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There are a bunch of Steam games I've bought, mostly because they seemed cheap at the time but I regret purchasing them and I wish I could return them. What are yours and why?
Borderlands + all Borderlands DLCs - This was the most disappointing game of the year for me. I was hyped for it and bought a 4 pack to play co-op with my friends because us PC gamers have been shafted for good co-op games for so long. The game had no story, the ending was stupid, the game was repetitive, the missions were all the same and the story for each mission was bland and boring. The FOV was stuck at an awful 60 forcing me to map my run button to the change FOV command causing bouncing of the FOV at times giving me a headache. I even bought the DLCs to play with my friends but they have even less story and are even less fun. This game screamed potential but halfway through development they switched to the cel shaded look and ditched the serious storyline for the comedy one and then it just got sillier and stupider and incongruent. A lot of the game was stuck in console port mode but fortunately there was a lot of possibilities with ini editing.
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 - Another game I bought because I craved co-op so badly. It was okay but I'd never play it again. I had enough Vegas after the first game and again, the FOV was stuck at a horrible console setting of 60.
Bad Company 2 - Don't need to explain this one. Many people have shared their sentiments with how few maps there are and how all the maps are so narrow and focused on chokes. I bought this because I wanted to play with a friend but it's not the game I wanted (64 player large map Battlefield type game) and I haven't touched it in months.
Street Fighter IV - Bought to fight friends online. Played as Sagat and beat all of them but going onto the actual online portion for matchmaking console style sucked. I don't like the art style in this game and I don't like getting my ass kicked every single time I go online by people who care too much about this game. It stopped being fun quickly.
Commandos 1, 2, 3, etc. - Bought them out of nostalgia but they were totally broken and Steam doesn't give a damn about fixing their lazy dos/win95 ports. Won't even work in Vista/7. Bugged and broken even in XP, wouldn't save, resolutions sucked, etc. Eventually had to find cracked exe's from 10 years ago to even be able to play the game by hex editing certain files (Steam's exes have different checksums and are encrypted) to fix problems Steam wouldn't.
Titan Quest & Immortal Throne - Bought to play with friends in co-op (hmm, seems to always be the case) but the game wasn't for me. The storyline was lacking and it was just a hack and slash, click on everything, click to attack, click-fest resulting in seriously bad wear and tear to Mouse 1 and carpel tunnel syndrome.
Eve Online: Tyrannis - No idea why I bought this. I thought it was cheap or something. I don't want to play spreadsheets in space and wouldn't ever pay a monthly fee to play any MMO. I guess I wanted to have it in case I ever wanted to have no life at all.
Borderlands + all Borderlands DLCs - This was the most disappointing game of the year for me. I was hyped for it and bought a 4 pack to play co-op with my friends because us PC gamers have been shafted for good co-op games for so long. The game had no story, the ending was stupid, the game was repetitive, the missions were all the same and the story for each mission was bland and boring. The FOV was stuck at an awful 60 forcing me to map my run button to the change FOV command causing bouncing of the FOV at times giving me a headache. I even bought the DLCs to play with my friends but they have even less story and are even less fun. This game screamed potential but halfway through development they switched to the cel shaded look and ditched the serious storyline for the comedy one and then it just got sillier and stupider and incongruent. A lot of the game was stuck in console port mode but fortunately there was a lot of possibilities with ini editing.
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 - Another game I bought because I craved co-op so badly. It was okay but I'd never play it again. I had enough Vegas after the first game and again, the FOV was stuck at a horrible console setting of 60.
Bad Company 2 - Don't need to explain this one. Many people have shared their sentiments with how few maps there are and how all the maps are so narrow and focused on chokes. I bought this because I wanted to play with a friend but it's not the game I wanted (64 player large map Battlefield type game) and I haven't touched it in months.
Street Fighter IV - Bought to fight friends online. Played as Sagat and beat all of them but going onto the actual online portion for matchmaking console style sucked. I don't like the art style in this game and I don't like getting my ass kicked every single time I go online by people who care too much about this game. It stopped being fun quickly.
Commandos 1, 2, 3, etc. - Bought them out of nostalgia but they were totally broken and Steam doesn't give a damn about fixing their lazy dos/win95 ports. Won't even work in Vista/7. Bugged and broken even in XP, wouldn't save, resolutions sucked, etc. Eventually had to find cracked exe's from 10 years ago to even be able to play the game by hex editing certain files (Steam's exes have different checksums and are encrypted) to fix problems Steam wouldn't.
Titan Quest & Immortal Throne - Bought to play with friends in co-op (hmm, seems to always be the case) but the game wasn't for me. The storyline was lacking and it was just a hack and slash, click on everything, click to attack, click-fest resulting in seriously bad wear and tear to Mouse 1 and carpel tunnel syndrome.
Eve Online: Tyrannis - No idea why I bought this. I thought it was cheap or something. I don't want to play spreadsheets in space and wouldn't ever pay a monthly fee to play any MMO. I guess I wanted to have it in case I ever wanted to have no life at all.