Guilty Pleasures

[Hucklebubba]

Present or past games (or future, if you have access to that information) that you feel sort of bad about liking or having liked. Go!

The bulk of my past guilty games are, to no one's real suprise, boobious in nature. I owned Rumble Roses for a good week, which is not only how long it took for the shame to become unbearable, but also the absolute maximum lifespan of the game's play value. Oddly enough, I was less ashamed of owning such an egregiously exploitative game, and more ashamed of owning an egregiously exploitative wrestling game.

Thanks to the statute of limitations, I can now admit that, during the brief life of the Dreamcast, I actually clawed my way to first ranking in Dead or Alive 2's Survival mode, so that I could enter "REALDEMO" as my name and see the naked Kasumi intro. Enough time has passed since then for me to be immune to loser prosecution. That is how it works, isn't it?

But at some point boobs gave way to bullets, as the most recent and new top-ranking entrant on my GP list would have to be The Punisher for the PS2. I found myself often of two minds while playing; alternating between, "Whee! The Punisher! This game is a good time!" and "Should I be deriving this much enjoyment from such an unabashed orgy of violence?" and occasionally "Okay, that was just mean."

Seriously, in all of my gaming career, only one other game (Soldier of Fortune for the PC) has caused me to pause and consider the possiblity that there may actually be such a thing as too violent.

But, as was the case with said other game, the answer came back "nah," and The Punisher remains one of the most consistently enjoyable games in my collection.

[Spiderdancer]

Diablo II. Normally I scorn sprite games with a curl of my pudgy lip, but this one was just amazingly fun to play in multiplayer with three likeminded friends on a makeshift home LAN.

I did have to have a very serious talk with Dad about why I was buying a game with a big demon face on the cover. It often strikes me as funny that other Christians have such a problem with games where you FIGHT evil. I mean, doesn't anyone else think it's a little twisted that anime games have you run around killing cute little critters?

[Head Mutant]

I loaded up Fallout 2 on my computer for a spin this week. Worked just fine and dandy until a weird map bug made it impossible to reenter a town from the map.

It's amazing that sprite graphics this primitive was the benchmark not too long ago -- but hey, the game is still hecka fun. We need Fallout 3, and fast!

[starwenn]

Does it count as a guilty pleasure that the only video game console I currently own is a very tempermental original Nintendo, and one of my favorite games that I have is "Mickey Mousecapade?"

[Hucklebubba]

starwenn said:

Does it count as a guilty pleasure that the only video game console I currently own is a very tempermental original Nintendo, and one of my favorite games that I have is "Mickey Mousecapade?"

I feel guilty about it, and I'm not even you.

[BlackCatWhiteCat]

.......Final Fantasy X:2..........

Don't hurt me!!!!

[Hucklebubba]

spiderdancer said:

I mean, doesn't anyone else think it's a little twisted that anime games have you run around killing cute little critters?

You know they'd take us out if they had the chance.

rori20 said:

.......Final Fantasy X:2..........

Don't hurt me!!!!

Final Fantasy X-2, or Pretty Love Love Dress-up, as it is sometimes known, is a game I have oft-considered giving another shot, so I couldn't hurt you without giving half-a-hurt to myself.

Heck, just the fact that I have it in my collection probably marks me for assassination in some circles.

[Blind Ryan]

It's called an Atari 800 emulator... and, other then Pitfall 2, Hero, Montezuma, Bristles, and Boulderdash, I probably shouldn't say too much else.