Goat Simulator: So Bad It's Good

Goat Simulator was a surprise smash hit of 2014, what with there being so many simulator games out there it was only a matter of time until goats got one. And here's the thing about Goat Simulator, it is an awful game, it's glitchy, it's broken as hell, has no purpose whatsoever...and yet everyone loves it, and why? Because it's so bad, it's good. And this really got me thinking, is there such a thing as so bad it's good when it comes to games? I mean with movies it's very easy, The Room, Birdemic, Batman & Robin, they're a dime a dozen, but videogames, that's a little bit trickier. Because videogames are a much bigger commitment, a movie will only take an average of 2 hours, but if you play a videogame for 2 hours then that's not even funny, that will piss you the fuck off, (I don't care what the fans say, Ground Zeroes being full price for only 2 hours of gameplay is a goddamn rip off!). And also if the gameplay is broken then you're not gonna have fun, and if you're not having fun then you hate it. Seeing everything wrong with a movie is okay because you're not the one experiencing it, in a videogame, you are trying as hard as you can to make it work but everything is just going against you, that doesn't make it fun, it makes you angry.

But this is where Goat Simulator comes in, the game is buggy as hell and the physics engine is about as consistent as a Spider-Man villain. Yet everyone loves it and everyone bought it, but why? Because the game is meant to be buggy as hell, the physics engine is supposed to be out of control. The fun of the game comes from testing to see how out of control the game will get. But doesn't that ruin the fun? So bad it's good movies we laugh at because of how much the creators don't know about film making, that's why Birdemic is so funny because they don't know the first thing about film making, but the people who made this game were fully aware of how bad it was, and it was exactly what they wanted it to be. So is it really so bad it's good? No. Because the developers set out with this intention, and it meets their expectations. It's like laughing at a Looney Tunes cartoon at how silly everything is getting, that's the point, that's what it was made to be like, but no one ever calls Looney Tunes so bad it's good.

So will we ever actually get a videogame that is so bad it's good? Unlikely, but considering the fact that we now have a rock simulator...well let's just say it's not out of the relm of possibilities.

-Danny