[General Discussion] Games you regret buying.

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

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.

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)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek

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

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

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