Games you regret to have bought ?
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The games i truly bought on a impulse.
Luckily for me i never payed full price or even $30 on these titles. But it does sadden me that i look at my shelf with some 3rd party developer game and haven't even played them for more than 2 hours.
Luckily for me i never payed full price or even $30 on these titles. But it does sadden me that i look at my shelf with some 3rd party developer game and haven't even played them for more than 2 hours.
The first two Zelda games kinda make me wish Virtual Console had some sort of return system where I can delete games I bought and get the points back. The first good Zelda was Link to the Past, we just didn't know better before then.
The flaws are purely in the eye of the beholder. As a shooter, Brink is quite functional but they probably could've done a bit more playtesting during development. The AI plays a little too defensively for my liking, which can make some missions and challenges feel impossible.CardinalPiggles said:
I typically know what I'm getting into before I buy a game, so I don't have many of these. The only one that really sticks out in my mind is this piece of crap:
I will never buy on an impulse again. Ever.
I will never buy on an impulse again. Ever.
The Final Fantasy XI Addon Expansions - There were three of them, each released about three months apart for $10. They were each quest lines with unique stories and good rewards at the end, but they were really short and the difficulty came more from the tediousness and repetitiveness of the games. Not only that, but I spent $30 in total between the three add-ons, and a month after the third one was released they announced a collection of all three for $5 IN TOTAL.
Mortal Kombat Armageddon - I would never have bought it if my friend didn't rave about it for like a whole week. Then I started playing it and realized that nothing at all appealed to me.
Red Dead Redemption - Another game I bought solely because of the hype. Because there was no way to map the controls to my liking, my muscles had no way of coping with the huge change in gameplay from what I was used to. I barely passed the tutorial section and haven't played it since.
inFamous - Same problem as with RDR: there's no way to map the controls to what my muscles are used to so I found the game challenging solely because I couldn't shoot my lightning bolts.
Armored Core 4 For Answer - Ohmygaw what a piece of shit game. If I didn't pay only $20 for a used copy of it I would have demanded a full refund. It's a great example of taking everything that made a great franchise great, revamping it all, and making it into a piece of shit. Armored Core 3 was always one of my favourite games, but For Answer completely obliterated it for me.
Final Fantasy XIII - I'm not much of a Final Fantasy fan, but I did like 10, 11, and 12, so I figured 13 would be good. I guess the superstitious number 13 did its job here. At first I thought it was shit, and then I thought it was OK, but after a little while longer I thought it was shit again. I still haven't beaten it, but that's largely because the simple thought of playing that game makes me ill. I'm just glad I cancelled my pre-order of XIV before it came out, otherwise I'd have had another game on this list.
Mortal Kombat Armageddon - I would never have bought it if my friend didn't rave about it for like a whole week. Then I started playing it and realized that nothing at all appealed to me.
Red Dead Redemption - Another game I bought solely because of the hype. Because there was no way to map the controls to my liking, my muscles had no way of coping with the huge change in gameplay from what I was used to. I barely passed the tutorial section and haven't played it since.
inFamous - Same problem as with RDR: there's no way to map the controls to what my muscles are used to so I found the game challenging solely because I couldn't shoot my lightning bolts.
Armored Core 4 For Answer - Ohmygaw what a piece of shit game. If I didn't pay only $20 for a used copy of it I would have demanded a full refund. It's a great example of taking everything that made a great franchise great, revamping it all, and making it into a piece of shit. Armored Core 3 was always one of my favourite games, but For Answer completely obliterated it for me.
Final Fantasy XIII - I'm not much of a Final Fantasy fan, but I did like 10, 11, and 12, so I figured 13 would be good. I guess the superstitious number 13 did its job here. At first I thought it was shit, and then I thought it was OK, but after a little while longer I thought it was shit again. I still haven't beaten it, but that's largely because the simple thought of playing that game makes me ill. I'm just glad I cancelled my pre-order of XIV before it came out, otherwise I'd have had another game on this list.
dirt 2;
general gfwl problems, progress gets erased all the damn time i have completed it twice, but it's just so frustrating to have to unlock everything again..
force unleashed
boring game..
test drive unlimited 2
crashes all the time, cars float and hit the ground and flip in the air then my 200 hours of game-play got erased by a game-bug
so i haven't bothered going back on it since
I found rift to be a major disappointment recently after people hyping it as the next generation of mmo and it's just another ever-quest / wow clone
crysis 2 left me about as underwhelmed when i fell through the world box within 5 minutes of owning it then went on to find no less than 6 bugs and crashes in the first two hours
( there's giant polygon holes under the water in the dock area )
such as a jeep wheel-spinning at standstill ( with sound-effects and tyre effects )for several minutes before unloading troops
alien animations CLEARLY broken, like when they pick up a squad-member and continue to try and rip 'nothing' apart in the air after it has already died and fallen to the floor
then there's the random black-screens, had 3 of them sofar and no idea why only answer is to process manager the game and reboot it from the last checkpoint, then it's fine again
overall, pc gaming last few years has been a mixed bag of problems for me most of the fun has been in indie titles, i guess they're just too simple to break
general gfwl problems, progress gets erased all the damn time i have completed it twice, but it's just so frustrating to have to unlock everything again..
force unleashed
boring game..
test drive unlimited 2
crashes all the time, cars float and hit the ground and flip in the air then my 200 hours of game-play got erased by a game-bug
so i haven't bothered going back on it since
I found rift to be a major disappointment recently after people hyping it as the next generation of mmo and it's just another ever-quest / wow clone
crysis 2 left me about as underwhelmed when i fell through the world box within 5 minutes of owning it then went on to find no less than 6 bugs and crashes in the first two hours
( there's giant polygon holes under the water in the dock area )
such as a jeep wheel-spinning at standstill ( with sound-effects and tyre effects )for several minutes before unloading troops
alien animations CLEARLY broken, like when they pick up a squad-member and continue to try and rip 'nothing' apart in the air after it has already died and fallen to the floor
then there's the random black-screens, had 3 of them sofar and no idea why only answer is to process manager the game and reboot it from the last checkpoint, then it's fine again
overall, pc gaming last few years has been a mixed bag of problems for me most of the fun has been in indie titles, i guess they're just too simple to break
I -really- regret buying Dragon Age 2, and won't be taking Escapist reviews seriously ever again.