Liveinadive wrote:

Letting my mate choose Hitmonchan leaving me with Hitmonlee.

Hitmonchan is terrible in RBY. Most of its moves are special, but it has a terrible Special stat.

Hitmonlee had all the good physical Fighting moves, and a good Attack stat to back them up, plus it got STAB on them.

About 18 months ago I sold a pile of stuff (250 games) to Chillout games. Most of it was low value stuff but there were some nice items too. I know I would have got more selling them privately but time wasn't on my side and I've had my fingers burned selling eBay with lying buyers, and you have eBay and PayPal charges too.

I haven't had a pang of regret since. Mostly because the games I got rid of either had newer versions (e.g. GC Metroid Prime and Pikmin games), PAL games replaced with NTSC (some N64 , Saturn), or simply games I would never play because of the genre.

Buying Driv3r. Playing Driv3r.

I used to regularly regret trading things in, and would buy them again later. In the PS2/Xbox days, there were some games I bought three times. For that reason, I still own pretty much every game

I regret getting rid of hardware. I have a PSone and a Ps2 but wish I still had my original PlayStation and PlayStation 2. I have owned an original GameBoy, Advance and SP, but now only have the micro. (What I’d really like to try my had at is modding an original GBA with a fancy-dan screen.) I wish I hadn’t loaded my modded PSP with pirated games, I wish I hadn’t sold it on eBay, and I wish I still had my PSPgo.

I don’t regret buying a Gizmodo, but I wish it had had a) a better battery, b) a less-juice-drinking sleep mode, and c) a bigger appreciation amongst its target market.

I regret asking for the trapeze Game & Watch when I was told I could have anything for free at my uncle’s toy fayre, when I could’ve had a table-top Donkey Kong unit which I had played all day. Everyone expected me to pick that but, given how we were raised, I felt it was greedy to ask for it. Stupid child.

That reminds me, I also regret throwing away my Tomytronic.

I regret sending that group message from Reg’s 360.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

ChopperByrne wrote:

Buying Driv3r. Playing Driv3r.

Thankfully Driv3r was during the time Game had a five day, no questions asked, returns policy.

Ha, It was 10 day, and also the worst thing ever for staff.  You'd thing something like that would be simplistic enough as it basically turned Game into Blockbuster, but the grief it caused, fuck.   When someone who'd been renting a game on £39.99 for six weeks tried to get his money back 11 days after the most recent exchange, or wanted the cash without a receipt, or wanted dolla back when they'd paid in reward card vouchers, or tried to refund a bashed up game with a WHSmiths price sticker on it.  EVERY DAY THIS HAPPENED.

It's always the wankers that screw it up. I only returned a few games because they were genuinely crap and I always did it within a day or two at most. I remember returning a pinball game for PS1 the same day because after reading the manual I learned it didn't save high scores.

IIRC, credit towards a Vita.

I regret not having the confidence or drive to take my enjoyment of the hobby and turn it into some kind of job when you could still break into the journalism/writing side of it at 18 with no qualifications.

I also regret dicking away so many hours into them.

Actually, it was maybe selling my Commodore Plus/4 games a while ago. My Commodore was beyond sensibly affordable repair, and I need all the money I can get these days. I'd had them for 27 years, and probably would've kept them if I had a second bedroom for storage, but I live in a small one-bed, so off they went.

The Mega Drive's an odd one for me, because I disliked a lot of its ‘good’ games and liked some of its ‘bad’ ones. I used to buy them from a dude in Jersey — anyone else? Can't remember his name (probably a Paul; those guys are usually Pauls), but he ran an ad in some of the mags at the time.

Anyway, I was really keen on The Terminator, but he said that I'd complete it in an hour or two and recommended Alien 3 instead. As an adult, I can see his reasoning now, but I never enjoyed Alien 3 and wished that I'd gone for The Terminator; even if it did only last for an hour.

I was also really disappointed by Sonic 2, but I'm sure I've written about that at least once before. A list:

Disliked:

Alien 3
Chuck Rock (real letdown)
Desert Strike
Earthworm Jim
Galahad
John Madden (the hut?!)
Micro Machines
Road Rash II
Sonic 2
Streets of Rage II

Liked:

Aladdin
Altered Beast
Ecco the Dolphin
ESWAT
Fatal Fury
Golden Axe
LandStalker
Monaco GP
Mortal Kombat (1-3)
OutRun
Quackshot
Revenge of Shinobi
Road Rash
Sonic
Streets of Rage
ToeJam & Earl

I rented and borrowed most of those, so few regrets, but I thought I'd show you how weird tastes can be in comparison to what the magazines said. I always fancied trying Spot Goes to Hollywood and never did. And I had a Menacer, but despite its awfulness I had some decent fun with that.

I regret buying Burnout for the PS2, because it has the worst on-off handling in my 3D-racer memory. I can see how good it would've been had its difficulty not come from wrestling its 8-bit physics. Terrible.

I remember when GameSpot was hiring and I was in the states and had a portfolio of music writing for a Salt Lake Zine.... Could have been

Hadda

Oh, that reminds me, I regret ignoring WarioWare DIY until it was on clearance because it would have been better at launch when all the online competitions were going.

Je ne regrette rien de mes jeux.

This thread just got real.

I regret the games I have that still have the shrink wrap on them... just don't seem to get the time to play that much anymore, yet I still have the overbearing urge to get the newest release. Its a problem.

stonechalice wrote:

Buying a PS2 for Gran Turismo 2.

That's the last good one! And it's all the PS2 had for its first year. Y'know, besides...