True Crime: Streets of LA
just fucking awful.

Fable: The Lost Chapters: A lesson on how not to do make a RPG and a lesson on how not to port to PC.

Halo 2: No, scratch what I said above, THIS is a lesson on how not to port your games to PC. Also, the game itself is really boring, second only to Metroid Prime: Hunters in the "Most boring FPS ever" stakes.

looking through my games and found:
- shadow the hedgehog (ps2)
- primal (ps2)
- free running (ps2)
- NHL 2005 (gamecube)
- Rainbowsix 3 (gamecube)
- lego starwars 2 (Xbox 360)

GRAW 2. What a piece of mediocre shite. How could I be so naive? The first Ghost Recon will always be the true Ghost Recon.

I don't agree with the Assassin's Creed hate, I think it's a great game, though a bit bugged here and there. I'd give that game a 7.5/10.

Phantasy Star Universe. Such a collosal waste of money that was hard as hell to cancel.

Sim City 4. Far too complex compared to the charms of little old 3000 Unlimited.

Aetmos:
Phantasy Star Universe. Such a collosal waste of money that was hard as hell to cancel.

Same :P

That and Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions.

Bleach. As in "I want to drink Bleach, that game is so bad."

And World of Warcraft. Took years off my life, but I kept playing hoping they'd change stuff up a bit, but alas, the carrot continues to dangle.

I try to read the reviews of a game before I buy. Generally, I only buy keepers, but a few slip through the cracks. My most recent blunder is Rainbow Six Vegas 2, a surprisingly bland FPS considering the hype the first game received.

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. Dear Lord, this game was actually worse than the movie Pearl Harbor. I got the Gamecube version, which I would discover actually had the final level cut from it, ending the game with a huge cliffhanger. It was such a disappointment, I vowed never to play another Medal of Honor game just to teach EA a lesson. It's hard to trust a series where graphics and gameplay get progressively worse with each sequel.

Narc was awful too. True Crime: Streets of LA was a little overrated. Yakuza had bad music, clunky controls, and a painfully confusing plot; half the time I had no idea what I was doing in that game or why.

Lvl 64 Klutz:
Devil May Cry 3... I still haven't gotten past the second level...

Lower the difficulty. DMC3 is IMPOSSIBLE on anything other than "easy", even if you're a seasoned gamer.

NWN 2, even though I enjoy playing it online it is one big graphics failure. There are many problems with transitions from areas during online games, which funnily enough don;t happen in the singleplayer.

But the Singleplayer is just dreadfuly... boring, cliche, don't know how to classify it, I simply can't play it till the end. I enjoyed the 2nd Campaign more than the first one (Expansion that is) but I am so sad that they did not allow the player to start from a specific chapter, rather than being forced to go from the very beginning...

Online it would be golden, if the Graphics weren;t demanding and with all the bugies ruining every second and third area transition (on the bad days), and of course if the concept of joining an online game was miles easier than it is now... if it were at least in half what it was back in NWN 1 that would be not good, it would be uber.

*sighs* Where did the old days go to?!

Phantasy Star Online Episode 1&2
Blood Omen 2
X-Men Legends
X-Men Legends 2
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

The last 3 actually entertained me for some time, but since then my standards have raised and I can't stand them anymore.

I forgot to mention Galactic Civilizations for the PC. Now, I love strategy games, but I had to play this game for five hours (seriously, I started at 5PM and stopped at 10PM) before it got mildly interesting. I figured I'd give it the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes it takes a while to like a game, like with GTA: San Andreas, or Assassin's Creed, or Hitman. But no matter what happened, I found myself trying to spark a war out of boredom and the fact that I was so unsuccessful at this, even after shooting random spaceships if I was lucky enough to find them, only frustrated me more. If interstellar war is this boring then I hope aliens have the heart to spare us by blowing up the Earth in the first five minutes of the conflict.

Battlefield 2 is another game that made me want to hurl my PC out the window. Oh, excuse me DICE for not possessing the illegally acquired space aged super-computer necessary to play a 16 person single-player map with minimal graphics and sound effects without freezing the frame rate. I played this game on a brand new PC and I thought smoke was about to come out of the keyboard. I was regretting my loss of $40USD (about $42 for you friends down under) within the SAME DAY.

Lands of Lore III. Worst. Went out of its way to dump on the series.
Resident Evil 4. Silly me, I expected it to be a survival horror game.
Super Mario Galaxy. Short and unsatisfying, like its interpretation of the fire flower.

Worms 3D?

Far too hard to play. :(

Clive Barker's JERICHO-terrible console-port
Imperial Glory - so much promise ruined by poor implementation.
Dawn of War-Soulstorm...an unfinished, unrealized beta product with b-grade production values.
Medal of Honour:Airborne - short game and the patches are way too large to continually D/L (over 1 and half GB each, except for the first). Little to no support otherwise.

Half Life 1, Half life 2
These are awesome games, but....

i could only play them in 10 minute spurts.

for some reason the developers decided to include motion blur for fast camera movements in these games. this made me very sick to my stomach very fast, so bad that it would ruin a whole evening for me - headache, nausea, vertigo... i REALLY wanted to play these games through, so i'd try....
they cause such physical misery for me that i had to give up on them entirely.

most other fps' are fine, but i'm afraid of trying new ones. Half Life 1 and 2 ruined an entire game genre for me.

NWN2

I bought it to have fun playing the campaign cooperatively, like I did with NWN years back. Mistake. After playing The Witcher, going back to NWN2 is like playing My Little Pony.

hollow-soull:

- primal (ps2)

Aww, I liked Primal. Granted, I bought it used for like $10 and the combat wasn't that great, but the story and characters and puzzles were interesting.

Dawn of War, DoW:Winter Assault, DoW:Dark Crusade, DoW:Soulstorm
I had heard of Dawn of War before, so i bought them all. Well, i got my mom to buy them all. It's not that i dont like them, its just i have like ADD and get bored easy when a game has ANYTHING wrong with it. With Dawn of War it was the inability to zoom out farther than being able to see 4 people on my screen (exageration, but still). The rest i havent played, and i havent gotten past like round 3 on DoW, so id say they were a waste of (my mom's) money.

Fable: The Lost Chapters
I loved the game, i loved fable on the xbox, and i loved TLC on PC. I accidentally bought this game 3 times though (don't ask) and 3 CDs dont really make the game UBERBETTER.

Guild Wars- All 4 games
Amazing game, id recommend it to anyone with a few years to spare, because that's what it costs. Played this game for 6,000 hours over 36 months. You can see why i regret purchasing it.

WoW, WoW:BC
See guild wars above.

Morrowind
No idea where to go. Ever. Oblivion was better, imo.

Bioshock
Couldnt play past the first, maybe, 2 minutes. The dl process fucked up and i dont think i can reinstall it because i alrdy used the CD key. I was expecting it to be a good game, i might waste another 30$ on it.

Fury
When released, AMAZING GAME. If it had kept its path, id have said it was the best game ever. The Combat system was Revolutionary, it was awesome! It's free now because of a shitty patch all the real guilds left and the company filed for bankrupcy. Its a free game now, spent 60$ on it.

Everquest 2
Didnt know it was pay-2-play when i bought it (i was like 10 or something).

Crysis
I got my new computer after i got this game. 3 gigs ram, Quad Core 2.6ghz, I cant run this game past a few hours in. Fuck that shit.

Hellgate:London
If you like grinding the same 4 areas with the same 4 monsters with the same 4 looking weapons and the same 4 armor pieces in the same 4 colors you can color them, you get my point.

Thats just all the games near my desk, i shud post console tooes

Neverwinter Nights 2
Im not really into DnD, and i never played it past the first level.

herodotus:
Imperial Glory - so much promise ruined by poor implementation.

I'm holding out for Empire: Total War. Imperial Glory was a game I was going to spend money on, but I wanted to see someone else get burnt first.

tagMaverick:

Crysis
I got my new computer after i got this game. 3 gigs ram, Quad Core 2.6ghz, I cant run this game past a few hours in. Fuck that shit.

I ran this on a 2k+ gaming PC and it fucking crashed it.

Battlefield 2

three letters, one number, GTA4.

The Lawn:

That and Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions.

Ditto. I wanted so desperately to like it but anything that chains your legs to a tree and throws you a bone ten feet away is NOT fun and deserves shooting. In the legs. With MELONS. GIANT WATERMELON GUNS.

*coughs*

The perils of importing DS games:

Dynasty Warriors DS - Shocker. Why did you do it Koei?
Honeycomb Beat - Being told you're as evolved as an Amoeba is always asking for a smack in the face or a stylus through the touchscreen as it may end up.
Card Fighters Clash - Oh. (Seriously, I can't say anymore than that.)

Metroid Prime - I got it for $5 used and still feel I wasted the money.

LoZ: Wind Waker - one of the most boring games I've ever played. I gave up when I had to follow treasure maps that lead to more treasure maps.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within - terrible combat, terrible sound design, and I accidentally encountered a terrible glitch that caused me to skip forward in the game.

Army Men: World War - I was young and stupid and I thought "what the hell?" big mistake.

Persona 3. If I'd known they were going to release the FES version too, I wouldn't have bothered.

Oh God!

WWE Warzone (PS)

Shadow of Destiny? (cant remember title exactly but the guy kept dying and being sent back in time to find his murderer. Also included alchemy and had a homunculus).

Sins of a Solar Empire - Quoting Homer Simpson, it "combines the loyalty of a cat with the cleanliness of a dog". Sins is advertised as having the better of both RTS and TBS worlds, but it's exactly the opposite. The game still plays as an RTS, but it's painstakingly slow. The units are slow, the economy is slow, the battles are slow, everything was slowed down to a crawl. My guess is that they tried to make things simple so people who aren't used to playing RTS's can monitor the economy, the battles and everything else without feeling overwhelmed. Thing is, once you lose the ham-handness you'll be stuck waiting, waiting, and waiting...

Command & Conquer 3 (and Kane's Wrath) - It's a bad game altogether. EA fucked up. They shouldn't have disbanded Westwood and EA itself admits it. The game can be summarized as "build mammoths". No, no, screw everything else, including the super-weapons, or else your enemy might have more mammoths than you do and storm your base. C&C3 did keep the story going forward (and i admit the story it wasn't *that* bad), but the game itself... meh. 1 unit per faction games are bad.
Kane's Wrath is even worse. First player to build the 'uber' unit wins. Or, if it's a huge map, it's the first player who builds the 'uber' unit AND has more mammoths that wins. The new factions are useless, since they balanced them in a Rock-Paper-Shotgun style. On a side note, they added a GDI faction that had units similar to the ones in Tiberium Sun (you know, the walkers). Unfortunately, they look like a pre-alpha render made by a really drunk graphic artist.
Also, it strikes me how a game like this can consume so many resources. How is it that Supreme Commander with huge motherfucking armies on screen on high settings has no slow downs on my rig, yet C&C3 stutters whenever a handful of mammoths fire at the same time? And Supreme Commander is graphically better!

Yeah, i was pretty pissed at C&C3. I've been a C&C fanboy for many years and C&C3 ruined my buzz.

Pokemon Trading Cards ($60 worth) - Never played it for real and was a big waste since it went out of season in a month.

Pokemon Blue, Silver, Yellow ($200 roughly) - Decent, but beat each of the games in a week.

Warhammer 40k: Fire Warrior - Warhammer should stay away from FPS. This game was like a Doom rip off.

Dark Cloud 1 & 2 - Too kiddy, too long, too damnable annoying.

Final Fantasy Tactics - Not into that kind of strategy like game.

Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction - It's Diablo, nuff said.

Age of Mythology - Game got too easy or too hard or just plain too stupid.

Battlefield 2142 - Insane server lag, asshole players, non-Vista compatibility, and CS clonage.

Halo 3, it wasn't satifiying like other shooters I mean sure the multiplayer adds tons of replayablity to it, but not enough for co-op it would be cool if they added like Side Missions or something for download, and an armor pack would be sweet

Ghost Rider!!!-Yes hang me please

Gran Turismo/any other racing game(even burnout)-I don't like them, they are just boring.

Muppets Boat Party Something or other- I bought this game for my nephew(6 I beleive) who decided to promptly forget about it. I don't blame him.

fyrh56:
Sins of a Solar Empire - Quoting Homer Simpson, it "combines the loyalty of a cat with the cleanliness of a dog". Sins is advertised as having the better of both RTS and TBS worlds, but it's exactly the opposite. The game still plays as an RTS, but it's painstakingly slow. The units are slow, the economy is slow, the battles are slow, everything was slowed down to a crawl. My guess is that they tried to make things simple so people who aren't used to playing RTS's can monitor the economy, the battles and everything else without feeling overwhelmed. Thing is, once you lose the ham-handness you'll be stuck waiting, waiting, and waiting...

Command & Conquer 3 (and Kane's Wrath) - It's a bad game altogether. EA fucked up. They shouldn't have disbanded Westwood and EA itself admits it. The game can be summarized as "build mammoths". No, no, screw everything else, including the super-weapons, or else your enemy might have more mammoths than you do and storm your base. C&C3 did keep the story going forward (and i admit the story it wasn't *that* bad), but the game itself... meh. 1 unit per faction games are bad.
Kane's Wrath is even worse. First player to build the 'uber' unit wins. Or, if it's a huge map, it's the first player who builds the 'uber' unit AND has more mammoths that wins. The new factions are useless, since they balanced them in a Rock-Paper-Shotgun style. On a side note, they added a GDI faction that had units similar to the ones in Tiberium Sun (you know, the walkers). Unfortunately, they look like a pre-alpha render made by a really drunk graphic artist.
Also, it strikes me how a game like this can consume so many resources. How is it that Supreme Commander with huge motherfucking armies on screen on high settings has no slow downs on my rig, yet C&C3 stutters whenever a handful of mammoths fire at the same time? And Supreme Commander is graphically better!

Yeah, i was pretty pissed at C&C3. I've been a C&C fanboy for many years and C&C3 ruined my buzz.

Based on that it sounds like you don't really like RTS games very much.

Fatalis67:
Based on that it sounds like you don't really like RTS games very much.

Quite the opposite, RTS's are my favorite genre followed by TBS's, hence when i heard what Sins was all about it sounded like a good game. Unfortunately... Imagine you're playing Civ, but instead of finishing a turn whenever your moves are done, the turns auto-finish themselves in strict 10 minute intervals. That's how Sins feels like.
C&C3 was just a 1-unit game. Mammoths[Avatar/Tripod] > all. Rushing isn't even considered a tactic, since the static defenses are so powerful (in the early game), all rushing does is cripple your own economy and let the opponent out-mammoth you.

Now one game that is on the borderline of regret is GalCiv2 (from the same guys that made Sins). I actually like the game (even though it has MOO written all over it), but no multiplayer? Seriously? It's a good TBS, but they didn't add any multiplayer options whatsoever, something that even MOO2 did 12 years ago.

GRAW - team mates that stupid deserve to die. Herding them around is not fun; it is something for which I should get paid. And in the age of Islamic terrorism - neo-Slavs? Really?

BIA - See above for AI. Plus, my character is a soldier in an elite airborne division, at his peak physical condition. So why do I move slower, and shoot worse, than in real life? The surviving members of the actual mission would even today, sixty years later, shake less when aiming, and probably move faster too.

BIA 2 - See above. Total brain fart buying the sequel.