What's The Worst Gaming Purchase You've Ever Made?
Whilst perusing the Gametrailers website, I happened to notice one of their forum topics that seemed rather intriguing. Everyone always talks about the best game they ever played or their top five favorite games, but what about the bad ones. We have certainly all been saddled with an absolutely horrible game purchase. A game so bad that you couldn't make it very far in and then it just sits there in your game collection like a festering sore and every time you open the drawer you are reminded of how you got gypped. And then when you finally decide to try and sell it back and get it out of your life, even Gamestop will only give you a buck for it.
For me it wa when I was a kid. I was so excited to get an Atari 2600 and then I was doubly excited to see that you could get Pac-Man. I ran out and got it and brought it home only to discover it was one of the worst remakes I had seen and looked NOTHING like the original. Rectangle shaped power pellets? What the hell is this?
So let's hear it. What was the worst gaming purchase you've ever made, be it a game or a system or even a peripheral. and don't be shy... I promise no one in the game industry will read this. Really... I swear...
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The worst game I ever bought was Star Trek: A Final Unity for the SNES. Oh good god this game was awful. I can't think of one positive aspect of this game. And to top it off, for some reason it was overpriced, I ended up paying $60 for it at Sears when games were typically $50.
ET for the atari 2600. It really was as bad as the legend suggests....
I came to say ET for the 2600...glad i wasnt the first. TERRIBLE game.
Obscure 2. Highly disappointing.
I very rarely make bad purchases, but this one? The first Obscure left my expectations high, I guess.
The worst game I ever bought:
Spelunker for the NES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelunker_(video_game)
If it wasn't bad enough that I bought it once, I bought it again when it came out for the Wii Virtual Console. D'oh!
Somehow I got tricked into buying Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (for Gamecube) and it cost $70 plus tax! I don't know if it's the WORST game I ever bought, but it WAS the most expensive game I've ever bought, and it was terrible, which to me makes it the worst game purchase I've made.
That's easy Luminous Arc, I wasn't a fan and I like similar games like Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics. As for Obscure 2 I was mixed I loved the Cheesy Dialogue and I loved how much it felt like a cheap horror film. Gameplay was it blew but I expected that for how much I payed, I didn't mind it.
I hardly ever will buy a game without reading a review..but a number of years ago...pre-smart phone and ability to check reviews anywhere...I bought Star Trek: Shattered Universe for the XBOX. A friend was with me so we went back to my apartment and put it in and within 1 minute realized it was a complete piece of junk. Couldn't even sell the thing back anywhere. UGH
Kingdom Under Fire : Circle of Doom. I can't even say what compelled me to buy it (aesthetics, probably), but I knew within the first hour of playing that I'd just made a huge mistake. It's a hack and slash down linear paths where you fight waves of identical enemies. The story immediately registers as nonsense made worse by the terrible voice-acting. Even my boyfriend, who is determined to like everything I hate, couldn't stand it enough to continue playing past the two-hour mark.
Looks like others beat me to it. ET for the 2600. Well, that and Swordquest: Fireworld also for the 2600. It was so bad I thought I got a broken cartridge.
Black Hole for Sega CD. I didn't buy it, but it is the worst game I've played.
Evil Dead: Hail to the King for the PS1.
WHY BRUCE CAMPBELL WHY!?!
The worst game i ever bought was siren for the ps2
Magic the Gathering: Battlegrounds. It got mixed reviews, but I knew I wouldn't be happy unless I tried it for myself...
the worst game I ever bought was alone in the dark for wii ,man that game is broken!
Quest 64. The reviews said it's "not that bad", but seriously?! What was the point of this game! It made me sad... big-time.
Two games come quickly to mind for my worst purchases, and they both share a similarity that you'd think I would have learned from.
The first is Timestalkers for the Dreamcast. I went into Funcoland with a bunch of games expecting to trade them in for Mario Party 3 but when I got a lot more credit than I expected I decided to splurge and get a Dreamcast. The catch was I only had enough money for one Dreamcast game. I was a huge fan of Climax's Genesis RPGs like Landstalker and Shining Force, so I picked Timestalkers as my lone Dreamcast game. I tried to like it, and did actually enjoy the cameos from other games, but I just couldn't bring myself to keep playing past the third dungeon. It was incredibly disappointing.
The second game is Sudeki for Xbox, yet another Climax RPG. I bought it basically because it was from Climax, and from the characters to the controls to the story it was just awful.
Yoshi's Story for the N64. This was in the days before I checked reviews online. I thought "Oh, a fun little platformer, like the SNES one." No, no, no. It was a super boring and super easy...not to mention super short pile of crap. It took me less than an hour to finish the entire game and I couldn't believe I had paid full price for it...that was when I became more wary of the evil of Nintendo.
Two:
Tiger's Gamecom
Virtualboy.
I can pick 'em.
Ys 3:Wanderers from Ys
This was my first & only (so far) Ys game. I couldn't figure out why everyone was so nuts about the series, especially after playing this. I didn't know they changed it so drastically. I am thinking of getting Legacy of Ys: Books I & II. Still very wary though after getting that POS.
I'm one of those freaks that actually liked the ET game as a kid. However, I was horribly disappointed by X-Men: Next Dimension. It was slow, clunky, SLOW, and just not fun to play.
I guess I'm lucky. I don't think I've ever actually made a "bad" game purchase. The only thing close is Fable and GTA:SA. No matter how much I really tried and wanted to like them, I couldn't.
Not the worst game, but the worst console:
NeoGeo Pocket Color
It sounded so cool but then there really weren't any games for it and my screen got all messed up from packing it around with me. Great analog stick though...
Evergrace for the ps2
I, too, have made very few severly wrong decisions in purchasing my games, other than occassionally going for consoles I couldn't afford to buy games for (read N64). If anything, these instances have taught me to adopt late. If a game got good reviews when it was new and you still don't like it (loved Fable btw), at least you haven't spent a lot of dough on it.
My worst dissapointment would be Dead Rising. It's very hard to get in Germany, and I ended up paying 60 quid for the game second hand ($75). As much as I liked the time component in Majoras Mask, it just wasn't much fun here at all. The firefights were atrocious, and that old codgers' constant yapping really drives you nuts.
A close second place goes to Sacred, a much-hyped Diablo knockoff that actually looks like crap, despite technical superiority. Nobody beats Blizzards design. Still, only cost me a fiver.
You can play ET here http://www.2600online.com/et.html
It's kinda trippy!!
For me Frontier: First Encounters on the Amiga was a pretty disastrous release.
et for the 2600, I actually have a scar because of this game.
I managed to avoid buying terrible games in ye olden days (back then I was renting most of my titles), but in more recent years... I picked up "Warriors of Might and Magic" for PS2. Having played older games in the "Might and Magic" series, I figured, "How bad could it be?"
The answer to that is VERY VERY BAD.
It only cost me around $5, but that was really $5 too many.
Hellboy: Asylum Seeker for PS.
I had no idea it was a pc port from years ago. it was horrible. came out right with the first Hellboy movie and I admit I was foolish for buying it because of the title. now I always check reviews before any game purchase.
SUPERMAN
N64
Justice League: Task Force for the SNES. $80 down the drain, which was a fortune to my 10 year old self.
And though I didn't buy it, the $5 I threw down to rent Superman for N64 was just as frustrating.
The worst purchase I made was an impulse but, it was baroque for the Wii which sucked, and left me b-roke for a week.
Viking: Battle for Asgard
Once you get over the initial joy of being able to rip people limb from limb.... it gets tedious.
The same gameplay ad neuseum really irritated me. Plus, its completely devoid of life in terms of story.
... I think I stopped playing it at the point where I realised that the characters lips didn't move during dialogue during the story cutscenes...
.... a small detail I know... but it was just the defining moment of when I realised how terrible the game really was.
Unlimited Saga
I agree with Rynz: Unlimited SaGa (PS2) is by far the worst purchase I've ever made. It wouldn't have left such a sting if I had purchased it after it dropped (quickly) to $20, but I bought the game when it first came out for $50.
I really wanted to like the game, having already played and enjoyed SaGa Frontier I & II - but I just couldn't get into it, no matter how hard I tried.
Infinite Undiscovery. I played about 30min, or $2 a min. A 900 number woould have been money better spent.
Mine would have to be Megaman X7 for PS2. Others are as bad or worse but were usually gifts.
I bought it for full price, $49.99, played it a couple of times, just in case, and tried to sell it back to Gamestop. They offered me $12 for a brand new game and were shocked and appalled (LOL) when I turned it down. Sold it on eBay for $25.
Easy question and easy to answer.
I know I may get howled down but the worst game I ever bought was Guild Wars + the first expansion in one go.
Played it for about half an hour and while I absolutely *loved* the graphics, it was so damn pretty, I quickly realised that the game itself was as boring as batshite.
And really, when you can hire npc's in a town to help you with quests, whats the point of being in a guild? If you answered, 'none', you would be right. It totally defeats the whole purpose of the game.
Boring, no professions, crap loot, stupid limit of spells (6 at any one time), yawn inducing fights, unfriendly atmosphere in regards to other players, nothing to do in the towns.
Just an awful, awful waste of both time and money.
Unlimited Saga and Infinite Undiscovery were both AWFUL. I'm so used to Squeenix putting out titles that at the very least, solid; Unlimited Saga was my first blind purchase, and Infinite Undiscovery was the nail in the coffin. Now I know that even the most reputable publishers can put out crap (although Squeenix has been lowering the quality bar for quite some time...).
The only game I was disappointed in, was Dead Rising.
(On another note: I love Virtual Boy! I still have it!)
The worst game purchase I ever made was Yoshi's Story on the N64. Terrible game. I remember feeling so disappointed that I had saved up all that money and spent it on something so unsatisfying (was about 11 at the time).
Hmm... I would have to say that I probably regret getting Pokemon Battle Revolution on Wii the most. I read a lot of reviews that said that it's pretty much useless unless you have Diamond or Pearl on DS to transfer your Pokemon from to battle with. Well, I have both of those, so I decided to give it a try -- I was amused for like an hour. It simply doesn't have the charm of the Stadium games on N64 or the RPG story mode of Colosseum on Gamecube. Total waste of $50.
I could also mention the Tiger Game.com that I got for Christmas one year. It was pretty damn awful... but my parents bought that for me, so I can't really say it's a regret. ;)
Worst lately... was probably Nights for the Wii (the original on the Saturn was such gem, I thought it would be great too, right?) I think I played it no more than 20 minutes.
2 immediately come to mind, both when I was a wee lad:
The first one is Race Drivin' for the SNES. If you've ever played this, you know how bad it is. I can remember trying to defend this game to friends after them telling me it was crap. TRYING, mind you, not SUCCEEDING.
The second is Videomation for the NES. I have no idea what possessed me to ask for this for my birthday that year, although SOME fun was had with this game between my brother and I. When you're 12 years old, crudely drawn penii never fail to amuse.
P.N.O3
I think I'd have to say The Last Remnant. It was just really boring and tedious. The part that really really bugged me though is that you healed after every battle. Where's the challenge of going through levels if you heal after every battle? It was pointless and dumb.
Devil May Cry
StarFox Adventures
But strangely enough, I really enjoyed Yoshi's Story. I was actually playing it the other day.
Probably Rendezvous With Rama for the C64. It was the first C64 game I ever bought, and it was so broken (literally crashed every time I got to this one sequence) that for about a week I was wishing I had gotten a bunch of Colecovision games and accessories instead of the C64.
Then I went back to the store and traded it for Jumpman Junior. Problem solved.
In recent times, probably Luigi's Mansion was the most disappointing. No idea what I was expecting, but that wasn't it.
We can all probably come up with a lot of them over the years that rank up there as horrible lapses in reason.
Virtualboy - Gave me headaches after 30 minutes of playing.
Infinite Undiscovery - Horrible game, somehow my boyfriend actually played it all the way through.
Unlimited Saga - Swill plain and simple. The Romancing Saga games were good, where they came up with this they should have left it.
The Worst games i've bought are AeonFlux for PS2 and Art of fighting: Anthology for PS2...God they sucked completely!