Games you wish had been better than they were

[greed]

Who was the sickeningly cute little girl in 7? Marlene?

Anyway, Super Mario Sunshine the only game in the main Mario series that really dropped the ball.

Also GTA4, why the fuck did they take everything they had done right in Vice City and San Andreas and bring things back to GTA3 with pretty graphics. I mean sensible physics and sane fights? Fucking boring. San Andreas felt like a cheesy action film, Vice City was only slighlty less crazy, that is fun. GTA 4 was them minus the fun, minus the crazy car chases, minus the you vs dozens of police and the military shootouts, minus the planes. I sold it and bought TWEWY a while back after it gathered dust on my shelf for six months, only game I have sold, ever, that was how big a disappointment it was. Don't regret it one bit. Saints Row 1 was better.

Finally FF8, if it had a less abusable junctioning system, less stupid level scaling, a far less retarded story it would have been fun. It had an interesting world and the fights where you weren't absurdly unbalanced were really enoyable because the combat was far smoother than any other ATB using FF, they really just nailed the pace and flow of combat. The compexity of the GF system was interesting too, they just made junctioning too abusable.