Why do you keep playing a bad game?

[StriderKiwi]

00Xander00 said:

I sometimes reflect on Alone in the Dark (Wii Version) in the same way that I annually watch The Room (Tommy Wiseau). It's something everyone needs to experience. I have written reviews of this game and talked a lot about it to my friends, its like an obsession that I can not explain. The dialogue, the controls, the A.I, the car part, opening the inventory with motion controls, topped off with it's shisterous ending (pronounced Shy-sterous).
This game is so bad it's good. Very ambitious for the creator's skills, production value, planning, and overall potential.
Playing this in a room full of friends like I did, taking in turns to do the next part of this magical adventure is hilarious, it is a remediable experience that not many players will have.
Also it's music stood out as it is epic and over the top violins and orchestras. The Music didn't match as the music was really good and the rest really bad, for example some paper-bats fly around glitching into walls as over-the-top frantic Lord of the Rings music appears XD.
11/5 stars.

This.

Games that come to mind are Ride to Hell Retribution, Magus and Sonic 06. All are so bad they're enjoyable. Whatsmore, playing them made me feel as if I learned more about what makes a good game, and even the things you'd take for granted if you only stuck with mediocre to great games.

Funny thing is all three (four if we count Alone in the Dark) games had immense potential. Great concepts, possibly too many concepts and not enough focus, rushed development cycles, and incompetence ruined each. And as crazy as it sounds, if they were never going to end up "great," I think we're better off having them as "God awful."

I've been tempted to get Fallout 76 (once it's extremely discounted) because it seems to be the only non-Steam game that's this magnitude of terrible.