While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Reward Tiers: Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Login / Register
- GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with a hundred classics being 're-released'
- Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable
- NVIDIA detail upcoming Linux driver features for Wayland and explain current support
- GE-Proton 9-19 brings fixes for Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, Monster Hunter Wilds and more
- Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK v2.5 released with rewritten memory management
- > See more over 30 days here
-
Inspired by SSX, arcade snowboarding game Tricky Madnes…
- based -
Half-Life 2 free to keep until November 18th, Episodes …
- Xpander -
Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam …
- dvd -
Proton Experimental adds DLSS 3 Frame Generation suppor…
- 14 -
Linux GPU Configuration Tool 'LACT' adds NVIDIA support…
- Purple Library Guy - > See more comments
- Types of programs that are irritating
- dvd - New Desktop Screenshot Thread
- pilk - What do you want to see on GamingOnLinux?
- Linas - Weekend Players' Club 11/15/2024
- StoneColdSpider - Our own anti-cheat list
- Xpander - See more posts
For me, it has to be Aliens Colonial Marines. I bought into the hype, the original faked trailers look amazing and I think we all know the resulting poo it turned out to be. That was where I really stopped pre-ordering games personally.
I don’t think I’ve had a bigger let-down since then.
Yeah, I know, F2P doesn't count as "buying". But I've spent in the game, and I regret it, because now I can't stop playing it. And it's not even because of the "sunk cost fallacy" thing. It's legitimately a decent base game, and at least half the regular content updates during the year are decent.
Last edited by cybik on 11 June 2023 at 7:27 pm UTC
View PC info
View PC info
View PC info
View PC info
Imperator: Rome, even though I love the theme and idea of it and some of the mechanics, it's pretty much one of the games Paradox admitted was a bit of a flop and they stopped updating.
Rust, because the creator turned into an asshole. :p That one actually got the 'hide this game from my library' options ticked in Steam.
Ion Fury, again, studio/creator issues, though I'd backed it well before that happened.
View PC info
However, in the past there have been games I have spent a lot of money on, purchasing DLC content that I never got to see because I just can't or won't play the game. I regret wasting that money.
Battlefield games from EA
Jedi: Fallen Order
Another game I regret buying, but it's my fault, is Hitman 2. I bought all the content for it and couldn't so much as complete the first mission. I would say the reason I gave up on it so soon was because it was too rigid in how you approach things. Assassinations don't go like that, you need to plan your infiltration, but you also need to be able to improvise.
Terminator Resistance. Mad Max. Deus Ex Mankind Divided. These are other games I regretted buying, that I didn't want to claw back because they were Linux ports.
Actually there is one very recent example that fits here. This is probably the angriest regret for buying a game. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands!
Substituting repetitive, tedious grinding for content. There really isn't much to that game and the DLC isn't even new story missions, but tedious encounters. I literally have thousands of hours into the Borderlands franchise and I was finished with this one in 44 hours (that's doing everything, including the DLC encounters twice but the loot was just repetitive so there was no point in grinding those anymore either). There's no second playthrough with your character, they took away "True" and "Ultimate" modes of replaying characters. All the shit I did, stats, gear, money... all for nothing because the character is done. That's what was motivating me to endure the tedium... "second playthrough soon!", and at that point I didn't know they took it away. The game is just not interesting enough for me to want to play a new character.
I regret buying Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. That's my answer here.
Last edited by Grogan on 11 June 2023 at 8:42 pm UTC