Splurges, bad game buys, impulse buys.

[zehydra]

I haven't impulse buy'd in a long time, but I have made regrettable purchases.

Most of them were on handhelds. Like GBA or DS games.


Despite there being some really good DS games, there are A LOT of really shitty ones.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

I have a huge backlog of games but I just keep buying them SOMEONE STOP ME!!! Most of the time it's because they are on the cheap though.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

Same same, actually.

I got f&*ked by my insurance company and so bought Dishonored on a whim. Also some personal... welp won't bore you with that, suffice to say Yahtzee once again puts his finger on the sore spot.

Still, it's fun to actually be a rat for once (thank you Critical Miss).

 

[MorganL4]

I bought a PS3 on impulse. Got FIFA 13 with it so I'm not complaining.

I did too, except mine came with Uncharted 3...... It lets me play Journey and Tokyo Jungle... AND I has blue ray now so.......

My biggest regret purchase though, Modern Warfare 3..... My friend coerced me into getting it for the full sticker price of $60........ Dumb move.... Played it all of 20 minutes

 

[major_chaos]

worst impulse buy I can think of right now is "E.Y.E divine cybermancy" which I got because it was cheap and had a kickass trailer, shame the actual game is terrible.

Best would be STALKER COP which I wasn't expecting a whole lot from but turned out to be one of the best games I have ever played.

 

[QuartzQuadreant]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I guess it just wasn't to my taste, despite all the rave reviews. Never got past the first few missions before getting bored.

 

[Karoshi]

Sacred 2. I remember the first one to be fairly good and Diablo-like, so I didn't give the purchase much thought.

The opening cinematic left me literally with this expression: Cheesy storytelling? Check. Shitty boring fantasy? Check. A horrible rock-tune which degrades its whole genre? Check. One of the most awful trailers I have ever seen.

The gameplay was shit too, so I never touched it again.

 

[triggrhappy94]

My brother and I went on (not sure what to call it) to find all the Burger King games for the 360. Which was quickly resolved with a call to a couple Gamestops in the area. We spend about $3 in all.

Pocket Bike Racers was alright, probably the most playable.
Big Bumpin' was really hard to control
Sneak King was boring, repetetive, and creepy.
But now I have them all.

 

[DeepReaver]

Alpha protocol for PC

Too Human

Those are the two gigantic ones for me, i loved Alpha on the xbox but the pc version SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED and too human... well i wiped that from my mind with brain bleach so i don't know what it is anymore, all i know is those two words and the gag reflex that comes with them.

 

[sheah1]

I have.... Weird ones.
Blazblue 1 and 2 and Disgaea 3.
Don'thitmepleasewaitIcanexplain!

They are truly amazing games that I absolutely love, but not on console. Give them to me on my PSP and eventually my hand will become a gnarled claw around the damn thing and I have poured hours into the portable versions of these franchises, but for some reason, when I bought the console versions (which I did before the portable versions) I could never be bothered to play them. Eventually I ended up trading them in with only a few hours sunk into them.

 

[shadyh8er]

Back when I was a wee little lad, I wanted a war game for my PS1 (the white one). The one I picked was something called Spec Ops: Something or Other. My brother and I never finished it. The GPS was useless, the aiming and shooting confusing, and the graphics tough to look at, even for that generation.

 

[Paranoah]

well this is a bit different, bought and played skyrim never touched any of the elder scrolls or fallout series the came steam summersale i bought fallout 3 and NV TES morrowing and oblivion i dont know if it was a "bad" buy yet but i will never have the time to play them all, also it was all GOTY editions so all the dlc aswell.

 

[everythingbeeps]

Last big one was definitely Resident Evil 6. Holy crap was that a piece of garbage. Gamestop gave me $45 for it, so I consider it a $15 lesson well learned.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

Dead Rising and L.A. Noire. I regret paying a total of forty bucks on those two.

Now, L.A. Noire isn't bad, but I'm SOOOOOO bad at it. Seriously, I can't play that game to save my life.

Dead Rising is just total shit.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Brink. Oh GOD Brink.
It was fun for the first 2 missions or so, then... URGH. Not fun at all. EH.

...you finished the second mission? My currently-unworn hat is off to you, friend. I didn't even get that far.

Yeah, I preordered that pile of crap. Immersive story-driven play, my pasty white rump. Singleplayer was multiplayer with idiot bots.

 

[SonOfMethuselah]

I picked up Enchanted Arms from a used-only retailer (literally, they're like a pawn shop, but they only sell electronics. Consoles, games, movies, CDs, etc.) for around $10, because at the time, I really wanted a decent RPG for my 360. I played it for... 45 minutes. MAYBE. When I took it in to EB Games for a trade, I wound up getting $20 for it. I have no idea why: even the guy behind the counter was baffled when we saw what it traded for. So, basically, I got paid to play that game, and it was still a piece of junk.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

I bought Dragon Ball: Ultimate Tenkaichi because the box art looked cool, and gave me a sudden spark of nostalgia. To be succinct, the game was disappointing.

I also bought Dragon's Dogma on impulse. It wasn't as disappointing as Ultimate Tenkaichi, but it just didn't really strike that fantasy sweet-spot I was aiming for.