Kharzette
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I didn't like much of that game, but being able to have 2 different coloured eyes was great. And the little leaf umbrellas were super cute.
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Games You Regret Spending Time On?
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Downhammer
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There's a lot of games I probably spent too much time on relative to the enjoyment derived but my only regrets are MMORPGs that go under. When you consider one of the main goals in RPGs is progression over time, having a game shut down makes all the grinding feel completely wasted. Even if I never go back to EQ or WoW again at least I know my characters are out there and there's "proof" of my progression in the game. I'm sure there's more in this category but off the top of my head:
Earth and Beyond (added sadness because it killed Westwood)
Auto Assault
City of Heroes
Earth and Beyond (added sadness because it killed Westwood)
Auto Assault
City of Heroes
Penance
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BDO in the beginning. Until I realized they hid all their mechanics and the amount of time you'd have to spend to be competitive in pvp was equivalent to multiple phds.
Now I play BDO casually as a PVE when I just wanna tune out and watch some lectures or something. But that game had so much potential but rangs gonna rang.
Now I play BDO casually as a PVE when I just wanna tune out and watch some lectures or something. But that game had so much potential but rangs gonna rang.
DickTrickle
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Kithani
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Ok I got one just thought about it.
I regret ever playing FFXI but only because after my parents took me to buy it it in middle school or whatever after installing I then walked downstairs to make sure they were cool with me putting a subscription on their credit card and walked in on them doing it.
(to this day it occasionally comes up every few years and they claim they just bought me a game I was supposed to be distracted and their plan was foolproof)
I regret ever playing FFXI but only because after my parents took me to buy it it in middle school or whatever after installing I then walked downstairs to make sure they were cool with me putting a subscription on their credit card and walked in on them doing it.
(to this day it occasionally comes up every few years and they claim they just bought me a game I was supposed to be distracted and their plan was foolproof)
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Breath of Fire 4 - I got far into this game and its annoying story to reach a point where I couldn't find a save spot and then died to something I wasn't prepared for...losing like 3 hours of my life. Stopped playing it completely and threw it out. This is on top of the fact that the story had nothing to do with the original BoF trilogy. It was like a completely different game with the BoF label on it.
Outer Wilds - Overhyped. Pushed as some storytelling masterpiece but is basically a hide-and-seek for lore on top of crappy flight controls that make you suddenly bounce off a planet and get sent hurtling through space.
Darksiders 3 - First two games were great. Sure, the 2nd wasn't as awesome as the first, but it was still enjoyable. The third one of course has an obnoxious main character with shitty controls and a terrible Souls-ish knockoff attempt at gameplay.
Outer Wilds - Overhyped. Pushed as some storytelling masterpiece but is basically a hide-and-seek for lore on top of crappy flight controls that make you suddenly bounce off a planet and get sent hurtling through space.
Darksiders 3 - First two games were great. Sure, the 2nd wasn't as awesome as the first, but it was still enjoyable. The third one of course has an obnoxious main character with shitty controls and a terrible Souls-ish knockoff attempt at gameplay.
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TBT-TheBigToe
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Some days, all of them except a few. Most days, none of them except a couple standouts like FF13-3, Yakuza 0, and Witcher 3. Only played 13-3 for a couple hours and Yak0 and W3 more because I played dozens of hours more than I should have hoping those games would click with me and I would get what everyone else loved about them.
The last year I spent playing EverQuest, I regret that. I hated the game by that point and was a complete dick to some people because I was not balancing RL frustrations (Work and pregnant wife) properly and took it out some people who deserved much better than I gave them.
For the most part, regret is a waste of time and energy. Acknowledge why something is regrettable, learn from it, adjust and/or make amends, and/or move on. Not saying I walk that path well but I am trying.
The last year I spent playing EverQuest, I regret that. I hated the game by that point and was a complete dick to some people because I was not balancing RL frustrations (Work and pregnant wife) properly and took it out some people who deserved much better than I gave them.
For the most part, regret is a waste of time and energy. Acknowledge why something is regrettable, learn from it, adjust and/or make amends, and/or move on. Not saying I walk that path well but I am trying.
Siliconemelons
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Mine was a game that I liked and a story that promised so much and a meaningful connection to greater events.
But that tie in just turned out to be nothing and everything in the game gets negated and meaningless and made me just urgh and regretted buying in any to this extended story stuff event beyond this game or other games or media related to it.
StarWars Republic Comando
But that tie in just turned out to be nothing and everything in the game gets negated and meaningless and made me just urgh and regretted buying in any to this extended story stuff event beyond this game or other games or media related to it.
StarWars Republic Comando
Mist
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The only part of WAR I didn't like was the laggy/performance issues. Having this weird 0.3 second lag on every ability, and 'mythic seconds' was what took me out of the game the most. I thought the endgame was fine, as long as you were playing the outnumbered faction with friends who were good at games. The fact that the city takeover stuff didn't seem to actually work was a problem, but farming people in regular sieges was fun enough.
I happened to play that game with a mix of some of my favorite guildmates from across DAoC, WoW, and a few other games in between, and we had a blast farming the Destruction newbs who outnumbered us >3-1, aside from the general laggy bugginess of the game.
I also sold my account for 450 bucks when we quit, so I absolutely have no regrets from that game.
SWTOR was pretty similar, on a smaller scale. I had about 6-8 PvP buddies and we just played the battlefronts or whatever (aka huttball) for the first month, then I flipped my account for 200 bucks after we hit the max pvp rank and quit.
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Ambiturner
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This is the most disturbing part of that. When that didn't happen to me (AND IT DEFINITELY FUCKING DIDN'T) I hauled ass out of there and will take that shit to my grave.
But if bringing up the time Daddy blew his load in Mommy doggy style is a cherished family memory...
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Rajaah
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I know what you mean, PSP spinoffs of AAA games tended to be big downgrades from their main serieses, and not even worth it for completionism. I stopped worrying about them after a while.
I could probably put "all DS games" on here in the same vein. I really didn't like the DS. So much stylus controls. Everything from Metroid to Zelda to Kirby Mass Attack had the stupid stylus controls. Mario on DS somehow managed to escape the stylus controls at least.
3DS is significantly better for spinoffs and the like, and generally a much less mediocre system. I suspect Vita is considerably better than PSP in a similar way.
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Rajaah
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Top guild on Vulak... was that EoE? I think Faceless was also on there but wasn't big yet IIRC.
Fippy is the one I mostly hear about since it had TL/AoS, Citizen/OGC, etc.
Otto
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Ultima 9: What's a Paladin. Game was such a mess that the series creator was fired and the online forums closed after the first and only major patch. Cyberpunk's launch was smoother for me.
Game was also optimized for 3dfx Glide and was crash happy with Direct3D. I Sold my Monster 3D II SLI setup and bought a GeForce 256 SDR at the time too.
I could ramble on and on about the story and how it forgot or ignored almost everything that happened in the previous games.
WoW: Shadowlands and Dragonflight. The spark is gone for me and Shadowlands helped break my addiction and fear of missing out. Dragonflight is the first time I've been annoyed by the voice actors. I had to mute them to get through it.
Game was also optimized for 3dfx Glide and was crash happy with Direct3D. I Sold my Monster 3D II SLI setup and bought a GeForce 256 SDR at the time too.
I could ramble on and on about the story and how it forgot or ignored almost everything that happened in the previous games.
WoW: Shadowlands and Dragonflight. The spark is gone for me and Shadowlands helped break my addiction and fear of missing out. Dragonflight is the first time I've been annoyed by the voice actors. I had to mute them to get through it.
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Kithani
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Yeah that's fair I guess it came up once which was enough for my lifetime. My wife brings it up every few years to mess with me.