Have you ever felt cheated after you bought/rented a game?

[the_casual]

fahrenheit (aka the indigo prophecy). started off with so much potential, before the story line went completely retarded, needless sex-scenes were chucked in and i found myself playing that same old 'simon says' mini-game over and over and over. i actually felt like chucking my copy back at the fella in the shop that hyped it up so much. absolute gash.

 

[CyberAkuma]

Anyone buying an Xbox360/Playstation 3 game whose content is less that of the predecessor on the Xbox 1/PS2.

I was going to buy FIFA '06 (Xbox 360) back in the days when it got out, however the game contained 72 teams. The Xbox 1 version of the game cotained 500 teams.
Any Next-Gen game that is inferior to the Past-Gen games in terms of content should seriously just not be allowed to exist.

Also, anyone who buys Resident Evil 5 Collectors Edition in Europe.
You are going to get fucked over, literally [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.84438].

 

[Bat Vader]

When I bought Mercenaries 2.

 

[AllHailTheAltmer]

Call of Duty 4. I expected so much from that game and got so little. Similar story with GTAIV.

 

[Signa]

I haven't been too disappointed in my purchases as of late. I'm pretty good at trying games out before I buy them so as to not get burned. Two games that did end up disappointing me was Oblivion and UT3. Neither were bad games by any means, but once the shinies wore off on Oblivion, I realized how far inferior it was to Morrowind. UT3 I have no complaints about. I'm just sad that the online community is kinda sparse. I find the game very lovable otherwise. It's just playing TF2 (which came out around the same time) has a FAR stronger community than UT3 does.

 

[smithy_2045]

Guitar Hero World Tour. The drums were defective, the cymbals double hit, and it's simply less fun than Rock Band 1. Not to mention the lack of DLC, and the unstoppable marketing wave that has propelled it way ahead of the superior game in Rock Band.

Damn you Activision for making me hate EA a little less.

 

[likalaruku]

Only once, I'm pretty caucous with games. Always check out the demos & reviews & trials before purchace, but there was this small-time City Builder game called Westward 2 that I bought outright because I loved Westward; which was a 2D cowboy equivelent of The Settlers. I figured "It's a city builder, how can it suck?" Well, Westward 2 decided that "it's okey if th game sucks & we change the interface & controls completely, as long as we make the transition to 3D." Yeah, bad polygons. & they removed all the humor that made Westward special.

No, make that twice. I got 2 anxiety attacks playing Psychonauts & was irritated by the Fable 1 smallness of it's travelable areas. I was also promised (by a friend)Invader Zim like humor, which it didn't deliver. I got suckered in by a PC magazines banter "It's the best game you never played."

 

[MrGFunk]

So has anyone else had a similar experience with any game?

Daikatana (N64)
Hyped to be a Goldeneye beater with loads of characters, weapons and levels.

Actually, the slowest game i've ever played. I think I even had the expansion pack when this was released. My walk to and from the shop took longer than I had this game. So slow. I think I could have pressed the button to shoot, got a drink and returned before it registered. Broken.

fahrenheit (aka the indigo prophecy). started off with so much potential, before the story line went completely retarded, needless sex-scenes were chucked in and i found myself playing that same old 'simon says' mini-game over and over and over. i actually felt like chucking my copy back at the fella in the shop that hyped it up so much. absolute gash.

I was so bored by this game. I had a few goes at saving the kid from central park lake. realised I wasn't having fun - it was Dragon's Lair on a wider scale. Returned to the shop.

 

[fix-the-spade]

BF2142,
I contacted EA and they found that someone with the account Sneak954 had taken it, and since it was not my account they couldnt let me have it, since i couldnt prove i owned it (since i didnt)
.

I had that exact problem. EA wouldn't let me have a new key either. I went back to the store I bought it from and demanded a refund (got it too). The I got a pirate copy/keygen instead, EA seem to prefer that you do it that way.

 

[searanox]

Yes, but not often. I tend to do a lot of research before buying a game, tend to stick to developers I know and enjoy the works of, and even if it isn't always what I expected it to be in the end, I never really feel ripped off, per se.

The only example I can think of is Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on the GameCube. I didn't have a computer that could run the game at the time and some of the reviews of it were positive... well, look. It's certainly a functional game when it comes to the single-player mode, even if many of the areas were redesigned, supposedly due to the limited hardware (I blame a lack of real effort on behalf of the developers), but the controls are atrocious, the framerate is jerky and inconsistent, to the point where it renders the multiplayer mode completely unplayable. It's certainly not a broken game, but when I pirated it on the PC a year later, I felt more than justified.

 

[mattttherman3]

Where to begin?
Any PC game that I stupidly purchased without incredible research, Halo 2/3, Bioshock, Fallout3, Oblivion (huge Morrowind fan), anything Blizzard ever released outside of Diablo 2 and Warcraft 2, KOTOR 2's storyline, any racing game other than NFS Black, all but the second Burnout, Turok 2/3, Resistance Fall of Man, Dues Ex: Invisible War, Thief 3, anything by Will Wright (Sims, Sim City, Spore, etc.), or by Peter M. (the guy who did Fable, Black and White, etc. I can't spell his last name off the top of my head), all of the original Half Life expansions (with the exception of opposing force), anything by BioWare (other than the original KOTOR, and Mass Effect), all shooters for PC beginning the day Doom 3 came out (with a few exceptions), any MMORPG I've ever touched, and anything other than Brawl I've ever played for the Wii.
I also felt ripped off for simply playing the demo of the new Turok. I still want my expectations back from the developer. Or money.
I'm also worried about Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2.
So yes, I've felt ripped off paying for games before, and I will again, many times I'm sure, until people put a bit of effort into the craft.

Holy God Halo2/3, Fallout 3, Bioshock, and Oblivion?! most people love one of those games, I would love to hear your problems with them.

 

[LeonLethality]

Patapon I loved it at my friends house I got it myself and got stuck on this one level and cannot pass it now I dont play it I feel ripped off...

 

[M.A.D]

Supreme Comander on 360, played through the tutorial and never touched it again. RTS are NOT meant to be played on consoles!
Yet I did not bring it back, oh no, it now stands on my shelf as a permanent reminder of the errors of the past, and a ward against those to come.

 

[Sonicron]

Has to be 'Turok' for me (the new one). Since then no matter how much I've been looking forward to a new release, I've always rented it first to save myself another soul-crushing, money-wasting disappointment.
Luckily my subsequent review on Amazon seems to have kept many people from making the same mistake...

 

[Aedwynn]

Master of Orion III.

Even though I bought it budget for like, a fiver (£5). This is probably the worst game I've ever seen, "played" or watched. I'd call it unintuitive, but that would be like calling the Sun 'a bit warm'. I put "played" in inverted commas because I'm not entirely sure it's possible to play.

Oblivion.

Sorry guys. I know this game has it's fans, but the Auto-levelling system just ruined it for me. I bought the Game of the Year edition too for an extra couple of pounds which added to the whole 'shouldn't have wasted my money' feeling. (I had other problems with the game, besides the auto-levelling, but I'll not mention them here.)

 

[Hamsterlad]

Def Jam icon. i thought it would be as good as the fight for New York but i was wrong

 

[LeonLethality]

Wait I got a new one Giest (sp?) you think as a ghost you can walk through walls but you can't it needs a freaking hole!

 

[SmilingKitsune]

I bought Too human for 60 euro, I've bought some bad games in my time but for some reason that one made me feel ripped off more than any other.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Fallout 3. It was fun for about a month, but after that, the novelty of the setting wore off and I found myself just walking around and shooting things in the head over...and over...and over. Also, the ending sucked ass.

 

[Sgt Doom]

Bought Mass Effect, disk died after I was so close to completing it. The neighbours still complain about the hearing damage I inflicted with my rage.