Favorite guilty pleasure game

Started by Klippy August 21st, 2010 10:26 AM
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Klippy

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There's always a game out there that you love to play, but don't tell anyone. And there's always a game out there that get bad reviews, but you can't get enough of. So what are yours?

I've got a few that I generally keep quiet or have a good excuse if I'm caught playing it on Xbox Live, haha. Pokémon games are one that I never talk about to friends off of PC, since I've always associated it with being a kid and it being a kid game.

And Viva Pinata for the Xbox 360. lolol I got it for free with my Xbox 360 a few years back and that game is just ridiculously good. It's like Sims: With Farm Animals, but it rocks. Now I want to play it again. I always tell friends that "my young cousins were in town and that's the only E-rated game I've got, so they played that for hours and hours and hours."

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Rugrats Scavenger Hunt. People don't believe me when I say it's a good game, so I've kinda just put off saying anything about playing it. I honestly can find no way to tell people how that game is fun. I guess it's just nostalgic for me, because it was one of my first N64 games.

Not too ashamed of Pokemon though, ngl. XD I'm very flamboyant about it.

Spoiler:
Despite the fact that I hate movie based games, I was totally in love with HP: Prisoner of Azkaban for GBA. It was amazing. I had all the spells and Chocolate Frog cards and someone deleted my file...and I still to this day want to strangle them.
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Spoiler:
Despite the fact that I hate movie based games, I was totally in love with HP: Prisoner of Azkaban for GBA. It was amazing. I had all the spells and Chocolate Frog cards and someone deleted my file...and I still to this day want to strangle them.
Now was that one an RPG sorta thing like Sorcerer's Stone for GBC? Because I played that game to death and back. Every spell, every card, and (if memory serves) speedruns that took about 4 hours. At age ten.

Holy crap, I have a Gameboy emulator on my computer! I have an errand to ROM- ah, run, that is.
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On NES emulator and formerly on regular NES, I was playing (and I am sometimes playing now on emu) F-1 Hero. Deadly difficult racing game on NES, when you had to change gears manually and the car control was very hard. Not very popular game. It had bad reviews, but the tracks were good. Also there was possibility to play two players mode.

As for Pokemon, I'm not ashamed of playing it either. It's just a small hobby and It's a great time killer on mobile phone.

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Lunar: Dragon Song.
Fans of the Lunar series usually hate this game and ... Well, hell, even newcomers to Lunar pretty much hate this game and can't stand more than an our of it or its battle system. But for some reason I really like it. <3

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Excluding the Pokemon games, I enjoy playing lots of old Genesis / Mega Drive games every once and a while. People don't understand how I could play games that weren't on the new consoles, but I like most of these games for the nostalgia factor. I also used to like playing Monkey Hero for PS1 when I was younger, even though the average rating of the game was a 3/10.

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Pokemon.
I love it, but I admitted it to my friends and, let's say I have no friends left now.
I get by though.
At least I have one friend.Who is a girl and I fancy and everyone teases me, but that's a different story.
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Now was that one an RPG sorta thing like Sorcerer's Stone for GBC? Because I played that game to death and back. Every spell, every card, and (if memory serves) speedruns that took about 4 hours. At age ten.

Holy crap, I have a Gameboy emulator on my computer! I have an errand to ROM- ah, run, that is.
wow! i thought i was the only person in the world to have played that game! i've still got it in the game box with chamber of secrets. man they were fun.

Pokemon.
I love it, but I admitted it to my friends and, let's say I have no friends left now.
I get by though.
At least I have one friend.Who is a girl and I fancy and everyone teases me, but that's a different story.
i feel for you man. sounds like me when i was younger. sometimes its better to keep things hidden but its upto you what you do. XD

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Pokemon's not a guilty pleasure for me! :) Most of my friends know I play it. :p A whole conversation started out in my English class about Pokemon. :P And most of the people in my class are 15, xD

My guilty pleasure? I don't think I have one. :S

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The Mother series.

I try to explain people why they are one of the greatest under-rated games but they end hating it.
What? Really? Most people are in love with that game. Even the people around here that I tell about that game, it makes them want to play it. Also, before I started playing it, I felt it was overrated because of its constant high praise. So you must know some...strange people.

Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban on the GBA.
Guilty pleasure why?
A lot of people know I'm not a Harry Potter fan (not saying I hate it, though. The genre is just not my thing.), but I enjoyed the game immensely.
I second Prisoner of Azkaban for GBA.
Haha, glad to be first to say it now. I wanna dig it out and play it. It had good music for a GBA game, iirc. I used to stay up for hours playing that game...

Anyway, I've got a new 360 shining in all its glory in my room, and I just wanted to come back and second what Klippy said about Viva Pinata. XD I was playing it the other day thinking "this is so corny" and yet I couldn't put it down. It reminded me more of Harvest Moon than it did The Sims, though.
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maplestory. played it a while back cuz i dont like p2p mmos , grew out of it for a while, then got back into it. i recently stopped playing tho so i hope its for good this time

and there is nothing to be ashamed of for playing bounty hunter. i got it with a jango fett+boba fett stattuette
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Excluding the Pokemon games, I enjoy playing lots of old Genesis / Mega Drive games every once and a while. People don't understand how I could play games that weren't on the new consoles, but I like most of these games for the nostalgia factor.
Mine's similar. I can't dare say pokemon now at 25 to anyone, so I keep that to myself.

My main one though is my N64, which I still have. Now and then, a good crack on Conker's Bad Fur Day or WWF No Mercy is what's needed. I have the Sonic Classic Collection for the DS as well, which I love playing quite often for a quick runthrough.
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DS:I'm evil. I play games to be nice. For a change.
R:It's fun to pretend that you evil in games, and slaughter every enemy in horrible fashion. I played AVP 2 as a Alien and to feel evil i was killing everyone in the room except one person - a woman.She was frightened and i was like "Hiss's" over her. Or turning on God mode and get into the crowd and then set off the explosives. Or just stand while poor enemies trying to chop immortal body XD

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I always mention that I play Pokemon.

As for my guilty pleasure games... Rhapsody A Musical Adventure and Princess Debut. I haven't played them in a while, but I still enjoy them. And I kinda figure I'm not the target demographic for either :P

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Pokemon, most specifically Pokemon Snap. I'm 25, and I still play it, so yeah...

But whatever. To my family, all video games are the same thing, be it Pokemon or Final Fantasy, so I don't really get any ill treatment because of it.

And most of my friends are into gaming themselves and play or have played pokemon at one point or another. So yeah. It's just not something I talk about with outside people.