Yes, but you haven't bought it, so you can't regret buying it. You're just taking an opporunity to complain about the GOG release even though it really doesn't fit here.

As for the rest, unforutnately, I don't think it's possible to continue this without it ending up a political discussion about cancel culture, which would only derail the thread and get me banned. Besides, I'm pretty sure I know where you stand on the subject, so it's best to nip it in the bud.

So instead, another game I regret buying:
Sherlock Holmes: the Devil's Daughter - I really enjoyed the Holmes games up untill that one. Sure, they were not perfect, and quite uneven, but this was the first one to be outright crap. Nonsensical plots and deductions reduced to total guesswork, laughably stupid ideas like the imaginary Indiana Jones-esque romp through a Mayan temple, and of course everything to do with Holmes' adopted daughter >shudders<. I couldn't even finish it, everyting about it kept annoying me so much. Haven't bought a Holmes games from Frogwares since, what with their nonsensical prequel with a tired, obvious "imaginary companion" twist and a crapload of ridiculous costume DLCs, and then a remake of a perfectly good game with the young sexy Twilight Holmes from the prequel shoved into it.

I really wish some other devs would try their hand at making a decent Holmes game. The character is public domain, there's no reason not to.

Sure. More than once.

I would suspect that of the four hours, half was spent on those silly clicking sequences. No, they don't count as gameplay because they are not.



No. No. No. It's not even a visual novel because that implies that you have choices in your decisions besides which of the two characters you want the illusion of controlling. I don't even think it would be fair to call it a kinetic novel just for the fact that kinetic novels are upfront about the fact that they just want to tell you a story with a predetermined outcome and you don't make any choices or at least none that are meaningful.

There is no game here.


The biggest tearjerker for me is still the epilogue to Cat Quest where you go to Drakoth's lair. I feel sad just thinking about it.

Probably because the forum was flooded with university spam a while back.

Yes, you have to make mistakes to learn about life.

If I look a while back, the first bitter disappointment was probably Hacker II for C64. A full-price game. I wanted to be a hacker. Instead, this game was about remote-controlling some robots in a building using fixed cameras in the facility. I guess you would have had to draw notes to learn the routes of the patroling guards on a paper as every eye contact ended in death. No save games. It was too challenging for me as a teenager, i suppose. I still shudder when I hear the name Activision.

From the recent full-price purchases, Control takes the cake. I don't know if it would have made a difference if I were a woman, but I just did not see any motivation to continue the game. I felt like i had nothing in common with the protagonist. Very weird experience.

I don't see how it would. For one thing, I'm a guy and I played and enjoyed many games with female protagonists. I don't think it's ever a factor. For another, at least as far as I got it Control, Jesse's gender is completely irrelevant. You could replace her with a man, or really with a bowl of soup for all that it matters.

God of War 2018, what a disappointment. To think this was made by the same people that made the original trilogy. :/

There's other titles, sure, but this one was the game I regret getting the most...at least I only paid 10 €. After suffering through that dreck for a handful of hours I had to uninstall it. I'd rather play through DMC 2 a dozen times than play another hour of Nu God of War.

Hotline Miami

Probably. :D

Wasn't a fan of Control either though, mostly for the reasons you pointed out, at least the particle effects are gorgeous, sadly they alone don't save the game. :)

This thread makes me really curious and eager to play Control (I got it for free though). :D

As to the OP's question, yeah, of course, all the time. But I usually buy games at such huge discounts and with that and all the bundle games and freebies it kind of evens out. Overpaid for one game, underpaid for another. Well, I guess, it's not really fair to the devs ... But most of the times when I buy something I already reckon with the chance of disappointment just as much as I reckon with the chance of being positively surprised. So, never pay more than $10 bucks for a computer game. ;P

No. I regret not buying loads of games though. Now they've all been delisted.

How strange. God of War [4] (2018) is my favorite game in all series, before that it was God of War 1 and then 2. God of War 3 was meh for me, worse than 2 games originally made for PSP, the PS3 only spin-off was also nice but it has different fighting mechanics which I'm not fond of.

However the latest God of War: Ragnarök (2022) was a huge dissapointment for me - it's beautiful, it has probably the best introduction scenes for new characters and boss fights are nice, but literally everything else is worse, especially the new fightting mechanics, the frigging *puzzles* and everything coming from Atreus's mouth! And of course they decided to make it even more Metroidvania than before, it was so annoying to get the message "you can't use it now" (or something close to that) in the starting location, and so many times after that, not cool.

And I prefer fighting Valkyries and mini-bosses in God of War 4 ten times more than bonus mini-bosses in latest installment, only the main bosses were fine in Ragnarök.

Healthy Narcissism requires never regretting anything you say or do. There's no time for it. One is fully occupirf with one's mirror and the DDG image reflected in it.

Very few regrettable purchases but Saints Row 3 remastered would be one of them because its a POS with DRM. The 3D-remake of Close combat 5 was also really poor.

Besides those two, I have regretted several Switch-ports that I bought because of severe performance issues (Nintendo seems to have absolutely zero quality control on eshop).