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Message: [QUOTE="Rez09, post: 563124, member: 866095"] There have been a fair number over the years, but there are two in particular that always stand out to me: rosenkreuzstilette freudenstachel and Paper Mario: Sticker Star I was in college when Rosenkreuzstilette 2 dropped, and the original is my favorite Mega Man fan game to date, so of course I was hyped to all hell to buy it. I never had any disposable income growing up, but I did with my college job, so I was counting down for that to drop, even though it would be a digital only purchase from the publisher’s web store and I was very weary of online purchases. But the day came, and I went to the site, and … I couldn’t buy it? My card kept declining and I eventually gave up, quite sad. Then I went to buy food later and my card wouldn’t work there either, and I started freaking out because I thought I had put my card info into a fake site and my card got hacked or something. Called the bank, turns out buying things in Japan when you live in the USA trips their fraud prevention system and my card got locked. I was able to work through the unlock process with the support person and approve foreign purchases for that day, and I downloaded the game and ordered Chinese takeout. And it was amazing. 😎 [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_5628.webp"]214033[/ATTACH] For Sticker Star, I absolutely [I]adore[/I] Paper Mario 1 and 2, easily two of my favorite RPGs of all time. Super Paper Mario I got a good bit after it came out when I finally got a Wii, and it is … you know what, it’s good, the comedy was on point and outside of navigating the town to find each new chapter it was fun, but it wasn’t what I was after. THEN the previews started dropping for Paper Mario 4, and it was going to be a return to form. I was beyond excited. As in, I was saving up to buy a 3DS alongside Sticker Star when it released excited. It was coming out, like, right after freudenstachel, so it was a ton of saving I was doing, but this was going to be amazing. Then the day came, I was there when electronics opened at my local store, I got both, and I went home, and holy hell, Paper Mario: Sticker Star Fucking Sucks. It is one of the absolutely worst designed RPGs I have ever played, and I have sat through the dumpster fire that was Shadow Madness, I have drug myself through the pure tedium of Dragon Quest 2, I have bashed my head against a wall trying to enjoy Unlimited SaGa — nothing matches the disappointment of that first week with this game. I tried. So hard. And I remember being so confused, because the product delivered was NOTHING like those first preview images. It was only later I found out golden boy himself, Miyamoto, was responsible, basically coming in mid development and complaining that people didn’t want another game like Paper Mario 2 and that they had to change it up and make it different. Because, kids, remember, repeat after me: If you buy a Paper Mario game, you don’t want a Paper Mario game. Which reminds me, know what [I]also[/I] dropped in 2012? X-Com remake by Firaxis. Yeah. Bet your sweet ass I day one bought that too. And you know what else? Quite possibly the greatest video game remake of all time. It’s like someone developed an X-Com game because they felt people MAY WANT TO PLAY AN X-COM GAME. [ATTACH type="full" alt="IMG_5630.gif"]214040[/ATTACH] Some resentment may remain. [/QUOTE]

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