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- Stretch Panic: God, what a turd. Lukcily it only cost me $10 new.
- Animal Crossing: I was on the fence about this one until I read the official thread here. I decided to buy it and it was a great decision. My wife is STILL playing it and we've even started a new town.
Um...Persona.
But I still haven't played it. :sweat:
Gunstar Heroes this Gunstar Heroes that. Finally bought it a year ago and it was GAY!!! Contra pisses all over Gunstar.
You really do have to take what some people say around here with a grain of salt. Take Ico for instance, so many people claimed it was an emotionally moving tour de force of a game. Wheras I thought it was nothing more than Prince of Persia with a new gimmick, and that the game was extremely short and devoid of any replay value.
On a positive note, I've recently been playing a bunch of DC shooters thanks to certain posters here, and I know for a fact that I would not of touched these games with a 10 foot pole had it not been for them.
And then there's the opposite effect, BMX XXX was pretty much trashed by every human being on the planet, yet this only made me want to try it out for myself, and the game turned out to be a hell of a lot better than people give it credit for.
I can't think of many times this has happened to me. When I was younger and more impressionable, I had a Master System and all of my friends had NESes, so it was pretty much impossible. Then again, if I was impressionable I probably would not have had the ole SMS.
These days.. I dunno.. the only time I can think of being convinced to buy a game I otherwise would not have was Puyo Pop for NGPC. I hated it and sold it because it was so frustrating and I didn't know how to play. Ironically enough, I gave Puyo another chance and now it's one of my favourite series ever! I am a die-hard Puyo lover. In a strange twist, my friend who had convinced me to buy the NCPC game in the first place recently gave me his - free of charge. :)
Oh yeh, sicne it was mentioned, Ico would have been on my list too, had I actually bought it. I rented it based entirely on the raving I heard at TNL.... and man, I loathed that game. I won't go into detail and derail the thread, but let's just say it's the worst game I have played in years (to be honest I dont play many stinkers at all though, I rarely rent and I am very good at making only good purchases)....
Chu Chu Rocket was on sale for the GBA, so I bought it, based on the talk about it here in the forums. I played it for 5 seconds and it didn't click with me.
I also got Mark of Kri based on good talk about it in these forums, unfortunately it's still in my pile o' shame. :(
CCR for GBA takes quite a bit of getting used to, because the control scheme is different than it was on Dreamcast. I hope you at least tried the puzzles before you stopped playing though... that's the best past of the game (and it's less dependent on the controls). There are a billion puzzles to solve, some of them are incredibly hard...
To each his own. :p
Oddly I swore up and down that I'd never buy Metal Gear Solid, because I thought thete was no way in hell a game could live up to the hype of streight 10's in EGM. That and it was one of those "bandwagon" games that I figured was heavy on the mayhem killing sprees and light on substance and gameplay. I eventually bought it and fuck was I ever wrong.
I would have never purchased KOTOR with out all the last minute super hype the game got from Reviews and Folks around here. And I love the game.
Phantasy Star Online. I hate it because there is no one to play with.