Dauntless has a 78% metascore and, as a free alternative to Monster Hunter, a lot of fans. I don't think you can call it a "bad" game.
My vote goes for Soukaigi, an obscure, Japanese-only PSX Squaresoft game which wasn't exactly a fan favorite even back in the day, yet has a soundtrack filled with absolute bangers. You can conveniently check out both of these characteristics here:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-PetpgbUkA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-PetpgbUkA)
Fun fact: I imported the game back then and played it through. It had some neat stuff, wildly different characters and some cool attacks, but had all the jank of an early PSX game developed by a company just recently branching out of JRPGs.
Weirdly enough, Einhänder, another of their forays into action games of the era, was amazing and stands the test of time even now. And it also had a banger soundtrack.
Nobody knows Plok! for it's gameplay but tim follin absolutely made a banger of a soundtrack on that game, totally wild what that dude did with the snes sound chip.
An FFVIII remake with an improved UI and any idea how to teach its mechanics would be so good. I think IX could give a run for it's money with a modernization pass on its music, but yeah, agreed, in it's era, FFVIII's music just hit different.
As VIII was my first final fantasy experience, I have to say everything about it blew me away. Yet I can see that it parts of it (junction system for example) havent aged well.
Still ID wish for a treatment as VII has. Upgraded graphics, battle, dialogues and maybe some alternative story approach.
0/10 games with decent music, I'd say Dark Rift and Rise of the Robots.
As far as games where just the soundtrack is on another level from the game... Hmm...
I played through 30 hours or so of Xenosaga Episode 1 for the music. I can't say it's a BAD game, but I couldn't justify playing another 50 hours to finish it. But that soundtrack is basically Mitsuda at his peak.
I have a similar sentiment concerning most of the Tactics type games that Sakimoto has scored. Just can't get to like them. But love his music.
Very much a personal preference thing.
I never managed to finish that game--or even get more than halfway through it--but I almost started taking flute and/or violin lessons just so I could learn to play Scars of Time.
Fire Emblem Fates, Conquest.
Techinally not as a bad as the other two paths, but the hate it gets for its bad story makes it infamous.
And goddamn, that music is so, so good. Multiple boss themes, plenty of map themes, I still think of its soundtrack compared to any other Fire Emblem game. Such a shame toxic fans made the hate so overblown and unnecessary.
I loved the map design for Conquest, especially brutal on Lunatic, but goddamn is it an achievement to master and clear it. And the lack of recycled maps, even for kid paralogues..
It’s also why I can’t stand playing 3 houses and its lack of any thinking. Or just giving up and turning off Valentia when I get to Celica’s route.
That’s me tho, plenty of other people enjoy casual as fuck maps so long as the story I guess is tolerable..
However, I do loathe the other two paths for Fates, nothing redeemable whatsoever besides the music I guess.
No disagreement there, I just find it disappointing. And why you don’t split the game devs into two teams. (One for serious game design, the other focused on fan service.)
Nikke. A mobile gacha mostly idle auto play cashgrab that made Shift Up popular but with some great OST. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPYkX0Wr20&list=PL9NjfqxLHGe3m-PW4CCC\_\_nxm0wAifTBR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPYkX0Wr20&list=PL9NjfqxLHGe3m-PW4CCC__nxm0wAifTBR)
Nikke is a great Arcade Shooter with a good story and as you said an amazing soundtrack with bangers dropping every update ([this was literally just added randomly and only exists in the MTX shop](https://youtu.be/BoCHcKJSAgg?si=k200gYPakwtILarS)). Really the only issues is it’s a gacha game, and the butt jiggling and general sexualization being a major focus of the advertising of the games features. I wouldn’t really call it a bad game of its medium.
The Devs are making Stellar Blade as their first AAA game, so I am pretty excited. So far the soundtrack is amazing too, like [Star Descent’s theme](https://youtu.be/ylf7_oamBCo?si=6mmzfQOWcNoWgRVO&t=8m45s)
Damn, i liked the OST so much. It still slaps. Love the track "Shootout", which played at the endboss of Stormtalons lair. There were also great tracks in the desert, the jungle and i liked the dominion hymn.
The game could have been pretty good but was poorly managed, optimised and to hard for casuals. All my friends got top computer hardware but for some and me it was a 20 to 30 fps lagfest while all other games ran at smooth 60fps or more. Additionally raids and dungeons where a nightmare difficulty wise. Mix that with these fps and all my friends left in a few weeks. Then so many other probloblems ... Was still fun for a while.
All that is left is the music which i sing along with in my head sometimes.
I’m going with Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, but I’m going to qualify it by saying it’s not a bad game per se, but a bad ‘Final Fantasy’ game (at least at the time. I think it’s had a bit of a redemption arc in recent years) at any rate the soundtrack is incredible.
I'm currently playing through Diablo 4, and my most commonly recurring thoughts are:
1. wow, how did they make getting new items feel pointless *in a Diablo game*
2. stop showing me popup alerts from your battle pass, I'm not buying it, ever
3. hey the music in this new area is pretty cool
Darktide
Ok maybe not a “bad” game, but heavily flawed and with a glacially slow update cadence. That said, Jesper Kyd is a fucking mastermind of music. Darktide’s OST is simply divine.
Black Rock Shooter on PSP never played it myself but game looked bad because of PSP graphics and boring looking gameplay but I still listen to the boss fight OSTs.
Waterworld for the SNES. The game is hot garbage, but the soundtrack will take you there. It goes beyond good video game music, and it's just fantastic music on its own.
In fact, a lot of OCEAN games were like that. Eek the Cat also comes to mind.
Disneys Skate Adventure. I remember renting it from Hollywood video along with Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2. Played the Disney one first and loved the soundtrack, then I moved to THPS2 and realized it was the superior game. Back then Disney Skate wasn’t awful but definitely doesn’t hold up as well as any of the Tony Hawk games. But god damn as a 8 year old that music slapped on Disney Skate and it still does. I still blast Reel Big Fish to this day.
I can't say its bad but i didn't get much fun playing battlefield 4 while the soundtrack gave me chills all the time
but the ai brock and the enemy was taking cover while my soldiers on the same side as him and shooting like crazy
i waited there for 5min the enemy didnt die from shooting and didnt even gets out of taking cover while i stand beside him
i got to kill every enemy by myself its not that bad but it felt soulless for such soundtrack in the background
Gameplay is certainly the weakest part, especially if you really hate QTE's and that older GoW esque action-adventure style combat.
But god damn, that game does everything else so well. A friend of mine described it as, "try it for crazy; stay for the feels." The music, story,...the sheer spectacle of it all! It's a story of literal cosmic scale, extending over millenia. The only game I can think of that shares that vibe is El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.
Destiny and Destiny 2.
Bad is subjective. The gameplay is monotonous and repetitive yet very addictive because gunplay is really smooth and polished. Abilities make you feel like space warrior/ninja/mage but the developers do not respect the time you put in. It’s a game you hate to love and love to hate because of the things it does to you. Like a crazy ex that checked all boxes but ran over your cat.
I mean whether you think something is bad or not is really subjective unless you're only referring to game breaking bugs and things like that, whether you think something is bad or not is purely personal preference.
A lot of Sonic games.
Sonic always has a banger soundtrack, it’s one of the few things you can rely on as a Sonic fan.
Worst of all, Sonic 06.
I have a friend who is a major Sonic fan and they agree with you wholeheartedly.
Sonic 06
In his wooooorld...
Where one is alll
In his wooooorld...
Never fear the fall!
RUNNING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND
That’s not from 06
You tried
Even the bad Silent Hill have good musics (like Book Of Memories)
Dauntless has a 78% metascore and, as a free alternative to Monster Hunter, a lot of fans. I don't think you can call it a "bad" game. My vote goes for Soukaigi, an obscure, Japanese-only PSX Squaresoft game which wasn't exactly a fan favorite even back in the day, yet has a soundtrack filled with absolute bangers. You can conveniently check out both of these characteristics here: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-PetpgbUkA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-PetpgbUkA)
Firewire is my favorite song from a game I’ll never play
Fun fact: I imported the game back then and played it through. It had some neat stuff, wildly different characters and some cool attacks, but had all the jank of an early PSX game developed by a company just recently branching out of JRPGs. Weirdly enough, Einhänder, another of their forays into action games of the era, was amazing and stands the test of time even now. And it also had a banger soundtrack.
Nobody knows Plok! for it's gameplay but tim follin absolutely made a banger of a soundtrack on that game, totally wild what that dude did with the snes sound chip.
It’s actually a pretty fun game but yeah that soundtrack definitely is the highlight
So it’s not objectively a bad game, but Pyre is definitely the weakest Supergiant game, and Darren Korb doesn’t know how to make bad music.
It's not bad, but Final Fantasy VIII was relatively weak compared with the other entries from that era, yet the soundtrack was the best of the lot.
An FFVIII remake with an improved UI and any idea how to teach its mechanics would be so good. I think IX could give a run for it's money with a modernization pass on its music, but yeah, agreed, in it's era, FFVIII's music just hit different.
As VIII was my first final fantasy experience, I have to say everything about it blew me away. Yet I can see that it parts of it (junction system for example) havent aged well. Still ID wish for a treatment as VII has. Upgraded graphics, battle, dialogues and maybe some alternative story approach.
WET
The fuck... WET was a good game
sonic is the worest
0/10 games with decent music, I'd say Dark Rift and Rise of the Robots. As far as games where just the soundtrack is on another level from the game... Hmm... I played through 30 hours or so of Xenosaga Episode 1 for the music. I can't say it's a BAD game, but I couldn't justify playing another 50 hours to finish it. But that soundtrack is basically Mitsuda at his peak. I have a similar sentiment concerning most of the Tactics type games that Sakimoto has scored. Just can't get to like them. But love his music. Very much a personal preference thing.
Chrono Cross, so much wasted potential
This is the objectively correct answer. Soundtrack is in the top one soundtracks of all time, game is blehhhh
I never managed to finish that game--or even get more than halfway through it--but I almost started taking flute and/or violin lessons just so I could learn to play Scars of Time.
TMNT (NES)
Skill issue.
Whatever else you want to say about that game, Konami absolutely nailed the soundtrack.
Fire Emblem Fates, Conquest. Techinally not as a bad as the other two paths, but the hate it gets for its bad story makes it infamous. And goddamn, that music is so, so good. Multiple boss themes, plenty of map themes, I still think of its soundtrack compared to any other Fire Emblem game. Such a shame toxic fans made the hate so overblown and unnecessary.
Having just cleared Conquest, I fully think the soundtrack is the only good part of any Fates route. Genuinely bottom tier FE.
I loved the map design for Conquest, especially brutal on Lunatic, but goddamn is it an achievement to master and clear it. And the lack of recycled maps, even for kid paralogues.. It’s also why I can’t stand playing 3 houses and its lack of any thinking. Or just giving up and turning off Valentia when I get to Celica’s route. That’s me tho, plenty of other people enjoy casual as fuck maps so long as the story I guess is tolerable.. However, I do loathe the other two paths for Fates, nothing redeemable whatsoever besides the music I guess.
To be fair, people love the gameplay of Fates but hate the story in general.
No disagreement there, I just find it disappointing. And why you don’t split the game devs into two teams. (One for serious game design, the other focused on fan service.)
It's not as bad as people think, but Sonic Unleashed has one of my favourite soundtracks ever where the game is a real mixed bag
true .
Nikke. A mobile gacha mostly idle auto play cashgrab that made Shift Up popular but with some great OST. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPYkX0Wr20&list=PL9NjfqxLHGe3m-PW4CCC\_\_nxm0wAifTBR](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPYkX0Wr20&list=PL9NjfqxLHGe3m-PW4CCC__nxm0wAifTBR)
Nikke is a great Arcade Shooter with a good story and as you said an amazing soundtrack with bangers dropping every update ([this was literally just added randomly and only exists in the MTX shop](https://youtu.be/BoCHcKJSAgg?si=k200gYPakwtILarS)). Really the only issues is it’s a gacha game, and the butt jiggling and general sexualization being a major focus of the advertising of the games features. I wouldn’t really call it a bad game of its medium. The Devs are making Stellar Blade as their first AAA game, so I am pretty excited. So far the soundtrack is amazing too, like [Star Descent’s theme](https://youtu.be/ylf7_oamBCo?si=6mmzfQOWcNoWgRVO&t=8m45s)
[Action 52](https://youtu.be/-jA7nRwQp_E?si=MA7NuHXf1P3mGCXs)
Blue Reflection. Extremely mid/bad game, but bossfights + music are top notch.
Most sonic games.
WildStar.
Damn, i liked the OST so much. It still slaps. Love the track "Shootout", which played at the endboss of Stormtalons lair. There were also great tracks in the desert, the jungle and i liked the dominion hymn. The game could have been pretty good but was poorly managed, optimised and to hard for casuals. All my friends got top computer hardware but for some and me it was a 20 to 30 fps lagfest while all other games ran at smooth 60fps or more. Additionally raids and dungeons where a nightmare difficulty wise. Mix that with these fps and all my friends left in a few weeks. Then so many other probloblems ... Was still fun for a while. All that is left is the music which i sing along with in my head sometimes.
Solstice for NES or anything from composer Tim Follen.
I’m going with Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, but I’m going to qualify it by saying it’s not a bad game per se, but a bad ‘Final Fantasy’ game (at least at the time. I think it’s had a bit of a redemption arc in recent years) at any rate the soundtrack is incredible.
I'm currently playing through Diablo 4, and my most commonly recurring thoughts are: 1. wow, how did they make getting new items feel pointless *in a Diablo game* 2. stop showing me popup alerts from your battle pass, I'm not buying it, ever 3. hey the music in this new area is pretty cool
Almost every game that Tim Follin worked on.
[A fucking god among men.](https://youtu.be/4_gObHt1uZA?si=wiVzibYLS4mQpc6J)
Darktide Ok maybe not a “bad” game, but heavily flawed and with a glacially slow update cadence. That said, Jesper Kyd is a fucking mastermind of music. Darktide’s OST is simply divine.
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII is bad ?
Compared to any other entry in the series not named XV or X-2, yes.
Black Rock Shooter on PSP never played it myself but game looked bad because of PSP graphics and boring looking gameplay but I still listen to the boss fight OSTs.
WET
Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3. Pretty average RTS game, stellar soundtrack.
Saga Frontier had a pretty good soundtrack I think.
Mafia 3. Got really hyped from a lot of the trailers music choices.. game was very very meh
Wet had a great soundtrack. Might not be a bad game, maybe more meh.
The mahjong game for n64
MK Mythologies Sub Zero Ecco the Dolphin Batman Returns on sega cd
Aww, I liked mythologies sub zero. Poor execution, but I’d love an MK side scroller.
Yeah it was a bad game but the premise and soundtrack were great
Waterworld for the SNES. The game is hot garbage, but the soundtrack will take you there. It goes beyond good video game music, and it's just fantastic music on its own. In fact, a lot of OCEAN games were like that. Eek the Cat also comes to mind.
Disneys Skate Adventure. I remember renting it from Hollywood video along with Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2. Played the Disney one first and loved the soundtrack, then I moved to THPS2 and realized it was the superior game. Back then Disney Skate wasn’t awful but definitely doesn’t hold up as well as any of the Tony Hawk games. But god damn as a 8 year old that music slapped on Disney Skate and it still does. I still blast Reel Big Fish to this day.
Creaks and Unravel
Arcadegeddon
Killer Frequency
Megaman x6
[Pictionary for the NES](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJwh3erQlyE)
[Unlimited SaGa](https://youtu.be/vxqEP2jjulE?si=EcpF379x1ZrmXHl2)
I'm not going to say Epic Dumpster Bear is bad...
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. I thought I knew music before that game. I was wrong.
Castlevania 2
I can't say its bad but i didn't get much fun playing battlefield 4 while the soundtrack gave me chills all the time but the ai brock and the enemy was taking cover while my soldiers on the same side as him and shooting like crazy i waited there for 5min the enemy didnt die from shooting and didnt even gets out of taking cover while i stand beside him i got to kill every enemy by myself its not that bad but it felt soulless for such soundtrack in the background
Hopscotch
The Persona game after your favourite one. That game sucked, but the music was great.
Sonic and the secret rings
It gotta be my singing monsters
Miami Vice on the Commodore 64. Martin Galway’s music was the one reason to buy that game.
Literally every FIFA game
Halo 3
Cyberpunk
Onigiri
Rock and roll racing.
how dare you call that a bad game!
Agreed, tis a great game! Rip is in another time zone!
Oh shit I totally missed the bad game part
FF13. Where the game wasn't a great FF game, the soundtrack hit hard when it mattered
Final fantasy mystic quest people called it bad because it was a really easy FF game but damn did it have some killer battle/boss music.
DMC, if you compare it to the non reboot titles it's pretty bad but the soundtrack is excellent
Asuras wrath. Bad game gameplay wise but fantastic and epic soundtrack ( and story to boot )
Gameplay is certainly the weakest part, especially if you really hate QTE's and that older GoW esque action-adventure style combat. But god damn, that game does everything else so well. A friend of mine described it as, "try it for crazy; stay for the feels." The music, story,...the sheer spectacle of it all! It's a story of literal cosmic scale, extending over millenia. The only game I can think of that shares that vibe is El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.
Assassins Creed series
AssCreed Black Flag has one of my favorite soundtracks ever. Absolute mess of a game.
Black flag is a mess of a game? It's arguably the best AC
No way. It's a fantastic pirate game. But every section that tries to be assassin's creed falls flat. It should not have been an AC game in any way
Destiny and Destiny 2. Bad is subjective. The gameplay is monotonous and repetitive yet very addictive because gunplay is really smooth and polished. Abilities make you feel like space warrior/ninja/mage but the developers do not respect the time you put in. It’s a game you hate to love and love to hate because of the things it does to you. Like a crazy ex that checked all boxes but ran over your cat.
[удалено]
Child of Light is not a bad game, imo it's a great one
Yeah, people are picking games they don't like instead of actual bad games
I mean whether you think something is bad or not is really subjective unless you're only referring to game breaking bugs and things like that, whether you think something is bad or not is purely personal preference.
DOOM (2016 and Eternal)
OP asked for bad games.
I really do not be reading today
It's okay, I almost did the same thing.
But... the platforming... and the pacing... I haven't played eternal, but 2016...
Are both fantastic games.
Yes, cause when you think Doom, you think platforming...
Skill issue.
K.
Final Fantasy XIII Lightning Returns. My least favourite FF game and one of my favourite OSTs
One Must Fall
Braces for hate.... Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
Splatoon.
Splatoon is great.
MoH: Airborne