Topic: Biggest Video Game Regret In Your Life

[KDR_11k]

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Originally posted by: wandering
Oh, and the Hugo trilogy.

For a moment I thought you meant this Hugo.

[Svevan]

Most of my video game regrets are non-purchases or non-plays. I don't have a great diversity as a gamer, don't have a PS2, missed most of the good stuff on SNES, and have probably never beaten an NES game. I'm hoping Wii's VC and a cheap PS2 this holiday season will turn it all around.

[KDR_11k]

I just managed to think of two: 1. Importing a DS months before launch. That was completely pointless, what good is a new console with only Wario Ware for five months?
2. Not buying a 360 when I saw a bunch of them during the shortages. Would have made so much money on eBay...

[Mario]

Letting my opponents Mewtwo get in too many Calm Minds in a Pokemon tourny final and not switching.

but i'm not a man of regrets, I like learning

[Caliban]

My biggest regret was to skip the SNES and N64 life-cycles, unfortunately I had no other choice then not to get them, heck even when I had the NES the only game I had was the SMB/DuckHunt cartridge that came with the console and any other game I played after that was lent from my friends.

VC F-T-W!

[TrueNerd]

Buying PSP a week after it came out. I'm sure a lot of the PSP's shortcomings are heightened in my mind because of DS pwnage, but still. Lumines, a launch game, remains the lone game worth a damn.

[Kairon]

Buying Rogue Squadron III. I have never been disappointed by a game so much in my life. Not even when my brother and I got a GameGear instead of the Gameboy we asked for. /cry

RSIII wasn't the worst game I played, but it was the worst game I played that I expected to be good.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[odifiend]

Buying Turok: Evolution new and before it was reviewed for 50 bucks.  I read all this E3 coverage about it shaping up well and went for it because I like the FPS genre okay but didn't like the gamecube Bond offerings.

[Spak-Spang]

You know Turok upsets me.  None of the the Turok games have been great...but the idea of hunting dinosaurs in the wild while they hunt you is so kick butt, that I wish they actually made the game good.  I would buy a good Dinosaur Action Hunting Game...but that is not what Turok was...and sadly the new Turok looks like it is going to be just as bad as the rest.

[Smoke39]

I liked the first Turok.  And Rage Wars was a pretty good MP FPS, though it lacked the spirit of the first just as much as the others.  They just focussed on the wrong stuff when making the sequals.

Carnivores 2 is a pretty good old budget dinosaur hunting FPS.  It's repetative and a bit slow (it's a hunting sim), but there aren't a lot of other options that I know of.

[Kairon]

I LOVED Turok 2's multiplayer so much that 3 years later I got it used. I still HIGHLY prefer using the C-sticks to move versus an analog stick. (and would much rather prefer having c-buttons instead of a c-stick...)

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Smoke39]

A while ago I bought all the Turok games that I didn't already own online pretty cheap.  My best friend and I tried playing some T2 MP.  Ick.  We very quickly switched back to Rage Wars.
And I think you mean c-buttons, not c-sticks. :b

[Svevan]

I broke down, bought a PS2, Okami, and Shadow of the Colossus. PS2 gaming ftw!

[TrueNerd]

Has anyone tried playing GoldenEye lately? The game has aged about as well as milk would over the same time period.  

[Athrun Zala]

I played it the other day.....to me it was as cool as ever

[Spak-Spang]

I will admit that the Goldeneye multiplayer wouldn't be that great.

However, I have a very hard time believing that the single player experience has aged poorly.

There were so many great levels in that game.  Sure some were short, but fun none the less.

I remember the Dam level was amazing.  

I am curious to play Perfect Dark again and see if that aged well.  That game I have a feeling that the multiplayer will have actually aged quite well, and the single player not as much.  Perfect Dark seemed to complicate the Goldeneye formula too much.

It was like the story and level progression just got too out there.  Again though it had an amazing first level that was intense and enjoyable to play.

[Kairon]

If the game has a co-op mode, then it won't have aged a jot.

Perfect Dark will do fine. I mean, just look at how eager I am to play River City Ransom!

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Nick DiMola]

Perfect Dark single player has aged well, as for the multiplayer I can't say the same. Not because there is anything wrong with the multiplayer, but because of the frame rate. It is so bad I can't stand it. The single player is a little on the slow side but not as bad as multiplayer.

[Smoke39]

PD MP was never much fun for me because of the framerate.