Mafia 2, but then given its reviews maybe I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. It had the potential to be so good, but it fell down on almost every level for me. Let alone the gameplay, story or writing, I felt it was just shoddily produced. Did anyone else who played it constantly feel like all speech in the game just didn't... connect well?
Your most disappointing game experiences
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knights of the old republic.
i had heard over and over again that it was an amazing game and the best rpg ever made. about 4 hours in i really really started questioning when the game would start to get good. maybe its my fault for waiting like 5 years to play it, but everything the game did, i had seen a dozen times before and done better. overall i just found the game extremely boring
i had heard over and over again that it was an amazing game and the best rpg ever made. about 4 hours in i really really started questioning when the game would start to get good. maybe its my fault for waiting like 5 years to play it, but everything the game did, i had seen a dozen times before and done better. overall i just found the game extremely boring
I would say try Dark Souls if you find it cheap, I didn't really like Demons either but Dark Souls is amazing. It has a much fairer checkpoint system that makes the game a lot more enjoyable, the level design is stunning and I think it was a lot easier than Demons.Bradeck said:
Alone in the Dark:
I just so much wanted the game to be not horrible. The "Kill it with fire" thing, the feature to combine weapons, the open world thingie, the episodic structure, the soundtrack.
It should've been so great, but it was horrible. Horrible Story, awful controls, gameplay that just isn't fun.
But i wanted to love it, so i forced myself to have fun, not realising how miserable my time was spent.
In the end it was so horrible that even with my painfully positive mindset i couldn't finish it.
Far Cry 2:
Bored...so, so bored.
The Path:
I heard so much praise for it (and still do). And i was fully aware that it isn't a game in the traditional sense. And i was ok with that.
Yet i hated it so much.
Yes, it may be part of the game that you can barely control the characters, but if it takes you almost an hour of doing nothing/wrestling with your character to find a certain trigger point, only to be greeted by almost nonexistent narrative with an (character-individual) conclusion that is so vague that i don't even know if i could call it pretentious, then "ART!!" is not an excuse anymore.
The Undergarden:
Not much in terms of disappointment, but playing the demo in order to get something in a Steam Metagame was one of the most horrible gameplay experiences i had. And i can't even explain what it is about the game. It's okay from a technical standpoint and has nothing that is really obviously bad, yet i felt tortured and miserable while playing the game.
I just so much wanted the game to be not horrible. The "Kill it with fire" thing, the feature to combine weapons, the open world thingie, the episodic structure, the soundtrack.
It should've been so great, but it was horrible. Horrible Story, awful controls, gameplay that just isn't fun.
But i wanted to love it, so i forced myself to have fun, not realising how miserable my time was spent.
In the end it was so horrible that even with my painfully positive mindset i couldn't finish it.
Far Cry 2:
Bored...so, so bored.
The Path:
I heard so much praise for it (and still do). And i was fully aware that it isn't a game in the traditional sense. And i was ok with that.
Yet i hated it so much.
Yes, it may be part of the game that you can barely control the characters, but if it takes you almost an hour of doing nothing/wrestling with your character to find a certain trigger point, only to be greeted by almost nonexistent narrative with an (character-individual) conclusion that is so vague that i don't even know if i could call it pretentious, then "ART!!" is not an excuse anymore.
The Undergarden:
Not much in terms of disappointment, but playing the demo in order to get something in a Steam Metagame was one of the most horrible gameplay experiences i had. And i can't even explain what it is about the game. It's okay from a technical standpoint and has nothing that is really obviously bad, yet i felt tortured and miserable while playing the game.
White Knight Chronicles:
Bland story, bland gameplay and annoying, not to mention stupid, characters. I don't hate the game completely though. I liked the skill system, how you could customize your characters to do whatever you want and the combos you could create with your skills. I only bought it because it had the Level 5 logo on it(they developed Rogue Galaxy, my favorite RPG ever). Then they had the balls put the first game along with the sequel, pretty much spitting in the face of anyone who bought the first one. Needless to say, i haven't played the sequel.
Brink:
I had heard very little about Brink before I bought it, so I had very little expectations. It betrayed and spat on even that. The game is frustrating, the artstyle is strange and the setting is cliched. The AI is utterly broken; your buddies will do jack so you have to everything by yourself. It gets very frustrating very fast. To this day Brink is the worst purchase I have ever made.
Bland story, bland gameplay and annoying, not to mention stupid, characters. I don't hate the game completely though. I liked the skill system, how you could customize your characters to do whatever you want and the combos you could create with your skills. I only bought it because it had the Level 5 logo on it(they developed Rogue Galaxy, my favorite RPG ever). Then they had the balls put the first game along with the sequel, pretty much spitting in the face of anyone who bought the first one. Needless to say, i haven't played the sequel.
Brink:
I had heard very little about Brink before I bought it, so I had very little expectations. It betrayed and spat on even that. The game is frustrating, the artstyle is strange and the setting is cliched. The AI is utterly broken; your buddies will do jack so you have to everything by yourself. It gets very frustrating very fast. To this day Brink is the worst purchase I have ever made.
No I am talking about warrior within I never played two thrones and I believe that it is not meant to be able to permanently transform to the dark prince sand wraith (just done some research and others had a similar glitch, I just called him dark prince because thats what he looked like to me and I was unaware of the sand wraiths existence) but my game glitched out big time as I said where I saved wasnt where it put me when I reloaded (on some poxy narrow ledge with enemies running at me either side no less) and I certainly wasnt the dark prince sand wraith when I saved. As for improving the combat I would massively disagree but im not going to argue about it if you think it did thats fine.poiumty said:
No More Heroes.
Everyone said how awesome it was; even the Zero Punctuation review was favorable. It certainly looked interesting. But it had the most boring collection of minigames on the Wii (that's saying something) and the open world was lifeless and tediously shallow.
Occasionally there was a boss that was interesting but that wasn't enough to save it.
Fallout New Vegas
Loved Fallout 3 and thought that maybe they could've tightened it up technically. But the bare bones version crashed more often than Fallout 3 loaded up with all the dlc. I've never had a ps3 game freeze up on me that much and it's the Only ps3 game that has ever CTDed on me. Even if it had worked, the open world reminded me a little of the NMH world: shallow and uninspired. Everything was clustered together like some Hollywood backlot.
GTA4
I wasn't expecting as much content as San Andreas (that game was huge but it was the gta climax of the ps2) but I thought they could stay on par with gta3. All the rewards were lame achievement trophies rather than cool in-game unlockables. You had to pay $20 for the cool in-game unlockables.
Everyone said how awesome it was; even the Zero Punctuation review was favorable. It certainly looked interesting. But it had the most boring collection of minigames on the Wii (that's saying something) and the open world was lifeless and tediously shallow.
Occasionally there was a boss that was interesting but that wasn't enough to save it.
Fallout New Vegas
Loved Fallout 3 and thought that maybe they could've tightened it up technically. But the bare bones version crashed more often than Fallout 3 loaded up with all the dlc. I've never had a ps3 game freeze up on me that much and it's the Only ps3 game that has ever CTDed on me. Even if it had worked, the open world reminded me a little of the NMH world: shallow and uninspired. Everything was clustered together like some Hollywood backlot.
GTA4
I wasn't expecting as much content as San Andreas (that game was huge but it was the gta climax of the ps2) but I thought they could stay on par with gta3. All the rewards were lame achievement trophies rather than cool in-game unlockables. You had to pay $20 for the cool in-game unlockables.
I absolutely agree. It's one of my very favorite games, but it's also the one game that keeps freezing and crashing my PS3... I love it so much, but it doesn't seem to love me back. those 150 hours I spent on the Mojave, all the DLC I bought (all of them), they apparently mean nothing... I'm so sorry... come back to me!GonzoGamer said:
by far the most disappointing game was WWF RAW for the PC especially coming off the amazing N64 wrestling games, the PC game should have been far better but it was sooooo bad
http://www.multiplayerreviews.com/gamepage?id=12093&game=WWE_Raw&review=1
http://www.multiplayerreviews.com/gamepage?id=12093&game=WWE_Raw&review=1
When that 'big patch' they released half a year after launch didn't fix the freezing, I pretty much gave up on it. At some point I'll pick up goty for the pc because the modders can get it running but I'll never buy a console release of a Bethesda game ever again...especially not a ps3 version.Iwata said:
I think enough people bought Skyrim (PS3) that the playstation version of Fallout 4 will crash even faster than that.Iwata said:
L.A Noire was pretty disappointing for me , I expected better , but I felt like I could barely do anything in the game and the ending sucked (for me)
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
I fucking loved Abe's Oddysee and Exodus, and Munch would be the first 3D Oddworld game, so my imagination was going overtime. The first footage looked amazing as well, when it was still set to be released on the PS2.
How far the mighty had fallen.
I fucking loved Abe's Oddysee and Exodus, and Munch would be the first 3D Oddworld game, so my imagination was going overtime. The first footage looked amazing as well, when it was still set to be released on the PS2.
How far the mighty had fallen.
