Your Biggest Gaming Mistake

[UberMore]

Buying Medal of Honor.
Sweet shit cakes that game got really bad, really fast.
It's more DICE's fault though...
PC have been so fucked over by them lately that we've all re-installed CoD: WaW to play some zombies, a sniping mod, some hardcore zombies (a mod) and the occasional MP game.

Oh, also hoping that DoW:II would be good.
Really, after the first 40,000k, why the hell did they change it so much?! the first Dawn of War games (bar Soulstorm...we quietly forget it was made) how could they think that stripping it down and introducing new aspects and elements would be a good idea?

 

[smearyllama]

Oblivion for the PC.

I've never had a PC with the gumption to handle it, and it's just sitting in my steam games list, taunting me.

But once I have a good enough computer...

 

[ComicsAreWeird]

I only got sega genesis and the ps2 and i love them both. next saturday i´m gonna buy a ps3...i hope its not a gaming mistake

As far as gaming mistakes go, i´d have to say Spawn Armaggeddon for the ps2. I love the character, but the game was BORING.

 

[Hman121]

trading my Pokemon Red for the GameBoy for Pokemon Trading Card Game. It is a sin that is reawakened whenever I look at my Pokemon Stadium cartridge.

 

[Akisa]

buying an xbox 360... It just sits there collecting dust because I rather be playing PC games, and I'm also disgusted with the consoles (in general) business practice.

 

[D0WNT0WN]

Buying Malestrom and Medal Of Honour War Chest at a car boot sale.

Malestrom sucked and an installatuon disc in the War Chest was broken.

They sit on my shelf taunting me.

 

[esperandote]

Selling my Silent Hill 3

 

[Pseudopod]

Telling my brother he could have our NES and 40+ NES games when he went to college and assuming he'd take care of them. I had a lot of sentimental attachment to the system we'd played together on so much and thought that he had the same. He sold the system and all games and accessories within a year for may 20 to 30 bucks, way less than they were worth to me.

When it comes to purchases, probably preordering the Fallout 3 collector's edition. Fallout 3 just didn't "click" with me and I paid a lot of money for a game I didn't stick with very long.

 

[Jack Cheal]

james pond: robocod on the ps2

 

[Clobersaurus15]

I bought a Wii, then sold it, then bought another one 18 months later, then sold that one. I don't know if it was my nostalgic attachment to Nintendo (I've owned every console they've made besides the Virtual Boy and the last 2 or so DS models), fear that I'd be missing out on franchises I was emotionally invested in (got the first one because I had to play Zelda and the second because of Mario Kart) or whatever, but I got frustrated with the whole system pretty quickly both times.

In terms of games, I preordered Haze about 8 months before it came out on the back of my unshakeable faith in Free Radical (even worse, I talked my flatmate into doing likewise) I rode the increasingly negative press and shockingly low early reviews like the good fanboy I was until the faithful day our copies arrived. It was a massive letdown but through a combination of my loyalty to Free Radical and my desire to justify our purchases to my flatmate, I forced myself through it, like a kid finishing his vegetables, before blissfully trading it in.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I have a couple of pretty big ones. The excusable one is the time I saw a used copy of Zone of the Enders 2, but wound up not buying it because I was a broke highschool student, who couldn't really afford it. Thinking back, I may have had just enough cash to buy it, and it probably would have been a better purchase than whatever I eventually wound up buying with said cash. The bigger sin is that I once passed up a brand new copy of Timesplitters 2 that cost $10 or less. I knew it would be a good game, since I had the first Timesplitters and absolutely loved it, but I passed it up for a copy of Mortal Kombat Trilogy. In my defense, I was a stupid teenager excited at the fact his parents were finally letting him buy M rated games with impunity.

 

[SeriousSquirrel]

Getting a PS3. I really didn't need one, considering how similar consoles are these days (most exclusives don't draw my attention, I have a weird taste in games) it wasn't worth it. And I prefer the 360 by a wide maragin, so my PS3 is a glorified Blu-Ray player.

Also, all of these games:

Damnation
Shellshock 2: Blood Trails
Haze

 

[Sterling|D-Reaver]

steam is at the source of most of my bad purchases the worst of which was Damnation. . . it was %10 off!! yeah! . .. no, just no.

most recent Blacklight: Tango Down, it could have been decent with servers and better support