Games you like that nobody else does

[Emher]

Robotech: Battlecry. I love the idea and some of the stuff in the game. Ultimately I go bored with some of the missions though and it never felt as big as it needed to be, but I still enjoy it from time to time, bad voice acting and all.

Oh also has some great qoute that I use from time time. For example:
"That's not love.... That's psychosis...!"

 

[Timby]

A game that I've always thought was grossly underrated was FreeLancer.

As for games that I just don't "get," item number one has to be BioShock. Its heart was in the right place, but its mechanics felt too much like dumbed-down System Shock, the art direction was commendably original but ultimately garish, and the story was not as clever was it thought it was. I also apparently made all the wrong decisions in skill-selection and by the end was finding it all deeply frustrating. Oh, and for a few days I saw pipes in my fucking dreams.

Going back a bit, I have to say that I enjoyed Final Fantasy Tactics for the actual battles, as they were fun and challenging. But the story ... maybe I'm some retarded Philistine or something, but the story was completely incomprehensible to me. It basically came out as "Lord Argbdfsdhs of Conebononilis is seeking the sacred stones that contain incredible demonic powers so they can defeat the Kingdom of Aspergeromodonia in the War of Fifteen Sloths, which was a continuation of the Conflict of the Slardinian War Wizards. Meanwhile, in Blorgforpholis Castle, Argbdfsdhs' second-cousin is plotting to send the Knights of Boneria to Slartibartfast to intercept the Light Warriors in their attempt to deliver a Holy Pizza in under thirty minutes."

 

[The Great Meech]

I love tons of bad games. Grand Theft Auto for the Game Boy Color stands out. That's right, gangstas--there was a port of the original GTA to the GBC, and, man, was it shit. Weird bugs let you drive over pieces of water, caused you to disappear from the map and mysteriously die, and never find a pedestrian unless you were in a car. The statistics gave a bank job category, but there was no way to pull a bank job, and even though some missions required you to know what type of vehicle you were in (and the manual said the game could tell you), no vehicle name ever popped up onscreen. Even so, the game let you jack a car and run people over, shooting things along the way, and gave a nice variety of missions, a surprising array of vehicles, and three cities to screw around in. It was crap, but it was fun crap.

Oh, and Yoda Stories for the GBC. Yes, I know, it was a tile-based, weak sauce version of Zelda with fifteen levels that weren't connected (and that you couldn't save inside). That's all it was supposed to be. It was on the Game Boy Color, for Jeebus's sake. It had the processing power of my watch. Cut it some slack.

Oh--one last thing. The original Super Mario Land for Game Boy, all forty-five minutes of it, was the shit. That is all.

Wait, not all. Elite Beat Agents for the DS is no fun. It's just frustrating. Now that is all.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

First category: a PS2 game called Warship Gunner II; a Japanese RPG FPS-type game. You control a ship, and you sink other ships, launch fightercraft in an alternate WWII.

Second category: I don't own a XBOX or XBOX 360, so I'm not too sure about Halo II, but I think that GTA is overrated. I've already played GTA, as a similar game called Mercenaries, and I have no desire to play more like it (I much prefer games like Wing Commander and Starlancer).