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.
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
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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.