Biggest let down in a game?

TheKeenMachine

Mine would have to be in Zelda: Ocarina of Time when you reach one hundred Skulltulas. I wasted days of my life combing the continent for these little sh*ts and when I finally got them all, the stupid f**kwit who I saved only gave me money! And to make matters worse, my wallet was full so I got nothing. Destroyed my faith in games, so it did. Well, for about a week.

ShadowHearth

when i played 2 hours of spore. i havent had that game on any of my PCs ever again.

Dave_The_Sheep

When the final disk for Tie Fighter was damaged and I couldn't install the game in the end. I ended up never playing it, despite looking forward to it more than anything (except maybe Skyrim, or Half-Life 2).

richymcdermott

Everything about portal 2 was a letdown for me

cherryghost

Aeris dying. God damn you Aeris.

Glico Man

Discovering that Raiden was the main character of MGS2

Snnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!

Big Knox

richymcdermott wrote: »

Everything about portal 2 was a letdown for me

Genuine question, is this sarcasm? If it's not I'd love to hear why. I can understand people not liking certain types of games and even the most critically acclaimed titles like Mass Effect, Skyrim, hell even HL2 but Portal 2 is just.... perfect!

Varik

Going to use elder scrolls oblivion as an example but it's not limited to that game.

demoed content that is shown as random and but is actually scripted and not remotely as good in game.

Retr0gamer

Turning on MGS4 and then finishing it and realising that it was terrible and a woeful entry in one of my favourite series.

dreamers75

Perfect dark everything after the 1st level.

Goro

Skyrims dragons being weaker than Skyrims bears.

Fall out New Vegas. After Fallout 3 blew me away along comes the sequel with the Brotherhood of steel being relegated to a side joke and no Enclave to speak of. Just a stupid cowboy robot in the poorly designed new vegas city that loses the whole mad max/post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland exploration theme that made the other games great. Fallout was never meant to be a sci-fi western with card games and "howdy partner" soundbites.

Dermighty

Goro wrote: »

Skyrims dragons being weaker than Skyrims bears.

Ha! So true.

The crab like creatures in Fallout 3...****ing bull**** how hard they were!

PickledLime

Driving around Trial Mountain in Gran Turismo 5 for the first time.

We waited how many years for that exactly?

Josey Wales

It might not be the biggest letdown but it is the one that springs to mind right now. The ending of Deus Ex: Human Revolution really disappointed me.

Getting the choice of pressing a button to sit back and view three very similar videos is a poor way to end the game. Deus Ex was probably my favourite game of 2011, certainly the biggest surprise and I thoroughly enjoyed it right to the ending.

ancapailldorcha

Half Life 2. Utter pile of cack.

LiamKK1982

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Half Life 2. Utter pile of cack.

You can't be serious!! :mad:

Potential-Monke

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Half Life 2. Utter pile of cack.

That's not going to go down well. It was a fantastic game, brilliant in every single aspect. Genuinely can't think of anything that is wrong with it.

Saints Row 3: Geared up to be one of the greatest games of the year, and it turned out crap. And i really wanted to keep playing to see if it got any better, but after a day i gave up. Such a letdown. I don't think i'll ever be able to play it again.

Far Cry 2: Not because some people complained that they left out the mutants/monsters, but because i put so much time and energy into it, collecting all the diamonds before going off map for what i thought was the end mission, only to find another equally sized, practically the same map with more or less the exact same missions... Never could even get remotely interested in it again.

hypersquirrel

I'd have to say it's a toss up between Half Life 2 and Skyrim.

I can see the appeal of Half Life but having been told by so many people that it was great I probably went in with expectations far too high. Not my kind of game at all and never got around to finishing it.

Skyrim was great at first but it lost it's shine very quickly. Compared to Morrowind and Oblivion it just felt a bit empty. I don't think Skyrim was the best choice of region.

Funnily enough I absolutely adored Saints Row the Third. Probably one of my favourites last year (along with Dark Souls). Hadn't played Saints Row 2 after hating the controls in the first game. Found I couldn't put it down for weeks and then picked up 2 cheap. If you'd been following the series seriously I can see it being a total letdown but for me however it was just fantastic fun.

ancapailldorcha

I genuinely don't get the appeal of Half-Life 2 at all. I see it as a dull shooter with a really good physics engine. At the time, I didn't have a broadband connection so I had to take my laptop to a hotel which was a long walk away from home and get it to install. Finally, when I did get to play it it just felt so soulless. I mean, on the box it said the game had won 70 awards or something like that. I was expecting at least a decent story but no. Just mindless repetitive tedium. I reached my fill at some part where you had antlions you could summon.
The only other game which disappointed me significantly was Final Fantasy VII but that at least had strengths to make up for the weaknesses.

MarkusBrady

Fallout New Vegas. I ****ing adored Fallout 3 and I figured NV would be a bit of a jump (using a different engine or have a different feeling in terms of the way it looked) but when I booted it up, poopsocked it for a day and just finished the main story, I had no desire to go back. The wasteland was boring and none of the factions seemed very interesting towards the end. The art style was nice but it was kind of only present in two or three places (the majority of the map was drab, generic and uninteresting)

Headshot

Rage

Started off great but went down hill within a day. One of the most repetitive games iv ever played

SeantheMan

I'm suprised noones mentioned the original Mass Effect 3 endings ?, considering the controversy they caused

For me ,"Medal of Honor : Airborne" - I waited so many years for a new MOH, and then I got that, Nazi Storm Elite troopers wearing gas masks carrying around MG42s ?

COD : MW2 - IW.net, nuclear explosions, turrets, flashy flash crap filling my screen with nonsense.
I don't buy COD games anymore

Batman AA - The ending

Who let them kill off the Joker...wtf ?!

ancapailldorcha

SeantheMan wrote: »

Batman AA - The ending

Who let them kill off the Joker...wtf ?!

Mark Hamill was tired of the role apparently and decided that this would be the last time he'd voice the Joker.

SeantheMan

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Mark Hamill was tired of the role apparently and decided that this would be the last time he'd voice the Joker.

They could still have kept him alive, there are different voice actors. Even if they didn't intend to have him in the next game. It shouldn't be Hamills choice to KILL the Joker - doubt it was

calex71

Headshot wrote: »

Rage

Started off great but went down hill within a day. One of the most repetitive games iv ever played

I was ok with it for the most part........ until it ended

abruptly, and with about 30 seconds of cutscene which basically gives you the finger saying thanks for the 50 quid spend 50 more to find out what happens next

Jokes on them though at the rate they turn out games if and when there is another game I'll be giving them the finger saying fool me once .......

Harps

Skyrim is the first that comes to mind, was really hyped up for it but found it such a boring empty experience, once the initial novelty of exploring wore off I just found myself talking to countless boring characters who wanted me to do some pointless task for them and the game just never seemed to go beyond that. Gave it about 30 hours before trading in

COD MW2 another one, liked the first Modern Warfare but really thought the 2nd was awful. Played up to the favela level in single player and just couldnt bring myself to play any more, thought I'd try the much talked about multi player then to see what all the fuss was about but again just couldn't see what was so good about it. Traded within 2 weeks and haven't played a COD game since

The skulltula's is a good shout as well, had a similar experience with them spending god knows how many hours only to get no reward!

And speaking of N64, sticking on Perfect Dark for the first time only to realise I needed that expansion pack thing to play it. I bought it in London and couldn't play it for 3 weeks with my N64 back at home, sickened after such a along wait

ride-the-spiral

Dark Souls' fire and lightning weapons removing all strength and dexterity scaling. It was a bit of a let down for any points I had put in to dexterity to be rendered almost obsolete.

Overheal

Surprised nobody mentioned Halo 2's ending. What the hell is wrong with you people?

Arawn

Final fantasy after x

Kirby

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Half Life 2. Utter pile of cack.

LiamKK1982 wrote: »

You can't be serious!! :mad:

Potential-Monke wrote: »

That's not going to go down well. It was a fantastic game, brilliant in every single aspect. Genuinely can't think of anything that is wrong with it.
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hypersquirrel wrote: »

I can see the appeal of Half Life but having been told by so many people that it was great I probably went in with expectations far too high. Not my kind of game at all and never got around to finishing it.
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ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I genuinely don't get the appeal of Half-Life 2 at all. I see it as a dull shooter with a really good physics engine..

The thing that I have realised about Half-life is that while most gamer's appreciate it and consider it brilliant, sit any non-gamer down in front of it and they will find it soulless and boring. The pace is slow, there is no music, and non-gamers will get absolutely flummoxed at several of the puzzles that we would breeze through.

I think other classics of the genre translate alot easier. Non-gamers would see Mario or Zelda or Modern warfare and understand pretty quickly what the appeal was. Half-Life is more of an acquired taste for the masses I think.

matrim

Mass effect 2. Heard so many great things about it but just found it a bit boring with annoying repetitive combat

vex

Duke Nukem Forever......................anybody? it killed my inner child:(

Ri_Nollaig

Josey Wales wrote: »

It might not be the biggest letdown but it is the one that springs to mind right now. The ending of Deus Ex: Human Revolution really disappointed me.

Getting the choice of pressing a button to sit back and view three very similar videos is a poor way to end the game. Deus Ex was probably my favourite game of 2011, certainly the biggest surprise and I thoroughly enjoyed it right to the ending.

I have to second this.
Deus ex HR was one of my favorite games in the past few years but I was really disappointed with the endings. Shame really, would have been the icing on the cake Still the rest of the game was great.

As for people not liking HL2, tbh, I was never really blown away by the HL series either, especially HL2. It always felt like it had a non-existent storyline that was just tacked on. I have played through and enjoyed all of them, don't get me worry but enjoyed playing portal 1 and 2 a lot more then HL and kinda don't care if HL3 doesn't ever get released.

Gillo

Gears of War 3. Great game but the final fight was way too easy, I expected to have to try it a few times but managed on the first attempt, come to think of it Gears 2 was the same.

5uspect

The thing that I have realised about Half-life is that while most gamer's appreciate it and consider it brilliant, sit any non-gamer down in front of it and they will find it soulless and boring. The pace is slow, there is no music, and non-gamers will get absolutely flummoxed at several of the puzzles that we would breeze through.

I think other classics of the genre translate alot easier. Non-gamers would see Mario or Zelda or Modern warfare and understand pretty quickly what the appeal was. Half-Life is more of an acquired taste for the masses I think.

HL2 has some fantastic music!

Mr Freeze

Gillo wrote: »

Gears of War 3. Great game but the final fight was way too easy, I expected to have to try it a few times but managed on the first attempt, come to think of it Gears 2 was the same.

Even on the hardest difficulty??? On Arcade Mode, nothing easy about the GOW3 Tempest fight on the hardest difficulty.

Retr0gamer

Sparkster on the Megadrive. Rocket Knight Adventures was my second favourite game on the megadrive so when I played the sequel I was bitterly disappointed by how bland it was. Even worse was that the SNES got a much better version of sparkster.

Then there was the sequel to my favourite Megadrive game which was Gunstar Heroes. When Gunstar Super Heroes came along on the GBA I was really hyped only to find the game an absolute breeze and no where near as good as the original. It also had a shmup stage which was god awful. I can't believe the guys responsible for Radiant Silvergun messed that one up so much.

funky penguin

Kirby wrote: »

The thing that I have realised about Half-life is that while most gamer's appreciate it and consider it brilliant, sit any non-gamer down in front of it and they will find it soulless and boring. The pace is slow, there is no music, and non-gamers will get absolutely flummoxed at several of the puzzles that we would breeze through.

I think other classics of the genre translate alot easier. Non-gamers would see Mario or Zelda or Modern warfare and understand pretty quickly what the appeal was. Half-Life is more of an acquired taste for the masses I think.

I'm confused.....what's a 'non-gamer' and why are they having trouble sticking to their assigned category?

LeinsterDub

Gillo wrote: »

Gears of War 3. Great game but the final fight was way too easy, I expected to have to try it a few times but managed on the first attempt, come to think of it Gears 2 was the same.

Gears 2 final fight was beyond easy. It could nearly be done with your eyes closed

excaliburhc

rage
without a doubt - although i should have known , when more is made of the mega texture and graphics then the gameplay , it does not bode well.

repetitive game that

just ends - no boss fight - just standing ina room shooting enemies while pressing a button

i expected duke nukem to be poor so wasnt too shocked but Rage i think was the final nail in the ID / pc relationship for me .

penev10

Last boss in MGS4, wtf was that horrible QTE driven nonsense.

noodler

Have to say, I am having awful trouble with the Dragons in Skyrim!

Mr Freeze

noodler wrote: »

Have to say, I am having awful trouble with the Dragons in Skyrim!

Well if you bought Dawngaurd, and are a high level, then yes, the Dragons are now are bit of nightmare, especially if you are a vampire and you get caught with you pants down out in the daylight, no Mana or Stamina Regen, and a Revered Dragon attacking, that can kill with one fire blast.

Thankfully they are a lot tougher than bears now.

Retr0gamer

Halo 2

It started off great and all the levels on Earth were great fun. Then the Flood came back and it got really crap. Facepalmingly stupid of all was a cameo by Audrey II from little shop of horrors, WTF were they thinking. Then you're about to go back to earth and you're thinking it's going to get good again and the credits roll. Terrible stuff.

ancapailldorcha

Kirby wrote: »

The thing that I have realised about Half-life is that while most gamer's appreciate it and consider it brilliant, sit any non-gamer down in front of it and they will find it soulless and boring. The pace is slow, there is no music, and non-gamers will get absolutely flummoxed at several of the puzzles that we would breeze through.

I think other classics of the genre translate alot easier. Non-gamers would see Mario or Zelda or Modern warfare and understand pretty quickly what the appeal was. Half-Life is more of an acquired taste for the masses I think.

You can stop that condescending. I've played plenty of games, almost all of which were better than HL2. The puzzles were quite easy IIRC and just because I found it to be one of the worst things I've ever played doesn't make me a "non-gamer".

richymcdermott

Big Knox wrote: »

Genuine question, is this sarcasm? If it's not I'd love to hear why. I can understand people not liking certain types of games and even the most critically acclaimed titles like Mass Effect, Skyrim, hell even HL2 but Portal 2 is just.... perfect!

Portal 2 didnt click with me ,

I was not a fan of its humour and the game felt really stretched out , i think what i loved about portal one that it was puzzle after puzzle after puzzle but what i felt while playing portal 2 the valve team wanted to make a game where you explore aperture Science lab, which is totally fine and while the game has a place in gamers hearts .. For whatever reason it just didnt click with me.

That in mind the co op was pretty great so maybe it was wrong for me saying everything was a letdown was abit harsh.

Reekwind

Easily my biggest gaming disappointment was Tiberium Sun. I was a huge C&C fan and this game was hyped to the rafters. It was going to redefine the genre. Instead we got a poor C&C game with bafflingly bad graphics. I was gutted

Since then I've never had the same sense of disappointment, usually because I've lowered my expectations so. That said, Saints Row 3 was a let-down. Mechanically it does everything right but the story, characters and fun of SR2 just wasn't there. It was just a very strange and disjointed experience

Goro wrote: »

Fall out New Vegas. After Fallout 3 blew me away along comes the sequel with the Brotherhood of steel being relegated to a side joke and no Enclave to speak of. Just a stupid cowboy robot in the poorly designed new vegas city that loses the whole mad max/post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland exploration theme that made the other games great. Fallout was never meant to be a sci-fi western with card games and "howdy partner" soundbites.

This calls for a LOL. Have you by any chance heard of a place called 'New Reno'? You can disagree with the design decisions but don't try to define what 'Fallout was meant to be'

'Oh no, how can you have a Fallout game with card games and without the Enclave?' :rolleyes:

5uspect

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

You can stop that condescending. I've played plenty of games, almost all of which were better than HL2. The puzzles were quite easy IIRC and just because I found it to be one of the worst things I've ever played doesn't make me a "non-gamer".

Just curious. Did you play HL2 recently or back when it came out in 2004?

ShadowHearth

Actually add halo 3 in to my list.

I never played halo games before it. Everyone who was Xbox gamer would go "jizz in my pants" about it. So I said: feck it, I'll give it a go.
Needless to say it was the first and last halo I ever played after that. What an over rated crap.

In disappointing endings the crown can go to 3 games:

Fallout 3 ( non dlc one ) - omfg, it's even worse when you got a certain companion in your group.
Fallout new vegas - end part of main quest was just freaking bad. Not just bad, but it was so bad that the game I was somewhat enjoying and thinking of playing again, was thrown in to the bottom shelf and never played again.
Rage - yup, was ****.

kingtiger

Battlefield 3

another fantastic PC franchise ruined

Penn

Pretty much everything about Devil May Cry 2. All the fun, style and awesomeness taken away from the first one, replaced with sheer nonsense, blandness and simplicity.

DMC1 had cool bosses like Phantom, Nightmare and Griffon. DMC2 had Orangguerra, Jokatgulm, Nefasturris, and Furiataurus. DMC1 had a final boss who killed Dante's mother, corrupted his brother into evil, and was a giant monster with huge wings that could shoot fireballs. DMC2 had a final boss that was a blob with the heads of other bosses you already killed, before it turned into some small flame-man-woman thing who hadn't even been mentioned before.

DMC had brilliant weapons like the lightning sword, the fire gauntlets, and the Sparda sword. DMC2 had weapons like a sword, another sword, and another sword.

DMC was a really hard game, so much so that I finished it about 3 times before realising I was actually on Easy Auto mode. Normal mode was even harder and completely changed how I played the game. DMC2 Hard mode was probably easier than Normal mode of DMC.

DMC Dante was a wise-cracking badass. DMC2 Dante was a joyless miserable sod who barely said anything.

Honestly, DMC2 has very little redeeming features, if any. Such a huge step-down in quality from DMC that it felt like a rip-off counterfeit version. But of course, it wasn't counterfeit, because Diesel clothing must have paid to get some of their clothes featured in the game (Dante DMC2 - Dante Diesel - Lucia DMC2 - Lucia Diesel).

The only positive that came from the game was the ability to play as Trish, which was pretty good. Everything else was just so far beyond awful that I try not to even think of it as being a part of the DMC series.