Games you bought due to nostalgia/popularity, but didn't like

[timmytom1]

Rainbow six vegas

it`ll be fun they said , being repeatedly anihalated in online by some bastard who hides behind a door IS NOT BLOODY FUN!!!!!!!

 

[hannahdonno]

Think KOToR and Kingdom Hearts mixed together. That is just form what I see though.

Turn-based is out, I'm afraid.

Ahh guttered; I think FF was the only game to master turn-based. I usually hate it, but it htye just make it work.

They remain, to this day, the only turn-based games I have ever completed besides Pokemon Gold.
Unless you count Civ 3, and I usually loose those.

People just don't have enough patience for turn-based anymore. Its gotta be instant gratification gaming.

Oh gosh, imagine Pokemon getting rid of it's turn based system O; FF should have stuck to what they knew best though.

When Pokemon gets rid of its turn-based system is when I will start exclusively retro-gaming.

And yet, I'm still...intrigued... by the new FF battle system. It might just be the train wreck mentality, but I really want to see them succeed. I want just one more good Final Fantasy before they stop making them, which could be pretty soon.

Yes, hopefully the latest one will be good, the graphics at least look pretty awesome. Pokemon ditching turn-based will be a sad day for us all.

 

[TheTygerfire]

I didn't buy it, but I played FF7 and was not at all impressed. X and 12 were much better games. Hell I could ever consider X-2 on the same level.

 

[hannahdonno]

Ahh guttered; I think FF was the only game to master turn-based. I usually hate it, but it htye just make it work.

Yeah, the Total War and Fallout games never did well [/sarcasm]

I am not saying other games have not been sucessful with it, but FF had it mastered.

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

Halo.

 

[Slash Dementia]

bioshock

Me too.
I bought Two Worlds because there was a lot of people on a forum I was frequently going to and they were all saying it was going to be an Oblivion killer...

 

[Quadtrix]

Most people aren't following the topic of this thread very well. It was supposed to be:
Games you bought on Virtual Console or Wii live that you got for nostalgia sake but discovered you don't like them as much as you remembered liking them.

Or probably in spirit of the thread, say:
Games you bought for retro systems due to nostalgia and found you honestly don't enjoy them any longer

So in light of this I will follow the topic and only post those:

Crystalis, for gameboy:
Wow I had such good feelings about it way back in the day but when I finally bought it for $3 at gamestop, found out I actually don't enjoy it that much.

Ghosts and Goblins, for Wii:
That game series is one of the most abusive to date and I wonder how I had the patience to sit through that game and beat it, twice, to get the real ending back then...

Eye of the Beholder, for SNES, bought again for gameboy color
Actually got through it - it uses old DND 2nd ed. rules. I can't get through the first two levels anymore without growing bored of the environment.

Techmo: Secret of the Stars, for SNES
I found it on ebay and decided, why not.. I used to enjoy that game and it was the only RPG Techmo ever made. I also had to d/l it for ROM because I couldn't really enjoy the SNES version any longer. The ROM let me give the exp for the players so they could level up fast and I could just get on with the story and building up of the town.. it still didn't age well and it wasn't then, nor now, a very good game.

Commando
I don't know if this is for Wii download but I returned to it a little while ago on ROM and found it to be 'just the same thing over and over', but it does have some secrets to find, yet they don't feel very rewarding in the long haul.

That's mostly true, but I also said popularity, so both current/big name games and retro games count.

 

[vamp rocks]

halo 3, i saw it in the shop, nearly fainted, bought it... got home.. placed the disc in... got really excited while the menu music started playing, watched opening cutscene.. and then once i first encountered an enemy... i realised "wait a minute... i hate halo..." and then begrudgingly beat the game...

if i buy a game i always beat it.... always..

 

[FluffX]

Guardian's Crusade.

Stupid 6 year old lack of graphics perception.

Stupid 13 year old graphics whoreyness.

 

[jaammiie]

FF VII. Disappointing really.

 

[Zephirius]

Half-Life 2.

Yeah, I dare say it.

It was a pretty good (not great) game and all, but my god the instability. Source and Steam really don't mix. Valve is pretty crap at that, I never had problems with Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, and that runs on Source.

We could start an argument about how I never got past Ravenholm, but I can really only reply that, if Valve had wanted me to enjoy their game so much, they should've made it more stable so I could actually get past Ravenholm without having to save every 30 seconds, for fear of crashing.

Get a better computer and update your video drivers, half-life 2 doesnt crash at all if you do theses two simple things. valve makes great games.

I have a (much) better PC now, this was like 2 years ago. It's been sitting on my shelf since then. You should know pretty much everyone around me at the time had problems with the stability of that game. Let's not even get started on the reason I bought the thing anyway: Garry's Mod. That thing is a like a black hole of instability, fun though it may be.

I refuse to install Steam anyways. I hate it, to be frank.

I have heard the new Episode X versions of the engine are much more stable, but I can't be arsed to try it, honestly.

 

[Archaon6044]

Perfect dark for the n64. i thought i used to love that game, but it turns out it was pretty shit

 

[Instant K4rma]

Majora's Mask. That game was painfully bad. Painfully.

 

[Quadtrix]

I always considered it the best of the 3D Zeldas.

 

[Andaxay]

Majora's Mask. That game was painfully bad. Painfully.

Agreed. I always wanted to play that as a kid, finally picked up a Collector's Edition on the GameCube, which had a few Zelda titles mixed in, and was bitterly disappointed. I played it for an hour, and haven't been near it since.

Morrowind was a disappointment to me. Maybe I should have played that before playing Oblivion, but all I know is that I'm playing Oblivion time and time again, and have uninstalled Morrowind. It just didn't suck me in like Oblivion did. Yes, I hate going through the same Oblivion Gates time and time again, but I just love wandering the landscape and doing the smaller quests. Morrowind just didn't catch my attention.

 

[Thunderhorse31]

Majora's Mask was one of those games that you needed to be a genius (or have a strategy guide) to complete in its entirety. I hated it at first too, but getting through it and collecting th masks gives a huge sense of accomplishment. But yes, I can see how off-puttin it is at first...

 

[Plauged1]

RE4 and later I am going to make the mistake of getting 5.

 

[Flying Dagger]

i bought MGS2 because every review and person said it was amazing.
got like one level in and could not be fucked to carry on playing.
came back to it again later, and same thing happened.
do not in any way see the appeal of said game.

 

[dadou_gamer]

I bought GoldenEye 007 but I'm not a fan of this game!

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Tekken in any form. I started on Street Fighter 2 and then didn't really play fighting games much until I got into the Soul Edge/Calibur series and then DOA 3 on Xbox. Then I played some Tekken and I wanted to pull my hair out.