Games That Disappointed You...
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L.A Noire, it was a slight dissapointment, not in story or gameplay just the fact that Cole Phelps seemed to suffer from something similar to Commander Shephard syndrome in which you surround a blank canvas of a charecter with others of great charecter depth and you end up just feeling like your playing as a empty husk of a charecter with no sense of being able to connect with the charecter.
Oh and any re-hashed game brought out for the 3-DS and Duke Nukem forever
Oh and any re-hashed game brought out for the 3-DS and Duke Nukem forever
Assassin's Creed 2: Poor PC optimisation despite no real graphical innovations and no option to turn off shadows as well as draconian DRM made it unplayable for me. However, I plan to give it a second try when I get a much better computer. Ezio is too hot not to. Yes, Ubisoft, only because Ezio is hot. 
Spore: Expected much more, especially on the creature stage. They could have made it a more complex survival aspect. As it is, creatures live in nests, food is plentiful and the only danger are the Epics. Boring, boring, boring! Also, I can't make a dragon fly properly.
Dragon Age 2: Reused environments, boring characters (except Varic <3), weird elves, weird story, no consequence to actions, lame rise to power and boring boss battle. I had more fun fighting Orsino than Merredith and also thought you should fight one OR the other, depending on whom you sided with. The idol thingy was pretty weak. Oh and "can't take three steps without mass genocide" - Toegoff, which I very much agree with.
Echo Bazaar: Limited actions? Yes, game killer for me. Also, the story and text seemed pretty uninteresting the time I played.
The Sims 3: It's gotten better with the expansions but the only reason I still play Sims 3 it's because of its open neighborhood and superior Create-A-Sim. Otherwise, the game looks like all effort was put towards the neighborhood and even that isn't as good as it could be. The "seamless" part of it needs AwesomeMod to help it (fast switching of households, saving wishes and inventory items on switch), as well as the weird story progression. As for graphics, they look a little better than sims 2, especially the sims themselves (no mods) but the objects look like they were imported directly from sims 2. Also, many of the sim-to-sim interactions from base sims 2 were removed. Also, sim larvae.
Minecraft: Granted I haven't played this multiplayer, but I did play an afternoon of it on single, made a pretty little pyramid... step pyramid that is. Didn't even try multiplayer since the first thing I wanted to build was impossible (a giant, normal pyramid).
Spore: Expected much more, especially on the creature stage. They could have made it a more complex survival aspect. As it is, creatures live in nests, food is plentiful and the only danger are the Epics. Boring, boring, boring! Also, I can't make a dragon fly properly.
Dragon Age 2: Reused environments, boring characters (except Varic <3), weird elves, weird story, no consequence to actions, lame rise to power and boring boss battle. I had more fun fighting Orsino than Merredith and also thought you should fight one OR the other, depending on whom you sided with. The idol thingy was pretty weak. Oh and "can't take three steps without mass genocide" - Toegoff, which I very much agree with.
Echo Bazaar: Limited actions? Yes, game killer for me. Also, the story and text seemed pretty uninteresting the time I played.
The Sims 3: It's gotten better with the expansions but the only reason I still play Sims 3 it's because of its open neighborhood and superior Create-A-Sim. Otherwise, the game looks like all effort was put towards the neighborhood and even that isn't as good as it could be. The "seamless" part of it needs AwesomeMod to help it (fast switching of households, saving wishes and inventory items on switch), as well as the weird story progression. As for graphics, they look a little better than sims 2, especially the sims themselves (no mods) but the objects look like they were imported directly from sims 2. Also, many of the sim-to-sim interactions from base sims 2 were removed. Also, sim larvae.
Minecraft: Granted I haven't played this multiplayer, but I did play an afternoon of it on single, made a pretty little pyramid... step pyramid that is. Didn't even try multiplayer since the first thing I wanted to build was impossible (a giant, normal pyramid).
Off topic: You know I can make a drinking game from threads like these.
Easy: 1 shot every time FF 13 is mentioned
Medium: 1 shot every time Dragon Age 2 is mentioned
Hard: 1 shot for every time Black Ops is mentioned
Very Hard: 1 shot for every FPS mentioned.
On topic: I have been disappointed in few, if any titles... but if I had to chose one.... I'll go with, World of Warcraft, Cataclysm... sure I played till 85, but after that, if you can't get gear to raid, or PvP, there?s not much to do...
EDIT: spell check?
Easy: 1 shot every time FF 13 is mentioned
Medium: 1 shot every time Dragon Age 2 is mentioned
Hard: 1 shot for every time Black Ops is mentioned
Very Hard: 1 shot for every FPS mentioned.
On topic: I have been disappointed in few, if any titles... but if I had to chose one.... I'll go with, World of Warcraft, Cataclysm... sure I played till 85, but after that, if you can't get gear to raid, or PvP, there?s not much to do...
EDIT: spell check?
Fable II and FFXIII. Not the worst games I've played, by any means, but the most disappointing.
Fable 3: I did enjoy Fable 1 & 2 (Fable 1 being superior). The third one was fairly weak. Simple, spamtastic combat system, the story was meh, characters were meh, just a meh game in general.
Dragon Age 2: Again, not terrible, just meh. I personally think that it gets so much hate because of the sky-high expectations Bioware create for themselves and the fact that it was a direct sequel to Origins.
Bioshock 2: Yet again, meh
Medal of Honor: It just doesn't work. The single player is crap. In the multiplayer, you get sniped within 5-10 seconds of spawning. Just bloody terrible.
Duke Nukem Forever: I really wanted to like this game, but it's too terrible and repulsive. Its a dumb, awkward mix of old school gameplay and modern gameplay. All the bad parts.
Black Ops: Reasons stated by others
The Sims 3: They sucked the fun and imagination out of the game to be put in expansion packs.
Dragon Age 2: Again, not terrible, just meh. I personally think that it gets so much hate because of the sky-high expectations Bioware create for themselves and the fact that it was a direct sequel to Origins.
Bioshock 2: Yet again, meh
Medal of Honor: It just doesn't work. The single player is crap. In the multiplayer, you get sniped within 5-10 seconds of spawning. Just bloody terrible.
Duke Nukem Forever: I really wanted to like this game, but it's too terrible and repulsive. Its a dumb, awkward mix of old school gameplay and modern gameplay. All the bad parts.
Black Ops: Reasons stated by others
The Sims 3: They sucked the fun and imagination out of the game to be put in expansion packs.
Bionic Commando. The voice of Faith No More, the appeal of my childhood. A burly-looking protagonist in dreadlocks that wasn't a pirate. An amazing orchestrated soundtrack. But the gameplay... All those 'you can't swing here and you won't know until it's too late'... ugh.
Now Rearmed, that was awesome.
Edit: Also, Fallout 3 and NV. But that's all Bethesda's issue of being continuously crash-buggy. Big shock there, considering I was reloading saves in Daggerfall and Morrowind as much as I was playing the games.
Now Rearmed, that was awesome.
Edit: Also, Fallout 3 and NV. But that's all Bethesda's issue of being continuously crash-buggy. Big shock there, considering I was reloading saves in Daggerfall and Morrowind as much as I was playing the games.
For me it would probably Be Twisted Metal Head-On.
I hadn't played since TM4, which wasn't the best of games, but the multiplayer was fun, if a little buggy. Then I play Head On and it just feels... uninspired and boring. As you may see, I haven't bought many games in past years, though I'm still sad that they made cash shared in Dark Alliance 2, instead of just splitting the money 50/50 or leaving it like the original.
I hadn't played since TM4, which wasn't the best of games, but the multiplayer was fun, if a little buggy. Then I play Head On and it just feels... uninspired and boring. As you may see, I haven't bought many games in past years, though I'm still sad that they made cash shared in Dark Alliance 2, instead of just splitting the money 50/50 or leaving it like the original.
That's more or less the community letting you down, rather than the game, but I see what you mean. I kind of relate that to playing Team Fortress 2 and hating it because people were jerks to you. I'm sure if you played with a cool group of players it would be sweet, but I think you just had the wrong group. That being said, I play Blops once a month because I can't really take it upon myself to play it any more than that...ParanoidAndroid said:
Recently, Socom 4 let me down. I'm a huge Socom fan and it was just such a let down in so many ways, I won't even get into it. That's a sequel though, an original game that let me down was Haze a couple years ago. It looked promising but it was way too generic and cheesy, it wasn't as good as it led off to be in almost every area (graphics, audio, etc) and the online was atrocious. I could snipe and destroy ANYONE, and that was simply because I could sit on where the sniper rifle spawned and snipe down a corridor. I would get ammo instantly when the gun spawned and the sniper was always located in really easy to snipe spots. A decent idea I guess, but I remember going like 50-1 my fifth game or something, because I just sat, literally, on top of where the gun spawned and sniped down the cave to their spawn. It made me think that the online was so thin that I couldn't get anything else out of it.
Mortal Kombat, the recent one, for this new bull dlc of Freddy....I don't like it when games break away to just introduce a crossover character. Next they'll be wanting Jason or that pinheaded guy
Mortal Kombat, the recent one, for this new bull dlc of Freddy....I don't like it when games break away to just introduce a crossover character. Next they'll be wanting Jason or that pinheaded guy
Oblivion. I was hoping for a halfway decent RPG with an interesting story... But nope, story completely not compelling, everything is stiff and lackluster. I quit playing halfway through (the only game so far I've not completed) disappointed. I hope Skyrim proves to be a lot better.