which games did you regret buying

[Taurus Daggerknight]

Divinity: Original Sin 2- Just didn't land for me. 

 

Temple of Elemental Evil- Like the Infinity Engine games, only worse in every single way possible!

 

Unreal 2: The Awakening- Such an amazingly dull shooter..

 

Ion Fury: I liked the Early Access demo, but the full game feels like it didn't really go the distance. Something about it didn't feel right, and I've certainly seen mods do more with the engine. 

 

Serious Same 3- Felt very confused about what kind of FPS it wanted to be. 

 

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive- It really lacked the spark that made all the previous CS games work. I couldn't even tell you what exactly is wrong, other than "spark". I never sunk into it the way I did with the older ones. 

 

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem- Okay, this one was REALLY fun for a while, and I LOVED it... but towards the final act, the cracks were really hard to ignore, and a year after release, a lot of those problems remain unaddressed. 

 

Honorary Mentions:

 

Titan Quest (recent years, never bought it as a kid)

Grim Dawn (played it briefly, wasn't my cup of tea)

Diablo 2 (recent years), because it's very hard to play it in that resolution these days. 

 

 

[Optimus]

Telltale games in general. I tried Tales from the Borderlands as I like the series. And I agree that for it's genre, it's very well done, the characters/humor/style of Borderlands is there. But I had a bad taste with it and gave it a negative review then. I had a disagreement with a friend and he thought I was expecting a shooter like Borderlands. But that wasn't the reason. The reason was that I was expecting an adventure game and what I got was a casualized version of it. Minimal riddles, and it tries to help the player too much, it doesn't have the feeling of adventures where you are in a map with several locations and you can backtrack and visit all locations (like the entire island of Monkey Island for example), but it forces you in some path you cannot go visit before. Also,. I used to love dialogues in classic adventure games, but here it has the timed dialogues when I almost never have time to read, of course you can just not chose and it will roll like a movie. In few words I expected something like a classic adventure game but what I got was closer to an interactive movie. Much later I loved Life is Strange, because it's the antithesis of this, dialogues stay for ever so you can chose at your own pace, sometimes you can move to various different screens and then back (although sometimes chapters will still lock you in certain areas), some more riddles to solve, doesn't hold players hand as much.

 

A lot of the PS3 era 3rd person stealth/action that try to look like a cinematic movie. Yes, they are impressive, but I quickly realize they are just cheesy b-movies that try to be impressive with the feeling that realtime 3d graphics for very impressive cinematics. It's all extremely linear and scripted, they have chapters just like the Telltale games for example instead of a world to explore and comeback, I tried the more adventury ones Heavy Rain, Beyond two souls, then tried the high acclaimed Last of Us and got bored for some reason and never ever finished.

 

The Crew: I used to like Test Drive Unlimited for it's open world racing. I bought The Crew and I regretted it back then only because it needed the Ubisoft Play service, which would have connection errors all the time back then. And the game, required connection, even if I wanted to play it in single player mode. It simply couldn't connect, and when after several attempts it connected, after 5 minutes of playing it disconnected and quit the game. I did return the game through Amazon and saved 40£. Much later I bought The Crew from a cheaper bargain and the problems were fixed. I played for a while, but didn't caught me in, there were things I didn't like (when you try to crash with opposing cars, there is a bit of slide/bounce that takes you parallel to the car, weird) and generally speaking, I've seen there is a gangsta story shoved into it, while Test Drive Unlimited was more Zen as I remember.

 

Bioshock: I finished it, but I think it was overhyped. Yep, maybe the story might be interesting, but something felt very wrong with the shooting. And everything was dark and I had a hard time to fight the enemies in a way that made the shooting feel satisfactory. The injections you make with the special elemental attacks (I don't remember how they are called in the game now) were interesting, but I rarely ever used them. The sisters,. hmm... interesting idea, but repeatitive to select save or sacrifice. I mean, the game has some interesting ideas, but didn't catch with my taste. You had gimmicks around to hack turrets I think, but it always felt very gimmicky to me,. it's not as organic as let's say Deus Ex where you can hack something but you can take different paths in an open non-linear area. Oh, and I think there was a lot of linearity, and even a lot of forced sections where "The door close behind you, there is some exposition of enemies coming, Adam tells you through the walkie-talkie "quick, they are coming!", you escape and then water breaks",. you know the usual tropes of let's make the game look very cinematic and suspense, by blocking your path in a very linear fashion, till you do something and the scripted effect continues. These things put me off many times, they are so predictable, it's like shooter on rails in a way.

Edited June 25, 2021 by Optimus

[Spooner5020]

Jaws Unleashed for ps2. The description they gave for it was basically GTA JAWS or something and that sounded like fun to me. Who knew it would be so hard to control a freaking shark? The controls were terrible, it wasn’t really too well explained what you were supposed to do in certain missions and I SWEAR the game is a reason of the ECCO the Dolphin game for ps2 as well which made it even worse. It was so bad I asked my dad if I could return it to eb games that day!!

 

Leisure suit Larry: Box Office Bust. I actually have a very love/hate relationship with this game. I think the cartoony graphics really work for it and the fact that it was using Unreal Engine 3 was the selling point for me. It starts out really well, but then when it gets to the combat it’s so broken, you can barely get a hit in. The combat is also what kills the last mission cause you are on a time limit and you have to finish a gang to get to the next part of the mission while the clock is counting down. Don’t necessarily regret buying it cause it had things I liked, but the combat killed it for me.

 

Kingdom Hearts: Memory of Melody. So this is what Kingdom Hearts has become. A series that once had a lot of heart and thought put into it is now reduced to just a freaking cash grab. The cutscenes didn’t really add anything to the story except the very last one. I could have easily avoided buying this and just watched the ONE cutscene that leads into the next game on YouTube.

 

Aqua Teen Hunger Force golf game for ps2. Just why? The show is actually really good. This game wasn’t.

 

Finny The Fish for ps2. I remembered getting this cause the cover looked interesting to me. I don’t even remember what the game was about or what you did. I remembered regretting buying it though.

[BrassKnight]

More games I regret buying:

Red Dead Redemption- I bought this when I was already starting losing interest in games so it ended up collecting dust on my shelf.

Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines- a PSP game that I had installed, I was having fun with it until my PSP's analog stick drifiting kicked in. It was basically unplayable at that point. Not only that, I had to delete all my games just to fit this game to my 8gb memory card.

Call of Duty: Strike Team- A mobile game that my 9 year old (probably inaccurate) self bought without my dad's permission, costed like 22 dollars. Not only that, I also spent like $100-200+ worth of transactions in Dead Trigger 2. My dad was very upset with me and it's perhaps one of my biggest regrets. Lesson here: Don't give your kid free access to your credit card, they'll drain your hard earned money to the sink.

[Rudolph]

On 6/20/2021 at 9:51 PM, Remilia Scarlet said:

* Dusk.  I cannot overstate how bored I was with this game and its level design.

Have you tried Doosk?

 

This might at least address your issue with the level design. :P

[Alfwin]

Cyberpunk 2077.  Pre-ordered it, played about 3 hours, and I don't think I'll ever touch it again.  Even if they fix every single bug I encountered, it just... isn't the right game for me.

Also, the entire Witcher series.  I got it as a bundle, but in all three games, the basic movement feels uncomfortable to an extent that makes the games unplayable.  Maybe I should stay away from CDPR games in general.

 

Oh, and Wolfenstein: the New Order.  I hate when games have 2-hour-long tutorials; by the time I'd seen enough of the game to know it wasn't for me, I'd played far too much for Steam to allow a refund.  But now I know to stick with the old DOS Wolfenstein games; those are more my speed.

[deus-ex]

24 minutes ago, Orcsbreath said:

Cyberpunk 2077.  Pre-ordered it, played about 3 hours, and I don't think I'll ever touch it again.  Even if they fix every single bug I encountered, it just... isn't the right game for me.

 

 

Have you considered refunding the game? Even if pre-ordered, you played for just 3 hours, so you are obviously unsatisfied with the game. There's a chance you could get the refund request approved.

[Alfwin]

2 minutes ago, deus-ex said:

 

Have you considered refunding the game? Even if pre-ordered, you played for just 3 hours, so you are obviously unsatisfied with the game. There's a chance you could get the refund request approved.

 Hm, maybe?  I know Steam won't allow a refund if you've played more than 1 hour and I assumed GOG had a similar policy but it might be worth looking into I guess.

[deus-ex]

4 minutes ago, Orcsbreath said:

 Hm, maybe?  I know Steam won't allow a refund if you've played more than 1 hour and I assumed GOG had a similar policy but it might be worth looking into I guess.

 

Yeah, probably so. But with all the recent issues attached to the game, GOG might use a more lax evaluation for this game title. At least trying cannot hurt, right?

[Jello]

4 hours ago, Orcsbreath said:

 Hm, maybe?  I know Steam won't allow a refund if you've played more than 1 hour and I assumed GOG had a similar policy but it might be worth looking into I guess.

Steam is two weeks or two hours, really no questions asked. Gog is 30 days. You can still request a refund after those periods, but it goes for manual review. But it never hurts to at least ask. And if you got it on Gog, CDPR is well aware of the issues with the game.

[Azuris]

13 hours ago, Orcsbreath said:

Also, the entire Witcher series.  I got it as a bundle, but in all three games, the basic movement feels uncomfortable to an extent that makes the games unplayable.  Maybe I should stay away from CDPR games in general.

 

 

I know exactly what you mean.

My Girlfriend said this Weekend after i played a couple of Sessions Morrowind "You seem so satisfied by Morrowind, but when you play Witcher 3 it seems to make you somehow angry.", haha.

 

And yes, there are such "Details" that make me angry.

- the way the Protagonist and Horse moves is awkward.

I falled many Times into Death because he moves strangly or starts running after you go through a door.

The Horse is getting stucked sooo many Times on small Objects... and when you try getting off of that Object you are getting stucked on the next one...

There is so much useless Stuff in the World to loot, so many Quests that give you Trash.

The crafting Stuff is Trash, why even implement it if it gives you no Advance?

The Music in the first two Hours was brutally awful, slow strings and made in a way that folters your nerves.

 

I really like the Cities, they are so well done and i also like the characters and the story.

But that there is so much useless Stuff inbetween and clunkyness makes me angry.

 

In the elder scrolls games as described it is viceversa.

The "side adventures" are the main atraction, as you can find awsome stories and events by just running around and talking to People.

[Apprentice]

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight

 

The only game I ever bought on the first day without reading any reviews and seeing any previews and boy ... I wish I had !! It was a slap in the face of all C&C fans and a real franchise killer, since no new C&C game was released afterwards . . .

 

 

Star Trek Elite Force II

 

While the first one (developed by Raven Software) was an unexpected hit and a good shooter (for that time) with 'some' Trek elements, the second one developed by Ritual, was a clear example of Trek being given to people who didn't get the franchise. Elite Force II was the result of that and the persistent requirement for their own development tools (Uberradiant) rather then offering support for the well known GTK Radiant branch, simply ment that the game died out rather quick . . .

 

 

Games that I intended to buy but ultimately didn't:

- Aliens Colonial Marines

- Fallout New Vegas

Edited June 29, 2021 by Apprentice

[Biz!]

Half Life: Source, I got it with the Valve Complete pack and its only useful for playing half life in gmod

[Vertpin]

F this game. $60 on PS3 at launch, $10 more for the PS4 upgrade, then another $60 for the PC version. Lesson learned. 

[Absolute Lambda]

Factorio

 

The addiction kills me

[PsychEyeball]

Unreal 2: The Awakening - I didn't think a shooter could be this slow until I played this. Given how the game wants to be story-driven and character-based, maybe the characters should have been relatable or likeable? I bought this for 2 bucks and I was still disappointed. A far cry from the beauty and simplicity of Unreal.

 

Bioshock 2 - I couldn't get into it no matter how hard I tried. I don't care about you being an experimental big baddy and all because you sure don't feel like one. The only positive: no more incessant Pipe Dreams minigames. 

 

Wacky Wheels HD - The people who made this game never played a racing game. Terrible driving model, terrible optimization where the performance reaches single-digit FPS in still screen menus and a complete disregard of the source material. Wacky Wheels DOS was not a masterpiece by any stretch but this remake makes the original look like an excellent game. 

 

Deus Ex: Invisible War - This one was a heartbreaker. I loved the hell out of Deus Ex but playing through the sequel felt like work. The game world felt joyless and not fun at all to navigate, plus the small map sizes made it so that lots of your playing time involve staring at loading screens. Having all your weapons tied to a universal ammo type make it so keeping around certain weapons is completely pointless. Main characters felt lifeless and uniconic, which further added to dissatisfaction. 

 

Painkiller Resurrection - The death and beginning of the life of the Painkiller franchise as a shambling corpse. Levels are ugly, badly scripted to the point where you can easily soft-lock, nothing new has been added to the game, and finally advertised multiplayer coop mode is a lie. I guess I'm the biggest moron around since I kept buying games of the series afterwards, just to further see how downhill the franchise would go. 

 

Bulletstorm Full Clip Edition -  Damn you Randy. Another game and franchise ruined by your meddling. The game was perfectly fine before and you somehow made it worse. How hard is it to just remove Games for Windows live?

 

I probably could keep going because I hate money and myself when it comes to games. But let's keep it at that.

[OniriA]

Some game for the PS1 with an Alien (similar to the Alien movie) on the cover.

 

The screenshots on the back looked like it would be a badass shooter.

They were my only reference point, after all. 

 

Turned out to be the most garbage fire thing ever, as the controls didn't work for shit.

Edited August 10, 2021 by OniriA

[DJVCardMaster]

Mostly bootleg games for the Sega Genesis like the Super Mario Bros or Donkey Kong '99 ones.
Talking about real games, none of them, maybe I've felt dissapointed with games such as Resident Evil 5, but I mostly like my games. I think the first two Witcher games, the only one worthy is the third one.

[DollarStoreChili]

Outriders. I've put a dozen or less hours into it. I don't hate it, I just forgot about it. That's rare for me. New games are an obsession that I never just forget to continue playing.

 

All of the dark souls games I've purchased. I went through a phase of trying to "get" dark souls, to the point where I even pre-purchased the second. I wanted to understand why they were popular. In the end, they just weren't my flavor and I just didn't care for them. I don't think they're bad. I just don't like them.

 

Lastly, I regret all the money I sunk into world of tanks. I spent many years pumping money into the game trying to make it more enjoyable when I should've just quit after I had outgrown it.

[LUISDooM]

I generally don't regret a game purchase, but a game that I REALLY regret buying is Neptunia Virtual Stars for PS4.

This one is a weird Japanese 3rd person shooter and Hack and Slash hybrid that, while it looks good graphically, it suffers of poor controls (both TPS and H&S controls are slow and unresponsive at times), bad enemy/partner AI, crappy story (not that Neptunia games have the most epic stories, but saving a dimension were, if you don't like V-Tuber stuff, you are BAD?), crappy characters, buggy as heck (getting softlocked after grinding for 2 hours is not fun), the constant advertising of "real life" (lol) Japanese V-Tubers (I like anime stuff, but some of them are just creepy) in-game and in the form of unskippable videos at almost every loading screen, and the list continues...

I love Hyperdimension Neptunia games, but not this one. I regret every cent I spent on this game... >:(

Edited August 11, 2021 by LUISDooM

[whybmonotacrab]

Final Fantasy 14. Not because it's bad but because I have no fucking life now and need help.

[Lenny42]

Space engineers, never wanting to put enough time into it to learn the physics or how to build ships thus leading to me sucking at it and disliking the game has lead to a 20 dollar dump of 8 hours of my life.

[CrocketRocket]

Overwatch.

Don't get me wrong I like the game but lately I felt like something was missing from it, this might sound fucked up but I tend to enjoy alot of shit talk and weird conversations from people. Plus I guess its odd to say it but after getting good at other heroes I began to start feeling like an asshole for doing people dirty for using ultimate which then I began forcing myself to play JunkRat more often simply because I love grenade launchers and hitting those "SICK NUT BUSTING PIPE HITS BRAH!!" Other than that I felt like there wasnt really much in the community from lets say Team Fortress 2, Quake, CSGO, or other fps games I played through.

[UncleTito]

Transistor - not a bad game by any means put out by the studio, but probably their worst (which in all fairness, is still at a pretty high relative quality level)

 

Darksiders I and II - the first one comes with some especially painful consolitis

 

And finally, 

 

Path of Exile. 

I bought so many stash tabs that I could've bought a nice piece of furniture for the total amount probably. Or even a scooter.

Good God I wasted so many hours in that game

Edited August 14, 2021 by UncleTito

[Sergeant G]

THIEF (2014) - A game designed by a team that did not know or care about the franchise they were stepping into.

[Pistoolkip]

Civilization Beyond Earth

I loved the civ series and Alpha Centauri in particular, but this entry felt so boring and uninspired