Regrets

[Nate75]

Quake 3 Arena

 

[mjones1]

My biggest latest one has been eve online, maybe because i didn't understand the game then gave up.

 

[Mal X]

personally think Borderlands is one of the best games ive ever played lol

mine are warhammer online and aion, i swore i wouldnt buy another MMO on launch but then i played star wars

yes Borderlands is a great shooter, i'm a very fussy FPS only; so i'd say my greatest regrets are FALLOUT 3 and COD MODERN WARFARE.

COD = too linear and too rushed
FALLOUT 3 = the worst guns i've ever fired, utterly dreadful; not my type of game at all.... other than this, it's still a great game for everything else

best guns are in Vegas 2

 

[meths]

Spore.

It thought it was gonna be a game that required a bit of strategy to do well in but it was just rubbish all round.

Empire Total War.

Got it on release day for my birthday and never really got into it. It's a decent enough game but poorly supported by the developer and I felt cheated when they repackaged bits of it as Napolean instead of fixing Empire.

It's really put me off Total War games

 

[Sleepery]

Medieval 2 Total War for me. First total war game I'd ever played, and I spent an afternoon watching the broken AI get stuck on bridges, wait on ramparts while I massacred them with arrows, and generally act like their general had been lobotomised.

Can't understand all the praise it gets.

 

[PaddyMC89]

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

More specifically, the 6 month gametime I paid for on it's release. Less than a month in and I was bored as hell.

 

[King Damager]

Got to say again:

Far Cry 2
Thankfully I actually got it for free with my 480, but I played it for some time even, did the whole of the first phase, then realised the second was basically exactly the same thing.... So yeah it gave me a bit of fun, but still not great.

Whilst having read only the first page, I'm sure MW2 and Black Ops have had bad reviews...
MW2, I must say the bots bugged me, but it was ok in the end, and I've stacked up a number of hours...
Black Ops, was absolutely AWFUL at launch. I mean so bad I seriously considered taking it straight back. Saying that I opened it the other day, and I'm enjoying it a bit more... they really need to kill the knife though...

Uhm, Crysis 2 has been an interesting one... Don't think it met the hype tbh... Also still think that Crysis 1 was much much better. It was a fair disappointment...

kd

 

[Mr Krugga]

Dragon Age 2 - I hate to jump on the hater bandwagon but it's just so bad compared to the first.
Empire Total War - way to kill a great gaming series.
Wasted a lot of money on steam sales - too many to name, it's more of a collective regret because each game was only like £2.
Civilization 5 - I've gone back to Civ 1 on dosbox, which I honestly get more enjoyment out of playing. Only had 2 goes through Civ 5 - it's just so slow to go through a campaign.
MW2 Got less than ten hours out of it before the relentless amount of cheaters online made me give up.

True gamer you are, mate. I've avoided every single one of these games (apart from the Steam Sales) purely for the same or very similar reasons.

 

[GreatAuk]

Spore.

It thought it was gonna be a game that required a bit of strategy to do well in but it was just rubbish all round.

Empire Total War.

Got it on release day for my birthday and never really got into it. It's a decent enough game but poorly supported by the developer and I felt cheated when they repackaged bits of it as Napolean instead of fixing Empire.

It's really put me off Total War games

Those are my biggest regrets as well.

After the massive wait for spore, and seeing those videos from development a few years before it was lunched, I could barely contain my excitement when it was finally launched - 'if it looked like that years ago, it must be amazing by now!'. So pre-ordered it, and felt completely cheated. I think I restarted a freelancer game only a couple of days after getting spore.

I can never forgive ETW for the horrendous bugs. Slightly more scope than M2TW, but it was just harder to manage a big empire with having to click on all the individual farms to upgrade them etc. As far as I remember the campaign map AI was also pretty awful. Alas I let my inner TW fanboy out and had the special forces version pre-ordered (In a physical format, of course that didn't stop steam messing round for hours trying to download the whole thing over my 100Kb/s connection every time I put the disc in...). All in all 2 big wastes of money. - Moral of the story is avoid pre-order, wait until it's been out a month or two and you can read all the bad reviews people give a game.

 

[Pighardia]

Moral of the story is avoid pre-order, wait until it's been out a month or two and you can read all the bad reviews people give a game.

I recently pre-ordered DA2, was really looking forward to it, but when i got round to getting it, suddenly i wasn't that excited about it. installed it, but didn't play it for around 10 days. Shouldn't have bothered tbh.


Not a lot of love for Total War. Not my kind of game anyway. Obviously some games have bad reputations, but i didn#t know about ETW

 

[Lethagized]

BLOPS. Played it for a week then sold it on ebay to someone stupid enough to buy it even though they couldn't play mp.

 

[tang0]

Spore and Elemental

 

[meths]

Those are my biggest regrets as well.

After the massive wait for spore, and seeing those videos from development a few years before it was lunched, I could barely contain my excitement when it was finally launched - 'if it looked like that years ago, it must be amazing by now!'. So pre-ordered it, and felt completely cheated. I think I restarted a freelancer game only a couple of days after getting spore.

I can never forgive ETW for the horrendous bugs. Slightly more scope than M2TW, but it was just harder to manage a big empire with having to click on all the individual farms to upgrade them etc. As far as I remember the campaign map AI was also pretty awful. Alas I let my inner TW fanboy out and had the special forces version pre-ordered (In a physical format, of course that didn't stop steam messing round for hours trying to download the whole thing over my 100Kb/s connection every time I put the disc in...). All in all 2 big wastes of money. - Moral of the story is avoid pre-order, wait until it's been out a month or two and you can read all the bad reviews people give a game.

Those two games alone are what stopped me buying games on release and paying full price.