Games you have a soft spot for despite its flaws.

Jerri's Kid said:
The Secret World MMO. Sure it had bad animations, terrible pvp and very limited endgame content, but damn the lore and story were so good. It's why Dustborn was so jarring for me because the same guy who wrote most of the lore for TSW was responsible for that dumpster fire.
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I tried that game. Loved it, but couldn't keep playing because the menus killed my framerate constantly. This was after the game went free to play. How do you even make static menus do that?
 
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Agent Abe Caprine said:
I tried that game. Loved it, but couldn't keep playing because the menus killed my framerate constantly. This was after the game went free to play. How do you even make static menus do that?
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I don't recall experiencing that issue when I replayed it after they switched to F2P, but the game was always fairly jank compared to more polished MMOs like WoW or GW2. By the time it became F2P, it was basically a dead game because I don't think they added anything after that one somewhat crappy zone in Africa and that was years and years ago. I doubt they put much money into it for bug fixing. Funcom is one of those companies that has cool ideas but often poor execution.
 
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Objectively? Shit. Bad controls, slow menus, unskippable cutscenes (and only on your first run).

But it's facinating. It's like Arkham Asylum before Arkham Asylum. It also has a hot main character in a variety of skimpy outfits kicking all kinds of arse. Plus a James Bond super spy theme is great. There's even a dumb mechanic where you get an xray and have to target bones to shatter them, but it's so cool to break a guys arm, shatter his ribcage, and blow up his skull in one 3 hit combo. If any game could do with a modern remake, this with the combat of Arkham would be 11/10.

Uncle Sid said:
If you've never played State of Emergency, you're in for a treat...
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I remember it being bad, still remember that intro music and hordes of rioters though.
 
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FnaF security breach. It was borderline unplayable on launch and the gameplay loop is nothing special but I liked it anyways because the animatronics kinda just steal the show (especially Freddy and Roxanne in particular)
 
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For me, it's Spiral Knights.
A really simple MMO that most people(including myself) were introduced due to the free TF2 hat you got for playing it, but god damn was it charming. It was one of those games where it was laser focused on four player dungeon crawling and it was an absolute treat to play and constantly go through permutations of the dungeon and trying out different weapons and gear. God it was a really fun game, and the music is some of the comfiest you'll ever hear in a video game.
And my personal favorite, I hated the whole shadow key gimmick but the escape sequence made it worthwhile.

I'm Retarded? said:
I would have loved to see a Grimrock 3 that actually tries an open-ish world approach like the World of Xeen games.
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You may want to check out the steam workshops for the games. Anything by Adrageron is guaranteed to be some great quality, I remember one of his mods having a whole town with shops and whatnot. ditto for Grimrock 1.
 
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Lord of the Large Pants said:
State of Decay 2. It's not an especially terrible game, there's just a lot of fake depth. There's not much to do, it's pretty repetitive, and they don't do enough to distinguish guns/skills/survivors from each other.

Still way more fun than it has any right to be.
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I'm really hoping State of Decay 3 doesn't have any bullshit "ORANGE MAN BAD" retardation in it. The second game didn't have any (that I could see) political posturing in it, so we'll see what happens. Trump winning again seems to have broken a lot (I mean a LOT) of folks in the gaming industry, so until everything fails and they get forced out, we're going to have to put up with this shit for a while it seems.
 
GTA Vice City - Alot of people say San Andreas was the best of the older GTA games. But IMO it was Vice City. The sound track the characters the 80's setting. I remember Vice City more than San Andreas.

Fallout 1 and 2 - The Original Fallout games. People who played Fallout 3 as their first Fallout game usually don't care for them. Some refuse to play them. They are the true Fallout experience.
DrunkServal said:
Morrowind. It looks like shit, plays like shit, but god I love it.
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Morrowind is a great game. Especially compared to the trash that's out there now.
 
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I actually like the farcry games they are the only games I look forward to playing anymore and apparently 7 will be in the north Korean mountains which will be cool if it's true.
 
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Crash of the titans, I love this fucking game man I always remember the fun time I had with my cousin playing this game during the holidays on the ps2, unlocking all the skins for crash and the game's artwork by collecting secrets without using youtube.

god please take me back to simpler times
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Tenchu 2: Birth of the Stealth Assassins.
It was the first stealth game that I've played, ironically it gave "birth" to my love of the genre. Remember when the "back" button was triangle hehe good times.

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Counter spy. It's a very fun very small side scrolling stealth game about going though small procedurally generated stealing plans to stop both Russia and America from nuking the moon. It has a great system where you have 5 deacon levels and the more you get spotted or die the level goes down and once it reaches zero starts a minute timer to get to end or the nukes get launched. The cool thing Is that the the defcon level stays between levels but only per side so you can either choice between playing a risky level in Russia that has a low defcon level but better rewards like weapon parts, money and plans or take the less risky America level with worse rewards. It also has a really great retro futuristic spy incedibles-esque artstyle. Sadly the game has a little trouble on the landing, it's very repetitive and a bit shallow, the generated level pool is so small that in the short 2 hour playthough you'll see the same rooms constantly. It's a game I really like but a more fleshed out sequel could have been something truly great but sadly the studio closed shortly after release. I really hope someone make a spiritual successor or just rips off it's systems.
BiggestKai said:
Spiral Knights
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I adore spiral knights and will forever be angry it was basically abandoned so the team could make sonic mobile games. The world and art is just so good, it's the definition of squandered potential. i still occasionally play it and show off my metal sonic skin to the couple dozen people still playing
 
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One of my favorite examples is a game called Vigilance that came out for PC back in 1998, even though it was developed in part by Sega. It's like if Tomb Raider was focused a lot more on combat and shooting than exploration and puzzle solving. It's about a clandestine international organization stopping terrorist acts, very much 80s action movie schlock. It is incredibly jank, you would almost believe it was made in eastern Europe, it's that jank. The graphics are primitive even for the 1998, voice acting isn't that good, shooting feels weak, but there's something about it that's soulful. The presentation is cool and it takes its world seriously, and the exploration can be fun too.
 
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There were these massively ambitious games (for flash), called Caravaneer and Caravaneer 2.

Its your standard post apocalyptic desert world setting with turn based x-comish combat, and a simulated economy. I used to spend hours dodging raiders and merchanting all over the map, pretty much ignoring all the story.

Edit: typo
 
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Pardon me for being nitpicky, but the thread title seemed to imply "games you like despite their faults" and people just plainly seem to be listing favorites.

Not criticizing, just seeking clarification on which is on-topic.

EDIT: Oh, now it's clearer, nevermind me then!
 
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