What is the first game you remember you regretted purchasing as a kid?

Chicken Run on the Gameboy Color

>>259549507

fucking Godzilla for Game Boy

>>259549507
Eye of the Beholder for the Gameboy Advanced.

>>259549507
Wasn't a child, but Spore was my first regret. Somehow managed to avoid buying shitty games until that.

Sonic 3. How it was advertised made it sound incredible and revolutionary, but it was just Sonic 2 with Knuckles. He couldn't even jump up directly to kill enemies overhead. I wasted over $60 on that game.

crash bash

it kinda grew on me later on though

Sonic Heroes

>>259549507
Tekken 1, it was so bad. I skipped 2 but the tried out 3 and fell in love with it.

i went through my entire life without fucking up then Anubis for the Wii happened

>>259549507
Star Wars Attack of the Clones on GBA. To be fair, I was only 10 at the time. Fucking pissed thought because it took me forever to save up money to buy games.

I hated Kirby tilt and tumble when I first bought it. Finally beat it years later though, that was a fucking great game.

Collin McRae, I wanted to buy Final Fantasy and I somehow mistook one name for another

Garfield on the PS2. I may have gotten Sonic Heroes first though, I can't remember

>>259550230
Fun fact, that game is actually a reskin of Ninjabread Man right down to the level layouts.

Sonic Unleashed
I chose this over Left 4 Dead, I came back to the store a couple of weeks later to buy L4D, stopped playing Unleashed immediately after.

>>259549507
Metroid Prime closely followed by The WInd Waker
I preodered a lot of shitty GCN games as a 15-16 year old

>>259550732
Don't take the b8 guys. Just don't do it.

>>259549507

Final Fantasy VII.

I grew up playing the likes of Ultima, Ultima Underworld, Darklands, then I stopped playing RPGs for a while. I got a PS1 when I was 8 and bought Final Fantasy VII, it was so shit I didn't touch another RPG for 6 years.

I wasted a birthday game on Mario's Time Machine.

>>259550393
>Garfield on the PS2
oh man I forgot about that one, crazy load times whenever you change room, terrible game overall

I think probably Dragonball Z: Sagas.
I was 18 or so, but they drummed it up to be a DBZ RPG, so I expected 3D Legacy of Goku. Instead I got a super linear action game with shit combat.

Must have been that Dragon Quest for wii, jesus christ it was terrible

Can't think of any I bought, but I rented Mortal Kombat Mythologies one time and regretted the hell out of that.

Some 007 game for PS1. I was a dumb kid thinking it would play like Goldeneye.

Austin Powers Pinball

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The Flintstones Bedstone Racing for PS2. I have no fucking idea what was I thinking. It was Christmas, and I just received a PS2 but had no games, and was about to decide if I should have picked Klonoa, Crash, or this. And I picked this game. It wasn't even an original copy.

>>259549507
I can't remember a single one. Being somewhat poor we couldn't buy games very often so even if the game was bad I would treasure it dearly.

Looking back, I think I may have been happier poor.

that extreme paintball PC game

the simpsons wrestling for ps1

i was so fucking dissapointed

Pimp my ride for ps2. Holy shit that game was bad. I thought it would be like need for speed but with lowriders.

>>259551010
This.
I would have enjoyed the game if it wasn't glitchy as fuck. Every time I tried to play with someone in free mode I would glitch a lot and do stuff like moonjumping forever or falling in to the ground endlessly. Fucking hell.

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Fuck this fucking piece of garbage.

>>259549507
Dr. Mario. I thought it was like any other Mario. The guy at the store told me it was a different kind of game but I was so shy I locked up and just bought it. I was disappointed.

mario party 3

>>259549507
Superman 64

>>259551452

Oh, shit. I bought that too. The memories are flooding back.

KOTOR 2. It was ugly, confusing, and buggy as hell. Recently I picked up again and I loving it.

>>259551452
There were a few paintball games released in the early 2000s. It was kinda weird

>>259551627
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWm3enONEug

>>259549507

Rugrats: Scavenger Hunt.

My brother still reminds me to this day.

>>259549507
pokemon puzzle league

it caused my mom to rape me which then continued for 3 years

>>259552236
YEAH, THAT FUCKING SHIT SCARED THE FUCK OUT OF ME.

>>259552236

>The Amazon was once home to over 6 million Indians

Wow really? I never knew they crossed the pacific.

What is with you Americans and misusing or reusing nationalities?

>>259552459
Shut the fuck up faggot.

I actually managed to somehow dodge the worst shitpiles as a kid, all games I bought were enjoyable. It wasn't until later when I got MechAssault 2, holy shit that game was ass compared to the first one

>>259549507

Spent €60 to buy "The Witcher 2" because I heard my friends talking about it and I wanted to be cool.

My PC could barely run it and I just didn't like it.

Mega.bomber man

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>>259549507
I'd saved up my cash and had enough to buy an SMS game, I was deciding between this or Asterix, I was a stupid stupid kid.

Even for a Master System game, it was borderline unplayable, full of glitches and really obtuse objectives. Most of it's difficulty came from pinpoint jumping sections that mar level 2 onwards. This game taught me to be weary of licensed games

Bioshock

I was 17 maybe 16 and it was a few years after it initially released. I went back and finished it before infinite came out and it wasnt as bad as I remembered. Still would have saved my 6 dollars though.

>>259552987
I could never get past the second level of this.

It was a truly shit game.

duke fucking nukem: forever

Sonic and the secret rings.

Some girl in my class in the fifth grade had a nokia ngage. I bet she regretted that instead of going out and buying clithes to get fucked by middle schoolers

>>259552236
There were indians in the Amazon. 6 million of them? Jesus, when was this?

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12 games my fucking ass.

The worst thing is that i still remember choosing this instead of fucking STRIDER 1+2.

>>259549507
Virtual On for the PC

I knew my 386 couldnt handle that shit but I just really wanted it

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>>259552431
How so?

Rise of the Robots for the SNES.

It had robots. I liked robots.
It had CGI characters like Killer Instinct. I liked Killer Instinct.
I thought I would like it. I was a fool.

>>259553175
Nigga, what? You must be ultra poor. I spent £7 on Dues ex HR last year and I don't give a shit.

>>259553416
>as a kid

I bought a Star Wars: Behind the Scenes Interactive CD. I tried to make the most of it by making up stories for the little 3D walkthrough tour of the Millennium Falcon, Han Solo was there and Chewie and Jar Jar, and stormtroopers would try to take it over but our blasters were too much for their death stars. it was shit, im glad i lost it.

Ephemeral Fantasia

returned it same day

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>>259549507
>Be 7 at a time when the internet access was rare, a time when games were always locked in glass cases, and when I did not read gaming magazines
>Thought that this was going to be a Mario like platformer from the front box art
>Get mom to buy this as the one game I got every 6 months
>Get game and find out it is a Tetris like game
>Cry my self as I smash squids into dino eggs for the next 6 months
>Get Metroid 2 at the end of those 6 months and restore my faith in gaming

>>259549507
>not Dobsons secret weapon

>>259549507

>pit fighter

>>259549507
Blast Corps

Utterly Shiite and a blight on my n64 collection

Rise of the Robots.

>>259549867
Not sure if trolling or stupid

>>259555773
Blast Corps shitty? I thought that game was a hidden n64 jem.

Had Harry potter and the sorcerers stone on pc at my dad's house

Asked mom for the playstation version, at the time being a kid I don't realize pc and console versions were so different

I never got over that shock

>>259555773
Fuck you, Blast Corps is great

Wasn't a kid, but World of Warcraft. When I was a kid I never complained about games.

>>259555953

Have you played it? A lot of games get hyped on here that are actually pretty awful

C&C Tiberian Sun

I was already a fan of Dune 2000 but the graphics literally almost made me cry, I was 10.

Traded it for Renegade though, worth.

>>259556114
No, I remember the ads of it in magazines. It looked cool at the time. That and I have read people say it is decent.

>>259556329
> ten and already a graphics fag

Started early with this nonsense eh

A2 Racer. My brother got C&C Red Alert. I was fucking jealous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_1uUnqMdqE

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I haven't really regretted any purchase, except for games that didn't ran good on my PC.

Even if the game was kinda shit I played it anyway because fuck the police

>>259556329
what the hell fuck you

Super Man 64 because the asshole at the store convinced me to trade my Banjo Kazooie for it.

>>259556407
I fucking love Blast Corps. Reminds me of being a kid running through the beach and destroying fucking sandcastles and then running off to fuck up the next one, except without pissed off adults chasing after me.

I chose Pokemon Yellow over Pokemon Stadium when I already had red and blue because I was convinced it would be different in some way.
I chose wrong.
Dead wrong.

>>259556574
>>259556786

Give me a break I was 10. I wanted to be wowed by the pretty colours I didn't care about the gameplay or story. I couldn't even follow the fucking story in Red Alert 2.

>>259557016
Sucked in braj

>>259557016
jesus

Ape Escape 2 for PS1. Remember being so excited for it and getting it on my birthday, and everything was disappointing. Bad controls on the same tier as Spyro, uninteresting characters, heck I don't even remember much about the game now.

I don't even think I finished it.

>>259557548
you should try AE3, it at least has the lolibutt and cool costumes

A game called Baldies. I couldn't understand how to play it. An RTS that was more than just "box units, right click enemy" was alien to me.

>>259549507
I loved how this movie was basically "James Bond vs Black People".

from my own money? Judge Dredd Dredd vs Death for gamecube.

>>259557016
Ha, you retard.

>>259549507
no idea about the first, but i remember one instant regret as a teen, which was sudeki. god, what a fucking disappointment, and i paid full price.

Pet in TV.
Maybe it was good but i just didn't get it all.

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>>259549507
Nearly dropped the ps1 after purchasing this

>>259549507
The Smurfs for psx:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXgbTr-vX14

and Tiny Toons (thought it would be similar to the amesome Tiny Toons vidya on NES):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpjyLjGIVDA

>>259558231
wot movie

Robot wars on gbc. Stung real bad

>>259557975
>Baldies

Holy crap, me too anon. I would play it on LAN with my dad and I had no idea what the hell was going on. I might download it now and see if it was complicated or if I was just a dumbass.

Fallout Tactics

I loved the first two, and thought Tactics was going to be just like them. My step-dad was also a fan of them so I convinced him to buy it for us.

Looking back I'd say Metroid 2 on the GB, simply because it was too hard when I was 5. I tried my best, though, and got a little bit into it.

I remember buying a 'dogz' game when I was 7 that was absolutely terrible, and some muppet game for the PS1 which was a spyro knockoff. Looking back on that, the Muppets (Monster Madness?) was actually pretty alright, not sure why I hated it.

The sad part was if I didn't like a game, I felt so guilty because the nearest game shop was at least an hour away. We could return games, but my mum/dad would get mad at me.

Sonic Adventure on the Dreamcast, even back then FPS mattered to me, not so much 30 that I minded, but, when the FPS dipped, I got pissed, the Gamecube port was so much better.

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>>259566791

>>259568925
I need to get a bond collection.
The movies are great.

>>259569631
Live and let die is one of the best Roger Moore movie, the later ones started to get pathetically campy.

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I don't know why I thought it was a good Idea to invest my hard earning in a fucking pinball game.

>>259549507
None, because I only rented games, I never bought them unless I really really really fucking loved them and kept re-renting them.

Can't believe people actually bought games when you could've just rented first

Harvest Moon 64

Dragon's Lair for the NES. It taught me that there is such a thing as a game shitty enough to give up on. And I even enjoyed Top Gun and Mission Impossible for the NES.

>>259570746
I liked Golden Gun quite a bit.
>that scene where he shoves one chick he's going to plow in the cupboard
>just so he can plow another
Fucking based.

Diablo 3, that game sucked

>>259575243
>Y-you'll never defeat me anon-kun
>S-so what if you have murdered hordes of my greatest warriors and destroyed all of the relics

Shingen the Ruler.

Bought it expecting some awesome samurai action and it turned out to be a tactical rpg. The game is ok, but as a kid I was disappointed as fuck.

>>259549507
Final Fantasy X-2

>>259549507
Does renting count? When I was young renting was the big thing.
I thought it would be like Spyro the dragon.

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>>259575735
forgot pic.

No idea. I know the first game I regreted owning (it was a gift).
Bubsy 3d.

>>259575824
Croc was awesome, why didn't you like it? Or was it just because you were expecting Spyro and it wasn't

Quest 64.

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>>259576252
I was expecting a game like spyro, and it was nothing like spyro.
That was when I was a kid, so I don't remember the details, just the strong feelings of regret and remorse.

Also would like to post my second renters remorse . I legit cried.

>>259552431
Story time.

The first game I regretted purchasing was Monster Rancher 3 as a teenager. Holy shit, what a fucking letdown from 2.

>>259576624
Fair enough anon, coincidentally I loved Croc as a kid and never had Spyro, so when I finally played it years later I didn't like it too much.
Pic related is my earliest memory, I was less than 10 at least. I think I got it because it had heaps of my favourite characters on the cover so I thought it'd be awesome, but I got bored with it fast. When I got older I played it again and really enjoyed going for high scores.

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>>259577015
Woops, pic related

Azurik.

I never actually beat it (I was shit when I was younger and never eat ay of my games, MGS1 I didnt get past Revolver).

I remember spending a lot of time doing shitty platforming jumping to some air powerup before giving up. Combat was shit too.

Bonkers for the Genesis. Could have gotten Road Rash 3, but nope. What the fuck was wrong with me back then...

Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
I also learned to hate the SWEU pretty early

KotOR 2. I spent literally all of my money on that game because a friend of mine peer pressured me into it. I hate turn based games so the first week I was tremendously sad having spent 50 Dutch guilders(a fortune for me) on it.

Shortly after that I got hooked and realized my money was more than well spent. 11/10 would spend all my cash on it again.

>>259557548
What's wrong with you? The controls were fine. AE2 was certainly weaker than its predecessor and successor, but they were all good.

>>259549507
The Wii

Technically parents bought it but still shit was boring as fuck.
>inb4 underage
Nah I'm 21 I just can't remember a bigger mistake. I can tell you my favorite game ever and the game I got the most joy out of, was cs for my original Xbox. First real online game I ever played.

Men and Black for GBA

I never got an allowance so I never really bought my own games

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it took me until Brawl in junior year

I've regretted every video game purchase I've made in the last 6 years. Nearly 300 bucks down the drain.

I loved medieval fantasy so I thought Lair would be an amazing game.

>>259549507
actually it was medal of honor 2011
it was 15 at that time

The first one I bought personally if I can remember, was Megaman X4.

The first one that someone bought for me, I think was Crash Bandicoot.

Sonic heroes

However my best impulse purchase was PSO after playing the 4th one when I was a kid.

Black and White. My first contact with getting swindled by the blatant lies of Molyneux. It was supposed to be a god game where you could do anything. Turned out to be a shallow tamagochi with boring pseudo-RTS missions. Fucking dropped. By the way can anyone tell me if Black and White 2 was any better? Ive had the images on my HDD for ages but havent bothered to get into it

>>259549507

Poky & Rocky, what a steaming piece of shit.

>inb4 some 'spergy weaboo crying about how it's the best game ever made

>>259579841
Why? I mean, there were the movie based games I had when I was a kid, but I didn't know better. Now today, someone would have to pry some of those games out of my cold dead hands, especially Xenoblade and all the Dragon Quest game I own.

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top gun 2 for NES
AVGN wasn't exaggerating, this game is shit

>>259549507

Bought Battlecruiser Millennium when it came out and it still haunts me to this day.

I played it for half a day and half of that was getting it to work and not crash, the other half was just... not understanding the obscure game mechanics.

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what about best impulse purchase you've ever made?

For me, it'd have to be Timesplitters 2. I was shopping with my mom and there was a bargain bin of games around 2003 or so. She randomly picks this game out for dirt cheap and buys it for me.

Now, I'm used to the games my parents randomly buy being shit, but I tried this game out and I was blown away. I must have hundreds of hours sunken into this game

thanks mom

>>259550732
can't resist bait

you have terrible tastes and are a horrible human being

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>>259580657

Seemed like such a cool game too.

>>259580794
Dragon Quest 7, Robotic Alchemic Drive, and/or Spirit Tracks. Those were three of the few impulse buys that I didn't come to regret.

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>tfw getting shaq-fu as a kid
Still not as bad as renting superman 64 but christ.

>>259580383
I've bought 5 games since 2008.

Infinite Undiscovery, Star Ocean 4, FF13, Golden Sun 3 and Dragon Age 2.

If you'll notice, these games each came out months apart from each other so it was just a cycle of "hey that looks cool and I've got money to spend" to "god dammit that sucked" back to "hey, I've got 60 bucks to spend". Haven't bought a single game since 2011.

I will admit they were all my fault as well.

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It was the only Yu-Gi-Oh! game out at the time and I thought it would be great.

>Deck limit system which forces you to use horrible cards until you earn more points.
>Every card has an elemental type, with a strength/weakness system going on that ignores attack stats. This means a Blue-Eyes White Dragon can get destroyed by a Kuriboh.
>Only one space for magic/trap cards, if they don't get used up in the turn they're placed, they are destroyed.
>No graveyard, cards are just gone forever.

>>259568215
you could download dogz even back then.

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II never really bought games as a kid and even when I asked for them for Bdays and whatnot I only went with trusted series. It was only later on that I'd get games I'd regret wasting time on and even then those were downloaded. I guess technically there was this
>Be 17 at mall with friends
>Really limited on cash and a lot set aside for bus ride home
>Go into game stop for looks and giggles and there are the terrible games for $1.00
>Get wiifit and say "Hey guys I got us a Frisbee!"
>Everyone laughing at my killer joke. Shit was so cash
>Move onto food court and only have enough for food but no drink because I'm a dollar short
>mfw

crash bandicoot wrath of cortex

i haven't made a bad purchase until Starcraft 2

>>259555773

this is a finer bait, must have cost a pretty penny

>>259581882
Oh... Oh god... I'm sorry. Although, look on the bright side, you could have made the mistake of buying these games digitally or buying something far worse thinking it was good.

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Halo 2.

Fuck all I could think about while playing it was how shitty I was going back to a Halo, especially after reading fall of reach, the lack of any of that e3 demo scene, and the fucking boss fights.

Yes I like boss fights but god damn it was refreshing not having them for a change. I just wanted to fight to save Earth but nope, had to keep going back to halos.

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This piece of shit was hyped like mad back in the day, and it was god damned terrible. I can play and enjoy bad games, but Quest 64 was just too much.

And yet, I bought it's Gameboy sequels

The Gameboy version of Dragon's Lair. God was that a huge pile of shit.

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Pic related. Damn box art lured me in.

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I was too young to appreciate JRPGs I guess.

>>259549507

Pokemon for psx

>It was actually rescue shot and it was quite fun

>>259585325
This.

Hated Baiten Kaitos and payed 60€ for it. Wasn't really a kid anymore, but it disappointed me a lot. Especially after spending 20 on Skies of Arcadia Legends and loving it.

>>259552987
The worst part of this story is that you almost had Asterix, a truly amazing and wonderful game.

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Welp
30 DEUTSCHE MARK down the drain

>>259555527
This happened to me too. All I wanted was a mario world type game on the game boy and I buy some shitty puzzle game instead.
It did teach me to actually look at the back of the box instead of assuming what genre game was I suppose

>>259555527
>>Thought that this was going to be a Mario like platformer from the front box art

>"Pure PUZZLE PANIC with Yoshi and Friends"

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i wasnt expecting much but i expected atleast something playable

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I loved every Army Men game on the PS1 and was disgustingly disappointed when I got an on-rails shooter that was also hard as fuck.

I don't think I played this more than an hour.

>>259586776
Oh lord
Those games are easily the worst games ever made.
Atleast ET can be played, atleast Superman 64 can be played, atleast rapelay is funny.

>>259584838
I liked what the tried to do with the combat and the to-scale overworld. Everything else blows chunks though for sure.

>>259586726
Kids don't read, they look at the pictures

>>259550056

help me remember /v/ I just replayed this buggy mess again, and it's cool attempt to try something. But the engine was some kind of hyperdynamic lod shader thing , right?

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>>259549507
this piece of shit

this is when I realized not everything was awesome

>>259582041
but hey how bout that Acid Trap Hole huh
or the metagame-changing Salamandra

This piece of shit taught me to always check the developer, and that pre-ordering is for retards.

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>>259588267
Forgot pic, I'm retarded.

half of all my games for nintendo ds.
shitty unoptimized multiplat games made to trick lil kids like me

>>259549507
Every movie/TV based game I got in my childhood. It's a whole pandora's box of regret.