The Most Disappointing Game You Have Ever Played?

[ForcastiaBluey]

Maybe it's because I'm one of those mouth-breathing easily-amused consumers that gamers hate so much these days, or because I don't buy many games nowadays, but I'm not really ever that disappointed by games I play. I also tend to know my own tastes well enough to be able to gauge how much I should listen to hype. I tend not to like JRPGs, so when people go on and on about how great a JRPG is, I don't flip around and say well, maybe it'll be different this time. I know I most likely won't like it so when I DO try it, I'm not surprised when I don't like it.

I'm always confused as to why people who don't like first person shooters act like a specific first person shooter was SUCH a disappointment. For example, Borderlands is a game I really love and heartily recommend to people, but I always qualify it with "Although, if you don't like FPSs, it's not going to convert you."

Waxing philosophical aside, I do have three specific examples of being actually disappointed:

Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning was a big disappointment. I know I'm going to get some flak for this, but it just... I like Spyro. I think he's cool, I love playing as him, I just wish I had had a Playstation back in the day so I could've experienced Spyro in his hayday. And damn, well-known celebrities doing voice work! Too bad the game was beaten in about four hours. I got to the final level the first day I had it and forced myself to save and quit just because I couldn't bring myself to beat a game the day I got it.

Resistance: Fall of Man was a little disappointing. Still a good game, but I don't understand how you can take a WWII shooter, add sci-fi weaponry and aliens, and STILL have it seem like a run-of-the-mill WWII shooter. I heard about how cool the weapons were and how they all had alternate firing modes, but coolness didn't change the fact that all the alternate fires were useless and I only ever ended up using the shotgun most of the time. Which, I'll add, I never had any damn ammo for some reason. Stop being so stingy with shotgun ammo, Resistance.

This is going way back, but another disappointment was The Lost World: Jurassic Park (or maybe it was the other way around) for the Genesis. I was expecting a platform shooter like the first Jurassic Park (and its absolutely awesome counterpart, Jurassic Park Rampage Edition), but I got this wacky top-down exploration game that didn't really have any of the charm. Nor did I ever have any clue what I was supposed to be doing.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Assassin's Creed 1 and 2
Bioshock 1 and 2
Deus Ex
Modern Warfare 2
Fable 2
Halo Reach
Fallout
Uncharted 2
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company

 

[THEMILKMAN]

Every 3D Sonic the Hedgehog game...except Adventure 2, that one was pretty good.

And Resident Evil 5, compared to 4 it was horrible

 

[Iwata]

That I Remember: Mirror's Edge (Parkour isn't parkour when you're thrown into a room with assault rifle wielding baddies with no exit in sight)

You DO realize that you can finish the game without firing a single shot, right? Mirror's Edge is by no means a shooter.

 

[THEMILKMAN]

I lol at people who don't appriciate the brilliance that was the Half-life series. For some reason good pacing and narative are lost on these ppl who much rather the terrible blandness and convoluted story that is any war game like CoD.

Oh well, to each his own. I'm sure the protagonists in the new cod will die a record 9 times.

And here... ladies and gentlemen... we have a fine specimen of the species Halflifeius Fanius... a subgenus of the Elitiust PCgamerus. These... fascinating creatures are found all over the Internet... but are most common in the Escapist Forums, an area which contains many subgenuses... of the Elitiust PCgamerus genus. It is... a remarkably sociable creature, and you will typically find them in groups... often, conversing with others of its parent genus, including TF2ius Fanaticus and Portalius Fanboyus. These creatures are omnivorous, but their favoured prey seems to be individuals from the ModernFPS Gamerius, such as the Haloius Fanius and CoDus Playerius. /Attenborough

(Please excuse the horrifically terribly awful science.)

Anyway, OT: Half-Life 2 was a bit disappointing to me. It certainly wasn't bad - indeed, I look forward to the day the quality of gaming has advanced to the sheer level of complete awesome where we can look upon Half-Life 2 and declare it "bad", rather than "high end of average" as it is now. But neither was it the righteous, holy and divine game of God its fans hype it up as.

If there's one thing I really disliked about it (aside from the absolutely horrific airboat section) it's... the fans. God, I hate the most vocal portions of the fanbase of Half-Life so much.

Yeah the game itself wasn't bad, good story, average gameplay. But the fans, oh dear lord, get off your damn high horses!

Not to mention it's just plain rude that Gordon Freeman, never responds to anyone. They all talk to him but he's all like, "Whatever, I don't need this." Damn aloof bastard.

 

[Okysho]

Call of Duty (any of them)
Halo (any of them)
Assassins Creed 1 (havne't played 2)
Oblivion (never played any fallouts)
Fable 1 and 2
Saints row 2 (even though I still play it)
Any GTA after Vice City

 

[MetroidNut]

Metroid: Other M. I actually enjoyed the majority of the game, but this isn't a "worst game" thread; it's about the most disappointing game. And that game was incredibly disappointing, mostly in its characterization, dialogue and voice acting.

It didn't help that the second act was basically the plot of 2001's Metroid: Fusion, blatantly reused.

 

[Macrobstar]

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

cool but thats not what he was asking, most disappointing not worst
OT: GTA4 itwas alright but it could never of lived up to the hype

 

[Snake Plissken]

Starcraft 2.

Yay...I waited over a decade for 1/3 of a game that was pretty much the same as it's predecessor.

 

[repeating integers]

I lol at people who don't appriciate the brilliance that was the Half-life series. For some reason good pacing and narative are lost on these ppl who much rather the terrible blandness and convoluted story that is any war game like CoD.

Oh well, to each his own. I'm sure the protagonists in the new cod will die a record 9 times.

And here... ladies and gentlemen... we have a fine specimen of the species Halflifeius Fanius... a subgenus of the Elitiust PCgamerus. These... fascinating creatures are found all over the Internet... but are most common in the Escapist Forums, an area which contains many subgenuses... of the Elitiust PCgamerus genus. It is... a remarkably sociable creature, and you will typically find them in groups... often, conversing with others of its parent genus, including TF2ius Fanaticus and Portalius Fanboyus. These creatures are omnivorous, but their favoured prey seems to be individuals from the ModernFPS Gamerius, such as the Haloius Fanius and CoDus Playerius. /Attenborough

(Please excuse the horrifically terribly awful science.)

Anyway, OT: Half-Life 2 was a bit disappointing to me. It certainly wasn't bad - indeed, I look forward to the day the quality of gaming has advanced to the sheer level of complete awesome where we can look upon Half-Life 2 and declare it "bad", rather than "high end of average" as it is now. But neither was it the righteous, holy and divine game of God its fans hype it up as.

If there's one thing I really disliked about it (aside from the absolutely horrific airboat section) it's... the fans. God, I hate the most vocal portions of the fanbase of Half-Life so much.

Please note that fail-biology lessens the impact of one's joke. A species cannot be a subgenus, also you don't capitalize the species name, just the genus... You inability to grasp taxonomy aside, I fail to see how I'm being a fanboy. I'm sorry if defending a genre-defining game offends you but if it wasn't for HL then we'd probably still all be playing iterations of Quake Arena. But such is the way when people arrive on the scene a decade late, compared to what there was, HL was fan-fucking-tastic, which, yes by todays standards, might be considered not very good.

Don't worry though, "Prepubis ignoramis" will come and shit on your favourite games when you're older, simply because they missed it when it was relevant.

*snaps fingers* I KNEW I was getting my terms confused... ah well, Biology isn't exactly my strong point. I trust you got my point though.

You weren't exactly defending it, you were attacking CoD (a game I don't play, but don't hate - personal preferences being what they are, and also not subscribing to the belief that popular = bad by default) with a hateful and fiery passion brought on, apparently, by the knowledge some people disagreed with your opinion. Seriously, go back and read your post.

Half-Life 2 is only 6 years old, and from what I was able to play of it (about half - I'll finish it when I can, reasons are complicated) and while I thought the graphics had aged brilliantly, particularly the water effects, it really wasn't anything special. Like I said, the day it becomes bad is a long way off, but really, the best game ever?

I prefer Halo myself. And don't say "well in ten years people'll be shitting all over that", because they're already doing so. Hype backlash is a wonderful thing... /sarcasm

 

[deth2munkies]

Kingdom Hearts. So hyped, it was a Square RPG that I've adored in the past, and it had the absolute shittiest combat, puzzles, and controls I've ever seen. I died 12 times on the tutorial fight and played through the first level before saying, "Fuck it" and trying (and failing) to get my money back.

 

[RollForInitiative]

Hmm...every Final Fantasy post six fulfills this criteria for me but, on a more specific level, I'd have to say Odin Sphere. It doesn't matter how pretty your game is when your gameplay is that utterly banal and shoddy.

 

[UltraDeth]

Definitely Army of Two: The 40th Day. The first one was excellent if short, and I believed it had much potential to be awesome. The second one let me down a lot, because of the new weapon upgrade system. In the first game attaching accessories to weapons made them improve more and more changing a standard weapon into an overpowered and overbudgeted killing machine (which was so unreal it was awesome) But in the second, attaching an accessory causes one stat to go up and one to go down, call me childish but I don't want a game to be to real. Another thing was why were there only 3 secondary weapons? I also dind't like the moral choice system, I mean the protagonists made a living out of killing people for money and now they're having moral quandaries? But what really got me was the Heartbreaker ending. In the first game after the first level, the game plays a montage of Rios and Salem working together, kicking ass like they're invincible, and at the end of the game the heroes stop a major conspiracy and presumably become international heroes. Now one of them has to die?!




Also the Halo trilogy was the most overhyped game I played.

 

[Darla-Evans]

TOV. Plot was interesting but seemed forced (rather than flowing naturally with the characters choices). I hated every single character in the game (all stereotypical and seemed to suffer from some sort of brain damage along the way, if you ask me). Atelier Iris Three was pretty disappointing game for me. The characters were dry but it had a decent plot. It could have been so much better.

 

[Andrew Silva]

Really, it was just the Force Unleashed. I mean, all they needed to do was reskin Jedi Academy and give it a new storyline, plus maybe max out the force powers, and the game would have been amazing. Poor show, lucasarts.

 

[frago roc]

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*snaps fingers* I KNEW I was getting my terms confused... ah well, Biology isn't exactly my strong point. I trust you got my point though.

You weren't exactly defending it, you were attacking CoD (a game I don't play, but don't hate - personal preferences being what they are, and also not subscribing to the belief that popular = bad by default) with a hateful and fiery passion brought on, apparently, by the knowledge some people disagreed with your opinion. Seriously, go back and read your post.

Half-Life 2 is only 6 years old, and from what I was able to play of it (about half - I'll finish it when I can, reasons are complicated) and while I thought the graphics had aged brilliantly, particularly the water effects, it really wasn't anything special. Like I said, the day it becomes bad is a long way off, but really, the best game ever?

I prefer Halo myself. And don't say "well in ten years people'll be shitting all over that", because they're already doing so. Hype backlash is a wonderful thing... /sarcasm

I never said it was the best game ever. I don't have a problem with people not liking, I feel as if people bash it without knowing much about the climate during its release or giving it fair chance. Yes, great games like System Shock 2 that everyone seems to love I find hard to get into because I missed it when it was released, but I can still respect that what it has done for the way people approach a certain genre of gaming. And I was using cod as an antithesis, an example of what HL is not - a tongue-in-cheek remark regarding made-for-multiplayer games.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Spore was disappointingly shallow, and the details for the toutedly largest component of the game, the Space stage was very vague on the tutorials.

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

Fable 2 for sure...stupid fucking ending