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[lordcooper]

I met Dean Hall during Rezzed.  He seemed like a really nice bloke, not an asshole in the least.

Gonna add one more game to my list too.  EU3.  CK2 does everything I want in a grand strategy game far better.

[SalmonGod]

I can only think of two right now, and only because others mentioned them here.

Dungeon Defenders:  So... boring... seriously... I can really get into some tower defense, but this game is just sooooo slow paced and dry.  I was really hoping that the combat would be interesting, so that your skill with your character would actually make a difference in holding back the hordes.  Nope.  You're basically a mobile tower.  It's all hard numbers.

Arma II for Day Z:  The hype got me.  I knew it had a reputation for being rough around the edges, but... my god... I couldn't figure it out.  I can figure out Dwarf Fortress.  I can't figure out Day Z.  I don't know how anyone plays it.  And the atmosphere is completely inconsistent.  Everything looks comically broken during the day.  My wife sat next to me and we both laughed our asses off as I ran from extremely goofy looking zombies.  At night, the audio takes over and it's awesome.  I spent like 15 minutes just laying down in the middle of a small town and listening to zombies shuffle by all around me, wondering when one would stumble over me.  You have no idea how much I want a Day Z done right.  The worst part is this is the most money I've spent on one game in the last couple years, and it was even on sale.  I just don't understand how this thing reached such a godly level of hype.

Don't condemn ARMA 2 for DAYZ. You are saying that the game is bad because of a MOD developed for it by a bunch of assholes.
Play the actual ARMA 2, download ACE/ACRE and go on the multiplayer domination/insurgency servers, it gets a lot better. And if you STILL don't like it, then you are too hard to please.

Nothing I said here was meant to reflect on Arma.  Only Day Z.

And even then, it's not so much a condemnation of Day Z as admitting that I got fooled by hype into false expectations.  I understand it's very much unfinished, and isn't in much of a state to be judged as a game yet.

[Neonivek]

I think people should stop buying unfinished games. It is actually creating a very large prey economy within gaming. Where people try to corall people in with promises they have no idea if they can or cannot keep.

[Alkhemia]

I think people should stop buying unfinished games. It is actually creating a very large prey economy within gaming. Where people try to corall people in with promises they have no idea if they can or cannot keep.

I agree.

[lordcooper]

I think people should stop buying unfinished games. It is actually creating a very large prey economy within gaming. Where people try to corall people in with promises they have no idea if they can or cannot keep.

I think neither of us has any right to tell people what they should or shouldn't spend their money on.

[Bdthemag]

Crusader Kings 2.

I was seriously so disappointed by this game, it just doesn't feel like a Grand Strategy game. Don't even get me started on Paradox's DLC they released after the game, which either was already in the game and you just bought something to unlock it or it was just a small little thing a modder could of done in a few weeks.

[Neonivek]

I think people should stop buying unfinished games. It is actually creating a very large prey economy within gaming. Where people try to corall people in with promises they have no idea if they can or cannot keep.

I think neither of us has any right to tell people what they should or shouldn't spend their money on.

Good so I'll just ignore your advice and state that once again I think people should stop buying unfinished games.

Unless there is a difference between my statement and yours it is actually a valid move on my part. Yet can you express it is the question. Is your economy of words large enough?

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I will probably have something in here before the Holidays are over. Whenever I really want a game but don't buy it I find that my insticts were rather correct (unfortunately) since the second I do save in it turns out to be rather... bad.

[Stworca]

Bloody Iron Front : Liberation.. Aside from tank battles, this must be the single worst - and most overhyped - turd i've laid my hands on.

[Seraphim342]

I honestly can't stand horror-based games or movies because I find them cripplingly boring and predictable.  I don't get bothered by much, and when messing with you is the meat of the game it just gets annoying.  Action-horror and survival-horror are a little different, though.  For example, I liked Dead Space and the Resident Evil franchise, but get really bored with games like Silent Hill. 

Thought I'd enjoy DayZ, so I bought Arma II for it.  I was expecting a zombie survival horror game, but what it turned out to be was an un-polished, buggy competitive online shooter with guns that can take hours to acquire and get lost when you die, which turned it into a major camp-fest (spent an hour up on top of a factory chimney at night trying to get a clear bead on a guy who'd been stalking me, only to get killed by a teleport hacker with an axe and losing all the guns and equipment I'd spent the previous two hours acquiring), with some zombies that run around and can maybe hurt you a bit if you don't know what you're doing.  Arma's a decent shooter, but nothing I haven't seen before in Operation Flashpoint. 

[Gamerboy4life]

I honestly can't stand horror-based games or movies because I find them cripplingly boring and predictable.  I don't get bothered by much, and when messing with you is the meat of the game it just gets annoying.  Action-horror and survival-horror are a little different, though.  For example, I liked Dead Space and the Resident Evil franchise, but get really bored with games like Silent Hill. 

Thought I'd enjoy DayZ, so I bought Arma II for it.  I was expecting a zombie survival horror game, but what it turned out to be was an un-polished, buggy competitive online shooter with guns that can take hours to acquire and get lost when you die, which turned it into a major camp-fest (spent an hour up on top of a factory chimney at night trying to get a clear bead on a guy who'd been stalking me, only to get killed by a teleport hacker with an axe and losing all the guns and equipment I'd spent the previous two hours acquiring), with some zombies that run around and can maybe hurt you a bit if you don't know what you're doing.  Arma's a decent shooter, but nothing I haven't seen before in Operation Flashpoint.

"Arma's a decent shooter,"

"Nothing I haven't seen before in Operation Flashpoint."


You know that they are based upon the same engine. Like literally, they are the exact same game, despite Flashpoint being dumbed down slightly, as Arma still keeps a milsim status.

Arma is many, many times better than Flashpoint, as the devs of Flashpoint wanted to keep it on the route it was already trekking towards, and I believe Bohemia had a problem with that, so they ended up making ARMA.

Same engine, same history, one is fundamentally different from the other, and much better.


But Dayz was a stinking pile of shit.

[Bdthemag]

You really should never buy a game just to get a mod for it, always make sure that the base gameplay is fun or interesting to you or you'll make a purchase you'll regret.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

You know that they are based upon the same engine. Like literally, they are the exact same game, despite Flashpoint being dumbed down slightly, as Arma still keeps a milsim status.

Arma is many, many times better than Flashpoint, as the devs of Flashpoint wanted to keep it on the route it was already trekking towards, and I believe Bohemia had a problem with that, so they ended up making ARMA.

Same engine, same history, one is fundamentally different from the other, and much better.

The original Operation Flashpoint, not that piece of shit remake, was made by the same devs that made the ARMA series. The reason why the ARMA series exists is because they lost the licence to the Operation Flashpoint name. The original Operation Flashpoint is now called ARMA: Cold War Crisis.

[Alkhemia]

Hence why I get a "Demo" of a PC game before I buy to bad I can't do that for my PS3 or I would of never bought Hyperdimension Neptunia also why I've not got 2 yet even though I heard it was good not making the same mistake twice.

[dei]

I regretted buying Pokémon White, Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns and Spectral Force Genesis. While I may not have bought all of them this year I still regretted it this year.

The newest generation of Pokémon games I gave up on due to my inability to get my favorites without having to rely on some newfangled technology that bastardized the sacred rite that is trading Pokémon. I'm sorry but I don't care if I can get a shiny Pidgey easier by trading Pokémon over the internet, I just want to be able to catch a Pikachu, a Clefairy, a Caterpie, a Skitty or a Ralts, and only trade for one if my game doesn't have them but the other version does. Fuck you Game Freak for ruining the defining franchise of my childhood.

I gave up on the at-the-time latest Harvest Moon game for the Nintendo DS solely because it was too grindy and too reliant on experimentation in order to figure out what my favorite girl likes and doesn't like. It was pretty damn easy to figure it out in Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town that Mary likes plants, Ann likes it when you buy food from her father's restaurant and that Popuri loves eggs but no one could guess that Georgia in Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Towns loves to eat fried rice, which I don't find fitting for a farm girl like her. On top of that the tutorial was annoying and quite condescending and had no option to skip it whatsoever. Fuck you Marvelous Interactive for ruining the defining franchise of my adolescence.

I gave up on Spectral Force Genesis solely because of false advertisement. It claims to be an immersive game but when was the last time a real-time strategy game with a few Engrish cutscenes that at most confuse the reader and wonder why the hell he bought this game considered immersive? I don't even remember who made this game so fuck you Gamestop for having it available in your stores.

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. 

You sold me on the Knights of the Old Republic franchise. Thank you, I had been debating on buying copies of those games for a good three or four months now.

You really should never buy a game just to get a mod for it, always make sure that the base gameplay is fun or interesting to you or you'll make a purchase you'll regret.

I actually bought The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: Game of the Year Edition solely because of a now-defunct video game magazine reviewing Better Bodies and found so much more than just eyecandy. I fell in love with the game itself as if it were fate and now only use Better Bodies as part of the whole texture pack combination I employ whenever I install the game.

My only regret is that now on rare occasions Amana has to escort naked Nordic men with huge... clubs. Yes, clubs. Thank god for Almsivi Intervention.

[Ozyton]

{ARMA and OFP stuff here}

To be more specific, Bohemia Interactive created Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis and Codemasters published it. Codemasters kept the rights to the "Operation Flashpoint" name, so BI went on to make ARMA, which uses the same engine as OFP:CWC. Meanwhile Codemasters makes some travesty of a game using the Operation Flashpoint name. If you want real 'Operation Flashpoint' then get stuff made by BI, I.E. ARMA 2 and ARMA 3 when it comes out.

As for games I regret buying... I don't buy as many games as I used to, and I can't say that I bought any 'bad' games this year to my recollection. I guess the only regret I have with buying many of the games I've gotten this year is that I haven't actually played them... oddly enough. I'm sure some of us are in a situation where they buy games that look neat during a steam sale or similar, and never get around to play them, that's pretty much what I've got.