Which game(s) do you regret buying?

ive got no patient to do that haha

There's an issue I notice with most survival games. They all follow the 'throw bigger and meaner threats at the player as the game goes on' pattern. It's kinda fake difficulty. I'd like a survival game where there's no scripted unavoidable threats and which play the way you want to play and not the way the devs want you to play. Haven't seen one so far. Don't Starve, The Flame in The Flood, Dead in Bermuda, etc... all of them fail in this aspect.

yea, i always been on "didn't know what was going on" mode all the time, im so suck and lazy to read wiki
i wonder if there's any survival game that gave us clue or indicator for what we suppose to do or telling us what is going on, that would be fit for us haha

I want to get it. I heard its so bad I didnt. Now I wonder with my expectations so low, I might enjoy it. Especially if the price is slashed a year or 2 later.

lol I'm an huge fan of bethesda and it is the first time they deceive me a lot.

Considering how well reviewed the game is, chances are you're gonna like it. I also didn't like xcom, so there you go. But xcom is a game I can understand and also understand why people like it. Valkyria Chronicles, though, is a tough beast for me.

You'll enjoy it, but then constantly restart matches to keep everyone alive (You get like 3 'turns' to rescue them or permadeath.) because the generic replacements suck+replacements complete lack of personality I guess just like XCom, if it were a third person shooter with 'timed' movement/shooting rather than full turn based. Also, I'll say, it kinda hits real hard if you weren't spoiled to the story already.

I really loved Valkyria Chronicles, but the gameplay can be a bit 'marmite' for some people. It's less of a classic XCom style game and more of a unique hybrid turn based strategy. You take turns, but you control your individual units in realtime, and if I recall correctly (it has been a long while), enemy units act like defensive turrets based on line of sight and distance, which shapes the risks involved in how you move your active unit. When you press to command your active unit to attack, time is paused while you pick your target and assess the hit chances, damage, armour, etc.

The gameplay is a little tricky at first but most people grasp it real quick. Most find it really fun, but I can also appreciate how it wouldn't riff so well with certain people. I would totally dig it out of your backlog when you have a mild tactical itch. The biggest drawback of the game is that as the story progresses, you get new mission elements and story encounters added to the mix, which sometimes means you can play a near-flawless mission based on the rules you know, but then have a cutscene fire up, and land you in a sudden change of situation that devours your current positioning or loadout. I didn't mind replaying those missions when I failed, got a bad score, or ate a fatality. More points, more rewards, etc.

Oh man I suddenly have a hunger to buy Valkyria Chronicles 4 (the second VC title available on PC, a seperate chronicle not requiring knowledge of the first).

Oh hell, i love Prince of Persia, have them all, ok, not the newer one. But Sands of Time, Warrior Within, The Two Thrones. And i played them many times Yeah some parts where hard and frustrating, but still they are Awesome. I got Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands few weeks ago, didnt playedd it yet cause to bad PC. But was cheap Sale so why not, but im sure, i will like that too and the others come then too. ;-)

To the Climbing and stuff, its normal dont wonder about it, play the older, have it too and its nice. Some Puzzles too and of course little fighting. ^^

Yeah, the whole training your character is all about about button mashing. Want to increase your health? Mash your keys fast. If you don't keep up your training regimen your stats will degrade over time. At least in the game Punch Club there was a skill tree unlock you could attain that would permanently keep one of your stats from going down a certain amount past a certain range. There is a stealth element to it though, such as avoiding the warden, but the prison itself starts to feel really small fast since you're partially forced to keep to the prison schedule routine. What I like about simulation games is freedom to create your own routine and this game felt a little too much like a prison.

For starters it shouldn't have been on PS3. They should have waited for PS4. It ran so badly it gave new meaning to a slideshow framerate. The motion blur when you move the camera was so bad you had to stop moving it to tell what you're looking at. It felt like .jpg the game.

The story is nothing that hasn't been done before; outbreak/apocalypse and there's one person that can save the world so lets get them somewhere safely. There's a rule when it comes to writing stories where you ask yourself "Are we at the most interesting part of this character's life?" Which I say No. I would much rather see the world fall apart at the beginning of the outbreak rather than have a glimpse of it before going 10 years later. I hate it when writers kill a character that I don't care about and expect my heartstrings to be tugged on. I'm not going to be sad just because. Make me care about his daughter first. Also, a zombie story in 2013? Really? Some people try to say they're not zombies, but come on. The story overall didn't really have any arc to it. There was very little rising action until everything just sort of hit the fan and I was really surprised when the credits started to roll.

There was also this plot hole I couldn't get over Joel gets seriously hurt after falling onto a spike. For starters, you shouldn't be able to survive this, but I get that hero's gotta hero and lives. BUT, we've seen Ellie save Joel during tense moments before so where was she that entire fight that caused him to fall? Were we supposed to forget she was right there?

The gameplay has 3 forms, survival horror, walking sim, and 3rd person cover shooter.
Cover shooting is as bland as you get when it comes to shooters. The walking sim would be ok if the game was enjoyable to navigate, which it wasn't. And the survival horror bits where you sneak around zombies were frustrating because nearly every time I died was to a clicker can one-shot you while you struggle to aim at 15fps on a PS3 controller.

The level design was really average, you could see which type of gameplay you'd be going into from a mile off. Waist high walls? You're about to shoot. Bottles and bricks everywhere? You're about to sneak. LADDERS? ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?

The acting really took me out of it as well. Why does everyone bob their head around so much while they talk? Its distracting. Watch a video and you'll see what I mean.

I though it was mostly puzzles-focused, wasn't expecting such an involved combat system.

It because i played number 6 first instead of 5.
The first one that i played was number 4 which was good after i played number 6 which had with AI team
So i assume number 5 will be something like 4 or 6.

purchased last year :)

I haven't, and honestly I've hardly played PA itself due to the impossibly jittery gameplay on my system when I've tried in the past. That's good to hear about Titans though, and I'm glad it has come together.

For me personally though, there will always be a part of me that's bitter about the early development and release state, and thinks it was wrong for any PA purchasers not from Kickstarter to have been abandoned instead of properly upgraded to Titans.

PA Titans may be a good game now, but with the topic in mind, I should have absolutely waited to buy PA, and I regret that.

if it wasn't related to deus ex, it would be pretty good. maybe even a cult game by now.

State of Decay 2 is a godawfull horrific piece of shit.

And 6 is worse than 5

Wow, that is really sad.

A lot.

If you played 4, 4 was clearly superior. Tourists are brought by cargo ships, instead of tourists docks as before. That is the only thing I remember now. But when I was playing it, I keep on saying, wow this is shit.

Something I liked in 4, which was lost in 5 and even more in 6, was the fine control on salaries. That lack of control makes it very hard to keep specific buildings fully manned when you need to, if you're a bit short on population, which happens most of the time

For me it just means I die every five minutes instead of two while still making the same amount of “progress”. :(

I don't need "lore" to tell me it's gloomy--the scenery, music, color palette, characters, etc. all make an impression. Maybe my views would change if I got farther into the game, but all I can go on is my experience so far. It is my fondest hope that someday I get the chance (and am in the right mood) to go back and get to the part where everyone says it "opens up", but in the meantime I have plenty of other games that I enjoy more.

Hollow Knight is gorgeous and tons of people love it so I wish the developers all the best in their future works, but the fact is I just didn't click with it. It happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lol

That becomes both boring in the sense that your just swimming around aimlessly

This sums up my entire exprience with the game =D

Yes, but it did look nice in places. :)