What would be the worst Suprise to find when openin Game related Purchases packaging?

[Raype]

Only semi-related, but didn't the publishers send off brass knuckles with the review copy of some game? I don't recall which it was, but it was one of those crime-centric games. Seems to me that would be pretty up there in terms of bad surprises. Especially if you bought it online and had to pay for shipping.

I can do you one better.



He then smashes open the box and receives note that he's got a one way ticket to hell. FREE WITH ADVERTISING: ONE ETERNAL DAMNATION

Truly, hell is a terrifying place.

[Slacker Magician]

I bought a copy of Legend of Heroes for PSP (i had played it before, but wanted it again), got home, opened it up, and inside was the sequel, which is TERRIBLE.
Ended up selling it back to them for more than i paid for it

The Legend of Heroes series has a lot of games, which one are you talking about?

[luffy4]

i bought viewtiful joe 2 and the disc was red hot rumble... but th worst is ive heard of someone getting a dead bird in their collectors edition box, though i forget the game

[Elin]

The worst thing for me was buying a copy of Parasite Eve II where both discs were in separate languages. It was a brand new copy, but evidently they assembled all the European versions of the game at the same factory, and a mixup had led to me having the first disc in English and the second disc in Italian. Besides the obvious fact of the second disc being in a completely different language, two things made it even more awful:

1: Saves from the first disc weren't recognised by the second, meaning that even if I spoke Italian or was willing to muddle through I couldn't have finished it.
2: By the time I actually reached the second disc and found out what had happened, I had already thrown away the receipt, meaning I couldn't even return the damn thing. Had the languages of the two discs been reversed, it would have been more readily apparent.

I believe I still have that half-English half-Italian copy of Parasite Eve 2 sitting on my shelf, actually.

[DoomKefka]

I remeber buying smackdown vs raw 2007 from walmart and it was brand new i opened the case and they game wasnt in there...i paid 50 bucks for a sealed empty box...they tried to say i stole it when i was back inside at customer service within a minute of purchase time on my receipt.....

[Ragnar]

That's a common Walmart scam. Buy a game, pop the disc out (and replace it with porn if you feel like it), reseal the case and return it. It's not nice, but there are people that do it for free games. They're apparently too stupid to just pirate stuff.

The Legend of Heroes series has a lot of games, which one are you talking about?

He's talking about the first 2 PSP games. Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch was noticeably inferior to Tear of Vermillion because they screwed around with the release order. ToV was actually the second PSP release, and had a bunch of improvements over PotMW which came out first. ToV came out first here though, and they foolishly stuck a #2 on PotMW, ensuring almost everyone plays them out of order and thinks #2 is strangely the worst

[Drageuth]

Not sure if this would count, but why not...

Years ago, back when I used to collect Nintendo NES games (see posts around 2004 in the Game Purchases thread, for people who weren't around back then) I bought Duck Tales 2, complete in box, off a seller. It's a somewhat harder to find game (not really "rare," just harder to find), so I was quite pleased with my purchase. He shipped the item, tossed me the tracker number so I could follow it, and everything seemed a-OK.

My package arrived about four days later. I was really pleased with how fast it had come. I opened up the bubble-wrap mailer that he used, and pulled out...

The Little Mermaid. Complete in box.



He had a number of different auctions going at the same time, selling off his NES collection, and Duck Tales 2 and The Little Mermaid had very similar box art. Most Disney games made by Capcom did, actually. So he sent me The Little Mermaid (which he sold for $10) and he sent the person he sold The Little Mermaid to my copy of Duck Tales 2 (which I had bought for $40). Thankfully, the other guy -- who I managed to get hold of via eBay -- was courteous enough to send me my game, and since he had just recently found a copy of The Little Mermaid in better condition than the one that he had bought, he didn't ask me to send his game to him. The seller refunded him his money, and I got a free game out of it to add to my collection.

[lordrand11]

http://www.reddead.net/forums/printthread.php?tid=213

that would be screwed up for your kids to find.

http://www.gamegrep.com/news/19523-c...gs_in_gta_box/

and this one is even worse.