What games have you regretted buying?

I still can't believe I'm the only person here that regrets paying for SimCity 4 :eek:
 
Myst
D&D Online
Everquest 2
Oblivion
Gears of War
Final Fantasy 8 & 10
Zelda Wind Walker & Twilight Princess. (Never liked OoT style Zeldas, so I don't know why I picked up these two)
 
X3 the Reunion
Neverwinter Nights II

That's about all that I've regretted buying in recent months.
 
For the Wii:
Wii Play
WarioWare (for the price)
Trauma Center
Zelda: Twilight Princess (I guess I'm not a Zelda fan)

For the Gamcube:
Zelda: Windwaker

For my PC:
Myst
Everquest (just cuz I spent so much time on it)
 
Counter-Stike: Source

Because once you pop, you just can't stop.

I remember back in time, when I used to play other games...
 
Oblivion for 360
Ultima Ascension
AO (when it came out)
Vanguard
KOTOR (I know and I finished it but it did not have that "GREAT" feelings like I got from BG and IWD)
Zelda: Twilight Princess (for Wii.. thing is I bought Japanese version when it came out lol and could not understand a thing)
 
Stuntman
Army Men 2/3
Battleship
Streets of Sim City
Tzar: Burden of the Crown
Flight Simulator 98
Splinter Cell
Pariah
Tribes: Vengeance
DarkStar One
Nexus: The Jupiter Incident
Civilization IV
Star Trek: Starfleet Command III
 
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic

$50 for a game that crashes all the time, even when loading the main menu. I can't believe I spent money on this piece of crap. I guess I was eluded by the flashy videos and the demo, that ran ok. Well, never going to pick up any Arkane Studios game (or whatever their name is).
 
Splinter Cell DA, Silent Hunter 4. Come to think of it, every Ubisoft game I have bought in the last 2 years.
 
Mmm..

Vanguard, Never Winter Nights 2, Killzone, and couple of others I can't remember.
 
Vanguard.

Anytime it's brought up anywhere I have to restrain myself from going into rant mode. Really can't say enough bad things about my whole VG experience. So Im glad others have added it to this list.
 
defiant007 said:
privateer 2
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LOL, holy crap, I forgot how bad that game was, or even that it existed! What a let down after the masterpiece that is Wing Commander: Privateer!

Frickin' Clive Owen in some of the worst acting EVER! And the whole Full Motion Video gimmick? I've seen porno's with better acting, sets and plot! :mad:
 
Z was prolly my most regretted buy :D

bet half of you don't even know what it is :D
 
dragon said:
Deus Ex: Invisible War
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I have that and the original, while I never really liked either of them, I don't regret getting them so much. X3 the Reunion sucked ass and there are one or two other shitty games.

Oh I forgot, Descent III was a HUGE dissappointment for me. I loved the first two games and found the third game sorely lacking in many areas.
 
hardc0re said:
I think this was back in 1995 or something.. game was called WitchHaven, bought it for 20 bucks, the box was really cool for the time but ended up playing for about 5 minutes and unistalling. ....
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Ahhh yes, I think I got that one. Spells showed as glowing, spinning disks above every place they were hidden? It was like a RPG for the severely retarded. In many ways it was like Diablo. May have been its spiritual forebearer. (in the original RPGs you'd find an enchanted or special item once every 3 weeks and often wouldn't discover the enchantment - good or ill - till you had irreversibly equipped it). Witchaven/Diablo you had to watch were you stepped for all the magic schiz everywhere. Diablo made it stupid, pretty, fun, (see WoW) Witchhaven just made it stupid.

Motor City Online was the ultimate dog of dogs for me. It was a great idea and technology may have advanced (in the right hands) up to the point where it would work well now but, when it was released, the 'drag racing' that earned you rep and money and all was a matter of clicking on one button and praying you didn't lag out, or watch your opponent lag warp into instant supersonic victory. There was no discernible logic as to why anyone achieved a given speed. On most occasions, my car just didn't start - or would chug along at about 3 mph... slower than it should have idled. It was a whole new order of bad. It was bad in public, bad in 1 v 1 competition. Bad for all the stakes. Bad for no good reason. I called tech support and the lady just started by offering me a refund, every time I started to describe a problem she'd cut me off, saying "I know, where can I send the refund?"

Anarchy Online may have sucked at launch (I've certainly heard it did) but it grew into a phenomenal game. It's still going strong.

I remember some Kung Fu game from about 1992 where you could power-stutter your character. I thought that was great. Bruce Lee with MS. It was some no-name ripoff that came bundled on a no-name PC into which Windows 1.0 had been force fed. PC never worked right but playing my buddie's spaz-o-chop made me laugh till I saw stars.
 
Lords of Magic, pales in comparison to Master of Magic, a game 10 or more years older i think it was.
 
Everquest 1, it began the hardcore addiction of mmos. Now its WoW and eq2, games i love to hate, so addicting.
 
World of Warcraft (Good bye life? I've since regained it, WoW free for 8 months!)
Quake 4 (It sucked)
Battlefield 2 (Beta Field 2 anyone?)
 
B. W. said:
silenteye said:
city of heroes....

its just lvl grinding
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Agreed.
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<insert any MMO*G here>

is just level/stuff/random crap grinding because the developers/publishers have figured out that they can milk hundreds or thousands of dollars per consumer over the life of the MMO project for mind numbing JUNK as long as they can get them started on the grind treadmill. Actual worthwhile non-grind content or fun is pretty much non-existent past level 10.

(disgruntled WoW player who wasted far too much time and money on NOTHING).
 
Ub3rn00b said:
I regret buying Rainbow 6 Vegas for the PC because it runs like junk on my rig. Not the game's fault though. I will keep it in the closet until I get a better system later in the year or somethin'...
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Oh... it's the games fault. I can't even play the game now with the system in my sig. I get the wonderful CTDs or a complete system lock whenever I try to play it. Sad to, when it first came out, I enjoyed it, but the patches have only managed to make it worse.

Meant to add... I most regret buying Half Life 1.5 (aka HL2) and Halo 1.5 for xbox at full price. For $20, the repitition could have been overlooked, but for $60 and the mockery which was Steam on release day... VERY much makes me regret it.

Someone said UT2k4. I wouldn't say that I regret buying it... even though I bought it release day as well, but I was a little disappointed in the weapons over previous versions.
 
Droc said:
Tribes (all) - Were pathetic attempts to copy UT.
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Quite possible one of the most uninformed statements I've seen in a long, long time. I don't even need to say why.

ballpoint said:
X3: Reunion ... the most baffling game I've ever tried to play. Like many women, the gorgeous looks gloss over a completely confounding and frustrating interface.
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haha I agree, though once you figure it out (I had to go to the forums to see how to do anything since the manual is completely useless) it's a decent game. Only paid $15 for it so I can't say I'm disappointed.

I also forgot to mention by far my biggest regret in gaming: Star Wars Galaxies Trials of Obi Wan. Thank god they refunded my money.
 
Like some others have said mine would be Everquest 1, because it started my addiction to MMORPG's. I've played EQ1 & 2, Asheron's Call 2, DAoC, WoW, and just started the open beta for LOTR online. Out of those though, I think the most regretted one was AC2. Good grief was that game a huge waste of money. While all MMORPG's are just a waste of time and money, that one was double the suckage.
 
Over G Fighters for Xbox 360, absolute garbage

NFS:MW for 360, was fun until you needed a rediculous amount of bounty to get into races and it stopped being fun.
 
Quake 4 and F.E.A.R. I bought them after both got rave reviews from all sorts of magazines (particularly about their graphics and game-play) as well as other gamers and yet, when I played them, I thought they sucked. Both lacked substance in the game-play. They seemed to me as mearly a run-around-and-shoot-stuff kind of game with no real objective or challenge. I also thought F.E.A.R.'s graphics were about 5 years behind. I have been gaming for years now (my first FPS was Wolfenstein 3D!) and have played tons of stuff, including every C&C title, every Medal of Honor title, every Half-Life title (CS since its inception back around '98) and every Quake title. One of my all times favs is Quake 3, but as for Q4 and F.E.A.R., those are the only 2 games I have purchased and didn't finish. I didn't get too far into Q4 but I got further in it than I did in F.E.A.R cuz I didn't even finish the first level in that!
 
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