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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!"
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>>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
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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.
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>>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?