Games you regret buying

[MetalMonkey74]

Aion - definitely Aion

 

[loppyyyy]

Oblivion.
plaed it for an hour, thought "My god this sucks" then forgot about it. A few months later I thought i'd give it another go. I played it for another hour and hated every minute of it. It was just so damn boring.

 

[Legendary Alucard]

Tom Clancy's EndWar... Just saying the name makes my wallet hurt...

 

[TankCopter]

Final Fantasy 13. $120 on an admittedly pretty game that bored me to tears.

Doood, a hundred and twenty bones? Is that seriously what games cost in Australia? I'd heard games are more expensive there, but I had no idea. Buying any game with a price tag like that is a huge gamble. How does anything break ground in that kind of climate?

Because a lot of games cost that much, you kind of get used to it. it's the main reason why I don't buy many new release games, though they get a little bit cheaper over time (I picked up Pikmin 2 for the Wii for $50, down from the $70-$90 new Wii games tend to cost.)

 

[SovietX]

I have a few:

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (PC) - Bugged to all hell, terrible graphic issues and terrible voice acting. Not very enjoyable.

Resident Evil 5 (PS3) - Why capcom...why did you have to do this to my beloved series. And what the fuck did you do to Jill!

Saints Row 2 (PC - Steam) - Worked once. The game isnt bad by no means, but on PC there are just so many issues that my game refused to start after the first time I played it.

Silent Hill Homecoming (PC - Steam) - See 'Saints Row 2'

Crysis (PC) - "Oh cool, this is fun. Take that Korea! Wait; what the hell is that...Aliens? Time to stop playing and proceed to spit on the disc"

God Of War III (PS3) - Really overrated. Got to the end and was very disapointed. If I wanted a grind I would play WoW.

/end bitching.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Damnation sucked in every way possible

 

[JWRosser]

I bought the Sonic Ultimate Collection on the PS2 quite a while ago...thought I'd have a moment of nostalgia. I completed it all in about 2 hours...the next day I took it back.

 

[cthulhumythos]

Mass effect 2

and if i don't get flamed by that: I thought the first one was better!

edit : fable 2
at the final boss i was like "SHIT! Final boss! -takes out gun- BLAM. wait. that's it?"

i later read that he said something.

 

[mParadox]

wow! 17 pages!! This is awesome!

 

[daubie]

The first that come to mind are Soul Calibur IV, GTA 4, and Jak 2/3. The Jak sequels lacked so much of the charm that the first game had. The first game was funny, and bright, and refreshing. It revitalized the adventure/platformer for me, but the sequels were dull and gritty. It was a cheep attempt to try and attempt to siphon some of the popularity of the GTA games of the time, and it ruined what could have been a great series.

I loved Soul Calibur IV. I don't have a copy myself, but my friend did, until it got laser burnt by his 360.

I think one of the best parts of it was the character creation and edit mode. Nothing is greater in the game than playing as Mitsurugi with an Afro, we called him "Frourugi" We also had a version of him with a Wizard hat and a monical, "Wizarugi", not creative name wise, but funny.

I think the best one my friend did was a total character creation that looked like Sean Connery, though there wasn't a voice that was close enough to fit it.

But I guess I didn't see it as bad, or a waste of money if I did buy it (which I would if I had the money), because I don't expect fighting games to be that ground breaking, as long as it has solid control-ability, which I feel IV has, I will like it.

I suppose I wasn't entirely fair there. The character creation was fun, but I do miss the creation mode in 3. In 4 you just use the normal characters fighting style if I remember right, but in 3 you had a whole new set of classes to mess around with. It was an alright fighter, but it felt like a step down from the older games. In a rush after messing with the better graphics and online play they cut what little story was left in the series.

I had been a fan of the series since the original Soul Blade on PSX, and I guess I just feel it, like Jak, has lost a good deal of it's old charm over the years.

 

[Aesthetical Quietus]

The topic explains it all. Which game you bought that you hated and considered a waste of your money?

Mine was Just Cause. The damn game was terrible in every way.

Spoiler

My first thread, yay!

Damn, ninja'd by the OT!

 

[Toasted Nuts]

And Oblivion. Funny how my favourite RPG ever could be followed up by the worst RPG I've ever played.

At least im not the only one, what a waste of money that game was :|

Also Virtua Tennis 2009 MASSIVE error

 

[Ciartan]

Enter the Matrix: My computer kept crashing once i got to a certain level, so i never got to play it.
Aion: it turned out to be shit
Mafia 2: it was way to short to be worth $50, and i was hoping it would be more of a sandbox game than it was.
Killzone 2: i hated the controls, and i never played it much.
Spider-Man Web of Shadows: turned out to be shit.
Warhawk: Good, but i never played it enough to be worth the price.
Street Fighter 4: Played it for like 10 minutes, i sucked and i never bothered trying to get better at it.
Brutal Legend: Never bothered finishing it, it was a good game tho.
Starcraft 2: I suck at RTSes but decided to try it out, i played HoN so much i forgot about it.
Resistance 1: It got boring fast and i forgot about it.

 

[Falcon123]

Bionic Commando. I mean, it was only $10, so I don't feel that badly about it, but there's nothing about it that's unique, memorable, or even all that fun, and compared to the Spiderman games (which aren't really that good either, in my opinion), the swinging is crap.

Oh well. It's still better than the worst game I own (My sister bought me Sonic and the Secret Rings. I thought I'd try to play it for a little bit just to make fun of it, but it was so cringingly awful I think I'd rather burn my eyes out that be forced to play it to completion)

 

[mParadox]

Are you talking about the one based on the Power Rangers movie? If so I'll have to disagree with you there that game ridiculously easy, I could beat it in less than an hour when I was 12. Unless of course you are talking about the length of the game and not the difficulty then I'll agree with you there.

OT: I forget the name of the game but it was for the original Xbox and the best/worst thing about it was it had no loading screens when opening doors so you could get to the terrible gameplay faster.

I'm talking about the game based in the series, that was easy as well, what I tried to say, and expressed terribly bad; is that I could never get over the fact I purchased that crap with the money I earned at a part time job I did when I was a kid.

 

[Black Phoenix]

Ys Strategy for the DS. Taught me never to impulse buy games I know nothing about ever again without first checking reviews.

Another would be Sonic mega Collection Plus for the PS2. I mean, I pretty much had all the games on the Sega Mega Drive anyway...

 

[Kermi]

I think I speak for everyone when I say FUCKING ODST GOD DAMMIT.

No, you do not. I feel that ODST had a great story and atmosphere. The only regret I have is that Halo 3's multiplayer was basically ruined for me once ODST came out with the final three maps.
On the upside, we got access to the Halo Reach beta.

 

[l3m0n_p4nda]

FFXIII and Red Dead Redemption. I bought FFXIII on release day and was seriously dissapointed. I just couldn't get into red dead redemption. Every time I tried to play it I got really bored really quickly.

 

[Ze_Reaper_Of_Zeath]

Minecraft.

It's a great game.

Wayy to addicting.

 

[Porecomesis]

'Metroid: Other M'.

There's 'Sonic the Hedgehog', and then there's 'Metroid: Other M'. Then there's 'Too Human'.

Oh, and 'Final Fantasy XIII', too.