What games did you buy at full price and quickly regretted it?
>>722074757>buy
Tales of Symphonia 2
>>722074876I'm vegan, by the way.
Evolution World for the GCN
>>722074757Literally meI begged my parents to buy me "enter the matrix" it came on 6 cds I think. And it turned out biggest shit in the universe, I was so fucking mad with myself I never bought any game ever (except PoP warrior within) and just borrowed games from my friends.
remember how you needed to buy a memory upgrade for the N64 to play majora's mask?
Been a while since I paid full price. Indie games I just get on steam sale, big games I always use keysites like idk instant gaming or just pirate from rutracker. I'd never buy a remake or an AAA game, but I certainly won't pirate something like look outside.
>>722074757Toy Story on SNES. I traded away my copy of Super Metroid for it.
>>722074757>PicThere were corners to try out games before buying
>>722074757Dragon Age 2.
>>722074757Last one was TotK, but I got my money back.
>>722075086I'm sorry anon I had Toy Story and loved it and beat it.
>>722074757Dragon's Dogma 2. It was the only modern game I was willing to buy no matter what because it couldn't possibly turn out bad, and you already know the rest of the story.
>>722074757thisit sucked but i learned that while i like jrpgs, i do not like gay anime shit
>>722074757I havent bought a full priced game in probably 10 years, I get everything on https://www.instant-gaming.com/?igr=gamer-8b1867
>>722074757Dark Cloud 1, Borderlands 3, Fable 3, DOA4, THPS1+2R, and FF7R
>>722074757crazy how games doubled in price but the quality dropped also
>>722074757LOTR Conquest (or whatever the one that was supposed to be LOTR battlefront was called) did not meet my standards.
>>722074757>zoomers dont know about blockbuster/hollywood videoAlso used to abuse funco's 7 day return policy until gamestop bought them.
>>722075064came bundled with DK64 so it was a non issue for me
>>722075265Consoomers don't need good, it just has to be new, bonus points for being trendy with their favorite like&subscribepig
>>722074757Too many to count. Had a few discs that just flat out didn't work for me at all for some reason, back in the day.
>rent games>buy them if you actually like themit was that easy
>>722075295Pretty much thisHad one right down the road from me, played a new game basically every week
>>722074757Every fightan game ever since I don't even play online.Learned to just wait for the inevitable price drop.
>>722075356you can still do thisits called steam refund
>>722075186literally me lmao
>>722075356>RentGoddamn the 90s and 00s were truly peak for gamers in every way
>>722074757Payday 3 and Callisto Protocol
>>722075267>LOTR ConquestNever got to play that one, and I really wanted to as a kid, back then. Reminded of that one Joan of Arc game a bit.
>>722075040you shouldve bought path of neo, that game was super sweet
>>722074757>It's 1992>You just rented five games for $5 dollars from your local rental shop and you have a week to play them>One is good, you convince your grandma to buy it for your birthday.
>>722075186>likes jarpigs>doesnt like animeyou filtered out like 90% of all jrpgs
>>722074757I fell foe two worlds 1 was gonna be the oblivion killer. I literally watched its trailer over and over again every single day until release. Bought it on launch foe 600kr which is around 60 bucks and some minutes into the game i started crying over wasting a opportunity to buy games on two worlds lolPicrel still have it
>>722074757i don't know if it was a thing around but the video game store where i used to buy games back then would let me trade my full priced game for another if you brought it back within a few days with the receipt, it saved the pain of bad games in the past
pic rel, it was an absolute piece of shit and i returned it the same day for less than half of what i paid. better than keeping it.
>zoomer who wasn’t even born yet tries to tell those who were how it was back thenNobody and I mean NOBODY bought a brand new game blind
>>722075603jrpgs were fine in the 2d era when the anime shit was gated by graphic capability growing up on snes final fantasies then playing some 3d uwu :3 game was jarring as a kid
>>722075186what jrpg isn't gay anime shit?
>>722075648kek i never heard of that game
>>722075648I kinda enjoyed it it, even though the game is pretty shit. And it has a cool main menu theme.
>>722075690>returned sames day>for less than half of what I paidOof.
>>722075186Same. I like the anime look but I don't like anime dialogue, acting and cringe jokes.
I feel this and I pirate everything. I even have good download speed so it's not like I'm waiting a full day for a game either, its just like "get this trash off my computer man" sorta feeling
Most recently, Fetus game. From the makes of odyssey my ass.
>>722075745Good!
>>722075690>didnt keep it for 20 years so he could sell it for $200 to some retarded collectoryou lack shark mentality
Stellar Blade at 20% off which is basically full price
>>722074757Bro games were literally $80 in 1992 and if it was bugged or totally broken you’d have no way to know or even return it easily.
>>722075749After 6 months i forced myself to play it. Dunno how far i got but i was killing everything super easily. Ran on sub 30fps lmao
>>722075407doesn't really work when modern game tutorials/intros are 3 hours
>>722075785i really liked that early-00s sci fi jrpg look
>>72207475750 bucks for a game in the 90's?
>>722075758I really hated it that much, I felt so fucking retarded. I bought it because at that point i thought Squeenix could do no wrong, and i wanted to see the FFX-2 demo (that was awesome, bought that game and enjoyed it). Only other time i ever returned a game the day I bought it was State of Emergency, but at least I got that used for like 10-15 bucks>>722075812I was the kinda kid who sold games when he beat them to get new ones. As a result, I played a shitload of great games back in the day, but I have had to rebuild my retro collection from pretty much nothing. I am well aware of how much money I missed out on, and it bothers me everyday
Street Fighter 4I was expecting it to be fun single-player like Tekken (it was not, it sucked ass)
>>722074757I preordered Fable 3 and learned real fucking quick never to do that again.
The moment I saw mobs dropping crafting materials I knew I dun goofed.
>>722076047It still makes me angry how dissapointing that game was after the god tier Fable 2.
>>722075356I still do this, except renting now costs $0.
>>722075105Video rentals used to be a mainstay in the neighborhoods of the poors. It was a sad day when they all went the way of the Dodo.
>>722076025This makes me so glad that the UK has a good returns policy.You can return any item (game, movie, book, etc) within 2 weeks of purchase for any reason, even if it's used/opened.It was a life saver as a poor child.
>>722075741You just like western localization. It completely changes artstyle in box etc. to more generic western fantasy, and changes writing to be less Japanese.Play DnD.
>>722076186Which is weird how come Video Rental stores never got knocked over in robberies?
>>722074757literally doesn't happen to me, im almost never disappointed in my purchases or media consumption choices, I have a very good intuition for what I will like. I honestly feel bad for people who lack this ability and have to go around guessing all the time.
>>722074757>look up 1992>see title >have flashback of my rageStar Trek: 25th Anniversary.
>>722074757I got fooled multiple times by LJN because I really liked Marvel as a kid.
>>722075741that’s why the OG FF7 rules and the remake drools. It’s easier to ignore the cutesy anime shit when it’s low poly
>>722076102glad i never got swindled by this, almost did
>>722076189>You can return any item (game, movie, book, etc) within 2 weeks of purchase for any reason, even if it's used/opened.I found out this lesson the hard way upon realizing that the return policy in my country is utter dogshit. Enough that you wouldn't even consider any future visits when they pulled bullshit like that.
>>722074757none, idk how you wind up regretting a game purchase other than gacha
Back then you never got buyers remorse
>>722076245They did. I got robbed at Hollywood Video once.
>>722076189wow, thats insanely consumer friendly. that would NEVER be a thing here in NYC, especially not in the ghetto in the late 90s. fortunately i bought so many games as a kid that my parents and i got in the good graces of the owner, and he would give us discounts and shit like that. even with trade ins, i was probably buying a $40 game just about every week - there were that many good games coming out back then.what a time to be alive....
>>722076332That's a huge bummer, I'm sorry to hear that anon.
>>722075941which is ironic because PSO2 when full blown kawaiiiiii uguuuuuuu~~~~~ :3
>>722074757That's why you rented it first
>>722076352I know, those late fees are nuts
>>722075006I liked this game lol
>>722075865many retail stores have a return policy. if game is shit in 5 minutes, you return it same day for money back. its not as common now because games are online keys like mmos.
>>722074757Wrestlemania on the NES
>>722076245I couldn't tell you what it was like in the big cities but trying to knock over a small time shop is downright nog behavior. Stealing the discs themselves is one thing but wiping out the store itself is just plain rude. When the town is small enough you will figure out who pulled it unless they came in from outside.
>>722076438I was born in 91 and I've never rented a game or movie.
i don't think i fully regretted a purchase until i got the collectors edition of halo wars. i thought they had figured out the console RTS finally but it was just as shit as any other.
>>722074757the entire n64 librarythey roped you in with the 4 good exclusives and then every single other game for that console was an honest to god 0/10
>>722076582I had a PS1 and an N64, the N64 got a lot more use than the PS1 did.
MOOOOOOOOOODS
>>722074757first you spent 3bux on a rental or talked to kids at schoolsome mom and pop game stores would often get those new games sold to them and they would have multiple TVs running and you could pop A N Y game in and try it on the spotthere was a game store called Game Force in my local Krogers(back when it had a bunch of also-connected businesses in a main hall) that did that
>>722074757My dumbass bought Dying Light 2.
>>722076531I was born in 91 and rented videogames and movies all the time
abib you worthless cocksucker
>>722074757Sonic Heroes was the first time I spent my hard earned money on a full priced turd.The game has 4 copy pasted story lines, with different characters that play exactly the same.It made my blood boil the fact some people claimed this game was good.No, it was fucking not.
>>722076756You were clearly richer than me.Because we were very poor, we bought all the games we wanted (better to buy a game used once, than to rent it 10 times plus travel costs to get back to the store).It means I never rented anything, but at least I still own all the games I loved growing up.
>>722075973Games were like $80 in the 90’sLike $100 in Canada
>>722076845>he didn't pirate Playstation gamesNo wonder you were poor.
>>722076845NTA but games here were 1bux for a 3 day rental(SNES/Genesis)N64 was spendier at 3bux when it came outbut a single dollarydoo for a weekend of play was some juicy value where I livedonly issue was that after retarded kids ruined manuals they started printing them as part of the cover inserts on the back lmaomany did not say enough
>>722076582Same, once you played Zelda, Mario, Starfox, and Goldeneye, there was nothing else worth checking out.
>>722076582bro, your Jet Force Geminiyour Blast Corpsyour Diddy Kong Racingare you seriously trying to play for even a second that any of those are a 0/10that ain't even all that comes to mind
>>722077007>He didn't pirate playstation gamesNo, I didn't. My cousin got his Playstation chipped and the thing literally exploded, huge bang, smoke plume rose out of the console, never worked again.I knew we couldn't afford a second PS if that happened to mine, so I just bought good games for cheap instead.
the division
>>722074757Jump Force is the only one so far
>>722076540I only played the ultimate edition. I love that game.Was the original bad?
>>722076895I don't remember them being anywhere near that expensive.
>>722077219they're still chasing the JUMP Ultimate Stars era of popularityand they just don't understand what made it BASED
>>722076845m8 it was like 5 bucks to rent a game for 5 days. Not everything was as expensive as blockbuster
>>722077219Yeah that game was ass.
>>722074757Metroid: Other M is the one I remember regretting the most.New York Race was another game I paid full price for and didn't really like, but it took more than 5 minutes because I'd enjoyed and played the fuck out of the demo so I knew I liked the gameplay. It just turns out the map they used in the demo is the best map in the game and every other track is confusing as fuck.
>>722074757naraka, enjoyed some games but not worth 80€
>>722077219The one time we can see these characters together and they fumble it this hard.
>>722077304I live rurally. The only rental place nearby was a blockbuster that took over an hour to drive to.It was cheaper to buy used games for us, it's why we did it.
>>722074757New World
>>722074757Space Marines 2 or whatever it was exactly called. Bought it for 60 dollarydoos on release and it was a mistake. Maybe a 10$ experience at most.
Bought Night Reign. Didn't even complete the first mission but that was over the two hour limit so I don't get to refund it.
>>722077349>The one timeThis wasn't the first or only time.
>>722077341kek, i checked the store page and now it's f2p, i got really fucked
>>722077349>the one timenigga
MH:Wilds
>>722077514I meant to say these videogame crossovers are the one time they are able to crossover all these characters. So it's something it shouldn't be fumbled.Also wasn't there a leak about a new game being in the making? What happened to that?
>>722076047I can boot up og Fable and still enjoy it. Fable 3 felt like an eternal tutorial. Can't finish it.
>>722076281A couple of years ago I was reading the Star Trek 25th anniversary issue of nintendo power while taking a shit and it suddenly hit me that it had been longer since that issue came out then it was from the end of Star Trek to that series. Star Trek was always boring boomer shit in my mind and the sudden realization that I was older than my father was when he bought that issue for me blew my mind.>>722077393I lived rurally and we didn't have a chain store like that. The video rental store was just some mom and pop place that had a deal where if you rented five games you could get them for five dollars for five days.
Saw some horrible shit in this thread. Some people deserve to burn in Hell for the rest of eternity.
>>722074757DOA on dreamcast I got a refund though so Idc
>>722076895new games were $40-$50 dollars in the US until the year 2000, you're making shit up to confuse zoomers and third worlders
I bought Rage 2 on release for some inexplicable reason. Only game I refunded so far.
>>722076582Just like the Gamecube and Wii
>>722077763First day on 4chan? That was almost certainly a Brazilian
>>722077835I can say with full certainty that around 1998-2005 console games were $50 because every birthday my grandmother would give me $50 which was enough for a single game
>>722074757>Its 1992.>I go into a rental store having a sale.>The SNES is popular so they are getting rid of their NES games that are rentals.>I walk out of the place with over 30 games for maybe $50.>Its now 1997>I go to Kmart with $50.>I walk out with 3 to 5 games at the price of $10 to $30 each.>Its now 2005 and I buy one game for $40.>Its now 2025 and I dont buy any games because id rather spend it on something worth while.
>>722077714>I lived rurally and we didn't have a chain store like that.Nor did we. Like I said, we had to travel for over an hour to get to our "local" rental store.It was absurdly prohibitive.If your local town had a video rental store, you lived much less rurally than I did.
Dragons Dogma 2
>>722077940yup, games didn't go up to 60 bucks until ps3 at earliest.... unless you were a tendie lmao
>>722076540I regret buying a shitty remaster of San Andreas for the 360 because I wanted to play it again. Realizing that it was the same company that will go on to do the Redeemed Editions was almost cathartic. They ripped me off before and now they got to do it again with the official backing of T2 themselves. I wouldn't piss on that shit heap of a company if they were on fire. The fact that they were using that already dogshit android port again with jeet slave labor and AIshart is just the cherry on top.
>>722074757Spider-Man 3 movie game for ps2.Really enjoyed the second one on pc, don't know what happened.
>>722077892not him, but I've been coming here for almost 20 years and had never seen hardcore CSAM on /v/
>>722074757devil may cry 2final fantasy x-2dc universeI learned not to fall for squeals because the first game was goodand not to think a vidya will be fun because I saw people enjoy it
>>722078070>Australian dollarsnice try
>>722078213that fact that you typed CSAM instead of cheese pizza proves youre full of shit, stop larping kid
Castlevania Doninum Collection and Ace Attorney HD collection. Save states, rewind. This is not how these games were meant to be played.
>>722074757Sacred 2because it's been right after i beaten first one, and when i saw sequel in the store i had to buy it, and since i was a stupid little kid i dind't understand spec requirements and when i started the game i had like 10 fps tops and i ruined the box when i was opening it like a fucking idiot so i couldn't return it lol
Every time I have pre-ordered a game, it takes week to arrive and the used copy market makes it half off. Every fucking time.>>722077763Before 2013 there was no great filter for that kind of stuff.
>>722077835Hello cherrypicker choosing the later console with the cheapest game medium, CDs. Meanwhile OP said 1992, so let's go to the SNES.
>>722078292The fuck are all those belts for?
>>722078312Have i actually been posting fucking Aussie Toys'R'Us fliers all this time?
>>722078312>ColoredAmerican catalog, faggot
>>722074994>retardfaggot never pirated consolesalso, your gay buzzword will never pickup.
>>722078434I was responding to someone in the thread who said games were 80 dollars in the 90s >>722076895
>>722078070I dont believe this ad. In the US I bought jet force Gemini for my birthday in July of 2000 at toys r us for $50 birthday bux. Granted this was like 9 months after release but I doubt that mattered
>>722078448No, don't listen to this deflecting faggot zoomer mad his larp about being alive in the 90s gets BTFO by catalog pictures. Your image includes the spelling "color", so does >>722078434It's American
>>722078516That was a branding decision.The Gameboy Color wasn't called the "Colour" in Australia either.
>>722078292My unpopular opinion is that the X2 ost is better than X
>>722078592It's not in the brand name you dumb fuck
>>722078448>>722078570and in Australia, Starfox 64 was called Lylat Wars so
>>722075356>The golem yearns for the joys of renting.
>>722078592It's in the product description not the name you blind retard. Also Starfox was not called Starfox 64 in Australia, it was called Lylat Wars. Larp harder you braindead zoomer
>>722078570>>722078645motherfucker actually made me check the internet. I hate to have to use this as a source, but it seems like toys'r'us catalogs are largely lost to time, so here is a 1999 christmas catalog courtesy of the chinese algorithm. N64 games are noticeably more expensive than PS games, the fucking console cost as much as 2 games for some reason (and a sick lime green see through one at that) https://www.tiktok.com/@christmas.commercials/photo/7534847483118177549
>>722078070>Canadian pricesNice try
I payed full price for AC:Odyssey and could not even get into it for longer than a day.>>722075438>Callisto ProtocolI was ready to buy this day 1, super excited, then my friends called me out for drinking and I ended up getting drunk instead. Read a bunch of reviews hungover the day after and discovered I saved myself $70. Thanks, alcohol!
>>722078446she collects themfrom her hamplanet boyfriends
>>722078871>American spellingNice try
>>722078942Which word? Be specific.
>>722078871Canadian prices were astronomically higher than that (try $109.99 for Starfox 64) and Canadians don't spell it "colored" so better luck next time, zoomer
>>722077862And switch....
>>722079007>Canadians don't spell it "colored"We literally do.
>>722079006Colored
>>722079007it's honestly a "depends" sort of deal lolboth have been used in Canadia, just depends on where you're at
>>722079086No we don't, you wannabe fatass americuck, fuck off down south.
>>722078915truth be told, it is a bad game but I did get some spooks/scares and don’t entirely regret my playthrough. If you can get it for cheap or free I’d say it’s worth a go
>>722079086>>722079156This. Some places do, some places don't.Canada is fucking weird.
>>722079156>both have been used in CanadiaYeah, maybe in the 70s>just depends on where you're atNo it doesn't, no official marketing produced by a Canadian company material is using American spelling. Take your L you fucking zoomer, your larp failed, you were born when the PS2 was on the market.
>>722079160>Larping as a canadian onlinefor what purpose?
>>722077862no if you picked up a random gamecube game there was a pretty good chance it had massive SOUL and was at least worth a playthroughi can remember just buying random shit as a kid and loving it. the hobbit. that clone wars game. timesplitters. and then every nintendo first party franchise also peaked on the gamecube. both multi and single player. so no I would not say the gamecube had any of the n64's problemsThat whole generation was insanely good. The PS2 and Xbox also had a really low shovelware rate.
mech warrior og xbox
>>722079251Because you tried to make claims about game prices 15 years before you were born, got BTFO by multiple instances of photographic evidence and now need to pretend you're someone else to dig yourself back out of the hole you dug
>>722079328>Because you tried to make claims about game pricesWhere did I do that? Quote the exact post.Seems like a weird reason to pretend to be Canadian.
>>722075742the best one - Expedition 33
>>722079314MechAssault you mean?
>>722079279>The PS2 and Xbox also had a really low shovelware rate.
>>722079470Nta but no. Mechassault was actually good.
>>722079191>Canada is fucking weird.What a diet of maple syrup and bagged pilk does to a mf
>>722074757Scarlet Nexus
>>722074757Dark Souls 2.I loved 1 and got 2 on release.
>>722079237I bet you this is the same child who tried to claim they've "been here for almost 20 years and never saw hardcore CP posted" earlier in this threadi really dont understand what drives people to pretend like this, its really fucking weird
Spore. What a turd of a game. Takes 30 minutes to get to the Space Age and then you just dink around hauling cargo back and forth. Not to mention the game just looks ugly as sin.
>>722079164Have you played Cronos New Dawn? I only have room in my life for 1 Dead Spacelik
I got caught by the "title sounds like a more famous, and much better, game". Try to guess what it was.
>>722079546What? They did. We're comparing it to the n64 and if you walked into any store that had n64 games chances are at least half of them were complete trash that didn't even qualify as a tech demo. Superman 64. Batman Beyond. That south park game with the snowballs. Even your worst ps2 game is leagues ahead of that shit
>>722078570I bought Bubsy when I was a kid from Radio Shack when it was nearly brand new for $10, you can suck my big fat boomer dick asshole, new games always costed that but if you waited a few months to a year they cost nearly nothing.Now, a game that's 10 years old is still fucking $60 new!So shove those papers up your ass, cause I have my funco land book and I am tempted to scan this shit to fuck all your gay arguments up from here and into the future because in that mail order magazine was the prices of all these games.I paid $10 for Secret of Mana, and I paid $20 for Super Mario RPG!
shitcom tarded 4
Overwatch back in 2016
>>722077408This was a terribly soulless MMO, made even worse by its post-release development arc. They started with actually good combat, with deep melee mechanics, then yielded to their playerbase and made it all hotkey clicking like every other MMO ever. They could have been the only MMO in existence with real combat but threw it away thinking they should just be WoW and lost whatever differentiating feature they had. Age of Conan did the exact same thing.>>722077506It's really a low IQ game that distills the parent franchise down into the lowest common denominator. "Boss rush" is just "Raids only" for soulslikes.
>>722074757>>722075180
>>722079191Get it together Canada, first you don't have a uniform way of spelling color next thing your entire society has collapsed
I wasn't even alive in 1992
>>722074757Most games, actually. I have been extremely susceptible to FOMO a lot in the past and I've been working on that a lot this year. Haven't bought anything day one this year besides Monster Hunter Wilds and Doom the Dark Ages. Games generally aren't worth $70, so I'm finally just waiting for sales on everything and working through a lot of my backlog in the meantime. Recent examples being that having not finished MGSV (and owning the Master Collection), Borderlands 3, Hollow Knight, and Hades prevented me from buying MGS3 Delta, Borderlands 4, Silksong, and Hades 2 day one on a whim. I finished Borderlands 3, another playthrough of original MGS3, and Hollow Knight in the past week and working on MGSV and Hades right now.
>>722074757I've been playing video games for 30 years and have never bought a brand new game full price because I'm not mentally retarded.
>>722082317>They started with actually good combat, with deep melee mechanicslmao
>>722074757That's extremely rare, but I would say Star Ocean 6, because I enjoyed Star Ocean 4 and atleast finished SO5 twice.
Donkey Kong Bananza
>>722074757In 1992 you could still return video games.
mario educational games on snes... time machine and mario is missingi thought they were normal ass games..
>>722076351You clearly didn't have Shaq Fu growing up.
>>722074757Steam offers refunds, and prior to that all my games were pirated. Even in the Amiga500 days.
>>722075356>pirate game>buy them to support the devs if it's actually worth the moneyit's this easy today
>>722074757Advanced WarfareAnd let me be clear, the game wasn’t even inherently bad. But back then I didn’t have online access (like not even WiFi). So I had to rely on offline stuff. The COD game I had before that was black ops 2 which offered a shit ton of stuff to do offline.Advanced warfare offered next to nothing interesting
>>722086513You enjoyed SO4? That game was so bad and cringe.
>>722074757RDR2>slow as fuck while listening to a retard talk during the 10 min horse ride, slow during animations and searching for stuff, shitty writing and story >b-but muh cowboys and graphic and balls shriking in coldstfu, boring as fuck and the realism killed the rest of it, let's waste 10 min for searching corpses because Arthus move like a retard in a wheelchair
Elden Ring Nightreign. The fuck is this shit? You have to run away from air? Does Miyazaki even plays his own games?
>shit music>shit graphics>shit UI>shit characters>a fucking child character>shit voice acting>shit quests>shit world>shit combat (its fucking WoW but you cycle abilities with the d-pad)>bUt AnOn YoU mUst PlaY unTIL the SkeLlI can't believe I got baited into playing this absolute trash. It doesn't get better, everything about it is insufferable and I paid full price it on launch.
>>722076102That game is pretty great though.
Every. Single. Jrpg.I'm not even joking.I guess there was a time I would be swayed into thinking FFX was a good game. But after 2005 something changed in my mind and I was no longer able to enjoy these type of games. Not even Persona.
>>722075216you still have to buy from there
>>722087269you have shit taste in video games
>>722087378I can only imagine how terminally alone you must be. Everything about this game screams "fucking loser" material. It's literally an offline MMO for people who have no friends, sitting in a dark room, too afraid to enter voice chat, laughing at jokes a child character makes.
No Dark Souls isn't a jrpg. But Expedition 33 is.
>>722078524you weren't even alive in 1992
>>722074757Octopath TravelerUnicorn Overlord
Helldivers 2, only game I bought in years. Noone bothered to mention in discussions that the pc community is pretty much dead so you're forced to use crossplay if you want any matches and let me tell you that the difference between crossplay on and off is night and day. I bought it on pc so I expected pc, assuming that probably makes it glaringly obvious I havent played a multiplayer game in over a decade.
>>722074757Final Fantasy 13.Fucking powered through it because there's gotta be something to this game. There was not.
>>722074757Civ VI could see why some people would like these kind of games but I just found it dreadfully boring
>>722074757Not me but my brother bought Outpost (1994) for full price because PC Gamer gave it a 95% and it turned out to be broken dogshit. When people chewed them out in the letters column they went "whoops we reviewed based on preview code our bad"
>>722074757Simpsons wrestling I was young and soooo pissed off
>>722074757Tekken 7I' been playing tekken since tekken 2 came out, but I just can't any more. I still play tekken 2-5 every now and then, but 6 and beyond are just garbage
>>722088824Literally me
>>722075356>go to restaurant and order food>only pay if I like it
>american analogy
this shit was so ass i often forget which test drive it was that i bought thinking it looked radit was not radit was v bad
>>722074757No mans sky Overwatch 1 What a shitty year 2016 was
>>722074757you could play free demos for literally any game exactly to avoid this, zoomnigger
>>722088336This sounds like a (You) problem because HD2 has one of the highest populations just on Steam. So even if you religiously turn off crossplay, there's still tens of thousands of players online at any time. If you're super serious and want callouts and people not leaving, join a discord, LFG thread, or even just use /vg/.
>>722074757Bioshit Shitfinite and it's lying trailers
>>722074757Need for speed pro something the one that was trying to be a track racing game
>5 minutes in>multiple segments where you walk slowly for no reasonUbislop
>>722079546If monkeys were real, I would spend an unhealthy amount of time giving them hard boiled rotten eggs and glued together fruit peels with rotten hard boiled eggs in them.I'd use the finest tools to put together chest nut shells to make them look and sound like there's real chestnuts in them, but once the monkey opens it, all it would receive is the stench of rotten eggs.I would keep doing this until they refuse to accept food from humans. And then I would methodically replace every single fruit in the park with fake ones filled with rotten eggs. I'd spend a fortune hiring as much staff as I need to make this happen for months, even years until the monkeys resort to cannibalism, and lo and behold, the baby monkey they killed has also been stuffed with rotten eggs.I don't know why, I just hate monkeys.
>>722088336>the pc community is pretty much dead so you're forced to use crossplayCompletely false. You simply don't understand the matchmaking system tbqhwyf. MAYBE this is true at low difficulties but there's virtually no reason to matchmake for Diffs 4 and under unless you're grinding Super Credits.
>>722092776May it come true one day, friend.
>>722092109>1992>demosStop pretending you were alive back then.
i bought a copy of armored core 4 answer on ps3 & regretted it as soon as i played it. it runs like total shit.
>>722092957>unless you're grinding Super Credits.Even then, I like grinding SC solo. I put on a video/show or listen to something and just cruise around with the warp pack and FRV. I get like 20-60SC and 2-10 medals every ten minutes. The key is to just find terminate broadcast maps so I can just pop the tower cross map with something and then chill. Much better than having to talk to people and coordinate IMO. I usually do 1-2 maps like that any day that I play since I'm a bit behind on warbonds.
>>722074757Nightreign
>>722087539JRPG and RPG are both just overloaded terms, like "love" or "sandwhich". People usually have a more specific idea of what they mean, which goes uncommunicated unless you elaborate. Like how Dark Souls and Dragon Quest are both Japanese and games where you "role play", but Dark Souls has action combat and light platforming with custom character creation while most DQ games are turn-based and menu-based random battles with predefined player characters.
>>722093431pc gaming was a thing back then too, dummy, and demo distribution actually relevant back in the day
>>722094257Show me a Mario 64 demo on pc from the 90s
>>722094257lol
>>722074757this never happened
>>722081038I remember pirating Spore and still feeling disappointed. So much obviously missed potential. The microbe and creature stages were fun, but I remember the civ stages playing pretty much the same no matter what each time.
>>722074757Yoshi's StoryIkarugayin and yang
>>722077541If there's one thing I got out of my disappointment for DD2 it's that Capcom were not to be trusted.Bought every single MH game on release since MHFU but I will never NEVER buy the steaming heap of shit that is Wilds.
my dad modded my gamecube and 360 to pirate every release, including older stuffthen he showed me how to pirate safely on pc too
>>722095436and og xbox* i meant
>>722074757Mario Kart World. Stay away.
>>722077114I remember renting Blast Corps and whoever had rented it before had won the entire game and left all the levels empty and I couldn't figure out how to delete the save.
>>722078292I liked FF x-2. The 12 yo me thought the music and aesthetics were cool.
>>722078434Nintendo games were expensive as fuck to the point there was a lawsuit over price fixing. PS games were cheap and the only Genesis game that hit $70 was Phantasy Star IV.PC games averaged $50.
>>722074757Dragons Dogma 2
>>722082094>cause I have my funco land book and I am tempted to scan this shit to fuck all your gay arguments up from here and into the future because in that mail order magazine was the prices of all these games.You are 100% full of shit until you post a single piece of evidence. You also type like a enormous faggot, and there was no need to attach a selfie of your ugly brown face
>>722078636I think everyone would agree on that. FFX only really has To Zanarkand and Suteki da Ne?My biggest issue with FFX-2 is that after it came out all the cosplayers switched from FFX Yuna and Rikku to the slutter FFX-2 versions.
TES: Oblivion.I bought the special edition with the metal coin at launch. I was so looking forward to more Morrowind-like adventures and the previews they had done all looked great. Radiant AI looked awesome.What a fucking letdown. I still haven't finished the game.
>>722087619You won't be alive in 2026.
Starfield
>>722074757Warios Woods. I legit thought its Warioland SNES. The eternal jap betrayed another gajin.
>>722078039Jesus where did you live?
>>722097167NYC
>>722074757Silent Hill 2 Remake
>>722074994>Bro doesnt know how big rental stores werekinda funny when people point at sales for older games yet a lot of these games somehow had a ton of reach. I wonder why...
I shelled out 110 eurodollars for the CE. Not only was the game ass, the bonuses sucked too. I paid like 50 extra for fucking post cards and a sticker?
>>722087065The worst thing about RDR2 is that you can't even bitch about it online because the fanbase is even more psychotic than tendies.
didnt pay full MSRP for KCD2 and that was my last game i regretted, paid 60 for gold edition. that game was rotten to its core with moronic woke ideology and pathetic cucked writing , like straight up unplayable and terrible. such a shame
>>722096572good, it meant that niggers stayed away
Did DVDs 'kill' rental?I remember we stopped doing rentals around the time DVDs got big because they were often scratched to shit. VHS tapes seemed a lot more durable in that regard.
>>722074757Animal Crossing New Horizons.Bought it because a friend bought it and we used to play Wild World together and he said it would be fun so I said fuck it and paid 60 bucks.Game fucking sucked because all the animals are soulless and without the fun of interacting with them the whole game feels pointless.
>>722097863No, rental was alive and well until online streaming. The VHS tapes were often noisy with distorted sound, nothing wrong with DVD quality.
>>722074757i dont get itjust go back to walmart and return itdid this a few times with some kinda garbage games back in the day, as long as you had the receipt you were legally entitled to a refund
>>722074757fall guys wasn't really even that expensive, but my friends tricking me into buying it, playing 4 rounds together and then dropping it forever was the last straw for me.
>>722098638yeah only reddit fags have buyers remorse
>>722096871>FFX only really has To Zanarkand and Suteki da Ne?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DVz_yAuyLo
>>722074757Starfield for 100euro
>>722100995Fucking ouch my man. They were giving that thing away with GPUs and CPUs, keys were all over eBay. I hope you refunded.
>>722075186I bought this and liked it though. I even have the prima guide lolI haven't played anything else in the series eirher
>>722074757Fable 3 except I bought the Collector's Edition reeeee
>>722097213There were blockbusters all over the city in the 90's well into the early 00's, not to mention the smaller mom and pop joints. I lived in the south bronx and there was a video/game rental store around the corner from me, you are full of shit
>>722074757I complain about the current direction of Nintendo, but nothing has done more damage to my perception of the company than the time I purchased Sticker Star at launch without knowing what I was getting into. I'm still in disbelief at how bad that game is / was. Different is one thing. Mind-numbingly boring is another.
>>722074757You rented games back then
>>722074757nigga thats what blockbuster was for
>>722074757Silent Hill f...Way too many ememies to fight (some you can't run away from)Also a bunch of filler levels, yuck.80 bucks down the drain.
>>722074757The most recent example I can think of is this shit from decades ago. The movie had just come out and I wanted a Transformers game so bad, but the campaign was something like 2 hours for each faction and I didn't give a shit about online. Fortunately, Wal-Mart's return policy has always been lax and I got my money back.
>>722074757The last of us 2>there's no way the leaks are realthey were real.
>>722074757Diablo 4 like a retard. Early access too.
>>722075690That game was selling for 75€ used at a store I used to go to 14 years ago.
>>722101463I doubt you're replying to the same rural-anon. Remember there's more than one bot on here with you.
>>722074994That is so fetch!
>>722103817I don't know how much more obvious I need to make bait than calling NYC rural to be desu with you
>>722077835The end of life SNES/N64 games got into the 80-$100 range. I remember getting absolutely reamed buying Super Mario RPG for $90. All the Playstation games tended to be $30-50.
>>722103947Yes, that is what I was telling the other anon who got mad at you.
>>722101245Brutal
>>722082259Oh man, Socom 4. I feel like Socom had such potential and then sony changed devs and pulled the rug out from under everyone's feet.>Socom 1 and 2 are great>Socom 3 is casualized>Socom Fireteam Bravo 1 and 2 are good>Socom Fireteam Bravo 3 is an 8-mission long CoD clone>PS3 comes around and 4, Confrontation and the other one are just meh all around.It's sad.
>>722074757Elden Ringglad I could refund
>>722074757Dark Souls 2. SHIT WAS SO FUCKING ASS
Fuck this game was godawful, it never got better. Planetside coming out a few years later mogged the fuck out of this shitheap. The only good thing about this dumpsterfire of a game was its flight sim component, the rest of it was unbearable trash.
>>722074757Diablo 4 at relase, the most expensive packi had hopes for this one, first and last time i gave money to blizzshitstill mad about it, worst spent money of my life
>>722075180It wasn't bad only unfinished. Discord trannies pushed the DD2 BAD meme hard.
Dragon Ball FighterZ on Steam. I remember there being only enough lobbies for a fraction of the playerbase and it took a week for more to be implemented but by then the damage had already been done.
>>722074757>zoomers don't know about blockbuster
>>722074757Valheim
>>72207475785% of all american sega mega drive 2 games
>>722081243Myst?
>>722074757I bought SD Gundam G Generation Genesis for like $50 and regretted it as soon as I got to the 2nd map of 0079 and realized I was forced to deploy OC donut steels that have no place in the story and aren't acknowledged as being there at all, and you also have to recruit units for them to keep their levels and then they just get duplicated if they already exost on the map, it was horrendous, I thought I was just gonna have either a cool crossover game like Namco X Capcom/Project X Zone or I would have a cool game to relive each Gundam story and I got fucking neither.It was about 6 years later that I would discover that Super Robot Wars was the perfect Gundam Strategy RPG that I had been craving back then.
>>722074757The first and last game i ever preordered.Todd fooled me once, but never again.
>>722074757Pic rel was hell of a let down. Still kept it though.Along with zombie nation (NES) that I got in a yard sale for 25 cents
>>722074757red dead redemption 2
>>722074757Space marine 2, diablo 4
>>722074757In 1992 I could take the game back and exchange it for another one.In the UK, GAME had a 1-week no-questions return policy.
>>722074757dead islandthe callisto protocol elden ring on the ps4
>>722074757Dragon Dogma 2 is the only game, but Capcom can still fix it (pls).
My family was dirt poor in the 90s so I could only afford a handful of games a year. The first game I really regretted preordering was DA2 though. What a disappointing piece of shit
>>722074757paper mario color splash
>>722074757Only a couple in my lifetime - Zombies ate my Neighbours on the SNESOctopath Traveler on Switch.
>>722115059*it would have happened a lot more but i almost never buy games full price
>>722074757None because I'm not retarded.
FF12Dragons Dogma 2Visions of Mana Monster Hunter Wilds
>>722075040I rented that game for PS2 and got a weekends of enjoyment out of it desu
Golden Sun Dark Dawn
>>722115303I remember there being some kind of cool meta real world search the Internet for cheat codes puzzle with that game. It was the one with the Asian guy and the black girl right?
>>722075086You what??
>>722074757thought gta v was pretty meh
>>722076102when I look at this image i feel like its moving
>>722074757>buying a game in 1992 without trying it firstBitch, go to Blockbuster.
>>722074757When I was a kid I saved up and bought the cool Dracula game. I never made it past the second level because I would run out of time or die and the controls were unresponsive. The fighting was fluid but the jumping felt sticky which sucked because you had to make some crazy jumps.
Dayz and Rust.
>>722074757>You rent game for 2.99 and realize it sucks>You don't buy it
>>722093431>pot calling the kettle blackThere were official magazines for most consoles that released demo collections with all the new games so you could try them, ZoomNigger
>>722093431No need for demos for stuff like SNES since you could buy bootleg cartridges for very cheap
>>722077835Cartridges cost more because the rom chips were expensive. When PS1 came out the price of games went down because CDs were way cheaper to make.
>>722115059Zombies Ate My Neighbors was good though....
>>722074757Baldurs gayte3I hate that fucking game
>>722092720>Tik Tok brain
>>722074757I dont buy games unless I know I will 100% enjoy them but back when Blockbuster was still around I rented Hexen for the N64 and legitimately teared up because my entire weekend was ruined. I know there are people out there that like the discount, primitive Doom clones but I think Hexen is fucking mediocre.
>>722076293Yeah. Imagine all the disappointment that company caused kids"Hey anon, you love Back to the Future don't you? Here's the game for your Nintendo!"
I preordered sword of the stars 2. What a waste of a cool universe.
>>722109417Yeah, specifically Riven (Myst II). Note the similar titles.
>>722117025Those magazines didn't exist. Only kiosks were a thing and for a few snes games only. Shut up already.
>>722074757Stalker 2
>>722074876>1992
>>722117025Oh yes, magazines that came with a cartridge taped to it. GTFO
>>722118354Raped, you say?
>>722074757guilty gear xrd and arma 3
>>722074757why do i like like a fat bald middle aged nigger instead of just returning the game
dragonball sparking zero cyberpunk 2077 (this i got on sale still big regret)
>>722075378Explain the mindset of not playing online but still needing to consume a genre purpose built for multiplayer to me.
Eye of the Beholder for the SNES. I bought it because it was a Capcom game, and because i was a kid and didn't know the difference between developer and publisher, and also loved Megaman, bought it without proper research. That was the most miserable hour of my SNES era. Next week, trade it for Street Fighter 2 Turbo to a kid at my school.
>>722074757DBZ Sagas was so bad it made me hate my Gamecube and sell it and all of my games.
Doom Eternal and Dying Light 2
>all three Harry Potter games were good>Really wanted Goblet of Fire thinking it would be good too
>>722074757Red Dead 2. I just didn’t like it, found the game very boring.
>>722074757Mario kart world and dk bananzaWhat a fucking boring ass ripiff these games are, I'm just left playing my switch 1 backlog instead
total war shogun 2. i'm sure it's a fine game but i hated it
>>722074757I rented Superman 64 from Blockbuster as a kid and was incredibly confused that the whole game was just flying through rings. It was terrible. Far Cry 2 was also godawful, returned it and luckily got my money back.
>>722074757Paper Mario Sticker Star
Xrd Rev 2. Took fucking COVID for them to even consider rollback.
back in 2009 or 2010 I bought counter strike source and then literally the next day was a steam summer sale where it was 75% off learned real quick A) what steam sales were and B) to not buy anything until one was happening
Sparking Zero. It could have used another year of development since most of the offline gamemodes were lacking features that the previous entries had. The story mode only went up to the Tournament of Power, and practically ever single cutscene was just a glorified power point presentation with no voice acting whatsoever. The whole idea of What If sounded great on paper since it could have been a proper expansion on what BT3 did with those outlandish battle scenarios like Freeza vs Devilman, but they were so few and far between that felt really half baked at the end.
>>722075180it was still good just not great, better tham base dd1
>>722075265Calm down full price games were 60 dollars for 15 20 years and they went up 10 dollars. Only nintendoslop went up 20 and thats stil not even double
>>72207526550 dollars in 1992 is about 116 dollars today. Its actually amazing videogames have stayed as cheap as they have especially throughout the 00's and 10's. That seems to be changing in the last few years however.
>>722077341I thought Naraka was a free 2 play game
>>722074757LA Noire. I only bought it because my mom thought it looked cool. Not worth launch prize at all.
>>722074757I almost pre-ordered Starfield.
>>722118354>rent
I legit don't know what the fuck I was thinkingI hated Sonic Heroes, so why did I think this was gonna be any better?
>>722075040>enter the matrix> biggest shit in the universeI played that game for hundreds of hours
>>722092427That game was kino af, whats your hoonest to goodness criticism of it? I thought it wwas a masterpiece
Flatout 3
>>722075186So you like Western JRPGs? Ass backwards logic.>muh anime dialogue!JRPGs are not for you. Stick to Chrono Trigger.
>>722074876so fvarking zased brother
gonna be honest, i regret at least half of my game purchases. i don't know who keeps spreading this "support indie" idea on this website but fuck you for doing so. 90% of indie vidya is fucking dogshit. you have to REALLY dig to find anything worthwhile
>>722118354we never bought anything without renting it first.
