Worst game PURCHASE you ever made.

[Eric Staples]

When I was a teenager, I bought Dragonball Z: The Legacy of Goku on GBA. It was at a time when DBZ and anime was huge on Toonami. I thought a game like this has to have enjoyable fighting in it. I spent $40 on it and beat it 5 hours that same day. It played similar to the original NES Zelda, but was 10 times less complicated. There was nothing enjoyable about it and I felt bad about wasting $40 when I was a teen with no job.

It certainly wasn't the worst game I've played. The worst is Mario is Missing. Which is actually an educational game. I didn't have to spend money on that game, though.

 

[CheckD3]

I spent $100 on Duke Nukem Forever Balls of Steel edition, traded in Bulletstorm for 360 for 8 bucks and used up 10k of my Gamestop points just to pay for it without losing every cent I had...and the game was just not worth that much...I got more for the special stuff than I did the game...really upsetting, that DNF...

 

[mastiffchild]

Well, I've bought a lot of games that I plain never really liked a lot but the game I regret buying the most is an actually GOOD game. Sure, i BOUGHT Alone in The Dark:Inferno just because I thought it tried to be ambitious(which it did, it just didn't work)which was a waste but L4D 360 is the biggest rip off this generation in my personal game library.

I'd already owbned the PC version off Steam for a while and enjoyed it a ton with my PC mates. We playued all the modes and all the mods and the quality and performance of the game was outstanding. Also, it copst me about £15 so it represented amazing value to me as well.

Anyway, the chance to give in to playing a bit with my 360 only gamer mates was too much and I decided, without thinking, to get that version too. Anyway six months after release it still cost me £40 and after a week(and I don't mind playing shooters with a pad. If anything I find it, though harder, more immersive)I was feeling gutted. There was no mod support so it felt old real; quick and the quality when compared to other PC to 360 ports was sorely lacking and given a shaky framerate on busy screens I just felt Valve had let console gamers down and let them down a great deal by expecting full retail for a game a shadow of what we got on PC.

Now, L4D is still a good game but for £40 on 360 it represents no value and is even worse if you know how much fun and how good the PC version was. I also guess it hurt me more as I love Valve so much as PC developers and I like Steam as well but I still think, to this day, there's yet to be a really good effort from them on console. either make all your games run as well on console as Portal2 did or just go back to PC if you're not able(for whatever reason) to offer the things which make your games work and have legs on PC. If Epic and Sony could get mods cooked over for UT3 why have no other games as L4D NEEDS them to be what it should be for console gamers.

 

[JB1528]

Sacred 2 I bought of Steam....can't even get the damn game to work, it just crashes whenever it starts up because its incompatible with ATI cards or something. Pathetic.

Have you tried looking for drivers? Have you bothered doing a bit of research about common issues and such about the game before getting it? Buying games these days is like buying a house. Buy it outright without inspecting it and checking out the neighborhood, and you may as well be buying a very nicely presented yet derelict shanty.

I love it when some user pretentiously insult other users when they don't know the whole situation. I tried several different drivers, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it like ten times, I ran it in administrator mode, in compatibility mode and I EVEN ran it on a different OS. Still didn't work, there was only one way to get it working and even when I tried that the words wouldn't even show up in the game's menu. It just wasn't compatible with ATI cards.

I'm sure you have great social skills.

 

[Pariah87]

Blood Bowl for the Xbox. I like Warhammer, Blood Bowl is interesting enough, I just didn't do the research. The PC still has a thriving community of players, leagues get created, all round fun. On the Xbox...dead. No league support, nobody bothers, multiplayer non existant.

Dead Space 2. Bought both Dead Space games on the same day, got most of the way through the first one before getting bored. Never ever opened 2, traded it still in the wrapper. Haven't brought a game since actually.

 

[Tesral]

Wow, threads been going for a week now. We now have a weeklong stock of hate, rage and tears over terrible games and lost cash.

As a special bonus, another of mine: Halo 3 ODST.
Not that it was a bad game in particular, but the fact that I paid full price for it on launch, finished all the campaign and firefight in a day or so, and never used the multiplayer disk since me and my friends were a little tired of Halo 3's multiplayer by that point. I never found any reason to revisit it, so I ended up paying full price for a day or so of entertainment. I guess it was the high expectation for a big name title that made its lack of lifespan feel like an even bigger slap to the face.

 

[Juicebox52]

Commander Conquest of the americas. 30 Dollars For A difficult and boring game

 

[Faux Furry]

My worst gaming purchase without a doubt was that one Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future game tape I bought instead of an NES when I was considering getting back into console gaming after having been turned off from it by the Atari 2600 and its ilk. It wouldn't have been so bad had I not got the Lord Dredd Jet along with it, wasting around the amount that a new NES title would have run for at the time if one went only by the MSRP.

Videogames with life-like graphics in an era where the competition all looked like they were made from bargain bin plastic building blocks? That sounded too good to be true! It turned out that it was. It was just a videotape of a TV show that one could shoot at the colorful flashing bits on the screen to accumulate a score tallied up at the end of the episode.
The most fun that I had with the thing is shooting at objects in other TV shows, no matter what the genre and hearing the explosion sound effects while there was no on-screen indication that anything had gone wrong.

 

[NightHawk21]

Well, seeing how I only buy about 3 games a year, I usually am already convinced on if I'd like it or not.

That said, the worst game that I've ever bought was Fable 3. It was such a giant step back from the previous one that it was literally depressing to play.

So many broken promises and such a damn boring game

Ya, I don't but many games each year either, maybe averaging about 3-6 a year depending on exclusives. Like hell if you count only 2011 I bought Killzone 3 and AC: Brotherhood and will probably pick up resistance 3, skyrim, and the new assassin's creed eventually maybe around Christmas. That being said, the worst purchase I think I ever made was probably Modern Warfare 3. So much hype that the ridiculously short campaign and broken multiplayer could never live up too.

 

[SpaceGnome]

well i haven't bought it yet but if i do Skylanders will kill a little bit inside of me

 

[Broken Orange]

Modern Warfare 2. Not a bad $60 game if you had multiplayer, which I didn't. It didn't help that I got the Super duper collector edition for $150+. Not worst game, but worst waste of money.

 

[Jozxyqk]

GTAIV. Bought it for $30 a couple years back thinking it was a bargain, only to spend hours going through the Games for Windows Live bullshit AND THEN find out the game won't run properly.

I managed to get mine running. I will agree, the Windows Live thing is a totally redundant feature for GTA4 to be running with, but once I got it running, I found the game pretty damn engrossing. Why isn't the game running properly? what's the difference between your not-working copy of GTA4 and my working copy?

My computer is just too old and crappy for it. Sadly I've yet to learn my lesson: I still have Portal 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum and both Mass Effects (just to name a few) sitting in my Steam Library waiting for a better computer.

 

[RADIALTHRONE1]

Halo 3:ODST
Bought it for $60, played it a couple times, thats it.

 

[crono738]

Recently? Crysis 2...$60 for a game I played for about an hour. Everything about it was mediocre. Best part was that I bought it new so I couldn't return it.

 

[Brandon Storck]

DNF or an earlier Duke game?

What do you think? But yes, DNF.

I thought you probably mean DNF but there are some pretentious CoD fanboys who blame DNF's failure on being it "archaic", while fawning over a game with ONE enemy type (and don't give me that "one species of human" bullshit, they could easily put more accurate and intelligent humans in fewer numbers every now and then to break up the fights with eighty billion soldiers who fire at you with the aim of a blind man, and before you say "but people still buy it", think about how much competition there is that isn't a crappy CoD clone... Done? Thought so).

DNF could of been good, but it wasn't. Call of Try Hard as I like to call it has been uber-suck-age lately. I have been drawn in by more Strategic games like SC2 (Went to MLG Anaheim WOOT!) and the BF3 Alpha, which is miles ahead of Any Call of Duty game I have played ever. You NEED to get on your Arse and crall around and flank and actually fucking play, not run around with Telleport Pro. The only thing that is making me buy MW3 is the Story, Which I think is at least better than other games like Bullet Storm (If It even has a Story).

Recently? Crysis 2...$60 for a game I played for about an hour. Everything about it was mediocre. Best part was that I bought it new so I couldn't return it.

Damn, I bought it used for 360 after I played the Beta on Steam. The Story was just as cluster fucked as the last game. It was console-fied and a lot of the Multiplayer Maps suck or have spawn-camping/killing problems. The Story was ok but the Single Player lost all attention after I finished it, the thing that bugged me the most was how many times I was holding out for evac and just sitting in a corner and then flanking Squids(= Cool Alien Concept)in Power Armor.

 

[Sir CheezyPie]

Final Fantasy 13

I hesitate to even call it a game to be fair.

Single worst thing Square Enix have ever done.

I Second that.

 

[Avaloner]

Mafia 2, depressing end, boring city, annoying drive around... why the fuck did I even finish this game.

 

[krazykidd]

I have two.

First: Fable 3. NO explanation needed.

Second: Demon's Souls. That game was a waste of time, and almost zero fun. I say almost because I enjoyed it when I was doing well, then when I died and had to restart the entire level sans souls, then died again, I just quit the game and returned it. That game was not good.

Quiting a game because you suck at it doesn't make it a bad game , makes you a bad player .

OT: i already said christap chronicals for the game cube but theres so much more :

Metroid other M
Mad world
SSBM ( not a bad game but i hate fighting games )
Steal princess ( on DS )
Fable 2 ( dat ending! Also 1st and only game i traded back to game stop)

So many more that my mind blocked out for good reason