Poll of the Day > What video game purchase do you regret?

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LinkPizza posted...

helIy posted...

green dragon posted...

LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

Yes the cape is in Mario Maker.

is it? maybe i didn't unlock it then. Could've sworn it was missing power ups. maybe I'm thinking of yoshi? idk

yoshi is def in mario maker

changing graphics also def changes the physics

Yeah. You can do different things based on which game you use, too...

damn, maybe i need to re-play it then lmao

so get a generic ds box, and print out a copy of its cover
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That's why I said at least a manual. I don't even know what the pages look like
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Sonic Rivals (little platforming, poor control, forced to rush through stages due to rival race style)
Sonic Rivals 2 (same as above)
Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault (feels incomplete in every sense)
Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization (grindfest, dull story, annoying characters, little moveset variety, excessive amount of time spent travelling)
Ragnarok Odyssey ACE (grindfest, dull story, movement actions drain energy quickly, stupid method of "flying")
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (extreme grindfest, slow movement and actions, bland movesets, almost nonexistent main story, elitist community)

Among them though, MH3U is definitely the one I regret purchasing the most.
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Far Cry 2. Quirky enemy spawns and AI, clunky vehicle mechanics, repetitive missions, weapon degradation/jamming and malaria flare-ups, all within a dull-colored world. There is no positive I could find with this game and I gave up on it when I realized the game wasn't nearly over, that there was still another area in store for me.
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Blue_Thunder posted...

helIy posted...

fuck damnation up it's shitty fucking disc hole until it breaks and then you put it in the toilet and shit on it

i spent sixty fucking dollars on that fucking game jesus christ

I take it you didn't like the game?

tbh, Damnation had a lot of problems, but I wound up enjoying it. Can't imagine paying $60 for that, though.
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Easily assassins creed 3
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Mass Effect Andromeda, WWE 2K17, SimCity 2000 (PS1 port)
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WarGreymon77 posted...

Mass Effect Andromeda

closest for me...

But if i hadnt bought and played it.. then would i really know the issues with it?
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Dragon quest builders.
Waste of time, money and developer effort. Perfect example of a game that doesn't need to exist.
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dqb is really fun though
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The Division was such a waste of time. I had picked the game up at launch and I had broken a bone in my foot so I couldn't work for about 2 weeks. Me and 3 other buddies no lifed the game and I sold the game not even a month after.

Destiny 2 for the same reason above smh.
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Since the '90s, I've probably had $90k in video games. I regret half of that (very rough estimate).
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I dunno. I probably didn't need to buy Rise of the Tomb Raider at full price, but I played the first one a ton and thought the sequel would be just as compelling.
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There's been a few with the LE FFXIII PS3 and FFXV being amongst the standouts.


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Game Room for Xbox 360. Didn't realize you had to buy ALL the arcade games individually, AND by the time I figured it out, I'd unlocked an Achievement, so now I've got a permanent 5/1000 for it. -_-
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I bought Rust for $40.

Enough said.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

Easily assassins creed 3

Oh yeah, bought Ass Creed 1 which was a total letdown.
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Ico, which I played after SotC. SotC is a glorious masterpiece. Ico is a boring piece of shit.

I also regret buying Dragon's Dogma. Not because it was bad, it was great. The assholes at Capcom shut down the 360's servers, I'm never giving Capcom another penny.

I made some really bad purchases over the years.

But there's 1 that sticks out to me the most. The worst game I've ever spent money on.

The first I'm not entirerely sure what the title was, but it was something like...

Metal Swarm: Replicants Rampage: The back of the box said that it was similar to Fallout 1, and I think Planescape Torment. So me being the naieve person I was at the time was like "must buy! Must buy!" It turned out to be complete shovelware with literally nothing to offer. It starts off with your 2 party members having a really stupid conversation trying way too hard to sound like badasses, which they did by saying "fucking" twice in every sentence. C'mon, seriously game?

Then I I start fighting enemies which are these really lazily designed robots who are way too powerful for the beginning of the game, and I explore aall over the tiny area that you start in, and I find out that there's no way to leave it.
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I don't have any regrets in terms of the games I've bought. I do regret buying some games at full price only to finally beat them years later when they are super cheap (Batman Arkham Asylum, Bioshock Infinite etc).
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Fifteen years ago I bought a game called "Resident Evil 4". Well, how was I to know that this game was "Resident Evil" in name only? The fact that it was labeled "4" when we already had more than four Resident Evils? Possibly, but I bought it anyway as I loved Resident Evil games, but when I took it home & put the disk in my GameCube I realized immediately that I had made a huge mistake. Instead of a Resident Evil game, I got a crappy third-party shooter game that had practically nothing to do with RE except the name (which as I already mentioned was also wrong). After a short period of time, I gave up in disgust and put the game on the shelf, where it remains to this day.... still kick myself for getting suckered into buying that piece of digital feces. I have since avoided anything labeled "Resident Evil" to this day.

There are other purchasing regrets, as I have purchased thousands of games literally, but that one really stands out. It really hurt!

Kollin6618 posted...

I don't have any regrets in terms of the games I've bought. I do regret buying some games at full price only to finally beat them years later when they are super cheap (Batman Arkham Asylum, Bioshock Infinite etc).

Dear god can I relate!
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Hyyr posted...

Rips Resident Evil 4 a new one

I thought RE4 was actually pretty alright compared to the crap that came out after it but I'd be lying if I said I preferred RE4 over the older games in the series. RE2 and Code: Veronica X have always been my personal favorites.

Oh look! I remembered another game I regret purchasing! And it's another Sega game, too.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4UAAAOSw~bFWHAE~/s-l300.jpg

Yes I'm specifically talking about the Game Gear version which is different from the Genesis one. Never played the latter but I've heard some divisive opinions on that game. Trust me, though: there ain't any divisive opinions on the Game Gear game. It's all bad! Horrible level design (I had to look up a video guide to figure out how to outrun the boulder in level 1... and that level is just a straight shot to the right!), super choppy framerate especially when doing the tornado spin and possibly the worst music to ever be put on a Game Gear cartridge. Don't believe me?

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I didn't want to be the cause of you giving up on music forever... but y'all brought that on yourselves. Anyway, like Instruments of Chaos, the pain of spending $2.50 on this game was eased due to buying a much better game with it. In this case, it was Sonic Chaos which is a pretty good Sonic game for the handheld system. To this day, I warn any retro gamer that just bought themselves a Game Gear to stay the hell away from Taz-Mania. Pay no attention to how cheap it is or how it shares it's box art with a supposedly better game. It's not worth it!

Preordering Hitman Absolution for 60$

I just got the recent Hitman for 24$ and it's soooo much better I can't even describe it.
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Sonic 06
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KJ StErOiDs posted...

Left 4 Dead. Had an unenjoyable first game and never played another.
Metro: 2033/Last Night. As I found out with these games, I don't enjoy in-game time limits for exploring and getting things done.
Torchlight II. I rolled a melee class that had me bored after 4 hours. There's a chance I might revisit this game in the future and find enjoyment in another class.

Theres like one section in Metro that has a time limit.

Anyway:

No mans sky by a mile. It's just a boring game.
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Zareth posted...

Preordering Hitman Absolution for 60$

I just got the recent Hitman for 24$ and it's soooo much better I can't even describe it.

The best explanation I ever heard was that Hitman Absolution was to Hitman as Splinter Cell Conviction is to Splinter Cell, which is to say a simplified version that took out everything that made the game interesting.

Then the latest Hitman game fixed that (well, other then making the game episodic) before Square Enix shit-canned the studio.
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Sometimes I'm like "Do I really regret it? I would've bought it anyway. By buying it, at least I know it's a shit game." So I didn't include a few of those, like Days of Thunder.
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EnvyFox posted...

Hyyr posted...

Rips Resident Evil 4 a new one

I thought RE4 was actually pretty alright compared to the crap that came out after it but I'd be lying if I said I preferred RE4 over the older games in the series. RE2 and Code: Veronica X have always been my personal favorites.

Yeah, I don't hate RE4, but I can definitely see how fans of the previous games could with it being a total paradigm shift. Which was likely especially jarring to some considering it was a series that more or less pioneered its original gameplay style. I can say I normally don't like when direct descendants screw up an established formula, like make it a subtitled spinoff at least.

Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (definitely wasn't for me)
All of the Pokemon Ranger games
Pokemon Rumble Blast
The last Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

The Wii version of Twilight Princess.

I should've just waited on the GameCube release.
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Mario Kart Double Dash

Target wouldn't let me return it :(

Back in Australia, I used to return games w/ receipt to Target all the time for a full refund
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um, anyone out there that brought Big Rigs 100% regrets it. :P
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blackhrt posted...

um, anyone out there that brought Big Rigs 100% regrets it. :P

Doesn't the back of the box say that it's the worst game ever? Pretty sure they actually set out to make the worst game ever.
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I wouldn't know. I do know that its pretty sad that some publisher & the ESRB & the distribution company let that game get released.
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Too many to count. But this generation, any EA game I've tried stands out as bad purchases, as well as Street Fighter 5.
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Zeus posted...

-Todd McFarlane's Monsters (didn't pay too much, but just an awful game)

Correction: It was McFarlane's Dark Prophecy.
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