Most shameful game purchase

Tsar Nicky said:
Bruh. What in God's name possessed you to buy that? Pouring one out for a fallen homie.
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It was the future of gaming, man.
I thought it would at least have some decent homebrew and emulators. And for what it’s worth, one good game actually did come out of it: TowerFall, before eventually being ported to other consoles and PC, started as an OUYA exclusive for some reason.
 
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boulderblundermatt said:
that sailor moon snes rpg. its fun but was not worth the 40 bucks I spent as a kid.
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I'm not sure how you bought that game when you were a kid since it only came out in Japanese to my knowledge, unless they were already making translated repo cartridges back then.
 
Not a shameful purchase but a shameful reason. Buying Jagged Alliance 2 several times over the years because it's right there next to the check-out at the grocery store and I can't remember where I left my other copies. It's also really cheap!

My actual shameful purchase was Tales of Phantasia new-in-box back when I thought some games would be worth something.
 
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I would say one of my most regretful game purchases was buying that RE4 clone Shadows of the Damned instead of L.A. Noire. I'm still pissed that I wasted $60 on that turd. I traded it in only a week after I bought it because I just wanted to get rid of that POS game.

A dishonorable mention would go to RE5. Not the game itself but I spent $100 on the fucking collector's edition and all it came with was an ugly steelcase for the game, an ugly bag that was way too small to hold anything in it, a stupid fucking "necklace", an iron on patch that I never used and an tiny little piece of shit Chris Redfield "figure" that looked like something you would get from those gumball machines in the grocery store. Such a fucking waste of money. I only bought the damn thing because I asked the guy at Gamestop if RE5 was getting a collector's edition and he told me "yeah but you better pre-order it fast because they go really fast".

I also bought the Dead Space 2 collector's edition which cost me an extra $20 and all it came with was this plasma cutter "replica" that looked like a cheap happy meal toy and a stupid fucking "lithograph" picture of a necromorph.
 
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Hard to think of a "shameful" purchase. Hard to think what the worst value per dollar ratio was. Probably Fallout 4. It was piss and I bought it on launch for full price. I made myself play it, sure, but not even that long, and I didn't ragequit, it was just so mediocre that I quickly lost interest and wandered on to other things with no desire to ever touch it again.

Watch_Dogs 2 was a present - I think actually the last video game I ever asked for - and it was pretty awful too, I didn't get far into it either. I actually gave it another shot years later and it was so cursed it bricked my PS4 and, ironically, set me on the path to become a PC gaming neckbeard shut-in.
 
Mine was Mass Effect Andromeda (god damn that was a shit show)

My husband’s was probably Fallout 76

Now that I think on it, my husband bought Andromeda for me as a surprise (you got a lil monkey dude for pre ordering and my husband knows if I like anything, it’s lil monkey dudes) so he’s been burnt a few times :(
 
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I didn't spend much on it at all, but Ghost Recon: Wildlands does have the distinction of being the most worthless garbage I have ever touched. Not because it was the worst game in any technical sense, it was just extremely generic while being well put together in a technical sense that it could string me along because I felt like I should be enjoying it. It's a tacticool shooter that plays like a third person Far Cry with everything fun stripped out. It's got a Bolivian cartel setting but with no spirit behind it at all. Apparently people loved it to death and that's why this world is doomed.
 
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DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
I hate that I know what that is. I knew a severely autistic kid that was wildly obsessed with it.
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even though the fanbase is mostly that the actual music is so much more than i expected to come from some 11 year old app. some of the songs genuinely go hard
 
Monster Monpiece. It's one of those pervert games the Vita is packed full of, but it's actually got incredible gameplay, which is very unique and quite fun. It sounds like the gaming equivalent of "I read Playboy for the articles!" but it's true.

The way it works is it's like a combination of Pokemon, Yugioh, and a TRPG like Final Fantasy Tactics, but with each element greatly simplified and streamlined while still retaining significant tactical depth. It's kinda hard to explain and it's been like a decade since I've played it, but it was pretty addictive.


The story was pretty weak as expected, I remember nothing of it except that it was generic but passable. What really helped was having multiplayer, and the only real downside of the game was the gimmicky minigame where you rub the screen so you can feel like a retarded loser. I think they wisely included a way to skip it though at least.
 
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