stalker set on steam at the time... Found out that gog was going to bring it out 2 weeks later lol and steam was like F no you get no refund :/

Mystery of the Druids - played this one a long time ago, I think it was buggy and you had to do things that didn't make any sense to solve the game

and more recently: Nancy Drew, Curse of Blackmoor Manor - waiting for the right time of day to do things drove me nuts, and I think the food delivery system was bugged. Not fun at all, uninstalled after an hour or two. Not even worth the few dollars I paid for it.

I'm surprised at people not liking Fallout 3, I loved it...

A few come to mind:

-Tomb Raider (2013)
-Dead Island
-Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery
-Evoland

I didn't have a huge collection either so I carefully picked out good games in the store after studying them in Nintendo Power. But one day I saw a classified ad - a freaking classified ad! - for Goonies II and I was like, "I must have that!" I don't know why, I didn't know anything about it, never saw it in the magazine but surely it would be awesome like the movie? Ha ha ha, the game was terrible!! I don't know who the main character was but he kept unfurling a yo-yo and there were way too many doors.

Well, my brother saw I had a new game and he picked it up and he got really really into it. And he got really really far into the game. And one day when he wasn't there I used his code that he wrote down to see what the later stages of the game were like and what all the different weapons were and all that. And then he suddenly came in and he saw that I had used his hard-earned code and he got really really upset and he yelled and yelled and yelled at me!

I didn't care about the game at all. The regret I felt buying it was all cancelled out by my brother's outrage. I mean what I'm saying is he really liked the game a lot! That's why he was mad. So it was all worth it.

Mine are mostly older titles. I so rarely pay full price for a game nowadays, that I don't really regret many of my recent-ish purchases. Anyways:

Combat Flight Sim 2. I like flight sims, but this was a lot of money for what seemed like an expansion pack to CFS1
Age of Empires 3. Just couldn't get into it compared to AoE2
GTA4. Bad DRM. A bit too different from the GTA3 titles for me.
L.A. Noire. Probably one of the only recent ones I don't like purchasing. It was inexpensive. It won't run in wine worth shit. I don't generally boot into windows. This was the purchase that taught me to check with winehq before buying.

Age of Empires 3 was weak but I don't regret buying it. Rise of Nations is so much better.

Tomb Raider (2013)
Darksiders 2
Lego Marvel Superheroes

If I had to say, there are very few I regret even bad games I get some joy out of even knowing they are bad, I try to buy them cheap as well so no real money lost. However, I kind of regret Ride to Hell:Retribution and it isn't even that it is bad. I just can't get it to run on my PC. Steam says I have played it for an hour but that is just me repeatedly starting it and it failing to launch. Wrote Deep Silver and have never gotten a response. Think it may have to do with Win 8 as I can run it on a Win 7 machine.

Oh man, codes! I remember playing Bubble Bobble (one of my all-time favorite games- I can still remember the music) and writing all the codes for all one billion levels. Isn't it silly what we get angry over as kids? At least your brother liked the game.

I don't think a whole lot of thought went into our game purchases. I think we saw Top Gun and said, "oooooo! Fighter jets! Explosions! Goose!" and purchased the game.

Now I want to go load up the old nintendo (if it even works) and play Bubble Bobble. I still have it, but not Top Gun.

Enclave
I thought it was a bit different than levels and such.. Wasn't looking for a linear leveled semi RPG.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I regretted this one only because it went on sale for $30 the day after I bought it for $60. Otherwise, I still love it.

I guess there's a game or two from the Humble Bundles I haven't bothered even redeeming because I couldn't care less about them. Technically I bout them and I regret that they weren't more enticing titles in their own rights.

- Jurassic War -- maybe this isn't a bad game at all, but RTS was never really my thing, at the time I thought "dinosaurs were the shizzle" and that alone made me buy this. Never even got past level 1, and gave the game to a friend that was more of a strategy gamer. He never talked to me about the game, so I'm guessing it's bad even by RTS fans' standards.

- Outcast -- I only learned about this game a few months after joining GOG, and it's a pretty recent purchase. Fans of the game seem to love it and praise it as one of -- or downright *the* -- best game(s) ever made. I looked at the game's GOG page, from the descriptions it sounded like my type of game, and I decided I should buy it. Full price, even. As it turns out, I ended up hating it. Yes, it's revolutionary for its time, and I can certainly praise that, but it doesn't particularly excel at anything it aims at doing. Clunky controls, laughable script, bad voice acting... an impressive voxel engine that I admire as a piece of video game history, but that was outdated by the time the game was released, and a plot that is nothing more than Tintin meets Stargate (the movie). Even though many consider it the grandaddy of sand-box games, I highly doubt it had that much of an impact in the gaming world, as, from my understanding, it was kind of a commercial flop. People would have to have been *influenced* by it for me to consider it the grandaddy of whatever, and I have my doubts the devs of Grand Theft Auto III were major fans of Outcast.

- Shadow Man -- I'm a huge fan of the Legacy of Kain series (especially the brilliant Amy Hennig titles, starting from Soul Reaver; Blood Omen is a great game, but I think it's highly overrated and overhyped, Soul Reaver is definitely the better one, out of the two), and I thought I would enjoy this game, since it seemed similar in themes, world, gameplay and even aesthetics. Well, it's just a mess of a game. If you grew up playing Shadow Man, it's totally understandable for me that you still cherish it, but for newcomers... I wouldn't recommend it.


[EDIT] I would've mentioned Divine Divinity, but I didn't purchase that one, someone gifted it to me thinking I would like it. To this day, I keep trying to get into it, with no success.

Yeah. Kids are silly creatures. But it's part of who we are. We leave the Top Guns and the Goonies II behind and hold on to the Bubble Bobbles and the uh.. true meanings behind Goonies II.

I don't think I've seen Top Gun. When I hear 'Goose' I think of Mad Max's partner in the first Mad Max. :-P

Kinda wish I had my old NES now. On an old TV. *disappears into reverie*

Gothic 1, 2, 3. Risen.

All games even could not launch or occasionally break the OS, which I had to reset the PC manually.
Shame on Piranha Bytes.

You know, I try to say at least a few nice things about games I didn't like, because most bad games have at least one or two positives, but I can't think of any positives of Fallout 3 outside of saying it has okay-ish graphics and it mostly worked. A lot of people like to try to say I'm just a Fallout/Fallout 2 fanboy and that's why I greatly dislike Fallout 3...but Fallout 3 was my intro to the world of Fallout. Eek. New Vegas is cool though, as are the first two Fallouts.

Oh that reminds me...Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods. What a waste of two bucks that was. I love Gothic 3 but I have literally nothing nice at all to say about its (standalone) expansion pack Forsaken Gods. Not one nice thing. None. Zero. I could've thrown that two dollars down a sewer grate and it would've been a better use of it.

I just read these threads to have arguments with people in my head