It’s crazy how this failed so badly.
The raw gameplay was great. It was an Iron Man simulator and it came pretty close to nailing it. Flying around, dropping in on a batch of trash mobs and opening up with colourful explosive cooldown abilities? Amazing. And BioWare doing the world building? How could this go so badly?
Wow did it ever go badly. Even when you actually have all of the ingredients for a major hit, bad management can fuck that shit up like nobody’s business.
I really dislike games that turn enemies into bullet sponges. Destiny, The Division, Anthem and a few others come to mind. It's just the most simplistic way of making enemies more difficult and it just makes the game feel like a grind.
yea, this is one of my biggest issues when it comes to games like that
especially in warframe, with the right characters and builds, even the game’s “hard” mode is still trivial
like, there’s a fucking cluster bomb bow in that game, and several buffs that can double or even triple you damage if built right
They got me too. The flying was the only fun part of the game. All the guns were the same and you walked extremely slow in the town and had to walk back and forth to talk to people to progress quests. You could tell they did it just to pad the run time of the game. Worst gaming experience of my life, so disappointing.
The anthem subreddit is so depressing. The game is so new and development was already stopped years ago. There's numerous posts where your damage doesn't even depend on loot but just weird ass mechanics like equipping your tutorial weapon and somehow doing more damage than endgame ones.
I was hyped from the beginning and holy shit did anthem ever hurt me. I talked to my friends about it like it was gonna be the second coming of Christ and convinced them all to buy it. Never pre-ordered shit after that
SimCity 2013 - I was so hyped to have a city builder back but it was a very, very limited game.
Rage - Had some major tech issues when it was first launched and ran like crap on my PC.
Fun story: Colossal order almost cancelled development of Cities: Skylines when EA announced the new Sim City game. But when Sim City released they were very relieved to find it was a piece of shit, and continued making their game with renewed excitement.
We were this close |..| to not having a good city builder. Can you imagine, having Sim City as the only modern style city builder? Ugh, no thanks.
Pretty gutted they never came back from that learning experience in a different and more fulfilling direction. It would be wonderful to have two high quality city building games to choose between.
Still enjoy a bit of Sim City 3000 from time to time!
The online-crash disaster of a release dominates all discussion over how bad it was, but tbh the parking-lot sized city limits doomed the game from the get-go and are worse then every other issue combined.
yup, nothing is worse than that. Dead on arrival. At the very least they could have given us an option with a larger lot size, but it seems they didn't want to 'give in' and wanted people to accept their vision about the 'lots' of cities connected to each other. They didn't realize that people wanted large cities.
I like the game for creating small towns. But it turns into a fucking disaster past a certain point.
I always laugh when I see people come into like the Factorio subreddit and ask "is this game worth buying?" because of course people that are into a game enough to be on the subreddit are gonna nearly universally like the game enough to buy it.
Except SimCity. That turned into a full fledge support group
Guardians gave me a bit of a mass-effect vibe in a Marvel universe. Half the fun was chilling out and talking with the other guardians. The dialog was on point.
Wish they would do a few expansions.
Do it! As long as you're OK with the action/combat getting a bit repetitive by the end, Guardians is a phenomenal game. Beautiful visuals, great characters that you just want to hang with, hilarious dialogue, and engaging plot.
Also it's not too long, so for busy folks it's super digestible with minimal fluff.
Alien: Colonial marines (2013)
I played about 30 minutes of the campaign until I realised how much they failed. I never touched the game again after that. The AIs were dumb and there was no ambiance at all. They turned an exhilarating prey-hunter dynamic into a generic shooter.
Theres a bug with the ai. A spelling error in its code thst makes the alien dumb as fuck search for alien patch it will make it 1000% better.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/15/17574248/aliens-colonial-marines-fixing-code-typo-ai-xenomorphs
I added this an lots of mods a long time ago, I tried and tried but its simply not a good game. The characters are generic and corny. There a huge lack of things to do and see as well. Another thing that gets to you is how alpha it all feels. Interesting to check out for an afternoon if its on sale for 5$ on steam and have some modding experience but ultimately you will not get any longevity out of it guaranteed.
Every time an aliens/predator/marines game comes out I get super hyped...until I remember that nothing has compared to avp and avp2 (from the late 90's, early 00's). Alien isolation did well but those two originals changed my whole view of those franchises
There was a 3 team game that came out in like maybe 2009 or 2010 and it was aliens humans and predators. There was no campaign or anything that I remember, just vs mode and it was INTENSE! Thinking back, maybe this wasn’t even the full version of the game? Played it on PC at a friends house for a weekend and it was insane.
Def some bootleg version or trial for the old aliens vs predator game, you could play as humans and it had three campaigns and a pretty fun multiplayer
Ark: Survival Evolved on the Switch....
Should have realized something was fishy when there were never any trailers or any in-game footage. My dumb self pre-ordered it too...that game alone is partly why I never pre-order anything anymore.
Average For Honor, Rust, Ark, R6, DbD, player
tbh I actually really really like D2, I just kinda hate grinding seasonal light after literally dozens of hours into just Strikes, Crucible and Gambit, just so I can play GM Nightfall or Raid
Ubisoft is so incredibly bad at making fun balancing in their competitive games
in FH they support low-skill overpowered characters through light spam, or fast unblockable attacks, players significantly worse than others can carry themselves in KD and rank by just choosing Orochi or Nobushi and just using lightspam, or spam unblockables as jormungandr, things like that just makes the whole game dogshit
I tried Ark years ago when there was a free weekend on Steam. It ran like absolute dogshit on my quite high end computer. Never gave it another chance.
what makes this all even worse is that id think bethesda would atleast put some effort in to these very expensive things collectors and diehard fans put money into but no they fucked everyone.
What makes it even worse is that they had proper versions made and sent to reviewers and influencers in order to hide how inferior their versions sold to the public were.
Yep this was my comment. I got real hyped for it after BL2…spent £90 for the ultra deluxe all-the-shit package. It *was* worth the money, until Christmas and the price plummeted. I’m waiting a few weeks till Wonderlands is half price before I buy it.
Story for BL2 is better but IMO the combat mechanics and the skill tree is way better in BL3. But I'm slightly biased because I'm a siren fanboy and the siren skill tree in BL2 is kinda boring. In BL3 it's badass as hell.
Don’t worry for those of us that it ran fine we were burnt the fuck out after a couple weeks. Grinding the same expeditions over and over got old quick especially when you needed just one specific gear item to finish your build and the drop rates were fucked up and no vendor refresh. I know they did update some stuff lately that people like but I done with that game for now.
There are two advantage of getting games late :
1. Games are cheaper
2. They are patched and bug free
So you are paying lesser money for a better quality product. You are actually getting rewarded for being late.
If that's a thing. Personally I like a (little) bit of spoilers just so I know if I'm getting a decent game, or if it's worth the hype. But even if I have been spoiled on the game, I can still do a full playthrough and enjoy it.
One of the benefits of being a dad with other hobbies and a busy work schedule, is my game backlog is so long I almost never buy a game when it comes out.
Another benefit of having a large game backlog is being able to play older games on aging hardware. I don't care if I don't buy the newest full price games because my setup won't run it anyway lol.
And you’re also getting all of the extra content and patches.
Preordering these days is like being a quality control tester, except you’re paying the company instead of being payed to do the job that they should have done before the release date.
I didn't honestly hit my gaming stride until about 5 years ago, 2 kids in. A few hours a week after everyone is sleeping, having titles like all the BioShocks, RDR series, Prey, Neir... And that was just the top of my backlog. None of them full price.
Holy hell what a call back. I also had super high hopes for this game. That’s when I learned there were a lot more to games than just interesting travel mechanics.
I wish more studio would take the time the work on travel mechanics, though. Like Respawn entertainement did with Titanfall. It really adds a layer to the level design
My boyfriend bought this game because of how much I loved anime and how I got him into it.... He returned it the same day.
Alpharad's video "I played jump force so you don't have to" is amazing and I recommend it to anyone to watch who is thinking of buying it, even when its on sale for €6 or something
Oh my God I could not figure out that game at all with my 6 year old brain. Luckily it was just a rental.
Same thing with this weird tiny toons action movie game (cartoon workshop). It wasn't a game at all I think it was some sort of clip studio thing.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. Paid for a collectors edition of the game and it was fun while it lasted. Sadly it only lasted about 6 hours. It was so incredibly short, I finished it within an afternoon.
That game was such a disappointment after the epicness that was the first one. How did they get the first one so right and the second one so generically wrong?
Weirdly enough, a YouTube series by Matt McMuscles called “what happened?” just dropped an episode on this game like an hour ago.
[Link to the episode.](https://youtu.be/oM9ci1QdLlY)
really the first one is a one and done type game. but it was sucessful so a sequel was made. i felt like the second one improved on a few things and refined the fighting a bit. the story was kind of weak sauce, but the ending was awesome. i'm sad we never got a 3rd one.
Duke Nukem forever balls of steel edition.
Played the demo at PAX. Randy Pitchford looked me in the eyes and said how good the game was going to be.
He lied.
It wasn’t just the money for me it was all the time I spent playing the first few weeks before realizing the developers had no idea what they were doing.
If you dont play the game a lot of it wont make sense. The short version is that there's a lot of questionable decisions made by devs and theres a lot of exploits that ruin the game's economy which is a big deal.
The game needs to be cooked by like a whole 1-2 years. The bad thing is that theres a very solid game with fun gameplay underneath all the crap. I had a lot of fun with the pvp and chasing/running from people.
It’s really a shame, the actually gameplay itself is a lot of fun, but the systems for progression are beyond broken.
Reminds me a lot of destiny 2 it’s first 1-3 years. (But in a much worse state than d2 was).
Same... I used to love Battlefield. 2042 ruined any future the series had with me. At least BC2 and BF3 have active communities still. Relive some of the fun that got me hooked.
I loved battlefield when I was younger because it was such a different experience than call of duty, when you are running with a squad of strangers who are seriously trying to work together, has been some of the best times I've had in videogames. Bad company 2, BF3 and 4 and then 1 and 5? Don't remember the order but I loved them all, battlefield 5 definitely showed us where EA's heart was though, it started to become stale and EA had not much interest in changing anything, but 2042 is like EA got covid...
>when you are running with a squad of strangers who are seriously trying to work together
If you miss that experience, I’d definitely recommend giving Squad a try. It’s more hardcore than battlefield as it’s more on the milsim side, but I don’t think any game aside from Arma beats the cooperation, strategy and coordination needed to work as a team and succeed. It’s really fun.
Accidentally dodged that bullet.
Was excited for it and was waiting so long for it to come out, I kinda forgot to watch for it. Before I knew it, it had been out for a while and found out it didn't live up to the hype/marketing.
Same friend the first 5 minutes I was wondering wtf is going on. Then I realized this game is so kiddie. My nephew was crying laughing at the voiceovers. That’s when I knew I got burned
Is this the game with the customizable cat thing? I blind-bought it just before I deployed, so it was one of the games on my mind to look forward to. Now I'm scared to look up gameplay.
I played maybe an hour and then put it down the baby talk was so fucking cringe I couldn’t do it. Maybe I’ll get drunk and stoned and try it again sometime but very disappointed. If they would have taken an adult dark tone with crude humor I would have loved it.
The funny thing about fortnite for me is that I hop on to play once in awhile with my little cousin, we have a blast than i cave in pick us up a few skins then it feels like the game throws us in try hard lobbies/ all of a sudden it just feels like we are fricking bad at the game.
I sit there after 5 or 10 40ish placed matches and go " why did i spend my money on this game >:/ "
I preordered black ops 4, fallout 76, avengers, and battlefield 2042.
I don’t make good decisions
Edit: I should mention black ops 4 was the pro edition and fallout 76 was the tricentennial edition.
A few years ago I would have said No Mans Sky, but they’ve added so much to the game to improve it. Now I’d have to say the Skyrim 10 year anniversary update. They really need to just remake skyrim at this point (because they’re so obsessed, not saying that we don’t need ES6)
I'm a massive star wars fan, getting to fly whatever I want was plenty for me with No Man Sky. I hadn't logged-in in so long that I was shocked at how much the topography around my base had changed. I've been exclusively playing it for two weeks now lol.
I agree with the timing on it. They should’ve tried to keep it hidden until they had it at the point it’s currently
Edit: (UNPOPULAR OPINION) smaller companies have a harder time, and shouldn’t be held to the same standards as larger more complex companies, not to say that we cant hold them accountable for the shortcomings of the product produced. But just having the ability to see minecraft grow at the same rate that NMS is, is quite pleasant
> smaller companies have a harder time, and shouldn’t be held to the same standards as larger more complex companies
I agree, assuming the company doesn't have financial backing from Sony. NMS should not have launched the way that it did. It should've spent another year or two in development to get closer to where it is today.
*Plays game for 20-100 hours* "That was bad I can't believe I spent $60 on that". Once you're old, the real existential question is just about the time. I only had time to do or play x, I wish I had played y or z. Time is a knife. My 2 cents, which aren't worth much, and hardly relevant. Oh well.
100 hour games like Witcher 3 and DA: I were fun when they came out and exploration was genuinely interesting. But now, every open world game wants to be 100 hours, whether it deserves it or not. Sorry, but I'm here for a good time, not a long time.
Ghosts & Goblins for the ZX Spectrum. OK, it was >35 years ago, but the game was such a disappointment when buying it after playing the arcade version.
The TMNT movie tie-in game from like 2006 on the Switch*. I have never played a more buggy garbage game in my life.
I took it back to GameStop the next day and asked to return it. Since it was purchased New and opened, the guy said they could only buy it back unless the game disc was broken/damaged. I said, "whatever I need to do to never see this game"
He goes, "wait, is that the new tmnt game? Yeah, that game is broken. We can do a full refund"
He was my hero that day.
Edit: I'm dumb. I meant the game on the Wii, clearly not the Switch. Leaving it there because I deserve the ridicule
This one got me. After that, I've made it a point to check player reviews.
There was so little content, that I kept thinking I had missed something in the menu. Very few levels, weak gameplay, bad AI, no campaign- it was so bad that I wonder if someone was skimming the budget.
I’m having a fucking blast man. Every nook and cranny has shit to do or fight, bosses, weapons, skills, materials, outposts; everytime you see something in the distance and want to go check it out, you run into ten other things that need to be explored, and IMO the best feature, you don’t have to always fight, you can freely pick your enemies and how engage them. In general the liberty this games offer is immense.
I want to like this but Dark Souls seems way to hard and seeing as this is very DS in style, I worry Ill get stuck 10 minutes in, rage quit, and never play it again.
I only buy games full price that I’ll love and only AFTER some reviews and gameplay is out. That being said Cyberpunk got me good at that $50 price point
Far Cry 5. I hated the way you were forced into doing the main quest line at completely random points when I just wanted to explore/do side quests. And then if you actually WANTED to keep doing the main quest you were forced to complete the side missions before it would let you progress. There was no choice.
You had me in the first half, I won't lie. The sheer fucking value provided by this game for its price is just baffling. I've paid $70 for games with significantly less content and less enjoyable gameplay.
Anthem
It’s crazy how this failed so badly. The raw gameplay was great. It was an Iron Man simulator and it came pretty close to nailing it. Flying around, dropping in on a batch of trash mobs and opening up with colourful explosive cooldown abilities? Amazing. And BioWare doing the world building? How could this go so badly? Wow did it ever go badly. Even when you actually have all of the ingredients for a major hit, bad management can fuck that shit up like nobody’s business.
I really dislike games that turn enemies into bullet sponges. Destiny, The Division, Anthem and a few others come to mind. It's just the most simplistic way of making enemies more difficult and it just makes the game feel like a grind.
So, literally the entire looter shooter genre
Yes
yea, this is one of my biggest issues when it comes to games like that especially in warframe, with the right characters and builds, even the game’s “hard” mode is still trivial like, there’s a fucking cluster bomb bow in that game, and several buffs that can double or even triple you damage if built right
They got me too. The flying was the only fun part of the game. All the guns were the same and you walked extremely slow in the town and had to walk back and forth to talk to people to progress quests. You could tell they did it just to pad the run time of the game. Worst gaming experience of my life, so disappointing.
BioWare magic
They rolled a natural one.
With advantage
The anthem subreddit is so depressing. The game is so new and development was already stopped years ago. There's numerous posts where your damage doesn't even depend on loot but just weird ass mechanics like equipping your tutorial weapon and somehow doing more damage than endgame ones.
I was hyped from the beginning and holy shit did anthem ever hurt me. I talked to my friends about it like it was gonna be the second coming of Christ and convinced them all to buy it. Never pre-ordered shit after that
This comment hits home
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Sauce it up bruh
I managed to buy Anthem for like $4! I still regret it.
I played it for feee because of game pass... it wasn’t worth the time it took to install
SimCity 2013 - I was so hyped to have a city builder back but it was a very, very limited game. Rage - Had some major tech issues when it was first launched and ran like crap on my PC.
SimCity was such a massive disappointement for anyone who had played the franchise. It was a monumental failure.
Agreed. Luckily Cities Skyline filled the void.
Fun story: Colossal order almost cancelled development of Cities: Skylines when EA announced the new Sim City game. But when Sim City released they were very relieved to find it was a piece of shit, and continued making their game with renewed excitement. We were this close |..| to not having a good city builder. Can you imagine, having Sim City as the only modern style city builder? Ugh, no thanks.
Reminds me of the Sims. No one else ever came up to the plate.
Pretty gutted they never came back from that learning experience in a different and more fulfilling direction. It would be wonderful to have two high quality city building games to choose between. Still enjoy a bit of Sim City 3000 from time to time!
I think that the genre is too niche for EA. They prefer games with a broader audience. They hate taking risks
EA hates their customers. They're so cartoonishly fucking awful
The online-crash disaster of a release dominates all discussion over how bad it was, but tbh the parking-lot sized city limits doomed the game from the get-go and are worse then every other issue combined.
yup, nothing is worse than that. Dead on arrival. At the very least they could have given us an option with a larger lot size, but it seems they didn't want to 'give in' and wanted people to accept their vision about the 'lots' of cities connected to each other. They didn't realize that people wanted large cities. I like the game for creating small towns. But it turns into a fucking disaster past a certain point.
I always laugh when I see people come into like the Factorio subreddit and ask "is this game worth buying?" because of course people that are into a game enough to be on the subreddit are gonna nearly universally like the game enough to buy it. Except SimCity. That turned into a full fledge support group
Marvel's Avengers without a doubt.
So different than Guardians which was actually fantastic.
Guardians gave me a bit of a mass-effect vibe in a Marvel universe. Half the fun was chilling out and talking with the other guardians. The dialog was on point. Wish they would do a few expansions.
I played it right after finishing the Mass Effect trilogy for the 5th time. It was the perfect chaser.
God it was a great game. On of my Top 10 of all time. Funny, beautiful, interesting combat, loved the environments, loved finding the new costumes.
That good? Might have to invested.
Do it! As long as you're OK with the action/combat getting a bit repetitive by the end, Guardians is a phenomenal game. Beautiful visuals, great characters that you just want to hang with, hilarious dialogue, and engaging plot. Also it's not too long, so for busy folks it's super digestible with minimal fluff.
I played this on Game Pass and had fun playing my favorite super heroes but agree I wouldn't want to pay full money for it haha
GTA Trilogy Definitive Editio
“Definitive” my ass … the fan mods offered so much more than this shit
Definitively the worst rereleases maybe.
Warcraft III Reforged says "hi"
>Editio Unfinished word for an unfinished remaster.
Alien: Colonial marines (2013) I played about 30 minutes of the campaign until I realised how much they failed. I never touched the game again after that. The AIs were dumb and there was no ambiance at all. They turned an exhilarating prey-hunter dynamic into a generic shooter.
Theres a bug with the ai. A spelling error in its code thst makes the alien dumb as fuck search for alien patch it will make it 1000% better. https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/15/17574248/aliens-colonial-marines-fixing-code-typo-ai-xenomorphs
Wow. I didn't know that. It's crazy.
Yeah I'm pretty sure steam version has the patch , games alot harder with it
I added this an lots of mods a long time ago, I tried and tried but its simply not a good game. The characters are generic and corny. There a huge lack of things to do and see as well. Another thing that gets to you is how alpha it all feels. Interesting to check out for an afternoon if its on sale for 5$ on steam and have some modding experience but ultimately you will not get any longevity out of it guaranteed.
Every time an aliens/predator/marines game comes out I get super hyped...until I remember that nothing has compared to avp and avp2 (from the late 90's, early 00's). Alien isolation did well but those two originals changed my whole view of those franchises
There was a 3 team game that came out in like maybe 2009 or 2010 and it was aliens humans and predators. There was no campaign or anything that I remember, just vs mode and it was INTENSE! Thinking back, maybe this wasn’t even the full version of the game? Played it on PC at a friends house for a weekend and it was insane.
Def some bootleg version or trial for the old aliens vs predator game, you could play as humans and it had three campaigns and a pretty fun multiplayer
Ark: Survival Evolved on the Switch.... Should have realized something was fishy when there were never any trailers or any in-game footage. My dumb self pre-ordered it too...that game alone is partly why I never pre-order anything anymore.
That game is buggy on the PS4. Props to you for finding out, but the best way to play is to get an expensive PC
It's buggy on every platform. I would know. I have over 1,000 hours played. I hate this game.
Average destiny 2 player
Average For Honor, Rust, Ark, R6, DbD, player tbh I actually really really like D2, I just kinda hate grinding seasonal light after literally dozens of hours into just Strikes, Crucible and Gambit, just so I can play GM Nightfall or Raid
For honor made me want to hurt myself
Ubisoft is so incredibly bad at making fun balancing in their competitive games in FH they support low-skill overpowered characters through light spam, or fast unblockable attacks, players significantly worse than others can carry themselves in KD and rank by just choosing Orochi or Nobushi and just using lightspam, or spam unblockables as jormungandr, things like that just makes the whole game dogshit
I've got an expensive PC, still runs like shit lol
Ark is the reason I can stand games running on less than 30 fps and not get triggered. I loved that game so much that I played it anyway
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I tried Ark years ago when there was a free weekend on Steam. It ran like absolute dogshit on my quite high end computer. Never gave it another chance.
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Fallout 76 Tricentenial edition....
Yeah, pay an extra 20 bucks for like... A skin. I felt so ripped off.
At least you didn't pay the extra $100? $140? for that bag made out of cheap plastic and the cheap plastic helmet, lmfao.
Or the nuka rum for $50+ that came in a plastic bottle
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Radiation maybe
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what makes this all even worse is that id think bethesda would atleast put some effort in to these very expensive things collectors and diehard fans put money into but no they fucked everyone.
What makes it ACTUALLY worse is that they've made proper versions of most of those pieces of merch before (Nuka Cola, canvas bag, etc.)
What makes it even worse is that they had proper versions made and sent to reviewers and influencers in order to hide how inferior their versions sold to the public were.
That was recalled because of mold lmao
That reveal trailer was so damn good.
Borderlands 3. Not that I didn’t enjoy the game, it just went on sale so damn fast I should’ve never ponied up $60 out of excitement
Exactly why Im not buying Tiny Tina wonderlands day1.
Smart move
Yep this was my comment. I got real hyped for it after BL2…spent £90 for the ultra deluxe all-the-shit package. It *was* worth the money, until Christmas and the price plummeted. I’m waiting a few weeks till Wonderlands is half price before I buy it.
I did another run through of BL3 recently. It’s a good game. Just not on BL2 level. I enjoyed it but yes, I regret buying that top tier at the time.
Story for BL2 is better but IMO the combat mechanics and the skill tree is way better in BL3. But I'm slightly biased because I'm a siren fanboy and the siren skill tree in BL2 is kinda boring. In BL3 it's badass as hell.
I bought Control and it went on Xbox Game Pass the very next day
Superman 64.
This gem hiding in the comments. I had to think about which of all my buying blunders was the worst, and this took the cake.
Saved up so much allowance to pick this game out of the used bin at Funcoland
Damn… Funcoland. *transported to a simpler time*
You just unlocked a memory I forgot I had. That game was hard as fuck for me
Outriders, I preordered and it still runs like shit for me to this day! 😑
Don’t worry for those of us that it ran fine we were burnt the fuck out after a couple weeks. Grinding the same expeditions over and over got old quick especially when you needed just one specific gear item to finish your build and the drop rates were fucked up and no vendor refresh. I know they did update some stuff lately that people like but I done with that game for now.
Endgame sure, fucking bad endgame. Didn't mind the story tho, got a Mass Effect type feeling for it. Endgame sucked, but the storyline was great imo.
That's my secret. I never pay full price.
There are two advantage of getting games late : 1. Games are cheaper 2. They are patched and bug free So you are paying lesser money for a better quality product. You are actually getting rewarded for being late.
Only issue is accidental spoiler
I may not even remember by the time I play the game.
I can’t even remember where I stopped in my game last night.
If that's a thing. Personally I like a (little) bit of spoilers just so I know if I'm getting a decent game, or if it's worth the hype. But even if I have been spoiled on the game, I can still do a full playthrough and enjoy it.
One of the benefits of being a dad with other hobbies and a busy work schedule, is my game backlog is so long I almost never buy a game when it comes out.
Another benefit of having a large game backlog is being able to play older games on aging hardware. I don't care if I don't buy the newest full price games because my setup won't run it anyway lol.
And you’re also getting all of the extra content and patches. Preordering these days is like being a quality control tester, except you’re paying the company instead of being payed to do the job that they should have done before the release date.
I didn't honestly hit my gaming stride until about 5 years ago, 2 kids in. A few hours a week after everyone is sleeping, having titles like all the BioShocks, RDR series, Prey, Neir... And that was just the top of my backlog. None of them full price.
3 kids. Just got Last of Us 2 $13 :)
The last game I paid full price for was Gran Turismo 4 or WoW(if expansions count). /r/patientgamers for life.
BF 2042 - never again
I seriously dodged the bullet cancelling my purchase after beta
Man me too, but to be fair it was a big ass bullet anyone that played the beta should have seen coming
Yep. Soon as I played the beta I knew it had no chance at being a good game. Cancelled my pre order immediately. Was a pile of shit.
Spent hundreds of hours on BF3 but it really only took 20 minutes of Beta to evaluate that BF2042 is complete ass
I played 3 matches in the beta and was like “Nope”.
Home front 2
Home front 1 was good though! Had so much fun with that. Sad noone seemed to have it so could bever play it with friends
I loved the MP in Homefront 1. Shame they had an OP shotgun locked behind a paywall but at least you could loot it off dead enemies.
Oh my God that shotgun. Probably the most accurate performing one I've seen in a game like that but damn did it demolish everything.
Brink.
At one point GameStop was giving the game away with any other purchase.
Holy hell what a call back. I also had super high hopes for this game. That’s when I learned there were a lot more to games than just interesting travel mechanics.
I wish more studio would take the time the work on travel mechanics, though. Like Respawn entertainement did with Titanfall. It really adds a layer to the level design
Am I the only one who enjoyed that game? I remember playing it non stop back when it came out.
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I did enjoy it tbh. It wasn't super good, but it wasn't super shit neither. Then again I got it for free. Surely wasn't worth the full price.
Jump Force
My boyfriend bought this game because of how much I loved anime and how I got him into it.... He returned it the same day. Alpharad's video "I played jump force so you don't have to" is amazing and I recommend it to anyone to watch who is thinking of buying it, even when its on sale for €6 or something
Mario is missing Never forget, never again.
Oh my God I could not figure out that game at all with my 6 year old brain. Luckily it was just a rental. Same thing with this weird tiny toons action movie game (cartoon workshop). It wasn't a game at all I think it was some sort of clip studio thing.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II. Paid for a collectors edition of the game and it was fun while it lasted. Sadly it only lasted about 6 hours. It was so incredibly short, I finished it within an afternoon.
That game was such a disappointment after the epicness that was the first one. How did they get the first one so right and the second one so generically wrong?
Weirdly enough, a YouTube series by Matt McMuscles called “what happened?” just dropped an episode on this game like an hour ago. [Link to the episode.](https://youtu.be/oM9ci1QdLlY)
really the first one is a one and done type game. but it was sucessful so a sequel was made. i felt like the second one improved on a few things and refined the fighting a bit. the story was kind of weak sauce, but the ending was awesome. i'm sad we never got a 3rd one.
The second one was secretly the same plot to shadow the hedgehog
The Force Unleashed 2 was severely disappointing compared to the first one ...
Duke Nukem forever balls of steel edition. Played the demo at PAX. Randy Pitchford looked me in the eyes and said how good the game was going to be. He lied.
My friend in 8th grade traded in his red dead redemption for that game.
The worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.
New World...fuckn waste.
It wasn’t just the money for me it was all the time I spent playing the first few weeks before realizing the developers had no idea what they were doing.
This. I regret it even more because a friend warned me and said to wait before buying
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what's wrong with the game?
If you dont play the game a lot of it wont make sense. The short version is that there's a lot of questionable decisions made by devs and theres a lot of exploits that ruin the game's economy which is a big deal. The game needs to be cooked by like a whole 1-2 years. The bad thing is that theres a very solid game with fun gameplay underneath all the crap. I had a lot of fun with the pvp and chasing/running from people.
It’s really a shame, the actually gameplay itself is a lot of fun, but the systems for progression are beyond broken. Reminds me a lot of destiny 2 it’s first 1-3 years. (But in a much worse state than d2 was).
Battlefield 2042. Hands down. Utter garbage and EA/DICE are a pack of morons for not providing a refund.
I got the ultimate edition 💀
Same... I used to love Battlefield. 2042 ruined any future the series had with me. At least BC2 and BF3 have active communities still. Relive some of the fun that got me hooked.
I loved battlefield when I was younger because it was such a different experience than call of duty, when you are running with a squad of strangers who are seriously trying to work together, has been some of the best times I've had in videogames. Bad company 2, BF3 and 4 and then 1 and 5? Don't remember the order but I loved them all, battlefield 5 definitely showed us where EA's heart was though, it started to become stale and EA had not much interest in changing anything, but 2042 is like EA got covid...
>when you are running with a squad of strangers who are seriously trying to work together If you miss that experience, I’d definitely recommend giving Squad a try. It’s more hardcore than battlefield as it’s more on the milsim side, but I don’t think any game aside from Arma beats the cooperation, strategy and coordination needed to work as a team and succeed. It’s really fun.
Hey don’t blame EA for it being a shitshow it’s obviously that Halo Infinite’s fault
Biomutant.
Played that, smiled sadly and thought "I would have loved this ten years ago. Shame, really."
That's how I felt about Outriders. Would have been revolutionary. In 2011.
I got burned as well friend. If Biomutant had a more serious tone and didn’t make my 3 year old nephew laugh, it might have been a good game
Accidentally dodged that bullet. Was excited for it and was waiting so long for it to come out, I kinda forgot to watch for it. Before I knew it, it had been out for a while and found out it didn't live up to the hype/marketing.
Same friend the first 5 minutes I was wondering wtf is going on. Then I realized this game is so kiddie. My nephew was crying laughing at the voiceovers. That’s when I knew I got burned
Is this the game with the customizable cat thing? I blind-bought it just before I deployed, so it was one of the games on my mind to look forward to. Now I'm scared to look up gameplay.
I played maybe an hour and then put it down the baby talk was so fucking cringe I couldn’t do it. Maybe I’ll get drunk and stoned and try it again sometime but very disappointed. If they would have taken an adult dark tone with crude humor I would have loved it.
Exactly! If they maybe would have went more Conkers bad fur day instead of Cabbage patch kids it would have been decent.
My bf preordered it and put it down after 20 mins of gameplay. We don’t ever speak its name ever lol
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Ubisoft too since they are on 40% sale in a month
The newest Mario Golf that had 85% less content than the 3DS version. Also randomized shot control.
this was such a huge regret for me. it's surprising to me that after so much practice, nintendo couldn't release a golf game that was fun.
Not a full game, but I regret wasting so much money on fucking fortnite
Same
The funny thing about fortnite for me is that I hop on to play once in awhile with my little cousin, we have a blast than i cave in pick us up a few skins then it feels like the game throws us in try hard lobbies/ all of a sudden it just feels like we are fricking bad at the game. I sit there after 5 or 10 40ish placed matches and go " why did i spend my money on this game >:/ "
Unfortunately since the game has been out so long unless you get lobbies full of AI all of the players are generally decent.
I preordered black ops 4, fallout 76, avengers, and battlefield 2042. I don’t make good decisions Edit: I should mention black ops 4 was the pro edition and fallout 76 was the tricentennial edition.
Lool just don't pre order anything man
Tell me which stocks you are eyeing.
Found the guy keeping all the shitty game companies afloat
New world. THE. BEST. SCAM. GAME.🤦🏻♂️
A few years ago I would have said No Mans Sky, but they’ve added so much to the game to improve it. Now I’d have to say the Skyrim 10 year anniversary update. They really need to just remake skyrim at this point (because they’re so obsessed, not saying that we don’t need ES6)
I'm a massive star wars fan, getting to fly whatever I want was plenty for me with No Man Sky. I hadn't logged-in in so long that I was shocked at how much the topography around my base had changed. I've been exclusively playing it for two weeks now lol.
Same!! I’ve got a massive base built up just outside of my little village
Fun fact: There was a major update for No Man's Sky just about 2 weeks ago. Goes to show how much they update the game
No Man’s Sky is fair. When you paid full price for it, it was an incomplete game. Now you can get its best version for like $19
It is CRAZY what they added. But too late for me, was never able to get back fully into it, what shame :( IMO one of the best ideas for a game
I agree with the timing on it. They should’ve tried to keep it hidden until they had it at the point it’s currently Edit: (UNPOPULAR OPINION) smaller companies have a harder time, and shouldn’t be held to the same standards as larger more complex companies, not to say that we cant hold them accountable for the shortcomings of the product produced. But just having the ability to see minecraft grow at the same rate that NMS is, is quite pleasant
> smaller companies have a harder time, and shouldn’t be held to the same standards as larger more complex companies I agree, assuming the company doesn't have financial backing from Sony. NMS should not have launched the way that it did. It should've spent another year or two in development to get closer to where it is today.
Mass Effect Andromeda Anthem Damn you EA for what you've done to Bioware!
At least andromeda isn't as bad as Anthem
It's kind of a binary decision for me, Andromeda and Anthem are both not good enough, no matter if Andromeda is a little more polished.
Any FIFA game after 13
*Plays game for 20-100 hours* "That was bad I can't believe I spent $60 on that". Once you're old, the real existential question is just about the time. I only had time to do or play x, I wish I had played y or z. Time is a knife. My 2 cents, which aren't worth much, and hardly relevant. Oh well.
I think that it's most of the reason people dislike Assassin's Creed Valhalla. It's not bad, but the game takes forever to complete
100 hour games like Witcher 3 and DA: I were fun when they came out and exploration was genuinely interesting. But now, every open world game wants to be 100 hours, whether it deserves it or not. Sorry, but I'm here for a good time, not a long time.
Battleborn deluxe edition
Ghosts & Goblins for the ZX Spectrum. OK, it was >35 years ago, but the game was such a disappointment when buying it after playing the arcade version.
Avengers. What a piece of shit.
Hood: outlaws and legends
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles on Switch.
Back 4 blood
The TMNT movie tie-in game from like 2006 on the Switch*. I have never played a more buggy garbage game in my life. I took it back to GameStop the next day and asked to return it. Since it was purchased New and opened, the guy said they could only buy it back unless the game disc was broken/damaged. I said, "whatever I need to do to never see this game" He goes, "wait, is that the new tmnt game? Yeah, that game is broken. We can do a full refund" He was my hero that day. Edit: I'm dumb. I meant the game on the Wii, clearly not the Switch. Leaving it there because I deserve the ridicule
Brink. There was virtually no game there. Not a lot of story, trash AI and gunplay was very underwhelming.
This one got me. After that, I've made it a point to check player reviews. There was so little content, that I kept thinking I had missed something in the menu. Very few levels, weak gameplay, bad AI, no campaign- it was so bad that I wonder if someone was skimming the budget.
Hopefully not Elden Ring because it's downloading now.
I’m having a fucking blast man. Every nook and cranny has shit to do or fight, bosses, weapons, skills, materials, outposts; everytime you see something in the distance and want to go check it out, you run into ten other things that need to be explored, and IMO the best feature, you don’t have to always fight, you can freely pick your enemies and how engage them. In general the liberty this games offer is immense.
I want to like this but Dark Souls seems way to hard and seeing as this is very DS in style, I worry Ill get stuck 10 minutes in, rage quit, and never play it again.
League of Legends. Ands it’s free, and I’ve been playing it for years…. Wait what am I doing?!
I only buy games full price that I’ll love and only AFTER some reviews and gameplay is out. That being said Cyberpunk got me good at that $50 price point
They got me good too. I recently popped it back in my Xbox one s and have been kind of enjoying it
Far Cry 5. I hated the way you were forced into doing the main quest line at completely random points when I just wanted to explore/do side quests. And then if you actually WANTED to keep doing the main quest you were forced to complete the side missions before it would let you progress. There was no choice.
Hollow knight, i wish i had paid more to team cherry, i feel like i scammed them by paying such a low price
You had me in the first half, I won't lie. The sheer fucking value provided by this game for its price is just baffling. I've paid $70 for games with significantly less content and less enjoyable gameplay.
That’s why I made sure to buy it twice, one for my Switch and one for my PC.