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Grandia II was the first game I played in the series, followed by I and III.  I liked the first 2, but the 3rd really blew - I had to force myself to play through the entire game.  Ryudo > Justin or Yuki

Man, Ryudo was a faggot. Justin moreso, I suppose. Feena and Rapp are where it's at, man.

Holy shit, I need to go play through Grandia again SO BADLY. I need to replay Grandia and Skies of Arcadia, but I think Grandia has to come first.

God damn it, Grin Tree; damn you for awakening these urges in me!
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Not my worst but the most annoying gaming experience I had was when I tried replaying Final Fantasy VII for the first time, and pretty much just cruised through the game, anyways I got to that scorpion boss at Nibelhiem(Spelling?) and was WAY to under leveled and no matter WHAT I tried, I just couldn't beat him.  I spent a whole day trying to beat the fucker, but it was all in vain.. I still get nervous around that boss even if I'm wasting him haha.

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Q..Quest 64, anyone?

Quest 64 wasnt that good of a game, but I didnt think it was that bad. Even though I was young at the time and barely understood what was happening, I always had a fun playing it.  :fogetshrug:
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Dude, what the hell.
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What the hell indeed! PW3 was quality and a solid way to end the series. It's no worse than PW2 at the very least.

Most frustrating gaming experience in recent memory: Revisiting the childhood bane that goes by the name of Ninja Gaiden (NES).
First, let me start by saying I do not feel that Ninja Gaiden is a bad game, simply a frustrating one. With that said, let the story begin!

Nearly a year ago I decided to beat Ninja Gaiden for the NES (now that I'm in my adult life). At first all was well and I breezed through the first few Stages with minimal difficulty. Yes they were still challenging, but very beatable. I rocked out to the kicking soundtrack and was actually ENJOYING the experience. Then came Stage 4, a mere foreshadowing to the pain yet to arrive. I blundered my way through 4 and stumbled through 5, with memories of dread and utter frustration seeping back into my head. I entered Stage 6 and was bombarded with a butt load of those damn birds (falcons, doves, WHO KNOWS? AND WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF THEM INSIDE CAVES, TELL ME NAMCO?!) yet managed to get through 6-1 with relatively little problems. Oh but the fun was just about to begin, for I encountered STAGE 6-2! MY ARCH-NEMESIS! All the memories buried deep inside my psyche from childhood came to the surface and my heart started to race. "Surely I can do this now that 15 years  have passed since last..." I weakly reassured myself. Oh was I so naive...Death after death I started to squirm and swear like an irate pirate being keelhauled. Cold sweat formed on my brow, my breathing grew heavy and my eyes widened, taking in as much of the screen as possible. My reaction time heightened to it's limit and I messily made it through Stage 6-2. OH GREAT JOY! I had finally slain the beast that haunted my childhood! Stage 6-3 was a formidable opponent and elicited more cursing and bellowing, but it dared not compare to it's younger brother. I made it to the boss at the end of Stage 6 and fought valiantly, for my honor as a Hayabusa was at stake! Alas, I did not have the true power of the ninja and died on his second form, "No biggie." I thought, "It'll put me at the last check point." Oh, ho-ho-ho...the foolishness of that thought, that would make too much sense, no? Apparently not to Namco...BECAUSE YOU START BACK AT STAGE 6-1 AND HAVE TO CLEAR 6-2 ALL OVER AGAIN! Upon seeing that I stared blankly at my TV for a few seconds and then self-destructed like a Bomb after a third hit! I tore off my T-Shirt and let out such a bestial roar that everyone in the vicinity must've thought I was having a domestic dispute like some drunken SOB. I wheeled, spitting the most acerbic things that came to my rage clouded mind and stomped around for awhile. After the rage had slightly subsided, I picked up the controller and vowed not to let this demon spawn in the guise of a game beat me. An hour later I returned to the Boss room, beat all the forms and the ending cutscene began to roll. By this time I was sitting there, covered in sweat, sans a shirt, shaking like a jonseing heroin addict. I did it! I finally beat the damn game! So many victorious expletives poured out as I juked, threw punches into the air and made an all around ass of myself. As a result, I missed most of the cutscene and had to eventually look it up on youtube. I slept well that night.

Thus ends my story of insanity. And while some may say "Ninja Gaiden isn't hard dude!" I recommend they keep their mouth shut, please. =D
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Here's a wee review I wrote for Shadow the Hedgehog. I playedf it for less than 5 minutes, but that's all I needed.

According to SEGA, the best way to make a game appeal to adults is to give your main character a motorbike, a gun and have him run around saying "bastard" a lot. They applied this foolproof scheme to a game where you play as a giant black hedgehog and prayed people would take it seriously. I didn’t. This is the single worst experience I’ve had in my life… and I’ve been gang raped by gorillas.



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This is an awesome post because not only is it apparently your first post every but also your info says you joined the forum five years ago.
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Here's a wee review I wrote for Shadow the Hedgehog. I playedf it for less than 5 minutes, but that's all I needed.

According to SEGA, the best way to make a game appeal to adults is to give your main character a motorbike, a gun and have him run around saying "bastard" a lot. They applied this foolproof scheme to a game where you play as a giant black hedgehog and prayed people would take it seriously. I didn’t. This is the single worst experience I’ve had in my life… and I’ve been gang raped by gorillas.

*equips an "anti flame armor" with a +5 dex and def enchantment*
I liked Shadow the Hedgehog, though not the best sega came up with. My worst gaming experience was playing "sonic the hedgehog anniversary edition" on my GBA. If you have played it, you know why its horrible! As for those of you who don't, lemme list all gripes:
-2 modes is pointless
-gay glitches EVERYWHERE
-crappy collision detection
-music blew balls
-frame rate sucked
The only good thing I can say about it was the fact that they included the spin dash and saving, but those alone dont save it. It was so bad, my local gamestop/eb games dont sell it anymore, atleast they take games seriously. You suck sega!
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Megaman X3, fighting Kaiser Sigma WITHOUT the Z-Saber.

Very annoying when you are 8 years old =\
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-gay glitches EVERYWHERE

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sorry, i was in a rant XD
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Another few obnoxious gaming moments were...
1. Watching my friends play the fabled Xbox360 game "Gears of War". At first, Gears of War had this ridiculously shitty commercial that used Fears for Tears "Sad World" playing in the background.

The song is actually called Mad World, and the commercial played the Gary Jules version.
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If save file stories count, I have one.

Some time ago, I was playing Shadow Hearts on my ps2. I'd played SH and SH2, and finally moved on (again, since i had already beat 80% of it before) to SH3. It was the first I had ever played, and it had glued me to the series. After playing 1 and 2 though, I found out it was a far, far cry from either. So anyway, I was all glad, making it to the final subquest portion of the game. I had recently got the willpower to actually do the really painful and long ones, but I decided to get a little bit sidetracked. I rented Pro Evolution Soccer (to burn it, my ps2 is modded). Turns out the PES disc was fucked, and crashed during gameplay. So I didn't burn it, but the bad part is..

Just before putting PES in, I messed in Action Replay. I wanted to delete some saves from my card and zip others. Here I went, chose a few lame saves and pressed delete. Say what? All my saves disappeared. I thought at first it was a graphic bug, but they were really gone. I thought Armax fucked me up good. I tried a few million things, but nothing really worked. After a while I found out it not only deleted everything, but it also CORRUPTED IT. I formatted, before trying to save my files using other apps. Shame.. Now, that card DID NOT permit saving complex game data on it (PES save data, Gran Turismo 4 save data, etc) so I tried a few things, of which I tried hitting it with a hammer. It still works to this day, but is still corrupted in the sense complex data won't save. Either way, I got a 64mb card, and I never played SH3 again. This left me with an awkward feeling, as I was REALLY looking forward to FINALLY beating SH3, after beating SH1 and SH2. I felt totally screwed having to watch the ending on youtube instead of getting it myself.

And I was having such a time too...
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Losing to LordTyphoon in a First to 10 in Garou - Mark of the Wolves will top any worst game experience.




Except for E.T. for the ATARI 2600.


jesus that game was bad.
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My husband and I invested in a number of bad games in our time. Aidyn Chronicles for the 64 was just terrible and I was left wondering how such a piece of garbage was even released. That game wasn't even fun to play drunk- it was just an exercise in frustration.

I think the worst gaming experience I can recall was watching my husband play Darkened Skye for the GC. We bought it used because the cover looked like an adventure RPG with the typical scantily clad hero chick jumping around doing all sorts of fun things. And then we saw the beginning and played a bit only to discover that the heroine was off on a quest to restore the rainbow. This game was one giant product placement, leaving you to travel the five worlds collecting MAGIC F@^$_@G SKITTLES. The dialogue in the game wasn't completely terrible and I think it could have been a decent game if more thought and care had been put into the actual gameplay element. The camera is unforgiving, jump placement has to be absolutely perfect and did I mention that you have to collect MAGIC SKITTLES in order to get through the game. . . I did wind up beating the game and saving the rainbow but I haven't ever looked at Skittles again in the same light.
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Sucks man.  It's awful when you lose your save file late into a long game that has a linear sense of progression.  Do you *really* want to play 50 hours of game again just to get to that last few?

My save file for Final Fantasy XII was deleted in a Playstation 3 firmware update the other day.  I had 110 hours, give or take a few, and was sitting down to finally complete that monster of a game when I found that all my PS2 saves had mysteriously disappeared.  I am really sad about this :(
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Hah, that sucks. I didn't know PS3 saved PSX/PS2 files on the harddrive.

Then again, it only makes sense...

I considered getting codebreaker (it took me a few months to get a working warezed copy) to replay SH3(and the other SH games) but with like, every item and so already gotten, so I could just breeze through the game at my own pace, without ever having to look around for items in dungeons not to miss out the magical grail that makes your penis seventy times as long, etc etc..
But I won't afterall. The vibe died.
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The song is actually called Mad World, and the commercial played the Gary Jules version.

AND the original song was by Tears for Fears, not Fears for Tears so basically he was wrong in every way!
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I considered getting codebreaker (it took me a few months to get a working warezed copy) to replay SH3(and the other SH games) but with like, every item and so already gotten, so I could just breeze through the game at my own pace, without ever having to look around for items in dungeons not to miss out the magical grail that makes your penis seventy times as long, etc etc..
But I won't afterall. The vibe died.

A tried a similar thing with a trainer for Titan Quest when I clicked in the wrong place accidentally and ending up ruining my character.  However after going into an editor and undoing my action and basically setting my character back to exactly where he should have been, something about the game no longer seemed novel.  It wasn't as fun gaining levels and finding loot when I knew that I could just load up an editor and speed the process.
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My worst experience would probably have to be a three way tie.

"Legend of Alon-Dar" (I believe was the name)

First off, I should have known things would not go well. I'd heard some good things about it, and went to rent it with a friend of mine because we were both bored as hell. The name of the guy at Blockbuster was, I kid you not, Falcorian. It went something like this:

Hello, I'm Falcorian.
Falcorian, We're looking for The Legend of Alon-Dar. (Worst exchange in a Blockbuster ever, I thought I was living a rough draft for a new Clerks movie)

The graphics were unimpressive, the gameplay was boring...I took it back before the end of Fal's shift.

"Batman Rise of Sin-Tzu"

I actually had some mindless button mashing fun with it for a while. I teamed up with the same friend from the above example as Batman and Nightwing and proceeded to take Gotham back from the new threat - right up to the point where we had to actually fight him. Avoid re-spawning enemies and beat everything in sight to a pulp so I could build up enough combo/power bar to attack Sin-Tzu ONCE and take off a small spec of health.

My friend and I looked at each other and said, "Screw this."

"Tomb Raider:Angel of Darkness"

The story seemed interesting, the control seemed to not totally suck, and the stealth aspect seemed interesting. Things are not always as they seem. The game boarders on unplayability. I liked the idea of leveling up the characters abilities to unlock new areas and the like, very Symphony of the Night of them, but that meant I'd have to backtrack to the place I wanted to explore - provided I could even remember where it was.

I spent fifteen minutes trying to climb onto the jeep in the garage to no avail. I'm not sure what was going on there, but my character had no interest in doing what I was commanding.

It reminded me of an old Pennyarcade strip featuring a female character sprouting gibberish who couldn't, despite the gamer's repeated attempts, navigate a rudimentary obstacle. The last panel featured the quote "I don't speak crazy bitch."
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