Your Biggest Gaming Mistake

[Netrigan]

This is inspired by a co-worker of mine who managed to fall victim to the Atari 5200, the Atari Jaguar, the Sega Master System, and the Sega 32X... all of which were under-supported consoles or add-ons.

Riding the back of the tech curve as I do, I've never made this particular mistake only buying well-supported consoles, but I have laid down not insignificant amounts of money for consoles that ended up gathering dust.

My biggest mistake was probably the Wii. It's a fine system and I had fun with it, but it's also completely out of tune with my personal tastes. Beyond replaying Lego Star Wars for the third or fourth time, I really didn't get much use out of it and ended up selling it the above-mentioned co-worker (who continued his string of console bad luck when it got stolen from him a few months later).

My second biggest mistake will likely be considered heresy by most here: the NES. Or as I could probably call it, the Super Mario Brothers 3 console. Mario 3 is perhaps the greatest platform game I have ever played and I played the hell out of it for about two months. The only problem is... I'm not really a big fan of platform games and the 8 bit era is pretty much the house platform games built. I rented some games, bought a few used games, found the offerings a bit samey and not to my taste... and it quickly became a dust collector.

So I open it up to the floor. Pick any console, add-on, hardware (for our PC users), or (if you have a really good story) game that you consider to be your biggest gaming mistakes, be it financial or emotional or spiritual (whatever that means). Translation: something beyond blowing $60 for a crap game.

 

[Wintermoot]

buying my first two 360 games (Nighty Nine Nights and Bionic Commando new versio) or probaly the 360 in general dont get me wrong the 360 is a GREAT system the only problem is the software pricing and the reliance on online multiplayer wich is way better on the PC

 

[radioactive lemur]

Buying a Wii instead of a PS3. I ended up getting the PS3 anyways, but only after 2 years of a wrist raping inferior gaming experience.

 

[el_kabong]

I don't really have a lot of major mistakes, but I'd say getting Dragon Age and several DLCs for it on PS3.

I ended up getting the computer version on a whim and found it's 10 times better (graphics and control-wise). But now, I don't have any DLC or Awakenings. I'm probably going to buy the new ultimate edition, or whatever, because they have said DLC and expansion for just around the price of one game, but that just adds to the shame of wasting my money buying (essentially) the same thing twice.

 

[Korenith]

Mine's not my mistake. It's my friends. He swapped me Abe's Odyssey for the Men In Black game on PS1. Poor fool. To his credit he never asked for it back as he had finished AO but damn MIB was an awful game. A real "comes with the console bundle" kind of game.

 

[Mr. Grey]

Spoiler: A mistake made when playing a game. I wrote it, I enjoyed writing it, I'm spoilering it for those bored and needing something to read.

Minecraft.

My mistake? Having dug an underground home beneath the ocean due to my lazy and fearful nature to place blocks in the dangerous above-ground-area-place. I even built a large glass tower breaking out of the water for me to know where my home was, I built a tunnel underneath the water with torches illuminating it underground, when I came to the hole that looked into the ocean I would be swept by the current and taken to the inside of my palace to be.

When I dug deep enough, I found lava. I was ecstatic, I could finally have enough fuel to make more glass for reasons that equal to "because I can!". I faced a quandary, however, I had no idea how to collect the lava. Do I take it from that stream? Seems reasonable. Needless to say I spent minutes trying to gather the lava. Why minutes? I died within those minutes. I had iron, among other things useful to me, I had lacked the foresight to dump everything - save the bucket - to the chest upstairs.

Shortly after, devastated and frustrated, I decided to delete my world and begin anew. Only to realise shortly after the fool I am to have done so. I regret my decision, although I may not have reached the status of underground palace, I could have... I didn't lose much, nothing I couldn't replace given time and I didn't lose anything all too important. So now I sit, on this couch, laptop in lap... thinking of the golden days I erased in vain.

That is my mistake gentlemen... that is my sin.

Purchasing mistake? APB. How will the new company that purchased everything will find a way to help me out is beyond me. I don't think they will find a way due to it just being too complicated, which is fine. I can't say I had much to begin with and I can't say I enjoyed anything more than the character creator when everything hit live. When everything hit live, everything went horribly wrong.

I'm going to assume the free to play company has some semblance of an idea as to what they're doing. They did make/bring-about WarRock and you didn't have to purchase weapons from the store to win in that game, you could win easily with the standard weapons. Still, I'll never get that money back because I bought it sometime before launch with a coupon EA gave me for my birthday.

 

[jebara]

Getting Grand Theft Auto IV.
Rockstar made the masterpiece that is the GTA III trilogy i would have never imagined theem making a game as bad as this!
On second thought my choice goes to forcing myself to beat GTAIV.
The game was so boring it was pure torture!!!
I only did that because i loved the GTAIII trilogy!

 

[killcheese]

Abusing my computer to play crysis on high... one new cpu and mobo later i can say it was NOT worth it...

 

[bojackx]

I bought Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time, and near the end of the game where you man a huge laser, I thought it was a single shot laser, but it was actually a continuous beam, and so I just sat there tapping the fire button and getting a small pathetic beam, and then complaining that the game is glitched as nothing was blowing up. I restarted the game, got to the same point and couldn't figure out what was happening, thought I had a faulty disc and then my friend said "just hold down the button until the asteroids explode" and then realised how retarded I had been.

 

[Sabiancym]

Paying for bioshock. Most over-rated game ever.

 

[Sylveria]

Final Fantasy 13. Need I say more.

 

[Yoshemo]

Paying full price for Spore.

 

[TheGreatKlaid]

Unlimited Saga or FFX-2, god I should've been smarter.

 

[Flour]

My biggest mistake in recent years has been buying a 360.

The only game for it that I like is Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Probably paying full price for Final Fantasy XIII and Farcry 2. While I liked them ok, I was extremely disappointed with both.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Playing Too Human. Biggest waste of game I have yet to play, and probably the worst I have yet to play (and this is coming from a guy who has also played Shaq Fu).

 

[Diablo2000]

... Selling my SNES...
I sell my soul if it helped get it back and it all the games i had.

 

[Thaliur]

I think my biggest mistake was buying and subscribing to World Of Warcraft. I bought one six-months-subscription because it was the cheapest in terms of ?/month at that time, and the last two months I just waited for my subscription to run out. One week before, I logged on again, gave all my stuff to friends I had there, and cancelled my account. After a few levels it was probably the most boring waste of time I ever experienced. The worst part (in my opinion) was the increasing emptyness of the game world. I started out as a gnome. I woke up in a tiny village, got sent on rather pointless quests with no apparent connection to the reward or the story, but that was fine, since I got to see some great landscapes, with NPCs running around and doing NPC stuff, different kinds of enemies, and, after some time, Ironforge. I think that was about the time when it started to go downhill. While the areas seemed to be connected by quests in some way (I almost always got a quest to bring something to someone in another zone), I was suddenly left to roam freely. I ran around a bit irst, because the landscape seemed, while not particularly interesting, still diverse, but the farther away from the starter zones I went, the less interesting everything looked, and once the "Wow, what a view" turned into "Wow, another empty desert/swamp/meadow", I began to notice the physically impossible climate changes, the annoyingly short respawn times, and what really bugged me: The fact that no matter how often I went and "saved" Gnomeregan, the home of my people (apparently), it was still a dangerous place infested with... something.
Oh, and the design started getting to me. I honestly would expect a chain link several metres in length to have more than 24 corners, just as an example. And everything was so... colourful. I felt like walking to unicorn vomit sometimes.

Oh, and the South Park game.
It had some pretty good ideas, and an actual storyline that felt appropriate for the show, but it just wasn't a good game, as a game.