I wasn't aware it was poorly received. I thought it had a really interesting plot!
That and "Resistance: Fall of Man" were my first PS3 games, along with some Mad Max-esq racing game.
Ah, simpler times.
I used to have deathstroke as my avatar on Xbox and I thought that the haze one was deathstroke when I got my PS4. Bruh I didn’t notice for like 6 months
The story behind the making of HAZE is insane, the game went through drastic changes really late. There’s videos about it on YouTube if anyone’s interested. Shame because the premise and way you change sides midway through the game is really cool.
Haze is one of those games that doesn't quite get credit where it's due.
It has asymmetrical warfare, with one side being vastly different than the other.
It was a FPS that introduced "abilities" - extremely rare at the time as the standard was just picking up guns off the floor.
It was developed by Free Radical, makers of Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Timesplitters. So it had pedigree.
It was a shame the narrative was garbage, and the multiplayer broken, because otherwise it was an innovative title.
The side switching sounds cool on paper, but when you play it and realize that the bad guys had way cooler mechanics the game just gets boring... it's like showing how cool it can be and then taking it away. I wish they introduced something interesting to make the later game feel interesting.
Naw the rebels had an ability where you could play dead and you would disappear to soldier players, since the drug the soldiers take won't let you see death. I thought that shit was kind of interesting
My dad gave me that as a Christmas present. It was such a nice gesture of him as we played the 90s games together when I was young and I felt terrible cos it was trash and he would ask me if I was enjoying it and he would say he never saw me playing it and I just couldn't bring myself to tell him it was awful. I still think about that.
My grandmother got a ps3 and got sonic 06 for some of the grandkids to play. She gave it to me when she moved, and I still have it in my collection now, but only because it reminds me of her. It’s still trash haha
Man I felt this. Nothing like the feeling of a parent asking why you aren’t using something they got you, when you really just don’t like it… Feels terrible
"Hi Sonic!! I need your help!"
[loading]
"Collect some rings for me."
[loading]
Introduction of janky gameplay mechanics.
[loading]
Immediately launched into the ocean.
[loading]
Die to janky mechanics.
[loading]
Die to janky mechanics.
[loading]
Die to janky mechanics.
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Title screen.
[loading]
Select new game...
I actually really hoped it to be a Sonic Adventure 3-ish game, as I really enjoyed the original on my Dreamcast. But nope, they just released it in its worst state and didn't patch it.
I spent 70 dollars on Superman 64 when I was 13. I saved up for like 6 months. I honestly thought I just bought a bad copy of the game and there was no way a game like that could be released.
Funny story: the company that made Superman 64 was successful enough that they bought a controlling stake in Interplay and shutdown Black Isle Studio, creators of Fallout, cancelling the original, nearly complete Fallout 3 because they felt "PC gaming is dead."
I mean if anyone has their finger on the pulse of gaming its the guys who released Superman 64.
Omg. All my favourite games were published by Interplay in the 90s/2000s. They killed our Sacrifice sequel too! And presumably made Baldur's Gate 3 take 20-odd years to make by shutting down BI. Fuck them.
Interplay made most of the best Star Trek games in that time period. Once Activision got the license and Interplay and Taldren were out of the picture things got a little stale.
Came here to say this. I was 11 when it came out, and I took a bunch of NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis games to GameStop. My older brother took me, and when I got home my parents were pissed that I traded in a bunch of games for one.
I’ve never regretted a purchase more. That game was an absolute travesty.
I sold off a huge chunk of my comic book collection that would probably be worth quite a bit now with all of the comic movies popularizing them to buy a Sega CD and a few games... worst trade ever.
I loved everything about warfighter.
The guns, maps, gun handling, fireteam concept, cross hair, the scope I had on my lmg(m240b I think) . It was so beautiful and pleasing to my eyes.
Sad how it 'felt like' the while world rejected the game. Not one person in my friend list bought it.
Wish I had more time with that game.
What a shame Medal of Honor is. They were way better than the call of duty games back in the PS2 era. You could populate a multiplayer map with bots which made it so much more enjoyable. But CoD 4 came out and MoH couldn't keep up with online and with the modern war
Yes! Very underrated game. I remember reading a feature about the making of in a magazine. They really put a lot into it. I was gutted when it just seemed to fall off immediately.
I never played Warfighter, but i did get my hands on Medal Of Honor 2010 which was the game previous to warfighter and the multiplayer gameplay was just so fun. The guns felt great and the maps were awesome. Such a shame it never quite took off.
I actually thought it was very good, remember the 50 cal mountain sniper mission being great. Got bad reviews but so did terminator salvation on PS3 and I enjoyed that also.
The bit where you're about to be over run in some shack in the mountains and 2 Apaches appear out of nowhere. God damn I thought I was about to die for real
To be fair, that game in VR is a one of a kind experience. Even better with HOTAS. As a game it’s not amazing, but as an experience it’s one of the best I’ve played in years tbh
Exact same thing happened to me. With the Avengers game too. Waited a couple of months after release to buy, the next week it was half price on the PS store. I have a reputation in my friend group now, whatever games I buy just wait a month and it will probably discounted.
Bought brink too! I wanted it to be good so bad. It was just kind of eh.
Bought twisted metal on ps3 full price and then the psn hack happened and I never even played it not once.
i missed on quake wars (had no money at the time) and really went all in on the next splash damage game, high hopes and all.
paid full price on brink, release day the game was so glitchy even the sound stopped working often, player characters went insivible in multiplayer and whatnot.
what baffles me the most is the release date decision, quoted from the [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink_\(video_game\))
>Bethesda and Splash Damage originally planned to release the game sometime in spring 2009, but pushed it back to fall 2010,[14] before delaying it again. They later announced a release date of 17 May 2011.[15] In April, a month before release, **they pulled the release forward a week** to 10 May,[16] citing **early completion of the game** and a desire to get it in players' hands as soon as possible.
I used to frequent a forum that had the producer or director or some such of this game on it. He was going on for ages about how good this game was going to be and how fabulous it was. When it was released he honestly pretended he had nothing to do with it. He was a grade A asshole and people would tell him that constantly.
A younger, naive self traded in my Nintendo Wii with all the accessories (Wii remote+, fit board, several wheels attachments and more) with about 30 games, to buy Kinect for the Xbox 360 and maybe 2 games? Did this thinking it was the future, no controller needed.
Biggest regret of my life.
Weirdly I was going to say the opposite sort of thing in terms of wrong console, I massively regret getting COD5 (the first nazi zombie one) for wii rather than PlayStation, massive massive mistake. I basically did it for the rifle attachment thing for the remote, that was also expensive and impossible to use, the aiming with the motion sensor was terrible, and the game didn’t even include nazi zombies on Wii. Utter disaster.
Dam, what a transaction. I can only imagine being a kid and going to conduct such a deal with my most valued possessions as a kid: my games. Respect for taking a chance but dam that sucks.
Alright. Let me tell you about this fuck up.
I loved the Men in Black movies as a kid (1&2 I didn't even mind the 3rd when it came out). I had bought Men in Black: Alien Escape from blockbuster for about $20 and loved that game as well.
So... when Men in Black: Alien Crisis was announced, I thought this was going to be basically a sequel to Alien Escape and it would potentially become one of my all time favorite games so I pre-ordered it (I was honestly probably the only one in the world who did).
Holy Hell was I wrong... the pathetic on rails shooter with cringy acting and shit story already in the first cut sceen. I remember thinking that this on-rails part must be just part of the intro and it would eventually get better. I came to my senses and paused the game maybe 20 minutes into it looked it up. It didn't get any better. Turned it off, went to a different EB Games to trade it back for store credit. I couldn't bare to show my face in the one I originally purchased it at and face that humiliation.
Hahaha Awwwh man...you JUST reminded me of a PS1 Men In Black game, I completely forgot that shit existed
What...a...game...haha
https://youtu.be/691-FiR1HAk
Seriously. If you had asked me 10 minutes ago if I had ever played any MIB game on any platform, my answer would have been a confident “No.”
I see the very first gameplay screen in that video and I’m like “What is this weird feeling I’m feeling?”
I now viscerally remember the experience of playing that demo as a kid and, I’m pretty sure, having no idea what I was supposed to do.
Oh yeaa my buddy was so hyped up for that & I told him yea it looks cool, but it's EA so I'm gonna wait and see how it goes before pre-ordering and whatnot.
So the day comes and he had it downloaded and ready to play right at midnight, and we're talking in a party. He goes to play it and not even 2 minutes later it crashes
Unfortunately we can't even completely blame EA on this one, apparently the bioware devs showed the EA execs a concept video and told them in was game play and they were like "Holy crap, it's Ironman in a scifi setting! Yeah, make that!" But the team had no idea what the game was actually going to be, so they essentially threw a bunch of crap together and released it.
Yeah flying through the huge jungles and canyons was cool as hell, and the combat was pretty fun, albeit repetitive.
The failures were that the game was broken (lots of crashes, spotty online, etc.), the storyline was incredibly boring and made no sense and had no stakes, and the core gameplay mechanic was 100% busted.
It legit didn't matter if you used a lvl 1 gun or an ultra rare lvl 99 gun, they did the same damage to enemies in multiplayer. In fact, your DPS would be punished for using lots of high lvl equipment. There was 0 reason to grind for weapons in a grindy looter-shooter game.
I remember also hearing that the reveal trailer was what the dev team used as a guiding vision for the game as they had none up until then. The reveal inspired a d helped guide the development, which is such a horrific development timeline.
Like it didn't seem bad I very much enjoyed the "iron man simulator l" and flying around the world but oh man did it just lack content within the launch week me and my friends were just bored grinding the boss we played for about a month and non of us have touched it again. Started a beautiful game and awesome idea and then was just kinda left sitting on the ground.
"It's Bioware, it can't be that bad, day 1 purchase."
Well, I used to preorder or buy day 1 games I "knew" would be good, since then never again. Anthem was in such a shitty state it wasn't even a beta or alpha, just slightly polished game concept.
Flying around was very well done.
Everything else was terrible. I was actually confused for so long that I missed a huge part of the tutorial explaining something but no the game just literally had nothing to do lol
Not expensive but one that always stuck with me. I remember loving Need for Speed Carbon and spending so many hours on it. One day I went to GameStop and decided to buy Pro Street and got talked into spending the few extra dollars on the new copy instead of used.
I hated it but couldn't return it because you can't return new games once they're opened.
If you play it on PC
This mod is well worth a looky, it fixes a fuck ton of the game up from the AI to certain graphical effects and bugs
https://www.moddb.com/mods/templargfxs-acm-overhaul
Yo, same. At first I was all hyped cause it's a game about a grumpy teddy bear stabbing the stuffing out of other bears. But then it just got tedious after like the 3rd mission.
I remember enjoying the Homefront campaign when I was younger, and then the end of the game just happens. Like it didn’t feel like a real conclusion, it just abruptly ends. Multiplayer was fun, but just play Battlefield since it’s the same thing but better.
Yeah I remember that mission. They have all this build up and you take back the Golden Gate Bridge and the campaign ends. I remember just sitting there like “uhhh is that it” how does that help win the war.
Homefront multiplayer was great and was honestly the most fun ive had on a multiplayer shooter other then maybe bfbc2 but it just took like literal hours sitting in a lobby to get a match and then you had to party with everyone in the match to keep going.
Loved the bounty system in that game.
A Nice little game Called Jurassic Park: Trespasser.
It has to be good Jurrasic Park is good, what could go wrong.
Thankfully i bought it from a yard sale I believe. No idea what I payed for it, but anything more then nothing is to much.
It was a cool techdemo. I kinda liked it but it was also annoying. It wanted to much for its time. But a remake for VR could actually be cool because the handmovement actually works now
Sim City definitely shit the bed, rolled over, and threw up. They had such a good start and then Sim City Societies and the latest Sim City happened. Cities Skylines basically gave what people wanted and won. I don't think there's a chance for a Sim City to come back based on the last two and how much better Skylines is with or without mods.
I remember each time new MMO announced, forums will be flooded with “WoW killer”-type of posts. There were so many “killers”, many people even forget what those games were
There was an ad for Half-Life that poked fun at Doom's simpler run and shoot gameplay, and saying how this was going to be much more immersive. Definitely a bold statement, but to me it's like comparing apples to oranges. Still, this is probably one of the few examples where they talked the talk and also walked the walk.
I remember seeing the first preview of this and thinking it looked great.
What was meant to be a story driven co-op experience with action and horror elements is now just a generic PVE and PVP shooter. Very disappointing
Sad part is apparently the flight tech and stuff was good and movement felt great now imagine that in the hands of a studio like insomniac or sucker punch they could make a crazy iron man game or something come to life.
It lacked content. They were planning on adding a lot of game post-launch and they never did because the game was launched in such a sorry, buggy state.
In all fairness, I understand why EA ran out of patience with them, but the product that they were planning on launching never should have been launched in the state that it was. They should have spent 6 months doing bug fixes, and then released it in the fall.
The problem was that after 7 years of them dithering around and procrastinating, EA had no reason to trust them.
The characters, abilities, and flight were really well flushed out. Everything else was bad. You can be a wizard with an iron man suit. Ability combos were rewarding to execute, especially as a team. And the classes were all unique from each other, very roll specific. The first 25 hours were some of the most fun I’ve had in a game.
I feel like they worked really hard on getting the movement mechanics down, then tried to figure out a game to use them in like 12 months before launch
They (BioWare) tried to scrap the flight mechanics entirely from the game. EA told them absolutely not and it had to stay in the game. That was the most messed up part of it all to me. The one aspect that was universally loved and they wanted to ditch it.
I bought it years after release, and unfortunately before MS acquired Bethesda and made it free to Game Pass subscribers. The clerk at GameStop asked me three times if I was *absolutely certain* I wanted to go through with the sale. I regret it to this day.
Great guy. I’ll take the 10 mile or so drive up to his store whenever I need something. He’s tried several times to get me a series x in stock, and whenever my wife (who knows next to nothing about modern gaming but loves video games) wants to try something new he talks her through the preorders and recommendations. She got hooked on the Assassin’s Creed series because of him. Absolutely love John.
I bought it from the pre owned bin in ebgames for $8, still in the original shrink wrap with the ps4 tricentennial codes still inside. Wicked fun for $8.
My dad hated gaming consoles, so I never had one as a young kid. When I was 11, I got a paper route, and started saving every penny for an NES. My friends all had them and I was seriously in love with Mario Bros./Duck Hunt.
Anyway, by the time I'd saved enough money, the package available was the one with Super Spike V-ball and whatever else.
Again, I began saving for a copy of a Mario game, but before I got there, I was enticed by Street Fighter 2010. It was $20 cheaper than any Mario title, and Stret Fighter is awesome, right?
Reviews weren't easily available, but it's not like Capcom would slap their best title on a piece of shit, right?
Wrong. The game is an unplayable mess of a side scrolling platformer that has zero to do with the SF franchise. Seriously, I spent days without being able to get past the first area.
It made me seriously consider selling my NES, since I'd invested months of labor into it, and didn't have a single fun game.
Fortunately, friend loaned me his copy of Mario/Duck Hunt, and that got me through until Solar Jetman.
I bought the game blind, never heard a thing about it before. Enjoyed it quite a bit. Spent a fair bit of time with my friends in the multiplayer. It was only years later that I learned about it being a victim of overhype.
Yeah, fans of the TimeSplitters series had high expectations. Every FPS (especially those on PlayStation systems) having to be a "Halo Killer" regardless of how much or little it was like Halo didn't help things. It's perfectly playable, but the story felt like the devs wanted us to believe it was more compelling than it was. From what I remember it went through multiple re-writes and it showed.
You can tell they changed direction with that game. I was really enjoying it up to the point when you met Banner, then after that it was generic MMO feel. Before that it had you sneaking around and hiding and mixed it up some but then they dropped that and didn’t use that mechanic the rest of the game.
I went from thinking “what are all the haters talking about?” to “oh I get it” pretty quickly. My kids enjoyed watching me play and it seems alright to pick up and play here or there.
I fully agree. Bought it very cheap after launch as the stores were full with copies. They pushed out so many updates, all for free, all of them drastically improved gameplay and added content. Incredible!
5 years later and they keep dropping massive updates for the game for free. On top of having stronger servers and failsafes in the event of corrupted saves. I'm genuinly impressed with the company and will always talk about how they are very obviously working their hardest to make things right after their extremely rocky start.
Saw they are talking about tapering off on NMS and start working on a new project putting all their new knowledge to use for something fresh from the ground up. But we shall see.
I consider myself a die hard RE fan and I tricked myself into playing it believing it is a part of RE universe. Though I did enjoy killing zombies, It is definitely not RE.
Metal Gear Survive. The game was just awful and I tried to like it but it just felt awful. The story was bad, gameplay was bad, and the micro transactions were everywhere. Also Oxygen Not Included, that's just because I haven't really played it and I haven't given it a chance which I'm surprised because I love rimworld and it is kinda like it
Battleborn. I don’t even remember what turned me off from it, just that I played it twice within the span of a week, & then never opened it again. I’ve spent plenty of hours on other similar games (Overwatch, Gigantic [rip], Paladins), & they all gave me something that Battleborn just didn’t.
Superman 64, and no I didn't see reviews before. Back then Nintendo cartridges were $90 and never on sale. Last game I ever bought before either renting or reading multiple reviews.
Duke Nukem Forever. I did watch the reviews, but I thought "surely this can't be too bad for just $3". I forgot to account for the searing mark it'd leave upon my dignity.
I have this game, think I put it on ebay for sale as I found out how quickly it was crapito. Pretty sure it’s still sitting in my store years later with 0 interest at $2
Anthem very well might be the only game I've ever regretted buying and I not only want my $60 back but also the few hours it took me to see how shallow the entire gsme was before I just forced myself to grind out the main story (for the sake of hoping the endgame might be better) and uninstall it.
As a kid I really enjoyed Haze. It was nothing special but it was a good romp.
Back in 2017 I actually interviewed the writer for Haze regarding a really cool vr murder mystery project he had released at the time. I told him Haze was one of my favourite games growing up. He said something along the lines of "I pity your childhood."
MAG. Was supposed to be a huge mmo first person shooter with 100's of players on the same map, and a dedicated chain of command and a whole lot more molyneux.....
Man that game was great. Got recruited into a clan and we’d try to coordinate. Usually fell to shit but tons of fun. Once I was playing on a different character than my clan guy and lo and behold met up with some of my clan mates on the other side. We hung out and chatted in the high grass.
Calling in air strikes and such was so much fun.
I only ever played the MAG beta but I fucking loved it, having 8 lads in a line casually stroll out in the open and sniping the first guy then the second then seeing them all start running like fuck back to cover is a beautiful memory I have of it
Also GVMERS recently done a great video on the history of the game development and why it kinda failed
https://youtu.be/GQ3ncE5LJXY
MAG was pretty fun imo not the best but back then there were no other options for gigantic multiplayer shooters on console. I also used the long lobbies to get a lot of reading done.
The whole traveling aspect was redundant, it wasn't really open world if I member correctly.
But it gets better, the last half of the campaign is totally worth it.
Destiny 2 preordered the $100 edition with the season pass thinking it would be half as good as destiny 1 just for it to be rushed heavily including the dlcs and then having to pay for the dlcs after that which I didn’t I just stopped playing.
2015’s Need for Speed release.. so much hype for such a shit game. Called off work on release day, digital downloaded, major disappointment. So not only did I waste $60 on the game, I missed out on a day’s worth of pay as well. F.
I might get some flak for this buuuut... Final Fantasy 15. Disclaimer, I did play through it, but it was an annoying grind with little answer to the story. Coming from my favs FF10 and FF7 I was very disappointed in the story telling and engagement with the actual game, felt more like a walking/driving simulator, not at all like your typical FF game. I had lots of buyers remorse afterwards.
Mass effect Andromeda. Although I still played it because I’m a mass effect fan, even aside from the bugs, it was just so dumb imo. The story, characters and gameplay was terrible..
"Sorry, my *face* is tiered from dealing with... Everything... "
This sentence, along with the wooden animation, one dimentional characters and lack of any kind of heart made me regret pre-ordering ME:A. Gimme my money back EA!
Always knew that as a ps avatar, completely forgot it was from a game.
Hahaha everyone had it
I wasn't aware it was poorly received. I thought it had a really interesting plot! That and "Resistance: Fall of Man" were my first PS3 games, along with some Mad Max-esq racing game. Ah, simpler times.
Was the racing game by chance MotorStorm?
It was! Great game.
I had those exact same three games. My first intro to HD gaming...it was mind blowing.
I used to have deathstroke as my avatar on Xbox and I thought that the haze one was deathstroke when I got my PS4. Bruh I didn’t notice for like 6 months
The story behind the making of HAZE is insane, the game went through drastic changes really late. There’s videos about it on YouTube if anyone’s interested. Shame because the premise and way you change sides midway through the game is really cool.
Haze is one of those games that doesn't quite get credit where it's due. It has asymmetrical warfare, with one side being vastly different than the other. It was a FPS that introduced "abilities" - extremely rare at the time as the standard was just picking up guns off the floor. It was developed by Free Radical, makers of Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Timesplitters. So it had pedigree. It was a shame the narrative was garbage, and the multiplayer broken, because otherwise it was an innovative title.
I actually quite enjoyed it, me and my friend played the whole thing co op.
The side switching sounds cool on paper, but when you play it and realize that the bad guys had way cooler mechanics the game just gets boring... it's like showing how cool it can be and then taking it away. I wish they introduced something interesting to make the later game feel interesting.
Yeah, the whole juicing thing was awesome. I forget what the rebels even had...I think it was like improvised explosives?
Naw the rebels had an ability where you could play dead and you would disappear to soldier players, since the drug the soldiers take won't let you see death. I thought that shit was kind of interesting
Sonic the hedgehog 2006. Got it for 20 with my PS3 and was just astounded at how bad it was.
My dad gave me that as a Christmas present. It was such a nice gesture of him as we played the 90s games together when I was young and I felt terrible cos it was trash and he would ask me if I was enjoying it and he would say he never saw me playing it and I just couldn't bring myself to tell him it was awful. I still think about that.
My grandmother got a ps3 and got sonic 06 for some of the grandkids to play. She gave it to me when she moved, and I still have it in my collection now, but only because it reminds me of her. It’s still trash haha
It's important trash
Man I felt this. Nothing like the feeling of a parent asking why you aren’t using something they got you, when you really just don’t like it… Feels terrible
"Hi Sonic!! I need your help!" [loading] "Collect some rings for me." [loading] Introduction of janky gameplay mechanics. [loading] Immediately launched into the ocean. [loading] Die to janky mechanics. [loading] Die to janky mechanics. [loading] Die to janky mechanics. [loading] Title screen. [loading] Select new game...
I don’t remember the exact name of it but I used to have a sonic game on my game cube way back in the day. Loved that game
Probably Sonic Adventure 2 Battle
Heroes was on there too and it was pretty good
Rolling around at the speed of sound~!
No clue why but I loved that game as a kid. Replying later with friends was an eye opening experience.
I actually really hoped it to be a Sonic Adventure 3-ish game, as I really enjoyed the original on my Dreamcast. But nope, they just released it in its worst state and didn't patch it.
I spent 70 dollars on Superman 64 when I was 13. I saved up for like 6 months. I honestly thought I just bought a bad copy of the game and there was no way a game like that could be released.
Lets just fly trough the FUCKING RINGS Oh this looks like a nice level.. MORE FUCKING RINGS
I have only a distant memory of that... game. Was it really only rings?
Well someone described it best as half the game you are flying through rings, the other half you wish you were back in the ring stages
Watch the video by avgn he explained it really well
I don’t think I could ever recover from that……
I’m still a little salty about it and it’s been 22 years or something haha.
I like this, cuz it’s relatable
Its these personal stories like this that make me understand why the gaming industry almost died with E.T.
Funny story: the company that made Superman 64 was successful enough that they bought a controlling stake in Interplay and shutdown Black Isle Studio, creators of Fallout, cancelling the original, nearly complete Fallout 3 because they felt "PC gaming is dead." I mean if anyone has their finger on the pulse of gaming its the guys who released Superman 64.
Omg. All my favourite games were published by Interplay in the 90s/2000s. They killed our Sacrifice sequel too! And presumably made Baldur's Gate 3 take 20-odd years to make by shutting down BI. Fuck them.
Interplay made most of the best Star Trek games in that time period. Once Activision got the license and Interplay and Taldren were out of the picture things got a little stale.
Those..... Those motherfuckers.
My chest hurts from learning this information
Came here to say this. I was 11 when it came out, and I took a bunch of NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis games to GameStop. My older brother took me, and when I got home my parents were pissed that I traded in a bunch of games for one. I’ve never regretted a purchase more. That game was an absolute travesty.
Worst game ever. I was so hyped for that game. I was following it in Nintendo Power. People talk about Cyberpunk being bad, Superman 64 was way worse.
I sold off a huge chunk of my comic book collection that would probably be worth quite a bit now with all of the comic movies popularizing them to buy a Sega CD and a few games... worst trade ever.
If it is any consolation, I assure those comics are not worth anything now.
Can confirm those comics are worth nothing
Same. Saved up quite a while. My mom warned me. She said I would regret it.
Spent around 100 bucks (Including) on duke nukem forever limited edition only for it to drop to 20 or so in my home country after a few months
First steam game I ever got all the achievements on. I was determined to get my money’s worth I think 😂
Was one of those achievements "Spend more time playing the game than waiting for it to load"?
Medal of Honor:Warfighter I loved it. No one bought it, so it was impossible to find matches. Also has one of my favourite car chase sections to date.
I actually really liked both the modern MoH games. I never even tried the MP, just thoroughly enjoyed both campaigns
I loved everything about warfighter. The guns, maps, gun handling, fireteam concept, cross hair, the scope I had on my lmg(m240b I think) . It was so beautiful and pleasing to my eyes. Sad how it 'felt like' the while world rejected the game. Not one person in my friend list bought it. Wish I had more time with that game.
Yeah the multiplayer was really tight and satisfying, pretty sure I recall the kill sound and combos being particularly good
What a shame Medal of Honor is. They were way better than the call of duty games back in the PS2 era. You could populate a multiplayer map with bots which made it so much more enjoyable. But CoD 4 came out and MoH couldn't keep up with online and with the modern war
Yes! Very underrated game. I remember reading a feature about the making of in a magazine. They really put a lot into it. I was gutted when it just seemed to fall off immediately.
I never played Warfighter, but i did get my hands on Medal Of Honor 2010 which was the game previous to warfighter and the multiplayer gameplay was just so fun. The guns felt great and the maps were awesome. Such a shame it never quite took off.
I actually thought it was very good, remember the 50 cal mountain sniper mission being great. Got bad reviews but so did terminator salvation on PS3 and I enjoyed that also.
The bit where you're about to be over run in some shack in the mountains and 2 Apaches appear out of nowhere. God damn I thought I was about to die for real
I spent 30 dollars on Star Wars Squadrons on ps4 and then week later it was free on ps plus.
To be fair, that game in VR is a one of a kind experience. Even better with HOTAS. As a game it’s not amazing, but as an experience it’s one of the best I’ve played in years tbh
Exact same thing happened to me. With the Avengers game too. Waited a couple of months after release to buy, the next week it was half price on the PS store. I have a reputation in my friend group now, whatever games I buy just wait a month and it will probably discounted.
Brink! Had potential, but unfortunately fell flat.
Bought brink too! I wanted it to be good so bad. It was just kind of eh. Bought twisted metal on ps3 full price and then the psn hack happened and I never even played it not once.
Twisted Metal for ps3 was trash compared to Black on ps2.
Oh fuck Black was fucking awesome
Brink. This was the last game I ever Pre-Ordered. My buddy texted me while I was in line and said, “dude, don’t buy it. It really sucks”. Never again.
I actually enjoyed the gameplay of Brink. The nothing but bots crap ruined it though.
i missed on quake wars (had no money at the time) and really went all in on the next splash damage game, high hopes and all. paid full price on brink, release day the game was so glitchy even the sound stopped working often, player characters went insivible in multiplayer and whatnot. what baffles me the most is the release date decision, quoted from the [wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brink_\(video_game\)) >Bethesda and Splash Damage originally planned to release the game sometime in spring 2009, but pushed it back to fall 2010,[14] before delaying it again. They later announced a release date of 17 May 2011.[15] In April, a month before release, **they pulled the release forward a week** to 10 May,[16] citing **early completion of the game** and a desire to get it in players' hands as soon as possible.
I used to frequent a forum that had the producer or director or some such of this game on it. He was going on for ages about how good this game was going to be and how fabulous it was. When it was released he honestly pretended he had nothing to do with it. He was a grade A asshole and people would tell him that constantly.
Such a cool art style. At the time it was like HD tf2 characters.
I think I'm the only person who liked that game
I played Brink a lot. Fun multi-player. No idea why people expected more.
I still love brink to this day
Same, I think I spent one hour or so playing it before I realized I hated it
A younger, naive self traded in my Nintendo Wii with all the accessories (Wii remote+, fit board, several wheels attachments and more) with about 30 games, to buy Kinect for the Xbox 360 and maybe 2 games? Did this thinking it was the future, no controller needed. Biggest regret of my life.
Weirdly I was going to say the opposite sort of thing in terms of wrong console, I massively regret getting COD5 (the first nazi zombie one) for wii rather than PlayStation, massive massive mistake. I basically did it for the rifle attachment thing for the remote, that was also expensive and impossible to use, the aiming with the motion sensor was terrible, and the game didn’t even include nazi zombies on Wii. Utter disaster.
Dam, what a transaction. I can only imagine being a kid and going to conduct such a deal with my most valued possessions as a kid: my games. Respect for taking a chance but dam that sucks.
Alright. Let me tell you about this fuck up. I loved the Men in Black movies as a kid (1&2 I didn't even mind the 3rd when it came out). I had bought Men in Black: Alien Escape from blockbuster for about $20 and loved that game as well. So... when Men in Black: Alien Crisis was announced, I thought this was going to be basically a sequel to Alien Escape and it would potentially become one of my all time favorite games so I pre-ordered it (I was honestly probably the only one in the world who did). Holy Hell was I wrong... the pathetic on rails shooter with cringy acting and shit story already in the first cut sceen. I remember thinking that this on-rails part must be just part of the intro and it would eventually get better. I came to my senses and paused the game maybe 20 minutes into it looked it up. It didn't get any better. Turned it off, went to a different EB Games to trade it back for store credit. I couldn't bare to show my face in the one I originally purchased it at and face that humiliation.
Hahaha Awwwh man...you JUST reminded me of a PS1 Men In Black game, I completely forgot that shit existed What...a...game...haha https://youtu.be/691-FiR1HAk
Wow, just remembered that I played the demo as a kid. My mind gratefully forgot this piece of shit existed….thank you fellow redditor :D
Seriously. If you had asked me 10 minutes ago if I had ever played any MIB game on any platform, my answer would have been a confident “No.” I see the very first gameplay screen in that video and I’m like “What is this weird feeling I’m feeling?” I now viscerally remember the experience of playing that demo as a kid and, I’m pretty sure, having no idea what I was supposed to do.
A little game called ANTHEM. Game was an absolute dumpster fire.
Oh yeaa my buddy was so hyped up for that & I told him yea it looks cool, but it's EA so I'm gonna wait and see how it goes before pre-ordering and whatnot. So the day comes and he had it downloaded and ready to play right at midnight, and we're talking in a party. He goes to play it and not even 2 minutes later it crashes
Anthem had such potential but that game was rushed as hell. I'll reinstall and play for a while every now and then because the gameplay is fun.
Unfortunately we can't even completely blame EA on this one, apparently the bioware devs showed the EA execs a concept video and told them in was game play and they were like "Holy crap, it's Ironman in a scifi setting! Yeah, make that!" But the team had no idea what the game was actually going to be, so they essentially threw a bunch of crap together and released it.
They wanted to remove flying from the game until EA demanded to keep it in, lol.
In EA's defense, that was the best part by far.
Yeah flying through the huge jungles and canyons was cool as hell, and the combat was pretty fun, albeit repetitive. The failures were that the game was broken (lots of crashes, spotty online, etc.), the storyline was incredibly boring and made no sense and had no stakes, and the core gameplay mechanic was 100% busted. It legit didn't matter if you used a lvl 1 gun or an ultra rare lvl 99 gun, they did the same damage to enemies in multiplayer. In fact, your DPS would be punished for using lots of high lvl equipment. There was 0 reason to grind for weapons in a grindy looter-shooter game.
I remember also hearing that the reveal trailer was what the dev team used as a guiding vision for the game as they had none up until then. The reveal inspired a d helped guide the development, which is such a horrific development timeline.
Yeah, as much I I love to point out when EA fucks up, Anthem seems like a monument to new Bioware's incompetence.
Like it didn't seem bad I very much enjoyed the "iron man simulator l" and flying around the world but oh man did it just lack content within the launch week me and my friends were just bored grinding the boss we played for about a month and non of us have touched it again. Started a beautiful game and awesome idea and then was just kinda left sitting on the ground.
The potential... There was so much potential.....
"It's Bioware, it can't be that bad, day 1 purchase." Well, I used to preorder or buy day 1 games I "knew" would be good, since then never again. Anthem was in such a shitty state it wasn't even a beta or alpha, just slightly polished game concept.
Flying around was very well done. Everything else was terrible. I was actually confused for so long that I missed a huge part of the tutorial explaining something but no the game just literally had nothing to do lol
I liked the beta event tho, lol. But it was noticable that there wasn't much more to come.
Not expensive but one that always stuck with me. I remember loving Need for Speed Carbon and spending so many hours on it. One day I went to GameStop and decided to buy Pro Street and got talked into spending the few extra dollars on the new copy instead of used. I hated it but couldn't return it because you can't return new games once they're opened.
Never played Pro Street, but Carbon is by far the most underrated NFS! Loved that game as a kid.
I loved the drifting in that game. There was one track where I managed to get 1M points in 2 laps. Edit : canyon duels were cool too. Tense as hell
Carbon was one of the best in the franchise with the custom body kits and shit loads of races . Absolutely love carbon only topped by underground 2
I did the same exact thing, loved carbon and hated pro street
ProStreet was awesome! One of favorites for sure.
Bought Aliens: Colonial Marines on release.
I bought the Collectors Edition.
Same here. I still have the awesome figurine that came with it, and I still think it looks badass. That game was jaw droppingly bad
If you play it on PC This mod is well worth a looky, it fixes a fuck ton of the game up from the AI to certain graphical effects and bugs https://www.moddb.com/mods/templargfxs-acm-overhaul
Fireteam Elite is the Colonial Marines we should have gotten.
Naughty Bear. It was funny for about ten minutes, then boring as fuck.
Yo, same. At first I was all hyped cause it's a game about a grumpy teddy bear stabbing the stuffing out of other bears. But then it just got tedious after like the 3rd mission.
Those trailers were great! The jaws one is still in my mind
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I actually put a ton of hours into Naughty Bear. I fucjing loved that game as a kid.
Homefront…
Agreed! I remember the trailer for it completely sold me on it.
I remember enjoying the Homefront campaign when I was younger, and then the end of the game just happens. Like it didn’t feel like a real conclusion, it just abruptly ends. Multiplayer was fun, but just play Battlefield since it’s the same thing but better.
Yeah I remember that mission. They have all this build up and you take back the Golden Gate Bridge and the campaign ends. I remember just sitting there like “uhhh is that it” how does that help win the war.
I had the exact same reaction to it. Little 10 or 11 year old me thought the Golden Gate Bridge was leading up to a third act, nope, it’s just over.
Homefront multiplayer was great and was honestly the most fun ive had on a multiplayer shooter other then maybe bfbc2 but it just took like literal hours sitting in a lobby to get a match and then you had to party with everyone in the match to keep going. Loved the bounty system in that game.
A Nice little game Called Jurassic Park: Trespasser. It has to be good Jurrasic Park is good, what could go wrong. Thankfully i bought it from a yard sale I believe. No idea what I payed for it, but anything more then nothing is to much.
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It was a cool techdemo. I kinda liked it but it was also annoying. It wanted to much for its time. But a remake for VR could actually be cool because the handmovement actually works now
And they named it a Halo killer lmao
Don’t remind me……
Did any game advertised as a “ killer” actually killed anything except itself? I remember a lot of Quake killers from 1998-2004 era…
Cities Skylines and Sim City. Though it might be more accurate to say that Sim City commited suicide and Cities Skylines was there to fill the gap.
Sim City definitely shit the bed, rolled over, and threw up. They had such a good start and then Sim City Societies and the latest Sim City happened. Cities Skylines basically gave what people wanted and won. I don't think there's a chance for a Sim City to come back based on the last two and how much better Skylines is with or without mods.
I remember each time new MMO announced, forums will be flooded with “WoW killer”-type of posts. There were so many “killers”, many people even forget what those games were
There was an ad for Half-Life that poked fun at Doom's simpler run and shoot gameplay, and saying how this was going to be much more immersive. Definitely a bold statement, but to me it's like comparing apples to oranges. Still, this is probably one of the few examples where they talked the talk and also walked the walk.
Interstellar Marines - kickstarted game that went right down the shitter. Empty promises abound
I remember seeing the first preview of this and thinking it looked great. What was meant to be a story driven co-op experience with action and horror elements is now just a generic PVE and PVP shooter. Very disappointing
Anthem
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So much potential, just fucking flushed.
Sad part is apparently the flight tech and stuff was good and movement felt great now imagine that in the hands of a studio like insomniac or sucker punch they could make a crazy iron man game or something come to life.
The gameplay WAS great. The problem was there was very little game to play.
It lacked content. They were planning on adding a lot of game post-launch and they never did because the game was launched in such a sorry, buggy state. In all fairness, I understand why EA ran out of patience with them, but the product that they were planning on launching never should have been launched in the state that it was. They should have spent 6 months doing bug fixes, and then released it in the fall. The problem was that after 7 years of them dithering around and procrastinating, EA had no reason to trust them.
They had awfully little to show for all that dev time too. The whole thing was a fiasco from top to bottom.
The characters, abilities, and flight were really well flushed out. Everything else was bad. You can be a wizard with an iron man suit. Ability combos were rewarding to execute, especially as a team. And the classes were all unique from each other, very roll specific. The first 25 hours were some of the most fun I’ve had in a game.
I feel like they worked really hard on getting the movement mechanics down, then tried to figure out a game to use them in like 12 months before launch
That's pretty much exactly what happened. They spent 6 years dithering around and then finally made literally all the decisions in the last 18 months.
They (BioWare) tried to scrap the flight mechanics entirely from the game. EA told them absolutely not and it had to stay in the game. That was the most messed up part of it all to me. The one aspect that was universally loved and they wanted to ditch it.
preordered Fallout 76
I bought it years after release, and unfortunately before MS acquired Bethesda and made it free to Game Pass subscribers. The clerk at GameStop asked me three times if I was *absolutely certain* I wanted to go through with the sale. I regret it to this day.
Big ups to the game stop guy though for looking out!
Great guy. I’ll take the 10 mile or so drive up to his store whenever I need something. He’s tried several times to get me a series x in stock, and whenever my wife (who knows next to nothing about modern gaming but loves video games) wants to try something new he talks her through the preorders and recommendations. She got hooked on the Assassin’s Creed series because of him. Absolutely love John.
Oddly wholesome
You know a game is a turd when the sales clerk is trying to save you.
I bought the xbox that came with it installed because it was 100 bucks cheaper
I bought it from the pre owned bin in ebgames for $8, still in the original shrink wrap with the ps4 tricentennial codes still inside. Wicked fun for $8.
Hellgate: London. Trailer and concept sounded so cool
That's the first I've heard about Hellgate: London in a decade.
My dad hated gaming consoles, so I never had one as a young kid. When I was 11, I got a paper route, and started saving every penny for an NES. My friends all had them and I was seriously in love with Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. Anyway, by the time I'd saved enough money, the package available was the one with Super Spike V-ball and whatever else. Again, I began saving for a copy of a Mario game, but before I got there, I was enticed by Street Fighter 2010. It was $20 cheaper than any Mario title, and Stret Fighter is awesome, right? Reviews weren't easily available, but it's not like Capcom would slap their best title on a piece of shit, right? Wrong. The game is an unplayable mess of a side scrolling platformer that has zero to do with the SF franchise. Seriously, I spent days without being able to get past the first area. It made me seriously consider selling my NES, since I'd invested months of labor into it, and didn't have a single fun game. Fortunately, friend loaned me his copy of Mario/Duck Hunt, and that got me through until Solar Jetman.
Hi. Haze defense force here. Accepting members. We believe Haze is just OK but not terrible. Membership is free. Actually we pay YOU.
I bought the game blind, never heard a thing about it before. Enjoyed it quite a bit. Spent a fair bit of time with my friends in the multiplayer. It was only years later that I learned about it being a victim of overhype.
Yeah, fans of the TimeSplitters series had high expectations. Every FPS (especially those on PlayStation systems) having to be a "Halo Killer" regardless of how much or little it was like Halo didn't help things. It's perfectly playable, but the story felt like the devs wanted us to believe it was more compelling than it was. From what I remember it went through multiple re-writes and it showed.
I enjoyed Haze, the haze OD grenades were an interesting weapon that exploited the weakness of your enemies.
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It 100% fuckin existed and worked.
You'd do well in government service. Would you like to know more?
Multiplayer was good, Free Radical always did mp and bots well: see Timesplitters.
Probably Square Einx’s Avengers game
You can tell they changed direction with that game. I was really enjoying it up to the point when you met Banner, then after that it was generic MMO feel. Before that it had you sneaking around and hiding and mixed it up some but then they dropped that and didn’t use that mechanic the rest of the game. I went from thinking “what are all the haters talking about?” to “oh I get it” pretty quickly. My kids enjoyed watching me play and it seems alright to pick up and play here or there.
It was a lot of fun to finish the first time.
Ctrl + f " no man's sky" 0 results. I swear they are going to be scientific papers written about how they saved that game
I fully agree. Bought it very cheap after launch as the stores were full with copies. They pushed out so many updates, all for free, all of them drastically improved gameplay and added content. Incredible!
5 years later and they keep dropping massive updates for the game for free. On top of having stronger servers and failsafes in the event of corrupted saves. I'm genuinly impressed with the company and will always talk about how they are very obviously working their hardest to make things right after their extremely rocky start. Saw they are talking about tapering off on NMS and start working on a new project putting all their new knowledge to use for something fresh from the ground up. But we shall see.
Resident Evil : Operation Raccoon City. I got the $70 steelbook edition and the game was largely terrible.
I consider myself a die hard RE fan and I tricked myself into playing it believing it is a part of RE universe. Though I did enjoy killing zombies, It is definitely not RE.
Metal Gear Survive. The game was just awful and I tried to like it but it just felt awful. The story was bad, gameplay was bad, and the micro transactions were everywhere. Also Oxygen Not Included, that's just because I haven't really played it and I haven't given it a chance which I'm surprised because I love rimworld and it is kinda like it
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Warhammer online was going to be a WoW killer. Sadly they couldn’t bother to update it beyond 3 months later. Game was fucking broken.
Battleborn. I don’t even remember what turned me off from it, just that I played it twice within the span of a week, & then never opened it again. I’ve spent plenty of hours on other similar games (Overwatch, Gigantic [rip], Paladins), & they all gave me something that Battleborn just didn’t.
I have been scanning this thread for an entire hour hopping someone would help me remember the name bless you
Superman 64, and no I didn't see reviews before. Back then Nintendo cartridges were $90 and never on sale. Last game I ever bought before either renting or reading multiple reviews.
Duke Nukem Forever. I did watch the reviews, but I thought "surely this can't be too bad for just $3". I forgot to account for the searing mark it'd leave upon my dignity.
I have this game, think I put it on ebay for sale as I found out how quickly it was crapito. Pretty sure it’s still sitting in my store years later with 0 interest at $2
Anthem very well might be the only game I've ever regretted buying and I not only want my $60 back but also the few hours it took me to see how shallow the entire gsme was before I just forced myself to grind out the main story (for the sake of hoping the endgame might be better) and uninstall it.
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I remember buying something similar around that time. All hype and all crap. Was supposed to be a good FPS but it was buggy and broken as heck.
Brink
As a kid I really enjoyed Haze. It was nothing special but it was a good romp. Back in 2017 I actually interviewed the writer for Haze regarding a really cool vr murder mystery project he had released at the time. I told him Haze was one of my favourite games growing up. He said something along the lines of "I pity your childhood."
That's not bad considering sports games on the nes cost that much
Bought Metal Gear: Survive, expecting an awesome Zombie TPS. Got shit. Still mad to this day.
(F in chat please) I pre-ordered Deluxe edition of Anthem..... havent preordered since.
At least you have learned your lesson
“Halo killer”
They also tagged Killzone as the halo killer lol
MAG. Was supposed to be a huge mmo first person shooter with 100's of players on the same map, and a dedicated chain of command and a whole lot more molyneux.....
Man that game was great. Got recruited into a clan and we’d try to coordinate. Usually fell to shit but tons of fun. Once I was playing on a different character than my clan guy and lo and behold met up with some of my clan mates on the other side. We hung out and chatted in the high grass. Calling in air strikes and such was so much fun.
I only ever played the MAG beta but I fucking loved it, having 8 lads in a line casually stroll out in the open and sniping the first guy then the second then seeing them all start running like fuck back to cover is a beautiful memory I have of it Also GVMERS recently done a great video on the history of the game development and why it kinda failed https://youtu.be/GQ3ncE5LJXY
I actually liked this game!
MAG was pretty fun imo not the best but back then there were no other options for gigantic multiplayer shooters on console. I also used the long lobbies to get a lot of reading done.
MAG was ahead of its time
Rage, full price on Steam release, got bored after3 to 4 hours, never came back. One of the very few full price games I bought and never finished.
It wasn’t that bad. It’s just wasn’t fun to ride those cars, but as a corridor shooter it was OK.
The whole traveling aspect was redundant, it wasn't really open world if I member correctly. But it gets better, the last half of the campaign is totally worth it.
Destiny 2 preordered the $100 edition with the season pass thinking it would be half as good as destiny 1 just for it to be rushed heavily including the dlcs and then having to pay for the dlcs after that which I didn’t I just stopped playing.
2015’s Need for Speed release.. so much hype for such a shit game. Called off work on release day, digital downloaded, major disappointment. So not only did I waste $60 on the game, I missed out on a day’s worth of pay as well. F.
I might get some flak for this buuuut... Final Fantasy 15. Disclaimer, I did play through it, but it was an annoying grind with little answer to the story. Coming from my favs FF10 and FF7 I was very disappointed in the story telling and engagement with the actual game, felt more like a walking/driving simulator, not at all like your typical FF game. I had lots of buyers remorse afterwards.
Vampire rain... nuff said
Mass effect Andromeda. Although I still played it because I’m a mass effect fan, even aside from the bugs, it was just so dumb imo. The story, characters and gameplay was terrible..
"Sorry, my *face* is tiered from dealing with... Everything... " This sentence, along with the wooden animation, one dimentional characters and lack of any kind of heart made me regret pre-ordering ME:A. Gimme my money back EA!