While I personally enjoyed Xenonlade. I can understand why some people may have a problem with it.

- After level 40ish you never get anymore abilities

- Maps are wayyy to big. This would be alright if their was actual content to sustain the maps.

- Sidequests are the same. Kill X, Collect X

- Battle System never really requires thinking or strategy (does on occassion)

- Sidequests over level your character making the game dull

- Too many monster pallet swaps

Some of the reasons I could think of that someone may not like the game. As I said great game and I really like it but it has quite a few problems. Then again, what game doesn't nowadays?

Am I allowed to post games that are not related to any Nintendo systems? Because, you know, this is in the Nintendo forum?

Anyway, I'm sort of happy that I missed Civilization V. As far as I know, it's not what it was supposed to be and I'm guessing I would have hated paying 40€ for it. I'm still looking forward to buying it but it'll take some time for the GotY Edition's price to come down.

Never heard of the existence of CD-i games until 5 years later. At the time, I would've bought Mario games regardless of knowing how bad they were, glad I was il-informed. . .

Games that I'm glad I missed?

Metal Gear Solid 4
Uncharted
L.A. Noire
Call of Duty (any)
FIFA (any)
God of War (any)
Assassins Creed.
Killzone 2
Forza 3
Gran Turismo 5
Halo 3
Halo Reach

There are many more.

It's hard for me to say that I'm glad I missed a game, cause that would be like saying "I haven't played it, so there's no way to know if I would have enjoyed the game or not, but somehow I'm sure it was very wrong for me".
I know I decided not to play tons of games cause their concept or gameplay does not look appealing enough for me. And that's fine, of course, those games were not meant for me, but not because of something intrinsic to them, but because of my taste or my mood. See the difference? I am having a hard time to express it clearly.

On the other hand, it has happened to me many times that I gave a chance to games I was not interested and I even hated in the first place and I ended up loving the experience. Final Fantasy XIII, by instance.

Christmas vacation, 1993.. I got a ton of money for birthday / Christmas, plus some "Jeffrey" dollars at Toys R Us because I returned some presents there that I didn't want or already had.

I had exactly $250 cold hard cash (and TRU money)... went straight to the videogame aisle, and was oh so close to dropping it all on the newly released Atari Jaguar, having recently seen the old "Do The Math" commercials on TV and wanting to be the first kid on my block to own (what I thought was) the most powerful gaming system currently on the market.

Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed as I saw the actual game library, which was pretty crappy to say the least, and nothing really interested me... so I went back down the aisle and picked out a bunch of games for my SNES instead, which where as follows...

-Super Mario All Stars
-Super Empire Strikes Back
-Aladdin
-NHL '94
-Super Adventure Island

How's THAT for an epic lineup of games! So yeah, as you can clearly see I was (and still am) very happy with my decision lol.

No More Heroes, for a long time i kept hearing about this "amazing" game for Wii. Other games i wanted kept getting in the way so i never got around to getting it. PS3 version was announced, so i said WTH might as well wait for the version with extra stuff and get the sequel on Wii. Finally played it(PSN demo version) and man im I glad I never got the game. It is not good. You run down corridors beating up boring enemies with boring gameplay. The bosses look interesting, but there not all that either. I cant figure out how people gave this game high scores. Did they drop their standards because its on Wii and they didnt expect much, or was it pity points??

Crysis2, was going to get day one, but decided to get KZ3 instead. Glad I did. Crysis2 is a good game, but not 9,0 good. Too many glitches for that. Are people just throwing high scores at games for the hell of it?? Sure the graphics are good, but that means nothing when the character design is bland and the enemies get stuck it place. KZ3 has great graphics and nary a glitch in sight

I agree with you on No More Heroes.

I heard all the praise for the game, bought it and what a load of crap it was.

I think we should not let fanboys review games. THey did the same crap with Conduit. That game was getting early praise but was meh at best. There were better FPSs released on GC for God's sake

I spent about that much 2-3 years later ... and have 40 Jag games plus CD unit and several of those titles. But you made a very wise choice in 1993.

Mike from Morgantown