worst game i ever bought was easily phantasy star I & II remake for the gamecube.

or possibly final fantasy V because it simply WAS the worst FF of all time.

everything about these games was so dreadful that writing about them feels like an intrusion into private greif.

Espics:
worst game i ever bought was easily phantasy star I & II remake for the gamecube.

I didn't know they even did that! Thanks for saving me from trying to find them!

nights: journey to dreams
TESIV: oblivion
quake 4
sonic riders
007: from russia with love
medal of honor: pacific assault
extreme-g 3
turok evolution
burnout
NFS: carbon

I'd burn them in hell...

Fable - Because it's Fable. It wasn't that BAD, it just needed a lot more content and more of a purpose behind the whole good/evil thing to justify the price tag and permanent ownership.

Final Fantasy XII - Worst RPG ever. Worse than Shadow Madness. Within a few hours of "playing" it I was asking myself what the main character was doing there and why he hadn't left yet. Within a couple more hours I realized I wasn't going to receive an answer and this game was even more rushed and pieced together than FFVIII, which I wasn't stupid enough to buy.

Xenosaga Episode Anything - Thank God I got Episode I used out of a bargain bin many, many years after the fact. I'd been desperately in search of something creative. This offered something of the sort, but without the common decency of offering a GAME inside the package.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The game I never would have bought if I knew what it was actually like. I loved being an Italian mobster in the previous games. I HATED being a gang banger in this one. I hated the environment, I hated the characters, I hated everything about it except the gameplay. I played it for ten minutes, got to the point where a cutscene started wasting my time with one of the protagonists threatening to beat his wife, discovered the pizza joint was a bunch of puns on breasts, and realized that everything about the main character and everything in his home were allusions to having a large penis before putting this game down and never picking it up again.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City - Special case. I bought a used copy at EB before they were acquired by GameStop. You couldn't return used games for a refund if you'd actually opened them, even if something was wrong. Well, in this case, something WAS wrong. My disc was scratched and I couldn't get through more than a few minutes of gameplay before the PS2 stopped reading it. It was a pity because I'd played this game many times before and was DYING to finally get my hands on my own copy. This one was only $6 at least. You get what you pay for, I guess.

Phantasy Star Universe - It's not like I thought Phantasy Star Online was that great, but in all honesty it's a much better designed game than its successor. On the exterior PSU is more polished and more visual, but the environments don't have as much thought in them, they repeat ENTIRE MAPS repeatedly and recycle levels in a much more linear fashion, and since the special attack attribute has been separated from weapons themselves that gives weapons little license to have variety, the variety of its unique weapons being the only thing that motivated me to play 50 hours worth of PSO in the first place. Overall not worth what I paid for it, sold back in a month.

Dead or Alive 4 - All the good costumes are gone and more than ever it feels like winning depends on luck. I'd played DOA2 Ultimate and loved the series for it, but something about 4 felt like a SHARP step backwards in controls. Felt like I'd explored the whole game after a few runs through arcade mode. Didn't feel the need to play it any further. Hated multiplayer since it felt like luck was dictating the game more than skill. Sold it back within a week.

Armored Core 4 - BECAUSE IT'S ARMORED CORE. This was supposed to have been a big leap forward, but it somehow managed to be LESS FUN than previous games of the series. There just wasn't a comfortable way to control it.

You know, I regret buying 90% of the games I've bought in the past few years...

Hellgate London - Such a borefest compared to Diablo... and the story is just awful.

I only got it to play something Coop with my friends, but they bailed out after 2 sessions of play. I feel like I should play the single player, maybe it'd be more fun that way... but I just can't get excited about it.

GTA III - I know everyone loves GTA, but I got bored with it in a few days... I was busy doing everything except the actual missions... and thought "OK I'm done"... Haven't tried a GTA since

spy fiction: It looked so good when I first read about it in GMR. Then I played it balked at the ridiculously aware AI (not only can they see through costumes, but they can see through walls too) and stupidly difficult minigames

Shadow the Hedgehog was just terrible.

I regret downloading the Sonic the Hedgehog Xbox 360 demo most. it wasn't even worth the space on my hard drive.

Metroid Prime: Hunters
Total bore...

FE9 (Path of Radiance). It was short, there was no replay value AT ALL, the storyline was subaverage, and a select few units were so overpowered that you could just plunk them down in the middle of the field and clear the board.

I regret buying every Cabela's game, they all suck and the animals were either mentally retarded or had super senses adn could hear you on a cliff 200 feet above...the AI was crap lest leave it at that.

and the bullet cam was annoying
and the AI was crap
you couldnt shoot at a bear and run away at the same time
the AI was crap
deer attacked you
the AI was crap
the vehicles sucked

Final Fantasy 9: Biggest load of crap I had to endure on my aging PSX.

Grandia 2 (PS2 version): Just plain horrible in and of itself. It makes Rumble Roses look worthwhile.

Jet Li: Rise To Honor.
Enter The Matrix.
Final Fantasy X.

Also, I once bought Splinter Cell: Double Agent for the PC. I've always been a fan of the series and have thought of it as totally underrated. So I popped the disk into my DVD drive, and it turned out that my shitty computer couldn't handle it, even after buying a new graphics card.
I stopped PC gaming at that point.

renard:

TESIV: oblivion

Why? I've been playing it for a bit now, I'd like to know what you think.

Red Steel.
'nuff said

Resident Evil 0
i thought it would be better and little bit more up-beat...but the "switching" just slowed it down for me beyond belief.

State of Emergency
was not worth the 5 dollars i paid for it, wish i had used it for gas instead.

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 1.
It makes me feel like a noob.
Which makes me angry.
(I feel a rant coming on)
But seriously, the ghosts (should be) a "professional" team; it's like babysitting, which isn't easy when people are trying to put your head on a pike.
"Go to cover you retard"
"Nah i'ma stand here n get shot."
*OWW*
"OMG U MUST HELP ME!11!
Also what I hated was when you went solo vs roughly 100 people. Now that's okay in games like Halo, with the recharging shields, where you don't take 5 seconds to switch weapons. But when you can die from 1 shot, with checkpoints half an hour apart, it makes me mad. I believe there was a mission called guardrail 9 or something, which is 1v100. It consisted of blowing up...a...big..thing.... and massacaring an entire mother fu**ing batallion (ok i'm exaggerating but still.)
Call me a noob but I really hated that game.

I'm surprised that there hasn't been more mention of Two Worlds. I believed the hype for that game and now, I personally think it was a waste of $60. The graphics are bad, the enemies ranged from too easy to impossibly hard, the framerate was almost nonexistant and there was a lot of lag. And that's just in the single player. I'll give it credit for a great idea for a multiplayer. But it was executed so poorly, it almost didn't matter how good of an idea I thought it was.

Also, Battlefield 2:Modern Combat was, in my opinion, the worst game I've ever purchased. It wasn't even fun, it was glitchy and nearly impossible to play. I never finished the final mission either, I kept getting shot either through the concrete ceiling in the missile pads or while parachuting down.

Star Trek Legacy was also bad, but I probably think so because it failed to meet my expectations. I saw the Bethesda label and thought about how much I loved TESIV: Oblivion. But it never even came close to being that good.

Yeh, Two Worlds is a load of trash on the gaming market. Crappy fighting, impossible difficulty spikes, sucky story (basically a douche and his sister talking about "taints" in shitty old english), all the characters are cross eyed (WTF?), and did i mention crappy fighting?

Enemy territory: Quake Wars

Blame it on the fact that I got the Orange box shortly afterwards, and by Orange box I mean Team fortress 2.

Oh god, Spider Man 3. That game sapped everything I absolutely adored about Spiderman 2 and shat all over it. Then again, like most movie based games right?

Twilight Princess: The whole "collect objects to save to world from evil" thing is ok... In fact it's the core story of every Zelda game but I just got annoyed when they made you do it twice. Nothing about the scenery or the story was any good for me.

I was expecting them to get back on with decent Zelda games after they decided to cel-shade the Wind Waker... I really hope someone got fired for that.

Blade (2?) for the ps2.
Vangard (superior failure in MMOs)

Warhammer 40K: Fire Warrior. Turns out I just cannot identify with the TAU.

Pirates of the Caribbean, looked good and sounded good, but wasn't really compelling enough for me to even break out of prison.

World of Warcraft, but only because it is a massive time-sink and I now have stacks of games that I've never even played.

Mega Man 6. God what an awful game. Mega Man totally jumped the shark in this one. I loved Mega Man 2, 3, and 4, so I thought hey, new Mega Man game. The Nintendo Power coverage made it look totally sweet, so I thought I have to buy this game. And one thing I loved about Mega Man games was the challenge.

And holy shit, did this game ever lack it. It was EASY. I beat it in two days, and when you're 9 years old, that means something is terribly, terribly wrong. I beat it a couple more times and laid it to rest. What made matters even worse was that I bought this game with my own money. And for a kid, dropping $60 is a significant investment. To be so sorely disappointed was just crushing.

Thankfully, my parents bought me Kirby's Adventure recently and that tided me over until the SNES era.

Magic the Gathering - Battlegrounds - worst game ever.

Half Life - I don't know why, but it gives me nausea and I can't play for more than 20 min.

Command and Conquer Generals - This was the sign of the end of Command & Conquer.

Assassins Creed PC - Its not a bad game but towards the end it became stupid and had a very annoying ending.

Frontlines: Fuel of War - Played it for 2hrs and haven't picked it up again. Terrible game.

Unreal Tornament 3 - I just didn't feel like UT anymore

Call of Duty 3 - By far the worst FPS i've ever played. Console trash.

Crysis - It ran okish(even tho i have a beast PC) and looked great its just a crap souless game. Piracy isn't the problem CRYTEK, you just make shit games.

Btw whoever said Company of Heroes needs his balls cutting off, i would quote the guy but he doesn't deserve the attention.

I'd say Two Worlds, but I didn't buy it. The demo turned me away from the game.

Therefore, I'll say Medal of Honor: European Assault on the PS2 and FFXI on the 360.

Number XIII anyone?

I'm deeply regretting NiGHTS for the Wii, even though I got it for only $20. The controls are just so bad, and the activities so frustrating as a result, I don't enjoy it. And I play a lot of supposed crap. Mostly used though, I'm not sure anyone could justify picking up Primal or Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel new.

Generally, regret lowers if you don't pay much for it. I was disappointed in Mafia, but for $2, it didn't really hurt.

DeVoyd:
Warhammer 40K: Fire Warrior. Turns out I just cannot identify with the TAU.

Actually, Fire Warrior isn't a terribly good game even if you can identify with the Tau. I didn't lump it on the pile, though, because I enjoyed most of the voice acting and cinematics, and the set design was really good at evoking that Gothic feel... but the AI was less "pants on head" retarded and more "what are pants?" retarded, and the game relied too much on making enemies tougher to compensate and so gameplay turned into a repetitive circle-strafe-fest.

I still think they should've made that game with the player as a Crisis Suit pilot instead of a plain-ol' front-grunt if they were set on having a Tau point-of-view. Way more possibilities that way.

-- Steve

I probably regret buying The Orange Box.

I really liked Portal of course, but TF2 and Half Life 2 just can't seem to hold my interest. I feel as if I'm playing a really archaic FPS. I know it is a couple years old now but with my time more limited now, I really dislike the health number model. Having to save all the time and go through parts of a level multiple times... I don't know, it just steals from the momentum.

It's my biggest complaint about GTAIV as well. I mean... I love the game a lot, but with the missions, having to repeat every part of a mission to just get screwed at the same part is just annoying. A checkpoint system would have helped both games immensely in my opinion, and regenerating health would have been a plus in my mind.

Pokemon Battle Revolution

It's just a game where you transfer pokemon from Diamond or Pearl and then watch them kill each other in 3D. Although, I have to admit watching Raquaza perform Hyper Beam looks really cool.
By the way, don't ask me why but unlike every Xbox 360 and PS3 fanboy and their dog/cat/snapping turtle, I couldn't care less about how good the graphics are.

Heavenly Sword - fantastic cinematics and art style, Andy Serkis as King Bohan is definitely one of my favourite game characters, but the game has a five hour life-span tops. Good rental, but not worth the money.

PES 2008 - Big PES fan, since 3, but this game was a huge disappointment. Graphics that look like PS2 in HD, broken AI on your team-mates and such terrible lag online that it is possible to run straight through the ball, without actually taking possession. Also the soundtrack was unbearable.

Mercenaries - Barely present AI, broken gameplay dynamics.
How on earth a North Korean guard captain can tell you're the enemy when you drive past calmly in a Korean tank I have no idea.
All the weapons felt underpowered, scopes were useless, stealth was completely hotch-potch and there was essentially no story.

Nice explosions though.

Resident Evil Outbreak, I like the franchise and the general mechanics of the game. By the time you get to the hospital and go through the sequence of events you have to go through to get rid of leech man; I found myself remembing a time I got kicked in the balls with steel toe boots on and compared that to the sensation of playing the game.
Naturally I turned off the game and went to make a construction worker angry cause I would feel better afterwards.

Devil May Cry 3 - I had never played a Hack 'n Slasher before so when I tried the game for the first time I was basically like "lol wut?"

Halo 3 - Gotta love watching dev blogs about "how awesome our game is" only to finally play it and wanna ship it back to them with a note attached saying "You did it wrong, do it again"...

Dead Rising - Awesome concept marred by funky controls (for me at least). AND WILL YOU STOP FUCKING CALLING ME!!!!!

Armored Core 4 - Dont get me wrong, I LOVE the mech's in this game, they're so damn cool. But I shouldn't feel like I need a Bachelor's Degree in order to navigate the fucking Buy menu :(
(this may also be because I'm stupid)

Twilight Princess - Please tell me why it still has SCROLLING TEXT!!! It's 2008 ffs!