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Games that you regretted buying at full price

VulcanRaven

VulcanRaven

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Are there games that you bought at full price but then regretted it soon after you started playing? I bought the PS2 version of Spider-Man 3 The Game because I didn't have a next-gen console at the time. It was in 2007. Spider-Man 2 was awesome and one of the best movie based games so I was excited. I was 10 minutes in and I started regretting buying it. I knew it couldn't look like the Xbox 360/PS3 version that they showed in the trailers but I was still very disappointed. It didn't just look worse, it was a completey different game made by a different company. It also looked worse than Spider-Man 2 and the gameplay felt awful. I later found out that the same version was also released on PSP. They basically tricked me spending 60 euros on a PSP game that they just ported on PS2.

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StormCell

StormCell

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I've learned to feel that way about most games I buy that I know will be $20 twelve months from the release date.

More recently, however, I felt regret over Luigi's Mansion 3. The game has fine production values and such, but the core mechanic of the game is just not very deep and makes for very repetitive experiences. Slamming ghosts around is just not fun for me.
 
StormCell

StormCell

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Ionian said:
SF2 on the C64. Think it was about 15-20 pounds (before Euro)

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I had no idea this existed. Sure, it might not play as well as the 16-bit versions, but what you have (and tell me you still have it!) is a remarkable historic gaming artifact! It's a work of art! I can't believe there exists a C64 version of SF2 that appears mostly complete minus the detail of 16-bit. Wow.
 
Phunkydiabetic

Phunkydiabetic

Banned
Metro Exodus. Just a terrible game full on. Everything thst made the first two games half decent was thrown out the window when making this shitshow. Terrible writing. Terrible story. Terrible characters. Terrible quasi open world-ish areas that added nothing to the experience. Terrible gunplay.

Normally I can just move on from a game and forget about it but this purchase pissed me right off. Terrible game.

Terrible.
 
Ionian

Ionian

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StormCell said:
I had no idea this existed. Sure, it might not play as well as the 16-bit versions, but what you have (and tell me you still have it!) is a remarkable historic gaming artifact! It's a work of art! I can't believe there exists a C64 version of SF2 that appears mostly complete minus the detail of 16-bit. Wow.
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No longer have it, think I brought it back for a refund.

Good video on it if you got 20 minutes to spare, he goes into the how and why it ever even made it to shelves. Decent watch.

 
Puncheur

Puncheur

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Cyberpunk 2077... waiting for the next gen patch before launching it again. Biggest anticlimax ever! Glad I didn't succumb to buying the £250 Ltd edition.

Honorable mention are Resident Evil games. As much as I love the series and always buy them at or close to release, I always end up regretting it as the price drops super fast on RE games. By the time I got round to playing RE7 you could pick it up for under a fiver.

Every limited edition I've ever bought, nor that there have been many. I remember getting the Batman: Arkam Asulym and I was thinking to myself what have I done as I opened the box knowing I had spent an extra £30 for the shitiest plastic rendition of a batarang ever! Enjoyed the game but I cringe at the thought that I bought the ltd edition to this day!
 
Phunkydiabetic

Phunkydiabetic

Banned
R6Rider said:
Metro Exodus. Phunkydiabetic Phunkydiabetic already touched on many things I had a problem with. But I'd also add that the enemy AI is among the worst I've seen in a long time.

I remember I was crouched behind a wall 10 feet from an enemy. I then got up and made a sandwich, came back to the game and I was still alive.
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Oh dude I could've went on and on. Yes, the AI is terrible. The utter lack of any interactivity in the world, it's like walking through a crappy fun house. Look, but don't touch! There are no physics here, please do not ask about it.

The gun customization was superfluous to say the least.

The atmosphere of the first two games were destroyed the moment they did this open area nonsense. One of the main hooks of the first two games was taken away and replaced with a bunch of crappy outside environments. That forest section was terrible.

And what about the crap ass scripted sequences? Terrible.
 
Xaero Gravity

Xaero Gravity

NEXT LEVEL lame™
I've been lucky enough to not have too many regretful purchases, but one that definitely stands out is Kid Icarus: Uprising. I know that game has a following, but I think it's a genuinely bad game, at least half of it. I think the flying sections are fantastic, even if the constant chatter gets on my nerves more than I'd like, but the ground sections are just utterly atrocious in my opinion.
 
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Sir Vilhelm

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Hitman 3. I haven't played a hitman game since the original so thought I would give it a try again, I didn't realize it's only 6 locations. I get you're supposed to replay it over and over again but that's just not my thing.
 
MagnesG

MagnesG

Banned
Every games with severe discounts within 6 months. I've learned not to buy most of them on launch since.
 
Northeastmonk

Northeastmonk

Gold Member
VulcanRaven said:
Are there games that you bought at full price but then regretted it soon after you started playing? I bought the PS2 version of Spider-Man 3 The Game because I didn't have a next-gen console at the time. It was in 2007. Spider-Man 2 was awesome and one of the best movie based games so I was excited. I was 10 minutes in and I started regretting buying it. I knew it couldn't look like the Xbox 360/PS3 version that they showed in the trailers but I was still very disappointed. It didn't just look worse, it was a completey different game made by a different company. It also looked worse than Spider-Man 2 and the gameplay felt awful. I later found out that the same version was also released on PSP. They basically tricked me spending 60 euros on a PSP game that they just ported on PS2.
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I bought the Force Unleashed on PS2 out of curiosity and it felt like such a watered down version of the PS3/360 version. I hated the bars or whatever they added as health. It was a shell of its next gen counterpart. It was late at night at Walmart. The PS2 had such an awesome run in 06/07.

A couple times I felt like I really wasted my time. Alone in the Dark for 360. I got it the day it came out and thought it was going to be like A New Nightmare. The trailers were all over G4 and it felt like it could have been good. It was terrible. Awful textures, tedious progression, and it wasn't getting any better after an hour or so went by. It was one of those times where you feel lied to. It might not always happen, but it sucks when it does. I bought Haze, Heavenly Sword, and Lair at launch. Lair and Haze I sold the next day. Lair was a major let down. Controlling the dragon wasn't fun on the Six Axis controller. It felt way too weird. Haze was an ugly game. I had all the versions of Street Fighter IV and once it got to the Arcade Edition, everything felt like money down the drain. No offense because I'm a big fan, but its pitiful when you pay full price and your copy goes down to $10-$15 as soon as the ultimate version comes out. I understand if a game is just bad, but my original copies of BlazBlue and Street Fighter taught me to buy digitally. I sold my copy of Street Fighter x Tekken and I had the $20 DLC for all the characters. That game was a joke. It wasn't even that fun. The game burned out before all the characters came out too. It left me not wanting to buy some of the fighting games on the market. I didn't get into Under-Night until the latest version. That's because I want to enjoy it, not wish I had more money for the better version of the same game. I even had Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at launch too. My copy of Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs. Capcom 3 were worthless. This is a big reason to why I buy digitally and why I'm a lot more selective than I use to be.
 
Fbh

Fbh

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This gen FFXV.
Other games were disappointing or didn't live up to expectations. Like TLOU2 was disappointing but still felt like a well made and polished game.
But FFXV wasn't just disappointing, it was an unfinished mess. Square pretty tried to pass an early access release for a full $60 final release.
 
xrnzaaas

xrnzaaas

Member
From last gen:
- Just Cause 3 - what a huge disappointment compared to JC2
- Invisible Inc. - I couldn't get past the roguelike nature of the game and also the console port is shitty
- Bloodborne - my first and likely last attempt to like souls games
 
R6Rider

R6Rider

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Phunkydiabetic said:
Oh dude I could've went on and on. Yes, the AI is terrible. The utter lack of any interactivity in the world, it's like walking through a crappy fun house. Look, but don't touch! There are no physics here, please do not ask about it.

The gun customization was superfluous to say the least.

The atmosphere of the first two games were destroyed the moment they did this open area nonsense. One of the main hooks of the first two games was taken away and replaced with a bunch of crappy outside environments. That forest section was terrible.

And what about the crap ass scripted sequences? Terrible.
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I never managed to finish it. I gave up after the game autosaved and bugged on two separate occasions. I had to restart the entire region over and simply decided it was enough. If they make another one I really hope it goes back to the old style.
 
Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

Member
Im ashamed to admit I even bought it but:
Overwatch
Words cannot describe how much I hate this game.

My excuse was that I was conned into buying it to play with friends.
Born and bred on the original Team Fortress, CounterStrike, and Quake 3 - I could tell a mile away Overwatch was made for the lowest common denominator of causal masses. "Babby's first FPS".

The fact they play tournaments of this gutter trash on cable TV even to this day is utterly baffling and sickening.
 
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DansDans

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Sub_Level said:
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I expected a schlocky B game but I straight up got pure garbage. Maybe the framerate problems were kind of endearing on PS2 but on PS4 this was just sad.
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Plays super smooth on PS5 - and with far shorter load times, but I agree the PS4 version was poor

EDIT:
I regret LIttleBigPlanet 3 on PS4 - even traded in the excellent Tomb Raider game to get it, bad move

It was completely rushed and nowhere near ready for release.

Since then, I don't buy Sony games on release
 
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