So a bit over a week ago I picked up Ghost Recon: Future Solider to play with some friends. The game looked promising, I've always preferred 3rd over 1st person and being a more team based game I thought I'd at least enjoy a majority of the time spent playing. Then the game came in the mail and I put it, right from the start I had problems in that I couldn't connect to my friend because apparently we had different DLC - What DLC? - we got a third friend in, connected and began to play. Well no we didn't because we couldn't actually all get into a game. At least one, if not all of us would get the message 'connection to server lost" which is a pretty strange message considering the game runs off p2p networking. This game has reminded me so much of Gears of War 2, with it's horrible menu system, lack of search options and just crap matchmaking. When we finally do get to play, the only way to describe the rooms we get into is "united nations" as there are people from all over the world playing in a single game because of course there is no local search function - a pretty standard feature in 2012.
From what I've played of it Ghost Recon is NOT an inherently bad game, it's just let down by a menu system from 2007 and a matchmaking system that was surpassed in 2006 by Gears of War. I wish Ubisoft would fix this because I'd like to play and enjoy it with my friends, but as it currently stands, the game won't allow me to. So to add discussion value what games have disappointed you and why, also if you've played GRFS give me your thoughts on the game.
From what I've played of it Ghost Recon is NOT an inherently bad game, it's just let down by a menu system from 2007 and a matchmaking system that was surpassed in 2006 by Gears of War. I wish Ubisoft would fix this because I'd like to play and enjoy it with my friends, but as it currently stands, the game won't allow me to. So to add discussion value what games have disappointed you and why, also if you've played GRFS give me your thoughts on the game.
