Games you regret buying

[ckam]

Final Fantasy 12 is pretty bad.

 

[cheywoodward]

Although I purchased plenty of bad games before I paid attention to review scores (both the Eragon and beowulf video games are most prominent and the least amount of fun). The one game I truly regret buying (or being given, in this case) is Endwar. The game is an RTS in which you can use the xbox 360 headset to control your troops using voice commands. The game received decent reviews when it came out but I didn't enjoy it at all. I got the headset for the game and despite the novelty of voice commands (which are inaccurate at best) the actual gameplay and story seemed t be extremely uninteresting and the mission variety sucked. I still regret asking for it for christmas.

 

[archvile93]

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.

Ok, I agree on the point that Bioshock is one of those: 'You can go faster later in the game! So we make your character retardedly slow!' And: 'You need a power for this now! What? Later? Nah, we don't do that. GET POWER NOW!' games.

But come on! $5,- for a game that had reasonable graphics and a well plotted storyline! You hardly have the right to complain because you spent 5 bucks!

For me I wasted money on Warhammer 40.000 Strike Command. ?20,- for only 15 levels (ball bustingly hard levels) and the facade of being Real Time. It's not |-( the back of the game dissapointed me.

There is no music, only some flash animations (with tweeeeeens! |-( ) and the soldiers cry 'waarlgh, for thee emporowr' when they die. There is a 'Finish turn' option, but to do that, you need to pause the game. Why don't you have a shortcut for that?!

I can complain about the cost because at no point was I enjoying it. Almost every moment made me want to tear my hair out and burn my hardrive in frustration because of how broken it was. for that experience, any price above is a waste of money.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Maelstrom. God, that was a terrible RTS.

 

[Stuntcrab]

Clear sky, crashes every time I go to dark valley, really its bullshit.

 

[archvile93]

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$.

I'd agree with you if unique was synonomous with fun. I respect your opinion, but I'll take generic, fun, drivel over unique but frstrating and boring anytime. I couldn't even really enjoy the story or atmosphere anyway because when I was in those moments I couldn't stop dreading the thought that the gameplay would soon return.

 

[Wolfy1328]

Spiderman Web of Shadows.

Me too. For some reason, I bought it for DS. I don't even know. I returned it (who wouldn't?) and actually a few weeks back i bought the xbox version. Not bad. It's pretty fun.

 

[Blemontea]

Well took me day to think of this but

I Regret buying pretty much any DS game becuase there so shor t and i dont like handhelds alot

and also Harvest Moon A wonderful Life, strangely addictive but then i played the original N64 and i have to say i like the N64 version because it has more appealing aspects and doesn't demand you marry some ditzy chick to get past the first chapter AND Golden Tools! OH YEAH!

 

[superbatranger]

When I was but a wee lad, my father and I went to the store to get me a Playstation 2. I was full of joy, oh yes I was. To celebrate this moment, I bought a game. That game was Surfing H30. To accurately describe the torture caused by that game, I would have to destroy all life in the process. It was that bad, that broken, that unplayable, that shitty.

 

[Ethylene Glycol]

Team Fortress 2. God, I hate that game.

 

[Wutaiflea]

When I was about 14, I bought a Mortal Kombat compilation for the PSOne.

I thought I'd love it as much as I did in the arcade, but the intervening introduction to Tekken just meant that I found it virtually unplayable.

My husband also bought me Soul Calibur 4 when it came out, and considering how awesome 3 was, the development team appeared to have totally phoned it in.

 

[Withall]

Mech Commander 2. My god, was that a horribly unoptimized game.

 

[York_Beckett]

The Elder Scross IV: Oblivion.
I'm sorry, but I just couldn't get into it at all. There were so many things about the game that annoyed me, I just hated the whole thing, which was a shame because I generally like these types of RPGs. Then again, I honestly wasn't expecting much.

No you can go ahead and bombard me with comments about how I "don't understand" the game.

Oh, and also this PS2 game called "RTX Red Rock." Controls were stiff and awkward, combat system was confusing and unbalanced, and the all-around design of the game was just... weird.
It wasn't horrible, but it was disappointing. But again, I wasn't expecting much from this one either.

 

[DarkRawen]

Resonance of fate, because the gameplay sucks. Didn`t play long enought to have anything to say on the story, but the characters are... Boring. Yeah. And that cost a lot too, 600 KR, in USD that is around hundred dollars. Wow, that seems like a lot of money. But in Norway it isn`t as much as it seems, is`s a bit exspensive, but around the normal price for a brand new game. Still, worst game I`ve bought.

 

[Super Toast]

Every Final Fantasy after X. And Assassin's Creed 1. The second one ruled though.

 

[dragonburner]

Comet Crash was a bad PSN game. Same with Rag Doll Kung Foo and Mortal Kombat II. I never play them.

 

[ChupathingyX]

Supreme Commander. Booorr...rriiinnnnggg.

Wow that was extremely annoying, seriously the tutorial didn't even tell me how to make fucking engineers. Seriously I spent ages trying to figure it out and then eventually when I did it just become a boring fight building one unit after another again and again.

Also the HUD was very irritating and so much of it was pointless and just meant to "look cool".

 

[Gincairn]

Oblivion - Just didn't get hooked, the game stayed with me for 6 weeks before I sold it
Kane and Lynch - Just couldn't stand it
The Club - Same as above

Various PSN titles

There are a lot of others, but I can't think of them all to list, sadly i'm a bit of an impulse buyer at times and it has had a negative effect on both my games collection and my bank balance

 

[Chamzaboogie]

Double Dragon III for Atari ST, 20 years ago.

Oh boy did it suck. I somehow dreamt that I would feel that arcade extravaganza on my computer. I did not. I think that's the very first time I understood that video games could suck and bring you disappointment (I was 9 at that time).

CURSE YOU DOUBLE DRAGON III !

 

[kidragakash]

Avatar Last Airbender: Burning Earth

Terrible graphics, dodgy cut-scenes (sometimes the mouths don't move at all with dialogue)
ridiculous difficulty curve, neutered all powerful character, and all the achievements are achievable in the first 5 minutes (there is only 5 btw)