Games you regret buying Thread

So apparently not even Blizzard can make a WoW clone

I played TOR beta so I knew to avoid it. Shame, since one of my all time favorite RPGs is KOTOR. I also avoided Diablo II because of the disaster it was in beta.

One Star Wars game I do regret spending money on is The Force Unleashed.
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Why Arkham Asylum? That was probably one of the best games out there. I even was able to circumvent the LIVE and play it without LIVE interrupting the experience.

-Nuclear Dawn (Although I technically got it in a trade)
-Torchlight (It's a good game I guess, but I have other game I'd rather play. Also technically got it in a trade)
-CS:GO (Eh, it's just Counter Strike. Everyone hacks and the community is shit)
-Analogue: A Hate Story (Amazing storyline, great game. But I felt it was way to short for the amount of money that it cost.)

Yep. That's it.

Dragon Age 2.

Same. I really liked the first game - I own and have played both the wii and PC versions, multiple times...really hated TFU2 however. Luckily I just borrowed the second rather than bought it though, so nothing lost other than 3 hours of my time(Yes, the game really is that short).

I've been playing a PC version, and maybe it's just because I got it on discount, but I actually really like the combat systems they had going in TFU II. The boss fights are no longer utter frustration (except for Vader) and the only downside is that the only two new additions, fury and mindtrick, are the most useless things to include. Besides that, I actually don't regret getting it, especially with the fact that the PC version has ways to be modded.

On the PC version, you fight him on cloning platforms, tossing back bacta tanks at him (giving you unpleasant flashbacks to his bossfight for the PC version of the first game) and fighting off clones while sometimes just going toe to to with him. The problem is that you can fall of the platforms and then Vader regains almost all the health you chip away from his healthbar... it gets tiring, eventually.

The Gorog fight was far better, if about equally drawn out.

The only games I have ever bought and later regretted were Assassin's Creed for the Nintendo DS (I don't remember the exact name; all I remember was it was horrible) and L.A. Noire.  The worst part is I love Detective movies and novels, and I love film noir. It was supposed to be my best game ever, but it was so boring. There was no overarching plot worth giving a hoot about, and the mechanics quickly became stale. Definitely not my kind of game.

He's got a point though... some guy in custody is for sure involved with the crime? Try to doubt him and the fucking asshat of a detective accused him of murder fucking up the case... U.=.U ...

TabKey wrote:Obviously it's really only a matter of opinion, but yeah, I think what made it all the worse was that I was really, really looking forward to the game. I think if they had made a more compelling, overarching story that still tied in with the smaller scenes (think Heavy Rain, as an example), I would have enjoyed it more. Or maybe if they'd gone L.A. Golden Age, like Detective stories in the Agatha Christie universe...Everyone's a critic I suppose.

The problem is that the game mechanics are broken. If you have a one-shot fail system and selecting a conversation option totally fires into the other direction than makes sense in such a situation is not only frustrating but just down out a game/immersion breaker. Hell even Phoenix Wright had less unpredictable and illogical conversation turns and there they did it on purpose to add comical moments :/ ... besides... flamethrower mission? Who had *that* fucked up idea to begin with.

That's right. Played all of the PW games including the latest ones not featuring PW itself and they all count to my list of detective games one should not miss out. The English versions had some ugly logic holes and illogical solutions here and there but I assume this is only a translation problem as in general it all works out. With the last installement in the series I could only find 1 or maybe 2 logic holes in the entire game and that's something most AAA games can only dream off to begin with. Replay value indeed there is none. But if you are looking for replay value in detective stories you are in the wrong movie anyways since once you know the story you simply know it. That's though nothing I hold against this genre since it is an inherent property of this kind of games you can't just change like that.