Worst game PURCHASE you ever made.

[Gunner 51]

I was stupid enough to buy Alone in the Dark. (The really awful one for the '360.)

Still to this day, I rue buying it. Buggy, terrible controls and the camera angles were just plain unhelpful.

That's the exact game I was going to say. I can't believe I paid full price for that game.

Runner-ups include the new Medal of Honor, Prince of Persia (remake that didn't allow you to die), and Fable III, all bought at full price and were complete crap or only had half the content that could be expected for the price (in Medal of Honor's case).

Thanks for you r post, Chadachada - you might have saved me fifteen quid or so. I was interested in purchasing Medal of Honor mostly because most of it's games have been Nazi-nobblers and I felt like a change. Perhaps a rental is more in order now.

Though I am in total agreement with you on Fable 3 as well. I've played it to completion once and it's been sitting on my shelf gathering dust ever since.

 

[Skoldpadda]

Is it possible to win this thread?
Because my worst purchase ever, is the Magic The Gathering computer game from, I dunno, 1998, or something.

I'll just throw it out there: I was a little shit back then. I regularly stole hard-earned money from my dad's wallet. He's always been a shit too, but that doesn't make the money less hard-earned.

It started out with small amounts, but it was so easy, I got cocky. It was of course stupid to think he wouldn't start to miss sums of sometimes up to 2000 Belgian francs (which is about 50 euro). And 2000 francs was how much most new games costed back then.

My parents were divorced, I lived with my mom, and that evening I visited him as I often did, took 2000BEF when he wasn't looking. When I got home, the money was still in my pocket when the bell suddenly rang. My dad was at the door, furious, and he demanded I emptied my pockets, took off my pants, everything. He was sure he'd find the cash on me, and the cash totally was on me, so I was in a pickle. I played a guilt trip. I played being severely hurt at such accusations, and my mother defended me, she got angry at my dad. He'd probably spent the money on booze and then forgot about it, or something. I fled "furiously" to another room, emerging about two seconds later, but that gave me ample time to quickly shove the banknote under a loose end of the fixed carpet. I "angrily" emptied my pockets, and took off my clothes. He was sure I'd got rid of it somehow (my ruse was transparent as hell to him, of course), but he knew he'd lost and he went home.

Trust between me and my father was forever destroyed and we've spoken maybe three times since then.

With that money I bought the freshly released Magic: The Gathering, of which I knew next to nothing, only that I'd started to feel interest in the card game, and played it for about half an hour, then never touched it again. Never even found out if it was a good game or not. I wasn't aware of it back then, I thought I'd just lost interest really quickly, but now I'm sure it was the guilt that just completely killed it for me.

 

[Legion IV]

Mass Effect 2. Spent 60$ outta my paycheck to play one the worst games ever made. Holy crap was that game stupid!

People honestly like this? they call it and rpg? in what world!?

Can you even call it a game?

 

[toapat]

Final Fantasy 13

I hesitate to even call it a game to be fair.

Single worst thing Square Enix have ever done.

square enix forgets that a game needs to be good before its 90% done.

To be fair they forget that a game has to have gameplay.

touche.

Square Enix as a company needs new talent with some actual ideas. its one thing if you remake a game, so long as you improved everything about it. Blizzard's entire business plan is: What has the competition done in the last 4 years? ok, take that, fix it, make it better, now one up that, now inject the liquified and concentrated essence of eternal awesome. now polish it till the light coming off of it burns.

World of Warcraft kinda got screwed over by SC2 though, that and they dont check against powercreep enough in WoW

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Bioshock:

Please hear me out, I got the PC version off a retailer and installed it. The second time booting it up the F###ing DRM packed a massive hissey fit and refused to let me play anymore. In the end I had to return it.

 

[putowtin]

Well, seeing how I only buy about 3 games a year, I usually am already convinced on if I'd like it or not.

That said, the worst game that I've ever bought was Fable 3. It was such a giant step back from the previous one that it was literally depressing to play.

So many broken promises and such a damn boring game

tell me about it, and I bought the collectors edition... I'm a fool!

I swear here and now, I will not buy another fable game, if I break this vow may I be stoned with unwanted copies of Fable II & III!

 

[qeinar]

shattered horizon probably, it was decent, but no fun at all.

 

[L3W15 M]

Stormrise, What even was that bullshit?

 

[Earthmonger]

Guild Wars.

 

[tombman888]

Probably.... BRINK on Steam...

I pre-ordered it, and while it was fun, and i want to play it again some time, I just have... BETTER games to be playing... so yeah, quite a waste of money until i spend some more time on it.

 

[Angry_squirrel]

Medal of Honour on release date.
I probably bought worse at some point, but as far as I can remember, that's the worst.

 

[Kitteh]

Civ 5. Oy, I should've looked up the graphix requirements beforehand
Also (and perhaps more so), Mafia 2. I expected this full priced game with an open world and customizable stuff to be as good as the sandboxes of the past. But, what good is an open world if you have no point to explore it? What good is having a good amount of vehicles if you lose them because its a story mode with an ending. I guess I just expected it to be a sandbox, but it wasn't even close.

 

[gnomefawkes]

Very very easy one to answer

PS1 game: Chaos Break
was a very (very) cheap knock off of Resident Evil, except you were fighting aliens. Basically, it seems like the entire internet has decided to erase it from memory. I never have found a walk-through for it.

At one point in the game (rather early in too) you are going through, doing your thing then BAM....no indication as to what to do/where to go next, nothing. ALways get to the same point and never gotten past it,

 

[Yanzo]

It's a tie between medieval total war and stalker: call of pripyat. I put the latter in here, because I still have yet to get the damn thing to work, but I enjoyed previous stalker games so I doubt it'll remain here forever.
Whereas the medieval total war was just less fun than rome total war, I played it and didn't like anything about it.

 

[MetaKnight19]

Probably Dragon Age: Origins. I finished one of the origin stories (can't remember which one) and got to a town called Lothering and for me it just felt as though it was going really slow. On the upside I only paid £15 for the GAME exclusive collectors edition which came with all this stuff:

Bonus Blu-ray disc with a 'Making of' documentary, Soundtrack, Trailers, Wallpaper, Concept Art Video and Strategy tips

3 pieces of exclusive in-game content - Bergens Honour, Grimoire of the Frozen Wastes and Final Reason.

Unlockable ME2 in-game item: Original purchasers of DAO will receive the Blood Dragon Armour which will be usable in both DAO and ME2

The Stone Prisoner unlockable bonus quest and unlockable character, Shale

 

[rotkiv]

Dragon age 2, not that it was bad, but it was a really big disponment compared to Dragon age origins, witch probably was my best game purches ever.

 

[Henkie36]

MW2 expansion packs... Spent 15 bucks on them, and they weren't that good, and definetly not worth the money, because half of them didn't work, and they made the rest of the game slower. Typical case of ''from bad to worse''.

 

[thespyisdead]

The Force Unleashed 2

Not only was it short, but i hated the endings...

 

[SuperBio]

Metroid Other M worst Metroid game ever. I mean what were they smoking? Hey lets make Samus afraid of Ridely because she didn't kill him three times in the Prime series and twice before that. Team Ninja is better off never making another game again. Oh and don't remind me about the whole I can't use the Varia suit because Adam said no even though the room is 2000 degrees. WORST PLOT EVER.