Have you ever had a significant case of buyer's remorse? If so what was it and why? I remember buying Resident Evil:Operation Raccoon City and had a huge case of buyer's remorse. It was so bad that I was actually in denial on how terrible the game actually was. I'd say "It's not that bad" or "The multiplayer is pretty cool", but the moment I S-Ranked it and heard about the Spec-ops DLC that was pulled from the final product to be sold later I realized how bad I regretted buying it.
Unless it's a triple-A title whose earlier iterations I've greatly enjoyed, I don't pre order anything. I wait until it's out, see what it looks like and what people are saying about it, and only then do I put my hard earned money into it. In this way, I can't really say that I've strongly regretted purchasing any game over the past few years, and I have quite a number of 360 games.
Well, OK, Ricochet came with the Valve complete pack and Final Fantasy 12. I just thought of those. But Ricochet was a turd in a box of gold and FF12 was cheap and isn't that bad.
The only real case of buyer's remorse that has stuck with me all this time is my purchasing of Brink. Months before the game came out, I remember seeing a gameplay demo and thought that it looked pretty exciting. I had just received a large paycheck and had some extra money to burn, so I threw it into my Amazon cart and prepurchased the game. Jump ahead a few months and the game and reviews were out and I had forgotten I had even bought it. The next day, the game showed up at my door and I realized I had just spent $60 on a game that would probably be $20 in a couple of months if reviews had anything to say about it.
I'm pretty sure it didn't even take that long for Brink to drop drastically in price. It's not even like Brink was a bad game, it just wasn't worth paying $60 for. It's also not like I am super regretful over buying it; it was just a dumb thing to buy for that price.
June 13, 2011, I went to a GameStop midnight event with my co-podcaster @Commisar123 . He decided to buy Alice: Madness Returns. I bought Duke Nukem Forever. Yeeeeeeaaaah...
Usually I am pretty good at picking games to buy for full price, and budget titles usually are fun enough even if they're bad.
One clear case of horrible buyer's remorse though was Star Trek Online. I am such a Star Trek fanboy that even though I hate MMOs I bought it anyway. Not only was it a typical MMO, which meant I hated it, but it was also a badly made MMO. Soooo screwed, and I eve bought the collector's edition day one for like $80.
Preemptive buyer's remorse: I really want to buy a new computer, but I know that if I do then there will be a significant likelihood that I'll regret it.
Yeah, I ended up regretting that I bought Kingdoms of Armalur: Reckoning as well. I played the demo so many times, but I just got more and more disillusioned the longer I got in that game. Wouldn't bother me, but I bought an expensive new copy. Pretty much every other game I got for lower than one third of the price because the xbox had a lot of backlog when I got one.
I was so ready for the OP to regret buying Symphonia or something, @Video_Game_King
I once bought Black Ops on Steam for full price (£40) when, at the time, I didn't even have a computer that could run it well. I may or may not have been drunk at the time.
FFXIV. I had a strong feeling it would be a disaster, but I never realized how much of one it would be. Got the collectors edition too, which was mostly worthless stuff tacked on.
Honorable mention goes to FFXIII. I really aught to have learned my lesson.
I regret buying Uncharted 1 used for $24.99. I could have easily picked it up new for $20. I don't buy anything used, so that one irked me. I'm not sure what I was thinking.
i guess my only case of this that i can think of would be buying but not playing Deadly Premonition before watching the Endurance Runs. I bought the game shortly after release based on descriptions of "quirkiness" and an interesting open world but didn't get around to playing it right away. Then the Endurance Runs came out, and I watched them and realized how terrible the game actually is and that the only entertainment value it contains is in watching Jeff, Vinny, Brad and Ryan play and mock its ridiculousness. Now I know that I will never play it and it will just sit on my shelf as a waste of money.
I feel the same way about ORC as well, but that game admittedly had me roaring with laughter because of its overt awfulness, so there was enjoyment to be had in the long run. Also El Shaddei... I still have no interest whatsoever to play through anymore of that, and I only put in like 2 hours.
I guess I would have to say Blue Dragon. It was one of the first 2 games I bought for the 360. It's not that it's a bad game I just don't think I'll ever go back and finish it.
Gotham City Impostors. I only played it once, but I don't think it's bad, I just don't have time for it. I figure by the time I get back around to it everyone will have moved on (if they haven't already).
And the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection. That game is unplayable for me due to the controls. I always preferred Splinter Cell and now I can clearly see I made the right choice.
Bought a PS3 from someone on a local classifieds site for $300 for the old backwards compatibly feature of it. It YLOD on me a few months later and sat on my shelf for about a year until I was finally able to find the $200 it took to send it off to Sony to get fixed. Really was an unhappy guy when that thing YLOD on me.
Sure, plenty of times. I bought Master of Orion 3 on Good Old Games when it was on sale so I could know personally how terrible it is. How terrible is it? The worst.
My most recent case of buyer's remorse was with Xenoblade Chronicles. Perhaps it was that it had to compete with ME3 and the Witcher 2 for play time, or that I went against my rule of not buying games at MSRP that I'm unsure about. Everything I heard about the game made it sound like something that would resonate strongly with me, but I'd enough of the game by the time I reached Bionis's head.
I wish I didn't buy Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. I've played it for 36 hours but have yet to really be drawn in. Meanwhile I recently bought the Witcher on Steam and it's just there staring at me.
Brink, I really liked parts of it but when it all came together in multiplayer it was awful, too much lag and it just never flowed well in all the matches I tried.
The Enemy Territory community rushed to make this, what seemed like an unfinished game, competitive. No first person spec, no ability to change body types in game, unoptimized. NO LINUX DEDICATED CLIENT. All Splash Damage had to do was make ET 2011 and they would have had an instant hit.
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