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[de5me7]

Witcher, Picked it up cheap somewheres (perhaps Gog can't remember). Played for fourty minutes and realised i was yet to do anything other than watch cut scenes or click on stuff in the order the designer intended, yawn. Also im sort of bored with writers using amnesia to dive plots.

[NobodyPro]

Battlefield 3: Could barely run it and the graphics settings were somewhere between a mediocre console port and a console game (in terms of turning stuff off). Origin turned out to be as bad as everybody said it was and I can't even run Battlefield 3 offline without patching Origin. At least Steam patches itself in the background after you log in (and you can turn that off). Server list opened up in Firefox and the number of pacific servers at the time was somewhere close to zero. I pre-ordered it and was able to play for all of 15 minutes three months after purchase before another Origin patch was released.

[Paul]

I'd say Borderlands 2, but I got it free as part of my video card so it wasn't really a purchase. Didn't enjoy it much, though.

Other than that I've been pretty happy with the games I bought. Got a few duds in bundle deals, but the deals were so cheap I wasn't expecting much anyway and I got what I paid for. Even the worst of them were entertaining long enough to be worth the cheapo prices I got them at. I haven't really bought any big budget games lately, though.

Starfarer.

I like the arcade action of the battles, but that's all that the game has going for it. It never quite managed to go as big as it was envisioned, into multiple worlds and dynamic economies, etc. Additionally, it seems like development is headed down the boring RPG path into making current gameplay features harder to unlock through a grindy character-leveling system, rather than actually adding more gameplay.

I have probably narrowly played out my $20 worth of the game, but it hardly compares to the windfall returns of gameplay I grabbed for $12 when I bought Mount and Blade at version 0.632

Starfarer is only on version .54, the campaign for it is a placeholder single system with a few stations and no meaningful game play outside the battles has been added yet. How can you write that off as a regret when it's so early in development? You may as well say "Well, that kid was supposed to be smart, but he never managed to finish high school" when the kid is 3. M&B was pretty crap early in development, I remember versions with nothing but a town called Zendar and fighting little groups around it and no real goals.

[WealthyRadish]

Starfarer.

I like the arcade action of the battles, but that's all that the game has going for it. It never quite managed to go as big as it was envisioned, into multiple worlds and dynamic economies, etc. Additionally, it seems like development is headed down the boring RPG path into making current gameplay features harder to unlock through a grindy character-leveling system, rather than actually adding more gameplay.

I have probably narrowly played out my $20 worth of the game, but it hardly compares to the windfall returns of gameplay I grabbed for $12 when I bought Mount and Blade at version 0.632

It is slow in development, but if you liked M&B, I can't see the argument against a game with a nearly identical skill system. I'd say that it's less grindy than M&B's, since it has lower attribute requirements for the skills and the experience curve flattens much less quickly. I can see how it may be a bit annoying in the current release to have hull mods briefly restricted, but that'll pretty much instantly evaporate with the officer release. As Paul said, writing it off this early doesn't make any sense.

[Neonivek]

Boarderlands 2 seasons pass...

I am not that interested in Boarderlands 2 it is just one of those things you are roped into buying because otherwise you are left out of the loop. Like Diablo 3

Hmm wait... Diablo 3 came out this year... I put Diablo 3 as the game I regret the most. The MMORPG disguised as a game.

[yamo]

I regret buying Football Manager 2010 back in 2010.  It is a great game and I've played it for hundreds and hundreds of hours.  It is my favorite game and even after I bought some other shiny, new game I found myself playing FM instead.  But...in July Sports Interactive installed DRM without my permision and the drm won't connect so I can't play FM without Steam,  I bought and registered the game 2 years ago but now I can't play the game without using Steam.  I don't like Steam.  I don't want to use Steam.  The patch to remove the DRM posted at GamersGate, my POS, does not remove the DRM though it claims it does.  GG's response was, "Take it up with SI."  So now when/if I play FM I feel like a cheap whore.  And I can never buy a game from Sega, SI, or GG ever again...because i don't want to feel like a cheap whore.  I really regret buying FM. 

[Scelly9]

I regret buying Football Manager 2010 back in 2010.  It is a great game and I've played it for hundreds and hundreds of hours.  It is my favorite game and even after I bought some other shiny, new game I found myself playing FM instead.  But...in July Sports Interactive installed DRM without my permision and the drm won't connect so I can't play FM without Steam,  I bought and registered the game 2 years ago but now I can't play the game without using Steam.  I don't like Steam.  I don't want to use Steam.  The patch to remove the DRM posted at GamersGate, my POS, does not remove the DRM though it claims it does.  GG's response was, "Take it up with SI."  So now when/if I play FM I feel like a cheap whore.  And I can never buy a game from Sega, SI, or GG ever again...because i don't want to feel like a cheap whore.  I really regret buying FM. 

Do you also not watch movies that have copy protect?

[fenrif]

Hmm wait... Diablo 3 came out this year... I put Diablo 3 as the game I regret the most. The MMORPG revenue stream disguised as a game.

Fixed that for you.

[hops]

Team Fortress 2.

I just hate FPS and never knew it until I started playing TF2. Gah, I should've tried some free first person shooters first.

[Donuts]

Team Fortress 2.

I just hate FPS and never knew it until I started playing TF2. Gah, I should've tried some free first person shooters first.

You one of us who paid the 30$ or something a few months before it became free?

[Shadowlord]

There's a huge difference between different FPSes, though. I haven't played TF2 in ages because I don't find it all that fun (and the endless COLLECTING, and as of a year or two ago they've made it IMPOSSIBLE to collect everything, so now the only way to win is not to play). If that's the only one you've played, that doesn't really tell you if you'd hate other FPSes too.

[RedKing]

Probably Guild Wars 2 -- not because I don't enjoy it, but because it's yet another "Oh hey, finally an excuse for me and the guys to hang out online" that turned into "Oh hey, nobody else is ever on, guess I'll go work on my solo characters who are now umpteen levels higher than my "main" since we never play". Just like Champions Online was a couple of years ago.

At least it's not subscription-based, so I don't feel like I'm burning money by not playing.

[hops]

Team Fortress 2.

I just hate FPS and never knew it until I started playing TF2. Gah, I should've tried some free first person shooters first.

You one of us who paid the 30$ or something a few months before it became free?

Yeah. 

[Geen]

The recent HIBs except for the one with botanicula and that game about mars have been kinda shitty, but then again they were one hell of a bargain.

[Nega]

War Z. Most boring game on earth. I died from walking down a hill, got sniped by a hacker, and eventually got banned because I played for too long.