[General Discussion] Games you regret buying.

Originally Posted by Chronciler

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.

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Spatula

(Re: SSX Tricky) 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.

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

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

I am so saddened by this.

I'm sorry.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

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.

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.

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

Originally Posted by Elixir

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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by SonicPanda

Altered Beast

<3

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?

I was speaking idiomatically.