Games That Disappointed You...

[natster43]

Crackdown 2 It felt like it took more stuff out than it added in.
Mario Kart Wii The only thing good about it is the online.
Marvel VS Capcom 3 So easy to unlock charcters and very little replay value for me.
Mortal Kombat. They are putting in Freddy Krueger instead of an actual MK character.

 

[Ashz0r]

Alice: Madness Returns

For the record, I never played the first one. It didn't really appeal to me at the time it came out, but this one looked fairly interesting so I decided to pick it up. I expected some kind of twisted action-adventure game with some fun environments. What I got was a terrible platformer that should have been called Hot Topic: The Game.

I really enjoyed Alice and I too hadn't played the first one. Maybe this like stemmed from a sheer boredom of the FPS genre, but I don't know. I found Duke Nukem Forever to be probably the worst game I've ever played.

 

[Harmondale2]

Bioshock 2 naturally, should have seen it coming

The worst game though I can remember being so disapointed by is Stronghold 2, it was just awful

 

[kittii-chan 300]

call of duty modern warfare 2, black ops, halo:ODST, halo: reach, dragon agerigins, farcry 2, left 4 dead 2, fable 2, fable 3, final fantasy XIII, fallout new vegas and lego starwars 2... i havnt ctually bought a good game since halo 3 was REALEASED. in like 200* (When was it released???) if warhammer 40000:space marine and diablo 3 are bad i wll consider filming an Xbox BBQ and posting on youtube...

 

[Rooster893]

Sonic Unleashed.

The day levels were awesome, but the night levels were God-awful. And the voice acting...A 3 year old caffeinated on glue could have done better voice work than Jason Griffith, the worst Sonic voice actor ever!

 

[bullman422]

Dragon Age 2 - No I wasn't too thrilled with the newly adopted Mass Effect dialogue choice wheel, the more action battles that lacked any real strategy, or the reused dungeons over and over again. But perhaps what pissed the shit out of me most was that your choices and actions had little to no impact on either the story or the landscape. Why does it bother me so much? Because that was exactly what the developers touted, promised, and stressed during an interview article for this game.

Grand Theft Auto 4 - Definitely polished but some how this game felt less fun for me and more tedious than previous games in the series. Maybe it was the more realistic approach they took or that the control scheme did not feel as natural to me. I dunno.

Yakuza 4 - Okay I still love this series but I had some really high expectations for the third sequel especially since there were now four characters involved. While some things were tweaked or slightly improved, overall I still felt that I was playing the same Yakuza 2 game that first introduced me to the series. The map is still the same clunky mess it was back then, the interface basically the same, dialogue scenes still go on forever and a day, and random battles are still a little too frequent. But it was the battle system in particular which irritated me the most. Honestly no matter what difficulty you pick, most battles are either flat out easy (usually regular and random battles) or flat out hard and cheap to the point where almost the only way to even have a hit connect is having to rely on your characters heat move or pure luck(Why Hello there Amon & IF7 simulator!!).

 

[Winterfel]

Bad Company 2
Fable 2
That's the first ones that pop in to my head.

 

[EHKOS]

Darksiders, Dantes Inferno, funny how both are the same genre, Fear 3 but I think everyone will agree.

 

[Catfood220]

Mario Kart Wii The only thing good about it is the online.quote]

Agreed. The AI on that game was so broken, it was down to luck as to whether you won a race or not. Being pelted with blue shells, bloopers and POW barrels and watching every other racer on the track go past you is not my idea of fun.

Also Mass Effect 2. It was an alright game and the final half hour or so was genuinely entertaining. But after seeing all the plaudits, rave reviews and people on forums saying that it was the best game ever, I was left with a feeling of "Is this it?" for much of the game. And there is a special place reserved in hell for the person who came up with the Planet Scanning thing.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Every single Silent Hill game since Origins, and especially Origins, that game was just unacceptable. Camera was shit and the whole weapon degradation thing was stupid, since when do jack hammers break after a few hits?

Well at least you had 20 tv's in your jacket pocket, right? RIGHT?

Oh yeah, and toasters too!

 

[ThatDaveDude1]

LA Noire. For the first 12 hours or so it was a solid 9.5/10, but as soon as you cleared the homicide desk it rapidly decreased in quality, in terms of story, gameplay, and enjoyment value. When all's said and done I'd give it a 6.5 overall.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

You could argue that KOTOR had basically the same gameplay, but I liked the complexity of the battle system in KOTOR as opposed to pressing 3 buttons of interchangeable attacks and spells.

while i do feel the combat of dragon age was too simplistic, i felt like it was more complex than kotor. in dragon age i would at least have to change strategies from time to time. in kotor i literally just spammed flurry until all the enemies were dead. then again, i played dragon age on pc, i heard dragon age was significantly better on pc than on consoles

I played it on the console, so you could be right about the PC version. I'm not willing to play it on the PC though, I'm not that kind of gamer.

When I played, I never had to change strategies, I just waited for a spell to fill up and then I used it, meanwhile spamming other spells. Got boring insanely quickly.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Brütal Legend.

Metal!
Action!
Adventure!

...

Strange third person perspective RTS-like battles halfway through the game?

So, yeah, I don't consider it a bad game, but if there was any game that ever "disappointed" me in the truest sense of the word, it's this one.

 

[00slash00]

When I played, I never had to change strategies, I just waited for a spell to fill up and then I used it, meanwhile spamming other spells. Got boring insanely quickly.

that game had major balance issues. warriors were pathetically underpowered. it was pretty sad when my arcane warrior was a better tank than my dwarf fighter

 

[xXAsherahXx]

When I played, I never had to change strategies, I just waited for a spell to fill up and then I used it, meanwhile spamming other spells. Got boring insanely quickly.

that game had major balance issues. warriors were pathetically underpowered. it was pretty sad when my arcane warrior was a better tank than my dwarf fighter

Yeah, being either a puny ***** or an overpowered mage drained the fun out of the game. It was either too easy or too hard on any difficulty. The character dialogue was horrendously dry as well.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Dragon Age 2 is the most recent example, as for many of the rest of us in this topic.

My biggest disappointment ever was Fallout 3.

It's good, but just not for me. One playthrough...and that was it. Even then, I only beat it 8 months later.

 

[orangeapples]

Prince of Persia (PS360)

After the work done on the Sands of Time Trilogy and the trailers that showcased the combat and the parkour stuff, it was looking very good.

Then we got the game and there were like 6 different fights. The story was bland, the witty banter between the characters was just bad, the world was empty and the whole plot was entirely pointless because all of my efforts were undone at the end.

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

Far Cry 2. It could have been epic, but the the only good thing it had was amazing graphics.

 

[Physics Engine]

Gran Turismo 5

This is what I've been waiting for? WTF? 90% of the cars are copy/paste jobs from GT4 and GTPSP. Credits are very hard to come by, the non-premium models (90% of the total cars in the game) can only be bought from the used car dealership, so you have to keep checking the damn thing to see if the car you want showed up, then the late game is all grinding for a race car so you can complete the final 5 or 6 races... B-Spec is required for completion. That's right, you have to let the game play itself, WTF?

*sigh*