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What’s Your Most Regrettable Gaming Purchase?

PSLS: We all have that one purchase in the world of video games that we regret the most. Whether it is a system we bought at launch that didn’t deliver games we actually wanted, a peripheral that you used once and never revisited, or a game you saved up your money for months only for it to disappoint, it’s all happened to us.

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TrendyGamers4104d ago

There's just so many to choose from.

guitarded774104d ago

I can't think of any hardware regrets, but I have a plethora of games and accessories that I regret buying... starting with the Power Glove.

JoGam4104d ago

biggest regret was Brink.

toguns4104d ago

Power Glove... hard to top that. Not unless you're one of the 5 people that bought a Virtual Boy

Redrum0594104d ago

DmC, but I knew what I was getting into when I purchased this game new, I just wasn't expecting to beat the game in 5hours on nphilim mode . Traded it in for ni no kuni :)

FarEastOrient4104d ago

The Famicon, hardly anything was released in English.

BattleAxe4104d ago

My biggest regret was the 360 I bought, and then the Gold membership that I bought after that. Oh well, live and learn, but I suppose I'm lucky that I only paid $100.00 for my 360.

ABizzel14104d ago (Edited 4104d ago )

Hardware:

1. Wii
2. PSP, there were good games, but the PSP needed 2 thumbsticks.
3. Launch consoles, the games usually run dry quickly.

Games:

Not too many, I check reviews and gamefly things I'm unsure of, and rarely buy games day 1 unless they've proven themselves.

1. Playing a copy of Vampire's Rain my cousin bought. AWFUL GAME.
2. Heavenly Sword. Enjoyed the game, but 5 hours is not a $60 game.
3. ?????

Eyeco4104d ago (Edited 4104d ago )

Mine was COD W@W, I had to choice between that and Fallout 3 I really wish I picked up the latter instead, the former is actually one of the most unpleasant gaming experiences I've ever had to endure , dreadful game

Oh and Socom confrontation , how could I forget that game was a massive f#%k you to a Socom fan , it felt less of a game but more of a pre alpha with each an every patch feeling like a portion of new build, I regret buying it because my hopes of it becoming better eventually via patches were crushed

QSPR4104d ago (Edited 4104d ago )

wow i rember i got myself the nokia n-gage. worst buy ever

InactiveUser4104d ago

@KwietStorm
My 32X came with DOOM back in the day, so even though I don't care much for the DOOM franchise now-a-days, it wasn't regrettable back then.

http://i.imgur.com/v69W8.jp...
(pic to show 32X Doom bundle, not my pic)

TheDivine4103d ago (Edited 4103d ago )

You know I more regret the stuff I either didn't buy like Radiant Historia or stuff I sold like my old snes/n64/GameCube games. I do regret some games I bought day 1 which is why I stopped unless they're jrpgs that may become rare or stuff like Ni No Kuni which I don't mind paying extra for in hopes of a sequel.

Kinda regret the vita though. I love it but I should've waited till thanksgiving when I could've saved a hundred bucks on it and all the ps plus games I got I had already bought kinda making me feel jipped. Resistance BS was part of that vita remorse also lol. Still p4 justifies my lack of self control and patience.

Holy shit I forgot I did buy Venetica on a Black Friday deal and damn was that game a POS. horrible judgement on my part and prob the worst ten dollars I ever spent on gaming.

joab7774103d ago

U wont regret ni no kuni...its amazing!

jeseth4103d ago

NES Power Pad

That thing was the most inaccurate and frustrating thing. I remember trying to play Track and Field as a kid and almost crying.

Highlife4103d ago

Hardware
3DO, PSone blew it out of the water.
Wii

Games
Madden 13 no drafting or season mode
Oblivion and Skyrim to many bugs
Assassins Creed boring trailer was so awesome though
Burger Time 2 (original was awesome at the time)
Marble Madness (probable broke some controllers over that game)

darthv724103d ago

Mine are more about selling. Like selling my neogeo AES and 5 carts for a mere $300...damn what a fool i was. But at the time, i needed the cash.

Ive traded in dozens of genesis and snes games in the past. I dont do that anymore. Now im on a quest to get back all the ones I traded away and some I never had.

you will see me on an episode of Hoarders one day. I will be the one with the entire house filled with flattened cats because of all the game boxes everywhere.

gaffyh4103d ago

Definitely the Wii in terms of hardware.

tehpees34103d ago

I would say 360 when I originally bought it. *shudder*

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dougr4104d ago (Edited 4104d ago )

To be honest my biggest regret thus far is the Nintendo Wii U. Not anything worth playing right now after Mario, and nothing interesting coming up. Right now I'm trying to resell it at market value to recoup the cost and then maybe purchase it down the line after a price drop.

A close second is the regular Nintendo Wii system. Bought it played it barely and it sat gathering dust.

guitarded774104d ago (Edited 4104d ago )

You didn't see anything enticing in today's Nintendo Direct?

Also, after you mentioned it, I said I had no hardware regrets, but remembered that I did sell my Wii... I think it was more a matter of not having many games for me, and not really being that into motion controls. However, I do like my Wii U... sure, it's in a drought for games like any console 2 months after launch, but the Nintendo Direct this morning has me pretty pumped.

EddieNX 4104d ago (Edited 4104d ago )

Well , then you are foolish for buying it in the first place.

I'm loving my wiiu and have bought many great games for it already and can barely put it down , but everyone is different.

I feel the same about my Vita. it's just an incredibly sexy paper weight right now after finishing UCGA , Gravity rush .

Also , you're in for a shock when 720 and ps4 launch , cus the launch window is going to be very similar to Nintendo in the sense that you will have a lot of previous gen games just with slightly updated graphics , and a few rushed games.

be patient. Consoles don't hit the ground running software wise.

Kingthrash3604104d ago (Edited 4104d ago )

King of wii... Everything from you name to your comment sounds fanboyish.. Just saying. And then you contradict yourself buy saying you can't put the wiiU down and bought MANY great games... Then in the next paragraph you say the ps4/720 will be much like the wiiu with slightly updated previous gen games? So your having a blast with previous gen "rushed" games?
Also, who's to say that will be the ps4/720s case with previous gen games. The wiiU is only very slightly stronger than previous gen consoles. Ps4720 will be significantly stronger than this gens consoles. For shame fanny boi.

On topic I actually had a virtra boy...... Nuff said.
Oh and psp go....needed a umd drive. would be my number 2

dougr4104d ago (Edited 4104d ago )

I have Mario and COD Black Ops 2. Mario was okay, but I liked it a lot less than the Wii Mario. I'm a big fan of some games from Nintendo, but nothing releasing soon leads me to believe I should have just waited for either a price drop or to buy it cheap second hand. The only game coming up that I'm going to buy is the Lego game, but other than that I'm left waiting for a mario party/kart, Zelda, DK, or Banjo game. I really was foolish for buying it, but I have to have all the newest gadgets. As for the new PS4 I'll get it launch for sure, but I'll probably have regrets about it as well.

Other than the two Wii's though I have no regrets. I've never bought a hand held system other than Gameboy and console wise additionally I've owned Nintento, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Gamecube, PS1/2/3 and have thoroughly enjoyed all of those.

kayoss4104d ago

@dougr
I have a wiiU and the only game I have for it is zombieu and mario game. I actually won the Wii u from work. But I use to love mario games but I've gotten older Mario games kind of lost its fun factor. my wife is currently playing the Mario game and she hates the contoller. LOL. But you brought up Mario party, I was wondering how would it work? Do we need to buy multiple tablets? But ky biggest regret is getting the Wii. I played the sport game that came with it for about a week and since then I've never touched it and its been 5 years.

Irishguy954103d ago

That's why you should never buy a just launched system.

I have never bought, I don't understand how anyone can put up with the lack of games that the 360, Ps3, and Wii started out with. I got the 360 when it had Oblivion, Cod 2 and 3, Halo 2(lol), Forza 2, Fable 2, and Gears of war 1.

I bought a Ps3 when MGS4 came out, and all the previous games since that date.

Got the Wii after that with a few 9/10 games

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Merrill4104d ago

State of emergency - Rockstar games.

typikal824103d ago

Oh man, I can't describe the disappointment of this game

DonnieDarko4103d ago (Edited 4103d ago )

Hardware: sega mega cd, psp, GameCube. Amstrad GX4000

Software: rival turf (Snes) joe and mac (Snes) streets of rage 3 (genesis)

Stuff I regret selling: my ROB nes. My game gear. All my Nintendo game and watch handhelds. PAIN

Online games I miss the most - socom 1&2. Midtown madness 2. Halo 2 :( splinter cell chaos theory - that game was ahead of its time!

Merrill4103d ago

Terrible game. I bought it the day it came out, what a piece if turd. I guess I was still high on GTA3 and figured Rockstar could do no wrong, how wrong I was.

ThatGuy24104d ago

Duke Nukem Forever...i think i won this lol

vallencer4103d ago

Duke nukem forever collectors edition. I think I won lol. But seriously I can't believe I bought that game period.

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Christopher4103d ago

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood.

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ftwrthtx4104d ago

PSPGo was a big disappointment. Had they given us a way to transfer our UMD games, without having to pay again, it might have been better.

T3mpr1x4104d ago

It could have been relatively easily done, too...Such a shame. I got mine for $100 if I remember correctly, and it was definitely worth that price!

Tetsujin4104d ago

Go cramped my hands big time, I also didn't like how it's 16 GB flash that's not upgradable.

ftwrthtx4104d ago

Some games cramped me up but MLB The Show was ok.

DanShadow274104d ago

Half of Nintendo's 3DS games last year

dbjj120884104d ago

Really? I haven't regretted any 3DS purchases.

DanShadow274104d ago

Paper Mario Sticker Star stands out the most for me. As a fan of both the Mario and Luigi and Paper Mario series, I couldn't stand that frustrating mixup. It lost its identity.

zerocrossing4104d ago

Operation Winback 2: Project Poseidon, Operation Winback was an amazing game on PS2, but the sequel... It was just so goddamn awful.

Soldierone4104d ago

Lmao I remember this. I was so excited for it, and it was like "wtf is this?" So I replayed the first to get the taste outta my mouth.

zerocrossing4104d ago

Haha! Yeah same here man. Operation Winback 2: Project Poseidon is probably the worst sequel to any franchise ever, and Im including Dino crisis 3 here, lol.

vallencer4103d ago

Wow there's a game I wish they would make again. I loved operation wingback. It was such a good game.

MasterCornholio4104d ago

Ooooo thats a nasty one especially on the PS3 which was almost unplayable when it came out. Remember the nasty bug that would cause the console to freeze everytime you entered water with the character and remember that Bethesda took over a month to fix that.

The Wii was extremely regrettable for me though as well as the XBOX360 when Microsoft went crazy with kinect.

I_am_Batman4104d ago

Mine is Oblivion so I skipped Skyrim. I just expected too much from the game. I liked the main story though.

knifefight4104d ago

Yeah. The PS3 version of Oblivion wasn't without some problems here and there, but it was overall playable for dang sure, even with no patches. I expected similar of Skyrim but daaang. I had to trade it in soon after. Will get it again when I have a good enough PC, I think.

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC3h ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC2h ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Friendlygamer3h ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey6022h ago(Edited 2h ago)

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya49m ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde42m ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Has Appeared On The Xbox Store

Activision and Raven Software's 2006 action role-playing game, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, has found its way to the Xbox Store.

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LG_Fox_Brazil8h ago

Used to love this one, but X-Men Legends 1 and 2 will always be my favorites, especially Rise of Apocalypse. Would pay some good money to play it today with online multiplayer, back then I had no way to get a modem

RavenWolfx32m ago

Yeah, I loved the Legends games so much.

ZeekQuattro8h ago

I remember buying them dirt cheap on the PS4 and then a few days later I read they were delisted. I was wondering why the bundle was price so low and got my answer when that happened.

Knightofelemia6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

Sad to say this is one game franchise next to the Xmen that needs a sequel. I use to play the hell out of Xmen Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Was great when my cousin had the OG Xbox play with four other people and then playing online. Great games glad to see it reappear even though I own the discs love the mechanics of this game.

Terry_B5h ago

It got a sequel..but for dumbass #reasons as a switch exclusive.

shinoff21835h ago

It looked so horrible to. They should've kept it similar to the first two.

Asplundh5h ago

Because Nintendo funded it, they did the same for Bayonetta.

Knightofelemia5h ago

I totally forgot about the Switch sequel.

jukins5h ago

Misleading. This page is whats available for people who owned the game prior to delisting.

Abnor_Mal5h ago

The first game was the best imo.

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10 Weirdest Video Games of All Time

Plenty of unforgettable games have completely messed up their players throughout the years, all the way back from the PS1 days to the dark recesses of the modern internet.

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JonTheGod1d 8h ago

Why are the Katamari games not on the list??