What was the biggest vidya related buyers remorse you ever had? Tell us about it.

I don't feel remorse, I'm Stone Cold baby

what

red dead redemption 2
one of the very few games I have ever outright dropped and refused to finish, immensely disappointing after the first game

I'm old

>>717780063 (OP)
all the modern crgps sitting unplayed in my steam account

>Wii U
just that alone is enough but
>bought a bunch of controllers to play 8-man smash
>bring to a hangout
>no one played

>>717780063 (OP)
I pre-ordered Dead Rising 3 and New World.

>couple of years ago
>new gf
>pretty big nerd
>tells me she loves retro games
>try to impress her
>buy OG n64 and PSX
>bunch of controllers and accessories
>collection of some of the greatest games for both
>nice CRT
>spend well over 500 bucks when I'm a complete poorfag
>spend exactly one weekend playing with it with her
>break up some time later
>run into money issues
>forced to sell all the shit asap
>get less than half of what I spent for it

the biggest one that comes to mind is destiny because i fully trusted bungie and got nothing in return (at least at first the expacs were pretty good)

i'm actively embarrassed that i bought interstellar marines though

All those open world walking simulators I bought for 50/55 on some wank 15/20% deal

>>717780542
Never ever prepare anything for normies. To them it's more fun to humiliate you than to participate in whatever you have prepared for them. Do NOT put ANY effort into ANYTHING when dealing with normies

>>717780063 (OP)
Rome 2.
It's a common answer in these threads. And no, it's still shit after all the patches and mods.
I wish bankruptcy upon CA.

dragon's dogma 2 and all the money I put into war thunder

I pre-ordered Brink.
Bought some hack.sign PS2 game that an asian kid recommended, immediately got filtered - too stupid.
Got FFXI and PS2 online expansion module, never got it to work - too stupid.

>>717780063 (OP)
Sparking Zero.

>>717780063 (OP)
noita, what a dogshit retard game

>>717780685
>I pre-ordered Brink
holy fuck ahahahaha. I had a good friend back then who did that too and I laughed at him for years.

>FOMO bought a PS5 during the lockdowns for $900

>>717780229

>>717780658
Imagine spending money on attila

>>717780403
Yeah I played through up to St Denis when Arthur started to get sick because I knew exactly how the story would end from the second the old guy coughed on him. I restarted and tried to skip that mission but then just dropped it.
It's funny you can hijack trains and drive them because the game is entirely on railroad tracks. An open world is fucking pointless when you can't do what you want in it.

>>717780596
That's what you get for being a poser

>>717780063 (OP)
i don't know or care if there's supposed to be some sort of meta justification as to why nier is such a seemingly intentional miserable boring slog but fuck all you gay retards for convincing me this was worth playing just because there's a girl with an implied dick in it

>>717780063 (OP)
Duke Nukem Forever. Stopped playing 4 hours in

>>717780403
This right here.
100%'d the first one and lived in multiplayer so I bought the most expensive RDR pre-order package and it was fucking shit, single player (no fast travel kys) and multiplayer.

The only benefit for multiplayer was my fat ugly hillbilly escaped slave nigger bubba character got a decent horse without grinding, but it matters not when multiplayer is empty and boring

I pre-ordered CoD: Cold War for the zombies mode after not playing a cod game since black ops 2. Holy fuck that was a shock. Gamemode for babies

This shit is just an endless crafting treadmill to waste as much of your time as possible.

I backed Shenmue 3.

>>717780063 (OP)
Elden Goyslop

>>717781074
why would you buy some shitty indie trash without trying it first?

>>717780063 (OP)
buying red dead redemption instead of Battlefield bad company 2

>>717780063 (OP)
I pre-ordered Dark Souls 2 since I loved the first one.
Fuck that game was terrible. I defended it for a while, but I eventually had to come to terms with reality.

>>717781154
I only played an hour and refunded it

>>717780596
OG hardware is the meme. You could have had exactly the same experience with an emulator.

>>717780869
Guilty as charged.

games i bought full price and barely played

space marine 2
starfield
dragonball fighterz

Most recently this.
I was obsessed with dale dawson and was dying for a new multiplayer game.
This looked promising but it was basically just laundry simulator.
Literally 2 hours of laundry grinding to run out the steam refund clock.

>>717780063 (OP)

Off the top of my head, Toy Story for the Game Boy.

>>717780063 (OP)
Tekken 8, good lord I can't believe how badly they fucked up. The writing was on the wall in the later seasons of T7 but damn, I really had hope they'd turn it around.

>>717781302
Honestly maybe could like it if it wasn't 15fps

Buying PS3 on release to play MSG4 thinking it would be MSG2 quality

>>717780063 (OP)
Well it was Wurm Unlimted (bought it because some guys from /v/ said how we will play together n shit and never did) Battlefield (1,4,5), Squad,Hell Let Loose,DayZ,Rimworld,Symphony of War,Shadow of earth both games,Sniper Elite 4,Gta 5 and Red Dead 2,BeamNG,Guild Wars,Kingdom Come 1,The Long Dark,Metal Gear 5,Monster Hunter World,Nioh 2,Muse Dash,Vampire Survivors,Elder Ring DLC and Armored Core 6 ,Amnesia games (older ones not new ones Penumbra too),Company of Heroes 2.
And possible MANY others.

I caved and bought a modern fucking Pokemon game because all my 2½ friends got it at launch. This was in 2013 and I'm still coping.

I've bought Dark Souls 2 4 times (refunded once) throughout my life. I've never beaten it, and I honestly have no interest in ever doing so. I lacked the drive as a teenager when I was fresh off of beating DS1, and now that I'm an adult with responsibilities, there's simply no time.

A special 'fuck you' to SOTFS for being GANK SIMULATOR 2K16.

>>717781473
Literally me. I played MGS4 in one sitting and I think part of me died.

>>717780063 (OP)
When I was a kid I was such a huge fan of the Mario & Luigi RPG series that I traded like two dozen games in to Gamestop just to get Bowser's Inside Story. They bought my copy of Pokemon Emerald with the box and manuals and everything for $15, then put it up on the shelf the next day used for $40. They even bought one of my games for like 30 cents and I didn't notice because I was just a dumb kid. On the bright side it's made me nearly immune to new game hype for the rest of my life, but on the other I feel disgusted that a business would take advantage of kids that don't know any better like that (and obviously I miss my fucking games). I don't blame my parents at because I love them and they didn't really know any better either, but they happened to enter into this "we're going to teach you the value of money by encouraging you to sell things you don't need any more" phase right at the time of that one specific game's release when I was at my most hype-vulnerable and it fucked me over big time. The game being mid was such salt in the wound that it turned me off the series forever.

Other than that I guess Starbound kinda seriously shit the bed and it's a shame because it was really fun in its earlier builds.

Dariusburst Chronicle Saviours. Spent £42 on it, only to get to play it for 40 minutes before it just crashed on startup forever.

I will get it working eventually though. No one fucks me out of my money.

>>717781228
You can't say a game you refunded. How you gonna regret a purchase you didn't purchase?

>>717780063 (OP)
Is that fucking real???

in recent memory, fuck asspyr

>>717781532
haha good list. I liked KC:D 1 but the second one made me regret my purchase. Most of those other games I'd never buy but I do have pirated copies on my pc. You need to learn about piracy, friend.

I'm still mad, all that wasted allowance money. I doubt a single one of you has played this kusoge, but do share if you have.

I paid for a prostitute the day before I turned 30 to avoid becoming a wizzard. I was so nervous that I couldn't get hard. MGSV was still more disappointing.

>>717781638
DS2 is the only FROM game I beat once then immediately uninstalled and never, ever wanted to play it again.

>>717780063 (OP)
Blood Omen 2
>go to game store to check out stuff
>oh cool new Legacy of Kain game
what a let down

>>717781083
I backed AntonBlast, I feel you.

>>717780063 (OP)
All single player games really, it was not worth throwing $60 for only 8–20 hours of playtime.

>>717781893
I have been pirating games for pretty much my entire life since i was like 12 when i got acess to bank account at 18 i started buying shit since i like easyness of acess+archivements+mods(sometimes) but i obv have problem where buying shit makes me unironically happy so fuck my ass.

>>717781935
Sounds humiliating, but I bet it happens all the time. Have you managed to put your P in a V since then or are you still a wizard?

>>717780063 (OP)
I spent 200 bucks for a controller for Tekken a week before season 2 released. I've played maybe 2 hours of tekken since building it.

The Witcher 3. I thought I would like it after not willing to beat 1 or 2 slog fests but love crpgs. It turned out to be another bored fest and I was lied to again.

>>717782092
Settled for a BJ. Guess I'm a semi-wizard.

>>717780063 (OP)
battlebit remastered, not remorse but disappointment

>>717780596
>retard simp is retarded
deserved

>>717782219
Keep on trying brother, someday you will put it in

>love beat em up games and superheroes since I was a kid
>avengers 2020 looks like my dream game even if i loathe live service stuff
>grandfather dies months before its release, and covid in general makes me life a nightmare because my job is run by idiots
>figure i deserve something special to treat myself, so I buy the game first day after playing the demo and assuming the entire thing would be like that
>try to have fun with it but soon realize I've made a horrible mistake even if the characters and their move sets are well made
>return it to gamestop after beating the campaign and replay marvel ultimate alliance for the 90th time
I try not to get hyped for games but it really seemed like it was made for me. It has the skeleton of a decent game but the live service shit just kneecapped it.

This game. I was itching for more fantasy RPG after Oblivion and this was some sort of Oblivion clone. Long story short, it made me appreciate Oblivion more.

>>717782120
>building a controller
I don't play fighting games either but I would like the knowledge to build my own fight stick. It's just cool to diy your own stuff. Sell it for a profit if you want.

Bought my cousin's copy of Shadow the Hedgehog for $10

In general all the games I bought during the PS3/360 gen as they are worthless resale wise compared to games from older gens. I bought around 300 games between the 360 and ps3 and id say each of them is only reselling for about 5 bucks.

I bought Fall Guys full price when it was being heavily shilled on /v/

>>717781935
>to avoid becoming a wizzard
why would you do this?

>>717783036
the problem being?

>>717780063 (OP)
After slogging through the game it was topped off with stunlocking the final boss by spamming the ring or whatever

>>717782075
Buying things makes me feel good too but regretting my purchases makes me feel worse than buying them made me feel good so I developed that risk aversion.

>>717780063 (OP)
Astlibra
I just couldn't get into it. Music was cool though.

>>717783008
How are you this fucking retarded? WAIT LONGER, DUMBFUCK. Old games are expensive because the supply is low. PS3 and 360 is the last generation that had data on actual disks instead of just a link to a download. You fucked up by selling them

>>717783467
Yeah kinds same BUT MAN it is REALLY fucking hard when i see a game for like less than a 5euros or shit like that (extremely good deal) from 3rd party site and when i buy it and regret doing it i canont refund since duh you canont un activate the cd key.

>>717780063 (OP)
Death Stranding. I wanted to play a walking sim but it turned to be a shallow movie slop instead.

>>717780403
same

Dawn of Mana.
What a steaming pile of shit. I thought hey we got a new mana title and KH doesn't have horrible combat I don't see how this could go wrong but everything was terrible in every aspect

>>717780063 (OP)
RDR2 - God forbids you thinking out of the box or make your own decisions

NO I don't want to help women, niggers, mexcrements or even slaves
Ibwant to be THE threat not a cuck

>>717780063 (OP)
starbound

>>717780063 (OP)
street fighter v. i had fun playing alex for a bit but jesus christ that game was so fucking barebones during the first year and the netcode was dogshit, not to mention there was that whole rootkit fiasco. it apparently got a little better around season 3 but i had checked out long before that

>>717781105
Ahh, finally, the broken tranny found a thread to shit on ER

Git gud, subhuman

ER won

>>717781638
Similar here, I have all version of it on PS4, Xbox One, PS3 digital last year and PC
Never finished it

>>717783986
nice reddit post faggot go back

>>717780063 (OP)
What the actual fuck Capcom

>>717784193
Ok, tranny
Your ilk never, ever misses an opportunity to shit on ER, care to share that discord server of yours? You have been doing it for 3 and a half years

ER won because it is good

>>717780063 (OP)
no mans sky when it came out
took about 30 mins before I realized I was a fucking idiot
didn't really hurt monetarily, I was just pissed that I'd paid money for it at all

>>717784296
You ilk never misses a chance to redditspace, care to share what subreddit you frequent? Not that any self-respecting 4channeler would ever go but seeing your post history of cuck worshiping and simping will be good for a laugh at least

>>717780063 (OP)
Anthem

>>717783712
>You fucked up by selling them
I havent sold anything. Games from that gen will never have high resale value as games were too mainstream by that point so theres loads of copies of everything other than weird weeb shit but obviously I never played any of those games.

>>717781074
Feels like everything has been like this for a while
Even my friends who love this kind of slop somehow just didn't care enough to try this one... I think they're fatigued

>Check it out when it comes out
>its predecessor was pretty bad and this is no doubt worse, I'll just ignore it.
Years later
>oh hey, this is on a major discount, I can get it for just 5 merkelshekels, it can't be that bad
>it actually is that bad
>it's actually impressive how a game can be that fucking awful without going into barely functional jank territory
This isn't worth the bandwidth it takes to pirate it, let alone actual currency. I created this one special category in my Steam library for it. It's been several years and I have yet to find any game worthy of getting thrown into it.

>>717780063 (OP)
The 8-year old Corsair K95 Vengeance I just bought for like $60 today.

>>717780063 (OP)
any money i spent on WoW post 2019 Classic

>>717781395
Brink was actually fucking kino
loved the shit out of that game, its just sad how it got so fucked
great thing is you can still play it with bots..or at least you could last time i checked

>>717784225
any mods to make this game decent? they could've just made dd1 in hd and somehow be less dissapointing than this.

FF13 and RDR2

>hell yeah, MoH is back and it will blow CoD away, of course I will preorder the game and come to midnight sake, there's nothing that could go wrong
at least I got Frontline HD and a vaguely vidya themed MoH t-shirt almost acceptable to wear outside and not be "that guy" out of it

>>717780063 (OP)
Star Citizen
>want space vidya with volumetric gas exchange (ex. you open an airlock in the hangar, air flies out, all the shit flies around)
>spend twelve years waiting
>they keep selling space ships, barely any gameplay besides 'go to X point and kill Y sheep, then return with Z wool'
>no atmospherics
>no engineering
>no gravimetrics
>no exploration
>just killing NPCs and picking up boxes

It's gonna sound like bait but the Playstation Vita.

I bought the big Gamestop bundle that came with a case, a physical copy of Uncharted:Golden Abyss, 16GB card and $25 of PSN funny money. Can't remember how much it was but it was too much I'm sure.

And then I got to play high quality bangers like
>bad Uncharted
>bad Ridge Racer
>bad Silent Hill
>bad Resistance
>bad Call of Duty
>Drive Girls

And it was just a complete waste of money and time all around.

The Killzone was pretty good I guess.

>>717780063 (OP)
FFXV
not immediate remorse but only grows
if it doesn't count then the one time I bought Destiny 2 because I was chasing pussy, but at least it was on sale so it was also a pretty cheap life lesson all things considered

I'm not remorseful about events in my past since if i have a good time today: it is the result of my past actions, mistakes and all. Factorio, i thought it was required to access the mods, i instantly felt so used, 3000 playhours later i am still remorsful.

>>717780063 (OP)
Destiny 2: Lightfall, the edition that cost me £80.
I don't need to tell you why.

>>717780063 (OP)
My entire library on the xbone when I abandoned it for PC. I'll never get that money back not including the monthly subscriptions for the gold pass. Daylight robbery with that entire shitshow.

>>717785430
I bought Vita bundle with Mercenary and then haven't spent a single cent since Sony gave away most of the worthwhile games in PS+

>>717785597
Damn i remember couple of years ago playing on 360 at some family frends place and thinking it was cool and wanting one myself but then realising you have to pay monthly for MP and how games are generally more expensive on consoles (so i never bought it)

>>717782075
>>717783467
I know I'm fucked in the head so I'm not asking this too deeply but still how do you feel good from buying stuff? Even when I'm doing fine moneywise and I'm paying pennies on something it still hurts the moment I think it's overpriced or I could get it for cheaper.

>>717783712
>You fucked up by selling them
You can thank Fucking Gamestop for causing that shortage. Nothing like destroying a 1000 copies of FIFA 2014 with a box cutter because no one wants that shit anymore. The real killer was all of the PS1/PS2 era stuff that got the chop because deadbeats were too busy selling their wife's sprogs vidya to Cash Convertors for drug money.

>>717784225
me but with DD1, at least it was cheap and saved me the even bigger remorse of going for 2

>>717780063 (OP)
buying pic related, honestly. I got more from the shitty low budget Chilla's Art horror games than I got from The Bunny Graveyard, and I wasn't bait & switched in the process.

>NSFW game
I went through hoops to get access to my old DLsite account to buy some preggo tagged porn games ( I was very depressed and had a bunch of extra cash on hand, already put half away into savings)
stuff I bought ended up being reuploads of terrible games I had already played through from F95, and some fetish slop that was very well illustrated but ended up having zero actual sexual content, or even fetish content I could jack off to.

>>717785737
>thinking it was cool and wanting one myself but then realising you have to pay monthly for MP and how games are generally more expensive on consoles (so i never bought it)
You did yourself a big favor there. Paid online is some gay fucking bullshit. The fact that they still get away with it when crossplay with PC is a mandatory feature now is laughable. You are basically paying tribute for the privilege of running against someone that gets in for free.

>>717785828
I honestly canont explain it like when i see some shit that is VERY CHEAP i will quickly look at it on steam see couple of revs then buy it (for the future that never comes) and the time to buy shit is even worse if it is EXTRA good deal where key will def dissapear fast i would descibe the feeling similar as one when you find some some good cash in your pocket or drawer.
>>717786085
Yeah i dont understand how people are okay with paying for the privilege of using the internet they are already paying for (i pay for mine 30euros and its 2,5mb download at least steam download thing says so)

>>717785828
>Even when I'm doing fine moneywise and I'm paying pennies on something it still hurts the moment I think it's overpriced or I could get it for cheaper.
Did you grow up as a poorfag? That's usually a mentality that sticks with you for life unless you smash your head on something.

>>717780063 (OP)
I regretted buying a 3DS at first, but then I hacked it and felt better about it.

>Asura's Wrath
I genuinely still am mad about the "oops the REAL ending is actually DLC! Now you didn't finish the game!" asspull. I fully enjoyed that game and I still regret it after that kikery.

>>717781986
I admire your resolve. At least you can say you beat it. Bragging rights are the endgame of all soulslikes after all.
>>717784132
I tried to beat it one last time back in December. I got up to Shulva City and it hit me like a ton of bricks; "I fucking hate this game." Everything about it, from its art direction, level design, enemy design... ugly as hell and frustrating to no end. No thank you.

i never felt remorse about money, but this one really got to me
>buy (game) for an expensive price to interact more with a person i liked
>(game) is actually really fucking fun and way better than i expected
>play dozens of hours of (game) trying to catch up with them so we can play together
>get into petty disagreements and bickering over it
>spend all that time playing (game), feeling bad over how im not working on my own game project that i had yet to show to anybody, was meant to be a surprise

>(...)
>fast forward through a lot of stupid shit
>have a total, probably irrecoverable falling with that person
>he never wants to talk to me again, lots of mutual acquaintances now certainly hate me by association
>almost every game i liked in the last 10 years reminds me of these people
>it feels ass to work on my game because i was playing it when the falling out happened
>4 characters in my game are based off of these people, some of the dialogues have things they told me directly, injokes or references
I genuinely wish i had never bought (game)

>>717780063 (OP)
monster hunter wilds

>>717780063 (OP)
Saints Row The Third.
The gameplay felt miserable for some reason and I forced myself to finish.
Found out after the fact the game had aim assist that kept fucking me the entire time.

>>717780063 (OP)
Sonic Chronicles the dark brotherhood. You fags got me to buy it, and I'm convinced all the threads around the time of its release were some elaborate trolls. Saying it was some hidden gem and that it wasn't as bad as everyone was saying. It was fucking worse.

ass music
ass combat
ass world and story

There is nothing redeemable about this turd. I spent like $70 on this piece of shit and only played it for like 5 hours.

Starcraft 2

>>717780063 (OP)
Xenoblade 2 special edition. 100 dollars or something down the drain.

>>717780063 (OP)
A N64. I figured out that I don't actually enjoy the 2 games Nintendo keeps re-releasing billions of times.

>>717780596
Pretty sure I saw you when I drove past the check cashing place.

>>717780063 (OP)
Spore
RDR2

>>717787442
>Spore
explain right fucking now
Spore was and still is kino

>>717786380
Could have been worse but yeah, to an extent. I'm still the biggest penny pincher that I know though.

>>717784974
Custom Difficulty
Random Encounters

>>717784225
What didn't you like about it?

>>717787537
It was fucking garbage m8
Way off from what was advertised and a total slog after the creature stage

>>717787692
yeee the RTS stages were meh, but Galactic Adventures was fucking awesome

Callisto Protocol. Even screwed myself with, "Maybe it'll get better..." and played beyond the refund period.

>>717784225
Potentially, I pre-ordered it but literally haven't played it.

>>717787748
I never bought Galactic Adventures after having been so disappointed with the game on release
Maybe it helped, I don't know

>>717780063 (OP)
>file deleted
bumping for visibility to undue the work of a retard one post at the time!

>>717780063 (OP)
Buying the Mass Effect Andromeda deluxe edition day one. The last time I ever bought a game the day it was released.

i have an Index

>>717780851
I bought a ps5 when ff16 came out because I got caught up in the hype and just happened to be in the states for my cousin's wedding. ff16 was cool but I didn't finish it. Also got some shitty rpg that had ps2 graphics and witcher 3. Sold it all for like $900 so basically broke even.

>>717788793
I got close to doing this but am happy I managed to hold out.

>>717780063 (OP)
BF2042, and like a starved retard fell for the hype hard on the gameplay trailer. Avoided any other spoilers and /v/ threads like the plague and didn't play the beta to keep my hype up, only to get kicked in the nuts. BF6 is okayish if the beta is anything to go off of, but I'll wait to see how the full game delivers

>>717788863
>but am happy I managed to hold out.
What made you stay?

>>717788793
That's a shame that you didn't finish FF16.

>>717789594
I'm going to get it for PC

It didn't happen to me, but my friend pre-ordered Battleborn Digital Deluxe edition.

>>717789436
Nothing in particular, just decided I really wasn't going to buy a PS5 for one game, mostly.

>$80 for three half-assed DS ports
>new bugs, painfully ugly UI / font in the English version, all "HD" art compressed to shit and full of jpg artifacts
I just wanted to support my favorite (dead) series...

>>717788264
Man, same. I preloaded that trainwreck thinking Bioware still had some gas in the tank. Got maybe two hours in before the uncanny valley faces and stiff animations made me want to refund, but nope - already too late. Felt like paying full price to beta test a fan-made spin-off. Never again.

>>717780063 (OP)
I've spent around $250 on MTG Arena, which isn't even that outrageous when it comes to how much people spend on card games, but even after years of not touching it I still feel mad.