Worst game PURCHASE you ever made.
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Fallout 3, pre-content.
This is the worst game purchase I made in recent memory, seeing as I was flush with spare cash at the time, and decided to take Gamestop up on their new games BOGO offer. So I ended up paying the full $60 for it (U.S. price for a just-out game, as a reminder for those outside of the States). By some lucky coincidence, I had managed to not hear about the complete cockslap of an ending, and thus was completely blindsided by it.
Certainly I've played worse games, but for dollar amount this takes the cake.
This is the worst game purchase I made in recent memory, seeing as I was flush with spare cash at the time, and decided to take Gamestop up on their new games BOGO offer. So I ended up paying the full $60 for it (U.S. price for a just-out game, as a reminder for those outside of the States). By some lucky coincidence, I had managed to not hear about the complete cockslap of an ending, and thus was completely blindsided by it.
Certainly I've played worse games, but for dollar amount this takes the cake.
Halo: Reach for me. I spent £40 on it. That was probably £25 too much. It was mainly that I kept getting frustrated at it. I might try it again later.
Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon
To be honest, that game was actually kinda cool. You played some lowly kid who ran around beating up demons and ghosts with sticks and golf clubs, and the only way you could see the ghosts was by pointing your flash light at them... Or that's how it was supposed to work at least. I was expecting a light hearted, but sometimes creepy game, but no, the enemies were easy to fight, the combat was your terrible standard combo attack with weak and strong attacks, and where I was expecting a massive open world experience... I got a bunch of linear levels and fetch quests. I took it back four days later after beating it.
To be honest, that game was actually kinda cool. You played some lowly kid who ran around beating up demons and ghosts with sticks and golf clubs, and the only way you could see the ghosts was by pointing your flash light at them... Or that's how it was supposed to work at least. I was expecting a light hearted, but sometimes creepy game, but no, the enemies were easy to fight, the combat was your terrible standard combo attack with weak and strong attacks, and where I was expecting a massive open world experience... I got a bunch of linear levels and fetch quests. I took it back four days later after beating it.
The first thing that pops in my head: Sniper: Ghost Warrior
I was browsing Steam store while I was bored (FYI, never a good idea if you have any disposable income). I thought to myself "How bad could it really be?"
Didn't finish the first mission before I uninstalled it.
Steam has been related to a lot of impulse buys that I later regret.
Brink, Civ 5, Blacklight Tango Down.... the list goes on and on.
There is one game that I bought out of boredom; Hearts of Iron 3. I really want to play it but the tutorial doesn't explain 1/4 of what you need to know. And I can't find any videos on Youtube that help.
Also Spore makes me cry and I have Fallout 3: New Vegas for PS3 and I've put in a massive 30 minutes in it but I haven't returned it. It's not a bad game, I just never play my PS3 unless I want to play sports games.
I was browsing Steam store while I was bored (FYI, never a good idea if you have any disposable income). I thought to myself "How bad could it really be?"
Didn't finish the first mission before I uninstalled it.
Steam has been related to a lot of impulse buys that I later regret.
Brink, Civ 5, Blacklight Tango Down.... the list goes on and on.
There is one game that I bought out of boredom; Hearts of Iron 3. I really want to play it but the tutorial doesn't explain 1/4 of what you need to know. And I can't find any videos on Youtube that help.
Also Spore makes me cry and I have Fallout 3: New Vegas for PS3 and I've put in a massive 30 minutes in it but I haven't returned it. It's not a bad game, I just never play my PS3 unless I want to play sports games.
Final Fantasy X-2, because I not only paid the full £40 for it, but also an extra fiver pre-order (as if there was ever going to be a shortage of FFX-2) so I could get a free poster that the helpful staff member waited until day of release to inform me was only available to customers who also bought the strategy guide.
Got home, played it, died at the first boss, never played it again.
Got home, played it, died at the first boss, never played it again.
Grand Theft Auto IV.
Not only did I pay full price for it on launch day, but I also spent an extra $20 on a player's guide when the clerk recommended it (what can I say, he would have been a good con artist).
I tried to enjoy the game, I really did. But after a few days of atrocious driving controls, bland brown graphics and taking Roman out every fifteen minutes to see "BEEG AMERICAN TEE-TEES," I gave up in disgust and traded it in first chance I got.
Fortunately Saints Row 2 came along and demonstrated what a next gen GTA-style game should be.
Not only did I pay full price for it on launch day, but I also spent an extra $20 on a player's guide when the clerk recommended it (what can I say, he would have been a good con artist).
I tried to enjoy the game, I really did. But after a few days of atrocious driving controls, bland brown graphics and taking Roman out every fifteen minutes to see "BEEG AMERICAN TEE-TEES," I gave up in disgust and traded it in first chance I got.
Fortunately Saints Row 2 came along and demonstrated what a next gen GTA-style game should be.
anyone notice the people getting warned for stating what they thought wasnt worth the money?
for me it'd have to be my wii, it itself is one of the worst purchases ever, it had some great games(okami,red steel 2, the conduit 1 and 2, skyward sword, twilight princess, metroid prime 3, super mario galaxy 1 and 2,sin and punishment) the vast majority of everything about that system is inferior to the other 2, and the fact that i can list all of the good games off memory is pretty sad, the only thing it has is shoddy motion controls and the awesome virtual console thing, other than that it has to be the worst game purchase ive ever made(although to be fair it was a gift from my brother)
for me it'd have to be my wii, it itself is one of the worst purchases ever, it had some great games(okami,red steel 2, the conduit 1 and 2, skyward sword, twilight princess, metroid prime 3, super mario galaxy 1 and 2,sin and punishment) the vast majority of everything about that system is inferior to the other 2, and the fact that i can list all of the good games off memory is pretty sad, the only thing it has is shoddy motion controls and the awesome virtual console thing, other than that it has to be the worst game purchase ive ever made(although to be fair it was a gift from my brother)
Until I was 18 and had my own money to spend on games I pirated everything (shame on me, but I've repented of that). Now that I have enough money to buy my games, I'm smart enough to not make crappy purchases. Though a few crappy titles slipped into my library during the Steam summer sale, but that's because they were bundled with awesome stuff.
That being said, my worst gaming purchase was Heroes of Newerth. I got it for $10 right before they went to the F2P model, and it sucks. It's not that it's too hard or too easy, in fact it's been pretty hit and miss in that regard (I'm 12/2 one match and 1/10 the next). it's simply crappy. The graphics are muddled, the shop makes no sense, and the heroes have nothing remotely approaching balance.
That being said, my worst gaming purchase was Heroes of Newerth. I got it for $10 right before they went to the F2P model, and it sucks. It's not that it's too hard or too easy, in fact it's been pretty hit and miss in that regard (I'm 12/2 one match and 1/10 the next). it's simply crappy. The graphics are muddled, the shop makes no sense, and the heroes have nothing remotely approaching balance.
Thanks for you r post, Chadachada - you might have saved me fifteen quid or so. I was interested in purchasing Medal of Honor mostly because most of it's games have been Nazi-nobblers and I felt like a change. Perhaps a rental is more in order now.chadachada123 said:
Though I am in total agreement with you on Fable 3 as well. I've played it to completion once and it's been sitting on my shelf gathering dust ever since.
Is it possible to win this thread?
Because my worst purchase ever, is the Magic The Gathering computer game from, I dunno, 1998, or something.
I'll just throw it out there: I was a little shit back then. I regularly stole hard-earned money from my dad's wallet. He's always been a shit too, but that doesn't make the money less hard-earned.
It started out with small amounts, but it was so easy, I got cocky. It was of course stupid to think he wouldn't start to miss sums of sometimes up to 2000 Belgian francs (which is about 50 euro). And 2000 francs was how much most new games costed back then.
My parents were divorced, I lived with my mom, and that evening I visited him as I often did, took 2000BEF when he wasn't looking. When I got home, the money was still in my pocket when the bell suddenly rang. My dad was at the door, furious, and he demanded I emptied my pockets, took off my pants, everything. He was sure he'd find the cash on me, and the cash totally was on me, so I was in a pickle. I played a guilt trip. I played being severely hurt at such accusations, and my mother defended me, she got angry at my dad. He'd probably spent the money on booze and then forgot about it, or something. I fled "furiously" to another room, emerging about two seconds later, but that gave me ample time to quickly shove the banknote under a loose end of the fixed carpet. I "angrily" emptied my pockets, and took off my clothes. He was sure I'd got rid of it somehow (my ruse was transparent as hell to him, of course), but he knew he'd lost and he went home.
Trust between me and my father was forever destroyed and we've spoken maybe three times since then.
With that money I bought the freshly released Magic: The Gathering, of which I knew next to nothing, only that I'd started to feel interest in the card game, and played it for about half an hour, then never touched it again. Never even found out if it was a good game or not. I wasn't aware of it back then, I thought I'd just lost interest really quickly, but now I'm sure it was the guilt that just completely killed it for me.
Because my worst purchase ever, is the Magic The Gathering computer game from, I dunno, 1998, or something.
I'll just throw it out there: I was a little shit back then. I regularly stole hard-earned money from my dad's wallet. He's always been a shit too, but that doesn't make the money less hard-earned.
It started out with small amounts, but it was so easy, I got cocky. It was of course stupid to think he wouldn't start to miss sums of sometimes up to 2000 Belgian francs (which is about 50 euro). And 2000 francs was how much most new games costed back then.
My parents were divorced, I lived with my mom, and that evening I visited him as I often did, took 2000BEF when he wasn't looking. When I got home, the money was still in my pocket when the bell suddenly rang. My dad was at the door, furious, and he demanded I emptied my pockets, took off my pants, everything. He was sure he'd find the cash on me, and the cash totally was on me, so I was in a pickle. I played a guilt trip. I played being severely hurt at such accusations, and my mother defended me, she got angry at my dad. He'd probably spent the money on booze and then forgot about it, or something. I fled "furiously" to another room, emerging about two seconds later, but that gave me ample time to quickly shove the banknote under a loose end of the fixed carpet. I "angrily" emptied my pockets, and took off my clothes. He was sure I'd got rid of it somehow (my ruse was transparent as hell to him, of course), but he knew he'd lost and he went home.
Trust between me and my father was forever destroyed and we've spoken maybe three times since then.
With that money I bought the freshly released Magic: The Gathering, of which I knew next to nothing, only that I'd started to feel interest in the card game, and played it for about half an hour, then never touched it again. Never even found out if it was a good game or not. I wasn't aware of it back then, I thought I'd just lost interest really quickly, but now I'm sure it was the guilt that just completely killed it for me.
touche.alj said:
Square Enix as a company needs new talent with some actual ideas. its one thing if you remake a game, so long as you improved everything about it. Blizzard's entire business plan is: What has the competition done in the last 4 years? ok, take that, fix it, make it better, now one up that, now inject the liquified and concentrated essence of eternal awesome. now polish it till the light coming off of it burns.
World of Warcraft kinda got screwed over by SC2 though, that and they dont check against powercreep enough in WoW
Bioshock:
Please hear me out, I got the PC version off a retailer and installed it. The second time booting it up the F###ing DRM packed a massive hissey fit and refused to let me play anymore. In the end I had to return it.
Please hear me out, I got the PC version off a retailer and installed it. The second time booting it up the F###ing DRM packed a massive hissey fit and refused to let me play anymore. In the end I had to return it.
