Your most unlucky purchase
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Once, I bought a $1000 dollar car...within a week, the transmission fell out of it on a train track. At least the train didn't hit it, I wouldn't want to imagine what that would have cost me. At least the mechanic was nice about it and bought it off of me for parts.
Dark Void. Looked like Uncharted with jetpacks, which alone sold me... on a buggy, shitty, barely playable game that lasted all of six fucking hours.
Fallout 3. Just a day before Bethesda announced the GoTY edition. Much rage was had.
Fallout 3. Just a day before Bethesda announced the GoTY edition. Much rage was had.
I keep going to buy an Xbox 360, but I don't want to buy a system with only one game I want to play.phenomenological said:
OP: Probably Mutant X... I could tolerate bad special effects and cheesy storyline, but as soon as I heard "Tele-empathy" I hit stop and ranted to myself for 5 mins about the idiocy of the statement.
Well, I bought a bunch of games on Steam yesterday, the first day of the summer sale. So far I've lost $11 on lowered prices. Let's see how much more money will flee my wallet before the end!
I paid way too much for a piece of paper known as a university degree. So far, it hasn't paid off all that much... it definitely is an overpriced piece of shit.
I purchased the original Neverwinter Knights from gamestop, it wasn't problem with the actual game but the store itself. It was the last copy so they gave me an opened pc game, so I got home the disk didn't work. So I went back to the store again to return/exchange it, problem was it was an opened pc game and they didn't want to refund it despite the disk not working. I spent an hour there until I was asked to leave. It was only after I went to another gamestop store I was able to exchange it.
I bought Civ V about 3 weeks ago. It's now half price in the steam sale.
Only £10 difference, though. I guess it could have been worse.
Only £10 difference, though. I guess it could have been worse.
That's the exact case with PS3... there's only one game I'd play, MGS and sometimes one other per year comes out I might play, like Heavy Rain and that new one released at the E3, otherwise all the games are primarily for the 360 and some are ported to the PS3, like Call of Duty is ported and all those others. You'd be kidding yourself by looking at the coding if you didn't think those AAA games that go to both consoles are primarily made for the 360.VoidWanderer said:I keep going to buy an Xbox 360, but I don't want to buy a system with only one game I want to play.phenomenological said:
OP: Probably Mutant X... I could tolerate bad special effects and cheesy storyline, but as soon as I heard "Tele-empathy" I hit stop and ranted to myself for 5 mins about the idiocy of the statement.
Mine happened yesterday, right at the beginning of the Steam Summer Sale. Naturally I was really excited about it and ready to pick up some games I had missed out on, like the 1st Indie Bundle.
But when I tried to play my purchases, I was surprised to find that even though all the games I bought would work on a Mac (which I own), my Mac is too old and shitty to run 1/2 of them. And there were some good ones in there, like The Binding of Isaac; Penumbra Collection; and The Baconing.
At least I still own them and can play them once I get a new computer.
But when I tried to play my purchases, I was surprised to find that even though all the games I bought would work on a Mac (which I own), my Mac is too old and shitty to run 1/2 of them. And there were some good ones in there, like The Binding of Isaac; Penumbra Collection; and The Baconing.
At least I still own them and can play them once I get a new computer.
After years of living in an apartment below my means, saving up a new deposit and such I found one that was perfect price point with my income and signed the lease.
I was laid off from my job two weeks later.
Now that's unlucky.
I was laid off from my job two weeks later.
Now that's unlucky.
I still can't figure out how anyone can think those indie games are even C-class worthy.TheKruzdawg said:
The binding was terrible, is terrible, lack luster, and barely has anything... much like all those other games... where ever did quality and content fly off to?
Well I once bought a copy of Call of Duty 2 for the PC for $20. Unfortunately, despite meeting the system requirements, the game would not run. Never found out why.
Purchased an unopened third party Gamecube controller at a flee market. The thing worked for 3 minutes before in started to malfunction.
Purchased an unopened third party Gamecube controller at a flee market. The thing worked for 3 minutes before in started to malfunction.
Haven't been able to play any of them so I can't judge for myself. But I've heard at least decent reviews of them and for $15 between everything I bought, I don't think that's a bad deal for a little bit of risk. Maybe I'll hate them. But I spent $10 on Mirror's Edge after hearing a lot of my friends complain about it and I really like that game. So we'll see.Delsana said:
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.
For the PS2. I'd followed the development of the game with gusto. I was very excited to finally play an awesome Spider-Man game. Hadn't heard a word about console differences, so I went and bought it full price expecting a slightly less graphical Xbox 360 or PS3 version. I played through the entire game thinking it was just a long tutorial (like Kingdom Hearts 2), and would soon open up into the awesome game I'd heard about. It didn't. Credits rolled. Learned to do my research even more thoroughly.
For the PS2. I'd followed the development of the game with gusto. I was very excited to finally play an awesome Spider-Man game. Hadn't heard a word about console differences, so I went and bought it full price expecting a slightly less graphical Xbox 360 or PS3 version. I played through the entire game thinking it was just a long tutorial (like Kingdom Hearts 2), and would soon open up into the awesome game I'd heard about. It didn't. Credits rolled. Learned to do my research even more thoroughly.