Games you regret buying Thread

The two games i regret buying for full price:
Diablo 3 - mediocre and uninspired from graphics to gameplay.  Everything that D3 does, has been done better before. (was fooled by the DIABLO name into buying it)
Dishonored- Lazy developed game with small arenas cleverly disguised as "free-roaming" levels, lack of graphic diversity, no music score. (was fooled by the Bethesda brand that mostly published A++ titles before)

Im not saying they are bad games, its just that they are not nearly as good as the reviews tried to make them, so i regret paying full price for them.

For me it would have to  be AC3, the campaign was rushed it wasn't as good as ACR or ACB plus they kill of Desmond witch is a shame and on top of that you play as a Templar at the start of the game and Conner gets a Mohawk mullet later in the game also Conner hardly wears the hood when you get thither into the game (I actually sat there and yelled at him to put the hood back on because come on no one wants to see that mullet >:o), the only decent thing in game was probably the boat missions they were fun but other than those missions the game was pretty disappointing ~ I just want Ezio back. R.I.P 

EDIT: I'm just going to say tho that XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Was . . . Amazing !!!!

Edited by: Monkey_De_Luffy

The Witch that "witches" to be burned first?

I'm kind of an old gamer, as in, I play games that have definitely shown their age. SO, with that out of the way, I'd say a game I regret buying was Mafia for the PS2. Being a 2002 (2004 if you count when they put it on the PS2) game, you really can't expect much, but I honestly expected a bit more. The loading takes way too long and eventually I just quit because I seriously can't take it. Right off the bat in the campaign you're thrown into some hard stuff, and don't get me wrong, I'm into a challenge, but this was absurd! I had to reload the first mission 8 times for God's sake!! Anyways the graphics were okay, but the actual gameplay was shot with bugs, from shooting through walls to walking straight to them, and my biggest pet peeve: flipping a car when you nudge the edge of a guard-rail. Anyways, also, in the free roam you don't get the full experience. They take out the cops and replace them with just Morello's boys, so that dumbs down the playing a bit, and the freeplay gets repetitive.

Oh, another game that I regret buying was Heroes of Might and Magic III. Now I know I'm gonna get chewed out by fans for this up and coming rant, but I mean, it doesn't live up to the spectacle people make it out to be. Gameplay: Good, not great. Graphics: Great for the time. However, I have a problem with how dramatically the game changes from campaign to single scenario. In the campaign almost every move you make is detailed with ellaborate descriptions and biographies and such, as well as awesome cutscene animations. Either they made too many scenarios or got lazy, but the single scenarios have none of those above qualities, no ellaborate descriptions or cool cutscenes. Just....just....blah for lack of a better term. That's just me though, as I prefer Heroes V and soon to be VI

Might & Magic IX, bought at full price. Good Lord in Heaven, it still hurts to think how bad that game was, especially because I was (and still am) a huge fan of the series.

Edited by: Deanor

A lot of modern games don't need a full price sell. I just wait until i can found them at low price on e-bay or in the game shop.

Call of Juarez: The Cartel

Assumed it was freeplay - sandbox. I found it had a lack of depth and didn't find it that fun.

One of the old PS1 Spec Ops games. I forgot the title (I think it was Ranger Elite?)

Dreadful controls, poor camera, wonky analog support, and more. It had an interesting mechanic wherein dying didn't end the level but incapacitated the soldier who was defeated (if you were playing co-op) and damage takes two missions or more to recover, so there may be a chance that all of your guys are haggard and you just have to suck it up and choose the least beat-up guy to take.

But it was all so generic and ugly (even for a PS1 game) that I actually got kind of depressed playing it. Honestly.

FF7, repeatedly years ago, when I could have just downloaded it for "free" present day! I actually tried to play it again lately, but I didn't get to finish it for some reason...

As a child, probably Worms 3D. It had brilliant premise, but imo, came out at the wrong time. From more recent years has to be without doubt Tom Clancy Endwar, got caught up in the hype unfortunately. I tried playing it over and over thinking it was just me that somewhere there was a diamond waiting to be found, but nope..

Call Of Duty.

War On Terror

All the games i regret purchasing (for full price at least) were preorders:

Divinity 2 Ego Draconis: The story felt unfinished without the expansion. The dragon form gameplay was purely cosmetic, since it switched enemies to dragon-form ones, so it didn't make you feel any more ore less badass than in human form. a huge finger in the face in my oppinion. Animations were choppy and it took them a year or so to patch them.

Miner Wars 2081: A drm monster with disappointing gameplay and the least intuitive default gamepad controls i ever saw

Eye Divine Cybermancy: Had lots of potential but was a buggy and terribly translated mess.

Krater: I thought the general idea and design was nice.  That the preorder gave me access to the beta was a plus. Problem was - and this became obvious very soon - it was actual and alpha which extended way after the official release daate The gameplay was shallow and boring in the end

XCOM: Enemy Unknown - I actually played the demo before preordering and was quite happy when i saw the partially destructtible environements. The final game featured way too little content in my oppionion. not enough research, weapons, buildings etc. i was finished with the game in less than 20 hours and at that point i was like "wtf?? that was it?". furthermore i found it terrible, that the graphical representation of the gamefield was in now way equivalent to the actual hit chances. my soldiers were shooting through walls 95% of the time - or sometimes were actually sticking their weapons into a wall while shooting - a real immersion killer.

 
 I actually preorder dishonored the same time i preordered xcom, since i was a fan of the dev studio. Loved and enjoyed it a lot more than xcom