Games you have a soft spot for despite its flaws.

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What's a game that you have a soft spot for? Regardless if its old or new, if the gameplay still holds up to this day, or if the overall quality of the game is good or bad. Bonus if its absolute dogshit.
For me it's Ecstatica II.
Not only is it a far cry from the first, the game has aged pretty poorly in terms of gameplay. However, I still have a soft spot for this game because of its graphics & charm.
 
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Counter Strike 1.6. Not because it's aged poorly or whatever, in fact it's really fun. I'm a 2005 zoomer and it's always been my favorite version of CS ever since I was a kid. Tried CS:GO and Source but they didn't have the same mystical addiction factor. I like how gritty everything looks, from the compressed sound effects to fuzzy textures.
 
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Really shitty game called Ghost Master. It looks like The Sims and in each level you have to use the ghosts in the house to scare off all of the inhabitants as well as using special ghosts to get the humans to do certain stuff to free and unlock other ghosts.

There's a level where there's his banshee ghost locked behind brick wall and you need to get it to rattle its chains to get the humans to break into the brick wall.

Shows its age a lot, barely runs at all on modern operating systems but it is on Steam for some reason.

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Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter. Definitely overhated, mostly because it stopped being a traditional turn based RPG and became a kind of survival SRPG. I didn't know it even existed until my parents bought me a copy for Christmas all the way back sometime in the 00's.
 
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Titan quest
idk but for some reason that on of the few ARPGs that i spend a lot of time in
neither grim dawn last epoc or PoE stuck with me as such as Titan quest
dont know if thats the setting (i do enjoy greek mythology, not so much others) art style (bright but not cartoony and gay how its often is now, and not grey and brown how it was then) or a pretty cool character building system (at least for the time) or just combination of all of that plus me having free time and also playing it alongside with my dad.
 
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The Sims 1. The prank calls, the burglar, burning your entire house down and killing your entire family because your cooking skill was low. Very good memories. Sims 2 was fun too, but there's always something about 1 that has it's charm
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The Hobbit game from 2003
I used to play it all the time back in the day. It's and action adventure with a focus on platforming, exploring stages based on the novel (duh) and puzzle solving. If you're looking for early 2000s games with SOVL I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Also, the intro/opening cinematic has been living rent free in my head from the very first time I played it.
 
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Counter Strike 1.6. Not because it's aged poorly or whatever, in fact it's really fun. I'm a 2005 zoomer and it's always been my favorite version of CS ever since I was a kid. Tried CS:GO and Source but they didn't have the same mystical addiction factor. I like how gritty everything looks, from the compressed sound effects to fuzzy textures.
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This for me but with Source. Made me love modding and bots (seeing how modern gayming don't even have offline bots anymore, its slowly becoming a legacy feature).
 
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Crunkle said:
Really shitty game called Ghost Master. It looks like The Sims and in each level you have to use the ghosts in the house to scare off all of the inhabitants as well as using special ghosts to get the humans to do certain stuff to free and unlock other ghosts.

There's a level where there's his banshee ghost locked behind brick wall and you need to get it to rattle its chains to get the humans to break into the brick wall.

Shows its age a lot, barely runs at all on modern operating systems but it is on Steam for some reason.

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There was a game on the Mega Drive called Haunting which I really loved, and it has the same concept where you haunt a family and 'possess' household objects in order to scare them. I loved it. What sucked is that you had to do really shitty platforming to refill your ecoplasm (Resource used for the scares)

 
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Guild Wars 2.

I missed the WoW bandwagon since I wasn't really willing to pay the monthly sub fee.
So when I heard about a B2P MMO being released, I decided to try it out just to see what all the fuzz about the genre was about.
Loved it on my first day. That feeling on the first year, faming Orr events with the boys while talking shit on /m, is still the best social experience I had in gaming.

To this day, every time I need to upgrade my PC I always try to search the recommended parts for the game and buy them if I can.
 
Pizza Connection
Designing your restaurants, come up with your own weird Pizzas and bombing/gassing/rocket shooting your opponents restaurants and dealing with the mafia while being mean to your lazy employees. It's a fun game (i like the humour in the caricatures, there's just something funny about buying meat from Rambo, buying 'fresh ice cream from libya' (weapons of course) from Erich Honecker and having Spock as Mayor of Berlin) that still holds up.
It's just a bit too easy once you figure out how it works or if you just get rich from illegal weapon trades.
It's a shame the sequels were so bad. Pizza Syndicate could be great if the graphic style and interface wasn't so horrible. PC2 was too dumbed down and limited and PC3 is sadly a broken, unfinished mess.

In general i have a soft spot for the 90's/early 2000 Tycoon games. Mad TV (best TV manager ever, such a shame the CPU opponents are way too easy), Biiing (running a hospital with all hospital tropes imaginable and a lot of sex, it's also very challenging difficulty wise), Wet: The Sexy Empire (starting with porn shoots, then creating your own porn studio, then running a sex shop chain), Ports of Call (absolute classic), American Dream (Burger chain), Oldtimer (even if it was released broken and never fixed, thus its unplayable after 1918), Detroit (Oldtimer done slightly better) and Hollywood Pictures (running a cinema, also making your own movies), Theme Hospital (everybody knows that one, Biiing was still better thanks to the wacky humour and bigger challenge), Zoo Tycoon (but of course Planet Zoo is way better objectively) and of course the monumental epic that is Rollercoaster Tycoon (and it's even better sequel). A lot of those games, especially the 90's ones weren't very good because ultimately it's just a excel spreadsheet with graphics and usually easy to figure out how it works but it's always fun to start a business and see it grow.
 
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