Games you regret buying.
 

The title of the topic is pretty self-explanatory. What games did you regret buying either when you were young or just recently.

I had one experience where I regretted buying a game over another one. When I was younger, I had the choice to pick either Vagrant Story or Valkyrie Profile. I went with Vagrant Story and I realized, after a couple of hours of play, the mistake I had just made. It wasn't the typical style of RPG I was looking for. I was looking for more of a turn-based battle system ala Final Fantasy or Breath Of Fire. But alas, my grasp of the english language was not very good when I was younger so I couldn't read anything that was written behind the game case. It was a blind pick that I regret making.

Let's hear your story (Let's hope you have one or else this topic is pointless):p .

I doubt you could have enjoyed any other RPG for that matter if your English wasn't good =/
Vagrant Story is great.

I have three games I wish I hadn't bought. Metal Slug X for PS1, and NBA Jam and Worms for SNES.

I bought Metal Slug X thinking "holy shit, Metal Slug for console!" because at the time Metal Slug 3 was not yet out on PS2, nor was I even aware they were planning to release it. It was pretty expensive for a PS1 game, but I got it, thinking it was something of a rarity since I'd never seen it elsewhere. Not only did it not turn out to be rare in any way, it was also a terrible conversion of a great arcade title. The added extra modes were plenty of fun, but with so much animation missing, most of the Metal Slug magic was gone.

NBA Jam, what can I say. I played it to hell when I was younger, I even finished the championships, but at the time I was simply too young to see that it was just a bad SNES game I shouldn't have bought.

Same goes for Worms. I didn't own a PC at the time, but wanted to play Worms, so yay. Yay my ass. I had read somewhere it's not very good, but the magazine hadn't made it that clear WHY it's not very good and it only came clear to me upon playing.

No battery backup. You create new teams and input each name individually and when you next play the game, you need to do it all over again. That means no game statistics, no saved settings. I'd exchanged the game for a new copy, thinking there was something wrong with my cart till I realized there simply was no battery backup to store the settings.
A good 2/5ths of the weapons and items were gone, no ninjarope, no bungee, the blowtorch only went horizontally, you couldn't go at an angle. The camera didn't zoom out for shots. It wouldn't have been a problem except the camera then moved around at a very slow set speed, meaning if you shot with a bazooka, the camera would not be able to follow the shot and you couldn't see where it lands, making it impossible to hit anything at longer distances.
The computer was incredibly accurate every single time and would always shoot at you with high volleys, regardless of high close or far you were. The only thing preventing you from dying was the amount of ground on top of you, as the CPU always tried to shoot even through that. Still played it to hell, but I hated it.

The game is the only game ever to make me so angry I hit my console. My SNES gave a black screen and it scared the shit out of my when I thought I'd broken it. Switching the power off and on returned things to normal and I never abused my consoles ever again after that. Stupid Worms.

Killer 7 - the art style was...unique...but everything else about the game sucked.

Star Fox Assault - ugh, I couldn't believe how much this sucked, especially for a Star Fox game. Most of the time the music was amazing, but the rest of the game was the polar opposite of that.

Commandos 2 - Not even sure why I picked this one up...I played the first Commando and just could not get into it, and the same ended up being true of this game.

Gungrave - Yikes, now here's a game that sets a new bar for being terrible. Even Drake of the 99 Dragons didn't seem like as bad of a third person shooter from the 2 minutes I played it

Fable - I really couldn't see the appeal of this game. I thought the combat engine was pretty bad, and the good/evil choices didn't really make the game that interesting compared to other RPGs that have a good/evil rating (such as Fallout or Baldur's Gate 2). Also, the graphical presentation was lacking and was even detremental at times, I thought I was going to go blind from the shine off the instructor's head.

There was one: Rise of Robots (SNES), when I was 9 or something. They had the same game with two prices, one at 180 DM (old German currency, appr. 110 $) and the other one at 30 DM. I thought I made a real bargain. Even at this price, it wasn't really worth it. The end boss was cool though, some kind of Terminator 2 liquid metal guy/girl.

Ah, Q's post reminded me of when I bought Theme Park on SNES and made an angry type face for the same reason, no battery backup. I mean come on guys, it's a game about building your own theme parks all over the bloody world and you're going to do away with the PC's save game feature and put in a PASSWORD system that merely records how much money you have? Everytime you turned it off you'd have to rebuild your parks, and sometimes those took hours.

Oh but no, that's not even the worst part! The passwords were as long as a line for seats to sit down on to relax from all the standing around and the games font was a disaster, so these huge passwords would often be written down WRONG, or you'd make one mistake and it'd wipe the whole thing out.

I bought this for seven bucks back in what, 2001 and still regret it. I COULDN'T push myself to play past the first level, it was just such a depressing trainwreck knowing this heap of garbage is what killed the series.

Flipped upside down! I loved the original for its really, REALLY big dumb mindless fun. Being able to blow apart the environment, while a standard thing in games now, was pretty cool. The sequel though, Gungrave Overdose was something I wish I didn't purchase. Making virtually every level a dull, generic warehouse full of crates isn't very amusing at all. I didn't even bother finishing it.

The worst however, would be Sonic Heroes. Mostly because I went through hell trying to obtain a copy on launch day, Atari Australia distributed it, and the GameCube version was SO HARD TO FIND. I ended up getting what must have been the only copy in all of friggin' Sydney, paid a whopping hundred bucks. Got home, really looking forward to the game after the positive reviews and being let down so badly by Sonic Adventure 2.. and what do I get?

SALTY, BITTER TEARS
I won't even bother typing up a long paragraph of my hatred towards the game, but it's probably the worst thing I've ever bought. I didn't return it either, it just sits there, like an eternal warning to be ultra careful of anything Sonic Team ever does again.

Oh god, Theme Park. Another one of the "I don't own a PC, so the SNES version should be great!". Little wonder I never got further than the second theme park. What idiot thought of that password system. "WELL OF COURSE THEY'RE GOING TO WANT TO PLAY CONTINUOSLY UNTIL THEY MANAGE TO SELL OFF THEIR THEME PARK, WHO WOULD WANT TO SAVE MIDGAME WHEN THEY'RE HAVING SO MUCH FUN". Let's just make Oblivion and FF7 lose the save systems too. PASSWORDS WHEN YOU FINISH THE GAME.

Not to mention I got redeye everytime I played it because of those extra bright colors and long playsessions. Another one that really pissed me off was Jurassic Park. Great game otherwise but loooool start over. Most idiotic idea ever. I got pretty far on my first play and then had to go out. Never played it again because start over.

I also greatly enjoyed the first Gungrave game and don't get what Solis is smoking. Killer7 was fantastic as well (though I played the GC version)

Metal Gear Solid 2

*Luckily avoids rocks thrown at me*

It was the big hype, everybody in the store came for that game. I was there to buy James Bond Agent Under Fire, and I say "heck, why not". But then, when I got back home, I realize I should never follow the "trend". Shit I hate that game. It's more stylish than actually playable for my tastes. Total disappointment

Oblivion

*Gets hit with the rocks meant for Cubed*

I didnt like Morrowind, but for some reason, between the hype and the graphics, I thought I would like Oblivion. After the drooling over the graphics, I realized I had a game I was in no way interested in playing. I barely played it for 5 hours, before just quitting all together

Lessee...

Ghostbusters for the NES. The Master System version was so cool I figured the NES version should be similar. Plus I was huge into Ghostbusters back then.

The original TMNT for the NES. Honestly, we all wanted what would become TMNT 2 and instead we got this piece of crap where if you aren't quick enough your game ends on the second stage regardless of how many turtles you have left.

Mortal Kombat 2 on the Genesis 32X. Really, both Genesis versions were cheap as hell. Once you got past a certain point, you couldn't even jump at someone without them leaping straight up and throwing a projectile at you EVERY FREAKIN TIME!!!

Croc 2 for the PSX. Had Croc on the Saturn and it was great. Bought Croc 2 and thought, "Why did they change the formula so much when the last one was great?"

I regret buying Kingdom Hearts 2. I know a great many of you will castrate me for saying this, but this shit has to get out in the open: the game is not good. My reasons for not liking it are pretty much the same as what has already been said: combat sucks and lacks any real depth or challenge and the stories retarded.

WWF Smackdown (PS) - Every one of my friends who bought this said it was infinitely better than Attitude (different developers). When I got it home and played it a lot, after two days it got real boring, lacks any substance or atmosphere. Moves were too simple to pull off and fights were poor and ill thought out. I think this was the last ever title I bought full price. Sure it came with a HMV memory card but I wouldn't pay more than a McDonalds meal for this.

Pokemon Snap (N64) - N64 titles 2nd hand nowadays are cheap. Except supposed rarities like those Zelda games, I know they're not that rare, but game stores consider them to be. I would say I paid at least half the price for it 2nd hand as it would cost new well back then. It's not I hate this game or anything, it's more of a novelty game if anything, and worth a McDonalds meal.

Medal of Honor Underground (PS) - This is another game which I wouldn't say I hate. To think if I had paid an extra pound, that is, ONE POUND, the price of a McDonalds food item off the savers menu, then I could have had this new. This 2nd hand version had been crammed into a CD case, so the front sleeve was bent at both ends to accommodate size and worst of all, the manual had been cut (not even neatly) at the top. For that extra pound, I could have had a version that at least looked fit for trading in. To this day I don't what I was thinking. ONE POUND argh.

Suikoden IV (PS2) - This was the game I got with my PS2 as part of a bundle, I already read about it not being that good, but I can't believe how lacking this title is. To think I could have picked ANY other title at that time other than this one.

Final Fantasy X-2 - What was I even thinking, I didn't finish X, but thought getting this would be a good idea. Well, at least I got it as a cheap ex-rental (though not cheap enough for how shit that game turned out to be)

Halo 2 - This was what the world had hyped themselves up for? I didn't and still don't get what the big fuss is over this or Halo 1. They're just run of the mill shooters with nothing great. And Halo 2 took away one of the few things I liked about Halo 1, that Pulse Rifle thing.

For some odd reason I got Ys VI off ebay....it was fun while I played it..the music was fairly good..but I dont think I'll ever play it again. Not really worth the 20 bucks I payed for I dont think.

In my NES and SNES days, few games disappointed me. We rented most, bought very few. PS1 was the same deal largely.

BUT...

Vagrant Story: I was expecting an RPG straight-up. Gain levels and such. Folks said it was in-depth. Fantastic. But I got into it and found out the RPG element was weak. I got to weapon-crafting stations to find it was tricky. So I looked to a FAQ. And this guy was all, like, on his bazillionth playthrough and made it sound like he was making a thesis paper on this. It was ridiculous. I love in-depth stuff but this just threw you to the damn wolves.

Guild Wars: Oh Christ. I've been strict on cash lately but I bought this expecting it to be better. Really. But it was just horrible. Everything repeated. Shitloads of the spells were worthless. It was such a bass-ackwards game that I enjoyed playing as a SPELLCASTER. I never enjoy Spellcasters. But WoW was just far superior to this. I really wish I didn't buy this.

Blazing Dragons: I didn't buy this stinker. My brother did. Early PS1 adventure-game title. He made it sound like a badass sorta action or RPG game. "YOU'RE A DRAGON AND YOU INVENT STUFF" oh, really. Got into it and was all "the fuck is this." We beat it eventually, but Rob wasted about $40 on the game. I laughed at that, since the game was a horrible mockery of the genre. Wasn't very funny at all. AT ALL.

There are many, many disappointments, I assure you. But these three come to memory the quickest. Typically I research games a good deal before making a purchase. Lately I've been downloading games (I think Guild Wars was karma striking back lol) as opposed to buying. Back-in-the-day, when researching wasn't easy (internet was in its infancy long ago, you know), I would simply wait for the game to come to a rental store. I'd rent & try it before buying. I was a pretty smart kid as far as money-sense goes.

I bought Battlefield 2 at the suggestion of one of the guys at EB when I was trying to figure out what to spend $50 I had put on reserve for another game on. He assured me that it was pretty awesome (and he and I are friends, so I trusted his opinion, he knows what he's talking about), but I took it home and first spent an hour wondering how a game so popular could only have 10 servers up at a time, until I realized I hadn't patched the game completely. THen I learned rather quickly that the multiplayer really wasn't all that fun, since all it consisted of was people standing next to the airplanes waiting for them to spawn. Ya know, it's great that the game is team-based and all, but all the servers I played on were just lone wolves playing their own little games, and that wasn't fun.

GT4. I bought it hoping that the controls and handling would be better than in GT3. I was mistaken.

I have several hundred games on many consoles, but there are only two games that I purely regret buying.

1. Wrestlemania 21 [XBOX]
Absolute piece of trash. Shipped buggy, played like ass. Biggest hype letdown ever, even going over Fable as being the biggest hyped but worst loser on release. I wanted my money back, but alas.

2. Final Fantasy X [PS2]
The single biggest piece of trash on the PS2, RPG wise. I'd rather play Ephemeral Phantasia 25 times in succession than play through FFX again ONCE.

Super Mario 64. I knew that I had found every other Mario game I played to be boring affairs, but everyone else just loved this game, so it had to be good, right? Plus, I'll admit to it being the game that drew me to the Nintendo 64 (along with Pilotwings 64). I picked it up thinking that it'll be much different from the other Mario games, and that I'll love it. Indeed, it was a huge difference from the other Mario games, but it was still painfully boring. What made this incident even worse is that I traded it in for Turok, which was just as bad.

Donkey Kong 64 - I bought this for two reasons: First, Nintendo Power said it was good, and I expected Donkey Kong Country in 3D. Second, it came with the expansion pack. In the end, I never bought another game that used the expansion pack, and the game itself was one long horrible collect-a-thon. I got maybe halfway through the game before I became so very bored with it.

Final Fantasy X - This is by far my least favorite in the whole series. The game is way too linear. Then, whenever I'd play, I'd spend half my time watching movies and cutscenes and not even playing anything. And when I did play, I didn't enjoy it at all. This game was just awful.

Kingdom Hearts - And then after FFX, I went and bought this for some reason. I laughed when I saw the Disney characters. Then I met some Final Fantasy characters, and they felt out of place. Then I actually played the game, and I cringed. The controls were hideous, the camera was terrible, and the gameplay was just atrocious. It's the worst game I've played in the last two generations of games, and I haven't bought a single game from Square since this.

Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2) - Look I only bought the game because of the costume changes. About 12% into the game I lost interest in the story and stopped playing.

Legends of Wrestling (PS2) - Played it once, didn't play it again. I didn't hear the original theme songs and the wrestling was horrible. Afterwards I lost all hope of Acclaim ever making another good wrestling game.

Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament (PS2) - Controls were horrible, enemies were cheap (especially Toguro), couldn't even follow the story correctly, and what the hell is a card game doing in there?! The only good thing that came out of that was a new animated sequence at the end.

More to come. I don't regret buying MGS2, but they sure could've done a helluva a lot better with it. For instance, you should've been able to play as Snake through the whole damn game! So don't feel too bad cubed.

Magna Carta: Tears of Blood (PS2)... I just hated this game altogether. I'm an avid RPG player and I was really upset with this game. With the exquisite artwork outside of the game, I was really hoping for something in this game... On top of that, I heard some pretty good opinions from some of the people at my local Gamestop. I'm a regular there, they talk to me casually. Then when I started playing... Biggest WASTE of $55 ever.

The voiceovers were horrible. The battle system was slow... Everything about this game was wrong.

Black. Man, I was so hyped up for this game too. Played the demo a ton, got really anxious for it. 6 hours later, GAME OVER. I was so disappointed. I played through it five times just to try to justify the $40 I spent on that short piece of shit, but never got any sort of justification out of it.

WHAT! That game was great. :( I loved it.

I bought SSX Tricky for $5, but that was $5 I could've bought a bag of popcorn at the cinema for. That would've been a much better investment. I mostly bought it because a friend and colleague mentioned there is a form of interactive music in it. There is, but the game is so bad I don't really care.

I also bought Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2, although I never expected to like it. It was a bargain, I can't have paid more than $10 for it. But... I just can't get into it, and I think I would've been a better, more whole person if I'd never experienced what they'd done to one of my favourite franchises from my youth. Poor Metroid. :(

I'm sure I bought other piss-poor games, but I don't remember.

I cant think of any game that I have ever bought that I have regreted. I don't buy new games at full price until I look up reviews and make sure that its good. When I do buy a bad game it's on purpose because its cheap and I am starting a collection of them. latest addition to bad games is Megaman X7 for PS2 and the earliest is Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon (surgeon shrinks himself to go into his patient so he can kill cancer and other smoking related bad guys with his gun and nicotine trivia bombs that kill enemies if you answer right)

I probably regret buying over half the NES (sup Wall Street Kid) and SNES games I ended up with, but I attribute that to youth so I won't count them. But from the PS1 generation and on:

Rayman: Boy did this game suck. I bought it for cheap and I still regret it. I know people say the sequels are excellent, but I was so turned off by this one that I didn't care to play them.

Tomb Raider 1-3: I seriously have no idea why I kept buying these games, as I never even really played them. All I usually did was just use some cheat codes to skip levels and just watch all the cutscenes. The only one I even had mild fun with was TR3, and that was just with one level. Total waste of time and money, and luckily I realized this before I bought anymore of them.

River City Ransom EX: The game really wasn't that bad, but it just wasn't worth it. It doesn't even really offer anything new from the original except better graphics. If it had some single-cartridge multiplayer like it was supposed to, maybe I could have had some enjoyment from it, but in it's current form it's just meh.

Contra: Shattered Soldier: I don't think the game is that bad (though it is hard, and I still haven't beat it yet), but I just regret buying it when I did. I'd never even played a Contra game before this, so I don't know what compelled me to buy this game when it first came out for $50. Had I only paid $10 or $20 for it, I wouldn't have regretted it, but for $50 I kinda feel ripped off.

Don't worry, you're not the only one. :tpg: Sup Q. WHY CAN'T I STILL BEAT THAT FIRE FREAK!

Here's my little list:

Max Payne 2 (PS2). What is this crap. You think the frame rate for SOTC was bad? That's at least acceptable cause you've got this hulking huge thing coming right at you. But MP2 is absolutely unacceptable thanks the horrendous "frame rate" if you could call it that. Of course there's the PC version, but my PC sucks and I don't feel like upgrading it. Whatever.

Air Combat 1. I don't really regret buying this, but I kinda of wondered WHY did I buy it? It was selling for $5.99 and it's been a while since I played the original AC. Yeah, lets just say I regret buying something I really didn't need.
The same can go with King of Fighters 95. I don't really see what's so great about this, and only got it because it was like $2.99 (which I bought Ring of Red at the same time).

Dark Cloud 1. This wasn't a bad game, nor was it expensive, about $14.99 I got it for a few years ago used. I just didn't get into the whole random puzzle dungeon game. The health and water thing made it hard I found, and since it was all random, chances of finding a water oasis were far and about.

Final Fantasy X-2. Yeah, I caved in and just wanted to try it, AGAIN. THERE SHOULD BE SOME HOT COFFEE IN THIS, ONLY THEN WILL IT BE WORTH MY TIME. Good bye $19.99. It had a huge mixed bag of reviews so I said, what the hell, let's try it. =/

Other than that, I don't recall any other foolish buys I did since 90% of the games I check the reviews for.

I actually liked this game. It was easy to handle and you didn't need uber skills to pull of uber tricks. I liked seeing how much I could rack up on the free style runs.

Breed. Such potential, dashed upon the rocks of terrible execution.

I've kept this secret long enough: I'm one of the three people who... I actually bought... I... I bought Civilization: Call to Power 2. There. I've finally admitted it. I was young at the time, I didn't know just what kind of evil I was about to unleash. I mean, it had "Civilization" in the title. It couldn't be that bad, right? Beside, it's a sequel, hence the 2, so the first one couldn't be that bad, they wouldn't have made a sequel if that was the case. I loved Civilization 2, so I can't hate this completely. That's what I told myself. I foolishly silenced that voice telling me not to, and bought the game. Dear me. Retelling the actual "gameplay" experience would involve digging for memories I've since tried to forget, painful memories, so I won't bother.

Another game, though I don't regret as much, is Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun. It's the sequel to the awesome Command and Conquer! Red Alert was really good too! It has Kane! This is gonna be good! This is gonna be... mediocre. At best. Though I don't entirely regret this purchase; I got another copy of the original Command and Conquer in the process (it was bundled with Tiberian Sun), thus doubling the chances I'll actually be able to find the CDs when I get those sudden urges to play through both the GDI and Nod campaigns one more time. I just love the original Ion Cannon.

WWE: Day of Reckoning for the GC. I didn't research it at all, my own fault as I don't get into the CAW systems in these games as much as I do the other gameplay options. Waste of money, lesson (hopefully) learned.

GTA: San Andreas for PS 2. I got free 1 day shipping on the game, but when it came out I didn't feel like playing it. Do this day I still haven't taken it out of the mailer envelope it came in.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicle for GC. Pretty boring single player game, not much better in the few multiplayer sessions I tried with some friends. It sounded like it had so much promise in the news previews I read of the game, and just fell short.

Mmm, I actually kinda liked Vagrant story, just a little difficult. But if you guys ever played "Ancient Conquest" it's pretty bad. But heck I got it for $1 at a garage sale.

Ephemeral Fantasia (PS2) - This is always a game I seem to list whenever a topic like this comes up. I was doing some Christmas shopping for friends and family and stopped by the game store on my way out. The cover and summary seemed interesting so I decided to pick it up because of the sale price as well. I ended up probably only playing for six hours before I couldn't continue any further.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (GC) - Although I played this one all the way through, I just didn't find it worth playing again. The plot left something to be desired, and I wasn't particularly satisfied with the gameplay either. I think I might have enjoyed the game a bit more if I played it with others.

The first that comes to mind is Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven for PS2. I really needed a new game, and I just looked up some quick reviews on it, it said decent. So I picked it up. I really tried liking this games, so many times, but it just doesn't work out for me.

You know, I just lost my copy of Vagrant Story and it is absolutely tearing me up inside. Your story has made it worse, I hope you're happy.


On topic, what game do I regret owning? Xenosaga. That has to be one of the worst series in the history of RPGs. It is so heavily hyped and the gameplay is just atrocious, I can hardly even tolerate playing it for more than twenty minutes straight. The second one is even worse, and I've no hope for the third.



SALT IN WOUNDS. STOP HURTING DENI.

Well, it's not my favourite genre to say the least, so I can't really say if it compares favourably to other games in the genre. I figured that for $5, it really couldn't disappoint me, but I was wrong. =D

Final Fantasy IX/Chrono Cross-both came out around the same time. Why I got those before even thinking of getting Valkyrie Profile (which was also out around the same time) is beyond me. Oh yeah, right...They were part of RPG franchises I once liked from a game company I once liked and I made the assumption they were good games, not rundown showcases of aging PS1 hardware. Glad I got Valkyrie Profile before it went out of production.

Kingdom Hearts-It looked good, to be honest, so I got it. It didn't play very good. Managed to trade it in for $25 credit though.

Final Fantasy Anthology-Shoddy, unplayable ports of FFV and FFVI, which somehow managed to escape the watchful and unbiased reviews of EGM, which said everything was a-okay with them.

Metal Gear Solid 1-Swallow the hype, swallow the hype, swallow the hype, buy the game...It's not BAD (and I'm glad I played it so I can understand the various satires of it), but I don't think the action/stealth genre is my thing. I should've just rented it.

MVP Baseball 2003-I liked Triple Play. I hated this series, specifically the hitting. Traded it in less than 3 days later towards a preorder of Zelda Wind Waker, since I couldn't return it and didn't feel like bothering with ebay.

Zelda Wind Waker-Boring is the nicest word I have for this game.

Mario Sunshine-I waited until this game was out before I bought my Gamecube. I should've just gotten Smash Brothers and pocketed the other $50. 2D Mario for me, please.

Megaman X7/X8/Network Transmission-Is it really that hard to make a new console Megaman game? All of these were awful.

Lost Magic-Cool concept (using the touchscreen to cast spells in real time combat), terrible execution.

Also, I have a number of games that I've picked up over the years through Gamestop's sales...I regret buying some of them because I haven't had ample time to play them. It'll be funny picking up Disgaea 2 in a couple weeks, when I haven't touched Makai Kingdom or Phantom Brave yet.

Dragon Quest VIII:-Dear God, it's a disappointment, not terrible...but not good...I don't like the battle system...music's lacking something
FFX-2: I didn't actually buy this but it was a wasted birthday present...I completed it and the ending ruined the ending of FFX...This game is sheer proof that FF Games Do NOT need sequels...
Shadow the Hedgehog: Bought it on the day it was released, got Sonic Heroes free with it(gave that to a friend because I had it already)...Music in levels wasn't great...Black Doom sounded like Claw from Inspector Gadget...Sonic was undermined in the entire game...the 10 endings were meaningless...having to hear "This is who I am" 10 times...the gameplay was slowed down by having to find enemies to kill to complete a mission...the list of things wrong with this game is endless...although Super Shadow cutscene was pretty sweet...compared to this Sonic Heroes was fantastic...

I like the first and last level of Sonic Heroes...it had good gameplay...just a bad storyline...Metal Sonic FTW...unfortunate last words for Ryan Drummand(sp?) as Sonic...
Vagrant Story, I remember having a good story...I'll have to play it again...I don't remember a lot about it...I just remember liking Sydney...

Sorry dude. You know what? If I hadn't sold my copy, I would gladly mail it to you because I wouldn't have played it again anyway.

And, about Xenosaga, this game falls in the "I'm glad I just rented this instead of buying" category along with FFX, which was disastrous and a couple of other games.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. it's just a generic "drive your car faster than the other guy" game. i need something with weapons and stuff you can use against the enemies and all that stuff.

In a way I too regret buying Vagrant Story. Although not because I dislike it. Quite the opposite. Everything about the game is just so right. Except it's without a doubt the most confusing and complicated game on earth. It starts out gently and then without any warning, as was already said, it throws you to the wolves. I regret never able to see more of this beautiful game. I even used a gameshark and CHEATED and still had to accept defeat. :(

I think I got as far as Lea Monde

The Sims for PC. I fell for the hype and bought it on the day of release. Man, was I pissed off as it just totally was not for my type of game.

R-Type Final for PS2. I thought it would be a fun shooter, but it was completely average if not a bit mediocre.

Metal Slug for GBA. Way too short to be worth the purchase. I played through the game twice on the first day...

Sonic the Hedgehog Advace - Just bleh. I got a GBA and wanted to get a sonic game...I deeply regret it.

KotOR - My computer can't run it! And I could have gotten Half-life 2, which would have made me upgrade my computer.

Aside from the games bought in my youth, I buy all my games used from Gamestop, so if they suck I can return them.

So I bought the premium edition of Resident Evil 4 for the PS2 a good while ago (bought it used, and it had everything with it, even the laser cel) but you know, I'll probably keep it, but I probably shouldn't have bought it.

I've been playing it for a few hours, and thus far it's not really my thing. Never really liked survival horror all that much, but I figured with as much praise as this game's gotten, I should enjoy it. Well I don't. Not as much as everyone says I should, at least.

Since I've got the premium edition fully loaded though, and for cheaper than it sold as a brand new copy, I'll hang on to it just for its worth. It would've been better in someone else's possession though, I'll admit.

You've never played Unlimited Saga have you? You've never seen complexity until you've played that game. :D

On my end, I really regretted buying Myst. I've heard a lot of rave reviews on it and news on how well it sold so I thought I'd give it a shot and see how good of a game it was. Turns out all I got was a 3D slideshow with puzzles that didn't strike me as intuitive. The game didn't even begin to make sense until I bought the strategy guide, and even then, there were some parts where that just didn't help. The lack of a solid storyline (yes... I actually expected an interesting storyline when I bought this game) also bugged me and after trying the puzzles and stuff for so long, I just gave up.

Another one that got on my nerves was DQ8, but I think I've ranted enough about that game in another thread.

I hate wasting money
 

Star Fox Adventures- Being an avid fan of Star Fox 64 and Star Fox for the SNES, I figured this game would be a noteworthy sequel. I knew that the game had exploration elements in it, but I was sorely disappointed when I learned that the only rail shooting in it was interplanetary travel... for one minute each. I also did not enjoy going on random errands or trying to figure out where the damn triceratops was every time I lost sight of him.

Goldeneye: Rogue Agent- It's bringing back the dual gun control system? Sign me up!
...after several minutes of playing...

Hmm... I've been going in guns-a-blazin' for the entire game. Oh well, hopefully I'll get a stealth mission at some point. [/foreshadowing]

...after playing through the game ...

That was the final boss!?

He didn't even put up a fight. *sigh*

Thanks for the thought, mate. But yea, Xenosaga is a painful little experience. It makes me really unhappy every time I look over and see it there.

I find something enjoyable in almost every game I purchase. Even if it's just the atmosphere or recognizing the intent behind this or that design, I end up feeling that paying amount X was somewhat justified. I even find some merit in crapfests like Blue Stinger (the hilarious design of the shopping area) or Blood Omen 2. As long as the atmosphere sucks me in, I put up with crappy controls or monotonous gameplay and manage to find some enjoyment in the game.

So there are few games I really regret buying, and the games I do regret buying suck golf balls through water hoses, at least IMHO. The first that comes to mind is Excalibur two thousand something AD for the PSX. I can't even remember why I bought this turd. Ecco for the DC was way out there in terms of storyline and what you were supposed to do, and that it was difficult as hell didn't help. Cybernator for the SNES was a completely fun-free zone. Nightmare Creatures 2 for the DC... despite its shortcomings I really liked the first one, so when reading all the bad reviews I thought the second couldn't be that bad, right? Boy, was I wrong. Castlevania Chronicles for the PSX I bought after having played one of the greatest games in gaming history, SotN, over and over again. Well, instead of tinkering with the design of Simon's sprite, they should have tinkered with the controls. After having played Super CV IV (easily the second best of the series, and its controls still feel great, even after fourteen years), this one didn't even live up to Vampre's Kiss. The artificially increased difficulty might get some praise from hardcore gamers, but these days one shouldn't have to put up with the controls from yesteryesteryesteryear in a supposedly overhauled reissue. And Tekken 5, well... apart from one of the cheapest end bosses ever it isn't bad, on the contrary. But I regret buying it because after the second, third (I liked both) and fourth episodes I really don't know why I bought this one, because I've spent maybe two hours with it. It just doesn't do it for me. At all. The best I can say about Tekken 5 is that playing it makes me want to play Soul Calibur.

If I had payed for Tomb Raider - Angel of Darkness (by a long shot the worst game I've ever had the displeasure of not being able to avoid popping into my PS2) instead of borrowing it, it'd be headlining this post. If I tried to come up with a comparably bad game, I'd have to go way back in time to the C64 era. But at least the badly designed, unfinished and buggy as hell games of old didn't cost the world.

Zorro

Nowadays, I regret buying any PS1 game, because I tend to want those on whims when seeing them at the game store, but then I look at them when I play them and am reminded how I usually can't stand anything that looks too dated to me.

I regretted Xenogears (eep!), because 1998 grainy-pixel heaven hurts my eyes. The story's probably awesome, but it has trudged along rather slowly for the mere couple of hours I played it.

I also usually regret buying any PS2 RPG at full $69.99 price, since they usually average out to the same amount of enjoyment and offer nothing exceedingly exciting or fresh, so I've stopped buying games like that.

As a result, I regretted asking my parents to buy FF X-2 as a christmas gift a couple of years ago, when I should have just rented it. I love all the merchandise for it, but the game itself should have been a rental.

Regretted Ultimate Block Party since I discovered there were no chain shouts at all, which they could have easily put in, no matter how second-rate they would have been. They give you a smaller window of opportunity to add on to your chains/clears than in most other puzzle games too.

Normally, I wait a bit before buying the newest games, so that I can study all of the reviews for them, buy them at a lower price, and in the case of PC games, wait for the bugs to get ironed out. If a game gets mixed reviews, or just catches my interest in spite of lousy reviews, I'll rent it and try it out.

That said, the fancy limited edition packaging and Sid Meier's good name lured me into buying a copy of Civilization 4. Ugh, what a waste of $50. It runs so SLOW on my computer, which is strange, since the graphics are hardly anything special...this computer runs The Sims 2 decently and Half-Life 2 very well, which makes it even stranger. The original release had tons of bugs, the CDs were mislabeled, and that fancy tech tree poster was printed in French. And under all that, it's still just a slow-moving, imbalanced game that's still not nearly as good as Alpha Centauri, or Civilizations 2 or 3.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas comes to mind, too. I bought the PC version instead of the PS2 version for some reason, and it's quite buggy. The game seems to be convinced that I'm a pirate, so it refuses to start most of the time, and it crashes fairly often too. The content doesn't really appeal to me (though I'm not offended by it either), and the gameplay is decent but strangely repetitive...weird, since it's so open-ended.

I kinda wish I didn't buy Dragon Quest 8. I just couldn't get into it. I'm still not even sure what made me get it, as I've never been a fan of the others in the series. I'm a Final Fantasy guy myself.

Also, Alien vs Predator for SNES. I remember playing the arcade version and it was so fun, but I picked this garbage up recently and was like "You lied to me, childhood memories! You LIED! :("

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

Such a waste...people kept saying that you simply have to play the first few hours of the game until you got to the good part. So I went along with it and played....played....played...played........

I don't know what part is it exactly that is supposed to get better but it just never came. Damn that shit was boring...

Two titles spring to mind pretty quickly.

Unlimited SaGa - Got this on it's release date for 50 bucks. I have tried, God knows I have tried to give this game a fair shake. I just cannot get into even a single character's quest. Just a matter of a few months later, used copies were everywhere for ten or so bucks.

The .hack series - The first one was mildly enjoyable. The second one was just like the first only slightly harder. I bought the third one but hardly laid a finger on the game at all. These games were the first in a long while that I've actually traded in for store credit (along with Graffiti Kingdom, another disappointment).

Sadly there was a ton of crappy PS1 RPGs that came out. Several I own.

Darkstone - $9.99 and looked semi decent. Boy, don't buy cheap games. HORRIBLE load times, and each save took SIX BLOCKS. Gameplay consisted of 1 piece of music (only heard at the beginning), and tons of stop and go action. The graphics were semi decent though.

Beyond the Beyond - MY EYES. MY EARS. MY...Oh how I suffered for about 5 minutes before I couldn't stand it any more.

Final Fantasy Anthology - Besides the bad loading times, the beautiful FF VI SNES sound was trashed. :(

Parasite Eve 2 - While the original Parasite Eve was awesome, Square decided to turn it into a Resident Evil clone. But they failed. Miserably. Poor controls, bad music, and boring gameplay compared to the original.



I swear, there were only 3 good RPGs on the PS1, and one was a remake. :(

This one Orphen game for the PS2... I liked the anime, and it was "cheap" (not really; $14.99) at Costco and like the silly girl I was then, I went ahead and purchased it. Played it and cried a little afterwards.

Devil May Cry 2. I think that speaks for itself. I pre-ordered it and bought the strategy guide and everything just to own DMC-related stuff. I still haven't finished it.

Also, Brain Age. I bought that with my DS Lite and now I want to sell it, even for a super cheap price if need be. I guess it kept me occupied while I had no other DS/GBA games, but after a while it gets repetitive. Plus the doctor guy kinda creeps me out.

I think that's it, though. Most games I own I enjoyed or don't mind keeping.

One of the reasons I regretted buying Shadow the Hedgehog was because well...I bought it for the PS2 (slow downs galore, I should've went for the XBox version). Yeah, I wasn't too thrilled with the whole slowing down to shoot bad guys thing. That's another reason why I never tried to go A-rank on all of the missions like I did with Sonic Adventure 1, 2, and Sonic Heroes. The music in the game wasn't too bad, "I Am" was very kick ass. I was excited about the multiple endings in the game...then I realized they weren't that great. Final boss was alright, but the ending and the game overall was a bit of a letdown. Oh well, the soundtrack was alright.

I miss Ryan Drummond and the original cast. :( That's why I didn't get Sonic Riders for Gamecube. I kinda regret buying Riders as well, but I think I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. Japanese Sonic cast ftw.

Soul Calibur II (GCN)

They cashed in big time on Link, but it's more of the same of what the original Soul Calibur was. Proof of that is, the same exact choreography was used in I & II in the character demos.

House of the Dead 2 (DC)

The game is fun the first time around, heck even in arcades. I usually pick up both guns and go berserk but once you get passed all that you come to realize that Sega just pocketed $40 of your dollars in addition to scoring alittle extra because you were duped to purchase a light gun. I was seriously hoping for more games such as Time Crisis but that never surfaced at all and before you knew it the DC was dead. :doh: I've heard better acting at school plays and that's all I got to say about the game before being issued a warning. :argue:

House of the Dead 2? I got that one and I didn't regret it! Why you ask? Because I didn't bought it to 'home fun', I got to train my skills and got for arcade fun!!

Guess what? It worked! Me and my freind were able to finish it on the arcades with 2 coins and still have some spare lifes in the end.

Well, I got all A-Ranks in like two days, only really struggling with the level where you had to find 30 bombs on the circuit boards to blow up the internet or something... and Hard Mode was really very easy...and no huge challenge...and not worth getting A-Ranks for...
The game in general was too easy, and it was too slow...Lava Shelter was an awesome level though...and probably the best bit about the game(except the cutscenes involving the Eclipse Cannon).

I was lucky enough to get a demo of Sonic Riders before I thought about buying it and the birds' voices made me cringe...
And although I say I don't like the new voices, I do like Robotnik's 'new' voice, he sounds much better in games than he does in Sonic X...

Blazing Dragons was more enjoyable if you liked Monty Python-esque humor. I love the game, still play it from time to time. The cartoon series was great too. :P

For me:

Beyond the Beyond. (PSX) OH MY GOD WHY. "Oh hay look, it's the first RPG for PS1. YAY!" Play it a couple days "Oh hay, let's make the strongest character in the game be curse for the ENTIRE GAME." Grrrr. The game was awful. Looked to me like a very poor Lunar rip-off.

Vanguard Bandits. (PSX) Granted, the game probably isn't all that bad, but I only bought the game for the Lunar 2 demo. The game, I dunno. I just regret buying it.

CastleVania: Legacy of Darkness. (N64) UGH. To me, it felt just like the other CastleVania N64 game. I swear I'd think it was the same game, just with a guy who can turn into a werewolf instead. ._.

Evil Dead: Hail to the King (PSX) Granted, I bought this cause it was shown off as "Resident Evil meets Ash" more liek Resident Evil meets Ass amirite? The game was just poorly done and I'm ashamed that it had anything to do with Evil Dead. Fistful of Boomstick made up for it then, in a million ways.

Um...I just bought Doom 3 today...

Am I going to regret buying it? The horror game thing does not freak me out, but I heard really mixed reviews about it.

Oh, I got it for Xbox too since my comp is elsewhere...

I thought that this game was actually pretty good! It just lacked a little something. Maybe a little depth in the battle system. The story wasn't all that great too. But overall I enjoyed this game and thought it was really good. I have weird tastes sometimes.

Like I said, it was OK. I bought this the same day I bought Rhapsody (which I regret selling, heh) I think some of the battles got a bit too "impossible" for me and I'd end up getting 3 people killed before I had a chance to do anything. I don't play SRPGs that well, with the exception of FFT and Vandal Hearts. I really should stop buying them. heh :tpg:

I liked it, and I'm not a big fan of first person shitters. The Xbox version contains Doom and Doom 2 as well, right? Can't go wrong with Doom 2, unless you spill cat food on it or something!

F.E.A.R. - My comp couldn't handle the graphics.. The game couldn't load after the first stage. ;_;

Ephemeral Fantasia - I have absolutely no idea how to complete the game. Even after 20 over tries.

Unlimited Saga - Didn't even bother trying to complete the game.

Games that can't even be called games: Maken, Wrath Unleashed, Death by Degrees, etc.

And there are many others I couldn't recall right away.

Nintendogs - sorta fun and interesting for a week, only DS game I've ever traded in

World of Warcraft - when a single game takes up every evening of your life, you can't help but sorta regret buying it in the first place

- WraithTwo -

Uh okay. Let me just throw some out there; Xenogears, Valkyrie Profile, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy 7, Grandia and Star Ocean 2 come to mind. I count 7, and they're all good games. It's great that you have selective taste but minimizing a console's RPG catagory to THREE when it has probably the largest RPG archive is just stupid.

It would be nice if you thought before typing.

Yeah, initially I loved Nintendogs, but within a few days I was simply sick of it.

I regret buying Electroplankton too. I imported the Japanese version as soon a I got wind of it. But paying £30 or so for something so basic felt like a waste. You see, I'm not very musically gifted, so in my hands it really was ever so basic.

I didn't like Xenogears, FFT, and FF7 filled me with rage. The others I haven't played and don't have any interest in.

And 3 was only a rough figure anyways. Understand that figures are never exact.


And you forgot about Lunar 2. Which blew the Sega CD version out of the water. I almost can't even consider it a remake, but a remastery.

Sorry, both of you forgot about Vagrant Story. Now shut up and take it elsewhere.

The PC version of this game wasn't so bad. I played it through once, and enjoyed it quite a bit for the price. I imagine a PS1 port would've been very poor though. Saves and load times were fine, you could set your soundtrack. That alone solves 9/10 of the games issues.

I didnt get a ton of chance to play SC on DC (as many others) so this was a great buy in my book.

My number one would have to be Jet Force Gemini. Paid waaaay to much for a game that just doesn't cut it. I couldn't get past the controls. #2 would be Luigi's Mansion. Don't know what I was thinking but it really is not my type of game.

Universal Combat (PC)
Ground Control: Operation Exodus (PC)

Both of these games are awful, and I'm not sure what made me buy them. But I do regret buying both of them. Especially Universal Combat, it is possibly the worst game I have ever had the dis-pleasure of playing.

Animal Crossing: Wild World was the same for me, too much commitment is required...and my interest in it only lasts a week when I do get round to playing it...

You're right. Some of the battle were horrendously difficult to get past unscarred. That was one of the game's down point.

Only game in recent memory that I regret buying is Chaos Field for the GCN. I guess I had it coming though; I knew the game was bad, I was just really itching to play a vertical shooter and I thought $20 wasn't bad but for this game it definitely was.

Hoshigami was the only major mistake. Although Soul Caliber III was a major disappointment. It seems far less balanced than any of its previous incarnations.

*Several days and Doom 3 levels later*

That is the deluxe version, and I was looking for a good, cheap, FPS. It was that or Black, which I heard little about. Doom 3 = 12$ Doom 3 Deluxe Ed. = 50$

Thats me....cheap ^_^

I am so saddened by this. The first three SSX games were fantastic. (I haven't played the "On Tour" one yet, so I'm withholding judgement.) The storylines were almost nonexistent, which is something they could've wedged in, but otherwise, it was a fantastically creative snowboarding game. Even the controls were dead-on. The voice acting in Tricky was top-notch and the courses were infinite fun. I can't tell you how many hours I and a couple friends spent trying to master the Untracked course.

Crap? No, sir. I do not think so at all. For $5, you should've been extremely pleased with what you got. SSX Tricky was one of EA Big's flagship titles. They put so much effort into making that game awesome and here you go dismissing it for reasons you didn't even care to explain.

And what the hell are you even talking about with "interactive music"? You mean being able to select which audio track plays? Because that's the extent of interactive music in SSX.

I am sincerely wondering if maybe your brain got messed up and you meant to type in "FreQuency" instead? That'd make more sense, although I'd still have to smack you upside the skull because FreQuency (and Amplitude) were also great.


I'm pretty good about what I buy. Can't readily think of too many clunkers. I guess my biggest disappointment was SaGa Frontier II. Now, I loved Frontier 1, despite its obvious flaws, and I was hoping for more of the same over-the-top moves and spells. Yes, Frontier 2 had some, not as many, but some, but the manner in which the whole game was visually presented was an extreme letdown.

In SaGa Frontier 1, whenever, say, Red learned a new move, a nifty little light bulb would swirl over his head and make a cha-wing! sound. That was fucking brilliant. And the moves were amazingly creative, with awesome, respectable names. "TurbidCurrent", "RosarioImpale", "Lifesprinkler", "Goldfist", "Skytwister". It was worth going through each person's story just for the battle sequences. And the sprites were bright, colorful and reasonably sized. No complaints.

SaGa 2, however, had smaller sprites and a wimpy "watercolor" coating on all the graphics. It was supposed to look quaint and magical, but it just came off as dull. I paint with watercolors now and then, and they don't have to be that drab.
The battle formula was basically the same, but far less flashy. The light bulb looked like a little brown slab; I guess it was transformed into an exclamation point, maybe? Either way, it was uninteresting. The fight moves were also rather uninspired. Whereas in the first game, I'd be shooting enemies with Trickshot, or pummeling them with Fist, in Frontier 2, you just sorta ran up to the foe, smacked it on the nose once or twice and called that a fight. Fight, my ass.

The storyline was also problematic. It fragmented in the weirdest places and I never got a feel for any of the characters and their problems. In Frontier 1, when you chose Asellus, you got to be Asellus all the way to the end, until you concluded her story. You got allies, of course, but you could always rely upon having Asellus as your lead. In Frontier 2, you'd wind up with Prince X for a while, until you got to a certain point. Then you were "Thief Guy", or "Magical Protector Person". Why? No reason, they just felt like jumping around to confuse everyone. I was just getting used to fighting with Prince Kid and suddenly I'm in command of some pansy dweeb who requires a totally different approach. I can be versatile, but I don't like such inconsistency in my games.

No, SaGa Frontier 2 was pretty bad, in my opinion. Maybe you thought it was great. I'm sure someone out there did. I mean, Squaresoft made it, so there's bound to be someone with a copy of SaGa Frontier 2 shoved firmly up his anus. And if you did think it was a good game, that's fair, but let me reiterate, after SaGa Frontier 1, the sequel was a complete and utter disappointment.

Hell, I thought Legend of Mana was far more enjoyable, and that's saying something.

Suikoden IV was a dissapointment. I only played a demo of the second game but could never find a full version. The Third game never came out in the UK, but I managed to play it on my cousin chipped playstation 2 and I loved it. Suikoden 4 was just slow - the most terrible thing was world map exploration, slow and full of tiresome battles.

Vandel Hearts 2. Again another slow one - never had chance to play the original (which is apparantly much better) Battles became difficult at one point, and then traded it for;

Grandia - completed the game, but I got sick and tired of the countless dungeons toward the end of the game

Vagrant Story - I have owned this since it came out in 1999 - and I still haven't completed it! I'm at the Final Dungeon, and I just can't bring myself to complete it even if I wanted to.

Magna Carta Crimson Stigmata - Terrible voice overs, terrible battle system, terrible story line, great music, great character designs; enough said.

Evergrace - Shit

Orphen Scoin of Sorcery - Impossible to play

Xenosaga 2 - it's criminal they didn't release the first one in the UK - instead they put the cutscenes on a dvd that lasted six to nine hours - the story didn't make sense without valuable gameplay :P You then play the game - don't mind the long cutscenes so much, it just the lack of shops, and battles are so long winded.

Resident Evil Dead Aim - Shit

Can't think of much else of the top of my head

The main one would have to be Majora's Mask. Zelda games are all about slow, careful exploration for me, and its RUN RUN HURRY HURRY approach was completely terrible. What made it worse was that I paid full price for it back in 2001, when I could've waited and gotten it for free (along with some other, far more enjoyable entries) in Nintendo's Collector's Edition giveaway.

Arc the Lad Collection was a big bust for me. I was confident that $70 for 3-and-a-half RPGs was quite a deal, but alas, not when don't like its game design at all. Incidentally, the only other person I know who has it tried to sell me his for much the same reason.

I also regret buying Snake Eater when I did. Not because I didn't enjoy it, far from it. I regret buying it for $35 exactly SIX DAYS before Konami announced Substance.

All you people that hate on Vagrant Story so much need to send me an NTSC copy to replace mine, which has disappeared at some point. That game's story was lovely.

Crimson Sea for the Xbox =/ Godamn that game sucked a hell lot, absolutely boring. ARGH, get it away from me.

I never ever buy a game without trying it first (except FF8, which I turned out to like!)

So I did have deceptions with exchanging (vagrant story, vandal heart 1-2, and a few others i can't even name), but never with buying

always very ashamed i bought killzone. Very crapy fps and the multiplayer really let me and my friends down... sure it looked good but played like crap and the controls werent that great. overal something i'd rent only once.

Rayman 2: Revolution for PS2. Why? Because I loved and cherished the Dreamcast version, but didn't have a DC anymore, and found it used for $12 so I thought I'd give it a try. NOOOO!!! They "Americanized" the voices (which means they sucked) and they made a free-roaming "overworld." I don't know how, but they managed to suck the charm out of the game. I played it for an hour, then sold it back to the store for credit, then bought a Dreamcast and Rayman 2 on Ebay. That is how much that version of the game sucked: I had to cleanse my palate! :D

I regret Baten Kaitos. I hate card games. I hate getting wailed on and having to take it until I get an attack card. Everything else about the game was pretty good, nice graphics, nice music, story was okay, I liked the wings aspect, but I hate card games. On that note, I also regret buying Metal Gear Acid.

I also regret Magna Carta. I didn't really buy it, I got it for Christmas, but I regret even putting this steaming pile in my PS2. After watching the opening movie (which made me laugh because of the ridiculous song) I knew I was in for a craptacular time. I was only interested in the game becasue my cousin used to go on to art websites, and he found art for the game when it was a Korean PC game. I liked the art, and wanted to play the game. That was smart of me.

I am so saddened by this. Particularly because you're an artist and it makes me feel like I have terrible taste over the fact that SF2's graphical style is the only reason I still own the game. It's a saving grace in my opinion. You're spot on about the rest of the game, though.

Duuuude, you're almost at the best part of the game. The Truth scene makes the whole thing worth it. Very, very satisfying.

I'm sorry. :(
Well, perhaps I was wrong but supposedly, the music filters out when you do a stunt or whatever thing, and when you land it comes back in with a fill/crash. It wasn't exactly spectacular but it was still mildly interesting, especially considering it's a sports title. Maybe it was a different game though, I mean, you're clearly more experienced with SSX titles than I will ever be. =D

And as for my feelings about the game itself, like I said in a later post it really isn't my type of game. I probably was unwise in buying it, like someone buying Battle Chess who doesn't like chess, because his friends told him it was a different take on the chess genre.

Regardless, I did buy it so I did give it a fair try. I wanted to like it, my liking it was worth $5. But it's just no fun to me at all. The stunt part of these games never appealed to me, and the racing part just feels like a poor racing game to me. I imagine it's a lot better in multiplayer, but I slaughtered the AI on the tracks that I played, which was also not so fun.

Clearly there are plenty of people who liked it, I'm not trying to argue that nobody should like that game. I think it was a pretty big hit, right? I can also see that they put a lot of effort into making this into something else than "just another" snowboard game, and anything that deviates from the "snowboard" genre is a good thing in my book. But I just wasn't entertained.

I don't know what you're talking about voice-acting wise, what I heard was pretty typically cringeworthy game-acting (not that I care much either way). Maybe it gets better in the later levels or something. =D

And Frequency/Amplitude was great.

Just to make this post not a complete derail, I'll add another bad buy: Wario Ware Party for the Gamecube. It is Wario Ware and everything, and it is fun to play the multiplayer games, but I still felt ripped off considering it's just a gutted version of the GBA game. $50 was a bit much for that.

I think the voices do change in the later levels, actually. I'm wondering if you gave this a fair go since the voice actors were in the "DVD content" section, which was on the title screen. It was pretty interesting, having an interview for each voice actor (Bif Naked <3) as well as the making of.

You had to complete the game once to unlock it, I think. I'm not sure if there was some requirement or whether it was just simply unlocked from the beginning. It definitely was more of a trick related game than some snowboarding racer.

SSX 3 looked interesting but I didn't touch it, but I'll just assume it's the last of the series.

I remember some of the girl voices being pretty bad. "You're going DOWN. Geddit?", that kind of thing.

I certainly never finished the game, so I may have missed the good bits. But I know EA tends to put them in the first 5 minutes of the game (their research has shown that about 75% of the gamers only sees this amount of the game, so they have to hook them at that point). Overall, the presentation of SSX Tricky kicks ass, I can't deny that.

Xenogears. I loved the first disc to death but upon reaching the second disc, I was wishing I had just bought the Gamera Trilogy box set.

It's a bit late for that at this point, I'm thinking. He probably hasn't played it for ages, so the scene would feel pretty indifferent unless he were to play over from the beginning :(

Yeah I suppose.

:(

1) F-Zero GX for the Gamecube. Some of the races are too hard. I think I only got three races into the story mode.

2) Sonic Mega Collection for the Gamecube. HUGE waste of money. I paid $35 for a used copy. Two weeks later it got marked down to $15. That made me mad. I really ended up not liking the games. I didn't complete any of the games.

xman25

How is this even possible? It's the original Sonic games, the classics that defined the 16-bit era, the true essence of Sonic, long before all those extraneous characters like Rouge, Big and Amy Rose were added into the canon. Plus, you also get Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Sonic Spinball, Flicky and, I think, Ristar.

Come on, dude. Ristar.

Unless you've got some irrational chip on your shoulder against older games, there's no reason to dislike the Sonic collection. They're the cream of the Sonic crop.

I think 99% of the Earth will back me up on this one.

The Sonic games aren't bad, I just didn't like them. I like older games. I would like any game from any era, if I found them entertaining.

xman25

Anyone remember Buck Bumble, for the 64? Technically, it didn't get anything wrong, but it broke the cardinal rule of gaming stunningly: it had to have been the most average, homogeneous, wholly unfun title ever released on the console.

If you can find it, Sonic Jam on the Saturn is much, much better for Sonicking. No need to unlock games or features therein, full sound tests, art, commercials and trailers, Spin Dash on Sonic 1...Mega Collection is completely tame after all that.
That said, I almost bought the Mega Collection for Ristar and Flicky (the other two I'd say are only just OK), but since they're going to be on the PS2 collection coming out shortly, I don't need Mega Collection anymore.

You mean Sonic Mega Collection Plus? The PS2 game which was released a year and a half ago?

It has Flicky, Ristar, The Ooze, Comix Zone (<3) and Blue Sphere as unlockables.

The worst game I ever bought was the first game of the .HACK series. I didn't like it at all. I tried to give it enough time to get interesting/fun, but I eventually traded it in for something that was much better (I don't know what that was, but there's nothing I own that is that bad).

Another one!
Fable - I will admit it was fun for a little while. I was doing well in the game, I found some of the extras mildly entertaining, and then about half way through the story(this is the extended one. Lost chapters) I manage to get time slow leveled up completely. Two words. I win!

I hate unbalanced games with a passion...

Nope, I mean Sega Genesis Collection. Games include:

Alex Kidd: The Enchanted Castle
Altered Beast
Bonanza Bros.
Columns
Comix Zone
Decap Attack
Ecco
Ecco: Tides of Time
Ecco Jr.
Eternal Champions
Flicky
Gain Ground
Golden Axe 1, 2, and 3
Phantasy Star 2, 3, and 4
Ristar
Shadow Dancer: Secret of Shinobi
Shinobi 3
Sonic 1 & 2
Super Thunderblade
Sword of Vermillion
Vectorman 1 & 2
Virtua Fighter 2

And the PS2 version has Zaxxon, Tac/Scan, and Zektor as unlockables.

Comes out sometime in the fall according to this: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152778

ETERNAL CHAMPIONS

I remember playing the this game to death. That's an impressive list, especially since Ristar, Ecco, Comix, Bonanza and the 2 Sonics are there. But unfortunately I don't see any Micro Machines, Landstalker, Toejam and Earl, Streets of Rage or Fantastic Dizzy. And I probably won't ever.

They seriously fucked up with the Sonic Gems/Mega Collections, since the japanese versions included all games, unlike the US/PAL versions which were lacking a few.

In recent memory.. Perfect Dark Zero. I don't usually take suggestions from others when buying games, but my friend kept pressing me to get it so we could play multiplayer. It was a mistake.

Oni ... This game is so damn boring ... I hate it :P (Just bought it, because i found 20 bucks infront of the store, lol)

Enter the Matrix ... Very boring too, i thought it would be awesome, but it isn't ;/

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I was never a huge fan of Comix Zone. Or maybe I just sucked at it, come to think of it... XD

Oh and talking about bad buys and Megadrive: Streets of Rage 3. SoR 1 was an instant classic, SoR 2 was still great, but 3... Geez. It's like they took out all the things that made the other two challenging. I waltzed through that game. And I was a little kid, so a game was like, a lot of money.

By the way out of curiousity, anyone have an idea why Sonic 3 isn't included in that collection? Have they got something against Funkymuskrat's music?

To the best of my knowledge, Elixir, Landstalker is still getting ported to the PSP, so it makes sense that it wouldn't appear in that collection. Dunno about the other games, though.

I don't think that it's too early to mention Star Fox Command. It got fairly good reviews, and I adore the original Star Fox and Star Fox 64, so I threw caution to the wind and bought a copy...big mistake!

First off, the controls were pretty badly thought-out. I'm not sure if using the touchscreen to fly seemed like a good idea when the developers came up with it, but it just doesn't work well. Basic manuvering isn't too bad, but boosting and rolling are absolutely terrible! As for the game, it consists of a pointless stragetic mode, a bunch of one-minute dogfights, flying through rings to blow up missiles, and blowing up the same exact mothership about twenty times. There aren't any epic boss battles or long obstacle courses anywhere that I found.

I played though it once, having some faith that there would be SOMETHING to make the whole game worthwhile, but there is almost no variety in the gameplay besides the changing background graphics. Even the end battle is horrible...a giant interstellar snake-thing that dies after being hit with one bomb and a dozen laser shots. I played long enough to try one alternate mission, but it was almost identical to the basic route.

The game is just crushingly disappointing...I sold my copy the day after I bought it.

Guilty Gear Isuka......by far. I was so disappointed when I started to play that game and realized that I actually had to hit a button in order to turn the other direction to face my opponent......

I've long been a fan of the great, but unpopular, Guilty Gear games, but that's the last time I buy a game without reading some reviews first.

Rakka, you missed out. If you had persevered, you would have seen there's a nice variety of enemies and bosses. The 1p game is more geared towards playing in bursts, as strange as it sounds for a Star Fox game. Sure it's repetitive at times, but playing whenever you have a spare moment is rewarding. The more I play the more I appreciate and now having tried WiFi, I must say the whole package is a sweet deal. Quick, simple, fun gaming - what portable gaming should offer. To each his own, but I reckon you've missed out. Take it as a freindly comment, I'm not criticising.

Onto games 'I' regreat buying, well Mario & Luigi 2 disappointed me a heck of a lot. Not only was it shorter than the first (for me) but it was more linear, more simple (super items vs attacks) and the progression was too bland. I can't bring myself to sell my games, which hurts me more here.

Fucking Donkey Kong 64 with its get the green banans but you cant get the green bananas before you get the blue bananas but you cant do that until you get the yellow but you need the yellow to get the red to get the green and even after you get the green you have to get the blue and you have to get the blue to get the key cause its being guarded by the babana fairy but you cant get the banana fairy cause you need Lanky who needs Diddy who needs Tiny who needs Chunky and you have to switch between all of them to get the other banana and OH LOOK THERES A BOSS BATTLE!!!


AAAAAAGHHH!!!!

Two games for the PSOne:

- Excalibur 2555 AD: the worst piece of crap ever to enter my house. I will never, ever understand how this game got such warm revies from the magazines, and how some magazines could say that this was the heir of Tomb Raider. It was an appalling game, with bad graphics, bad voice acting, and just plain awful gameplay. A shameful camera, an impossibly bland combat system, secret doors that you were forced to find and that were impossible to find if not by sheer luck, illogical puzzles and lots of fetch quests in the first levels (I never got past level four by myself: I used a cheat code to get to the final boss, and I beat him by placing the heroine in a corner where all I could see was her and some fireballs the boss sent at her).

- Jurassic Park: The Lost World: oh-my-god. The only good thing in this game were the graphics. Everything else was terrible. I don't believe that it was possible to get to the end of this game without cheating (or even cheating).

Chromehounds,It was wayyy to slow for my taste,Weres the fun in really slow mechs? If there is i coulden't find it. =\

In my younger, more naive days, I too fell victim to the "hey this looks cool and it's hella cheap let's buy it for the sheer heck of it OH SHIT WHAT IS THIS CRAP" syndrome more than once.

Major offenders:

Virus: The Game: Ugly, ugly, UGLY Descent clone with some tacked on strategy elements.
Megaman X3 (PC): I've never been a big Megaman fan, so what the hell was I thinking getting this? The cutscenes are neat, and the game has its merits, but the trademark high difficulty just kills it for me.
Maximum Force (PC): Easiest, ugliest, and most idiotic lightgun game ever, my love for the genre not withstanding.
Redneck Deer Huntin': I'm not gonna waste a single breath talking about this one.

I've got plenty of others, but those 4 stand out the most.

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This game isn't. worth. the. light. of. day. Seriously, it's like the two worst shooting games on the earth decided to have sex and make aidsbabies.

Sol Divide is just.. oh god, I don't know how to begin. It's in japanese so I can't understand the conversations (why is there conversations in a shmup?), but a lot of them are:

"You stole this from me and I want it back!"
"NO. WE FIGHT."
::boss battle::
"You stole something from me too! WE FIGHT!"
"No, I run!"
::level::
"There's no escape now, fuckbucket.
::boss battle::

This goes on for oh.. the entire game. Moving onto Dragon Blaze, it's basically a clone of Gunbird. The exact same concept with each of the characters applies. The game feels stiff and pretty much a bore to play, and bullet patterns are few and far between (and feel like ass). There's absolutely no graizing bullets, either. If you touch them, YOU'RE DEAD.

So yeah, bad purchase. Cheap, but bad purchase.

Empire Earth II (PC) - I liked the first installation of this series, but they didn't seem to put as much effort into this one. It looked kinda ugly, and it didn't feel as good as the first one.

Galactic Civilizations II (PC) - I bought this thinking that it would be a sci-fi version of Civilization. But it just seemed so slow and boring, just couldn't get into it. I may pick it up again one day though.

Universal Combat (PC) - Quite possibly the worst game I have had the dis-pleasure of owning. It looked ugly, took too damn long to do anything, crappy controls. I hated this game. For some reason though, it still sits on my shelf.

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 (PC) - I have liked all the other C & C games, but there is something about this one that I didn't like.

Whoa now, I'll contest that statement to the ends of the Earth. CH is excellent.

This was gonna be what I said. I like how TERRIBLE it is. Unlimited SaGa and other such disasters go here too.

Suikoden III. Picked it up just because people spoke so highly of 1 & 2. I found the game mechanics to be restricting in regards to the setting and the controls. First town is basically a 2d set with doors you can enter = lolz. I immediatley also disliked the notion of "fields" that you cross to travel to different areas. I Ebay'd this one.

I duno I never really liked it,maby im just into armored core's speed >.<

One day I got Dragon Ball hungry and bought Tenkaichi 2 (I think) and after 30 minutes of play I almost vomit. Maybe if I were a DB fanboy it would be different but as I thinking being I can only describe it in one way: CRAP! Every fight looks the same way, charge up and super and so on. This is the universal strategy which obviously your opponents use as well. Boy was I stupid that day! ;]

- Perfect Dark Zero. A disappointment in every category.
- Half Life 2 for the Xbox: The resolution is crap, the framerate horrendous. I'm glad they at least tried their best on the port, but when your xbox sounds like its going to explode when there's more then 5 allies/enemies on screen...=/ I'm glad that they're doing it again for the 360 though, but it still was an initial waste of 60 bucks.

Ya, i'll stop kidding myself. Guild Wars is pretty awful. the only thing going for it is the fact that there is no membership fee. The worst part is that i couldn't return the damn thing since i had to buy it new...

Otherwise, the first TMNT game that came out for the gamecube. Worst game ever, super boring, repetitive and cheesy. Like dynasty warriors except not fun.

O i regret ever playing dynasty warriors, me and a buddy of mine spent like 80 hours on that game, no joke.

I never really regret buying a game but there was christmas when I ask for the game "Gungrave" and my aunt bought me "Mobile Suit Gundam: federation vs zeon", it was still factory sealed so I could return the game and pick another one, but I was looking at the back of the case and decided to give it a try...big mistake I played 20min and never touch it again...and sure the store wouldn't exchange it now that it was open >.>

I've got Petz Vet: My Pet Hotel for NDS. I can't believe they still come up with crap like this, but for collection purposes...

i regret buying WoW. i mean, its a GREAT MMO and all but it eats away my life ! :D sitting in front of a computer all day and night is not exactly the way i wanna be spending my weekdays and weekends, but crap, WoW is too damn fun. i hope i quit soon lol

Wow... So many games I have that I regret buying.

PS2

The Bouncer (It only LOOKS pretty. Everything else in this game is the same horridly cliche regurgitated tripe. Too bad too, I actually liked the story. :()

Devil May Cry 2 (No... Just... NO. Probably the biggest disappointment I've ever had in a game series)

The Getaway (I actually got this for my birthday back in '03 but it was still a horrible game and I never had the heart to tell my sister that just because it WAS SUPPOSED TO PLAY like Grand Theft Auto didn't MAKE IT Grand Theft Auto.)

The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Has anyone ever told you that a movie game was worth about as much as a crusty sperm sample on a rent-by-the-hour motel bedsheet? I suggest you heed their advice no matter how much you love the property attached.)

XIII (To be fair, I actually LOVE the story of this game but it's not enough to hold my interest with hackneyed gameplay like this. Save yourself the trouble and read the comic if you're THAT hard up for a good conspiracy story.)

XBOX

Test Drive (Even though I stole this game, I'M the one that feels ripped off.)

PlayStation

Bubsy 3-D (Yeah... OK. Fool me once: Shame on you. Fool me twice: Shame on me. :()

N2O: Nitrous Oxide (Trust me... After the third of fourth motion-induced nausea trip this stopped being fun. Even The Crystal Method doing the soundtrack couldn't save this game. :()

Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi (Living proof that the most solid of franchises can produce the most horribly flimsy games EVER.)

Nintendo64

Doom64 (God... I fucking spent $60 on this the day it came out? I wanted to shove up John Carmack's ass for the longest time until I realized that he'd probably outrun me in that fancy-ass Ferrari of his as he laughed all the way to bank. Motherfucker)

SegaCD

Sewer Shark (Yeah... It came with the SegaCD... So the fuck what? It's still one of the most predictably repetitive games EVER made)

Now that I remember, Kirby Canvas Curse disappointed me. I knew it wasn't like every other Kiry game and that it was actually an acquired taste. I bought it because word of mouth said it was awesome, but it really didn't click with me. I beat Drawcia and all that was left were goals for perfectionists and speed runners. Not too impressed.

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon since I thought that the sheer number of characters would appeal to me no matter how bad the gameplay was. The lack of specific fatalities ruined it for me completely. It's nice to see all the MK characters in 3D, but looks like I only play them for the fatalities. Even the special moves are lacking and the gameplay was clunky and unforgiving.

Gunpey and Gunpey DS bought twice because the presentation is completely different between systems. The gameplay is terribly simple and horribly flawed in the DS version with the simple controls. While on the PSP you had to play for hours upon hours to get new skins. If you die, too bad, start from scratch and play for hours upon hours again. The concept was so braindead simple that not even the trippy visuals could save it for me. Not on par with Lumines or Meteos by a long shot.

Stretch Panic. I bought it years ago on the cheap but couldn't play it because my PS2 wouldn't read blue discs. I finally played it a couple of days ago and other than the bizarre novelty of the character having a possessed scarf that can grab things and enemies with giagantic boobs, there was nothing else there. Such a shame because it came from Treasure as well.

Eternal Ring for the PS2. Again I bought it very cheaply and it's a From Software first person RPG that is very slow, ugly and of course, lacks analog functionality.

I bought Genji: Days of the Blade for the PS3. One of the biggest mistakes I made, as I was trying to give the game a chance despite the reviews. Of course, I had an urge to see the giant crab also, but in the end I never bothered with it. Primarily, staring at a radar 80% of the time is not my definition of fun.

Children of Mana: That game did not hook me in the least. It was a chore to begin with, and got worse as it got harder. It really didn't seem to be going anywhere, no story, no character development, just a random dungeon crawler. I may pull it out during a slow season, but right now, my priorities at the moment shame it in the greatest way.

Nintendogs: You know, it's fun for a little while, but i didn't really see much happening, and as i bought more and more games, it just sort of disappeared into the pile of maybe laters. My sister's played it more than i have, and she despises video games of all sorts. It sounded cool at the time, but it deffinetly wasn't worth the 40 bucks.

Geist: To be fair, i haven't really given it a solid chance yet. I've only actually played it twice, and it was fun, but i just had so much else to do at the time. It was 6 bucks, brand new, so i wasn't really expecting much, when i bought it, but what i did see of it revealed unpolished graphics, and finnicky controls that could use some serious touching up.

Socom 1: I bought this off a friend for like 5 bucks, and frankly i'd rather have the five bucks back. I don't play online ever, and the singler player missions are boring, and hard. I wasn't much of a shooter guy back then. I'm slowly getting into them, so maybe i'll try again some day. But at the moment, it was a waste of a fiver.

I'm glad I only rented that. It's one of those games - like Killzone and Oni - that could've been so much more, if only the developers had put in the work. For Killzone, imagine being able to boot up a mission you've cleared in single-player mode and play it cooperatively online... and yes, this goes for Republic Commando as well. Oni? Bland graphics, but the mechanics were sorta decent; multiplayer could have been a real blast.
But most recent on my list of genuine dishonorable mentions: Just Cause. They tried, really they did; but too many things were done wrong - horrible car handling and inability to sideslip in helicopters, to name two. So, having played through it once, I took it back for credit towards Scarface: The World is Yours.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. I spent forty-fucking-dollars on this game and it turns out to be shit. Lame storyline, poor gameplay, only thing that made it even half-way decent were the moogles. :(