Games that you've been burnt by

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The Last of Us. Cliche story and horrible shooting controls just killed the game for me. I ended up switching to easy mode halfway through the game, simply because trying to aim in the game was so frustrating and annoying, even with weapon upgrades. I know Joel wasn't supposed to be an expert marksman or anything, but if that's the case then just make guns an optional method for getting out of tight spots, rather than a requirement to pass certain sections of the game. Also, I found Joel to be extremely unlikeable.

KOTOR. I always heard it was the best game ever made. By the time I got around to it, it was about 5 years old and everything about it that was amazing had been done and improved upon by a dozen other games. Aside from that I found the story uninteresting, the twist very underwhelming, the characters boring (I'm told HK-47 or whatever was an interesting character but why would I choose blasters over lightsabers, if given a choice?), and the game play dull and repetitive (I was a guardian and breezed through every encounter by just clicking flurry over and over again. By the end I was just just using random force powers that I didn't need, just to try and break up the monotony.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

I loved the previous two Oddworld games, and the early footage of the third one looked freaking incredible. Oddworld in all it's dark, mystic weirdness rendered in a fully interactive 3D world. However most of the early footage didn't make it into the game, and the end product was just a mediocre 3D platformer wearing a loosely fitting Oddworld skin.

Metal Gear Solid 2

And no, this wasn't because of Raiden, though his presence didn't help much either. The game from the Big Shell onward was just a cheap knock-off of MGS1. That was seriously the whole point behind the game. It was Kojima putting himself before the audience, for the sake of being artistic. The game was all about satisfying himself rather than us, and then getting paid for it.

 

[kasperbbs]

Farcry 2. I fucking loved the first one, at least the part until the monsters showed up and the second one had the promise of no monsters so i thought it would be the best damned thing ever, but then i played it.. Didn't even finish half of that bloody thing, i got tired of clearing out the same checkpoints every few minutes and taking the bus is just meh.

 

[Evonisia]

Halo 4. I actually pre-ordered Halo 4 expecting it to be bad. 343 Industries had done nothing but try to retcon Bungie's Canon and put in their lol cool stuff so I wanted to see how bad they could go. It's just hideously bad, the story is complete fan fiction and, besides Cortana's sub plot, never actually does anything but touch upon themes we've seen handled more competently by previous games. Though it hasn't changed much the gameplay has become more Modern Military Shooter-fied and not even it's multiplayer could be any fun with the amount of brown, bloom and lag the game had (any game which can remake Valhalla from Halo 3 and make it not fun should be slapped).

 

[OneCatch]

Shogun II

I've tried several times to get into it because I love Total War, but it never grabbed me. There was the odd infuriating thing (naval combat was the biggest farce I've ever seen), but mostly I just got bored. Even when I'd established myself and got some decent units, it just felt too... linear.

Funnily enough, I like Rome II.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Everyone said No More Heroes was amazing but I found it to be incredibly tedious and held together with absurd but not at all clever humor. It must be good for the part of the brain that appreciates Tim & Eric because I can't understand why anyone likes that either.

I'm also still a little pissed I paid $60 to beta test New Vegas. I was expecting some glitching and a few crashes but that thing couldn't run for 10 mins without completely crashing. Playing it again and a couple of years and 8 patches seems to have done it some good but shit, if I bought it now I could've gotten the game and all the dlc for half the price I paid for the basic game. A good reason to wait for goty editions even for games you're looking forward to.

 

[Knows_Nothing]

Ugh... Total War: Rome 2. I got into the TW series about 5 or 6 years ago with Rome, fell in love, they became my favorite strategy games of all time. Shogun 2 comes out, it's amazing. Then all of a sudden we find out that there's another Total War coming: ROME freaking 2! All of the screenshots, demos, etc. looked amazing. Then it came out.

It was glitchy, the AI was borderline autistic, and worst of all, the game was TOO EASY... I have never before wasted years for a game only to be disappointed like I was with that game.

 

[BeerTent]

For me, it was Mass Effect 2. I loved ME1 quite a bit, and it felt more like a RPG than your typical cover-based shooter. I also loved being an infiltrator with his abilities and the sniper rifle.

It wasn't the story that turned me away, I'm sure I would have enjoyed it, but it was the bland as fuck maps. "This looks like an obvious arena. Maybe 2, three waves here?" And the uninteresting "epic" enemies like harbinger. I don't give a fuck if he's assuming direct control if he goes down faster than anyone else on the map on the hardest difficulty. The combat was much less interesting, and the changes to the ammo made my already heavily gimped infiltrator next to useless and largely un-entertaining. "This is your rifle, you get five shots with it and then you have to use your pistol. Good luck camping up above and assisting your teammates." Furthermore, the changes to the health took away any possible sense of urgency that any combat had. Regen. Health only really worked in Mirror's Edge, and I'm hard pressed to find a game that wouldn't be better off without it. Why the hate for that moment when you have a sliver of health and your surrounded by enemies? Is the current generation of players unable to plan things through and think on their feet to get out of a bad situation? Or is the best response always to "hide in fear while you 'rest up'"

tl;dr, Mass Effect 2's uninteresting, bland combat that lasted far too long ruined that series for me. We'll just say in my run I just died on that ship.

Someone had already added in Saints Row 3, I didn't really like how the foolishness was dialed up to 11 either, but at least it didn't kill the game for me.

I got Hacker Evolution Duality thinking it would be a lot closer to what Uplink was. No, no it was not, and it was total fucking shit.

E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy looked pretty awesome too, and then I saw the maps. Dear god the level design looked like it was built by 12 year old me, 16 different kinds of awful. They didn't even bother to clip them properly.

 

[Black Haze]

First one for me would have to be Fable 3.

After a shaky ending to Fable 2, the franchise needed to come back strong. Did that happen? Hell no. Fighting the enemies is overwhelmingly easy, to the point where its just a chore. The "hub" for changing gear and what not is tedious, but than again why would you want to change gear when you can just glance at an enemy and they fall over? Poor story didn't help either as I simply just gave up on the game. For the series starting out as fun, it ended a complete disaster.

Another game that I wasn't too fond of was Borderlands. Just my opinion, but it seemed awfully repetitive and too gimmicky for my taste. Sure, I realize its not a bad game but it just couldn't suck me into the experience, though I tried like hell. Guns were alright and story was okay as well, it just had something missing from it, or more accurately had a little too much going on I suppose.

 

[Arafiro]

Guild Wars 2 was an utter waste of money too. I will not deny that it is a quality game with many nice features, but it bored me out of my mind 2 days later. A real shame.

Ah yea, I forgot about GW2.
I went into it really optimistically and gave it the benefit of the doubt so many times but at the end of the day it's basically worse than WoW in every regard except for visuals. The combat is some of the worst I've ever seen in gaming, to the point where I'd actively avoid it at all costs because it was so poorly designed and frustrating to use.

Also, GW2 alone proves why there are aggro tables and the trinity in other MMOs. Dungeons were such a total mess.

 

[thewatergamer]

Bioshock Infinite, Yeah I said it come and get me fanboys

I bought this game after seeing all the super positive reviews, but was ultimately dissapointed, I mean yeah the story was absolutely phenomenal, but I bought it expecting great gameplay with the story complimenting the gameplay, and sadly I was dissapointed, the gameplay is pretty boring and repetitive, don't get me wrong story was amazing for video game standards but thats not why I bought it,

Oh well at least I learned my Lesson and thats why I avoided "The Last of Us"

and now I know to research a game as to why it got the score that it did, (even though people seemed to think that the gameplay was just amazing for whatever reason)

Oh well I know now to avoid story driven games, at least not buy them at full price

 

[Pr0]

Mass Effect 3, period. Biggest burn of all time for me. Six years of investment in a story just to have a writer give you the finger at the end of it. Nothings ever going to compare to that one.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Clock Tower 3. "It followed the tradition of the series," the fans say.

I got a 14 year in old a suggestive cowgirl outfit, among other things (Horrible voice acting, a plot you could replace with all spoken lines of "Runny Tastic" and it'd make more sense, and the fact there are weapon 3 attack/hide points through the WHOLE level) that simply ruined the game for me.

And I actually quite enjoyed DA2. Think about it this way: They couldn't made it worse. It was still a competent game; just the likeable and well-written characters are stuck in a really really bad game, along with a continuing plot that should be put down.

FF13 is no exception. Remember, spending ages decking out your party in the 3? How you'd make sure everything was in check, and maybe, just maybe, move out of your comfort zone and try a new job or spell type?

Final Fantasy 13 even has the cursor START on "let the computer do it" in battles.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

It's a battle between the Turok reboot, and Fear 3.

Being almost a religious fan of the original Turok games, I was really excited to hear they were not going to let the series completely die, but when it came down to it, it just turned out to be an average FPS and I almost wish they did just let it die. Maybe someone will do better in the future.

Fear 3 sounded promising to me. Being able to play as Paxton Fettle, having people already in the horror movie/game industry work on it, and I already loved the first two, but again, it turned into an average FPS.

 

[antidonkey]

While not exactly recent it is the one that immediately comes to mind: Far Cry 2. So many aspects of that just irked the hell out of me. The final straw came when i was making my way to a save point when I accidentally fell off a cliff while trying to hide from a passing jeep. I died and it had been 2 - 3 hours since I had saved. I promptly uninstalled the game and haven't played it since. Far Cry 3 has had made me want to give 2 another chance but every time I think about it, those annoyances keep it from happening. Instead, I just played Blood Dragon for my FC fix.

 

[Parasondox]

Dead Rising 2 - Wow is this game just boring and repetitive. You fail a case if you are having so much fun killing zombies and blaaaaaaaah

Uncharted 3 (maybe a bit of 2) - After playing all three, I just couldn't be bothered about the story and thought at the end of it, "You know Nathan, if you didn't do that in the first place, this whole shit wouldn't be happening."

GTA Online - Just too much broken crap I gave up in rage and couldn't be bothered with it.

Fallout: New Vegas - I know its an RPG but some of the quest just went here there and everywhere. Go to this person and then that person says go to that person then go to that building then speak to that guy them speak to the original person again, the fetch something from a vault then... I am getting bored of talking about this. You get my point.

 

[BlackWidower]

When I bought Antichamber, I noticed a lot of reviews saying how great a game it was. It even won a few awards.

Then I played the game and got really pissed. It's barely even a game and the story is non-existent!

Puzzles were shit, and the game even crashed a few times because I was using one of the devices exactly as it was designed! Plus one of the puzzles relied on a function I was never trained on.

It was just badly designed, and the ending was completely unsatisfying.

I hated it!

 

[thomaskattus]

Dishonored. Theoretically it should have been an awesome game by my standards (stealth, assassination, steam punk setting, etc.) but the elements did not mix well. Combine that with a bland as white bread story and I meh'ed so hard I busted something.