Splurges, bad game buys, impulse buys.

[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.

 

[Patrick Buck]

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.

Good sir, I finished the whole game. But don't worry, I was quite drunk by the end of it, so I don't remember that much.

Also, I have to tell you, your avatar is similar to mine, and that makes you a wolf-bro.

Also, the multiplayer was shocking as well. So unfun. Antifun. It was like paying someone to punch you in the face. Then being told it was good.

 

[Tdoodle]

Little Big Planet 2. I rented it when it first came out and almost got the end in that time, but had to return it. A few months later I saw it for £20 new and thought "Aha! Now I can finally finish it and I'll spend loads of time on the custom levels like I did in the last game". Turns out I was maybe 20 minutes away from finishing the game and I played maybe four custom levels before it went to the back of the shelf never to be played again.

 

[Idlemessiah]

I got the Dawn of War franchise pack in the Steam summer sale. Best £17.49 I ever spent. Actually that sale was full of good impulse buys.

From actual shops I nabbed Mirrors Edge and Space Marine on 360 for a total of about £11 not too long ago, also totally worth it.

As for stupid ones. I bought Fallout 3 on Steam not long after it came out and it would barely run at all on my pc at the time, so I had to wait for the console version price to come down so I could actually play it.

 

[Issurru]

I can never say this enough when these threads pop up. Anyone heard of the Front Mission series? Known for being a decent Turn based strategy (I think) with some decent Mech customization and some RPG parts?

Does anybody know the god awful insulting thing known as Front Mission EVOLVED. Well if you do I have some brain bleach for you so you can forget it again hopefully. Seriously I would rather play E.T or something ridiculously stupid or boring (*raises flame shields* Like Oblivion or Skyrim. Sorry I just hate them.) than play Front Mission Evolved.

There is nothing "Evolved" about turning a turn based strategy role playing game into a Third Person Shooter with shitty graphics, voice acting, story, well shitty EVERYTHING Seriously? WHY!? What would possess you to do that?

/rant

 

[thesilentman]

Assasin's Creed Revelations: OK someone has to wrangle those pricks at Ubisoft tie them to a chair, grab a blowhorn and scream at the top of their lungs "ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING ANNUAL SEQUELS". All it does is force all creativity through the wringer. Didn't you see this shit happen with the Tomb Raider franchise you French-Canadian dipshits.

Oh lord Revelations. I bought it thinking that it was a better version of II and Brotherhood, thinking that it would blow Brotherhood out the water after a slight story disappointment. Revelations was like trying to customize a Mac (haha, previous thread I posted in was about Macs); aka, FUCKING BORING and my time would be better spent 100%ing ACII or Brotherhood.

A good(?) example would be Sin and Punishment: Star Successor. That, my friends is a good Wii game using the pointer.

Hmm? I'm on the Escapist you say?

Deal with it. The Wii had good games in it's whole category of crap.

 

[6SteW6]

Pretty much anything on a steam sale. Now don't get me wrong I have picked up a few good deals but mostly I'll see something and be like 'Well for three bucks it can't be that bad!' god how wrong I am.

 

[Spydercake]

Hmm, I wanted into the Planetside 2 beta and I planned on playing it quiet a bit so I got the alpha pack at 40 bucks. Turns out the beta is so horribly optimized that I can't play it in its current state. I basically now have 4000 Station Cash that I have no use for and a bunch of perks for a game that I cannot play until December when it launches *and is hopefully optimized*
I really want that 40 bucks back as well >.< Oh well, learn from ones mistakes right?

 

[Proeliator]

I bought Front Lines: Fuel of War, for about $1.50 (US), only to find out my computer didn't run it. It wouldn't even install correctly.

Lost Planet, I only bought it because I thought killing bugs in a mech suit would be cool. It was, but the game isn't done very well. Not good conveyance, and really just average.

CoD Modern Warefare 3: The only reason I got it was because I thought the multiplayer would at least be as good as MW2, and be less like Black Op's style of multiplayer. I was wrong.

What the hell are those maps!? What the hell are these killstreaks?! What the hell is this balance?! What the hell is this lag?! Why are the maps so uninteresting and/or ugly to look at?! So many questions!

I have no idea what the shit they were thinking about the maps. It's like they noticed Nuketown was popular so they made every map as small as Nuketown as possible without thinking why it was popular to begin with...

Essentially, this.

 

[GTwander]

I saw a game called Eternal Poison on a Gamestop shelf, saw it was from Atlus, figured it had to have some merits to it.

*grooooooan*

I couldn't deal with all the loading and laggy. A turn-based strategy should never take that fucking long to do ANYTHING.

 

[MDSnowman]

Most of my PS2 games count as bad impulse buys... but more recently.

Godfather 2
Resonance of Fate
Folklore
Bioshock 2
Dead Rising 2

 

[themyrmidon]

Star Fox Adventures for $60. The worst part (other than the game itself) was that I was trying to decide between that and Metroid Prime.
On the other side, one of my best buys ever was Metroid Prime for $15.
Best purchase would have to be Fire Emblem GBA. It was $25, but that game has never been cheap and it might be the only JRPG I like.