My friend and I saw an ad on TV for Dance Central for Xbox 360 and the kinect. We had a good laugh. He ended up buying it for me for Christmas. For the joke, we played it and next thing you know, I mastered most of the dances and they are legit. Definitely up’d my dancing game at the club.
My friend made Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015. He explained it to me and I was like, “who tf showered with their dad growing up!?” Surprisingly the friend group was split in half on that one and it was common.
Anyway, I told him I’d grab it just have it appear in my library, but it’s half fun. I remember unlocking the Inglorious Bathdads mode, thinking he was genius.
Haha i played that game so much. It was my go-to for when we waited for games to be downloaded or something.
Only $1!? Okay, yeah, I am definitely picking this up later on. I love weird and wacky games and your friend made something very, very special to the point it was played by big YouTubers such as PewDiePie. Tell your friend I said hi, too! :D
Yeah that blew his mind. Then he got invited to game dev conferences and said along the lines of, “It felt weird being there and introducing myself to actual game developers.”
He should be proud of himself. =)
I wasn’t going to comment because I don’t buy bad games on purpose but then you reminded me that I gifted that specific game to a friend as a joke.
I bought BioFreaks for PS1 because it looked fun. I knew it would be janky and have weird physics, but it’s also got a weird dystopian story too!
To be fair, I was 8 or 9 at the time, but it’s an entertaining piece of shit, like Pitball (also for PS1).
Maybe not quite the answer to the question you asked, but I have a relevant story.
My very favorite YouTuber is named “Any Austin”. (Just stay with me here.) And he has a show called “VG Wham” in which he goes to some e-store for video games (the Switch eStore, the PlayStation e-store, Steam, whatever) and purchases a game priced $2 or under and plays/reviews it.
Fully expecting it to be terrible, mind you. He does honestly review the games and gives his thoughts about them, but it’s still mostly comedy content. Not generally the sort of show you’d watch to find good games to potentially buy and enjoy.
But one game in particular he clearly loved was “Radiation Island” by a studio called “Atypical Games.” The episode of VG Wham in question is here. But he loved this particular game so much he streamed a full playthrough that itself is a masterpiece. And throughout he constantly flip flops from deriding it ot praising it to praising it ironically. It’s like nothing else I’ve ever seen.
And the game itself makes zero sense, it’s absolute purchased assets trash, kindof minimum viable product as a game, really just churned out in about 5 minutes for a buck. And it’s evident from Any Austin’s stream.
I rewatched that stream just recently and decided to go ahead and purchase the game. I’d seen it played, but didn’t really know what it would be like to play it myself. I really didn’t know whether it was going to be crap or awesome.
If anyone else picks it up, I highly recommend the hardest difficulty.
I haven’t yet played the sequel “Radiation City.” Any Austin streamed it, but didn’t like it as much. I bought a copy and intend to play it at some point, but I haven’t started it yet.
Didn’t buy it perse but Chex Quest.
Oh my God I actually played that!!! A weird kid-friendly version of DOOM that actually was pretty damn solid and had an actual interesting story for a kids game. It wasn’t like Pepsiman, where the entire game was littered with Pepsi advertisements, it was an advergame that had an actual story about aliens threatening Chex and Earth. Thank you for reminding me of this. =)
And don’t forget Cool Spot, the 7UP game for SNES!
Krzyżacy - Knights of the Cross. But then it turned out it’s not only hilarious but actually also have good gameplay, so i can recommend.
I have gifted Sex With Hitler 2 on many occasions. The ‘2’ is the funniest part to me.
The full name is hilarious to begin with, but the “2” really sells the punchline
It’s established at that point, what can you do?
Will I be totally lost if I haven’t played Sex With Hitler 1 first?
I really don’t know, never played, but I assume it’d be just fine
Is it as good as the first one?
I truly have no idea, but likely.
Shhh, I downloaded a ROM.
Drakengard. Good lord. What a game. Just… just watch a video.
I played that when it came out and it was enjoyable enough then. But does not hold up.
Now, this one may surprise you, but I recently bought Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as a joke. And no, I did not pay $70 for the game. In fact, I bought it for a far more cheaper price on CDKeys since they were having a huge sale for North American/European game keys. Was on sale for roughly $16, a huge steal in my eyes. Like bro, $70 USD for this game? Yeah, no, I’m not paying that much if this game is in this state. Capped it only because I wanted to get it to laugh at it. I originally was planning to get it through the free Prime Gaming offer, but through past complications with Amazon charging us even after repeatedly cancelling our Prime subscription, I went against getting a free trial for Amazon Prime and we just ended up buying a digital Steam key.
I have been loving the game, in a very ironic way. I’m serious. I only bought the game to see how bad it truly was and to laugh at the game’s bad design choices (mostly the lackluster story). I just wanted the game for shits and giggles, nothing serious. I only like the game because of how goddamn bad it is. Literally wanted to laugh out loud while I was playing through the first 2 hours. It’s so bad, but hilariously bad. The story doesn’t make sence, either - why was the Suicide Squad recruited by a literal FBI agent? I get that it’s about the Justice League becoming evil and all, but it still doesn’t make any sense to me.
Needless to say, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a guilty pleasure of mine. Because I like laughing at it.
EXTRA NOTE: In short, save your money until there’s a huge sale or another free offer. God save Rocksteady.
Also, of COURSE I got Garfield Kart: Furious Racing. My Steam library truly didn’t feel complete until I got gifted the game.
I only wanted the game as a joke, not for any serious reasons. But dang, it’s actually a fun time-waster.
I’ve bought that game quite some time ago as a meme
The devs behind it appearently started hosting contests for it so joined them for the heck of it.
I am so sad this was Kevin Conroy’s final time voicing Batman. The man deserved to go out on a high note.
Yeah, I agree. It is extremely disappointing to know that this was Kevin Conroy’s farewell. His swan song. The man deserved to have a much better end to his career. Heck, even Orson Welles had a much better one when Netflix dropped his unreleased movie “The Other Side of the Wind”. Kevin Conroy deserved to go out with a bang. Not a mere whimper.
The game’s concept was good but the execution of it was terrible in so many departments.
It’s another one of those “great concept with bad execution” examples.
Redneck Rampage. Hot damn!
Oh damn, I forgot about this game. Actually played it multiplayer back in the day. I think it gave me a headache so quickly.
Ok wtf that’s seriously up there with Shadow of the Colossus, hold on to yer butt!
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. It was on clearance and was pretty fun to pass the controller with a group of friends
Bitch took my skull.
I bought Ace of Seafood, in which you can play as many kinds of fish that all shoot lasers out or their mouths at other fish.
It’s absolutely baffling but probably not how you’d expect… I found it pretty technical and demanding. It’s like a very serious game where you fly F16s and dogfight and destroy aircraft carriers except everything is fish. It’s Japanese to the max.
I paid about £6 for it on the Switch, did not play it enough to get my moneysworth. But I think once you hear the concept, you will never stop thinking about it until you try it, so I was glad to be able to stop thinking about it.
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death.
It’s not as bad as I expected.
When I was in high school I saw a game called “Prison Tycoon” in a shopping mall Babbages and bought it for my brother as a dumb Christmas gift. I was in the store with a friend and we were kind of in shock. I remember my friend making a comment like “The box cover is just a cop beating a black man with a baton, how many people are involved in getting a game stocked by shopping malls?”
Among Us, Nintendo Switch, cause I had a $5 BestBuy gift card I wasn’t sure what else to do with. Never even booted a session yet.
