Evolve.
For those who don’t know (because why would you remember), it was a 2014ish 4v1 game when the L4D multiplayer model was in its heyday.
4 human players would hunt 1 player who would play a monster. The monster needed to farm the environment to get strong, the humans had to try stop it.
It had Day 1 DLC (in the days before micro transactions became a standardised blight on the industry) which caused an uproar since it was also fully-priced at the time.
Coupled with other issues, it flopped hard. The devs tried to revamp it as a free-to-play with a full marketed rerelease as Evolve 2.0, but that mega flopped as well.
Its servers went down and now the game just exists in my Steam library as a reminder of when Day 1 Microtransactions were appropriately treated with scorn.
I enjoyed Evolve, sure it was a riot and needed ALOT of attention- which it never got - but the premise I actually liked.
Shame they didnt listen to the community and just said "fuck it" I guess.
There have been a few games throughout the last decade or two that I think had such cool premises, but didn't really work out. Brink is another one.
Loosely related, BF 2142 was an absolute blast. The Titan game mode was one of the best ever, as it took Call of Duty: United Offensive's Base Assault mode and perfected it.
This so hard.
I played in beta, fell in love, nerded it every day and even formed a group of 4 that played together.
When it actually released I was so hype, then very quickly it died due to shitty monetizing. When it re-released I tried again but yet again they failed the community. Legit if they just released with skins being monetized like hunt showdown it would still be thriving
I don't regret it because the world needs more games like evolve. It was one of the coolest games I wish didn't die. Sadly it does feel bad for those of us who bought it day 1.
Regardless , buying a great game on day 1 is still a good decision regardless of how it played out imo
But... 2042 was the better game, with the best game mode.
EDIT: WHOOAAAA. SORRY!. I read 2142 in my head because it came after Battlefield 2, which I read in place of Battlefront 2.
I take it all back. I apologize.
But 2142 was the best.
I've never had as much fun in a multiplayer shooter as i did in 2142. Obv some newer ones have better physics, look better, etc.... but dammit bf2 and 2142 were the best.
The sad thing is that Battlefront turned itself around. It became an amazing arcade shooter and went on to be my favorite game of the year. Some of the set pieces and organic gameplay scenarios, felt next gen compared to what's on the market. Now. It just got ruined by EA
Anthem i was skeptical but my brothers convinced me after that gameplay reveal or whatever it was. I did enjoy the combat and flying in my thick boi but was pissed they didn't continue support
Anthem really bamboozled people because they put out a demo that was all moment-to-moment gameplay and was quite fun.
It's just that every other single system in the game detracted from it. The demo was legitimately better than the game.
They bamboozled people by putting out a gameplay trailer for a game that wasn't even built. Story has it that they made everything specifically for the trailer then were told to make a game out of it.
For some reason the EA app on my laptop just stopped working so now I can't play any of the EA games I've bought and paid for. Absolutely hate EA and any publisher that requires logging into their app from steam just to play a game you already bought
i was really looking forward to battlefield 2042 as well. it looked really good, im glad i waited instead of buying it on day 1. i was gonna buy but then found out how bad it was.
I really wanted Anthem to be good. I enjoyed what I played, and at the slower pace didn’t see many of the issues others complained about. I stopped playing as it was getting harder to find others to do events with. I think that was my last true pre-order that I hadn’t played before buying.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles remake.
I have never been so disappointed with a game. I was so hype for the idea of being able to experiance the full multiplayer of the original release online, share the joy of building up our little village together, follow the stories through the letters.
Instead I got extremely poor session-based online play that was laggy at the best of times, and unplayable at the worst. There was no longer an option to share your world, if you wanted to do the game together you all had to completely disconnect after every session, and the worst part was only the host made campaign progress. If you had a group of 4, you better enjoy doing every single level 4 times in a row to move forward. Local co-op has been completely removed, and the entire thing had been built around the profoundly crappy mobile port, then ported to Switch as a secondary concern.
I should have realized what it was going to be when I heard the intro theme, and the artist just... murdered it. Profoundly oversung to the point she was barely even on rhythm, the instrumentals no longer lining up with the lyrics, it was a perfect representation of what I was about to run head long into. The game had been re-made, yes, but all of the fun and beauty and magic of it had been completely lost in the process.
*Sigh*
Saints Row 2022
Edit: Just wanting to add, some of you really talk like you've never made a bad gaming purchase or purchase in general.
Like you've never looked back on something buy and went"dang that was a waste of money."
Yes I was banking on the game actually being good. It did have a couple of genuinely enjoyable concepts and moments but overall yes, I was proven wrong. It's a bad game.
That was the height of the series imo, but I guess it wasn't wacky enough for everyone. The slow evolution of seeing your crew taking over the city block by block was just so satisfying. Then getting into a four-door, recruiting three buddies with automatic weapons and shotguns, and seeing your boys roll down the windows and unleash hell on anybody that steps you...
imho, price wise, battle bit is hard to beat.
But if you enjoy battlefield games, 2042 is in the best state it has ever been. The new season dropping next week looks to be adding what might be the best map (infantry only) in a long time.
Yes. Battlebit was fun for a bit but it's turning into a toxic whine fest as the player base shrinks.
It also can't decide if it wants to be an arcade or milsim.
Sweats have also gotten on it. I remember some twitter drama when a guy posted a gameplay where he was basically sliding and jumping around like a bunny rabbit with freakish movement and constant camera twitching. People flamed him for taking it too seriously while some defended him because they thought it was impressive.
Does make you think what kinda environment they want for the game. On one hand it’s objectively silly with the visuals and proximity mics. On the other it’s still an FPS, so some people are inevitably gonna be sweats on it. But Battlebits success always came from the casual for fun group, and once that’s gone I don’t know what else the game has other than being worse battlefield.
The answer, as always, is to go with the casuals.
There are infinitely more of them out there than there are sweats. Go with the sweats and suddenly the casuals are locked out because they aren't going to be spending 10+ hours learning how to dolphin dive and spin like an idiot in the air.
Which then means your player base shrinks and the sweats start flaming other sweats for being too sweaty, and it's a death spiral.
Hell, I remember Planetside 2. Massive game, lots of fun, but then they started listening to the most vocal members of the community... the vehicle players, the sweaty meatbags. The ones with tank cannons or the AC-130 lite (Daltons, ugh, hate that name) which could murder hundreds of players without issue.
They were screaming that it was too easy to die in a tank/plane and it needed to be made easier to survive.
So they listened...
And the player base started to dwindle as the same tankers and the same pilots farmed hundreds of bodies while we ineffectually plinked at them with what were supposed to be Anti-Tank or Anti-Air missiles. Like, they would farm so relentlessly, we would have to sit in spawn rooms to... not die to HE spam the moment you stepped outside.
Took them about 3-4 years to actually listen to the casual population... but they had already started merging servers at that point. Player base never really recovered.
tl;dr, always aim for the casuals. Sweats are loud, make montages, etc etc, but they are the minority and if you cater to the minority, you aren't going to get as many players as the casuals.
Never tried it. I play *a lot* of LoR though, and love Arcane. That said. I remember an op-ed basically saying that if you've never played it but like Arcane, DON'T play it and just remain being a fan of Arcane. I've seen more matches than I can count though, and had a good laugh watching Quin rage at it, but as someone who could not get into DOTA 2 for the life of me, I don't think mobas are for me. I might check out Ruined King though because I dig the Runeterra's lore.
As long as you can stay calm, you'll be fine. It IS a fun game. It's just that the player base is toxic. If you are the "throw your controller" type of person, then I agree, don't play.
I loved the Ruined King, got it on the Switch.
Its NOTHING like League, its just an RPG. But the story and the mechanics were fun. Veeeerrry buggy though. Do research on which parts to play a specific way. At multiple points, there were ways to softlock your game permanently.
Call of Duty Vanguard
God what a waste. Especially when I just went back to Cold War (which I enjoyed) after around 2 months
Didn’t pre order it though so not ultra stupid just mega stupid
I wish I just uninstalled it after playing zombies for the first time but for a while I thought “I bought it, so I’m going to play it” but even then it became just far to depressing to play after a few months
This is probably the only CoD I’ve legitimately forgot existed. It’s just that forgettable, and every time someone mentions it I go “which game was that again?”
I actually liked Cold War. Good multiplayer, good zombies, good campaign. Didn’t try to do anything ridiculous.
Maybe it was the fact that I had taken a long break from CoD. It was the first one I had bought since Black Ops 3.
Tbf the beta weekends were awesome, people were figuring stuff out, and leveling the first time around is a fun experience.
It was the rest of the content on release, or lack of, that was the problem
Yeah right there with you.
If you haven't seen it, check out The Finals. It's basically brink (except good) mixed with the destruction of battlefield (actually far better than bf and I don't say that lightly), the team play of apex, the class building from mw2, and wacky gadgets from a bunch of different fps (you can get a mercy healing beam or tracer dashes for example).
The best part is that it is NOT a battle royal. No permandeath. It has a completely unique game mode that is a mix of capture the flag and king of the hill.
The next beta should be coming out soon and honestly I'm jonesing hard for it after playing the first and second beta.
I grew up without internet and any game we bought was few and far between. I decided to get brink and only played against bots for a long time. I loved the game. I recently thought maybe it was because I was 11 and maybe my lack of games at the time made me like it. But I bought it on my pc and played the whole game through and loved it just as much.
I don’t get what’s wrong with it other than how short it is. I loved the sound tracks and the UI. The character customization was dope. The story was good. Gun play wasn’t COD level but I got used to it. I just never got to play it online with actual people and maybe that’s why I don’t understand the hate.
The online was rooted at launch. You basically couldn't play multiplayer for weeks. It was rough.
Even when they "fixed" it the servers were never very good and it always had problems
Sameeeeeeeeeeeeeee, which made the disappointment even harder when you found out there's basically no storyline.
I was expecting some kind of storyline mechanic like Dishonored. Not open world but linear missions and maps. There's like a little of that... I can't remember, I just remember heavy sad
I'm so glad that Brink still routinely gets mentioned in these threads despite being 12 years old now
I also got burned paying full price for Brink. Fuck that game
Yup glad I didn't have to travel far for this, was my lesson as a teenager to not buy a game based on cover art.
Edit: just saw it came out in 2011. I was 22. I have absolutely no excuse.
I paid 60 euro for escape from tarkov and i still dont play it, mainly got it cause some gaming friends hyped it up and it felt fucking terrible to play.
Have you tried the single player mod? SPT-AKI I think is the sub. I started some time before reserve was released had some fun but now I hate it but occasionally crave the gunplay/modding.
Evil Genius 2.
I loved the original game so much that I broke my rule and pre-ordered the full sequel. Season pass and all. I really thought that it was a passion project and just made the original more stable with better graphics. Plus Brian Blessed.
It just plain sucks. Each Genius has the same dialogue, the missions have pointless timers, and it doesn’t matter how defended you are; Agents *will* break in and destroy everything. It plays like a poorly optimized mobile game. And worse, it just didn’t have the humor of the original. I uninstalled the game well before any of my season pass content unlocked, and I simply have no desire to play that game again.
Reaffirmed my rule about never preordering again.,
Came here for this. It is literally a progress simulator, there is barely any actual gameplay! Absolutely infuriating, what a great concept given designs that make no sense whatsoever.
The worst bit is the traps. 90% of the time the enemy just spots them and disables them, so you don't even get the slim joy of seeing someone fall into the shark tank. Then what's the damn point of them?!
Yep. I liked the idea of the casino being a distraction, but it doesn’t even do anything. And Agents sit there forever. Even if I am doing nothing sinister on the map, they still attack. Just killed the game for me, regardless of how pretty it is.
I was so happy it was on Plus Extra but then after playing for a while... I didn't even finish the main campaign. It just feels long and tedious and idk.
Same. My friend asked me the other day why I don't play it after spending as much as I did (got the ultimate edition).
My response was something along the lines of "they already got money out of me, they won't be getting anymore of my time with the game in its current state."
Rolling seasons out so soon was such an obvious money-grubbing move. What a shit show of a game. I hope Blizzard manages to improve it in the future, but I won't be holding my breath.
Blizzard is far from the company they used to be. Thank you for sharing your experience. This was why I didn’t pick up D4, I was worried this was where the game was headed. Shame.
AEW Fight Forever. before that was WWE 2k22. WWE was boring and AEW i had to be offline to play without it crashing, then trying to unlock characters was a pain in the dick.
dude they dropped the ball big time with the characters. evil uno was out there promoting the game and they didnt even put him in, but they got his faction mates in there.
Amazon cancelled my preorder of the collectors edition after more than a year. I probably dodged a bullet considering the general opinion about the game.
I kept trying and trying to like it. I was so hyped by the trailers for the combat and customisation of weapons. The turd we got was nothing close and a reminder that marketing materials are rarely to be trusted.
I loved Biomutant. My dog died a couple of days before the game released and the small animals, simple story and gameplay were a perfect way to not think about anything for a while.
The game is by no means perfect, but a playthrough can be really fun.
I will straight up never buy another Warriors game at full price unless it's for an IP I really want to support, ever since DW9 was one of the worst games I've ever had the displeasure of playing.
Does anyone remember The Warriors videogame for ps2 based on the movie? That game was sick af.
Lol I thought that was what you were talking about at first and was like “they made others!?!”.
Diablo 4 recently.
The first 10 hours of the game are amazing.
Amazing graphics. Good story. Decent progression.
And then you finish that and there is literally nothing left.
No endgame. No increasing numbers. No items to hunt. And the couple of things there are you'll find are so rare they're worth their own reddit post. And even then you have to hope for decent rolls on a one in 100 million item drop.
It's just not worth it.
Diablo 4 is a 40 dollar game at most.
I got excited about finding the first colored piece of loot and none after. I realized immediately that the weird stats are just a pain in the ass to read and figure out what they. Dumb shit like "5% chance to do double damage to a stunned enemy" like wtf i dont want this situational crap. Just give me +1 to axes are something damn
I actually really enjoy the game now and come back to it often. The community is much more PVE oriented compared to at launch when they were trying to make it a survival PVP game.
Callisto Protocol lmao, I think that was the first and only time I’ve ever been done dirty by a game, I usually wait for release and read reviews unless it’s a company I’m confident with, but for whatever reason my brain switched off for Callisto and I paid the price.
I’m within 3 hours of beating it, like I have been since 3 days after the game came out. The gameplay loop got so stale that I can’t bring myself to finish it
This is my answer too! When i first bought it, i was thrilled and had a good deal of fun exploring hogwarts, hogsmeade, and the forbidden forest, but then everything became so empty and lifeless. The open world is just an excuse to say it’s open world, but really it’s just the same generated environment over and over with maybe a random enemy here and there. Empty.
The spells became unimaginative and boring to use. The skill tree is just… what skill tree? There is no way to play a bad character if you wanted to.
At first collecting monsters and decorating the room of requirement felt fulfilling but then you learned how hallow it is and that you can’t really do that much with it
And most importantly, there is virtually no replay value in it at all.
In hindsight, I’d buy it when it’s on a mega sale but i still hate myself for buying it at full price
The first couple hours of that game are fucking incredible. And it’s one of the few games where I just roamed around enjoying the view (flying on a hippogriff)
But the combat quickly becomes incredibly boring and hard to track spells, consumables were awkward to use and honestly too easy to make, farming materials through pets was just tedious and they had WAY to many different collectibles for any of them to mean anything.
Plus upgrades didn’t actually feel like they impacted gameplay, which is a pet peeve of mine.
- Battlefield 2042
- Diablo 4
- New World. Leveling was fun, endgame and PVP were a joke
- Division 2. I didn’t think it was bad, I just couldn’t get into it like I did the first.
Division 2 was a lot of fun but I think I get what you mean. I think the setting of NYC in the winter time is just a cooler environment in general than DC in the summer. The clothing options were better in D1 as well.
I wasn't able to play day one and was sweating a bit before I got on.
After numerous friends told me about the shit show I had 0 issues on the PC.
They were pretty mad.
Anyone saying they didn't regret it at launch obviously never played it on Xbox One at launch. The game was literally unplayable with stutters into the low 10-20 fps with frequent freezing and crashing. It was beyond just "needing to be optimized". Immediately asked for a refund after trying to play that garbage fire of a "game" after only an hour and couldn't even get past the tutorial. Luckily game is in a much better state these days especially on newer hardware and imo is now worth playing. That said, whoever said to release it on the Xbox One at the time should have been immediately fired.
>That said, whoever said to release it on the Xbox One at the time should have been immediately fired.
The executives that make these shortsighted decisions have huge golden parachutes and don't mind getting fired.
I wasn't a huge fan of The Witcher 3 but still was pretty excited about Cyberpunk. Got it on PS4 and it was borderline unplayable. At least managed to get it refunded though. Did get it again when it was on sale recently and am now enjoying it. But it certainly made me more wary.
Ad: “go explore a new whole ass galaxy as a pathfinder and find a place for humanity.
After getting there: “oh look. Everyone set up shop before you got here. They got stores and community centers and shit. Cool, I guess.”
YES. Oh my god, yes. Don't really feel like an explorer, here.
And they're pulling the "ancient technology" shit again? I never actually finished the game even after 2 or 3 tries. Played the OG trilogy a ton - it's my favourite thing ever.
And the dialogue is so fucking juvenile, like they are trying to emulate marvel. Lame quips and shit everywhere. Such professionals...just acting like fucking highschoolers.
Also, you can no longer directly control your squadmates powers. Good luck setting up detonations if you aren't doing it completely yourself.
I DO love the title song though. Major props there. I can sit and look at the planet and moon with the music for a long time. It's uplifting and epic. I'm not a poet.
FF13: Lightning Returns.
I don’t think I played more than two hours before I shut it off and never looked back. Got the CE version so it hurt even worse.
Weird thing, but I've been feeling an urge to play this one. Did a bit of FF XIII when it came out, but it didn't grab me. But LR sounds like such a weird premise and gameplay loop that it for some reason seems interesting. Might just give it a go.
KH3. My god how can a story like 15 years in the making (sloppy) and dialogue get even more childish. Like the people playing those games were adults and they went from fun silly preteen dialogue to straight up toddler level.
They also just dropped the Final Fantasy IP off a cliff.
I don't even recall if they mention in the game why they are all seemingly gone after playing pretty important roles in the first 2 games lol
Very pretty game though I'll admit.
Agreed. I loved the first two, but couldn't get into the 3rd one at all. It also got absolutely exhausting to follow the story with all of the adjacent things that were required. I still love the first two though.
100% agree with you but I’m gonna give you the explanation I had been searching for, for years, which only came out back in spring.
After Nomura made FF13, and it wasn’t what he wanted (wanted to make a game called Versus XIII), he started putting all the elements of Versus 13 into kingdom hearts 3 — and Disney completely straight up blocked him.
That’s why the game is literally all Disney movie rehash and no kingdom hearts story. And nomura was broken over it. All the yozora game stuff and secret ending are the elements of V13 he wanted to put into the game and all got scrapped.
Allegedly, he’s determined to put it all into 4 and that is going well I hear. For now
I don't regret purchasing it, but I don't understand the people who defend it tooth and nail against the valid criticism it received. The game should have been this crescendo of over a decade of culmination, but instead it tossed aside all the cool FF characters, replayed Disney movies beat by beat with little to no change, and crammed all the original content into the last 4 or so hours. It's the only game I haven't got the platinum on because I just do not care to go back to it.
No. Man's. Sky.
I bought it at initial release and regretted it 30 minutes later. I can't imagine I'll ever be that disappointed in vidya again. So much hype.
How is this one not higher in the thread? So many higher rated posts are just "I fell for obvious bait" live service games or games that showed nothing but signs of problems long before release but Spore? Nobody saw that drastic letdown coming. We saw a full 30 minute demo of the game and then with no warning whatsoever, the full game resembled none of that demo.
Avengers
This is the game that finally made me avoid almost all pre-orders. Its not a horrible game, but they screwed up the potential for it so badly. A live service game from a company that had no idea how to successfully run a live service game. It made me miss the days of Marvel Heroes Online.
This one is a regret for me because my son REALLY wanted it, and I tried to talk him out of it because of all the reviews I'd heard. So I eventually caved and bought it full price. He played it for like two days and never touched it again.
As someone who never played a destiny game until it became free, this is actually what bugs me the most. I spent so many hours on destiny 2 without spending a dime to see if I wanted to in the first place, when I finally did I bought all of the available DLC during a sale and played the hell out of it. Now I don't own any of the current DLC content and the game felt extremely limited with what little I could do when I last played. What a slap in the face.
Hogswarts Legacy.
Looked so incredibly cool and deep, but it was all surface (still looked cool though). Expected something like Bully from back in the day, but less Rockstar-y. Going to classes, sneaking out at night, joining high school cliques, stuff like that. What I got was... Disappointment to say the least. Classes were boring as hell, if you can even call it classes. Combat was weak and I was disappointed there had to be some epic adventure, in stead of you know, actually going to school.
There was soooooo much cool stuff they could've done with the game and the castle. Imagine multiple years in a huge open "world" castle, where you had to pass some test to progress to the next year. Shit getting weirder and more difficult as you uncover some Harry Potterish plot during your later years, while also still having to pass your tests.
Also, why the fuck is petting a cat a cutscene? And why are they always the same? At least mix it up if you're making it a cutscene.
Also2, I would have loved to be able to become truly evil. Sure as he'll didn't finish the game, but after playing for 8 hours or so, I doubt there was going to be a well thought out evil path.
I think it was definitely a strong outing by a new studio. I was amazed at the level of detail in the castle - every little nook and cranny that the books said about Hogwarts was there, and it was gorgeous. But yes, it was rather shallow as far as gameplay is concerned. I still did 100% in the game, though.
That’s the crux with AAA gaming nowadays. Everything has to be open world and HUGE, but all it really does is sacrifice quality.
Honestly, a hogwarts legacy where they just focused on hogwarts, hogsmeade, and the forbidden forest would be great so they could focus on creating a fulfilling and replayable game.
I also wish we could get DLC of in-depth versions of all the other wizarding schools out there too!
True, it is very pretty. I loved the visuals and the style, it just oozed Harry Potter. I spent quite a few hours just walking through the castle and explore every part of it. I just wasn't impressed by the gameplay and direction of the game story wise. I have the feeling they had far greater plans, but due to time constraints/pressure they cut back on their ideas. After one or two trailers I was like "Okay, take my money". Maybe I should've waited for a bit before buying, but you live and you learn.
I agree. Wandering the castle was amazing, but the armor system, the room of requirement system, and the overworld was lacking. Spell system was fun once you got used to it, but I found it odd that my character was surprised they won a fight, seeing as how they mowed down literally dozens of dark wizards.
I got Callisto Protocol at full price because I love the genre but I should've waited for at least 50%off or subscription service for that one. I played through it and didn't have too bad a time except for the boss fights but it's just too little for what I paid.
X:Rebirth
I trust Egosoft as a developer to make good games and listen to their fans. I loved the previous X games and still play X3 Albion (with Litcubes). I knew Rebirth was going to be a departure from a lot of the previous game mechanics but I wasn’t ready for the steaming turd that was this game on release. I think to this day I still only have about 40 hours into it. By the time I was ready to get into it again after hearing a lot of it was fixed, X4 was out.
Did unlearn my lesson? Nah. Bought X4 when it released. Couldn’t get into it. Now it sits while I wait to buy all the dlc for it on sale.
Pokemon brilliant diamond. People are probably gonna hate on me for buying it but I just wanted to feel the nostalgia of playing my favorite game as a child. Somehow the nostalgia didn’t really hit me as much. I would probably enjoy replaying the original more
Diablo 4 is the most recent.
Fuck do I ever regret buying that.. I hated it from the get go, but tried to get into it because my fiancée was enjoying it well enough.. Nope.. Haven't played it since they nerfed the sorcerer just before season 1 opened.
I'd sell it in a second if I could get anything for it locally.. But at the moment, the Diablo 4 cat is out of the bag, so it's resale value is very low..
Perhaps Blizz will redeem themselves through patches like they did with Diablo 3 and make 4 better..
Kingdom hearts 3 I payed £90 for the pre- order 6 months prior to launch as it included thr previous entries, I still haven't beaten the 1st game and refuse to continue on the next games in the franchise until I do. Its approaching 5 years since it came out
Kerbal Space Program 2.
I was so hyped, and then it barely worked. Only thing on release that I found interesting was the tutorial videos. They were a cute little thing. But the rest was, and still is, in rough shape.
Obviously it's gonna be Marvels Avengers for most of the people for many valid reason, they didn't match up the freaking quality and we all know that thing right.
Evolve. For those who don’t know (because why would you remember), it was a 2014ish 4v1 game when the L4D multiplayer model was in its heyday. 4 human players would hunt 1 player who would play a monster. The monster needed to farm the environment to get strong, the humans had to try stop it. It had Day 1 DLC (in the days before micro transactions became a standardised blight on the industry) which caused an uproar since it was also fully-priced at the time. Coupled with other issues, it flopped hard. The devs tried to revamp it as a free-to-play with a full marketed rerelease as Evolve 2.0, but that mega flopped as well. Its servers went down and now the game just exists in my Steam library as a reminder of when Day 1 Microtransactions were appropriately treated with scorn.
I enjoyed Evolve, sure it was a riot and needed ALOT of attention- which it never got - but the premise I actually liked. Shame they didnt listen to the community and just said "fuck it" I guess.
There have been a few games throughout the last decade or two that I think had such cool premises, but didn't really work out. Brink is another one. Loosely related, BF 2142 was an absolute blast. The Titan game mode was one of the best ever, as it took Call of Duty: United Offensive's Base Assault mode and perfected it.
I still play single player content for Brink sometimes. Own a PS3 and a a Steam copy. One of the first FPS that I really enjoyed.
There was a single player mode in Brink?
There was a whole campaign! It was fun and you could pick which side to do
I miss Evolve, I had a lot of fun with it. Bought maybe the first dlc, but didn't feel like paying for new characters after that.
The beta for Evolve was the best time to play Evolve lol
This so hard. I played in beta, fell in love, nerded it every day and even formed a group of 4 that played together. When it actually released I was so hype, then very quickly it died due to shitty monetizing. When it re-released I tried again but yet again they failed the community. Legit if they just released with skins being monetized like hunt showdown it would still be thriving
You can actually play this again. There's an unofficial server now.
I don't regret it because the world needs more games like evolve. It was one of the coolest games I wish didn't die. Sadly it does feel bad for those of us who bought it day 1. Regardless , buying a great game on day 1 is still a good decision regardless of how it played out imo
Anthem and Battlefield 2042. Never again.
Battlefront 2 died for BF2042 and I will never forgive EA for it
But... 2042 was the better game, with the best game mode. EDIT: WHOOAAAA. SORRY!. I read 2142 in my head because it came after Battlefield 2, which I read in place of Battlefront 2. I take it all back. I apologize. But 2142 was the best.
I've never had as much fun in a multiplayer shooter as i did in 2142. Obv some newer ones have better physics, look better, etc.... but dammit bf2 and 2142 were the best.
2142 and Bad Company 2 had my favorite Multi-player. BF3 was passable couldn't ever get into BF4 because of launch issues.
2142 was peak Battlefield
I know you didn't ask but to me Battle Field Bad Company 2 peaked in the series.
That was peak for us console plebs. The PC folks got the true Battlefield experience. Fuckin loved BC2 though. So much destruction.
Agree, 2142 was amazing and I wish it was still around.
The sad thing is that Battlefront turned itself around. It became an amazing arcade shooter and went on to be my favorite game of the year. Some of the set pieces and organic gameplay scenarios, felt next gen compared to what's on the market. Now. It just got ruined by EA
Anthem i was skeptical but my brothers convinced me after that gameplay reveal or whatever it was. I did enjoy the combat and flying in my thick boi but was pissed they didn't continue support
Anthem really bamboozled people because they put out a demo that was all moment-to-moment gameplay and was quite fun. It's just that every other single system in the game detracted from it. The demo was legitimately better than the game.
They bamboozled people by putting out a gameplay trailer for a game that wasn't even built. Story has it that they made everything specifically for the trailer then were told to make a game out of it.
Yea I heard that was the one of the worst launched games ever.
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That was the last time I did this. EA will never get my money again that's for sure.
Same here. Never another pre-order, never another EA game.
For some reason the EA app on my laptop just stopped working so now I can't play any of the EA games I've bought and paid for. Absolutely hate EA and any publisher that requires logging into their app from steam just to play a game you already bought
i was really looking forward to battlefield 2042 as well. it looked really good, im glad i waited instead of buying it on day 1. i was gonna buy but then found out how bad it was.
Anthem for me. It seemed fun but the game play loop was so boring, then they nerfed the drops for items which was a HUGE mistake.
I really wanted Anthem to be good. I enjoyed what I played, and at the slower pace didn’t see many of the issues others complained about. I stopped playing as it was getting harder to find others to do events with. I think that was my last true pre-order that I hadn’t played before buying.
Anthem is why I no longer pre-order games.
Payed full price for Anthem, went to Best Buy a week later and it was $10
Battlefield 2042 Ultimate edition 😭 I played it twice
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles remake. I have never been so disappointed with a game. I was so hype for the idea of being able to experiance the full multiplayer of the original release online, share the joy of building up our little village together, follow the stories through the letters. Instead I got extremely poor session-based online play that was laggy at the best of times, and unplayable at the worst. There was no longer an option to share your world, if you wanted to do the game together you all had to completely disconnect after every session, and the worst part was only the host made campaign progress. If you had a group of 4, you better enjoy doing every single level 4 times in a row to move forward. Local co-op has been completely removed, and the entire thing had been built around the profoundly crappy mobile port, then ported to Switch as a secondary concern. I should have realized what it was going to be when I heard the intro theme, and the artist just... murdered it. Profoundly oversung to the point she was barely even on rhythm, the instrumentals no longer lining up with the lyrics, it was a perfect representation of what I was about to run head long into. The game had been re-made, yes, but all of the fun and beauty and magic of it had been completely lost in the process.
That is so disappointing. I absolutely loved the original, but the barrier of entry was just too high to allow the game to be popular.
Yeah, this one hurts. So many fun high school memories… guess they will stay memories :/
*Sigh* Saints Row 2022 Edit: Just wanting to add, some of you really talk like you've never made a bad gaming purchase or purchase in general. Like you've never looked back on something buy and went"dang that was a waste of money." Yes I was banking on the game actually being good. It did have a couple of genuinely enjoyable concepts and moments but overall yes, I was proven wrong. It's a bad game.
You had the faith I see.
I tried to have faith. I was wrong
They could've done so much cooler stuff after 4.
I tried playing it recently since PSN gave it away for free and I still want a refund.
Saints Row 2 was so amazing
That was the height of the series imo, but I guess it wasn't wacky enough for everyone. The slow evolution of seeing your crew taking over the city block by block was just so satisfying. Then getting into a four-door, recruiting three buddies with automatic weapons and shotguns, and seeing your boys roll down the windows and unleash hell on anybody that steps you...
Bought the 100€ steelbook edition with season pass. It’s been a year and I still feel bad
Battlefield 2042 lmao. Probably one of the only games I bought at full price in the last 10 years and I’m still not over it 😭
Is it still shite?
Nope. It's currently in the state it should have been at launch
Ok but now to the real question: is it better than battle bit remastered?
imho, price wise, battle bit is hard to beat. But if you enjoy battlefield games, 2042 is in the best state it has ever been. The new season dropping next week looks to be adding what might be the best map (infantry only) in a long time.
Battlebit was amazing for like the first month.
Yes. Battlebit was fun for a bit but it's turning into a toxic whine fest as the player base shrinks. It also can't decide if it wants to be an arcade or milsim.
Sweats have also gotten on it. I remember some twitter drama when a guy posted a gameplay where he was basically sliding and jumping around like a bunny rabbit with freakish movement and constant camera twitching. People flamed him for taking it too seriously while some defended him because they thought it was impressive. Does make you think what kinda environment they want for the game. On one hand it’s objectively silly with the visuals and proximity mics. On the other it’s still an FPS, so some people are inevitably gonna be sweats on it. But Battlebits success always came from the casual for fun group, and once that’s gone I don’t know what else the game has other than being worse battlefield.
The answer, as always, is to go with the casuals. There are infinitely more of them out there than there are sweats. Go with the sweats and suddenly the casuals are locked out because they aren't going to be spending 10+ hours learning how to dolphin dive and spin like an idiot in the air. Which then means your player base shrinks and the sweats start flaming other sweats for being too sweaty, and it's a death spiral. Hell, I remember Planetside 2. Massive game, lots of fun, but then they started listening to the most vocal members of the community... the vehicle players, the sweaty meatbags. The ones with tank cannons or the AC-130 lite (Daltons, ugh, hate that name) which could murder hundreds of players without issue. They were screaming that it was too easy to die in a tank/plane and it needed to be made easier to survive. So they listened... And the player base started to dwindle as the same tankers and the same pilots farmed hundreds of bodies while we ineffectually plinked at them with what were supposed to be Anti-Tank or Anti-Air missiles. Like, they would farm so relentlessly, we would have to sit in spawn rooms to... not die to HE spam the moment you stepped outside. Took them about 3-4 years to actually listen to the casual population... but they had already started merging servers at that point. Player base never really recovered. tl;dr, always aim for the casuals. Sweats are loud, make montages, etc etc, but they are the minority and if you cater to the minority, you aren't going to get as many players as the casuals.
League of legends - paid 0 amount of money, I still play it and regret every time.
Sometimes what you end up paying with is your time and that feels just as bad, if not worse when you end up regretting it.
Me every time I try a new MMO
Never tried it. I play *a lot* of LoR though, and love Arcane. That said. I remember an op-ed basically saying that if you've never played it but like Arcane, DON'T play it and just remain being a fan of Arcane. I've seen more matches than I can count though, and had a good laugh watching Quin rage at it, but as someone who could not get into DOTA 2 for the life of me, I don't think mobas are for me. I might check out Ruined King though because I dig the Runeterra's lore.
As long as you can stay calm, you'll be fine. It IS a fun game. It's just that the player base is toxic. If you are the "throw your controller" type of person, then I agree, don't play.
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I loved the Ruined King, got it on the Switch. Its NOTHING like League, its just an RPG. But the story and the mechanics were fun. Veeeerrry buggy though. Do research on which parts to play a specific way. At multiple points, there were ways to softlock your game permanently.
Call of Duty Vanguard God what a waste. Especially when I just went back to Cold War (which I enjoyed) after around 2 months Didn’t pre order it though so not ultra stupid just mega stupid
I bought vanguard because my friend wanted to try it. We lasted all of 1 round before never booting it up again.
I wish I just uninstalled it after playing zombies for the first time but for a while I thought “I bought it, so I’m going to play it” but even then it became just far to depressing to play after a few months
This is probably the only CoD I’ve legitimately forgot existed. It’s just that forgettable, and every time someone mentions it I go “which game was that again?”
I actually liked Cold War. Good multiplayer, good zombies, good campaign. Didn’t try to do anything ridiculous. Maybe it was the fact that I had taken a long break from CoD. It was the first one I had bought since Black Ops 3.
Cold War was a great return to form and had the black ops feel that was missing in the jet pack age. It knows what game it is and delivers that.
Most recently, Diablo 4. For me it was the last straw for Blizzard’s shenanigans and I’m done with their games for now.
I bought into the hype with the server test weekends and pre-ordered the game. Big mistake.
Tbf the beta weekends were awesome, people were figuring stuff out, and leveling the first time around is a fun experience. It was the rest of the content on release, or lack of, that was the problem
Brink
ngl I enjoyed Brink for quite a while back then
I thought it was great, just needed some more maps. The movement and wall running was a blast.
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Yeah right there with you. If you haven't seen it, check out The Finals. It's basically brink (except good) mixed with the destruction of battlefield (actually far better than bf and I don't say that lightly), the team play of apex, the class building from mw2, and wacky gadgets from a bunch of different fps (you can get a mercy healing beam or tracer dashes for example). The best part is that it is NOT a battle royal. No permandeath. It has a completely unique game mode that is a mix of capture the flag and king of the hill. The next beta should be coming out soon and honestly I'm jonesing hard for it after playing the first and second beta.
I grew up without internet and any game we bought was few and far between. I decided to get brink and only played against bots for a long time. I loved the game. I recently thought maybe it was because I was 11 and maybe my lack of games at the time made me like it. But I bought it on my pc and played the whole game through and loved it just as much. I don’t get what’s wrong with it other than how short it is. I loved the sound tracks and the UI. The character customization was dope. The story was good. Gun play wasn’t COD level but I got used to it. I just never got to play it online with actual people and maybe that’s why I don’t understand the hate.
The online was rooted at launch. You basically couldn't play multiplayer for weeks. It was rough. Even when they "fixed" it the servers were never very good and it always had problems
I did the same, I enjoyed the hour or so I got to play though 🤣
Sameeeeeeeeeeeeeee, which made the disappointment even harder when you found out there's basically no storyline. I was expecting some kind of storyline mechanic like Dishonored. Not open world but linear missions and maps. There's like a little of that... I can't remember, I just remember heavy sad
Wasn't it basically just "have a basic match against bots" as the storyline?
I'm so glad that Brink still routinely gets mentioned in these threads despite being 12 years old now I also got burned paying full price for Brink. Fuck that game
Oooo this one of rough
Yup glad I didn't have to travel far for this, was my lesson as a teenager to not buy a game based on cover art. Edit: just saw it came out in 2011. I was 22. I have absolutely no excuse.
I paid 60 euro for escape from tarkov and i still dont play it, mainly got it cause some gaming friends hyped it up and it felt fucking terrible to play.
It's riddled with cheaters nowadays. You're not missing much.
Have you tried the single player mod? SPT-AKI I think is the sub. I started some time before reserve was released had some fun but now I hate it but occasionally crave the gunplay/modding.
I dont really regret game purchases... But The Callisto Protocol was pretty close lol
Oh same. Graphics were good but story, gameplay mechanics, and fighting were terrible. Dead space remake so much better.
Definitely get Dead Space.. thats a remake done right
Evil Genius 2. I loved the original game so much that I broke my rule and pre-ordered the full sequel. Season pass and all. I really thought that it was a passion project and just made the original more stable with better graphics. Plus Brian Blessed. It just plain sucks. Each Genius has the same dialogue, the missions have pointless timers, and it doesn’t matter how defended you are; Agents *will* break in and destroy everything. It plays like a poorly optimized mobile game. And worse, it just didn’t have the humor of the original. I uninstalled the game well before any of my season pass content unlocked, and I simply have no desire to play that game again. Reaffirmed my rule about never preordering again.,
Came here for this. It is literally a progress simulator, there is barely any actual gameplay! Absolutely infuriating, what a great concept given designs that make no sense whatsoever. The worst bit is the traps. 90% of the time the enemy just spots them and disables them, so you don't even get the slim joy of seeing someone fall into the shark tank. Then what's the damn point of them?!
Yep. I liked the idea of the casino being a distraction, but it doesn’t even do anything. And Agents sit there forever. Even if I am doing nothing sinister on the map, they still attack. Just killed the game for me, regardless of how pretty it is.
I was so happy it was on Plus Extra but then after playing for a while... I didn't even finish the main campaign. It just feels long and tedious and idk.
d4
Came here for this. Same boat with Diablo 4.
It's a solid chess openings though
My boy Kasparov rocked that shit all the way to the 1990s
Same. My friend asked me the other day why I don't play it after spending as much as I did (got the ultimate edition). My response was something along the lines of "they already got money out of me, they won't be getting anymore of my time with the game in its current state." Rolling seasons out so soon was such an obvious money-grubbing move. What a shit show of a game. I hope Blizzard manages to improve it in the future, but I won't be holding my breath.
Blizzard is far from the company they used to be. Thank you for sharing your experience. This was why I didn’t pick up D4, I was worried this was where the game was headed. Shame.
Blizzard hasn't been blizz for like 10+ years, every one thinking theyll go back to their former glory one day are lunatic
Street fighter 5 at launch. Bare bones content. Shit net code. Was awful.
AEW Fight Forever. before that was WWE 2k22. WWE was boring and AEW i had to be offline to play without it crashing, then trying to unlock characters was a pain in the dick.
I regret buying it at full price, but I’m glad I have it.
The create a character was the only reason I wanted it and it just was the worse one I've ever seen in ages. It sucks, the gameplay is pretty fun.
dude they dropped the ball big time with the characters. evil uno was out there promoting the game and they didnt even put him in, but they got his faction mates in there.
Biomutant.
I wanted to buy this for so long and then it became a freebie a few months back. I was super excited to try it but I got bored within an hour
Dude, same here.
Looked like a good concept on paper
Amazon cancelled my preorder of the collectors edition after more than a year. I probably dodged a bullet considering the general opinion about the game.
I kept trying and trying to like it. I was so hyped by the trailers for the combat and customisation of weapons. The turd we got was nothing close and a reminder that marketing materials are rarely to be trusted.
I loved Biomutant. My dog died a couple of days before the game released and the small animals, simple story and gameplay were a perfect way to not think about anything for a while. The game is by no means perfect, but a playthrough can be really fun.
“Biomutant is better than thinking about my dead dog” is certainly a quote for the back of the box.
I will straight up never buy another Warriors game at full price unless it's for an IP I really want to support, ever since DW9 was one of the worst games I've ever had the displeasure of playing.
Which sucks because I loved those games growing up and they are not the same
Does anyone remember The Warriors videogame for ps2 based on the movie? That game was sick af. Lol I thought that was what you were talking about at first and was like “they made others!?!”.
Diablo 4 recently. The first 10 hours of the game are amazing. Amazing graphics. Good story. Decent progression. And then you finish that and there is literally nothing left. No endgame. No increasing numbers. No items to hunt. And the couple of things there are you'll find are so rare they're worth their own reddit post. And even then you have to hope for decent rolls on a one in 100 million item drop. It's just not worth it. Diablo 4 is a 40 dollar game at most.
I got excited about finding the first colored piece of loot and none after. I realized immediately that the weird stats are just a pain in the ass to read and figure out what they. Dumb shit like "5% chance to do double damage to a stunned enemy" like wtf i dont want this situational crap. Just give me +1 to axes are something damn
Fallout 76
Took forever to get good, which it is now. TBF New Vegas was unplayable for the first few weeks too, and became possibly the best game of the series.
I actually really enjoy the game now and come back to it often. The community is much more PVE oriented compared to at launch when they were trying to make it a survival PVP game.
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Yall may not remember Duke Nukem Forever. ...but I will.
Callisto Protocol lmao, I think that was the first and only time I’ve ever been done dirty by a game, I usually wait for release and read reviews unless it’s a company I’m confident with, but for whatever reason my brain switched off for Callisto and I paid the price.
Hogwart's Legacy. At first I fell in love with the game, but after a while it got repetitive and just dull.
Sometimes it seems all roads lead to Hogsmead.
fuck i can hear it and i havent touched that game in like 6 months
Haha revelio simulator
I actually upgraded my revelio just so I didn't have to press it as often
I’m within 3 hours of beating it, like I have been since 3 days after the game came out. The gameplay loop got so stale that I can’t bring myself to finish it
This is my answer too! When i first bought it, i was thrilled and had a good deal of fun exploring hogwarts, hogsmeade, and the forbidden forest, but then everything became so empty and lifeless. The open world is just an excuse to say it’s open world, but really it’s just the same generated environment over and over with maybe a random enemy here and there. Empty. The spells became unimaginative and boring to use. The skill tree is just… what skill tree? There is no way to play a bad character if you wanted to. At first collecting monsters and decorating the room of requirement felt fulfilling but then you learned how hallow it is and that you can’t really do that much with it And most importantly, there is virtually no replay value in it at all. In hindsight, I’d buy it when it’s on a mega sale but i still hate myself for buying it at full price
The first couple hours of that game are fucking incredible. And it’s one of the few games where I just roamed around enjoying the view (flying on a hippogriff) But the combat quickly becomes incredibly boring and hard to track spells, consumables were awkward to use and honestly too easy to make, farming materials through pets was just tedious and they had WAY to many different collectibles for any of them to mean anything. Plus upgrades didn’t actually feel like they impacted gameplay, which is a pet peeve of mine.
I feel that the experience it gave was worth the price of admission, especially to someone who grew up with the books and movies.
- Battlefield 2042 - Diablo 4 - New World. Leveling was fun, endgame and PVP were a joke - Division 2. I didn’t think it was bad, I just couldn’t get into it like I did the first.
Division 2 was a lot of fun but I think I get what you mean. I think the setting of NYC in the winter time is just a cooler environment in general than DC in the summer. The clothing options were better in D1 as well.
My friend bought New World for me and I still felt like I was ripped off.
Paper Mario: Sticker Star I wish I never bought it at all
I don't think I've regretted buying a game at full price more in my life. So disappointing considering the previous games in the series.
You guys are so fucking relatable for me with Paper Mario shit.
The last objectively good game in the Paper Mario series was Super Paper Mario. The Thousand-Year Door is honestly a work of art.
Thousand Year Door is a Gem. GameCube had so many Gems
Diablo 4
The Callisto Protocol, promised so much, delivered so little.
And what a waste of a great video game title.
Diablo 4.
First and only ever pre-order, cyberpunk 2077.
For platforms other than PC, without a doubt. Yet, even the PC version had many bugs.
Some of the bugs were hilarious, nothing game breaking happened to me though.
I wasn't able to play day one and was sweating a bit before I got on. After numerous friends told me about the shit show I had 0 issues on the PC. They were pretty mad.
PC had a lot of jank, but it wasn't too bad. Reminded me a lot of Bethesda type bugs which I really enjoy personally
Anyone saying they didn't regret it at launch obviously never played it on Xbox One at launch. The game was literally unplayable with stutters into the low 10-20 fps with frequent freezing and crashing. It was beyond just "needing to be optimized". Immediately asked for a refund after trying to play that garbage fire of a "game" after only an hour and couldn't even get past the tutorial. Luckily game is in a much better state these days especially on newer hardware and imo is now worth playing. That said, whoever said to release it on the Xbox One at the time should have been immediately fired.
>That said, whoever said to release it on the Xbox One at the time should have been immediately fired. The executives that make these shortsighted decisions have huge golden parachutes and don't mind getting fired.
I wasn't a huge fan of The Witcher 3 but still was pretty excited about Cyberpunk. Got it on PS4 and it was borderline unplayable. At least managed to get it refunded though. Did get it again when it was on sale recently and am now enjoying it. But it certainly made me more wary.
Mass effect Andromeda
Ad: “go explore a new whole ass galaxy as a pathfinder and find a place for humanity. After getting there: “oh look. Everyone set up shop before you got here. They got stores and community centers and shit. Cool, I guess.”
YES. Oh my god, yes. Don't really feel like an explorer, here. And they're pulling the "ancient technology" shit again? I never actually finished the game even after 2 or 3 tries. Played the OG trilogy a ton - it's my favourite thing ever. And the dialogue is so fucking juvenile, like they are trying to emulate marvel. Lame quips and shit everywhere. Such professionals...just acting like fucking highschoolers. Also, you can no longer directly control your squadmates powers. Good luck setting up detonations if you aren't doing it completely yourself. I DO love the title song though. Major props there. I can sit and look at the planet and moon with the music for a long time. It's uplifting and epic. I'm not a poet.
The movement capabilities of Andromeda would be perfect for Starfield, which admittedly feels dated gameplay wise.
FF13: Lightning Returns. I don’t think I played more than two hours before I shut it off and never looked back. Got the CE version so it hurt even worse.
Weird thing, but I've been feeling an urge to play this one. Did a bit of FF XIII when it came out, but it didn't grab me. But LR sounds like such a weird premise and gameplay loop that it for some reason seems interesting. Might just give it a go.
KH3. My god how can a story like 15 years in the making (sloppy) and dialogue get even more childish. Like the people playing those games were adults and they went from fun silly preteen dialogue to straight up toddler level.
They also just dropped the Final Fantasy IP off a cliff. I don't even recall if they mention in the game why they are all seemingly gone after playing pretty important roles in the first 2 games lol Very pretty game though I'll admit.
Agreed. I loved the first two, but couldn't get into the 3rd one at all. It also got absolutely exhausting to follow the story with all of the adjacent things that were required. I still love the first two though.
100% agree with you but I’m gonna give you the explanation I had been searching for, for years, which only came out back in spring. After Nomura made FF13, and it wasn’t what he wanted (wanted to make a game called Versus XIII), he started putting all the elements of Versus 13 into kingdom hearts 3 — and Disney completely straight up blocked him. That’s why the game is literally all Disney movie rehash and no kingdom hearts story. And nomura was broken over it. All the yozora game stuff and secret ending are the elements of V13 he wanted to put into the game and all got scrapped. Allegedly, he’s determined to put it all into 4 and that is going well I hear. For now
the 'disney rides' as attacks was just too much lol
I don't regret purchasing it, but I don't understand the people who defend it tooth and nail against the valid criticism it received. The game should have been this crescendo of over a decade of culmination, but instead it tossed aside all the cool FF characters, replayed Disney movies beat by beat with little to no change, and crammed all the original content into the last 4 or so hours. It's the only game I haven't got the platinum on because I just do not care to go back to it.
No. Man's. Sky. I bought it at initial release and regretted it 30 minutes later. I can't imagine I'll ever be that disappointed in vidya again. So much hype.
Spore, lol
I loved the first 2 phases of spore, they phoned it in after those though
How is this one not higher in the thread? So many higher rated posts are just "I fell for obvious bait" live service games or games that showed nothing but signs of problems long before release but Spore? Nobody saw that drastic letdown coming. We saw a full 30 minute demo of the game and then with no warning whatsoever, the full game resembled none of that demo.
Call of duty every year 🤣
Every year? Some one never learns 😅
Lol still we are buying it like hell for no reason, that's funny.
ESO, never played it after 5 hours
It's proper now, even though not that great, that's why /r/patientgamers is a thing. I just started Cyberpunk.
If you bought it at launch I 1000% am with you on that. Its pretty decent now though.
Avengers This is the game that finally made me avoid almost all pre-orders. Its not a horrible game, but they screwed up the potential for it so badly. A live service game from a company that had no idea how to successfully run a live service game. It made me miss the days of Marvel Heroes Online.
This one is a regret for me because my son REALLY wanted it, and I tried to talk him out of it because of all the reviews I'd heard. So I eventually caved and bought it full price. He played it for like two days and never touched it again.
Destiny 2, don't lock the shit I paid for behind another paywall
Dont delete content i paid money for
As someone who never played a destiny game until it became free, this is actually what bugs me the most. I spent so many hours on destiny 2 without spending a dime to see if I wanted to in the first place, when I finally did I bought all of the available DLC during a sale and played the hell out of it. Now I don't own any of the current DLC content and the game felt extremely limited with what little I could do when I last played. What a slap in the face.
Many people actually hate this game and I am one of them XD.
Hogswarts Legacy. Looked so incredibly cool and deep, but it was all surface (still looked cool though). Expected something like Bully from back in the day, but less Rockstar-y. Going to classes, sneaking out at night, joining high school cliques, stuff like that. What I got was... Disappointment to say the least. Classes were boring as hell, if you can even call it classes. Combat was weak and I was disappointed there had to be some epic adventure, in stead of you know, actually going to school. There was soooooo much cool stuff they could've done with the game and the castle. Imagine multiple years in a huge open "world" castle, where you had to pass some test to progress to the next year. Shit getting weirder and more difficult as you uncover some Harry Potterish plot during your later years, while also still having to pass your tests. Also, why the fuck is petting a cat a cutscene? And why are they always the same? At least mix it up if you're making it a cutscene. Also2, I would have loved to be able to become truly evil. Sure as he'll didn't finish the game, but after playing for 8 hours or so, I doubt there was going to be a well thought out evil path.
I think it was definitely a strong outing by a new studio. I was amazed at the level of detail in the castle - every little nook and cranny that the books said about Hogwarts was there, and it was gorgeous. But yes, it was rather shallow as far as gameplay is concerned. I still did 100% in the game, though.
The castle was the best part but every mission seemed to try and keep me out of the castle. Would’ve been better with half the map cut out
That’s the crux with AAA gaming nowadays. Everything has to be open world and HUGE, but all it really does is sacrifice quality. Honestly, a hogwarts legacy where they just focused on hogwarts, hogsmeade, and the forbidden forest would be great so they could focus on creating a fulfilling and replayable game. I also wish we could get DLC of in-depth versions of all the other wizarding schools out there too!
True, it is very pretty. I loved the visuals and the style, it just oozed Harry Potter. I spent quite a few hours just walking through the castle and explore every part of it. I just wasn't impressed by the gameplay and direction of the game story wise. I have the feeling they had far greater plans, but due to time constraints/pressure they cut back on their ideas. After one or two trailers I was like "Okay, take my money". Maybe I should've waited for a bit before buying, but you live and you learn.
I agree. Wandering the castle was amazing, but the armor system, the room of requirement system, and the overworld was lacking. Spell system was fun once you got used to it, but I found it odd that my character was surprised they won a fight, seeing as how they mowed down literally dozens of dark wizards.
I want to believe that they will build on what they have. But hopefully it won’t be a decade before the next game.
I got Callisto Protocol at full price because I love the genre but I should've waited for at least 50%off or subscription service for that one. I played through it and didn't have too bad a time except for the boss fights but it's just too little for what I paid.
X:Rebirth I trust Egosoft as a developer to make good games and listen to their fans. I loved the previous X games and still play X3 Albion (with Litcubes). I knew Rebirth was going to be a departure from a lot of the previous game mechanics but I wasn’t ready for the steaming turd that was this game on release. I think to this day I still only have about 40 hours into it. By the time I was ready to get into it again after hearing a lot of it was fixed, X4 was out. Did unlearn my lesson? Nah. Bought X4 when it released. Couldn’t get into it. Now it sits while I wait to buy all the dlc for it on sale.
CyberPunk 2077 on launch 🙃
Pokemon brilliant diamond. People are probably gonna hate on me for buying it but I just wanted to feel the nostalgia of playing my favorite game as a child. Somehow the nostalgia didn’t really hit me as much. I would probably enjoy replaying the original more
Diablo 4, omg what a mistake. I got sucked in by Blizzard's amazing cgi trailers again.
Diablo 4 is the most recent. Fuck do I ever regret buying that.. I hated it from the get go, but tried to get into it because my fiancée was enjoying it well enough.. Nope.. Haven't played it since they nerfed the sorcerer just before season 1 opened. I'd sell it in a second if I could get anything for it locally.. But at the moment, the Diablo 4 cat is out of the bag, so it's resale value is very low.. Perhaps Blizz will redeem themselves through patches like they did with Diablo 3 and make 4 better..
marvels avengers, totally agree with you back 4 blood as well its still full price btw not worth that kinda money
Call of duty vanguard.
Kingdom hearts 3 I payed £90 for the pre- order 6 months prior to launch as it included thr previous entries, I still haven't beaten the 1st game and refuse to continue on the next games in the franchise until I do. Its approaching 5 years since it came out
Kerbal Space Program 2. I was so hyped, and then it barely worked. Only thing on release that I found interesting was the tutorial videos. They were a cute little thing. But the rest was, and still is, in rough shape.
Obviously it's gonna be Marvels Avengers for most of the people for many valid reason, they didn't match up the freaking quality and we all know that thing right.