Games you bought but should have just rented??

What are some games that you bought  only to wish you would have just rented.  No replay vaiue, beat it quckly, repetative, give some reasons.

Me: I went and bought Gear 2, waste of $60, just got too repetitive, I never wanted to play it. Doing gamefly now and traded it in for a free month.

prototype, payed it through once, boring side missions, fairly short campain. loads of fun but because it was i played it to death and did everything i wanted to in 3 days

Resident Evil 5, Gears 2.  Wouldn't have bought banjo if i realized how much i dont like it.  Also would have rented TNA only because no one was playing it online

Luckily I don't buy games ever so, I never run into this problem.

Legendary. Silent Hill: Homecoming. Assassin's Creed.

Grand Theft Auto 4, and that's it.

Renting has saved my arse a few times, like with Assassin's Creed. Been using gamefly even for games I think I might want to buy.

Most recently, Infamous.  Mission variety is non-existent, and the difficulty is just plain brutal, to the point of being just cheap, unfair, and player punishing.  The most frustrating game I've played all year, by far.

Ghostbusters - It's pretty boring and unspectacular. Even with the nostalga factor, the game is painfully average.

Little Big Planet - The game is just not my cup of tea. I find it boring (even with friends) and the controls are awful.

" @pause422 said:

" Luckily I don't buy games ever so, I never run into this problem. "

So you rent everything? 

If you pirate, you're poor. Simple as that.

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I don't have the money to buy every game I want to play, and I don't pirate. $20/month for renting and I get to play about 6 games a month.

UFC: undy-sputed.
Damn its online trophies.

" @Hitchenson said:

" @pause422 said:

" Luckily I don't buy games ever so, I never run into this problem. "

So you rent everything? 

If you pirate, you're poor. Simple as that.

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You're an idiot...no I don't pirate, but of course you would just assume so. Gamefly is a lifesaver, end of story. I buy PC games of course by download..but not any console games. Even if they are good, they aren't worth purchasing. "

" Grand Theft Auto 4, and that's it. "

Halo 3. Its.. just boring. Not trying to be controversial by picking a popular game, renting would have saved me some cash. Then again it only cost about three times more than a rental so its not that bad.

Persona 4

I regret buying Blue Dragon from Gamestop because the first time I received it it only came with one of the discs. I sent them an email and they agreed to send my another copy with all discs included. Well I received it and I put in disc 1 and it could not be read. Fuckin Gamestop. Yeah I don't think I really regret any other purchase. I usually know a lot about the games I buy beforehand.

Oh and by the way I ended up selling my copy of Blue Dragon that was unreadable back to a Gamestop, so at least I got some of my money back on that one.

Mirror's Edge. It would have saved me the idea that I had to finish it, thus the frustration of playing it for more that a few levels.

Gears of War and Killzone 2.  They aren't bad games, but with my vision problems, I've played them for maybe all of twenty minutes.

Star Ocean 4. I traded in a couple games I didn't play anymore to EB, so I technically got it for free, but damn. That game isn't as entertaining as the other SO games.

Dark Sector.   *sadface*

" Persona 4 "

Well buying any atlus game is your first mistake then if you don't like JRPGs. Guess the ER sucked you into it a bit and well you got tricked but supported a good company at least :p

" Most recently, Infamous.  Mission variety is non-existent, and the difficulty is just plain brutal, to the point of being just cheap, unfair, and player punishing.  The most frustrating game I've played all year, by far. "

" @Osaladin said:

" Grand Theft Auto 4, and that's it. "

Seriously, it's a 25+ hour game?Can't think of one off the top of my head. I can think of many that I bought or rented that I shouldn't have played at all.. but none that I should've just rented. "

Bionic commando, i could probably of completed this on norml and hard mode in about 10 hours

I should have rented Far Cry 2 like everyone told me.

The most recent game that comes to mind would be Prototype...I'm not quite sure if there's any reason to play though it ever again, though I plan to get Platinum for all the events...and I'll probably go through it on Hard mode just because I do own it.

The first Gears of War, I just flat out found it annoying. Call me weird, I didn't like it.

Thing is, we don't have a service like Gamefly here in Sweden, so no fun for me. ;-;

Jericho 

Civilization Revolution, pretty good game but not worth the £35 i spent on it.

HAWX, I couldn't bring myself to come back to it after playing the campaign once

I would have to say Assassin's Creed. It is still one of my favorite games for 360 but it had no relay value.

Also it doesn't help that I never EVER rent games.

Let's see...

Super Mario Galaxy - I think it's really overrated and mediocre. If I had rented it beforehand, I surely wouldn't have bought it. Also, because of how disappointed I was with this game, I ALWAYS rent games before buying them now, except for GTA games because I can always be sure that the quality of those will be excellent.

Viva Pinata - I'm a big fan of Rare games and this was $20 already when I got my 360, so I bought it and Perfect Dark Zero (it was even a 2 for $30 deal). Anyway, my problem with the game is that I find it to be far too stressful and way too heavy on management. I thought it'd be a fun, colorful little game I could relax and play. Turns out that maintaining a garden in Viva Pinata can be a totally stressful, never-ending nightmare.

Soul Calibur 2 - I mainly bought this because I liked the series and Link was in the GC version and I thought that was pretty rad. I ended up not playing it all that much and never getting too into it. Then ultimately I decided adding Link was a dumb idea since he really didn't fit in. I should have rented it instead.

Viewtiful Joe - This game was considered one of the best games of the year back in 2002 or whenever it was that it came out. I thought it looked cool and everything, but truthfully, it turns out it just wasn't for me. Joe annoyed the heck out of me and I didn't get much enjoyment out of the game.

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - I'm still trying to like this game, but I think it's plagued with a lot of issues and most of the time I just don't find it to be much fun. The highlight of my experience in Oblivion was living as a fugitive and running along the countryside after fleeing prison and being completely unarmed. Fighting wolves with your bare fists is a guaranteed good time. Try it if you haven't Anyway, being so heavily wanted got old pretty fast. I've since started over and have gotten further, but still am not terribly impressed with much of the game. Though the amount of effort put into the world is no doubt remarkable.

Halo 3 was a mistake, but honestly when your playing Halo 2 all the way up to the release you should know that unless they just released Halo 2 again with better graphics you won't be satisfied. If that game had mad glitches, BXRs, the same maps as Halo 2, no equipment, and lock on with rocket-launchers it'd be PERFECT.

I bought Assassin's Creed and returned it 4 days later. Good game, just no replay value.

I'd have to say Assassin's Creed. It was a great game and by far one of my favs, but you can easily finish it in a few days of serious gameplay. U might not be able to get all the flag achievments, but u can get most of the other ones (Ie. defender of the people, the fighting ones), and when you finish it and get all of the achievments there really isn't much else you can do. 

Assassin's Creed 2 should be a good buy though judging by all the stuff said at E3

Most recently Ghostbusters. It's mediocre at best, and I have no will to ever go through the campaign ever again. The multiplayer is neat, but it doesn't last.

Far Cry 2 - Visually stunning but with no substance what so ever.

The Last Remnant - Only because I purchased this on PC and had no idea that it requires an Xbox for pc controller to play it properly. Some controls seems to be completely inaccessible with a mouse and keyboard. Really not happy about that.

I wouldn't have even considered buying The Last Remnant normally but with so many great games coming out later in the year the wait is driving me nuts! Have resorted to loading up an instagib Quake 2 server and railing bots for the love of god!!

Dark MessiahElements - god knows why i bought this but i did and i regretted it since

Sonic Unleashed, big fuckin' mistake.

Halo 3