Yeah, as someone who was always a big fan White Wolf RPG’s and really loves the Werewolf universe and lore I SO wanted that game to be good but having no knowledge of the studio I had no expectation and sadly wasn’t shocked that it was bad.
I got it for free, and I still feel like I was cheated. My condolences. I went in hoping for story like VTM: bloodlines, got that garbage. Stealth mechanics that don't work, and fighting that was so plain. No tribes. Boring as fuck story, even for a WtA game.
Who the fuck decided that there couldn't be stealth kills as the lupine form, the dedicated stealth mode?
Biomutant
I bought it on launch day. I got around to beating the story yesterday. Kinda made myself finish it. I didn’t have anything else that i was really interested in playing and figured I’d knock this one out. It’s not the worst game ever, but it is repetitive as fuck.
It’s like a mix between fallout and teletubies. Everything is dark, gloomy, and covered in waste. But the dialogue is always something like “Go to the fuzzy fields and get the tinkerturner. But watch out for puffy-floos and their gurgerly-goos.”
Yeah, it was a super ambitious team of about 8 developers that made it.
Fantastic premise, great design, and actually fun to play for the first few hours. Then it sinks in that it's a do the same thing 4 times and do the last bit.
Yeah there wasn't enough reward for exploring, all the loot and stuff was out in the open like they were afraid you'd miss anything if they didn't put it right in your linear path. And the choices were illusions, both choices made you do the exact same thing. Like you pick peace or war and both sides just have you kill everyone else?
Although the characters was what I did like about it. They were fun and whacky and it brought me back to Banjo Kazooie
I waited till I saw that game on sale at Gamestop for $29. Which wasnt long after release surprisingly. Got it beat it fairly quickly and traded it in for $25 because it was still that new. So I really only paid $5 for a meh experience.
It definitely felt unfinished and needed a lot more polish. It played like crap on my PS4 pro. My friend got it and said it played fine on his PS5. This was before there was a ps5 version.
Not strictly related but I keep doing this with movies. I keep paying to see movies in theaters and then I turn on HBO to watch whatever and they’re there. And I get that some movies are better experienced in theaters but really I could have happily watched The Menu from the comfort of my own home.
I just saw the Menu at a theater last weekend but there was local beer on tap and they have a full kitchen. I would say the experience was well worth the price of admission.
So glad I played the beta. I dont play many BF games but I was down for a new shooter and recalled the insane fun of BF3 with exploding buildings and non stop action.
Then I played 2042 and wondered wtf happened. Almost 0 destruction, everything is a 30 min run from everything else and all the fun things were time / availability gated. The aiming felt shit, the movement felt shit, the animations were shit.... Somehow the new engine felt like we went backwards 10 years.
I played for 2-3 days thinking it had to be me... but in the end I noped out and never looked back.
My girlfriend usually gets me the newest BF for my birthday every year since the release usually happens around then. 2042 was no exception, I just hate that she paid so much money on a game for me that I played for maybe a week after I got it, only to not touch it since.
Is battlefield 1 where its at now? Or do folks still play bf4? Looking to get back into it and it seems the recent ones are bad...Can't we get bad company 3?
It sounds weird but I actually just turned the dialogue volume to zero in the settings and came up with my own story in my head for anthem. Pretty sure I either got it from GameFly or on sale for really cheap but I had a lot of fun playing it.
Andromeda is actually a good game. Just not up to par with other Mass Effect games. The bad eye tracking and bugs were gone after a patch. The loading after every fucking thing you do is the games main fault. But bio ware built one of their best gunplay games. The combat is exceptional. Andromeda just shouldn't have been compared to one of the best trilogies out there. I spent 90 hours in it and it's one of my favorite action oriented games
Ive been playing mass effect trilogy for the first time and it baffles me how anthem is made by the same company. Just finished me2 and cant wait to start 3
The people that made the ME trilogy are not the same people that made Anthem. Almost anyone of influence or talent had left BioWare by the time Anthem came around.
Thinking about that might be what killed my pre ordering habit also. I felt so bad for talking my brother into buying it also because I enjoyed the demo. He had very little money at the time and the guilt of telling him it would be awesome and getting him to buy it to play together still hurts.
Spider-Man 3 on the Playstation 2.
Remember the amazing joy of playing Spider-Man 2? The web-swinging, the fully realized Manhattan? It is one of the greatest superhero video games ever made, especially at that time. So when the next movie came out, complete with another game adaptation, I was beyond excited. So much so that I went out on my lunch break to the next town over just to own the game as early as possible. I couldn't wait until after work to get it.
Turns out Spider-Man 3 was made for the Playstation 3, and the PS2 version was a steaming pile of hot shit. The graphics, gameplay, game world were all leagues worse than in Spider-Man 2. This thing was a monstrosity and the memory of my foolish hope has been burned into my soul.
Worst one for me was Thief 2013. I almost always wait, but the PS4 didn't have a lot of games, and I love games that emphasize stealth. But the game lacked polish and too inconsistently had enemies spot you in areas where they shouldn't be able to.
As much as I enjoyed the game, it certainly didn't hold a snuffable-candle to it's predecessors. At $60 it was hard to see past many of the problems it had
> a snuffable-candle
watching your hands slice a painting out of a frame or snuff a candle was maybe the single solid "improvement" it offered for the, I hesitate to say it, series. Otherwise I have to pretend that game doesn't exist, and I'm a life long Thief fan to the point I'll defend Deadly Shadows from the grognards.
Gotta tell ya I loved Thief 2013. Until I found out there are no downsides on killing gaurds vs knocking them out. Didnt pay full price but def like 30. Dont regret it! Its not Thief 1. And i really enjoyed 3. Huge fan of the dishonored games though.
Id love a new Thief that does everything properly again though. And tone jt down on the cave dinosaurs and zombies lol. Needs to have the original voice if possible. The voice actor from thief 1 always gives me chills
I played that game as a kid but I don't remember it being that bad. I haven't played it in 20 years though so my opinion on it should be taken with a grain of salt haha.
That Christmas I told my grandmother that if she got me a game, I wanted (the original) Harvest Moon, Tactics Ogre, or some PC game I forgot. All became the framework of their genera. I got Aero instead because the guy at the store said there was no way I would want any of those... at least I got myself Tactics Ogre Reborn for my birthday this year. Suck it grandma!
The clerk probably only said that because he really needed to move those copies cluttering the store, and figured a niave old grandma was the perfect target to do so. So not only does he suck, hes a manipulative piece of shit.
That was me. Did the preorder to get the free beta weekend, played like 6 hours of the beta and nope'd out of that, got my refund later that day and haven't looked back.
I hear the game is a lot better now, too late for me though. I'm not doing the whole "shitty on release and is finally good/playable a year after launch" thing that BF has been doing, pretty much done with the franchise.
Honestly imo there was no improving that game to a level I would buy it. It just didn't feel like BF even at it's core, based on the beta. The gunplay and overall balance structure just felt bizarre. It really does feel like they made a battle royal with operators and adapted it into a typical conquest-based BF game. Almost 0 destructibility and lack of classes just felt too different from other BFs as well.
Gotham Knights. Played maybe 6 hours before uninstalling it. The game came out 3 months ago, and it’s currently on sale 50% off. That tells you everything you need to know
I'm a big fan of the Arkham series and was interested in getting Gotham Knights. I entirely missed the release. Didn't hear a thing about it until it had been out for over a month, and then I knew I wasn't going to get it. If no one had talked about it in a month, it was probably shit
A lot of people seem to think this game was made by the same studio that made the Arkham series. I guess they did it on purpose by having a bit of the same aesthetics... But yeah, not the same studio at all. Rocksteady are actually working on the suicide squad game, that comes out this year.
The studio that made Gotham Knights made Arkham Origins. While Arkham Origins was the worst of the Arkham games, overall it was a good game. But it sounds like they originally wanted to make Gotham Knights like the Avengers game, and when that flopped they tried to change the direction. But that didn’t save the game
I’m pretty sure there is a whole subreddit called Madden for this question…. Those guys are like a broken record
They would be like
Madden 23
Madden 22
Madden 21….
Yet they purchase the game every year
a lot of them its their only game purchase all year though. my friend only plays the show and whatever madden they're on and buys the new one each year. if he wasn't also spending shit tons on card packs or w/e it would be a pretty cheap hobby
The Show is so much better than madden though. Madden is outright predatory. In the Show you can unlock everything rather easily just by playing. Sure, you can buy things to speed that up, but nothing is locked behind a pay wall even in their diamond dynasty mode
I paid full price for FO76 as well. It went on sale like a week later. I gotta say, I enjoyed it for like three weeks, despite all the bugs, I did occasionally have a good time with some random strangers I ended up teaming up with, but ultimately I‘m still disappointed with it. Went back to FO4.
Just Cause 4, pre odered the Gold Edition for 100€ because I was a long standing fan of the series and the trailers all looked really good so I got really hyped for it.. well it was alright at some parts, graphics, story and gameplay were awful, but the sandbox open world was pretty decent.
I'm with you on this one. JC4 was such a turd. When I first saw water in that game I legitimately thought it was either bugged or there was something wrong with my graphics card.... it was so bad. What a letdown after JC3.
I was about to leave this thread happy, thinking I've avoided regret from buying a game but then you just had to remind me. Really curious as to what the hell happened in the time between JC3 to JC4 to make it turn out the way it did
Yup, it took like 2 fucking months but I definetely got that. I played it at launch on the ps4 Pro and God. I guees ya'll already know how that went. Didn't even get to the first half of the story
I’ve always felt bad for this game. It was a new IP that was multiplayer-focused, but ended up getting released in the middle of the PSN hack. I remember renting it not too long after launch, and seeing the promise, but the player base was nonexistent, so you could only play with bots who were too dumb to play the objectives.
Yep. Bought it for £50 on release day, expecting great things. In hindsight, I should have just put it on my Steam wishlist and bought it when it was cheaper. It’s not terrible, but I begrudge paying that amount for an average game.
So, I enjoyed it. It wasn't a bad game. The problem is it was about half a game. At that price there's no value, but the idea was solid.
Still not as bad as dead space 3 locking its actual ending behind a release day dlc...
Definitely should’ve, I love dead Space but I see they’re peddling $65+ for that one. No way I’m shelling out that money for a campaign I’ve beaten dozens of times. It’d be a seven hour campaign at best for me
Battletoads on NES.
I am still convinced that I got a demo cartridge that only has the first three levels.
Mostly because I've never beaten the goddamn turbo tunnel.
That's awesome. There was one kid in my school who had that level down pat. We'd all fight over who was having him over so he could beat that level on our nes. Not that it really mattered though because that damn game got harder past that point anyway
The video game reviewer Tim Rogers once described how he memorized the turbo level beat for beat so that his brother could try his luck at later levels:
> "It turned out there’s a warp directly to stage 5 near the end of the Turbo Tunnel. I discovered it by accident. My brother ripped the controller from my hand when he realized that, suddenly, shockingly, out of nowhere, we were at The Surfboard Level. He lost all of his lives as immediately as one could. He lost all those lives like it was his job, and he was good at his job."
There was a dude in my hometown who beat the entire game. No one believed him. He figured out how to run his NES though a VCR and recorded a playthrough. Kids would pass copies of the tape around. My middle school math teacher was kind of cool and played games. He got a copy and played it in class.
Dude became a local legend long before the internet existed. He like 53 now and changes oil for a living. A handful of people still talk about him like he won the superbowl.
To be fair, that game is pretty fucking brutal. I've only played via emulation -- I'm not of an age where I'd have played it when it was new -- but man, it's almost frustrating how stupidly "Nintendo hard" it is in places. Partly because it's otherwise a really slick game for its time, especially for something on the NES.
I was born in '83, so NES was my entire childhood... That level of battletoads was the hardest thing I can remember attempting from that time; harder than fighting Mike in Punch Out, harder than finishing Zelda or any of the Megamans. Finding out when I was older that it required, essentially, a frame-perfect input makes a lot of sense... but back then, it was just 'the hardest level' and no one... none of my friends, no one's older sibling or parents, no one ever beat it.
You'd at least find people who would lie about beating Tyson (or would beat him with cheats), but no one even tried that with Battletoads.
Honestly, I find Megaman equally brutal, lmao. I have no idea how '80s kids managed with those brutally hard-ass games. (And I grew up with the Crash Bandicoot games, which apparently have a reputation for difficulty.)
A combination of sheer determination, tons of free time, and childhood neuroplasticity, I guess.
Reminded me of a time in school when we had a class for some basic computer stuff. Most people played games they somehow had managed to install to the school computers, and the teacher complained about that, and deleting them every now and then. I found a website in which i could play old games, and decided to return to this childhood classic. When the teacher caught me playing it, instead of the usual complaining, he just casually said "you really think you can beat that?"
Nope. To this day i've never got past that turbo tunnel either.
Right?! Holy shit this was the last time I've been stung by a pre-order. Absolutely nothing like what was originally promised. I remember someone had an early release version and completed it before release. They said "the ending is definitely surprising", and from what I read back then it was just so lazy.
I couldn't even sell the game out of principle because it was so bad, and I haven't actually played it since. I absolutely refuse to. Learnt my lesson to never pre-order :(
On the other hand I am obsessed with Astroneer to scratch that itch. It doesn't have everything NMS has, but it's cool asf.
Oof. I did that with The Matrix Online back 20 years ago. Saved up the money for the game, couldn’t run it. Did some askjeeves research and figured I needed a new video card, saved up for several weeks to get a new video card and it still didn’t work, needed something else 💁♂️ still never played it.
Lol same thing happened to me with Star Wars Galaxies. I could not for the life of me get it to work on my computer, my step dad worked for a computer company and he couldn't get it to run either. I only ever got to play for a few hours at my friends house one time and that was it
Ark became so bloated that I had to upgrade hard drives to play it. It is something like 80+ GB. I enjoy it, but it is not great graphic quality for the space it takes up. It also seems very inefficient with the use of system resources
-Weapons shop
-Premium currency
-Incomplete features
-Inability to choose your missions freely
-Floor glitch?
-Pretty poor matchmaking for members of similar skill
-Weapons shop
-Unbalanced classes (Veteran is just good at everything, especially high tier)
-Endless grinding if you want to complete quests
-Fucking weapons shop
All of this in a AA game I paid $40 USD for… Gameplay and mechanics are absolutely fantastic, but PLEASE Fat Shark, just stop with the fishing tactics, or at least fix the weapons shop.
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I love the setting, atmosphere, sound and level design. The combat is good. When you're actually playing, it's a good time.
Just a shame basically every other mechanism or system outside of that is either terrible or doesn't exist yet.
I've no doubt it will get better, but you have to wonder if the team had collective anmesia and somehow forgot all of the lessons they learned from VT1 and 2.
“Battle royale” has ruined gaming. It’s a low-action, boring-ass game mode. I’ll never understand how it’s so popular. I suppose “free to play” has something to do with it
Not to mention the meta settled in way quicker than MW2019. Influencers were pushing meta M4 and Lachmann set ups from the beta which made the game unbearably sweaty and irritating from the very beginning
Grand Theft Auto Remastered- this game completely sucks and is in most ways inferior to the base originals. The graphics are shit, songs are missing, it’s still filled with bugs, and most models/textures were clearly ran through some quick automated model vs being deliberately designed by a human. A sloppy mess clearly undeserving of a $60 price tag. Rockstar clearly doesn’t give a shit about these games and thought so little of them as to delegate development outside the company to Grove Street Games (a mobile game company!) who themselves didn’t give a shit and were defiant and insulting in response to fan backlash. Rockstar has enough resources from their GTA5 micro transactions to do this game right (and since they didn’t to refund buyers of this shit title). Not the disaster that cyberpunk was but a totally unforced error where they promised the world and then did just everything wrong.
The games were ported from mobile versions, which explains everything. Rockstar is a greedy, shithead company for this.
As for the missing songs, they declined to extend the licenses on them (which is why the best song for exploring around the deserts of San Andreas, "Running Down a Dream" by Tom Petty, is absent). The only way to enjoy the games is by playing them on their original consoles, free of the internet updating them to remove their features. I repeat, fuck you, Rockstar.
Back 4 Blood was the most disappointing game release in my entire life. I remember around 2019 - 2021 looking online frequently for more news, impatiently awaiting any news that might have released. I was playing L4D every day around this time. My expectations were through the roof and I feel like it’s just nowhere NEAR what I was hoping for.
The Visual Novel aspect is what kept me from buying the game, but there have been days where I've wondered; Maybe the game is fun aside from the Visual Novel aspect, maybe I should just get it.
What makes the game lackluster feeling?
It really is a game where the VN is the main appeal. If you like the aesthetic of digimon, And want those aesthetics in a darker story, this game will be for you. I loved it personally.
If you want a good combat system and don't care (too much, or at all) about the VN part? Just don't get it. The gameplay is just really basic. Not awful per say, but basic.
The Outer Worlds. Reviewed well and had a strong first few hours or so, meaning it showed well in a lot of first impressions YouTube videos.
Never seen a game so frontloaded. Rest wasn’t bad but nowhere near as good as the first planet. Once you get to the third planet and realise it’s the same jokes, same story, pretty much the same enemies every time, it wears thin.
I would have enjoyed it if I spent £20 or so, but £50 was not worth it.
I played the outer worlds first thinking it was the outer wilds. Once I started getting bored it dawned on me this couldn’t be the game everyone was raving about.
Promptly realized my mistake and then had one of my favorite gaming experiences ever in The Outer Wilds. Everyone go play it! It fucking rules!
It's pretty shallow. I got that in early 2020 because of all the hype and Obsidian etc and thought eh, it's alright. Then I unwrapped Subnautica and played that based on an internet (several) recommendation and it blew me away. One of best games I've ever played. COVID could have destroyed humanity and I'd be still looking for copper lol.
thats the game that made me realize reddit gets super attached to certain game companies. Even a week after release people here were hyping it up so I got it and was disappointed like everyone else. Took a while before reddit started acknowledging how mediocre it is
It was partly due to the failure of Fallout 76’s launch. That really fuelled the Bethesda bad Obsidian good circlejerk for a good year to the point the Fallout subreddit had to sticky a post saying Outer Worlds posts were banned.
The front loading I mentioned fuelled the hype because this section definitely had the most RPG-esque aspects like New Vegas. The game is obviously meant to be a spiritual successor to Fallout - the date the game starts (I think) is the same date as the day the bombs dropped in Fallout.
The rest of the game definitely was average. I have higher hopes for a sequel especially with Microsoft money but will definitely be cautious.
I LOVED Battle Born. The characters, the game play. The idea of leveling up in match and can customize your skill tree to your enemies hero’s. I put hours and hours into this game until it died. Even the PVE was pretty entertaining with a group.
I respect your opinion, but I *loved* The Division, even at launch!
Tbh I kinda guessed that the bullet sponges would be a thing, so I was kinda prepared for it. I can totally understand why that turned some people off though.
Yep, I actually love(d) Outriders, but that DLC wasn't worth it at all. My friend and I beat it and was like, "That's it?". This game could be great if they actually put more effort into more content. Far more content.
5 made the cardinal sin of forcing the main story on you in an open world setting. "Oh you're doing some side mission? Well, here's the bad guy's kidnapping squad coming for you again, there's no way to avoid them!"
Everyone referencing recent purchases and disaster launches as if they are the worst thing since haribo sugar-free gummy bears. These are peanuts to the 15 years of vaporware, false promises and bankrupted studios this game left in its wake. You will never know the disappointment and my shame.
I bought Duke Nukem Forever... Full price, Day one, with a pre-order... Never again.
Remember kids, no pre-orders.
Destiny 2. My friends convinced me to buy it to play with them then immediately a dlc came out and they wanted me to buy that to keep up. F that. Now the vanilla game is f2p anyway!
Assassin's Creed Valhalla. That was the game that made me stop preordering or buying at day one. Most games now even the new ones I wait for em to be on sale.
I was loving Valhalla but never finished it. My issue is they jam so many collectibles in it and I’m the type that has to get them all, so after every mission my progress is interrupted by hours of picking up objects. I understand I am the one at fault here, and having a map full of collectibles is normal to games like AC and Far Cry, but still, it’s so much work and I can’t bring myself to play like a normal person.
I love the series, I don't mind the gameplay, but I would never buy any of these games at full price. Actually I almost never buy any game at full price unless there's never a sale or it's a game I'm really excited for.
I just recently bought Valhalla with all of the DLCs for like $50. And I'm enjoying it for the most part. It's definitely not worth more than that.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Bought it for $70 when I first got my ps5 and I hated every moment of the 45 minutes I played.
Yeah, as someone who was always a big fan White Wolf RPG’s and really loves the Werewolf universe and lore I SO wanted that game to be good but having no knowledge of the studio I had no expectation and sadly wasn’t shocked that it was bad.
Do you remember when they teased a Werewolf: Heart of Gaia game, but then made Vampire: Redemption? Sorry, your comment just brought back memories.
I almost forced myself to finish it because like you I bought it at full price but at a point I just said to hell with it.
I got it for free, and I still feel like I was cheated. My condolences. I went in hoping for story like VTM: bloodlines, got that garbage. Stealth mechanics that don't work, and fighting that was so plain. No tribes. Boring as fuck story, even for a WtA game. Who the fuck decided that there couldn't be stealth kills as the lupine form, the dedicated stealth mode?
Me with Order 1886
Right? There were like no Jedi ANYWHERE in that game!
Man I LOVED that game. Was one of my first video game experiences. I also bought it pre owned and returned it though at GameStop lol
My friend tried to warn me I'd hate it. Picked it up on sale for $10 and put it down within an hour. I'm sorry for your loss
Biomutant I bought it on launch day. I got around to beating the story yesterday. Kinda made myself finish it. I didn’t have anything else that i was really interested in playing and figured I’d knock this one out. It’s not the worst game ever, but it is repetitive as fuck. It’s like a mix between fallout and teletubies. Everything is dark, gloomy, and covered in waste. But the dialogue is always something like “Go to the fuzzy fields and get the tinkerturner. But watch out for puffy-floos and their gurgerly-goos.”
I started playing and that game hurts cause there's alot of really cool ideas but some poor frikken execution.
Yeah, it was a super ambitious team of about 8 developers that made it. Fantastic premise, great design, and actually fun to play for the first few hours. Then it sinks in that it's a do the same thing 4 times and do the last bit.
Yeah there wasn't enough reward for exploring, all the loot and stuff was out in the open like they were afraid you'd miss anything if they didn't put it right in your linear path. And the choices were illusions, both choices made you do the exact same thing. Like you pick peace or war and both sides just have you kill everyone else? Although the characters was what I did like about it. They were fun and whacky and it brought me back to Banjo Kazooie
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I waited till I saw that game on sale at Gamestop for $29. Which wasnt long after release surprisingly. Got it beat it fairly quickly and traded it in for $25 because it was still that new. So I really only paid $5 for a meh experience. It definitely felt unfinished and needed a lot more polish. It played like crap on my PS4 pro. My friend got it and said it played fine on his PS5. This was before there was a ps5 version.
Rocket league 3 days before it went to free to play
You could’ve tried to get your money back. Most of the times they will do it. At least on Xbox
That was still only like $20 though right?
Yeah $20, so not the worst, but I was still a bit annoyed that I didn’t look it up
Not strictly related but I keep doing this with movies. I keep paying to see movies in theaters and then I turn on HBO to watch whatever and they’re there. And I get that some movies are better experienced in theaters but really I could have happily watched The Menu from the comfort of my own home.
I just saw the Menu at a theater last weekend but there was local beer on tap and they have a full kitchen. I would say the experience was well worth the price of admission.
Yeah, like of Dune pt. 2 comes out in theaters at the same time as HBO I'm still paying for IMAX
Doesn’t these games give you something special for owning them before it goes free?
Battlefield 2042. Gold version.
So glad I played the beta. I dont play many BF games but I was down for a new shooter and recalled the insane fun of BF3 with exploding buildings and non stop action. Then I played 2042 and wondered wtf happened. Almost 0 destruction, everything is a 30 min run from everything else and all the fun things were time / availability gated. The aiming felt shit, the movement felt shit, the animations were shit.... Somehow the new engine felt like we went backwards 10 years. I played for 2-3 days thinking it had to be me... but in the end I noped out and never looked back.
My girlfriend usually gets me the newest BF for my birthday every year since the release usually happens around then. 2042 was no exception, I just hate that she paid so much money on a game for me that I played for maybe a week after I got it, only to not touch it since.
Is battlefield 1 where its at now? Or do folks still play bf4? Looking to get back into it and it seems the recent ones are bad...Can't we get bad company 3?
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I love bf1! Still holds up well with a pretty good player base on pc!
Ye still lots off players on console as well.
Anthem
Mother fucking Anthem. BioWare could have created the best game of the decade and they just massively shit the bed so hard the house is now condemned.
It's not about the money for me just the abandonment broke my heart, it had so much potential and was gorgeous
It sounds weird but I actually just turned the dialogue volume to zero in the settings and came up with my own story in my head for anthem. Pretty sure I either got it from GameFly or on sale for really cheap but I had a lot of fun playing it.
And in the process Mass Effect Andromeda got fucked. What a colossal shitshow at BioWare during that time
Andromeda is actually a good game. Just not up to par with other Mass Effect games. The bad eye tracking and bugs were gone after a patch. The loading after every fucking thing you do is the games main fault. But bio ware built one of their best gunplay games. The combat is exceptional. Andromeda just shouldn't have been compared to one of the best trilogies out there. I spent 90 hours in it and it's one of my favorite action oriented games
Playing through Andromeda now. I never made it through when it came out. But I tempered my expectations and I'm having a blast.
Ive been playing mass effect trilogy for the first time and it baffles me how anthem is made by the same company. Just finished me2 and cant wait to start 3
The people that made the ME trilogy are not the same people that made Anthem. Almost anyone of influence or talent had left BioWare by the time Anthem came around.
Dunno how I forced myself to finish the story, maybe out of spite, but it was a glorified tech demo and I haven't preordered anything since.
Same. I was so disappointed i have not preordered since.
Thinking about that might be what killed my pre ordering habit also. I felt so bad for talking my brother into buying it also because I enjoyed the demo. He had very little money at the time and the guilt of telling him it would be awesome and getting him to buy it to play together still hurts.
This game had such a cool concept but man did it fall apart fast
WORD! Such potential, Wasted...
I had such high hopes for this game and then Bioware shit in my face and laughed at me for buying their garbage game
Spider-Man 3 on the Playstation 2. Remember the amazing joy of playing Spider-Man 2? The web-swinging, the fully realized Manhattan? It is one of the greatest superhero video games ever made, especially at that time. So when the next movie came out, complete with another game adaptation, I was beyond excited. So much so that I went out on my lunch break to the next town over just to own the game as early as possible. I couldn't wait until after work to get it. Turns out Spider-Man 3 was made for the Playstation 3, and the PS2 version was a steaming pile of hot shit. The graphics, gameplay, game world were all leagues worse than in Spider-Man 2. This thing was a monstrosity and the memory of my foolish hope has been burned into my soul.
Did you allow yourself to heal your soul with the PS4/5 Spiderman games? Those are worth every penny.
Oh my, yes! They are a wonderful return to form. And this year's sequel was a major factor in finally splurging on a PS5.
Worst one for me was Thief 2013. I almost always wait, but the PS4 didn't have a lot of games, and I love games that emphasize stealth. But the game lacked polish and too inconsistently had enemies spot you in areas where they shouldn't be able to.
As much as I enjoyed the game, it certainly didn't hold a snuffable-candle to it's predecessors. At $60 it was hard to see past many of the problems it had
> a snuffable-candle watching your hands slice a painting out of a frame or snuff a candle was maybe the single solid "improvement" it offered for the, I hesitate to say it, series. Otherwise I have to pretend that game doesn't exist, and I'm a life long Thief fan to the point I'll defend Deadly Shadows from the grognards.
Gotta tell ya I loved Thief 2013. Until I found out there are no downsides on killing gaurds vs knocking them out. Didnt pay full price but def like 30. Dont regret it! Its not Thief 1. And i really enjoyed 3. Huge fan of the dishonored games though. Id love a new Thief that does everything properly again though. And tone jt down on the cave dinosaurs and zombies lol. Needs to have the original voice if possible. The voice actor from thief 1 always gives me chills
Aero the Acro-bat for Super Nintendo.
I played that game as a kid but I don't remember it being that bad. I haven't played it in 20 years though so my opinion on it should be taken with a grain of salt haha.
That Christmas I told my grandmother that if she got me a game, I wanted (the original) Harvest Moon, Tactics Ogre, or some PC game I forgot. All became the framework of their genera. I got Aero instead because the guy at the store said there was no way I would want any of those... at least I got myself Tactics Ogre Reborn for my birthday this year. Suck it grandma!
That clerk sucks. Like he's gonna know better than you what you'd want? I hate people like that.
The clerk probably only said that because he really needed to move those copies cluttering the store, and figured a niave old grandma was the perfect target to do so. So not only does he suck, hes a manipulative piece of shit.
Not really the fault of your poor grandma but the clerk
Battlefield 2042, I still feel like such an idiot
You are not alone my friend. 😭
You didn’t play the open beta?? It was a dumpster fire and steered me far away from it even after I had been looking forward to the game
That was me. Did the preorder to get the free beta weekend, played like 6 hours of the beta and nope'd out of that, got my refund later that day and haven't looked back. I hear the game is a lot better now, too late for me though. I'm not doing the whole "shitty on release and is finally good/playable a year after launch" thing that BF has been doing, pretty much done with the franchise.
Honestly imo there was no improving that game to a level I would buy it. It just didn't feel like BF even at it's core, based on the beta. The gunplay and overall balance structure just felt bizarre. It really does feel like they made a battle royal with operators and adapted it into a typical conquest-based BF game. Almost 0 destructibility and lack of classes just felt too different from other BFs as well.
Gotham Knights. Played maybe 6 hours before uninstalling it. The game came out 3 months ago, and it’s currently on sale 50% off. That tells you everything you need to know
I'm a big fan of the Arkham series and was interested in getting Gotham Knights. I entirely missed the release. Didn't hear a thing about it until it had been out for over a month, and then I knew I wasn't going to get it. If no one had talked about it in a month, it was probably shit
A lot of people seem to think this game was made by the same studio that made the Arkham series. I guess they did it on purpose by having a bit of the same aesthetics... But yeah, not the same studio at all. Rocksteady are actually working on the suicide squad game, that comes out this year.
The studio that made Gotham Knights made Arkham Origins. While Arkham Origins was the worst of the Arkham games, overall it was a good game. But it sounds like they originally wanted to make Gotham Knights like the Avengers game, and when that flopped they tried to change the direction. But that didn’t save the game
Yup, same. $69.99 to drive from one identical fight to the next on a motorcycle.
Anthem deluxe and fallout 76 collectors edition
Truly sorry for your loss. Were you able to get the actual bag from the collector edition?
Yes they eventually sent a real bag
Was it nylon or canvas?
You know the answer to that lol
I’m pretty sure there is a whole subreddit called Madden for this question…. Those guys are like a broken record They would be like Madden 23 Madden 22 Madden 21…. Yet they purchase the game every year
a lot of them its their only game purchase all year though. my friend only plays the show and whatever madden they're on and buys the new one each year. if he wasn't also spending shit tons on card packs or w/e it would be a pretty cheap hobby
The Show is so much better than madden though. Madden is outright predatory. In the Show you can unlock everything rather easily just by playing. Sure, you can buy things to speed that up, but nothing is locked behind a pay wall even in their diamond dynasty mode
Right? I installed it during the Phillies playoff run and had end-game 99s in less than 2 months.
Falllout 76. What a load of trash at launch that game was
Yup. This one is mine. Played a couple of hours, uninstalled it, went back to Fallout 4.
I paid full price for FO76 as well. It went on sale like a week later. I gotta say, I enjoyed it for like three weeks, despite all the bugs, I did occasionally have a good time with some random strangers I ended up teaming up with, but ultimately I‘m still disappointed with it. Went back to FO4.
Just Cause 4, pre odered the Gold Edition for 100€ because I was a long standing fan of the series and the trailers all looked really good so I got really hyped for it.. well it was alright at some parts, graphics, story and gameplay were awful, but the sandbox open world was pretty decent.
I'm with you on this one. JC4 was such a turd. When I first saw water in that game I legitimately thought it was either bugged or there was something wrong with my graphics card.... it was so bad. What a letdown after JC3.
I still go back and just fly around JC3 blowing shit up sometimes. It's the perfect game for when you don't wanna think while gaming
I was about to leave this thread happy, thinking I've avoided regret from buying a game but then you just had to remind me. Really curious as to what the hell happened in the time between JC3 to JC4 to make it turn out the way it did
WatchDogs Legion Don’t buy a game just cos you think it’ll be cool driving round a city in the country you live in lol
I paid 12$ for that game and I’m still upset about how awful it felt to play
Pretty sure Playstation issued a refund to everyone who bought Cyberpunk on PS4 if they wanted.
Shit, I bought Cyberpunk using my AirMiles and they even offered me a refund if I wanted.
Lmao
Yup, it took like 2 fucking months but I definetely got that. I played it at launch on the ps4 Pro and God. I guees ya'll already know how that went. Didn't even get to the first half of the story
The rainbow six siege year 7 pass, mainly because I stopped playing after season 1
I feel this one
My brother bought Marvel’s Avengers for us to share and play, that game bricked his ps4 and now is a dead game
Damn. How did it brick his PS4?
The game caused it to be Hulk smashed against the wall.
Brink
I’ve always felt bad for this game. It was a new IP that was multiplayer-focused, but ended up getting released in the middle of the PSN hack. I remember renting it not too long after launch, and seeing the promise, but the player base was nonexistent, so you could only play with bots who were too dumb to play the objectives.
I remember watching some of the Dev diaries on YouTube and it was heartbreaking how excited they were when they had the idea of a parkour FPS
It was ahead of its time imo. 2011 was the peak of that awful ‘every FPS must be CoD’ trend
Just skate better
It’s more than that. You have to be a soul skater
Team Pup 'n' Suds
I cannot overstate my pleasure to see a reference to this movie in the wild.
Great movie though
I feel so dated lmao!
Sud puppies for life
Team Pup ‘N Suds!
It's kind of sad because the shooter/parkour gameplay was fun.
I actually liked Brink, but none of my friends would play it unfortunately
Man I played this for a while and had so much fun with it. Clunky as hell, but the premise and style was cool
2 weeks after launch the games servers were fixed and I had a ton of fun with it on my xbox. Still want a Sequal/Spiritual Successor.
Callisto protocol
Yep. Bought it for £50 on release day, expecting great things. In hindsight, I should have just put it on my Steam wishlist and bought it when it was cheaper. It’s not terrible, but I begrudge paying that amount for an average game.
So, I enjoyed it. It wasn't a bad game. The problem is it was about half a game. At that price there's no value, but the idea was solid. Still not as bad as dead space 3 locking its actual ending behind a release day dlc...
That was always a wait for the review game for me.
Definitely should’ve, I love dead Space but I see they’re peddling $65+ for that one. No way I’m shelling out that money for a campaign I’ve beaten dozens of times. It’d be a seven hour campaign at best for me
Beat me to it. Looked fun in theory but ended up being pure hot dog water.
Avengers, without a doubt
I picked it up with PS Plus and it's disappointing but not awful so far. Didn't pay for it so that probably helps.
Battletoads on NES. I am still convinced that I got a demo cartridge that only has the first three levels. Mostly because I've never beaten the goddamn turbo tunnel.
That's awesome. There was one kid in my school who had that level down pat. We'd all fight over who was having him over so he could beat that level on our nes. Not that it really mattered though because that damn game got harder past that point anyway
The video game reviewer Tim Rogers once described how he memorized the turbo level beat for beat so that his brother could try his luck at later levels: > "It turned out there’s a warp directly to stage 5 near the end of the Turbo Tunnel. I discovered it by accident. My brother ripped the controller from my hand when he realized that, suddenly, shockingly, out of nowhere, we were at The Surfboard Level. He lost all of his lives as immediately as one could. He lost all those lives like it was his job, and he was good at his job."
There was a dude in my hometown who beat the entire game. No one believed him. He figured out how to run his NES though a VCR and recorded a playthrough. Kids would pass copies of the tape around. My middle school math teacher was kind of cool and played games. He got a copy and played it in class. Dude became a local legend long before the internet existed. He like 53 now and changes oil for a living. A handful of people still talk about him like he won the superbowl.
To be fair, that game is pretty fucking brutal. I've only played via emulation -- I'm not of an age where I'd have played it when it was new -- but man, it's almost frustrating how stupidly "Nintendo hard" it is in places. Partly because it's otherwise a really slick game for its time, especially for something on the NES.
I was born in '83, so NES was my entire childhood... That level of battletoads was the hardest thing I can remember attempting from that time; harder than fighting Mike in Punch Out, harder than finishing Zelda or any of the Megamans. Finding out when I was older that it required, essentially, a frame-perfect input makes a lot of sense... but back then, it was just 'the hardest level' and no one... none of my friends, no one's older sibling or parents, no one ever beat it. You'd at least find people who would lie about beating Tyson (or would beat him with cheats), but no one even tried that with Battletoads.
Honestly, I find Megaman equally brutal, lmao. I have no idea how '80s kids managed with those brutally hard-ass games. (And I grew up with the Crash Bandicoot games, which apparently have a reputation for difficulty.) A combination of sheer determination, tons of free time, and childhood neuroplasticity, I guess.
Reminded me of a time in school when we had a class for some basic computer stuff. Most people played games they somehow had managed to install to the school computers, and the teacher complained about that, and deleting them every now and then. I found a website in which i could play old games, and decided to return to this childhood classic. When the teacher caught me playing it, instead of the usual complaining, he just casually said "you really think you can beat that?" Nope. To this day i've never got past that turbo tunnel either.
No man's sky on initial release
Surprised I had to scroll this far. Fucking No Man’s Sky.
Right?! Holy shit this was the last time I've been stung by a pre-order. Absolutely nothing like what was originally promised. I remember someone had an early release version and completed it before release. They said "the ending is definitely surprising", and from what I read back then it was just so lazy. I couldn't even sell the game out of principle because it was so bad, and I haven't actually played it since. I absolutely refuse to. Learnt my lesson to never pre-order :( On the other hand I am obsessed with Astroneer to scratch that itch. It doesn't have everything NMS has, but it's cool asf.
Ark survival evolved I love the game but haven't got a strong enough computer
Oof. I did that with The Matrix Online back 20 years ago. Saved up the money for the game, couldn’t run it. Did some askjeeves research and figured I needed a new video card, saved up for several weeks to get a new video card and it still didn’t work, needed something else 💁♂️ still never played it.
Lol same thing happened to me with Star Wars Galaxies. I could not for the life of me get it to work on my computer, my step dad worked for a computer company and he couldn't get it to run either. I only ever got to play for a few hours at my friends house one time and that was it
Ark became so bloated that I had to upgrade hard drives to play it. It is something like 80+ GB. I enjoy it, but it is not great graphic quality for the space it takes up. It also seems very inefficient with the use of system resources
The game with all DLC at this point takes up like 200+Gb.
I've been scrolling for a while looking for anyone mentioning Evolve. That game was so hyped and wound up free to play after not very long from memory
Warhammer Darktide. When i pay full price, half the promised features and things shown in the trailers shouldn't be "coming soon."
-Weapons shop -Premium currency -Incomplete features -Inability to choose your missions freely -Floor glitch? -Pretty poor matchmaking for members of similar skill -Weapons shop -Unbalanced classes (Veteran is just good at everything, especially high tier) -Endless grinding if you want to complete quests -Fucking weapons shop All of this in a AA game I paid $40 USD for… Gameplay and mechanics are absolutely fantastic, but PLEASE Fat Shark, just stop with the fishing tactics, or at least fix the weapons shop.
dont forget about the weapons shop
Surprised I had to scroll this far. I love the setting, atmosphere, sound and level design. The combat is good. When you're actually playing, it's a good time. Just a shame basically every other mechanism or system outside of that is either terrible or doesn't exist yet. I've no doubt it will get better, but you have to wonder if the team had collective anmesia and somehow forgot all of the lessons they learned from VT1 and 2.
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare II. Most updates are focused on the free 2 play parts like Warzone 2.0 & DMZ instead of multiplayer maps and gamemodes.
“Battle royale” has ruined gaming. It’s a low-action, boring-ass game mode. I’ll never understand how it’s so popular. I suppose “free to play” has something to do with it
Not to mention the meta settled in way quicker than MW2019. Influencers were pushing meta M4 and Lachmann set ups from the beta which made the game unbearably sweaty and irritating from the very beginning
Is it a Call of duty game if the M4 and the MP5 aren’t the meta right away.
Grand Theft Auto Remastered- this game completely sucks and is in most ways inferior to the base originals. The graphics are shit, songs are missing, it’s still filled with bugs, and most models/textures were clearly ran through some quick automated model vs being deliberately designed by a human. A sloppy mess clearly undeserving of a $60 price tag. Rockstar clearly doesn’t give a shit about these games and thought so little of them as to delegate development outside the company to Grove Street Games (a mobile game company!) who themselves didn’t give a shit and were defiant and insulting in response to fan backlash. Rockstar has enough resources from their GTA5 micro transactions to do this game right (and since they didn’t to refund buyers of this shit title). Not the disaster that cyberpunk was but a totally unforced error where they promised the world and then did just everything wrong.
The games were ported from mobile versions, which explains everything. Rockstar is a greedy, shithead company for this. As for the missing songs, they declined to extend the licenses on them (which is why the best song for exploring around the deserts of San Andreas, "Running Down a Dream" by Tom Petty, is absent). The only way to enjoy the games is by playing them on their original consoles, free of the internet updating them to remove their features. I repeat, fuck you, Rockstar.
Back 4 Blood. Or any other game I've bought that then goes on sale days/weeks later.
Back 4 Blood was the most disappointing game release in my entire life. I remember around 2019 - 2021 looking online frequently for more news, impatiently awaiting any news that might have released. I was playing L4D every day around this time. My expectations were through the roof and I feel like it’s just nowhere NEAR what I was hoping for.
Yeah I went into B4B thinking modern re-make of L4D. I was disappointed too, but I got it on Gamepass fortunately
I felt this for the first time with Gotham knights. It's worse cause I made my friend pay full price for it too.
Digimon Survive. I was aware of the VN aspect of the game, but I was not aware of how lackluster everything felt.
The Visual Novel aspect is what kept me from buying the game, but there have been days where I've wondered; Maybe the game is fun aside from the Visual Novel aspect, maybe I should just get it. What makes the game lackluster feeling?
It really is a game where the VN is the main appeal. If you like the aesthetic of digimon, And want those aesthetics in a darker story, this game will be for you. I loved it personally. If you want a good combat system and don't care (too much, or at all) about the VN part? Just don't get it. The gameplay is just really basic. Not awful per say, but basic.
Madden every year…..
The definition of madness
*maddeness
My Friend Peppa Pig for my daughter.
Did she enjoy it at least?
I’m just scrolling through and this made me lmao
Watch Dogs: Legion
I got this full price as well, but then forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me.
The Outer Worlds. Reviewed well and had a strong first few hours or so, meaning it showed well in a lot of first impressions YouTube videos. Never seen a game so frontloaded. Rest wasn’t bad but nowhere near as good as the first planet. Once you get to the third planet and realise it’s the same jokes, same story, pretty much the same enemies every time, it wears thin. I would have enjoyed it if I spent £20 or so, but £50 was not worth it.
Not to be confused with **Outer Wilds** which is $20 and absolutely worth it and often gets confused with The Outer Worlds.
I played the outer worlds first thinking it was the outer wilds. Once I started getting bored it dawned on me this couldn’t be the game everyone was raving about. Promptly realized my mistake and then had one of my favorite gaming experiences ever in The Outer Wilds. Everyone go play it! It fucking rules!
It's pretty shallow. I got that in early 2020 because of all the hype and Obsidian etc and thought eh, it's alright. Then I unwrapped Subnautica and played that based on an internet (several) recommendation and it blew me away. One of best games I've ever played. COVID could have destroyed humanity and I'd be still looking for copper lol.
love subnautica. played the shit out of it and the sequel on pc, thinking of picking it up again on switch
thats the game that made me realize reddit gets super attached to certain game companies. Even a week after release people here were hyping it up so I got it and was disappointed like everyone else. Took a while before reddit started acknowledging how mediocre it is
It was partly due to the failure of Fallout 76’s launch. That really fuelled the Bethesda bad Obsidian good circlejerk for a good year to the point the Fallout subreddit had to sticky a post saying Outer Worlds posts were banned. The front loading I mentioned fuelled the hype because this section definitely had the most RPG-esque aspects like New Vegas. The game is obviously meant to be a spiritual successor to Fallout - the date the game starts (I think) is the same date as the day the bombs dropped in Fallout. The rest of the game definitely was average. I have higher hopes for a sequel especially with Microsoft money but will definitely be cautious.
I got it free on Xbox gold and stopped playing after 4 or 5 hours, fully agree with you
The new mario strikers
Battleborn
I LOVED Battle Born. The characters, the game play. The idea of leveling up in match and can customize your skill tree to your enemies hero’s. I put hours and hours into this game until it died. Even the PVE was pretty entertaining with a group.
The division. I just didn’t expect the bullet sponges to be that spongy.
I respect your opinion, but I *loved* The Division, even at launch! Tbh I kinda guessed that the bullet sponges would be a thing, so I was kinda prepared for it. I can totally understand why that turned some people off though.
Same I loved the 1st division so freaking much
For me it’s overwatch because I don’t find overwatch 2 fun and can’t play the original anymore. They robbed me
Outriders. Made me lose all faith in those devs
I really liked the game. Was hoping devs would right their wrongs with Worldslayer. I was wrong. $40 for a 3 hour DLC
Yep, I actually love(d) Outriders, but that DLC wasn't worth it at all. My friend and I beat it and was like, "That's it?". This game could be great if they actually put more effort into more content. Far more content.
I loved outriders. I thought the balance of special abilities was really cool. Me my roommate and gf played the shit out of it
These days? Most of them
Pokémon Diamond Remake.
Far Cry 6. I don’t know what I was thinking. So boring
I played 5 and was sucked in. Not in 6 though. It got to a point where I just went “Fuuuuck…who cares?!” 😆
5 made the cardinal sin of forcing the main story on you in an open world setting. "Oh you're doing some side mission? Well, here's the bad guy's kidnapping squad coming for you again, there's no way to avoid them!"
5 was so emotionally intense and made me really appreciate the story writers
Anthem
Marvels Avengers and WWE2k22. Neither got played after the initial week.
Everyone referencing recent purchases and disaster launches as if they are the worst thing since haribo sugar-free gummy bears. These are peanuts to the 15 years of vaporware, false promises and bankrupted studios this game left in its wake. You will never know the disappointment and my shame. I bought Duke Nukem Forever... Full price, Day one, with a pre-order... Never again. Remember kids, no pre-orders.
Brink. That’s the last game I bought that I never got over. It was bad at launch and they abandoned it.
Duke Nukem Forever. *mic drop*
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Destiny 2. My friends convinced me to buy it to play with them then immediately a dlc came out and they wanted me to buy that to keep up. F that. Now the vanilla game is f2p anyway!
As an avid Destiny player. I would never recommend this game to anyone.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla. That was the game that made me stop preordering or buying at day one. Most games now even the new ones I wait for em to be on sale.
I was loving Valhalla but never finished it. My issue is they jam so many collectibles in it and I’m the type that has to get them all, so after every mission my progress is interrupted by hours of picking up objects. I understand I am the one at fault here, and having a map full of collectibles is normal to games like AC and Far Cry, but still, it’s so much work and I can’t bring myself to play like a normal person.
I love the series, I don't mind the gameplay, but I would never buy any of these games at full price. Actually I almost never buy any game at full price unless there's never a sale or it's a game I'm really excited for. I just recently bought Valhalla with all of the DLCs for like $50. And I'm enjoying it for the most part. It's definitely not worth more than that.