The Most Disappointing Game You Have Ever Played?

[DJDarque]

Naughty Bear looked like it would be alot of just silly fun, but when I got it, it turned out to just be the same levels over and over again. I couldn't stand it.

 

[Kurokami]

Heroes of Might and Magic V. I dropped it after playing 1 hour.. Picked it up again. Played another 2 hours refusing it was shit when i realized that i was lying to myself and sacraficed it to the local water deity (Our well)

Why's that? Personally I prefered 3 for quite a bit of it, but I still very much enjoyed 5. Granted its not like I followed the story in either much, I just played with Siblings. The added abilities and different upgrades were a nice touch imo.

 

[Kurokami]

Elemental: War of Magic. I thought it was going to be this mega-epic successor to Master of Magic. Magical crafting, monster summoning, customizable mage skills, city building, big battles. Then dynasties, political maneuvering, customizable units and such were promised. It has some of that, but in the greyest, most watered-down form I could imagine.

The graphics were about the ugliest things I've seen, all grey-brown and messy with dodgy 3D. They really should've taken a note from Heroes of Might and Magic II. That has colorful graphics and pretty landscapes, even if it's 2D and came out in '96. Elemental's graphics are just so meh, everything's perpetually shrouded in mist and nothing much looks like it belongs in a fantasy setting. Even the spells are jerky and visually uninteresting.

The whole game system is badly broken. Probably the worst mistake was having the leader as an actual unit in the game. It means that your mage - YOU - can be taken out with a casual spell. It also means that you can knock out an entire city, army, or enemy leader with similar ease. Armies - and the overlong technology tree that backs them - are essentially worthless. Any AoE magic can simply annihilate them. It's very easy to level up one's mage to be an unstoppable one-man (or woman) magical juggernaut of instant death.

There's also a disappointing lack of monsters in the game. Oh, you can call up an elemental or giant or wolf or imp, but what's the point when they're roughly on par with the already-worthless foot soldier? The game is in desperate need of mythological creatures, both summonable and wild. To reference Heroes 2 again, that game had over three dozen, some of them coming in multiple forms.

Another thing is the lack of variety in the game. Whether you play as the Kingdom of Light or the Empire of Darkness, you'll still be using the same batch of spells and troops. There's no special healing magic or necromancy or whatever or a particular side or magician. The only real difference is that the "good" side gets horses and the "evil" side can grow more food and ride wolves. The tech tree branches are renamed but they do the same things. There is, again, the issue that the Forces of Darkness are singularly unimpressive when the Dark Lord can be casually incinerated on the way to razing his citadel. Lords of Magic, at least, rectified that by having him actually go out and destroy/conquer and be dangerous.

So, yeah. That's why I found it so disappointing. Maybe I hyped it too much to myself as well.

Not that I mean to excuse the game on the other accounts, but I believe if you research a certain branch (can't remember what its called) more monsters come running along, wild ones I mean.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Heroes of Might and Magic V. I dropped it after playing 1 hour.. Picked it up again. Played another 2 hours refusing it was shit when i realized that i was lying to myself and sacraficed it to the local water deity (Our well)

Why's that? Personally I prefered 3 for quite a bit of it, but I still very much enjoyed 5. Granted its not like I followed the story in either much, I just played with Siblings. The added abilities and different upgrades were a nice touch imo.

I guess Nostaligia, hype, playing the awesomeO Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and the whole Might and magic series had me hyped it up to be at least AS good. But it was different. Very different, didnt feel the same at all. I tried all the different races but it seemed as if it was a thousand times more simple but they tried to hide that fact with mediocre special effects and graphics. It felt rushed, casual, SOMETHING. It didnt FEEL like Heroes of Might and Magic. It felt like another game entirely. Something i could find if i searched long enough in a browsergame section.

The Campaign mode's voiceacting and storytelling compared to the first/Second/third probably killed the mood off quite a bit tooo dont you think? I mean seriously who DID they have to voice that woman? And who did they put in for the writing? I found the story WORSE than Might and Magic IX. AND THATS SAYING SOMETHING. I mean that game has placeholder names instead of regular names it still had placeholders it was simple. It didnt have the same conflict.

IN Heroes of Might and Magic 3 you had the royal families the conflicts of family. A meaningless existence rising to glory and greatness. In Heroes of Might and Magic V. You had a... Woman, trying to save her kingdom. And she's special because shes ehm.. A woman. (HOW IS THAT? HOW IS THAT?) Whooooosh. Wow, GREAT UBISOFT. You really held up the flag of 3DO there. Im gonna go into a corner and cry now..

 

[Goosevich]

Hi thar > (my first post over here)

I'm kinda' suprised that no-one mentioned Mafia 2.

I was waiting for this game, played the demo over and over again then i pre-ordered it and boom! Half of the game was cut out, lot's of bugs etc etc. Just look at official 2K forums, pure flame blitzkrieg.

 

[VladimirSirin]

Sonic Chronicles.

A BioWare RPG using a property that has a cool mythology (well, one of the animated series was awesome)?! Yeah!

But then they invented the most annoying battle system ever. I couldn't believe it. BioWare had made a game that was actually awful. Not just a disappointment, but hideously unplayable and awful.

 

[VladimirSirin]

Threads like these are pointless for two major reasons:

1) A majority of people have apparently no clue what the words "most disappointing" means.

2) That same majority has no ability (or even intention) to back up their arguments on why a certain game was disappointing, settling for trolling around and posting long lists of beloved and best selling games to stir up virtual shit in hopes of satisfying some kind of inane need to feel special.

Yep.

 

[Brownie101]

Oblivion.
After all the hype I'd heard and read, like someone said about Bioshock, I expected gold. It held my attention for a full 10 minutes before I went "Screw it!" and went to play something else.
So now I just don't worry too much about what other people say. If they say it's great, I expect a pile of steaming dung.

 

[Kyrian007]

Masters of Orion 3. 2 was a game I can still run through today and be satisfied. 3 was so terrible I never even finished a single playthrough. I would agree with the Borderlands nay-sayers, but I never bought into the hype in the first place. It's an fps, you've played one you've played them all. It scraps interesting level and character design for... you know I never figured out why they didn't use these things.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Custer's Revenge is the worst game I've never played.

 

[Ldude893]

LOST: Via Domus (a.k.a. LOST: The game). I should've listened to the reviews, not even LOST fans could enjoy that game. The puzzles were bland, the graphics were horrible, and the gameplay was dreadful to the extreme. Also, there were only a few LOST survivors appearing in a map at a time, so it felt like there were only 4-6 survivors randomly shapeshifting and multiplying into other survivors.

That's why I'm really selective with the games I buy. I don't want to spend money on garbage that I could just download online or watch a walkthrough for.

 

[DanDeFool]

There was this old mech sim for the PC called G-Nome, which was actually a really innovative game. It was the only mech sim I knew of where you had to get out of your mech and do stuff from time to time. If your mech got destroyed, you could use a special infantry weapon to force an enemy pilot to eject, commandeer his mech, and squash him with it. You could commandeer turrets, enter buildings, and fool the enemy into thinking you were on their side by changing your IFF code. The graphics were good, and the controls were solid.

And then came Dominion: Storm Over Gift-3

It was an RTS based on the G-Nome universe. I thought it was going to be awesome, but it turned out to be the most mediocre, bland, monotonous RTS I've ever played. Every time I think about buying a game for full retail price without checking reviews on the internet first, I remember Dominion.

Oh yeah, and Devil May Cry 2. That was another game I paid full retail price for, without checking reviews first. Devil May Cry 2 wasn't quite as big a disappointment as Dominion, but it was still pretty bad.

 

[Kennian]

Final fantasy 7... While not a bad game, it single handedly ended my love affair with jrpg's. Before 7 my favorite games were almost ALL jrpg's, FF1-6, breath of fire, wild arms, chrono trigger, xenogears... Loved them. For everything that was cool about seven(materia), something made me rage(localization). I saw all the plot twists for days, the love interests were plastic and fake, and... It canabalized Xenogears. After this game i have never beaten another jrpg. I bought 8,9 and 10 but never beat them and finaly gave up in disgust.

So yea, final fantasy seven... My greatest dissipointment

 

[King Kupofried]

Lunar: Dragon Song. I love my turn-based RPGs, and the Lunar series is one of the classics. I greatly anticipated this game until the day it was release, thinking it would assuredly be one of the games I would never let leave my DS.
The game would have been one of my most hated even had it not carried the Lunar name. It was just so..bad. Absolutely nothing redeeming about it. Heck, even if it turned out to be as generic as a turn-based RPG can be I probably would have still found some fun in it. As it was though, it was just a crushing disappointing.

 

[ExileNZ]

Half-Life. Maybe it was the hype but all i see when i play it is a mediocre FPS with any amazing moments being washed away by repetitive gameplay

Did you play it when it came out or 5 years later when everyone else had copied it?
Just curious.

 

[mrF00bar]

Definitely GTAIV for PC. I fell for the hype and was sorely disappointed.

I know how you feel, its the worst GTA game I have played and to make it worse it took like 3 months for the first patch to be released before we could play it. Most unfinished piece of shit ever released on the PC.

 

[Aphex Demon]

Final Fantasy XIII was a disapointment. I was so excited I even got a Lightning figure to have on my shelf. I be rid of the game after three days and actually didn't like Lightning at all as a character. [sub](I mean if someone's form of dislike was to punch you every five minutes in real life they wouldn't be liked much either.)[/sub]

I agree completely, I bought the limited edition FF13 on release day for around £60, That, I must add, was shit, Yaay postcards, CD and a sticker :'D. No Square Enix, Make some effort next time.

I thought lightning was hot, and badass, thats only really why I liked her, Although she was a right grumpy ***** when she wanted to be. But yeah I sold my damn iPod to get that game, EPIC dissapoint... I sold it about a week later after not feeling any sort of enthusiasm to play it whatsoever after about a day or two.

EDIT: Wait didnt it come with a little book too?