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Captain moneybags Bloober Level: 33 Posts: 255/447 EXP: 208968 For next: 20211 Since: 07-01-04 From: the lol land (or in reality sweden) Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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Whats the best game you ever bought by just looking at it in a store or something similar? Mine is sonic adventure 2, i just saw it at a store som i bought it. And it rocked |
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Fx3 Shyguy Level: 13 Posts: 62/80 EXP: 10252 For next: 15 Since: 04-11-05 From: Brazil Since last post: 98 days Last activity: 34 days |
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Most of my NES games. Actually, there's a lot of information available - an easy search gives me screenshots and reviews. It's hard to buy an unknown game... | |||
Sokarhacd Ball and Chain Trooper Resistance is Futile You Will Be Assimilated Hab SoSlI' Quch Level: 61 Posts: 1358/1757 EXP: 1799888 For next: 76708 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 4 hours |
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paper mario: TTYD, and alot of rpg's ive just went, and saw it, and just bought it.and very good too...although usually it takes me a good 45 minutes to get a game most of the time. | |||
Yoronosuku Bullet Bill YORO 4 GOD Level: 32 Posts: 259/502 EXP: 194954 For next: 11488 Since: 01-06-05 From: hailing from Oyamazaki, Kyoto Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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It is sort of hard to have never heard about a game ever, unless it is obscure and stupid, so you would not buy it anyway. There will always be a comercial or a picture unless you live in a hole. For me..I did not know of Tokimeki Memorial (Japanese game sort of before your time..) very much, but I just knew that it existed. I did see it in a store one day and my sister said we should just get it. It is my favorite game series in the world now | |||
Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 10292/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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Advance wars, saw it in a store for 200 SEK. Thought "Why the hell not?" and bought it. Even if I didn't know about the game apart from it being a turn-based strategy. The game turned out to be great when I came home. Next to Civilization it's my favorite turnbased strategy series now. Bought AW2 only three months later. |
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alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99 Posts: 4311/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Halo. I was out of it for a while with videogames at that point, and I bent over at the Blockbuster and looked at this weird robot on the cover of an ugly ass green case. You see, my parents were renting a system for me to celebrate a coming of age ceremony in my family. Which I passed. I saw this game, and I was like HOLEE FUK. And then, I bought the X-Box and the system, because Halo was a great game. Then I did that for Morrowind and the Megaman Anniversary Collection when I saw it released for X-Box. Because I didn't even KNOW about the first one and the second one I thought was PS2/GC only. I also got most of my GBA games that way. |
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The Guru of Furu Ninji Level: 26 Posts: 180/240 EXP: 90642 For next: 11633 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cali Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 7 hours |
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Most of my NES and SNES games because, well, I was young and stupid but always ended up loving my games. But ever since I was concious of my decisions, I'd say the best unknown games I've gotten were, Final Fantasy Tactics, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, RE, RE2, and RE3 (all three bought for 5 bucks a pop from my bro's friend), and Final Fantasy 6. Interesting thing about FF6, because of that game, I bought a PlayStation three months before FF7 came out so that I could buy that game, and I bought just about every magazine with anything FF7 and when I finaly got the game I played through the first five hours over and over until about a month passed and I finally had the cash to buy a memory card and really play the game. I guess that's a case of the exact opposite of the topic, but I think it's funny, so I post. | |||
Dei* Nipper Plant Level: 26 Posts: 170/412 EXP: 97995 For next: 4280 Since: 06-18-05 From: USA, Florida Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 1 day |
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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. I hadn't yet gotton and barely heard of castlevania at all, and the box looked cool. >.> |
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Private Adamant Hardhat Beetle Moderator It's teh fun!!! Level: 37 Posts: 453/551 EXP: 316129 For next: 22124 Since: 03-15-04 From: Halden, Norway Since last post: 22 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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Donkey Kong '94 for the good old Gameboy, I believe. Basically, 8-year-old foolish me told the clerk I wanted a game, and he said DK'94 was good. So I bought it. When checking out the manual in the car on the way home, I was shocked to discover that Mario was the main character. Yeah, i know he was on the box, but I didn't see him. A year or so later, I recieved another shock when I bought Donkey Kong Land and discovered that the evil DK was the hero this time. I guess Mega Man V falls under this category as well, as I hadn't heard of the game, but I had played MM4 for about 10 minutes, and read "guides" on MM2 and MM3 in a book I had found at the library, so I knida knew what Mega Man was all about. Besides, I was trading in a game I bought the day before because it sucked (Tintin in Tibet, which indeed WAS a horrible game), and didn't have that many games to choose between. |
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Rydain Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 622/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours |
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I generally research games before I buy them unless I come across them for a low price and therefore wouldn't be cranky if I wound up wasting money on a piece of crap. I think the last thing we bought on impulse was Katamari Damacy. Rando saw it and thought it looked amusing, so he got it, and it wound up being one of my favorite games. | |||
Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 8986/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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I haven't bought an unresearched game since the SNES days. Having said that... oh boy... probably something along the lines of Final Fantasy Legend 2 or Milon's Secret Castle (GB). Talk about a stretch thinking of one. :\ |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5341/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Only one I can think of (my brother actually bought it) was Pok | |||
Valcion YOU WA SHOCK Level: 50 Posts: 931/1139 EXP: 939607 For next: 7710 Since: 03-15-04 From: internets. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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King of Fighters 2002/2003. I saw it and was like "shit this is out? k i'm buying it" Same with Darkstalkers collection, although that was a download. (edited by Valcion on 06-29-05 05:00 AM) |
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GeckoYamori Paratroopa Level: 18 Posts: 38/153 EXP: 25084 For next: 4813 Since: 05-10-05 Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 7 hours |
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Fallout 2 in January 1999, best damn impulsive buy ever. RPG at its best, and made me realize how restrictive and underdeveloped its japanese counterpart is. The few enlightened who actually have this game pretty much agree. Emperor: Battle for Dune was pretty good too. |
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Tamarin Calanis We exist. Earth exists. The universe exists. Do we really need to know why? Level: 59 Posts: 619/1802 EXP: 1672751 For next: 377 Since: 07-12-04 From: The gas station on the corner... Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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Uh... well, I didn't buy many games before the N64... and when I got my Playstation (a few years later) I started researching them more, so... 1080 Snowboarding for the N64 was probably the only good one I bought with no information at all - save for a short test play in Wal-Mart on the TV placed so high it'll make your neck hurt looking at it. (edited by Tamarin Calanis on 06-29-05 11:22 AM) |
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Karadur Fire Snake Level: 48 Posts: 950/1192 EXP: 786444 For next: 37099 Since: 11-02-04 From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 15 hours |
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My most recent game that falls into this category would probably be Custom Robo. I just got it two days ago. I saw the game in the games case at Zellers while looking at the DS and GBA games, and went back later that night with money to get it. Obviously, I don't regret getting it either. I beat the first story mode today, so now I'm going to "Grand Battle" or whatever it was called I like it even better after registering it on Nintendo's site and finding out that they're sending me a limited edition poster of some sort Now, as for the game that I pretty much decided to get out of the blue that stands out the most, would be Tales of Symphonia. I looked at it on Walmart's site, and thought the game would be rather dumb, mostly because of how the cover looked. I went up to the mall after getting done volunteering that day, and got the last copy of it. I do not resent getting it one bit at all. It's my favorite game of the 14 I have for Gamecube. I haven't bought too many researched games lately, and I've only purchased one I don't like. Spyro: A Hero's Tail. I was expecting something like the games for Playstation, but I'm dissapointed with it, to say the least. I read that there was no longer a total gem count to reach in a GameFAQs review, and that much I was ready for. I haven't played too much of the game yet, but as far as I can tell, there are no individual levels. Everything's just combined into one large area, divided into multple parts (please tell me I'm wrong). Spryo looks bad as well. I can't really place what it is, but he looks different than on the Playstation versions (edited by Karadur on 06-29-05 02:50 PM) |
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paraplayer Snifit Level: 22 Posts: 166/280 EXP: 57271 For next: 1079 Since: 06-06-05 Since last post: 44 days Last activity: 44 days |
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F ZERO GX and it was one of the best decisions in awhile. such a fun game... |
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JDavis Trick or Treating Local Mod Affected by 'Halloween Syndrome' ++ Level: 44 Posts: 690/815 EXP: 568676 For next: 42609 Since: 03-15-04 From: Ada, Oklahoma, USA Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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Woah, wait, people still do that? Wow. |
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Jarukoth IRRATIONAL EXUBERENCE!!1! Level: 79 Posts: 2878/3194 EXP: 4402011 For next: 177456 Since: 03-17-04 From: New Jersey, U.S.A. Shoes: Yes. Since last post: 8 days Last activity: 1 day |
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Thank you, JDavis, for not making me look like a freak. I probably have made an impulse game buy somewhere along the line that was good, I just can't remember what the heck it was... (edited by Jarukoth on 06-29-05 06:29 PM) |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 8999/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Ooh, if we're talking about PC games... :\ Hm. Might be along the lines of Diablo II. Then again, I purchase PC games once in a blue moon to begin with. |
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