8 Video Games That IMMEDIATELY Gave You Buyer's Remorse
Buying these games was like lighting your money on fire.
There surely isn’t a gamer among us who hasn’t enthusiastically coughed up top dollar for a new video game, only to feel an unmistakable pang of regret within minutes of booting it up.
It’s a horrible feeling - the cold sweat on the back of your neck as you come to appreciate that you probably just spaffed a chunk of your hard-earned cash straight up the wall.
Buyer's remorse is real, and you’ll struggle to find somebody who hasn’t ever felt it about a game.
Typically it’s a game we’ve been so confident in that we haven’t paid too much attention to reviews, or perhaps even committed the most cardinal sin of all - pre-ordered it months in advance.
And so, when it finally came time to play, players had to reckon with their sunk cost and try to be honest with themselves: they just blew a ton of cash on pure dreck.
That’s absolutely the case with these eight video games, each of which made the overwhelming majority of those who bought them on launch regret their decision in record time…
8. Fallout 76
Even accepting that Bethesda appears to be almost magnetically attracted to jank, it was impossible not to be excited by the prospect of a multiplayer Fallout game, where players could wander the Wasteland while either teaming up with others or hunting them down like dogs.
Fallout, with its rich open worlds, was made for this, but within 30-or-so minutes of booting the game up, it was clear that something - many things, even - were very, very wrong.
For starters, on launch Fallout 76 felt painfully barren as online open worlds go, in large part due to the absence of human NPCs.
Between that, the dull missions, scarcely existent story, and brutal performance issues, upon release this was an experience as thunderously boring as it was infuriating.
And to make matters worse, there's still no way to play the game offline even if you're tackling it solo.
Yet many players saw the writing on the wall in the early going and sought refunds within the release window.
While Fallout 76 is definitely in a better state today, it nevertheless remains a cautionary tale of what can happen when even the most celebrated of developers rushes an ambitious game to market and simply expects their fanbase to guzzle it down uncritically.