Your video game regrets.

nyarlothothep

agh, I've downloaded Moonpath to Elsweyr and I can't stop playing, damn you Skyrim, damn you to hell!!!

jill_valentine

wnolan1992 wrote: »

There was a second GAA football game?

That genuinely shocks me, given who god-awful the first one was.

I worked in a videogame shop when that was released, and for a while it came in bundles with the PS2. A few weeks after launch, we still had the GAA bundles left over, and couldn't move them for love nor money - even though they were, by then, a tenner cheaper than the machine on its own.

In effect, we literally could not pay people to take it away.

Still, oddly giddying to see the words "Lough Lene Gaels" on a PS2 game menu.

hal9000

Penn wrote: »

If a carpenter spent 139 hours carefully whittling and carving a piece of timber and at the end, realised he'd carved a lollipop stick, I'm sure that would be a letdown too.

That reminds me I need to up my lollipop whitling skill in skyrim!

krudler

jill_valentine wrote: »

I worked in a videogame shop when that was released, and for a while it came in bundles with the PS2. A few weeks after launch, we still had the GAA bundles left over, and couldn't move them for love nor money - even though they were, by then, a tenner cheaper than the machine on its own.

In effect, we literally could not pay people to take it away.

Still, oddly giddying to see the words "Lough Lene Gaels" on a PS2 game menu.

I remember those bundles, I was working in HMV at the time the GAA games came out, we got rakes of them back after that Christmas, either because they were sh1te and people claimed the "oh I got one already for xmas" or I had sympathy on anyone who got one as a gift and let them exchange it for something good :pac:

SeantheMan

Starting MGS4 !!!

I never got around to it...now have some time...so said I'd start.

Started ACT2 today.
30 mins of a cutscene on a plane at the start, then 10 mins of the most boring mission in any MGS game ever (tailing some guy on European streets) .....now another 30+mins of cutscenes that's goin on as I type this.
Big Momma takes snake to see big boss...he's being kept alive in the back of a van ?!?!?!?!....seriously...what kind of security **** is this ?!

How did this game get amazing reviews ? Even the gameplay is meh....the stealth isn't great. The enemies are stupid. Eugh....this game is a chore.

Retr0gamer

Been saying it for years. The combination of it being one of the few big PS3 exclusives at the time, the hype at the time and the fanboys keep the game in high praise. Just wait until the awful last boss, a disgrace in a game already full of terrible bosses.

At least the critical tide is turning, retronauts talked about it a few months back, Jeremy parish was regretting the high score he gave and said it was a bit of a turd.

chrislad

Assassins Creed: Rogue - Despite all the flak the series gets, I really enjoy it. Rogue was supposed to be one of the good ones, but a reskinned Black Flag with a terrible Irish accent wasn't my idea of fun. I may go back to it, but I've played and completed every AC game (inc the PSP, iOS versions....) and this is the only one I couldn't get through.

Arkham Origins and Arkham Knight - Mainly Origins as it just wasn't great. Knight for the PC issues. I'm sure I'd enjoy it a lot more on a console.

Bioshock Infinite - I'll get flayed for this, but it just wasn't as compelling as the previous two. I didn't like the new setting, it was too linear, Elizabeth was kind of pointless as an AI character. The DLC was pretty good though.

kunst nugget

SeantheMan wrote: »

Starting MGS4 !!!

I never got around to it...now have some time...so said I'd start.

Started ACT2 today.
30 mins of a cutscene on a plane at the start, then 10 mins of the most boring mission in any MGS game ever (tailing some guy on European streets) .....now another 30+mins of cutscenes that's goin on as I type this.
Big Momma takes snake to see big boss...he's being kept alive in the back of a van ?!?!?!?!....seriously...what kind of security **** is this ?!

How did this game get amazing reviews ? Even the gameplay is meh....the stealth isn't great. The enemies are stupid. Eugh....this game is a chore.

I've been playing it as well. I'm just a little bit on from you. It is fúcking terrible. I've got the boss fight for

Vamp

and I'm ready to call it quits because it is such a pain in the arse. The cut scenes are absolutely woeful shíte altogether. I fell asleep during one of them,

Should I just ditch this and play Ground Zeros and Phantom Pain instead or are they just as bad as this?

If you want stealth games that are enjoyable to play, you should try out Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Volume. Played both of them recently and really had great fun with both.

kunst nugget

chrislad wrote: »

Bioshock Infinite - I'll get flayed for this, but it just wasn't as compelling as the previous two. I didn't like the new setting, it was too linear, Elizabeth was kind of pointless as an AI character. The DLC was pretty good though.

I think that would be the general consensus for most people around here.

Retr0gamer

kunst nugget wrote: »

Should I just ditch this and play Ground Zeros and Phantom Pain instead or are they just as bad as this?

The story is utter ****e but both those games really concentrate on the gameplay systems which are excellent. Well worth playing even if the story is daft.

kunst nugget

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The story is utter ****e but both those games really concentrate on the gameplay systems which are excellent. Well worth playing even if the story is daft.

I think I might call it a day on MGS4 and play them instead then. It really is baffling how well respected that game was when it came out.

Dave_The_Sheep

Getting into Black Desert Online ... for 50 quid. My guild was all into it, then stopped pretty much straight away after I bought it. Plus ... Korean.

Paying full price for No Man's Sky (not a preorder, but still).

Never actually playing the Quake series at the time when it was released (it was in that generational gap where I hadn't the PC to run it, and the next one was a step ahead).

Never playing TIE Fighter (loved X-Wing).

Missing a load of good content in GW2 by taking a year out.

They're not massive regrets, but at least mild ones.

pcuser

My biggest regret was buying the Amstrad CPC 464 over the commodore 64. All my friends had commodores so there was no way to swap games.

Retr0gamer

kunst nugget wrote: »

I think I might call it a day on MGS4 and play them instead then. It really is baffling how well respected that game was when it came out.

I know and I felt like the crazy one screaming about how awful it was. there's a good game there, the first and second chapters have good gameplay but they last maybe 10 minutes if you take the cutscenes out. After that it's rancid. Also they took out all the quirky gadgets to play around with so messing around with the guards is way less fun. there's hundreds of weapons but they are all functionally the same rather than previous games were each weapon tier has a variety of functions.

CiDeRmAn

chrislad wrote: »

Assassins Creed: Rogue - Despite all the flak the series gets, I really enjoy it. Rogue was supposed to be one of the good ones, but a reskinned Black Flag with a terrible Irish accent wasn't my idea of fun. I may go back to it, but I've played and completed every AC game (inc the PSP, iOS versions....) and this is the only one I couldn't get through.

Probably should have called it Assassins Creed: Brogue!

Bioshock Infinite - I'll get flayed for this, but it just wasn't as compelling as the previous two. I didn't like the new setting, it was too linear, Elizabeth was kind of pointless as an AI character. The DLC was pretty good though.

The story and visuals were lovely, but Elizabeth was no where near the character the trailers and teasers had led us to believe.
She ended up just bringing ammo and the occasional power up, as well as reveal cover and attach points.

Retr0gamer

I'd go so far as to say the story in Bioshock Inifinite was rubbish as well.

ERG89

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd go so far as to say the story in Bioshock Inifinite was rubbish as well.

That game changed a lot in development & seemed to fall over the line. Wasn't there a thing about trying to limit times Elizabeth uses her powers, that you'd travel to the past instead of seeing it & you never actually fight Songbird either.
That part where you pick the pendant of the dove or cage which leads to nothing was probably something dropped too.

gaynorvader

Biggest regret for me was buying Oblivion on release. I'd probably sunk over 1000 hours into Morrowind and was really looking forward to the new Elder Scrolls game. What a disappointment. It basically felt like an arcade game rather than the open world rpg I was looking forward to and the story was a tremendous letdown. i completed it and tossed it in my closet.
Hardware wise I've always been pretty happy with my purchases. Even with the PSP (Monster Hunter, Disgaea 2 and Breath of Fire 3 were great diversions on long journeys). I've always been predominantly a PC player since the old Amiga 500.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'd go so far as to say the story in Bioshock Inifinite was rubbish as well.

I'll have to agree to disagree, I really enjoyed it and the voice cast were pretty great. It was probably part of the problem, with the story relying so heavily then on linear gameplay and lots of scripted scenes.
At least the bloody thing didn't go fullon Killzone and look brown and green!

bigphil2

Not buying a Gamecube..
Gamewise,many years being a staunch FPS player and ignoring other genres..particularly rpgs and 3rd person action games..
I have remedied this over the last few years

J. Marston

I adored MGS4 and loved the final boss battle .

"LIQUUUUID! SNAAAAKE!

mahoganygas

Not getting Arma 3 sooner.

RoyalMarine

biggest regret?

Diablo 3.

Total of 6,311 hours.

I quit few months back, and made sure I can't return! my god... what a time sink...

chrislad

RoyalMarine wrote: »

biggest regret?

Diablo 3.

Total of 6,311 hours.

I quit few months back, and made sure I can't return! my god... what a time sink...

That's....a...lot.

I started it, but I'm only about lvl 16 on my first character, but I'm not finding that it sucks me in. It's good, but I can't see myself replaying it once I finish it.

Danjamin1

Biggest regret is Excalibur 2555 AD, a truly awful game. I was young and stupid, I foolishly thought it would be something to rival Tomb Raider. Oh how wrong I was.

kunst nugget

RoyalMarine wrote: »

biggest regret?

Diablo 3.

Total of 6,311 hours.

I quit few months back, and made sure I can't return! my god... what a time sink...

That's nearly 263 full days. Jaaaaaysus…

RoyalMarine

kunst nugget wrote: »

That's nearly 263 full days. Jaaaaaysus…

yep....

started day 1, finished a few months back.

quitting is the best thing i've done!
fiancée loves me again... :rolleyes:

Dave_The_Sheep

RoyalMarine wrote: »

yep....

started day 1, finished a few months back.

quitting is the best thing i've done!
fiancée loves me again... :rolleyes:

Didn't you make a rake of money off the RMAH as well though?

Venom

No Man's Sky.

Think its the only game I feel ripped off buying.

SpannerMonkey

Sid Meier's Civilization : Beyond Earth . awful game and it was expensive . loved civ 5 but hated this . looking forward to Civ 6 out soon

Battlefield Hardline . was an ok game but faded very fast

Star wars Battlefront . died very fast after release

CiDeRmAn

I've been pretty disappointed with the EA scheme on the XB1
Sports games I've no interest in playing and a handful of older games that cost less than a tenner a head in CEX, so I think I'll be unsubscribing.
And to think it was seen as some great disaster for Sony that they didn't get a similar scheme on the PS4, the PS+ is far better, and you only pay the once, as opposed to paying for Xbox Live Gold and EA Vault, or whatever it's called.

The_Valeyard

SpannerMonkey wrote: »

Sid Meier's Civilization : Beyond Earth . awful game and it was expensive . loved civ 5 but hated this . looking forward to Civ 6 out soon

Battlefield Hardline . was an ok game but faded very fast

Star wars Battlefront . died very fast after release

Agreed about battlefront. But i quite enjoyed Beyond Earth.

Looking forward to some VI and watch Gandhi go nuclear again.

YouSavedMyLife

Shouldn't regret putting a lot of hours into a game. If it's a game you enjoyed then they where hours well spent in my opinion. Unless you didn't enjoy the time spent playing, then your an idiot.

RoyalMarine

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Didn't you make a rake of money off the RMAH as well though?

paid my rent for 8 months

jimmy blevins

Pre ordered the GT5 collectors edition which was not cheap.

Glico Man

That I have wasted, and continue to waste hours playing Destiny... and I cannot for the life of me put it away or delete it.

um7y1h83ge06nx

Buying Rise of the Robots back in the day... not much more to say there.

Icyseanfitz

3ds on launch, had nothing to play, was too small for my hands so I sold it in to cex for nothing a year later.

Funnily enough I now want to buy the new 3ds xl fml

ScumLord

Amiga 32bit. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Jamiekelly

No mans sky.
An infinite universe of tedious boredom await's to be discovered.
Should have been the tagine for the game.

The_Valeyard

Jamiekelly wrote: »

No mans sky.
An infinite universe of tedious boredom await's to be discovered.
Should have been the tagine for the game.

You have watched the 'Honest Trailer' for this game right?

lawlolawl

Glico Man wrote: »

That I have wasted, and continue to waste hours playing Destiny... and I cannot for the life of me put it away or delete it.

A hundred times this.

I played for countless hours doing the same crap instances and tedious quests repeatedly but the thing that broke me was one occasion that me and my buddies were doing a raid and me and another guy keep dying on a terrible jumping puzzle bit.

I realized that I had an iron grip on the controller and I was gritting my teeth in utter fury. I fell to my death one last time and just said "sorry guys, I'm done" over party chat and took out the disc, uninstalled the game and turned off the console. It just hit me all at once that I hadn't really enjoyed the game for months and yet I played for at least 3 hours most days with longer sessions on my days off work.

It's a really cynically designed game that is basically like the worst F2P garbage imaginable sans micro transactions. It's so basic and light on content that you can barely class it as an MMO. All the new content they released was pathetic and not much actually got released anyway. I've played most of the major MMOs over the past decade and they were all more enjoyable than Destiny.

Traded it in that same day for less than a tenner and I was just glad to be rid of it. Horrible game.

ebbsy

R type on the C64. You had to reload every time you died.

Still leaves a scar to this day.

Frankie5Angels

A digital purchase of Watchdogs on PS4. Played 20 mins of it and haven't looked at it since. At least I could have used the hard copy as a frisbee or something.

Encrypted Pigeon

Frankie5Angels wrote: »

A digital purchase of Watchdogs on PS4. Played 20 mins of it and haven't looked at it since. At least I could have used the hard copy as a frisbee or something.

I loved the ability to eject yourself from the vehicle while travelling at high speeds. Even more fun when you fat finger during a high speed chase. /sarcasm

Even using it as a frisbee, you are not missing much.

Pickpocket

Rainbow Six on the PS1.

It was a pretty lean Christmas in the Pickpocket household that year and that was my only present.

I was about 14 at the time and I had to play it all day long so my poor, stone-broke mother felt that she'd done her duty.

Hell.

pcuser

Pickpocket wrote: »

Rainbow Six on the PS1.

It was a pretty lean Christmas in the Pickpocket household that year and that was my only present.

I was about 14 at the time and I had to play it all day long so my poor, stone-broke mother felt that she'd done her duty.

Hell.

Fair play to you,

Gonzo

Frankie5Angels wrote: »

A digital purchase of Watchdogs on PS4. Played 20 mins of it and haven't looked at it since. At least I could have used the hard copy as a frisbee or something.

20 minutes, fair play, I barely lasted 10 minutes before i died of boredom, took out the disc and have never played it since.... most over-rated piece of crap i ever had the misfortune to purchase... i knew within 3 minutes this was a pile of crap. People laugh when they talk about the downgrade in graphics, I didn't care about that, what I cared about was the game had no atmosphere and had no gameplay, nothing to hook you in within the first few minutes.

CiDeRmAn

Pickpocket wrote: »

Rainbow Six on the PS1.

It was a pretty lean Christmas in the Pickpocket household that year and that was my only present.

I was about 14 at the time and I had to play it all day long so my poor, stone-broke mother felt that she'd done her duty.

Hell.

I was out and employed by the time consoles took off in 1990. As a result i was a constant burden on my own bank balance only.
But I remember my similarly broke parents buying my brother an Atari 2600jr as a present, he put a brave face on it too.

IvoryTower

Wii u. Sold it a few weeks after getting it, Mariokart buzz not quite what it used to be. A battlefield obsession didn't help either

I had a lot of crap consoles as a kid, enjoyed them all though even the 32x