"Triple A" games you wasted money on.

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I've added a budget game here too which are vastly highly rated imo. Just wondered how much money I've wasted based on hype(a lot in this forum), reviews etc.

Sim City(Latest One)
Alien Isolation
Metal Gear Solid V(I might give this a good go again in 3440x1440)
Bioshock
Bioshock Infinite
Dishonoured
Company of Heroes 1/2
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided/Deus Ex: HR
Dying Light
Farcry 3/4
Hitman series
Project Cars
Total War series
Sleeping Dogs
All Lego games
Super Meatball
Project Cars
Every Assassins Creed except 2/3
Every Call of Duty except Ghosts.
Every Battlefield except 4
Titanfall
Star Wars: Battlefront
Total War series(no RTS since Dune 2 has appealed to me)
Starcraft 2
Diable 3
Max Payne 3
Homeworld Remastered Collection
Her Story
The Banner Saga


I must have wasted at least £300, which surprises me, I thought it would be a lot more. Anyone care to share their room 101 games? Obviously many of you will disagree with my list, but I'm interested to know what games you have wasted money on based on rubbish reviews or hype?
 
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You didnt like Alien Isolation? Wow...that was my game of the year for 2014 !

I think the only games that I bought based on peoples opinions were Assassin Creed and Shadow of Mordor, I didnt get on with either of those games as I just never really clicked with the controls on either game, which both felt very controller orientated and I'm a keyboard/mouser and dont do well with controllers

Some games, like Middle Earth: Shadow of Modor, took quite a few tries before I got into it, so I will no doubt give this another blast as I'm now thinking more about what games to actually buy.
 
You don't like all the games you mentioned?

I like some elements of most of the games, I just would have preferred to have the money back and them not in my "not installed" game list.

Metal Gear Solid V I might get back into, as it does look awesome. The main problem is me. It is impossible for me to play and complete at least 350 games, while playing upcoming games as they are released. I'm stupid.

EDIT: Saying that, if a game really does live up to the hype in my eyes, Witcher 3, GTA V, Assassins Creed 2, Uncharted 4, Until Dawn to name a few, I play nothing else until I complete them.
 
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Alien Isolation - Good fun. Still playing.

I have installed Alien Isolation to test on my new setup, and because I've never read anything bad about it, apart from IGNs review, and GameTM saying it over stayed its welcome by about 20 hours. What gets me is that everyone says it has amazing graphics? It doesn't in 1080p as far as I played(before I met the alien, and no I'm not scared...)
 
Ones that spring to mind are.....

Fallout 4
Watchdogs
Dirt Rally
The Division
Farcry 4
Elite Dangerous

Just couldn't get into any of them, not sure what the problem with any of them is but theg just didn't grab me.

Witcher 3 may make the list shortly but I'm desperately trying to get into it!

Stick with Witcher 3, doing the side quests and treasure hunts are where the fun's at.
 
Alien Isolation - the first 8 hours are GOTY material but it just dragged on well passed my point of interest.

GTAIV - Got sucked in despite not liking any of the GTA3 games.

No Man's Sky - No explanation necessary.

Well I'm happy with myself for not getting NMS. What put me off was the slime-ball in charge of happy games or whatever it's called. What a creep, who I never heard a straight answer from, and who blatantly lied.
 
Looking at that list I would advise you to stop buying/playing stealthly games

Deus Ex, Dishonored, Hitman, Alien Isolation etc...

Well spotted. But I like the Original Splinter Cell, in fact all including Conviction even. I did like Assassins Creed : Brotherhood, and loved assassins Creed 2/3.

But you do have a point, MGSV is also stealth, and very unforgiving which I don't like.
 
It does have amazing graphics, but not in a technical sense. The amazing thing about the graphics is an atmospheric/aesthetic thing, that they so perfectly captured and recreated the stylization of the original Alien movie and its design and era. Its so incredibly faithful to its source, thats whats amazing about its looks for me anyway.

I think I need to play it more, which I will(so I might remove it from my list eventually), to "get" what you and seemingly everyone else is talking about.

Wish they'd make a Predator game based in the jungle, like the original, my favourite alien, could do some amazing technical things with it. Maybe based on the "Predators" movie, where there are more than one predator on an alien world with friendly/foe human/alien survivors. Just had to get this idea out there!
 
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