Games you regret to have bought ?

[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.

 

[Zergadooful]

Mafia II. It's the only game I've ever bought new for 60$, and it was worth 10$.

 

[TheKruzdawg]

Fellowship of the Ring.

The other two games were awesome and I wanted to get it to be able to PLAY the story as well as complete the set. That game has pissed me off more than any game I have ever played. I never even made it into Moria before I stopped playing and haven't picked it up since. This was almost 3 years ago.

First of all, none of the characters look, nor sound like their counterparts from the movies. Trying to hide from a Ringwraith in less than 4 seconds is almost impossible. And the combat sucked ginormous amounts of dick.

Luckily I only wasted $2 on it. Still not sure if it was worth it just to own the trilogy.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

The Orange Box.

Probably my most regretful purchase ever.

Ah-

hm, umm. Well, this is awkward.

OT: I'd say it had to be... Radiata Stories- or whatever that piece of crap is called.

It was made by the same dudes who created Star Ocean 3, I though the game was fun, tried out Radia- blah, blah, blah and found it was BEYOND TERRIBLE.

 

[Hot Madness]

Kinda surprised about the amount of hate out there for the CoD franchise considering how well they've sold and been received, expected more people to jump to its defense.

Same with DA:O, Mass Effect 2, and Fallout 3, Bioshock, and Red Dead Redemption, all of which I loved and all of which have near *key word, near* universal acclaim, but it just goes to prove that as long as something is popular, people will find reasons to hate it.

Increasingly I find that I am in a minority with Far Cry 2. I thought it was a welcome departure from familiar FPS territory, not every mechanic the game implemented worked mind you, and the save system was buggy as fuck, but I enjoyed what Ubisoft tried to do with the game.

As for the question of the thread: Resident Evil 5, a pale shadow of RE4; Red Faction Guerrilla, repetition parred with frustrating difficulty; Ghostbusters, good for only one playthrough with a tacked on multiplayer; Bad Company 2, uninspired and trite single player; and Lost Planet 2, incomprehensible plot coupled with strange controls and mechanics that forced you to replay the same levels over and over again for meager gains.

 

[Lizmichi]

The Orange Box.

Probably my most regretful purchase ever.

So you regret buying Portal 1?

 

[NoGoodBlindsider]

The Last Remnant.
I'm a big fan of JRPG, but in the recent years, it seems that game developers have forgot how to make good JRPG (hello Square-Enix). A good friend of mine, follow gamer and JRPG enthusiast propose me this game, saying how great it was. Turns out that The Last Remnant was probably the most boring, counter-intuitive cluster-f**k that I had played so far. Not only is the learning curve of this game is vertical, but the combat pretty much plays itself, so basically it's just another FFXII, which makes sense since it was made by Square Enix.

So moral of the story: Square Enix sucks; instead, play JRPG made by Atlus.

 

[Mild_en_Snakz]

Most recently, probably Marvel vs Capcom 3. It was fun for an hour or so, but there's no long-term satisfaction with it, i played it one more day and haven't played it since.

A little less so but still regret buying Black Ops. I still like playing zombies with my friends but i hated the campaign so much it felt like torture and i can't find much enjoyment out of multiplayer anymore.

 

[haddaway234]

I'm very good at telling what kind of games I would like and what I wouldn't, mainly because I don't buy into hype. But games that I bought that I didn't like would be Marvel Vs Capcom 3, and that's it. Only purchase I've ever regretted and I've bought many games before.

Also I actually bought it on an impulse, I was bored and saw it at a store and just got it. And I'm a big fan of fighting games, Super/Street Fighter 4, Tekken, and even Marvel Vs Capcom 2 are al lgood. But this game had like nothing worthwhile in terms of single player, completely wasted all the potential of having a great crossover story, arcade mode is really all there is and then theres just a glorified training mode.

In terms of online, connection is good, but the matchmaking system is horrible and buggy, even when I just started the game I almost always get paired against someone with more than a hundred games played.