The first 500 people to use this link and code AUSTIN30 will get 30% off their first order with Soylent: bit.ly/47PFpFV What are some "So Bad, It's Good" Video Games you enjoy? I KNOW the answers are gonna be all over the place, cause some people have wacky tastes. I better not hear any Drake of the 99 Dragons today.

I think the reason there aren't as many "so bad it's good" games compared to movies is because unlike with movies you can't just sit back and laugh at it you have to play through it Watching a movie where the actors are bad and the plot is nonsensical is less frustrating than trying to play a game like Bubsy 3D

That handgun animation from Wanted Dead has got to be a reference to the famous Spriggan animation doing the same exact thing. Such a smooth animation for something virtually inconsequential pads out so much style and care for their work that it can't help but be appreciated.

It's a lot easier to shrug off a $5 movie ticket than a $60 video game. That's why people get so much madder at bad video games.

gotta respect a man who appreciates the simple brilliance of the Earth Defense force games, I hope you and Derick from StopSkeletonsFromFighting can shoot the shit over it in a video someday

Actually worth pointing out for the CDi games, the creator of Arzette (the spiritual successor game) actually made a few "reimagined" versions of the games, where he corrected a lot of the issues people have with them mechanically.

Ride to Hell: Retribution is an anti-masterpiece. I have watched a dozen or more playthroughs of it, and I see lots of new unique glitches in every single playthrough. Amazing.

25:24 funnily enough here in Mexico Pepsiman was super popular because it arrived here as a bootleg and pretty much if you had a ps1 you had Pepsiman lmao

I remember being so stoked for Never Dead bc the marketing was everywhere and I liked the premise. Then it launched and suddenly I never heard of it.

Fun fact: Rogue Warrior's dialogue is 100% accurate to Dick "Demo" Marchenko. I never knew how creative you could get with profanity before I read his autobiography.

Thing about EDF is that the challenge and stakes does ramp up. It was ants, then red ants, then bipedal giant units, then Tripods, 2nd gen Aerial units, then heavy armored units with bigger weapons and bigger health. It Keeps going and by the near end of the missions you'll be in total despair by the ridiculous numbers you'll suppose to clear. It's hella fun in Multiplayer.

gungrave gore and wanted dead are actually some of my favorite games of the last ten years and their both "so bad it's good" AA games.

In the fighting game section I was expecting Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. The game felt like a fever dream. It was from the era of absurdly violent fighters trying to one-up Mortal Kombat with insane character designs, 3D combat and random dismemberment that you had almost no control over when it would work. It was bananas.

I found PepsiMan goodies in some imported japanese merch shops a few times. It was mesmerizing. And fun fact: the Sailor Moon S game mentioned in 16:12 was one of the first ones made by "the" Arc System Works.

WAnted Dead and Deadly Premonition are my fav so bad it's good games

Austin, while hearing you talk about Spider, it brings back memories of my time working in a second hand game store... I had a policy to never lie to my customers, so I played some of the cream of the crap that we had, looking for positive information to share with my customers... My boss at the time was impressed with some of the games I sold, and even more impressed with the low return percentage on crap games I talked people into buying with just straight up truth... That being said, never just trust critical reviews, always try a game that sounds interesting to you, because even if glitch riddled or subpar on graphics or sound, it can still be a fun experience.

For me, my game that's so bad it's good is Raw Danger (Disaster Report 2), it's so janky but also so unique with you trying to survive a tsunami while keeping warm and running away while everything falls apart around you.

remember playing a game on the saturn called "Anarchy on japan or tokyo" or something like that, and being a bad virtual fighter clone, but the interesting was the story for every character, there was one that was a housewife that while walking from the grocery to home got into fight everyone in her way(every character of the game) and that was her story nothing more

Man Austin I normally don’t comment but you really know a lot about videogames unlike other youtubers.

i still play alone in the dark. that game is funny as hell and fun to play with a friend while drinking

I loved the hell out of Neverdead. I only saw one teaser ad for it and was intrigued. When I went to Gamestop to pick up a different game I saw it on the shelf and was immediately reminded of the game. Also seeing Megadeth on the soundtrack helped. So dumb to play, but it's tons it goofy fun.

Ben and Ed did an extremely similar limb-removal mechanic to Neverdead in 2015, but as a speedrun platformer where you play as a zombie -- and yes, tearing off your head and throwing it like a softball is a core mechanic.

Shout out to Game Center CX & the Takeshi's Challenge episode. Seeing the Kacho suffer through that and then later interviewing one of the devs about how much Beat would be completely drunk, suggesting all the crazy drunk ideas and Taito throwing them in anyways 😂

Definitely adding Wanted Dead to my playlist. I'd recommend Magus for PS3, the edge lord dialogue tree alone is perfection. Also the Ring Terror's Realm for Dreamcast is some of the finest voice acting I've seen in a game.

RE6 is one of my favourites. It's not terribly offensive but it is very funny to play through with a friend.

Sub Rebellion was fun. It’s an 3D sub game for the PS2. The polar ice caps melt and you had to lead your submarine had fight the regime that controls the remaining land masses. There’s also Metal Wolf Chaos. A From Software game where you play as the President of the United States fighting the Vice President who successfully took over the United States. The President fights back in a mech called “Metal Wolf,” and he and the vice president take turns chewing up the scenery and seeing who can out ham the other.

Uchikoshi working on a Pepsi man game sounds like the next 5 minute piece of trivia Aiba would spout in the next ai somnium game

Deadly Premonition is legit one of the few games from the past decade+ I have truly cared about. It's that much of an experience.

I got really drunk with some friends and we beat Devil’s Third in one night laughing our asses off because we couldn’t figure out what was happening. One of my favorite college memories.

For me a recent game comes to mind, Star Wars: Squadrons. Never before have I seen a game so good be so ignored. If you’re not a dogfighting fan, you’ll be shocked by the accessible controls. If you are a dogfighting fan, you’ll be shocked by how well they adapted the genre to the simplicity of a console. And if you’re a Star Wars fan, especially if you’re a fan of the pilots and space battles, you’ll be blown away by how cinematic it is and how well it recreates the feeling of being in the action from the films, and I didn’t even get to play it in VR. Such a shame the servers are so dead, and the devs dropped support when the fans never showed. At least the game lived long enough for them to add my B-Wing. Not “so bad it’s good” I guess. More “so good and everyone says it’s bad.” But I still can’t recommend it enough. For “so bad it’s good,” I’ll nominate Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Did you ever play Battlefront and think “Man, this game needs Gandalf and hobbits.” No? You never thought that? Well they made it for you anyway. lol

I swear Austin uploads exactly when I get home to eat a meal.

"Streets of Sim City" is my favorite bad/good game. It's a very old school arcade driving combat game. BUT! You can import your Sim City cities form Sim City 2000 and drive them in the game. There's also multiple little story lines and modes. It's bad, it's cheesy, the presentation is wonderfully basic, and it's such a lovely throwback to the mid 90s.

You couldn't throw it, but in Stubbs the Zombie from the ps2 era lets you rip your head off and use it like an exploding bowling ball! Amongst also detaching your hand to move around and mind control and probably others i forget lol.

everyone needs a bit of kusoge every now and then

Dude... I remember watching a lot of trailers and getting hyped for Wanted: Dead... Mainly for Stefanie Joosten, but I got real hyped, and then... Forgot it existed until today when I saw this video! Thanks for reminding me of it's existence pal!

I play through Timestalkers every few years on the Dreamcast. It’s so bad but I know it so well that it’s become comfort food. RPG roguelike from 24 years ago, worth a try if you haven’t played it yet.

That Dong Dong Never Die reminds me of a fake fighting game idea that was on the page of a gaming magazine from the early 2000s. The game was called SNK vs SNL; and it had photoshopped pictures of SNL characters in fighting game stages alongside SNK characters from Samurai Shodown to King of Fighters. It was only on a single page of one magazine, but that idea has stuck with me for over 20 years.

Wanted: Dead is the purest form of art and I’m not kidding. I don’t know what executives greenlit the project letalone kept it funded through development but the world is all the better for it

Also, Dong Dong Never Die is a masterclass in game design, and no one can change my mind... The fact that it plays SO DANG WELL is mind boggling.

Fun fact about that Fist of the North Star game: one of the charatcers in that game has a move that can hit an infinite amount of times if under the right circumstances. This glitch is so powerful that if used on real hardware, it causes the motherboard to ovearheat and potentially BURST INTO FLAMES. I'm not fucking joking, this is 100% real! The Dustloop Wiki had a giant warning about it as well. I don't know what happenes if you do it for emulation, but the fact that this is even possible in the first place is insane!

Deadly Premonition is one of my favorite games of all time,i love the characters,story,soundtrack, and so on. Francis York Morgan is an amazing FBI Special Agent.

I unironically love Wanted: Dead. It’s jank, and low budget, sure. But it’s also really fun, with some great characters and a cool parrying/combat system (once you’re fully upgraded). I for one want to see more games like it, Evil West, and Gungrave G.O.R.E. in the future. I’m a sucker for these over-ambitious AA-tier titles.

My dad and I really enjoyed Spider. It was a genuinely good 90s game. For sure. Thanks for the memories

I'm a simple girl. I see Deadly Premonition, I slap that like with a sinner's sandwich

Part of the reason why games like these are so hard to find compared to the interruptive nature of movies is because most games are deliberate, working with animation, code, mechanics and other ruth goldberg things. So you have to be deliberate or else something will break. And it's usually never fun when a computer program breaks on you, hence why gamers are less kind. That's why I usually call games more "so earnest, it's endearing" when games aren't perfect but you like them anyways.

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my personal favourite kusoge game is overblood 2, it's laggy, confusing, needlessly ambitious, the first release was broken and you couldn't get past a certain point without crashing, and the entire series got written off as resident evil clone (despite the first game coming out way to close to resy 1 for that to be the case) but it's genuinely one of my favourite gaming experiences ever for reasons that have to be seen to be believed, and at the very least you should watch gaming brits video on the game.

That *apologize to the pork" scene is a pun to the movie Tampopovin a scene where a Ramen sensei is teaching a disciple

My contribution to "So bad, they're good" Is Illbleed for the Sega Dreamcast. Each stage is somehow parodying different movies. One of the last stages parodies Toy Story where a Woody wannabe has to figure out how to go to Toy Hell to find his girlfriend, Sexy Doll and fight an evil Sanic.

While maybe not "so bad it's good", a couple of janky games I enjoy are: -The Matrix: Path of Neo (seriously, using two enemies to beat down on a third one will always be amazing) -Advent Rising -Mount and Blade (the whole series is janky, the latest one less so, but they're all incredibly fun)

An Eruption video isn't so bad it's good. It's so good it's good :3

Off-topic comment, but I’ve been watching you since waaaay back in the 5,000 subs-era (when Furst was a constant collaborator, and so on); even sent you some pixel fan-art I made that probably wasn’t too great but you were so nice about nonetheless and it made my year as a young teenager. It’s been lord knows how many years since then, I’m 22 now, but still love your videos. Also, your statement about your soylent helping you get healthy is true, you look great. Keep it up man, always a great watch.

LOL you posted this while i was binging your other videos.Time to watch it almost live!

Instantly added wanted dead to the wishlist! Totally flew under my radar.

I think I'd class Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning as my guilty pleasure. It's got a flat as pancake story, severe progression problems at points, and it feels...janky, but its design and gameplay are solid. (Also maybe add Fairy Fencer F ADF, because...yeah, that's guilty pleasure, especially the PC version that's got some pretty bad technical problems)

1:39 I will never stop hearing that phrase and thinking of the meme usage regarding controversial anime body types.

Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse done a lot of similar things to never dead, including ripping your head of to use as a weapon It was pretty fun if a bit short

EDF is and always will be a massive laugh. The latest games are pretty smooth too.

NeverDead was a pretty fun game overall I think its the only one in this list I've played directly.

I'd never heard of Wanted Dead but man I think you kinda unintentionally sold me on it. I couldn't help but think as you went through all these details and random piled-on minigames that it felt like a project the team thought they only had one shot at, so they just threw in everything they could afford to do. There were precisely 0 darlings killed here because there might not be another project to allocate them to. And for a game that's already an homage, why not just throw in a dozen more mini-homages? It's fittingly maximalist.

I find that “so bad it’s good” is so much better as video games. It makes me laugh more, while most bad movies just bore me. Also my favorite is Super Monkey Adventure

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For me it's the Splatterhouse reboot, I loved that game but I know there's so many things in there that are bad for so many people.

Beastly for Wii (yes, an adaptation of that crappy ABC TV movie) is so baffling in the fact that it exists, and its gameplay so clearly grasping at straws to justify it existing, that it ends up being hilarious. On the subject of Prank Games, I bought myself and three of my friends a copy of Bad Rats for April Fools one year, simply because it altogether cost $2. The reactions were worth it.

Super cool to see one of my uploads used for a KZfaq video about Kusoge! (Sailor Moon S) It's definitely an honor! 16:13

I honestly still love Buck Bumble even thou its terrible lol I also have such a soft spot for Godzilla 2014 it ends up good after you get upgrade so its super grindy but it can be fun like slowly causing chaos

I always feel like such a weirdo when it comes to stuff getting labeled as "so bad it's good". As well as "guilty pleasures". Mainly since I don't actually believe it should be a thing. I guess to me, nearly every game is some degree of being flawed. It's mostly a factor of whether or not you can enjoy enough the rest of the experience to overlook or tolerate those flaws. Of course, that line differs between each of us for a variety of reasons. I don't know, maybe it's cause I'm that person who has been regularly playing and genuinely enjoying C-B tier, 60-70s rated games growing up...my idea of something being "bad" must just not be the same as everyone else's. A good helping of jank or lack of polish is not enough for me to see it as being as such. Like, the more I see of it, the more I'm actually starting to get interested in trying out "Wanted: Dead". I don't know if I will but I'm considering it now. If anything, that kind of stuff piques my interest more than most AAA affairs these days.

One of my favorite "so bad its good games" is Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed. Basically it a hack and slash game with the objective to strip vampire-like beings who have invaded Japan. It got terrible reviews and wasn't expecting much from it, but I got it for like 2 bucks on a psn sale and had a great time.

I had forgotten about Spider, and I'm so happy you've reminded me of it!

I think Cyberpunk 2077 1.0 is a good example of this. It's so broken that its it's own unique and experience and is worth a few hours from anyone that owns the disc.

My dog Spike and I always get so excited on upload days! That’s for all the hard work my dude! You and I are around the same age and have a lot of tastes in common when it comes to media, and it’s awesome seeing other people think the same!

I can not tell you enough how much i love your love of wrestling and how you are able to get reference in to your videos, i legit watch them to wait and see what you say about wrestling, and its great! no idea who else likes it, but i love it!

E D F! E D F!

Deadly Premonition isn't "so bad it's good", it's just a genuinely good game with a low budget and an oddball sense of humor.

I remember playing Pepsi Man when I was a kid, but it got too complicated for me and I never finished it.

15:28 "Whoever though each character should have two movesets and a toggle for you weapon is silly." Wait, you mean like the 3d era Mortal Kombat games?

Stubbs: the Zombie let's you remove your head and use it as a bowling ball.

I only know Earth Defense Force for working at CEX and it being a game that either installed quickly on PS3 and 360, or didn't have to install at all, so we used it to test game consoles before buying them.

19:04 EDF! EDF! EDF! Definitely the "We got Starship Troopers at home" but boy, it sure is a good time for less.

Yo! My friend"s and I have been looking at Ace of Seafood for quite some time now. Nice to see some coverage for it

Honestly, this is kinda how I feel about Shadow the Hedgehog. The level design is awful, the story makes no sense, the controls are somehow worse than Sonic Adventure 2 despite seemingly using the same engine, but it's just so earnest that I can't help but love it. Someone at Sonic Team was genuinely trying to make something good and it shows, and even if they weren't and it was just a paycheck for them, it's so weird and unique to the time that I cannot help but love it.

The steampunk western, Damnation on the PS3, 360 & PC was universally panned, but I loved it.

16:15 That's just the power of Megumi Ogata.

In uni ours was the original 'Two Worlds' on 360. Clearly an ambitious open world RPG that had been rushed. I remember running from bears that run at the exact same speed as you, so you just had to run forever, as you ran past more animals they would steadily join the queue chasing you. It was like a conga line.

“Why am I taller than a vending machine?! What am I? 7 foot tall” Me being 6’6 and taller than vending machines: ….

5:40 You can't out-wrestling-reference my ears, Austin. I hear that FTR theme in the background!

The funny thing about EDF is that I just discovered the series a few weeks ago and bought EDF 4.1 last week and it’s been a blast

Holy crap, you reminded me of the splendor of Power Shovel. I randomly ended up with that game after a trip to K-Mart when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. What a time. I miss those days.

Austin “I’m about to” Erupty

29:28 I think that's a Tampopo homage, in which case, class act. My all time fave film.

I remember playing this game called World Super Police on the PS2, a game where police cars have mini guns and missiles strapped to the front of the car and taking down criminals. Voice acting was so atrocious but I always seem to remember it

It's insane that two of the people I subbed to, you and IH, talks about Wanted Dead in the same month lol

I saved my discount school lunch money for like 2 months to buy Spider on ps1. Memorized the cheat code for all weapons in like 20 minutes because of how balls hard it was.

Nanobreaker is almost so bad it's good. But the gameplay isn't involved enough to be worth the amazing cutscenes. That and the platform sections, gotta love that in my character action game.

That Stephanie Joosten track in wanted dead is forever stuck in my fucking head. Swear hearing Castaway in the police station is the biggest thing I remember outside of that baller anime cutscene with Maniac blasting at full audio.

i'm so sad you didnt mention Bad Rats: the Rats Revenge. i bought that game for all my friends for like 2 bucks total.

Duuude I'm so happy that someone I watch talked about warpath jurassic park XD. It's the first game I ever played as a kid and the first I ever 100% completed it was such dumb fun. There was a universal studio theme park stage and such a weird time and one of the few happy memories I had of with my dad and only time we played a videogame together. Thanks for the road on memory lane with that part.

Guys, what NES game is that background music from starting @15:46? Thx in advance.

My favorite "So bad it's good" in 2005 N.A.R.C. "reboot", somehow having Michael "Mr Blonde" Madsen & Ron "HellBoy" Perlman among it's principal cast as well as quite a number of good songs on the soundtrack. The gameplay lifts a lot from 1999 "Urban Chaos" as well as 2002 "True Crime: Streets of L.A."

The Neverdead head throwing mechanic is not actually something unique to Neverdead. If anyone remembers Ben and Ed where you're a zombie doing a parkour obstacle course whilst trying not to lost your limbs and throwing your head to reach places you couldn't just to eat a little boy, you're an og of youtube or just a jacksepticeye enjoyer