Why is worst best?

[Alienblue]

I have noticed that most people seem to prefer reading game reviews of rotten, "doorstop material" games as opposed to A+ games (ahem..unless of course you LIKE the game and it does not DESERVE an F, 7800 Pole Position2, VGC!!!)...

Why is this? I guess I am guilty of that too. I am a cartonist and like humor, I like to laugh, I think we all do and reading "This PSone CD is GREAT!...for scraping dirt off your shoes!" makes us smile if not outright laugh.

How about others? Do you look more forward to bad reviews? Are they the first ones in a magazine you read(I do, unless there is a review of a DS game I'm thinking of getting)? Should the VGC TRY to find more awful games? any nonminees?

[Blah]

I don't really care, although the Critic is especially funny when pointing out a flaw in a game. But otherwise, I don't really care.

As for recommendations for bad games, I'd have to ask for Drake of the 99 Dragons for the Xbox. Never before have I seen a game so universally panned by Critics (except for Elf Bowling 1 & 2 for the DS, also requested.)

[Bartman]

Go to YouTube. Plenty of people reviewed bad games, mainly on Nintendo consoles. Most famous is the Angry Video Game Nerd. He was on YouTube, and now on Gametrailers.com

I don't know why people review bad games. I guess it is a trend now. Someone reviews a bad games, and then OOOPS! Now there is more bad reviewers.

[andrew]

I always like to try the average or below average games to try to find good points about the game or find hidden gems. Some games like Futurama which is a standard platformer was bought because of my fondness of the series.

[Michael D]

[QUOTE=Bartman]I don't know why people review bad games.
[/QUOTE]

There are 3 good reasons I can think of:

1. To see if a game that's been generally trashed is really that bad (the main reason I played Superman 64).
2. To give said game a fair shake, as every game deserves via a review (case in point; I didn't hate South Park Rally (DC) like a lot of people did).
3.  To use said review to get the reviewer's opinion into the discussion, whatever it may be. 

[Alienblue]

You can never trust a review 100%, not even VGC, even though he gets it right far more often than others do!

I LIKE these games: E.T., 2600 pac-man, marine wars, 2600 pooyan, 7800 pole position 2, breakout/superbreakout, and more.. I also LOVE Toca3 on the PS2 though that got poor reviews elsewhere.

On t'other hand I DO NOT like Meteos, M*A*S*H(2600), Revenge of the beefsteak tamaters (2600) and others the VGC DOES like.

We all have personal tastes in games and sometimes nostalgia, or a preference for that game, will affect our attitude of it.

I agree more often with the critic than not (his reviews on INTV Carnival and 2600 Warplock were RIGHT ON!) buttttt...

[Dennis]

Because bad reviews are funny.  Simple as that.

This is why Roger Ebert just released his second compilation of reviews of terrible movies.  When you review something good and important, you have to be serious.  When you review something bad and trivial, you don't.