10 Utter Trash Video Games You Love Anyway

Everyone who plays video games knows there are, broadly speaking, two types of "bad games".

The first is when a game is just so bad and meritless, you really wonder why it was released at all.

The second is when the massively hyped, big budget, AAA title ends up being the worst thing any piece of entertainment can be: just plain boring. How many knights and enchanted forests do we need?

However, sometimes there is a union between the two and we get something different. A buggy, broken mess? Maybe, but with such a unique premise or a good enough story that its mere potential is engaging enough to stick through it. Or maybe it is a little bit boring, but so beautiful and unique that you play just to explore and wonder, "How the hell did they do that on THIS hardware?"

More often than not though, it's because the game is just so much damn fun, you don't even care that it is also kind of terrible.

I know, I know. What hasn't been said about about Duke Nukem Forever? It's not an exaggeration to say that it's one of the worst games of all time. It looks bad, it plays bad, its attempts at humor are either confusing, disgusting or humorlessly offensive.

I mean, which classic gag did you like best - drawing on a wall with a human turd you fished out of a toilet with your bare hands, or the boss fight against a giant praying mantis with three big, jiggly breasts?

And ending this broken, terrible game with a sequel tease? Well there's only one word for that: impudence.

But here's the twist: with a few friends and a lot of beer, the game can be an absolute blast. Everything about it is so bad and off the rails that it needs to be seen to be believed. And simultaneously, it's so horrible that it should only be viewed through the haze of inebriation. It is also mercifully short; throw this thing on easy, knock it out in a sitting, and have a few laughs.