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_Russell_

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Chainsauce said:
FFXIII. Oh god, it was so bad.
I agree.

Also Mafia 2. It's not a bad game, but I regret paying £40 for it.
I got all the trophies & traded it in within a week. Usually I don't bother hunting for trophies but I was determined to get my money's worth out of it, (I didn't).
If you haven't played it yet but want to I suggest renting it.
 

Sampler

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Halo3

Guy at work banged on about how good it was, I'm a bit of a fan of FPS's since Doom LAN's at on our Rolls Royce CAD systems back in the day so figure - what they hey. Sci-Fi storyline seemed good but I just don't dig the game play.

I'm not a fast and frantic player, swapping gun for gun before hiding around a corner waiting for my health to regenerate. I like stalking corridor to corridor eliminating all enemies and collecting all the pick-ups and weapons working my way up to a BFG.

Unfortunately I didn't know this before I shelled out for Halo3.

Not saying it's a bad game, just a bad game for me.
 

Ignatz_Zwakh

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I'll always regret using 9.99$ on the ps-store to download Zombie Apocalypse. I just HAD to have my damn zombie game. ><
 

Sampler

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Oh and MGS4

Having fond memories of playing MGS with my best mate and drinking beers, thinking how cool some of the twists were. MGS2 having lush graphics and one of my freakiest gaming experiences - played the game for something like sixteen hours straight, it's the small hours of the morning, I'm fairly tired and then the commander starts telling me I've been playing for too long and should put the controller down..WTF? Did that just happen, I'm I tripping from sleep deprivation and it happened again - haha!

Somehow missed MGS3, completely slipped me by.

But got MGS4 home, found the fake advert a little tacky (maybe it makes sense at a later reference) and then watched some nice cinematics, moved an inch, watched some more, ran around not sure what I was supposed to be doing until I hit the location to start the next sequence - got about half way through it and switched it off - after half and hour I'd had maybe forty seconds of game?

Plus most of the story didn't make sense, presumably because I hadn't played 3.
 

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archvile93 said:
Electrogecko said:
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TomLikesGuitar said:
archvile93 said:
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.
Were you and I playing the same game? No hit detection problems or running out of ammo and the plasmids did there job perfectly.
 

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Ignatz_Zwakh said:
I'll always regret using 9.99$ on the ps-store to download Zombie Apocalypse. I just HAD to have my damn zombie game. ><
I was close to buying that, I miss the Counter Strike zombie days...
 

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Iwata said:
Sabiancym said:
Bioshock. I really don't get what people like about this game. It's got terrible FPS mechanics, and the story and setting is just...bleh.
Are you serious? I mean, I love the game, but I can accept criticism to its story or gameplay, but the setting?! Really?! Aren't you tired of running the same spaceship corridors, or hills, or war-torn cities? If nothing else, one criticism that should never be aimed at Bioshock is that of a bad setting! A 1950's sunken art-deco city?! That is awesome by itself.
I just could not get into it. The setting was cool, but the art style was annoying. It looked too cartoonish to take it seriously. Plus I thought the gun mechanics were pretty simplistic.

I was excited about playing it and tried so hard to like it, but I just couldn't. I tried multiple times, but found myself getting incredibly bored fairly quickly.

I think the art style was the kicker. I'm more of a photo-realism guy and have to have great gameplay in order to forgive non-realistic graphics.
 

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Killer 7 for me. After playing the heck out of Fallout 3, I decided to give Oblivion a try. So I buy the Bioshock/Oblivion combo pack and end up loving Bioshock but Oblivion was just meh. Killer 7 I bought because everyone talks about it so I wanted to see what the deal was about it. I just couldn't get into the game at all and I tried my best but just ended up returning it that day. Now that I'm this topic Mass Effect was another one that I regret buying.
 

RandomHer0

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frigging Singularity, one afternoon of mediocre Bioshock-ish gameplay with a lackluster ending. boo.
Also as a Sonic fiend as a kid I was roped into buying some truly horrendous titles, I bought Shadow the Hedgehog before reading a review, thinking it was going to be awesome. Oh the pain that game inflicted on me.

Oh and GOD DAMN Brutal Legend. Way to ruin a great idea/game world with absolute garbage RTS controls/ideas. Soundtrack, AMAZING. World, AMAZING. Story, Above average with good Tim Schafer humor. Gameplay, shoot me between the eyes. fuck what a waste.
 

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Maelstrom. God, that was a terrible RTS.
I'm with you there. But hey, at least I payed only 5 bucks and got the steelbook special edition. Looks shiny.
 

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AngelicSven said:
Burnout Paradise. I absolutely LOVE the burnout series but I really did not dig the open world. They should have let you be able to pick events off a list like in the past and have a damn restart button. I did really like the open world once i beat every challenge, it's just annoying while playing the game. But props to Criterion for consistently supporting it with DLC.
...unless you're on PC. No support, no Cops & Robbers pack, no Big Surf Island... no replies to email or any comment at all beyond "Nope, not coming to PC. Sorry."

So yeah, that's on my list. Mafia 2 has to at least edge towards the list, given that its "open" world was pretty linear in any sense that matters, and I'm afraid I'm going to come down against Bioshock too - simplistic scares from scuttling horror clichés bored me before I even got into the game proper.

The big one, though, the real stinker:

Far Cry 2.

What a waste. "Adaptive storyline"? Randomised characters in predetermined missions, more like. One ending, just viewed from different locations. An entirely pointless drivelfest, with poorly-modelled weapons, implausible gunplay, nonexistent AI, a lazy and irritating wheeze to cheat their way around coding some faction mechanics, and too bloody much driving.

That said, I'm still playing with the map editor. I had far more fun with that than with the game...
 

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Heavenly Sword

While the game was fairly entertaining, well voiced and motion-capped, it clocked in at less than five hours in length and provided no reasons to replay it whatsoever. It essentially felt like I had paid £30 to see a decent movie.
 

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Castlevania Judgement, I figured there would be some running around and doing stuff but all it was was one on one fights, and there didn't seem to be much of a plot
 

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s69-5 said:
ultrachicken said:
TomLikesGuitar said:
archvile93 said:
Bioshock, it was not worth $5.
Haha, good one... Now seriously take that the fuck back right the fuck now.
Sir, he is what we call a troll.
A differing opinion does not a troll make.

I have no opinion on Bioshock having only played the demo, and not being a fan of FPS games in general. But I think archville is allowed his opinion, even if Tom doesn't agree with it.

OP:
Dragon Age: Origins.
Lucky or me, I got almost half of the money back when I sold it to the store and put the money toward a much better RPG: Trinity Universe.
He's not a troll for disliking bioshock, he's a troll for not explaining why.
 

Ryan-Phoenixan

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The original Neverwinter Nights. It kept crashing on me back when I first bought it, even though I had a decent gaming PC at the time that had better than what the game needed to run. Then, as time passed, and patches came out to keep it from crashing all the time, and I got an even better PC, better games have come out.
 

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1. Gears of War was a functional game, but was completely boring and not very fun at all. Sort of like the iPad. It works fine, but why the hell would I want it?
2. Serious Sam was tonnes of fun to play with friends at LAN events and net cafes and whatever, but when I actually bought it I realised that without the friends it really is nothing. Double cannons are great, but friends are better. Not worth buying, but definately worth playing.
3. Kane and Lynch. HUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
 

Harker067

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Tekken 6 I have yet to find a way to enjoy it. Everything just feels so jerky and cumbersome to me.
 

TomLikesGuitar

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It's either worth playing or not, quibbling over whether it should have been a few bucks cheaper is just nitpicking - ultimately, you voted with your wallet.
Well yeah, I mean the thread is about Games you regret buying, and I don't have a lot of money lol.

I dunno, I agree with a lot of what you said; I didn't really think that it was Virgil's perspective, but that is a better way of looking at it. But what I really wanted out of multiplayer was CoD in the Halo universe, not just the map packs which I'd already spend a bunch of extra money on.

It's sad that Bungie is slowly selling out, but they aren't as blatant as the rest. I just don't know who is worse, MSFT or Activision. Time will tell.