A game or system that you were excited about...

[gamevet]

I really enjoyed Alien Vs Predator back the. Sure the frame rate was horrible by today's standard, but it looked better than anything on the console when it was released and it was truly creepy. I agree that alot of the Jaguar games are huge disappointments (Fight for Life, Kasumi Ninja, even Ultra Vortek), but it had enough decent games that was worth playing/keeping even to today (Defender 2000, Missile Defense 3D, Power Drive Rally, Battlesphere, Protector, etc).

Like I said, there were a handful of games that were worth owning the system for.

I still have Power Drive Rally. It's okay, but hardly the game everyone praises it to be. I'd love to own Battlesphere, but by the time I'd found out about the title, it was overpriced ebay ware.

[Changeling]

Battlefield 2142

Don't hate me changeling...

LOL ! Read my mind.

[Thief Silver]

Gonna start with the one I've said most:

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. You take a fantastic job system, an incredible and dark story, and an awesome art style, as well as one of the best soundtracks, and throw every single piece of that away. There's little to no story, I think I've done 4 story battles after the initial intro and apparently I had put in 18 fucking hours into this piece of shit.

Everquest II. I enjoyed Everquest a lot as my first MMO, the Monk class was one of the greatest and still yet to be matched experiences in an MMO, and this game comes out. Now, this game wasn't by any means bad, I ended up putting 30 hours into it, and the crafting system was really awesome at first, you made a guild, talked to people and got your supplies from one person to make your stuff. The Economy was amazing at the beginning because it was a race to be the first to make stuff. I held the lead on Blacksmithing with my crafting guild for a long time, and absolutely loved it. But the game was a buggy mess, World of Warcraft ended up forcing Sony to release this far too early in which caused lots of distress. Also stuff like linked mobs, even more linked than in World of Warcraft, took out a lot of the awesome pulling techniques you could do in the game.

[YellerDog]

Hey, fuck you YellerDog, I love Dynowarz. Except for that damn ending.

You love a shit game, then. Sorry, it's bad. "Godzilla: Monster of Monsters" does the stomping better, and the tiny low-gravity jumpy sequences are bulllllll-shit.

Guns in both modes = pew pew pew pew.

I beat it, and yeah, stupid ending. The best part are the cinemas when you enter and exit your dinosaur. raaarrr.

[Dyne]

My biggest disappointment was the Sega Master System. Now the system is great, but it kinda sucked in the pre-internet age in a small city.

no doubt. i love the system but it was harsh back in the day. only one other kid at my school had one (who was actually a good buddy) and luckily his parents had the funds to buy him pretty much whatever. i remember going to everybody elses house and seeing the less colorful NES games and never having much to talk about with them. i think the local Toys Are Us was the only store that carried games for it in my area as well.

anybody else miss walking into a TRU when you were younger with all your saved up cash, pulling out that ticket and getting your prize from the man behind the window? last game i remember doing that with was Final Fantasy 2/4. 80 some bucks.

[kingoffighters]

anybody else miss walking into a TRU when you were younger with all your saved up cash, pulling out that ticket and getting your prize from the man behind the window? last game i remember doing that with was Final Fantasy 2/4. 80 some bucks.

They still did this on on the TRU that just closed down last summer here in Brooklyn.

I remember the ticket system back in Child World....

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

The Toys R US in Syracuse still has the ticket system in place. I walked in there two years ago and felt like I walked through a time portal.

Screw you KOF! Enduro Racer was one of my favorite SMS games. The friends could talk all the shit they wanted about how great the NES was, and all I'd have to do is pop in Enduro Racer and ask if their Excitebike could go THIS FAST and have THIS MANY different looking tracks.
Truth be told it was a few years after I had the game that I actually saw the arcade version, and yeah, it's a totally different game, but the SMS version was rad man. RAD!

[Dyne]

there was also a local(?) chain called Childrens Palace that i absolutely LOVED to go to. unfortunately TRU moved in and put them out. i remember them having the best TurboGrafx section around.

[RoleTroll]

32X

I loved the idea of an attachable upgrade for the Genny and the Neptune looked awesome. In retrospect, it was the worst of all worlds. They should have either continued with SVP chips in the Genny carts, or made the 32X a cartridge version of the Saturn with simultaneous releases. (Too bad SNK never went the cartridge upgrade route. I'd love to see a new Neo-Geo cart with $100 worth of upgrade chips and RAM in the cart....)

[Granderoho]

Mass Effect

The combat system made this game a giant steaming peice of shit, looks nice and really cool story, but the real gameplay killed it for me.