Which game(s) do you regret buying?

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This sure sounds like an EA hate thread. Especially after they took away private servers and mod support from the Battlefield series.
FO4, I did enjoy it, but only because I avoided the parts I hated. It should have been alot better.

FarCry 3, because it's gameplay is too generic/boring, a grindfest extreme for collectibles, with unbelievable characters and story. Bought it because my friends really liked it at the time, never touching a FarCry game again.

Hmm...

Stellaris. A decent game actually, as most of the Paradox strategies, but certain in-campaign decisions could put your game in a stalemate, when neither you nor your rivals can do anything. Dunno if they fixed that with further updates, kinda been wishing to give it one more try but never had the time.

Divinity: Dragon Commander. Could never get into older Divinity games so thought perhaps a game in a different genre could change that. Nope. The same soulless Larian game. Okayish technically but bland story- and character-wise. :/

This is the Police. Extremely unbalanced story content distribution. You either have too much happening in a span of a few gamedays, or nothing in a span of a few gamemonths.

Stranger in a Sword City. A bit of my own fault here. I read in reviews that it was grindy, but I couldn't have thought it would be THAT grindy...

The Last Federation. Loved most of the Arsen Games stuff, but this one was just not for me.

There's others but they're not really big enough games to mention.

GTA IV, i used to pre order rockstar games, but i learned my lesson

https://store.steampowered.com/app/814380/Sekiro_Shadows_Die_Twice/

Mediocre story repeatable gameplay :/

LA Noire. I hated the interrogation mechanic. It's like answering a test and the teacher will yell at you WRONG! every time you got the wrong answer. Can't enjoy it playing with a guide.

Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes. Too short, horrible controls, stupid plot, post-MGS4 Kojima with his ego cranked up to 11. I was excited about MGSV before playing this, and completely ignored it afterwards.

Dead Cells was the only major title that I ended up refunding.
Just to be clear - it has some visual filters that caused heavy but inconsistant fps drops on my apparently too weak laptop, so I decided that refunding it and buying something that I can play properly (and later rebuying the game) is better than staying eternally salty about a game that doesn't work properly

I regret nothing, all i played or have is really Wished. Many i had before Steam and played on other platforms too, i would never buy anything what i dont like or would regret. If im not sure about a Game, i watch on Youtube some Lets Plays or Download it trough special Sites, play, try them and if i like it, then i buy it someday, if there is a Sale and if have Money. So i do that and not just blind buying cause of Hype. :D

Kona.

Lovely art and atmosphere.
Lots of great reviews for it.
Survival.
Supernatural.
Detective story.

All things that are right up my alley.

3 hours played. 1 hour too long to get a refund when I knew for sure that i just was never going to get into it and enjoy it. Probably an entire hour spent trying to get the settings right and deal with bugs (I bought it in early access).

Great game, by all accounts. But it just never "clicked" for me.

Dungeon Siege
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance

I can't funderstand why people like either. They are bland, boring and repetitive.

I'm the idiot that bought Mass Effect: Andromeda just when it was released.

I guess the combat VFX were nice, sometimes...

Payday 2
got it on sale of 2014 for good price
but I still feel like I wasted my money on it
the thing that I don't like about it the most is the shooting system

too many to list sadly..

As soon as I saw the title Fallout 4 leapt to mind! Much like you, I was enormously disappointed... In the end I got a considerable amount of playtime out of it, but most if it was just miserable drudgery :D

I cannot think of a single positive memory from playing that game.

The Deadly Tower of Monsters and Battlefield 4 because they were boring to me. I was quite hyped for them, so it felt a bit disappointing.

PUBG first i though this game will be a fkn legend but after 400h i sent it into my garbage list rip my 20 bucks 🤣

just about any Wii game that wasn't by Nintendo

Lawbreakers and ark survival evolved.

Lawbreakers died on launch day and i couldn't refund it because the hours from both the alpha and beta were added on the main game.

Ark was just to grindy for me with a shitty performance and a way to big file size.

But what if the purchase I regret the most was actually a bundle purchase? :D
I don't really have any disposable income to speak of so I have to be careful with buying games, which has the benefit of not regreting the purchases 99% of the time. Bundles, on the other hand...

• Still Life 2. A terrible game in every single aspect.
• Invisible Inc. I did not realise it is essentially a rogue-lite, and I do not like those.
• Banner Saga. Dear gods, it is boring. Every single fight feels the exact same and the story moves at the pace of a rheumatic glacier.
• Hand of Fate. Like with Invisible Inc, I was expecting a simple card game, not a rogue-like that happens to have cards in it.
• LIMBO. Everyone was praising it. Apparently, everyone is praising the first 20% of it, because the rest is just an endless box+switch puzzle with no story, set in a boring industrial plant with zero visual variety. It also cemented my suspicion that puzzle platformers will never be my world.
• 80 Days. Made me realise that this type of game is not for me. I love narrative-driven games, but I also learned there that I also require some actual "game" to be present in the narrative.
• Sacred Gold. I still do not really know what went through my head to buy a Diablo rip-off when I was bored to tears by Diablo even when it was originally released.
• Disciplines 2. I am not a fan of HoMM gameplay, I am an RTS guy, not TBS/GS. Still, Disciplines 1 was strangely fresh and different enough, so I thought hey, maybe four times the budget helped the sequel. Nope, it is a nearly 100% HoMM carbon-copy with no originality left in it. Dropped it mid-way into the first campaign.

I am not even touching Fallout 4. When I learnt that most of its content is the same two fetch quest repeated endlessly through generation, I knew that as long as Bethesda has the IP, I do not have to get any single new Fallout game ever again.

Edit: Oh, yes:

• Mirror's Edge. I got extremely dizzy, I got completely lost at the first chase sequence and died repeatedly, so I ditched the game completely.
• Half-Life 2: The writing is exposition diarrhoea with no meaningful characters, plot, or any kind of lore beyond "aliens are bad, mmkay". The engine is in love with its broken physic and throws some see-saw puzzle in your way every thirty meters. The vehicles control worse than in Borderlands. The enemies are dumb and uninspired. The level design is just an engine showcase with no real concept behind it beyond "make it sell Source engine licenses!" It is probably one of the, if not the most overhyped game in history (next to Portal, but that one at least stole some decent puzzles from other games).

Hm, let's see..

Valkyria Chronicles I liked the concept of this, the gameplay was alright, but good grief, the writing. The writing felt like something a 13 year old would come up with, it really was that bad. It pulled me right out of it, and I just could not take the game seriously, which considering it's meant to be a war story that deals with rather serious topics was not a good thing. Oh, and there's a lot of reading in this game, it's not like you've got 4 lines of text between each mission, the story is important to it.

Underworld Ascendant I backed the kickstarter for this, and good grief is this game a mess. It's really nothing like what was promised.

Fable III I went into this knowing that the game would not be particularly deep, but I never expected it to be this shallow. Good voice acting and graphics, horrible gameplay, lots and lots of loading screens to do things (you don't have like an item menu, you need to go into a special "room" to switch equipment), and the game has downright broken "paths" that are supposed to show you how to get to the next objective. Broken as in they can suddenly start telling you to go in the opposite direction. I'm not a huge fan of having overly clear objective markers that tell you exactly where to go, but the way quests are given to you make it so that you kind of need to rely on these paths or just wander around aimlessly, and when the paths don't work... (Imagine playing Skyrim and having the quest marker jump around all over the place, it's that bad)

Thi4f I love the Thief series. Thiaf takes what was good about the Thief series and mangles it into something that's very hard to even like a little bit. Level design is far worse, Garret is as charismatic as a rusty doornail, somehow they managed to mess up the sound on a technical level (it actually sounds worse and has worse directional sound than a game from 1998) and on top of that they took what was already a rather buggy game series and made it far worse. The amount of times I had to reload because I got stuck in things...

Great Invasions: The Dark Ages 350-1066 AD" There are not many games that deal with the Dark Ages, so this one looked interesting. But really, it's a bit of a mess...Conceptually I liked it, in practice it was just not fun to play, at all.

Mirror's Edge. It seemed like it should be a good game, and it seemed pretty popular, but I just found the controls to be horrible, to the point where the game was completely worthless.