Biggest Game Disappointments
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Epidemiix said:I am sure that this has been done MANY different times but since I have not seen one in a while.... What was your biggest gaming disappointment? Could be anything really: Ea being weird with marketing, game being sub par, Valve tricking us into think that their game is going to be announced....BUT ITS NOT, etc.
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In the last year or so I would have to saw one of the disappointments that actual got me angry was the game Battlefield 3. "But Eppy, the game was really good" And I respect your opinion other person, but my opinion is that the game over-all was a huge disappointment to me considering I usually play games for the single player experience (I get enough online game playing with using Xbox....)The single player was horrendous is a simple way to put it. "Why play this kind of game single player?" I do not like the multi-player....sue me.
With bugs glitches and to top it off terrible narrative with unlikable character that we are supposed to care for to the constant switches in the flow of the story made it feel like a mess of the game trying to be too much. All they had to do was make the tank driver guy the main character and made the game a war drama type thing. That tank driver guy (I am sooo sorry i can not remember your name) had more characterization in 5-8 seconds than the main character of the story. OK done ranting.... Point remains I could rant about Battlefield 3 for awhile and just the singleplayer
Well I am tempted to pick my ire invoking game of the moment: "Diablo 3", but as much as I dislike how that turned out I can't say it's the biggest.
For me it was "Age Of Conan", I spent years following that game, waiting for it with ancicipation, and looking forward to all of it's promised features. When it was released it had very little of what was supposed to be in the game. Even allowing for how it was cut down even in the hupe from the beginning, with their promised "40 some odd distinct character classes!" being nerfed down to a handfull. I did part of it myself by jumping on the hype wagon, but it was my biggest disappointment.
"The Old Republic" comes close, I had crazy expectations for that game as well, but never got quite as disappointed by it not meeting the rpromised potential, because after AOC I have become incapable of getting that invested in a game's potential release again.
The Temple of Elemental Evil. Here I was expecting something like Baldur's Gate or Torment and I get a half-baked generic medieval fantasy with very little explanation given for what's going on or why I should care, a sluggish and broken combat system, dull characters, and the kind of overwrought high fantasy dialogue I stopped writing around 8th grade. And the bugs. Oh the bugs.
Yes, I KNOW there's a tabletop version; that's part of what makes this so frustrating. All the lore information was already there, but they couldn't be bothered to put enough of it in to make sense for people who aren't already familiar with it.
Mirror's Edge. I was really hoping for something special with this one. Yeah, first-person platforming usually sucks, as EVERY DAMN FPS has shown us (why do they even put those bits in?!) but maybe they made a game with great flow and tight controls, where the freerunning and combat blend seamlessly together, checkpoints are placed reasonably, and the visuals aren't blinding bloom or utter darkness with little in between.
Maybe they made that game, but it fell through a wormhole and got replaced with this Bizarro version. What makes it worse is, once or twice in the course of my playthrough, mostly by accident, I DID see the good version of the game. I did two perfectly timed hurtles, leaped to the next building, planted both feet in the face of an enemy as I landed and stole his gun in the space of a few seconds. It was poetry in motion. An entire game like that could've easily scored my Game of the Year vote. Then I got perforated by the three other enemies who'd been waiting to blast me and returned to a checkpoint I'd passed ten minutes ago, and the other twenty tries didn't go nearly so well, and a sublime moment was forever tarnished.
Yes, I KNOW there's a tabletop version; that's part of what makes this so frustrating. All the lore information was already there, but they couldn't be bothered to put enough of it in to make sense for people who aren't already familiar with it.
Mirror's Edge. I was really hoping for something special with this one. Yeah, first-person platforming usually sucks, as EVERY DAMN FPS has shown us (why do they even put those bits in?!) but maybe they made a game with great flow and tight controls, where the freerunning and combat blend seamlessly together, checkpoints are placed reasonably, and the visuals aren't blinding bloom or utter darkness with little in between.
Maybe they made that game, but it fell through a wormhole and got replaced with this Bizarro version. What makes it worse is, once or twice in the course of my playthrough, mostly by accident, I DID see the good version of the game. I did two perfectly timed hurtles, leaped to the next building, planted both feet in the face of an enemy as I landed and stole his gun in the space of a few seconds. It was poetry in motion. An entire game like that could've easily scored my Game of the Year vote. Then I got perforated by the three other enemies who'd been waiting to blast me and returned to a checkpoint I'd passed ten minutes ago, and the other twenty tries didn't go nearly so well, and a sublime moment was forever tarnished.
Spore - Soooo many times, for reasons already stated.
Halo: Reach - Bungie wouldn't shut up about how epic (they love that word) and emotive it's campaign would apparently be. It wasn't.
Gears of War 2 - Same reason as above, and I hoping that a full sequel would at least try to have a decent multiplayer. (Horde was cool though)
Bioshock 2 - It wasn't bad, but you could practically call it the definition of 'expansion pack sequel'.
A weird example would be Crysis 2.
I was expecting it, primarily from what I'd heard from others, to have a rather meh campaign and cool, fast-paced multiplayer.
Weirdly, I instead got one of my favourite shooter campaigns of all time and crappy, laggy as hell and broken as fuck multiplayer.
Halo: Reach - Bungie wouldn't shut up about how epic (they love that word) and emotive it's campaign would apparently be. It wasn't.
Gears of War 2 - Same reason as above, and I hoping that a full sequel would at least try to have a decent multiplayer. (Horde was cool though)
Bioshock 2 - It wasn't bad, but you could practically call it the definition of 'expansion pack sequel'.
A weird example would be Crysis 2.
I was expecting it, primarily from what I'd heard from others, to have a rather meh campaign and cool, fast-paced multiplayer.
Weirdly, I instead got one of my favourite shooter campaigns of all time and crappy, laggy as hell and broken as fuck multiplayer.
Originally, I wasn't too dissapointed. Most wanted was fun for awhile, as was carbon, and prostreet. Compared to Underground 2, years and replays later, These have grown to dissapoint more and more.Iwata said:
Yes, and I feel shame for having played anything after prostreet. Actually, I own up to prostreet, I either rented or played some at the local game store. Carbon, shift, and undercover were rented, with the latter two returned withing the weekend, and shift 2 and the run happened to be on display.BloatedGuppy said:
Battlefield 3, Diablo 3, Red alert 3, Starcraft 2, Crysis 2, Supreme Commander 2, The demise of Call of Duty (Somewhat inclusive of and including everything after MW2), Halo Reach, and all the others that I've lost the will to play.
The last couple of years or so have been very, very disappointing.
The last couple of years or so have been very, very disappointing.
Considering how many games that disappointed you, are you sure you just don't have unfairly high standards?Sanat said:
Dungeon Siege 2 (it's an old game, but I only got to play it recently): God, I remember when I first played Dungeon Siege. I was 10, and I finally managed to get my parents to let me play it. It was such a fun game. So, skipping forward to two months ago (that's 7 years), I finally managed to get my hands on a copy of Dungeon Siege 2...and what I got was an utter piece of shit of a game. It was not fun. There isn't anything I like about Dungeon Siege 2. At all.
That's really the only game.
It's got to be Bioshock. I gave into the hype and was sorely dissapointed, and can not understand what people like about. The plasmids were mere's gimmicks that were either completely useless, almost completely useless, or good for only one specific spot then became useless. The late game enemies could take ridiculous amounts of ammo before dying; a M1 tank couldn't take as much small arms fire as those guys. I think they knew they screwed up the balance though, it's the only reason I can think of for the vita chambers. The story was okay, but even the begginning wasn't all that great (did anyone not see Atlas betraying you as soon as he opened his mouth) and really just fell apart at the end. It was just not worth $5.
No More Heroes 2. The bosses were still insane, and it was still funny. But it felt incredibly cheap, artificially lengthend by shinobu and henry sections, and a incredibly cheap final boss.
Any MMORPG ever. I just really can't get into them. And every time I decide to try one, I get disappointed.
Also, obviously
Any MMORPG ever. I just really can't get into them. And every time I decide to try one, I get disappointed.
Also, obviously
Mass Effect 3's ending. I've been trying very hard to forget about it, but I keep being reminded of it.
Smeatza said:
Well, I literally just turned off ME1, after I started trying to play through 1&2 again before I got 3 to finish it off.sumanoskae said:
I couldn't do it. I loved the games when I played them originally but now they just seem like chore. The cut scenes(every 10ft) are so disjointed and the characters waffle on with the most inane dribble. I just can't do it.
Its weird. I really did love ME1 the first time I played through it. Heck I even went through it a second time to max my character and still didn't get bored. But now... ehhhhhhhhh.
Force Unleashed. Just... so awkward... Lightsaber sucks... I... Why?
Fallout New Vegas. *Sigh* It's been so many times that I've argued why I'm really disappointed with this game. The more I look back on it, the more things I find wrong with it. It's done so many things right, but not enough to cover up the things that it did wrong. The story was great up until you got to Benny. Then the choice you had to make just seemed force. Hell, it felt like the game wanted me to join NCR than any of the other factions. Just wished they fleshed out the Legion so that there would be some benefits for the wasteland if they won the dam.
Oh, and the world felt dull, the atmosphere was nonexistent, it was buggy up the ass, the voice acting was so bad that it really broke immersion for me [small](with the exception of all of the companions... and a few others... few)[/small], and it really felt like an awkward copy paste of Fallout 3.
All the DLC was really damn good, though. I don't care what anyone says, Dead Money was fucking tight!
Fallout New Vegas. *Sigh* It's been so many times that I've argued why I'm really disappointed with this game. The more I look back on it, the more things I find wrong with it. It's done so many things right, but not enough to cover up the things that it did wrong. The story was great up until you got to Benny. Then the choice you had to make just seemed force. Hell, it felt like the game wanted me to join NCR than any of the other factions. Just wished they fleshed out the Legion so that there would be some benefits for the wasteland if they won the dam.
Oh, and the world felt dull, the atmosphere was nonexistent, it was buggy up the ass, the voice acting was so bad that it really broke immersion for me [small](with the exception of all of the companions... and a few others... few)[/small], and it really felt like an awkward copy paste of Fallout 3.
All the DLC was really damn good, though. I don't care what anyone says, Dead Money was fucking tight!
Wow, sounds identical to Skyrim!War Penguin said:Force Unleashed. Just... so awkward... Lightsaber sucks... I... Why?
Fallout New Vegas. *Sigh* It's been so many times that I've argued why I'm really disappointed with this game. The more I look back on it, the more things I find wrong with it. It's done so many things right, but not enough to cover up the things that it did wrong. The story was great up until you got to Benny. Then the choice you had to make just seemed force. Hell, it felt like the game wanted me to join NCR than any of the other factions. Just wished they fleshed out the Legion so that there would be some benefits for the wasteland if they won the dam.
Oh, and the world felt dull, the atmosphere was nonexistent, it was buggy up the ass, the voice acting was so bad that it really broke immersion for me [small](with the exception of all of the companions... and a few others... few)[/small], and it really felt like an awkward copy paste of Fallout 3.
All the DLC was really damn good, though. I don't care what anyone says, Dead Money was fucking tight!