Peer Pressure

[Shapermc]

Far too many. There are very few games that I get based on looks alone. I like to base purchases off of other people opinions who I agree with on gaming aspects. I will just cover the bad/poor stuff:

Devil May Cry: Why so many people like this is beyond me, but to each his own.

Splinter Cell: This game was SO not worth it. The GFX and every thing is bad ass. Gameplay? Sux, NEXT.

Dragon Warrior VII : Still occasionally try to wade through this game, but this is so linear and LONG that it hurts.

Legend of Dragoon: This was good until about Disc 3 when you max out your Dragoon powers then there is nothing left for it.

Final Fantasy IX: Why?

Kof '00: Yea, sure

SamSho IV: WTF embodied

Tekken 4: See above.

It is strange, The really bad ones are only from the last 5 years or so. It use to not be that bad.

[PaCrappa]

I wouldn't call it peer pressure but I might try Deus Ex because of all the swell things Bob Vila says about it.

Nice to see that some people still don't understand minigames.

Pa

[sggg]

Are the puzzles different from the actual stages? I find that directing the "chus" with arrows gameplay kinda lame. I've seen this kinda gameplay in other games which involved conveyor belts back in the NES days...

I am not sure I understand the question.In puzzle mode the gameplay system is the same (arrows, rockets, etc), but there is no timer or live action. Basically, there is a board set up with a number of ChuChus and KapuKapus set up. You are given a set number of arrows to place on the board to solve the puzzle. Then you hit "play" to see if it worked. If it didn't. You start over.... and there are a billion of these puzzles in the game.

[Tones]

"Japanese style" RPG's: I may have a short attention span, but I just cannot complete these due to boredom. It feels like work to spend countless hours completing such a structured story. Strangely enough, I love Shenmue and Morrowind (which many would find boring).

Halo - For some reason I've never been interested in this. I like multiplay, FPS'es, and playing them on a console, but for some reason I never wanted to buy it, until I found it for $25. Despite some issues between it and my XBOX (halting my progress in the campaign mode), I still managed to play it for over 12 hours yesterday. I looked at my eyes in the mirror at 4am and noticed that my eyes were bloodshot from staring at the TV so long. An excellent buy.

Rez - I bought this for a friend when it was $20 at Best Buy. I only want to play it once ever few months, but it's great in short bursts with the lights out and volume up.

NUON - I'm guessing that the forums are where I heard about this, since I doubt that it got much exposure otherwise. I was also in need of a DVD player, so I decided to kill two birds with one stone. I found all of my games at Best Buy (although someone else had to find Tempest 3000 for me), and I consider all of them great buys, since they were all a dollar apiece.

[Orta]

Ikaruga... bad bad mistake.

[Melf]

I'm glad I could contribute to Yoshi getting back into some PC gaming action.

You've sparked an interest in me as well. I'm considering getting Aliens vs. Predator 2 and Dungeon Siege, both of which are only $22 here. I figure I'd go it a bit at a time.

Query: Does AvP play like the Jaguar title (FPS-style)? I was looking at the box today and it looks pretty good.

[Adam Bomb]

In no particular order:

Tail of the Sun: Bought this on a recommendation from Gamefan. Ran around aimlessly munching fruit and spearing hapless monkeys for a while; returned it after one too many episodes of watching my little caveman fall asleep on the side of a mountain, slide into an ocean, sink to the bottom and snore blissfully until he drowned.

Shenmue: Everyone was raving about how revolutionary this game was. I played for about an hour, turned it off, and never came back.

Gran Turismo: This one actually has a happy ending. I ignored it because I wasn't into racing games, but I got hooked playing with a friend. Bought it and played the hell out of it. On the other hand, when I bought GT2, I realized I'd already had all the racing sim play I could take, so I returned it.

Gunstar Heroes: Never intended to buy it; didn't look like my kind of game, but crumpled after hearing enough praise, and never regretted it. Fantastic fun, especially with a friend.

[Jeremy]

Gran Turismo, I liked what I saw in screens, dug the reviews praising it, then I actually played the damn game and was bored stiff. Wow, forgettable tracks, boring gameplay, and the lone highlight of the game for me was being able to wash your car. Also, the license tests sucked ass, royally.

[Omni]

Gran Turismo, I liked what I saw in screens, dug the reviews praising it, then I actually played the damn game and was bored stiff.

If only you could make the game read one of your reviews.

[Jeremy]

Well, the length should cause the disc to melt, and the box to combust, which would rid at least one copy of the game from the planet. I think burying them in the desert would be more effecient though. Or just skeet shooting with them.