Biggest Game Disappointments
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The biggest of all would be Rockstar stating no RDR for PCs, followed by announcing yet ANOTHER GTA... oh come on, just how many more can there be? San Andreas was best, finito. Also, Just Cause 2 is so awesome...
The second biggest of all would be Witcher 2. After reading about it, where everyone was praising this as the second coming of Christ, I finally bought, only to find out that it's shit. Not to mention weak engine that my PC couldn't handle at high. (Having handled such games as BF3, ME3 at best / almost best etc.)
The second biggest of all would be Witcher 2. After reading about it, where everyone was praising this as the second coming of Christ, I finally bought, only to find out that it's shit. Not to mention weak engine that my PC couldn't handle at high. (Having handled such games as BF3, ME3 at best / almost best etc.)
Skyrim
It's boring. A simple google search reveals that others also agree that the plot is boring, the gameplay is montonous (and boring), the quests are also boring... so what if you can kill everyone (except the ones you hate the most)? What's the fun in doing so?
It's boring. A simple google search reveals that others also agree that the plot is boring, the gameplay is montonous (and boring), the quests are also boring... so what if you can kill everyone (except the ones you hate the most)? What's the fun in doing so?
I started to reply to this thinking only of one game, and then remembered several others. Fable 3 is one that really broke my heart. I loved Fable and Fable 2 so much, I still replay both of them all the time. And then Fable 3 came out, got me all excited, and turned out to be a soulless husk of the previous games with everything good sucked out and replaced by DLC, because they didn't get enough of my money when I bought the stupid game. ARRG.
Spore was also a huge disappointment. I was amped up about that game for absolute ages before it came out, being a huge fan of the Sims (I'm female, sue me) and young enough to still look up to EA in naive adoration, thinking it was some kind of Santa Claus, not realizing the abusive drunk husband it really was, beating the crap out of you then promising the world to make it all better only to crap on you again. I still play the creature level sometimes, but then I reach Tribal stage and there's just no point...
I can't believe no one has mentioned Bioshock 2 yet. Jesus what a kick in the crotch that was. Perhaps it was exacerbated in my case because I'd just finished playing through the original for the first time when it came out. What a spectacular example of how to take all the exact same elements of a thing and put them back together completely wrong.
Fallout New Vegas. Auuuuuuuugh. I expected so much...
Elder Scrolls Oblivion disappointed me too actually. Wasn't really the game's fault though I think. Everyone seems to think it was pretty awesome, I'm in the minority for disliking it. I only played it because my friends kept harping on about it and how if I liked Fallout so much I'd love it, on and on and on until I gave in, by this point expecting the messiah of all gaming to leap out of my monitor and punch me in the face while simultaneously making me orgasm. Instead I got...Eurhg. Okay. So I come out of the dungeon at the beginning of the road. I don't really pay attention to the road at first, wandering off to enjoy the scenery and pick herbs and, about five minutes later, be attacked and hideously murdered by wolves. Okay, I thought as I went back to my auto save outside the starting dungeon. That didn't work. Maybe I should stick to the road? So I start jogging down the path. I get just far enough to think, 'jegus this road is long, are they really going to make me hoof it all the way without so much as a mini quest to break things up?' when I am again set upon and devoured by a pack of wolves. I'm a little frustrated at this point, but I persevere, going back to my save and trying again, and again, and again. It is at this point I realize I am being SPAWN CAMPED BY WOLVES (and once a gosh darn BEAR). Clearly, I decide, this game is not meant to be played on foot. I need a horse. So I find the nearest horse store on my compass, miraculously make it there without being murdered by fricking wolves, and discover I can't afford a horse, but it is possible to steal one. So I do, and ride off into the sunset. At last, I think, I can begin to really play the game! And you know, this scenery really is gorgeous when my face isn't being gnawed on by predators. I might actually like this game! Warmed by the glow of baseless optimism and the satisfaction of leaving a certain persistent wolf pack in the dust, I carry on down the road and spot a couple of riders heading my way. Maybe they're traders, I think! I can sell some of this junk from the dungeon and buy some better equipment. Ooh, maybe they'll have a quest for me! So I dismount and jog up to them, cheerful as can be, at which point I discover they are guards sent to apprehend a horse thief... and they murder me.
RAGE QUIT. NEVER AGAIN.
Spore was also a huge disappointment. I was amped up about that game for absolute ages before it came out, being a huge fan of the Sims (I'm female, sue me) and young enough to still look up to EA in naive adoration, thinking it was some kind of Santa Claus, not realizing the abusive drunk husband it really was, beating the crap out of you then promising the world to make it all better only to crap on you again. I still play the creature level sometimes, but then I reach Tribal stage and there's just no point...
I can't believe no one has mentioned Bioshock 2 yet. Jesus what a kick in the crotch that was. Perhaps it was exacerbated in my case because I'd just finished playing through the original for the first time when it came out. What a spectacular example of how to take all the exact same elements of a thing and put them back together completely wrong.
Fallout New Vegas. Auuuuuuuugh. I expected so much...
Elder Scrolls Oblivion disappointed me too actually. Wasn't really the game's fault though I think. Everyone seems to think it was pretty awesome, I'm in the minority for disliking it. I only played it because my friends kept harping on about it and how if I liked Fallout so much I'd love it, on and on and on until I gave in, by this point expecting the messiah of all gaming to leap out of my monitor and punch me in the face while simultaneously making me orgasm. Instead I got...Eurhg. Okay. So I come out of the dungeon at the beginning of the road. I don't really pay attention to the road at first, wandering off to enjoy the scenery and pick herbs and, about five minutes later, be attacked and hideously murdered by wolves. Okay, I thought as I went back to my auto save outside the starting dungeon. That didn't work. Maybe I should stick to the road? So I start jogging down the path. I get just far enough to think, 'jegus this road is long, are they really going to make me hoof it all the way without so much as a mini quest to break things up?' when I am again set upon and devoured by a pack of wolves. I'm a little frustrated at this point, but I persevere, going back to my save and trying again, and again, and again. It is at this point I realize I am being SPAWN CAMPED BY WOLVES (and once a gosh darn BEAR). Clearly, I decide, this game is not meant to be played on foot. I need a horse. So I find the nearest horse store on my compass, miraculously make it there without being murdered by fricking wolves, and discover I can't afford a horse, but it is possible to steal one. So I do, and ride off into the sunset. At last, I think, I can begin to really play the game! And you know, this scenery really is gorgeous when my face isn't being gnawed on by predators. I might actually like this game! Warmed by the glow of baseless optimism and the satisfaction of leaving a certain persistent wolf pack in the dust, I carry on down the road and spot a couple of riders heading my way. Maybe they're traders, I think! I can sell some of this junk from the dungeon and buy some better equipment. Ooh, maybe they'll have a quest for me! So I dismount and jog up to them, cheerful as can be, at which point I discover they are guards sent to apprehend a horse thief... and they murder me.
RAGE QUIT. NEVER AGAIN.
Apart from games, the most hateful thing in gaming now is the constant PC titles release delay.
I mean really, that's just wrong. And don't give me that crap like "optimization" and "very hard to make this PWNED system to work" in Dragon's dogma.
I mean really, that's just wrong. And don't give me that crap like "optimization" and "very hard to make this PWNED system to work" in Dragon's dogma.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but the ending of Mass Effect 3 really pissed me off. Biggest disappointment ever. I've bought games that turned out to be boring, uninteresting or even lame, but generally they didn't cause a big reaction. Bioware set themselves up for failure by promising multiple endings, among the many other promises. With EA running them into the ground, ME3 ended up as some rpg/mp-shooter hybrid. They should have focused on developing a better story, ending, deepening their lore rather than tacking on some half-assed explanation to some of the questions, completely ignoring the rest of the loose ends, and gnerally slapping all of their fans in the face.
Escape from Monkey Island. I waited about 2 or 3 years to finally acquire a PS2 and play it, only to be met with a crippling continuity error. Everything else up until that point was fairly decent (except for the constant use of the work "heckfire". Who the hell says that?) but the moment when Herman Toothrot revealed himself to be Guybrush's long lost Grandfather-in-law, I just turned the game off there. I had to force myself to complete it the next day. The ending was slightly entertaining, but still a letdown.
Its at the end of every dungeon in the game. Also not being able to go into Daedric ruins until level 7-10 was dumb.SirBryghtside said:
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As for Morrowind's enemy placement, yeah no thanks, I would rather have Skyrim's enemy scaling then Morrowind's enemy placement.
I can't count the number of times I stood on the edge of a town, looked out into the distance, and the only thing I could think of was "really there are this many of these annoying things out there?"
3-4 flame atronachs withing visible distance of the town's walls, waiting to spam thier AoE attacks, cliffracer hordes that camped right around terrain corners, Orgim packs that would chase you till the ends of the earth.
Morrowind had some of the most annoying, teeth scraping, headesk inducing, enemy placement and scaling ever. It was still better then Oblivion, but god was it bad.
Ive been through every dungeon in the game and I can safely say every last Nordic ruin, Dwemer ruin, or Falmer cave, ended with at least one, usually two or three, "boss" monsters that were several levels above the standard level lists. Normal caves excluded.SirBryghtside said:
It stops being noticeable at around level 35-40 because monsters cap out at around 40-50.
Because there is no reason for it beyond to arbitrarily deny you content till you go out and grind your skills up. Having to go out and grind monsters, or pay boat loads of cash to trainers isn't exactly fun. what made it worse was boringly slow leveling.SirBryghtside said:
Also your Nova Prospekt example is terribly flawed as Half-Life 2 isn't a RPG, is linear, doesn't have scaling enemies of any sort, nor does the game have Gordon leveling up anything, and you COULD do Nova Proespekt right after getting the HEV suit.
Yeah that wasn't what I described at all, I am not sure you even read what I had typed.SirBryghtside said:Haha, everything you said there is exactly what I would say was so great about it. One of my favourite moments during the game was when I was on low health, being chased by two Ogrims, so I hightailed it past a herd of Hungers into a Dwarven ruin.
Finally safe. Press 'T' to rest. Damnit, enemies nearby. See a Dunmer. Amulet of Shadows, sneak attack crit with my warhammer
Press 'T' to rest. Enemies nearby. Well, it can't be worse that what's out the-
And that was when I realised the Dunmer was called 'Cattle'.
What I did describe was the terrible enemy camping outside towns that Bethesda decided to create.
Heading out the front gate of a city only to see 4 flame atronachs camping just at the edge of the visible space wasnt fun or engaging, it was boring and tedious, the groupings of monsters was terrible.
Cliffracer were pests, Atronachs spammed AOE like mad, Bonewalkers......... dear god the bonewalkers, slughterfish were annoying.
I find it very interesting that most people are naming either the same thing or that people are naming things that are more recent. (Well I did also....)
Another game that I could remember being a disappointment to me was the third Ratchet and Clank.... such a change from the others to a point where it just wasn't fun...(rail gliding..... C'mon!)
Another game that I could remember being a disappointment to me was the third Ratchet and Clank.... such a change from the others to a point where it just wasn't fun...(rail gliding..... C'mon!)