2008 - Which Game Purchases Do You Regret?

None this year I bought:Witcher EE, Crysis and Warhead (both though I run terribly I love), Sins of a Solar Empire= now this game is probly low not because it's bad but there's so little replay value maybe I just need more multiplayer but I def. don't regret buying it, STALKER-Finally the true open world expierence god this game is awesome I'm still playing it though I bought it on that steam sale, GRID=love, SupCom Gold=****in awesomeness

Technically speaking I did buy Obox and Bioshock at the start but I don't consider it really since I got it just after the 1st from holiday gift cards; but if you want to be technical I do regret getting Bioshock I should have gotten STALKER instead.

NWN2- Storm of Zehir. Crushingly dull and repetative.bogaty

Spore. At first it was really entertaining. Entertaining enough that I would overlook the occassional crash-to-the-desktop errors while customizing aliens, ships, vehicles, etc. Later on I got bored with it and just stopped playing it altogether. I'm buying a new gaming rig tomorrow and I probably won't install it anymore.

The thing that makes me regret it even more is that this game was just a gift. I was asked to choose whatever game I wanted and I chose Spore. I should have chosen The Orange Box! Oh well....:(

Superme Commandar. The game looks cool, but when you actually play it is crap. if you dont have really really super power computer, dont even think about playing it. it drives a lot cpu and memery usage. it moves really slow even with my duecore intel cpuT7200 and 2g memery and ATI9600, and after i bought it two month later Forged Alliance came out, which contain more race, story others, what the hell... and both game together is the same price with superme commander i first bought ...

this is actually a pretty good topic:

Assassin's Creed - I was very exited about getting this game. After playing a few hours into the game I just dropped. There were some interesting aspects, but the setting was just to dull and repetitive too me. I don't know what it is about developer's, and there are a lot of them, that don't add more variety to the game play and models. it's like okay we've create a three or four faces, now let's just used the for everybody. That can work for a casual game but not for game's like this. Anyway, I'll probably try to finish it some day but it was disappointing.

NWN2: Storm of Zehir - While it appears to have some innovations that could bode well for the future of the series, that spent to much time on that and little on the actual game and story. Really just a shell of NWN game with interesting tweaks to the formula. Another game I didn't finish but I guess I'll pick at it for a while.

(Note: I had some initial issues with GTA 4. However, it did make me finally go out and get a new video card. Once I had everything right, the game ran fine. It really is a very good game and the first GTA that was really accessible to me. I try the older GTAs but just couldn't get into them. I think an initial and general rush to judge the game by some po'd pc gamers with less than optimal system started a bad wave across the pc world about this game. Not to say Rockstar could have done a little better with the release.)

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crysis warhead (shorter than crysis!!!)

Baranga

And cheaper, better, and with good multiplayer.

I regret getting Fallout 3, it's a piece of crap.

And GTA4, a pretentious turd.

Far cry 2 is definatly the most dissapointing, one or two good ideas in a consoley boaring repetitive piece of crud game, why on earth would any reviewer favour it, i cant work out but it did prety well at the so called critics. maybe they reviewed it on the ps3 and were overcome that a shooter with a decent liniage had come to the platform and all fanboyed up to seam cool.

on the other hand i was most pleasently suprised with alone in the dark iv only picked it up as it was 7 quid at game and shyed away after all the bad reviews. i have only played to geting out of the burning building so far but its been a rolercoaster of interesting scripted events, excelently different gameplay mechanics, interesting ish story and half prety graphics.

but if you do play it use a 360 controller and youll enjoy it so much more, i dont often advocate the use of the controller outside pes and x wing aliance but one or two third persson platformers like this just need it.

Far Cry 2 - Lots of things missing in this game and it's god damn repetitive.

Spore - Another boring, repetitive game that should'nt deserve to be released at all.

Prince Of Persia - What a joke.

Turok - Another big fat joke.

Maybe I just havent played enough of it yet to know better, but I really dont get the Far Cry 2 hate. Im having a blast with it so far. Some one here said it best when he said that its like STALKER but in a jungle setting, and less buggy. Lots of guns, unlocks, and many ways to approach objectives. Its only repetitive if you only go from point A to point B, rinse and repeat.

But ontopic now, my regrettable purchase is probably Clear Sky. Boy did it have potential, but with the faction wars broken and the story even more convoluted than the first, it fell well short. I still hope for a STALKER 2 though.

But ontopic now, my regrettable purchase is probably Clear Sky. Boy did it have potential, but with the faction wars broken

TheCrazed420

I don't get it, how is it broken? What's broken, except for the Garbage bandit base that was fixed in a patch?

Spore, meh.stenfisk

I really regret buying Unreal Tournament 3. I think I got it for $30 and was bored to tears. I loved UT2k4 to death, but something about UT3 turned me off.

And my number one regret of last year, or probably any year at that, is SPORE. Honestly I have never wanted my money back so badly. I could definitely use that $50 right now.

*Sigh* Age of Conan. Looked forward to it for like YEARS too.

Not that Funcom didn't do a lot right, but it was almost too buggy to play, they left all their killer ideas out of the final release, and worst of all, they were clueless about what they needed to do to fix it all. They STILL are.

Walked away sadly and never looked back.

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Let's see here, I didn't buy too many new games so I will just list all of them I didn't like from the year.

Fallout 3, the game is great but it's missing something. It feels like an incomplete masterpeice that with just a little more work could have been something truly amazing.

Gothic 3, so buggy I can't even play 5 minutes without a slowdown on my system that runs crysis just fine.

Fallout, I bought the original after 3 looking for some good backstory. I couldn't stand the slow-paced game, yet I can play NWN fine. Guess it just isn't my bag.

Medieval 2 Total War: Good game when I bought it on steam, I bought the gold to have it and expansion on retail. Guess what? Securom thinks I'm a pirate and I can't play a game I payed and own.

Bioshock: Loooking for a game that is good because I heard it was like system shock 2. I am never buying into hype again, ever. The game itself plays fairly well but the story is bleh and the enemies are poor. This wouldn't have been all that bad if it hadn't taken me half a dozen installs because of, you guessed it, securom to get it to work. I am never buying a game with it again, EVER.

Deus Ex: I am going to get crucified for this I know but I cannot play a game that performs poorly. This game either sped up or slows down to a crawl. I looked all over the net and applied every fix I could find and no-luck. I don't know how the game is itself but if the game doesn't run then it isn't worth playing as a buggy mess.

Rickylee

Which Deus Ex? The original is not a buggy game and never was. Just cause you couldn't get it running is not an old games fault. I run it on my XP machine and it runs flawlessly. Haven't tried on my Vista machine because there would be no perfomance increase and the graphics are dated at best. But I still love it.

I do regret buying Stalker but not because it was a poor game, I just couldn't get into it.

I agree...Stalker has to be my DOG of 2008....I could not get into it either, but wasn't that big of a loss, I only payed 5.00 for it off of STREAM. I also had no issues running DEUS EX, but that was when I had XP installed. I've since been using Vista x64 for the last 2 years and have not been able to install it. I've read off of a few forums, that there is a fix for that, but just haven't followed up on it yet.

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crysis warhead (shorter than crysis!!!)

Baranga

And cheaper, better, and with good multiplayer.

I regret getting Fallout 3, it's a piece of crap.

Dead Space.

Shoot legs off, fix stuff, shoot arms off, fix stuff, try to see something that spawns on top of you in 3rd person...

UHG, reminds of a pretty girl who's boring as hell. (or any big hollywood movie) Except The Dark Knight maybe

Assasin's Creed and Prince of Persia - Both game being totally repetitive with doing same thing over and over again. With these two games and Far cry 2, I really dislike the new direction many Ubisoft games are takingnaval

spore, army of two, rainbow six vegas 2 rome total war, the sims 2.

Farcry 2, it's just terriblemarkop2003

[QUOTE="markop2003"]Farcry 2, it's just terribleHellboard

its a confusing mess, i struggle to have fun with it

[QUOTE="Hellboard"][QUOTE="markop2003"]Farcry 2, it's just terribleriptoe222

its a confusing mess, i struggle to have fun with it