Your Most Regretted Game Purchase

[Crystalite]

Fallout 3.
I bought it, played for a maybe 4 hours, just enough to get into megaton, and never looked at it again.

I have been told that sandboxes just are not for me, and that may very well be true. But I just had no motivation to do anything, the NPCs where exeptionally bland and uninteresting, and the world just was grey in brown and I really did not want to know what lay beyond the next hill (more brown).

Yes, of course I should have known.

 

[York_Beckett]

Alone in the Dark. For the Wii. Full price. Don't ask.

 

[ajemas]

The Orange Box, specifically Team Fortress 2.
Don't get me wrong, the games were all absolutely amazing, and Portal is still one of my favorite games of all time. But Team Fortress 2 is so easy to get into, so much fun to play, and so hard to get out of. I've sunk over 221 hours of my life into it so far, but I still can't stop thinking about playing it. One rare case of a game that's SO good that it becomes a problem.

 

[KnifeyMcStaberson]

minecraft

dragon age origins

Riven

that is all.

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

black ops: my coworkers BEGGED me to play it. I only did a bit of the single player and 15 bucks for a DLC map pack? kiss my ass treyarch!

 

[Wilbot666]

It's old but Star Trek: Away Team was by far the crappiest "rpg" I ever bought, and it was only $10.

 

[MightyMole]

I'd definitely have to say [Prototype] and Street Fighter IV. I usually don't expect things going into games so I won't disappoint myself or anything, but Prototype... That was just horrible :I that is literally the only game I forced myself to play, got halfway through, sat back and said "Why did I buy this..." Got Street Fighter because I kind of enjoyed the arcade cabinets I would play at Pizza places every now and again back in the 90's and decided to give it a shot. Wasn't bad, but just wasn't my kind of game really. Probably would be better using a Arcade stick setup but I don't really wanna opt the cash for something I'll really only use for one game. I don't really regret owning Street Fighter so much as I regret paying the full $60 for it.

On a side note, I also regret picking up The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I liked Fallout 3, so I went and picked up the Oblivion GOTY edition for $20 over Dead Space (Which I ended up picking up later anyway for the same price and absolutely loved it). I got out of the sewer and sat there saying "WTF?", something I didn't stop saying even after completing the firghters guild and getting 3/4 through the storyline. Game just had me lost from the get go. It was only $20, so I don't feel as bad as I do with Prototype of course, but I don't like the 250 or so gamerscore for it sitting on my gamertag.

I apologize if any of these offend anyone, they just didn't suit me... Except Prototype, I'm not really sorry for that game... That game was horrible. I liked it better when it was called Spiderman 2.

Edit:

Oh! Fable III! I definitely regret buying that more than Street Fighter and Oblivion, but Prototype is still worse. What kind of game claims to have so much innovation and then end up being exactly the same as the second game, both graphics and location wise, and makes making money a key feature to the game... What is this an RPG or an introduction to capitalism? The story took me 7 hours to get to being king, worked as a blacksmith for 4 hours so I could get the good ending and save everyone, and only had 60k of my needed 8.5 million (you go 2 million in debt choosing the good options) so I cheated and the game ended 15 mins after I got all the money... Seriously what game is more working as a blacksmih, buying and managung property, and collecting flowers, books, gnomes and keys than actually being some kind of RPG when its advertised as an Action RPG? /hate rant

 

[Flames66]

GTA 4. I spent nearly ten pounds on it and have only played it for a few hours before the frustrating controls and general crappyness of the story and character customisation put me off. I decided never to play it again.

 

[Aurgelmir]

Final fantasy 13... man I was looking so forward to it...

I was unemployed and broke at the time, but I had saved up to buy FF13... man was it not worth it!

 

[DrStupid87]

Lost Empire: Immortals.

Bought it because during development, it looked like a perfect game for me. Space combat, design and buiild your own ships, resource management and so on. Plus the box art was really good looking too.

When I got it, none of my expctations were matched. They were far lower than I could have expected. The game was boring, had walls of text for tutorials and the customisation and space combat left a hell of a lot to be desired. I suppose I shouldn't have expected much from a small developer. But because of that game alone, I only buy from sucessful devs like Valve or Bioware.

Seriously, don't play that game. I snapped my disc for it in half out of sheer anger at the waste of £20

 

[Tipsythegza]

I'd have to say Hellgate: London or Age of Conan.

 

[TheDeathByIce]

Velvet assassin cant believe i paid £15 for that piece of shit.

 

[Fredzor]

Merchants of Brooklyn.
I've made other purchases I've regretted, but that's the only game that made me wish it was possible to excise games from my Steam account, so I could rid of the embarrassing reminder that I spent money on that awful, awful game.

Ugh.

 

[exp. 99]

Bulletstorm.

I was expecting something akin to an old Duke Nukem throwback, where you're using ludicrous weapons to blow bits off of crazed aliens while listening to horrible chauvinistic one liners that make a good parody of the "man's man".

Instead I found a game where the dialogue was just an excuse to pack as many dick jokes into a sentence as possible, partnered with a (terrible) story that tried to take itself seriously. And while I can ignore a bad plot for the sake of silly mayhem, the dialogue was so damnably annoying that the lackluster skillshot system couldn't make up for it. Seen one guy shot in the balls, seen them all.

Biggest waste of $60 ever, but at least I got the Gears 3 beta out of it. Now to hope that isn't as bad.

 

[The Human Torch]

Mass Effect: Never got further than 60 minutes in. Too much faffing around, not enough combat.

It took more then a few trys for me to get past the first hour. After that however the game is crazy good.

Hmm, if I ever have some extra time to kill, I will give it a go. Who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised.

 

[Fredzor]

Never buy a Steam bargain. Check reviews and gamerscores before making a purchase. Most of the time there's a reason why you never hear of these games.

I know; I was a FOOL!

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Buying Deus Ex: Invisible War in a steam sale, and even then it was a awful waste of money. I only manage playing 15 minutes of the opening section between the awful voice acting and constant crashes.

 

[AwesomeSuperMelon]

X3. Looked like an interesting game and stuff..... Had no idea what to do/did tell me controls, and just gave up on it.

 

[APrutton]

Dead rising for me.

Reason? Well i happen to be a student and cant afford a big shiny 40" HD:TV, which means that YOU CAN'T READ ANY OF THE WRITING! They made the game so that it's only compatible with newer tv's and it's not possible to change the text box sizes etc

Seriously, when you cant read any of the boxes that tell you what to do or where to go. You seriously lose interest quickly.

 

[joshthor]

probably homefront..... maybe. i cant fully decide. i got it for 20% off and i got metro 2033 with it for free. neither run well on my computer, but im planning on getting a desktop. homefront was very mediocre, but metro 2033 seems cool