Games you regret to have bought ?

[monkey_man]

CoD BLOPS - played it like 17 hours and got bored
CoD MW2 - got frustrated enough to drop it like a boulder
Red faction Guerilla - Is somehow laggy as hell
Spore - Crashes every 10 minutes
Saints row 2 PC - Lagg. Have to set everything so low it looks like blobby greyish flurp for 12 FPS
Unreal tournament 3 - Not interesting enough to keep me busy
Modnation racers - See UT3
probably some more games.

 

[XandNobody]

Lost Odyssey for one, lord was I ever disappointed by that game. I expected less of a JRPG feel out of it from what I saw, only to get even more of a JRPG feel that beat me into the ground...

Prototype, as it was about as logical as a net full of water. Yes, shoot at me when there is a big thing trying to kill the world, and I'm the only one who can stop it, makes so much sense.

Armored Core 4, seeing as they axed everything about the game that I liked from the originals in favor of trying to make it into some dang twitch-fest anime wanna-be crap.

Perfect Dark Zero, what can I even say, my disappointment considering how much I liked the original on the N64 truly knows no bounds.

Split/Second, this I don't even know why. It's fun when it has its moments, but most of the time, it just seems rather drab and boring to me, really can't even put my finger on it.

 

[EHKOS]

Darksiders, IMO wasn't worth full price.
Harvest Moon the one after a Wonderful Life (meledoy something not Futuristic one.)
I think that's it....oh and a $1 copy of Triggerman.

 

[tzimize]

Titan Quest+exp, I'll never finish it. Its just not as good as diablo 2, I'd rather play that.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2: I'll never play it.

Stalker games: I've tried. Open world just doesnt suit me, I need a story or a pure gameplay game.

Killing Floor: My god, this must be the B-side of gaming. Awful stuff. Too hyped up on coop-stuff after
playing L4D

Crysis+warhead. They arent too good games, they float on graphichs mostly. But at least they are better than the sequel, what a trainwreck.

Most of these I've bought because of steam. Stupid weekend offers :<

Oh, and Spider Man: Shattered Dimensions. Bad game.

Oh, and maybe WoW. I've had tons of fun in that game, but when all is said and done I've spent literally more than a year online (in pure game-time) gaming that terrible demon. I wonder what I'd done in that time if not spending it in wow?

 

[Harkonn3n]

Kane and Lynch - Oh sweet jesus why did I do that?!?!

GTA 4 - Horrible pc port, the engine was poorly optimised.

Need for Speed: Pro Street - I was having so much fun with NFS Most Wanted, NFS Carbon seemed like a poor cash-in, but what the hell, more cops I can get into pursuits with...then this THING was produced.

FarCry 2 - So.effing.boring.

Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands - Twas a poor cash-in and they ruined the awesome combat from Warrior Within!

 

[Dango]

Uncharted 2.

A bland, generic game with a predictable plot, poor characters, and absolutely nothing I hadn't played before.

 

[Harkonn3n]

Final Fantasy 8.

Anybody that knows me, knows why. If you don't, you can ask. But I warn you...BIG WALL OF TEXT.

Why?

 

[EOD Tech]

Vampire Rain: looked AMAZING from the trailers, seemed to be a good indie game combining Splinter Cell with vampires. In reality was just awful. PERHAPS the worst game I've ever played.

GTA IV: spent hours and hours on it, and came away no richer. It's just beautiful enough to keep you playing, but not rewarding enough to make you happy at the end.

Spore: amazing concept, there is an amazing game in there somewhere, but they just fell short somehow.

The Witcher: agree with many above. GREAT storyline completely ruined by horrible combat.

Dragon Age: see above. Wonderful story screwed over by stupid-ass combat.

There was a Star Trek Next Generation game for SNES that was GREAT in everything but space combat. You could do great on the away missions, the storyline, etc but the space combat kicked your ass every time, and it got to a certain point where no matter what you did you got destroyed. Ruined what could have been a great game.

Uplink. Great game ruined by a "eventually they have to fail" mechanic.

Floor 13. See above: "they eventually have to lose." Blarg.

Minecraft. Sorry everybody, I just can't get into it.

Brink. The hype was SO enormous, the trailers so enticing, but...they just effed it up somehow. No real plotline, no tutorial mission, and even the singplayer campaign plays like it's a multiplayer game with bots. And honestly, no discerning, tasteful person likes multiplayer, so who would like a shallow shadow of it?

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Dragon Age: Origins
Zombie Driver
Lost Planet 2

 

[ABLb0y]

Mass Effect 2: Hated every vapid, audience insulting minuiet. and the fact theres no proper Asari romance.
Dark Void: Terrible. Just... Terrible.
Castlevania: Lords of shadow. Horribly annoying and annoyingly horrible.

 

[SmilingWorlock]

Mount and Blade: With fire and sword; more like Mount and Blade: With Bugs and Crashes.
GTA IV; if I want to go bowling with some idiots, i can do that in rl.

 

[ramflax]

tenchu Z 101% crap

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

Crackdown, no more need be said.

 

[Dense_Electric]

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, most money I've ever wasted on a single game. I bought it during my "RCT Summer" during the summer of 2006, when that was pretty much all I did. Played it for about three hours, went right back to RCT2.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

No real plotline, no tutorial mission, and even the singplayer campaign plays like it's a multiplayer game with bots. And honestly, no discerning, tasteful person likes multiplayer, so who would like a shallow shadow of it?

Umm, yeah, because it is supposed to be like that. That is how the first two Enemy Territory games were, and I thought it was obvious to everyone that this was like that, especially with all the comparison to TF2.

I don't care for most multiplayer games, but that last remark is pretty distasteful and ignorant. Just because some people online are douchebags doesn't mean everyone that play online are. Hell, even the nicest girl I ever met played BF1942 online all the time.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Never Winter Nights II.

Had to restart it three times because I got a fatal bug in each playthrough (a different fatal bug in each!) and eventually the opening sequence just bored me to tears so I had to give up trying. Waste of money for something a Beta would be ashamed of.

 

[Dark Prophet]

Serious Sam 2 - fuck was that game repetitive, some pretty good ha-ha moments on the expense of Duke though.
NFS ProStreet - just boring as hell.
Chronicles of Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay - not a bad game at all, but just not a game for me.
Supreme Commander - campaign was repetitive and multiplayer was a total clusterfuck and not in good way like say in C&C.
Some God awful Rabbids minigame collection that I for some unknown reason decided torture myself with.
Halo - it may have been cutting edge when it came out but when I got it, it was the same thing I had already seen like hundreds of times.
Painkiller: Overdose - pile of wank.


And I gave all those games a second and for some a third chance because you'll never know like Mass Effect for example, didn't finish even the first mission on Eden Prime was even considering to sell it but I picked it up again after 3 or so months finished it finished it again and now it is in my top 5 best games of all time.

 

[IndianaJonny]

Battlefield 2142 - just never got it to work.

 

[Scissors61]

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Imagine Mirror's Edge platforming on a sucky second rate Source ripoff and you have the rooftop chase.

FalloutJack, why the FF8 hate?

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

The Gothic 3 Collectors Edition.

Gothic 2 being one of my all-time favorites, I was hugely excited for the third part of the series and got it right after its release. Turns out, the game was and still is hugely crap: A Bug-infested mess that completely lacked the character of the second part of the series, made exploration largely pointless since the best weapons were readily available early on, the gameworld was too vast to be anything but bland and the narrative was pretty non-existent even for the Gothic-Series standard.

It is - without doubt - the greatest disappointment in gaming I have ever encountered.