh man... the pains of middle school are already coming back to me :oops:

On a more serious note, one RPG maker game I like a LOT is called Densha. (well, technically it was made by Wolf RPG, which is something different entirely) It's one of those games that sets you into an environment that you literally WILL NOT know anything about what you're doing, and a lot of it you'll have to figure out for yourself. Since I played through the entire game while being able to understand what was going on, (eventually) I personally find it absolutely amazing. It's just really weird in comparison to a lot of other things, though.
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The entire SaGa series
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Crypt of the Necrodancer, only play it if you like rogue-likes and don't care about achievments
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Skullgirls, Bayonetta 1/2 and similar Technically Proficient & Fun Games full o' questionable visual design choices
Most fighters just because no one i know seems to really be into them in the same way I am
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The Atelier series. I love it to bits and it's probably one of my favourite series of all time...

...But at a gameplay level, it's not that great. It's a time management game, where you have to gather resources, then choose whether you want to work towards completing quests, make some weapons to make things easier, make gathering equipment and passive items, or work on your relationships with the townspeople. It's also very... kawaii. Most of the characters are super cutesy, and it doesnt take itself too seriously. So yeah, a lot of people find it boring, but I love it, and I will keep playing them until the end of time ♥
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I still have nostalgia for the Commander Keen series, even though a lot of the games, especially the later ones had a ton of flaws. aterraformer's LP of it showed it to me quite well.

There is also this really old dos game called Bluppo, I used to play a lot with my brother. It's a Boulder Dash clone with some amusing levels and a lot of fish. It also gets quite hard towards the end, with some huge levels, chain reactions, and resource management.

Edit: The two player mode is especially fun, since there is a glitch that gives infinite bombs if both of the players drop a bomb at the same time when there is only one of them left, causing the bombs to go to negative values.
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A couple flash games that I like for reasons I don't understand. They're just strangely enjoyable.
Runescape certainly fits the criteria, I spent a couple years of my childhood on that game, but it's kinda... Broken now? I dunno, it's not the same as it was back on '06. Private servers and stuff are still fun, but... Yeah.
Basically any oldish game that isn't graphically amazing, and is moderately complicated. Sid Meier's Pirates, for example. Once you get into it, it's super fun, but it's hard to get into and doesn't look all that impressive. Dwarf Fortress is probably like 50x as much but I'm still trying to get into it :P
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Coryman wrote:A couple flash games that I like for reasons I don't understand. They're just strangely enjoyable.
Runescape certainly fits the criteria, I spent a couple years of my childhood on that game, but it's kinda... Broken now? I dunno, it's not the same as it was back on '06. Private servers and stuff are still fun, but... Yeah.
Basically any oldish game that isn't graphically amazing, and is moderately complicated. Sid Meier's Pirates, for example. Once you get into it, it's super fun, but it's hard to get into and doesn't look all that impressive. Dwarf Fortress is probably like 50x as much but I'm still trying to get into it :P
Do you mean the Pirates from the mid-2000s or the one from the 80s? I bought the newer game earlier this year and it's really a blast to play.
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I'll agree with the sentiments already expressed about tower defense games (I rarely enjoy them but get really hooked when I do, and would not really recommend any of them to anyone else).

There's also quirky flash games that override my hatred of clunky control with my love of cuteness or unlikely romance, like Rabbit Love Wolf. Or just with a really strong sense of humor.

There's also probably hundreds of such games for the Official Hamster Republic Role-Playing Game Construction Engine which I played and enjoyed in spite of them being objectively terrible games, or just where they're tedious to play (grinding is lame).
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Pathological is such an amazing experience. It's very emotionally draining, exhausting and frustrating, which is why I loved it.
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Yggdra Union & Sting games in general. Usually people get turned off just by seeing the cluttered UI
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Flower, Sun and Rain. It's more or less a lot of walking around and talking to people with the occasional vague yet easy number puzzle, and the only version you can play in English (or anything that isnt Japanese, for that matter) is the DS one which has... significantly worse graphics. The plot relies on twists involving characters who appeared in The Silver Case, a game which still has yet to be released internationally (a remake is still coming eventually) so the very point of the game, the story, doesn't really work for any non-Japanese players. The game makes bad design decisions like forcing you to walk long distances back and forth between a few characters, and it makes these decisions completely consciously.

And yet, I love the surreal dreamlike atmosphere, and the little lines and scenes that make the player raise their eyebrow. It's not a satisfying gaming experience, it's not a particularly fun to play gaming experience, but it's certainly special.
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Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

It probably speaks for itself why it's hard to recommend this, honestly. Which is a real shame, as it's definitely one of the better "collect all the things" style games I've come across. It has a much greater sense of progression than you normally get from the genre, there's no "lives" nonsense, it lets you travel instantly to any area or sub-area you've ever entered no matter where you are or what you're doing (believe me, this is absurdly convenient), and cases where you need to find every instance of a particular collectible are few and far between. In fact, there's only one type of collectible that comes anywhere close to "scouring a level", and even then it's less "something there are 100 of in each level, better hope you don't miss one" and more "something there are roughly 10 of in each level which draw attention to themselves more often than not".

It's actually really great.
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cheez8 wrote:Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.
oh! i remember that game!
a guy i knew in school had it, and i wanted to go to his house purely so i could play it
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Xenogears is a game that I remember fondly and still gives me feelings every now and then. It's also a pretentious, inconsistent, tone-deaf, overwrought mess.
That said, I kinda do want other people to play the game because I'm curious about their reactions.

And then there's Dhux's Scar. It's just as confusing as Xenogears, has tedious and unbalanced gameplay, and just feels edgy with its over-the-top gore and bigoted writing.
I didn't enjoy myself during most of the time spent playing it because the combat is stressful yet repetitive, but I can look back on it fondly because it's very unique.

Deadly Premonition seems like it'd fit into a trinity with these games, but I haven't played it.
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Octagon wrote:Xenogears is a game that I remember fondly and still gives me feelings every now and then. It's also a pretentious, inconsistent, tone-deaf, overwrought mess.
That said, I kinda do want other people to play the game because I'm curious about their reactions.
Oh man, I really want to play that eventually. That description does not deter me at all, because I'm used to seeing my favorite things described as "messes", even by myself
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Hey You, Pikachu! I've always wondered how people DON'T LIKE THIS GAME.
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Toejam and Earl: Panic On Funkotron

It was my first game, so I'm a bit biased. A platformer that was designed as a followup to a roguelike, for whatever reason. Full of fetch quests and somewhat clunky platforming, and it's just absolutely weird in a lot of ways. But I still think it's decently fun after the first few levels, I like fighting some of the enemies, and, well, the nostalgia factor.
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Will Fight For Food. Everything about this game is absolutely stunning and amazing, except for one factor:

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SaGa Frontier. I love this game to death (even wrote the internet's first full FAQ/walkthrough for the North American release), but it has a steep learning curve, and it will murder your face off if you're not careful. It's also very easy to get completely lost, as the game does a very poor job of letting you know where to go. If it even bothers at all.
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I just remembered that I actually love the original CRAZ'D, in all its arbitrary anti-glory
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