List of games you regret buying

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by MrFun



From my own separate thread, I guess I was in the same boat you were in then.

Not really, no.

[MrFun]

I regret playing Empire Earth now, just as you had regrets.

[Qilue]

One added to my list.

Oblivion.

Graphics are nice and the world is well constructed but experiance scaling sucks, truely sucks.

It kills any reason to improve your character as no matter how powerful you get, the same enemies are roughly equal to you whether you're lvl 2 or lvl 60. Thus making everything you do ultimately meaningless.

[Jon Miller]

You mean you don't get to do quests?

Yes, if you want to go arround slaughtering everything meaninglessly it is meaningless...

JM

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Qilue
One added to my list.

Oblivion.

Graphics are nice and the world is well constructed but experiance scaling sucks, truely sucks.

It kills any reason to improve your character as no matter how powerful you get, the same enemies are roughly equal to you whether you're lvl 2 or lvl 60. Thus making everything you do ultimately meaningless.

Ooh the Morrowind/Oblivion crew are going to come down on your like a tonne of bricks.

I agree though it's a problem :runs:

[Standup]

I wouldn't put Morrowind in the regret buying category but i would put it in the disappointed, don't see what the fuss is about and is it me? Probably is - I didn't find the office very funny either.

[DrSpike]

The first point isn't at all odd. The second is though!

[Alinestra Covelia]

This doesn't really fit under "Games I regret buying" since I never actually bought it, but it bears mentioning. Maybe it fits better under the "Games that are unworkable but which I nonetheless salute... nostalgically" category.

Monty Plays Scrabble.

This game came out for that venerable system, the Apple IIc, and I played it from a pirate copy my uncle gave me. The game sucks, naturally, because ultimately it's a game of human vs. human skill, but you look at the effort that the lone programmer put into it, and you see how unworkable the game premise is, and you can't help but feel sorry for them.

In a nutshell - a clunky pixellated man named Monty plays Scrabble against you. He knows some decent words, but not great, and it's entertaining for a while. The game progresses more or less like Scrabble. The computer takes anywhere from a few seconds to about a minute to think of words when it's its turn.

However, the programmer knew that with a 5" floppy disk's memory restrictions, there's no way in hell they'd fit the entire dictionary's worth of words on. Who knows - a player with a high vocabulary could be inadvertantly penalized just because the game didn't have that word in its memory banks. So he added a fatal flaw in the interests of fairness. He lets you suggest new words.

The dialog box even comes up "Monty doesn't know this word. {RETURN} Is this a real word? (Y/N)" Of course, you being a human player who wants to win, you press Y no matter what.

This means that essentially you can rewrite the dictionary to your advantage, and beat the pants off poor pixellated Monty. In fact, one game session became so corrupted that Monty started using these new words and I couldn't even tell what the words were misspellings of. I had perverted and subverted the game's core dictionary so badly that it was basically unplayable. (IIRC, it didn't save these new words, so it ran fine again after a reboot.)

Not that that's my fault, technically speaking. There are just some games that should never be adapted to computers. (Cluedo on the console is a good example ... you were always asking your playmates to look away while you examined your cards... clumsy, clumsy!) But this was back in the day when computer geeks could program games in just a few days or weeks, and even at the age of 8 or 9 I could see the good effort and dictionary work that went into making that game.

The fact that it had a (poorly) simulated human made it feel like I was cheating against some poor bugger, like that time I took advantage of a Lithuanian exchange student in "Cranium".

Monty Plays Scrabble is probably long gone, consigned to the scrap heap of obsolescence along with pretty much ever Apple IIc ever made (probably), so I'd be surprised if anybody even knew what I was talking about. But if there's a Silicon Heaven out there for all the calculators and video games out there, I'd say a prayer for Monty and hope he's up there because all he wanted to do was play Scrabble - even against no-good cheating varmints like myself.

[DrSpike]

I think you need a 'games I regret cheating at' thread.

[Dis]

I regret cheating at many recent games as well. They aren't as easy to cheat at, but it can still be done.

Hell, I cheat every time I reload a civ game. I actually broke myself of that habit, but then got myself back into when civ4 came out. .

I'm sorry, I don't give a flying **** about gameplay. War elephants should not destroy my infantry.

[lord of the mark]

why would anyone need a computer to play at scrabble? Scrabble has two elements - knowing words, and a little bit of strategizing in trying to create layouts on the board that are hard for your opponent to use to make words.

You can play solitaire, and just try to make words, and give up on the layout-strategy elements. though i suppose if youre do desperate to win that you lie to a computer about what words are real ...

Seriusly, ive cheated - recently i cheated at Starcraft - but that was cause i was bored with the gameplay on particular scenario, and wanted to see how things came out - and in SC plot elements happen on screen during the scens, not just in cutscenes, so you cant just skip a scenario.

We do seem to have wondered from the thread topic, though.


I dont regret buying SC.

[dojoboy]

CTP
MOO3

[Datajack Franit]

FACT

[Nikolai]

Is that a fact? Honestly, what game is that?

[Nostromo]

I regret buying Quicken. What a lousy game

Graphics: 0/10
Gameplay: 0/10

Probably the worst game ever