Gaming Dissapointments

UrbanSea

What games have people been most dissapointed with? It could be ones that you have waited ages for and then been so let down by,some which looked good and turned out to be balls or anything similair.


I'll start off. I was dissapointed with Kane and Lynch Dead Men,I think thats what it was called. Found the gameplay to be very boring and lack luster.

Also let down by GTA 4. Having pre booked it and waited so long for it I could not believe how much I did not like the game,instead now playing Saints Row 2.

Finally,Motorstorm. I realise it was one of the first games out on PS3,so I was expecting a really good start. The game was incredibly repetitive and didnt really even have a proper career mode.

Anybody else feel this way about any games,or would like to contradict what I said? Im sure there are people who completely disagree with my games mentioned

Azza

MGS 4 was a tad dissapointing on reflection but I still enjoyed it overall.

Deus Ex: Insivible War. Again I enjoyed this game but its not a patch on the first one.

I have quite a few like that. Its not that are they terrible games its just they did not meet my expectations. The bar was usally set very high by the games that came before them.

UrbanSea

Azza wrote: »

MGS 4 was a tad dissapointing on reflection but I still enjoyed it overall.

Deus Ex: Insivible War. Again I enjoyed this game but its not a patch on the first one.

I have quite a few like that. Its not that are they terrible games its just they did not meet my expectations. The bar was usally set very high by the games that came before them.

Hmm I was gonna buy MGS4 today actually but didnt, if you hadnt played any other MGS games would you still have been dissapointed?
I am a MGS virgin:P

Captain Slow IRL

Azza wrote: »

Deus Ex: Insivible War.

I'll second that.

The latest need for speed (can't think of the title), don't think I've played a good nfs game on the 360 though, the sequels died a death after the original xbox.

UrbanSea

Captain Slow IRL wrote: »

I'll second that.

The latest need for speed (can't think of the title), don't think I've played a good nfs game on the 360 though, the sequels died a death after the original xbox.

Always thought Need for Speed Underground or Underground 2 were the best,had them on PS2.

Also,any of the Smacdowns since Here Comes The Pain. Gameplay really remains the same,hasnt evolved,but whats with all these new ****ty wrestlers that have gone in?

Azza

If I had not played any other MGS games I would of been more impressed with the gameplay and action cut scenes. However the plot would just be a mess (even knowing the back story the plot is still wacky) and it would of been far more painful sitting through the insanely bland and sleep inducing breifings. Gameplay wise I felt it played similar to the previous games but it was easier to play rambo style so stealth was not as important. Also it did not have as many decent injokes as the first 3 games had. From a technical perspective the game is very good.

i still think its a good game but I'd recommend playing MGS 3 first (particular as its a prequel and beginning of the MGS story) as its the strongest in the series in my opinion. If you like that then consider the rest of the series.

Genghiz Cohen

Alone in the Dark, the new one, there is so many good litttle things in it but the general gameplay let it down bigtime.

ReacherCreature

The first Gears of War
GTA 4

Dreadful imo.

challengemaster

UT3. What a hyped up pile of crap

UrbanSea

Oh. forgot Rainbow 6 Vegas 2. Think i played the first level and traded it in

Jazzy

challengemaster wrote: »

UT3. What a hyped up pile of crap

yup. dumbed it down for consoles. simple as that

ReacherCreature

greetings wrote: »

Oh. forgot Rainbow 6 Vegas 2. Think i played the first level and traded it in

Agreed. Was awful, very poor looking too.

They're seriously milking that franchise!

UrbanSea

Must say I did love Splinter Cell Double Agent though,another Tom Clancy game

corcaigh07

Driv3r, dera lord i should have seen it coming yet, such a bad game. even more crazy is the fact that i beat it, think i remember just shooting the last boss in the head without him realising, lamest last boss of all time! awful!!!

Mitch Connor

I really liked R6V2 - not as good as the first as i prefered the actual Vegas setting of the first game. However, I absolutely loved terrorist hunting with mates in both, and especially in the second.

pwd

civilisation 4. I prefered civ 3.

Azza

Oh well I guess the future of 1v1 FPS deathmatch games is largely dependent on the success of Quake Live.

Overheal

MGS3 was far removed from the first two imo and just getting past the first few bits of gameplay were taxing. I eventually called it quits when dealing with the sniper. Its been 2 yearsm so I wonder if the save file is even still there: I hear he dies of old age long before then. It was getting really good but I just became so frustrated with that boss.

Of course Spore - I've been hyped about that game for a couple years now, and to see it get bum****ed by DRM issues was a big disappointment. Im glad I didnt spend money on it (yet)

Hellgate: London. Lets just please not go there. Your sister gets you a nice $50 gift card for gamestop and you buy Hellgate: London. You sir are then a tool.

UrbanSea

Overheal wrote: »

MGS3 was far removed from the first two imo and just getting past the first few bits of gameplay were taxing. I eventually called it quits when dealing with the sniper. Its been 2 yearsm so I wonder if the save file is even still there: I hear he dies of old age long before then. It was getting really good but I just became so frustrated with that boss.

Of course Spore - I've been hyped about that game for a couple years now, and to see it get bum****ed by DRM issues was a big disappointment. Im glad I didnt spend money on it (yet)

Hellgate: London. Lets just please not go there. Your sister gets you a nice $50 gift card for gamestop and you buy Hellgate: London. You sir are then a tool.

Haha,I have no idea what Hellgate is but I feel for you:P

Sephiroth_dude

Spore for me anyway.

BopNiblets

Deus Ex 2, GTA San Andreas and GTA IV (so far, graphical issues).

Also, Enter The Matrix!
lawl, back in your box forever CDs, all 4 of ye.

I remember looking forward to Spore, then I messed around with the creature creator thing, made one creature and didn't even add legs to him or anything, hahaha. HYPE!

Fringe

Assassin's Creed. The game was fun but the trailers made it look much better than it actually was. It was too repetitive and there was so much potential.

UrbanSea

Fringe wrote: »

Assassin's Creed. The game was fun but the trailers made it look much better than it actually was. It was too repetitive and there was so much potential.

Dam,I still never got around to playing it but still wanted to.:(

Azza

The sniper battle in MGS 3 is regarded as one of the greatest boss battles in the history of gaming. I thought it was brillaint. Only took me one attempt to beat him and was about 25 minutes long. Later in rush mode I killed in 2 attacks so battle lasted like 4 minutes.

Sarky

The latest Prince of Persia game is as boring and insipid as I feared. I was wrong about the mysterious woman getting in the way of platforming (shame the platforming is so bland it hurts), but she's a pathetic addition in every other way. The platforming is stiff and unexciting, the dialogue is awful, the voices are obnoxious and painful, the combat is slow and clunky, and sweet Azathoth don't get me started on the "power plates" wankery.

Oh, it's pretty, there's no denying that, but it can't hold a candle to the previous games in terms of fun, and that includes the original PoP, horrendous 80's sound and all. It has nothing that makes a PoP game what it is.

Overheal

that made me feel a little better not shelling out $25 for it

Another one was X: Beyond the Frontier. What the hell were they thinking? No idea what the hell was going on there. It went very slowly. They even let you buy a time dilation machine for your ship its that slow. Freelancer was a much better use of my money at the time.

B00MSTICK

Although I did spend a good while at it, I found Oblivion a bit of a let down. Spose it was gonna be hard to follow Morrowind but I just expected a bit more...

UrbanSea

B00MSTICK wrote: »

Although I did spend a good while at it, I found Oblivion a bit of a let down. Spose it was gonna be hard to follow Morrowind but I just expected a bit more...

What actually is oblivion?

Captain Slow IRL

greetings wrote: »

Always thought Need for Speed Underground or Underground 2 were the best,had them on PS2.

I have a copy of underground for the original xbox but can't play it in the 360 - there was never an update brought it out for compatibility:(

Sarky

greetings wrote: »

What actually is oblivion?

It's a nice-looking tech demo.

UrbanSea

Sarky wrote: »

It's a nice-looking tech demo.

I'll pretend i know what that is...:P

tman

Crysis... Quite how they could get it so utterly wrong is beyond me, especially the aliens later on in the game... Whatever happened to learning from your mistakes?
A lot of people seemed to ignore that because it looked so damn purdy...

Which made Crysis Warhead even more painful to play. After all of the hype it got, it was just a ****ty expansion pack for Crysis, not the "game that Crysis should have been" that many lauded it as

Epic Tissue

Disappointed by:

Fallout3's ending
Fifa09 lack of saving replays to hard drive
The Getaway
GTA San Andreas
L4D's crappy server connecting (it's getting better though)
Skullmonkey

Creamy Goodness

Counter-strike:source.

GTA:SA.

Deus Ex 2.

The news that there's going to be a bioshock 2.

B00MSTICK

Thought of another, Black & White 2.

The 1st one was a great but the 2nd just didn't add enough. Was looking forward to a decent RTS section but it didn't happen...

herewegoagain

Driver 3...It was shíte

Davidius

GTA IV because it was just lacking.
Red Alert 3 also felt pretty lacking compared to RA2.
Mass Effect - What the hell is going on? :pac:

Gears of War 2 - You would think Epic would take the time to fix all the bugs from the first game's multiplayer. Nope, most of them are still there along with game breaking host advantage/lag. The game still uses server side hit detection with zero lag compensation. There's several new bugs too. The lack of testing is pretty blatant. Then they have the nerve to release an overpriced map pack and ban their own customers from using their forums because they complained.

Jazzy

dont get me started on Epic...
they f*cked UT3 as well

kaiser soza

I bought Need for Speed on launch day and am afraid to open it, but it will be collectable as it is the last one or so they say. Worst piece of crap I have played this year are Assassins Creed and Pro Evo for PS3 and the Simpsons Game.

pwd

bioshock was disappointing.
Good game but it was hyped up too much and had flaws.

po0k

Sins of a Solar Empire single player campaign(s)

Overheal

po0k wrote: »

Sins of a Solar Empire single player campaign(s)

Or the lack thereof.

The Single Player mode is a lot of fun in itself though. For $29.99 (walmart) you cant complain - and I cant complain because Stardock gave it to me for free. The patches they keep rolling out are continually improving the AI, and at $9.99 Entrenchment should prove a good expansion.

_CreeD_

Jazzy wrote: »

dont get me started on Epic...
they f*cked UT3 as well

Multi-Ditto'd. Not only did they produce a pre-alpha turkey in UT3 but they then pissed all over their community when we dared complain. They're dead on the PC so their plans for focusing on the consoles better work out for them, that bridge is a cinder (and it actually put me off buying their console titles).

Also:
Fable
Spore

Both for not even being remotely close to the scale they had claimed up until release.

Retr0gamer

GTA IV: The move to a more realistic and gritty storyline didn't work. The writing was awful, mission repetitive and all the wacky humour and silly missions were gone. It's not bad just a big step back. It pisses all over saints row 2 in every regard except the most important one, saints row 2 is oodles more fun.

MGS 4: the game is an absolute mess. I don't know how they went from gettin it so right with MGS 3 to this mess. Gameplay is okay for the first 2 chapters but there isn't much focus on stealth. Chapter 3 was a decent diversion. Then the last 2 chapters all the enemies are replaced by mechs and frogs and it couldn't be any less fun. Bosses which usually require the use of your gadgets to beat and have multiple ways of beating them now are reduced to really poor encounters where the only tactic is to pump as much ammo into them as possible. There's about an hout and a half of gameplay in there, the rest taken up by the longest most boring cutscenes ever. The silliness factor is through the roof (meryl/akiba scene anyone?). Can't believe how all the MGS fanboys can call it the greatest game ever and cream themselves over it.

Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures was one of the best games on the megadrive but they completely changed the gameplay for sparkster and it was a much poorer game.

Final Fantasy XII: After the rubbish FFX-2 and squareenix turning into corporate whores and pumping out focus group driven drivel I should have known better than to get excited. However with the Vagrant Story and FF tactics team on board I held out a bit of hope. Instead of giving us a new FF game we got an MMO without the multiplayer aspect. What square didn't realise is that without the multiplayer aspect MMO's are the most boring games ever. Was it any surprise to them that FFXII was boring?

Overheal

The Final Fantasy Series died for me when their Directors saw fit to publish X-2. XII looked like it had potential but it just felt far removed from the rest of the games - i got as far as getting into an airship before putting it down.









Poopy.

Jazzy

yes FFX-2 was a bit of a joke game

Con.

dissapointed with absolutely everything in the last few years. maybe its just me. unfortunately for me no game in the last 5 or so years has stood out in a good way. guess my standards are set too high :rolleyes:

Varkov

Bullet Witch on the 360.

Running and gunning ala DMC, scantilly clad sexy witch, fighting the undead, giant machinegun/cannon broomstick =/= good game

Cravez

Mitch Connor wrote: »

I really liked R6V2 - not as good as the first as i prefered the actual Vegas setting of the first game. However, I absolutely loved terrorist hunting with mates in both, and especially in the second.

Agreed, the multiplayer on R6V2 is where the gameplay truely comes in. I played the first level in single player and didn't bother playing it ever again, switched to multiplayer and got hooked .

I dont really know much games iv been disapointed in. One would be Might & Magic 9, the depth of the game was gone and truthfully speaking the entire 3D graphics engine completely ruined the game also.

Oafley Jones

Another vote for Deus Ex 2. Knights of the Old Republic 2 being the only other game that has really disappointed me.

silvine

Knights of the Old Republic 2 being the only other game that has really disappointed me.

+1 It was buggy, rushed and clearly unfinished.

Command and Conquer 3 was disappointing.