Your Most Regretted Game Purchase

[Fatalistic]

The Force Unleashed II.

It took a total of six hours to play through it, and even in the end, it wasn't terrific.

 

[VersaNocta]

I'm starting to feel like I might be dishing out my money a little too loosely... Anyway,

PC
Devil May Cry 4 (Beyond the fact it somehow managed to jump across platforms, this isn't even a port...)
The Witcher
Dragon Age: 2
Alpha Protocol
Lineage II: The Chaotic Throne
Modern Warfare 2 (3 times... don't ask)
Black Ops
Assassin's Creed II
Darksiders
Fallout 3
AION
Deadrising II
Empire: Total War
Risen
I might even go so far as to say I regret buying the Collector's Edition of RIFT. Don't get me wrong, it was a great game to start with and I spent hours on it. Then it just kind... ran out of juice. I got my first level 50 and tried a bit of endgame in PvP and PvE but the whole time the experience was just a bit... empty.

Xbox
Final Fantasy XIII (13)
Modern Warfare 2 (Again...)


PS3
InFamous
Lair (I wanted to play this game from the moment I heard the first whispers of it... Sadface indeed)
Lost Planet 2 (Another game I was extremely eager to play, guess I should stop getting so hyped and bringing my expectations to unmatchable heights prior to releases)

Oh, I don't own all these platforms by the way. Aside from the PC... The Xbox and PS3 were 'timeshares' with a friend.

 

[sinsfire]

Mega Man Soccer for the Super Nintendo

 

[Atmos Duality]

Fallout 3
Taught me never to have high expectations for a game ever again.

 

[Ganthrinor]

Modern Warfare 2

 

[punksnotdead]

Black Ops. What a stupid game.

 

[Kumomaru]

Force Unleashed 2.

Exceedingly short, and though the gameplay was fun, it was repetitive and rehashed, and the first game was built on story that was gutted nearly entirely from the game. Pathetic!

 

[CptCowboy22]

I'm going to go with any 3rd party game on the Wii I spent so much money on that dam console and not one of the 3rd party games were any good. Hence why I've now washed my hands of Nintendo

 

[ssgt splatter]

Brothers in Blood: Hell's Highway...or was it Brothers in Arms? Oh well, who cares?

I kept the game for about 30 minutes before I said fuck it and sold it.

 

[DeadXV]

Driver 3 for the PC, God awful control system and no way (that i could find) to change the controls. For example ' was drive forward ; was backward, you used the you aimed with the mouse but the fire button was num5 or some shit (while on foot controls were WASD) played it once and have wept ever since.

 

[Haydyn]

Dante's Inferno. Bought it full price, only got about 2-3 hours play out of it before getting stuck. Even with guides and stuff I just can't seem to get past it, and have long since stopped caring about playing the rest of it.

 

[mezmerizer02]

enchanted arms fo sho'.

 

[Redem]

Command and conquer the first decade payed full price for something that barely worked

 

[mogensmissekat]

Hexen 64. I was 11 back then and didn't have cash for more than a game every 6. month. So when i put the cartridge in the N64 and learned that people would sell you unplayable crap for 300 danish kroner, a part of my soul died..! Oh god it was bad!

 

[Gunner 51]

Borderlands - to this day, I have no idea why I purchased that blasted game.
I regret it simply because the game is too cartoony, bland, etc... In a word, I didn't like it. Hell, I could develop PTSD just by thinking of that infernal Claptrap thing.

It's only saving grace was Mad Moxxi, yet she wasn't able to make the game bearable.

I swear Borderlands is the Vampire Rain of the FPS world to me. (OK, I think I might have gone a bit far with this last line.)

 

[Telumektar]

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

I totally forgot about X3! I bought "X3 Reunion" because I wanted "some spacefaring stuff", I read some critics and they pretty much agreed on that the game was good, it was, it just wasn't for me, I had the same "what I'm supposed to do?" problem, also, the learning curve was more like a vertical wall. Played it for about one hour and got bored to hell, got back to the store and said "I want to change this for another game", they usually didn't do this but when the guy saw it was X3 he smiled and took it, I got Hitman: Blood Money, ran a bit choppy on occasions but it was one thousand times better. X3 gets the "fastest return" trophy.

 

[Ubermetalhed]

Final Fantasy F*CKING 12...

What a piece of crap. Terrible story, awful characters, piss poor graphics and game mechanics which were boring and plain stupid. Also no Nobuo Uematsu score.

I haven't played 13 yet but there is no way it can be worse than 12.

 

[Koroviev]

Oblivion. Heard great things about it, only to realize that it's really hard to role-play when all of the NPCs look like they had their faces beaten in by someone with a grudge against the population of the Uncanny Valley.

Also, I can't take Tolkien fantasy seriously. (Don't ask me why I'm playing Dragon Age: Origins. I blame Bioware.)

 

[WhisperingShadows]

Fracture, Too Human, Legendary... Those three games, simply, are horrible in every possible way. Prototype would be another one, once it gets up to a certain part anyway because of the huge difficulty curve. Before that, it's a pretty fun game for...well, anything that isn't the story.

 

[Koroviev]

Fallout 3
Taught me never to have high expectations for a game ever again.

I was going to purchase that for the PS3 until I read that it was the buggiest version of the game. I mean, the game froze and glitched on my 360, and that was supposedly the better version.