Games You Should Of Rented Instead Of Bought? ? ?

[GonzoGamer]

What games have you bought that you never should have, either because you beat them to fast or the quality was really not what you expected? Give reasons why you come up with your conclusion.

No More Heroes
It's the reason I started renting games again. The opening tutorial level is a lot of fun and it makes it look like the game will be really cool. Then you finish it and end up in the most boring and tedious sandbox ever made only to occasionally fight an interesting boss after doing the worst minigames to plague the wii: and that's saying something.

Burnout Paradise
If it had brought crash junctions to the next gen I would feel differently. The free dlc couldn't make up for it and the pay for dlc should've been free.

GTA4:
Yes it's probably the best Story in GTA history but that's all the game has going for it. After you're done with the story there really isn't much left to do... that's fun and/or rewarding. GTA3 had a bunch of things that were both fun and rewarding outside of the story missions.

It's too bad GTA and Burnout used to be a couple of my favorite franchises (both reasons I wanted a ps2) but they've really dropped the ball this generation.

 

[Arafor]

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

 

[Metalchair]

Red Alert 3

 

[Zydrate]

Bulletwitch.

Fable 2, MAYBE if I had a couple months to play it. I never rented so I don't know how it works.
But yea, ~2 months and I did everything on that game ever.

 

[Quadtrix]

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.

...

Actually, I shouldn't have let it into my house at all.

 

[Samurai Ralan]

I'd have to say Ninja Gaiden 2 for me.

 

[Khazoth]

Assassins Creed and Mirrors Edge, both great games but Assassins Creeds fun runs out very quickly and Mirrors Edge has no replay value.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Sonic and the Secret Rings
Even if I did buy the game used and it was a nice change of pace for Sonic the controls and the start of the game are maddening! Sonic is so slow while running for the first couple of worlds and those rap lyrics were horrible.

Definitely this. I just recently sold that game and a couple of others to buy the Orange Box which I am very happy with.

 

[Noone From Nowhere]

If I could have rented Grand Theft Auto 4: The Lost and the Damned, maybe I would have...but then I would have still bought that 3-month Live Gold card that came with the bundle anyway, so it isn't that big of a deal.
I tend to buy games for cheap so the only game I can say that I truly regret not being able to rent (Ike finished the job that NetFlix and intense competition amongst one another began on our rental shops)is maybe a different downloadable title, A Kingdom for Kelflings. This from someone who likes buying the occasional B-Movie inspired title such as Zombie Revenge (House of the Dead beat-em-up for the Sega Dream Cast) and Onechanbara (It reminds me of Zombie Revenge)and, once upon a time ago, Zombies Ate My Neighbors. (It's the Yin to the Yang of titles such as Mass Effect, Portal, and XenoSaga for me...all involving Zombies. That is fitting for such mindless entertainment.)
It isn't a bad game but it is not what I'm interested in playing right now.

 

[newguy77]

Red Faction: Guerilla, but I'm a packrat that when I see video games, I buy them if I want them. I always think that I'll want to play them again later, so I buy them instead of repeatedly renting them.

 

[Cliff_m85]

Godfather 2 was horribly thought out.


Why?

Part 1: You start the game with no perks, but as you gain businesses you gain awesome perks.
Part 2: The perks simply make future levels/business takedowns WAY TOO easy.
Part 3: One perk is a bulletproof vehicle parked at the airport. The last level involves you to drive from the airport to a safe house while police try to take you down by shooting the crap out of your car. Can you see the problem here?
Part 4: At one point you can give up on taking businesses and have NPC's do it for you. Bleh

 

[Nargleblarg]

Transformers I don't remember why I even bought it but traded it in the next day

Shadow the hedgehog...I dont even want to talk about it

Too Human sucked but I still have it though because I can't even get garbage for it

 

[Worgen]

Stalker and mercs 2.... and the conan mmo