Worst game purchases ever

DuoTheShinigami02 · Post by **DuoTheShinigami02** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 1:21 pm

Tomb Raider 3 for the PS1. I liked TR1, but never played TR2, and when I played part 3, boy did I die so much, almost to the point where
I would almost throw a fit and the controller down on the ground.

IMO, this was the death knell for the franchise.

LadyFlameSniper · Post by **LadyFlameSniper** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:29 pm

Tomb Raider 2 was the best in the series IMO. I have TR3, and I thought it was alright, yet I didn't feel it was as good as the 2 previous games. Yeah it got increasingly difficult in some stages, to the point where it was ridiculous

I think The Last Revalation killed the series though. All that going to previous levels nonsese to solve the puzzles, most of the puzzles weren't even fun, and I'm pretty sure there were more puzzle gltiches. Plus the whole thing was set in Egypt. I liked how the other games took place in more than one location.

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:11 pm

Pokemon Snap!!!

...Okay, so it's not my game, and my brother got it for his birthday, but STILL! It requires no skill and you can beat the damn game in 30 minutes! -_-

mizangelamy · Post by **mizangelamy** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:28 am

Dinozore wrote: In Kingdom Hearts? I never needed to level up except for that damn time limit mode in the Colosseum (>_< There is no way in hell I can beat the Hercules Cup in 3 minutes...). Otherwise, the leveling I got from bosses and random Heartless was plenty to see me through the game.

God bless for Blockbuster I played Kingdom hearts for a week. For me I didn't it theres no way to put Final Fantasy Series and Disney Characters together. The levels in Kingdom hearts are so confusing I just quit in one week I dont have to buy it!

Mendoza · Post by **Mendoza** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:53 am

LadyFlameSniper wrote:Tomb Raider 2 was the best in the series IMO. I have TR3, and I thought it was alright, yet I didn't feel it was as good as the 2 previous games. Yeah it got increasingly difficult in some stages, to the point where it was ridiculous

I think The Last Revalation killed the series though. All that going to previous levels nonsese to solve the puzzles, most of the puzzles weren't even fun, and I'm pretty sure there were more puzzle gltiches. Plus the whole thing was set in Egypt. I liked how the other games took place in more than one location.

I can understand why you say that but I think Angel of Darkness may simply have been the nail in the coffin for Lara. That game was glitchy, ugly, uninspired, and ridiculusly frustrating. I think this one made everyone think that Lara should probably just retire. Though I think another might be in the works in an attempt to salvage something.

Sailor Wind · Post by **Sailor Wind** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:38 pm

Blood Wake (Xbox) was just one of those games where you find it good at first...but start to get bored of the same thing and doing the same things. I admit I thought the clip of it was good as first but as soon as i bought it i knew it wasn't my sort of game so I just sticked with halo of course

There was this other game but I can't remember what it was called. It's about a boy looking after his farm or sheep or something like that (not a good descripition i know). If you don't want to find a game with a huge amount of repetition and bordom, that's 1 game you should never buy.

Dinozore · Post by **Dinozore** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:01 pm

Sailor Wind wrote:There was this other game but I can't remember what it was called. It's about a boy looking after his farm or sheep or something like that (not a good descripition i know). If you don't want to find a game with a huge amount of repetition and bordom, that's 1 game you should never buy.

Harvest Moon? I love those games.

Sailor Wind · Post by **Sailor Wind** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:49 pm

I think your right it is Harvest Moon lol ^^;;, well it's only my opinion anyways. I might try playing the game longer than 10 minutes this time...

CrimsonRipper · Post by **CrimsonRipper** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:10 pm

Mine would most likely be Quest 64, as interesting as it was, it was too freakin hard man! I mean you can't buy/sell weapons at all, you just... modify spells all day long... sort of sad really.

Neo Dead Moon · Post by **Neo Dead Moon** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:48 pm

Final Fantasy VIII. The game that started the whole unfair bais opinion people have of Square caring more about graphics than gameplay in their RPGs. I don't know why THIS was the game that started it all, though...outside of cinemas, the graphics are horrible! Your characters look like sticks than characters, and the towns are drab looking.

Oh yeah, and there were other reasons I hated the game...crap characters (save Rinoa), crap music, crap pasts for the characters ("We all grew up in the same orphanage together"), crap plot, zero character development, one of the most unlikable leads in video game history, and a HORRIBLE battle sytstem whose grpahics burned my eyes much more than Final Fantasy VII ever did.

Oh yeah, and I also bought Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves, a game I've played for maybe 3 hours since I bought it two and a half years ago.

mizangelamy · Post by **mizangelamy** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:39 pm

Neo Dead Moon wrote:Final Fantasy VIII. The game that started the whole unfair bais opinion people have of Square caring more about graphics than gameplay in their RPGs. I don't know why THIS was the game that started it all, though...outside of cinemas, the graphics are horrible! Your characters look like sticks than characters, and the towns are drab looking.
Oh yeah, and there were other reasons I hated the game...crap characters (save Rinoa), crap music, crap pasts for the characters ("We all grew up in the same orphanage together"), crap plot, zero character development, one of the most unlikable leads in video game history, and a HORRIBLE battle sytstem whose grpahics burned my eyes much more than Final Fantasy VII ever did.

FF8 was a great game that's just me but I thought it was a worth of buying it. I just love music and the characters it so remains me of school.

LadyFlameSniper · Post by **LadyFlameSniper** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:37 pm

Yeah I thought FF8 was great too. One of my favorite rpgs. But the truth is I didn't like it THAT much when I started playing. It grew on me around the middle of Disk 1.

Aya Reiko · Post by **Aya Reiko** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:05 am

Neo Dead Moon wrote:Final Fantasy VIII. The game that started the whole unfair bais opinion people have of Square caring more about graphics than gameplay in their RPGs. I don't know why THIS was the game that started it all, though...outside of cinemas, the graphics are horrible! Your characters look like sticks than characters, and the towns are drab looking.

Oh yeah, and there were other reasons I hated the game...crap characters (save Rinoa), crap music, crap pasts for the characters ("We all grew up in the same orphanage together"), crap plot, zero character development, one of the most unlikable leads in video game history, and a HORRIBLE battle sytstem whose grpahics burned my eyes much more than Final Fantasy VII ever did.

Plot? What Plot?!? Was there a plot to FF8? The story kept changing at every scene. It was like watching a TV series that was nothing but fillers, nothing in the previous episodes had much to do with the current episode.

But you pretty much nailed on the head there, the only thing redeemable to FF8 was the minigame. Other than that, the game was pure, unadulterated crap. I seriously wonder about the tastes of those who say they even like the game (much less love it).

Sailorasteroid · Post by **Sailorasteroid** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:10 am

Well, count me in with those who enjoyed purchasing this game. Yes, it was more a series of moments than a connected story, but those moments worked. It was an RPG for people who don't like RPGs, so maybe that's why I liked it. I really connected with self-centered Squall. And [spoiler]I loved the rescue in space, when Eyes on Me finally plays, even though it was premised on the coincidence of finding a long-lost ship just floating there for that purpose.[/spoiler] Flawless? Of course not. The basketball court scene is pretty bad, the whole Laguna storyline could have been dropped with no loss of quality, and heaven knows a "skip GF animation" button was needed. But I still found this quite worth the money.

Jumbled Thoughts · Post by **MarioKnight** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:02 am

Eh, I guess I'd have to be one of those people who didn't like FFVIII too much. Like Neo Dead Moon pointed out, I don't see how the non-FMV graphics were all that good, which got me into big arguements back then. The battle system just didn't work for me, too much was changed and I feel that it didn't work at all, I thought the story was lacking, just a poorly put together package in my opinion. I had this game pre-ordered since it was an FF game and the previews looked promising, but once I got to playing it, it just didn't work after a while. Not to mention that in my high school and younger days, that the game took me almost a year to beat, just because after the first few weeks of playing I couldn't motivate myself to continue on a lot of the time, so the game went unplayed for weeks, even months, at a time just because it didn't give me a reason to go on, my only motivation was that I should at least finish it, and even contemplated not finishing, but the week before the year anniversary of the game, a friend bet me I couldn't beat it before a year passed so I had to win the bet, which I find sad. While I wouldn't put this game on my worst purchases list, it's very far from being near my best purchases list.

However, a game that I WILL put on my worst purchase list would be WWF RAW for Xbox. The game was the shiniest wrestling game I had ever seen, and upon purchase I found that it had the shittest play control I had ever played. Took a while to even get close to getting the hang of, and it just wasn't that fun to play with friends in. There was also a lack of a good one player mode and not that good unlockables. Outside of the graphics, the only redemming quality this game had for me didn't have anything to do with the game, it was there was a way to play any wrestler's entrance song and video in the profiles section. That was it, and as mentioned, that had nothing to do with the game itself, it was just a shiny for wrestling fans. Due to the shittiness of this game, it because one of the three games that I've traded/sold my whole life (the other two were both gifts that I just didn't enjoy). Now I'm just sticking to playing the Smackdown series of games on the PS2 as my housemate get's them since the quality of those games has only gotten better.

mizangelamy · Post by **mizangelamy** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 4:50 pm

MarioKnight wrote:Eh, I guess I'd have to be one of those people who didn't like FFVIII too much. Like Neo Dead Moon pointed out, I don't see how the non-FMV graphics were all that good, which got me into big arguements back then. The battle system just didn't work for me, too much was changed and I feel that it didn't work at all, I thought the story was lacking, just a poorly put together package in my opinion. I had this game pre-ordered since it was an FF game and the previews looked promising, but once I got to playing it, it just didn't work after a while. Not to mention that in my high school and younger days, that the game took me almost a year to beat, just because after the first few weeks of playing I couldn't motivate myself to continue on a lot of the time, so the game went unplayed for weeks, even months, at a time just because it didn't give me a reason to go on, my only motivation was that I should at least finish it, and even contemplated not finishing, but the week before the year anniversary of the game, a friend bet me I couldn't beat it before a year passed so I had to win the bet, which I find sad. While I wouldn't put this game on my worst purchases list, it's very far from being near my best purchases list.

It took me the summer to finish it but it was well worth it because this story sort of reminds me of school by the characters and the school setting since I know everyone at school!

LadyFlameSniper · Post by **LadyFlameSniper** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:27 pm

Aya Reiko wrote: But you pretty much nailed on the head there, the only thing redeemable to FF8 was the minigame. Other than that, the game was pure, unadulterated crap. I seriously wonder about the tastes of those who say they even like the game (much less love it).

"Wonder about their tastes?" It's damn silly to say that just because you hate FF8 and other people love it

I like FF8's story, many of the characters, the battle system, the setting, the music, and the FMV graphics (in game wasn't THAT great) There's nothin to wonder about. People like different things and if we all liked the same stuff, the world would be incredibly boring. Plain and simple.

Post by **AnimeGuru0** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:07 am

Final Fantasy VIII was a game that I didn't like at first but it REALLY grew on me my second time through. Basically, once you amp yourself up for "Uber buff perfect game" status, the game's mechanics (once you learn how to use them effectively) are pretty good. Some of the side areas are quite challenging as well.

The one thing I didn't like about FFVIII was the button square mashing with GFs. I'm REALLY good at button mashing, but it sucked that you had to button mash to get your GFs to do some damage. It really hurt your hand after a while.

And to those who complain about FFVIII, it's OBVIOUS you never played Legend of Dragoon. I bought that game and regret every second of it. I got up to just before the end before I finally gave up and put it away.

Dinozore · Post by **Dinozore** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:25 am

AnimeGuru0 wrote:And to those who complain about FFVIII, it's OBVIOUS you never played Legend of Dragoon. I bought that game and regret every second of it. I got up to just before the end before I finally gave up and put it away.

I liked both of those games, myself...

Aya Reiko · Post by **Aya Reiko** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:47 am

LadyFlameSniper wrote:
Aya Reiko wrote: But you pretty much nailed on the head there, the only thing redeemable to FF8 was the minigame. Other than that, the game was pure, unadulterated crap. I seriously wonder about the tastes of those who say they even like the game (much less love it).
"Wonder about their tastes?" It's damn silly to say that just because you hate FF8 and other people love it I like FF8's story, many of the characters, the battle system, the setting, the music, and the FMV graphics (in game wasn't THAT great) There's nothin to wonder about. People like different things and if we all liked the same stuff, the world would be incredibly boring. Plain and simple.

"Wonder about thier tastes" As in; I wonder how the heck could anyone like the garbage that is FFVIII?

It's like, it's like... [pause] It's like meeting someone who thinks DragonBall Z is the greatest series of all time. We know that's far from the truth, and yet they insist DBZ (dubbed and edited, no less) is the greatest. It's the same thing here. We have some people here who swear FFVIII is the greatest, despite the fact that it is crap.

There is a difference between appealing to different tastes and being devoid of any value. FF8 is the latter.

A review I fould that sums up all I've said completely