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My pick would be Dungeons of Dredmor I guess. Even though it was 1$. A waste of a good dollar.
I do not own many games and almost everything I buy I try to play at least once so my pick may not be the greatest.
(Let's say some games in Humble Bundles don't count because they were a bonus to the true purchase)

Pokemon Snap. Kinda self-explanatory.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Pokemon Snap. Kinda self-explanatory.

Lies! Pokemon Snap was great!
Personally, I hated Super Mario Galaxy. Supposed to be the best Mario game ever, but I hated it.

Borderlands. Even after getting it at discount price. I don't know what people saw in it, everything about it was boring and monotonous. This coming from a Diablo fan.

Brink to a smaller degree. Being awesome in asthetics does not make a game good.

Never understood what was BAD about Warhammer Online. It was great fun to me PvE wise, never got too heavy in PVP but what I did play was fun. Also never got the hate for Neverwinter 2. Sure it took a different approach to playing than NWN1, but it was still solid, and the characters were stereotypical and oddly likeable.

I once bought Daikatana.
I'm not proud.

4oursword wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:Pokemon Snap. Kinda self-explanatory.

Lies! Pokemon Snap was great!
Personally, I hated Super Mario Galaxy. Supposed to be the best Mario game ever, but I hated it.

It would have been better if, like Mario 64, it had more room for exploration, but in many ways it was definitely better than most 3d mario games.

The Fragile Breath wrote:To be controversial... Marvel versus Capcom 3. Yes, you heard me. In my opinion, it shot for the stars and fell flat on its face. Every character essentially plays the same, just are faster or slower and have different "acting" moves. Maybe I was too young to remember, and MvC 1 and 2 were the same way (forgive me if that is the case), but I like a fighting game like Soul Calibur or Mortal Kombat, where each character feels unique. I even brought it to play with a good friend who was extremely excited for it, after one match, he said it was too simple and it bugged him.

Personally, the only fighting game I've yet to play where every character feels unique is Blazblu.

MK has a place in my heart, it was the only game I loved playing before I considered myself a gamer (Way back at the age of 3), and let's face it, Mortal Kombat is the best fighting game ever made, bar none, no contest, don't even try (Seriously, it's the only fighting game with an actual story; Soul Calibur is the closest to it, and that's basically just "Evil sword is evil, go find and destroy it"). But I can play Johnny Cage and play Rushdown, or Sonya and play Rushdown, or Kabal and play Rushdown. Or I can play Sub Zero and play Zoner, or Noob Saibot and play Zoner, Reptile as a Zoner, Sektor as a zoner, or play Lui Kang, Kano, or Smoke and use one combo input to do all of my fighting.


You could have taken the character roster down into a fourth of what it was and not have lost anything.

X3

It isn't so much of a learning curve as a learning vertical line, with no tutorial to speak of, so many hotkeys scattered around the keyboard by default, the inability to pause and fiddle with the options panel whilst paused, and in-game instructions which don't actually work.

I've played (I say played, I mean tried to figure out what the feth to do once the game starts) less than 30mins of it and I already regret the purchase; good thing it was on sale.

Avatar 720 wrote:X3

It isn't so much of a learning curve as a learning vertical line, with no tutorial to speak of, so many hotkeys scattered around the keyboard by default, the inability to pause and fiddle with the options panel whilst paused, and in-game instructions which don't actually work.

I've played (I say played, I mean tried to figure out what the feth to do once the game starts) less than 30mins of it and I already regret the purchase; good thing it was on sale.

It gets worse. Even if you understand the game, your permanently hosed in so many ways because almost every system in X3 is fundamentally flawed. The trade system, combat tiers, combat mechanics, and don't even get me started on game balance.

Avatar 720 wrote:It isn't so much of a learning curve as a learning vertical line, with no tutorial to speak of

There's a tutorial . It's optional, but it's right there in front of you as you start the game. He will give you the basic instructions on how to fly your ship, purchase items, and so on and so forth. Even has voice acting in it so you aren't just reading text.

Avatar 720 wrote:the inability to pause and fiddle with the options panel whilst paused, and in-game instructions which don't actually work.

There is no such inability.

LordofHats wrote:almost every system in X3 is fundamentally flawed. The trade system, combat tiers, combat mechanics, and don't even get me started on game balance.

The trade system is intentionally flawed to start with. It allows for you to plug holes in the system and make money off of said holes. Especially once you get enough money to get a space station.

The combat tiers aren't really broken, either, and I haven't found that combat is either. I've gone on the warpath many times and been able to take down ships both bigger and smaller than my ship-- as long as I prepared for it. The bigger ships are powerful yes (as they should be?) but they're also ludicrously expensive, and highly vulnerable to large missiles.

Kanluwen wrote:I bought Brink...

Oh dear...

That's the tutorial? Fat lot of help that was. I got to shooting stuff when he gave up giving instructions and I was stuck drifting through space without ever knowing how to fire a weapon (due to the instructions being wrong).

As for the pausing, I tried it several times, all pause does is pause the game until you press a button or click the mouse, which means that as soon as you try to bring up the menu, the game unpauses.

Avatar 720 wrote:That's the tutorial? Fat lot of help that was. I got to shooting stuff when he gave up giving instructions and I was stuck drifting through space without ever knowing how to fire a weapon (due to the instructions being wrong).

... they weren't wrong. I completed those instructions myself numerous times... It depends on what you set them to if you changed them, but it should give you the right instructions (mind you, the first thing I did was customize my controls anyway... my fire buttons were mouse1 and ctrl, and my fire missile button was mouse4).

Avatar 720 wrote:As for the pausing, I tried it several times, all pause does is pause the game until you press a button or click the mouse, which means that as soon as you try to bring up the menu, the game unpauses.

Try just opening the menu without pausing first? It should automatically pause.


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Wait, are you playing basic X3: Reunion, X3: Terran Conflict, or X3: Albion Prelude?

The control schemes changed quite a bit from X3: Reunion to X3:TC... it's hard to explain, but simply the way you fly your ship is pretty different. TC added in numerous classes such as the bomber, heavy corvettes, missile frigates, etc as well as the Terran race and the unique Terran questline, and Albion Prelude added in a war going on and numerous economy changes.

They were wrong for me, I tried doing it several times in several ways, then resorted to trying to change the hotkeys for them to no avail. I collected the first piece of debris he dropped for me to shoot since I couldn't fire any weapons and drifted into it before I could slow and turn, he dropped a second and told me how to do it again, then buggered off.

After ~10mins of trying to get anything to fire something at it, I just ran into it to collect it and hopefully spawn another one, but nothing happened after that and I couldn't find him anywhere in the starting area.

For the pausing, I have to open the menu first, but it doesn't pause, since I remember having to quickly unpause several times in order to brake or turn quickly so that I didn't crash into an asteroid.

EDIT: Prelude.

I'll open up Prelude and see if there's options that I picked that will give me what I have after lab.

As an aside, I think your problem may be that either your ship doesn't have a weapon, or it isn't equipped and is just sitting in cargo. Usually the starting ships begin with a basic laser though...


X3 is kinda like Minecraft in a sense, there's absolutely no shame in looking up the FAQs and asking for help because it's a big, free open universe which doesn't tell you what to do. Which is great if you're able to play it, but if you can't figure it out it's a big confusing mess.

Hawx (sp?)

Some aircraft shooter - I LOVE aircraft sims but this was pop icecream on a stick, fallen to the floor and lapped up by your neighbours overwieght dog :(

Avoid peeps!

Honourable mention, Rift - the absolute worst of what MMOs aspire to.

I bought Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for the PS2. Well lets just say that I played through it multiple times and tried my hardest to find something fun to do. Literally the only thing in that game that I enjoyed was the later missions for the Pirate faction... fething forklift skeet shooting, how could that not be fun?

Avatar 720 wrote:X3

It isn't so much of a learning curve as a learning vertical line, with no tutorial to speak of, so many hotkeys scattered around the keyboard by default, the inability to pause and fiddle with the options panel whilst paused, and in-game instructions which don't actually work.

I've played (I say played, I mean tried to figure out what the feth to do once the game starts) less than 30mins of it and I already regret the purchase; good thing it was on sale.

X3 really isn't for everyone. I, too, had multiple problems with trying to get started, mostly in that I apparently missed the Tutorial somewhere. I only played it for around 20 minutes before I gave up, but half the time the game recommended I check the manual to read about the controls. Which I would have done if not for the fact that I literally have not seen a game require the manual for controls info in years.

Yeah, alright, I didn't give it much of a shot. But I think I actually got the game for free anyway during the holiday sale, so I'm not all that miffed about it. I mean, I've heard it's a pretty good game, so I won't say that it's really bad or anything, but it is a ridiculously confusing system, with (IMO) a very clunky interface. It's one of those games that just thrusts you straight into the world without any sort of help, which isn't necessarily bad (I mean, Minecraft is one of those, and it's one of my all-time favorite games) but it's just not a whole lot of fun if just the basic controls are difficult to grasp, much less doing anything else. In Minecraft's case, the few lessons you need to learn are the various crafting patterns, not to stay out at night, and a basic idea of how to mine.

Just my two cents on X3. I'm sure it's a fine game, I'm sure it's got plenty of fans. But to me, it's just not much fun, given how you're just thrown into the game without much explanation on anything.

I purchased Dungeon siege 3 for 4.99$. I want my moneys back. It has nothing to do and nothing in common with the other games. The combat system is beyond boring and you have little control over your character. Your character development options are a joke, customization is a joke, its all just a huge terrible joke really. They could have simply made the game a clone of the older games with better graphics and they would have been more successful. Honestly, the game was 60$ initially. I got it for 5$ 5 months after it came out. I officially hate Obsidian entertainment now.

Titan Quest.


Force Unleashed was a real pain, although it was perhaps my PC.


Oh, oh. Blitzkrieg 2, Although I won it, and did not buy it (although I would have after the great first part).

Wow, someone who didn't like Titan Quest @_@

That's a shocker to me. What didn't you like about it?

LordofHats wrote:Wow, someone who didn't like Titan Quest @_@

That's a shocker to me. What didn't you like about it?

Perhaps I am wrong, but I remeber it was just running around a very long time anc click and slay with no variation.

I dont like Diablo either.

I guess that makes sense XD

Mindlessly holding down one button isn't much of a problem for me. I play Dynasty Warriors

Starcraft 2. I played it for an hour, put it away and put it on the whitegoods pile the next week.

Doctadeth wrote:Starcraft 2. I played it for an hour, put it away and put it on the whitegoods pile the next week.

What did you dislike? I was sceptical at first, but was really happ with it. Although I only played the (entertaining) campaing and the custom map StarBattle (Ship to ship combat, without respawn) on mulitplayer.

LunaHound wrote:Warhammer Online.


Dear God I tried so hard to like that game

Me too! Do I feel silly for defending and getting friends to play this game when it came out... Crappiest game I've ever bought!

Skycrawler wrote:I bought Mercenaries 2: World in Flames for the PS2. Well lets just say that I played through it multiple times and tried my hardest to find something fun to do. Literally the only thing in that game that I enjoyed was the later missions for the Pirate faction... fething forklift skeet shooting, how could that not be fun?

Was that the game with the appalling draw distance/pop-up? I think someone was telling me about that..

Dark Scipio wrote:

Doctadeth wrote:Starcraft 2. I played it for an hour, put it away and put it on the whitegoods pile the next week.

What did you dislike? I was sceptical at first, but was really happ with it. Although I only played the (entertaining) campaing and the custom map StarBattle (Ship to ship combat, without respawn) on mulitplayer.

The unit balance earlygame is just stupid and I found I could bumrush the campaign, beat about 4 missions of it rather easily. Plus there is very little incentive to build up lategame, its more just numbers rather than finesse, which starcraft 1 had a bit more of.

Doctadeth wrote:

Dark Scipio wrote:

Doctadeth wrote:Starcraft 2. I played it for an hour, put it away and put it on the whitegoods pile the next week.

What did you dislike? I was sceptical at first, but was really happ with it. Although I only played the (entertaining) campaing and the custom map StarBattle (Ship to ship combat, without respawn) on mulitplayer.

The unit balance earlygame is just stupid and I found I could bumrush the campaign, beat about 4 missions of it rather easily. Plus there is very little incentive to build up lategame, its more just numbers rather than finesse, which starcraft 1 had a bit more of.

Did you try StarBattle?

Definitely Starcraft II, quite a shame, as the original is one of the best RTS games of all time.