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Danbo Jambo

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Islandbuffilo said:
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That kid *facepalm* "Hi, I'm commander Shepard, a sole survivor/war hero/ruthless legend who's travelled all over the galaxy, lost crew members and close companions, died myself, and seen more sights than most would in a 1000 lifetimes. What, a random kid dying??? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Absolutely some of the utterly wankest plot writing ever known to man.
The kid's death made me laugh more than anything.
"You can't help me!"
*zap*
Neither could they.
Ha ha ha. That scene was just so soft. Shepard went from universal badass to total pussy in one foul swoop. Totally killed any interest I had in him right there.

EA would probably try and make Kratos appeal to Care Bear fans.
 

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scotth266 said:
I'm probably going to surprise people quite a bit and say that the most disappointing game for me is Skyrim. Other games have disappointed me by being flat-out bad/meh (Spore in particular) but Skyrim manages to disappoint simply by being half the game it could have been. Magic simply doesn't work in the vanilla version of the game, with several spells not even making sense (example: why would I use Clairvoyance when I can simply rely on the radar?). The civil war is compelling, but the player's involvement in it is hilariously limited outside one or two missions, with the rest being "go kill a bunch of really weak dudes." A lot of things that should feel really important (such as the end of the Dark Brotherhood questline) wind up being really, really weak.

Mind you, it's a game I have fun with. But it's a game that has a lot of flaws.
Well The radar doesn't account for terrain, it's more than once led me into wall, while clairvoyance shows you a walkable path most of the time.
 

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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
What I expected - the expansion and building upon what made the first game great - huge environments with the feel of epic. A story with a more defined and distinguished main character. For Lords of Shadow to become the new Legacy of Kain
What I got - nonsensical story, atrocious stealth sections, lame ending, Dracula being far too bland to be interesting. The combat, bosses and castle sections were good though. Still proves that Legacy of Kain is irreplaceable.
Oh man, chalk me up for that one too. I LOVED Lords of Shadow, but I think I made it about 3 hours into LOS 2 and just had zero interest in continuing. I thought taking the game out of the medieval era was just an atrocious idea and completely killed the game's vibe for me.

Another one I'll mention is the Splatterhouse reboot. I wasn't expecting the game to be incredible, but I was at least expecting it to be bug free and not have 10 minute long loading times. Despite this, I still actually kind of enjoyed it.
 

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Total War: Empire was awful at launch, but got better. Rome 2 did not.

Console would probably be Bioshock Infinite or Ni No Kuni.
 

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For me it's Too Human. Everything about Norse mythology crossed with a sci fi distopian future sounds awesome. The controls sounded interesting and unique. It was made by the same studio that made the celebrated Eternal Darkness. What could go wrong? FUCKING everything. The plot was offensively bad. The game play was bland and uninspired. You have to search around the main hub world for the controls of the game. The idea of getting different pieces of armor together is interesting but you just wind up looking like a retarded power ranger before long. Bad games are one thing but when you can see so much wasted potential and good ideas swallowed up by baffling design choices it makes it so much worse.

I had just gotten a 360 (well after launch) could only afford this, Mass Effect 1, and Dead Rising 1. I managed to beat this game once, never again.
 

Daveofarabia

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The ending of "GhostHunter" on the PS2...

It was so good and then it wasn't and then it ended and now there's a hole inside where the ending that game deserved should've been.
 

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BaronVH said:
Biggest surprise? Alien Isolation. The IGN review scared me
Don't worry, you're not the only one. That IGN review is now infamous, and even they had to make a video with the reviewer and his buddies trying to justify their pathetic reasoning for why they gave the game such a low score.

Bear in mind that for a while, they were the lowest published review for Alien: Isolation, and the HIGHEST for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Pretty much tells you all you need to know about IGN.
 

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Warhammer 40k: Fire Warrior for the PS2.
I've played through that game and it becomes a fucking riot when the Chaos Space Marines show up. When I first saw them I started laughing because I couldn't tell what legion they were from (I later figured out they looked like Word Bearers,) and started calling them the 'Lost Traiter Legion: Generic Marines.' The final boss fight absolutely takes the cake for how nonsensical and insultingly piss easy it is. You fight a freaking Lord of Change with a sniper railgun and win after about 10-12 shots. Then the game just ends with an FMV exterminatus.

Anyway. Biggest gaming disappointment. And I can only choose one. Final Fantasy XII. XIII is complete ass but XII was the progenitor that predated the series's fall from grace. While I loved the setting and large populated cities I couldn't take more than a couple hours of the game before saying "Fuck this," and just quitting. It's the only Final Fantasy game that didn't hook me in. Not that it didn't try, it just failed because it expected me to explore the world while putting up with the band of pricks it makes you follow. Nobody in the game has any real personality and having to play as Vaan is just insulting. Balthier is the only interesting one but he's completely underutilized and shunted aside for Vaan to act like a jackass or Basch to brood or Ashe to be holier than thou. When the group made it to Balthier's airship I kept expecting someone there to ask why this group of adults were bringing along a teenage rent boy and his worthless friend. When nobody did and I had to walk around another city listening to Vaan say he was Captain Basch I just said "That does it," and turned it off.
 

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I don't think it's fair to say disappointment since it has nothing to do with the game and everything to do with my opinion of the game. It takes a lot for me to return a game but Manhunt went back to the store within hours of my purchasing of it. The basic idea I could get behind. The thought of listening to the Director purring with obscene pleasure every time I killed an enemy was nauseating.
 

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Fable 3. Say what you will about Fable 2's ending but at least the rest of the game was enjoyable and a step up from the first game. Fable 3 felt like a cheap cash in that killed my interested in the series. Honorable mention goes to Advent Rising. Advertising one's game as a Halo killer which would span multiple games only to be a Halo clone that got the ax after one was a pretty impressive implosion.
 

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Transistor. I feel bad for saying that since Bastion is one of my all time favorite games but ya it was a disappointment. Transistor isn't a bad game it just never clicked for me. My big issue the story. Bastion got me hooked at the start and kept me wanting to see more. Transistor's story just can't grab me. It's convoluted and a mystery and I just don't care. Maybe it gets better later on but I don't care anymore. I do love the art style and the isometric view. It looks really good and I was following it since Super Giant Games first announced the project. Like Yahtzee said I had to force myself to play more. Since reviewing it isn't my job I can't force myself to finish it.
 

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Gonna say Shart Souls 2. I'm almost impressed at how effectively Fromsoft was able to remove everything that made Dark Souls 1 so good from this game. I'll never understand the people who think it's just as good or in some cases better, my only guess is they've gone hollow.
 

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White Lightning said:
Gonna say Shart Souls 2. I'm almost impressed at how effectively Fromsoft was able to remove everything that made Dark Souls 1 so good from this game. I'll never understand the people who think it's just as good or in some cases better, my only guess is they've gone hollow.
...which was going to be one of my major picks. Agreed, it's almost as if they completely failed to understand why DS got so much praise, for its lore, world connectivity/cohesion, and how the NPC's enriched the whole narrative. I bought DS2 on day1, and within about 10mins it felt like a crushing letdown.

Other notable mentions:

Oblivion - like Lisa Simpson watching Ralph Wiggum's heart breaking in slo-mo on TV, Oblivion's the moment you can see Bethesda ditch the esoteric inventiveness and expressive artful individuality of Morrowind, for the cash, exposure, and conservatively homogenised design of mainstream console markets.

Dragon Age Inquisition - with a major caveat: once you realise 90% of its content is utter filler garbage, it does have its charm, despite the brainless arcade combat or the almost complete lack of a proper story. That DA:I was praised so much by the mainstream press bewilders me, as it just feels like the worst, least cohesive game BioWare have produced. I really hope it doesn't reflect BioWare's overall direction in terms of me-too design.

David Cage's Fahrenheit - it was like an interactive attack on gameplay, and I'm not sure I'll ever again experience as physically unpleasant a 'game' as that thing.