Biggest letdown and why.

[TheRocketeer]

Cutting-edge graphics don't trick me for a second into thinking Half-Life 2 is more than a Duke Nukem-era shooter with gimmicky physics puzzles forced clumsily in. Great job making such expertly-produced facial expressions and voice acting so people can stand by and cheerlead the Doom marine on his quest to fall victim to a string of bland plot contrivances.

 

[NapalmBob]

Update: the new AvP

I know its a different studio to the one that did AvP2, but how the hell did they manage to bollocks-up such a good game? Predator disc uses no energy = spam-city. Alien attaching to walls is just ... broken. Predator leap has to be aimed before you jump. No crouch. Stunning melee attacks! WTF? Everything that should have been nice and fluid and fun is just awkward and frustrating. Why can't they just remake old games with updated graphics? Why does every new game have to have a gimic? Speaking of gimics: E key insta-kill. What the hell were they thinking? Now people just charge into battle and spam E. What a waste of $99.

And, its on Steam. With local-hosting. Have these guys ever played an FPS on PC before? Cod4 wasn't perfect, but its been the best online PC FPS in recent memory. I miss dedicated servers and real graphics options. AvP does look nice though, even on low.


I hate lazy console ports...

 

[Malf]

MW2's multiplayer spawn system. *sigh When the hell is IW going to fix this shit I went back to playing World At War. The worst part is that MW2 is otherwise a phenomenal game.

 

[Malf]

Prototype for me. Concept was pretty cool. But the clusterfuck amount of mostly useless moves made combat frustrating, the bland characters and repetitive missions didn't help either.
Then I bought inFamous which everyone was telling me wasn't as good. Turned out to be 10 times better.

Yeah I was torn between Prototype and inFamous and ended up buying inFamous due to its superior reviews and word of mouth from your story it looks like word of mouth didn't help much.

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

ODST. Shoulda been a DLC and prototype my freind said it was awesome so i rented it not worth the £6.