Biggest Game Disappointments

[Arkvoodle]

Rogue Squadron 3: Rebel Strike.


The first two Rogue Squadron games are excellent flyers & I still enjoy both.

The third one... I don't know what the hell Factor 5 was thinking, taking out half the levels & splice in some INCREDIBLY BAD on-foot shooter setups.

 

[BeerTent]

For me, it's the entire game...

Bad company 2. I assumed there would have been a "instant action" Like BF1942, or BF2. Nope. Shitty campaign and worse multi-player. Thankfully, I paid $5.

Mass Effect 2, I was pretty pumped to the point where I beat ME1 with my infiltrator again, only to find out the class I enjoyed so much was pushed so far backwards to the point where it was just plain boring. They took everything I loved out of the game, and left everything I hated in. Regenerative health, included.

E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy. Oh Boy! A good looking Cyberpunk game! That's also on Source! Sign me up for uninteresting hacking minigames, absolute garbage level design, and recycled Half-Life textures and models! I actually want my money back!! Funny thing, I knew a guy who showed me a few tips and tricks to Level design. I saw nothing like what he showed me in E.Y.E.[sup]1[/sup]

All Points Bulletin feels like it's been half-assed to start to finish, with it's players abusing anything that should not be. But I still play it for it's concept, which is just too damn silly.

Actually, not so much anymore... APB is boring as fuck without friends. Trolling man-children get's boring after a while, amirite?

[hr][sup]1[/sup] I still feel bad about letting him down too.

 

[Launcelot111]

Every single Rockstar effort that has come out since San Andreas. Lovingly detailed worlds filled with garbage

 

[ex275w]

Let's see:
The original Assassin's Creed is a game I can't finish due to finding it extremely boring.

True Crime: New York also has that dubious honor.

Megaman Battle Network 4 was a huge step back for the series, for the only 2 new things it introduced it introduced hundreds of problems.

Mario & Luigi Partners in Time is incredibly unbalanced towards enemies, which can easily destroy you in 3 hits while it takes 5 minutes to beat them. (The last boss lasts a complete hour, which is insane for a portable game)

Dragon Age 2 for the reasons critics have already stated hundreds of times.

Other M is the definition of wasted potential.

The Mass Effect 3 I expected after I finished the first game was quite different from what I got in 2012. Though this was because I hyped myself for no reason, still you expect huge improvements between sequels, which the Mass Effect games refused to take.

 

[Aarowbeatsdragon]

Dead Island...it was everything ive wanted in a game...but they messed the ENTIRE thing up....the thing that made me trade it in before even bothering to finish it has got to be the fact that it was clearly made to be played by 4 people at all times, so much that they actually kept the other characters you dont play as IN the damn cutscenes! i dont mind games that are possibly better when you play with friends but i dispise when they make u feel like youre playing the game wrong when you arnt!

 

[370999]

Mass Effect 3, shudder

Apart from that the fact that Ruby and Sapphire didn't have day and night or days of the week. I was so gutted.

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

The death of Battlefront 3. I remember looking up info on it every day after that alpha footage got leaked. Unfortunately, Free Radical got canned and the game got shot so far into development hell that after at least a year of anticipation I just gave up hope. It doesn't help that I recently heard that LucasArts may have deliberately went out of their way to make sure this game didn't see the light of day.

EDIT: I was pretty disappointed in BF3 as well. BF1943 (the console only game with only three regular maps and one planes-only map) was my first BF game and I loved it. BF3 and BC2 were absolutely nothing like that game, being far more corridor-ish and losing that incredible sense of freedom and improvisation that made me love 1943 so much.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Persona 4. It's still a good game, but it tried to mess with P3's battle-system, and, I've said this before, P3's battle system was a massive dick to you and the enemy. In P4, though, with the whole Down>Dizzy thing, instead of P3 missing the first-step, enemies get a major advantage.

And 40% of the time, I found myself really underleveled. I spent an entire in-game-week leveling, and I still had bloody trouble. Did really like the story, setting, and, oh god.. the music.. (foaming from mouth with unhinged glee)

Quest For Glory 3

There's me, a little youngster, I just finished Quest for Glory 1&2 on my old family DOS. I get a used copy of 3. Yah I say, only to realise, it's... well, shit. Annoying characters - I didn't like the Tarnans, the Simbani, or the Leopard men - the only characters I liked were the non-factioned characters, and even then, they don't appear to much, and it was way too text/dialouge based. How boring.
Again, not bad, but not good compared to prequels.

 

[hermes]

Mortal Kombat Armageddon.

I was promised a huge crossover of characters from all MK games to date and customization tools that let me create my own character. What I got was all the characters changed so that they all play the same but with different powers (they even changed the design of Motaro so that it would be another bipedal male), the customization tools were pretty precarious (the only non-cosmetic options were to copy the fighting pose from a character and the powers from another), and NO FATALITIES, being substituted by a simple combo system that worked the same for every character.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

When I brought home a new game and was unable to play it because it had a "scratch". Seriously not buying games from Big W anymore, I risk it with expensive prices at Game.

 

[Imthatguy]

Getting StarCraft 1, er I mean, 2.



To be fair, I was never into the competitive MP for SC1.

At least Red Alert 3 tried to push coop MP and allowed you to SHOOT BEARS OUT OF A CANNON AND PARACHUTE INTO THE ENEMY BASE.

Oh geez I forgot about Red Alert 3. So in the story if Einstein was the one to go back in time to kill Hitler after world war 2 and made the soviet union a super power....how does killing Einstein in 1918 or so allow the soviet union to get stronger..... It made no sense!

Red Alert hasn't made sense since Kane appeared in the 2nd or 3rd Soviet mission briefing in RA1

OT: Mass Effect 2 - I walk into the gamestop intending to grab a copy of Alpha Protocol. I grab a used case and walk up to the counter. Gamestop douche (customer not employee oddly enough) "That game was weak if you really want a good RPG grab MA2". I follow his advice and get talked out of one of the best shooter rpgs in this generation and get stuck with Gears of War you can talk to people but get the same outcomes all the time Edition.

I'd go into detail about C&C4 but its just to easy

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Mass Effect 3.

Yes. I'm still bitter because EAWare are in denial about how shit the ending (singular) is.

 

[piinyouri]

Two Worlds 2

How did you go from the unintentional hilarity and the wide open massive and varied world from the first game to that?

And the whole top continent being locked out...*shudders with rage*

 

[Epidemiix]

Getting StarCraft 1, er I mean, 2.



To be fair, I was never into the competitive MP for SC1.

At least Red Alert 3 tried to push coop MP and allowed you to SHOOT BEARS OUT OF A CANNON AND PARACHUTE INTO THE ENEMY BASE.

Oh geez I forgot about Red Alert 3. So in the story if Einstein was the one to go back in time to kill Hitler after world war 2 and made the soviet union a super power....how does killing Einstein in 1918 or so allow the soviet union to get stronger..... It made no sense!

Red Alert hasn't made sense since Kane appeared in the 2nd or 3rd Soviet mission briefing in RA1

Well that was because the original idea behind the game was that Einstein going back in time created the Red Alert timeline and that timeline created the Tiberium one.

The first Tiberium game was set in an alternate present because of that (well "present" for 1995).

Anyway I think that was removed from cannon....somewhere.... and Red Alert because its own timeline. (this confusing mess is what happens when time travel get involved!)

 

[ChupathingyX]

Spore. Just spore...if you saw the GDC 2005 demo, you know exactly what I am talking about.

You mean that glorious 35 minute demonstration?

*sigh* what could have been...

 

[Shoggoth2588]

The fact that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 is a direct sequel to Force Unleashed. The light side ending, which has to be the canon ending, was pretty good! It was its own self-contained story. It answered the unasked question about the origins of The Rebel Alliance. I felt as though the fact that FU2 exists is a mockery of the original game and a huge missed opportunity to explore lesser known Sith Lords/ Jedi Knights.

Dragon Age 2. I loved Origins and was looking forward to the sequel. Then I played it...the thing was marketed as an epic RPG and while the story was there (in a lesser capacity than Origins or even Awakening). The game that was delivered however felt like a hack-n-slash or, beat-em-up with RPG elements and less likable characters...and fewer locales. Also (I mentioned this when I bitched about Mass Effect 2...at some point) I hate how everyone suddenly learns the words 'shit' and 'fuck'. It just seems kind of juvenile to me when sequels force in the 4-letter words to harden the M rating. It worked in Max Payne 2 but in the Bioware games it just seemed unnecessary. These are the same people who let you talk Saren into shooting himself: they didn't need those shitty, fucking words!