At the time, I really regretted buying Ninja Gaiden 3. Because that game is not only more difficult than the first two in general, it also limits your continues to 3 instead of unlimited. Good Lord that pissed me the fuck off.
Although these days I'm just kind of glad I have the complete trilogy just for collection's sake.
Assassin's Creed. With all the high scores it was getting I never thought I'd end up having to do the same damn crap over and over again. I could have had Orange Box instead... damn it.
Did you... not even read those reviews? Even the ones that liked the game said, "This game is great but you do the same damn crap over and over again." Message boards said the same thing.
Basically. The point is that this was a widely known fact.
I regret buying any Harvest Moon besides the N64 one.
Seconded. Haven't enjoyed one since the N64 version myself.
At the time, I really regretted buying Ninja Gaiden 3. Because that game is not only more difficult than the first two in general, it also limits your continues to 3 instead of unlimited. Good Lord that pissed me the fuck off.
Rockstar Presents table Tennis - Got it as it was a budget title and figured it's by R*, how bad could it possibly be? Well, not much actually. It just didn't hold any lasting appeal and I couldn't trade the fucker in since it cost next to nothing. I gave it away a few days ago.
GUN - FUCK YOU MACGRUDER
PGR 4 - Seriously, why the fuck do I do this to myself? I know I'm not gonna play it much but I still end up buying the damned thing. ARGH!
Eledees - For a game I waited so long to get a hold of, I played it very little. It's just dull. Gets old really fast.
Street Riders - Tries far too hard to be all 'gangsta' and comes off as a camp white man trying to sell to a new audience.
GTA: San Andreas. I played it for dozens of hours and loved it, but couldn't finish it. I was never good at the driving sections, and that damn firetruck chase... It will haunt my dreams forever. I really wonder what percentage of people who bought it completed it.
I regret buying the Two Towers video game. I got up to the troll fight in Moria and walked away. What a shoddy and boring game.
I bought both Rogue Squadron games for the Cube since I live the 64 game. The first one seemed great but the radar was beyond me. I then preordered the second game. I never gave it a chance, but it wasn't really asking for one. I should probably go back and try to play them again someday.
GTA: San Andreas. I played it for dozens of hours and loved it, but couldn't finish it. I was never good at the driving sections, and that damn firetruck chase... It will haunt my dreams forever. I really wonder what percentage of people who bought it completed it.
I managed to complete the PS2 version and then years later decided to pick up the Xbox triple pack. San Andreas was the only one I could play easily. The other two had horrible control layouts.
GTA: San Andreas. I played it for dozens of hours and loved it, but couldn't finish it. I was never good at the driving sections, and that damn firetruck chase... It will haunt my dreams forever. I really wonder what percentage of people who bought it completed it.
I managed to complete the PS2 version and then years later decided to pick up the Xbox triple pack. San Andreas was the only one I could play easily. The other two had horrible control layouts.
I had no idea it was out for X-Box. I actually bought a PS2 just so I could play San Andreas. D'oh.
san andreas did suck, i bought it, but i didnt really play it enough to care that i had it because i bought kotor 2 like two weeks later. needles to say gta was no longer intersesting
It's not that big of a regret because I bought it used from Blockbuster for like $15, but I've played the game for about... a hour? I don't like sandbox games at all, and US-M is when I figured that out.
And older one: Defenders of Dynatron City for the NES. I was begging for it for my birthday one year because I was one of like six kids who saw the DoDC cartoon special and loved it. The game was an absolute piece of shit. I'm still not really sure what you were actually supposed to do. I know that I would wander around the gigantic city that looked the same on every screen, fight robots, and fight some big blimp thing, and eventually get into the mall where there were dinosaurs. I think. Of course, being seven years old, I played the ever-loving shit out of the game. Playing as the dog and throwing cars around was sort of fun, I guess.
Still, when I think of the dozens of NES games I could have gotten, it was a pretty big "Doh!" moment. Even my dad thought it was a crappy game.
I was heavily disappointed when I bought TMNT III Radical Rescue for the Gameboy. I loved the first one (although in retrospect it's pretty bland), and I loved the NES TMNT games. I figured, III's gotta be better than 2, right? WRONG. It.. it's like it attempts to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Metroid game, which sounds great on paper. But damn was this game long and hard. I can't remember, but I don't think it even has a save system.
Luckily for me, I got angry, jammed in my Gameboy Game Genie, and put in a random code (there were no codes available for the game). My random 3 line code coincidentally happen to provide me with infinite health. (or rather, every time I took a hit, it increased my health bar).
I was able to beat the game eventually, but damn. It sucked. It was still hard even when invincible because of the huge Metroid-like world you had to go around in. At least for a kid my age at the time.
There was a TMNT3 for GB? I thought there was only 2? I think I played both 1 and 2 for GB and they were really fun. The first one for NES was hard as dick. Jesus Christ anyone who beat that shit without any sort of help deserves a medal.
PGR 4 - Seriously, why the fuck do I do this to myself? I know I'm not gonna play it much but I still end up buying the damned thing. ARGH!
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I would have been disappointed too, solely because I cant afford every game I want and that would have meant passing on The Orange Box or Super Mario Galaxy, and that shits just not happening. Though had I not bought Hellgate I might have been able to squeeze PGR4 in... But probably not as I still haven't gotten around to getting Metroid Prime 3 or Mass Effect.
I'll play PGR4 at some point, but Its going to have to be marked down and I'll pick it up when theres a lull in releases.
There was a TMNT3 for GB? I thought there was only 2? I think I played both 1 and 2 for GB and they were really fun. The first one for NES was hard as dick. Jesus Christ anyone who beat that shit without any sort of help deserves a medal.
I remember as a kid, I used to dazzle everyone on my street by inviting them over and beating TMNT on the NES. They'd all try, but only I could do it. Bwahahahaha! Still one of my favorite NES games. It's one I played SO MUCH though that I wasn't tempted to get in on the VC.
As far as games I regret buying go, I'd say:
Fable
Earthworm Jim 3D
Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic Racing
I wish I had some edgy game to hate, like Zelda. But I don't.
No I guess I have more games that I bought and hated, but I traded those in. Hell I have more games I regret trading in than I do regret buying. I guess the ones I don't actually still have in my collection anymore that I don't miss are mostly 3D Sonic games.
There was a TMNT3 for GB? I thought there was only 2? I think I played both 1 and 2 for GB and they were really fun. The first one for NES was hard as dick. Jesus Christ anyone who beat that shit without any sort of help deserves a medal.
Yeah, TMNT 3 Radical Rescue on the Gameboy.
It was like.. trying to be sort of metroid-y by having a large explorable and interconnected world, and you could access new areas by rescuing the Turtles, each of which had special abilities that allowed you to access new areas, kind of like gaining new weapons/abilities to access new areas in Metroid.
But the levels were tough and the bosses unforgiving. And the game was huge and long. And there was no save system, to my knowledge.
It may be easy now, I have no idea. I haven't touched it in over a decade. I just couldn't believe how much of a bitch that game turned out to be, when I was so excited about it. I was a big TMNT fan.
TMNT 2 for GB was, I think more in line with the TMNT 2 and 3 on the NES. But I never owned it. I should have. It'd've been better than TMNT 3 RR.
Assassin's Creed. With all the high scores it was getting I never thought I'd end up having to do the same damn crap over and over again. I could have had Orange Box instead... damn it.
Did you... not even read those reviews? Even the ones that liked the game said, "This game is great but you do the same damn crap over and over again." Message boards said the same thing.
Basically. The point is that this was a widely known fact.
I read the PSM, or PTOM as it is now, review and listened to the Xplay review. Neither one mentioned it's repetitiveness.
I actually regret buying Halo 3, sure its damn near as popular as god, and i like Halo 2 but god, i just couldn't stand the missions... and all the 9 year olds that got 360's and Xbox live... I'm so glad I'm a Half Life fan.
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There was a TMNT3 for GB? I thought there was only 2? I think I played both 1 and 2 for GB and they were really fun. The first one for NES was hard as dick. Jesus Christ anyone who beat that shit without any sort of help deserves a medal.
Yeah, TMNT 3 Radical Rescue on the Gameboy.
It was like.. trying to be sort of metroid-y by having a large explorable and interconnected world, and you could access new areas by rescuing the Turtles, each of which had special abilities that allowed you to access new areas, kind of like gaining new weapons/abilities to access new areas in Metroid.
But the levels were tough and the bosses unforgiving. And the game was huge and long. And there was no save system, to my knowledge.
It may be easy now, I have no idea. I haven't touched it in over a decade. I just couldn't believe how much of a bitch that game turned out to be, when I was so excited about it. I was a big TMNT fan.
TMNT 2 for GB was, I think more in line with the TMNT 2 and 3 on the NES. But I never owned it. I should have. It'd've been better than TMNT 3 RR.
Theres a platforming TMNT game on GBA that sucked balls, and then the Konami one came along and wiped the floor with it.
Theres a platforming TMNT game on GBA that sucked balls, and then the Konami one came along and wiped the floor with it.
Well, the newest TMNT game for the GBA by Ubisoft is a brawler along the same lines as classic TMNT beat'em ups like Turtles in Time. A lot of people agree that TMNT on the GBA (by ubisoft that is) is a fantastic game and a return to form as TMNT beat'em ups go.
It's not that big of a regret because I bought it used from Blockbuster for like $15, but I've played the game for about... a hour? I don't like sandbox games at all, and US-M is when I figured that out.
I vaguely regret buying Ultimate Spider-Man on the Gamecube, but mostly because I ordered it online, and whilst it was in the post, I sold my Gamecube copy of Spider-Man 2, since I assumed Ultimate Spider-Man would be an improvement in every way. Whilst I found both highly enjoyable, on reflection, Spider-Man 2 was the better game.
I did end up rebuying Spider-Man 2 on Xbox for next to nothing though, so it's not that big a regret.
I Loved SOTC. Absolutely adored that game. But Ico, was 4/5 hours long, first playthrough? It seemed like a waste of twenty quid. Part of the reason I love SOTC was the soundtrack and I was sort of expecting something similar with Ico. And oh god, Yorba had crap A.I
I get all the love for it, it was an okay game, just not what I expected. I still think it was a waste of money.
Ratchet Gladiator
Having loved the hell out of Ratchet and clank 3 (probably my most played PS2 game), I bought this steaming pile of turd.
I was little. I didn't know any better. Who would've thought that the full PC version would bring me so much pain? I'd mastered the demo frontways and backwards - surely I knew a bad game at first glance.
Wrong. At some point or another I achieved the full version of the game (the disc is still around here somewhere) and sadistically forced myself all the way to the final boss, which I never beat.
I don't want to play it again, because at the age I first discovered it I actually liked it to a degree (at least the first level). Why tarnish that?
I hate to say it, but my DS and pretty much all of the games. I really liked EBA, and enjoyed Trauma Center, but with my wii and 360 I never touch the thing unless I'm going to a conference.
I built my new system to coincide with this game. What a fucking letdown. I used to spend days playing UT2K4 Onslaught, but they managed to suck out all the fun somehow. For shame.
Not because it was a bad game, but because I managed to snag a copy for 20 bucks once and that same day my secret santa gift (this was like...05) from these forums came in and inside was an shiny new copy of the game.
Disappointed by: Hellgate: London (PC, paid $16 new) Star Fox: Command Mission (NDS) Yoshi's Story (N64, NOT to be confused with Yoshi's Island SNES)
I was pleasantly surprised by: Tetris Attack (SNES, later released as Pokémon Puzzle League N64 / Pokémon Puzzle Challenge GBC / Planet Puzzle League NDS) Goldeneye 007 (N64) Elite Beat Agents (NDS) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC)
I hate to say it, but my DS and pretty much all of the games. I really liked EBA, and enjoyed Trauma Center, but with my wii and 360 I never touch the thing unless I'm going to a conference.
Which is about 5-6 times a year
I think I will try to sell it.
EBA was great, but you need to build your library. You're missing out on tons of gold.
I hate to say it, but my DS and pretty much all of the games. I really liked EBA, and enjoyed Trauma Center, but with my wii and 360 I never touch the thing unless I'm going to a conference.
Which is about 5-6 times a year
I think I will try to sell it.
EBA was great, but you need to build your library. You're missing out on tons of gold.
I also have Pokemon (my childhood nostalgia lied to me), NSMB (the fact that you can't save after every level ruined this for me), Mariokart DS (I just didn't have that much fun single player), and sonic rush (haven't really played, got this for christmas).
I know there are good games out there, I just don't feel the pull for them like I do with my Wii/360 games. I don't know, maybe I'm just not a handheld person.
I regret buying any Harvest Moon besides the N64 one.
Seconded. Haven't enjoyed one since the N64 version myself.
You both obviously haven't played many of the others then. Save The Homeland was filth and A Wonderful Life was confusing and buggy but Mineral Town, DS, Back To Nature and Magical Melody blow the N64 game out of the water.
I regret buying C&C 3 for the 360, it's too fast paced for console controls. I also regret buying EEII because I havent played but 20 minutes of it. I also love RTS games despite being bad at them. My strategies usually involve hoarding up junk and attacking, micromanaging is not my forte. With C&C 3 I hit a brick wall on the mission where you have to defend a base against loads of attacks, and then you have to rescue a convoy that's pinned in the city. Oh God just make it stop.
The MP was fun though, but I had this hilarious match where I was utterly destroyed and my hoarding strategy did me no good at all. This guy spent the 'build up' period building power generators and such, rolled one of the portable command posts up to my front door, deployed it and then the moment it was deployed built four prism towers within firing range of my base. He also built a cloaking device so my force was decimated because they couldn't return fire, by the time I disabled the cloaks it was already too late. It was actually kind of hilarious but it put me off of C&C 360 for a while.
Disappointed by: Hellgate: London (PC, paid $16 new) Star Fox: Command Mission (NDS) Yoshi's Story (N64, NOT to be confused with Yoshi's Island SNES)
I was pleasantly surprised by: Tetris Attack (SNES, later released as Pokémon Puzzle League N64 / Pokémon Puzzle Challenge GBC / Planet Puzzle League NDS) Goldeneye 007 (N64) Elite Beat Agents (NDS) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC)
Yoshi's Island was the bomb. Trippiest and coolest music ever.
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See, I rarely regret actually purchasing and owning games. What I do regret is paying a certain amount for them. I'm of the opinion that all games are worth it for the right price.
On that note, I regret paying the full new retail price for Super Paper Mario. I don't regret owning it, and it was fun, I just regret buying it new soon after release for the full retail price. Definitely not worth the 65-ish dollars. If it was 30 or 20, I'd have not regretted it. Not a bad game, just flawed, and with an incredibly terrible ending, simply because the tone suddenly switches from tongue in cheek to Final Fantasy-grade serious, and it doesn't jive well with the rest of the game, as well as a pathetically easy final boss. But, see, the Nerd Fortress (whatever it was actually called, that's what it was for me) levels make it definitely worth owning, just not at the full price.
An example of a bad game for the right price that I don't regret is Star Wars Bounty Hunter, for example. It had all kinds of problems but it was 16 bucks, making it worthwhile.
All this being said, the only game I can think of that I regret owning period is Fire Emblem for the GBA. Don't flame me, it's not a bad game, and I can see why people loved it. I just couldn't get into it, plus my mildly obsessive nature led me to try and keep everyone alive, which led to me hitting a brick wall on a particular level where I couldn't get everyone out alive. I ended up putting it away and never picking it up again, as I eventually forgot where I was and what I was doing in it.
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See, I rarely regret actually purchasing and owning games. What I do regret is paying a certain amount for them. I'm of the opinion that all games are worth it for the right price.
On that note, I regret paying the full new retail price for Super Paper Mario. I don't regret owning it, and it was fun, I just regret buying it new soon after release for the full retail price. Definitely not worth the 65-ish dollars. If it was 30 or 20, I'd have not regretted it. Not a bad game, just flawed, and with an incredibly terrible ending, simply because the tone suddenly switches from tongue in cheek to Final Fantasy-grade serious, and it doesn't jive well with the rest of the game, as well as a pathetically easy final boss. But, see, the Nerd Fortress (whatever it was actually called, that's what it was for me) levels make it definitely worth owning, just not at the full price.
An example of a bad game for the right price that I don't regret is Star Wars Bounty Hunter, for example. It had all kinds of problems but it was 16 bucks, making it worthwhile.
All this being said, the only game I can think of that I regret owning period is Fire Emblem for the GBA. Don't flame me, it's not a bad game, and I can see why people loved it. I just couldn't get into it, plus my mildly obsessive nature led me to try and keep everyone alive, which led to me hitting a brick wall on a particular level where I couldn't get everyone out alive. I ended up putting it away and never picking it up again, as I eventually forgot where I was and what I was doing in it.
I hate that about RPG's. I remember putting down FF7 for about a month or two, and when i came back i had a bunch of new materia and no bosses or story to go to next. I then had to travel the WHHOOOLLLEEE world of FF7, and then have to battle about 20-30x random monsters when i got out of the buggy/airship because I couldn't remember where the hell to go.
I regret buying any Harvest Moon besides the N64 one.
Seconded. Haven't enjoyed one since the N64 version myself.
You both obviously haven't played many of the others then. Save The Homeland was filth and A Wonderful Life was confusing and buggy but Mineral Town, DS, Back To Nature and Magical Melody blow the N64 game out of the water.
I had the one on the DS. Was supposed to review it.
A day after I got it, and was horrified by it, I was in a serious car crash that destroyed my laptop and several DS games I was supposed to review.
God saved me from playing that game.
I have not played Magical Melody and thought the Rune Factory game was kinda meh.
Ico.
I Loved SOTC. Absolutely adored that game. But Ico, was 4/5 hours long, first playthrough? It seemed like a waste of twenty quid. Part of the reason I love SOTC was the soundtrack and I was sort of expecting something similar with Ico. And oh god, Yorba had crap A.I
Ico and SotC are fundamentally different types of games. I can understand how you feel the way you do going from SotC to Ico...
But Ico > SotC in every scenario, every day of the week.
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See, I rarely regret actually purchasing and owning games. What I do regret is paying a certain amount for them. I'm of the opinion that all games are worth it for the right price.
On that note, I regret paying the full new retail price for Super Paper Mario. I don't regret owning it, and it was fun, I just regret buying it new soon after release for the full retail price. Definitely not worth the 65-ish dollars. If it was 30 or 20, I'd have not regretted it. Not a bad game, just flawed, and with an incredibly terrible ending, simply because the tone suddenly switches from tongue in cheek to Final Fantasy-grade serious, and it doesn't jive well with the rest of the game, as well as a pathetically easy final boss. But, see, the Nerd Fortress (whatever it was actually called, that's what it was for me) levels make it definitely worth owning, just not at the full price.
An example of a bad game for the right price that I don't regret is Star Wars Bounty Hunter, for example. It had all kinds of problems but it was 16 bucks, making it worthwhile.
All this being said, the only game I can think of that I regret owning period is Fire Emblem for the GBA. Don't flame me, it's not a bad game, and I can see why people loved it. I just couldn't get into it, plus my mildly obsessive nature led me to try and keep everyone alive, which led to me hitting a brick wall on a particular level where I couldn't get everyone out alive. I ended up putting it away and never picking it up again, as I eventually forgot where I was and what I was doing in it.
You make a good point there. I also feel cheap bad games aren't bad purchases, but I regret that feeling. That's the dark, sweaty, greasy, geeky collector in me taking control. Games should be like movies, sticking to a standard entry fee, then living or dying based on their relative quality and appeal. This system with games at different price points having different production values and quality is dangerous for the medium.
I actually regret buying Halo 3, sure its damn near as popular as god, and i like Halo 2 but god, i just couldn't stand the missions... and all the 9 year olds that got 360's and Xbox live... I'm so glad I'm a Half Life fan.
I have learned when playing random Halo 3 matches to immediately mute everyone upon going into the game. it's just better that way.
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I don't want to get married damn it, I want to grow tomatos.
Although these days I'm just kind of glad I have the complete trilogy just for collection's sake.
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Did you... not even read those reviews? Even the ones that liked the game said, "This game is great but you do the same damn crap over and over again." Message boards said the same thing.
Basically. The point is that this was a widely known fact.
Seconded. Haven't enjoyed one since the N64 version myself.
That and it didn't really make any sense.
I thought I was the only one.
My Gamecube one got very few hours of use.
DS is EXACLY the same, but less...
I am looking forward to trying the Rune factory harvest moon.
Harvest Moon in 3D! whats not like?
well.........
GUN - FUCK YOU MACGRUDER
PGR 4 - Seriously, why the fuck do I do this to myself? I know I'm not gonna play it much but I still end up buying the damned thing. ARGH!
Eledees - For a game I waited so long to get a hold of, I played it very little. It's just dull. Gets old really fast.
Street Riders - Tries far too hard to be all 'gangsta' and comes off as a camp white man trying to sell to a new audience.
I bought both Rogue Squadron games for the Cube since I live the 64 game. The first one seemed great but the radar was beyond me. I then preordered the second game. I never gave it a chance, but it wasn't really asking for one. I should probably go back and try to play them again someday.
I managed to complete the PS2 version and then years later decided to pick up the Xbox triple pack. San Andreas was the only one I could play easily. The other two had horrible control layouts.
I had no idea it was out for X-Box. I actually bought a PS2 just so I could play San Andreas. D'oh.
...nope, still too bug-ridden to play. What a waste of 40 bucks. :x
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It's not that big of a regret because I bought it used from Blockbuster for like $15, but I've played the game for about... a hour? I don't like sandbox games at all, and US-M is when I figured that out.
And older one: Defenders of Dynatron City for the NES. I was begging for it for my birthday one year because I was one of like six kids who saw the DoDC cartoon special and loved it. The game was an absolute piece of shit. I'm still not really sure what you were actually supposed to do. I know that I would wander around the gigantic city that looked the same on every screen, fight robots, and fight some big blimp thing, and eventually get into the mall where there were dinosaurs. I think. Of course, being seven years old, I played the ever-loving shit out of the game. Playing as the dog and throwing cars around was sort of fun, I guess.
Still, when I think of the dozens of NES games I could have gotten, it was a pretty big "Doh!" moment. Even my dad thought it was a crappy game.
Luckily for me, I got angry, jammed in my Gameboy Game Genie, and put in a random code (there were no codes available for the game). My random 3 line code coincidentally happen to provide me with infinite health. (or rather, every time I took a hit, it increased my health bar).
I was able to beat the game eventually, but damn. It sucked. It was still hard even when invincible because of the huge Metroid-like world you had to go around in. At least for a kid my age at the time.
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I would have been disappointed too, solely because I cant afford every game I want and that would have meant passing on The Orange Box or Super Mario Galaxy, and that shits just not happening. Though had I not bought Hellgate I might have been able to squeeze PGR4 in... But probably not as I still haven't gotten around to getting Metroid Prime 3 or Mass Effect.
I'll play PGR4 at some point, but Its going to have to be marked down and I'll pick it up when theres a lull in releases.
I remember as a kid, I used to dazzle everyone on my street by inviting them over and beating TMNT on the NES. They'd all try, but only I could do it. Bwahahahaha! Still one of my favorite NES games. It's one I played SO MUCH though that I wasn't tempted to get in on the VC.
As far as games I regret buying go, I'd say:
Fable
Earthworm Jim 3D
Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic Racing
I wish I had some edgy game to hate, like Zelda. But I don't.
No I guess I have more games that I bought and hated, but I traded those in. Hell I have more games I regret trading in than I do regret buying. I guess the ones I don't actually still have in my collection anymore that I don't miss are mostly 3D Sonic games.
Empire earth III. DAMN it sounded SO cool,but it was SO BAD. EE1/2 was much much better. (EE was prolly best of the three)
Yeah, TMNT 3 Radical Rescue on the Gameboy.
It was like.. trying to be sort of metroid-y by having a large explorable and interconnected world, and you could access new areas by rescuing the Turtles, each of which had special abilities that allowed you to access new areas, kind of like gaining new weapons/abilities to access new areas in Metroid.
But the levels were tough and the bosses unforgiving. And the game was huge and long. And there was no save system, to my knowledge.
It may be easy now, I have no idea. I haven't touched it in over a decade. I just couldn't believe how much of a bitch that game turned out to be, when I was so excited about it. I was a big TMNT fan.
TMNT 2 for GB was, I think more in line with the TMNT 2 and 3 on the NES. But I never owned it. I should have. It'd've been better than TMNT 3 RR.
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I read the PSM, or PTOM as it is now, review and listened to the Xplay review. Neither one mentioned it's repetitiveness.
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Theres a platforming TMNT game on GBA that sucked balls, and then the Konami one came along and wiped the floor with it.
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Well, the newest TMNT game for the GBA by Ubisoft is a brawler along the same lines as classic TMNT beat'em ups like Turtles in Time. A lot of people agree that TMNT on the GBA (by ubisoft that is) is a fantastic game and a return to form as TMNT beat'em ups go.
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I vaguely regret buying Ultimate Spider-Man on the Gamecube, but mostly because I ordered it online, and whilst it was in the post, I sold my Gamecube copy of Spider-Man 2, since I assumed Ultimate Spider-Man would be an improvement in every way. Whilst I found both highly enjoyable, on reflection, Spider-Man 2 was the better game.
I did end up rebuying Spider-Man 2 on Xbox for next to nothing though, so it's not that big a regret.
I Loved SOTC. Absolutely adored that game. But Ico, was 4/5 hours long, first playthrough? It seemed like a waste of twenty quid. Part of the reason I love SOTC was the soundtrack and I was sort of expecting something similar with Ico. And oh god, Yorba had crap A.I
I get all the love for it, it was an okay game, just not what I expected. I still think it was a waste of money.
Ratchet Gladiator
Having loved the hell out of Ratchet and clank 3 (probably my most played PS2 game), I bought this steaming pile of turd.
Shitty game.
I was little. I didn't know any better. Who would've thought that the full PC version would bring me so much pain? I'd mastered the demo frontways and backwards - surely I knew a bad game at first glance.
Wrong. At some point or another I achieved the full version of the game (the disc is still around here somewhere) and sadistically forced myself all the way to the final boss, which I never beat.
I don't want to play it again, because at the age I first discovered it I actually liked it to a degree (at least the first level). Why tarnish that?
Which is about 5-6 times a year
I think I will try to sell it.
I built my new system to coincide with this game. What a fucking letdown. I used to spend days playing UT2K4 Onslaught, but they managed to suck out all the fun somehow. For shame.
Not because it was a bad game, but because I managed to snag a copy for 20 bucks once and that same day my secret santa gift (this was like...05) from these forums came in and inside was an shiny new copy of the game.
So now I have 2 copies. Oh well. I love the game.
XBL - Follow Freeman
Hellgate: London (PC, paid $16 new)
Star Fox: Command Mission (NDS)
Yoshi's Story (N64, NOT to be confused with Yoshi's Island SNES)
I was pleasantly surprised by:
Tetris Attack (SNES, later released as Pokémon Puzzle League N64 / Pokémon Puzzle Challenge GBC / Planet Puzzle League NDS)
Goldeneye 007 (N64)
Elite Beat Agents (NDS)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC)
EBA was great, but you need to build your library. You're missing out on tons of gold.
I also have Pokemon (my childhood nostalgia lied to me), NSMB (the fact that you can't save after every level ruined this for me), Mariokart DS (I just didn't have that much fun single player), and sonic rush (haven't really played, got this for christmas).
I know there are good games out there, I just don't feel the pull for them like I do with my Wii/360 games. I don't know, maybe I'm just not a handheld person.
You both obviously haven't played many of the others then. Save The Homeland was filth and A Wonderful Life was confusing and buggy but Mineral Town, DS, Back To Nature and Magical Melody blow the N64 game out of the water.
The MP was fun though, but I had this hilarious match where I was utterly destroyed and my hoarding strategy did me no good at all. This guy spent the 'build up' period building power generators and such, rolled one of the portable command posts up to my front door, deployed it and then the moment it was deployed built four prism towers within firing range of my base. He also built a cloaking device so my force was decimated because they couldn't return fire, by the time I disabled the cloaks it was already too late. It was actually kind of hilarious but it put me off of C&C 360 for a while.
See, I rarely regret actually purchasing and owning games. What I do regret is paying a certain amount for them. I'm of the opinion that all games are worth it for the right price.
On that note, I regret paying the full new retail price for Super Paper Mario. I don't regret owning it, and it was fun, I just regret buying it new soon after release for the full retail price. Definitely not worth the 65-ish dollars. If it was 30 or 20, I'd have not regretted it. Not a bad game, just flawed, and with an incredibly terrible ending, simply because the tone suddenly switches from tongue in cheek to Final Fantasy-grade serious, and it doesn't jive well with the rest of the game, as well as a pathetically easy final boss. But, see, the Nerd Fortress (whatever it was actually called, that's what it was for me) levels make it definitely worth owning, just not at the full price.
An example of a bad game for the right price that I don't regret is Star Wars Bounty Hunter, for example. It had all kinds of problems but it was 16 bucks, making it worthwhile.
All this being said, the only game I can think of that I regret owning period is Fire Emblem for the GBA. Don't flame me, it's not a bad game, and I can see why people loved it. I just couldn't get into it, plus my mildly obsessive nature led me to try and keep everyone alive, which led to me hitting a brick wall on a particular level where I couldn't get everyone out alive. I ended up putting it away and never picking it up again, as I eventually forgot where I was and what I was doing in it.
I had the one on the DS. Was supposed to review it.
A day after I got it, and was horrified by it, I was in a serious car crash that destroyed my laptop and several DS games I was supposed to review.
God saved me from playing that game.
I have not played Magical Melody and thought the Rune Factory game was kinda meh.
Ico and SotC are fundamentally different types of games. I can understand how you feel the way you do going from SotC to Ico...
But Ico > SotC in every scenario, every day of the week.
IMHO.
You make a good point there. I also feel cheap bad games aren't bad purchases, but I regret that feeling. That's the dark, sweaty, greasy, geeky collector in me taking control. Games should be like movies, sticking to a standard entry fee, then living or dying based on their relative quality and appeal. This system with games at different price points having different production values and quality is dangerous for the medium.
I have learned when playing random Halo 3 matches to immediately mute everyone upon going into the game. it's just better that way.