The Big Question: What's The Worst Game You Love?
thegamer.comWe all have games we love, but know deep down are actually bad. Here's the thing, though: sometimes 'bad' games are good. Some of the best games I've ever played have been interesting 6/10s that might have been ridden with flaws, but boldly attempted something different or unusual. Here are some of the games TheGamer's editors have played over the years that we acknowledge have problems, but we love playing anyway.
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Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is a bad video game, and yet I keep coming back to it year after year. It's a tedious, repetitive, and gruelling third-person shooter that's so lean it's positively starving. All you do is shoot waves of enemies from behind cover for 10 hours. There are no interesting set-pieces or attempts to mix up the flow of the combat. It's a deeply unpleasant parade of non-stop misery, with some spectacularly uninspired level design, but I can't get enough of it. I love the grimy aesthetic and how it mimics the look of a handheld movie shot on a DV camera, then compressed to hell by YouTube. I love the wanton ultraviolence and the relentless pace. I love how when you shoot someone in the head, the mess is covered up by a splodge of censored pixels. It's just so horrible, and style over substance in the most literal sense, but in the case of these two assholes I'm cool with that.
Mass Effect Andromeda. And I’m talking Andromeda at the height of its lackluster launch. Like so many Mass Effect fans, I dove headlong into the pool that is Andromeda, but instead of spluttering with outrage upon surfacing, I stayed pleasantly submerged in the absolute hilarity of that bug-riddled mess. My collection of game captures primarily consists of bugs and
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