Your worst videogame mistake...

[MikeRox]

Paying full price for so many Dreamcast games.... if only I'd known even 18 months later most games were down to ?1-2 each... I can't think of any other system that happened to.

On the other hand, they were incredible games for the most part and so on that front, it wasn't too bad. Just gutting totting up a couple of grands spending across a period of 2-3 years getting the latest and greatest DC games to find that now being worth about ?100 lol.

[Sam The Man]

one i can think of in particular is NOT buying Panzer Dragoon Saga. Back in the day as a young teen i had multiple paper rounds and was earning enough money from them to get almost every major game that came out but i quit all my rounds shortly b4 Saga came out. In the end my mates got it and told me it was incredible and that i should buy it and if i had the money i probably would have but i was broke and my birthday had just gone and xmas wasnt for ages so it ended up being the one that got away.

Majoras Mask was another that got away as i didnt have the money for.

[Kubrick]

Not sure if htis is a mistake, but it saves me making a new thread

I still havent played Fallout 3 or Oblivion, should i? is it a mistake to let these games pass?

I dunno about Oblivion, but Fallout 3 is superb. I've only started playing it recently but I'm enjoying it that much that I'm tempted to get Oblivion as well.

[Number45]

I love them both, though I think Fallout 3 is the more accomplished game (Particularly with the DLC). It might be hard going from Fallout 3 to Oblivion but, assuming you like the setting, going from Oblivion to Fallout 3 will be fine.

Does that make sense? I love them both anyway, probably going to dive back into Fallout when I'm done with Uncharted.

[gaz@manc]

This is a common one in the Fallout 3 thread, but like many people, it was about 20 hours play before I realised you had a light on the pipboy.

I was 53 hours in before I realised. I watched my housemate playing it, and was amazed!

[JohnMcL7]

Playing Eternal Darkness without realising it was on 60Hz mode on a TV that didn't support it properly. Because of the way I was starting the system up (GC then TV) I was missing the prompt for the 60hz mode which was defaulting to 60 rather than 50Hz. I assumed the washed out look to the game was intended to make it more creepy - in many games this wouldn't be an issue but ED relied very much on colour as it used three colours in a scissors, stone, paper kind of way. I struggled through the game as I just seemed to have to guess so much of it until I got it right then after completing it the first time I restarted the console and saw the 60Hz prompt....suddenly in 50Hz mode the game made so much more sense!

Buying Spore on release was a big mistake as well, I read the reviews and liked the sound of it but barely played it a few hours before never touching it again.

John

[speedlolita]

Buying Orange Box and Left 4 Dead on release.

?65 wasted, I booted each game once.

[kernow]

My biggest fail is probably trying to rotate a cab monitor and slipping half way, smashing the neck of the CRT off (a 29" flat tube is damn heavy), after 3 months of owning the machine, completely gutted. Cost me £300 for a used tube and someone to come down and fit it / petrol etc for about 5 minutes of cockup. It kind of worked out better in the end because I got him to bring down another cab too. If I didn't break it then, I would have probably broken it in a couple of months time, when there wouldn't have been a CRT replacement available, or a 2nd cab for sale.

In the end I'm damn glad I broke it, despite it costing me so much to repair, but it worked out better in the end.. somehow.

Funny how things work out, when I look back and think I was actually glad it happened, then you know something is strange.

[J0e Musashi]

Buying the Super Scope 6 as I couldn't wait for SF2, or buying Toshinden 2 as I couldn't wait for SFZ.

[112]

Buying a PS2 in Hong Kong, the guy hussled me, he said that he could make the console multi region. Which would cost an additional $200. He would take the console away and bring it back in 5 minutes. Then he said he could make the DVD drive multi region which would cost an additional $200. He then took the console away for 5 mins before returning. Later on when returning back to the UK did i find out that it was a load of bollox and he probably just went walking round the block as the so call multi region gaming and DVD thingy ma-bob didnt actually work, and it was jus so i could play pirated software and movies on it which were region zero anyways..........

Conned, suckered & hustled.........

112

[speedlolita]

He could make the DVD drive multi region. You fell for that?

Everything on the PS2 is controlled by the motherboard. :P

[112]

He could make the DVD drive multi region. You fell for that?

Everything on the PS2 is controlled by the motherboard. :P

Hey, I brought the console before i had proper online access......... So my knowledge was very limited to the gamings mags around at the time, and they didnt cover things like modification back then!

I was in awe about getting a PS2 and jus wanted the bloody thing........ LESSON LEARNED!

112

[Grapple Convoy]

Not a mistake but still a 'OH NO' moment:-

Completed US Final Fantasy 3 (6) on PAL Snes using action replay (not cheating just as a convertor). 4 mins into the ending the screen fades to the next scene and it stays blank, the music carried on. I waited for the picture to come back hoping it was a glitch, but the screen stayed blank right to the end.

That was a common problem, I recall, as Super Play printed the ending in screenshot form as a six page feature for all those import gamers whose converters had failed them.

[spinpug666]

Mine was selling my Super gun plus 3 Mvs games on eBay for £130 to buy a newly released USA Gamecube with Super Monkey Ball.

[samanosuke]

My biggest mistake was spending all day getting bits like a soldering iron and a poxy gamebit screwdriver, opening up my Jp 'cube that I'd owned for about two months, attempting to mod it myself and f*cking it up, and ending up with a machine that could no longer play Jp games, only US. Oh, and this was about a month before the GC had been released in the States. I had to sell Monkey Ball, Luigi's Mansion, Wave Race and Pikmin to CEX for absolute pittance having paid £60 for each and, in the case of Pikmin, I had only just bought it a week prior!

Another regret was letting a mate hook up my Jp PS2 back in its heyday. I think you can guess what happened next...