Your Most Regretted Game Purchase
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Dragon Age: Origins, hands down. I bought it a few days after release for a full price, since it was apparently the second coming of the RPG Jesus Christ, according to the internet and the reviews. What I got, was the worst RPG I played in life (Granted, I'm not even touching bad RPG's like Two Worlds) with lame plot, predictable twists, dull world, unlikeable characters except from Morrigan and Zevran (Wynne is my current holder of 'the worst character-wise NPC companion in RPG's ever' award, beating even Go-To from KotOR II), slow and way too easy combat (cone of cold, kinetic prison, repeat with second mage, Good Fight), with animations that look like ass (seriously, the walking-in-combat animation for female characters is so pathetic, I almost died from laughter the first time I saw it), and the graphic itself that looked like ass.
It's not really that bad game, but my high expectations combined with amount of cash I spent on it ended up with hate-rage that fills me whenever I think about this one. I want my money back.
Incidentally, I bought Dragon Age II few days after the release for a full price, PRECISELY because people were bitching that they changed everything from Origins. They changed everything? Woohoo! Maybe this game will actually be good now! And it was... Until the third act, when the whole story fell apart. Oh well, maybe DA III then, they are on the right track now...
It's not really that bad game, but my high expectations combined with amount of cash I spent on it ended up with hate-rage that fills me whenever I think about this one. I want my money back.
Incidentally, I bought Dragon Age II few days after the release for a full price, PRECISELY because people were bitching that they changed everything from Origins. They changed everything? Woohoo! Maybe this game will actually be good now! And it was... Until the third act, when the whole story fell apart. Oh well, maybe DA III then, they are on the right track now...
Should be Black ops, but truth is, it's still my most played game for a couple of months. So it would be unfair to say that, I guess, even if it where only 5 euros or so, it has to be Bully Schorlaship Edition on steam sale, I don't mind the game in generel, but it's bugged op the ****
Fallout 3.
I bought it, played for a maybe 4 hours, just enough to get into megaton, and never looked at it again.
I have been told that sandboxes just are not for me, and that may very well be true. But I just had no motivation to do anything, the NPCs where exeptionally bland and uninteresting, and the world just was grey in brown and I really did not want to know what lay beyond the next hill (more brown).
Yes, of course I should have known.
I bought it, played for a maybe 4 hours, just enough to get into megaton, and never looked at it again.
I have been told that sandboxes just are not for me, and that may very well be true. But I just had no motivation to do anything, the NPCs where exeptionally bland and uninteresting, and the world just was grey in brown and I really did not want to know what lay beyond the next hill (more brown).
Yes, of course I should have known.
The Orange Box, specifically Team Fortress 2.
Don't get me wrong, the games were all absolutely amazing, and Portal is still one of my favorite games of all time. But Team Fortress 2 is so easy to get into, so much fun to play, and so hard to get out of. I've sunk over 221 hours of my life into it so far, but I still can't stop thinking about playing it. One rare case of a game that's SO good that it becomes a problem.
Don't get me wrong, the games were all absolutely amazing, and Portal is still one of my favorite games of all time. But Team Fortress 2 is so easy to get into, so much fun to play, and so hard to get out of. I've sunk over 221 hours of my life into it so far, but I still can't stop thinking about playing it. One rare case of a game that's SO good that it becomes a problem.
black ops: my coworkers BEGGED me to play it. I only did a bit of the single player and 15 bucks for a DLC map pack? kiss my ass treyarch!
I'd definitely have to say [Prototype] and Street Fighter IV. I usually don't expect things going into games so I won't disappoint myself or anything, but Prototype... That was just horrible :I that is literally the only game I forced myself to play, got halfway through, sat back and said "Why did I buy this..." Got Street Fighter because I kind of enjoyed the arcade cabinets I would play at Pizza places every now and again back in the 90's and decided to give it a shot. Wasn't bad, but just wasn't my kind of game really. Probably would be better using a Arcade stick setup but I don't really wanna opt the cash for something I'll really only use for one game. I don't really regret owning Street Fighter so much as I regret paying the full $60 for it.
On a side note, I also regret picking up The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I liked Fallout 3, so I went and picked up the Oblivion GOTY edition for $20 over Dead Space (Which I ended up picking up later anyway for the same price and absolutely loved it). I got out of the sewer and sat there saying "WTF?", something I didn't stop saying even after completing the firghters guild and getting 3/4 through the storyline. Game just had me lost from the get go. It was only $20, so I don't feel as bad as I do with Prototype of course, but I don't like the 250 or so gamerscore for it sitting on my gamertag.
I apologize if any of these offend anyone, they just didn't suit me... Except Prototype, I'm not really sorry for that game... That game was horrible. I liked it better when it was called Spiderman 2.
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Oh! Fable III! I definitely regret buying that more than Street Fighter and Oblivion, but Prototype is still worse. What kind of game claims to have so much innovation and then end up being exactly the same as the second game, both graphics and location wise, and makes making money a key feature to the game... What is this an RPG or an introduction to capitalism? The story took me 7 hours to get to being king, worked as a blacksmith for 4 hours so I could get the good ending and save everyone, and only had 60k of my needed 8.5 million (you go 2 million in debt choosing the good options) so I cheated and the game ended 15 mins after I got all the money... Seriously what game is more working as a blacksmih, buying and managung property, and collecting flowers, books, gnomes and keys than actually being some kind of RPG when its advertised as an Action RPG? /hate rant
On a side note, I also regret picking up The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I liked Fallout 3, so I went and picked up the Oblivion GOTY edition for $20 over Dead Space (Which I ended up picking up later anyway for the same price and absolutely loved it). I got out of the sewer and sat there saying "WTF?", something I didn't stop saying even after completing the firghters guild and getting 3/4 through the storyline. Game just had me lost from the get go. It was only $20, so I don't feel as bad as I do with Prototype of course, but I don't like the 250 or so gamerscore for it sitting on my gamertag.
I apologize if any of these offend anyone, they just didn't suit me... Except Prototype, I'm not really sorry for that game... That game was horrible. I liked it better when it was called Spiderman 2.
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Oh! Fable III! I definitely regret buying that more than Street Fighter and Oblivion, but Prototype is still worse. What kind of game claims to have so much innovation and then end up being exactly the same as the second game, both graphics and location wise, and makes making money a key feature to the game... What is this an RPG or an introduction to capitalism? The story took me 7 hours to get to being king, worked as a blacksmith for 4 hours so I could get the good ending and save everyone, and only had 60k of my needed 8.5 million (you go 2 million in debt choosing the good options) so I cheated and the game ended 15 mins after I got all the money... Seriously what game is more working as a blacksmih, buying and managung property, and collecting flowers, books, gnomes and keys than actually being some kind of RPG when its advertised as an Action RPG? /hate rant
Lost Empire: Immortals.
Bought it because during development, it looked like a perfect game for me. Space combat, design and buiild your own ships, resource management and so on. Plus the box art was really good looking too.
When I got it, none of my expctations were matched. They were far lower than I could have expected. The game was boring, had walls of text for tutorials and the customisation and space combat left a hell of a lot to be desired. I suppose I shouldn't have expected much from a small developer. But because of that game alone, I only buy from sucessful devs like Valve or Bioware.
Seriously, don't play that game. I snapped my disc for it in half out of sheer anger at the waste of £20
Bought it because during development, it looked like a perfect game for me. Space combat, design and buiild your own ships, resource management and so on. Plus the box art was really good looking too.
When I got it, none of my expctations were matched. They were far lower than I could have expected. The game was boring, had walls of text for tutorials and the customisation and space combat left a hell of a lot to be desired. I suppose I shouldn't have expected much from a small developer. But because of that game alone, I only buy from sucessful devs like Valve or Bioware.
Seriously, don't play that game. I snapped my disc for it in half out of sheer anger at the waste of £20
Merchants of Brooklyn.
I've made other purchases I've regretted, but that's the only game that made me wish it was possible to excise games from my Steam account, so I could rid of the embarrassing reminder that I spent money on that awful, awful game.
Ugh.
I've made other purchases I've regretted, but that's the only game that made me wish it was possible to excise games from my Steam account, so I could rid of the embarrassing reminder that I spent money on that awful, awful game.
Ugh.
"LOST: Via Domus" (also known as LOST: The Game). Gameplay was poor, voice acting was dreadful, storyline was trash, and there was always fewer than 5 survivors at any given time. It was a complete waste of money.
Never buy a Steam bargain. Check reviews and gamerscores before making a purchase. Most of the time there's a reason why you never hear of these games.Fredzor said:
Bulletstorm.
I was expecting something akin to an old Duke Nukem throwback, where you're using ludicrous weapons to blow bits off of crazed aliens while listening to horrible chauvinistic one liners that make a good parody of the "man's man".
Instead I found a game where the dialogue was just an excuse to pack as many dick jokes into a sentence as possible, partnered with a (terrible) story that tried to take itself seriously. And while I can ignore a bad plot for the sake of silly mayhem, the dialogue was so damnably annoying that the lackluster skillshot system couldn't make up for it. Seen one guy shot in the balls, seen them all.
Biggest waste of $60 ever, but at least I got the Gears 3 beta out of it. Now to hope that isn't as bad.
I was expecting something akin to an old Duke Nukem throwback, where you're using ludicrous weapons to blow bits off of crazed aliens while listening to horrible chauvinistic one liners that make a good parody of the "man's man".
Instead I found a game where the dialogue was just an excuse to pack as many dick jokes into a sentence as possible, partnered with a (terrible) story that tried to take itself seriously. And while I can ignore a bad plot for the sake of silly mayhem, the dialogue was so damnably annoying that the lackluster skillshot system couldn't make up for it. Seen one guy shot in the balls, seen them all.
Biggest waste of $60 ever, but at least I got the Gears 3 beta out of it. Now to hope that isn't as bad.
Hmm, if I ever have some extra time to kill, I will give it a go. Who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised.killcheese said: