Games you regret to have bought ?

[Mr.White]

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter on the old xbox, I was expecting a 3rd person tactical cover system orientated shooter, but got a 1st person arcade feeling (to me at least) "tactical" shooter.

WoW, because it took up so much of my time and money, one day I just realised that I was grinding, all that changed was the items you carried for quests and the enemies (to an extent) and the area you moved to and left my brother paying the £9 a month or whatever it was.

C&C 4, Steam sales are just too good to pass up at the time, after the first tedious training mission I wanted my £3.75 (or however much I paid) back.

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, Again a Steam sale item at a point.

Precipice of Darkness 1 & 2 in the Steam sale, I'm sure you can see a trend here...

The Ship, which looked like a fantastic game in the description, but in reality, wasn't.

DoW Soulstorm, Steam sale, game wasn't as good as Dark Crusade at all.

ARMA II, Steam sale strikes again, awkward controls when I plugged my xbox controller in (as I have no time to memorise keys), as the controller setup didn't have buttons mapped for half of the functions (not much good when you can't steer a parachute and dramatically throw your controller to use the keyboard), despite me selecting the controller setup in the options. I loved operation flashpoint: cold war crisis and I believe that the people who made that game made ARMA, so I was expecting something truly amazing, but I just couldn't get into it.

TL;DR Steam sale sold games very cheap and I bought a lot of games regardless of whether I wanted them or not.

EDIT: Quake Wars, the trailers made it look amazing and fun, in reality it made me want to pull my own teeth out with rage.

 

[bluewolf]

Alpha protocall OH MY GOD! I want to kill the guy that made that combat...

 

[milobob]

I literally threw my Too Human Disk out the window after the third stage,
Only game I have never been able to play through
And Only game I threw out a 10th floor apartment

 

[Mr.SunShine]

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Imagine Mirror's Edge platforming on a sucky second rate Source ripoff and you have the rooftop chase.

FalloutJack, why the FF8 hate?

Erm, Dark messiah used the source engine. Not a second rate rip off, but the actual source engine...
*facepalm*

Anyways, I never had any trouble with the rooftop chase, I never had any problem with that game anywhere actually...

My number one regret has to be guild wars, I got it way back when it first came out and said to myself. "Wow, this is pretty okay."
Then, when I recently bought it and installed and loaded it up again after so many years, I realized "Oh yeah, this is the reason I stopped playing... and this, and this, and this..."

Other than that, I research my games pretty well.

 

[Gindil]

Warhammer series. Heard it was good, but then, it's trying to make me get a MWL account. SCREW U MICROSOFT!

 

[l3o2828]

World Of Warcraft and Tony Hawks Project 8

Two pointless horrible games IMO.

 

[TheDarklite]

Hmmmm.... Games I regret?
Well I have purchased sooo many over the years it is hard to keep track.

The ones I can think of are:

Frontlines: Fuel of War (just doesn't hold my interest).
Global Agenda (I tried to like it, but it feels so "meh").
Metal Drift (I was after something different, and the previews looked nice. Thank god it was cheap as poop....).
Arma II (I really wanted it. It is fun, but it turned out a little too complicated for me. I might get into it more at a later date.).

And that is all I can think of for now.

 

[Kadoodle]

Probably F.E.A.R. 2 and Just Cause 2. I liked just cause 2...and I guess I got what I paid for (30 buckaroos), but I still wish I had gotten Mass Effect 2 or Portal 2 or Mortal Kombat instead.

 

[Biodeamon]

I regret buying Drawn to life 2. they absoulutely crapped all over my childhood memories of Drawn to life. The levels were incredibly tough or too easy(which they rarely were), the game lasted only 2 days, and the ending completely SHITS all over you. Really, the ending is absoulutely terrible, the even killed a sequel to the next Drawn to life with the ending. I wanted to burn it, but melting plastic is poisonus and my childhood nostalgia prevented me from doing it. So i sold it for two bucks at EB games.

 

[ThePurpleStuff]

My sister and I bought a wiiware game called yummy yummy cooking jam, it was awful, the worst 10 bucks we ever spent, look it up on youtube if you wanna see the pure horror of it. Only four stores with four stages per, for 10 bucks, lame.

 

[holy_secret]

Epic Mickey.
It was so bad. So so bad.

It taught me one thing. An amazing story cannot hold up a horrible gameplay.
I wish I could go back in time to my hippie-me, who'd probably be saying something like "ooooh story is everything in a game ladida!!!!!111" and kick him in the face.

That was some good $70 wasted.

 

[icame]

FF13 and Bayonetta (Ps3 version. I hate crappy ports..)

 

[King Toasty]

Final Fantasy 13 and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. BBBBBOOORRRRIIIINNGGGGG.

 

[Rooster893]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2006.

Seriously. I didn't even touch Sonic games until Sonic Colors came along.

All was forgiven with that fun platformer. Also, Sonic being voiced by Chris Redfield? What could be better?

 

[legend of duty]

buying mw2 twice because my first one broke and i lost the reciet ( damn you gamestop!!!!) and the only reason i bought it again was because it was the only game my friends and i had in common. damn peer pressure

 

[TheDutchin]

Two Worlds,
Timeshift,
Pokemon Colosseum,
Halo Wars.

All these games had such great potential but fell sooo far short, TW should be self explanatory, Timeshift did't use time as well as I'd hoped, i bought PC when i was younger and into pokemon but even then i couldnt help but be super disappointed, i hated how i couldnt go out and catch and build my own team, no, i had to catch these certain pokemon, and when i didnt catch one i felt like i was missing something and so couldnt do it >.< and Halo Wars was wayy easier then i thought it was going to be, i used the same strategy for every single level, it wasnt even a warthog rush, i just sat back and built an armada of tanks and just walked them along the level destroying EVERYTHING haha in short, dont buy any of these games, but if you have to, buy timeshift, it was the least disappointing

 

[King Toasty]

buying mw2 twice because my first one broke and i lost the reciet ( damn you gamestop!!!!) and the only reason i bought it again was because it was the only game my friends and i had in common. damn peer pressure

Why would you buy it once? Just rent Modern Warfare 1 for a week. It's the exact same thing.

 

[Biosophilogical]

And the other was FFX-2 that game was just bad really bad.

This, so much this. Because of this I no longer rely on nostalgia or impulse buys. I always read a few reviews (sure, most reviews are biased, but they at least point out a couple game factors each, like story, combat, graphics, voice acting, music, etc)

OT: FFX-2 is the only 'fail-buy' that I can remember exept maybe War of the Monsters (but that's not the game, it was the disc; it was pre-owned and went to shit very quickly, meaning I couldn't play it, not that I didn't want to)

 

[King Toasty]

Two Worlds,
Timeshift,
Pokemon Colosseum,
Halo Wars.

All these games had such great potential but fell sooo far short, TW should be self explanatory, Timeshift did't use time as well as I'd hoped, i bought PC when i was younger and into pokemon but even then i couldnt help but be super disappointed, i hated how i couldnt go out and catch and build my own team, no, i had to catch these certain pokemon, and when i didnt catch one i felt like i was missing something and so couldnt do it >.< and Halo Wars was wayy easier then i thought it was going to be, i used the same strategy for every single level, it wasnt even a warthog rush, i just sat back and built an armada of tanks and just walked them along the level destroying EVERYTHING haha in short, dont buy any of these games, but if you have to, buy timeshift, it was the least disappointing

Pokemon Colosseum!? That game was the shit.

THE. SHIT.

 

[JasonKaotic]

Several.
Velvet Assassin - No play value to it at all. You just walk around, stab things, and get shot. A lot.
Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom - I played this for about half an hour, then stopped and never played again, and I've never done that before. That's how bad this is. The game is literally 100% button-mashing. The combat is probably the worst I've ever seen, and combat is all there is to the game.
Civilization IV - The game was given high ratings, and honestly, I don't know why. Of all the games I've said "I don't know why people think it's so good" to, this is the one that stands above all the others. All you do that I noticed, was just wait 10 minutes for a menu to pop up, click something, wait another 10 minutes for a menu, click something, and so on. I didn't notice any effects from clicking these options, either.
Dragon Age: Origins - Another "I don't know why people think it's so good" case, for the mediocre story, uninteresting characters, dull world, and the majority of the game being copied from other franchises.
Lost Odyssey - Not because it's bad, it's just infuriatingly hard.
Fable 3 - I got excited for this. Peter Molyneux made it sound like it was going to be the Holy Grail of games, but it ended up even worse than the previous instalment of the series. Nearly everything he told us about Fable 3 was bull. I'll just stick with the first Fable.

I naturally have a lot more, but I'm too tired to carry on. I'm gonna go to bed now.
I probably sounded grumpy in this post. Tired.