Not really a guilty pleasure by definition, but I am a huge sucker for string orchestras and large choruses. The bigger and more over the top, the better! I was going to link a few of my favorite songs here, but the list got too long so here's a playlist instead.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL87A08C7BB95DF59C&feature=plcp

Actual guilty pleasure would probably be the first Evanescence album, since it hits that sweet spot for me with every song going as big and over the top as it can.

Two of those had great cartoons in the 90s, and great movies in the 00s, so at the very least, not Superman. He sucks.

Full Discographies

Instead of seeing this question and thinking of an answer, I heard this song afterwards and remembered this question. Funny how that works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xozBWZr_68

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4syvy2vjvQY

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d30OSJkt7Dc

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Not quite an archnemesis, maybe evil twin, there's this guy on Newgrounds, "Rete". Just that name drives me crazy, and there have been weird coincidences like having the same sign-up date, or releasing similarly named games close together.

Worst part is I'm sure he has no idea I exist.

I used to think "no such thing as too loud" and then I saw Muse in concert and it literally sounded like static and my ears were ringing for about 3 days afterwards.

I don't think I've ever bought a lottery ticket, and I only consider it when it's in the 200-300 million range. With that money I'd buy a house in the middle of nowhere, a PS3, and some doritos, and be set.

Just one?

I could go on all day about stupid anime shit, but for the sake of brevity, I don't like fan service. There are tons of shows now with tons of nudity that intentionally gets censored on TV just to get people to buy the blu-rays, and normal shows like Index/Railgun where the fanservice is extremely out of place, and just goes way too far most of the time. It's one of those things that I feel is holding back the industry as a whole right now, a lot of outsiders now see modern anime as that creepy stuff for pedophiles, and they're kind of right! Anime is going to die unless they can grow an audience outside of the hardcore otaku, but instead they're content to just keep milking that audience as hard as they can without thinking of the future.

Definitely the smaller issues. I've been trying to think of games that fit each criteria, and realized I can sum up my least favorite games with just one fault each.

Final Fantasy XI: The death penalty.
Phantasy Star Universe: Party formation.
Other M: The story.

In general though, a huge glaring problem like "the controls/camera suck" is going to get you to stop playing a game faster than smaller things like bad menus, a single boring level, or unbalanced classes.

I never owned a PS2, does that count?

I haven't seen a ton of "classic" movies, the Godfather trilogy is popping into my head for some reason, but I wouldn't say anyone has ever been shocked by that.

I really try not to get hyped for games, been burned when I was really excited for something (Other M, Phantasy Star Universe), and at the same time some of my favorite games I completely ignored for a time thinking I wouldn't like them (Left 4 Dead, Monday Night Combat, Renegade Ops).

So the closest game to what you're describing for me would be Fallout 3. I remember seeing trailers for that before release and thinking "Holy shit, that looks fun!" It was really the first current-gen game to grab my attention like that, even critical darlings like Bioshock I paid little attention to since I didn't have a PC capable of running them at the time. When I got my current PC a few months later, Fallout 3 was one of the first games I got, and it did not disappoint. I pretty much spent a few weeks ignoring everything else but the game. Last year I picked up the game of the year edition for all the DLC and got sucked in all over again, and I think I actually enjoyed it even more the second time.

In all honest it's probably the Higurashi season 1 opening, but it would be boring to list something that's already on my top cartoons list. Instead of listing like 10 others for this post I'll limit myself to two, but I can only embed one, so here's the other: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvQwAdR25lk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2et60d08OQ

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Fool me once... etc etc. I'm not hyped enough to go through the headache of signing up on Japanese websites with fake info, registering for whatever the new Hunters License is, and playing a game I can't read any of the text in. Unless they specifically say that it's NOT coming to America, I can wait.

"You hit up" - Fat Kakashi

I have no idea really, L4D2 has had surprisingly long legs (over 12,000 people playing right now, it's consistently in the top 10 of steam) so I think another game that just follows the formula and just adds new maps, infected, and weapons would be overall disappointing. It kinda feels like they have to take it in a totally new direction, and what direction that would be is anyones guess.

My crazy idea would make it an MMO with permanent death. You'd start out alone and have to find other players and work together to stay alive. There would still be an eventual goal of reaching a rescue point, but overall the world would be a lot more open and there would be more emphasis on exploring for supplies. The closer to the rescue point you got the stronger the enemies would get, and the more people you travel with the more special infected would try to kill you.

Ugh, no! Never liked my first name, and I share my last name with not one, but two former presidents! 12 years of "Are you related to the president!?" and other equally lame jokes that were never funny the first time. I like my middle name, but who uses those.

On a side note, if I was born a girl my dad was going to name me Katya Jade. Now that would've been funny.

You should buy some HEAVY METAL!

Aka I really like these two albums:
http://www.amazon.com/Metropolis-Part-2-Scenes-Memory/dp/B000021XS0
http://www.amazon.com/-Loused-Comatorium-Mars-Volta/dp/B00009V7T2/

This may be a bit broad of an answer, but the graphics, easily. They've just been a pain in so many ways. Early on it was a constant battle between detail and performance, too complex of a background would make flash run very slowly. I get past that now by just drawing things in flash but then exporting it as a png file which is a lot faster. But then that turns into constant battles with flash to get it to render things with pixel perfect accuracy, which as a vector based program it doesn't like doing. My next game is entirely "pixel art" but getting it to actually display right has been quite the headache.

Besides that though, I don't particularly enjoy drawing backgrounds at all, and every time I release a game there's always a huge motivation drain as everyone on Newgrounds decides that they have to mention that my artwork is shitty, because the previous 200 reviews didn't already do that. It's super frustrating going through all the technical headaches when it really doesn't matter what I draw at all, people will hate it regardless.