Instant Regrets

[ParanoiaDragon]

I recall buying Talespin for Turbob BITD when it arrived at TRU.  Rode my bike all the way there, got my ticket, purchased it for $60, went to the secure area where you pick up your game from a man in a cage.  Rode my bike home.  Popped it in my Obey, & felt regret within minutes.  Same goes for It Came from the Desert, rode my bike to TRU & everything.

Had a similar experience with Impossamole.  A friend & I rode our bikes to the Oaks Mall, locked up our bikes somewhere(I assume), went to Babbages, paid $50 I think.  Rode our bikes back to his house, played each level, got super pissed at the hit box detection, especially in the Iceland & Amazon levels. Probably threw a controller at a wall or a dog or something.  Went swimming in his doughboy, cooled down, talked it over, & decided to give it another go.  Ended up beating those levels eventually.

With that said, I actually came to appreciate all 3 of those games in there own special way, especially Impossamole.

Now, Darkwing Duck on the other hand..... I think my mom took me to the mall, picked up that trash at Babbage's.  Had seen reviews on it, but told myself it couldn't be that bad! Paid my pound of flesh & went on my way.  Returned it the next day & got Shockman instead.  I really can't say I've ever appreciated DD, with exception to some of the neat paralax, & the infamous magnifying glass.

[majors]

Gaming-wise...my purchase of Xenophobe on the NES was regret about a minute after I started playing. Such a fan of the arcade...but Sunsoft did me wrong that day. I'm sure other games I bought that left a bad taste in my mouth(not counting Switch games) but I learned to trade off or return to the store early on.

[ClodBuster]

Halo 3, because I didn't liked the spoken narration in the German version, and there was no way to change it to English (neither in game nor via system settings). Sold it instantly the same week I got it, luckily it wasn't a full price game anymore at the time.

[Medic_wheat]

I have been there where you buy a game and hate it.

With modern things like game play videos and what not it’s almost impossible not to have a clear idea of what a game is before purchasing it.

That doesn’t stil mean I haven’t picked up a stinker and regrets having bought it at full price for the rare times I buy a game new.

[SignOfZeta]

Halo 3, because I didn't liked the spoken narration in the German version, and there was no way to change it to English (neither in game nor via system settings). Sold it instantly the same week I got it, luckily it wasn't a full price game anymore at the time.

Oh, that reminds me. I bought Gundam Breaker and liked it a lot. I first bought the Asia version to save $5.

Then when Gundam Breaker 2 came out I again ordered the Asia version so I could continue my save and guess what? This time they actually bothered to translate the game into Chinese. Great for actual Asia territory people but not for me since I can’t read Chinese and names of Gundam and parts and whatever are almost never written in kanji so the game became a lot more time consuming to play. In the end I sorta lost interest in the game and I’m pretty sure I would have played it a lot more if I could have read it.

[Black Tiger]

I bought Loom when it came out, because it is a CD game. I couldn't believe how little they touched up/improved over the 16 color computer version and it was very buggy, randomly glitching, crashing and losing game saves. I exchanged it as defective for Air Zonk and didn't regret it.

[Punch]

I bought Loom when it came out, because it is a CD game. I couldn't believe how little they touched up/improved over the 16 color computer version and it was very buggy, randomly glitching, crashing and losing game saves. I exchanged it as defective for Air Zonk and didn't regret it.

I heard it was a mix of the 16 and 256 color versions of the game. Didn't knew it was that buggy, who programmed it? Was it a Hudson Soft port?

[SignOfZeta]

I have that game and I agree. It looks so much like IBM software I can heard Alps keys switching whenever I play it.

[Necromancer]

It could've been better, but Loom still looks nice.  I don't recall such buggy problems; did they do a second fixed pressing?  Maybe I've just been lucky... or rose colored glasses.

[Arkhan]

Nothing really, just want to tell how surprised I am to learn that there's a 16GB flash PS3, when 90% of the games just dump the entire disc to the HDD to be playable.

I got me one of those and took the panel off and put a 600gb HDD in it for like 20$.

They say you need a harness to hold it in, but what you really need is a folded up piece of cardboard to keep the drive level since the connector is on top, so without it, you end up with a drive like  \   , and it breaks the connector.

[seieienbu]

Beyond the Beyond springs instantly to mind.  I assumed it was going to be a super tight RPG on my brand new playstation zomg!  Instead it was likely the most bland RPG I ever bought.

[SignOfZeta]

No kidding. After about two dumptrucks full of great RPGs for the PCE and SNES early 32-bit was some slim pickings. Amazingly, Saturn was seen as more of an RPG machine for the first year or so.

Of course eventually the PS got more RPGs than PCE and SNES combined but in 1995 it was like the valve had been shut off. It sucked.

“Oh, you liked Star Ocean and Langrisser? Here’s Beyond the Beyond. It’s like Cosmic Fantasy with all the cut scenes taken out. Have fun!”

[Arkhan]

I have a strange love for Beyond the Beyond I think mainly because of a few of the songs being stuck in my head forever, and I liked Lorele, and the overall presentation of the battle segments.   

but yeah the rest of that game is pretty stupid.  the character portraits were like deviantart hall of fame looking, and some of the dungeons were shit.

but I liked this song!:

I didn't play it until like 1998 or so, after I had played FF7, and I kept expecting 3D but it never happened.

Wild Arms and Azure Dreams were better times for sure.

and Breath of Fire 3 jesusf*ckthatgamewasawesome

[Arkhan]

YOU KNOW WHAT THATS A REGRET

I traded BOF3 in to get a goddamn Dreamcast keyboard to play PSO .

f*ck was that stupid of me.

I lucked out and found a copy of it again for about 15$, which is what I paid for my used copy years ago, so it's a wash.

but holy shit, that almost could've sucked.

[crazydean]

YOU KNOW WHAT THATS A REGRET

I traded BOF3 in to get a goddamn Dreamcast keyboard to play PSO .

f*ck was that stupid of me.

I lucked out and found a copy of it again for about 15$, which is what I paid for my used copy years ago, so it's a wash.

but holy shit, that almost could've sucked.

But now you can play Typing of the Dead!