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Games you regret buying?

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    squirly wrote: »
    - Nintendo Wii

    Why not sell it to someone who really wants one? You could probably get your money back.

    Unless you're one of those.. "I'm waiting until Brawl comes out" types. If you are, you should buy No More Heroes. It's worth it.

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    DOA Xtreme 2.

    What the fuck was I thinking? Okay, all joking aside, I liked the first one. DOAX2 removed local 2-player, became stupidly hard and added mini-games that were the very antithesis of fun. I still like the original but number two is a number two.

    To top it off, I didn't trade it in while it was still worth something. It probably gets like a buck now.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Devil May Cry 2... At launch.... :(
    Me wrote:
    Oh man Devil May Cry was so great! This one must be good too!

    I didn't accept the truth until the very end of the game...

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  • tsmvengytsmvengy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    The only games I regret buying are a couple of Virtual Console titles. Ristar, Toejam and Earl and Sin and Punishment gave me a bit of buyers remorse, and put a stop to grabbing games because of the hype. Hopefully a demo system that doesn't require a Brawl disk will be introduced soon. I've saved myself some grief and some hard drive space by testing XBLA games before I purchase them.

    Really? Toe Jam & Earl is awesome!

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  • WorktruckWorktruck Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    NoelVeiga wrote: »
    Worktruck wrote: »
    Vampire: The Masquerade -- Redemption - I decided to buy this the first week it was out the first few hours were pretty good until you started getting party members and finding out no matter what posture defense, aggressive, neutral, and whatever else you put them in resulted in them running to the nearest enemy and getting the shit kicked out of them or them chasing after another enemy in the middle of the fight to once again get the shit kicked out of them. Oh, and blood in the game is both your health and mana pool. So, of course your party members in the middle of the battle would use up all their blood casting celerity and potence over again until they died. The solution to this problem was to turn off the party's A.I. and that made it slightly less annoying until you had to fight something because it was in real time and you couldn't pause the damn game.

    Of course from my understanding this was all fixed a month or so later with a patch of course that improved A.I. and allowed for in game pausing so it made battles easier. By that time I had moved on to Diablo II.

    Sin Episodes: Emergence - It's already been mentioned I think obviously because the company changed names and is now making cellphone games or something.

    RE: Codename Veronica RE game play was already kind of stale in RE 3, but Veronica was horrible, but even after this I decided to buy both RE:0 and the RE remake for the GC.


    So it was a patch there, huh? I have the game and I distinctly remember a pause function being in place out of the box. It had a damn cool story, too. Or, rather, an average story with damn cool characters and writing.

    There was this other vampire game that came out using the Source engine. I remember renting it and only getting a sudden urge to go play Redemption again.

    Side note: Best vampire (not Vampire, but vampire as in "blood-sucking creature of the night) RPG ever: Veil of Darkness. Check it out if you can.

    Hmm, I thought you couldn't it's been close to 8 years since I played it, but I remember the other stuff. I still remember the mistake I made of giving a party member an Uzi to try out in combat and not knowing that once the ammo ran out they would just switch weapons based on I guess... I don't know how they decided to pick their next weapon, but in their inventory and that just so happened to be a rocket launcher so he fired it at close range. My machine frozen for like 30 seconds and the next thing I knew everything was dead and I was on fire. I did like most of the characters and the setting, but this was the first time that buying a PC game at launch bit me in the ass, and if they had waited a few more months on release it would have probably been fun playing.

    I really liked the Vampire - Bloodlines game and I play through that one a few times.

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Until I can find a way to fix the fucking sound glitch I'm currently battling, The Witcher is another one.

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Mandarista wrote: »
    Final Fantasy VIII.
    Worst FF game ever.

    How long did it take most of you to find this out?

    I stopped when I got to the first town.

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  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Mandarista wrote: »
    Final Fantasy VIII.
    Worst FF game ever.

    How long did it take most of you to find this out?

    I stopped when I got to the first town.

    THIS!

    I've actually convinced myself that everyone who says with a straight face that they understand how to play that game, much less beaten it, is a goddamn liar.

    Some other disappointments:

    Ar Tornelico: I was expecting a game similar to Atelier Iris. This was not it.

    Atelier Iris 3: Is there any overworld mechanism? Or do you stay in that one town the entire damn game? A shame, since I LOVED Atelier Iris 2.

    Pokemon Battle Revolution: I have no idea WHY I bought this game. I got tired of D&P shortly after I got it. Stupid stupid stupid.

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  • Ninja Snarl PNinja Snarl P My helmet is my burden. Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Mandarista wrote: »
    Final Fantasy VIII.
    Worst FF game ever.

    How long did it take most of you to find this out?

    I stopped when I got to the first town.

    See, I loved FFVIII. Better than 6 or 7? No. More enjoyable to than FF9 (which I really, really tried to play again recently, but just got totally bored once the focus of the story starts drifting off anyone but Vivi, who was awesome) and a much more satisfying story than FFX? Definitely.

    The Junction system is boring with the only bonus being that once you junction well, you can go through fights pretty quick; the GFs were also relatively useless in battle. On the other hand, the music is probably my favorite for a game ever (or at least in my top 3). And for the story, yeah, there were stupid plot holes. But considering you end up with a story where the main hero decides "Hey, gimme back my woman and go to hell everyone else" then goes on to fight a time-warping dimensional goddess to protect her and the planet? Yeah, that's a bit more interesting (to me, obviously) than "The main hero whines at the beginning, middle, and end, plays a lame sport for a living, and is literally a figment of somebody's imagination."

    I can understand why you'd prefer FFX, though. It's solid in a lot of other ways, but when the story of an RPG doesn't interest me at all and I think the ending sucks, I get pretty pissed that I just wasted a bunch of time (even if it was only something like 20 hours).

    Plus, the world of FFVIII felt like an actual world as opposed to a big, long road and that's a big, big draw to me.

    And for the guy who mentioned the N64 Yoshi game: why? I'd forgotten all about that piece of hellspawn, but no, you had to remind me. Thank you so, so much for bringing it up. Really. How could that game suck so much when Yoshi's Island was so, so good? How?

    PS: X-2 was actually the worst Final Fantasy ever. In its defense, though, it was damn hilarious the entire time. Too bad it wasn't always trying to be funny. So glad I only rented it.

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  • ErchamionErchamion Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    FFVIII

    I enjoy the game, but I still haven't finished it because I lost my save file on the last disc twice. One was my own stupidity and one was my, at the time, 8ish year old sister saving over my file. I've just never had the motivation to play through the game again.

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Let see, my brother bough FFXI for the 360 and when the servers were finally up like 2 days after it being on the shelf, he decided, "Fuck it, this game sucks ass."

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  • geestackgeestack Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Mandarista wrote: »
    Final Fantasy VIII.
    Worst FF game ever.

    How long did it take most of you to find this out?

    I stopped when I got to the first town.

    See, I loved FFVIII. Better than 6 or 7? No. More enjoyable to than FF9 (which I really, really tried to play again recently, but just got totally bored once the focus of the story starts drifting off anyone but Vivi, who was awesome) and a much more satisfying story than FFX? Definitely.

    The Junction system is boring with the only bonus being that once you junction well, you can go through fights pretty quick; the GFs were also relatively useless in battle. On the other hand, the music is probably my favorite for a game ever (or at least in my top 3). And for the story, yeah, there were stupid plot holes. But considering you end up with a story where the main hero decides "Hey, gimme back my woman and go to hell everyone else" then goes on to fight a time-warping dimensional goddess to protect her and the planet? Yeah, that's a bit more interesting (to me, obviously) than "The main hero whines at the beginning, middle, and end, plays a lame sport for a living, and is literally a figment of somebody's imagination."

    I can understand why you'd prefer FFX, though. It's solid in a lot of other ways, but when the story of an RPG doesn't interest me at all and I think the ending sucks, I get pretty pissed that I just wasted a bunch of time (even if it was only something like 20 hours).

    Plus, the world of FFVIII felt like an actual world as opposed to a big, long road and that's a big, big draw to me.

    You've really just articulated what I love about FFVIII in a way that I could probably never express. Yeah, it has really major flaws, but what can I say, for some reason it's one of my favorite RPGs.

    Another person in this thread mentioned Disgaea, and I was also really disappointed about that the first time I had it for PS2. I didn't understand anything about the game when I first put it in, just went around trying to do stuff and trying to do the assembly without really understanding how it worked. Eventually, I just got so overwhelmed by everything, I decided to sell it (at a profit no less) and never looked back. Fast forward to 2007, and they re-release it on PSP, and I think "what the hell, it's portable, it's an SRPG, and maybe I can get through it this time." Much to my surprise, after playing through the full tutorial missions and acutually paying attention to how the game worked, I completely turned around and am now currently loving the hell out of it... I guess my only regret now is that the game is SO deep that I fear I may never see the end of it all. :lol:

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  • RainbowDespairRainbowDespair Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Magic the Gathering Online. That game sucked away so much of my time and money during the time I was addicted to it. It was as bad as a MMORPG addiction. Heck, it was probably worse; at least most MMORPGs have a set amount of money that they drain from you each month.

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I was really sad about Animal Crossing DS, Animal Crossing GC, Dark Cloud, and FUCKING FABLE!

    The rest are rather blah.

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I regret ever buying World of warcraft.

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  • ChewyWafflesChewyWaffles Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I regret ever buying World of warcraft.


    Addict... ;)

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I regret ever buying World of warcraft.


    Addict... ;)

    I'm good and clean for a solid 3 months now. I don't really plan on going back. If I do, its to liquidate my inventory to my guild.

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  • RainbowDespairRainbowDespair Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I regret ever buying World of warcraft.


    Addict... ;)
    I don't really plan on going back. If I do, its to liquidate my inventory to my guild.

    It begins.

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  • ginguskahnginguskahn Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Kane and Lynch, I mean I wasn't expecting it to be great, thats why I only picked it up 'cos it was £25.

    My god what an unfinished shit pile, even in coop every minute playing was a chore, especially seeing the potential, just wasted. And from the guys who gave us Hitman as well.

    Oh well I traded it and got £16 off Burnout Paradise, so I only paid £9 for that kick in the teeth.

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Yeah, that's a bit more interesting (to me, obviously) than "The main hero whines at the beginning, middle, and end, plays a lame sport for a living, and is literally a figment of somebody's imagination."

    Dammit, people, stop not understanding FFX's plot!

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    GungHo wrote: »
    Dangerous wrote: »
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't B&W2 totally broken upon release, and needed patch that required you to start the game over again? Fuck that noise.
    No, I played it unpatched.
    However, it sucked compared to the first Black and White. They threw in some really shitty RTS mechanics.
    They made it worse? :shock: Did the animal throw his shit at you?
    Depends on what you played the game for, but if you actually enjoyed the creature AI in the first game then the second was a major disappointment, as they completely removed the quirky learn-as-you-go AI with one that simply has 3 different preprogrammed states (leaving it on auto just meant it automatically switched between them), making it completely pointless and leaving you with a pretty-ish RTS game. Whoop-tee.

    My favourite BW story is that of a creature that discovered a collision glitch in the map geometry and abused it to hurl items at the village at incredibly high speeds.

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  • JeffyJeffy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    DOAX2 (first one was good, but second one is terrible)
    Blue Dragon (oh god the pain)
    Devil May Cry 2 (bought it day one too :()
    Grandia 3 (quite possibly the most boring fucking game in generations)
    Mega Man Anniversary Collection (got it for GC and the controls suck)
    Sonic Heroes (yes I think it is worse than the next-gen Sonic)
    Lord of the Rings Online (someone bought it for me, but it still sucks)
    Final Fantasy XI ('nuff said)
    Final Fantasy XII (at least it was cheap)
    Final Fantasy X-2 (for the full 50 bucks I paid for it, definitely a regret)
    Madden '08 ('06 was great, '07 was good, '08 is dung)
    Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s (what a letdown)
    La Pucelle Tactics (I honestly think I was high when I bought this)
    Tales of the Abyss (some reason everyone likes this game, I hate it)
    Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (more like GRAW 1 amirite?)
    Suikoden Tactics & Suikoden 4 (the worst games in the series)
    Jet Set Radio Future (Grind Radio was 10x better than this crap)
    Star Ocean 3 (haha 2 was fun this was dung)
    Star Wars Kotor 2 (meh it certainly wasn't as good as 1 and that might be my fault for thinking it should've been)
    Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth (Yes the PS1 version that was delayed up the ass and sucks up the ass as well)
    Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (I dunno I was dissapointed with this game especially after Circle of the Moon)

    Some others probably. And for some reason I loved FFX. I'm probably the only one. Then again FFVIII is my favorite FF ever so maybe I'm an oddity.

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  • bruinbruin Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Jeffy wrote: »
    Blue Dragon (oh god the pain)

    D:D:D:

    bruin on
  • eelektrikeelektrik Southern CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Ive never understood the bitching about the Gamecube controls for Mega Man Anniversary Collection. So they switched the A and B buttons. It doesn't make it unplayable, it just takes some time to get used to it again. If you can't get used to two buttons switching, then console games really just aren't for you.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Jeffy wrote: »
    Devil May Cry 2 (bought it day one too :()

    Speaking of DMC2 again. I actually bought it again just the other day in the 5th anniversary collectors pack.

    D:

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  • JasonR66JasonR66 Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    The last two games that I can think of are Battalion Wars 2 and the new Madden for the Wii. BWII is basically a simplified war strategy game for very young and very old and delusional people. I lost interest after about two campaigns. The new madden is just like the old madden for the wii, which I own, with a little bit of a face lift and terribly choppy online that, as far as I know, still hasn’t been fixed. Oh, and I payed full price for each.

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  • aaronsedgeaaronsedge __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2008
    First off my head is systems in general. I can't afford games. So I get one maybe 2 for Christmas and if I'm lucky my birthday. Every now and then I save up for something cheap, but good. So whenever my parents decided to get me a 360 or a DS it goes from the greatest thing ever to the greatest paper weight ever.

    As for games...

    Pokemon Diamond

    I grew up with the first pokemon. red, blue, and yellow went everywhere with me. I played a little bit of the newer ones on roms, but never got into them like I did with the first three.

    Had not heard of a new game coming out in a long time then I saw Diamond. I had saved up some cash so I went for it. The first warning of regret was buying the game itself. I felt kind of embarrassed. I'm 19 and here I go buying pokemon. I tried to make that as nonchalant as possible. Like I was buying it for a child. It felt like I was buying drugs. I get home pop it in my "fat" ds and start playing.

    "What the hell is this beaver looking thing?"

    I made myself play the game all the way to the 8th gym leader then stopped.
    I hated the pokemon I saw in the game. When I got Dialga or whatever his name is I was like sweet ok.."master ball goooooo".. I hated him. All these supposed sweet new sprites and all they made for him was a neck sticking up in battles. Looked like a white ekans.


    Next game I can think of is

    Dead Rising.

    First and only game I own for my giant paper weight know as the xbox 360.

    This game was fun as ballz when I first started. I was level 50 in a day. Finished the story on day 3. Got the mega buster on day 4 and then...boring. I'm doing the same thing over and over. Suddenly, the hundreds of ways to kill the zombies became maybe a dozen. All the items did the same freaking thing. I wished I had rented it after 5 days of owning it.

    World of Warcraft


    I've bought it twice. TWICE.

    I spent 120$ for four months of warcraft.
    First time I bought it i got to level 30 got bored gave my account to a friend who decided he wanted to play again, but sold his account.

    Second time I thought I would just level up to 70 fast so I could play with my friends. Got to 53, got bored and its sitting. I bought wow to play with my friends. Do not buy WoW if you have dick level 70 friends who will refuse to help/play with your noob character. Spend 10 hours a day doing battle grounds, but can't spend 10 minutes running me through zf.

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  • JeffyJeffy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Man I forgot about the new Pokemon. I got Pearl and I played about an hour and it was boring as hell. Pokemon is fun when you're a kid, but when you grow up, it just isn't what it used to be.

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  • KainyKainy Pimpin' and righteous Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Gauntlet: The Seven Sorrows.

    It wasn't even worth the $20 I paid for it. Beat it in 3 hours, after which there was nothing else to the game. Actually there wasn't much past the first half hour except marginally new areas/enemies.

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  • DocabarDocabar Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    aaronsedge wrote: »
    All these supposed sweet new sprites and all they made for him was a neck sticking up in battles. Looked like a white ekans.

    The other one looked 100% like a dong in battle.

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  • aaronsedgeaaronsedge __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2008
    Docabar wrote: »
    aaronsedge wrote: »
    All these supposed sweet new sprites and all they made for him was a neck sticking up in battles. Looked like a white ekans.

    The other one looked 100% like a dong in battle.


    Wait, thats the one I'm talking about.
    The one in diamond version.

    Yeah, it looks like a dong. Exactly.

    Pissed me off.

    The legendary dong Pokemon.

    edit--

    Wait no..I have pearl.

    Thats the one I have.

    See, I can't even remember which one I bought.

    Screw that game. They trick you. I looked at both boxes and saw a choice between a Dragon and some kind of deformed horse/turtle. I went with dragon and got a dong pokemon.

    I remember prepping up for mewtwo. Buying like 50 potions and ultra balls. Mewtwo is legendary.
    Dongasaurus doesn't have shit on mewtwo.

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  • AJRAJR Some guy who wrestles NorwichRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    It's kind of sad to see FFX-2 mentioned so many times. The battle system is one of the best I've seen in a Final Fantasy.

    I regret buying Suikoden V, Magna Carta and Tales of the World.

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  • SomestickguySomestickguy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Jeffy wrote: »
    Some others probably. And for some reason I loved FFX. I'm probably the only one. Then again FFVIII is my favorite FF ever so maybe I'm an oddity.

    Well, X and VIII are my joint favorites, so you're definitely not alone.:D

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  • The Rocking MThe Rocking M Brisbane, AustraliaRegistered User regular
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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    aaronsedge wrote: »
    Screw that game. They trick you. I looked at both boxes and saw a choice between a Dragon and some kind of deformed horse/turtle. I went with dragon and got a dong pokemon.
    What do you mean, they tricked you? He looks like a retarded dong on the cover as well.

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  • PolagoPolago Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Pretty sure i've never regretted buying a game, but if something had to come close it'd be Perfect Dark Zero. $10, a terrible single player mode (damn you horrid level design), and completely empty (literally 0) multiplayer. Awesome.

    Raving Rabbids at full price was overpriced too. That's about it.

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  • RotamRotam Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Some more,

    Super mario Strikers - Its Mario, playing football, how could they go wrong? They did though.

    Super paper mario - Boring. Beat it but after the space level the game was monotony incarnate.

    FFXII - This is not Final fantasy. Where the hell was the story?

    Dragon quest VIII - FUCK YOU

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  • Kay2Kay2 Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Glal wrote: »
    aaronsedge wrote: »
    Screw that game. They trick you. I looked at both boxes and saw a choice between a Dragon and some kind of deformed horse/turtle. I went with dragon and got a dong pokemon.
    What do you mean, they tricked you? He looks like a retarded dong on the cover as well.

    Space Penis >>>> Deformed Turtlehorsedogdragon. srsly!

    I regret buying Silent Hill: 0rigins, because I do not have a PSP to play it on.

    I also regret buying Forbidden Siren. Awesome, awesome game, but I just can't play it.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Did Palkia fight for its country? Huh? I didn't think so.

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  • AaronKIAaronKI Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Final Fantasy X and Dragon Quest VIII. Eventually I realized that JPRGs without "Pokemon", "Mario", or "Kingdom Hearts" in the title aren't for me.

    Oh, and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. I bought it for the story (shut up), but I didn't find it very enjoyable. In the end, the story didn't even have much impact on KH2. Ouch.

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