Discuss all of the games you regret buying.
Currently, I regret buying Dungeons and Dragons Tactics for the PSP. The multiplayer is lame, which is the very core of D&D. It's basically a watered down version of the game that you play on your own. Wow. Amazing.
Actually, it wasn't the graphics or the camera or difficulty or even the crappy voice acting that turned me off to God Hand(Although all of those things were annoying); it was how long the game was and how boring it got by the end. The first 15 hours or so were pretty fun, but after that it got really repetitive and boring and by the end I was really struggling to finish it. Plus all the button mashing hurt my wrist, so not only was the game emotionally unfulfilling, it was physically painful for me.
I gotta admit, though, that ending song was cool.
I suppose crotch stomping the guys and ass-spanking the girls can get old after a few hours of it.
sometimes, I regret buying xeno saga. I mean, i really like most of the things about it, but it almost seems like they didn't think out the gameplay when they were thinking about everything else. I've seen easier battles in Xenogears for christ's sake. for those that know, i'd rather fight that reaver thing in the sewers than most of the boss battles in xenosaga...
I agree. Except I never even got over level 15 or so.
MMO's are like huge, mostly harmless gangs. They make you feel like you're part of something bigger, but it's just an illusion.
Okami. Played it for about an hour and ragequitted from boredom.
Easy battles, stupid puzzles, not using the brush anywhere near as much as I thought it should be used.
Echochrome. It was fun and challenging at first, but then it kinda got monotonous. Plus, IMO the music started to creep me out after a while.
There haven't been many games I regret buying, since I usually tend to research something alot before I even think about buying it. Sure, I consider myself of the otaku nature, which leads for a mighty tolerance of things alot of people dislike since I usually base my likings for a game on the characters and storyline. Even if something is barely playable I'll keep it in my collection as long as it isn't extremely unbareable...like these titles:
ONI - I think I regret this one the most. Yes, I bought it recently for only $1.99, but it was the worse $1.99 of my life. I mean, I could have bought some candy or something. Horrible crap game...aiming was terrible...audio that made my ears bleed, generic characters, way to easy to die. I mean, they said she was a super human, and could run fast and take a few bullets, but geez, I can't even jump down more than a 5 foot ledge without dying!? I mean, even a 10 or 15 ft fall! Super human? hahahaha
Mario Golf - I think this was one of the worse cases where I regret the 49.99 I paid when it came out. Not only did it get boring and was repetitive, it also wasn't very long. The unlockables were hardly enough to excite you enough to want to unlock them...it was basically something yo do for a few minutes when you're bored, but I would rather have the shelf space.
Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime Zero - I don't have anything against the series, but It's just something I'd rather watch.
Marvelous Entertainment's and Atlus's "Contact" for the DS.
waste of my time. (not my money, since it was a gift)
There was a thread like this in /anime/ and, although it seems to have died from lack of interest, I liked it. Let's try it here.
For instance, assuming >>0's favorite is THE GAME: What fun is a game that can't be won? Also, you just lost it.
My favorite: Metal Gear Solid 3
No protracted arguments in this thread please, just keep it going.
Ogre Battle rip-off.
Ogre Battle
Poor battle AI made the battles frustrating to watch, side stories only unlockable by wandering over completely out of the way areas of the map and finicky event triggers. one or two more training missions would have been nice.
A Boy and his Blob
Eventual sex does not happen.
Counter Strike
You get shot in the head once and get to sit there and watch your friends have all the fun.
Day of Defeat
Boring, sub par WWII clone.
Dragon Warrior Monsters
Gotta catch 'em all! Go, Roostor! Attack his Lambtron!
Ragnarok Online
Balance? What balance? At least I can pronounce "Mjolnir."
Advance Wars
Menu? I think I'll press start! no, wait, it was B wasn't it?
The World Ends With You
Oh shi- I'm wearing all the wrong clothes for this place! no wonder I'm getting my ass kicked!
Final Fantasy Legend
We all know that lately game companies are running out of/too lazy to come up with original ideas for games and have been chugging remakes and sequels.
I say they should remake Super Smash TV
Golgo-13 done MGS style...you know you would play it
Getsufuu Maden
Faceball 2000
Secret of Evermore
river city fucking ransom
the gba one doesnt count because it has no co-op mode
I vote that they remake the idea of having original innovative games that also have good story telling and artistic merit. You know, instead of mediocre rehashings of old games.
But that's just me. Apparently.
yep, just you.
j/k, i tend to agree. I can see from their standpoint, though, that new games these days cost a metric f-ton of money to make, and they probably won't even get it back with the massive graphics expectations as they are. Basically, we want them to make a lord of the rings trilogy on the budget of a Uwe Boll film. So, they do the next best thing and dally about our nostalgia factor (not to mention re-introduce their tried and true franchises to the new gamers).
at least, that's how I see it.
>>186
still a remake but maybe with a better story and gameplay??
for a remake, Totalwar's shogun would be awesome.. this game kicks ass, with a remake, it will kick ass so hard, its foot will rip through the pants and right into the hole!
i would say FF9 needs....no, deserves and PS2/3 Remake XD not very old but still a good PSX game i would like with sicker graphics
umihara kawase needs a wii version
There should be a decent Doom remake. While I'm a aware that Doom 3 was essentially a remake, well, it's essence was anything but lost.
games like Serious Sam, Will Rock and Painkiller have tried (Painkiller being the closest and better of the bunch), but it would be fantastic to have all the creeps we saw in Doom like they were in Doom: Dumb, by the millions and weak, so we can pwn their asses. Just that this time, in glorious parallax-mapped 3D.
But that's a minor wish. I guess in the current times, that kind of gameplay wouldn't succeed.
So, i'm gonna stick with a remake of either the System Shock series, Deus Ex series or Quake 1.
A Quake remake has all the potential to be REAL creepy ^^
MOTHER!
No more heroes
I like how its a satire on "EPIC" plots in general not just games.
But I still consider Killer7 as a better game despite the change from its original script . Cant wait for
Flower, Sun and Rain in October so I can get some sort of understanding of his Kill the Past series.
Ace Attorney 4, after getting tired of waiting for a price drop. The 3D evidence was cool, but I was surprised they dropped the option of Presenting profiles as evidence. The writing is still strong, and the new characters are likeable. That last case though, it was good, but the computer gimmick came out of left field. It took some of the impact out of the ending.
110, i was also surprised they dropped the option of presenting profiles as evidence D:
Oh, and to be on topic:
I beat the Composer and saved Shibuya!!
Finished ice aka in mhp2ndG on my psp... well it took some time though, well i can wait now on 3rd mh...
Finally, after like 7 tries - I beat Star Ocean 2! to celebreate, I bumbed Final Fantasy XII to the top of my to-play list.
I feel like it wasn't a totally legitimate win though, because i gave Claude the Battle suit and Eternal Sphere, and a meteor ring and bunny shoes. I basically just got tired of energy nede.
really though - that game is freakin hard if you don't try to be a little cheap with it...
I just beat Ninja Gaiden Black on Master Ninja.
that does merit some serious feelings of accomplishment.
That game does get hard arbitrarily at the end. An underrated game overall.
Beat Dead Space on Normal. Really easy. Tried it on hard... much harder, I'm taking a break to try and actually finish Dragon Quest 8.
Well I recently beat Infinite Undiscovery and now I'm trying to do the Seraphic Gate (extra dungeon.)
It really is an underrated game, the real time battles are fun.
Just beat Pong for the first time. That final boss battle with the tentacle raep machine was really troubling at first, but after a while its pattern became fairly obvious.
Overall, on a scale of one to ten, I'd give the game a nine. Sure, the graphics may be a little out of date, but the story remains timeless.
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I like to play RPGs so I wondered if anycone can recommend me good RPGs for DS.
I've already the remakes of FF in mind and "The World Ends With You", too.
Any recommendations?
Well let's see:
There's the obvious Pokemon... not great RPGs unless you really like the grinding/development aspect, but hey the monsters are cute
Etrian Odyssey is a decent Wizardry clone.
Mystery Dungeon games! Shiren the Wanderer, Izuna, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. That actually reminds me, I wanted to play Izuna again...
Mario & Luigi Partners in Time good good reviews, but I haven't played it yet.
Dragon Quest IV should be out by now, idk I haven't looked at DS games in a while. I heard they were remaking V and VI too.
Lunar Knights was a decent action RPG, though the RPG-ish elements were a little subdued. It's more an action-adventure game.
Rpg / Sim hybrid by Atlus called "my world my way", february 2009. Pretty cool game, can't wait to play it
Disgaea DS is out. I miss the voice acting in most places, but it's fun to have a portable version of this fantastic tactical rpg.
>>4
http://disgaea.us/psp/
(I'm not console trolling here, Disgaea PSP is objectively better than Disgaea DS in numerous ways. So is Disgaea PS2. It's an awful port, frankly.)
Anyway, >>2 recommended most of the things that I would, so I'll just mention that Atlus is also releasing Ys DS soon and I'm looking forward to that.
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Thanks! I really appreciate it. :)
If anyone has more RPGs to recommend... feel free to do it.
Do people not like Tactics A2 around here? I like it a lot. It's so much more varied than Disgaea is.
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>>8 I hate you.
I want to like FFTA, but, goddamn the game is long. I mean, length is okay when you've got a killer plot (like FFT) that keeps you rearing to see what happens next, but with FFTA not only do I not get 3d rotatable, but it seems like I've got to go through like 10 battles before I get to see Ramza, oops, I mean Marche, do anything worth remembering.
I mean, i'm already tired of it and I've still got like 10 places to unlock... not to mention I've probably only finished about 120/300 missions.
once I finish it I'd rather gouge out my eyes than replay it.
I just got Dragon Quest IV... it's good. Definitely one of the better DS RPGs so far. Hopefully USA gets V and VI too.
Hye, i thought it would be kinda neat if everyone posted their thoughts on the most terrifying bosses of even regular fights they've had in games. either because you were grossly underleveled, or the boss was messing with your head, or something like that.
I guess one example would be the first time i got pretty far into MGS 2. I had been playing for a while, and then the colonel was telling me all sorts of weird shit, and that i should give up, or turn off my game, and that everything was a lie and blah blah - it was impossible for me to know if it was all real or some simulation. it was so disorienting that when i came to the boss fight and i saw like 20 metal gears (having had a lot of problems defeating the MG in MGS1) i was like "wtf! this can't be a fight i can win!" and i just gave up.
another example was fighting Giygas in Earthbound. the last stretch of the game starts to make you really feel like you're in some strange alien place, and you're all alone. then, when you finally get to the last boss - it's all wrong! You can throw everything you have at it, and it means nothing! he can kill you instantly. He talks to you, and he's all crazy and tells you that he's happy, or that it hurts. the only way to defeat him is to pray. you have to keep praying, but about halfway through doing so the game tells you that the prayers were swallowed up by the darkness...
final fantasy 1 and 2 played on a gba.. forgot the last bosses' names.. hell, the damage i inflicted for about 3 to 4 turns, he just heals it up for one freakin turn! more like gruelling than terrifying.. I hate rpg games anyways.. i was just wondering what the fuss was all about when it comes to the ff games, so i started to play the very first ffs.. it sucks.. the ps2 ffs surely are better, as others say..
they were so brutal back then because new games weren't appearing every day, there was a lack of pocket money for kids those days - so they had to be long, difficult, and engaging.
Back then, it was great. nowadays - i don't have time to grind out 50 hours through some Moe RPG just to figure out that they LOVE EACH OTHER - because three days from when i bought this one, another one just came out. Either make 'em easier, or think up a better reaosn why I care about what's going on.
I just started playing Mother 3 a little while ago, and since it's such a new game I won't spoil things for everyone, but one of the first bosses you fight turns out to be this mechanized cyborg who not only is incredibly powerful, was probably responsible for killing a lot of people before you got there.
Now only that, but he looks pretty scary, the music doesn't help, and he hit for a buttload of damage. Add to the fact you have limited curative items by the time you arrive, the strategy involved made me stop a ponder every time i hit attack.
Finally, and to earthbound fans this should be a familiar race - once you finally do defeat it, it lets out a final blast that basically destroys your whole party - and you have to have enough health so that by the time you finish the battle, the running tally of your health doesn't round down to zero. awesome.
actually, on that note - The battle with Mr. Passion in Mother 3 isn't so much creepy, but the prelude to the battle is.
You walk into the room and everything is flying around poltergeist style, the music that churns the room is hanuting and really makes you not want to talk to the guy in the middle.
I just had to sit and take it all in for a few moments.
Fighting Indalecio in Star Ocean 2 was pretty scary-ish. He talks to you while you're fighting, and pretty much every attack feels like he's trying to rip the universe in half. Then when he changes into his second form, the dual voices throws you off. He takes up like half the screen!
"Is this the best you can do!?"
Aw dude, I FREAKED at Beyond Good and Evils last boss.
Most scary boss? Your girlfriend. Seriously, you have to play the first splatterhouse.
Yeah, I would have to agree that her transforming back into her normal selve and screaming "Help me!" before turning back would be kinda scary.
>>29
And the fact that i was barely about ten years old when i came in contact with that game, Jesus, i had nightmares.
in Final Fantasy VIII, the last battle kinda screwed me up bigtime... First off, no matter how many times I reloaded and tried again, I had to face Ultimecia with a party that I had largely ignored, totally throwing me off my game. So, I had to let them die, have them carried off by angels, so that I was basically left with the only my highly leveled characters. That added a spice of danger, at least.
But when she got to her last transformation, she became something more abstract - her face was replaced by a shining light, and she looked slightly robotic to me as well as organic. It was kinda cool, but also creepy. I was glad that got away from crap like Bizarro Sephiroth, anyway
Besides the obvious Squaresoft games... just started playing Wizardy V and Paladin's Quest. Recommend me something less technical than Wizardy V please :3
nintendo doesnt like to flesh out their characters much because they want you to become the character, and imagine its your adventure.
Should I be concerned that I often find myself in the shoes of a mustachioed blumber with an ambiguous lovelife?
Hmmm, well I'll assume that by "no obvious Square" that FF, CT and Secret of Mana are out. Not that they would necessarily break the top 5 anyway.
My other top 5, in no particular order:
Ogre Battle
Breath of Fire
Lufia
Wizardry (jap)
Star Ocean
Star Ocean is (jap) as well, mister.
I liked Romancing SaGa 3, even though it was a bit confusing.
>>45
I had thought Japanese RPG is not accepted in foreign countries.
You have a sharp sense to choose RS3.that is masterpiece of snes.
But unofficial translation ver has some strange words I think.
Or simply I might not understand a detailed slang in that.
>>46
Strange words? I guess it's just you. I'm not even a native speaker and got most of the dialog, if not all of it.
Super Mario
of course not. that's not a rpg...
sword of mana.
So, in this thread we put games that we remember for being able to make us cry, or yell at the screen because the bad guy was terribly mean, and stuff like that.
I'll start with Unreal 2: The Awakening. Shed tears on the epilogue.
Also, Bioshock, and it's fantastic plot twist.
Spoilers ahead.
Metal Gear Solid 1 : Sniper Wolf's death scene always touches me, every goddamn time...just beautiful
Metal Gear Solid 3 : The Entire ending (starting from Boss's speech, Boss's Death, Eva telling the truth, Snake's new title Big Boss and eventually the one that really hit hard..snake shedding a tear at her grave).
Shadow hearts 2 : Yuri's failed revival of his soul mate, him seeing crying and the ending where only death could free him and reunite with "her".
Final Fantasy 7 : Aerith's Dead, Barret's Past with Dyne was awesome and very tragic.
Yume Nikki: Ending: Her killing herself really fucked me up for an entire day:s
Final Fantasy X: Awesome ending.
Well, i don't remember it very well, but there was a game for the NES, where i'm pretty sure you had some kinda big drilling machine and you were going through the Earth, and learning about Lemuria. Anyway, earlier in the game, you lost a crewmember, but later he comes back, and you have no choice but to kill him because he came back brainwashed trying to kill you. That really made me sad, and the ending didn't help either.
Yume Miru Kusuri.
The strangling scene is addictive.
MOTHER, especially the ending.
Far Cry 2's ending was kind of confusing but morally interesting.
Silent Hill Series
The games were quite emotive for me....
I'm curious. I know China has it's own realms, and Australia/NZ paired the US and Latin realms, but does Japan and Korea have it's own realms?
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