Hey Hive Gaming community!
This my entry for the newest Hive Gaming Community Contest, check it out if you want to participate. You can read all about it here. I do not have a lot of bad experiences with games, but I remember one that was very disappointing for me, I'll share this painful moment with you.
I invite you to listen to this sad music while you read the post:
This experienced happened around 2003. At that time I had an original Xbox, I remember me and my brother saved to buy the "crystal edition", it was a normal Xbox but with transparent plastic. The controller was cool though. By this time I was buying only original games for the Xbox, I have had an awful experience buying pirate games and since I was planning to work in the gaming industry in the future my ethics told me it was not cool to sabotage my future job haha.
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In my town there were not a lot of shops that sold original games at that time so every opportunity that I had to get out of my town, to Mexico City or to Cuernavaca I asked my parents if we could visit a shop to see if there were cool games. I have to say that I did not have a lot of spare money for this hobby and neither my parents so only in rare occasions I was able to buy games.
Also in those years I was a vivid reader and collector of a video game magazine called "Atomix", this was one of the most popular magazines at the time before the internet displaced them all. Atomix covered all console games and also PC, I liked reading the reviews, news and updated on the gaming world. I've always liked RPGs aso I was always looking for information in these type of games, one day I saw a review for a game called Dungeons and Dragons.
I was not a perfect review but the game caught my attention, it had four player co-op, you could level up and also you could choose between different characters. Now that I think about it, it was like a Dark Alliance game. I wanted that game! And I was going to move mountains to get it!
A Short Gameplay:
On a trip to Cuernavaca, the capital city of my state we visited a Sanborns, this is a very popular store in Mexico where they sell from chocolates, to iPads, they also have a restaurant and the stores are owned by Carlos Slim, one of the richest men alive and the richest in Mexico as far as I know. On the store I could not find the game I was looking for but I found one similar, or that's what I thought.
I've always been an impatient person and when I was younger I was even more impatient and I craved instant gratification, I just could not wait... So I bought the game, the name was Magic The Gathering Battlegrounds, I think I decided to buy it because it was from the same studio or something like that. They were both published by ATARI.
First few minutes in the game I was very disappointed, I had spent my only opportunity in a long time to buy a game, and on this one was clearly not what I wanted. I tried to convince myself that the game was not that bad, so I continued playing, I was not successful. It was not that the game was awful, but it was not what I thought, I was not a fan of Magic The Gathering I think that by that time I had never played it or knew too little about it.
Now that I'm watching it again it's similar to Clash Royale and a little bi like @Splinterlands.
I remember that after few weeks I returned to the store and sadly there were no exchanges, and I was not able to sell or change the game. I can't remember what happened to it, maybe I exchanged it for pennies on my local Blockbuster, I don't know.
This experience taught me that it's better to wait for better opportunities and avoid instant gratification.
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STOPI think we've all done that before, getting a game and then it not being remotely the experience we were hoping for or expecting.
Yes, happened to me many times, but this was especially bad. It also happened to me that I bought a game and it didn't work, that was when I bought pirate games, one of the other reasons I stopped doing it.
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Man I really love magic, but nothing like playing it in person, that game would not serve for anything would disappoint me completely haha
Hahaha, imagine my face I was like "what the hell!?" hahahaha. Maybe if I had been a Magic fan by that time it would have been something different.
I identify myself a lot with what you say about being an impatient person, although that is why both good and bad things have happened to me.
Here in Venezuela there are even fewer places to buy original games, and it is a luxury reserved for few people, especially with the games of the current generation since those of retro consoles are relatively cheap.
Anyway, thanks for the post!
@eddiespino. Excellent your quote at the end, and quite accurate your post in expressing that horrible experience. As a gamer we always want everything to be fast and the results to be good, I am one and this seems to be a reflection of how I am. I tell you that in my case I have not invested in games, because I live in a country where the situation does not give me those luxuries, although I remember that I spent some time ago about 4 dollars I do not remember exactly the amount, in tft for some eggs, however I know how expensive are the purchase of video games. And I'm really glad that from all our worst experiences we learned something good. Thanks for your post, it has been a reflection for my personal life as a player. Greetings.
Sometimes we want something so badly that we forget to wait, we become impatient, you are absolutely right when you say that it is better to wait for better opportunities, so we save ourselves disappointment.
Pd: (The touch of sad music created the perfect atmosphere for this post).
Sorry, I missed your comment! Yes instant gratification is my kryptonite hehehe.
I would have been one of those kids that ate the marshmallow as soon as the adult closed the door...
I completely understand your frustration, @eddiespino... Haha! This must have already happened to all players who are waiting a long time for a specific game. It is always best to wait, but we are not always able to control ourselves, right? Haha!
Great (and fun) post!
Yes! It's hard to control and lose the opportunity to buy a game, in that case I would have to wait for weeks to be able to buy another game so it was a tough decision!
Es demasiado gracioso cuando sucede eso, justamente en mi post hablo de dos juegos particularmente donde me sucedió lo mismo que a ti, fue terrible jajaja a mí una vez me pasó algo peor, compré un juego (con el dinero de mis padres porque en ese entonces yo no tenía dinero propio ni lo producía) y cuando llegué a mi casa, resulta que dentro de la caja había otro juego, uno completamente diferente que no tenía nada que ver, mi papá me llevó a devolver el juego pero como 4 días después y habia botado la factura así que nunca me lo recibieron y me quedé con mi juego pirata jajaja
jajajajaja noooo! Sí, eso me llegó pasar también, que el disco estaba serigrafeado con diciendo que era un juego y luego resultó que era otro... Voy a checar tu post!
Es demasiado gracioso cuando sucede eso, justamente en mi post hablo de dos juegos particularmente donde me sucedió lo mismo que a ti, fue terrible jajaja a mí una vez me pasó algo peor, compré un juego (con el dinero de mis padres porque en ese entonces yo no tenía dinero propio ni lo producía) y cuando llegué a mi casa, resulta que dentro de la caja había otro juego, uno completamente diferente que no tenía nada que ver, mi papá me llevó a devolver el juego pero como 4 días después y habia botado la factura así que nunca me lo recibieron y me quedé con mi juego pirata jajaja
Jajajaja que horror.
1ero ... la música perfecta para acompañar esta historia
2do Si... es TERRIBLEEE uno busca divertirse al máximo asi el juego sea corto pero te diviertas a mil y te esfuerzas por ello y sales decepcionado.
3ero Tengo una pregunta ¿Lograste probar el Dungeons and Dragons? Jamás lo había visto y quisiera saber que tal ajaja
4to y ultimo, respondiendo tu pregunta mi #worstgamingexperience fue un juego llamado Growlanser ya hice el post!! :D le metí mucho cariño estoy orgullosa.
¡Hola! Sí, me gustó añadir el detalle de la música jajaja.
Sí, a veces juegan con nuestros sentimientos y lo peor es que sale caro jajaja. El Dungeons and Dragons no lo llegué a jugar, la verdad no creo que sea tan bueno, pero me llamaba la atención. Hay uno similar que sí jugué que se llama Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance o algo así y también está el Diablo 2 y 3.
Ohh voy a ver tu post también, ya leí y comenté el de ilaz.
Uff Diablo 2 si lo llegué a jugar y me gustó bastante la verdad jaja
Siii el de ilaz me encantó, gracias por tomarte el tiempo de ver el mio :'D
Con esa música de fondo mientras leo, casi lloro enserio 🥺 Así me pasó con mi consola de super Nintendo, tanto que mis hermanos y yo luchamos para obtener una y vino mi tío a dañarla, solo porque no quería que jugaremos.💔 Okey, literal, ahora si estoy llorando 😭
Ohh que mal, en México diríamos qué manchado...
Pues todavía hay malas perspectivas contra los videojuegos, a algo tienen que echarle la culpa las personas, lo hicieron con la radio, el cine, la televisión, con los videojugos y ahora con el internet.
Eso sí es triste...
Bueno es que mi tío era un poco viejo y no entendía de esas cosas.