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Guilty Pleasure games? Secret shames?
- Thread starter nogoodnamesleft
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These are your "guilty pleasure" games? These games are extremely well regarded. Really weird for me to see them here.
For me, I played through and actually ended up really enjoying Criminal Girls on Vita. For a game that I went in expecting to see no/little value in, I actually ended up liking the gameplay and characters a decent bit. At the same time, there are pretty obvious reasons I wouldn't really discuss it...
Vanillaware games are legitimately fantastic though, and only Dragon's Crown is 'pervy' in any way, and then it's only two character designs (Muramasa contains some sexual references but that's accurate to the Japanese folklore it is based on).
I don't think I have any. I like the games I like and I don't really care what others think of them.
Though it's probably easier for me since I don't like creepy anime shit.
Though it's probably easier for me since I don't like creepy anime shit.
Metal Gear Survive is my GOTY
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Good luck trying to explain the rationale of liking it to anyone.
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Good luck trying to explain the rationale of liking it to anyone.
this thread is bait for fanservice-type games, because those are the most common games that would fall into this category of guilty pleasure
But I however have the guilty pleasure of Audition - Online Dance Battle
It provides a decent escape from toxic game culture and has a very nice, relaxed community
Music is nice, community is nice, and well, the avatars are nice. Been playing for almost a decade.
But I however have the guilty pleasure of Audition - Online Dance Battle
It provides a decent escape from toxic game culture and has a very nice, relaxed community
Music is nice, community is nice, and well, the avatars are nice. Been playing for almost a decade.
I only ever try to hide my mobile games. I used to be deep into mobile city builders (Simpsons Tapped Out, for example) and would speak of it to no one and drop more money than I should have into it. Now, it's Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. It consumes me, but I have avoided dropping too much money on it outside of the five I threw in basically as a thanks for dozens of hours.
this post just gave me PTSD and reminded me of the money i dumped on a facebook game when I was 18
Warriors games, everyone seems to just rag on them but I like playing them. I just don't mention it anymore at this point.
Neptunia, Monster Monpiece, Monster Girl Quest, Senran Kagura, Kekkō Kamen 2: O-Shioki Densetsu no Maki, YU-NO, and Vanguard Princess.
Gatcha
Clickers
Simulation games
Recruitathon games like Pokemon, Suikoden, Skies of Arcadia, Last Remnant.
Clickers
Simulation games
Recruitathon games like Pokemon, Suikoden, Skies of Arcadia, Last Remnant.
Not a "guilty pleasure" by any means, but I do remember hiding the fact that I played Catherine from many people. That cover draws a lot of attention lol...
GTAV to an extent just because the writing has gotten less culturally incisive over the years and it's gotten into that "Old Man yells at cloud" thumbing my nose at "PC Culture" thing. Great game but the humor gets into that "Are you offended? GOOD" lane which is a stale position to take these days I think. Vice City and San Andreas were actually really funny.
Otomedius Excellent
I was desperate for an old school style SHMUP for my Xbox360 years ago and thought it was a sequel of sorts to the old Parodius series on the SNES.
Once the anime style opening cinematic started up I thought I'd made a horrible mistake... (Honestly, it grew on me after a while and I'd let it play out every time I booted the game, pretty catchy tune IMO)
Got hooked on the game for a fairly long period of time and ended up placing pretty high on the Score Attack Leaderboards before I stopped playing it altogether. All the little Easter Eggs and nods to the classics were pretty cool, too.
I was desperate for an old school style SHMUP for my Xbox360 years ago and thought it was a sequel of sorts to the old Parodius series on the SNES.
Once the anime style opening cinematic started up I thought I'd made a horrible mistake... (Honestly, it grew on me after a while and I'd let it play out every time I booted the game, pretty catchy tune IMO)
Got hooked on the game for a fairly long period of time and ended up placing pretty high on the Score Attack Leaderboards before I stopped playing it altogether. All the little Easter Eggs and nods to the classics were pretty cool, too.
I have a coworker who plays it on lunch time in the cafeteria. No shame.
Skyrim is probably my favorite video game of all time but I'm too afraid to say it out loud in hardcore videogame forums.
I have no shame in admitting that I enjoy the Gal Gun games, and am looking forward to Gal Gun 2. I did never play the first one, but Double Peace was just a real fun shooter, that had a good amount of replay value. I found it to be a funny, and cute game too.
I'm a bit ashamed over the fact that I really like 3d sonic... it's not something I play for nostalgic reasons since my first game was sonic generations (!). Yep, soon 40 years old.
I should be ashamed over the time I put into assassins creed. I have played through all of the main games except syndicate.
I should be ashamed over the time I put into assassins creed. I have played through all of the main games except syndicate.
I play a lot of small indie 3d platformers that I wind up not talking about a whole lot not out of shame or anything but because i dont think other people are particularly interested.
Same, I actually loved that game as a kid. Not as much as either of the Adventure games, but I definitely preferred it to Heroes.
Don't let my friends know but when they aren't watching I love playing and training in Capcom Fighting Jam/ Evolution.
During the 360-era, I loved clearing and getting all achievements for any janky euro-rpg.
Some were good: Risen
Some were bad: Arcania
Some were trash: Venetica
Some were good: Risen
Some were bad: Arcania
Some were trash: Venetica
Probably Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, but then again it's not really a "guilty" pleasure, and I'm not that into it.
Probably RuneScape. Moreso RuneScape 3, now that Oldschool has become hip again, but I like both. I don't feel T S U N D E R E about games really, but tbh I rarely talk about video games in public in general. Just doesn't seem like an interesting topic to bring up at something like a coffee shop or whatever.
Probably RuneScape. Moreso RuneScape 3, now that Oldschool has become hip again, but I like both. I don't feel T S U N D E R E about games really, but tbh I rarely talk about video games in public in general. Just doesn't seem like an interesting topic to bring up at something like a coffee shop or whatever.