Worst. Purchase. Ever.

[Roufuss]

How about a whole lot less frequent encounters?
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This was fixed in the Gamecube version.

[Tsubaki]

This was fixed in the Gamecube version.

I've not played the GC version, but among those who have, this is highly contested. Heck, many TNLers in past Arcadia threads have even said there's little or no difference.

[taloony]

Brilliant game design, Overworks. Arcadia had a lot to like despite it's cliche'd Japan-isms. But its flaws were pretty fatal IMO.

I liked the feeling of exploration that the game invoked, and I liked the way Vyse, Aika and Feena got along, but I hated their designs, and just about everything else. Meh.

Oh, and I too have heard that the random encounter "fix" in the GC version wasn't reallly a fix at all.

[bishop]

I traded in a SNES w/Chono, FFIII, SFII & Turbo, and Star Fox for a Sega CD system after a friend of mine did the same thing and talked me into it. It wasn't much later I came to the conclusion he didn't want to be the only loser. I treated him really bad for a long time.

[Drewbacca]

X-Men Legends for the Xbox... oh god. See the X-Men Legends for details.

[Gohron]

Worst game purchases? Hmmmmm

1. BlastCorps, was kind've cool but kinda sucked

Quiet honestly I can think of nothing more, I've heavily enjoyed almost all the games I've purchased and the ones I didn't like were rentals or borrowed from a friend. I usually don't take a risk with games, sometimes I buy older ones when they're low in price but that doesn't really count as a bad purchase because they're cheap and I've enjoyed most of them as well.

[raystorm]

Sword of Sodan (Genesis): My god.. what a horrendous game. I can't believe I paid 40 bucks for this piece of shit back in 1990. I was totally fooled by the back of the box with its large "detailed" characters, the blood, the decapitations..etc. The game is so beyond bad with ZERO music (the first stage alone just has birds chirping.. KILLING PEOPLE WHILE BIRDS CHIRP!), horrible control and dammit.. it was all bad. You actually had to hold down "B" and a direction to change directions. ugh.. I was 14 at the time and just didn't know any better.

My Hero (Sega Master System): Granted its one of those neat little card based games, but the game itself is garbage. It has only 3 stages that repeat and repeat... waste of 30 bucks way back in '87.

Super Tempo (Sega Saturn- japanese): I enjoyed the 32X Tempo as it was a decent platformer with some weird character designs though very slow. I figured the Saturn sequel would be similar but with improved graphics, better and faster gameplay but instead I get one of the weirdest platformers ever and a character that attacks by playing the violin. If you like uber weird japanese platformers then by all means go for it, but I didn't like the game one bit and ended up trading it for Silhouette Mirage (which I liked a whole lot more).

[Melf]

Definitely Stretch Panic.

'Nuff said.

[gamevet]

Sword of Sodan (Genesis): My god.. what a horrendous game. I can't believe I paid 40 bucks for this piece of shit back in 1990. I was totally fooled by the back of the box with its large "detailed" characters, the blood, the decapitations..etc. The game is so beyond bad with ZERO music (the first stage alone just has birds chirping.. KILLING PEOPLE WHILE BIRDS CHIRP!), horrible control and dammit.. it was all bad. You actually had to hold down "B" and a direction to change directions. ugh.. I was 14 at the time and just didn't know any better.

That was a horrible game. I bought the Amiga version a couple of years before, so I already knew how bad it was.
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I totally forgot about Bad Street Brawler (C-64). Made by the same team, that made the excellent Bop N' Wrestlin. I figured this game had to be good. Needless to say, the name Bad, being in the title, should have been the big tip, as to how crappy this game really was.

[Eightbitbreaks]

DK64.

Wow, I suck.