Biggest Disapointments of 2010 (games)
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Metroid Other M.
It's not that it's the worst, it's that honestly, there were some ways a lot of the major complaints could have been avoided. The story makes a lot more sense if you make it a prequel, just some minor tweeks and all character issues can be attributed to inexperience. And the voice actor... simple solution. As for gameplay, perhaps a classic controller option.
It's not that it's the worst, it's that honestly, there were some ways a lot of the major complaints could have been avoided. The story makes a lot more sense if you make it a prequel, just some minor tweeks and all character issues can be attributed to inexperience. And the voice actor... simple solution. As for gameplay, perhaps a classic controller option.
I think I am gonna have to say Bad Company 2 (for console at least)
Great gameplay mechanics, rather fair and balanced, but damn near unplayable.
The clunky controls were so god awful and immersion breaking, I had to put it down for a while.
Not to mention the rather bad campaign.
Great gameplay mechanics, rather fair and balanced, but damn near unplayable.
The clunky controls were so god awful and immersion breaking, I had to put it down for a while.
Not to mention the rather bad campaign.
halo reach, definitely. closely followed by black ops (but that was treyarch, so in the back of my mind i knew it would be shit)
Reach was the pinnacle of Bungie's halo games, the best of the best, the climax of their halo career. or it was suppose to be. and when i tell you that im a bigger halo fan then you are, you better make like naruto and BELIEVE IT! (terrible joke, i know)
in all seriousness, i love the halo series. (still do) i enjoyed the story, the multiplayer, the books (all except Dietz adaptation of Halo CE). so when bungie goes back and says they're doing the Fall of Reach in game form. I was all like "Yay!". but then the game didn't follow the book. in fact, it didnt follow ANY of the books! so then bungie comes out and says "oh hey, actually the books are soft cannon and the games are all that matter"
to which i replied "well thanks jackass". ok fine that lets me drop the topic of the games not following the books, but even with that handicap, there are still problems within the game. the story is badly told, things are happening in between cutscenes, there are numerous plot holes, the brutes came back to say hi for two minutes then left, and so much wasted potential. i know the flood weren't on Reach, but why cant they have been an option in Firefight? why do the elites still have only a tenth of the customization options that the spartans do (in multiplayer)? why is forge world's item pallet so small? why are there different item pallets for different maps (instead of one giant selection for all maps)? why are there fewer weapons? why does the laser beam sniper suck so much?
thats really just the tip of the iceberg, and i dont mean to rant about this (i still enjoy the game for what its worth), but im just soooo disappointed with it.
also black ops, had many problems, but at least it wasnt a total rip off of the previous infinity ward CoD like world at war was.
Reach was the pinnacle of Bungie's halo games, the best of the best, the climax of their halo career. or it was suppose to be. and when i tell you that im a bigger halo fan then you are, you better make like naruto and BELIEVE IT! (terrible joke, i know)
in all seriousness, i love the halo series. (still do) i enjoyed the story, the multiplayer, the books (all except Dietz adaptation of Halo CE). so when bungie goes back and says they're doing the Fall of Reach in game form. I was all like "Yay!". but then the game didn't follow the book. in fact, it didnt follow ANY of the books! so then bungie comes out and says "oh hey, actually the books are soft cannon and the games are all that matter"
to which i replied "well thanks jackass". ok fine that lets me drop the topic of the games not following the books, but even with that handicap, there are still problems within the game. the story is badly told, things are happening in between cutscenes, there are numerous plot holes, the brutes came back to say hi for two minutes then left, and so much wasted potential. i know the flood weren't on Reach, but why cant they have been an option in Firefight? why do the elites still have only a tenth of the customization options that the spartans do (in multiplayer)? why is forge world's item pallet so small? why are there different item pallets for different maps (instead of one giant selection for all maps)? why are there fewer weapons? why does the laser beam sniper suck so much?
thats really just the tip of the iceberg, and i dont mean to rant about this (i still enjoy the game for what its worth), but im just soooo disappointed with it.
also black ops, had many problems, but at least it wasnt a total rip off of the previous infinity ward CoD like world at war was.
They never said they were making Halo: Fall of Reach in game form. They said they were going to tell the story of Reach. You assumed.Link XL1 said:
Not that I'm disagreeing with you. Halo: Reach's campaign was terrible. I enjoy the multiplayer a lot more than 3 though.
Nouw said:
...came out last year. The expansion, Chaos Rising, came out this year however but I doubt you're referring to that since if you didn't like the base game, no matter how good of an expansion it was (And I thought it was excellent!) you wouldn't be buying it!Lem0nade Inlay said:
Can't really say I was disappointed by any games this year, mainly because I bought so very few and what few I did pick up were all fantastic in my eyes. One of the bonus of being so poor is that I spend my money more wisely and make fewer poor choices.
Fable III, on account that the PC twin of the 360 version got strangled by the umbilical cord and never saw the light of day.
Blops, shity graphics and a storyline that made no sense. and online is ok, but the graphics makes it unpleasant to play.
did it now? FUUUUUUUUzombiejoe said:
well, my GI subscription is free from having a gamestop membership, so w/e
(w8, did i just say GI subscription? i know i mean gameinformer, but doesn't that really mean government issue? as in G.I. Joe? AWESOME, i wanna be shipwreck! he's my fav character!)
castlevania.
shitty story, mediocre acting, terrible ending, awful camera, and crappy soundtrack (castlevania games always have the best soundtracks, but not this one) make this the biggest gaming disappointment for me in 2010.
shitty story, mediocre acting, terrible ending, awful camera, and crappy soundtrack (castlevania games always have the best soundtracks, but not this one) make this the biggest gaming disappointment for me in 2010.
i suspect you may have taken that quote of mine out of context.The Bandit said:
ok fine, it wasnt going to be the book, but lets face it: the book was about the fall of reach, and so was the game. therefore, there should have been numerous similarities, or at least references, to each other
Bioshock 2. The gameplay was improved a good deal, but the story just didn't stack up to the original and so I just couldn't get sucked into the story.
Same. I only played the demo, and when I saw the pistol shoot with no slide movement, I immediately stopped. If the devs really passed that one over, I don't want to know what else did.dathwampeer said:
lol @ anyone saying FFXIII was a disappointment. Amazing game was amazing. Best battle system in the entire series, with only X's coming remotely close.
The only other 2010 release I played was Starcraft II, which was fairly disappointing in terms of story. I still had fun playing it, so I can't really call it a let-down.
That said, I have to say this year's most disappointing game was Runescape. Anyone who plays will know, but I'll elaborate. Until two years ago, this was an MMO that had ALWAYS received WEEKLY updates. Sometime in 2009, the company in charge of the game, Jagex, decided that they needed a week off, "No Update Weeks", each month to laze around having tea and crumpets (they're brits, you see). This was bearable so long as they stuck to a schedule of 3-4 updates per month (the number of Tuesdays minus one [Tuesdays were their regular update day]). This year, they just crumbled as a responsible company. They decided that each month gets only 3 updates regardless of the number of weeks (Tuesdays) in it. They decided that any time there is a bank holiday, for even one day out of the week, no update that week (this stacks with No Update Weeks to make 2 planned updates and 2/3 planned No Update Weeks in a month). That fucking killed any rhythm of new content that kept the game continuously entertaining. Here's the real kicker though: Any update that looked promising was "unexpectedly delayed". Calling it "unexpected" is a joke because it's been pretty much guaranteed that any good update will be delayed by a week. Jagex usually pinned it on some vague, undefinable trouble that the update was causing, or problems with a background update that no players had been told of. Those both translate into "We're incompetent as fuck at making this game, so all the players can fuck off while we drink our tea." I was expecting a culmination of holidays, delays, and No-Updates to lead to the epitome of laziness in a 1-update month. That didn't happen, but they tried damn hard in November which was a 5-week month that got two updates (one of which was on the high-end of unusable which I'll explain below).
If you don't see anything bad with this so far, there's still the content of the few updates - I barely need two hands to count the amount of good/usable updates from this past year. Over half the year's update were targeted towards, not only low-level players, but beginners. Updates that add absolutely no value to the game for PLAYERS that add absolutely no value to the game. The level difference being so vast, these kinds of things are not worth my time at all, and are thoroughly unenjoyable. Ironically, we got a couple updates that are so far on the other side of the spectrum, I can't even do them with my character that is ranked in the top 70,000 out of millions and has 145 days of play time. Days. One requiring all skills in the 90+ range (which requires about 500+ days of play time and a true no-lifer), and another requiring 95+ in a skill that only came out six months ago and earns some of the slowest experience on the game (it goes much faster by sharing the load with four other players, which is such an illogical, rage-inducing factor that it requires it's own post). Furthermore, they just do really stupid things. They take time out of their schedules to do community events like meeting up with clans and other asinine bullshit which is ironic because despite that playing time, none of Jagex actually know anything about their own game as exemplified by so many updates that are just plain broken and uncalled for. One such update made me lose any and all faith in Jagex - Climbing Boots. They arbitrarily decided that an item (of which there were millions of in the game) could be sold for 3750x what they had paid for them. This is in a game where inflation is rampant, and the money is becoming more and more worthless each day. What's worse is that the people that naturally had a lot of this cheap item were PKers who are absolutely the worst kind of scum you can meet on the internet.
So yes, Runescape has had a bad year. Usually during November/December Jagex releases the best updates of the year to kind of make up for other bad updates. Not this year. We got some plain dull updates, and one that had potential involving updating armor to absorb damage as opposed to just negating it. They ruined that by making it only applicable to PVP (the cesspit of Runescape filled with botters and 13 year-olds) and boss fighting (which is utterly dominated by those no-lifers with 500+ days playing time). Jagex really screwed the pooch this year. I can't imagine anyone that's truly satisfied.
tl;dr Jagex used to be a good company, but has deteriorated to shit-tier and is trying their absolute best to ruin Runescape.
The only other 2010 release I played was Starcraft II, which was fairly disappointing in terms of story. I still had fun playing it, so I can't really call it a let-down.
That said, I have to say this year's most disappointing game was Runescape. Anyone who plays will know, but I'll elaborate. Until two years ago, this was an MMO that had ALWAYS received WEEKLY updates. Sometime in 2009, the company in charge of the game, Jagex, decided that they needed a week off, "No Update Weeks", each month to laze around having tea and crumpets (they're brits, you see). This was bearable so long as they stuck to a schedule of 3-4 updates per month (the number of Tuesdays minus one [Tuesdays were their regular update day]). This year, they just crumbled as a responsible company. They decided that each month gets only 3 updates regardless of the number of weeks (Tuesdays) in it. They decided that any time there is a bank holiday, for even one day out of the week, no update that week (this stacks with No Update Weeks to make 2 planned updates and 2/3 planned No Update Weeks in a month). That fucking killed any rhythm of new content that kept the game continuously entertaining. Here's the real kicker though: Any update that looked promising was "unexpectedly delayed". Calling it "unexpected" is a joke because it's been pretty much guaranteed that any good update will be delayed by a week. Jagex usually pinned it on some vague, undefinable trouble that the update was causing, or problems with a background update that no players had been told of. Those both translate into "We're incompetent as fuck at making this game, so all the players can fuck off while we drink our tea." I was expecting a culmination of holidays, delays, and No-Updates to lead to the epitome of laziness in a 1-update month. That didn't happen, but they tried damn hard in November which was a 5-week month that got two updates (one of which was on the high-end of unusable which I'll explain below).
If you don't see anything bad with this so far, there's still the content of the few updates - I barely need two hands to count the amount of good/usable updates from this past year. Over half the year's update were targeted towards, not only low-level players, but beginners. Updates that add absolutely no value to the game for PLAYERS that add absolutely no value to the game. The level difference being so vast, these kinds of things are not worth my time at all, and are thoroughly unenjoyable. Ironically, we got a couple updates that are so far on the other side of the spectrum, I can't even do them with my character that is ranked in the top 70,000 out of millions and has 145 days of play time. Days. One requiring all skills in the 90+ range (which requires about 500+ days of play time and a true no-lifer), and another requiring 95+ in a skill that only came out six months ago and earns some of the slowest experience on the game (it goes much faster by sharing the load with four other players, which is such an illogical, rage-inducing factor that it requires it's own post). Furthermore, they just do really stupid things. They take time out of their schedules to do community events like meeting up with clans and other asinine bullshit which is ironic because despite that playing time, none of Jagex actually know anything about their own game as exemplified by so many updates that are just plain broken and uncalled for. One such update made me lose any and all faith in Jagex - Climbing Boots. They arbitrarily decided that an item (of which there were millions of in the game) could be sold for 3750x what they had paid for them. This is in a game where inflation is rampant, and the money is becoming more and more worthless each day. What's worse is that the people that naturally had a lot of this cheap item were PKers who are absolutely the worst kind of scum you can meet on the internet.
So yes, Runescape has had a bad year. Usually during November/December Jagex releases the best updates of the year to kind of make up for other bad updates. Not this year. We got some plain dull updates, and one that had potential involving updating armor to absorb damage as opposed to just negating it. They ruined that by making it only applicable to PVP (the cesspit of Runescape filled with botters and 13 year-olds) and boss fighting (which is utterly dominated by those no-lifers with 500+ days playing time). Jagex really screwed the pooch this year. I can't imagine anyone that's truly satisfied.
tl;dr Jagex used to be a good company, but has deteriorated to shit-tier and is trying their absolute best to ruin Runescape.
The most disappointing game for me was Elemental: War of Magic. I was really hyped for that one, visions of a update Master of Magic dancing in my head. So I pre-order it, play the beta. It's a broken, buggy mess. But it's a beta, right? Surely by the time they release it, it'll be done. Right? Right?
No, horrible trainwreck of a game that damages the company so bad that they have to lay people off. Mismanagement from the very top. And this was the company that put out the gamers' Bill of Rights, only to promptly shatter them with this disaster. I was diappointed, I really was.
No, horrible trainwreck of a game that damages the company so bad that they have to lay people off. Mismanagement from the very top. And this was the company that put out the gamers' Bill of Rights, only to promptly shatter them with this disaster. I was diappointed, I really was.