"What If It Sucks?"

[KingGolem]

I don't think I've ever had my expectations completely demolished, per se, but I have been somewhat let down. Spore, for example, did not live up to my expectations, but it still had its merits. At any rate, if my expectations of a game were, on some occasion, to be thoroughly destroyed, the only mature thing to do would be to accept my disappointment and get on with my life. Of course, that does not rule out a brief indulgence of forum-based commiseration with other disappointed fans. Such a practice is highly cathartic, and can be enjoyed responsibly.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

Well, to look at the bright side... moddable games pretty much give it a second chance in one way or another. Otherwise I would just say to someone next time I'm in a Gamestop:

"You see that game over there? Don't even touch it... *intense glare*"

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Mmmm...

"Sounds like a 'Fanboys' title to me..."

That prize goes to Fallout: New Vegas.

After the masterpiece that was Fallout 3, I was unbelievably pumped. I wasn't convinced in the slightest that New Vegas could suck. I got home, put the game in the tray, and played.

I think I cried a little inside. It was just so boring. Everything was so brown, and the wasteland felt empty. The questline felt a bit mediocre and the atmosphere was dull.

I just hated it.

When/If Bethesda, not Obsidian, does make a fourth, they need to go back to square one on what made Fallout 3 so great. If they can redeem the Fallout name, it will restore my faith in the franchise.

 

[Baralak]

Two worlds

It was suppose to be elder scrolls oblivion with co-op online play. Would have been the most awesome thing ever at the time, and I still have the collector's edition box on my shelve with the game played only once ever. I might go set it on fire now.

Try Two Worlds II. Really good game, and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the deepest spell creation system in a video game.

OT: Devil May Cry, any of them. I hear it was a good, hard, and rewarding hack n slash. What I got was complete garbage. I'm hoping the upcoming DmC really fixes it. Bayonetta, however, was amazing. Easily worth my $60

 

[AetherWolf]

Final Fantasy XIII.

Just...

Final Fantasy XIII.

All that hype from E3 2006 to that cold March morning I went and spent $75 on a ps3 game when I didn't even have my ps3 at that point. Popping it in my recently acquired console after buying it with cash from a yard sale in which I sold most childhood possessions. Remembering how I've loved the Final Fantasy series for years and how it holds a special place in my heart.

Having my hopes crushed within the first hour of playing.

Never again will I buy a game on day one without consulting reviews and general consensus. Never again.

 

[AetherWolf]

Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly.

If you did not grow up with the original trilogy, it's impossible to fathom the magnitude of the expectations I had. A feeling that could only be surpassed by the surreal amount of disappointment the game brought with it when it finally got released.

I didn't follow game releases back then, but I do remember my disappointment when I played Enter the Dragonfly after practically growing up on the original trilogy. I sold the game a month later.

 

[burhanr]

Portal 2? It is still very very good, but its not as good and enthralling as the first one. Once I saw that they are introducing a new, major character into the game, I know the game will be bugging me. But I do realise that making a sequel to Portal that have about the same quality is a Herculean task.

Hellgate London also comes to mind. It is such a long time ago. I am pretty hyped due to my mind thinking, "oh wow, Diablo + Guns, what could go wrong?" But yeah, once I saw the somewhat lackluster Main Menu and character creation part, I just know that the game will be shit + boring.

to be fair though I REALLY dont see how people can be "that" disapointed with portal 2 considering how well loved the first one is

I mean its also a different kind of game, they had to take the original and "exapnd" on it and by god they did (yes I LOVE portal 2) it didnt have that kind of minimalism it had before, and Im totally fine with that...because that made it worth its full price tag

they couldnt please everyone..make it small Im sure some would complain...(because I wouldnt pay $$ for 3 hours...co-op or not)

ok sorry rant over.

Like I said, it is still very very good, and it is definitely on my top 10 games of all time, but it just lost that feel good feeling that I got when I first played Portal 1. It's not the game's fault. Think of it like this, the first time you go to the zoo when you were a kid it was goddamn awesomeland, but now you only go to the zoo if you're a tourist or you are babysitting for someone else, probably. Unless of course the Zoo have unicorns, and bear with miniguns as limbs.

On a totally unrelated note, and directed to everyone, is Space Marine good? It is on sale for 12 dollars on GMG, I spent quite some money on Steam winter sale already, I wonder if I should get it.

 

[Bazoozle]

The biggest disappointments for me were Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, EVERY CoD game after the fourth game, (you'd think I'd learn, eh?) Force Unleashed (I & II) and - to an extent - Halo: Reach.

I got REALLY hyped for BiA:HH, for some reason. I don't know, I just imagined that the multiplayer would be a godsend with intricate tactics and intelligent firefights, but it was laggy and dull.

Modern Warfare sequels... they're all the same game with different, shinier weapons and WORSE maps. What's with that?

I don't know how, but the Force Unleashed games were utter crap. How the freakin' hell do you mess up the premise of "godlike powers of lightning and telekinesis, laser swords, KILL EVERYTHING"? I think Yahtzee described it best as too short and oddly repetitive.

Halo: Reach? Ugh, that was a huge disappointment for me. It's not a bad game, but I've been a huge Halo fan for years and I have expectations. The story was lackluster, nothing more than a military campaign. The atmosphere should be tense, what if the whole aliens burning the planet around me, but I just couldn't care about that until the end of the game. The level design for the multiplayer was weak, there weren't really any innovative new weapons, and... I'll just cut to the chase. Halo was slowly turning into a Call of Duty clone. That's why I'm excited for Halo 4, I guess, a clean slate to get back to the roots of exploring alien wonders.

 

[meow]

Brink.

Had been following the game since the first screenshots were released.

Oh god... the horror... the horror...

Brink looked so amazing, then it was released I knew my friend should have bought portal 2

 

[MHR]

I wasn't really DEVASTATINGLY crushed by any release in my lifetime, but what I could consider very very close would have been Warhammer Age of Reckoning. It presented an idea for a gametype MMO players were sorely wanting, a PvP focused MMO of with some quite interesting concepts for how battles amongst players would affect the gameworld of a particular server. They presented a good framework in the Warhammer universe, truly interesting ideas and goals, and an attractive pedigree in their other MMO DaoC, but the whole thing was so built with matches soaked in kerosene in simply every single that it burned to the ground so fast you could hardly feel the heat.

Although it started out with little funding and would likely have been a second rate release in terms of quality, EA acquiring it and funding it was... just terrible. It got rushed out so badly and tanked in the eyes of anyone with intelligence.

Lessons learned:
*No truly excellent MMOs will come out for quite a while, period. They're either WoW clones or fall apart do to financial and market pressure.
*EA sucks... Just sucks so much. I hate EA.

As for Skyrim, the gripes you posted bro are pretty minor. Yes, dragons could have been more difficult, quick travel is lazy garbage, mob leveling sucks although it's much improved over the way oblivion did it, (YECH!) the world is small even if it is intricately detailed and doesn't have an empty feel. Sidequests are optional, yes it may feel like you aren't experiencing the entirety of the game in a structured way at times, but they're there as an afterthought by design. Complaint about this aspect is almost silly. Some of the responsibility is intentionally placed upon the player to size up their experience from the raw elements at hand.

The thing is that the game as a whole is extremely solid. Yahtzee was right, it does well because there isn't anything out now like Skyrim with current day technology and... for lack of a better description "streamlined" RPG elements.

Sometimes you can't just look at a game for the little flaws and frustrations is caused, even if they could have been fixed (lol modding will,) But Skyrim does so much else right.

 

[Fappy]

Spore.

If I could leave my post at that, I would. That's all it deserves, it was that bad.

I've seen very few opinions to the contrary. It seems Spore left a lot to be desired for a lot of people. Good thing I never bought into it

 

[cynik]

Only once. Space Marine, what a joke...

 

[Lunar Templar]

TL;DR: Go back up and read it! You asked the question, now go read the answer you wanted!

ok, this made me giggle.

but OT: Bethesda games. (Morrow Wind, Oblivion, and Fall Out 3)
every game i've played from them as been one big 'why are people praising this as the best thing ever' and me being bored trying to figure what the 'good bits' where.

combat was a chore, exploration yielded little in the way of decent rewards, and there wasn't a whole lot worth looking at, and worse, the main quest got buried under tons of worthless side quests, that due to that whole 'enemy's leveling up as you level up' thing, rendered even MORE worthless, they clearly do not under stand the POINT of leveling up at all. (IE: becoming stronger then every thing around you) not that the main quest was any kind a gem ether, but give how much they liked to hide it they apparently knew it sucked to

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

This crosses my mind not just for games, but for anything in which I have anticipation for. I'm going to see Roger Waters perform "The Wall" live later this year and, even though I know it's going to be great, a part of me still wonders if a 68-year-old man can still pull off The Wall well enough to justify a $250~ ticket ...

Oh well. Better to have seen it live in a "not-as-good" way than to have never seen a Pink Floyd album live at all ... I guess?

Trust me when I say this, when I saw him perform The Wall back in 2010 at the beginning of his tour, he pulled it off perfectly. The best performance and form of The Wall in my opinion for multiple reasons. You have nothing to fear. I have no doubt you will at least think very highly of it.

 

[putowtin]

I have played 10 minutes of ME3, however the bit we got to try out was just combat, no story, just running and gunning. I am a bit "what if it sucks?" about it as I love the first two so much.

The only thing that is gonna suck is that the series will be over. That truly sucks.

And in this I can only agree with you 100%
I may shed a tear!

 

[clicketycrack]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I was sorta half-way excited for it because I'd played the first one about six months earlier on steam. I bought it the day after it came out because my friend had bought it the day before and told me it was fan-damn-tastic. When I played it a bit and asked him if he really thought it was all that great, he told me he hadn't even finished the first mission. It was that fateful day that I learned to never again buy a game purely from friend recommendations.

 

[Melon Hunter]

Spyro: Enter The Dragonfly.

If you did not grow up with the original trilogy, it's impossible to fathom the magnitude of the expectations I had. A feeling that could only be surpassed by the surreal amount of disappointment the game brought with it when it finally got released.

This. Oh God, this. I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in a game when the penny finally dropped that this was it. This was the supposed sequel to Year of the Dragon. Ugh.

Also, the story mode of Soul Calibur IV. It was bad enough that SC3 pared the story mode down to about 11 fights per character from that epic adventure thing in SC2, but at least you had Chronicles Of The Sword. SC4 had a measly five battles per character for the story and that crappy Tower Of Souls mode. I hope Soul Calibur V refreshes the series somewhat.

 

[NeoShinGundam]

Solatorobo. Nuff said.

 

[Swyftstar]

Mercenaries 2 was the last time I let that happen to me. I really liked the first one and I was completely hyped for a multiplayer version of that game. The game I got was a huge mess. I was disgusted and my friend and I never even bothered to finish it.

With the way Bioware has been going lately, I am very worried about Mass Effect 3.