Remember those Burger King Xbox 360 games? Those. And just because they were memes, cheap, but then we started getting into them! We were playing I think it was Sneak King (I just now realized it's called that 'cause "sneaking" π€¦πΌββοΈ) and we were 3 hours into it, it was 1am or something, my friend had work later and had to drive home, but we were determined... Almost want to buy them again.
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Yep! I have Big Bumpin' in my collection, got it for free after I was specifically requesting a retro game shop owner if he had any of the three Burger King games in stock. He was actually surprised that someone was actually looking for these games, and he opened a drawer, and handed me a copy of Big Bumpin'. Dude threw it in as a bonus game and only made us pay for Watch Dogs: Legion. He was the nicest and coolest retro shop owner I have ever met. A few months before he gave me that for free, he gave my sister some free PlayStation headphones and stated that he wasn't sure if they were working or not. And guess what? It worked. Flawlessly.
Dude is still around, still kicking ass at that retro game store even to this day.
I got all 3 games for $10 when BK was trying to dump them. Pocket bike Racer is surprisingly fun.
I made Diarrhea 4 as a joke. Does that count?
I bought and played many a bad game but never as a joke.
Goat simulator. Which as we now know is pretty fun.
I vibe with you. I frickin' LOVE Goat Simulator! Just a hell of a fun game where you can cause as much chaos as you please as a goat. I have played the original and every one of its DLC packs, and I pre-ordered Goat Simulator 3 as well, and I am gonna be picking up the Multiverse of Nonsense DLC at a later point. An all-time favorite game series of mine.
Currently waiting for the Re-Maa-ster of Goat Simulator 2... (ba dum tsss) πππ
This guy goats.
Didn't buy it perse but Chex Quest.
Oh my God I actually played that!!! A weird kid-friendly version of DOOM that actually was pretty damn solid and had an actual interesting story for a kids game. It wasn't like Pepsiman, where the entire game was littered with Pepsi advertisements, it was an advergame that had an actual story about aliens threatening Chex and Earth. Thank you for reminding me of this. =)
Fps chess - not bad really, the mechanics are but thats part of the charm
Muck - made for a game jam, fun with friends
Retail royale - ikea themed battle royale, no more than 12 players online typically
The looker - satire game based on the watcher
Leaf blower revolution - cookie clicker style idle game with more engaging mechanics. Not bad really but a time waster fs
Unturned - just a classic but still silly
Lunch lady - group survival horror game, played it once, not great
Pearphone.io - fps game where you play as a pear shaped phone with a pear logo, no comment
Peasant royale - self explanatory I think
Rust
Pearphone.io - fps game where you play as a pear shaped phone with a pear logo, no comment
I was wondering if that was based off of the fictional phone in iCarly, and I was correct. Also, it is allegedly malware/a Bitcoin miner according to some Steam reviews, but this is unverifiable.
Honestly I wouldn't be shocked about it being malware lmao. I dont think I have ever ran it tho tbh
The Looker is based on The Witness not the Watcher, and its fucking hilarious
My bad lol I never played the game it was making fun of but it WAS funny
I bought BioFreaks for PS1 because it looked fun. I knew it would be janky and have weird physics, but it's also got a weird dystopian story too!
To be fair, I was 8 or 9 at the time, but it's an entertaining piece of shit, like Pitball (also for PS1).
Redneck Rampage. Hot damn!
Oh damn, I forgot about this game. Actually played it multiplayer back in the day. I think it gave me a headache so quickly.
Ok wtf that's seriously up there with Shadow of the Colossus, hold on to yer butt!
Not really for laughs because it was a Christmas gift. Donkey Kong Jr. Math on the NES. I actually played it a lot because it was fun and had multiple game modes.
Now, this one may surprise you, but I recently bought Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League as a joke. And no, I did not pay $70 for the game. In fact, I bought it for a far more cheaper price on CDKeys since they were having a huge sale for North American/European game keys. Was on sale for roughly $16, a huge steal in my eyes. Like bro, $70 USD for this game? Yeah, no, I'm not paying that much if this game is in this state. Capped it only because I wanted to get it to laugh at it. I originally was planning to get it through the free Prime Gaming offer, but through past complications with Amazon charging us even after repeatedly cancelling our Prime subscription, I went against getting a free trial for Amazon Prime and we just ended up buying a digital Steam key.
I have been loving the game, in a very ironic way. I'm serious. I only bought the game to see how bad it truly was and to laugh at the game's bad design choices (mostly the lackluster story). I just wanted the game for shits and giggles, nothing serious. I only like the game because of how goddamn bad it is. Literally wanted to laugh out loud while I was playing through the first 2 hours. It's so bad, but hilariously bad. The story doesn't make sence, either - why was the Suicide Squad recruited by a literal FBI agent? I get that it's about the Justice League becoming evil and all, but it still doesn't make any sense to me.
Needless to say, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a guilty pleasure of mine. Because I like laughing at it.
EXTRA NOTE: In short, save your money until there's a huge sale or another free offer. God save Rocksteady.
Also, of COURSE I got Garfield Kart: Furious Racing. My Steam library truly didn't feel complete until I got gifted the game.
I only wanted the game as a joke, not for any serious reasons. But dang, it's actually a fun time-waster.
I've bought that game quite some time ago as a meme
The devs behind it appearently started hosting contests for it so joined them for the heck of it.
Among Us, Nintendo Switch, cause I had a $5 BestBuy gift card I wasn't sure what else to do with. Never even booted a session yet.
Bad Rats frequently goes on sale for $0.25 and is somehow worth less than that. But it's become a meme to gift it to our friends
I bought Ace of Seafood, in which you can play as many kinds of fish that all shoot lasers out or their mouths at other fish.
It's absolutely baffling but probably not how you'd expect.. I found it pretty technical and demanding. It's like a very serious game where you fly F16s and dogfight and destroy aircraft carriers except everything is fish. It's Japanese to the max.
I paid about Β£6 for it on the Switch, did not play it enough to get my moneysworth. But I think once you hear the concept, you will never stop thinking about it until you try it, so I was glad to be able to stop thinking about it.
I haven't done that yet but, give the opportunity, I would buy the hell out of a rerelease of Overblood. Rented it back in the day and it was terrible in all the best ways.
KrzyΕΌacy - Knights of the Cross. But then it turned out it's not only hilarious but actually also have good gameplay, so i can recommend.
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death.
Itβs not as bad as I expected.
Quite a few, I'm one of those people. In fact, I could answer this question in so many different ways. The game I feel is the "prize" of my collection, though, is Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude.
I like the classic point and click Leisure Suit Larry games; I think they have a certain charm about them, and though they're drenched in sleaze, Larry in his quests for sex more often than not ends up the butt of the joke. Raunchy, sexual, but most importantly, mainly making fun of our protagonist desperately trying to get laid. The gameplay was fun too, point and click games have a certain feel that you don't see too much today. On top of all that, when the series moved into a more higher resolution art for LSL 4, 6 and 7 the series genuinely beautiful with an unforgettable style
LSL: MCL does not have much of this. You play truly horribly designed minigames over and over to progress. These range from bad to worse, and you will become the best virtual quarters player of all time by the end of it, I promise you. The comedy is reduced to 2000s boner comedy level, and it seems as though Larry (or Larry's nephew, Larry, in this case) is an unironic protagonist on a real quest, rather than failing upwards, accompanied by the constant mockery of our witty narrator. What once was a series about a hopeless sleazeball constantly petitioning and getting rejected by women out of his league got turned into a unironic college boning simulator. To top it all off, our beautiful art has been replaced by the early-2000s-est of 3D models and textures
I played it for 22 hours or so. Couldn't stop. It's like a car crash. Not only does it If any game deserves "so bad, it's good" status, LSL: MCL is at the top of the list.
For those kind enough to read my rant, here are some runners up from my shelf in which I assume you'd also be interested:
BCFX The Black College Football Experience: A college football game where only Historically Black Colleges and Universities are selectable. Only part of the game is really about football, because you also play as the band at halftime in a Rock Band-style minigame. It's such a niche game, with such a niche audience. Who probably won't even like the game because it doesn't play well at all.
Sneak King: C'mon, we all know this one. Premium, refined jank.
Fight Club: A fighting game based on the movie based on the book, where you can play as Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit and also Abraham Lincoln should you so desire.
MTV's Pimp My Ride: PBG fans out there, time to represent. Basically just a minigame collection with some driving between. It did, however, teach me how to Ghost Ride the Whip, for which I am eternally grateful.
Sneak King wasn't my favorite out of those three BK games though personally. For me that title belongs to the absolute banger Pocketbike Racer. That game was actually good!
House of the Dead: Overkill on the Wii.
Genuinely has a great (and hilarious) soundtrack.
Shhh, I downloaded a ROM.
Drakengard. Good lord. What a game. Just.. just watch a video.
When I was in high school I saw a game called "Prison Tycoon" in a shopping mall Babbages and bought it for my brother as a dumb Christmas gift. I was in the store with a friend and we were kind of in shock. I remember my friend making a comment like "The box cover is just a cop beating a black man with a baton, how many people are involved in getting a game stocked by shopping malls?"