Vanquish is so idiot and the story is atrocious but damn the shooting is good.

Stranglehold. I friggin love this game. It's the John Woo videogame that is technically a sequel to the movie Hard Boiled and has Chow Yun-fat as the lead. I don't know but I just really dig this game. Similar to it Enter the Matrix I also love. I go back and replay both every so often.

It's also a bit of a comfort type of thing as those came out in the early 00's when I was in my early 20s and still living at home and had more money than I knew what to do with hah.

Can't say I feel guilty about liking these but if we're talking about mediocre games I love that would be:

• Drakengard 3 - simple, repetitive gameplay, huge amount of asset reuse and terrible performance if you're crazy enough to play it on PS3. It also has a really engaging and tragic story, full of weirdness unique to the series (well, the first game anyway, haven't played D2 yet).
• Kane & Lynch (both games) - they're rough, gritty and don't pull any punches. Pretty divisive in terms of gameplay though I personally think it's thematically consistent and adds a lot to the atmosphere. My favourite games from IOI despite not being as well designed or polished as the Hitman series.
• Oni - 2001 action game by Bungie. Really cool hand-to-hand combat system, huge empty levels, simple story with wannabe Ghost in the Shell elements.
• Starbound - lots of hype about Terraria in space, lots of wasted potential and cool features that didn't make to the final release. I tend to prefer beta versions (mainly "Glad Giraffe" beta) but the final one also seemed alright based on what little I played of it. Definitely not as good as it had chance to be during development.
• Scarface: The World is Yours - budget GTA clone based on the 1983 movie with Al Pacino (it's actually a sequel). It looks bad even for the time but it plays well enough and has some neat mechanics which made it stand out, if only a little.
• Tresspasser - the infamous Jurassic Park game with full control of your arm and focus on physical interactions with the environment. It's a bit clunky and far from polished but it's an interesting experience nonetheless.

That's all that comes to mind for now, I might update the post if I remember anything else.

Escape from Tarkov, but single player (SPTarkov, not the paid upgrade). Lots of controversy surrounding the game, but I quite enjoy it playing at my own pace and difficulty

Heroes of Might and Magic III, although I don't think the game is bad.
What's bad is that there's really nothing new to it and yet from time to time I sink lots of hours into a new campaign.
It's a kind of time machine bringing me back to more innocent times...
For the same reasons I need to beat some computer opponents in Broodwar on Big Game Hunters every once in a while.

Lego Tower. It’s a silly game with almost nothing to do. And I put more hours into it than anything else

Pretty much most of the CoD series... But then again I'm mostly a multiplayer guy, and I only really buy CoD games if I like the beta enough. BO7 is something I kinda do like (MP only with the occasional Zombies) but I have to agree with the fact the campaign is absolute cheeks. It's like Treyarch wanted to make a horror game campaign but they're stuck making Call of Duty so they just shoehorned it in. Which sucks, cause I KNOW they're capable of much more, the BO6 campaign was actually quite great.

It’s interesting to see what people genuinely consider to be bad, or maybe they just missed that word? 😅

For me, it would have to be Under The Skin; a solid 6/10 game, in a world where 7/10 is considered average!

I've been playing the android version of Bit Heroes. It's terrible for multiple reasons but I've been playing it because the game can be played semi-passively, meaning that I can multitask while playing it. In fact, I'm actually playing it right now while I'm typing this comment.

Recently it's been Chaos Zero Nightmare on my phone. Yeah, it's a gacha. Yeah it has some absolutely ridiculous gooneriffic character designs that makes me roll my eyes. Yeah it's poorly translated and the story is garbage.

But you know what? The actual roguelike deckbuilder game mode is actually a ton of fun. The characters are well balanced enough that I've never felt like I was behind on power even with comparably "bad" pulls from the gacha. The game has been generous enough anyway that I have a lot of pulls saved up too. And the mutability and variety in the roguelike mode is just amazing. Tons of combos, tons of variations of every card and tons of opportunities to make niche builds work just because you happened to get one specific rare upgrade variation on one specific card while also stumbling upon one specific neutral card to add to your deck and stuff like that.

And all for the price of free? I can't complain.

I still say Enclave was a great game. The reviewers at the time absolutely misunderstood it.

Most of the complaints from 2003 are things people love about the Souls games now...

HD version:

https://cogconnected.com/review/enclave-hd-review/

Skyrim! I always boot it up at least once a year