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[Kaje]

X-COM for me. I really regret buying it, I've played it and completed in one sitting and I have no desire to go back to it at all - especially not with the vastly over-priced DLC.

[Levi]

Hmm probably Stronghold 3(I think I bought that this year?).

I heard some horrid things about Stronghold 3. Is it true that the enemy pikeman reach up attack your men that are on the battlements? 

At some point, not sure if that was fixed.  But even worse were the wolves that could levitate up ladders.   

[fenrif]

Whoever said Superbros: Swords and Sworcery... Thank you for reminding me of another regret. (Is this a good thing or not? )

All flash and no substance, way too "indie" for it's own good. And clearly designed for tablets and not ported very well to PC.

Walking around is sometimes an experience in itself.

And yes, it really feels more like a visual novel instead a game, and it does feel a bit bland - at first. Playing stuff like this with the mindset for almost any other game would indeed be very boring, since it would in effect mean nothing more than walking around some fancy terrain.

I enjoy exploring in games. I enjoy walking around and looking at the scenery. I've spent countless hours just driving/flying around in Just Cause 2 and enjoying the views. And I knew going in that Dear Esther was some atmospheric visual novel thing. But when that's all there is, and you can't really explore because it's all fairly narrow paths, and your walk speed is snail-slow...

Yeah I really didn't enjoy that. The thing could've been a couple of .jpgs and a text file and the experience wouldn't have changed drastically.

[Seraphim342]

Here we go...

Guild Wars 2/The Secret World/SWTOR:  They're basically the same game, gameplay-wise, and bad at that.  Major thumbs down.  I'm sadly coming to terms with the fact that Anarchy Online will forever remain the only MMORPG I truly enjoy, even dated as it is.

Blazing Angels 1+2 and Patrician 3 off of steam, can't even play them and couldn't get a refund even though the steam page said nothing about them not being playable on anything more recent than XP. 

X-COM: Enemy Unknown, my fault, really.  I expected it to be Real Hard instead of RNG Fake Hard.  Tactics and cover mechanics just seem tacked-on, and the game outside the tactical map (world map, research, etc) is incredibly shallow.  The UFO series, with all its flaws, was a much more worthy successor. 

KOTOR II:  KOTOR is one of my favorite games of all time.  KOTOR II was a turd, and a broken turd at that.  Was barely playable without mods just for compatibility and to add in cut content (that large parts of the game make zero sense without), and even then it felt like more of a chore than an enjoyable experience.  I spent the first 5 hours having nostalgic KOTOR-esque fun, then the remaining 50 finishing the game out of stubborn spite. 

Finally, FTL.  It's a great concept and a fun game, but the rapid, forced pace of the game is grating.  I'll revisit it when the "exploration" mods get ironed out. 

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Here we go...
KOTOR II:  KOTOR is one of my favorite games of all time.  KOTOR II was a turd, and a broken turd at that.  Was barely playable without mods just for compatibility and to add in cut content (that large parts of the game make zero sense without), and even then it felt like more of a chore than an enjoyable experience.  I spent the first 5 hours having nostalgic KOTOR-esque fun, then the remaining 50 finishing the game out of stubborn spite. 

I had the exact opposite reaction to KOTOR versus KOTOR II. I found KOTOR pretty uninteresting stuff since I was never really into the whole extended universe of Star Wars. I didn't enjoy any of the characters in KOTOR apart from Jolee. Mission has a special place in my self-created hell, when I had a chance to off the bitch I couldn't do it faster. I also saw the big character twist coming a mile away. The balance was also pretty bad basically forcing you to go with the  lightsaber and always having the Jedi/Sith companions (not that KOTOR II really fixed that).

KOTOR II added a whole range of much more interesting characters but more importantly used the whole dark versus light aspect to delve into philosophy regarding the true nature of what we perceive as evil and good. KOTOR just had the Siths as puppy eaters and the Jedis as D&D paladins. For this reason I found KOTOR II to actually be engaging. Being tutored by Visas in her way of the Sith was amazing. 
Being able to either corrupt or bring companions to the light side was also pretty cool. Watching my crew slowly changing their physical appearance to reflect that corruption was a nice touch. 

That's not to say KOTOR II didn't have it's flaws. It's an extremely buggy game and has plenty of missing features. I'm willing to forgive Obsidian a little because apparently they only had a single year to make KOTOR II while Bioware had three. They also had to use Bioware coding which is infamously shoddy and hacky, it coined the phase "Bioware magic" especially with regard to their Infinity Engine games. 
I really wish they'd come with a remake or an enhanced edition. That game needs more love than it received.

[nenjin]

Krater. Good premise, really underdelivered.

[Rince Wind]

Ufo: Aftermath
Played it for maybe 5 hours.

[Vortex Rikers]

X-Com. I know I shouldn't have expected as grandiose an experience as the original for obvious reasons, but the 4-6 squad limit, the difficulty relying on failing your actions even with 80% success rates, the complete lack of replayability, and a vastly nerfed/largely pointless base building aspect with shallow UFO interception and, last but not least, THOSE GOD DAMN "YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE OUT OF THREE" TERROR MISSIONS, I only played through it once and was done for good.

Chivalry. I played it years ago when it was free, I think it was even a Half Life 2 mod. If I knew it was the same game years after, but with a price tag, I would have got War of the Roses instead.

Now that I think about it, there aren't that many games I do regret buying, it's been a largely solid year.

[Levi]

Ufo: Aftermath
Played it for maybe 5 hours.

I didn't even get that far.  Heh.  I got pissed off when I killed all the aliens, but one of my guys was knocked unconscious.  Apparently I can't leave the mission without all my alive members of the team, and my team is too lazy to drag the guy back to the ship.  So my only choice was to shoot my own guy on the ground. 

Instead I said screw this and uninstalled.

[PanH]

Chivalry. I played it years ago when it was free, I think it was even a Half Life 2 mod. If I knew it was the same game years after, but with a price tag, I would have got War of the Roses instead.

War of the Roses is horrible too. There's simply not much in terms of medieval first person.

[anzki4]

The only game I regret buying this year is Resonance. Then again I haven't played most of the games I bought mostly exclusively from GoG (most were bought during sales too) this year yet.

[Kaje]

KOTOR II:  KOTOR is one of my favorite games of all time.  KOTOR II was a turd, and a broken turd at that.  Was barely playable without mods just for compatibility and to add in cut content (that large parts of the game make zero sense without), and even then it felt like more of a chore than an enjoyable experience.  I spent the first 5 hours having nostalgic KOTOR-esque fun, then the remaining 50 finishing the game out of stubborn spite. 

Finally, FTL.  It's a great concept and a fun game, but the rapid, forced pace of the game is grating.  I'll revisit it when the "exploration" mods get ironed out.

Have you tried KOTOR II with the Sith Lords Restored Content patch?

http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-sith-lords-restored-content-mod-tslrcm

And agree with regards to FTL...played it for a couple of hours and then really couldn't be arsed with it anymore.

[HLBeta]

Magicka tops my personal list at the moment. I bought it thinking it'd be a clever little game with enough mayhem to keep things interesting. The single player campaign was unabashedly awful due to combat balancing that felt entirely aimed at multiple players. I tried tossing a spare key for it from an Amazon bundle at a friend but he can't get it to run at all. I want to like it, but I just haven't managed to have actual fun playing it yet.

I powerfully regret my purchase and playing of Amnesia, though that's because it's very good at what it does rather than because of any actual flaw in the game.

GTA IV was a huge letdown. Much of my prior experience with the series was through San Andreas, so I was expecting something a little more varied and interesting than what the single player campaign delivered. Online multiplayer is somewhat better, but that's mostly because of all the hilarious ways you can break the game with weapon pickups and a team.

Still, a very positive year on the whole. Special shout-outs to Mark of the Ninja and Half-Minute Hero for being proof that it was worth hanging around another year.

[GlyphGryph]

The balance was also pretty bad basically forcing you to go with the lightsaber and always having the Jedi/Sith companions (not that KOTOR II really fixed that).

Pistol based builds were actually far superior to the lightsaber builds, in my experience. I had no difficulty beating the game with HK-47 and T3-M4 as my main companions either. Or maybe you meant it was too easy, and that was the only way to get a challenge? I'm not sure.

Regrets-wise.... well, actually, I'm not sure if there were any games I regret buying. But I certainly regret playing a few - basically all of the web games and flash games. Worthless addictive time sinks...

[Devling]

I tend to not buy many games which I don't like because I'm pretty poor so I make  sure I want it etc.(That's not to say I didn't buy games and not like them, looking at Crusaders and Victoria)

But, Hotline Miami. I like hotline miami, I think it is an awesome game, but it glitches out on my computer and doesn't work properly.
So, I regret it for now, but once they release the patch to fix it I will enjoy the game immensely.