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Posts: 336

(08/08/07 2:46 PM)

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I was looking over the old topics and saw the "It's worth..." topic, and started thinking about games I've overpaid for given the amount of entertainment I've gotten out of them. My biggest regrettable impulses:

Radiant Silvergun (Saturn) - not worth the $150 I spent by any means. It's fun, but terribly overrated and overpriced.

Lunar 2 (Sega CD) - again, it's okay, but the $60 I paid for it was as much as I paid for the superior Playstation release.

Macross M3 (Dreamcast) - Import pricing at its best, I let my enthusiasm for the franchise convince me to blow $70 on a mediocre game.

Killer 7 (GameCube) - I paid $40 for a brand new copy I still haven't opened on a whim, and I almost never buy brand new games. Tax return spending.

Arc the Lad Collection (Playstation) - $70 for another game I've barely even played given how poorly it aged. I
was too ready to spend on Working Designs products at the time.

Kengo (PS2) - Paid full price ($60) at its launch because I wanted something to play on my PS2 and I liked Bushido Blade.

Vay (Sega CD) - $40 was too much.

Sengoku 2 (Neo Geo) - I like this game, but $120 was steep given its quality, even for Neo Geo. By contrast, I don't at all regret the $150 for Sengoku 3. I'd say it'dve been worth about $80 to me.

Kabuki Quantum Fighter (NES) - I spent my birthday money (I rarely got money for my birthday, but that year I did) on this for $30 at Wal-Mart as a kid, and even though it was beatable and okay, it definitely wasn't worth it considering what else was out that I passed on.

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(08/08/07 7:44 PM)

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There been too many cases of me paying full price for a game only to never play it until long after a price cut for me to list.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, there's been a number of Saturn games I regret not getting before their prices inflated, like Shining Wisdom, Dragon Force, and Magic Knight Rayearth. I guess when Working Designs went out of business it increased demands for their stuff, although it seemed like Dragon Force inflated long before Working Designs closed.

I also regret not getting School Rivals and Ogre Battle Limited Edition from Gamestop before they stopped accepting PSX games.

And though it's not a video game, I had to spit up $100 for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Vol. 10 because the Godzilla movie got it recalled and I thought $50 was steep when I first saw it at Best Buy (but it was great I got it when I did, because now it's reaching $150 and even $200).

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(08/08/07 8:01 PM)

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I have a hard time remembering what I paid for most of my games and I think a lot of my collection was gotten at discount and bargain prices.

The only thing that readily springs to mind is Turok: Dinosaur Hunter for the N64. I believe I bought that new for some inscrutable reason (though I don't remember the exact price I paid - maybe somewhere around $50) and I didn't like what I played of it at all.

That was the first sign I got that the hype for N64 games wasn't always going to equal their quality. The second and third signs I remember getting were Blast Corps and Forsaken.

I also think I bought Quest 64 new, and bleh, that certainly wasn't worth it.

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(08/09/07 12:00 AM)

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This seems like a good question, but I can't think, off the top of my head, of any huge regrets, regarding game purchases, that I have.

Radiant Silvergun may not have been worth what I paid for it, but I still don't have much regret in buying it. The most I can regret is that I could have bought it when it was new -- the only reason I didn't was because I didn't yet have a Saturn, and wasn't sure when I could get one, and further wasn't sure of what to do to play imports when I got one -- which would have saved me about 50%. But it's not that big a deal.

One thing that comes most to mind is that I chose to buy The Adventures of Bayou Billy when it was new. The amount of money I spent on it isn't so important in and of itself, but it did mean that, at the time, I wouldn't have been able to buy another game until months (or years) later. Also, it's possible that I chose Bayou Billy over Castlevania, and shortly thereafter Castlevania went out of print.

But, again, in the long run, does it matter? I couldn't own Castlevania for years, but now I do. Bayou Billy may not be a great game, but since I've owned it longer than the average person, I grew to understand it more than the average person.

I guess I regret not taking more care of some of my old game boxes or memorabilia, some of which are lost or ruined, and may be nigh irreplaceable. But some things can't easily be prevented (eg., our apartment flood), and it's not like boxes are as important to me as the games themselves, so I'm still able to get over it.

I'm not gonna regret simply buying a bad game. Over time, enough bad purchases can make me disillusioned with gaming, but, looked at one game a time, you pay your money and you take your chances. It's not like the risk is the same level of magnitude as, say, buying a used car.

Overall, I think the main decisions I made in regards to gaming have left me with little regret. The first significant decision I ever made as a gamer was whether I should have bought a Nintendo Entertainment System, or an Atari 2600. I went with the NES. That was also the best decision I have ever made as a gamer. I can barely imagine how things would have been different for me had my decision gone the other way.

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Amagons brother

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(08/09/07 1:48 AM)

Ouch, yeah, I got bit on Quest 64 new as well. That took all of 8 hours to finish (and dull ones at that).

Fortunately for me, I was up on most of the Saturn stuff at the time, so I got most of those games (Panzer Dragoon Saga, Dragon Force, Shining Wisdom, RayEarth, Burning Rangers, Shining Force III) all pretty cheap... I don't think I paid more than $30 for any of them.

What Crawl said about buying an NES over the Atari made me think of getting an SNES instead of a Genesis. I mean, I have 'em all nowadays, but I can only imagine what my tastes might be like if I'd been trying to force a Sonic shaped peg into a Super Mario-sized hole.

Oh, and Under Defeat for Dreamcast was not worth the $65. I took the risk on importing that one new because I REALLY liked Border Down, and it was by the same developer... It's dull.

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(08/09/07 11:31 PM)

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I too picked the Super NES at the time. I don't think it was a decision of quite the magnitude of Atari vs NES, though. I might have been happy with the Genesis ... assuming, that is, that I could find games for it that I liked. I'm not a huge fan of the Sonic games. I didn't like Phantasy Star 4 (nor 1). I did like games like Contra Hard Corps, Gaiares, and Thunder Force II, but would I have known about those games at the time? It seems like Contra Hard Corps should have been a big name game, but I didn't know about it until 1998 or so (then again, since I didn't have a Genesis, I didn't follow it much).

On the other hand, a lot of old-school game fans rank the SNES right up with the NES, or even higher. I don't, however. I was a big fan of Final Fantasy 2 (US), so I was still happy with that choice, though.

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(08/10/07 1:25 AM)

For me there wasn't really a decision to be made between Atari 2600 and the NES, since my parents already owned an Atari for years by the time the NES came out, so it was more of a separate generation thing to me. I've accrued a large group of Genesis games over the years, but the only ones I'd dare hold up for quality against SNES games are shooters (mainly MUSHA, Grind Stormer, Phelios, and Gaiares) and action games (most notably Contra: Hard Corps, Castlevania Bloodlines, and Gunstar Heroes). Sonic never held a candle to Mario in 2D for me, and there's just no Genesis equivalent for A Link to the Past or Super Metroid... not to mention the disparity in quality RPGs. Yeah, in retrospect, I might've gotten into different hobbies more if I'dve had a Genesis or Turbografx instead.

Another regret I almost included was Seaman, but I did get a lot of fun out of the microphone by using it with the import Death Crimson 2 to record dying voices for enemies I shoot (each player can record a 2 second dying quip, up to 4 players, and the enemies you shoot yelp out whatever you put in), so I can't totally hate on it.

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(08/14/07 6:19 AM)

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you have a Sega CD?!?!? i didn't even know it existed when it existed.

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Amagons brother

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(08/14/07 1:01 PM)

Yeah, I have a Sega CD... hell, I have a Jaguar CD even amongst somewhere around 30 systems. I don't regret getting the Sega CD, because even though Lunar 2 wasn't as good on it, the first Lunar I really liked on Sega CD, Popful Mail's a riot, Robo Aleste and Android Assault turned out to be great shooters, and Sonic CD was probably my favorite of the 2D Sonic games. Heheh, Jaguar CD, though... I don't call it a regret 'cause I paid almost nothing for it, but there is NOTHING to play on it. The best game in my mind is Battlemorph, the sequel to the Jaguar pack-in, Cybermorph, which I like for largely specious reasons.

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(08/14/07 7:24 PM)

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We have a Sega CD -- actually, a CDX.

Had I purchased a Sega CD brand new for its full retail price, I probably would have regretted it. Otherwise, though, what's the big deal?

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(08/29/07 7:23 PM)

funny, i bought psiv for $80 when it came out and didn't regret it for a second.

most of my regrets are over not buying certain games when i had the chance. that or selling a game before the price on it went thru the roof.

the most recent thing like that i didn't even have the cash for at the time so i can't regret not getting it too badly. (smt nocturne & digital devil saga).

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