Games you regret to have bought ?
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Let's see:
-MvC3; almost there...
-Castlevania: Lords of Shadow CE. I wanna like it, I truly do. But I don't.
-Brutal Legend. I figured it would be a short, fun game. It wasn't.
-Assassin's Creed 1. I had high expectations. Luckily, AC2 is better.
-Kingdom Hearts: CoM:RE. I have the GBA version, I don't know why I bought it again.
Honorable mention: Games I almost bought and I'm glad I didn't:
-Brink
-Dante's Inferno
-The Sims 3
-Black Ops
-LBP
-Fallout 3
-Mortal Kombat
-MvC3; almost there...
-Castlevania: Lords of Shadow CE. I wanna like it, I truly do. But I don't.
-Brutal Legend. I figured it would be a short, fun game. It wasn't.
-Assassin's Creed 1. I had high expectations. Luckily, AC2 is better.
-Kingdom Hearts: CoM:RE. I have the GBA version, I don't know why I bought it again.
Honorable mention: Games I almost bought and I'm glad I didn't:
-Brink
-Dante's Inferno
-The Sims 3
-Black Ops
-LBP
-Fallout 3
-Mortal Kombat
Prince of Persia. that lame remake thing with the snarky nathan drake wanna-be and the complete lack of any interesting... anything.
Lost Odyssey... that trailer made me envision the best game ever. I start playing, multiple premature orgasms in sheer anticipation. and then! ...turn based combat... ridiculously lame TBC and the lame monsters and the bad travel and interaction with characters... didn't make it of disk 1 of freaking 4. kudos for those that finished it. you guys are real troopers.
Lost Odyssey... that trailer made me envision the best game ever. I start playing, multiple premature orgasms in sheer anticipation. and then! ...turn based combat... ridiculously lame TBC and the lame monsters and the bad travel and interaction with characters... didn't make it of disk 1 of freaking 4. kudos for those that finished it. you guys are real troopers.
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Spiderman 3, I could of just gotten the PS3 version of Orange Box.
Fallout 1: Buggy piece of shit, thank god it was bundle with 2.
Far cry 2: A very broken game...But I admit, I have a little fun with some of the missions and there was a few moments in which I felt like a badass.
Godfather 2: Stupid ass game for stupid ass people.
Tetris: Damn it L-Block, you always T-Block me.
Fallout 1: Buggy piece of shit, thank god it was bundle with 2.
Far cry 2: A very broken game...But I admit, I have a little fun with some of the missions and there was a few moments in which I felt like a badass.
Godfather 2: Stupid ass game for stupid ass people.
Tetris: Damn it L-Block, you always T-Block me.
Splinter Cell: Double Agent- Tried multiple times to get into it, wanted it to be like Chaos Theory, eventually snapped the disk so I wouldn't be tempted to waste my time on it anymore. Buggy, bad AI, froze all the time, and had a lot less freedom than CT. Certain NSA/JBA choices were just absurd.
Grand Theft Auto 2: Achieve objectives however you want... unless they differ from the precise way we dictate you achieve them. Amazed the series survived to the 3D era, glad it did.
Turok 2: Don't think I need to explain. Ruined FPS games for me until I tried Halo 5 years later.
Didn't buy it, but regret the time I lost to it:
Azurik
Grand Theft Auto 2: Achieve objectives however you want... unless they differ from the precise way we dictate you achieve them. Amazed the series survived to the 3D era, glad it did.
Turok 2: Don't think I need to explain. Ruined FPS games for me until I tried Halo 5 years later.
Didn't buy it, but regret the time I lost to it:
Azurik
Heh. Well... guess what was recently announced? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabrDe4XJo0&feature=player_embedded]Yankeedoodles said:
On topic: Probably Eternity's Child. Like some, I was fooled by the still images. Game sucked. Not worth the $5 it cost.
Got talked into Dragon Age: Origins sight unseen, exchanged it within 24 hours...for Borederlands (mistype intended). DAO was less to do with quality than it being a style of game I don't enjoy, so I'll shoulder the blame on that one.
The one I really regretted: Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, MAN what a way to crap on a legacy. Tedious shooting, long and bland levels with sod-all checkpoints and zero personality. The first and last time I ever pre-ordered.
The one I really regretted: Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, MAN what a way to crap on a legacy. Tedious shooting, long and bland levels with sod-all checkpoints and zero personality. The first and last time I ever pre-ordered.
I would say Stormrise, but that was actually free with my graphics card. Not hard to see why. A broken, god-awful mess made all the more painful to play as it was full of excellent ideas rendered thoroughly unenjoyable by a hurricane of bugs and poor design choices.
Other than that, I'd say Borderlands. Don't get me wrong, I had great fun playing it, but it didn't come close to living up to its "Role-playing Shooter" hype. Definitely not worth the 50 bucks I paid for it on release day.
Other than that, I'd say Borderlands. Don't get me wrong, I had great fun playing it, but it didn't come close to living up to its "Role-playing Shooter" hype. Definitely not worth the 50 bucks I paid for it on release day.
Gears of War. Waste of my money to be quite honest. Other games I didn't like at least gave me a reason to think about why they didn't work or how they could be improved, but Gears of War was just nothing to me.
I'm also currently feeling this way about Crackdown. I thought it might be worth trying but I just ended up being like, "...what."
It's not that these games are terrible, it's that they're games that are far, far removed from my tastes, apparently. If they were just plain terrible, I would at least have the entertainment value of tearing them to shreds and pointing out all the things wrong with them. Games like this where it's just that I don't like them leave me with nothing to say and nothing gained from them.
I'm also currently feeling this way about Crackdown. I thought it might be worth trying but I just ended up being like, "...what."
It's not that these games are terrible, it's that they're games that are far, far removed from my tastes, apparently. If they were just plain terrible, I would at least have the entertainment value of tearing them to shreds and pointing out all the things wrong with them. Games like this where it's just that I don't like them leave me with nothing to say and nothing gained from them.
Because I have a limited budget for games, I only get one every few months. That gives me plenty of time to research games that I think I'll like and it has proven me well. I dont regret Dragon Age 2, I dont regret WoW or MW2. But I do regret however..
Far Cry 2
I bought this on a whim since I liked the first one, and it seemed interesting at first. Many hours of boring missions tied together with no narrative later however and just as I thought the end was thankfully in sight, they open up an entirely different sandbox with the exact same structure and lack of plot as the first sandbox. I finished the game, but I could only play it in short bursts or else I would fall asleep. Eventually I finished it, and to this day, I have not played it since.
The honorable mention thought is when I bought my little sister a game. She already had Viva Pinata, and though Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise would be an ENTIRELY new game. It wasn't, and she only ever played it once. She wont even let me trade it in for another game because its hers. Yes, I did buy it for her, but does it matter? She will never ever ever use it again.
Far Cry 2
I bought this on a whim since I liked the first one, and it seemed interesting at first. Many hours of boring missions tied together with no narrative later however and just as I thought the end was thankfully in sight, they open up an entirely different sandbox with the exact same structure and lack of plot as the first sandbox. I finished the game, but I could only play it in short bursts or else I would fall asleep. Eventually I finished it, and to this day, I have not played it since.
The honorable mention thought is when I bought my little sister a game. She already had Viva Pinata, and though Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise would be an ENTIRELY new game. It wasn't, and she only ever played it once. She wont even let me trade it in for another game because its hers. Yes, I did buy it for her, but does it matter? She will never ever ever use it again.
If a game is multi-platform it has content cut for the Wii version on account of its low end graphics. It's just something I have noticed.DarkenedWolfEye said:
The only game I could think of that I regret buying is Star Ocean: the Last Hope (xbox360).
That may change if I can understand how to play it well enough to be able to kill things. The tales series has killed my dodging senses.
Agreed, but they sold BI as a pack and I never bothered with Alexander since I don't really care for a story driven game of conquer the world. How else would I have taken Prussia into India and Central/South America and given Ireland control of Great Britain?TheIronRuler said:
Modern Warfare 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout: New Vegas
LittleBigPlanet 2
Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway
NBA 2K11
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout: New Vegas
LittleBigPlanet 2
Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway
NBA 2K11