Buyer's Remorse

[Sacman]

I find this relevant...

OT: Oblivion and Morrowind... I hope you like wandering around bored in samey meadows...<.<

 

[Palmerama]

DC Universe Online! Not that its a bad game I'm actually enjoying it. It's definately worth the money! But its the fact that its eating away at my free time & stopping me from enjoying the games I did actually buy in the sale such as Left 4 Dead 2 & Empire: Total War!

 

[Denamic]

So, especially with the steam sale ending today, we all have bought games we wish we didn't. What is your biggest case of buyer's remorse recently?



For me, recently I bought X3, and it is just so obtuse that I couldn't get into it. I never got past the tutorial

X3 is fantastic.
The learning curve is steep as hell, but it's worth enduring.

As for me, I didn't buy anything I regretted.
I tend to make sure I really want games I buy rather than obeying my impulses.
After all, even a 75% price reduction isn't worth it if you don't enjoy the game, or if you never play it at all.
I learned my lesson back in the day when I bought Invisible War.
A sad day in the history of me.

 

[Commissar Sae]

I recently bought ARMA 2 during the sale. I usually like hyper realistic games, but the controls and user interface are so god damn horrible that it kind of ruins the experience for me. Plus, the game keeps crashing and suffering from loading screen freezes along with numerous annoying bugs from clipping to my A.I teammates refusing to do anything. No thanks. SWAT 4 is a much better game with less bugs, better controls, a better user interface, better A.I and all the realism.

Tip: You don't buy ARMA II to play ARMA II.

Exactly, you buy ARMA II to play the even worse, even buggier troll-fest that is Day Z.

Or play user made missions with friends, pretty much all I've used Arma II for, and have had a lot of fun with it.

 

[Ryotknife]

So, especially with the steam sale ending today, we all have bought games we wish we didn't. What is your biggest case of buyer's remorse recently?



For me, recently I bought X3, and it is just so obtuse that I couldn't get into it. I never got past the tutorial

X3 has a learning curve that can be equated to a vertical wall covered in spikes. The first 10-15 hours were pure hell for me, but after that....well ive sunk over 500 hours into the game so far. Also the community is pretty helpful on the egosoft forums (i even got into a huge fight with one of the devs in that game in the forum. No name calling and no ban hammers)

hmm, two worlds 2 for 25 dollars
Diablo 3 for full price.

 

[Gatx]

I tend to be good with my purchases, and only get any case of buyers remorse once in a VERY long wile.

That being said....3rd Birthday would be my most recent (so about a year ago).

I was apprehensive about this game but still got it in hopes it would be decent. Gameplay wise, it was...but the story....oh god. Way to fucking bring back Parasite Eve from the dead, only to shoot it in the fucking face Square Enix. Totally raped Parasite Eve and Aya Brea, with a story that was so stupid, convoluted, and shored little to no worthwhile continuity with PE.

Hell you think ME3s ending was bad? Fuck you, 3rd Birthday trumps it in spades!

What are you talking about? Third Birthday was the best $10 DLC skin I ever bought (and only one ever unless you count ones in bundles). Lightning looks totally hot in those jeans.

 

[rutcommapat]

Demon's Souls was a terrible, terrible waste of my money, and I'm still trying to understand why anybody thinks that it's a good idea to NOT ONLY create a game where you have to spend half an hour playing it before you reach a checkpoint, you also have absolutely no method of pausing the game at any time. Both of these elements by themselves should have made the game impossible to enjoy, but combined they absolutely cripple it.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

I bought Europa Universalis III and while I'm sure it's a good game, I couldn't really get into it...also, KOTOR. I could not get it to actually run on my computer.

 

[porous_shield]

Demon's Souls was a terrible, terrible waste of my money, and I'm still trying to understand why anybody thinks that it's a good idea to NOT ONLY create a game where you have to spend half an hour playing it before you reach a checkpoint, you also have absolutely no method of pausing the game at any time. Both of these elements by themselves should have made the game impossible to enjoy, but combined they absolutely cripple it.

I thought Demon's Souls was hard but fair. You die a lot but your never set back so far that you feel like you've lost much of anything and besides most levels have shortcuts so you don't have to slog through huge portions of the level to get back to where you died. The inability to pause the came and the way the levels worked were well publicized at the time so you have no one to blame but yourself.

The only buyers remorse I have from the summer sale is Hydrophobia but it's hard to feel remorse for $1.24 (I think that's what it cost). I thought it would work better on my computer than it actually does.

 

[Baralak]

Demon's Souls was a terrible, terrible waste of my money, and I'm still trying to understand why anybody thinks that it's a good idea to NOT ONLY create a game where you have to spend half an hour playing it before you reach a checkpoint, you also have absolutely no method of pausing the game at any time. Both of these elements by themselves should have made the game impossible to enjoy, but combined they absolutely cripple it.

I thought Demon's Souls was hard but fair. You die a lot but your never set back so far that you feel like you've lost much of anything and besides most levels have shortcuts so you don't have to slog through huge portions of the level to get back to where you died. The inability to pause the came and the way the levels worked were well publicized at the time so you have no one to blame but yourself.

The only buyers remorse I have from the summer sale is Hydrophobia but it's hard to feel remorse for $1.24 (I think that's what it cost). I thought it would work better on my computer than it actually does.

Hey last I checked remorse has no monetary value. It is only a feeling. Like I have remorse on Section 8: Prejudice cause I feel cheated from a good game due to not wanting to waive my rights cause of Microsoft's Terms of Service.

If it helps you any, No court in the US actually acknowledges those ToS. I can't remember the last time any company actually brought those up in court and had them stick. For all the Legalese in them, they hold about as much weight as a couple of little kids saying they're married.

"Aww, isn't that cute, they think they're married!"

"Aww, isn't that cute, they think that document means something!"

 

[smmnc3000]

I do regret picking up DJ hero 2 party bundle and DJ hero 1 for ps3. I admit I got a pretty good deal ($50 for it all, new), but I have only played it once, despite the reviews I had read, it just wasn't very fun for me.

 

[Keltrick]

So far MAYBE Witcher and Witcher two. My brother was really interested in it, so I got him Witcher two, seeing as how it was really cheap and fresh in my mind. Sadly, I didn't think about what computer he would try and run it on. His laptop may run his WoW perfectly fine, but he cant even get through the load screens in Witcher really, or cut scenes, let alone play it well. Should have stopped and thought about that first.

I may give it a try, but not being a big PC gamer my only computer is a laptop too, and probably not THAT much better.

Off topic: As I've said, I'm really not a pc gamer, and only got steam after buying a humble bundle, and getting the keys. This being my first sale I was blown away, and get what everyone's always going on about with them. Is the "holiday sale" comparable? better? worse?