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OT Coversation: What games you regret buying?

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DigDog said:
NFS Porsche Challenge. Driving game, where the driving was absolute shit.

Summoner 1.
I had a habit of buying $3 ps2 games out of the cheapo bin at Gamestop, because "they gotta be worth a day's worth of fun".
I had found Summoner 2 which was a very long, content-heavy rpg that i really enjoyed, so when i saw Summoner 1 i thought yumm yumm, more of the same please. Never had i been more wrong.
The most boring, tedious, bland game ever.
Fun fact: this is the game that has that after credits sequence of monsters playing dnd:
Only fun thing in this horrible 30-hour grind.
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Hmm, that's actually a bit from the Dead Ale Wives, and it's their actual recording of the bit. I hope they got credit and some cash for that.
 
spacejamz said:
I remember my disappointment when we fired pacman on the atari 2600 for the first time...that was just plain terrible even back in the 80's.
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Yea, pacman was pretty lame. All the games required a bit of imagination to have fun, but pacman was on a whole different level. It was due to constraints of the system. Something about only having a limited number of things that can move at one time, so they had those stupid translucent ghosts. The sounds were terribad too.
 
Have regrets in life, but buying games is so low on the list that I'm having a hard time naming one. Played plenty of bad or not exciting games, but a lot of that was in the NES area where you could actually return games. Once that went away, I became a little more selective. The real regret, is not getting a chance to play some games over time that became classics.
 
I regret buying world of warcraft and playing it for 12 years straight.

I stopped going to forums and raided non-stop. The game is a piece of shit now and haven't even bought the latest expansion.

I also regret E.T on the atari..me and some buds back in the day stole the cartridge and got caught. Got finger printed and everything at the local cop station.
 
ultimatebob said:
Yeah, you're right. Spore was a Will Wright game, not a Sid Meyer one.
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zinfamous said:
Spore isn't Cid Meyer, right? It's they guy that did Sim City and the Sim games...Will something or other. Cid Meyer is Civilization.
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Holy cow Sid Meier is a gaming god how can you guys butcher his name so badly! 😛

For me it’s:
There Are Billions. Wtf did I buy?
FTL. Grind fest!
Sunless Sea. Grinding text walls.
 
lxskllr said:
I don't remember what they were, but my last humble bundle purchase. All but one required steam. I unsubscribed to their email, and I won't buy again. Fuck steam.
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Steam has a cult following. You are a refreshing breathe.
Steam is fine and all but everytime a new digital game store comes out, the whole Internet goes on a bitch fest because OMG, why can't everything be on Steam? I think gamers are now starting to straighten out their panties a month after the last world ending disaster happened, the Epic store.

As for the question, I realized a long time ago that I only like very few games so I do not buy a ton of them. When the OG Xbox was out, I used to buy a lot of games day one because this group of online friends used to play them. I'd spend $50 and end up only playing them for a week.
 
JujuFish said:
Back in the beginning, all of their bundles were DRM free. I think most of their main ones (i.e. the numbered Humble Indie Bundle <x>) are still DRM free, but I really wish they offered DRM free as much as possible.
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They'd be out of games to offer unless you want all indie nothing games.
 
One that really sticks out is Superman for the NES. I got one new game per year for my birthday, and picked that.
I was not yet wise to the ways of licensed games. I spent time ruing that day, let me tell you (this was also before game rental was common).
 
Chaotic42 said:
What was it about MK64 you didn't like? I played the crap out of that in high school.
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The game was way too easy to get good at and master. It had absolutely no challenge to it and very little skill needed to be great at it. I was bored with it in like 2 days after having nothing else to do in it. The SNES one is lightyears ahead of that shitty game.
 
purbeast0 said:
The game was way too easy to get good at and master. It had absolutely no challenge to it and very little skill needed to be great at it. I was bored with it in like 2 days after having nothing else to do in it. The SNES one is lightyears ahead of that shitty game.
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The appeal of most Nintendo multiplayer games is that they're easy; the goal is not to "master" something, the goal is to play them with other people while drinking.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
The appeal of most Nintendo multiplayer games is that they're easy; the goal is not to "master" something, the goal is to play them with other people while drinking.
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The appeal NOW is that way, for most games, because no one wants a challenge. That's why I don't like Mario Kart since SNES they just get easier and easier. The only exception to that was the 3DS one because snaking actually took some skill to do.
 
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