What is the worst game you bought this year?

[doctor_kaz]

Does renting count as "buying" in this thread. Because if so, House of the Dead: Overkill for the Wii is my answer. That game sucks tremendously.

 

[ecliptic]

Probably my $5 copy of NecroVision. Only game I've ever played that causes my PC to blue screen.

 

[Pegultagol]

NBA 2K10 - if you'd thought that CRPG fans have it bad, the PC sports game genre has been so dilapidated and abandoned, its adherents have either committed mass seppuku and gone the way of consoletard lands or migrated to the fringes of reverse engineering and for profit patch foibles, all the while growing more orifices than one can count that publishers are welcome to fuck.

 

[Dnny]

ASSassin Creed. Not a new game but I bought and played it for the first time recently and god am I glad I didn't buy it at its full original price. What a ripoff and shit it is. I thought it was gonna be a game like Hitman but it's nothing like it, the mechanics are ridiculous and you spend so much time just travelling it's like the authors tried and loved this part of Morrowind.
Uninstalled it after two hours of playing. Will never buy a game made by Ubishit again because so far I've only seen shit from them and I don't know what got to me when I bought AC.
The game plays itself and is just a succession of cutscenes after cutscenes. Worst thing is that you can't skip the "real world" retarded shit that happens between the missions.

Fuck unless you just kill the game process it takes thirty seconds to exit it as they can't even fucking put a "quit" command to their assretarded menu.

 

[Muty]

stop using my avatar you nigger; i've been here half a fucking decade

I changed it, then I just saw your retarded post and I changed it back.

 

[deuxhero]

Uh, likely something I got with my ps2... Arcana Heart (decent fighter, gets old, not as bad as SSBB though)

 

[Elzair]

BOUGHT?!

BOUGHT?!

LAWL!!

Seriously, it is a tie between Drakensang and Dragon Age.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Wait, I bought Saints Row 2 for PC. That was the worst. It might actually be a good game, but the PC port is so awful that I sure as hell don't see it. At least I only spent $5 on it.

 

[Jasede]

stop using my avatar you nigger; i've been here half a fucking decade

I changed it, then I just saw your retarded post and I changed it back.

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[Nostradumbass]

BF2142.. got it 2nd hand. was shit. bf2 complete pack is much better.

 

[Pablosdog]

Probably Too human. It was 10 dollers, and I needed a grind heavy loot game on mah 360. It was fucking terrible, and I knew what I was getting into. There is no excuse for your game to suck that much if you had 10 years to develop it.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

Dark Horizon. I hoped it was something like TIE Fighter or Freespace. Should have read some reviews first, it's slow, boring, filled with made-up words and generally amateurish. Don't try it.

I also got Virtua Fighter remix with a Saturn I bought, it's horrible, but we got pretty good laughs off it so it was worth it.

 

[fastpunk]

For me it's Prince of Persia: Sands of Time from Gog.com. I reckon the game would be decent with a controller, but it's fucking annoying on a keyboard, specially since the camera has its own fucking mind.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

*bump*

The only games I bought in 2009 were:

# The budget re-release of HOMM3 + HOMM4. I wanted a backup copy of HOMM3, but getting the 2-in-1 pack was cheaper than getting HOMM3 alone.

# The Gold Edition of HOMM5. I thought it might be worth a look.

# A copy of The Bard's Tale. Yes, the 2004 game.

# Ghostbusters. It was the only game that was within my field of interest, and was actually released in 2009 on the PC. Much to my surprise though, it is the first game in many years that I can't run because my system is too old - apparantely, I don't have a dual-layer DVD drive, and my graphics card "only" has 256 MB of RAM, while the game asks for 512 MB. Makes me wonder if it's worth my time to upgrade just to play this.

Oh, and I was given a copy of Bioshock via Steam by a friend. A gesture I am very thankful for, but the game is a cheap ripoff of System Shock 2.

I'll leave it in your hands to decide which of these games is the worst.

 

[Silellak]

Dunno, probably Torchlight. It's okay for what it is (lolz), but I'm glad I bought it when it was $5 on Steam. $20 is way too much for it.

 

[markec]

Bought Mass Effect during the Steam sale, worst 5$ I ever spend.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Wait, I bought Saints Row 2 for PC. That was the worst. It might actually be a good game, but the PC port is so awful that I sure as hell don't see it. At least I only spent $5 on it.

I heard the PC port sucks for some reason I don't remember now, but on the 360 it's awesomely fun.

The story also seemed interesting with you playing a thousand year old immortal in a world where there is something akin to a magical industrial revolution going on. Unfortunately the game quickly soured on me. It wasn't even the dull combat or the extreme linearity that killed it. No, it was the fact that the character you play is a whiny, moody and utterly unlikeable dull twat with no redeeming characteristics whatsoever. If this is what passes for cool in Japan it gives more credit to the idea that two bombs wasn't enough.

Apparently he became like that because of his shitty immortal life. Does it count?

 

[Mattresses]

Knights of the Chalice was the only game I bought last year and it was amazing.

 

[Hory]

I felt cheated after paying for the bandwidth to download AoD only to have it crash each time during the loading screen.