Biggest Disapointments of 2010 (games)

[Casual Shinji]

Red Dead Redemption.

It was like GTA4 without any buildings, cars or pedestrians, and with a human doormat as a main character.

 

[T3hJim]

Just have to disagree; Fallout:NV made up for the disappointment that was fallout3 in just about every way. The writing is simply fantastic, the world feels bigger and more alive and the added features are totally worth it. As a whole it was only held back by having way too few testers and the Gamebryo engine.

Fair enough, each to their own and all that. I missed the atmospheric underground system, the big shock horror aspects of Fallout 3; such as the Dunwich Building, the mannequins and the rest of that. I'll agree that NV has better writing, and story, but to me the world is too similar, and the only parts worth exploring are the vaults, of which there are a tiny number.

 

[Max_A_Buck]

OH and Final Fantasy 13. In FFX I liked the characters. Hated them in FF13. That and Heavy Rain. The controls made me play with so much contempt that all but 1 person died in my story.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Metroid: Other M

I'm not complaining about the story, which is good by Nintendo/Team Ninja standards (they usually have none, really), but I'm screaming about the shit that is the combat and the controls.

Red Dead Redemption

The world is so damn boring and empty of life. Immersive, but boring. I actually went back to GTAIV and had a grand time with that. Even bowling with my cousin was more entertaining that anything Red Dead had to offer outside of missions.

Mass Effect 2

Fantastic story, but I'll never play it again. I played Mass Effect 1 once a year, but Mass Effect 2 is such a shallow RPG that it's a fucking shooter. I like inventory management, what can I say?

 

[Choppaduel]

Crackdown 2.

To quote Yahtzee, "more like Letdown 2, am I right?"

 

[Nouw]

Dawn of War 2. It was pretty fun but the overall gameplay besides the Campaign was not the type for me. Since I couldn't sell it, I still have it though

 

[Defense]

I honestly didn't expect so much people saying Final Fantasy XIII in the first page. Clearly this forum has so much original snowflakes.

Halo: Reach. I played Halo 3 to death and very much enjoyed the multiplayer, but Halo: Reach is just missing something. I liked the armor abilities and loadouts, but Killzone 2 just did it much better. I can't find myself enjoying Halo games anymore to be honest. The game wasn't bad though, it was fun while it lasted.

 

[feather240]

Spore, it evolved into a time machine and released itself in 2010. :C

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Almost everything? Call of Pripyat and Metro 2033 were awesome, but Final Fantasy XIII, New Vegas, and BioShock 2 were letdowns. That was about it for games I got from 2010... Oh, and RAGE still isn't out... been waiting 3 years for it... :/

 

[William Dickbringer]

Halo: Reach. Awful. It disgraced the Halo franchise even more than the Halo RTS game Ensemble tried to pull off. Multiplayer seemed really bad compared to Halo 3 as well.

,,,,but I liked both of those games

O.T. hmmm let me look at the list and compare it to the games I've played from this year....
HA! I found lost planet 2 rather disappointing I felt it had some potential

 

[DustyDrB]

I still want to play Other M despite what people have been saying about it.

I didn't enjoy Alan Wake, but that has everything to do with me being a giant pansy who turns into a jittery angsty baby when he plays any game with a remotely creepy element.

There is one disappointment in gaming that sticks out to me, even though I love the game. The Strip in New Vegas was just not what I was expecting, and in a bad way. Between the horrible loading times and the place not being the Mecca it looks like from across the desert, it wasn't as big a payoff making it to the area for the first time as I was hoping.

 

[Rachel317]

It's actually from 2009.

Thanks. Ignore Prototype, everyone. Only played it this year, hence the confusion

 

[Corjha]

Golden Sun Dark Dawn was a disappointment.

It came from a lineage of a couple jewels of JRPGs, yet its dialogue was awful, the plot was bland, the puzzles were made for ages 3 and up and the difficulty curve looks like an office building at the edge of a Saskatchewan prairie.

 

[octafish]

Mass Effect 2, it was a good enough game, but not as good as 1. I missed the immersion the Mako gave, I missed crouch, the superior level design, and the character customisation. I like inventory management too.

Splinter Cell: Conviction I don't know what I should have expected when Ubisoft gave development of the game to someone who hates the franchise but still. It has been a while since I played a good Tom Clancy game.

The biggest disapointment though was RDR not coming to the PC. I like westerns but not enough to buy a console when I have a capable PC.

 

[voetballeeuw]

Mass Effect 2, it was a good enough game, but not as good as 1. I missed the immersion the Mako gave, I missed crouch, the superior level design, and the character customisation. I like inventory management too.

I definitely agree with this, wasn't that bad, but I prefer Mass Effect 1.

 

[kebab4you]

Well Civilization 5, let me finish before hating on me! Only because the turns it take the AI towards the end is far far FAR to long, maybe it´s patched now(haven't played it for 2 months) but it was still a game breaker for me.

 

['orrible-Troll]

Duke Nukem For... Oh, wait... Damn.

To be honest, I haven't really found a single game I could fall into all year, I've tried, but games seem to be getting thinner. I actually found myself going retro more often (Nothing is more satisfying then breaking out the old SNES, or playing Conker's Bad Fur Day, don't even get me started on Animatronic Daemon Squirrel) perhaps it was just the creativity back then? You had the chance to do anything, if your game was wild and out there it was considered a good thing. Now al we have is grey FPS and Brown FPS mixed in with [Generic RPG] Clone and a quick splattering of almost sandbox game...

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Probably Final Fantasy 13 (The game was basically one giant cut scene.), Splinter Cell: Conviction( Yes, it was a different take on the Splinter Cell series. In fact, it was so different that it didn't even feel like Splinter Cell anymore.) and Alpha Protocol (Sorry OP, but between multiple bugs, a bad storyline filled and a bad dialogue system, I couldn't really stand to play it again.)