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.
>>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
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