10 Video Game Franchises Nobody Admits To Liking

10. Guitar Hero

What Everyone Says: "Why don't you just buy a real guitar instead of playing with some plastic toy?"

Despite becoming a pop-culture phenomenon in the mid-2000s, Guitar Hero also quickly became something you'd tentatively discuss with your friends in hushed tones, and if you've got any pals who played actual instruments, you probably swore off mentioning it altogether.

The fun factor is matched only by the potential embarrassment of the wrong person walking in on you enthusiastically rocking out with what basically resembles a Fisher Price guitar, which is ironic considering the series' nature as a party game that brings people together.

Unsurprisingly, last year's successful revival of the series couldn't really find a way to make plastic guitars any cooler, and as Rock Band 3's flop illustrated, throwing a real guitar in the mix doesn't help either.