What game do you most regret wasting money on?
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Morrowind and Deus Ex are two recent ones for me. I disliked both these games on sight. I only picked them up as part of a Steam sale and regretted both purchases.
Morrowind had potential but the combat was so god-awful I did not want to play it anymore. I understand there are mods that fix the combat, but I do not want to hear about them. The day I fiddle with game mods is the day I get myself a sex change. Not that I want to be a woman, mind. I would just have one because I can. Besides, I suspect that even the best mods make the combat tolerable, not good. So, fuck it.
Deus Ex struck me as a game trying too hard and failing. Maybe it's just me, though. Maybe I'm the kind of brainless git who not only needs but actually enjoys being led around by the nose. In either case, on the very first mission I was told to invade some enemy position and was given the impression that I could choose my own way in. Fair enough, but once I finally got to go do it, I had no idea where to go or how to get there. So I wound up wandering around until I found myself in an area where people were shooting at me and I shot back until I died. Fuck this nonsense, I thought. It may be the greatest game ever once you learn how to do it, but I'll never know because i found playing it so unrewarding that I don't want to learn how to do it. Let me clarify that. You could offer me a million dollars and a blowjob to learn how to play Deus Ex to the point where I'll find it enjoyable and I will refuse. I don't want to. Not now. Not ever. That's how pissed the game has made me. All for three buck.
Morrowind had potential but the combat was so god-awful I did not want to play it anymore. I understand there are mods that fix the combat, but I do not want to hear about them. The day I fiddle with game mods is the day I get myself a sex change. Not that I want to be a woman, mind. I would just have one because I can. Besides, I suspect that even the best mods make the combat tolerable, not good. So, fuck it.
Deus Ex struck me as a game trying too hard and failing. Maybe it's just me, though. Maybe I'm the kind of brainless git who not only needs but actually enjoys being led around by the nose. In either case, on the very first mission I was told to invade some enemy position and was given the impression that I could choose my own way in. Fair enough, but once I finally got to go do it, I had no idea where to go or how to get there. So I wound up wandering around until I found myself in an area where people were shooting at me and I shot back until I died. Fuck this nonsense, I thought. It may be the greatest game ever once you learn how to do it, but I'll never know because i found playing it so unrewarding that I don't want to learn how to do it. Let me clarify that. You could offer me a million dollars and a blowjob to learn how to play Deus Ex to the point where I'll find it enjoyable and I will refuse. I don't want to. Not now. Not ever. That's how pissed the game has made me. All for three buck.
too bad i found that out too late, The Arcade Hall where i always play DDR only has the older machines, so i didn't know that the music style had completely changed.Kurokasumi said:
MAG - Bland game, and it was lacking several things multiplayer games are awesome from.
Timesplitters 2 - Horrible aiming system combined with difficulty of levels, of which never give you health
Thrillville - Straight faced Rollercoast Tycoon rip off.
Timesplitters 2 - Horrible aiming system combined with difficulty of levels, of which never give you health
Thrillville - Straight faced Rollercoast Tycoon rip off.
Napoleon Total War - I should've just bought Empire TW off Steam; I traded in Red Dead Redemption for a gamestop card, and I bought Napoleon since the nearest copy was 40 miles away.
Then I get home, and it takes an hour to install.
THEN IT TAKES 4 HOURS TO UPDATE ON STEAM.
SO I DIDN'T GET TO PLAY AFTER WORK RAWWRGFH
And I can't figure out how the economy works.
Then I get home, and it takes an hour to install.
THEN IT TAKES 4 HOURS TO UPDATE ON STEAM.
SO I DIDN'T GET TO PLAY AFTER WORK RAWWRGFH
And I can't figure out how the economy works.
need for speed prostreet god i hated that id just finished playing forza 2 and decided i liked realistic games then i bought this and found the only thing i knew how to do was lose and barrel roll but at least you get an achevment for destroying your own car whicch i got in my first race
Portal: Still Alive.
Don't get me wrong, I love Portal. But I regret buying THAT because I bought the XBLA $15 version instead of buying the $20 Orange Box.
Yeeeeah... Hindsight.
Don't get me wrong, I love Portal. But I regret buying THAT because I bought the XBLA $15 version instead of buying the $20 Orange Box.
Yeeeeah... Hindsight.
i was like that at the start by the end i was like omfg i love this game using tactics and everything.Wolfram01 said:
i regret buying
champions online
world of warcraft (really wanted to get into an mmo)
and some final fantasy game cos i though god dame it if every one says its awsome!
Skate is my biggest regret even though I got it super cheap. The game is too hard for me since I have zero knowledge of actual skating. Apparently my time playing Tony Hawk games doesn't translate well into actual skating.
God I am so bad at that game. TERRIBLE!
God I am so bad at that game. TERRIBLE!
The Bouncer for the sheer unplayability fo the controls or Final Fantasy XII for the amount of hours it robbed from my life out of sheer boredom.
Unreal Tournament 3 for PC. Biggest load of complete and utter twoddle I have ever installed onto a hard disk. The menu system was horrible, the graphics settings/adjustments in sliders and there were very few possible settings.
The weapon mechanics were dumbed down from the likes of UT99, UT2K3/4 but perhaps that is a minor personal gripe I had with it - I used to take pride in having to pecisely aim a bio rifle in UT2K4. Movement was pretty solid and it wasn't as floaty as 2k3/4 was.
Epic said that the story would be engrossing - it had decent voice actors however the problem is how they tried to fit the story into the gameplay. I remember there being one particular line where someone said "We need to capture their flags so that their respawner generator goes offline". WHAT?!.
There was real hope in competitive community that UT3 would be the next big thing, but not many people migrated, although there were a fair few money tournaments the year it came out. I suppose thats what happens when a game is released half finished. Some of the things that were standard in the likes of Quake 3 and UT99 were missing in UT3 (I believe one in particular was something to do with the multiplayer menu/server browser - I can't remember). Plus there were numerous bugs.
By the time the game was patched 2/3 times it was supposedly a decent game. However most, including myself, gave up on it.
(Sorry for the rant!
)
I would say X3: Reunion but the graphics are amazing - even if I have no idea how to play the game although if I put the time into it I probably would be able to.
The weapon mechanics were dumbed down from the likes of UT99, UT2K3/4 but perhaps that is a minor personal gripe I had with it - I used to take pride in having to pecisely aim a bio rifle in UT2K4. Movement was pretty solid and it wasn't as floaty as 2k3/4 was.
Epic said that the story would be engrossing - it had decent voice actors however the problem is how they tried to fit the story into the gameplay. I remember there being one particular line where someone said "We need to capture their flags so that their respawner generator goes offline". WHAT?!.
There was real hope in competitive community that UT3 would be the next big thing, but not many people migrated, although there were a fair few money tournaments the year it came out. I suppose thats what happens when a game is released half finished. Some of the things that were standard in the likes of Quake 3 and UT99 were missing in UT3 (I believe one in particular was something to do with the multiplayer menu/server browser - I can't remember). Plus there were numerous bugs.
By the time the game was patched 2/3 times it was supposedly a decent game. However most, including myself, gave up on it.
(Sorry for the rant!
)I would say X3: Reunion but the graphics are amazing - even if I have no idea how to play the game although if I put the time into it I probably would be able to.