Worst game(s) you ever paid good money for?

[Asknoone]

Quake 4 and Perfect Dark Zero. I payed upwards of 40 quid for these and they both sucked cock.

 

[ríomhaire]

Halo 2. Deus Ex: Invisble War.

Heh, I usually just read reviews and avoid all the shite.

My mistake with the above was assuming that they would at least be as good as the original games so I didn't read any reviews. I was so wrong.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Hmm... I rarely have bought a horrible game. The worst I guess would be Chromehounds. That game felt unpolished and the offline component is so boring.

 

[Docm30]

I bought Battlefield: Vietnam expecting an even more kick-ass version Battlefield: 1942; what I got was the worst game ever made.

Doom 3 was a pretty big waste of money, too.

 

[Robert-]

Another waste of my ****ing money was Harvest Moon for the gamecube. A shitty ass game on a ****ing shitty console. So basicly I've wasted money on a console and a game!

 

[Shift]

on a ****ing shitty console.

GTFO!

 

[Warbie]

Some poeple have no taste

 

[Absinthe]

Hmmm... Kingpin? That's not entirely true, actually. I did have fun playing it, although I never finished the game. At the time, I had no choice but to appreciate the constant, unnecessary swearing and gib-licious violence.

I have to say I can't really recall any game I regret buying. Ever since I first began having to buy games with my own pocket money, I've been pretty damn cautious with my purchases. I don't really amass grand libraries of games throughout the year, and I always derive a satisfactory level of enjoyment from the ones I do get.

 

[Evo]

First Brothers in Arms - just never got into it =/
BF Vietnam - was crap compared to 1942

Unreal 2 - loved it, heck may have been a mad shit story but was a great laugh. Much better than Halo!

 

[Robert-]

GTFO!

Wait wut.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

Crash Bash.

Actually, maybe Pac Man World.

Crash bash as well. Also pac man world was awesome ;(

 

[Danimal]

Enter the Matrix - $45.

Dude, wtf, that was an awesome game to play (with four other dudes playing with you). But $80 bucks for a game is ridiculous :|

Here, when a new game comes out, it's 99.95.

 

[Tick]

Lock On Modern Air Combat - dunno about the game but I bought it and only discovered afterwards that it came bundled with the ever delightful starforce

I don't think I've ever bought a bad game ... although Medal of Honour was probably the least worthwhile

Lock-On is the best flightsim ever made

 

[Kyorisu]

I'm a designer. I have high expectations.

Compared to other products at the time everything must have had crappy graphics then. Afaik there has to be something wrong with your hardware or OS for Gothic not to run, theres are issues within the game itself but not getting it to even load is another matter which must have to do with your configuration.

 

[comoxer]

STARSHIP TITANIC complete ballz, recall paying over 40 quid for it,
chose it over quake 2 aswell

 

[Solaris]

Enter the Matrix - $45.



Here, when a new game comes out, it's 99.95.

Yes, but thats Australian dollars, which I believe are worth even less than dollars?

 

[CR0M]

Afaik there has to be something wrong with your hardware or OS for Gothic not to run, theres are issues within the game itself but not getting it to even load is another matter which must have to do with your configuration.

Didn't say it didn't load, I said it doesn't work. It's broken. Textures are missing. Sound is screwed. It crawls. It grinds to a halt. It locks up. It crashes. it. is. a. pile. of. shat. in. an. elevator.

But it does run. If you call shuffling with a Great Dane humping each leg running.

 

[Danimal]

Yes, but thats Australian dollars, which I believe are worth even less than dollars?

iirc, $1 AUD = $0.8something US.

Shouldn't be that expensive, should it? >_>

 

[Shift]

Wait wut.

The Gamecube was not a shitty console by any means, it had loads of awsome games on it.

 

[Xendance]

Your all gonna hate me.. but I aint enjoyed Day of Defeat Source yet...

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Starcraft, yeah STARCRAFT!

-Terrible unit pathfinding ("Oh, a guy is walking up a Ramp, its taking so damned long, I'll take the long way round")
-Not even 800x600 resolution? (practically every computer and monitor supported it during the games release)
-No persistent upgrades.
-Terran Vs. Terran fights were boring (Its like punching the mirror reflection of your self)
-Limiting Squad size

The story was the only redeeming factor for the game, God kows why S. Koreans play this game in multiplayer.
I only hope Starcraft2 can vindicate this game

 

[Sui]

Because contrary to your opinion it's actually really, really good.

 

[Shift]

Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader. Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Battalion Wars. Super Monkey Ball. Super Monkey Ball 2. Viewtiful Joe. Viewtiful Joe 2. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Metroid Prime. Metroid Prime 2 Echoes. Resident Evil. Resident Evil Zero. Resident Evil 4. Animal Crossing. Wave Race: Blue Storm. Super Mario Sunshine. Star Fox Adventures. Donkey Konga. Donkey Kong Jungle Beat. Ikaruga. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean. F-Zero GX. Pikmin. Pikmin 2. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Super Smash Bros. Melee. And that doesn't even include multi-platform games like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, TimeSplitters Future Perfect, SSX 3, Soulcalibur II, and Beyond Good & Evil.

Yeah, just... stop.

No arguments with that list, Timesplitters 2 and Freedom Fighters to name two other multiplatform.

 

[Drackard]

lol .. I totally disagree with your list sea

Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30 on PC

**** this game sucked, the reviews for it were great, but after finishing it i felt it was arguably one of the most overrated games ever.

I quite enjoyed it actually, was a bit of a challenge towards the end but fun overall imo.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Here, when a new game comes out, it's 99.95.

Most expensive game I saw when I was there was Far Cry for $120.

 

[Destructo-Bot]

Master of Orion 3

 

[Kyorisu]

iirc, $1 AUD = $0.8something US.

Shouldn't be that expensive, should it? >_>

Pro tip: You earn more doing a job here than doing the same job in the US. You can always work the mines for 100+K a year as well plenty of job vacancies. Added bonus of driving huge Tonka trucks.

Yes, but thats Australian dollars, which I believe are worth even less than dollars?

Pro tip: Australian dollars i.e. AUD. American dollars i.e. USD.

Didn't say it didn't load, I said it doesn't work. It's broken. Textures are missing. Sound is screwed. It crawls. It grinds to a halt. It locks up. It crashes. it. is. a. pile. of. shat. in. an. elevator.

But it does run. If you call shuffling with a Great Dane humping each leg running.

The only problem I've ever had is the one where your screen turns white when you have the camera at a certain angle and I think that was fixed by a patch or something because it stopped happening at one point. I still stand behind my your computer sucks argument.

 

[kineaesth]

The Matrix: Path of Neo.

And I was SO looking forward to it.

 

[Stingey]

Far cry, you know there's a problem when you install longer then actually playing.

 

[Krynn72]

Blazing Angels for PC. Its a ****ing dogfighter game, but it has no support for joysticks at all.

 

[Markdude]

Lock On Modern Air Combat - dunno about the game but I bought it and only discovered afterwards that it came bundled with the ever delightful starforce

I don't think I've ever bought a bad game ... although Medal of Honour was probably the least worthwhile

You must have bought Lock On: Gold, which includes the expansion pack "Flaming Cliffs", because the original Lock On doesn't use Starforce. If Starforce is freezing up and not letting you play the game (like it did for me), I think you can generate some kind of crashlog and send it in an e-mail to Starforce and they'll give you some kind of command you can enter that fixes it. The next expansion ("Black Shark") is thankfully not going to use Starforce.

I think Lock On is a great flight sim for just having fun. The graphics are pretty damn good and it doesn't have a terribly high learning curve. It's also pretty fun to play online. But I'm usually drawn to getting the most realistic experience I can, so most of the time I'm playing Falcon 4: Red Viper.

As for the topic at hand, I'd have to say Deus Ex 2: Invisible War. It's a decent game in its own light, but I was pretty pissed when I bought it and it turned out to be the way it is. It really doesn't deserve to bare the name "Deus Ex".

 

[French Ninja]

I have bought so many it's hard to tell, but I'll go ahead and say Dino Stalker for now.

Cheap ass Dino Crisis spinoff that requires a light gun to ****ing aim straight. Horrible controls...Felt more like a straight port of a bad arcade light gun.

I beat it in under an hour. Absolutely horrible game.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Blazing Angels for PC. Its a ****ing dogfighter game, but it has no support for joysticks at all.

Didn't you try the demo?

My joystick partly worked, try to pitch the nose up and your aircraft would veer left and crash (whilst still on the runway). The settings couldn't reconfigure the controls, and neither could the software that came with the stick.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Left Behind: Eternal Forces.
30$. I don't think I ever installed it. Anyone want it?

 

[xlucidxassemblyx]

Resident Evil 4 for the PC.
'Nuff said.

 

[Bob_Marley]

Brigade E5: New Jagged Union.

Now, I love the combat system in this game and the gun porn that is the vast, vast selection of weapons and accessories.

However, the in game music is annoying, the translation is poor, the voice acting is rubbish, the maps are too small, not enough buildings are enterable, the storyline is weak, the environments are bad, there are many (some game breaking) bugs, path finding is downright insane at some points, the AI can be rather questionable, the world doesn't feel "alive" and the graphics are poor. Oh, and I had to import it from the states, though thats probubly not the game's fault.

The combat system is very, very good, but the rest of the game lacks polish and at times feels like I paid for a beta test. Though I look foreward to the sequel, 7.62, as it promises to have the vast majority of those problems sorted out.

But until then Jagged Alliance 2 is still the king of tactical squad combat games. Which is sad, considering its nearly 10 years old.

 

[Operational]

Civilization III, Civilization: Call to Power. Not that they were bad games per say just that I only played them once or twice before going back to Alpha Centauri until Galactic Civilizations/Civilization IV came out.

Black & White 2 was one I would have bought if I had the money at the time, now that would have been a huge mistake.

Star Wars Rebellion

That game is awesome.

 

[TaoFan]

Unreal 2 - Dull.
Quake 4 - Ugh, grimy and 'orrible.

Doom 3 may be too long, too repetitive and even predictable, but I liked it more than HL2.

Oh, and avoid Star Trek: Bridge Commander like the plague. It takes an absolute age to install and basically copies 20,000+ INDIVIDUAL files to your HDD, unlike most games which pack the data files into big huge wad files. And the battles take WAAAAAYYYY too long, too.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Black & White 2 was one I would have bought if I had the money at the time, now that would have been a huge mistake.

???

I really liked that game. It was absolutely gorgeous, and the much improved creature AI added some sort of roleplaying to the game.

 

[Operational]

I really liked that game. It was absolutely gorgeous, and the much improved creature AI added some sort of roleplaying to the game.

I'm supposed to be a God not a city planner. The gameplay of B&W 1 was superior.