not really video games you hate, more like video games that you used to enjoy when younger but now could not recommend to anyone.
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Literally any of the Harry Potter games.
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Perfect answer!
I am a bit ashamed of the Leisure Suit Larry, the humor has aged like milk. 
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Although it was never my favorite of the series, I at least kinda liked Empire: Total War as a kid, and uh, well, it’s a conquer-stuff game set in the 1700s and not only can you play as the colonizers/enslavers, you can only play as them (and randomly one, but not both, of the native factions of India) without mods.
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Flash porn games. They were so terrible, oh dear.
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Pharoah. It was- weird. But not only was the UI relatively weird with how persistently it kept piling on notifs, but at some point, I achieved really good patience.
So now I feel weird playing a really annoying game til I came across an old review of the games.
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i still like this one, but:
do i even need to say anything? do i have to bring up the creator? the countless broken promises over the years? the Amico game? the attempt at a new show that may or may not have just been a front for NFTs? it’s hard having “weird” tastes in games, it really is. i’m tired.
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Leisure Suit Larry for me also. I was far too young to play those games but also aged out of them as soon as I turned 14 lol.
And in a sadder way The Never good, which was hugely influential on me but that’s another one where the creator turned out to be a dickbag so all those memories are staying locked in the vault.
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Wouldn’t say I’m particularly ashamed of anything I’ve ever enjoyed, but there are definitely a lot of games that I’m not as fond of anymore as I used to be. For example, I still quite like a lot of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time but watching my girlfriend play it for the first time recently made me realize that a lot of its design no longer interests me very much. I do still quite like it atmospherically.
growing up the only version of street fighter 2 i had at home was the dos port and it’s so bad, instead of frames per seconds it was seconds per frame.
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I used to play Xenophobe on NES a lot but it’s objectively the worst port.
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I played a lot of Speedy Eggbert as a kid. It was my favorite 2D platformer despite owning a Super Nintendo and Super Mario World.
…Why?
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The guy also used to vanity search his name on twitter and jump into your mentions if you bad mouthed him even if you didn’t @ him.
Dung Ten Apples used to be a personal hero of mine. I loved Neverhood and Skullmonkeys as a kid, and even ordered the special 2 disc soundtrack. Then when he started making webcomics his personal politics bled in and I realized “Oh, this dude is a MASSIVE tool”.
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Golly gee, i remember learning about how this guy (Doulgas Ten Naples) was when he did Ratfist.
IIRC he blamed me in part for having to take out the comment section. Dude has a persecution complex the size of Utah.
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I can’t think of a game I am ashamed of, but I can think of 3/4ths of one.
I really liked Heavy Rain when I first started it. I thought it was a cool idea for a game overall and I liked it’s gritty tone. I’ve also always been a sucker for a detective story.
When “the twist” happens and the killers identity is revealed…well that is when I stopped having fun. When the credits rolled, I put the game into it’s case, went to Gamestop, and turned it in for the $15 or whatever it was worth. I never wanted to see it again.
Looking back now, as a much older person, the signs of it being a bad game were much more apparent in it’s beginning. But I think I was blinded by the novelty of it at the time.
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Oof yeah.
I got caught up by Heavy Rain too, despite barely enjoying Indigo Prophecy a couple years before.
And then i learned more about David Cage. I couldn’t even quote him because he uses slurs often in French.
You think that’s bad, though… i even played through Heavy Rain Chronicles Episode 1.
There never was any further episodes.
As for games i’m ashamed of, as a little kid i latched on the game “Tecmo’s Secret of the Stars” pretty hard since it was one of the few RPGs at my local video store. i couldn’t read Englihs back then so it seems so… unique and interesting.
And then years later i found out it was a really badly translated, overly simplistic mess of an RPG. I’ve never played it but i certainly don’t think i will spend much time with it.
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I once had access to a modded OG Xbox that had the first DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball with a nude mod installed.
I’m mostly not ashamed of playing porn games (even porny flash games) but DOAEVB is leering even before you remove the swimsuits.
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DOA Beach Volleyball always bummed me out because it was leering boobie game first and Volleyball second.
A volleyball game staring fighting game characters sounds fun, and it gives the devs and excuse to add in crazy hi-jinks. But I would want a game I could play in front of my friends without going “NOW I KNOW WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE, BUT IT’S NOT!”.
On the Xbox, unless I’m mistaken, I think you could only pick between DOA or Outlaw Volleyball, so either way you felt embarrassed booting it up.
So sadly I just had to stick to my nes copy of Kings of the Beach lol.
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Honestly, my biggest shames in gaming aren’t games i’ve played but games i didn’t finish.
Like Demon’s Souls, which i’m playing these days.
[hideo kojima nodding solemnly]
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