Games you regret to have bought ?

[holy_secret]

Epic Mickey.
It was so bad. So so bad.

It taught me one thing. An amazing story cannot hold up a horrible gameplay.
I wish I could go back in time to my hippie-me, who'd probably be saying something like "ooooh story is everything in a game ladida!!!!!111" and kick him in the face.

That was some good $70 wasted.

 

[icame]

FF13 and Bayonetta (Ps3 version. I hate crappy ports..)

 

[King Toasty]

Final Fantasy 13 and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. BBBBBOOORRRRIIIINNGGGGG.

 

[Rooster893]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2006.

Seriously. I didn't even touch Sonic games until Sonic Colors came along.

All was forgiven with that fun platformer. Also, Sonic being voiced by Chris Redfield? What could be better?

 

[legend of duty]

buying mw2 twice because my first one broke and i lost the reciet ( damn you gamestop!!!!) and the only reason i bought it again was because it was the only game my friends and i had in common. damn peer pressure

 

[TheDutchin]

Two Worlds,
Timeshift,
Pokemon Colosseum,
Halo Wars.

All these games had such great potential but fell sooo far short, TW should be self explanatory, Timeshift did't use time as well as I'd hoped, i bought PC when i was younger and into pokemon but even then i couldnt help but be super disappointed, i hated how i couldnt go out and catch and build my own team, no, i had to catch these certain pokemon, and when i didnt catch one i felt like i was missing something and so couldnt do it >.< and Halo Wars was wayy easier then i thought it was going to be, i used the same strategy for every single level, it wasnt even a warthog rush, i just sat back and built an armada of tanks and just walked them along the level destroying EVERYTHING haha in short, dont buy any of these games, but if you have to, buy timeshift, it was the least disappointing

 

[King Toasty]

buying mw2 twice because my first one broke and i lost the reciet ( damn you gamestop!!!!) and the only reason i bought it again was because it was the only game my friends and i had in common. damn peer pressure

Why would you buy it once? Just rent Modern Warfare 1 for a week. It's the exact same thing.

 

[Biosophilogical]

And the other was FFX-2 that game was just bad really bad.

This, so much this. Because of this I no longer rely on nostalgia or impulse buys. I always read a few reviews (sure, most reviews are biased, but they at least point out a couple game factors each, like story, combat, graphics, voice acting, music, etc)

OT: FFX-2 is the only 'fail-buy' that I can remember exept maybe War of the Monsters (but that's not the game, it was the disc; it was pre-owned and went to shit very quickly, meaning I couldn't play it, not that I didn't want to)

 

[King Toasty]

Two Worlds,
Timeshift,
Pokemon Colosseum,
Halo Wars.

All these games had such great potential but fell sooo far short, TW should be self explanatory, Timeshift did't use time as well as I'd hoped, i bought PC when i was younger and into pokemon but even then i couldnt help but be super disappointed, i hated how i couldnt go out and catch and build my own team, no, i had to catch these certain pokemon, and when i didnt catch one i felt like i was missing something and so couldnt do it >.< and Halo Wars was wayy easier then i thought it was going to be, i used the same strategy for every single level, it wasnt even a warthog rush, i just sat back and built an armada of tanks and just walked them along the level destroying EVERYTHING haha in short, dont buy any of these games, but if you have to, buy timeshift, it was the least disappointing

Pokemon Colosseum!? That game was the shit.

THE. SHIT.

 

[JasonKaotic]

Several.
Velvet Assassin - No play value to it at all. You just walk around, stab things, and get shot. A lot.
Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom - I played this for about half an hour, then stopped and never played again, and I've never done that before. That's how bad this is. The game is literally 100% button-mashing. The combat is probably the worst I've ever seen, and combat is all there is to the game.
Civilization IV - The game was given high ratings, and honestly, I don't know why. Of all the games I've said "I don't know why people think it's so good" to, this is the one that stands above all the others. All you do that I noticed, was just wait 10 minutes for a menu to pop up, click something, wait another 10 minutes for a menu, click something, and so on. I didn't notice any effects from clicking these options, either.
Dragon Age: Origins - Another "I don't know why people think it's so good" case, for the mediocre story, uninteresting characters, dull world, and the majority of the game being copied from other franchises.
Lost Odyssey - Not because it's bad, it's just infuriatingly hard.
Fable 3 - I got excited for this. Peter Molyneux made it sound like it was going to be the Holy Grail of games, but it ended up even worse than the previous instalment of the series. Nearly everything he told us about Fable 3 was bull. I'll just stick with the first Fable.

I naturally have a lot more, but I'm too tired to carry on. I'm gonna go to bed now.
I probably sounded grumpy in this post. Tired.

 

[Chaos Inverse]

Two Worlds. oh god this horrible piece of crap T_T

 

[Aglaid]

Homefront - Yeah
Total War Shogun 2 - It is a good game but it just not for me.

 

[liquidsolid]

I bought the $99 special edition of Bioshock 2. : CCC

Well at least I get the soundtrack for the first one on vinyl.

 

[kjempff]

Settlers 7:
Many new ideas, but they just don't work well, I liked Settlers 6 though.
You get only a handful of maps ? forgot how many but less than 10, that is just too little for that price.
And you have to register with EA? and can only play the game when beeing online with them.

Aion (original with no expansion):
Forced pvp and poor attempt at westernizing it. Oh and the 10 hour login waits.

Civilization 5:
A more boring and slow version of all the previous civs, now in hexa dimension grid.
Everything is the same, just with a bit more detail and rounds that take so long you forget what your plans were.
Have to register civ 5 with Steam is the only way to be allowed to play it .. it is now bound to your Steam account and can never be unbound (official reply).

Oblivion:
Might be stepping on some toes, but having played mmorpgs for a decade, Oblivion was just BLEH. Graphics were ok but only as good as the best mmorpgs, handling was awful with the stupid 1st person view that works so poorly in Oblivion. For a mmorpg gamer Oblivion will feel rather simple.

Sid Meyers Railroads:
The "newest" version of railroad tycoon. If the game actually worked, it would not be so bad but the railroad line laying can't be done so your trains do what is expected (dont take my word for it, it is common knowledge on forums). So I opened my old drawer and found Railroad Tycoon 2 Gold, which .. yes you guessed it is not made by firafax/sid meyer.

Dragon Age origins:
A step downwards from the great bioware tradition of Baldurs gate and NeverWinterNights series. Poor combat handling, your characters always does silly things even after all AI is turned off. Extremely linear console like gameplay, and the story line is not quite up to standard with older games from Bioware. And then the reminder to buy extra content in thegame .. urrgh that is a turnoff. Looking at videos and reviews from DA2 really made me doubt Bioware as the quality game maker they have always been.

 

[nicebuffalo]

i wish i didn't buy crysis 2. the box said my pc met the minimum requirements, but it runs like shit.

 

[arcade109]

Two Worlds and Black Ops

 

[MAUSZX]

Frontlines: Fuel of War
Arma II
Brink (Not bad, but it has some major design flaws)

WOW brink? I haven't played the game but you regret fast man.

 

[Choppaduel]

Crackdown 2

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The Orange Box.

Probably my most regretful purchase ever.

Ah-

hm, umm. Well, this is awkward.

I know right, it's like seeing an albino... at the dinner table. Surprising & awkward.

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assassins creed
sure the jumping was fun, but really? an eavesdropping mini-game... -.-

The Orange Box.

Probably my most regretful purchase ever.

go die D

Because my opinion doesn't match yours? Yeah, thats a great reason to tell someone to end their life.

he was joking... you're abrasive & you hate things that many people love. You fit right in here

 

[bombadilillo]

Portal 2. Don't get me wrong, it's a good game, but it has no replay value. I really should have just rented it.

User created levels soon to come pouring in for that so you'll get more value there.

If the PS3 gets them, and it should be able to stand on its own feet without the customers creating content for it.

I'm sure once the DLCs hit I'll be glad I bought it, followed by the regret of not just renting it.

Well you have it on ps3 so you have it on pc too then. As for standing on its own feet, thats just a wierd statement. How is user created content not a good bonus? Hell if i knew about this before hand it would have been a selling point, don't know if i just missed it. Plus the first dlc is going to be free anyway so I'm just saying longevity was your main problem and there is a hell of a lot more in this game working towards fixing that then any other game not called LBP.

 

[brinvixen]

Oddly enough, I got my two worst games for FREE and I still felt like I wasted away on them.

Mercenaries 2. Garbage. I played for about two hours, calling in air strikes and shooting random passerbys until I was like "the fuck is this shit?" and turned it off.

Prince of Persia, the reboot series. You know, the one that had no follow-up for its reboot series, and the entire "reboot" idea went down the drain? Well, there was a reason for that. I played that for only TEN MINUTES before I said "the fuck is this shit?"

But I did get fifteen dollars back from trading them in. To date, it's the only Gamestop trade I have made that didn't feel like a total rip.