Games you regret to have bought ?

[violent_quiche]

Got talked into Dragon Age: Origins sight unseen, exchanged it within 24 hours...for Borederlands (mistype intended). DAO was less to do with quality than it being a style of game I don't enjoy, so I'll shoulder the blame on that one.

The one I really regretted: Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, MAN what a way to crap on a legacy. Tedious shooting, long and bland levels with sod-all checkpoints and zero personality. The first and last time I ever pre-ordered.

 

[CPUburrito]

every call of duty game after cod4
odst
brothers in arms:HH
pokemon pearl

 

[Estarc]

Ninja Gaiden Sigma II for the PS3
Max Payne and Max Payne II on PC
Star Wars the Force Unleashed for PS3

Those are the only three that jump to mind. I don't often regret my game purchases, which i am thankful for.

 

[Jack Macaque]

Kode Bryant NBA Courtside for N64 hahaha...

 

[Yokai]

I would say Stormrise, but that was actually free with my graphics card. Not hard to see why. A broken, god-awful mess made all the more painful to play as it was full of excellent ideas rendered thoroughly unenjoyable by a hurricane of bugs and poor design choices.

Other than that, I'd say Borderlands. Don't get me wrong, I had great fun playing it, but it didn't come close to living up to its "Role-playing Shooter" hype. Definitely not worth the 50 bucks I paid for it on release day.

 

[badgersprite]

Gears of War. Waste of my money to be quite honest. Other games I didn't like at least gave me a reason to think about why they didn't work or how they could be improved, but Gears of War was just nothing to me.

I'm also currently feeling this way about Crackdown. I thought it might be worth trying but I just ended up being like, "...what."

It's not that these games are terrible, it's that they're games that are far, far removed from my tastes, apparently. If they were just plain terrible, I would at least have the entertainment value of tearing them to shreds and pointing out all the things wrong with them. Games like this where it's just that I don't like them leave me with nothing to say and nothing gained from them.

 

[FlaktheFox]

Because I have a limited budget for games, I only get one every few months. That gives me plenty of time to research games that I think I'll like and it has proven me well. I dont regret Dragon Age 2, I dont regret WoW or MW2. But I do regret however..

Far Cry 2

I bought this on a whim since I liked the first one, and it seemed interesting at first. Many hours of boring missions tied together with no narrative later however and just as I thought the end was thankfully in sight, they open up an entirely different sandbox with the exact same structure and lack of plot as the first sandbox. I finished the game, but I could only play it in short bursts or else I would fall asleep. Eventually I finished it, and to this day, I have not played it since.

The honorable mention thought is when I bought my little sister a game. She already had Viva Pinata, and though Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise would be an ENTIRELY new game. It wasn't, and she only ever played it once. She wont even let me trade it in for another game because its hers. Yes, I did buy it for her, but does it matter? She will never ever ever use it again.

 

[Omega Pirate]

Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands (Wii)
Maybe it's good on other platforms, but the Wii version is lame and uninteresting. They took away all the cool powers you have in the others because the Wii couldn't possibly support it.

If a game is multi-platform it has content cut for the Wii version on account of its low end graphics. It's just something I have noticed.

The only game I could think of that I regret buying is Star Ocean: the Last Hope (xbox360).

That may change if I can understand how to play it well enough to be able to kill things. The tales series has killed my dodging senses.

 

[Sean951]

The Guild 2. Great potential, shit execution.
Rome:Total War expansions. Both could be replaced with commmunity mods.

Agreed, but they sold BI as a pack and I never bothered with Alexander since I don't really care for a story driven game of conquer the world. How else would I have taken Prussia into India and Central/South America and given Ireland control of Great Britain?

 

[DefinitelyPsychotic]

Modern Warfare 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout: New Vegas
LittleBigPlanet 2
Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway
NBA 2K11

 

[iDerp]

Guild Wars. I bought this game the day it came out because I loved the beta so much. After five days of boredom I sold it. It's like something was missing since beta, I still don't know what that was.

Left4Dead. It just doesn't work with randoms and I have no friends to play with.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

Recently bought Stronghold Steam pack and my god wtf kind of idea was it to have a blend of RTS/sim into a game that mainly has focus on combat and sieges and the interface and build system is totally fucked off its head and yet i still try to play the game just to get some value out of the collection, i mean after all i love RTS games to damn much.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

Fable 2
Fable 3
Borderlands
The reason I bought 3 after I hated 2 was because my friends wanted to play online and I can't buy games during the weekdays so they had a several day headstart on me and by the time I had it they were done and said it was alright but didn't want to play it with me, they did this with both games. Also same with Borderlands they had it before me so when I played with them the game made all the enemies a challenge for them so the game became unplayable, just the other day they asked if I was getting Brink and I am glad I didn't the reviews say it's nothing special. I'm savin up for L.A. Noire!

 

[DirgeNovak]

Bioshock 2. I originally didn't want to play it because I was against its very existence, but I eventually bought it, telling myself "it's still Bioshock, even if the story sucks balls, gameplay is cool".

What a mistake.

 

[mikespoff]

Magicka.

Looked like fun - but it wasn't.

 

[Safaia]

The Force Unleashed. Man that was stupid.

 

[Sean951]

The only games I really regret are NCAA 2010 for the Wii and BF Vietnam, mostly because my PC couldn't handle the game and turned everything but the ground, sky, and some of the more distant vehicle pink. I was pink, you were pink, the brush was pink.

There have been plenty of games that I wound up "meh" about, but I paid so little for them that, so long as I got.get 5-10 hours, I will be happy enough.

 

[EGtodd09]

I bought the map packs for Modern Warfare 2 when they went on sale for 50% off on steam a while ago. So not worth it. Crysis 2 is good but not worth the $100 I payed for it because there just isn't enough Australian/Kiwi multiplayer servers with people in them. Would have been worth it if I lived in the united states though. I regret buying the orange box, I'm not very impressed by Half Life two and I'm just bad with source engine so I suck at Team Fortress 2. I've only played 11 minutes of garry's mod and it's crashed 3 times. I would say Battlefield 2 because punkbuster just doesn't work and I can't go into servers because it fails after 10 minutes, but it was $5 so the 4 hours of playing with bots was worth it almost. Everyone is hating on Far Cry 2 but I absolutely loved that game and have sunk well over 150 hours into it.

 

[BJK55123]

DDR Universe, only because I never ended up having the room for it. And I don't really like the games post-Supernova2. The structure of these new games is weird and every time that disembodied voice says some stupid phrase, I want to bash my tv in with the metal pad I bought two years ago which became scrap metal within two months of arrival just to get one last use out of that piece of crap.

 

[bkrockwell]

I don't regret buying Tekken 6, but I do regret pre-ordering it and getting it day one. Not only did the price for the regular version drop in no time, but it wasn't long before the Collector's Edition and Tournament Edition were selling for less than I'd paid for the game. I still feel lame whenever I see a Collector's Edition on sale for $30 NZD.