Videogames You Love To Hate

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday August 12, 2003 @08:42PM from the gleeful-disgust dept.

Thanks to FiringSquad for their editorial discussing why sheer wretchedness is (allegedly) a good thing in gaming. The author rhapsodizes: "Bad experiences define this hobby. As much as we all enjoy sharing love stories about great moments in gaming, we tend to play up the bad stuff even more. Even though I'll always have fond memories about racking up 400,000 points in Donkey Kong... while a crowd cheered me on... the time that Daikatana taught me the true meaning of sorrow will somehow always be more powerful." Which legendarily bad games have given you fondly hateful memories?

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Re:Myst by xTown · 2003-08-13 02:34 · Score: 0, Troll

God, I hated Myst, too. I'm still bitter about it all these years later. I mean, I'm no good at the kinds of puzzles that Myst had, and I solved them all in no time flat. The much-vaunted maze was NO problem at all. And by the time I got to "Whatever you do, DON'T PUT THE PAGE IN THE GREEN BOOK" (or whatever it was), my intelligence had been insulted so many times that I gave the damn thing away.