Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001.) It had a major bug where it would wipe your hard drive when you uninstalled the game... And everyone uninstalled that game shortly after buying it.
Non-MMO would have to be Star Trek Generations. I don't think it was even possible to finish that game it was so awful and broken. MMO, I'd have to say SWG. I'm surprised it didn't turn me away from MMO's forever.
Single Player: Any Grand Theft Auto Game prior to 4. I never played them for more than 3 hours before getting totally bored out of my mind. Loved 4 for some reason though... shrug
MMORPG: Probably Everquest 2. I bought it, played for 6 - 7 hours for 3 days - and put it down to start playing World of Warcraft, never to look back. I had a 25 Templar, one of the highest levels on the server aside from the 24/7 poopsockers. I couldn't find a group even though there were plenty of players around my level... pretty much knew that if a Healer couldn't find a party I was going to have issues.
Hilariously, EQ2X is probably one of my more favorite games now though.
People think it's fun to pretend your a monster. Me I spend my life pretending I'm not. - Dexter Morgan
E.T. for the Atari 2600 (total waste of my parent's money)
Today I would have to say I wasted money on buying all the expansions for WoW cause I was bored (I was a closed beta tester of wow and played for a year after) I played for about a month before I was totally bored again.
I was lucky to be in Aion and Rift beta to know not to buy them (though I almost did the same thing I did with WoW and buy Rift when it was cheap, but held off)
Didn't know we were taking it all the way back to the 80's....
I have only purchased these MMOS: EverQuest, Final Fantasy XI, Guild Wars and World of Warcraft.
(not counting expansions)
The most disappointing was Guild Wars, it felt like a single player game with the main cities being chat rooms. I didn't like that the character was pasted to the ground, and that everything was like click-to-move click to attack.
I love EQ1, FFXI and WoW. Lots of fun to be had in those games if you don't care what other people think/graphics. I go outside my apartment for graphics. I don't stare at screens for them.
Most disappointing single player games I've ever bought were Fallout: New Vegas (for thinking it would be like FO3, when it was a completely different game lazily dressed in another's engine/appearance) full of bugs, crashes, glitches, loopholes, exploits, and pointless locations. The enemies were also buffed to become ridiculously impervious to bullets. You could unload enough clips to fuel an army on a half-naked raider... FO3 was fun because the focus was on VATs/Stats, FO:NV tried to become some kind of terrible FPS.
I also hated DO: Origins, I had no interest in a copy-pasted clone of LotR fantasy so the story didn't interest me at all, and I've never been a fan of pause and spend 10 minutes queueing actions gameplay. I rank DO: 2 lower because it was supposed to fix all that... and the demo made you think it had! (but it hadnt...)
All in all I don't often get to buy games, and indeed many have slipped beyond my reach that I've never gotten to play. That's why its really disappointing when I get a bad game. Or console. Geez... the nintendo DS is horrible. It has pokemon... thats about it.
Only mmorpg i bought was WoW, but otherwise i hated myself for buying MW 2. Stupidest game in the world. All the guns were overpowered and everyone was running around with shotguns and sat in corners. I think i played that game for a week and a half before i was about to kill myself. After that I bought fallout 3 goty edition and my life was better.
I bought NWN2. Horrible camera really made that game impossible to play for me. At the time I had made a decision to stop burning games and bought one in London, ON, Canada at EB Games hoping for some real fun ... lolololol ... I ended up selling the thing over the classifieds locally on the internet and for awhile went back to burning games : Z
The only real regret I have is Mortal Online. I got the full loot bag. I've bought plenty of other games that didn't pan out but at least those lasted a little while. MO took less than a day to give up on.
I've bought alot of games and a few of those were clunkers.
The last, most disastrous buy I made out of any platform and genre was STO.
The worst gaming purchase I have ever made, and it still kills me when I remember it is the Collector's Edition for AoC back in '08. The hype, the excitement leading to purchase, the excitement of Launch Day, the beginning area of Tortage. All that disippated once you left Tortage and began to notice the major issues of that title even more.
What was worse was that due to my excitement, I pursuaded my Sister to buy into it, so Funcom got money from the both of us. I also still remember the driving both of us did to find a copy. But she stopped right at 1 month and I kept on for roughly 3 months like a fool. That was also the last time she followed my lead in an MMORPG purchase. Can't say I blame her.
My last 3 MMORPGs were, in the following order: AoC, WAR, and STO.
Can I pick 'em, or can I pick 'em?
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
Of all the MMO's ive played there is only one that i could honestly call a stinker and that game is Mortal Online.
Every MMO had at least one thing that made me smile or think " hey thats cool". Not so Mortal Online.
I've played enough MMORPGs that are so bad that despite producing some smiles and occasional thoughts of "that's pretty damn cool," they wipe it all away with anger and disgust when you really see the title for what it is.
Again, my lucky last 3 of AoC, WAR, and STO all had such occasions.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
Game got immensely hyped in German gaming-media what made me preorder it but it was a buggy mess with tons of features the vocal minority wanted but didn't work anyway.
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In before SWTOR
Lol, only one?
WOW,eq2,Vanguard,WAR,LOTRO,AOC,Rift Aion, SWTOR, TERA.
Currently playing GW2.
Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor (2001.) It had a major bug where it would wipe your hard drive when you uninstalled the game... And everyone uninstalled that game shortly after buying it.
Aion. Worst MMO to date on my playlist
Non-MMO would have to be Star Trek Generations. I don't think it was even possible to finish that game it was so awful and broken. MMO, I'd have to say SWG. I'm surprised it didn't turn me away from MMO's forever.
MMOs:
Horizons - what a mess that game was
Neocron 2 - Shouldn't have bought another Reakktor game, but I loved the first Neocron.
AoC - just pure hogwash
A Tale in the Desert - Shut up and build gaiden
Face of Mankind - all around POS
Order and Chaos Online - terrible mobile MMO. Even though I have an iPad to play it on, it's still anything but fun.
Single Player: Any Grand Theft Auto Game prior to 4. I never played them for more than 3 hours before getting totally bored out of my mind. Loved 4 for some reason though... shrug
MMORPG: Probably Everquest 2. I bought it, played for 6 - 7 hours for 3 days - and put it down to start playing World of Warcraft, never to look back. I had a 25 Templar, one of the highest levels on the server aside from the 24/7 poopsockers. I couldn't find a group even though there were plenty of players around my level... pretty much knew that if a Healer couldn't find a party I was going to have issues.
Hilariously, EQ2X is probably one of my more favorite games now though.
People think it's fun to pretend your a monster. Me I spend my life pretending I'm not. - Dexter Morgan
I would have to say ff14 aswell....
"When it comes to GW2 any game is fair game"
Medal of honor (2010) and homefront. Really poorly designed games.
Didn't know we were taking it all the way back to the 80's....
"When it comes to GW2 any game is fair game"
I really like the other Elder Scrolls games, but I hated Oblivion. I just couldn't get into it.
Most of the Gothic games.
Vanguard
Those are the ones that jump out at me.
I have only purchased these MMOS: EverQuest, Final Fantasy XI, Guild Wars and World of Warcraft.
(not counting expansions)
The most disappointing was Guild Wars, it felt like a single player game with the main cities being chat rooms. I didn't like that the character was pasted to the ground, and that everything was like click-to-move click to attack.
I love EQ1, FFXI and WoW. Lots of fun to be had in those games if you don't care what other people think/graphics. I go outside my apartment for graphics. I don't stare at screens for them.
Most disappointing single player games I've ever bought were Fallout: New Vegas (for thinking it would be like FO3, when it was a completely different game lazily dressed in another's engine/appearance) full of bugs, crashes, glitches, loopholes, exploits, and pointless locations. The enemies were also buffed to become ridiculously impervious to bullets. You could unload enough clips to fuel an army on a half-naked raider... FO3 was fun because the focus was on VATs/Stats, FO:NV tried to become some kind of terrible FPS.
I also hated DO: Origins, I had no interest in a copy-pasted clone of LotR fantasy so the story didn't interest me at all, and I've never been a fan of pause and spend 10 minutes queueing actions gameplay. I rank DO: 2 lower because it was supposed to fix all that... and the demo made you think it had! (but it hadnt...)
All in all I don't often get to buy games, and indeed many have slipped beyond my reach that I've never gotten to play. That's why its really disappointing when I get a bad game. Or console. Geez... the nintendo DS is horrible. It has pokemon... thats about it.
lol /hugerant over
Purchasing Final Fantasy 14 was the single most regrettable purchase in my life, and I once bought a condom that broke.
Okay, not really, but it is a terrible game!
Only mmorpg i bought was WoW, but otherwise i hated myself for buying MW 2. Stupidest game in the world. All the guns were overpowered and everyone was running around with shotguns and sat in corners. I think i played that game for a week and a half before i was about to kill myself. After that I bought fallout 3 goty edition and my life was better.
I bought NWN2. Horrible camera really made that game impossible to play for me. At the time I had made a decision to stop burning games and bought one in London, ON, Canada at EB Games hoping for some real fun ... lolololol ... I ended up selling the thing over the classifieds locally on the internet and for awhile went back to burning games : Z
Money is the root of all evil.
The only real regret I have is Mortal Online. I got the full loot bag. I've bought plenty of other games that didn't pan out but at least those lasted a little while. MO took less than a day to give up on.
Battlecruiser 3000.
nuf said....I win.
I've bought alot of games and a few of those were clunkers.
The last, most disastrous buy I made out of any platform and genre was STO.
The worst gaming purchase I have ever made, and it still kills me when I remember it is the Collector's Edition for AoC back in '08. The hype, the excitement leading to purchase, the excitement of Launch Day, the beginning area of Tortage. All that disippated once you left Tortage and began to notice the major issues of that title even more.
What was worse was that due to my excitement, I pursuaded my Sister to buy into it, so Funcom got money from the both of us. I also still remember the driving both of us did to find a copy. But she stopped right at 1 month and I kept on for roughly 3 months like a fool. That was also the last time she followed my lead in an MMORPG purchase. Can't say I blame her.
My last 3 MMORPGs were, in the following order: AoC, WAR, and STO.
Can I pick 'em, or can I pick 'em?
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
final fantasy 11 and age of conan
Of all the MMO's ive played there is only one that i could honestly call a stinker and that game is Mortal Online.
Every MMO had at least one thing that made me smile or think " hey thats cool". Not so Mortal Online.
I've played enough MMORPGs that are so bad that despite producing some smiles and occasional thoughts of "that's pretty damn cool," they wipe it all away with anger and disgust when you really see the title for what it is.
Again, my lucky last 3 of AoC, WAR, and STO all had such occasions.
"I have only two out of my company and 20 out of some other company. We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." (First Lieutenant Clifton B. Cates, US Marine Corps, Soissons, 19 July 1918)
You beat me to it
Biggest letdown ever
Söldner: Secret Wars
Game got immensely hyped in German gaming-media what made me preorder it but it was a buggy mess with tons of features the vocal minority wanted but didn't work anyway.
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