The "games you regret having bought" thread

[Nezzer]

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (yeah I bought that piece of crap)
Mafia 2 (lots of parts of the game were cut to be sold as DLC, also not worth the price)

 

[Crusher]

Does that mean that you'd have to play darkstar one in german?

Well with games it's a different story I guess, I prefer playing my games in english, but if the game has a certain feel to it with the native language I would prefer the native language if the interface was in english ofcourse.

Like in Stalker they speak russian to eachother and english to you. If they only spoke english it would be a moodkiller. If they spoke in dutch (my motherlanguage) I wouldn't even think about playing it. I watch movies in their native language no matter what, that's why there are subtitles.

 

[fiftyone]

I watch movies in their native language no matter what, that's why there are subtitles.

This...

 

[Amerikaner]

Day of Defeat: Source - Imo Valve's worst release. Take CS:S and put bland WW2 models/skins over top of everything and then release it. Still the worst $20 I ever spent on a game.

Btw Fed, I bought AvP for 10 bucks during the Halloween sale and haven't installed it yet. Is it at least worth that much? I didn't even play it yet and I'm having regrets now that there's so many other games to spend time on.

 

[DraKon2k]

Day of Defeat: Source - Imo Valve's worst release. Take CS:S and put bland WW2 models/skins over top of everything and then release it. Still the worst $20 I ever spent on a game.

The only real issue imo was how badly balanced rifles vs smgs were. On servers with strictly limited assault class, pistols for all classes, rifle damage back to dod goldsrc and with awesome custom maps it was quite much fun. But still definitely Valves worst release, i agree on that.

 

[Olivier]

Cod:MW2


**Off-topic**
Can someone tell me why did UT3 failed so much

 

[Amerikaner]

Cod:MW2


**Off-topic**
Can someone tell me why did UT3 failed so much

It seemed to try to straddle the line between UT and a futuristic war shooter and didn't really capture the fans of either. The menu systems were consoleish. It didn't have AA. But biggest of all for me was no one played it and most of the modding community, which was pretty much the entire reason I bought UT2k3/4, had moved on to Source.

 

[DraKon2k]

on the positive side there is UDK now

 

[Bobdog]

Borderlands

Mindless storyless 4-player MMO. Find the NPC, accept the quest without even reading it, run towards the little objective diamond, do the kill 10/collect 10/fetch 10 quest and turn it in. Lather, rinse repeat. Might as well be work.

 

[NoxNoctum]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (yes the first one that everyone loved)
... just didn't see what all the fuss was about. The respawning enemies and ridiculously linear combat was incredibly lame and I felt like I was holding a weapon made by matel. And the multiplayer was utterly retarded. You died within seconds of spawning usually and it was utterly mindless.

Mass Effect: A lot of the missions felt like literally identical copies of each other. Apparently though people have told me I was playing the "sidequests"... but it's because I wanted the $$$ to buy the Spectre or whatever it was called tech. I'll probably give it another shot sometime when I'm bored and just ignore the side quests completely.

Combat Mission Shock Force: Initially at least, a totally buggy disaster. Now they've patched it up though and the latest module has some great missions and campaigns. Still no we-go tcp-ip or real QB system though... We're told we'll get both though in CM: Normandy which is due to drop soon... So I don't regret the purchase anymore, but I sure as hell did at release.

Rome: Total War
As much as I wanted to love this game given my obsession with Roman history, I couldn't, because the battle AI was ridiculously incompetent (the strategic AI was really bad too... it would send small piecemeal armies against me). Unless I was outnumbered 3-1 I would ALWAYS get a "Heroic Victory" or whatever the best victory was you could get. From what I hear the TW games continue to have utterly pathetic battle AI so until that changes I won't touch another one of their games, despite the great concept.

 

[dogbadger]

Cod:MW2


**Off-topic**
Can someone tell me why did UT3 failed so much

ppl can talk about console style menus and lack of custom performance options - certainly when released - and they are not wrong, but basically i think fps gamer's tastes have just changed and generally outgrown this kind of game to some extent.

I believe games lke COD and MoH are the new deathmatch - loud and exciting run and gun but in a setting ppl can relate to and prefer.

 

[Nimsky]

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter.

 

[Reise]

Far Cry 2 - Speaks for itself.

BFBC2 (PC) - Unceasing mess of cheap kills, lack of team play, and gimmicky weapons. Definitely a better game for consoles.

L4D 1 - Completely obsolete with the release of L4D 2.

Red Dead Redemption - Great story, but lack of replayability and its shallow multiplayer really ruined its entertainment value. There's also not much to do outside of the story and side missions unless you just like shooting people.

 

[Fedorov]

Btw Fed, I bought AvP for 10 bucks during the Halloween sale and haven't installed it yet. Is it at least worth that much? I didn't even play it yet and I'm having regrets now that there's so many other games to spend time on.

Well, there are few good moments in the campaign, the only one that comes to my mind now is the battle against the praetorian as a Predator.

The multiplayer is fun for a few days (I don't know if there are people still playing though)

So 10$ sounds about right, well, it depends on how much it takes you to earn that money, and there are a lot of better things one can buy with 10$, but if you already have it, give it a go, at least for the praetorian fight, and some multiplayer matches (if you can). As I said, the campaign is short so it wont take you too long to complete.

In the worst case, you'll regret it 3 times less than I do (I paid 30€).

 

[Zennousha]

ARMA2 - Buggy and still seems to have some frame issues here or there.

L4D - Holy ****. 60 dollars for a game I played for a week and got bored of. Then I got Killing Floor and loved it every time I went to a LAN party/center.

Unreal Tournament 3 - No game yet plays the way UT GOTYE did, and the handling of the weapons always changes so drastically you wonder you're playing the same game.

MW2 - I knew it was going to be bad. I just freakin' knew it. Was too lazy to cancel the preorder and figured it'd tide me over till another game. Oh well, I know better now.

 

[reyalpOR]

CoD 2 : I was expecting bigger and better but was mistaken... $50

Lucky enough, I can still find fun even with the games I play the least.

 

[Fedorov]

I think the problem with UT3 was that it was just too gritty and heavy looking, unreal tournament 99 was about mesmerizing psychedelic colors and space, and simplistic maps that made absolutely no sense but were very original in design. The focus was on gameplay... it was revolutionary in concept for arena style shooters.

I think the "graphical realism" of UT3 is one of the things that killed it... and the lack of modding community too. There was no RO or KF for UT3.

I don't know, one can only theorize about the reasons that made UT3 fail, because is technically a very good game, and it shouldn't have failed. But the hype died quickly and it just died...

 

[Zennousha]

That's the problem, I actually liked the visuals for the most part (except for the football shouldered models that they've sported for ages now). It's just the gun mechanics and the core gameplay changes so much. I mean, look at the Sniper Rifle from 99 to now.

UT GOTYE - Different ammo for different purposes. Overall the weapon has a decent rate of fire and can thus be used from an unscoped position as long as you're on the mark.

UT3 - Slow firing, huge tracer, and can have a headshot blocked by a helmet. Absolutely useless anywhere but long range (which only really happens on Onslaught maps and the like).

 

[Flogger23m]

Splinter Cell: Double Agent: Worse than Chaos Theory in every way... and this one frequently crashed and had inferior graphics. Thankfully I only paid $10.


Battle Stations Midway: I bought the game and it would not install. So I downloaded it, and even the download did not work. I made sure my system was clean of any crap from both versions, went back to Frys and returned the game. Thankfully they gave me my money back even though I opened it.


Metro 2033: In the year 2033 I'll have a PC that will actually be able to run it. In the mean time I'll just enjoy Crysis at near maxed out settings.

Battlefield 2: Awful for online play with the "punkbuster" crap. More like playerbuster. It kicks you out of the game for no reason. I never played it for more than 5 minutes online. Thankfully I only spent $10. I should have tried to return it, but never did.

Team Fortress 2: Extremely boring and lame. I paid $40 for the orange box. IMO, Ep 2 and Portal were only worth $30 together, so I felt like I paid $10 for this. I would not even pay $2 for it.


Those are some I can think of off the top of my head. There are more though.

It seemed to try to straddle the line between UT and a futuristic war shooter and didn't really capture the fans of either. The menu systems were consoleish. It didn't have AA. But biggest of all for me was no one played it and most of the modding community, which was pretty much the entire reason I bought UT2k3/4, had moved on to Source.

The main thing that killed it for me was the lack of big maps and little to no custom maps.

The vehicles felt underpowered to me.

A lot of the maps did not have any Raptors, or only had 1-2.

Overall the game was not as vehicle oriented.

There was not as much content either.

Some of the maps were so small and pathetic... like the one where your Goliath can only move forward on a near straight line, sits on a platform, and shoots at the exposed power core.

But I did laugh at the opening cutscenes.


Overall I had my fun with the game, but it was not as good as 2004.

 

[Reise]

UT3 failed because of severe launch problems. Bad server browser, connection issues, etc.

It's definitely playable now with the UT3 "Black" updates but nobody gives it a chance.