What is the worst computer game purchase you ever made?

[Hakkapeliitta]

Since I bought Missing In Action, I have never bought a game that I'd have to regret.

[Seneca]

Every year I buy the new Championship Manager, just to have up-to-date stats and a few little gameplay tweaks.

When will I learn

[The Rusty Gamer]

Originally posted by Seneca
Every year I buy the new Championship Manager, just to have up-to-date stats and a few little gameplay tweaks.

When will I learn

So do I, but I hardly ever play it. I don't think I've got through a whole season. I could've just been satisfied with the demo. I got a bit disillusioned with the apparent abitrary results. Load a saved game just before a match is to be played and look at how different the score can be. However, I have managed to resist buying the latest one. It would be better waiting for CM4. At least I managed to sell my older versions for a reasonable price.

[November Adam]

Originally posted by tishco
dont laugh...
pizza tycoon 1
it was only a fiver by solod out and it was one of the few things i could run well.

I bought Theme Hospital so don't feel bad.

[The Rusty Gamer]

Originally posted by November Adam


I bought Theme Hospital so don't feel bad.

Actually, I quite liked Theme Hopsital and Pizza Tycoon 1.

[Der PH]

Originally posted by Russell

The Third Millenium. Is it a game? A simulation? Just what is it? It looks really pretty but - what do you actually do with it?

Good to read that I'm not the only one!
I thought I just was too stupid to understand this game(?).

[Seneca]

Originally posted by Russell


So do I, but I hardly ever play it. I don't think I've got through a whole season. I could've just been satisfied with the demo. I got a bit disillusioned with the apparent abitrary results. Load a saved game just before a match is to be played and look at how different the score can be.

That would probably happen IRL, if you could turn back time... I guess if you play the right tactics, you'll increase the chances of winning, and do well over time. Trouble is, I'm utterly, utterly clueless about this game, and it's still unfeasably addictive.

In older versions, it was quite easy to get really good players on free transfers, even in the Conference, and then you didn't have to worry about tactics at all (as long as you didn't put your striker in goal, or something). It's getting to be quite a tricky game now, though.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by November Adam
I bought Theme Hospital so don't feel bad.

Hey TH was a good game, those were good spend money (I still wonder why they didn't make a Th2?!? )

I have only made bought one game I really regret. The game American Dream (Does anyone actually know that game?). The game just sucked so big time. After buying that game I promised myself that I wasn't going to buy any games that I haven't tried yet. From that day I started to use warez as demoes, since demoes really sucks.

[Carolus Rex]

Check my post in this thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32270&pagenumber=2

Carolus

[Footie Mad]

Tiberian Sun for sure, i'll never buy anything from Westwood again that's not in the bargain bin.

[Carolus Rex]

I'm surprised to find two games mentioned here: Black and White and Tropico. I haven't played either of them, but the reviews were great, especially for Black and White.

I was thinking about buying them, should I skip it? And why were they not so good?

Carolus

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex
I'm surprised to find two games mentioned here: Black and White and Tropico. I haven't played either of them, but the reviews were great, especially for Black and White.

I was thinking about buying them, should I skip it? And why were they not so good?

Carolus

I'm just happy I didn't buy them. They are both 2-weeks-games, meaning after 2 weeks you are tired of them

Tropico: I just couldn't get addicted, strange really since I love such type games, but there where just something missing, I can't point out what

B&W: Every part of the game I have seen was annoying, from controling the "animal" to saving the game.

[ravagon]

Originally posted by Carolus Rex
Check my post in this thread:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32270&pagenumber=2

Carolus

LoL@Carolus I could say almost exactly the same thing albeit with some minor variations.

Worst (least played) would probably be C&C: Red Alert. I really enjoyed Dune2 but just couldn't get into RA.

[General Ludd]

I agree. Tropico is a great game, but has a short life. Black & White is a stinking pile of garbage, in all respects.


To explain further on Black and white - It was advertised as being a god game, but it seems like they threw in a some RTS garbage at the last minute, so it's turned out to be a very crapy RTS instead of the great god sim it was meant to be. The gameplay is very dull and in general, lame. There are an entire 6 levels (yay! ) in each one, you do pretty much the same thing - throws rocks around untill the people believe in you and your influence grows so that you are able to throw rocks around the next village, repeat untill you get near the enemies influence at whicht ime they will happily blast you with an infinate amount of miracle power. Such fun!.

As for the creatures - they where meant to be a highly sophisticated AI which learns through experience. But the AI turned out to be quite simple and unimpressive - it can only learn certain, pre-programmed things (for example, you teach it the rain spell - instantly he will know that watering crops and trees causes them to grow and that watering a fire will put it out.) As if that wheren't bad enough, the AI seems to suffer from ADD and is changing what it's focused or thinking about every 2 seconds, thus making it impossible to learn or teach anythign usefull. and on a related note, being able to see what the AI is thinking or focusing on eliminates the "learning" AI experience, and makes it quite obvious that you have to program the AI rather then have it learn on it's own.

[Provost Harrison]

I don't buy games very often and I am very picky when I do, so I have had no problems with games I have bought.

Although one game I was considering and didn't in the end, thank f**k, and downloaded it instead was CtP2. A truly abysmal travesty and a disgrace to the TBS genre of games.