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Game Purchases You Regretted Minutes In
- Thread starter Cryptosporidium
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I was just talking graphically its jaggy and ugly, UI is a mess, etc. Load Times r bizarrely long too.
Brink changed how i bought games more or less. aka I only buy safe bets for myself and never fall into hype nowdays.. Brink killed a part of my gaming innocence.
Monster Hunter World, Thief(2014), Anima Gate of Memories, Lichdom Battlemage, a few indies i can't remember. Ghost Recon Wildlands and Dead Island Remaster i sort of regret because the person i was playing with rage quit those games :(
XCOM 2. I'm thankful that I bought it from the Humble Bundle for only $12 but honestly it was a waste of money for me. Played a couple of levels and I couldn't get back into it. It's the reason that I skipped Mario & Rabbids because I'm pretty sure I would feel the same about it.
Yeah, Brink certainly stopped me from buying games at full price and at launch for a loooonnng time.
Yeah, UI was a mess. Almost felt like a JRPG or MMO with the amount of stuff going on.
Yeah, Evil Within 1 is one of the biggest disappointments of the generation to me but EW2 is genuinely one of my favorite horror games of all time.
Not because it was bad or anything, but because I was 12 years old at the time and that intro level where Max's wife and infant child are brutally murdered by psychopaths really fucked with me. I'd played violent games before but the violence was never framed in such a dark and depressing manner. My younger brother and I both went to our dad and asked him to return the game because it scared the crap out of us XD Yeah, my parents didn't really pay much attention to the ESRB ratings on games.
Of course I revisited it a few years later and thought it was an amazing game.
Rise of the Robots (SNES). Worst game ever.
Surprisingly also, Mario Kart Double Dash. Played it for a little bit on the basic oval track. Returned to the store the same day and got Soul Calibur 2 instead (much better).
Surprisingly also, Mario Kart Double Dash. Played it for a little bit on the basic oval track. Returned to the store the same day and got Soul Calibur 2 instead (much better).
Ace of Seafood on Nintendo Switch..
I had it on my steam wishlist forever.. Looked like the the weird quirky Japanese kind of game I'd actually dig, plus reviews were good.
It's fucking garbage, don't be fooled.
I had it on my steam wishlist forever.. Looked like the the weird quirky Japanese kind of game I'd actually dig, plus reviews were good.
It's fucking garbage, don't be fooled.
I had 2 new release choices, The new Front mission 4 or Unlimited Saga, one with a video of FF X-2 and I also love Saga Frontier + Legend games, didn't play that much on FM3 because saving didn't work on bleem! at the time. It was a easy choice for me... after 5 minutes i was like..... i did a freaking big mistake (bought FM 4 much later, it's one of my favorite ps2 game)
All the mentions of Brink are like therapy to me.
Although I actually got a few hours of enjoyment out of it. Still not worth it though.
For me, it was recently a little game called Ash of Gods: Redemption. It could best be described as a blatant The Banner Saga imitator but slightly worse in every way. Which wouldn't be the end of the world, except the writing was goddamn gibberish. Borderline incoherent. Five minutes in I realised I could only just make sense of what I was reading.
Assassin's Creed Origins would have been one except thankfully I was playing a borrowed copy. As soon as the combat tutorial commenced I knew something was wrong. My fears were confirmed when the game opened up an equipment/inventory screen and invited me to partake in the viscerally thrilling and deeply engaging process of swapping out a 9 damage sword for a 11 damage sword.
Although I actually got a few hours of enjoyment out of it. Still not worth it though.
For me, it was recently a little game called Ash of Gods: Redemption. It could best be described as a blatant The Banner Saga imitator but slightly worse in every way. Which wouldn't be the end of the world, except the writing was goddamn gibberish. Borderline incoherent. Five minutes in I realised I could only just make sense of what I was reading.
Assassin's Creed Origins would have been one except thankfully I was playing a borrowed copy. As soon as the combat tutorial commenced I knew something was wrong. My fears were confirmed when the game opened up an equipment/inventory screen and invited me to partake in the viscerally thrilling and deeply engaging process of swapping out a 9 damage sword for a 11 damage sword.
Not technically a game purchase, but Christmas '89 I made up a Christmas list with several NES games as well as the Power Glove. My mother told me Santa couldn't bring everything on the list, so I had to choose between either the NES games (IIRC I listed Mega Man 2, Double Dragon 2, etc) or the Power Glove. I chose the Power Glove. Less than an hour after opening it up on Christmas morning, I realized I made a horrible, horrible mistake.
Other games I instantly regretted:
The NES Action Set at the time was $150, so my family bought me the Control Deck for IIRC $90 and said I could pick any $20 NES game on sale at Bradlees. I picked Hydlide as my first NES game since it looked like Zelda. Uggggghhhhhhh.....
Those experiences during my NES years made be very careful what I spend my gaming money on.
I instantly regretted buying Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena on Steam because I didn't realize until after I bought it and tried to install the game it used rootkit DRM. This was before Steam implemented refunds on the service, so I was basically out of luck for my $20.
Other games I instantly regretted:
The NES Action Set at the time was $150, so my family bought me the Control Deck for IIRC $90 and said I could pick any $20 NES game on sale at Bradlees. I picked Hydlide as my first NES game since it looked like Zelda. Uggggghhhhhhh.....
Those experiences during my NES years made be very careful what I spend my gaming money on.
I instantly regretted buying Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Athena on Steam because I didn't realize until after I bought it and tried to install the game it used rootkit DRM. This was before Steam implemented refunds on the service, so I was basically out of luck for my $20.
"It's not totally ugly and this controls pretty well."
*nurses show up*
"And they fucked it up."
Combat was super clunky, the first missions were boring generic quests, I have heard if you leave Siwa it gets better but you see, if a game is not doing it for me, but it has enough to keep me around (like Xenoblade 2) I will stick to it despite the rough start. But there really wasn't much keeping me there. Disliked the combat, disliked the quests, disliked the art, not much going on in terms of the story (the premise seemed pretty weak) so I just said:
"okay, that's it. I'll buy 2 indies with this refund and I'll enjoy them both more."
Tropico 5 was nowhere near the game Tropico 4 is. Maybe I'll give it another chance someday soon.
Assassin's Creed Origins
Pushed myself to play more but stopped 3 hours in such a shit game. If Odyssey is anything like this it's a hard pass too
Pushed myself to play more but stopped 3 hours in such a shit game. If Odyssey is anything like this it's a hard pass too
I LOVED Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness and I blind bought it day-one thinking it was going to have at least some RPG elements to it.
What do I get? A BATTLE SIMULATOR WITH LITERALLY ZERO CONTENT BEYOND 3D BATTLES... THAT COULD BE COMPLETED IN LIKE 12 HOURS.
A far cry from the awesome GameCube Pokemon RPGs, utterly devoid of substance or effort, and a complete and utter waste of $50.
I'm still furious about it 11 years later.
I REMEMBER THIS SO MUCH! I got it Day 1, expecting an RPG adventure... Spent 30 minutes and never played it again... :'(
Pokemon Omega Ruby. Tried to give it a bit more chance, gave up around the second gym.
Rime, it was a PS Plus game, but I regretted wasting bandwidth for it.
Valkyria Revolution, how the hell do they come up with this combat system, and the cutscenes are plain amateurish.
Fairy Fencer F, everyone is annoying. Took the disc out when kurosu girl appeared.
DQ VIII on 3DS, should have just stick with the PS2 version.
Rime, it was a PS Plus game, but I regretted wasting bandwidth for it.
Valkyria Revolution, how the hell do they come up with this combat system, and the cutscenes are plain amateurish.
Fairy Fencer F, everyone is annoying. Took the disc out when kurosu girl appeared.
DQ VIII on 3DS, should have just stick with the PS2 version.