Biggest gaming disappointment in 2011??

[Lug100]

Okay so what was you?re the biggest disappointments in gaming (either in news about releases, actual gameplay, general storyline etc.) in 2011? Perhaps in a game from a previous year that you?ve only just got round to playing?
For me, I would probably have to say mine comes down to two big disappointments: what EA seems to be doing by screwing around with Battlefield 3, such as removing from steam and forcing you to run it through their own browser or whatever, even if you just want to play the singleplayer? It?s just unnecessary. A lot of people aren?t that fond of steam, which is fair enough, but to remove any form of support for it, or to leave no way of simply launching the game from the desktop like most games is just annoying. >.>
The other disappointment was playing Dragon Age 2 for the first time. I have only recently purchased DAO ?hence why is a disappointment in my 2011? and have to say, it instantly became one of my all-time favourite games. When I played DA2 however, the first thought I had was, ?and this is why a lot of sequels should never be made?.? It just felt far to restricted, in both storyline and combat. (I haven?t played the game through all the way yet, so I can?t say anything about where the storyline moves too, but from just right at the beginning with only having the choice to be human, made me disappointed.
So what about you?

 

[MercurySteam]

One word: Brink. Splash Damage had the opportunity to create something wonderful. It had a solid concept but was broken beyond belief which ruined the entire game.

 

[deehadley]

I would say Driver: San Francisco, I enjoyed the first couple of games so much and thought the updated graphics, physics and handling would make this an excellent game, but then they had to put in shift and take it from a real world game to fantasy. A let down.

 

[LookingGlass]

Dragon Age 2 is so far the only game that I was really expecting to be good and was completely let down by. But there's still time for Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City, Dark Souls, and whatever else I'm looking forward to but can't remember right now to suck.

Oh and Madden 12 disappointed me massively with its total lack of innovation or improvements (and it even made some things worse)... but that's really a yearly tradition these days.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

My biggest gaming dissapointment so far has been Mass Effect1.

OP means games that came out this year.

OT: I haven't really played any games like that. Sorry...

 

[weker]

Duke Nukem Forever
oh please dont look at me like that

I'm certainly not, even if you ignored the hype and didn't expect it to be amazing, people really didn't expect it to be a turd of a game. After playing a fair bit of it, it only causes me to feel empathy for how such a franchise can fall.

 

[Rawne1980]

Duke Nukem Forever.

14 years I waited. 14 years for what they said would be the all time greatest Duke game.

14 years later I paid for a game that was still stuck in the 90's in every way possible.

I would have said D&D Daggerdale but I wasn't looking forward to that game anyway so therefore wasn't all that disappointed when it turned out to be shit.

 

[Lug100]

Okay so what was you?re the biggest disappointments in gaming (either in news about releases, actual gameplay, general storyline etc.) in 2011? Perhaps in a game from a previous year that you?ve only just got round to playing?
For me, I would probably have to say mine comes down to two big disappointments: what EA seems to be doing by screwing around with Battlefield 3, such as removing from steam and forcing you to run it through their own browser or whatever, even if you just want to play the singleplayer? It?s just unnecessary. A lot of people aren?t that fond of steam, which is fair enough, but to remove any form of support for it, or to leave no way of simply launching the game from the desktop like most games is just annoying. >.>

So your biggest dissapointment is about a game you haven't even played yet? ooooookay.

I'm sorry, but once again. If you advocate steam but don't advocate origin that's a double standard. Either you want to run your games without one of these hand-holding programs, or you don't. Saying Steam is okay but not Origin is just dumb. Because had this been reversed, had Origin come out years ago and had Valve been putting Half Life 2 on Steam only and not on Origin then you'd be crying foul the other way too.

Point is it's the same shit, different pile. And if you're going to swim in one pile, there's no reason you can't swim in the other.



My biggest gaming dissapointment so far has been Mass Effect1. I think modern RPGs are genuinely boring to me. Or at least, anything I've played since Arx Fatalis. Fallout3, Morrowind, Fable2, Mass Effect, KOTOR, just not very compelling. I did play Kotor for a while until I got bored. And while my main problem with ME1 is the combat and the fact I keep dying on early missions, I can see myself becoming bored with it just like kotor.

Okay maybe i phrased it wrong or whatever, but i have played DA2, i simply ahvent completed it yet, nor ami likely two if it continues like it starts. And fair enough about the steam/orgin thing, my complaint wasnt entirely based on the steam pullout, but more on the fact it has to run through there software, same reason whyi didnt get Mw2 on PC either, due to it being steam exclusive (terrible game anyway). THe only things i dont mind doing that are like TF2 where its only logical that it has to be run in that software, where as with enough battlefield games before showing that the way you launch it is fine, why try and change it?

 

[Zhukov]

That would be Brink. It was just dull.

I wouldn't be so annoyed with it if it hadn't cost 90 fucking dollars. And I only bought it because nothing else was coming out at the time.

 

[TJC]

3DS... hands down...
Yet to prove it's worth... and somehow I don't think that will happen before 2013 if Nintendo isn't bankrupt by then because of two failed console starts

 

[prince_xedar]

nothing really for me
The games i have played that came out this year are fun.
i guess if i had to say something it would be crysis 2
they went from a great colourful island to GRAY new york, kinda a downgrade. but i loved the game nonetheless

 

[genericusername64]

Tie between dragon age 2 and mass effect 2
Me playing mass effect 2- "All that hype for nothing"
Me playing dragon age 2- "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

 

[CityofTreez]

Brink. Just so disappointing.

 

[Catie Caraco]

Dragon Age 2 is still a great game. Its characters are second to none and the combat is much better than in the original. It just suffered from lack of environments and an odd story structure.

Cant argue with the chest!!

I can so argue with that chest. I have every right to and I will. Varric's chest does NOT save the game. The greatly preferred my party from Origins, the romances were better and the dialogue far more interesting. So many of the changes they made, other than combat, seemed to lower the game compared to Origins (I'm looking at you, retarded Darkspawn and bobble-headed elf freaks) or tried to fix what wasn't broken (such as not being able to change your companions armor except to predetermined things that amounted to bugger all and not have a central location to chat with them all, like the camp).

So yeah, Dragon Age 2 hands down. Literally shat on what was my favorite game since the 90's.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Probably LBP2. Not that I didn't like, or that it was a bad sequel. It was more to do with the fact that I played the sh*t out of the Beta, so when the actual game came, there wasn't a lot that I hand't already played around with, but really that's just my fault. However, I predict I'll be extremely disappointed with Arkham City. What set apart the original for me was the tight, metroidvania-style level design, which they seem to have thrown out the window in favor of a sandbox.