Games you wish you hadn't paid full price for

Technology and Gaming
#1

Medal of Honor - Bought the standard edition for full price thinking it would get me BF3 beta access, turns out it didn’t and I ended up with a mediocre game.

Black Ops and MW3 - Bought both on impulse and while I don’t actually hate either of them, I do regret paying 60 bucks for each.

Mafia 2 - Good game but was still a disappointment.

Saints Row 3 - Great game but bought it on impulse, played for an hour and haven’t got back to it yet.

Dead Island - Almost the same case as SR3 but I did sink quite a few more hours into it.

RAGE - Way too short for the size (Yes, I know why is it so big) and did nothing to innovate both the FPS and open world genres.

SiN Episodes - While I loved the game, I bought it on the assumption that a steady stream of new episodes would be made after the first one but, unfortunately, Ritual wasn’t able to continue the project and eventually faded into nothing.

Borderlands - I’ve got mixed feelings about this one. While I love the freedom it offers and I think the gunplay is fun, I got bored of it very easily because the gameplay is very repetitive and the world is not diverse enough. Doesn’t help that I also bought the GOTY edition because of the Duke Nukem Forever First Access thing. Oh boy…

From Dust - Should I even explain why?

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - Very fun game but I couldn’t be arsed to keep playing it after the first couple of levels.

#2

Duke Nukem Forever - didn’t read a review and hoped it would be good because it was by 3DRealms, instead I got a dumbed down mix of shooting and puzzles with poor gunplay and invisible walls everywhere (i.e. the complete opposite reason as to why i wanted it)

Aliens Vs Predator - It wasn’t a bad game but the SK chains were ridiculous, and the maps were ripped from the sp. ON TOP OF THAT the dlc was also ripped from the SP. It was one big money grub from sega, what destroyed what could have been a pretty solid entry into the franchise

Modern Warfare 2 - I won’t lie, I had fun with MW2, but it really wasn’t worth the $60 I shelled out for it. It was too unchanged from CoD 4 (which was $50, and worth it). If I had waited until it was like $40 I probably wouldn’t have regretted it.

Unreal Tournament 3 - I was expecting another solid entry with more content, but the gameplay of my favorite one, UT99. Instead what i got was a UT2004 remake with better graphics and gameplay slightly closer to UT99, with a fraction of the content of both games. And really dumb weapon design. I was seriously disappointed.

#3

MW2, Black Ops, and MW3 for sure - they just aren’t worth $60 a pop.

IL-2 Sturmovik - Not so much because of the game itself, but because I bought it when it first came out on Direct2Drive, and I didn’t know any better. So I ended up paying for it twice.

L4D2 - I was pushed into buying it when it came out by friends and I rarely ever played it.

Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway - Good game for a challenge, but the replayability is pretty low.

Far Cry 2 - Got it when it came out; never completed it.

#4

From several years ago: Independence Day - the game. Oh yes, there was such a game. The most annoying; the same Will Smith phrase over and over and over…

#5

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#6

BF3. Hadn’t even time to launch MP, I received Skyrim and Steam Xmas sales were already here.
Should have waited origin’s sales and me ending TESV.

#7

I agree with From Dust. That game was a huge disappointment. It’s not very often I regret paying full price for a game since I do do a lot of research but that game left a sour taste in my mouth.

#8

Counter-Strike Source original (4 CD’s) version for 49.99 +tax.

#9

Really ? That’s indeed too much.

#10

Still in CD’s? I’m surprised retail PC games from Valve aren’t just a sleeve of paper with the code in it by now…

I was lucky enough to buy DoD Source in a discount retail box, because that game was a major disappointment.

#11

L4D2, wat. Does not compute. BIA3 though, yeah I can see. It was a bit of a leap from the first two into something slightly less challenging. Still half decent.

Personally? This year, rage. rage, rage, rage.

#12

It is his personal opinion which I agree with.

Played no more than few hour and I got bored.

#13

Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers

6,58€ was too much for that interactive movie.

#14

If you got bored with L4D, you were doing it wrong. It need friends and mics, certainly

#15

Bulletstorm - It was an alright but wasn’t worth full price.

#16

Portal 2 - Good game, but if I’d known it would be half-priced in a month I would’ve rather waited and saved my money, seeing as how I played through it only once in about five hours and haven’t touched it since.

Final Fantasy XIII - Huge disappointment in almost all areas. Even though I have the desire to not leave games unfinished, I just couldn’t bring myself to keep trudging through that game.

Transformers: War for Cybertron: Again, another pretty good game, I just think it would’ve sat better with me at $30 than $40.

#17

Never had this happen to me. If I’m not sure about a game, I pirate it first.

#18

I never buy games for full price.

#19

Brink. Honestly had they not completely fucked up the launch it might have been fun but it was unplayable followed by dead.

#20

Yes please

the only reasons I’ve seen are technical issues and such. were there problems with the gameplay?

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