i go first
Sea Of Thieves
it’s almost unplayable without friends to team up with, and online matchmaking makes communication and coordination a real challenge. after completing missions over and over, only to get my treasure stolen by other players on the way back, i eventually gave up on the game
**removes Sea of Thieves from my wishlist
Sea of thieves isn't bad like that, you just have to know what game it is and what to expect, its still a great game.
1: there is no progression, no use for gold and riches, no weapon upgrades at all - your gold will often get stolen by others but its really not that important because gold is only used to buy cosmetics
2: you will get sunk lots of times by other players, you will sink other players from time to time
3: playing alone is probably pretty boring
Its just a fun game to play with a buddy or group of buddies, mess around and try to steal some gold or sink some other players, with tense moments and cool cannon fights. Its not like a competitive let's win type of experience its a mess around with cool sailing mechanics and funny online interactions. If you're trying to be competitive its probably a rough experience but telling your buddy to take the wheel while you try to sneak onto another players ship with a barrel of explosives yelling "you've been boarded!!" is what its about (yes your boat was probably sunk in the process)
The whole game is boring, I’m sorry. Like, you travel around in a ship to an empty island, use the shitty combat mechanics to fight off impossibly easy enemies, dig around for a treasure that doesn’t matter, only to be sunk anyway, but who cares right? Since the treasure doesn’t matter.
I understand the whole “friends we made along the way” argument, but I just find it rings a bit hollow when I could be literally hanging and getting drunk with my friends while doing any other activity. Might as well play a fun game and do the same thing instead.
It’s a pirate dress up game at most, and it isn’t even very good at being that
It's a game made exclusively for the people that want a game where you plunder treasure from other players, everything other than the nautical pvp is an afterthought because you can't maintain a GAAS without having some token gameplay loop for those uninterested in PvP.
Monster hunter WILDS** - worst optimisation on my rtx 3080… tried for an hour or two, haven’t played it since
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Absolutely loved World but Wilds? Bought day one and haven’t touched since April with sub 10 hours.
Ahhh i meant wilds hahaha, i loved world
I got a 3080 too and hit 60-80 fps and it runs without a problem. Something is not right with your hardware and/or settings edit: I go with high - ultra settings
MHWilds is terribly optimized, yes, but was it really bad enough on a 3080 to make you quit? my friend is on a 3060 and is playing on mostly low with DLSS and it was playable, a 3080 should be able to handle it no problem
My take on this is that we are seeing the mostly regurgitated tech streamer opinions. My whole group played the entire game on 2070 super, and various 30-series. Anyone calling it unplayable is one of those 4k only/200fps/500hz people.
There were definitely some fps drops but I'll be honest I've never cared about that even in the N64 days. Mh wilds performance wasn't gameplay impacting.
Definitely worse than a few fps drops for me - haven’t experienced it with any other game .. so not exactly sure what the issue is, I may have to revisit it
Killer Klowns from Outer Space since it dead so quickly and I was stupid enough to pre order it
Oooof, I absolutely love the movie but I knew the game even if great would be dead within a year cause no one knows about it. It's super niche.
Same thing with ash vs evil dead the game. I love ash and I loved that game but you can't find anyone to play it with. I will cherish the memories of when it was free to ps5 players so I got the whole gang to play it for a weekend.
Half life 2, i would only have 7 games now instead of 7000.
If Black Mesa isn't among those, time to make it 7001!
Soo 100 of those are valve mods right lol
Pretty much all the EA and Ubisoft stuff. They always have some kind of garbage launcher that makes games impossible to play on Steamdeck.
Update: wow, was not expecting this to be such a universal experience!
Those launchers are such a pain!
It's like rolling the dice every time you want to play. Sometimes a game will start right up, but the next time it crashes on start and nothing I do will fix it. The next time it works fine. It's like, am I going to get to play a game tonight? Who knows!
I’ve found launching far cry that if I don’t have the Ubisoft connect app running either explicitly or in the background my game will silently fail to launch, getting stuck on the “running install script ()” message. Was annoying to figure out, I hate how inconvenient they make playing their games.
I refuse to buy any ubisoft or ea game on steam. Don't care what the discount is.
These companies’ launchers are really awful.
Ive played mass effect legendary ed and ac odyssey on steam deck. Never had a problem with the launcher. Maybe i got lucky with those games.
real talk lmao
Kerbel Space Programm 2
Yo how's it compare to KSP1? What're the negatives? I haven't seen any footage of KSP2 yet.
You won't ever see anything new with KSP2. It should be taken off of steam. The studio was sold to a private equity firm with the KSP IP and will probably never be anything in the future.
KSP 1 is still great, modders have brought it to this decade graphics and content wise.
A group of the best modders in the KSP space have gotten together to make its spiritual successor called KSA which is making great progress and aims to remake the heart of the game from the ground up to fix the issues with the first game.
KSP2 may be a stain that won't go away, but the modding community gives me hope
What mod do you recommend for updated graphics?
Waterfall, firefly, blackrock volumetric clouds (I have a google drive link since it's a paid mod) deffered render, scatter, parallax 2.0
Thank you! I’m going to look for them in Ckan, but if you can share the link for the volumetric I’d be interested and grateful
I haven't actually played it but from what i've seen. Its like a Wizard Of Legend 2 situation. Where its the first game.
But less and worse polished, because the first game was supported for so long.
Imagine the worst bits of KSP1 and then times it by 100x on some mega bullshit machine and you get KSP2! Seriously never understood how they could make a sequel so bad when the first game was great
Not even half done and abandoned
Duke nukem forever. That game was a major letdown, and I loved duke nukem games as a kid
I found it interesting but probably not in the way it was meant to be.
Since it had such a crazy development over such a long period of time you can kinda see the trends in gaming that happened over it's development period as they constantly tried to appeal to what was new while they were still making the game.
So i actually had a lot of fun just looking at the game through that lens
this is why the Darksiders games are interesting to me, each one takes current gaming trends and dresses it up like a new thing, which is why 1 plays like God of War and 3 plays like a bad soulslike. fascinating series of games
I had a good time playing through it. Knowing it wouldn't be the same as the old one, which I often play on my old dos machine.
Funny enough Sea of Thieves is actually one of my favorite games but I totally get why it can be frustrating solo. Random crews barely talk and getting ambushed after grinding sucks. With friends though it turns into pure chaotic fun.
For me the game I regret buying the most is Aliens: Colonial Marines. I was hyped because of the franchise but the gameplay was awful, the AI was broken, and the whole thing felt rushed. Massive letdown from start to finish.
The Crew. Was enjoying playing it, then it was taken from me. Fair to say Ubisoft isn't getting my money again.
The only thing Ubisoft is receiving from me is a strongy-worded pipe bomb
Any game that requires another launcher. Looking at you every EA game ever.
You probably missing out every Larian and CD Projekt Red games too
Nah I played them but now that I think about it I didn’t even realize they had a launcher but seriously fuck EA.
In the instance of Larian's launcher at least for BG3 you can actually put in a launch sequence in the game's setting to completely skip the launcher.
Starfield. Maybe I just need a new monitor but I bought a brand new top end PC to be sure I could run Starfield at ultra and preordered the game and then…
It looks like shit graphically
It is not fun to play
It's not your monitor, it's just Starfield.
Same but I bought a 4070. The cities are just so dull compared to other games.
I knew I was going to buy either Starfield or Baldurs Gate 3. I tried Starfield via Game Pass and after that, I knew that Baldurs Gate 3 was probably the safer option. I "tried" it first but before I even reached the grove I knew I would like this game; shut it down and bought my own copy.
I still can't believe I couldn't invite my own parents to my wedding
Lol I can get hard copies at my local game store for $9 now and it's still a bad deal
This. And Elden Ring... I bought all of them before realising I actually don't like the gameplay 😅
Why buy all of them at once?
They looked nice, I thought I would like them. I like the art style and the ambiance. But I can't get through the gameplay.
Anyway, I said I regret buying them because I'll never play them, but somehow now that they are here, I'm still kind of happy to have them on my (virtual) shelf.
So not that big of an issue after all 👍
And maybe someday you'll decide to give them another try and the gameplay actually clicks. If not, no biggie.
Happened to me. Bought Elden Ring like a month after launch. Never played a souls game. I didn’t get it.
Had a few friends encourage me to try again over the summer. Sort of explained the mechanics and how I have bad habits for souls games because of the standard way to play similar games.
Then it just clicked. Now I get it and love the combat. It’s like a well orchestrated dance when you know how it works and I love that about it.
Except for crucible knights, fuck them.
Just my two cents cause I was in the same situation. I downloaded some mod that lessens bosses damage and keeps souls upon dying. It made all games easier to the point of me really enjoying and beating them. It also made even losing fights enjoyable because I wasn't one-two clapped but beaten consistently over 10-15 mins fights 😂 so in short, fuck the "git good" players, play as you want!
We are not here to judge.
he obviously wasn’t thinking
I kinda feel that way about Lies of P. I keep trying to go back to it and every time I do I realize "im not really having fun with this". I was trying to play it while having a pod cast or some stream going on another display and wasnt really fully enjoying it. I realized it was just kinda something mindless for my hands to do while I half watched/listened to something else and that seemed like a shitty way to take in any media. I'd rather fully engage with a game but the game is too frustrating and tedious on its own to hold me on its own.
Yeah, I feel the same about Lies of P. The art and ambiance look very good, but I don't think I'll like the gameplay either.
So I think I'll give it a chance eventually, when it will be sold for less than 5$ 😅.
if it’s the difficulty, the devs have added easier difficulties! i’m personally not an amazing gamer but i fell in love with this game and the lore bc pinocchio, and the art and ambience so having it easier was amazing!!
Good to know! Indeed, I'm not ashamed to admit I don't hesitate to enable "easy" mode in games when I find them too frustrating.
I completely understand people looking for challenges, and "hard mode" is here for them. On my side when I play I'm looking for fun and dreams. I'm not playing for suffering 😅.
damnnnnn bro, i only bought dark souls 3, but i couldn’t really get into it either
I do that too lol I’ll buy an entire franchise because it looks cool or is on sale then play one of them for like 10 minutes and never touch the rest. I’ve got over 2000 games in my Steam library and probably played less than 100 of them. It’s a problem but also kind of an art collection at this point.
Holy shit, I did the same thing. I have like 8 hours on the first one and that's about it.
100% starfield.
Have never played such a boring and badly designed game.
Its a literal loading screen simulator.
Im super glad I only played it on gamepass.
Honestly the writing for me was super mid.
How does one become the chosen one with in 10 minutes of starting the game?
Even in Skyrim it happens relatively quickly in the main plot line. But at least you have to climb a mountain. Not just get knocked out by some random ass artifact.
I played for maybe 4 hours before I realized it wasn't for me.
So glad I played it on game pass instead of buying on steam.
Now, I've warmed up on the game a little, I have thoughts but they've been done to death, I want to rant about something bugging me about Starfield's fandom lately - the stans describe it as some super smart and serious immersive sim, and the 'in spaces' like the no sodium sub are full of ageism about "young people don't like how slow burn/difficult it is so they quit". Gen Z love hard or strategic games, I'm one of them. Modern Bethesda is just very quick on the power trip and very handholdy, like objectively as part of the game design. You play for 1 hour and you've got an armed ship, several weapons, several level ups, a choice of several followers, a room in the capital city, and several faction associations. None of the critics anywhere are put off for it being slow paced in and of itself. Compare its power scaling to Elite Dangerous, Star Citizen, No Man's Sky, EVE, Everspace, X4...
Not judging anyone reading for liking the game, as I said I'm warming up to it when viewed as an ARPG, and I make mods for it, I just wish the in-group would stop larping it's the thinking man's space simulator, it doesn't even have trade goods price fluctuation. The defense reminds me of the "To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty" copypasta.
If anything is the thinking man's space im sim it's probably the X franchise.
Releasing Starfield without a map was a major foul. It had zero memorable spaces so there is no excuse for not having a map. It is criminally badly designed.
Also, if you get a quest from one planet, that needs to be completed on another planet, you literally have to go through 5 loading screens just for the transition.
No amount of argument will ever beat those 2. It's an insanely badly designed game and that's it. There is no amount of argument that can fix those 2 main issues I had.
It's a really bad game.
Heartbound. Fuck that guy.
What happened?
Multiple things. Idk which one they are upset about(or all of them) I'm sticking to facts. Not gonna throw out buzz words like narcissist or egotistical Cause I'm no doctor.(watch the healthy gamer gg video with thor for more insight on that)
To preface. He made heartbound and it's still in early access with very little to no updates after very large periods of time. Yet (as you see in point 2) he constantly talks about how he is good and people can learn from his game development. Op could Literally just be mad at that and has nothing to do with the drama. I've never played heartbound couldn't tell you if it sucks.
He is a nepo baby. His own words. He was one at blizzard. This is important for point 2
He has very VERY little development experience yet he talks like he is one on every situation. Look at his LinkedIn. There is youtube videos going over all his past jobs and very little had to do with coding and game development. (If I'm the doorman for a 5 star restaurant it doesn't make me a 5 star chef)
he also dmca'd a creators game for using his voice and appearance when he was not in the game. But an edited tweet of his voice in the game. He still has not reversed the claim.
He has done some very scummy things in WoW. Like run away from fights where he could have helped his team(I've had people explain this to me but don't fully understand as I don't play wow) and threaten a group of people because an enemy agro'd them and said they were terrible people. Turns out it was him and when the video was shown to him he double down even harder that it wasn't his fault.(it was)
And speaking on double down. The man has decided to octuple down. He made a video on stop killing games. A petition to give players the choice to set up their own server for a game at the end of life instead of companies just nuking them. He completely misunderstood. Like read off a page that Said what they are NOT(literally caps and in red) trying to do. He thought that's what they were trying to do. Wouldn't admit that he was reading off the wrong page. And has gone over the same spiel the entire time to try and prove he is right. Every video he realeased hurt the petition. The creator of stop killing games made multiple videos debunking everything he has said and he still won't listen to his hater and his own fans and have a civil discussion and instead bring up lawyers constantly.
If I got anything wrong please correct me. I know there is more but I'm typing this on my phone and the formatting is eh. Thank you.
Thats quite a lot of information. I dont understand why anyone would be against letting players have a server after the game is officially axed
He thought it meant it would force game studios to keep servers running indefinitely. People keep trying to tell him it's not
Also the initiative is to make single player an option if the games servers go down aswell. Which idk how that isn't already a common place design practice. If I pay 60(now 80 for most) for a game if your servers go down I should still be able to play by myself.
The initiative is not to make single player games, thats something that piratesoftware has been parroting and is completely wrong about. What the initiative says is to make reasonable end of life plan for multi-player games, but making a single player version is not one of the suggestions.
The big suggestion here is to allow people to host their own servers.
It’s the whole “stop killing games” movement
ELI5; people buy games that require a server to run the game and 5-10 years after launch (or sometimes sooner) the company shuts down the server and you’re stuck with a game you can’t play. The guy who made heartbound (Thor from pirate software) said it shouldn’t be the companies responsibility to make the games playable offline and some people feel very strongly that the companies need to make the games playable even without an online server vs shutting them down and pulling them off digital marketplaces
Subnautica: Below Zero. I paid full price, despite having a fairly strict "never pay full price" policy. I loved the first game, didn't want to wait for a sale, and blindly trusted that the second game would also be great. It was not.
It was so disappointing. Both characters were annoying, the writing was poor and worst of all the exploration was so unintuitive. The first Subnautica managed to guide me to the next storyline area naturally. Below Zero had everything hidden in a just another cave at the bottom of the ocean and I had to look up how to get there. It felt like fanfiction compared to the original.
If you didn't have beacons to guide you to the lady's underwater base or have it memorised it's nearly impossible to stumble upon. And what's the point of a bus sized submarine if all the spaces deep underwater are tiny?
No Man's Sky at launch. Looked amazing, promised the universe, but felt super empty and repetitive. To be fair they have improved a lot, but by the time it got good I had already moved on.
I managed to get a refund during the launch.
But then ended up buying it back years later. And on different platforms.
Love that game.
If you ever decide to get back into it, it’s a totally different game and experience. Like they updated the game to get it fixed then decided to keep the ball rolling like a couple weeks ago they added a whole new update that revamped the way settlements work
I understand being turned off by the game in the beginning but honestly it’s like Minecraft but they actually give a damn about what the player base wants
Dragons Dogma 2. I hadn't bought a new PC system yet. I was running a 2080 Super with a (slightly) older i7. Couldn't run the game at all.
So, I got my refund and never went back, even after buying a 4K PC. They don't deserve my money for that garbage,
Me too, but for a different reason. I enjoy Soulslikes, Monster Hunter games, and the more challenging RPGs like Kingdom Come Deliverance, so I thought I would like Dragon's Dogma 2. But the style of gameplay was too tedious and repetitive even for me. The time-gated missions where you can permanently miss quests without even knowing they existed was the final nail in the coffin for me. Not saying the game is bad per se but it definitely is for a different audience
Elden ring. I heard raving reviews and the goty, and brought it. Couldn't get into it, and convinced myself I'd like it more if I returned later. Spoiler: I didn't like it more.
This is the kind of games that either clicked or not. I bought it, played 2h, didn't like and never played again. 2 years later I visited a friend playing elden ring. When I got back home I wanted to give it a second try. I loved it so much it's one of my favorite game now lol.
Similar for me, it too me a couple tries, but then it clicked and I played it obsessively for a while.
Starfield. To this day I'm regretting giving Todd any money for his lies.
Valheim. I wish I could gift it to someone who likes it. I hate this game.
I just got it last week and haven’t been able to put it down
As someone who just beat the game in its current state, I hope you enjoy it! While some people might hate it, others like me love it
Its one of those games where playing it with few mates is amazing. Personally i find the solo gameplay slightly boring. With 1-3 mates in the other hand, my god how fun it is.
I think that’s my issue. I love to play solo, that’s why I didn’t enjoy it as much as others do.
I loved Valheim, but something about the pixelated textures stresses my eyes
There's a mod for that!
I bought the first chapter of the Walking Dead when it was on sale for $4
One month later, the entire remastered collection was on sale for $5
For me its dragons dogma dark arisen. Saw some videos saying its the best game youve never played and how theres a cult following for the game but when i went to go play it it was so incredibly slow and clunky and didnt feel like i was going anywhere. I also didnt enjoy the pawn system which made me know for sure that i wasnt gonna get dragons dogma 2. A whole lot of people say the game doesnt get good till endgame which is crazy to me bc i was playing for 10 hours and am still in the beginning (sort of) and youre telling me i have to basically beat the game to start enjoying it? I might still play it down the line on and off but for now its probably my most regretted purchase bc of just how its like playing only anime filler for the entire game and then i get to enjoy it like what?
Nah theyre twats sure bitterblac ks is amazing but if you arent enjoying the basegame you just wont enjoy bitterblack.
Oxygen Not Included.
I haven't seen my family in days...
Really, really sorry, but Hollow Knight.
Same here, I had heard amazing things and got it on sale. Beautiful artstyle but just couldn't get into the gameplay, running aimlessly through a maze with no direction wasn't a good experience at all
Starfield, what a joke of a game
I was told the game gets good 10 hours in, and at 11 hours, i was still waiting
it gets good 50 hours in, actually. Trust me, play 50 hours of boring nothing of a game, after THAT this is peak fiction.
I was so excited about this game, but how can a game released this decade still have loading screens to enter different buildings/rooms? The NPC’s also ONLY talk about their function to the main character.
Cyberpunk released its DLC soon after and it reminded me how alive an open world can feel and I haven’t played the game since.
Imma be honest, spiderman 2018. I bought it on launch and was kinda underwhelmed for a 80 dollar game, I should have waited for a sale
This game took me 2 years before I mustered the willpower to finish it. The swinging is fun but the side content can get repetitive
The side stuff was repetitive, but the swinging, traversal, and combat is just so damn fun that I was able to overlook its faults.
is it that game that was originally a playstation exclusive when it first launched?
Yea
Nothing will ever compare to the OG Spider-man 2 movie game for me.
Don't really regret buying Sea of Thieves but I don't wanna play it anymore. Got 200+ hrs on it with friends. Then tried solo. Getting spawn camped on a sloop by 3 pirates while full of loot is just not fun.
I regret buying Starfield but not because it sucks. I mean I did like it. But it's too big. Too many things to do and I don't enough real world time to focus on 1 game. Imagine I only have 3 hrs a day to play and let's say Starfield has 120 hrs to play. That's 40 days straight. I'll be bored of it eventually which I am now.
Sea of Thieves is such a perfect example of a game that's amazing in theory but falls apart without the right group. I learned the hard way that some games just aren't worth buying unless you already have a dedicated crew lined up.
Ever I don't know. But recently Dune Awakening and it's not even close. Was sold as a great Survival PvE until a lackluster Rust endgame. Whomever think that survival is good is delusional.
Had a lot of fun until deep desert. Who tf wants to sit in an empty area mining ore nodes over and over
Played 8 hours or so and couldn’t get over how janky the gameplay felt, hoping some cook time makes it better..
Battlebit, total flavor of the week moment. The only thing going for it was 254 players and proximity voice chat. It had nothing to do with battlefield and yet they all said it was basically battlefield. Then influencers stopped making videos about it and everyone left.
Interestingly I did (and do) actually enjoy the game. I do feel like it has many of the gameplay elements that define Battlefield games, no?
people didnt leave because infleuncers dropped the game, influencers dropped the game because people left after the dev did multiple back to back dumb moves.
but, there was recently an update from the devs (a fucking YEAR later) that they've been silently grinding behind the scenes on a massive overhaul to the game that promises to address all of the player complaints and more.
so, maybe battlebit will come back. or maybe it's a hail mary from a failed dev to breathe life back into the game and it wont be nearly as good as promised
lol, i also regret sea of thieves purchase. such an unbelievably boring game, and thats even with friends.
Mass Effect LE simply because I can’t get it to fucking launch. I have tried every video I can to get it to work but I’m just stuck in a “validating game” loop. Fuck EA and their god damn app.
I had a similar experience but got mine to work rather simple again.
It sucks people have thia experience, cause when it all works (like it did when I played it on console) it's a game worth the money. I've done 6 complete runs since it's launch, I think.
Edit: this sub has run it's course. It's the prime example of a gaming sub. Such negativity, it's insane.
Postal 4. I got it in early access and thought "it'll get interesting and good as they develop it". It got neither interesting nor good. It's just boring.
Probably the newest Stalker game, spent like $70 on it and it was around 5 or 6 hours before I realized how shitty it was. Stuck with it now.
Question. Like, is it BAD. Or do you not like it?
Should I just head to the old STALKER games instead of a shitty excuse of a revival?
Didn’t realise this. Is it that bad? Was thinking of picking it up
When thr game first launched it was rather bad, sadly. They have since had a lotnof big updates which have improved it massively, and brought it more in line with the previous games.
I can't really say if it has actually improved though. I stopped playing after 10 hours from getting it at launch, as it was just a bit of a slog, unoptimised unfun mess.. so I hope all the updates have done something too it. I really want to enjoy it.
Rocket League & Fall Guys. Even though I bought them on Steam and could play them just fine Epic goes and takes them as exclusives. Now you need an Epic account to play them which I'm never going to do again. It should be illegal to pull this stuff.
Fallout 76 is the only game I’ve ever given a negative review. I spent more time hunting for ammo than actually having fun, so I quit after 10 hours.
If you still have the game I just thought I'd let you know it's really improved in recent years. Still might not be your cup of tea tho
Literally every enemy you kill drops ammo that you need
Now, but that was not the case at launch.
Civ…7? Whatever the latest one is. Bought it to play with friends then they decided they hated it. I wasn’t loving either.
Victoria 3
The game is/was just not done and was a huge step down from Victoria 2 plus all DLC.
It's gotten better with patches but right you can buy it for 70% off. So fuck me for being a core customer and preordering I guess.
Never buy a paradox game day one
As someone who has played PDX games since Hoi2 this is my creed. But I had been looking forward to Vic3 for a decade so I broke my rule and preordered.
FF14's integration with Steam is not worth it, trust me on this one.
Rainbow Six Siege. Got to so I have a multiplayer game I can play casually, but the only game mode I could play was casual quick match, which wasn't the full experience (Had to get more ingame XP to play normal casual and nobody plays the matchmaking that the game wants you to play when you first start), and that was full of people who played WAY to competitively for my beginner level, so I didn't really play it. Then I pick up the Master Chief Collection, so that's multiplayer solved (I have never actually touched its multiplayer though. I'm not much of a PvP person. The only real online I've been is Darktide). Then I find out a couple of weeks ago that it's now free, so yeah, I very much regret buy Siege.
One of the reasons I don't touch Rainbow Six Siege
MK1 - It just runs like shit on my 4090. I kept fussing with the settings trying to fix it but it's too late to refund now.
Stellaris - Every 6 months I boot up Stellaris like "This time I’ll understand it." Ten minutes in, I'm managing 47 popups, my scientists are dead, my economy is screaming, and a void dragon just annexed my homeworld. Feels like I need a PhD in Galactic Empire Management in order to play this game.
DayZ – Booted it up, saw 8,000 servers with wildly different rules, mods, maps, and vibes.
Spent 2 hours Googling “best beginner server” and reading forum arguments from 2019.
Eventually closed the game out of sheer decision paralysis. Didn’t even starve to death...just quit out of confusion.
Street Fighter 6 - Bought it a couple months ago for $40, was actually having fun.
Then they dropped the Fighters Edition, which is the base game plus all DLC, for $60.
No upgrade path, no discount, just “lol buy it again.” Loved the game, but I’m not paying full price twice. So, I uninstalled out of spite. GG Capcom.
Chivalry 2 - First few matches were pure chaos and I was loving it.
Total noob, no clue what I’m doing just swinging wildly and trying not to get my head chopped off. Then I get kicked mid-match for “bad teamwork” and banned from queuing for 30 minutes. Like bro, I just bought the game. Let me be stupid in peace.
Instant uninstall. Never touched it again.
Fallout 4
I loved Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but the Level cap always bothered me. I was so excited when they announced that Fallout 4 will not have a Level Cap. Oh boy was i disappointed when i saw what they did to Fallout. The dialogue system was a joke and the game itself was not fun at all, It didn't feel like Fallout, it was a Shooter with RPG MEchanics in a Wasteland setting. I quit after ~20 Hours and never played it again....
My most played bethesda game for one major reason, modded settlement building is really fun
Oh yeah the settlement building... I didn't Like that either...
I think that was the last straw for me too, because that’s the last thing i remember doing before i closed that game for the last time a decade ago
Disco elysium played for 3 hours and Uninstaller guess not my cup of tea
Dragon dogma 2 badly optimized and gameplay kinda sucked ass. Played too much to refund. Was pretty hyped for it
Black Skylands. My only EA bust. The gameplay is OK but it feels like such a waste of what could have been a very unique and fun game. The story is drastically different from EA to 1.0 and they did away with a bulk of skyship customization that was there in EA. And the ending was absolutely awful.
Pacific Drive.
What made me leave was needing to gather items to complete the quest(it's a fetch-quest game where you drive a car). But I mistakenly destroyed the items I needed and there's a limited supply and the level design is garbage and the gameplay is boring and if you play it on console then you can't get your refund. Never play this game, there's a reason nobody talks about it. It's just a half baked game and Im so mad I fell for this scam.
The adverts are nothing like the game. It's literally false advertising.
I like solo Sea of Thieves. Once you start sailing there's not much need for another person. Just avoid combat with other ships if you can
It’s a hot take, but for me was baldurs gate 3. I’m not saying it’s bad game whatsoever I just went in expecting more from it and I could just never get it to click but I like the devs for not making it overpriced and actually supporting their communities, great game just not for me sadly.
Starfield.
And not just because of why everyone complains about it, I had a good run through and finished it and mostly enjoyed it even.
But it was one of the first times I paid full retail price on release, and I bought the deluxe edition, which I havnt felt like going back to play the expansion mission(s), if they are out, and at this point im unlikely to.
Never again will i buy on release at full price for anything
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League, unoptimized pos
Detroit: Become Human
I'm not sure who this game appeals to, but I'd rather watch paint dry than try to keep playing it.
As one of the people this game appeals to, sorry you didn’t enjoy it!
Hello kitty island adventure really regret it because it’s boring and I can’t do anything I would like to normally do in a life sim game. I know this is very controversial 😂
Graveyard keeper because i hate the time system, hate the plot line, I had it early access and it was a battle to get through it.
Spider-Man 2 I returned it within 20 mins of buying it because as soon as I started the first sequence all I saw was floating heads and right through Peters hair 😵💫 I have a few others especially the early access games
Nightreign. Extremely repetitive, got bored 7 hours in
Starfield
The Stomping Land, Reign of Kings. A bunch of EA games that were a scam.
It was Payday 3 (though it's much better now) until FBC: Firebreak came out. Me, wife, and buddies love PvE co-op games. We also love the Remedy-verse. Firebreak seemed like an instant win but it turned out to be a major disappointment none of us have touched since the day after launch.
Techtonica. I was a nice game in EA. Not perfect but aiming in a nice direction. Then devs released a crappy 1.0 and abandonned the project...
A whole lot of them, not because I don't like them. But because I literally can't get myself to play any of them cause i'm too exhausted everyday.
I was obsessed with Life is Feudal when it was announced but at the time could not afford it. When I was able, it sucked so much and later turned out to be such a money-grab.
Back for blood. It was a damn scam
Palworld. I'm usually very good about resisting the game of the month but EVERYONE of my rl friends had it and I played just over 2 hours with them. Game was horrible I feel like a sucker.
As someone who started playing Sea of Thieves solo, their official discord server is one of the best spots to find chill people to play with. I made a lot of friendships that spanned beyond SoT there and I have around 3k hours on record currently.
If you're considering getting into Sea of Thieves, the official discord makes the experience sooo much better.
Ahh sea of thieves, my dream pirate game ruined (for me) because of the unavoidable pvp
Breathedge. Good survival crafting space game. But changes into a walking simulator in the last third.
No regrets here as it was free on epic a while back. Haven't touched it yet but am sure now I will understand this comment better when I get to the last third of the game lol.
GTAV. It was a month before the Epic free GTAV. I really don't like how its multiplayer works
i really like this game, but like you, i’m not a fan of multiplayer online modes. i’ve logged hundreds of hours mainly because i enjoy driving around the city when i’m bored
Look up fivem there’s better multiplayer modded servers then the base game tbh
Starfield. I even 100%ed it just to have another game 100%ed but if i could take back the cost or even just the time spent on it i would in a heart beat. Fun game for about 2 or 3 hours. Not worth my 209 hrs plus i lost the 100% anyway when the dlc came out.
Silent Hill 2 Remake. Too many enemies and too long, the original is much better.
Too many enemies
Man, modern gamers are utterly perplexed and baffled by the idea that you don't have to fight and kill every enemy you see, huh? You guys would die playing 90s survival horror games.
Wolfenstein the new order. I had played the older games a lot and found it very boring. It’s not the worst game that I’ve played, but the biggest disappointment.
FF7 Rebirth - complete downgrade from FF7 Remake and horrible performance
Borderlands 3 - perpetual stuttering issues with no fix
Baldurs gate 3 and kcd2. I know they're amazing games but I payed almost full price and I really don't have the time to invest in learning their respective intricacies. Its a sad existence.
Grab a DnD 3.5e rulebook and you'll find Baldur's Gate quite simple! /s
PUBG. It looked really fun when it was really popular and every youtuber I knew played it with their friends.
I had no one to play with and learned I don't enjoy battle royales. But I spent 4h in the game so it was too late for a refund.
"Who's your daddy"
I bought it when I was like 12 when some youtubers were playing it and it is so fucking stupid I often consider just removing it from my library
Sea of Thieves for me too and for a similar reason. Friend told me to buy it like a year ago and that he wanted to play it with me and we still have yet to play it together. Tried it solo for a bit and it's miserable.
I have since stopped buying games he says he wants to play with me because we never end up playing them lol.
yeah, when you play alone, there’s just way too much to handle on your own
You two should play it together.
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An asdf movie reference? In this economy? Edit: meg miert vannak itt magyarok
Now that you can play it without strangers who loot your ship, it's actually pretty good. And I have to handle the ship on my own already anyway, my friend usually never helps with that when we play together 😂
They threw such a hissy fit about PvE mode for literally years, then when they finally gave in and made one they absolutely trashed the reward system for it to try and force people into letting themselves be bullied by the sweaty assholes that were the entire reason people wanted PvE in the first place.
I don't know why their dev team are such annoying losers. Did they ever increase the rewards or are they still being giant babies about it?
The gold reward changed to be the same between Safer Seas and High Seas (or something like that, I forgor the name). But in Safer Seas reputation (that lvl up with each faction) is limited to 25, you can't have your own ship (very lame, needless to say). Oh yea easier to share the link: https://seaofthieves.wiki.gg/wiki/Game_Mode
Oh interesting that they changed the gold reward. It was like 30% or some BS originally iirc? Still stupid that you can't enjoy the full game though. They could at least make solo queue servers for the regular High Seas mode. Reapers are another annoying af design choice.
That's better, but I'm still not coming back until they let me have my own ship. They need to stop being tits.
If i had a dollar for every time my friends bait me into buying a game that we play just long enough that I can’t get a refund anymore, it still wouldn’t be enough to get my money back 🙃
Damn .. I'm sorry. I'll play with you!! My good friend passed recently we would play almost nightly. We had such a a blast and even made other friends we met up with IRL.
I think i bought this one for like $20 or something. Only every played it once with a couple of friends and I'll probably never play it again. I know $20 for a one time played game seems like a lot but if you consider the fact that a movie or concert ticket would cost just as much if not way more for a night of fun with your buds, i aint mad at that.
That became my rule #1: never buy co-op games friends recommend.
It happened way too often.
Don't listen to your friends, my friend.
Wait.
I just really dislike that you can’t turn OFF PvP, and just enjoy it with teammates doing Co-Op PvE.
Any time in the past we’ve come off the game is because we got killed by other players while just trying to do Quests. And it diminishes being fun at that point.
It’s a really bad experience having forced PvP in my opinion.