Because if I want gameplay straight out of 1999 or 2004 then I play UT2k4, or even better, UT!
Games evolve.
The "games you regret having bought" thread
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Because if I want gameplay straight out of 1999 or 2004 then I play UT2k4, or even better, UT!
Games evolve.
Sniper Elite - just a terrible game
Darkest of Days - couple interesting things, but totally not worth the price
Empire Total War - yeah, RO got me hooked back onto FPS games....tried to get back into strategy games with this one, but didnt work. not really that the game was bad, just didnt thrill me so i wasted $50 on something i hardly played
Darkest of Days - couple interesting things, but totally not worth the price
Empire Total War - yeah, RO got me hooked back onto FPS games....tried to get back into strategy games with this one, but didnt work. not really that the game was bad, just didnt thrill me so i wasted $50 on something i hardly played
well, it was a present to me, but I still regret that the money couldn't have been used for better purposes:
50 cent! The Game! for ps3, even!
50 cent! The Game! for ps3, even!
farcry 2 - did you know bullets stop at 50 meters, and that you are actually incapable of bribing faction locals to **** off? or that there are an unlimited number of africans willing to stand at checkpoints and shoot at stuff?
mafia 2 - removed side missions to sell as a seperate game, cock suckers.
battlefield vietnam - every patch created more errors then it fixed.
to some degree GTA4 - the friends, nuff said.
mafia 2 - removed side missions to sell as a seperate game, cock suckers.
battlefield vietnam - every patch created more errors then it fixed.
to some degree GTA4 - the friends, nuff said.
Star Trek: Legacy - I actually bought this twice, once for the 360 and then again for the PC. I had a blast with my friend playing over XBL for a few days, but it was too buggy in MP so we gave up on it. I saw there were several large mods for the PC version so I bought it again as my first game for the new PC I got. Mods did absolutely nothing except add more ships and levels to a game that needed more gameplay and depth.
Red Faction: Guerrilla - The simplest of gameplay changes could have made this awesome. Instead of carefully and stealthily choosing locations to plant charges to level a building, you have to dash into every enemy occupied area and haphazardly toss charges. You usually end up getting killed as a result, which then is auto-saved, meaning you have to do more of the same crap to get enough points to move on to do more of the same crap.
Far Cry 2 - Respawning enemies at every outpost, 'nuff said.
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway - MP gameplay was easily exploited and SP was weaker than Road to Hill 30.
Dragon Age: Origins - I had no idea the 360 version got altered until I played it and found out that the camera was fixed in a permanently horrible place. Also, the ending pissed me off, screw Morrigan's "offer".
The Wii console - Solely got this for SSMB: Brawl. For every good game it has, there is a staggering amount of terrible gimmicky ones. The Wiimotes are inaccurate and spazzy and, since they come with the console, are the default controller for almost every game.
Doom 3 - Reading irrelevant PDAs was not enough of a distraction from all the human's pointy heads.
Red Faction: Guerrilla - The simplest of gameplay changes could have made this awesome. Instead of carefully and stealthily choosing locations to plant charges to level a building, you have to dash into every enemy occupied area and haphazardly toss charges. You usually end up getting killed as a result, which then is auto-saved, meaning you have to do more of the same crap to get enough points to move on to do more of the same crap
.Far Cry 2 - Respawning enemies at every outpost, 'nuff said.
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway - MP gameplay was easily exploited and SP was weaker than Road to Hill 30.
Dragon Age: Origins - I had no idea the 360 version got altered until I played it and found out that the camera was fixed in a permanently horrible place. Also, the ending pissed me off, screw Morrigan's "offer".
The Wii console - Solely got this for SSMB: Brawl. For every good game it has, there is a staggering amount of terrible gimmicky ones. The Wiimotes are inaccurate and spazzy and, since they come with the console, are the default controller for almost every game.
Doom 3 - Reading irrelevant PDAs was not enough of a distraction from all the human's pointy heads.
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Civilization V - Although pretty and inspiring at first glance, as time wears on the over-simplicity, removed features, broken Civilopedia, and long turns make this game a step down from Civilization IV. And the addition of paid DLC for content that should be free, such as maps and civilizations, makes me wish I hadn't paid full price.
Master of Orion 3 - Yes, I tried looking past the naysayers and thought the 60's Star Trek style interface would make for a cool 4X game, but it's actually pretty bad. Everything is a jumbled mess, making it hard to manage anything.
World War I - As a fan of Sudden Strike and Blitzkrieg, a World War I game using the Blitzkrieg engine appealed to me. Another third party game to use the engine was "Great Battles of WWII: Stalingrad", which I enjoyed despite its difficulty. "World War I" on the other hand, is impossible to beat. Unless I'm doing something wrong, cavalry and infantry are completely useless. The only way to win is with artillery, which combined with the re-supply process, can take an eternity.
Spec Ops II: Green Berets - At eight years old, I thought most games were pretty cool. So when I saw "Spec Ops II: Green Berets" at KB Toys, I just had to beg my mom to buy it for me. But after playing it, even at eight years old I knew this game was garbage. I felt so bad that I cried for an hour feeling terrible that I made my mom waste money.
Master of Orion 3 - Yes, I tried looking past the naysayers and thought the 60's Star Trek style interface would make for a cool 4X game, but it's actually pretty bad. Everything is a jumbled mess, making it hard to manage anything.
World War I - As a fan of Sudden Strike and Blitzkrieg, a World War I game using the Blitzkrieg engine appealed to me. Another third party game to use the engine was "Great Battles of WWII: Stalingrad", which I enjoyed despite its difficulty. "World War I" on the other hand, is impossible to beat. Unless I'm doing something wrong, cavalry and infantry are completely useless. The only way to win is with artillery, which combined with the re-supply process, can take an eternity.
Spec Ops II: Green Berets - At eight years old, I thought most games were pretty cool. So when I saw "Spec Ops II: Green Berets" at KB Toys, I just had to beg my mom to buy it for me. But after playing it, even at eight years old I knew this game was garbage. I felt so bad that I cried for an hour feeling terrible that I made my mom waste money.
It also had some pretty intense multiplayer. Fighting over the slow motion device was one of the FPS highlights of this gen for sure.
The effects were awesome for quite a while, and are still impressive.
Theather of War:
I bought it for 40 bucks because I heard its a hard strategic game, but sadly after playing the german campaign in about a hour, i found out its not hard because the AI is good its hard because the enemy can lay down unlimited arty on you, so you have no time for flank attacks or something, no you just had to send all your units to the enemy and wait till the AI bomb its own units away!
Splinter Cell Conviction:
Oh, no, what a sequel for a once great game...
I bought it for 40 bucks because I heard its a hard strategic game, but sadly after playing the german campaign in about a hour, i found out its not hard because the AI is good its hard because the enemy can lay down unlimited arty on you, so you have no time for flank attacks or something, no you just had to send all your units to the enemy and wait till the AI bomb its own units away!
Splinter Cell Conviction:
Oh, no, what a sequel for a once great game...
Borderlands: What Bobdog said. I was impressed by the cool-looking art style - but SP was repetitive and grindy, and not interested in MP at all.
Empire Total War: Always been a huge fan of the TW games, so not sure what happened here, time-period or battles just not interesting enough. Didn't even play it enough to know what I dislike. A US Civil War mod might change my opinion but modding of Empire is almost non-existent.
Men Of War Red Tide: I loved the first MoW, even though frustrating at times it had some excellent missions. This time around I found every single mission (the two I played) just frustrating and stopped playing when the game expected me to take out a whole company with just 6 men, just impossible to complete.
Torchlight: Graphics looked colourful and fun, was just a clickfest that got my mousearm hurting. Never again a Diablo-clone (well except Deathspank which is fun so far...).
Also I've over the years bought several smaller indie titles over Steam which I thought would be fun and also to support indie studios, that I've hardly touched... Not bad just not interesting enough to get deeply into for me.
Empire Total War: Always been a huge fan of the TW games, so not sure what happened here, time-period or battles just not interesting enough. Didn't even play it enough to know what I dislike. A US Civil War mod might change my opinion but modding of Empire is almost non-existent.
Men Of War Red Tide: I loved the first MoW, even though frustrating at times it had some excellent missions. This time around I found every single mission (the two I played) just frustrating and stopped playing when the game expected me to take out a whole company with just 6 men, just impossible to complete.
Torchlight: Graphics looked colourful and fun, was just a clickfest that got my mousearm hurting. Never again a Diablo-clone (well except Deathspank which is fun so far...).
Also I've over the years bought several smaller indie titles over Steam which I thought would be fun and also to support indie studios, that I've hardly touched... Not bad just not interesting enough to get deeply into for me.
