Have You Ever Bought A Game You Couldn't Play?

gta 4 when it was out

Dawn of War 2 on release, I didn't realize my graphics card was that bad before.

Far Cry (first one). It overheated both of my computers, even so they can run Crysis on max.

Yes, Magicka when I first came out and I only had a laptop

Plenty of times, because of the lack of demos for pretty much everything. shakes fist

My old laptop was unpredictable at best. It ran Tomb Raider Anniversary, but couldn't even launch Bloodrayne 2, no matter what I did. :(

My new laptop plays everything though. So it's all good now. <3

Nope, I always check requirements and if there is an odd error I pretty much can fix it, don't remember ever having any real issues.

Must suck though to buy something and not be able to play it... :-/

Dead Space 2. EA activation says I don't have internets.

Take my game list, then all the AAA titles, 40% of those I can't play. Same for a good number of games I can't play sufficently well enough.

Either I can't play at all the games, they run too slowly, or I end up with weird glitches, like Assassin's Creed and huge brown / yellow curtains all over the map after the prologue.

Yup. Jedi Knight collection

Bioshock would not run properly for me.

I remember when i bought Half Life ... my windows was swarmed with viruses and i knew absoluetly nothing about antiviruses and protecting pc so i had to wait 3 months for some dude to cove over to my place and install new windows.

ive had problem do to software issues not much on hardware.

To this day i have not been able to run Bioshock without it crashing or getting stuck n a black screen. tired most of the fixes, but to this day i still cant.

I've bought a lot of games I couldn't play due to my computer being just not good enough. Doesn't stop me from buying more, haha.

I've always been able to run every game, on lowest settings sometimes, but it ran.

Nope, i always download the pirated version first so i can test stuff

GTA III; My tower back then didn't had any dvd drives. GTA III was one of the first games that needed a dvd-drive to install/play and I thought I should risk it. Turns out that it wasn't bullshit so I used a laptop with a dvd-drive (backup plan) and the lag was almost unbearable. I ended up looking at the ground to get better fps. I regret nothing.

Yes, bought Breach on steam when it was released. The game was so broken I couldn't play it. Now steam have removed it from the store.

Yep, I bought Shogun 2 with all DLCs (without Fall of the Samurai which wasn't released at that moment) knowing I can't run it. It was extra cheap and at some point in the future I'll spend hundreds of hours in it like in old TWs so I didn't regret it even for a second.

Also, in the past I bought Grand Theft Auto 3 right after release, I think I played it 1,5 year later. And as a huge fan of Sapkowski's books I had to pre-order collector's edition of The Witcher. I played it... a year after release?

Ah, I totally forgot about Operation Flashpoint! However, I could run it on my Duron 400 with VooDoo 3, just land textures were not loading at all.

Bought the Spider Man game years ago and didn't have a 3d graphics card.
Also bought FF11 when I was younger failing to realise it was pay-monthly.

just cause 2. i don't know my os need to be vista at minimum to play it :D

Batman Arkham City (Wife bought it for me for my birthday when it was >US$80 (we're in New Zealand)) and I couldn't play it for ~6 months until I'd upgraded my PC and they'd patched it so it worked with 64bit/DX11. By which time it'd dropped in price. FUCKING THANKS ROCKSTEADY.

Same with RAGE, well...it was at least playable on my old PC, but I wanted to give it the power it deserved. Graphically I mean. The story/gameplay is a bit... yeah.

Mafia II, all my fault. Actually played...ok...on lowest settings, but I reached a certain point and graphics glitches screwed the pooch. Crysis, more or less exactly the same, except it killed my graphics card.

A couple of the old Jedi Knight games didn't work when I last tried them, the player/NPC models were invisible. Sucks. Bought the pack hoping to relive some of my not-so-youth.

My entire steam library is like this. I've been needing to get a new computer for about a year, but just can't afford it. I blame Gabe Newell and all of his sales.

mirror's edge, on my old toaster of a pc
gave it to a friend since it didnt work on mine, and my friend played it and then lost it, so when i asked if i could borrow it to try on my new gaming pc, he didnt have it xD as a result, never played it, despite it looking amazing xD

Nope, because I don't game on laptops smugface

Well, I stayed up all night until the release of Super Meat Boy, only to find out that it needed a patch to work on my computer. Other than that, I currently can't play Just Cause 2, Driver: San Francisco, Magicka, Sonic Generations, and Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing until I build my new pc in a week.