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[Bouchart]

Digimon World is a strange one.  It's buggy and poorly translated, but it's unique and worth playing.

[WillowLuman]

I liked Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. Never finished it, though. It's worth it, even if just for the soundtrack.

I also liked Grabbed by the Ghoulies. People always seem to review it as a straight-up horror game. It's not. It's a commedy beat-em-up with decent challenge and fun cartoony violence.

[Bouchart]

Also, Shadow the Hedgehog.  Controls are slippery and the writing is bad but I enjoyed it.

[Farce]

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, on SNES.

It was my first RPG of that sort ever, so I didn't have FF1 or anything like that to compare it to and go 'Augh!  This is so bad!'.  It probably also helped that it had kickass music and cool shit like 'jumping' and 'using your weapons outside of combat for puzzley purposes'.

I remember I spent a lot of time just derping around towns and playing pretend and stuff, also.  It may or may not have helped that I owned a turbo-fire controller.

I remember I was like, in ~2nd grade when I played it, and I also remember getting stuck on Chrono Trigger much later on the Steam Dragon, later, so evidently I perfectly fit the archetype they were designing for.  Babby's first RPG!


On a somewhat related note, I enjoyed the Mario Bros. movie.  Yes, it was stupid, I know.

[Scripten]

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, on SNES.

It was my first RPG of that sort ever, so I didn't have FF1 or anything like that to compare it to and go 'Augh!  This is so bad!'.  It probably also helped that it had kickass music and cool shit like 'jumping' and 'using your weapons outside of combat for puzzley purposes'.

I remember I spent a lot of time just derping around towns and playing pretend and stuff, also.  It may or may not have helped that I owned a turbo-fire controller.

I remember I was like, in ~2nd grade when I played it, and I also remember getting stuck on Chrono Trigger much later on the Steam Dragon, later, so evidently I perfectly fit the archetype they were designing for.  Babby's first RPG!


On a somewhat related note, I enjoyed the Mario Bros. movie.  Yes, it was stupid, I know.

You're not alone. Certain others happen to also enjoy the movie on its own merits. It WAS a rather unique film.

[flame99]

A fairly obscure one: Champions of Norrath. It's a sort of 2D hack-and-slash Everquest game that came out on the PS2. It's pretty much universally reviled for paying little attention to the lore of Everquest, and for being  buggy as all hell, but I actually really enjoyed it, and I absolutely loved the sequel, Champions of Norrath: Return to Arms, (Which got ever-so-slightly better reception, since it wasn't quite as buggy, but payed even less attention to lore). It probably helps that it was one of the earlier games that I played, and that I didn't much care about the EQ lore anyways, despite being quite into the game at the time. If you do manage to get a hold of a copy, though, do yourself a favor: Buy a multitap, some extra controllers, and get some friends to play with you. It's a dismal game to play solo, but it's way more fun with the maximum four people playing. Well, when it doesn't freeze up. It does tend to do that quite often.

[Graknorke]

I kind of liked driv3r. Not a lot mind, but just a bit. Mostly the way that you could go into a lot of the buildings, and that's something that was and still is often overlooked in open world games.

[Yoink]

I also liked Grabbed by the Ghoulies. People always seem to review it as a straight-up horror game. It's not. It's a commedy beat-em-up with decent challenge and fun cartoony violence.

Huh, I'm pretty sure I remember that getting a good/decent review from the gaming magazine I used to read... I never played more than the demo, though. Speaking of that magazine, I stopped reading them when they gave Canis Canem Edit a score of something like 70/100- that game was brilliant great.

[Graknorke]

I also liked Grabbed by the Ghoulies. People always seem to review it as a straight-up horror game. It's not. It's a commedy beat-em-up with decent challenge and fun cartoony violence.

Huh, I'm pretty sure I remember that getting a good/decent review from the gaming magazine I used to read... I never played more than the demo, though. Speaking of that magazine, I stopped reading them when they gave Canis Canem Edit a score of something like 70/100- that game was brilliant great.

70/100 is pretty good.

EDIT: Whoops wait I forgot this is gaming, where even a dog shit in a CD case would get 5/10 from IGN if there were a few pennies in there as well.

[flame99]

I enjoyed Final Fantasy: Chrystal Chronicles a bit too much for my own good, and that game was slammed by most magazines. Frankly, it's the only Final Fantasy I've played. I still own it, too.

...Wait. People didn't like Crystal Chronicles? Why?!
I mean, the games not perfect, obviously, but I still found it to be a lot of fun.

[Duuvian]

-Kings Quest 6: Ok yeah... it is slow... yeah it is Disney like. But it isn't that bad. I like that it is far more intuitive then a lot of other games (Minus two garbage puzzles)... Its fun, come on! Its good I swear! Even if no one other then me seems to like it.

Was that the one with the Princess and her Mom? I liked that one a long time ago when I had the cd from a Sierra bundle, it was the only King's Quest I've tried. I figured out most of it, but there was one spot that left me stumped and I had to skip to the next chapter instead of going consecutively. I think it was the forest level with the bridge and cornucopia and the town with the Faux Shop.

Really enjoyed the game "Digimon World" for PS1. It got around a 5.5/10 from most reviewers, but I really liked the dynamic of raising a creature and all the different ways to train them. I still go back to it sometimes. It probably didn't cater to whatever digimon fans would have been into though.

I think I rented that a few times from a video store. Did you have to lead the monster to the bathroom to poop constantly? I thought it was kind of cool, but I never watched Digimon. Also I kept having the creature evolve into the crappy monster that raising them inappropriately caused.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, on SNES.

It was my first RPG of that sort ever, so I didn't have FF1 or anything like that to compare it to and go 'Augh!  This is so bad!'.  It probably also helped that it had kickass music and cool shit like 'jumping' and 'using your weapons outside of combat for puzzley purposes'.

Yeah, I agree. I enjoyed Mystic Quest when I was younger. It was rentable from the same place FF6 was. Despite this I used my chores money to get a copy of Mystic Quest while FF6 I didn't get until the PS1 FF5/FF6 combo came out.

The Mario Bro's movie was rented multiple times from the same video store by myself, quite enjoyable.

A fairly obscure one: Champions of Norrath. It's a sort of 2D hack-and-slash Everquest game that came out on the PS2.

Some roommates of mine had a copy of this from somewhere. I was appalled as EQ1 was my first online game ever, but the gameplay was good enough for them to enjoy it quite a bit. I tried to convince them to try EQ1 but they said they'd rather play the first MMO for the Final Fantasy series, which about made me tear my hair out.

For my own contribution to this thread, I will mention Arcanum. It was super buggy and had absolutely no sense of balance but it was good looking for the time, had great voice acting, had a great setting, had a great manual, and had some good ideas about mechanics regarding technology versus magic, and fantasy species in a world in the midst of an industrial revolution. The story was quite good. Also there was some funny stuff like the community favorite Belle the Sheep, and the cult in Stillwater. Finally I can't fail to mention the 'Virgil the Pervert' mod made by someone who apparently really didn't like Virgil. Personally I thought he was a good character in the original module.

[Neonivek]

And I never really understood why there was so much hate for the Mario Bros. movie. It's different from the games, of course, but any Mario movie would have to be if it hoped to be any good. It's silly and campy, sure, but it's full of good fun.

Generally speaking it is because it doesn't feel like a Mario Bros movie for the most part.

Though it is a lot more beloved now then it was when it came out. It is considered one of the better "so bad its good" movies (or Good Bad movie).

It still got a LOT more respect then the typical Uwe Boll film though.

[alexandertnt]

Im not the only one on the planet who enjoyed the Mario Bros. movie? Horay! I don't think its one of those "its so bad its good" movies, I think that it really had potential to be a genuinely good movie (and had some genuinely good ideas), and thats why I enjoyed it.

Godzilla Unleashed - Monster fighting games are all too few, and this game has a very large character selection.

Iridion 3D - Pretty much everything *but* the gameplay is excellent. Graphics are really impressive and it has an earworm of a music track, I played it just for those.

The I Of the Dragon - Simply because you get to play as a dragon, hell yeah!

[Neonivek]

Ok I guess here is a more accurate statement.

The Mario Bros movie is bigger than its faults.

It is a bad movie, but it is a better movie then it is a bad one.

[Retropunch]

I really enjoyed the universally panned Orion:Dino Horde with a few friends. Sure it's kinda a case of being 'so bad it's good' but on higher difficulties it's actually a pretty fun co-op shooter with some nice character upgrading and vehicle/weapon buying. Big environments to play in, and the AI isn't too awfully terrible.

I also have to say that being caught in the middle of a field, in the dark and the rain (with only the headlights of our buggy as light) whilst getting attacked by dinosaurs on all sides was one of the best co-op experiences I've had. If they could have worked towards that instead of it going a bit silly-crazy-rocket-shooting then it'd have been a really, really good game.

Also, the waves do eventually just repeat, so as soon as you get to wave 20(?) on the hardest difficulty it just wraps around to wave 1 and starts over.   

Unfortunately I heard some really bad things about the company itself, so that's kinda off putting.