Biggest game let down you've ever had?

[J4RD]

Brink. It might not have been so bad, if A) they had taken out the A.I. completely and made it only multiplayer.
B) they had made it less of a linear story and instead opted for regular team games, and
C) they had made killing someone feel like killing someone, rather than just knocking them over with bullets.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

The newest Alien Vs Predator. I love the old AvP 2 and it seemed the new one would be an updated version of it. It started well enough (playing as the Alien), but there were too many issues and what made AvP 2 fun was completely absent. Since then I've played it maybe twice in multiplayer, but even then the queuing times make it a chore.

 

[ResonanceGames]

Thief: Deadly Shadows. Now, in hindsight I was just acting on irrational anti-console fanboyism. There were a lot of good things about that game, and its very much worth playing despite its flaws. But at the time it made me furious that they consolized a series that I did and do consider about the best in gaming history. I never even finished it at the time. Oh to be 17 and full of strong, ridiculous opinions again...

 

[ninjapenguin1414]

L.A Noire the game was so boooooooooooooooooooooooring I couldn't even finish it, after all the hype and it being made by rockstar or take 2 or whoever the hell made it it was just terrible

 

[Zeema]

Demons Souls

i thought it would be fun and challenging but it just pissed me off

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Grand Theft Auto 4. For all the great scores it got, when I played it, it was lacking one thing that any game really needs for me. Fun. It looked good, and had a great story. But it wasn't any fun to play, like the older games were.

 

[DJMasterFunkyFresh]

Spore.
-snips-

Ugh, glad to know I'm not the only one who watched those vids before launch and got all excited about it :/

Though how the hell did that game loose so much content? did somebody walk in and just say "So what if we took all this awesome crap, and throw ALL of it away so 5 year olds can play?"

 

[TheSchizoid]

I rented a game a while back, it was a lord of the rings game, I forget the title. All I remember is you play a random troop in each of the battles, either a warrior, rogue, or mage (right, haven't seen THAT before...). And I was enjoying it, at first. Then we got to the battle of Isengard and the difficulty curve turned into a brick wall. After stumbling through that, we went to...Moria, for some reason. And the brick wall turned into a dome. After several retarded deaths I said "FGSFDS" and took the disk out. Took all I had to not break the disk in half instead of returning it.

That would the the LotR clone of Star Wars: Battlefront. I forget the subtitle name. I like the game, but it's not as good as SW:B. Um, I could easily say Duke Nukem Forever...hm. Other than DNF, there hasn't been that many recently. I think I'll say Grand Theft Auto 4. Was it a good game? Sure. But Yahtzee said it best. The game got too "realistic". We don't play games for realism, we play them for escapism. Also the endings are so fucking depressing that you don't get a feeling of accomplishment beating the game.

Spoiler

Either you watch Kate get killed and then you go and take revenge but walk away depressed you lost someone who could make your life better. Or you watch Roman get gunned down AND have Kate effectively dump you leaving you to run off getting revenge but walk away depressed that your cousin is dead. Fuck you Rockstar!

Seriously, I'm playing Saint's Row and having much more fun.

 

[Slenn]

Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hands.

I played this during the summer during a camping trip and so I got a lot of progress done that way. I was having a lot of fun truckin' along finding all the cool lenses and stuff for your solar gun. It was only until somewhere near the end did you find out that the main female protagonist wasn't a princess you had to rescue, but your mom. That ruined it for me.

Believe me, I know my mom's a cool person, and I'd rescue her in a heartbeat if she was near death from an accident. But making your mom the person you have to rescue in a video game just seemed like a real let down. That almost is along the lines of Luke kissing Lea in Star Wars and then realizing she's his sister in the next movie.

 

[Kae]

Baldur's Gate II and it was just this morning, BUT!!! hear me out before you start hating on me, Ok so I've been trying to snatch a copy of a Baldur's Gate game for what seems like a decade now, and I had never found a copy of any of the games until today in the morning I found it in a shelf of some second hand store shining with all his might whispering to me "Buy me, buy me" so of course I bought and I came home more excited to play a game than I had ever been on my entire life and I start installing it and when I insert disc 2 BAM! the disc could not be read, and suddenly all that anticipation of a decade to play this game goes out through the window, but the owner of the store told me I could return it before the store closed and the store closes at around one-two PM and it was well already one PM, so I immediately jump to the chat here in the escapist and ask for advice on whether to return the game or not, after a little discussion I ended up deciding to return the thing.
So yeah what can be more disappointing than waiting over ten years to play a game to just not even being able to play it?

PS:The reason that I haven't bought it on line is because I well don't have a credit card and although ass of this month I have a paypal account I don't want to use it since I don't know how but I'm 70 dollars short on cash right now because apparently I paid for something but I have no idea what it was, so I won't buy on line until I learn how to use the damn thing, I don't want to spend another 70 dollars on nothing.

 

[warprincenataku]

I have to admit, I was horribly let down by Fable, then stupidly I got sucked into the hype of Fable II and let down again. I wasn't even going to look in the direction of Fable III, but once again I was sucked into PM's spill and decided to give him one more chance.

I will not even consider Fable IV, this I promise you.

 

[twistedmic]

Vampire Rain!. The back of the box looked awesome, yet the game was horrible. Worse than HomeFront.

 

[Kinkaido]

I'm going to say Spore, too. It went from looking like the best and most innovative game ever to a set of editors with a game grudgingly attached. Not to mention the fact that you see almost nothing of your creature once you enter the Civilization part of the game.

 

[TakeyB0y2]

Resident Evil 5. One of the trailers made it look like it would be epic and might even be the first truly emotional Resident Evil game. It ended up being only about half as long as Resident Evil 4, and the story felt like it was trying to not be camp, but just couldn't do it.

Also, Silent Hill Shattered Memories. I finished it in one sitting, it ended rather abruptly, as in I couldn't even see the ending in sight, when it just kinda happened all of a sudden. Also, the morality (if you want to call it that) system could've been tweaked so that it actually felt like the things you did ACTUALLY made a difference.

 

[Laser Priest]

Borderlands. I heard tales of hundreds of thousands of guns and GOTY material.

What I got was a grinding quests through uninteresting environments with lousy combat using a few guns with their stats modified in many different ways.

 

[zajohnson]

All games after KH2 being on a portable system.
FML

 

[ischmalud]

everything blizzard produced after WoW vanilla

 

[chaosyoshimage]

Persona, I heard the series was super amazing and it sounded like my kind of thing. I guess I wasn't suppose to start with the first one...

 

[NeutralDrow]

If you'd asked me a month ago, I'd have said Soul Calibur 3 (console version; arcade was fine).

Now, though...Samurai Warriors 3. It's got a very expansive system, in-depth RPG elements, most of the cast returning with some cool new characters, a mystery-style exploration survival mode, option for the Japanese language track, an awesome new universal move...

...and a truly godawful framerate that I cannot stand.

I think I wouldn't mind if I weren't spoiled by Samurai Warriors 2 and Warriors Orochi, which both managed 60 fps, and by Sengoku Basara 3, which manages 60 fps while still using Wii hardware.

 

[Arriba]

The Force Unleashed 2. I sat there for a good minute or two when the credits started rolling with my jaw dropped. I honestly couldn't believe it was so short and would end with just about the worst final boss fight I had ever played.
Oh and I agree with zajohnson, bring KH to ps3 like right now.