Worst. Purchase. Ever.

[Opaque]

I'm done with this conversation.

It's like talking to a wall.

[Wilykat]

-Beyond the Beyond
-Final Fantasy X
-Eternal Champions

Full price for all of these upon release. Utterly unrewarding purchases.

I may post more as they come to me.

[Dipstick]

Man, I got Beyond the Beyond for free (from some silly cereal box deal or some equally crazy product tie-in) and I still feel ripped off.

The one really bad purchase I had that really sticks out is The Bouncer, when that game came out. I liked Dream Factory's earlier efforts (Tobal 1 & 2, Ehergirz) and I figured the game would be a 3D brawler with fairly involved mechanics (think the adventure modes in Tobal 2 and Ehergirz) and some cool-looking cinematics. Negative on that; I surely got baited. I was so angry about this game I social engineered a return of the damn thing a week after I bought it.

-Dippy

[MechDeus]

He must have gone to bed, because this thread feels empty without Diffusionx mentioning Stretch Panic.

The driving engine in The Getaway wishes it was even remotely like GTA (read as: worth a shit).

Which is why it took multiple GTA games to reach the point where you could drive through two cars and actually scrape through, instead of not hitting either of the cars on either side yet still connect with their hit boxes.

[DHG Otaku]

dude Tobal No 1 had smooth high res flat shading at 60fps with great design and backgrounds...worth it for that alone not to mention the godly soundtrack. It's redbook too.

[James]

f I thought you guys knew a single thing about what makes games good

I know what makes a game good- When, once I put down the controller, I want to pick it back up a few minutes later then I've played a good game. GTA3 did that for me, Vice City didn't.

In other news: AAAARRGHH!!!! Why did you have to mention Beyond the Beyond? I really thought I didn't have anything noteworthy to contribute to this thread, I'd forgotten that I'd bought that turd of a game and suffered through about 95% of it. I was on the last dungeon, I had maybe an hour or two of gameplay left, and I just plain quit. I'd rather have snapped the disk in half than played it again. Even finding out there was a bonus intro that I hadn't seen that took a few button presses at the title screen wasn't enough to make me inflict that ultimate insomnia cure on my poor, RPG-starved PS1. And yes, I did buy it almost as soon as it came out.

James

[Cowutopia]

Evergrace. 'Nuff said.

[Rtificial]

Silent Hill 4

I scrounged up change to buy that damn game on release day. I had just got done with 3 and needed my next silent hill fix. I dunno what I bought, but thats not a silent hill game. I played through the whole game hoping it would get better or it would unlock something of redeeming value...nope.

I'm trading that crap in to help me get paper mario 2. I've never traded a game in before either, thats how much I HATE this game.

[Ragnarok the Red]

Well, I don't think anything will probably ever top the $50 I'll never get back for Stretch Panic. What made that one especially painful was that the Gamestop employee actually offered to let me return it after I opened it and I REFUSED due to by blind fanboy love of all things Treasure.

One of the few times being a "hardcore gamer" has come back to bite me in the ass

[EightBit]

The one that stands out the most in my mind would be Hoshigami. Further compounded by my intense anticipation of the game.