What are some regrets on games you have purchased? You know, the ones you're on the fence about and go out and spend $60 and then totally hate it. Or just wing it and buy something you have no idea about and turns out horrible? And what happens next? Do you return it for credit and put the money in an 'up and coming' game that you know you'll love?Or do you hold on to games no matter what?(hundreds just collecting dust) I bought Left4Dead when it came out and maybe played 1hr of it. Totally didn't appeal to me. Mainly purchased it to expand my co-op playing with another friend. He wasn't into it either. I returned it for trade in. I also got The Sabatour and when I finished it, it just sat there for ever, so I traded that one too(I don't do this to all my games, just ones that really don't have alot of replay value)
Personally I'll buy used games if that will catch my eye. I even like the $9.99 bin! You can't go wrong with that...
I usually extensively research any game I'm going to get before buying it. (Well, except for games like Skyrim - which I pretty much know are going to be great) This is increased again by the fact that I am a PC gamer and I pretty much always get games online so I can't just hop in the nearest gamestop and end up buying some random game that looks cool. Though when I was a console gamer I remember that I used to give away games and then like half a year later I'd want to play one of the games I got rid of. Have been very careful after 3 or 4 times of that.
As for Regretful purchases... Well I'd have to say that 2 Worlds was pretty dissapointing - I only played it for a little bit and ended up just returning it (This was when I was a console gamer btw). Borderlands was fun but the ending was horrible (I don't know if I'll return that one as I still play it with my bro sometimes). Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2 - I had rented it before and liked it and when I went to buy it for original Xbox I guess it was actually for 360 (I still have an Xbox for nostalgic reasons and play games from time to time) I think I still have at least 1 other... I remember shelling out a bunch of games for Munch's Oddysee which was a game I had played awhile back and wanted to play again. The sound ended up not working/random bugs/I got stuck on a level... haven't gone back yet. That's most of them I think.