Retro games that disappointed you the most.

[thecatillaccat]

Xenogears.
Some time ago I was looking for RPG games that could take me away from the monotony of the usual titles I played - Final Fantasy IX, Crisis Core, Dragon Quest XI etc. - and in the end I discover this game complete with an Italian translation completed 1-2 years ago. The adult themes, the fascinating graphics, and the idea of an RPG with mechas intrigued me... it's a shame that a simple mechanic that I personally hate left it abandoned even halfway through the game: the rotation of the view. Too distracting, too many things to look at, too much to explore on a screen cut off at the sides. Because of this, as well as the display of the menus, I never had the courage to start Grandia, which seems like another interesting game to me.
With this obviously I don't mean that it sucks as a game - considered one of the best JRPGs if not the best ever made by the many who have played it, I probably can't get over this thing having not been born in that period and grown up with that type of gameplay .

This is in my top 5 of all time but that comment about the camera? Entirely correct. Their ambition far outstripped their budget and their experience (most of the team, this was their first game). The camera rotation is weird, the platforming is a massive pain, the second disk is a glorified slide show you just read for a few hours with an occasional dungeon, because Square cut the budget and told em to just finish the damn thing already, thus the majority of the story is actually missing...yeah. Xenogears is transcendent at its best moments, and utterly atrocious at its worst, and there's not a lot of in between.

Still needing my remake even with that, Squeenix. GIVE. I'm FIENDIN'.

 

[Tronky.it]

This is in my top 5 of all time but that comment about the camera? Entirely correct. Their ambition far outstripped their budget and their experience (most of the team, this was their first game). The camera rotation is weird, the platforming is a massive pain, the second disk is a glorified slide show you just read for a few hours with an occasional dungeon, because Square cut the budget and told em to just finish the damn thing already, thus the majority of the story is actually missing...yeah. Xenogears is transcendent at its best moments, and utterly atrocious at its worst, and there's not a lot of in between.

Still needing my remake even with that, Squeenix. GIVE. I'm FIENDIN'.

If they made a remake, I would probably reevaluate it and play it willingly.
(I take this opportunity to apologize for any errors in English, as I don't speak it as my first language and on some occasions I use the translator)

 

[thecatillaccat]

If they made a remake, I would probably reevaluate it and play it willingly.
(I take this opportunity to apologize for any errors in English, as I don't speak it as my first language and on some occasions I use the translator)

Perfectly readable, friendo. You're good.

 

[Insomnia_ig]

Personally didn't really like Chrono Trigger and I'm not really sure what it was I think it just didn't click with me. I do like a lot of things about it just idk I couldn't like it the same way everyone else does

 

[JustLooking123]

Personally didn't really like Chrono Trigger and I'm not really sure what it was I think it just didn't click with me. I do like a lot of things about it just idk I couldn't like it the same way everyone else does

I played it after i had played many other good rpgs and i was older too, it was decent, but not legendary for me... maybe because there wasn't effect of "the first" for me there, instead, final fantasy 5 was the case for me! i love it more than all other ffs, yet people usually rank it below ff6 and ff4...

Maybe it's not bad if we discuss at what state we played these games?

• what other games we had played before them?
• we played them as kid or adult?
• how was the atmosphere at that time? were there all hype about it around us?

What do you guys think?

Post automatically merged: Tuesday at 11:10 PM

oh, now that i look again, we are in "Retro games that disappointed you the most." thread!
i guess what i said makes little sense in this context!

 

[Michael Frank]

Personally didn't really like Chrono Trigger and I'm not really sure what it was I think it just didn't click with me. I do like a lot of things about it just idk I couldn't like it the same way everyone else does

Ah some people love some people don´t love it too much, the overall experiece is great, maybe play FFVI or Mystic Quest, with Chrono my method is that i play until i do something i consider important within the story, like beating a boss or finishing a side quest, then i save and play/watch/read something else, try to savor it more slowly so it doesn´t feel like a slog in the long run, same with grinding, 5 or 10 minutes with x10 speed and then stop to see my stats, then i save and rest.