What game most disappointed you recently?

Kix

I was just reading Peter Molyneux's postmortem of Black & White on Gamasutra http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010613/molyneux_02.htm and taking my lead from Adnans thread I pose the question:

"What game most disappointed you recently?"

Oh, Black & White was my pick, in case you didn't guess...

cueball

Half life blue ****, read topic on Halflife board "blueshift" for my reasons

Shiminay

Tribes 2 - I feel utterly betrayed by it's poor and inexcusable quality.

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Tribes 2 Goodness
The Dawn of the Beefy King approaches...

Hobbes

Star Trek: Dominion Wars

WWIIOL (only I wasn't dumb enough to buy it).

smoke.me.a.kipper

yeah, BlueShift is utter ******. i was also let down by Tribes2.

Shinji

Tribes 2 undoubtedly. It's pants. Great big elasticated pants...

... And I wouldn't mind, but it could have been SO good.

Hobbes

T2 would be a whole lot better if they didn't give into the whiney cheapskate gamers who think that state of the art software should run on thier 4 year old POS machine.

I haven't really gone back to it since they put the fog in.

Mills

Tribes 2 and Gangsters 2, both were very poor compared to what I'd have expected from the originals.

Dont be at yourself

Black & White for me as well.

After all the hype (perhaps one of the most hyped games ever, certainly on PC), we are presented with an over-priced, unfinished and flawed game.

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Fidelis

Dakitana

And where's Prey ?

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Swifty

black and white for me too , its alright but it definently didnt live up to all that hype.

And cueball , blue shift shouldnt even be considered a game .. it was only meant to be a short add-on in the first place. And besides , i know you didnt even pay for it so youve nothing to be whinging about.

Shinji

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">And where's Prey ?</font>

Canned long, long ago.

Ping Chow Chi

FF 9

Stephen

Tribes 2.

Haven't played black and white so I can't comment on it. Yet.

Da_cOmRaDe_MiKe

recently i bought civ 2 call to power!

me thought it was goin ot be better BUT IT F U C K I N G SUCKED ASS!!!!!

adnans

black and white is the first of its kind in regards to gameplay and innovation and set the standards for any other games to follow.

tribes 2 on the other hand... im sure its playable when you get a uber 3d graphics card. thats the only way you can enjoy the game. i wont badmouth the game cause i know i'll play it sometime when my pc can handle its "powah" untill then im disappointed to the core.

adnans

ThunderingMike

Would have to be Black and White. Severance and Oni were disappointing as well.

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Hecate

most definatly Black & White, mainly because of the (probably unjustified) hype and buzz that lead up to its launch.

But after playing it for a while it's just so underwhelming that you end up leaving it. Plus it's as buggy as hell.

Tribes 2 was worth the wait though

Belisarius

Proabably Gangsters 2 , or Dominion wars , i was truly suprised at the condition that was in . Also Im not sure if many people will get this , Merchant prince 2 was a big dissapointment. I remember Merchant prince in about 1993 it was a fairly visionary trade management sim ,To use a cliche it was "Oldskool" , My friend got Mp2 a day ago , and from what Ive seen its the exact same , new map tiles and thats it , the EXACT same , avoid folks

also I found oni a bit of a letdown , got boring fairly lively but it wasnt bad by any means ,Sev was brilliant though

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DrunkLeprachaun

Black and White. I could have bought 3 GOOD games for £45. It's not too bad, it's a bit like the sims, unless you're a crazed control freak, you'll get bored with it after you've fiddled around with all the gubbins.

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Hobbes

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ThunderingMike:
Would have to be Black and White. Severance and Oni were disappointing as well.
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I liked Oni, but I think if they had made a good multiplayer version of Oni nothing else would of gotten a look in. Imagine CTF, you come running in then somersault over the person on guard, grabbing thier head and snapping thier neck on the way down then picking up the body and throwing it at another person coming at you.

gintyc

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by smoke-me-a-kipper:
yeah, BlueShift is utter ******. i was also let down by Tribes2.</font>

Half Life Blue Shift is not out here and we have not even being given a Release Date for it! Allthought it is out in the States now.

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TwoShedsJackson

Blue Shift is out, I saw it in EB yesterday.

Shinji

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Half Life Blue Shift is not out here and we have not even being given a Release Date for it!</font>

Released yesterday in fact. Sierra review copies went out on Monday.

The problem you're probably having is that Sierra/Vivendi are the most useless pack of eejits on the planet when it comes to setting firm release dates etc. We got told only a fortnight beforehand when Tribes 2 was going to be in shops... Everyone else sets release dates months in advance.

Magwitch

"1608", a game I bought last year. Nice graphics and game play but tedious as hell adn goes no where.

chernobyl

Black and White

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Celt

B&W
Also remember Star Trek: Star-Ship Creator?

azezil

C&C 2 ok it looks good but it's shíte! a great series then this crap!

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Winning Hand

Apart from most of the games here, with the exception of Oni which was fun but had lost potential my biggest disappointment purchase-wise had to of been Soldier Of Fortune

Crap graphics, crap gameplay, crap weapons, crap body location damage, ugly colours, characters were as dehumanised as possible. Tackling spacemen in kosovo didnt do it for me

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SantaHoe

Project IGI...
Expected so much... let down by crappy AI, and an allround unfinished feel.

Zaphod Beeblebrox

IMHO Black and White was a great game, but hardly the jaw-dropping gaming revolution we were expecting. If it had been as good as the gaming mags made out it would probably have ended all wars and be awarded a Nobel peace prize. Not so much disappointing, just a bit "very nice, next please".
Daikatana!? I cannot believe Dire-katana made it into that list. Cmon lads by the 397th time it was delayed u must have realised something was going on. Even the screenshots looked ****e.
Most disappointing game has to be Blue Shift, I can forgive Sierra but Valve have no excuse after HL, the same of Gearbox after OpFor. Buy it, in fact buy every copy, so we can melt them all on a big fire and wipe Blue **** from our memory. Amen.

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LegacyUser

Tribes 2 ( utter pants ) Black & White just pure crap looks like ill just stick to UT

Dustaz

I suppose Tribes 2 let me down. I was expecting too much after playing t1 for so long maybe. Slow and boring, too much enforced teamwork, snore.

Bard

Black and White for me too... a bit of a disappointment alright, unfortunately.

I'm at the start of the 4th island at the moment, and couldn't really give a sh|te whether all my little villagers are killed by the fireballs and lightning or not.

Haven't felt inclined to get back into it for the past 2 weeks at least... not quite as fulfilling a game as it *could* have been unfortunately.

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Bard

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Does exactly what it says on the tin.

chernobyl

And the fuking thing is full of spyware, it drove my firewall crazy.
I would not mind, but i paid for the damn thing.
Zonealarm/Blackice were too basic too stop it communicating with serveral different servers and even with about 25 different filters in Norton 2001 it still could not stop it that way either, but stop it i did, i burned it in the recycle .bin

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Kix

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Winning Hand:
...my biggest disappointment purchase-wise had to of been Soldier Of Fortune
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Did you ever play it online? I only had the demo but I found the online deathmatch an absolute blast and incredibly cathartic.

Errrum. Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned that last bit...

Jak

B&W and T2

MrTimewalk

C+C Tiberium Sun, what a steaming heap of useless c**p. I could swallow a CD and s**t a better game.

TheWolf

good thing i read this post, i was thinking of buying both Black and White and Gansters 2, but now i know the horrible truth, and that is their both shíte ... ah well, what can you do?

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Lex_Diamonds

Ah lads, lay off Tribes 2! Its a great game!

derodman

I felt thoroughly let down by Black&White haven foolishly chosen it over cossacks despite playing cossack's brilliant demo. It is by no means a bad game but is buggy and it isn't at all addictive and sometimes boring. I'm in land 4 and haven't played 4 two weeks as i couldn't be bothered trying to figure out how to stop the fireballs from burning my village.
-(btw if anyone knows tell me as i would like 2 know just not enough to slog through the game again)

DrunkLeprachaun

Slow down the game speed(alt-1 I think), and try to catch them. I too haven't played the game for weeks.

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