What game do you wish you had never bought?
- Thread starter Hokum
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Final Fantasy XII
For the sake that it was a FF game that time and I was a big FF fan. When I played it, all my expectation have been thrown out of the window. A poor man's MMO with a somewhat good political storyline, but bad set of characters and the worse main character in existence.
It makes me MISS Nomura, despite hating him a lot.
For the sake that it was a FF game that time and I was a big FF fan. When I played it, all my expectation have been thrown out of the window. A poor man's MMO with a somewhat good political storyline, but bad set of characters and the worse main character in existence.
It makes me MISS Nomura, despite hating him a lot.
CitizenGeek
Guild Member
The single greatest gaming purchase I regret the most was the purchase of the Wii :/ Truly a dreadful console for people who take gaming seriously.
gonna have to say final fantasy X-2, this game is just ******* sad in a bad way. There are probaly worse games in my collection from my childhood days but then i was a child so by them standards they where godlike to me at the time, but FFX-2 was just a joke of a game.
fabio de lunatico
Claymore
I bought Bullet Witch. In my defence, all the elements were in place for a tremendous game: sexy witches, zombies, and a burly male soldier character named Maxwell Couger. It couldn't possibly go wrong, and yet it did. So very, very wrong.
Ryo Chan said:
wow
wasn't expecting to see that on this list. Remembered some other ones that i had gladly forgotten, the first Spiderman Movie game, got it cheap and was expecting it to be like the old PSone Spiderman games at the least but it wasn't. and Wrestlemaina X8 just a dreadful game. It's only saving grace was that it was traded in to allow me to get Devil May Cry 3 
Worst Game i've played/bought. Well in all respects, most games i have i find are really good, but i traded one with someone ages ago, i think it was Resident Evil: Survivor or Gun Survivor for the PS1..and it was rather easy and extremely short. Finished it in a matter of 2 hours, never touched it again.
I'll be honest, and i know people will wonder why, but i didn't mind FFX-2 really, i never thought it a bad game. The battle system wasn't bad, nor was the job change system in battle. The story could have been better and some other bits of the game could've been better/left unchanged, but it wasn't that bad. Like for example keeping Blitzball exactly the same as it was in FFX, since that took up hours upon hours of my time.
I'll be honest, and i know people will wonder why, but i didn't mind FFX-2 really, i never thought it a bad game. The battle system wasn't bad, nor was the job change system in battle. The story could have been better and some other bits of the game could've been better/left unchanged, but it wasn't that bad. Like for example keeping Blitzball exactly the same as it was in FFX, since that took up hours upon hours of my time.
Are we talking in terms of years here? I remember a time when Daikatana's release delays were mentioned in the same sentence as Duke Nukem Forever.Hokum said:
My most ill advised gaming purchase was probably the Sims. It looked fun when you saw someone else play it for five minutes, and in theory, the prospect of having a virtual doll house was considerably more exciting than it should have been... but you get it home and realise that actually, the only way this would be fun is if you were entering cheat codes and creating soap-opera scenarios (Jealous man drowns bisexual boyfriend's lesbian friends in fit of jealousy) and even then, it'd only be funny for about five minutes and you'd never be able to tell some of your more liberally minded friends that there is a humorous side to hate-crime.
God forbid you actually play the Sims properly, spending hours upon hours sending your singleton avatar off to work in a dull clerical job so she can afford a bigger TV with the same 'shuppashudduppawapa' programming and perhaps a platinum plated toilet so she feels a little more inclined to go to it instead of pissing in front of the neighbours like a young puppy with a peculiar tendency towards exhibitionism. If you play the Sims like this, you tap into the time vortex itself, and you see yourself single and working a dull clerical job... only you're not earning money to buy yourself a new sofa, but the latest ' eunuchs and panda bears' expansion for the game. At which point, the time police hold a gun to your head and tell you to either stop playing or to put the cheats back on and see how many of your gay neighbours you can seal into a room without food, water or sanitation.
Ironically, I got into genuinely violent games slightly before the Sims, and I maintain in the few hours I played it before selling it on, I performed more questionable acts than I've done in a decade of shooting aliens in the face with a double barreled shotgun. Just say no to the Sims.
CitizenGeek
Guild Member
Lupus Inu said:
Yeah, you didn't. There are some the best gameplay sequences ever in that game, and you obviously didn't know what MGS was if you bought it without expecting a substantial story.
That's unfair. MGS1 is nothing like the bum on hands cine-fest that MGS2 is. Sure there's still plenty of exposition, but since the majority of it is told in codec conversations that you can read quicker than the actors can drawl out, you can skip substantial chunks and still have a clue what is going on.CitizenGeek said:
But then MGS2's weekend of "unskipable" story sequences would be bareable if any of it added up to a narrative that wasn't a complete sac of saggy balls. The first game felt right... the story was knowingly parodying action movies whilst inserting tense action equally. The second game is ridiculous... all the silly little conspiracies Kojima likes making (does anything date the game more than its Millennium Bug paranoia?) and the ******** psuedoscience go too far beyond parody, because even if he thinks it's tongue in cheek, no brain in crotch action movie has ever locked you in a room and dribbled on about it for several quarter hours after the protagonist crawled through two rooms on their belly to get there.
Most of the game in there is of course pretty good. That's why I'm glad I have Substance... and I've never paid £40 for any computer game. I'd definitely regret doing so.