Games you DON'T miss playing when you sold it or traded it in.

[Parasondox]

Storms a coming Escapist and Happy Holidays,

Soooooo... erm... hello to you all. I'm Paradox, and I'm a gamer and this is my first time at Gamers anonymous. Okay let's get to the point, what are some games you have played and even completed that you were happy to see the back of when you sold it or traded it off? Oh heck even for PC where you just uninstalled the game or it wasn't loading and you thought to yourself, "well I won't think twice about that game ever again" and "oh well big deal, it won't be missed".

The game in question can be a peice of crap or you just felt let down by everything it had to offer.

Comment below and enjoy the meeting. Thank you.

 

[Catfood220]

Spec Ops: The Line is one of those games, I looked at the trophy list and thought to myself "I can platinum this" and to be fair the medium and hard settings were ok. But the FUBAR setting was insanely difficult to get through, but bit by bit I was able to edge my way through it.

Then it got to the mounted gun section of the shopping mall, where your buddies suddenly seem to forget their training and gain the survival instinct of suicidal lemmings and just charge at the enemy all guns blazing. They died so fucking much at that point. Then the bit in the garage, that was just insanely difficult. Anyway, I finally finish the game and gain that sweet sweet platinum.

I take the game from the console and stick it up for sale on Amazon. I don't regret it one bit, its a good game and all, but those 2 bits on the hardest setting made me just want rid of it. I'll probably pick it up again at some point...when the painful memories have faded enough.

 

[krazykidd]

Blazblue Continuum shift extend. It's by no means a bad game. But good lord was a terrible at it . To the point that having it in my library made me depressed. The game beat me. Now i like hard games, i'm a masochist when it comes to games, but this game was doing more than kicking me in the balls, it was laughing and taunting me.

 

[Suave Charlie]

Gears of War fucking 2. Broken, broken game. I mean really, were they just hammered when making design decisions? It's like an entirely different team made it. 1 good, 3 great, 2 terrible.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Dragon Age 2. It was thoroughly mediocre. That wasn't why I was happy to give it the boot; I have plenty of mediocre games. I just happen to be one of the biggest Origins fans ever and DA2's inferiority as a sequel just pissed me off.

 

[The White Hunter]

Oddly enough Shadow of the Colossus for me.

I didn't trade it in though, I returned it for a refund citing "terrible, terrible, terrible".

I am now more mature and I do understand the game and it's appeal, and it's odd to me that the exploration aspect didn't appeal to me (I love exploration), but I suppose I like my exploration to be rewarded witgh shinies, things to kill, adventuring and such.

I get the point. I get why some people adore it. But that game just was not for me.

 

[Fijiman]

Pirates of the Caribbean: Legend of Jack Sparrow. I got stuck at this one part that was a ***** to get to and gave up. Plus it wasn't that great a game. There was also Crash: Purple. Everything else that I have sold/traded(which isn't much) I miss at least a little bit.

 

[The Enquirer]

Killzone 3. I always bring this game up but I just couldn't stand it. I don't know how people thought that was at all a fun game.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Marvel vs. Capcom 3. I know some of you will think its a sin that I disliked the game, but hear me out. The change in art direction made my head hurt. I was a fan of MvC2. I loved it and was ecstatic when a 3rd iteration was announced. But the way the graphical nature differed from its predecessor made me feel sick to my stomach. I gave it a go, and even tried to overcome the gfx issues but in the end it just was too much for me. Too many colors made me feel as if I was on an acid trip and just ruined the experience. Plus the gameplay diverged from the previous game enough to make me feel it was inferior.
I do not regret trading it in at all.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I never really sell any games at all, I have a feeling that the moment I sell something I will have the urge to play it again in a week or so.

I can't remember anything I sold for personal reasons, I just wanted the money for a different game.

I suppose for uninstalls, I uninstalled the original Deus Ex after the first few hours. I know graphics don't usually make or break a game but christ there is a limit. To say it aged badly is a massive understatement and I never played it beforehand so I don't have the rose glasses of nostalgia guiding me through.

I would sell the DMC HD collection because they're all basically worse versions of Bayonetta and I preferred the reboot regardless. The same may go with the MGS HD collection too because MGS2 is beyond atrocious and the fuckin' bad controls ruin an otherwise good MGS3.

I would sell UMVC3 because the online community is fucking cancer and the online is expected to 100% carry the game because the singleplayer "options" are non-existent. The online does well to a degree of course but it has only been getting worse. Thank god I discovered ArkSys fighters who somehow attract decent human beings on Xbox Live. Not a single rage message throughout my entire BB career. I would like to say the same about P4A but salty Elisabeth players be salty. What's that? I beat your Ziodyne spam? My heart bleeds for you, it really does.

Somehow they never see the Instakills coming...

Merry Christmas, by the way. My broken sleep pattern is good for something I suppose

 

[Parasondox]

Killzone 3. I always bring this game up but I just couldn't stand it. I don't know how people thought that was at all a fun game.

That's exactly how I felt about Killzone 2. Just an awful game and something I don't miss at all. Before you even reach the final boss you have to go through like 20 waves of enemies shooting at you all at once with rifles, LMG, SMG and RPG and every god damn fucking frags with NPC's not helping you for shit.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I rarely trade games back. When I buy a game, I intend to keep it. As such, I can name every game that I've ever returned.

X-COM: Enemy Unknown: Yes, a good game and great replay value, but the story just wasn't there. And that ending was just phoned in if you ask me. As such, I traded it in. I do sort of regret it now since the expansion came out and that seems to have an actual story. Maybe some day.

Killzone 2: Ugh. I played that game on the hardest difficulty and that final fight was crap. I also hated the characters (Shut up and do something Rico instead of yelling at me to do it!) and the whole story was just uninteresting to me. As such, I borrowed Killzone 3 instead of buying it, and sure enough, same problem.

Street Fighter IV: Screw you Seth, and your cheating ways. I never beat that game with any character. Traded it back two weeks later because it was not worth the rage it was inducing.

Aliens: Colonial Marines: Sigh...just, sigh...

MoH: Warfighter: See Aliens Colonial Marines.

Dark Souls: A combination of player attitude, difficulty, and a story that just wasn't there. I would ask for help, even on these very forums, and most of the time I would get mocked. "You're supposed to figure it out for yourself idiot." The difficulty, while at first manageable, I eventually hit a wall and could not get over it. Finally, I had no idea what was going on in the game. The story points were so few and far between--and so vague to begin with--that I didn't know why I was doing what I was doing. Why was a ringing a bell again?

Assassins Creed III: When Desmond died, I knew that the storyline died with him. The game's storyline also wasn't too strong to begin with. I hear great gameplay things about IV, but until these guys can write a complete story--and an ending that doesn't feel phoned in like in all the other games--I will not be buying another one of those games.

Fable III: A good game. A fun little adventure with a good storyline and a nice twist half way through. Too bad that ending, and the final boss, were such a let down that they left a bad taste in my mouth. A taste so bad that every time I thought about playing it, that ending popped into my head and I just lost all desire to play it.


Those are it. I've given a few games away as presents, but those are the gains that I went, "Nope, I'm done."

 

[Frezzato]

Going way back here, that would be Advent Rising for me. Written by Orson Scott Card, kinda looks like Halo...yeah, no. Sold that shit right quick. On the other hand, I do regret selling Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes even though it had a game-breaking bug. There was so much potential in that game with every battle feeling like a set piece.

I do sometimes regret selling Indigo Prophecy for a second or so, but then I remember the actual game play. Best opening to a game EVER, but I wish I could forget the following ten hours.

I no longer sell games, however I'd give away my copy of Demon's Souls if only I knew someone in person who I thought would tolerate it.

 

[Tanis]

Lair (PS3):
I played it years after, when they patched for regular controls, but it was still...uck.
I beat in a sitting, and didn't realize I was at the last boss until the usual tropes showed up.

Too short, stupid story, and mediocre game play.
At least I got a full refund.

 

[JimB]

Almost every game I've ever traded in or discarded I've bought again years later out of remorse. I may do so again, but I do not foresee myself ever caring to get my hands on a copy of Final Fantasy VIII again, nor Metal Gear Solid: the Twin Snakes. The former had one of the most drag-ass combat conceits I'd ever seen and I couldn't enjoy it even a little, while the latter quite improved the gameplay of the game it was a remake of but completely ruined the story for me with all the shonen bullshit they had Snake doing (the straw that broke the camel's back was Snake leaping into the air in a twenty-foot backflip, landing on the toes of one foot on a missile that had just been fired at him from a helicopter, and kicking off from that missile to fire from his rocket launcher at the helicopter. Whoever wrote that can fuck right off).

I would include Final Fantasy X-2 on this list if not for the fact that I still own it. Since I bought the damned thing used for five bucks, I don't imagine I'll ever get any money selling or trading it in, despite it being the worst game I've ever played. Same with Megaman X7.

This post seems to be a cautionary tale against being loyal to a series.

 

[Arcobalen]

For me that would be Red Faction: Armageddon. I just couldn't get into it.

 

[mrdude2010]

I was pretty happy to move on from Gears of War. I'd gotten all the single player achievements and wasn't a huge fan of the multiplayer, so I was fine with not playing it again.

Edit: Also, AC III. Gameplay has moved away from, you know, assassinations and other stealthy type things, the trading minigame was boring, and while the story was alright, the location setting lacked the sense of grandeur and the really tall freerunning challenges earlier games had.

 

[Kevin Bennett]

I can name 3 off the top of my head that bummed me out, Turning Point:Fall Of Liberty, Shellshock Blood Trails, and Soldier Of Fortune 3.

The first 2? I've always been a sucker for "what if?" alt history kind of stories. I mean a game set in a world where the USA stayed out of WWII and ends up being invaded by the Nazis in the 50s who are using attack blimps and 2 barreled super tanks? Or a Vietnam game where you are being overrun by NVA zombies and have to go Apocalypse Now in search of the source of the zombies? Sign me up! But in both cases I can't even tell you whether the game was ultimately good or bad because both were so badly ported to the PC as to be unplayable! Even the QTEs in both games would show you the X360 buttons so you had to try to translate "What key is L2 mapped to?" in the middle of a QTE!

And the third was the worst as far as disappointment. Not in terms of playability mind you,unlike the first 2 you could play all the way through at least, but I was a BIG fan of SOF 1 and 2 and they took everything that was good about those games and ruined it. The AI? Broken. Guns? Lame. Level design? Boring. Difficulty? Either cakewalk or cheating all the way. Anybody who loved the first 2 would be saddened to see how far the quality has fallen, it went from a great series with all this cloak and dagger CIA intrigue to being just another lame cookie cutter shooter.