Games you regret buying

While technically I didn't buy it, I am offended at Modern Warfare 2. I've stated my reasons in other threads, and I would rather not unleash that rage over here.

On a similar note, Fable II. I had grown too bored to finish that game because there was nothing that kept me entertained. Characters were badly-written and felt like the dialogue was forced half the time, combat was dull and repetitive (and you couldn't lose, which is rage-inducing in itself), and I just didn't enjoy it, either as an RPG or as a story.

Halo Wars wasn't my favorite purchase, but it was a good game for what a console RTS. But that boon is also its curse, as there are very few effective console RTS games out there. Plot was very cookie-cutter too without much going for it as well.

Also, Avatar: The Game. Along with Modern Warfare 2, they comprise of the only two games that I have legitimately hated. That's saying something, I usually don't get more than disappointed with games. Course, my opinion may or may not have been colored by the movie. It was just a poorly-constructed game, obviously a tie-in just to get some cash. Laaaaaaaaaaame.

Still need More Dakka, and it's about time to start a real WAAAAAGH.

New Super Mario Brothers Wii.

Don't get me wrong, it's a fun game, but the cheapest I could find it for in retail was $80 (AUD) and I felt so bloody ripped off for it. I still feel that NSMBW is a rip off for giving us what should have just been a DS game on the wii for the same price as a wii game.

Haze. The amusement I got out of abusing the awful AI did not make up for my save getting ruined because of a Game-Breaking Bug, and pretty much everything else about it.

Minecraft. Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing game, but 5 people gifted it to me for my birthday.

I don't think I've ever found a game I bought to be brain-breakingly horrible. I do however, regret buying certain titles because they ate up way too much of my time- as in more than I spent on TV Tropes.

I also regret buying games that turned out not to work on my PC or my family's PC, regardless of their actual quality.

Nightmare of Druaga. I didn't know the meaning of the phrase "fushigi no dungeon" at the time. I am not, by and large, a fan of rogue-likes, and No D is a poor example of a roguelike.

Ninja Gaiden and Devil May Cry. These, by contrast, are good games. I just don't have the reflexes for them. ( And really, Nintendo Hard or not, they should have much more forgiving save mechanics )

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My friend bought a copy of Ninja Gaiden 2 after he saw some of the crazy fights i got into while playing it. I don't think i've ever heard anyone swear that much.

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Numen Contest of Heroes - as I said in another post, it's basically like Guild Wars but without online play and some bad controls, even for a PC game. For example, when you perform a special attack, you have to SELECT THE ENEMY AGAIN to keep attacking them. Not to mention, the player characters look really ugly, in both genders. I got the game for $2 via a Steam sale. I want my money back.

I kinda wish I didn't buy Scribblenauts. I was so enamored by the premise and accounts from other tropers, but when I got the game, I got stuck on the first non-tutorial level. IIRC, I think a piranha in a pond stumped me. Thinking back, I probably could have solved it using my neighbor's fishing method: a boat and a gun.

Another game I wish I didn't pay money for was Pokemon Emerald. Not that I don't like the game, it's just that I nearly got it for free. The cashier kept dropping my games, so he jokingly put the Emerald cart inside the case of a different game BEFORE RINGING THEM UP. I walked right out of the mall, but my conscious caught up with me as soon as I got to the parking lot. Either that or it was my paranoia. Anyway, I returned to GameStop, got a discount for honesty  ^*

, and walked back home. Four miles in a blizzard, goddammit why couldn't I just save myself the twenty-five bucks?!

edited 24th Feb '11 8:49:06 PM by KitsuneInferno

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.

Timesplitters: Future Perfect

I usually analyze games heavily before I buy them. I never buy on release day. I always wait till I'm sure I'm putting my money on not just a winner but a classic. As a result I own very few games. However, at one point I had become so enamored with Timesplitters 2 that I just about flipped when I found out they were making a sequel. This was the company that could do no wrong. TS 2 was a sequel that IMPROVED on the original in every way. So, thinking that TS 3 would blow my mind I ran down to the local gamestop and bought it on release day.

It's a decent FPS but it's an amazing disappointment compared to its previous installment. I heavily suspect that EA had something to do with massively screwing the pooch on this game. There's a genuinely good, if half-finished, game underneath all brown, the bloom, and the ridiculously tacked on gravity weapon that were so in vogue at the time of the game's release. I still regret forking over full price for it.

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How can you not like Scribblenauts? YOU CAN TRAVEL THROUGH TIME ON A T-REX AND USE IT TO KILL MOTHER-*shot*

That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.

Yeah, I didn't see any of that shit. Just a carnivorous fish flipping me off as best it could with just a fin.

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt." - Some guy with a snazzy hat.

During the massive steam Christmas sale, I got a few indie packs. At 5$ for 5 games, they were a steal. All of them contained at least one or two games I was interested in.

The adventure game pack contained Mr Robot. It's an indie game that involves the adventures of a robot on a spaceship who is fighting the evil AI that is controlling the ship. Or something. Aside from being rather cliche, the plot is also very horridly written, with grammar mistakes everywhere.

Example: At one point, the main character("Asimov") and his "girlfriend" Zelda are in a room. There is a robot attempting to murder her. The robot can't jump, has no ranged attacks, and there is a nearby ledge. She proceeds to stand there and die, while talking in a completely monotone voice. Asimov then says that he managed to download her consciousness into his body before she died. Or something.

On top of that, the game itself just sucks. It's a sub par moving block puzzle game with clunky controls, and it contains a incredibly horrid RPG system when in cyberspace. It was not worth the $1 I spent on it.

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Batman: Dark Tomorrow for the Game Cube, it easily had the worst camera of any game I've ever played. Said camera was not only fixed, but also shifted so often and so wildly that it was possible to get lost in a straight hallway.

Mickey's Ultimate Challenge, a craptastic and repetitive puzzle game for the Genesis. Apparently it was the last game ever released for the Genesis worldwide, since it took until 1998 to make it to Brazil or something.

Really? I think most first-person games work better with the D-pad.

Anyway, I've only said it in one topic, but without elaboration:

System Shock 2
I made a statement about this game on another forum, which I will cut-n-paste here:

I actually discovered the entire franchise last year and played both games back-to-back. I loved System Shock 1, but System Shock 2 removed everything I liked about the first one and replaced it with lame RPG elements that were simply done wrong and made you feel like your every decision was a mistake [mind you, I play a lot of Western RP Gs so I'm not unexperienced with skill systems]. I also didn't like how often enemies respawned and, worse, how they were always right behind you (they respawned in SS 1 too, but usually in another part of the level rather than being down your butt all the time), the way it doesn't pause in the inventory or while hacking, and how the plot was so predictable and not as "weird" or "disturbing" as I had heard people claim.

("Yes, we get it, you love being a hive-mind. Now will you shut up about it?")

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I bought Lair for the PS 3 when it first came out, think that despite all the negative press that it couldn't be that bad.

What I got was a rather unresponsive control system, and not enough reason to keep playing past the tutorial level. It was just, unimpressive on all accounts.

Dost Thou Desire the Power ... Glove? It's so bad.

I tend to meticulously plan my purchases out, so outright bad games are pretty uncommon for me. That said, I do regret buying Contact for the DS. Far too fiendishly difficult for me. The game itself is a bit too... weird for my tastes, as well.

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Any of the anime licensed games. I have never bought a one I liked.

-Both Naruto fighters I tried were 1 button brawlers. -Zoids battle legends was bad in almost every aspect. -And I think there was one other. . .doesn't matter it sucked either way.

edited 25th Feb '11 1:30:45 AM by OhSillyUs

Section8 because it's a multiplayer game with no fucking players. WOW, WHAT A GREAT USE OF MONEY.

Dragon Age because I had far more fun snarking about the game than actually playing it.

Also buying Spore at release and having to needlessly tolerate the faggotry associated with Secu ROM and EADM, both of which are way overdue to die in a fire.

edited 25th Feb '11 2:13:53 AM by TibetanFox

It's really just Star Wars Battlefront with a different premise, when you think about it.

That is the face of a man who just ate a kitten. Raw.

@Electivirus: Was it really that hard? I don't remember it been too much so... I know it didn't take me terribly long to beat it.

But yeah. It's made by Suda51. Weird should be expected.

Oh, and yeah, Spore. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't particularly notable beyond the creators, and it was not worth the bollocks of Secu ROM.

Also, APB. A month later, it goes down, then gets picked up as a free to play game. Weee.

edited 25th Feb '11 5:52:48 AM by Miijhal

Two Worlds. Just... Two Worlds.

Even though I only had it for a couple of days, those were still the longest goddamn days ever.

Jesus, that game was so terrible it gives me 'Nam flashbacks when I see anything even tangentially related to it.

Except for the Audio Atrocities page. That's comedy gold.

edited 25th Feb '11 6:53:29 AM by Shlapintogan

I was pretty disappointed by Blue Dragon for the 360. It was one of the games that I wanted to get the 360 solely for and I was really underwhelmed by it. I guess I would give it a chance again nowadays but the story and characters failed to hook me in the first time.

Concerning demos of games:

I tried out Star Trek Bridge Commander and it was just meh. Yeah, you could swiss cheese a ship and all that, but I thought Klingon Academy did a MUCH BETTER job in showing what happens when ships get mauled - nothing quite as satisfying as watching a warp engine nacelle get ginsu'd off of the targets hull. Well, not fun when you lose all of your warp engine nacelles, though.

Tried Starfleet Command III (full version) and didn't like how far they had strayed from the first two games, either. Only four shield facings? Screw that noise, I miss having six shield facings (despite being only two dimensional). Plus I just couldn't connect with teh plot or premise of the game anymore. The first one was fun, even if the Dynamic Campaign system was pretty borked. I also missed the Hydras and the wonderful antiship fighters they had, too.

...Huh. Might have been the point where I said "screw it" with Star Trek games in general.

edited 25th Feb '11 11:39:08 AM by pvtnum11

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