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"Games you've regretted buying"

Back when I were a lad, I used to read Edge an awful lot (I still do, come to that). It was my prime game-reviewing source - if Edge said a game was good, then that meant it was good, and if I liked the look of it then I might venture out and buy it.

This is the magazine that gets 5 million letters a week along the lines of "YOU SED THIS GAME WOS GOOD AND ITS CRAP YuO SUKC" and wonders why. Bluntly, I've bought more than a few games on the advice of that magazine which were *utter* rubbish. To name a few:


Formula One World Grand Prix - N64

Oh. My. God. Whoever rated this half-finished piece of rank £$!# 8/10 should be marched outside and shot. The alarm bells should have started ringing when ten laps into the race, after you've stopped crashing every corner, you can make up around a minute per lap on the cars in front. Remember the "Lets see that again!!" advert? Well the game was worse.

Turok 2 - N64

A bloody unplayable mess of a game. It looked nice, but by the time I got to level 4 it made me almost physically sick to play. Maybe something to do with the 4 hours mindless drudgery between adjacent save spots.

GoldenEye - N64

A bit controversial this one, but I never liked GoldenEye, not one tiny little iota. Repeat after me - FPS DO NOT WORK ON CONSOLES IN THEIR TRADITIONAL FORM. One of the few games I have to completely re-learn the controls of every time I play it.

Urban Strike - SNES

I can't remember what score this got in Total!, but it was too high for a game that was basically still in alpha development. Optimisation? Speed? What are they?


Do share experiences of the games you've taken home, then wished you hadn't.

South Park on the 64 (£50 for that baby)


Quake 2 on the 64 (ditto, but I took it back. At least South Park was fun on multiplayer)


Some FPS, Red Eagle or something, which had Quake like graphics, but came out the same time as SOF2 (based on the Quake 2 engine) Not just ugly, but a crappy game, full of bugs, and bad design


Driver on the PC. Poop. I wanted Constructor, and it was in a 3 for £20 deal, or £10 by itself, so I decided to get the two other games with it, so I got Driver and Theme Park World and disliked them both. Liked Constructor (had played it years ago) but I lent it to my mate, he was broken into and ALL his games were stolen (along with his PC and everything else of value, even his phone charger) so some scumbag has it right now... leaving me with two games I don't like.


I also regret picking Soldier Of Fortune 2 as a GAD win ('tis poop) and probably The Thing too. Despite being a huge fan of the film, I don't like it much. Haven't played it for months, I may give it another go. Just seemed very, very samey

Earth 2150, just couldn't get into it! oh and test drive 4, totally poo!

I concur.

South Park for the N64

Exactly, thats what I did with Tekken 4. Also, Urban Strike is good, Ive still got it for my Mega Drive.

if you regret buying a game ... ...take it back

I've never regreted buying a game because the ones I have bought are good. And Goldeye is great what's wrong with you!!

Kyz22 wrote:
> Cyclone wrote:
> Slaps Kyz22.
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> FOOL!
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> OUCH! - what was that for?

For saying bad things about ED!

IMBECILE!

;)

Hang on. Are talking about F1 WGP 97 on the N64?

I got that.....not sure how.............actualy where did I get it from. Seriously!

Anyway. I thought it was good (if its the same game)

It looks excellent for that time and played well, even though I dislike realistic racers in particular. It had lots of life in it to. It was rather good. If its the same game.

:)

Cyclone wrote:
> Slaps Kyz22.
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> FOOL!

OUCH! - what was that for?