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Ok, I bought it cheap and despite the terrible reviews I’m enjoying it. It does indeed deserve it’s terrible reviews, it simply sucks hard.

Despite all of that, I’m enjoying the game, it’s actually quite funny, although the humor maybe unintentional. It’s defiantly a guilty pleasure.

The game is…….The Rockin Dead.

The Rockin Dead was 3 dollars at half-price books. It’s in 3D which is kinda cool.

How about you……any games with lots of bad reviews you enjoyed anyway……..?

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Another one I liked was The Silver Case. Bought it very cheap and loved it. It was very creepy and the plot different from the norm, very strange. Reviews are correct however, puzzles could be way better.

I bought it cheap before I read any reviews, or else I may not have bought it. The game does have a cult following.

I actually enjoy(ed) one of the most berated games there is. Yep, The Mystery Of The Druids!
Yes, it is a bad game. There’s been heaps of criticism over the years and rightly so given the impossible situations Brent Halligan (I couldn’t remember his name so dug out my original game box to discover that the game came on 3 CDs ) is put in like not being able to use his phone at Scotland Yard but there’s actually a very good game there trying to break through and it’s that that I really enjoyed. The big problem was getting past the “you’re kidding, right?” moments.

many many ‘crappy’ things i ve enjoyed thru the years, crappy in the sense that no one ever mentions them or being unpolished.
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Alternativa 1st one comes to mine, loved the Bladerunner atmosphere

Next Life, i guess it has 2 stars, but i ve played it 3 times thru the year, and i really enjoyed each time.

Shardlight which is an amazing adventure and never being mentioned as top a WadjetEyes adventure loved it music very very much!

Manhunter series, top top games, in my opinion, only its arcade themes that always really put me off

LSL2 with all its deaths (traps) holds a very good memory for me… and so on

The Legend of Kyrandia (Fables & Fiends).

I’m not the only one; the official AG.com review gives it 4 out 5 stars, as does the only user review. Most of its critical reception at the time was in the good - very good category as well.

Baron Blubba recently panned this game. With good reason: its puzzles are trail and error, by design. Every mechanical part of the game is meant to suggest a Sierra-style adventure, but there’s no puzzle box under the cover. It’s just a crate.

The music, though.. whenever I mention this game, I talk about it: Frank Klepacki really did something cool with the soundtrack. To me, it carries the entire experience.

I can think of some guilty pleasures in the casual game arena, but few, if any in AG. I’d be more likely to think of highly regarded AGs that I though were absolute crap.

Detective Mosely - 01 October 2021 09:05 PM

I don’t know if they’re really considered crappy, but there was a period of time about 10 years ago where there weren’t really any new adventure games that were interesting me and for some reason I decided to try the Nancy Drew games (starting with the first), and had quite a bit of fun with them.

The puzzles weren’t good.  The stories weren’t that good.  But they were good campy fun.  Up until a point at least.  I did lose interest eventually and never went back.  But I plowed through quite a few of those games, so they definitely hit the spot for me at that point in time.

Speaking of Nancy Drew, they actually made a few for the Nintendo DS, one of which, The Clue Benders Society, I really liked it and it got terrible reviews. To me, it was a hoot and very different from the PC Nancy Drew games in that it played from a third party perspective. For a DS game, the graphics were quite good.

I actually liked Johnny Mneumonic the game. It’s a very cheesy FMV game with polarizing reviews when released, but I enjoyed it anyway back in the day. I don’t have a clue if it runs on a modern computer but I’ll give it a try and see what happens.

Detective Mosely - 01 October 2021 09:05 PM

I don’t know if they’re really considered crappy, but there was a period of time about 10 years ago where there weren’t really any new adventure games that were interesting me and for some reason I decided to try the Nancy Drew games (starting with the first), and had quite a bit of fun with them.

The puzzles weren’t good.  The stories weren’t that good.  But they were good campy fun.  Up until a point at least.  I did lose interest eventually and never went back.  But I plowed through quite a few of those games, so they definitely hit the spot for me at that point in time.

I played seveal Nancy Drews a few years back (or ten) and also enjoyed them a lot. And then suddenly lost the appetite for them. I might give the ones I have and didn’t play yet another try at some point, see if they could still be fun.

Jabod - 01 October 2021 09:41 AM

I actually enjoy(ed) one of the most berated games there is. Yep, The Mystery Of The Druids!
Yes, it is a bad game. There’s been heaps of criticism over the years and rightly so given the impossible situations Brent Halligan (I couldn’t remember his name so dug out my original game box to discover that the game came on 3 CDs ) is put in like not being able to use his phone at Scotland Yard but there’s actually a very good game there trying to break through and it’s that that I really enjoyed. The big problem was getting past the “you’re kidding, right?” moments.

Completely agree. I can’t argue with most of the criticism thrown at the game, but I still enjoyed it. Maybe because there’s just something I like about Brent Halligan.

Also, maybe I’m just completely heartless, but I thought the whole stealing from the homeless guy thing was quite funny in the context of Brent’s character and the ridiculousness of the situation!

I may have to give it a replay and see if I still like it.

I Saw Black Clouds got horrible reviews and it got much better on the 2nd playthrough of the game, much longer and more detailed events occurred. I’m actually very happy with the game now.