Regretted purchases, and why?

[night_chrono]

Age Of Connan. To be precise the $100 collectors edition.

Its not that it was terrible. I Just couldn't get into it. The constantly hitting 1, 2, and 3 keys to attack became more of a chore then mining in any other mmo. I ended up macroing the keys and combos I had, but that just defeated the point of the "innovation".

Maybe if I did start playing it after a 6 month Guild Wars and LOTRO binge it would have seemed better.

 

[Kshandamionreal]

EVERY wannabe-Sonic platformer from the end of the Genesis (Awesome Possum)to the early PS1 days, specifically Croc 2 and the Gex series.

Croc 1 was an alright cutesy platformer with Pixar-like characters, but its sequel was so repetative and had this RIDICULOUSLY HARD foot race that its now a tray for dust. The Gex series was funny, but the games gave me headaches from the graphics to the missions (do "this" X many times to do Y "this" many times!) Punky Skunk was not only a blatant rip-off of Sonic (an EXTREME!!! skunk with a FRONTWARD-facing mohawk,) but it had NOTHING to define it as a PS1 game instead of a leftover Genesis game.

Jade Coccoon 1 was pretty good as Pokemon-like game as the main character ACTUALLY FIGHTS instead of just standing there PRETENDING to be hurt when his pets get smacked and the monster-fusing actually seemed more useful than Monster Rancher. All this should suggest its sequel would be good, right? NOPE! The battle system was changing from a turn-based Pokemon-style to a "strategic" battle wheel where the player is actually circled by all their monsters, positioned based on their element(s) though you can only see the immediate 3 in front of you. Instead of "Water Gun attack" for the Water monsters and "Earthquake" for the Earth monsters, the 4 elements (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water) focus more on overall type than an individual move. To clarify: Wind is for special attacks (poison, petrification, sleep, etc.) Water is healing, Earth is defense (crappy offensive) and Fire is direct attacks. Any monster not directly in front of you and on the "edge" (ex. Fire and Wind) will do whatever move the semicircle is aligned to meaning a Fire/Wind monster will do their fire move when the fire semicircle is in front of you, but do the Wind move if you have the Wind piece in front of you. The monster-fusing went out the window as its no longer FREE and each monster already has a set evolutionary line so you're not so much as fusing various monsters as your FEEDING one to another to fork over their powers. You CAN'T CATCH MONSTERS, just find monster EGGS in dungeons and use the previously mentioned tactics to breed them. Even the NAMES of the moves sound jacked up as they sound like they were originally latin, mistranslated to Japanese then mistranslated to English. Then there's the story which is both derivative and pretentions as its about a father-idolizing forest kid that looks like a Hummel figurine guided by a sassy fairy as he runs through dungeons- I mean FORESTS fighting masked monsters and occasionally the Spice Girls- I mean, "Sweet Knights."

You read that right, despite being in a fantasy world where the cast largely sounds American, London and its entertainment industry must be just out of sight next door and oh so relevant for a game released in 2002. By the end of the game you fight the guy from the first game who's EXTREMELY CHEAP in that he summons mid-boss quality sidekicks and randomly shifts elements while being able to randomly summon instant death that you can't do jack about.

Though technically these games weren't bought with my own money, but I felt ripped off just the same just like watching "Date Movie" on cable.

 

[dan369]

Crysis... I want to to love it, but I just cant. The gameplay is the same as every other FPS out there, it doesn't really bring anything new to the table at all.

 

[Starke]

Hellgate London, Not because the game sucked. It was kinda bland at launch, but I came back this summer and found they'd really worked the game over and brought it up to spec, I even subscribed, this was, of course about 25 days before they suspended subscriptions and two months before they shut down Flagship.

Deus Ex: Inbisible War, one) I waited over a year for it to come out, and when it finally did it had an antialiasing system my computer couldn't handle, so it sat around for six more months AFTER I GOT IT, while I waited to get a computer that could handle it. And when I did finally play it, the game was so bland in comparison to the first...

Sacred: Good game, but, bland and repetitive.

Rise of Legends: I'm sorry your Risk style board game pales in comparison to BFME2's. And the rest, while intereting isn't that impressive.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, M****F***ing copy protection!

Chaser... ugh

Gothic 3, okay, I LOVE seriously LOVE Gothic II, and Gothic one is a damn fine experiance, but why is it I could never even get Gothic III to run at all, and the only tech support I ever got from the publisher (Atari?) was update your drivers. The only tech support I got from message boards was the uninformed "lolz piratez" or "replace the fonts" which did nothing and actually made the game look worse... (For the record, it's a legal copy.)

Resident Evil 4: Talk about a half assed PC port.

Quake: ugh
Quake II: ugh2
Unreal II: GAH

Soulbringer: EXCEPT: it came bundled with planescape torment, so I don't care that it's a crap ass game.

Homeworld (with expansion), installed it once, couldn't stand it. But it was, seriously 10 bucks for the bundle, so, so what?

Myth: The Total Codex: it occurs to me now, that I never really liked the myth games that much...

Bioshock: I told them all, it would be like Systemshock2 only better... or... apparently, not.

 

[LaymanX]

Shadow the Hedgehog.

Nuff said.

 

[CassieCaine]

Golden Sun, GBA. I'd just bought my GBA (the SP wasn't even a rumor yet), and I was so excited. I wanted something involving to play on a plane trip, and I am an RPG fan, so I picked it up... UGH. I don't remember the story or the characters, I just remember watching my party decide what they were going to attack and constantly screaming at Generic Bow-Using Girl to SHOOT THE ALMOST-DEAD ONE ALREADY, but would she listen? Nooooo.... Maybe it did have a great story or something, but I never got far enough to care. A definite case of bad gameplay design ruining what might otherwise have been a good game.

I am mildly regretting SC4; it's not terrible but I had a lot more fun with 2 and 3, and am generally disappointed in the wasted potential. I could have lived without buyer's remorse, however, had my car not broken down immediately afterward and I was very suddenly needing that $59.99 + tax back in my wallet >.<

 

[Rachael Griffiths]

Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance on the PS2. Being a massive fan of the Baldur's Gate games on the PC I thought I couldn't go wrong.

It was nowhere near long enough for my liking. Then again the fact that it was only one disk rather than 4/5 should have given it away!

Lucky enough I only bought it second hand (being impatient for payday no doubt) so I didn't spend too much cash on it!

 

[Wellby]

hmm gotta say Warhammer 40k Firewarrior. The entire thing was so painfully mediocre my eyes practically bled out of my skull. I hope the new warhammer game makes it... you know a war. Not one guy versus a few squads. They're miles away from what the warhammer experience should be like.

 

[LiquidForce]

Not that many...

Grim Fandango - really bad controls and camera + ridiculous riddles...

Curse of the Monkey Island - can't even get it to run [but had to pay for it] :/

GoW - also known as "Captain Bland's Monotonous Adventures"

Broken Sword AoD - GF-like riddles ["moon logic"] and no sign of witty dialogues to keep me amused.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Not that many...

Grim Fandango - really bad controls and camera + ridiculous riddles...

NURSE! We've got an escaped patient!

 

[Tomdoodle]

Mass Effect.

 

[Unholykrumpet]

Golden Sun, GBA. I'd just bought my GBA (the SP wasn't even a rumor yet), and I was so excited. I wanted something involving to play on a plane trip, and I am an RPG fan, so I picked it up... UGH. I don't remember the story or the characters, I just remember watching my party decide what they were going to attack and constantly screaming at Generic Bow-Using Girl to SHOOT THE ALMOST-DEAD ONE ALREADY, but would she listen? Nooooo.... Maybe it did have a great story or something, but I never got far enough to care. A definite case of bad gameplay design ruining what might otherwise have been a good game.

That's a pity, I've played both of the Golden sun games three times through...and a fourth time might be possible. And to be honest, I don't remember a "generic bow girl". I also remember the best rpg with the greatest puzzle elements and epic fights of any game (including the final fantasy series...doesn't hold a candle). The story is deep and dark. But, we all have our own opinions.

 

[Chimp]

Baldur's Gate 2: I stopped playing at chapter 2 and never picked it up again. I hated it.

Oblivion. I thought it would be fun and revolutionary. I was wrong.

Frigging Spore. Watched a friend of mine play the first two evolution stages and thought "wicked!" Too bad those two stages were the only two stages worth playing. Hopefully, I should be able to re-sell it to some sucker, since it's so new.

 

[Terramax]

Buying a 360 at launch. No decent games. Not even Dead or Alive was as fun as it used to be. I still don't know why I bought it. I sold it after 2 weeks and to this day I still can't find a good enough reason to buy another. Not enough of the kinds of games I like, and focuses too much on internet and not enough 4-player fun.

 

[Duke Machine]

Gotta say, really regreted buying Oblivion

 

[ElephantGuts]

I wish I had a story like these about a game I bought and hated, but me being me I meticulously research every game before I get it, and thus know exactly what I'm buying, so I end up being fairly satisfied, or atleast not surprised, with the games I buy. I'll admit, things like that do lead to a very boring life...

 

[lukey94]

some superhero game for the pc back when my pc was alive (the game needed home edition and i had pro)
Age of Empires 3 (mac) just plain sucks
Civ4 (mac) fun the first 3 times then sucks
pokemon ranger (ds) only mystery dungeon is a good spin off
Two worlds (360) well my bro bought it, it sucks

then theres all the shizzle i rented:
Bioshock
Oblivion
Mario vs Donkey Kong 2
New Super Mario Bros.
Enchanted Arms
Just Cause (only was fun on original xbox for some reason)
Ironman (thanks for raising my standards)
the list continues, im afraid my friends that out there in the gaming world there are mean people who will take advantage of our good nature and wallets full of cash

 

[Mukiwa]

Army of Two, grr.
My flatmate and I decided to pick it up as we were looking for a decent co-op game. After half an hour we were literally forcing ourselves to carry on playing, got as far as the aircraft carrier and lost the will to live.
I don't think I've ever played a game less compelling.

Edit: Unreal Tournament 3 was also quite disappointing. I enjoyed UT2004 infinitely more

 

[Bob the Average]

advent rising bought it right after it came out on a friends hype (found out he liked the guy who did the dialog) it gliched a lot had big frame rate issues and a retarded targeting system and towards the end you where basically unstoppable which really takes the fun out of it