Stronghold 2 - The original was much better, this added some broken features... what else?

Age of Empires 3 - I just didn't like this game. They screwed over AoE too much, it's a decent game in itself, but it was like calling Generals a C&C Game...

Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption - I liked the original. This just didn't seem to do it justice as an expansion, and it seems like some of the new things are unfinished (thrown together to hit the release date sort of thing)

Ghost Recon - Much as it was a more realistic shooter, enemies with X-ray binocular eye implants and perfect accuracy get annoying after a while. You could always play on Easy, but then it's a turkey shoot. No thanks.

I know there's more, but they aren't in my game shortcuts folder or on my Xfire profile, so I'm too lazy to find them. ;\

Harry Potter 4 the videogame.
I was a fool and deserved what I got. I picked the demo up, enjoyed it for all of half an hour, got the game and immediately hated myself.

Tanktics
Little known videogame involving disgustingly cartoonish tanks and sheep. Impulse purchase that scarred me for life. I never looked at a tank the same way again.

Call of Duty: Finest Hour for Xbox. I'd already got CoD 1 and CoD: UO for PC, which absolutely rocked, but then Finest Hour completely sucked, and seemed just boring by comparison.

Also Sudden Strike and Frontline Command-I didn't realise I sucked so much at direct RTS games.

greygelgoog:

War Monger of Yabucua:
Those assfuckin games I wish I had'nt bought:
4) Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora tommorow: Wat to fuckin scary and difficult

5) Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Exactly what I said About Pandora Tommorow

6) Doom 3 (PC Version) To fuckin scary!

If the game frightens you perhaps you should stop buying scary software. I'm gonna go play Silent Hill now.

LOL The only scary thing about Doom 3 was it's lack of style and variety.
The only jump-worthy (i use the term jump loosely) moments were cheesy 'omg-zombie-behind-door-jumping-out' tactics used by the developers, almost as bad as the demons teleporting in randomly towards the end of the game, get a life and get some innovation while you're at it!
Srsly wish i hadn't wasted $98 on that game.

*runs off to play Silent Hill 2*

Nerdfury:
I find it funny how so many people are saying they hated Assassin's Creed and think games are a waste after one walkthrough. For the record, I think Assassin's Creed was an innovative game - and while I was repetitive, it was still good despite it. And what the hell is up with people saying Bioshock (or any game!) is a bad purchase just because they don't get another totally original playthrough? Do you want every game to have a half-dozen play-through options? Christ, get over yourself.

For me, anyway. I wish I'd never bought:

- Banjo-Kazooie on N64,
- Neverwinter Nights 2 for PC - and even though it was free with my video card, it doesn't hold a candle to NWN1.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
- Blood 2: The Chosen.
- SIN.
- Prince Of Persia PS2 sequels.
- Viva Pinata.

OMG You did not just say Banjo-Kazooie =[
That's one of my all time favourite platformers!!!!
How did it come to this ='[

p.s agreed about NWN though =]

I actually registered to answer this one. Dark Sector. I've been reading about it and hearing various stories of its awesomeness for about two years ow, and I bought it the day it came out. I played through about half the game before I got fed up with it and took it back. My opinion of it: If Gears of War had a retarded child and beat it over the head with a sack of shit every day for its childhood, and then said child grew up to be an damn near perfect clone of its father only retarded and covered in shit, you'd have Dark Sector. The only thing I liked about it was the glaive, and one weapon is not enough to redeem it.

South Park for the N64. I remember all the magazines were raving about how awesome it was, so I bought it. I was pretty excited too. God, what a pile of utter shit that game was. Worst game I've ever bought. I did get my money back for it the next day thankfully.

Helmet:
I actually registered to answer this one. Dark Sector. I've been reading about it and hearing various stories of its awesomeness for about two years ow, and I bought it the day it came out. I played through about half the game before I got fed up with it and took it back. My opinion of it: If Gears of War had a retarded child and beat it over the head with a sack of shit every day for its childhood, and then said child grew up to be an damn near perfect clone of its father only retarded and covered in shit, you'd have Dark Sector. The only thing I liked about it was the glaive, and one weapon is not enough to redeem it.

I sent Dark Sector back to gamefly Monday got fed up with it too.

God Hand - I was reminded of this game when I saw the picture of one of the articles in last week's Escapist issue. I dropped 20 bucks on the game, played it once, then put it away. The camera swings wildly, the controls are wonky, and the dialog is uncomfortably bad.

Jade Cocoon 2: In no way similar to Jade Cocoon 1.
Dragonball Z Budukai: Got old, real fast.
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom: I was hoping it would be better.

All the RTS games I bought (ok, fine, it's just 3, but still) after some friends tried to get me into the genre. Could never balance gathering resources well enough to build the endless armies that the AI enemies could seem to pull out of their asses. I wasn't too bad at a couple of them, like Dawn of War, or Star Wars:EAW, but I don't play them at all anymore.

Oh and I got FF2 for the PSP recently too and wished I hadn't. What a waste of money. The difficulty level is so laughable. It's not often I moan about a game not being a challenge but you will one-shot 95% of the monsters you meet. The other 5% are bosses. You 2-shot those.
Then there's the random encounter system. It's like being in a cave in Pokemon everywhere in the world. Not difficult, just irritating.
I have not finished it, nor will I. I can imagine the way the shitty, generic plot is going to go.

Controversial time!

Grand Theft Auto IV
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
Driver: Parallel Lines.

Warhammer 40k: Fire Warrior. Anyone can write a whole book about what's bad about this game, so I'll make it simple:
- gamplay is as bland and repetative as you can make it
- graphics could have been good, if the models would not have been ripped from tetris... they're about that detailed
- I could make more convincing sounds with my own mouth then the stuff that's suppost too be 'sound effects'... and have fun doing it!

The Club.

It made my eyes bleed, my fists itch and my foot connect with grannies in the street. It really was that bad. I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.

I'd have to say Rainbow Six Vegas 2. It's too screwed up to play and they only made it worse. I enjoyed the original Vegas, but Vegas 2 took away everything I liked about Vegas 1. A&D is bad, the maps are bad, and motion censors have been nerfed for no good reason. There are also other things, but I'd rather not bore you with how much I hate Vegas 2.

Oblivion.
I think that is the only one, but boy do I regret it.

The story was so horrible I cringed every other sentence, the leveling system was non-existing, and the game was basically a first person slasher. Even the world design was some of the least appealing, most horribly generic fantasy ever to be made. And that's just the first 2 hours....
After I saw the bandit in Daedric armour (if he can afford that kind of armour, why is he a bandit!) I gave up. To call Oblivion an RPG is a mockery of every other game in that genre and I wish I had never given any money to the people that helped bring that monstrosity into the world.
Urrgh, it still makes me ill just thinking about it.

*prepares to die of nerd-fire*

Warcraft 3
Star Wars Empire At War.

Something about RTS's, good or bad, make me want to kill myself. If I want to work in management I'll go apply at Toys R Us, at least I may be able to get discounts on Silly Putty.

Driv3r, or Driver 3 or Driv-three-er. Stupid boring broken game. It was as much Shoot3r as Driv3r.

There's loads more but these stick out the most.

I once traded in Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 for a bunch of really shitty japanese games. Worst mistake of my life.

Edit: I also bought Shaq Fu at one point. And Altered Beast, the worst launch title of any console EVAR.

Portal. I completely missed the part that told me it was a puzzle game. I thought it was a multiplayer.

Half Life. I know everyone praises this as the ultimate in MP gaming, but I hated it.
I'm an Unreal Tournament player...or at least I was until BF2142 came out.

Unreal III - YUK! Making the characters big and bulky, and adding textures for the sake of simply adding them is pointless. Clunky controls, poor coding and overpriced. It actually went backwards by not including Onslaught. Warfare BLOWS!

To the guy who didn't like N.A.R.C. Just download MAME and find the romset for it. That will give you the exact version of the arcade game, not some cheap knockoff by a console maker. Never buy a console version of a coin-operated arcade game! Always MAME it!
And GTA's parent company didn't even exist when N.A.R.C. came out, so that comparison doesn't fly.

Matrix: Path of Neo, for £4 i thought it couldn't be that bad. Just shows how wrong you can be.

Ghost Recon AW: Because it bugs up on my computer to the point of unplayable

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

I believe it's to allow you to create your own name and have it be used in conversations. You do have a point, I just call him Link like everyone else.

Final Fantasy 7...

It drained so much of my life... I aint complaining too much mind you as it is an awesome game, but I became a social recluse because of it...

Hey You Pikachu, and Glover.

As much as I'd hate to say it, I suppose Hellgate: London or at the very least the Collector's Edition part of it.

Really hyped for it before release and played in the beta, but when release came, somethng just clicked and it just wasn't fun. Its an alright game, and I suppose I would enjoy it better with a good PC, but either way certainly not worth the ~£70 I spent in attempting to get a Collector's Edition box in England.

Dawn of War: Soulstorm too. Buggy, crippled game and still no patches after 1-2 months. Basically killed off DoW for me.

TenchyMuyo2:
Half Life. I know everyone praises this as the ultimate in MP gaming, but I hated it.
I'm an Unreal Tournament player...or at least I was until BF2142 came out.

Half - Life was SP. You're thinking of Counter-Strike (easy mistake)

Battlefield FTW!

Unlimited Saga - absolutely no idea why this game got such good reviews. None at all. Took it straight back to the shop and said to the woman 'I was going to make up something about it not working but...it's just awful!' - she agreed and refunded me. I've since looked up walkthroughs and reviews and all sorts and still I cannot work out how anyone got anything out of it. It really bugs me! I love RPGS - what am I missing?

I've finally stopped myself buying Tony Hawks games. Apparently I like the smaller, tightly designed levels compared to the huge and rubbish city idea. And the humour is poor and the loading times on the PS3 are shocking. Burnout Paradise = same problem. I just do not care if they've made a lovely city, I don't want to see it, nor do I want to spend 70% of my time watching the crash camera. It's like tuning in to watch a great TV show to find out it's just back to back adverts of that show for an hour.

And finally, Project Zero (Fatal Frame) 3 - loved the first two with a passion. Really like quite a lot about this one. Except somewhere near the end I must have stopped playing for a day or two, went back with no recollection of what I was supposed to be doing and just wandered for hours and hours AND HOURS, and then there's the levels where you play as the guy who can only hide and that's just not fun and so I never bothered to finish it. Up until this point I used to obsessively complete every game I got, but I stopped here - I don't know if this game killed my love or it was about to die naturally but they're linked forever for me. Ugh.

Transformers -movie version- i got the really cheap cause id heard it wast very good but i liked the film alot so i got it anyway.....it sucked so much drive,transform,punch *the weapons never worked >_<* and do it all again

Assains creed- got too bored of it...

need for speed pro street- it just felt like i was playin forza 2 again. i liked the whole street racing thing

the last WWE game for PS2, something2008...

Paid about £4 I think, and feel robbed, how can they obviously have soo many people working on it, and spend obviously tens of thousands and a large workforce creating something that just isnt fun, and is outclassed by the early 90s arcade games... the cartoony wrestlemania , and the silly digitised one that had Undertaker knocking bats n skulls out of his opponent. Damn they were fun!

Guitar Hero - Some of the songs are harder to play on the game than in really fucking life.
And fuck "Through the Fire and Flames" the intro is on fucking keyboard for chrissakes and anyone who has the game to say otherwise obviously should have been a fucking abortion.

I've got Bomberman: Act Zero collecting dust on my shelf. A friend talked me into it as a prank - worst piece of junk I've ever played. I wouldn't accept this as a free gift.

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (PS2) - Because it's the PS2 version that's why I regreted buying it. You'd think if a companyw as gonna make a PS2 version of a game that's also on the 360 then they'd at least make it look fucking playable. You can't even tell if what your shooting is an enemy until you're standing of it's corpse.