Games you have brought or downloaded that you fully regret.

[Karoshi]

Guild Wars 2. No, no, no. I should have never been seduced by its supposedly fluid combat animations, interesting skill system or dynamic events. It is a good game, but it's good parts do nothing for me, while the bad parts absolutely turn me off.

FF13. Oh boy, how sweet that this was my first and last entry in the Final Fantasy series. I'm very wary of JRPGs ever since.

While there are many games that I haven't enjoyed as much as I expected or simply don't feel like finishing, these two were an absolutely waste and I regret everything.

 

[Kyrdra]

For me it are the Assasins's Creed games. I have game number one and two and both time i stopped playing after 1 hour or so because it got way too boring

Duke Nukem Forever.
I sold it after my first playthrough.

well at least you finished it.

 

[Hargrimm]

Pirates of the Black Cove

I didn't know anything about the game before I bought it and thinking it would be a clone of Sid Meier's: Pirates! with a new coat of paint, maybe slightly changed mechanics. I assumed the developers would take the most obvious route in developing a pirate themed game: make it like Pirates! for some easy dosh.

Boy, was I wrong.

 

[Bruce]

Have to go back a bit for this one, because normally if a game is bad I at least get the fun of writing about it.

Pool of Radiance, Ruins of Myth Drannor.

This game is why my bottom score in reviews is basically "It will damage your computer." It was deathly dull to play, and if you uninstalled it there was a risk of it taking out necessary registry files for your computer. I still haven't forgiven Ubisoft for that one.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I'm pretty lenient, no matter how bad the game is. I usually find some positive things to say about the game. Keeps me generally pleased, and means I can enjoy more stuff. That said, there's one game that recently craked through that happy standpoint:

Gears Of War: Judgment

Okay, this is one that's actually a good game, but not a good Gears. It ticks me off in so many ways as a Gears fan, it's unbelievable. The only thing I can compare it to is Dead Space 3, in the sense that these are good games, but they are not serviceable to their franchises. But I still liked Dead Space 3, I don't like Gears Judgment and here's why:
It's not as story-driven in the previous entries. I'm in the minority that thinks the Gears stories were actually okay, or at the very least, the characters were good. Those things are toned way down in Judgement to the point that it's almost not even there.
Next problem, no more Horde or Beast. They replaced them both with Overrun, which isn't a bad mode, but it feels too much like a watered-down version of these two awesome modes instead of it's own thing. Which I would forgive IF THEY WERE STILL IN THE GAME.
Lastly, there's no curb stomp. Yeah, NO CURB STOMP. That execution is as signature to Gears Of War as the Lancer itself, I have no idea why it's not in the game. They almost took out the face-punching execution, it's just harder to get to. The lack of curb stomp is what ticks me off the most, if they put that back, I would honestly be nicer to this game. But it's not in there, so my jimmies are pretty rustled.
Oh, and apparently the multiplayer is COG v COG which doesn't bother me so much as it confuses me. Seriously, it's the weirdest feeling of "I'm not angry, but... WHY did you change that?" that I get from this game. But other people are really steamed about that and I don't blame them.

Jeez, Blezinski and Fergusson leave Epic and look what happens.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Dark Souls - Boring truding mess with an abominable story.
Resistance - A dull grey-brown FPS with no interesting characters and dull weapons.
Duke Nukem Forever - Duke's still Duke, but the gameplay is not.
King of Fighters XII - Thought I'd try a new fighting game franchise... Boy was I wrong for starting out here!
Dragon Age: Origins - Dull RPG where I felt like I needed a glossary everywhere I went and I had no input in the combat
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 - Not because I dislike it, but because I had no idea Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 was out when I bought it!
Assassin's Creed III - Boring protagonists, a boring timeline, only redeemable bit is the Desmond missions.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Alone in the dark-The Xbox 360 remake. I got it for only, I think, $5 (I bought The Darkness for the same price and loved that more)
Lord of the Rings; War of the north-I liked the movies. This game, not so much.
Battlefield 3-Got it free on the playstation plus deals. I haven't played more then ten minutes of it.
Deadpool-It was funny for the first hour, and ***** slappin Wolverine was funny, then the difficulty ramped up IN THE SECOND FUCKING LEVEL.

 

[SoranMBane]

Saints Row The Third, sort of. You see, it's not the fact that I bought it at all that I regret, because the game is awesome and tons of fun, but I do regret wasting my money by buying it as early as I did. If had been thinking clearly, I would have waited for the complete edition. I certainly won't be making the same mistake with Saints Row IV, which is sad because I'd like to give plenty of support to a game that looks that fun, but it's just not worth it if I'm only going to get burned again by mountains of cash-grab DLC.

Otherwise, I don't think I've had a game that I fully regretted buying. I'm pretty good at being able to tell at a glance whether I'll like a game or not, so I tend to only buy games that I end up enjoying. And, again, that ability didn't even desert me for Saints Row The Third; I had lots of fun with that game, I just felt betrayed by its DLC practices.

 

[Eve Charm]

Generations of chaos for psp and spectral force for DS. I love JRPGs but when you want to make a game with and indepth battle system and what not and completely fail at teaching players how to play your game to the point they never really make it out of the first chapter is just failure on the game creator's part. I'd rally put Project X zone on to but I'm one of the lucky people that played Super robot tasien og so I at least knew what they were trying to pull off with the battle system. I'm sure that game turned off a lot of people tho.

 

[bak00777]

Dark Souls, several people that I work with play it and like it, so I decided to buy it when it was on sale on Xbox Marketplace. i played for a couple of hours and hated it. I don't think that it is fun at all.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

I'm pretty lenient, no matter how bad the game is. I usually find some positive things to say about the game. Keeps me generally pleased, and means I can enjoy more stuff. That said, there's one game that recently craked through that happy standpoint:

Gears Of War: Judgment

Okay, this is one that's actually a good game, but not a good Gears. It ticks me off in so many ways as a Gears fan, it's unbelievable. The only thing I can compare it to is Dead Space 3, in the sense that these are good games, but they are not serviceable to their franchises. But I still liked Dead Space 3, I don't like Gears Judgment and here's why:
It's not as story-driven in the previous entries. I'm in the minority that thinks the Gears stories were actually okay, or at the very least, the characters were good. Those things are toned way down in Judgement to the point that it's almost not even there.
Next problem, no more Horde or Beast. They replaced them both with Overrun, which isn't a bad mode, but it feels too much like a watered-down version of these two awesome modes instead of it's own thing. Which I would forgive IF THEY WERE STILL IN THE GAME.
Lastly, there's no curb stomp. Yeah, NO CURB STOMP. That execution is as signature to Gears Of War as the Lancer itself, I have no idea why it's not in the game. They almost took out the face-punching execution, it's just harder to get to. The lack of curb stomp is what ticks me off the most, if they put that back, I would honestly be nicer to this game. But it's not in there, so my jimmies are pretty rustled.
Oh, and apparently the multiplayer is COG v COG which doesn't bother me so much as it confuses me. Seriously, it's the weirdest feeling of "I'm not angry, but... WHY did you change that?" that I get from this game. But other people are really steamed about that and I don't blame them.

Jeez, Blezinski and Fergusson leave Epic and look what happens.

Yes Judgement shit all over everything that made Gears great. Doesn't really matter though because plenty of people are still playing Gears 3.

 

[Danceofmasks]

Everything I bought in last year's Steam sale. I spent about a thousand dollars on the sale (didn't expect that) and played the games for about an hour each on average. Then went back to Dota 2.

How the hell....

Like really, how do you even approach that sort of number?

There have been a few games when I was young and stupid, Army Man Green Rogue on the PS2 was beyond terrible, spent £15 on it. Then there was Maelstrom I picked up for a tenner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba5oMm0IqmE I played it for about an hour then got sick of it and never touched it again, threw out the disk earlier this month during a spring clean.

Nah, last year was when they had a bunch of publisher bundles.
Which would be, presumably, how people end up buying dozens of games at once.

 

[Adam Weiler]

Most Recent disappointments:
-Dragon Age: Awakening - After getting dropped in some random kingdom, I didn't feel invested in the new characters or the world or the big bad. I got bored and never finished.
-A Game of Thrones: Genesis - I really wanted this game to be good because I love the books. But it's just a bad RTS.
-The Cave - A good game; it's disappointing because I want to see all the endings and without a Save/Load feature it takes too long to beat the entire game 5x.

Older disappointments:
-Survivor: The Interactive Game - Quite simply the glitchiest game I have ever played.
-Quest 64 - I think they forgot to include, well, everything that makes a game fun.
-Black and White - So very, very broken. Still had a few laughs though.
-Black and White 2 - Same as above, but without the laughs.
-Lost: Via Domus - Frustrating and bizarre, but the Swan station was nifty.
-Fable 2 - I still haven't played this game because I still don't own an Xbox. (Although from what I've read I'm not missing out.)
-Pikmin 2 - It wasn't as much fun as the original and the challenge was ramped up. I'd find myself reloading time again just because an NPC had run off a cliff with 1/500 important maguffins.

Good games with disappointing endings:
-Knights of the Old Republic 2 - So, I guess we never find out what happened to everyone then?
-Indigo Prophecy - The ending was far too rushed, considering how long it took to build up to it.

 

[Eddie the head]

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine. Although it's nice to know how Gears of War would have turned out if it was shit. And I didn't even like Gears of War that much, but it was at lest kind of entertaining.

 

[antidonkey]

Damnation - I knew it was bad going in but it seemed like an interesting setting and was only $2.50. It seems I paid too much.

The Witcher - this one sorta pains me but I just can't get into it. I've tried several times but I can't do. I haven't given up on it yet and intended to give it at least one more shot but I have no idea when that might be.

 

[captnb2thep]

I also research my games very heavily before I buy them, but I still get some disappointments:

Vanquish - it definitely seemed to be my type of game going into it, but I never could get into it. Something about it was so boring to me and I never finished it.
Crysis 2 - It was a nice change of pace FPS, but I didn't find it terribly fun. I played it mostly stealth and I felt it was pretty unbalanced because head on firefights seemed to be much harder, even with "Maximum Armor"
Castlevania: Lord of Shadow - Just not very good or fun. It piggybacked off of many elements from great games, but did none of them even REMOTELY as well.

 

[Bertylicious]

I bought Krater. With money.

*shakes head*

I had hoped for a kind of Fallout: Tactics-esque, squad-based RPG but there's no real character progression, no skills to diversify into and the upgrade system is both clumsy and ineffective. The highlight of the story was a weak joke about Ikea.

The worst part is that I asked you lot for advice about it and nobody said a thing so I blame The Escapist community entirely.

Incidentally, there's a beehive in the bushes outside my flat and I was thinking about sticking my cock in it but do any of you have any thoughts on it before I try it?

 

[Parasondox]

I bought Krater. With money.

*shakes head*

I had hoped for a kind of Fallout: Tactics-esque, squad-based RPG but there's no real character progression, no skills to diversify into and the upgrade system is both clumsy and ineffective. The highlight of the story was a weak joke about Ikea.

The worst part is that I asked you lot for advice about it and nobody said a thing so I blame The Escapist community entirely.

Incidentally, there's a beehive in the bushes outside my flat and I was thinking about sticking my cock in it but do any of you have any thoughts on it before I try it?

First of all, I've never heard of that game before I don't think.

Secondly I really hope you are joking cause I would appreciate it if you don't blame us for you making a bad decision. They're other sites you can review the game and even YouTube to view walk-throughs. Blaming others is just a low point and haven't you thought that maybe fellow Escapist haven't heard of that game before which is why they didn't comment? If you are going to be rude, maybe the beehive will help you out.

 

[Bertylicious]

I bought Krater. With money.

*shakes head*

I had hoped for a kind of Fallout: Tactics-esque, squad-based RPG but there's no real character progression, no skills to diversify into and the upgrade system is both clumsy and ineffective. The highlight of the story was a weak joke about Ikea.

The worst part is that I asked you lot for advice about it and nobody said a thing so I blame The Escapist community entirely.

Incidentally, there's a beehive in the bushes outside my flat and I was thinking about sticking my cock in it but do any of you have any thoughts on it before I try it?

First of all, I've never heard of that game before I don't think.

Secondly I really hope you are joking cause I would appreciate it if you don't blame us for you making a bad decision. They're other sites you can review the game and even YouTube to view walk-throughs. Blaming others is just a low point and haven't you thought that maybe fellow Escapist haven't heard of that game before which is why they didn't comment? If you are going to be rude, maybe the beehive will help you out.

Of course I'm joking.

OR AM I?

Yes, I am.

 

[dfphetteplace]

The only one that comes to mind right now is Blood Dragon. The game play itself is fun, but the DRM has so many bugs that the game is almost unplayable.