Steam Sale games you regret buying?

[ElektroDragon]

So who has impulse purchased a Steam game they have later regretted? Here is my list:

Juiced 2 - too many bugs
Thief Deadly Shadows - too old to run well or look good
Gothic II - too old to run well or look good
Gothic III - horrible controls and interface
Mass Effect - I bought it, but then ended up playing it on 360
Osmos - great game, but a month later it was on GFWL Marketplace with Live Achievements
World of Goo - same as Osmos

I wish you could sell these games, I really do.

[spdiscus]

I'm more likely to regret my GoG sales purchases.

For Steam, the only game I think I'll never play is Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I spent about 10 minutes with it and hated it. I think it was $2.50.

[Anenome]

How do you regret World of Goo? >_>

[brandonjclark]

I'm more likely to regret my GoG sales purchases.

For Steam, the only game I think I'll never play is Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I spent about 10 minutes with it and hated it. I think it was $2.50.


I also regret buying SC:CT, but only because the game DOESN'T FUCKING RUN on Win7 x64.

[ElektroDragon]

How do you regret World of Goo? >_>

I explained that. It came out on GFWL Marketplace recently with my beloved Live Achievements, so of course I bough it immediately there. Granted, I had purchased it months before than on Steam, but didn't bother to actually PLAY it until they put out the Live Achievements version. Microsoft ruined me. :D

EDIT: I also just realized the ironic pun of my statement: "Impulse purchased a Steam game"

[furtim]

There are a bunch I don't ever play, but I got most of them cheap enough that I don't care.

The only one I actively regret, though, is X3. I was in the mood for a Privateer-style space game, but X3 just didn't do anything for me. Maybe I just don't have the patience for that style of game any more or maybe my gamepad just sucks too much, but either way it's the only Steam game I've tried and then regretted rather than just tried and ignored.

[Johan]

There are a bunch I don't ever play, but I got most of them cheap enough that I don't care.

Same here. Honestly, when I buy fifteen or twenty titles for the price of a single AAA title at full price, I don't mind them sitting in my account and waiting for a rainy day far into the future.

[Reaping_Ant]

Gothic II - too old to run well or look good

I haven't had any problems getting it to work, even on Win7 x64. But then I don't have the Steam version but the original German retail one back from 2002.
The graphics were not the prettiest back then and haven't held up too well, I must agree.


Gothic III - horrible controls and interface
Yes, the game is a bit... unwieldy, but I think the world design (especially the cities) is fantastic and the atmosphere is pretty absorbing, too.
One thing I've always wondered about concerning the Gothic series: How is the English translation and voiceover? Because the German voiceover always was one of the hallmarks of the series.
If the English translation is even remotely as bad as some of the German ones are (TES IV: Oblivion's still makes my toenails curl), I can understand why the series was never very successful outside of Germany.


Mass Effect - I bought it, but then ended up playing it on 360

Really? I think the PC port is superior in almost any way: Controls, interface, graphics and even sound if you play around with the config files a bit to get EAX 5.0 over OpenAL to work. Bought it on Steam just to get around the bloody activation limit, well worth it for one of my favourite games of the last decade.


The only game I really regret buying, especially because it was one of the more expensive ones at € 10, is Resident Evil 5. I played it for a couple of hours, but I had to force myself to do even that. That game is neither scary, nor is it a good action game, nor is the story anything but standard fare.

It's been some time since I've seen such an accumulation of bad design choices. If you absolutely have to have an inventory system in a third-person shooter, don't make it handle like a Chinese finger trap.
Scarce ammunition combined with hordes of zombies and bosses that can take several hundred bullets? Not a good idea. Don't get me wrong, a lack of ammunition can be a great way to create suspense, if done right (see: System Shock 2). But you decided to turn Resident Evil into a shooter, so just give me enough bullets to shoot those damn zombies and don't make me scrounge around for ammo every five minutes.
And don't even get me started on the whole "you can only shoot while standing still" thing, that may work very well for a horror adventure, but once again, this is now an action game.

After the largely positive reviews this game has been getting, I'm immensly disappointed, even at € 10.

[Meusli]

Well there is only one game that I have bought from steam that I have regretted. That game is Atari 80 classic games in one, the only game on steam that seems to like windows 98 and no other OS is allowed to play it's sacred code. If only I had checked the forum I would have seen such warnings as "Do NOT buy this game." (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1124325), "Problems With Running The Games?" (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1207575) and "Many games don't work on XP" (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1137578). Truly a programmer's turd of a compilation.

I have also shit games that came in packs but they are notreally an issue as I did not directly purchase them. Games like Shellshock 2: Blood Trails.

[Mav]

Left 4 Dead

Aside from the cheap like 24 or 48 hour sales they'd have now and again, the game was primarily at the $39.99 price point on Steam. After a while I said fuck it, and ponyed up $40 it. I never got to try it for that like two week long trial before it was released but it got such great reviews..

Well, it was a great game, I enjoyed it. I think I got my $40 worth.

Until that is, they announced L4D2 like, a week after I bought L4D1, with all the new features and content that SHOULD have been in L4D1 ;\

[lockwoodx]

This is a stupid thread because if you got the game on sale you can't regret much. You didn't buy it in the first place when it was new so what were you expecting???

[CptTripps]

This is a stupid thread because if you got the game on sale you can't regret much. You didn't buy it in the first place when it was new so what were you expecting???

I don't see why you can't regret a sale purchase, paying full price would cause more regret but any waste of money will cause some amount. Calling this thread stupid after complaining about a AAA title costing $50 seems... stupid.

As to what they were expecting. Probably to purchase an enjoyable game at a discount when they could not pay full price for it.

My regret for steam purchases?

Arma
Red Orchestra