I am unironic fan of gobb (Garten of Banban). It is definitely not a great game by any means. The 3d modeling is a genuine nightmare and there is a lot about the universe that makes no sense. But its so earnest and has a community that I admire, and I have drawn unironic fanart of the characters. I love the games in my own special fucked up way.
what are your beloved absolute disasters? : )
I have an entire YouTube channel dedicated to this, but if I had to choose one, it can only be Eva Cash. I don’t want to ever play it ever again ever in my life ever, but what an experience.
In the most messed up way, Sword Art Online. Literally everything about that IP has problems but like?? Somehow the best example of stop killing games done right??
I had gotten a copy of the weird GGO spinoff game from a bundle at one point and was playing it off and on. Servers went down years ago and the solution that the publisher settled on was simply this ducttape:
Like, the game just works still? It isn’t a game I shout from the rooftops about being good but like, that is probably the best remedy to online only games going offline when 90% of the game was a single player campaign? If content is already served by a platform like Steam, the launcher was pointless anyway.
The IP itself though, oof I struggle to consume any of the cannon content. The concept has so much to work with and it takes every opportunity to go off a bridge at higher and higher speeds. I suppose I have to thank it for giving rise to a new wave of isekai tropes though considering that one is the modern isekai example.
I’m quite fond of the CDI Zelda games. Obviously the memes when I was young really got me but I have found they are quite fun to play with friends as the game is such a mess in an entertaining way. I also kind of love the animation and the music is pretty bangin’!
I’m sorry to admit it’s Ride To Hell for me. It’s not just that I find the cutscenes funny (though I really do), or the plot preposterous, it’s partly that I grew up knowing a lot of people for whom this would be the absolute most perfect videogame ever.
I doubt if it hitting that incredibly precise niche was anything but by accident but it is the essence of a certain kind of biker group I knew distilled and I love it for it.
I mean I’m a sonic and fnaf fan so there’s like. Already so much with that. Sometimes I legit just wanna play a game that’s a mess but in an interesting way, like I love security breach and I’d never in a million years recommend anyone to play it if they want a good game 
That said missing banban was peak
Ice Cube’s War of the Worlds. I saw the memes and immediately told my gf we should watch it, we were laughing our asses off the whole time.
Also enjoyed DNF Duel quite a bit, sometimes you just need a button masher to turn your brain off to.
I know of a lot of garbage but a lot of it I cannot say I enjoy. I do enjoy talking about some of them, like the absolutely disgusting 2044 AD, but I do not like them themselves in any way. These are the only two I’ve done pieces on where I can at least point and laugh and not hate the experience of playing them.
Black Rainbow is the absolute bottom of the barrel of hidden object trash, but before the AI scourge dropped that bottom to basement level. It’s borderline charming at points but every single decision made is truly, genuinely baffling in every way imaginable. As for Super Star, it was a cheaply made knock off game made by some very scummy Chinese devs that moved onto scamming Japanese doujin devs with predatory contracts to steal the distribution rights to their games while just tossing them on steam with google translate copy paste. It makes their first “effort” charming in comparison, and baffling for all the copyright infringement and clear tracing of actual celebrity photos.
Not sure if this fits but I adore 90’s anime dubs. I know that dubbing gets a bad rap now for lack luster performances, but there’s something about early “Bad” English dubs that’s magical to me.
Not in a “haha, that sounds so lame” way but more in the way that you can really hear these were amature actors, American otaku, or just college students who needed some money. Considering how big a business anime localization is today these shoddy early attempts at dubbing seem almost punk by comparison. I highly recommend the dub of Angel Sanctuary for an example of what I’m talking about.
I’m clearly romanticizing it all in my head but I just love it, love it, love it 
Edit: This also extends to game localization too obviously, sorry I just saw this was posted under _games 
Third Birthday on psp
@CorpseGirl Oh, I started playing that recently since I got my hands on a PSP, have only played the first two missions but we’ll see how much I like it, I haven’t played the Parasite Eve games though, so I might not understand why it’s so hated unless I do, I think I can also play that on PSP, I’ll check them out.
I have a soft spot for Mega Man X6. It’s a janky, rushed mess with some of the worst level design ever but the core gameplay is solid enough and the comically bad translation plus nostalgia keeps me from viewing it harshly.
And though I don’t exactly love it, Frogger: The Great Quest fascinates me because it’s such a baffling game when it comes to nearly every decision. The voice acting is bad, the controls are jank, the story somehow is underdeveloped and has a lot of weird detail including a character who literally only appears in the last few minutes to be the end boss.
i don’t know if i’d agree with people calling it an absolute disaster but i feel like lots of people think matrix 4 resurrections is a disaster but i absolutely love that movie and have watched it like 5 times
I started playing R.A.D Robot Alchemic Drive, and yeah it’s such a lovable disaster. Everything is fine tuned to have the jankiest charm possible
I’m completely with you, loved Resurrections when I first watched it and was super confused when I saw all the negativity online
i mean i agree the fight scenes were a bit weak compared to the originals but idk, i don’t care that much about the fight scenes XD
I have a soft spot for Agents of MAYHEM, a game that is not a mess but is absolutely not a great game either. It’s incredibly repetitive but I have a soft spot for its characters and story.
For me, the PSP version of Asphalt: Urban GT 2. It’s a technical mess that’s inferior to the DS version in some ways, but it’s got a mindless fun aspect to it, kinda like the Fast & Furious arcade games. Some of the tracks have these pretty elaborate shortcuts that remind me of San Francisco Rush (which is a great thing to be reminded of!). The game is a big part of what got me through lockdown in 2020 when I modded my PSP, and it’ll always hold a special place in my heart because of that. Also can’t go wrong with Apply Some Pressure as the menu theme, it’s been one of my favorite songs ever since
It’s hard to recommend TRAIL OUT without a lot of contingencies. It’s kind of a janky mess, the story and voice acting suck, the AI is unfair, but it’s also some of the most fun I’ve had in any driving game ever.
At one point in my life, i was a video game tester in a position that led to me testing a wide variety of video games. Forgive the lack of detail but i think i should not reveal too much in case i’m still under NDA somehow.
The important bit is, this led to me sometimes testing out HOPA. Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure games. if you don’t know, those are games where you have to combine point and click adventure game gameplay with screens with a load of details and objects and you have to find objects by name or silhouette, in order to unlock a path or get an item that will unlock a path.
I quite enjoyed my time with those. They were legitimately relaxing games to play and would be a very appreciated reprieve from other genres.
Sadly, i tried buying a few to play in my free time at home and it kinda felt like work. Bleh! That’s why you should never become a video game tester. It’ll make your hobby feel gross!
Oh and this leads me to an actual GAME game that i think is an ABSOLUTE disaster but is linked to so many good memories. I worked as a tester on the game Life is Strange (the first one, the original). This one i’m actually credited on, too. (But under my deadname, so womp womp.)
let me tell ya, if you play Life is Strange once you might enjoy it. it’s a fun little game. If you test it every day for a year, the cracks become hard to miss. if you have access to the design doc, you might even wonder… What the hell were they thinking? Thankfully, the finished game is nothing like the design doc, especially for Kate… Goddamn just remembering what Kate was supposed to be like steams my cabbage.
I have some very strong memories. like my first day of work being “just play the game and familiarize yourself with it” and then get to the end of episode 2 right before lunchtime… and failing the end bit (With Kate)… Oof, that day i was emotionally messed up for the second half of the day, I can say that much. I made some very good friends on that project, though. Good memories. Like how after release we were still testing and just made every workday a 12-way speedrunning race for the whole 5-ep story.
i’m still mad about the ending, how despite having 2 possible ending cinematic, one was clearly longer and more elaborate (the bad one). All the silly mistakes along the was. The cool bugs i found and was told were too obtuse to be worth fixing by the publisher. I don’t remember how to perform them anymore, though. Oh and the soundtrack. I have a very soft spot for that soundtrack. I wish they gave us a digital copy. Though i got a Steam code for Life is Strange at the end so i can’t complain too much.