10 Utter Trash Video Games You Love Anyway
6. Earth Defense Force
A list like this one wouldn't be complete without Earth Defense Force, the ugly, janky, twitchy alien-shooty game already adored by so many. However, converting skeptical gamers to its wacky charms isn't always easy.
EDF is one of those, "if you know, you know" kind of deals. Like any cult B movie, it is a cheesy mess of terrible writing, sub-par graphics, and mostly mindless, non-stop alien blasting. And that's precisely why it's so great.
These games are just fun. I mean, that's all there is to it. Shooting and exploding bugs the size of houses and robots the size of skyscrapers just does not get old. It's everything video game haters say is bad about video games, that they're just mindlessly violent wastes of time.
And EDF is exactly that - a shameless, pointless monster-shooting gallery. And we love every second of that mayhem. Because it's just so fun.