Games you regret buying

[carpathic]

Dark Messiah of might and magic.

I NEVER should have bought that horrible game!

 

[New York Patrick]

Command and Conquer 4: Kane's Wrath for 360.

Terrible excuse of an RTS. However, the PC version is the opposite.

Do you mean Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath? Command and Conquer 4 was called Tiberium Twilight

*Shudders* Twilight

Yes, thank you. Miscounted because they released Kane's Wrath as a seperate game on console.

 

[Dr. Whiggs]

MGS2 (controlled horribly, bored), MGS3 (never opened), Fallout 1, 2, Tactics (FUCKING boring gameplay.)

Your hate only gets me harder.

You bought the 3 pack to? I dunno, I only started 1 and I've died more than I have in almost everything except God of War, and I've spent less time w/ it than I did the 2nd part of Ares on God mode in GoW1! I don't want to call it it a regret, but I should call FO1/2/T more of a let down.

Maybe I'm not a retro game fan like I hoped

I just like my games to be less glacial than frozen molasses.

 

[joe the janitor]

Tropico 3, totally sucked, a complete waste of money

I liked it.... *sniff*

 

[coldshadow]

there is no coming back from the game two worlds. that game scars you mentaly from playing 5 minutes of it.

 

[joe the janitor]

Operation Flashpoint - Dragon Rising.

I stoppped playing on the second level because it was so bad and unbalanced.

This.

This game was not worth the $50. Coming from a person who likes realistic games

 

[Nooners]

Sonic Heroes. Granted, I got someone I hate to buy it for me, but still...

 

[Wing Dairu]

I got Sonic and the Black Knight used, and good god...
The controls are mainly what killed it. I'm a PC gamer for FPS games and mostly a Wii gamer for everything else, so it's rare for me to complain about a Wii game's controls, but GOOD GRAVY are they broken in this one!

 

[Still Life]

ARMA II: not because it's a bad game; quite the contrary. I just don't have the time to devote to learning the varying complexities of the editor. Sure, I can create simplistic 'battle' scenarios on the fly, however, I'm a gamer who needs scenarios to have (some form of) narrative and progression.

 

[Jack Nettle]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl and Call of Pripyat. Good concept (although overused), but poorly executed, in my opinion. Luckily, I got them during that Steam sale, so I didn't waste too much money on them.

 

[Dagnius]

The only game I ever fully regret buying was Burnout Paradise. I loved burnout revenge and picked up Paradise on a whim only to find out it was NOTHING like it. I also kinda regret buying FFXIII... I'm a Final Fantasy fan yet i had heard all too often that the game wasn't that great but i spent 60 bucks on it anyhow. Started off: 'Oh this game is awesome' 10 hours in- 'AHHH @#%$^ THIS @#$#ING @#$@%@%!!!!' - 30 hours in 'Okay, I never want to play this #%^@ again...'

I traded both FFXIII and AC2 for copy of Blazblue: Calamity Trigger and have gotten more fun out of it.

 

[r0mulu5]

definitely aliens vs predators 2010 - avp2 was and still is one of my favourite games and so was it too much to ask for the new one to be...well... more than it was? the pacing is gone and the alien races both feature these stupid finishing moves that mean stealthily executing a well planned attack can't be done as ur character spends 20mins on each kill! such a disappoint and from the limited part of the game i saw you're never a facehugger, even in multiplayer! that was sooo much fun in avp2

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

*rifles through drawer full of old game cases*


Hmmm, let's see... Well, there's a game called 'Kreed' that I remember buying as part of a buy 2 get 1 free deal; ended up costing me 25 bucks, and I played probably 1 level before getting stuck. Seriously, I tried literally everything, and there was nowhere I could go and nothing I could do. Ahhh, here we go, the list of MMO games I bought because I thought "hey, this looks like a 'WoW killer':

Everquest 2: Boring and faaaar too grindy
Vanguard: Was so damn promising but ended up being absolutely horrid after a while
Warhammer Online: I actually had a lot of fun with this; some of the ideas were excellent, and even executed well, and the gameplay was generally a lot of fun, but upon reaching the level cap I was struggling to find things to do. STRUGGLING.
Age Of Conan: DAMN YOU DAMN YOU DAMN YOU YOU COULD HAVE BEEN SO FUCKING AMAZING DAMN YOU. Ahem, yeah, lost interest after a while - lack of consistency and OH GOD THE BUGS.
Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach: Some aspects were excellent, but there weren't nearly ENOUGH aspects
Guild Wars: Ugh, so damn linear, luckily there isn't a subscription fee


In other news:

Left4dead: Insane amount of fun for the first few months; a few friends also bought it, and we played together most nights..... Lost interest. Then l4d2 came out and just no.

Lots of money that could have been saved. LOTS.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Spiderman 3, I've never hated anything as much as I hate that fucking game.

I completely feel you on this one. I don't understand how Spidey is so underpowered in it. It seems like he takes three or four punches and he's dead, but he can wail on a mugger for five minutes (bit exxagerated) before they get knocked down.

I also regreted buying Left 4 Dead and Dead Space. Mostly because I hate online MP and I'm sick of zombies.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Mirrors Edge, Falling off things and waiting for a loading screen gets old much faster than you'd think!

 

[Kouen]

Painkiller Overdose and the Commando's Pack on steam

 

[CRoone]

Borderlands. Didn't get the thing new, but still got it fairly new. It turns out, it's not so fun to play a Sniper when half of the enemies are just going to bum-rush you anyway. Either it's too easy to take the buggers down, or they're so spastic that you can't get a hit before they've bashed your face in. I ended the first run of the game with more points in Assault Rifles and Machine Pistols than I did in Sniper Rifles.

Yeah, that wasn't fun. Hopefully, though, Borderlands 2 will be better. If they can include the DLC stuff available right now (the storage locker from Mad Moxxi, the raised Level Caps from General Knoxx and Claptrap's Robot Revolution, etc.), as well as more options in vehicles and a way to customize your own weapons, in addition to more realistic AI and pathfinding, *then* we'll be in business.

Also, Just Cause 2 and Split-Second weren't worth my time; the former for inconsistent AI issues, and the latter for infuriating rubber-band AI. Fortunately, I only rented them, so no harm done...relatively speaking.

 

[llubtoille]

Mass Effect,
my friend raved about it, and wanted me to play it so we could then chat about it in a more than one sided manner,
did the intro shooter thing, thought it seemed okay,
a bit too much micro-management than I'd like in a shooter, but w'eva
then I spend 6 hours totally lost in that space-city,
then spent a couple of hours lost on the first planet option when you get your ship
then went back to playing WoW.

I imagine it's the kind of game I could enjoy... if I had a printed walk through and someone who knew where to go beside me.
otherwise it was just a waste of $60 and 10 hours XD

 

[Electrogecko]

Bioshock, it was not worth $5.

Haha, good one... Now seriously take that the fuck back right the fuck now.

Nope, Unlike most people I was able to see through the interesting setting and realize how shit the GAME part of the GAME was.

I'm sure you've already recieved a lot of crap for these comments, but here's some more anyway. Bioshock was the only shooting game on 360 that wasn't complete generic bullcrap. How can you say the GAME part of the GAME was bad? It was the only FPS that even had a GAME. Walking around a sunken city looking for gene modifications that grant you new, powerful, diverse, and creative abilities that grant you access to new parts of the city is a bad GAME? Defeating hulking metallic monsters to recieve material that let's you empower and modify your character in a way that suits your prefered play style is a bad GAME? Discovering secret passages and fragments of civilization that give you more of a glimpse into the cities past and how it fell is a bad GAME? What exactly are you talking about? It had the exact same camera and controls as Halo, combined with an almost Metroid style exploration and progression mechanic. I agree with the notion that a game's story and setting are vastly less important than the gameplay and controls, but Bioshock was brilliant in nearly everything it. Are you trying to start something, or are you just retarded?

Well I've explained many times before, but here I go again. Incredibly poor hit detection, if you can even call it that. I've consistently seen crossbow bolts phase through enemy heads. This doesn't mix well with basics mooks being able to take more hits than an M1Abrams tank, resulting in every firefight costing half my ammo from every gun; a commodity that's in such short supply that I'm amazed a civil war could ever take place. I was almost always out of ammo, not trying to scrounge up enough to get by but just out, comletely, only leaving the wrench as a viable option, and this is despite looting everything I saw, making more, and even pulling it out of my ass (I'm pretty sure that last one was a glitch). You ever been forced to beat an elite bouncer to death. And I know what your going to say so stop right there, what about plasmids? the things the game's based around? Well yes I suppose I should've used those to save ammo, oh wait, I tried that, they were fucking useless. The ones that are supposed to cause damage do virtually no damage, and the ones that distract just don't. You'd think being engulfed in flames would be cause for alarm, but no the enemies are perfectly content to keep shooting while they patiently await the flames to go out, I guess they realize they really aren't that dangerous considering how little damage they do. The fact is that everything about how the game plays is broken, which is why the vita chambers were implemented. The developers knew the game was a task in masochism so they added them in to make the game winnable without actually fixing its problems. This is why the game sucks. Setting and atmosphere are the only things the game does well. Everything else sucks.

I totally see where your coming from, and I agree with a lot of it, but I know people who've beaten the game w/o vita chambers on the hardest difficulty. It's all about using plasmids creatively. I don't like the game as much as most people do, but I respect everything about it and realize that it's one of the few truly unique games of this generation. There should be much fewer combat based games today (about 90% of shit that's announced today is some guy swinging around swords on chains and chopping up hordes of inbreds) and of those, more should be like Bioshock. Also, it's worth 5$.

 

[Megacobb]

Shadow the Hedgehog I'm so ashamed of myself I thought I new better.