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Most shameful game purchase?
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AREYOUOKAY?
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Nights Journey of Dreams. Even as someone who loved the first Saturn game I felt embarrassed to play or even watch this one.
Batiman
Banned
I’d say renting games as a kid was the biggest choice to make. You had to take gambles but sometimes they worked. It’s hard to make a bad purchase nowadays unless the internet hype gets to you. Sometimes it would take you 5 min to realize you made a huge mistake when it came to renting
The intro of this game literally made me speechless. I still remember sitting on my bed watching it with my mouth wide open in shock of what I was witnessing. I'd never even heard of this game until my brother brought it home one day. Needless to say I didn't expect what was to come....
When that intro pop song started I literally jumped off my bed and ran to close the door so my family wouldn’t hear it. I still feel a sense of shame and embarrassment about this game.
This game was like the exact moment when Square Enix stopped caring about taking video game storytelling to the next level and instead decided to focus on cringe waifu crap and corny shounen anime tropes.
Deerock71
Member
I'm pretty sure my kids think that about me. Heh.I felt like a filthy weeaboo buying Rune Factory 4 in the store.
[Goes_back_to_Seven_Pirates_H]
Ceadeus
Member
BF3 maps were really good. Smaller than BF4 and the next but much more focused on the players ability to move. There was a lot of cool alleyways to prepare an ambush by fighting in close quarters.
I recall the close quarter expanssion maps to be really fun too. This game graphics, sounds and vfx really were on another level when comparing to other shooter of its time!
magnumpy
Member
Gamer79
Predicts the worst decade for Sony starting 2022
I got shadowman 64 for christmas that year. Boy was I pissed off. The only shock value was hearing my character curse but the game was shit!
Cryio
Member
I don't understand most people that have "shameful purchases" given you know, I actually do my research before buying something.
But if I ABSOLUTELY have to pick something, it would be Hydrophobia. It's a AA game from the early 2010's. It's main gimmick was amazing (for the time) dynamic water physics. Visually it was perfunctory for it's day, platforming, puzzles and story was mostly a joke. It's a 6/10 game at best. But I played it pirated originally, liked it sufficiently for the tech demo ambition that it had and purchased it a decade later for 2.5€ or something, maybe 0.5€?
Yeah, that's my story.
But if I ABSOLUTELY have to pick something, it would be Hydrophobia. It's a AA game from the early 2010's. It's main gimmick was amazing (for the time) dynamic water physics. Visually it was perfunctory for it's day, platforming, puzzles and story was mostly a joke. It's a 6/10 game at best. But I played it pirated originally, liked it sufficiently for the tech demo ambition that it had and purchased it a decade later for 2.5€ or something, maybe 0.5€?
Yeah, that's my story.
dreamcastluvr
Member
Same-sies!! I even went out of my way to create a separate PSN profile with a Hong Kong address and buy the PSN codes in Hong Kong dollars so I could get the extra DLC and in-game currency to rack up my outfit collection!! Probably dropped a couple hundred bucks easy. Totally worth it!!
Fahdis
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Classicrockfan
Banned
I remember I bought sega Saturn over a playstation and my two games I got for the Saturn were streetfighter the movie and myst.
Chronicle
Member
Then we smokem' peace pipe.
Archaic101
Member
I recently paid $100 for a complete copy of Einhander for PS1. It's a great game, but I'm notoriously cheap by nature and could never have imagined spending more than $60 on any game. What made it worse was that I already had a $10 digital copy on PS3.
Laptop1991
Member
ESO thinking i would be getting an Elder Scroll experience, played it 3 times put it down never touched it again in 7 years never will, only cost a tenner though.
