Discuss all of the games you regret buying.
Currently, I regret buying Dungeons and Dragons Tactics for the PSP. The multiplayer is lame, which is the very core of D&D. It's basically a watered down version of the game that you play on your own. Wow. Amazing.
Zombie Zone, or The Oneechanbara if you like. Absolutely terrible game. It's a bit like Dynasty Warriors, if Dynasty Warriors had zombies and was shit.
Counter strike for the original Xbox, horrible fps, no good gameplay, and noone was online...
>>2
You mean Dynasty Warriors isn't a button-mashing piece of garbage?
Anyway, a game I regret buying is Killzone for the PS2. The story was uninteresting, the Helghast design was stolen from Jin-Roh, and I find it frustrating as fuck when I run up behind a guy, blast him in the back of the head with a shotgun at point blank, and die because he somehow turns around and shoots me.
Another game I regret buying is Pokemon Diamond. It was fun until after the second badge, when I realized that I didn't suck at Pokemon all those years when I was younger; it just didn't interest me.
Finally, the last game I'll mention that I regret buying would probably be Max Payne. People raved about that game, but it was a mediocre shooter with bullet-time and the storyline of a detective novel. Whoopee.
Contact, for the DS. Thought it would be a pleasant and interesting alternative RPG, but it turned out to be just a complete grindfest – I mean, even more so than most JRPGs.
Also, it was way too short and there was no good endgame content – none that didn't require several more days of stat-grinding, in any case.
I was thinking on buying that not too long ago.
I also regret buying WoW. Yes, I said it. I regret buying WoW.
Resident Evil DS.
WORST game I have ever played. Seriously, the game had horrible controls, boring gameplay, and I'm pretty sure it didn't have multiplayer.
Tribes: Vengeance. Not only did I buy it, I bought it for 50 dollars. After that moment, I never pre-ordered another game in my life.
>>8 I usually never buy a game until I research up on some reviews.
Magna Carta: Tears of blood.....I actually did cry tears of blood when I played it...
Psychotoxic
I should have been tipped off by finding it in the bargain bin a week after it's release.
Divine Divinity
I should have been tipped off when it was 'endorsed' by a 'fan' of Diablo II.
Commandos: Strike Force
Trash.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Just awesome. But I lost a few years of my life playing it over 20+ times with different characters.
Nethack. No, wait...
I regret getting Nippon Ichi games. What a waste of money.
Oh, there are several games I regret...
I regret buying my entire Xbox console.
ORPHEN for the PS2.
Final Fantasy XII. I can still remember the plot and characters from 10, seven years on. But a few months after playing a random game full of one-dimensional characters, random fights and a completley sterotypical and forgettable plot, I can only remember Basch. And only because he's a poor man's Auron.
Also I regret ever buying any of the Pro Evolution Soccer games, as I have lost days, literally, playing that game.
this thread just reminded me, I bought Perfect Dark for the GBC as well. Piece of shit, it was.
>>20
Oooh, sports games are definitely something to regret. I found NBA Street 2 for Gamecube in a bargain bin at a local used book/anime/gaming store, and I randomly bought it because I needed a new video game and I figured it was worth a try. Wrong-o. It's NOT worth it.
Xenosaga.
Good god, that game made me hate playing video games for the longest time.
^Really? Too bad. I thought Xenosaga was pretty cool. Episode 1 was fun, Episode 2 was a bit of a let down, and Episode 3 was fucking epic.
If you're talking from a stance of general dislike of jRPGs, then I can understand that. Since I don't like jRPGs in general myself, but Xenosaga just clicked with me some way.
As for the topic, every MoH game i've ever bought has been a massive waste of money with the exception of Frontline which I found pretty enjoyable. MOHAA is VERY over rated. PA and EA were flimsy to weak. Rising Sun was so bad human words can't begin to describe the agony that game put me in.
Yeah, all those cut scenes bored the shit outta me. I mean, I could have skipped them, but I'd probably miss out on important story elements.
I'll admit some of Xenosaga's scenes were kind of slow and points. Usually the "lol bad dudes being devious" and "technobable" dialouge was pointless. On the other hand, I thought the specifically character driven scenes were excellent.
final fantasy 8 (hours of my life i wont get back)
>>20 couldnt agree more about final fantasy 12!
i buy all pirated stuff so i never regret wasting 50 cent for each game lol
>>25
I really loved Allied Assault for some reason. I don't know - the aesthetic feel of the missions really appealed to me. I've played the Holland mission over and over again. Maybe it's the music, maybe it's just a Europhilia, but I found the game really beautiful. (I also had a lot of fun messing around with the cheats.)
Then I bought Rising Sun because I had loved Allied Assault so much, and boy was I disappointed that I wasted all that money. As for other games I regret buying, Taiko Drum Master ended up not having very good songs. I was looking forward to traditional Japanese taiko music, like the Taiko Drum Master I played when I visited Japan! But instead it had shitty Western songs. It would have been worth it if it was cheaper, I think.
>>30
Oops, I just realized that when I said "Allied Assault" I actually meant "Frontline." And when I said "Holland" I meant the Netherlands. My bad!
>>30 I like some of the songs you can unlock on TDM, but other than that, yeah, I agree.
Final Fantasy XII.
It TRIES to be an Action RPG, but fails miserably. It's like playing D&D with a console. It fucking sucks, the writers must have run out of great ideas (connection, anyone? And What the Fuck, Star Wars? Give me a fucking break.), the License System is about twice as broken as .hack//G.U.'s Ability System, and I would have rather voted for a Vagrant Story II. I would have LOVED that.
Final Fantasy III DS
Utter trash.
>>34
I liked it. Though I wish there was a save point somewhere in the final dungeon dammit. I don't feel like grindan ('A` )
My most foolish game purchase would have to be "Unlimited Saga". anyone else do this? it might have been a gift, actually, but regardless I wanted it at the time...
Only to be COMPLETELY and utterly dissapointed. I could barely stand playing ONE character, let alone the rest. It just seemed so pointless. First off, the graphics were utter trash for a PS2 game. They didn't even bother making any field maps, for christ sake. Traps occur for no reason, and you get tortured by a spinning "random" wheel to try and evade it, instead of having the computer randomly do that shit for you.
Life points and healthpoints. you can still play with 0 HP, as long as you have LP. hp is a "shield" for your LP though. only is doesn't work - enemies can STILL attack your LP, even with max hp. rubbish.
NO reasons to care for quests, or characters, and the stats and skills you get at the end of a quest have to be erased to make way for new ones after a few quests.
and, really, half the time I'm just wondering WTF was going on!?
Romancing saga's remake was MUCH better.
oh, and I almost forgot - in battles, you can't even pick what kind of attack you're going to do. WTF!?
Back then I owned a N64 and i was buying original games. Ok ok don't shoot me yet. lol
Games I regret buying:
1) Mario Party 2
2) Bomberman 64
3) Yoshi's story <-- shoot me now please. (horrible game!)
The funny thing is, I loved every one of those games.
I just remember how cartridges were so expensive. Regardless, the N64 is still probably my favorite console.
yeah, i loved bomberman 64 as well. I really liked the multiplayer and customization. And, sorry to say, I love Mischief Makers as well. "Shake Shake!"
>>40
>>41
Yeah guys, well I liked those games too or else i wouldn't buy them. I mean I had so much fun with bomberman 64 and mario party 2 in multiplayer. Maybe i should have put just yoshi story there.
But when i recall my past i realise how much time i lost playing the not-so-good single player of bomberman 64 and the time i lost playing mario party 2 all alone because strangely most of my friends never liked such games. Too kiddish for them. They don't have zombies and blood you see...
Anyway I beliebe N64 May not had so many and good games but I think the 4 multiplayer fun was the best i had, more than every console!
OMG!! Mischief Makers! I had completely forgotten about that! I had only rented that for a week and it was addicting and so fun!! "Shake shake!" Yes I still remember her voice. And that old guy, screaming "Heeeelp meeee Mariiinaaa!" Wow I think I am gonna download that game and play it again! Such games are the little diamonds only the few elite knows!
I regret buying Oblivion. Not because it's a bad game -- I actually enjoy it rather much.
Rather I regret buying it because it was between that or the preorder for the Bioshock CE. I've heard that Bioshock doesn't last very long for the money, but still, I have this blank spot on my desk that is longing to be filled by Big Daddy figurine...
Other than that, not really. I almost always buy only when I have researched the game and am certain that I will enjoy it. If there's a game that I don't think I will enjoy I download it. Almost always it is the case where I stop playing said game too early for it to have been worth buying.
That's a lame reason to regret it. You bought an great game, be proud of it.
Daikatana. 'Nuff said.
>>45 "The game is known as one of the major commercial failures of the computer game industry." Ouch, Wikipedia. Ouch.
I've never heard of it, but it seems like a Doom knock off. It was made by one of the Doom developers, though.
I regret buying any GBA game, save for a few Pokemon ones and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.
>>47 speaking of which...
I regret buying a bootleg GBA game called "Pokemon: Frigo Returns" off eBay. I made the mistake of thinking it would be a hilarious original pirate creation and/or hilarious original pirate hack of some other game (like the GBC "Pokemon Jade" game I bought in Turkey, which was actually a profanity-filled broken english translation of Telefang Speed Version). But as it turns out it was just some kid's shitty amateur rom hack that the pirates had downloaded off the internet and sold as a cartridge. Ah well.
I don't know anyone who actually bought and played Daikatana, but we all talk shit about it anyway.
The failure was in the extreme overhyping for what turned out to be a poor to abysmal game, the overspending on plush office space and other unnecessary staff perks, and celebrity treatment of developers.
John Romero made a bitch of himself.
two games
magna carta tears of blood ... linear,boring,the female chars are all retarded and seem to not be aware of their gigantic breasts and whoreoutfits coz they talk and behave like gods purest little lamb
and
Conan for ps2 why why why why why did i even look at it
Seconded
Even though I don't prefer RPGs in general Unlimited SaGa was the worst waste of $8 ever...
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Its a difficult choice. Overall I have to say Street Fighters 2, because I preferred MK, another is an all time stupid for me, Full Auto on the 360. Whats even worse is that I had to wait for my check to buy Disgaea 2, I had such high hopes for Full-Auto, I ACTUALLY CHOSE IT INSTEAD OF DISGAEA 2.
Final Fantasy XI Online, without a doubt. To me it was the worst MMO I ever played, and in retrospect, I Really should have played a demo or somthing first....
shudder - i wish mine was 8 bucks, but i'm sure the people who got it for me paid full price...
>>51
I'm completely with you on Magna Carta, I couldn't stand that game after 12 hours of play and I sold it without ever beating it.
I've always regretted buying Morrowind. I just don't see how people ever enjoyed this. Maybe I need to try it using mods or something, but as it is it just feels like playing an MMO...by myself.
Aside from that I have a good sized stack of crap I doubt I'll ever touch, but most of those were old and cheap impulse buys from used game stores, I doubt I spent $100 on the entire pile.
games based on movies...especially spiderman... _|-|O"
>>60
The first Spiderman game on the PS1 was kickass.
"Blockbuster Exclusive" Clayfighter 63 1/3 : Sculptor's Cut (N64)
Mercenaries
it was more worth a rental
World of Warcraft. That ate my life and GPA, and it started to numb my brain.
Neverwinter Nights. Clunkiest piece of shit I've ever played.
Mischief Makers. It gave me headaches for some reason.
Omega Boost.
luminous arc. so boring i traded it in the next day.
>>68
If you're talking about Gamestop, they have a 7-day money back guarantee. You get your money back, full price.
I'm not sure if other chains use the same system.
EB Games have the same system. It's an amusing thing because if you don't work, almost all games take less than 7 hours to play through. A hikikomori's wet dream, I'd say. Regrettably I have to work, so the time I get for playing games is commute time plus 3 hours a week. So often that drags it out past the deadline.
Of course I meant days there. 7 hours? Maybe DS games. Phantom Hourglass took only slightly longer than 7 hours.
fight night 2 or if it was called 2k2 on ps2
why put horrible bad rapmusic in a EA game
same tunes over and over its horrible
also u can fight someone and win super easy
then when they are champions they r like 5times better than
when they were ranked 2nd in the world...
horrible game
2k2... like 2200?
>>37
I did that too. Granted it was only $5, but I suppose it taught me shit like that is cheap for a reason. But then again I managed to get the original Dragon Warrior for $5 as well, so it doesn't always apply...
Other than that the only game I regret buying is Xenosaga, I had heard it was good and I found it really cheap, but I couldn't stand it. It may as well have been a movie with all the cut-scenes it had...
-Siren: I was going through a survival horror phase and bought it just because it was one. This game is so stupidly bad.
-Final Fantasy 8, 9, 10 and tactics: Bought them because I liked 7 so I bought everything that said "Final Fantasy". I hated all of them.
>>75 Tactics is the best of the series, in my opinion.
For me it's Crystal Chronicles (for the co-op, single player sucks), then Tactics. Can't stand any of the numbered ones although VII was okkaaaaaay.
World in Conflict
it doesnt really bode well in LAN games compared to Company of Heroes
Sim City DS - what the hell!?
maybe if I could, y'know, see the buildings!?
also, since you couldn't build powerline over anything but dirt, it was slightly confusing to figure out their rules for powering things. plus that giant talking head was annoying...
One game to rule them all... in the craptastic contest would be Magna Carta: Tears of Blood, for the PS2. I was sold on the artbook, and all of the hype behind the game MC: shadow of Avalanche in Korea. They tried for something new in the battle system, which rarely ever works, and hired the worst voice crew that ever lived. The U.S. OP theme sucked shit compared to the original song used, and if you pit that with its terrible 4 minute a scene loading time, I'd say that makes for the worst game ever. Technical and Artisticlly (I haven't even touched the poor RT graphics), it was terrible.
Xenosaga wasn't that bad: It was the only consistant storyboard worth following in a long time, as far as video games was concerned. The only bad part about it was Xeno3... Half way through the game you could tell when they stared rushing to the end (funding was cut). It made for a crappy end after all of that time and money I spent, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't do it again.
sonic for the 360.
on a next gen console you shouldnt be able to sink through the scenery ever!
id love to see the name they would come up for it. the failcast 2?
I wish Sega would make a new system :(
I don't. I wish all consoles were the same system so that console fanboys would finally shut up, and developers could focus on making the games instead of deciding which platform the game will be exclusive to.
And Sega making a new system will? ;-)
No, because then gaming would be a monopoly. They could charge whatever the hell they feel like for games, controllers, accessories, or anything.
I see the consoles as checking and balancing each other.
>>92
If the system were open it would not be a monopoly.
Driving Emotion Type S
>>92
How did Sony justify a $600 price tag on the PS3, then? Sure seems like they're charging whatever the hell they want to me.
uhhh... because it's a friggin super computer, with a substantial hard drive, built in wi-fi and blue tooth, and blu-ray? hell, I've heard of scientists using PS3's in-lieu of more expensive super computers...
Who cares if it's a "super" computer, the point is to be able to play games. If you have to pay more for a console than for a PC, the PC is clearly a better option.
Except with a PC, you have to worry about drivers, patches, hardware, operating system, hard drive space, blah blah blah.
I was just saying, the reason the PS3 was so expensive is because of the things i mentioned above.
That was launch, how long has the PS3 been out for now?
fuck NDS
>>98
Because hard drive space isn't an issue with consoles. That's why there are like three kinds of PS3, each differing in the amount of hard drive space.
Oblivion for me (I know, I know, odd choice). Meh, just got really boring... Plus, it took me a whole lotta money to get it to run on my computer.
>>102
It's an artificial issue. What console game needs to have 80 GB of disk space to run? It's not installing anything.
That's bullshit. Some console games recently have had installed parts.
I regret buying Driver for the PlayStation. I paid $50 for that damn game, then took it home and couldn't actually play it, because I couldn't pass the driving test at the beginning. The slalom got me every time.
Obviously, the game was intended for an audience more skilled than myself. :(
>>64
pre-ordering neverwinter nights was the second worst thing i've ever done as a gamer. gather some items, kill some poeple, find the key to the boss, help people along the way rinse and repeat for the next 4 acts of the game. gg n00bs. i also have to say that Diablo 2 was a bad choice of game. the first two years of my high school career went into that game, then i got my acct deleted tear meph bots ftl. but i'd have to say the worst choice as far as gamer was chex quest. yeah i actually sent in the upc's for that pice of shit. didn't even make it to the first enemy before i walked away from it.
Unlimited Saga, which I bought for the trailer for FFX-2.
I should also add that FFX-2 is somewhere on the list of games I regret buying, but US is by far the worst.
> neverwinter nights
I couldn't get through it without triggering a bug that caused all townspeople to become permanently hostile.
What the hell?!
Thankfully the expansions were at least passable.
> Diablo 2
You and me both, brother.
> chex quest. yeah i actually sent in the upc's for that pice of shit.
I think you've just done won the thread.
> chex quest. yeah i actually sent in the upc's for that pice of shit
you can download that for free at the-underdogs - if you want to?
> Thankfully the expansions were at least passable.
I found the main game passable.
On the other hand, one of the expansions had a puzzle where the levers wouldn't move until you installed the patch to fix it (it was some levers right after a puzzle where you would teleport between platforms, or something like that.)
Hit and miss on some of those titles for me. I enjoyed MOHAA. The other MOH games, was rather disappointing. I looked into the new one, can't remember the bloody name, but you need a 4ghz processor. WTF EA! not everyone buys fucking alienware for fucks sake! FU EA! Even with my new computer, I CAN'T PLAY IT! I can play everything else, just not the new one. Back to the topic at hand (tldr?) CS for xbx and Sonic Heros. Fuck... WASTE OF MONEY ON that friggan sonic game. I had fun with Sonic adventure on my DC and Sonic Adventure 2, but this one... I hate it. I paid full price. (I know, I'm a sucker) Final Fantasy; CC, I enjoyed the multiplayer. When my friends were friends and now I can't find anyone with a GBA or GBA;SP to play it with. I know one person who would like to play it with me, but he needs to get a GBA. Another game is... hell.. any PC FPS games with large-scale multi-player. Cheaters killing cheaters, with honest players caught in the fucking middle. I now play them in single player only. As for the N64? Perfect Dark. The gameplay was great. The framerate drove me nuts.
>>89 I like the idea, but yes, monopoly ect. ect. ect. Besides, with Sony wanting to keep fans by "wanting to be unique" compared to their competition, (IE "our versions of games are only slightly different from the same games on other consoles"), they will most likely appose such an idea. FYI, I'm not bashing Sony Fans.
>>66
probably gave you headaches because its crraazzzyy. <3 that game..
Final Fantasy XII.
I probably would have liked it if it didn't have the massive failure of the combat system. Hey guys, so like. I can pretty much watch you fight? great.
About a year ago, I did more review-reading and comparing than usual before deciding which "newish" Sonic game to buy, and so I bought Sonic Heroes for the PS2...
Needless to say, I should have bought the Mega Collection (which featured ports of the Sega Genesis games).
Dark Cloud 2. Not only did I give my character the faggy pink clothes, I also can't beat the first boss.
haven't played it yet - although i do own it. after a few levels of Dark Cloud 1 i started to get a little bored of the same old. last time I left, i think I was... at the beach\\undersea dungeon? I guess i just dislike having to level my weapons in any game to do well. Disgaea is different, they don't evolve, and if you don't wanna level them, you can just buy a better one.
It was great. I used to only be able to eat a sandwich with one hand while playing an FF game, but now I could use both hands.
i can't wait to get into FFXII. i really like the new gambit system. it's not like you can't stop the action and set things if you really want to, or take over a different character. most of the time you don't want to be looking out for them anyway, I'm glad they can attack on their own. It's like a single player FFXI, except now your team mates will actually listen to you.
Soulcalibur Legends... It was not for the lulz, but for my brother. I was doing it wrong. A failure is I.
;_;
hold out, 121... Brawl is coming... THE MESSIAH IS COMING!!! AND SOON ALL THE UNBELIEVERS WILL BE SMOTEN!
wait a minute... where the hell are you buying a Gaming PC for less than 600 bucks?
Make it yourself and it can easily cost under $600.
ugh, but it's so much work...
I find the work within bounds of a reasonable sunday morning task, my issue is that almost every time I buy a stack of hardware, one part doesn't work properly and I end up having to walk back to the store to get a new one. Due to this I am becoming less and less willing to build my own computers, although what I do now is still choose the parts but pay the fee for the shop to put it together (then they find things wrong with it, and swap on the spot. Much less fuckaround. Although you can't get them to install the OS, unless you happen to want to run Windows.)
Magna Carta: Tears of Blood. nuff said
Magna Carta: Tears of Blood
i cant think of one good thing about this game
not even the girls are all that pretty...
the young boy [forgot the name]
and even the main guy looks better than the female chars
I wonder how many people have said that so far...
Wow, is Magna Carta that bad? I thought it looked ok. Hmm, I almost bought it. What exactly makes it a bad game?
7 Blades.
Although only for £2.50.
North American version of Harvest Moon DS. Glitchy piece of shit.
Although I suppose I should expect glitch and bug filled games from Natsume at this point.
>>132
I liked the first Harvest Moon, but have refrained from trying any of the others due to their reputation for buggy releases.
i wish i had Harvest Moon for the Snes, but i'd never actively buy it on Ebay. damn you pawn shops! convince people to sell their awesome SNES games for bottom of the barrel prices!!!
final fantasy 12
reasons why
1.i dont like the english voice actors
2.i dont like the main guy Vaan
3.i dont like the license board system
4.i dont like the gambit system
5.i dont like the big,skilltrees u have to go trough when you want to use a skill,magic,item
6.i dont like the story ...too much nonsense
7.i dont like the music that much i think its the worst ff music
Hi, I'm >>135
I also hate life, puppies, kittens, sex, and sunshine.
I even hate Squeaks, Moot, W.T. Snacks, and Chuck Norris.
>>136 so i cant say bad things about final fantasy?
i used to like square back on NES and SNES ff7 was ok but it was far too easy and i even liked ff9
im not a fanboy...and i did not like ff12
i liked ff9 as well. you weren't saying bad things about Final fantasy in general or anything, you were just giving your opinion why didn't like FF12. I was just saying that, of course you wouldn't like FF12 - you don't even like Chuck Norris.
Final fantasy is the Godwin point of gamer discussions. Especially FF7, which did suck hard, indeed.
Are you 10? Seriously. The gambit system was fucking AMAZING. I didn't even like 12 and I'll say that I loved the gambit system.
shaq fu for the SNES. it gives you blisters
I love final fantasy as if it were a part of my own soul, and many even call me a squaretoku (pun intended), but I really...really hate Crystal Cronicles...
Crystal Chronicles and Tactics are the only two FF games I will acknowledge.
Haven't played the Tactics on PSP yet though. Is it good?
It's the same damn game.
Is it? Why did they bother releasing it then, when there is already a PS1 emulator?
$$$
because they wanted to re-release it it something PORTABLE? the PSP is like a handheld PS1, or did you not understand this? Why make more PS1 copies when they can rerelease it for a system they'd actually like to promote. Actually, it's about time FFT got some recognition. still don't have a PSP tho.
Why buy FFT on PSP when we were already able to play it before they released it, is all I'm saying.
because some people weren't around for it the first time, bro.
capcom fighting jam
HORRIBLE GAME
I regret getting Enteral Saga. I played it twice, and I hate it. I thought it would be fun D: I guess I'm wrong
>>150 Those people could use the emulated version on PSP. The new one appears to only add extra FMV, which adds nothing to a game.
>>153 But what about the newer classes?
And...
And...
Those are about the only new things I can think of.
FF:Mystical Quest and Biohazard for the SNES. I'm a bad man.
makai kingdom PAL version
la pucelle PAL version
i cant stand the horrible english voiceactors
im sure EU use the allready translated US versions of the games
but to make it more interesting THEY REMOVE THE ORIGINAL VOICE
thank you
Breath of fire 4.
I regret buying assassins creed. It was WAAAAY to repetitive for my tastes.
Breath of fire V
Unlimited SaGa
Suikoden IV
My Bottom 5 least favorite games I have ever bought, in order in terms of waste of money:
1) Age of Sail 2 (PC) More bugs than a Warner Bros. animation marathon
2) Suikoden III (PS2) The fixed camera position doomed this game from the start
3) Age of Pirates (PC) Uncontrollable land adventure
4) Valhalla Knights (PSP) Repetitive and boring hack-n-slash RPG
5) LEGO Star Wars II (PC) (I love the PSP version, though) Uncontrollable in the PC version, even with a mouse
TF2, I was really hype for this as a big TFC fan, but the game doesn't deliver. I really like the look, it just plays like shit.
Another recent one would be C&C3, it just wasn't very good, and the multiplayer sucked.
Sonic Rush
>>Sonic Rush
die.
Sonic 3D Blast
Batman Forever
Spectrobes(I hate this game with a passion)
Bloody Roar3
GTA vice city
Ghost In The Shell
pool of radiance ruins of myth drannor
skeletons skeletons skeletons
undead crap...
hack hack slash booooring craaaaaaaap
>pool of radiance ruins of myth drannor
wait... some people actually did buy this?
I regret dumping so much time into Guild Wars before starting on WoW... simple.
I don't think Magna Carta was as bad as people say it was despite the TERRIBLE opening song. I can think of a lot worse RPGs out there.
As much as I hate to admit it, Unlimited Saga was one of them. No matter how much I tried to love the game and it's quirks I just couldn't play it no matter how much I tried to like it.
>>169 Normally one would regret switching to WoW.
Devil May Cry.
I still have not beeat the first boss, that fiery tarantula thing.
Army of Two.
The game was cool at first, but your partner AI slowly gets stupider, and the game transforms into a Gears of War clone.
>>167
lawl did your harddrive get formatted?
in b4 Battletoads
More seriously, I regret buying Lucasarts' "Secret Weapons over Normandy."
From the title, I thought it would be a sort-of-sequel to their fun-yet-weird early 1990s DOS flight sim "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe." SWotL was a surprisingly detailed flight sim for its day and has a cult following even now of people who keep it installed on an old 486 desktop machine and continue hacking the flight model files and sprites.
Instead it was this simpleminded arcade shootemup thing, gorgeous to look at but oversimplified to the point of being a sort of beautiful 3D-rendered 1980s arcade game. It pretends to be a flight sim, yet how can you even have a pretense of being a flight sim when you can't even see the instrument panel? Arcade shootemup pew pew pew, kablooey! Feh.
No More Heroes.
I really, really wanted to love that game, but I just couldn't get into it. I think it's because I tend to roleplay/get in the mindset of the character I'm playing in a game, which makes it hard for me to play "bad" characters in any game.
Plus, you know, pressing the A button over and over gets old.
Driving around what they call a "free world" sucks huge dick.
The only redeeming quality of that game was the humor.
>Plus, you know, pressing the A button over and over gets old.
>>178 Perhaps the said could be said of all video games.
Certainly all Atari video games.
Star Trek Legacy for PC.
>>178 Sure, but I'm really guessing you haven't played No More Heroes. You seriously press A until the fight is over, no other thinking involved.
Before someone says "WELL YOU HAVE TO SWING THE REMOTE FOR A FINISHER"
No, you don't. It only ends the fight quicker, letting you avoid pressing the A button THAT MANY MORE FUCKING TIMES.
no more heroes was shit i agree
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and full of boring nonsense
TV,Gamemagazines,and so on SOLD this game
kinda like the horrible shitcrap
THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU
>>181 I own it actually :/
There was more there than pressing A such as High position / Low Position and the wrestling moves as well. There's a couple triggers that slow down time during a sidestep as well. I don't think the combat system was as bad as you're making it out to me as much as the combat system really didn't get a chance to shine. Outside of boss battles and those annoy beam saber guys the rest of the game was boring cannon fodder on a cool stage such as the bus or landmine infested beach.
Honestly though, if you're complaining about pressing the same button over and over, why are you playing video games?
>>158
Assassins Creed was pure shit, but I always have liked the Prince of Persia series. Creed gets boring after only a few hours.
When I played No More Heroes I was relieved to play a game with style again (not neccesarily graphics-wise). Sadly, the majority of games seem to lack this charm.
Unreal Tournament 3. They took everything that made UT2k4 good and threw it away, and instead just added unlinked nodes to Onslaught, and changed the art direction to some ugly futuristic style with excessive bloom and brown everywhere. Warfare is NOTHING like assault mode, that was a flat-out lie.
Star Ocean 3..."Wallow in despair!!!"x 5 bagillion times at the end fight >.<
I have to agree, Star Trek Legacy is the WORST game I ever actually bought. I was a huge Starfleet command player, love that game, and I thought Legacy was going to be what Starfleet command 3 wasn't. I ended up spending a whole 10 minutes on the game and shelving it.
And I have to disagree, Creed is pretty good. Not OMGWTF great, but good.
Dirge of Cerebus
Halo 3
FF:RoF.
Uh, Getting Up; it's some spray-painting game about overthrowing the government or some shit.
Tenchu Z.
Need for Speed ProStreet
need for semen proalley
Shadow Run
on a lark i bought DragonBVall Z: Sagas on a lark. after a few rounds, i was like, wtf is this?
Grand Theft Auto IV: too short, lame side missions and ALOT of things were cut off like no barber(so no real customization), too little clothes,etc...San Andreas was more fun. LAst time i ever buy a GTA title, i don't care how big the hype is.
>>198
i agree
200 get
also - that brave fencer musashi (the newer one) i thought It would be like the older one, but i was mistaken... Did they even playtest?
>>200
Yeah, that game was nothing like BFM and totally sucked shit. I got through the first two worlds in it, and then decided to bust out BFM instead.
Armored Core 4.
The game is tedious, and kicks my ass up and down every mission.
I bought Halo 3 to play online with my friend. Wow, such a horrible game, I want the $60 back.
KOF Maximum Impact
A couple of years ago but still regret and stuck with it
Age of Empire 3
why did i had to buy the collection box that was worth 100 $ !?!?!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!??!
Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus
other than that one, I only buy good games.
I don't buy games so I regret nothing.
I regret nothing, so I don't buy games.
Final Fantasy Revenent Wings
got suckered in to buying it cause of the graphics and to say that i've played it
I will always regret buying SOCOM 1. I haven't played the others, but I know I had a horrible experience with SOCOM 1. It was klunky, the missions were boring...and it was way to complicated to be fun.
unlimited saGa
WoW , i got bored when i reached 60 , all i wanted to do was gank some lvl 20's but all my geek co-lvls just wanted to keep raiding and doing other boring bullshit, i wasn't going to keep paying for playing if all i was going to da was raiding boring instances.
and the battlegrounds were cool but u have to like fight 10 hours a day to be something so GFY im not asian.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings (by Black Label Games) for the GBA. I do not regret buying it. I have LOATHED it.
Seriously, you'd have to play this game to believe what I am saying: Worse than ET for Atari. Worse than having a festering wound. Worse than anything the devil would put out. I'm not sure if this is worse than everything 4chan has ever produced, but I'm pretty sure it trumps 100% of /b/ in the epic failure category, but I'm sure if /b/ worked hard enough, it would someday beat this PoS.
Shit graphics that make navigating levels darkness in DOOM 3 easy as pie (DOOM 3: Can't see shit captain. LotR:FotR(BLG): I see something captain, I think it's a bunny rabbit... No, it's a pie... No, a dog... Oh shit, it's a spider... Nevermind, it's a baseball bat... Never mind, it's just grass...). Super slow turn-based battle system (characters who WALK TO and WALK FROM the enemies and vice versa, easily 5 seconds to and from... AND THEN MISS their attacks). Really, really, really, really, really, really, really buggy (more buggy than Advent Rising, but AR was actually fun to play).
I am not willing to sell this game, give it away for free, or toss it in the trash for the fear that it may maim some innocent gamer.
>>217
Yeah, I really do... There aren't many games that piss me off, the ones that do are built that way on purpose. But this game had a fucking "Seal of Quality" on the fucking box. What retard puts a fucking "Seal of Quality" on a game that sucks so bad?
Animal Crossing. Played it for 2 weeks, haven't touched it since.
>>218
Nintendo put the 'Seal of Quality' on every official game to help people avoid the unlicensed homebrew crap that used to plague their systems. It is no indication of the quality of the game.
Soul Calibur 4. Worst 60 dollars ever.
>>221 that'll teach you to buy a game for just wanting to fight with girls in armour!
>>222
Made me wanna buy it D:
Oh Gawd
I hated Shadow the Hedgehog for GC! Horrible story, atrocious camera, unneeded cursing, and to top it all off the guns are pointless if you can't even aim them!
Some puzzles just involve guesswork, the bosses were a joke, 2-player couldn't even be considered fun, and I feel like a worse person for letting my little sister watch me play it!
I used to love the Sonic games, but the 3d Sonic games really took a toll on that. This monstrosity was like the final blow, and Sonic next-gen is like an extra kick in the ribs. I still can't sell my copy of StH!
As far as I'm concerned, Sonic should have stayed 2d. And I hope for Sonic's life that the upcoming RPG will be good, otherwise I may never like Sonic again.
>>225 upcoming RPG will be good
Its okay, it feels way too unpolished for me to bother with when I have so much many other unbeaten ds games though.
I regret buying Fable II.
I bought it, and encountered what the fanbase calls a GEG (Game Ending Glitch). It's apparently so common that it has to have a shortened title on the complaint forums.
Unless Lionhead releases a patch soon, I may sell the game.
I've already had a friend offer to buy it for 30 dollars.
d00d, obviously they're going to fix it. This shit happens all the time, so why waste even MORE money by selling it?
Psssh. You kids still buy games?
I love Canada's torrent downloading loopholes.
>>229
what can i say, they have money to burn.. torrents are the best.. good for testing out games so I wouldn't have these kinds of regrets, if i liked it then here comes the buying.. Try it out first before buying it.. well i dont get to buy them, really.. grins.. whats the point in wasting money over them anyway?
I collect games, myself. I used to be all up ins with the warez, and the roms, and the mod chips. When i discovered roms, I was crazy with games, but after a while it died when playing the games didn't feel the same. Shortly after I got a modchip for my PS1, I found that I really didn't want to. I got so annoyed with warez copies of games because of glitches, not being able to install patches, and usually if I liked a game i eventually just bought it. (although, sometimes i'd still warez them because i hated having having to switch cd's whenever i payed a different game)
so yeah.
I agree that games can be so hit or miss these days that torrenting them feels safer, but really, what's wrong with demos? Just be honest, you know you're not really going to buy the game - maybe MAYBE if you loved it and it hit a bargain bin.
I find that warezing tends to cheapen my interest in the console; too many games to play at once and I end up playing little bits of each but not really committing to one. Whereas when I buy a game I tend to play it all the way through before purchasing any another.
Star Wars BattleFront 2.
The whole thing was just annoying.
Soul Calibur IV for ps3, what a huge disappointment.
Fucking sucky Story mode...
Also WAR wasn't as good as I thought it would be, sadly.
God Hand. Clover came out with some great fucking stuff before it imploded, and if it hadn't been in the middle of dieing a horrible death at the time God Hand was in production I'm sure it would have been awesome, but man that's a crap game.
>>234 rofl yeah! I'm still pissed at the Zasalamel ending, did they fuck it up, plus the other characters. TERRIBLE!
So yeah Soul Calibur IV for me too and don't worry, i sold it.^^
>>235
I kinda liked God Hand. I guess I'm a little old fashioned in that older looking graphics seem to do it for me - but i just like the ball-in-mouth story and the adaptive difficulty. The only annoying thing is the camera, and I can live with that.
having said that - i can understand where you're coming from.
Actually, it wasn't the graphics or the camera or difficulty or even the crappy voice acting that turned me off to God Hand(Although all of those things were annoying); it was how long the game was and how boring it got by the end. The first 15 hours or so were pretty fun, but after that it got really repetitive and boring and by the end I was really struggling to finish it. Plus all the button mashing hurt my wrist, so not only was the game emotionally unfulfilling, it was physically painful for me.
I gotta admit, though, that ending song was cool.
I suppose crotch stomping the guys and ass-spanking the girls can get old after a few hours of it.
sometimes, I regret buying xeno saga. I mean, i really like most of the things about it, but it almost seems like they didn't think out the gameplay when they were thinking about everything else. I've seen easier battles in Xenogears for christ's sake. for those that know, i'd rather fight that reaver thing in the sewers than most of the boss battles in xenosaga...
I agree. Except I never even got over level 15 or so.
MMO's are like huge, mostly harmless gangs. They make you feel like you're part of something bigger, but it's just an illusion.
Okami. Played it for about an hour and ragequitted from boredom.
Easy battles, stupid puzzles, not using the brush anywhere near as much as I thought it should be used.
Echochrome. It was fun and challenging at first, but then it kinda got monotonous. Plus, IMO the music started to creep me out after a while.
There haven't been many games I regret buying, since I usually tend to research something alot before I even think about buying it. Sure, I consider myself of the otaku nature, which leads for a mighty tolerance of things alot of people dislike since I usually base my likings for a game on the characters and storyline. Even if something is barely playable I'll keep it in my collection as long as it isn't extremely unbareable...like these titles:
ONI - I think I regret this one the most. Yes, I bought it recently for only $1.99, but it was the worse $1.99 of my life. I mean, I could have bought some candy or something. Horrible crap game...aiming was terrible...audio that made my ears bleed, generic characters, way to easy to die. I mean, they said she was a super human, and could run fast and take a few bullets, but geez, I can't even jump down more than a 5 foot ledge without dying!? I mean, even a 10 or 15 ft fall! Super human? hahahaha
Mario Golf - I think this was one of the worse cases where I regret the 49.99 I paid when it came out. Not only did it get boring and was repetitive, it also wasn't very long. The unlockables were hardly enough to excite you enough to want to unlock them...it was basically something yo do for a few minutes when you're bored, but I would rather have the shelf space.
Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime Zero - I don't have anything against the series, but It's just something I'd rather watch.
Could have bought something else.
Unlimited SaGa - of course we all know why this is horrible. But I actually bought it about 3 times...1 because I wanted to know what the heck it was, 2, because I felt like giving it another chance, and 3 because I am collecting Square titles being the resident Squaretoku that I am.
DBZ Taiketsu - A boring fun for a few hours game, where you might as well spend that time creating a MUGEN with the same characters and would be alot more exciting. They should have called this game, "DBZ: Super Shin Kick to Win every battle".
MK Advance - Terrible clunky crap one fight and it went back to GameStop.
These are just a few...I'll think of more, later...
~HK
Marvelous Entertainment's and Atlus's "Contact" for the DS.
waste of my time. (not my money, since it was a gift)
>>246 The game wasn't that great from the start because everyone assumed and hoped it would something to do with Earthbound and Dr. Andonuts.
Bought Counter-Force for the Wii from Blockbuster for 6.99...
From playing the game, I would have rather eaten a footlong from Subway...
>>Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime Zero - I don't have anything against the series, but It's just something I'd rather watch.
Could have bought something else.
I agree completely. Everyone raved at how fun it was, but Metroid Prime did nothing for me.
With Metroid Prime: Echoes, it wasn't so much that I regreted buying it, as I was saddened by knowing that the Gamecube really couldn't do what the PS2 could. I mean, the graphics are impressive, don't get me wrong, but every time I saw the "dark smoke" effects for the dark portals, I was reminded of that. It just looked like they had a few "smoke" images and just scaled and rotated a bunch of them. I mean, that's probably what most smoke effects are but I just shouldn't be able to see it, ya know?
/rant
Oops, had my sage on.
SH5
the game that raped pyramid head. :/
Neverwinter Nights 2, Untold Legends (PSP), Unreal Tournament 3 (hardly any low ping online multiplayer servers, which was basically what the game was for...), Warioware: Smooth Moves, Rayman: Raving Rabbids, Perfect Dark (for the GameBoy Color), Lost Kingdoms, Evolution Worlds...
Rayman: Raving Rabbids kinda pissed me off. I went through, did everything, and what did I get? An ending that did NOTHING but set up a sequel.
Hey, losers, endings are supposed to be ENDINGS. It's okay to have some kind of special thing after the credits to set something up, but it's not cool to just say, congrats you finished this game. buy the next one.
Also, I don't care who's fault it is, but that microphone pig game... has to go...
smooth moves was good for the nintendo rehash games, and some of the two player mini-games, but the fact that you had to unlock the real multiplayer was really stupid.
Also, you look like an idiot doing it.
A lot of copies of Raving Rabbids had an error in most of the games unless you switched to 60Hz mode. Even though the default setting is 50Hz, and most gamers the game was targetted at wouldn't have a clue how to fix that error.
>>257
In the game where you had to hit the appropriate radio to stop the people from chasing you. When you swung the remote it never responded for that game (this was my case). There were several other cases like this reported to UbiSoft and they responded to all of them, saying to set the video mode or whatever to 60Hz.
I think that may have just been the PAL version. I'm not quite sure if the same error occurred in the US version.
Alundra 2
Little did I know, it was shit...
I kind of regret buying Super Smash Brother Brawl. I hardly ever play it, but every time I do I keep thinking about how much more fun Melee was.
that's getting picky
Halo Wars. I gave in because of how amazing all of my friends said it was.
It's a piece of shit, only a little fun with multiplayer.
Supreme commander
games are too long, and my cpu can't take it capn!
Bioshock.
It was shit. Even DooM is much more enjoyable.
Phantom Brave. As fun as the gameplay is, I can't stand the characters.
>>266
What. PB had great characters.
One game I regret buying was Rascal for PS1. That game blew.
I liked Phantom Brave's characters but couldn't stand the gameplay.
I liked phantom brave, but where Disgaea's number crunching became familiar territory after a while, PB threw a lot of numbers at you a lot faster. I was much happier with the game after I bought the strategy guide, and they explained a way to get an uber weapon in like 3 hours, thus saving the game for me. This, however, showed the games one and only flaw:
Marona was a permanent character on the battlefield, and with a weapon that let her have 150Million turns, the game became a bit of a breeze.
this was fixed in Makai Kingdom.
but, meh, I still love each of NIS's games for their individual charms (EXCEPT LA PUCELLE)
I don't so much REGRET buying La Pucelle, but let's just say I'm glad it's over. The SUPER LONG BATTLE ANIMATIONS destroyed me. I mean, anyone who had the patience to ignore the game, work up their characters to level WTF in the dark world and kill all those UBER demons to get the secret endings, well, I take my hat off to them (and also forward psychiatric services to their address)
Marona was the reason I regret buying the game. So fucking annoying
yeah, I hate it when you don't give a crap about the main characters. Really kills the motivation.
For example, I've started playing Baiten Kaitos (however the heck you spell it) and I almost have to force myself to play the game. I mean, the game is fine and all, the maps are beautiful, but the voices sound like they were recorded in a metal box, the faces look horrible, and the main character Kalas deserves a cockpunch every time he opens his mouth. not to mention the fact that everytime i seem to get anywhere, it feels like I'm only hastening the world's destruction - usually game programmers try and pull that shit JUST before it's almost too late.
Monster Hunter
I love the game and all but it didn't catch on in NA and the servers were shut down. If it weren't for the fact that it has no online capability anymore I wouldn't regret buying it, wish it came out on pc then I'd have made a server to play it on.
I should replay La Pucelle (I didn't get that much through it anyway) in PCSX2 with turbo (disabling fps limiting) to get through battles. The game was almost as unplayable without turbo as Pokemon.
Gears of War 2
Some neat new moves in the game but multiplayer turns those moves into crap. Also cheaters.
Resident Evil 5.
Huge disappointment.
Didn't buy it, but good god do I regret playing Wonder Momo. I was in a daze while I played it, because I hadn't slept in a long time, but even still... ugh. I don't even remember where I played it.
Every turok game.
Every. Single. One.
They always look good, so good that you get lulled into buying one again... and then...
BAM. Shit sucks.
Spec Ops games. Why the fuck did I ever even try these out? Complete horse shit in every way: graphics, gameplay, guns, sounds, music, ai....
PS2 Tenchu games (wrath of heaven, fatal shadows). I'll admit I like them a little bit, but they just didn't meet the standards of other games of their era. Some of the gameplay mechanics were really wonky and some important ones even occasionally didn't work (or would malfunction and cause the character to do something to make them get spotted or generally fuck the game up) at random times, especially when you needed them most (for instance, jumping and grabbing cliff edges, etc), graphics were sub-par, sounds were low quality...
Red Faction... that damn evil scientist you meet in the offices ruins the whole thing. And the PC version doesn't even have bots! wtf Also, the miners never survive, so you don't get any teamplay... and the end boss is way too hard. I could never beat her without cheats. Her difficulty was totally out of proportion with the rest of the game.
Red Faction 2: fails in every way. Guns, sounds, graphics, gameplay (repetitive, slow, bland in general), storyline, characters... Complete cop-out/cash-in by the studio that made the original. It's so pretentious and the teamplay is pointless and boring and the geomod thing only works on a few select areas, whereas in the first it worked almost everywhere...
MGS2: The torture scene ruined the game in harder modes. I almost broke my thumb off pounding the triangle button ffs. And some of the bosses, especially fatman (who was the lamest boss in the game) were far too difficult on extreme mode (which is the only really good mode for replay imo, since the regular gaurd ai is much better and more enjoyable assuming you've already got a good handle on the game). I do recommend getting it though, (the substance version only), since there are some cool things about it, and on normal it's still pretty fun, and the vr missions and snake tales make up for any lameness in the main game imo.
Drawn to Life. It was okay, but not worth buying.
Made me turn to piracy. Karma turned full swing as a result, because I was playing so many games, I didn't get hardly any joy out of them.
Now I'm back to buying. Amusingly, I actually want to at least rent "the next chapter" of Drawn to Life.
Dokapon Journey
It's just... not the same...
272, you probably just don't quite understand how to play Baten Kaitos which is understandable since it introduced many unique aspects and themes. Try reading the manual and restarting the game and it'll likely end up a favorite of yours.
Unreal Tournament 3. I mean I had fun playing it, but I was expecting something different. It felt to much like Gears of War (I know its by the same company) and not much like UT. Of course I had been hoping it would be an updated UT99.
None of the subsequent UTs have ever even come close to the awesomeness of UT99.
Now don't get me wrong, it is a decent and fun game, but I was expecting something else.
Scribblenauts. I'll give it some credit, it's the best Jetpack and Fishing Pole simulator I've ever played.
Just purchased "Defender of the Crown" for the Nes. ugh. at least it was only 6 bucks. It's not that it's impossible, but it's just so horrible. I'd rather play Abadox or Astyanax without cheating than play that game.
Spore. I got really hyped about it before it came out, but it was complete shit.
yeah, while I've never played it myself, they pretty much showed you the entire game in the press demos. There was literally nothing else to show, just a longer playtime.
Tropico 3. I got the special Steam sale for $13.60, not worth a single penny.
Phantasy Star Universe. Such shit.
Populous.
Castle of Magic.
Phantasy Star Universe (Though, it's a great anime...)
What's wrong with Populous?
It was the SNES version. Didn't have the guide book, and the internet was vague as hell.
Couldn't play it nor the crappy RPG that I got with it.
A pox on Populous.
AND QUEST 64.
>>291
I like Quest 64... I've never finished it, though...
I regret buying Kingdom Hearts 300-Some-Odd Days for the DS. I think that franchise has lost its charm...
yeah, that can happens inevitably after a monster hit.
Also, Quest 64 was a charming game. You just needed a guide to tell you where all those spirits were.
And I also agree with SNES populous. I'm 26 and I STILL don't know how that damned game works...
Tales of the Abyss.
Never understood why Tales were so great and what not.
A typical JRPG with familiar and even boring elements that repeat in every asswipe of a typical JRPG.
Haze. I bought it on pre-order and kept the faith in the face of mounting evidence that it might be utter shit. It was WAY WORSE. The final line from the main villain caused a facepalm to rival the Chilean earthquake. Fuck.
I bought Myst (it cost less than a blank CD), but the 320x200 graphics looks hopelessly tiny on my 1920x1080 screen.
Assasins Creed 2
>>297
(Actually, it was a Windows port. It ran in a window, but the developers forgot to scale up the pictures.)
Spiderman 3
360
Tales of monkey island, pitiful addition to the series.
Avalon Code
just not as much fun as I thought it would be.
Definately hate clicking on absolutely everything trying to get points.
This is really taking far too long. I say we all register accounts, mature them, and all hit the same board within the same 10 minutes. There'll be uproar.
SBAllen hasn't had to deal with any major shit since he took over. It's time we inducted him into the real world.