That one game where your character is played by Minnie Driver's boobs and it has dinosaurs. Controls were horrible, you have no weapons and you spend your time running away from dinosaurs or being eaten by them.

Only redeeming feature of that game was Minnie Driver's boobs.

Title: Superman on N64
Reason(s): Horrifically poor controls, lousy level design, crap storyline. No wonder Game Informer gave it a rating of 1.25 out of 10 (wish I'd seen that before I bought the game).

Title: Extreme G 2 on N64
Reason: The multiplayer setup was horrible. The combat vehicles were unbearably slow.

Title: Winback: Covert Operations on N64
Reason: Should have waited for the PS2 version. (I did enjoy the N64 version, though)

Title: Castlevania: Curse of Darkness on PS2
Reason: Kept getting new Innocent Devils and wanting to level them all the way up on different leveling paths. I got obsessed with that aspect of the game, then just got tired of doing it and never played the game again.

Title: Starfox Command on Nintendo DS
Reason: Unusable controls. I couldn't even come close to finishing the first level because I couldn't use (or customize) the controls.

Title: Metroid Prime: Hunters on Nintendo DS
Reason: Couldn't get used to the controls. I was unable to customize them properly (the necessary options simply weren't available).

It was Trespasser. It should have totally been called "Minnie Driver's boobs with dinosaurs in the background or something...."

would you be referring to "Jurassic Park: Trespasser"?

ninja'd :ph34r:

10 minutes wouldn't even get you out of the tutorial...


Hell, I spent longer than that in facegen.

Saints Row 2 for me. It was cheap and a lot of people recommended it, so I bought it pretty much blindly. Didn't know it was a gangsta GTA clone that froze constantly. Played maybe half an hour and never looked back.

You missed out on a fantastic game.

I can't wait for the third one.

I'm guessing that's the PC version, from what I heard it was a bad port.

:banghead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsters_2 :wallbash:

Agreed. The gangsta stuff was all very tongue-in-cheek, and it was so much more than a GTA clone.

In many ways Saints Row is very anti-GTA, at least GTA IV. Whereas GTA IV became all about storytelling and gritty drama (Which I like, don't get me wrong) Saints Row is all about balls to the wall insane fun. Go check out the info that came out on Saints Row: The Third at E3, it's [censored] insane. That's the only suitable way to describe it.

There is a car that inhales pedestrians and fires them out of a giant clown cannon. It is the only game where you can call down an airstrike on a gang of evil Luchadors. This game will be incredibly entertaining, topping SR2 in every way by the look of things.

Don't forget the VTOL's :biggrin:

I just remembered one more: The PC version of Silent Hill: Homecoming.

I'm a survival horror fan so I ended up buying it through Steam on an impulse. BIG mistake. Probably one of the worst PC ports I have ever played in my entire life. Buggy in the extreme, unstable (on my pc the framerate starts to take field trips into the single digits after an hour or so of constant play), and the devs were too lazy to even create tooltips for keys (press "e" to save at save points, stuff like that, it just shows a generic symbol). It was just the epitome of lazy ports. The console version of the game is decent enough, but the PC port kills anything good about the game.

I wonder how much that is the case with some games. GTA SA was very tongue in cheek, but it was actually well written to the point that I actually felt immersed in the whole hip hop culture and gangland violence, despite absoultely hating all that crap in reality.



But I don't think some of the GTA Clones were quite so humourous. I always see some wealthy upper class exec writing the script to what he thinks kids like. I swear in one demo of a GTA clone I played, the protagonists saw a man in an alley and went "He's wearing a green shirt, let's get him!" This was not intended as satire.

Hmm..

After roughly 4-5 hours I couldn't stand to pick up Dragon Age: Origins anymore. So boring and on rails.

I was disappointed by how streamlined Fable 3 was, but still like it and play it.

Brink was a HUGE letdown, but I only rented it from a Redbox, so no big loss.

Wow, all 3 of those for the same reason. Why do we hate FC2, why do we? It just never stuck with me. I could not play that game.

Also - Black Ops(PC), I probably got my money out of it through zombies with friends but I regret it.

Red Dead Redemption - got it release day, couldn't finish it because of a mix of not caring about the story as much as I probably could have been and really, really hating xbox controls by that point. I can't play my xbox any more.

BFBC2 - I re bought BFBC2 on the PC because as mentioned above I absolutely hate playing with a controller now. 30 bucks wasted, I haven't been able to get back into it.

Essentially while playing multiplayer I got into a verbal fight with the good friend ( B ) of my then-best friend ( A ), and it resulted in real life hostilities and choosing sides, which resulted in a lot of situations in high school that would have been totally different had we not had that multiplayer match. By the time my class graduated, A had isolated himself from our group of friends, started going out with the long-time crush of B, and wound up becoming a completely different person, going from normal to goth/emo thanks to the influence of his girlfriend. B and I only got over our hostilities when we no longer talked to A, but while our lives after high school wouldn't have been all that different without the multiplayer match, A's would have been.

It's hard to get into more details of what happened in-between all that and why it ties back to Shadowrun without typing out a wall of text.

Red Dead Redemption: Controls felt horrible and the game just got boring really fast.

Half Life 2/Orange Box: Got totally fed up with bugs jumping on my head virtually everywhere I went. Didn't bother to finish it.

Assassins Creed: Looked nice but the repetitive missions ruined it for me.

Far Cry 2: Malaria, unfair respawns, vehicles breaking down, no quick save, I could go on but basically it was a beautiful game ruined by crappy game mechanics.

Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising: Massive glitch-fest, horrific online.

There are games i have bought that I don't care for but don't really regret buying them because I wanted them so bad, so when buying them I wanted them but became huge disapointments. That is why I don't buy on same day releases anymore.

Now that said I wish I lernt my lesson with Sid Miers Civilization. I hated Civ III. I tried playing it but just didn't like it because it wasn't Civ II 2.0 (just like Oblvion wasn't Morrowind 2.0 but ended up loving Oblivion) then Civ IV came along could not run on my PC even though the specs said it should. After 3 or 4 patches later it was fixes so that proved it was the coding that was no good. Then Beyond the Sword came out, tried it, loved it, so I thought they lernt their lesson, got Civ V and OMFG, that is the LAST time I get a Sid Mier Civ game on release.

I got Call to Power 2, returned it. Funny I got it again later at a bargin and with the Apolyton patch I loved it. Masters of Orion III is another one I was so looking for but was just bad without user mods.

Regret gettin them? Only in hind site. If I knew they were that bad I wouldn't have bothered, but glad I did buy them, just so disapointed I never played them as long as their predessorers.