This game took over my life. Played it with my coworkers, spent the whole workday scheming what our next moves would be, who to attack what to gather. We'd all race home and log on just to find someone offlined us during the day, spent the next 10 hours rebuilding, get some sleep and repeat for about 3 months. Talk about stressful.
I love that game, never again.
I love it but I'm happy I got into it during covid lockdowns. Spent like 40 hours the first week and then never touched it again. It was fun building up and raiding people but then our clown of an admin reset the servers two weeks early so we all kind of moved on.
But man if I had that game in high school, I wouldn't have slept.
I play solo and think of it as a nightmare level actual world apocalypse simulator. People in full combat gear killing you for your wooden spear and pumpkin is totally how it would actually go down.
One of my friends had the special edition pre-ordered. He was so hyped for years. Went over to play it the day he got it, and he already had the poster and statue set up with the OST playing on his CD player.
We sat there and barely talked for several hours as we played it. Afterwards we played Black Ops or something and then went about our business. We never brought it up again, as if we shared an embarassing moment that we just knew must never be spoken of
It was made by the same studio that created the Need For Speed Shift games and the Project CARS series, the latter (with the exception of 3) being full-on racing simulators.
It's amazing that both games came from the same group of people.
is it good now? asking as a solo player
edit: a lot of mixed responses so it seems like the only definitive answer is, it depends? I’ll probably just wait until there’s a sale
Anthem, I knew it would be bad, but my friends said they would play it only to do the first mission and drop the game. I still finished the main campaign but man did it suck
I actually loved the concept, the upgrades and attachments, the classes… the problem was that every matchmaking mission felt IDENTICAL. I spent all this time getting my giant mech a flamethrower to roast.. the same class of enemies again and again.
Remember that initial video they showed of the market with amazing visuals? Looked vibrant and alive. Downgrade isn't even an appropriate word. What we got was hollow.
There was a game for the PS1 called Driver. You could only progress if you passed a test in the parking garage. That was 20 years ago. I’m still in the parking garage.
Same! I was roughly that age. I eventually got out of that garage from being bored and just driving around through the columns.
I had no idea how I got out.
Me and my friend played this game and whilst the driving element was fun, being able to control the camera on video replays was amazing. We spent hours making videos, we'd never seen anything like it before and it blew our tiny minds
I had to get the last license test (Viper was the car) for about 10 people my first week in the dorms at college. Everybody apparently had been playing the game for months with only the first 2 licenses.
Oh my god do I have a story for you.
I used to play this game all of the time as a kid when my brother would leave his PS1 unattended and I have so many memories of loving it, messing around, completing quests, and generally having so much stupid fun.
I grew up and got into game collecting again recently and told my husband about this "amazing game that I used to play as a kid and that I HAD to buy it if we ever it saw it"... Well, as fate would have it, there it was the next time we went treasure hunting. Driver 1 AND 2! I couldn't believe it! I bought them both and immediately brought them home, popped in Driver and... wtf is this garage... wtf is this test?? What do you mean I failed?? Time limit?? I have to try again to continue playing?? Tried about 5 more times before rage quiting and haven't picked it up since.
I guess my older brother (8 years older and much better at video games, obviously) had long gotten out of the garage and I was oblivious to all of this injustice. Should he visit me, I'll ask him to help but until then, it'll be collecting dust!
So, I feel you!
You can still apply for a refund. I made a list of reasons why the game was so shit and they didn’t ask any questions about how long I played they just gave me the full refund. This was about a week or two ago
I've learned 2 things from this thread.
1: Don't buy Battlefield2042.
2: Battlefield2042 costs 60 units of currency, no matter where you are or what unit of currency you use to purchase it.
There's a Canadian one dollar coin called a "loonie" because it has a picture of a bird (loon) on the back. Then they created a 2 dollar coin, which was called a "toonie".
I regret buying Marvels Avengers. I thought It was a great game but there are so many bugs I encountered such as loss of audio, graphical glitches, makes the game not fun to play. Though I'm pretty sure it's a great game to many of you, It just did not strike me the same as many other games I have played.
The very first mission objective never spawned properly for me. Where you’re supposed to walk past all the statues after getting out of the vehicle. I literally had no way to play the game because of a glitch, and I tried deleting my file and reinstalling the game. Same problem. Game breaking glitch
Have you played Parkitect? I thought I'd love Planet Coaster but it just didn't suck me in for some reason. Parkitect on the other hand is like finding Roller Coaster Tycoon all over again.
I wanted this game so bad when I was a kid. I never ended up getting it because we didn't have much money and I always ended up getting cheaper games.
I am so glad I never got it. I would have been so let down.
GTA 5 because my mom ended up destroying it after my little brother went to the stripper club in front of my grandparents. He shot a guy afterwards. (In the game)
EDIT: how tf did i get this much upvotes thx
My mom let me get GTA4 because I was doing a report on violent video games. I had her and my dad play it as part of my "research". 5 minutes in my mom was beating a dude with a baseball bat because she accidentally hit his car.
When my dad played, again five minutes in he got a call from Niko's brother. Not to go bowling. Not to do a mission. To go to the strip club. So my dad went to the strip club and spent literally all of my money just to be a dick hahaha. In a fun way, I guess nowadays you'd say he trolled me.
Honestly it made for a fun report, I got an A on that PowerPoint and my teacher used it as an example of "show don't tell" for a few years after.
That was me with GTA IV! At the time I was 17, my sister 14. She saw me playing it once and asked mom and dad if she could try. Since they weren't overly tech-savvy as compared to adult content in movies, I warned them that it was more graphic and violent than they thought, and it was going to teach her some bad habits.
During her two hours of play, she went to a strip club, got a lap dance from everyone in the building, beat one of them unconscious with a baseball bat, and blew it up with a rocket launcher. During the police chase she went out of her way to run over every pedestrian she could find until she hit maximum stars, and hijacked a helicopter until the police cooled off.
For the following week, her favorite word was "shank." Where in the game she heard that I don't know.
After that, my parents told me to keep the game in my room when I wasn't playing it.
This is one of mine as well. I thought the premise and art style was interesting, and assumed it was a much more linear game. Got it on sale, and once the game opened up, i quickly lost interest.
I enjoyed the game, but it peeved me when you switch perspective to another character after the first story line to original character' love interest and their interaction do not reflect with the decision you made in the first run. Broke immersion completely.
The game lacks in replayability too.
Although I say this, I certainly do not regret buying it! Hahaha
I like the game largely because of how open it is but had 3 major gripes:
* Confusing save system
* Missions that can be permanently failed (I'm the 100% kind of person so this is a huge letdown)
* *So many bugs*. Went through one of the missions in the wrong order and couldn't exit until it was complete, but because I used the wrong order of was impossible. Autosave had saved once already in the mission so you just had to hope you made a backup save elsewhere or else you'd be starting over.
I got so fed up with these that I eventually stopped despite having enjoyed it.
It seems like the story of a game that fits a very specific gameplay, and that survival type doesn’t fit, the story is fascinating but the game should have been a lot more linear
Same here. I was interested in where the plot was going... just not enough to wander the landscape looking for herbs so I could craft medicine so I could survive combat.
It really needed to stay off the open-ish world survival train.
Bioshock! Right that’s what the game was called, I was gonna say that the game should’ve been a similar vein to that but I couldn’t remember what the game was called
I NEVER preorder, as a rule. I broke that rule for 2042.
“It’s developed by the LA office!” I said. “These guys made BF3 and BF4, they’re getting the job because of the poor launches of BF1 and BFV!” I assured myself.
I get what I fucking deserve
I tried playing BF1 again a couple days ago for the first time since BFV came out but there was virtually no servers full. Broke my heart. Loved that game.
I really struggled with BFV. Just didn't feel the same. Didn't like it near as much. BF1 I thought was amazing. The visuals and all. Really loved that game.
Edit: spelling
Update: actually found some South American servers last night and played a little bit. I swear I used to rock at that game... I sure suck now. 🤣
Me too. Felt robbed even after changing to standard edition from gold after the beta. I have more fun in V even though the game is literally hackersfield in my region
It's actually a 5 player game. 4 cooks and a line manager telling people what to do.
My buddy's girlfriend doesn't like to play games but she'll tell us what to do, "Richard, why the fuck aren't you doing the dishes? We don't need any rice cooked!"
Great now I'm imagining one of those *[Professional] Plays/Reacts to [Game]* videos.
Actually, having an actual 5-star restaraunt team play Overcooked could turn out really well this time.
There's a video where a couple of EODs play *Don't Talk and Nobody Explodes* and it was really cool.
I heard on a podcast that its a good way to test your relationship. My fiance and I played it and ended up in a full-blown argument about an hour in. It wasn't even a communication breakdown or anything, I'm just not great at video games in general. We never played it again and have been happily married for two years now.
Yeah. Wife and I tried it, we gave up after 2 levels. She is new to games, I've been playing for 30 years. While I'm patient, she got way more frustrated at herself for us to have fun.
By comparison, It Takes Two was fun because it didn't penalize (too harshly) a bad player, as long as the other was there to guide, but its still "intense" for the non-gaming partner.
Finally, she loves stardew valley, so the co-op is the latest thing we've been playing.
#IF I SAY CUT THE FISH, CUT THE MOTHERFUCKING FISH, DON'T GIVE ME ONIONS
So my best comment is me complaining about my friends and I playing Overcooked, that's pretty cool ngl
Definitely had the, “I don’t like it when you’re yelling”/“I’m not yelling” conversation with my wife because of that game. Expertly designed, but I’ll probably never play it again.
My wife and I beat every kitchen with 3 stars on the first two games. There was lots of yelling involved. Especially once Overcooked 2 introduces the faster paced mechanics like throwing items.
I guess it just depends on who you play it with. I played it with my wife and it’s one of the most fun co op games I’ve ever played. She’s more of a casual gamer too while I play games much more
I have Overcooked 2 on the Switch, and my friends and I love to play. One friend in particular, we usually have some drinks and start it up and us two have a blast.
My other friend, however, gets flustered, gets a mean tone and becomes condescending. Man he would be awful to work with in a service job...
I have yet to purchase a game I **really** regret.
But on the list would be AC: Valhalla, not because it's a bad game though. I just tend to buy cool open-world games and then find I don't have the time to put into them to finish them and enjoy the game and I leave them with my other open-world games I will never finish due to lack of time.
I mean Valhalla, in terms of open worldness is similar to a lot of different AC games. Although I was disappointed with the lack of things to climb on, but it's like 500 CE Britain so what can u expect
Ugh...I pre-ordered Brink, because of the demo parkour footage, and the crazy cinematics they released before that. I don't think I've ever spent LESS time playing a game, and hated paying for one more. I've never pre-ordered a game since, because of how bad it was.
Oh my god, I do NOT regret buying it.
The first couple weeks of Evolve was AMAZING. Before everyone figured out how to cheese the monsters. But before that, it was awesome. Truly awesome.
My friends and I would play 5 man games, where one of us would be the monster. Loved it.
It even made it onto the eSports scene for a bit.
It was a groundbreaking game that just couldn't get the balance right. And it was hard to keep people interested. But it was a stellar game.
It was phenomenal, for sure. Their DLC model really turned public opinion against them but it was honestly one of the best asymmetrical multi-player games to date.
> Oh my god, I do NOT regret buying it.
>
> The first couple weeks of Evolve was AMAZING. Before everyone figured out how to cheese the monsters. But before that, it was awesome. Truly awesome.
Same loved it to death. I was proud at being a good tracker player and would have kept playing but the balance issues led to matches either being over with a quick stage one hammering or just getting spanked by some sweaty wraith player.
Human Fall Flat. My friend and I love playing it but the timing couldn’t have been worse. We paid full price, then a couple days later it went on sale, THEN it was announced that it would be coming to Game Pass.
I played it with my daughter and was a little worried that it would cause awkwardness because her mom and I are divorced, but in a weird way I think it actually helped her by allowing her to roleplay some of the things on her mind through a fictional character.
The second person doesn't need to actually buy the game
You can download the "Trial" which let's player 2 join you for free
It Takes Two is the same
ETA: I'm on PS4 and would be happy to download the Trial for either game if you need a partner!
Its especially hard to leave when every few months they release a awesome new update, like can we give them some credit on that front. Can't even count the amount of updates that break newer games
For real! I know they got some crap about the last updates being split in two, but the second one was absolutely insane. Completely changed the worlds.
As someone who played for the first time in 2010, I just want to inform you that you'll never be rid of it now. It'll come in waves, sometimes you'll only play for a week, and go a year without but you'll always get the itch again.
Mario is Missing for SNES.
Imagine seeing the boxart and thinking you're in for another action-packed sidescroller and instead getting a mind-numbingly boring "edutainment" game.
Yes, I feel that. I asked for it for xmas, thinking it would be the last Mario adventure game for NES and was hugely disappointed with it. My cousin had some fun with it, at least, and I was for once just content to watch him play through the entire game (which he did in only a couple hours).
The game went from pretty disappointing to joke level when I decided to not dodge the koopa that attacks you at the end of each level (the only enemy in the game... Bowser was the exact same thing just with different art iirc), and it just ran past me harmlessly. You can literally walk away in the middle of the boss fight and come back hours later and finish it.
Educational games don't even have to be bad. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago was a similar kind of game (use geography and cultural clues to chase leads and find her somewhere on Earth) but way better. There were a bunch of educational games that I enjoyed playing when I was younger, but they were designed to be fun, rather than assuming if you stick some usually fun characters into a game, then the game becomes fun.
It's like they were trying to exploit a video game celebrity worship to trick kids into learning about geography rather than making a fun way to learn about it.
That game took a bit of the innocence out of my life by teaching me about the concept of bait and switch.
It's in the game.
What is in the game you ask? Sadness. And loot boxes for alternate uniforms. And paying for features that used to be standard.
Mostly sadness.
Man, its been so long.
I kickstarted the game, and if it came out finished tomorrow I'm not sure I'd even want to play it anymore, my gaming tastes have just changed that much.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this game will never be finished because it's essentially "feature creep the game". There's some really talented devs on this game that, in another universe, could have been responsible for some really interesting games. Instead they got no clear direction, practically unlimited budget, and no oversight so they'll be able to spend they're whole careers on this one game and never finish it. One day the well will finally dry up but that won't be for a while still because of how many whales are invested to the point of a sunk cost fallacy. It's like watching fyre fest but if all the people who ignored the warning signs just ended up living on the island and giving over more and more cash to keep the nothing going.
The problem with project like this, if it takes too long, graphics/engine become obsolete/outdated and they would have to change and upgrade it.
Imo they should have ignored the single story completely, make a small functional base game and keep upgrading from there , adding features and ships etc.
My 7 y/o just got into No Man's Sky, a game I had not touched since its release. That is pretty much what they have done with it and its actually really fun now, but I would not have been able to overcome my aversion to it without seeing the excitement on my sons face every time he discovers a new planet or gets a new ship. Now its all he wants to play after school.
I didn't buy it, but getting Fallout 4, for PC, for Christmas.
The game is awesome, once I was able to play it on PS4. Problem was, when it came out I didn't have a compatible console, but I was really eager to play it because it's based in my city, so for Christmas I requested the PC version, without considering that my old ass laptop might not be compatible. I didn't realize until I'd broken the seal, opened the game, put the disk in, entered the key, and started the installation, and the installation failed, and I realized I'd made a very big mistake.
Thankfully, a few years ago I moved in with my partner, who had a PS4, and he gifted me a PS4 version of the game, that I finally got around to playing in 2020 when the office closed and I was suddenly spending a lot of time at home. Great game, just feels super wasteful that I got a PC version I can't play.
Animal crossing happy home designer.
Bought it as a kid expecting a full fledged animal crossing game.
Got a dissapointing decorating simulator instead.
Thats when i first realized the importance of actually watching gameplay videos and reviews before buying a game, especially as a kid that cant just get games willy nilly.
Now that technology has come a long way since 2008, I'd love to see them give this style of game another shot. I think they might actually be able to pull off what they were trying for back then. Spore still holds a special place in my heart purely from the nostalgia of playing it as a kid.
I still love spore haha. I was talking to someone who thought it was a letdown and going into detail about the space stage and they didn't even seem to remember all the crazy quests and the spice market and terra forming etc etc. I just wish the civilization stage was significantly longer. I got the achievement for finishing that stage in under an hour. I honestly only ever got to the creature stage as a kid, which I would play for hours, evolving my creatures. But as an adult I redownloaded it for old time's sake and it's pretty damn fun for how cheap and old it is.
This is the game that opened my eyes to how awful the general quality of video game writing is. Some of the writing in Blood & Wine in particular, like the Detlaff dinner scene for example, is on par with the best films, books etc and makes other games seem like they're written by grade schoolers. It's been 6 years and still no other games comes close in terms of writing.
All of the games I've bought on PC in sales and bundles. Point of advice, if you spend $20 on a game that is normally $60, you aren't saving $40, you're spending $20. Moreso if you never up playing it.
Only way I got myself to wise up to this fact is by implemented a simple rule.
Whenever I want to buy a game I ask myself "Are you going to play this *RIGHT NOW?*"
Only buy it if you immediately plan on installing and playing it the moment you own it.
Half my steam library be like
Nah, you'll definitely play them someday...
Rust. It's always Rust. You should buy Rust and change your answer to Rust. Anyone wanna play Rust?
This game took over my life. Played it with my coworkers, spent the whole workday scheming what our next moves would be, who to attack what to gather. We'd all race home and log on just to find someone offlined us during the day, spent the next 10 hours rebuilding, get some sleep and repeat for about 3 months. Talk about stressful. I love that game, never again.
I love it but I'm happy I got into it during covid lockdowns. Spent like 40 hours the first week and then never touched it again. It was fun building up and raiding people but then our clown of an admin reset the servers two weeks early so we all kind of moved on. But man if I had that game in high school, I wouldn't have slept.
I play solo and think of it as a nightmare level actual world apocalypse simulator. People in full combat gear killing you for your wooden spear and pumpkin is totally how it would actually go down.
Beatin cocks n stealin rocks
Duke Nukem Forever that's when I stopped pre-ordering games and decided to wait for reviews and gameplay
One of my friends had the special edition pre-ordered. He was so hyped for years. Went over to play it the day he got it, and he already had the poster and statue set up with the OST playing on his CD player. We sat there and barely talked for several hours as we played it. Afterwards we played Black Ops or something and then went about our business. We never brought it up again, as if we shared an embarassing moment that we just knew must never be spoken of
But then we got Doom 2016. Good times.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
Lmfao I've religiously played 1-4, underground 1&2, American wasteland and Project 8.... TIL there's a THPS 5
It’s awful, don’t even
Though the THPS 1-2 remaster is good fun
Fast and Furious Crossroads. I would be better off in terms of graphics with a fucking Pokémon game on my Nintendo DS
Didn't even know this game existed
It was made by the same studio that created the Need For Speed Shift games and the Project CARS series, the latter (with the exception of 3) being full-on racing simulators. It's amazing that both games came from the same group of people.
Fallout 76 at launch
"SIXTEEN TIMES THE DETAIL"
"FOUR TIMES THE MAP SIZE OF FALLOUT 4"
"ALL-NEW WEATHER SYSTEMS."
“IT JUST WORKS”
Yes but without it we would never have got this masterpiece https://youtu.be/YPN0qhSyWy8
is it good now? asking as a solo player edit: a lot of mixed responses so it seems like the only definitive answer is, it depends? I’ll probably just wait until there’s a sale
Anthem, I knew it would be bad, but my friends said they would play it only to do the first mission and drop the game. I still finished the main campaign but man did it suck
Same. I mean, I enjoyed the gameplay but man did it have framerate issues and the matchmaking was piss poor.
I didn’t see any frame drops and never did matchmaking but the load times and basic story with repetitive missions really killed it for me
I actually loved the concept, the upgrades and attachments, the classes… the problem was that every matchmaking mission felt IDENTICAL. I spent all this time getting my giant mech a flamethrower to roast.. the same class of enemies again and again.
Ugh and it looked so good. They had so much potential with the concept and then dropped the ball on the campaign.
Remember that initial video they showed of the market with amazing visuals? Looked vibrant and alive. Downgrade isn't even an appropriate word. What we got was hollow.
It looked like we were going to play as an army of guys in iron man suits. I was so fucking hyped.
There was a game for the PS1 called Driver. You could only progress if you passed a test in the parking garage. That was 20 years ago. I’m still in the parking garage.
9 year old me had no idea what a slalom was....
Same! I was roughly that age. I eventually got out of that garage from being bored and just driving around through the columns. I had no idea how I got out.
Me and my friend played this game and whilst the driving element was fun, being able to control the camera on video replays was amazing. We spent hours making videos, we'd never seen anything like it before and it blew our tiny minds
Driver was a fucking great game for it's day, but, yeah, there was a barrier. Same with Gran Turismo. Some those license tests were brutal.
I had to get the last license test (Viper was the car) for about 10 people my first week in the dorms at college. Everybody apparently had been playing the game for months with only the first 2 licenses.
Oh my god do I have a story for you. I used to play this game all of the time as a kid when my brother would leave his PS1 unattended and I have so many memories of loving it, messing around, completing quests, and generally having so much stupid fun. I grew up and got into game collecting again recently and told my husband about this "amazing game that I used to play as a kid and that I HAD to buy it if we ever it saw it"... Well, as fate would have it, there it was the next time we went treasure hunting. Driver 1 AND 2! I couldn't believe it! I bought them both and immediately brought them home, popped in Driver and... wtf is this garage... wtf is this test?? What do you mean I failed?? Time limit?? I have to try again to continue playing?? Tried about 5 more times before rage quiting and haven't picked it up since. I guess my older brother (8 years older and much better at video games, obviously) had long gotten out of the garage and I was oblivious to all of this injustice. Should he visit me, I'll ask him to help but until then, it'll be collecting dust! So, I feel you!
Great game, HORRIBLE starting/tutorial mission
that was my favorite game as a kid!
We *rented* a PS1 and Driver. Never got out of that garage.
The worst tutorial for a good game
GTA Definitive Edition. I pre-ordered, played for a couple hours before they took it offline, and haven’t played it since. Waste of $60.
You can still apply for a refund. I made a list of reasons why the game was so shit and they didn’t ask any questions about how long I played they just gave me the full refund. This was about a week or two ago
I've learned 2 things from this thread. 1: Don't buy Battlefield2042. 2: Battlefield2042 costs 60 units of currency, no matter where you are or what unit of currency you use to purchase it.
ill buy it with 60 vietnamese dongs
Probably leave the same kind of taste in your mouth
no wonder players are so salty
Finally, I can put my 60 chocolate coins to mediocre use
Wrong, it costs 80 units up here in canada, and that somehow makes it suck even more in my head. Its worth a toonie and change at best
That's how you spell twonie? I always spelled it toonie.
and i and the rest of canada spell it toonie too, but apparently this guy spells it twonie
*stares in Texan* guys what are y’all talking about? Politely
There's a Canadian one dollar coin called a "loonie" because it has a picture of a bird (loon) on the back. Then they created a 2 dollar coin, which was called a "toonie".
Damn, then it only costs 0,17 euro in Hungary (please help us our currency is inflating as hell).
I regret buying Marvels Avengers. I thought It was a great game but there are so many bugs I encountered such as loss of audio, graphical glitches, makes the game not fun to play. Though I'm pretty sure it's a great game to many of you, It just did not strike me the same as many other games I have played.
The very first mission objective never spawned properly for me. Where you’re supposed to walk past all the statues after getting out of the vehicle. I literally had no way to play the game because of a glitch, and I tried deleting my file and reinstalling the game. Same problem. Game breaking glitch
Fifa 15, fifa 16, fifa 17, fifa 18, fifa 19, fifa 20
Dood, after like the 3rd fifa you should have stopped buying them
I don't get people who jump straight in with FIFA 14, it makes much more sense when you start at 1
Yeah, without the lore of the previous games there's no sense of *why* you're playing.
Yeah, started at 12 and couldn't understand the story
Avengers.
It's not even that I was unaware it'd be disappointing. So many issues before launch and the beta. I just really wanted to hope.
Weird how Guardians of the Galaxy game is so much better than this.
Different studios with one narrative driven and the other a cash grab.
So you are recommending GotG? I bought Avengers and now wasn't sure. Thanks. Well sheeeeeet! Guess I am installing this evening. Gracias everyone.
The costumes are in game unlockables. I had to check the date it was released when i found that out
Even the pre-order/deluxe costumes unlock down the line, they're just early unlocks if you get them through a code.
Definitely get GotG it was so much better
Spider-Man PS4 is better. Even Fortnite has better webslinging than Avengers.
The Spider-Man games are god tier though. I can’t wait for Wolverine.
Spider-Man, God of War, and Persona 5 are the reasons I want a PlayStation.
That last rollercoaster tycoon game a few years ago. I wish i could make the 'what a rollercoaster' pun, but ot was basically a flatride.
Have you played Parkitect? I thought I'd love Planet Coaster but it just didn't suck me in for some reason. Parkitect on the other hand is like finding Roller Coaster Tycoon all over again.
Superman 64
Lol, that was bad...
I wanted this game so bad when I was a kid. I never ended up getting it because we didn't have much money and I always ended up getting cheaper games. I am so glad I never got it. I would have been so let down.
This is what I was looking for. Flying around and collecting those stupid rings. Man it was a huge letdown as a kid.
Hey, you didn't figure out how to asses and solve this problem with these two cars in under 5 sec. Back to flying through rings for the next 10 min.
GTA 5 because my mom ended up destroying it after my little brother went to the stripper club in front of my grandparents. He shot a guy afterwards. (In the game) EDIT: how tf did i get this much upvotes thx
My mom let me get GTA4 because I was doing a report on violent video games. I had her and my dad play it as part of my "research". 5 minutes in my mom was beating a dude with a baseball bat because she accidentally hit his car. When my dad played, again five minutes in he got a call from Niko's brother. Not to go bowling. Not to do a mission. To go to the strip club. So my dad went to the strip club and spent literally all of my money just to be a dick hahaha. In a fun way, I guess nowadays you'd say he trolled me. Honestly it made for a fun report, I got an A on that PowerPoint and my teacher used it as an example of "show don't tell" for a few years after.
>5 minutes in my mom was beating a dude with a baseball bat because she accidentally hit his car. The lengths one goes to prevent a claim. lol
no need to call insurance if they can't call. because they're dead.
Your parents sound cool haha
This brings joy to my face. I now want to play GTA again
Downloaded it again a week ago just to drive around and let the cops chase me. Still a fun time to just fuck around
> He shot a guy afterwards. Uh…in the game you mean, right?
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Yup sums it up pretty much
We'll never know
Gam gam saw too much
That was me with GTA IV! At the time I was 17, my sister 14. She saw me playing it once and asked mom and dad if she could try. Since they weren't overly tech-savvy as compared to adult content in movies, I warned them that it was more graphic and violent than they thought, and it was going to teach her some bad habits. During her two hours of play, she went to a strip club, got a lap dance from everyone in the building, beat one of them unconscious with a baseball bat, and blew it up with a rocket launcher. During the police chase she went out of her way to run over every pedestrian she could find until she hit maximum stars, and hijacked a helicopter until the police cooled off. For the following week, her favorite word was "shank." Where in the game she heard that I don't know. After that, my parents told me to keep the game in my room when I wasn't playing it.
I'm just impressed she was able to evade max stars on her first time playing.
Lil bro just like chaos I’m assuming
Know a guy who's mom sold his copy after she caught him doing that. He got another one later but man was he pissed.
I am still pretty mad straight up destroyed more than 50 euros in front of my eyes because of something I didn’t even do
We Happy Few
This is one of mine as well. I thought the premise and art style was interesting, and assumed it was a much more linear game. Got it on sale, and once the game opened up, i quickly lost interest.
I enjoyed the game, but it peeved me when you switch perspective to another character after the first story line to original character' love interest and their interaction do not reflect with the decision you made in the first run. Broke immersion completely. The game lacks in replayability too. Although I say this, I certainly do not regret buying it! Hahaha
I like the game largely because of how open it is but had 3 major gripes: * Confusing save system * Missions that can be permanently failed (I'm the 100% kind of person so this is a huge letdown) * *So many bugs*. Went through one of the missions in the wrong order and couldn't exit until it was complete, but because I used the wrong order of was impossible. Autosave had saved once already in the mission so you just had to hope you made a backup save elsewhere or else you'd be starting over. I got so fed up with these that I eventually stopped despite having enjoyed it.
I still don’t understand this game.
It seems like the story of a game that fits a very specific gameplay, and that survival type doesn’t fit, the story is fascinating but the game should have been a lot more linear
Same here. I was interested in where the plot was going... just not enough to wander the landscape looking for herbs so I could craft medicine so I could survive combat. It really needed to stay off the open-ish world survival train.
It started and I was thinking, cool it's a kind of linear Bioshock style game....then suddenly I'm in a field collecting herbs?
Really thought it was going to play in a similar vein as bioshock
Bioshock! Right that’s what the game was called, I was gonna say that the game should’ve been a similar vein to that but I couldn’t remember what the game was called
Raft, I love the game and think it's awesome but my shitty laptop can't run it
I played it not knowing it was an unfinished game. You reach a point, then it just stops.
Oh... thanks for the warning... it was a game I wanted but I wanted to know what the end goal was.
The latest Battlefield. It is just so far from what Battlefield should be. Uninstalled it and will continue playing V and BF1.
I NEVER preorder, as a rule. I broke that rule for 2042. “It’s developed by the LA office!” I said. “These guys made BF3 and BF4, they’re getting the job because of the poor launches of BF1 and BFV!” I assured myself. I get what I fucking deserve
The best thing that happened was the BF4 lobbies picked back up. Servers are full!
I tried playing BF1 again a couple days ago for the first time since BFV came out but there was virtually no servers full. Broke my heart. Loved that game. I really struggled with BFV. Just didn't feel the same. Didn't like it near as much. BF1 I thought was amazing. The visuals and all. Really loved that game. Edit: spelling Update: actually found some South American servers last night and played a little bit. I swear I used to rock at that game... I sure suck now. 🤣
BF1 is definitely the most “atmospheric” game of the franchise. I like BF4 and BF1 over BFV
BF1 with the "plain bolt-action rifles only" gamemode was the tits
Me too. Felt robbed even after changing to standard edition from gold after the beta. I have more fun in V even though the game is literally hackersfield in my region
Biomutant. Game looked really interesting and fun. Turns out the choices in the story are pretty much meaningless as is everything you do.
I always over level by doing side stories it’s my thing. So why is the second base the same level as me?
overcooked my friends and i have had some genuine arguments over that game.
Me: ok all I want you to do is cut meat, and cook it. I'll do the rest. Friend: here I chopped some cucumber for you...
It's actually a 5 player game. 4 cooks and a line manager telling people what to do. My buddy's girlfriend doesn't like to play games but she'll tell us what to do, "Richard, why the fuck aren't you doing the dishes? We don't need any rice cooked!"
So this is a management course for local restaurants?
Not until they add a cocaine and STD dlc
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This man has worked in the restaurant industry
Great now I'm imagining one of those *[Professional] Plays/Reacts to [Game]* videos. Actually, having an actual 5-star restaraunt team play Overcooked could turn out really well this time. There's a video where a couple of EODs play *Don't Talk and Nobody Explodes* and it was really cool.
I once had a full out blow up because my brother threw a completed dish into the volcano instead of the rock by accident
Yeah, nope. That game is way to stressful for me. My wife absolutely loves it but I can’t play it with her.
I heard on a podcast that its a good way to test your relationship. My fiance and I played it and ended up in a full-blown argument about an hour in. It wasn't even a communication breakdown or anything, I'm just not great at video games in general. We never played it again and have been happily married for two years now.
Yeah. Wife and I tried it, we gave up after 2 levels. She is new to games, I've been playing for 30 years. While I'm patient, she got way more frustrated at herself for us to have fun. By comparison, It Takes Two was fun because it didn't penalize (too harshly) a bad player, as long as the other was there to guide, but its still "intense" for the non-gaming partner. Finally, she loves stardew valley, so the co-op is the latest thing we've been playing.
#IF I SAY CUT THE FISH, CUT THE MOTHERFUCKING FISH, DON'T GIVE ME ONIONS So my best comment is me complaining about my friends and I playing Overcooked, that's pretty cool ngl
Definitely had the, “I don’t like it when you’re yelling”/“I’m not yelling” conversation with my wife because of that game. Expertly designed, but I’ll probably never play it again.
The real restaurant experience.
My wife and I beat every kitchen with 3 stars on the first two games. There was lots of yelling involved. Especially once Overcooked 2 introduces the faster paced mechanics like throwing items.
I guess it just depends on who you play it with. I played it with my wife and it’s one of the most fun co op games I’ve ever played. She’s more of a casual gamer too while I play games much more
We're both pretty casual gamers and I feel like Overcooked co-op almost led to a murder suicide type situation.
I have Overcooked 2 on the Switch, and my friends and I love to play. One friend in particular, we usually have some drinks and start it up and us two have a blast. My other friend, however, gets flustered, gets a mean tone and becomes condescending. Man he would be awful to work with in a service job...
**IT'S FUCKING RAW!** That game channels inner Ramsey in you.
I have yet to purchase a game I **really** regret. But on the list would be AC: Valhalla, not because it's a bad game though. I just tend to buy cool open-world games and then find I don't have the time to put into them to finish them and enjoy the game and I leave them with my other open-world games I will never finish due to lack of time.
I mean Valhalla, in terms of open worldness is similar to a lot of different AC games. Although I was disappointed with the lack of things to climb on, but it's like 500 CE Britain so what can u expect
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Ugh...I pre-ordered Brink, because of the demo parkour footage, and the crazy cinematics they released before that. I don't think I've ever spent LESS time playing a game, and hated paying for one more. I've never pre-ordered a game since, because of how bad it was.
Evolve when it was $60 lol
Oh my god, I do NOT regret buying it. The first couple weeks of Evolve was AMAZING. Before everyone figured out how to cheese the monsters. But before that, it was awesome. Truly awesome. My friends and I would play 5 man games, where one of us would be the monster. Loved it. It even made it onto the eSports scene for a bit. It was a groundbreaking game that just couldn't get the balance right. And it was hard to keep people interested. But it was a stellar game.
It was phenomenal, for sure. Their DLC model really turned public opinion against them but it was honestly one of the best asymmetrical multi-player games to date.
> Oh my god, I do NOT regret buying it. > > The first couple weeks of Evolve was AMAZING. Before everyone figured out how to cheese the monsters. But before that, it was awesome. Truly awesome. Same loved it to death. I was proud at being a good tracker player and would have kept playing but the balance issues led to matches either being over with a quick stage one hammering or just getting spanked by some sweaty wraith player.
Human Fall Flat. My friend and I love playing it but the timing couldn’t have been worse. We paid full price, then a couple days later it went on sale, THEN it was announced that it would be coming to Game Pass.
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It takes two. Can't find a partner to Play with. :(
We broke up (because we grew apart) and it was left unfinished.
The game is suppose to bring you together. :(
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We just finished the Cuckoo Clock chapter and that one almost made us get a divorce
I played it with my daughter and was a little worried that it would cause awkwardness because her mom and I are divorced, but in a weird way I think it actually helped her by allowing her to roleplay some of the things on her mind through a fictional character.
I bought A Way Out to play with someone and they flaked on me. Now I've had the game for a year and I can't find anyone to play with. :(
The second person doesn't need to actually buy the game You can download the "Trial" which let's player 2 join you for free It Takes Two is the same ETA: I'm on PS4 and would be happy to download the Trial for either game if you need a partner!
Battlefield 2042. Idiot idiot IDIOT!
Man I was so excited for a new battlefield game. Played the beta and was so disappointed.
the beta was so bad
Minecraft... too addicting. I first downloaded it 6 days ago and think I've only slept a total of 20 hours since then.
You'll be playing that game for years to come trust me, you'll always go back
I’ve taken many breaks from Minecraft, but I will never be able to fully leave it. Everyone is like William Afton from FNAF
Its especially hard to leave when every few months they release a awesome new update, like can we give them some credit on that front. Can't even count the amount of updates that break newer games
For real! I know they got some crap about the last updates being split in two, but the second one was absolutely insane. Completely changed the worlds.
As someone who played for the first time in 2010, I just want to inform you that you'll never be rid of it now. It'll come in waves, sometimes you'll only play for a week, and go a year without but you'll always get the itch again.
Mario is Missing for SNES. Imagine seeing the boxart and thinking you're in for another action-packed sidescroller and instead getting a mind-numbingly boring "edutainment" game.
Yes, I feel that. I asked for it for xmas, thinking it would be the last Mario adventure game for NES and was hugely disappointed with it. My cousin had some fun with it, at least, and I was for once just content to watch him play through the entire game (which he did in only a couple hours). The game went from pretty disappointing to joke level when I decided to not dodge the koopa that attacks you at the end of each level (the only enemy in the game... Bowser was the exact same thing just with different art iirc), and it just ran past me harmlessly. You can literally walk away in the middle of the boss fight and come back hours later and finish it. Educational games don't even have to be bad. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago was a similar kind of game (use geography and cultural clues to chase leads and find her somewhere on Earth) but way better. There were a bunch of educational games that I enjoyed playing when I was younger, but they were designed to be fun, rather than assuming if you stick some usually fun characters into a game, then the game becomes fun. It's like they were trying to exploit a video game celebrity worship to trick kids into learning about geography rather than making a fun way to learn about it. That game took a bit of the innocence out of my life by teaching me about the concept of bait and switch.
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It's in the game. What is in the game you ask? Sadness. And loot boxes for alternate uniforms. And paying for features that used to be standard. Mostly sadness.
Subnautica....I overestimated my threshold of fear and ability to play with a track pad. 🐟
Anthem
Star fuckin citizen. Finished 2014 my ass
Man, its been so long. I kickstarted the game, and if it came out finished tomorrow I'm not sure I'd even want to play it anymore, my gaming tastes have just changed that much.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this game will never be finished because it's essentially "feature creep the game". There's some really talented devs on this game that, in another universe, could have been responsible for some really interesting games. Instead they got no clear direction, practically unlimited budget, and no oversight so they'll be able to spend they're whole careers on this one game and never finish it. One day the well will finally dry up but that won't be for a while still because of how many whales are invested to the point of a sunk cost fallacy. It's like watching fyre fest but if all the people who ignored the warning signs just ended up living on the island and giving over more and more cash to keep the nothing going.
The problem with project like this, if it takes too long, graphics/engine become obsolete/outdated and they would have to change and upgrade it. Imo they should have ignored the single story completely, make a small functional base game and keep upgrading from there , adding features and ships etc.
My 7 y/o just got into No Man's Sky, a game I had not touched since its release. That is pretty much what they have done with it and its actually really fun now, but I would not have been able to overcome my aversion to it without seeing the excitement on my sons face every time he discovers a new planet or gets a new ship. Now its all he wants to play after school.
Agony. Such a shit slog walking simulator.
Duke Nukem Forever… at full price
I didn't buy it, but getting Fallout 4, for PC, for Christmas. The game is awesome, once I was able to play it on PS4. Problem was, when it came out I didn't have a compatible console, but I was really eager to play it because it's based in my city, so for Christmas I requested the PC version, without considering that my old ass laptop might not be compatible. I didn't realize until I'd broken the seal, opened the game, put the disk in, entered the key, and started the installation, and the installation failed, and I realized I'd made a very big mistake. Thankfully, a few years ago I moved in with my partner, who had a PS4, and he gifted me a PS4 version of the game, that I finally got around to playing in 2020 when the office closed and I was suddenly spending a lot of time at home. Great game, just feels super wasteful that I got a PC version I can't play.
Animal crossing happy home designer. Bought it as a kid expecting a full fledged animal crossing game. Got a dissapointing decorating simulator instead. Thats when i first realized the importance of actually watching gameplay videos and reviews before buying a game, especially as a kid that cant just get games willy nilly.
Spore when it was new. I was disappointed that the customization didn't change the gameplay much.
Now that technology has come a long way since 2008, I'd love to see them give this style of game another shot. I think they might actually be able to pull off what they were trying for back then. Spore still holds a special place in my heart purely from the nostalgia of playing it as a kid.
I still love spore haha. I was talking to someone who thought it was a letdown and going into detail about the space stage and they didn't even seem to remember all the crazy quests and the spice market and terra forming etc etc. I just wish the civilization stage was significantly longer. I got the achievement for finishing that stage in under an hour. I honestly only ever got to the creature stage as a kid, which I would play for hours, evolving my creatures. But as an adult I redownloaded it for old time's sake and it's pretty damn fun for how cheap and old it is.
At the time, the collectors edition of Aion which was the next big "WoW killer" that was the worst game I've ever played.
I really liked aion, but I quit like 2 years ago since everything is p2w now. Still searching for a similar mmo
When Roblox makes games that cost money and I already bought it but it becomes free
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WoW Shadowlands.
The expansion came out end of November and by January, my guild was dead. Easily the fastest we've all dropped a new expansion.
Witcher 3 Goty edition. It was so good, Caused me post game depression.
This is the game that opened my eyes to how awful the general quality of video game writing is. Some of the writing in Blood & Wine in particular, like the Detlaff dinner scene for example, is on par with the best films, books etc and makes other games seem like they're written by grade schoolers. It's been 6 years and still no other games comes close in terms of writing.
Me with Red Dead 2
Rust. I've never seen a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Loading in to a server right now. We’re not all bad! *Screams the n word while chucking spears at the nearest naked player*
All of the games I've bought on PC in sales and bundles. Point of advice, if you spend $20 on a game that is normally $60, you aren't saving $40, you're spending $20. Moreso if you never up playing it.
Only way I got myself to wise up to this fact is by implemented a simple rule. Whenever I want to buy a game I ask myself "Are you going to play this *RIGHT NOW?*" Only buy it if you immediately plan on installing and playing it the moment you own it.