Masochist Gamer

[Black Metal]

I'm not sure if this topic has ever been brought up before. My definition of a "masochist game" would be a game commonly viewed as terrible or unplayable, but you yourself actually enjoys playing. One of my guilty pleasures would be "Hydlide" for the NES. Aside from its amplified, unfair grinding, awful health bar, awkward controls (for magic activation only,) tedious password system, and lack of attack animation from the player and clues, I still found the game's diverse overworld interesting to explore and the battles to be quite challenging for me, even if one mistake could lead to a game over screen. I didn't really mind the repetitive music or the slow loss of damage when the player's not in grassy areas. Aside from the game itself, my drive to play such "unplayable" games is for the sense of accomplishment in the end. For me, it feels amazing to complete a flawed game with no respectable boundaries that people have deemed it nearly impossible to complete, regardless of the time I could have instead spent doing something way more productive.

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 So, if any, what are some of your masochistic games, and what makes them so appealing to you?

[Trebuchet MS]

Yu-Gi-Oh Reshef of Destruction is a mess. You take absurd amounts of time to grind Deck Capacity and Duelist Levels to use your next tier of cards, while your opponent is unrestricted by that and can scale endlessly. Eventually you find yourself seeing a Limited List while your opponent spams 3x Pot of Greed, Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, etc. Also the basic system of "elemental weaknesses" and alteration of effects just throws off players familiar with the IRL version of the game.

 

The first time I beat it was when I resorted to cheats.

 

Then I played through it again, much later, without cheating, and managed through building a Deck with absurd amounts of removal. It still took a fair number of reloads on the harder Duels and I had to stop to gradually grind against Tristan.

 

Eking out a legitimate victory against its very cheap bosses was still satisfying.

[Tentacruel]

I've been playing a lot of Rogue Legacy and I LOVE Dark Souls, but as hard as they are they're still well made games and come nowhere close to the sheer stupidity of some old NES games.  I played a bit of Double Dragon 2 on NES and it's definitely designed to suck quarters out of your parents. 

[The Warden]

The Binding of Isaac on Hard Mode, and The Binding of Isaac Rebirth playing as the Lost. That is all.

[Maeriberii Haan]

99% of arcade shmups and their ports.

Literally made to suck up quarters, but really damn fun in a masochistic way.

[宇佐見 蓮子@C94]

Actual masochism gaming would be DDR/Maimai/Pump it Up/Stepmania/Insert other Arcade rhythm game here

Because unlike those other forms of masochism you're talking about, playing those games without exercise/proper warmup legitimately hurts. Especially ridic stuff like Maimai where you need to have the hand-eye coordination of Jackie Chan catching a fly with chopsticks. Not to mention if you start delving into the properly insane speed songs, like Garakuta Doll Play, Freedom Dive, Conflict, Beethoven's Virus, Death Piano... *shudder*

[Tentacruel]

I can think of one.

 

Rocksmith 2014 has some really bitchy minigames that do make your fingers hurt like hell.

 

And the only reason I do them is for trophies.

 

Sidenote: On one of them I'm in the top 10 on the highscores on PS3 and that makes me happy. 

[Not-so-Radiant Arin]

Sonic 06.

 

Need I say more?

[Shradow]

IWBTG and the like comes to mind.

[Lonk]

F-Zero GX.

 

It has an easy learning curve at the beginning, but trying to do Expert and the story mode will result in a lot of pain, frustration and tears.

[Black Metal]

Sonic 06.

 

Need I say more?

 

I'm talking about playable games haha! I never gave that game a try before. Watching game plays on it was excruciating enough :c

I can think of one.

 

Rocksmith 2014 has some really b****y minigames that do make your fingers hurt like hell.

 

And the only reason I do them is for trophies.

 

Sidenote: On one of them I'm in the top 10 on the highscores on PS3 and that makes me happy. 

 

I can't stand instrument games at times. I've been playing bass guitar for nearly two years, and although I consider myself decent at it, I'm still never on time hitting the notes in Guitar Hero or Rock Band. 

 

However, I do enjoy Rocksmith because it allows you to use an actual guitar/bass :3

[Novalaxia]

Action 52. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Any game which states it has 50 games or more in one cart.

 

Experimentation is one crazy thing when you're curious. But these games are terrible. Don't play them, no matter what people tell you, because if they're that notoriously bad, then they're that notoriously bad for a reason.

 

...Big Rigs was kinda funny to play, though. When you reverse you can eventually go into hyperspeed at -1,000,000 mph. The game can't even keep track of its own inherent mess. Oh, and ''YOU'RE WINNER''. Can't forget that. Because you can never lose.

[GarlandChaos]

The 7th Saga comes to mind. It's so stupid, but I just can't bring myself to hate it.