The Best Bad Games Of This Generation

Ben Griffiths of Platform Nation: Sometimes, it would be nice to see some retrospective praise for games that didn’t score too highly with the critics or were widely panned for failings that some of us might be willing to forgive. It is in this spirit of forgiveness that P*N presents the Top 3 rubbish games of the current generation of consoles. We can all guess the contenders for the three best current-gen titles but the following three represent this writer’s opinion of three games that, however flawed, might just be worthy of a second chance.

[Darkstorn]

Deadly Premonition, anyone? I imported the PS3 version and it is EXCELLENT (despite the game mechanics being shit). This is the greatest cult game of this generation aside from Demon's Souls.

[mrv321]

Just watch GiantBombs endurance run... it's probably funnier.

[Darkstorn]

Totally! I watched the first 20 episodes before I got the game! I think Giantbomb is now my favorite gaming site (I've been registered there since they launched in June '08).

[mcnablejr]

demon's souls , a cult game (lol)

[Persistantthug]

The game stands at an 82....

That's a good game.

I owned it prior to about 3 weeks ago.....while not perfect I can vouch that its a pretty decent game...not awesome...but fun.

[Redlogic]

I just got Saints Row 2 from Amazon for $18 last week. So far I'm having alot of fun with it. Like the article said, its stupid fun, but after a long day at work it's the perfect stress reliever.

[dgroundwater]

Deadly Premonition is easily the best cult game in a long while. Buy it, and you will arrive in a place that will change your fate!

[SupaGamer]

Socom Confrontation. It released glitchy to bad reviews, but with patches, it became a decent game.

[jaredhart]

Socom wasn't bad. I bought it on Amazon for $25 just to get the headset and enjoyed the multiplayer.

[crzyjackbauer]

i love playing it, sure the when it lunched it was full of glitches and lag but they al got fixed now and its a very good addition to the socom series, from the looks of it socom 4 will blow

[zatrox]

Deadly Premonition and NieR for me.
C'mon, guys.

[uhaul]

NieR is underrated.

[coolbeans]

Most have crowned it with the "it's so bad, it's good" title. Although Alone in the Dark probably has the greatest line in videogame history.

[jaredhart]

Better than "All your base are belong to us" ?

[coolbeans]

"I don't have your stone...and f**k you anyway" pwns that :P

[Urmomlol]

Wow, seriously --only three games? You guys are lazy as hell

[VladimirK]

I have to admit, I completely agree with this article.

I really enjoyed Kane & Lynch, the characters were wonderful imo, I loved having 2 middle aged guys and the grittiness of it that you don't get with most other games.
Yeah, it got a little far fetched when you went to the jungle, but I still really enjoyed it, especially on local co-op with a friend.

Saints Row 2 was exactly what I needed after the dissapointment of GTA IV. I loved the GTA games, but then IV tried to be too realistic and this just lead to a horrible restricted environment imo. (ie, steal a car, even with no cops about, most of the time you're wanted. Accidentally fire a gun and you become wanted.) This removed all the fun of a GTA game imo.
Then I played SR2 and it was what I wanted GTA IV to be. It was fun, I could do whatever I wanted in this world and there was loads to do.

Then Alone in the Dark.
Okay, whilst I don't like it as much as the other 2 listed, I still had some fun with it.
I think for this one, I can only describe it as, I liked enough of it for me to disagree and not understand the sheer amount of hate that it gets.

[DaBadGuy]

I agree. Although I did love GTA4 and still play it to this day, it's not what I loved about the series as a whole. I went to best buy last week and saw the GTA Collection, GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas for 30 bucks and picked it up. They had a lot of them actually. So I've gone back to playing Vice City, my favorite in the series, I miss the outlandishness of it. Being able to chop people up with a chainsaw and samurai sword, being able to wield a dildo in San Andreas, stuff like that. I really did love Saint's Row 2, I loved being able to throw a remote mine on someone, then grab them and throw them into a group of people and boom. That's outlandish, stupid fun for you. I was dissapointed that the mines from Ballad of Gay Tony couldn't stick to people, but whatever. Saint's Row 2 was awesome, I can't wait for the next one.

[MASTER_RAIDEN]

Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe!!!

[Prcko]

epic game

[earbus]

Matt hazard really cracked me up need more humour in games another fun cheapy wanted weapons of fate the fail games are gold for me this gen.