So why did I buy this?

There are games in my collection that I just look at an go, how on earth did this game come to be in my collection, why did I buy this? I presume it's not just me, so what games are in your collection that you just don't understand why you bought it.

I have a copy of Just Dance, still sealed..

I remember asking my grandmother for Lost in Blue like 6 years ago. That was a very bad game, and I'm not sure why I had high hopes going into it.
 
More recently, though I bought Motorstorm for $5. It was the first PlayStation 3 game I had ever demoed, but man, I knew I shouldn't have purchased it, before purchasing it. 
 
Also, I bought Rock Band: Unplugged on PSP for $10. That was kind of a dumb game, and I regretted the purchase before I had even left the store.

I bought Matt Hazard cause i wanted some pain in my life, and i got just that.

Oh god...I honestly don't have a good answer for this. I guess mechassult 2, it was fun but not as great as the first one.

That's the thought I had almost instantly upon buying a PSP back when they first came out.

Left 4 Dead 2 comes instantly to mind. Seems like a great game, I just don't like playing with random people and I don't like shooters on the PC. Plus I get startled easily. It's not a scary game, per say, but things like to jump on you.

So yeah... that was a really stupid purchase for me. At least if I got it on the 360, I'd enjoy the controls and have people to play with.

Of all time? Grand Theft Auto London on the Playstation. I regretted other purchases more, but at least I understand my reasoning behind them. Not so much with that game.

EDIT: And Hybrid Heaven. Holy shit, was that a weird purchase.

Almost everything on my steam account, witha few exceptions.

BloPs, Penny arcade games, Kane and lynch 2, NBA 2k11, Warhammer 40k, company of heroes, Jamestown, Hitman collection etc.

Alot of those games are good, I just have played them for 2 hours or less, have no desire to go back, and so are a waste of money.

I got the Onimusha trilogy a long time ago. I played some of the first one...and then I dropped the whole series altogether. Waste of my $30. I also got the Hitman collection that had 3 games in it. I beat the first game in it, then dropped the series. So I somewhat wasted another $30.

@McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

That's the thought I had almost instantly upon buying a PSP back when they first came out.

I have a similar feeling towards my 3DS.

@Sparky_Buzzsaw:

Hybrid heaven was amazing as I recall. Still it was an accidental rental for me and I remember loving it but getting stuck before the end and never beating it because i needed a key and I couldn't find it....

The Darkness, Mercenaries 2, Medal of Honor Airborne, and Quake 4. There are definitely more but I can't quite think of them right now.
 
All of those games I listed I was extremely disappointed in. But hell, how could I resist their bargain prices.

Homefront after playing an hour of it.

I brought Forza 2 and Viva Piñata because they were cheap, I have played 2 races on Forza and that's about it. 

I still own a brand-new, unopened, sealed copy of Halo Reach that I look at every day.

If we start including Steam, then damn.

Almost everything on my steam account, witha few exceptions.

BloPs, Penny arcade games, Kane and lynch 2, NBA 2k11, Warhammer 40k, company of heroes, Jamestown, Hitman collection etc.

Alot of those games are good, I just have played them for 2 hours or less, have no desire to go back, and so are a waste of money.

Blood Omen 2. It only cost me around £3, but non the less that is £3 that could of contributed to something larger that I would of actually enjoyed! I already knew this game was balls deep in shit after playing a lil bit years before.. but I wanted to give it another go. I predictably gave it even less time of the day than when I first played it. Think it's best I just let Blood Omen 2.... Rest In Peace! *Snigger*  
 
Seriously, though, that game is awful and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone even if it was free. 

@OwnlyUzinWonHan said:

@DystopiaX said:

Almost everything on my steam account, witha few exceptions.

BloPs, Penny arcade games, Kane and lynch 2, NBA 2k11, Warhammer 40k, company of heroes, Jamestown, Hitman collection etc.

Alot of those games are good, I just have played them for 2 hours or less, have no desire to go back, and so are a waste of money.

How does 2K11 play on the PC? Also does it get roster updates as infrequently as the console versions did?

No idea about roster updates, if you want to play it on PC you better have a gamepad/360 controller connected cause there's no mouse support for some retarded reason. Been using arrow keys/wasd and it works fine but is far from ideal. Definitely terrible port, if you have a console version then don't bother.

I have 3 copies of Street Fighter 4. Why? I don't know...

There are games in my collection that I just look at an go, how on earth did this game come to be in my collection, why did I buy this? I presume it's not just me, so what games are in your collection that you just don't understand why you bought it.

I have a copy of Just Dance, still sealed.. 

Liar. people warned me. they said it was shit. i didn't listen. oh it will be ok, these critics don't know what the fuck they are talking about i thought. 
 
guess what 
 
they were right   
 
Lair IS SHITE!!!!!

I own several hundred games I have never played and constantly ask myself what the hell is wrong with me.

When you have as many games as I do, it's guaranteed that you'll get some bad ones. The Burger King games for example.

among the other poor decisions i made, i got bourne conspiracy, which was really fucking boring

Any fighting game ever.
 
Every time a new high-profile game like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat comes out I swear I'll finally break into the genre - even went so far as to buy a fightstick for SSF4 - and every time I get frustrated with the commitment needed and go back to familiar ol' shooters and sandbox games. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that none of my IRL friends will even consider playing anything that isn't Casual of Duty. I dunno. :/

I have a STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl shortcut on my desktop and I have no idea why it's there.

Left 4 Dead 2 and Modern Warfare 2... No clue why I bought them

I have a copy of Far Cry Instincts: Predator somewhere around here....

Tropico 3.. I have played about 4 minutes of that game.

Read dead redemption, It's a GTA MOD  -_-

The Creatures trilogy, for one. I don't regret buying it, but I've barely touched it, and I knew upon purchase that this would be the case. I simply don't have the dedication necessary to spend an obscene amount of time training and breeding virtual pets, no matter how fascinating the underlying tech is. S'why my Tamagotchi always died. But nostalgia being what it is, I bought the whole set.  
 
To be fair, though, I had only played Creatures 1 before, and it was worth it to try out the much less janky (but still crazy janky) sequels. I actually got my Norns to procreate for the first time ever. Victory! 
 
The Oddboxx. I usually wait on PC ports, because I've been boned before by awful port jobs. But dammit, I LOVE Oddworld, and I never played Munch or Stranger, so I nabbed it the second it was released (incidentally, that makes 3 copies of Oddysee that I own, and 2 of Exoddus). BIG mistake. Nearly unplayable ports that still haven't been truly fixed. Plus, I hate most 3D platformers, so why the hell was I excited to play Munch? Could've watched the game on Youtube and gotten more out of it.  
 
There's more, but meh. I could go on for far longer than anybody's willing to read.

"Because it was on sale on Steam" seems to be my answer to most of the games I bought and never played.

chromehounds for $60 on release day, i got about 15mins out of it

Dead Space & Assassin's Creed.

I knew i was never gonna play em, but i still bought them used time and time again. Hopefully i learned my lesson.

The first L4D. I played it for exactly 2 hours and never played it again.

CoD: Black Ops, I know my friends like CoD but I was never really into FPSes...

Red Dead Redemption and LA Noire.
 
Call me crazy but these games are just so boring. They are so slow paced that I can't stand playing them for longer than one hour. I still wish I'll be able to find some time and force myself to finish LA Noire this summer, but I'm pretty sure I won't be coming back to Red Dead Redemption.

an xbla game that came out in 2006 and i'm pretty sure no one played, Novadrome. i figured it might be alright since it was from the the creators of carmageddon, but i was dead wrong

@Rolyatkcinmai: you're a hoarder. mystery solved

I regret buying some games. Shining Force comes to mind.

@notha said:

@Rolyatkcinmai: you're a hoarder. mystery solved

Eh, more than half of the 400 or so games I own but have never played are on Steam, so digital hoarder maybe.

I own several hundred games I have never played and constantly ask myself what the hell is wrong with me.

When you have as many games as I do, it's guaranteed that you'll get some bad ones. The Burger King games for example.

NHL 9 or 10 - had a blast playing it at a friend's house, picked up a copy so we could play online and we never touched it again. 
Halo: Reach - I don't like straight up FPSs, this was a bad move.

@BadNews:

It's funny you say that. I'll bet we ran into the exact same problem, though it's been the better part of ten years since I've played that game.

ModNation Racers. It just didn't gel for me, at all. I played it for a couple of hours, put it back in the case and there it lies.

Not really.