Guilty Pleasures

Started by machomuu December 29th, 2015 6:01 PM
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machomuu

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Seen March 4th, 2023
Posted April 26th, 2022
10,505 posts
15.1 Years
Huniepop. Oh, Huniepop. I love this game a lot and will scream it to the high heavens. Yet it's a funny thing, this game. This is the type of game that won't be brought up by most people unless they're talking about their famous Let's Player or Gaming Website who happened to be covering it. And this is a result of the game being rather risque, right down to the premise. Those who own the game generally hide it, buy it DRM-Free, or turn off "Friends" on Steam out of embarrassment or fear of being judged. The fear of judgment is probably valid, as regardless of my actual reasons for liking the game, merely by mentioning my love for it, some judgments have already been made.

That is but one way that guilty pleasures are born. Sometimes there's just a game that's really bad but you like anyway or a game that, as far as target audience is concerned, isn't targeted at you but you still like it anyway. Do you have any games like these?

It should be noted that "Guilty" is a major part of this. If you feel perfectly fine playing a game that others might be embarrassed about, then it wouldn't really qualify- though feel free to mention it.

Arc

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Seen March 17th, 2018
Posted January 31st, 2017
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15 Years
Very few people knew that I played this. But, hey, it's the epitome of a guilty pleasure for me. So, it's 100% applicable for this thread. And really, I don't have much to lose.

Monster Girl Quest.

What is this game about, you ask? Well, it's about the journey of a young Luka, as he aspires to be a hero. Of course, all adventures has their own hardships and obstacles, this game being, monster girls. It's one thing to note that this game is a hard NSFW 18+. And I really do mean, a hard NSFW 18+. Yet, I loved playing this game. Despite its risque nature, I grew to love the characters and eventually the plot. That's the one thing I wasn't expecting to walk away with, a decent story.

Still, it probably isn't a good idea to parade around and say you play this.

Necrum

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Seen August 20th, 2019
Posted July 13th, 2017
5,080 posts
10.9 Years
I often turn off my friends list when playing FNAF games. I love them and have deep respect for them, but there is a stigma that only 12yos like it and that it's garbage by a lot of the hard core out there that I sometimes just want to play it in peace without worries of judgement.

WindriderShiva

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Seen February 27th, 2016
Posted January 3rd, 2016
150 posts
7.4 Years
I've never really been too keen on needing to keep an image, but... I've never really been a girly girl either. I've always, always despised merchandise made for "girls" because it's always frilly and pink and so not 'badass', and I LOVE badass. So it should come as zero surprises that one of the companies I hate the most is Disney.

Note that I'm totes fine with other people liking their stuff... I just really, really don't, bar a few movies here and there.

But holy ******* **** I loved the ever-loving hell out of the Pixie Hollow MMO... and yes, I was kind of ashamed of it. It's the most girly-girl, dolly-dress-up, everything-is-super-happy game I've ever played. I was sad when I last checked on it after a couple months of not playing it, to find out it got shut down. I made sure I had dyes, that my fairy looked pretty, I made sure to get time-limited fashion, to attend GM events, to ignore the "drama" kids had (yes, there was drama)... I had a VIP subscription, or whatever it was called. I still miss the game, and it's been like 3 years.

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Juno

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9.5 Years
Funny this topic comes up now, I just spent the afternoon playing Hatoful Boyfriend offline and with my profile set to 'private' so the achievements wouldn't show up in the activity feed. :P

I also played through all of HuniePop but I didn't download that through Steam at all, just installed it directly onto my laptop and uninstalled after.

JJ Styles

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Seen November 10th, 2019
Posted November 10th, 2019
3,924 posts
8.4 Years
I'm currently playing Kanpani Girls.
Video courtesy of the Anime Man

On the surface, it looks like another of those fanservice esque games where you play as a CEO of an all girl mercenary team. Actually, i liked the idea and stuck around playing it from time to time. There's a lot of things going in and out, and all around. The gameplay is pretty simple. Manage a team, do missions, hire new applicants, and all the good browser game stuff.

Being that it is, there is some fanservice in the game, but its just mostly KO animations where a girl is stripped down to her undies but aside from that, its pretty PG and disease free. Obviously though, being the game that this one is, its not one of those games that the "normal" plebs who i have to hang around with in both work and school would think be normal, then again, I'm very open ended towards my likes and dislikes to people both RL and Internets. (probably its the whole reason why all of my forum avatars and sigs are mostly pictures of female anime or vg characters, and all of my online gaming avatars are female)

mew_nani

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Seen May 28th, 2019
Posted August 25th, 2018
1,839 posts
13.4 Years
Well uh... I occasionally play Bubsy and Bubsy 2 and other somewhat shoddy games like bootleg platformers based off a popular franchise. The two I mentioned aren't that good but they have a kind of charm to them even if the enemies make no sense (Bubsy seems to think it's ridiculous just like you do), and concerning bootlegs... I like my shoddy Pikachu bootlegs dang it. Even the one with the Chikorita that flies around by swinging its leaf like a helicopter blade. And the FFVII bootleg that has eldritch monsters guarding the reactor. :<

I support:

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AlphaTangoFoxtrot

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Seen May 2nd, 2016
Posted March 21st, 2016
122 posts
7.4 Years
Every single bit of mushy gushy romantic content out there... All of it. Visual novels, movies, TV dramas -- everything. Whether it's animated or live, or whether it's NSFW or completely clean I love all of it. It's not so much "bad" content that I enjoy, but rather content I just have a hard time openly admitting I have a bit of an obsession over.

Also, Huniepop is actually a legitimately addicting game, tits aside. I don't know what it is about match-4 games, but they just get me. I definitely understand where people are hesitant to admit they've played, and even enjoyed, it though.

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