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.
