Beatle9
Asexual coywolf and amateur writer.
I know this is more common when talking about movies, but I was wondering if anyone has played any bad games that they consider "so bad they're good".
One I can definitely think of is an often overlooked game called Raw Danger, also known as Disaster Report 2. I remember playing the first Disaster Report, and remember it being decent enough, the animations weren't that good, but it pulled off a cool idea of surviving and getting off a slowly sinking island, and had an interesting, if not a little cheesy story. The sequel though, oh boy. First off, look at this cover!
I think it speaks for itself.
The best way I can describe the game itself is it's like the first draft of the PS3 game Heavy Rain.
There's honestly too much wrong with this game for me to list, go ahead and search for it on YouTube, there's countless gameplay videos.
I think the main reason that I consider this "So bad it's good" is because the game itself isn't broken, the gameplay functions alright, and there's no real glitches, but the story and everything else are just awful, but not insultingly awful. I really need to go back and play this again.
So, do any of you have any games that you consider "So bad, it's good", I'd love to hear about some of them.
One I can definitely think of is an often overlooked game called Raw Danger, also known as Disaster Report 2. I remember playing the first Disaster Report, and remember it being decent enough, the animations weren't that good, but it pulled off a cool idea of surviving and getting off a slowly sinking island, and had an interesting, if not a little cheesy story. The sequel though, oh boy. First off, look at this cover!
I think it speaks for itself.
The best way I can describe the game itself is it's like the first draft of the PS3 game Heavy Rain.
The game's basic plot is that this manmade "Underground City" is flooding, because I guess they didn't prepare for that type of disaster very well, and you play as 5 characters (6 if you make the right series of choices), and you need to help them survive by the end of the game.
All the characters in this game move like freaking animatronics at a bad theme park. The voice acting is pretty wooden too, with one character not having any voiceover at all, despite having subtitles in cutscenes, with the exception of an over the top scream when he dies. It's not quite the level of the original Resident Evil, but it's pretty bad.
Also this game has villains (yeah the disaster isn't the villain in this), and their motivations make no sense! The main one wants to release this deadly disease throughout the city, even though the entire city is underwater at this point, so it's kind of pointless.
This game has choices that affect the plot and other characters, but some of them are freaking ridiculous, while most are the generic "Choose this for good", "Choose this for asshole" choices. At one point when one of the partner characters is knocked unconscious, you have the choices of "Shake her", "Slap her", or "SNIFF HER!" I shit you not, that's an actual choice you can make!
I think my favorite parts are when the game tries to have "moments", like when you fall off an overpass with this chef character, who has no name by the way, they try and give him an emotional final moment. He tells you not to worry about him, then randomly pulls out a photo and says "I should have spent more time with my son." before coughing ridiculously, but just lying there still while he's coughing, like he died, and his cough was late coming out of his mouth.
All the characters in this game move like freaking animatronics at a bad theme park. The voice acting is pretty wooden too, with one character not having any voiceover at all, despite having subtitles in cutscenes, with the exception of an over the top scream when he dies. It's not quite the level of the original Resident Evil, but it's pretty bad.
Also this game has villains (yeah the disaster isn't the villain in this), and their motivations make no sense! The main one wants to release this deadly disease throughout the city, even though the entire city is underwater at this point, so it's kind of pointless.
This game has choices that affect the plot and other characters, but some of them are freaking ridiculous, while most are the generic "Choose this for good", "Choose this for asshole" choices. At one point when one of the partner characters is knocked unconscious, you have the choices of "Shake her", "Slap her", or "SNIFF HER!" I shit you not, that's an actual choice you can make!
I think my favorite parts are when the game tries to have "moments", like when you fall off an overpass with this chef character, who has no name by the way, they try and give him an emotional final moment. He tells you not to worry about him, then randomly pulls out a photo and says "I should have spent more time with my son." before coughing ridiculously, but just lying there still while he's coughing, like he died, and his cough was late coming out of his mouth.
I think the main reason that I consider this "So bad it's good" is because the game itself isn't broken, the gameplay functions alright, and there's no real glitches, but the story and everything else are just awful, but not insultingly awful. I really need to go back and play this again.
So, do any of you have any games that you consider "So bad, it's good", I'd love to hear about some of them.
