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[MikeE21286]

The Steam summer sale is obviously a game in itself and as you can see by the 20k+ posts people get really hyped up and excited for it.

We have to remember, however, that some games you should just leave un-purchased regardless of the price

This thread is for games that you have at least tried once and immediately regretted your purchase.


What I bought:

• Magicka - $3.39
• Hoard - $2.99
• Frozen Synapse - $6.25 (2 pack)
• The Last Remnant - $9.99
• Terraria - $2.49
• Dawn of War II Retribution - $7.49

What I regret:

The Last Remnant ($9.99 - 75% off) - I picked it up hoping that the horrendous screen tearing and frame rate was fixed from the 360 version. That is not the case. Without the option to set V-sync in the menu, and the horrible screen tearing still present (a huge pet-peeve of mine), this will probably never be played again by me unless I can find an easy fix for it (or I'm an idiot and didn't see it in the menu options)

 

[Salsa]

The Last Remnant ($9.99 - 75% off) - I picked it up hoping that the horrendous screen tearing and frame rate was fixed from the 360 version. That is not the case. Without the option to set V-sync in the menu, and the horrible screen tearing still present (a huge pet-peeve of mine), this will probably never be played again by me unless I can find an easy fix for it (or I'm an idiot and didn't see it in the menu options)

force it?

 

[Narag]

screen tearing you say?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366413

 

[Deleted member 81567]

Really? Frozen Synapse?

 

[BravesCountry]

Try D3D Overdrive. It can force vsync and triple buffering in games and it works like a charm.

edit: and I regret buying torchlight. Not because it is bad, but because it is a good game but now that I have the taste again for diablo I know the only way to truly fill my diablo fix I am going to have to buy diablo 3, which is going to cost me a good chunk of money.

 

[vocab]

Really? Frozen Synapse?

Read ffs

 

[Flunkie]

Everything. Looks like no electricity in the Flunk household this month!

 

[Toma]

Really? Frozen Synapse?

Thats what he bought, not what he regretted.

 

[Grinchy]

I don't want to say I completely regret it yet, but I'm not sure if I'm loving Stalker yet. I might need to watch some "you should be playing like this, dummy" videos. It just feels a little on the janky side so far and after something like Fallout 3, the PDA leaves a lot to be desired.

 

[Narag]

I don't want to say I completely regret it yet, but I'm not sure if I'm loving Stalker yet. I might need to watch some "you should be playing like this, dummy" videos. It just feels a little on the janky side so far and after something like Fallout 3, the PDA leaves a lot to be desired.

You snagged the complete mods, right?

 

[comrade]

The Steam summer sale is obviously a game in itself and as you can see by the 20k+ posts people get really hyped up and excited for it.

We have to remember, however, that some games you should just leave un-purchased regardless of the price

This thread is for games that you have at least tried once and immediately regretted your purchase.


What I bought:

• Magicka - $3.39
• Hoard - $2.99
• Frozen Synapse - $6.25 (2 pack)
• The Last Remnant - $9.99
• Terraria - $2.49
• Dawn of War II Retribution - $7.49

What I regret:

The Last Remnant ($9.99 - 75% off) - I picked it up hoping that the horrendous screen tearing and frame rate was fixed from the 360 version. That is not the case. Without the option to set V-sync in the menu, and the horrible screen tearing still present (a huge pet-peeve of mine), this will probably never be played again by me unless I can find an easy fix fohttp://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366413r it (or I'm an idiot and didn't see it in the menu options)

D3DOverrider. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=366413

I regret purchasing Last Remnant, & Risen. Everything else I got seems pretty good.

 

[Salsa]

I don't want to say I completely regret it yet, but I'm not sure if I'm loving Stalker yet. I might need to watch some "you should be playing like this, dummy" videos. It just feels a little on the janky side so far and after something like Fallout 3, the PDA leaves a lot to be desired.

easy to get lost, give it an hour or two and you'll fall in love

 

[Waku]

Garshasp: Was looking forward to this Indie GoW but the fucking thing won't even properly start. After i fixed the problem with Flash that was preventing it from even Starting up i am now stuck at the loading screen to the first level where it will just freeze and crash.

Fucking thing sucks.

 

[MikeE21286]

Thanks for the D3DOverrider stuff. I was completely oblivious to this.

This is not an ATI only thing? (I have an Nvidia card)

 

[Yaska]

The Last Remnants V-Sync can be forced in the config ini.

 

[Mama Robotnik]

I bought the Fallout collection (Fallout 1,2,tactics) and started playing the first one. After a really nice intro sequence, I'm finding the mechanics to be a bit frustrating, and the constant visual scattering due to incompatibilities with my modern OS to be intolerable.

I'll persist with it a bit longer, but its not making a good impression so far unfortunately.

 

[MikeE21286]

The Last Remnants V-Sync can be forced in the config ini.

This won't cause any problems if I mess around with it even though I have the Steam version?

 

[JWong]

I didn't buy anything, so nothing to regret about.

Almost got Terreria, but I held back since I'm playing EVE most of the time.

 

[szaromir]

No regrets.

Dow2 Retribution is $7.5 on the US Steam? Here it's €15

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Lead and Gold.

Ugh... that game is terrible and has lots of really bad visual glitches that destroy the game for me.

 

[Zombie James]

See, I tried it years before and immediately felt that it didn't like up to how people were hyping it, but hey, STEAM SALE = CHEAP so I thought I'd give it another try.

...damn it

 

[Salsa]

I bought the Fallout collection (Fallout 1,2,tactics) and started playing the first one. After a really nice intro sequence, I'm finding the mechanics to be a bit frustrating, and the constant visual scattering due to incompatibilities with my modern OS to be intolerable.

I'll persist with it a bit longer, but its not making a good impression so far unfortunately.

2 aged a lot better

 

[MikeE21286]

No regrets.

Dow2 Retribution is $7.5 on the US Steam? Here it's €15

It was a Day 1 sale at $15 and today it had a pricing glitch in the first half hour or so when it was posted again this afternoon.

 

[Iadien]

Terraria

 

[Salsa]

It was a Day 1 sale at $15 and today it had a pricing glitch in the first half hour or so when it was posted again this afternoon.

DAMMIT

 

[MikeE21286]

DAMMIT

It was a buy-now-think-later situation for me.

First hour or so it has turned out quite well

 

[Gilby]

Terraria

It gets better.

 

[Corto]

Not to totally pervert the OP premise, but my only regret this sale was not buying SpaceChem. There's always Christmas Sale though.. haha

 

[subversus]

This won't cause any problems if I mess around with it even though I have the Steam version?

no and d3doverrider isn't ATI exclusive thing.

 

[knitoe]

Gothic 4.

Can't Vsync with any program, AMD CCC, D3Doverrider, Radeon Pro and ATI Tool. The game runs my CF 6970 at ~100%, and after awhile, my cards gets super hot and noisy.

 

[Karkador]

Battlefield Bad Company 2: The last BF game I played is BF2(PC), and I see that Battlefield's online play is still as messed up as ever, with abrupt disconnects due to PunkBuster (UGH), or some other bug. I don't exactly regret it yet, but I bought the game for multiplayer and the constant drops made me go play TF2 instead.

 

[G-Fex]

See, I tried it years before and immediately felt that it didn't like up to how people were hyping it, but hey, STEAM SALE = CHEAP so I thought I'd give it another try.

...damn it

Stop right there criminal scum

 

[MikeE21286]

no and d3doverrider isn't ATI exclusive thing.

awesome.

Don't know why I thought it might be ATI exclusive. Probably since I have only had Nvidia for the past couple generations and have never heard of it.

 

[chaosblade]

I ended up with

Darksiders
Half-Life 1 (finally)
Universe Sandbox
Frozen Synapse
Neverwinter Nights 2

Not really sure if I have any regrets yet. Maybe NWN2, I kind of caved on that randomly.

 

[subversus]

Battlefield Bad Company 2: The last BF game I played is BF2(PC), and I see that Battlefield's online play is still as messed up as ever, with abrupt disconnects due to PunkBuster (UGH), or some other bug. I don't exactly regret it yet, but I bought the game for multiplayer and the constant drops made me go play TF2 instead.

update punkbuster manually. never let it update automatically.

 

[The Technomancer]

Nothing much, thankfully. In the past its always been because I would buy awesome indie packs for one or two games and end up with a bunch of stuff I didn't care about, but I managed to keep this sale under $100 and walk away with a lot of stuff I wanted.

Well...okay, technically I regret Bit.Trip.Runner because it suffers slowdown on my weakass machine that makes the gameplay impossible in later levels, but I've also got it on my Wii so its all good.

 

[subversus]

Gothic 4.

Can't Vsync with any program, AMD CCC, D3Doverrider, Radeon Pro and ATI Tool. The game runs my CF 6970 at ~100%, and after awhile, my cards gets super hot and noisy.

crossfire and sli users are fucked as usual unfortunately.

 

[Grinchy]

You snagged the complete mods, right?

Definitely! In fact, I have never seen the game without it.

easy to get lost, give it an hour or two and you'll fall in love

There is something that keeps drawing me back in, that's for sure.

 

[ShineALight]

The screentear in The Last Remnant was bugging me a lot but I've been forcing it and having a ton of fun with the game, I really didn't expect to like it so much.

My biggest disappointment so far is Stubbs. Can't even get it to run.

 

[xelios]

I didn't buy anything from the sale yet because my backlog is so huge and I feel like I have to force myself to play games anymore. I'm kinda proud of myself compared to how I went overboard last year.

 

[Hot Coldman]

ctrl+f: "recettear"

0 results

phew

 

[Smithy C]

Magikca, only because my computer couldn't run it. I bet I would have really liked it.

 

[slidewinder]

Battlefield Bad Company 2: The last BF game I played is BF2(PC), and I see that Battlefield's online play is still as messed up as ever, with abrupt disconnects due to PunkBuster (UGH), or some other bug. I don't exactly regret it yet, but I bought the game for multiplayer and the constant drops made me go play TF2 instead.

Google pbsetup. Sucks that you have to, but it should fix the drops. It's a great game once you get it working.

 

[Shurs]

Spending $223 dollars.

I doubt I'll end up putting more than a few hours into half of the 43 games I bought.

 

[Kyaw]

At the moment it's Universe Sandbox.

Can't get it to run...

 

[Sportbilly]

See, I tried it years before and immediately felt that it didn't like up to how people were hyping it, but hey, STEAM SALE = CHEAP so I thought I'd give it another try.

...damn it

Mod the fuck out of it.

 

[BY2K]

I should have gotten Fallout 3 GOTY and Cities XL.



EDIT: And I should have skip C&C4.

 

[Brazil]

I regret buying Lead and Gold because I don't have any friends to play it with and most servers suck, and Toki Tori because it's boring as fuck.

 

[EarsOfASnake]

Pretty sure I will regret my Amnesia purchase over the coming nights.

 

[BY2K]

Pretty sure I will regret my Amnesia purchase over the coming nights.

In a good way, though.