Games you wish you hadn't spent the money on

[Brok3n Halo]

Why so much hate for Mirror's Edge? I loved that game... Granted PC version at less than half price on one of the steam sales, may have been slightly disappointed if I'd payed full price with a game that short but not so much that I'd wish I didn't buy it.

Anyway, my list:

Assassins Creed(PC) - Fine game, even if a little repetitive, but was not designed for Mouse/Keyboard controls, played most of it on 360 and it was much better.

Painkiller: Resurrection(PC) - First one was good, but this sequel was awful. IDK how anyone could release a game so broken, a glitch prevented me from finishing the first level and even what I got to play wasn't that fun. At least it came with Painkiller: Black Edition as a preorder bonus so it wasn't a total loss.

Jedi Knight Pack and Republic Commando on Steam - Great games, but I regret giving Lucas Arts the money because they didn't update their games to work on modern operating systems. If I need to spend 3 hours just getting a game that I'd just bought to not flicker horribly, there's something wrong. Fortunately I was able to either tweek everything to work after enough hacks for the JK games and RC works on my laptop, but it's the principle of thing.

STALKER - Like the Jedi Knight games, I'm sure this one is perfectly fine game, but an apparent glitch involving multicore CPUs and OSes newer than XP rendered it unplayable on my gaming system. Unfortunately my laptop isn't good enough to run it.

Resistance 2 - I didn't really care for the first one too much initially but playing the story mode coop helped a lot. Then seeing all the positive reviews for 2 made me think they fixed the issues I had for the second game and figured, if nothing else, at least I can play the campaign coop. Not only did the single player not thrill me at all but it wasn't even playable in Coop. Didn't fill my disk slot for long.

Almost every RPG I've bought for my iPod Touch. They all blow except for Raven Sword and Zenonia (though there's too much grinding for my taste), and The Quest is passable. IDK who keeps thinking tap to walk is such a great idea but I want them to give me my $10 back. At least Ipod games are dirt cheap. and like 4 games was only about $10.

 

[Nivag the Owl]

Two Worlds
Shadowrun
The Witcher
Hellgate: London
Cryostasis
Tabula Rasa

 

[scoHish]

Goldeneye: Rouge Agent... yep I was a dumbass.

 

[snow]

Edit:

Scratch what I said before...

Battlefield 2 takes the cake for me! Played it for 20 minutes and fell into a deep depression... Good thing I didn't pay alot for it... Still wish I hadn't at all..

 

[Nivag the Owl]

Doom 3
Fallout 3

Dude! These are two of my favourite games! They're absolute belters!

C&C Red Alert 3

But this is just unreasonable.

 

[Samcanuck]

Spore....I got the expanded version with the movie and large case.

I have fond memories of Evo:Evolution for the Snes, and I presumed the game would be based off that idea. Instead only the single cell stage got the concept right. Lame man. What about different limbs and teeth that each did seperate moves (types of weapon vs type of teeth). What about bonuses for combinations of different parts? How about making that part of the quest line. What about different time streams that mimicked different species? Bloody hell, it was a medeocre throw together with a cool reused idea that wasn't properly used...even Evo Hero didn't try to get it right.

What a let down. That company is dead to me now.

 

[The Heik]

It has happened to all gamers. Buying a game that once you place it in your xbox you regret spending the 60 or so (maybe more maybe less) dollars to do so. What incredibally dissapointing games have any of you gamers bought?

Don't really have one. I generally choose games where I always find one or more things enjoyable enough to consider it worth it.

Though if pressed, I would say Uncharted 2. The game is decent in all respect, but I feel that the designers had taken the nostalgia approach to progressing through the environments. The minute Drake finishes off the bad guys a board falls over or a building collapses to create the path, and as soon as he crosses over a certain location it crumbles behind him. though I get the purpose, it all feels like the designer knows what made the Indiana Jones movies great, and decided that the way to make the game great was to take those scenes and compound them to occur multiple times in a single level.

Even places like the mountain temple with the Yetis felt like mother nature itself was ensuring that Drake had a path ot get to his goal, rather than it being natural, like in Assassin's Creed or inFamous. The reason why those things were great was because they only happened once or twice in a whole movie, and having to go through that rigma-roll repeatedly drains all the thrill that those things had.

 

[Snuggle]

Dreamfall, great adventure game I'm sure, but horrible action game. Never finished it.

Empire: Total War, greatly improved diplomacy and map, but horrible AI and so...many...bugs.

The Ship, bought it quite late and nobody seems to playing it anymore, and single-player was bland.

Grand Theft Auto IV, being the fool I am, I couldn't get the damn game to run on my PC. If only I trusted system requirements more often!

 

[Xesumie]

Doom 3
Fallout 3

Dude! These are two of my favourite games! They're absolute belters!

Doom 3 was way too dark and it had nothing to do with the plot of the original Dooms.

Fallout 3 is only there because I later ended up buying the GOTY edition to get the DLC on the PC without the GFWL mess.

 

[e2density]

Every game for the last 3 years.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

The Orange Box, the only thing I liked was Team Fortress 2, and this was the PS3 version...Half Life 2 was immensely overrated.

It's PS3 WHAT DID YOU EXPECT.
You Hl2 is awesome. AND PORTAL. WHAT ABOUT PORTAL?!?!
Or did you just conveniently miss that little gem because the escapist LOVES portal?

PS3 or not, it was still on overhyped pile of turtle shit. I played Portal and never saw the "wow" factor everyone was on about.

Dude, are we clones or something?

Indeed, but I is teh surperioz 1z
lololololol. Seriously though, no matter what console or PC you play it on, It's not going to change the core gameplay and overall experience of a game.

The Orange Box, the only thing I liked was Team Fortress 2, and this was the PS3 version...Half Life 2 was immensely overrated.

It's PS3 WHAT DID YOU EXPECT.
You Hl2 is awesome. AND PORTAL. WHAT ABOUT PORTAL?!?!
Or did you just conveniently miss that little gem because the escapist LOVES portal?

PS3 or not, it was still on overhyped pile of turtle shit. I played Portal and never saw the "wow" factor everyone was on about.

Amen on the Portal. For the life of me I can't figure out why so many people consider it the perfect game. Too short, too easy and no interesting story or character development. The whole thing was surprisingly 'meh' after all the hype.

OT: Oneechanbara for 360. Yeah, I'm ashamed to even admit I bought it.

I can't stand people still saying "The cake is a lie" after all this time, I never found any humour in it at all to be honest.

Haha, it's weird finding someone who I agree with so often.
But yeah the whole "cake is a lie" thing is annoying. It's what inspired me to play the game so I could see what was so god damned funny about it. I was so very disappointing.

Tell me about it, mention you don't like Half Life or Bioshock around here and you're the gaming equivalent of Hitler. I bought the Orange Box because my mate said Half Life 2 was somewhat similar to Resistance Fall Of Man (which I fucking adore) while it wasn't like Resistance at all I just didn't enjoy it all that well. Sure it had some fun bits but overall is was a let down. Portal wasn't all that good, and spawned that awful joke and the shitty song by GlaDos. Team Fortress 2 however was a blast, and this was on the PS3...I really should get the PC version.

I hate bioshock. I simply didn't like it before, but then I Found out about the original concept they had which was really awesome. Now it just makes me sad about what it could have been and makes me glad I never spent money on it.

I hate it because it really is just mediocre. Nothing but annoying fetch quests, an agonizing escort mission and a shitty boss fight. The gameplay for a FPS was also very average aswell.

completely agree with both of you, bioshock didn't impress me at all, people were raging about how good the story and gameplay was and i simply was bored every second of playing it, and portal was a simple flash game, it had no depth to it, half life was a yawn also, didn't care for any of them or the episodes, the characters were a massive meh


one other i'd like to say is section 8, the fuck SP was complete shite, and the mp wasn't even that good as it is, the game itself had decent mechanics and it *could* have been fuckign epic dropping in from the atmosphere, but it wasn't as good as i had hoped, so i basically sold it back the next day

 

[Gl1tch]

Here's a few I can recall at the moment:
Blinx the Time Sweeper (just... just a bad game)
Hellgate: London (awesome idea, the game was actually pretty fun, but the online play fell apart and the game itself was pretty clunky to play)

 

[TheLefty]

Prince of Persia and GTA IV

Really bad games. Especially PoP, there was nothing good about it.

I completely agree. That and Rainbow Six Vegas. Maybe it was because i got it at the same I got Mass Effect 2 which heavily over shadowed it.

 

[NoMoreBurninashun]

bioshock and street fighter 4

 

[VanityGirl]

Besides GTAIV?


Wheelman, that was the most idiotic game I've ever played. It was promply put on my shelf and is now collecting dust.