biggest game dissapointments...

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cody92

Still Mildly Glowing
post all the games that have dissapointed you

ill start with the big ones :o

assassins creed:sucked...first 3 missions were fun then it got so boring... it was the same thing over and over again.

deus ex 2:universal ammo? no skills? less biomods? not able to hack security terminals? the worlds total population is 219?major city's have like 4 small area's each? the list goes on. this was by far my biggest disapointment though.

diablo 2:i had fun playing through with my dad bro and sis with tcp/ip but come on, the game sucked... boring hack and slash game hat gets real old real quick.skill tree's and questing system's sucked aswell..

neverwinter nights:i didnt like the choppy graphics the most, overall the single player campaign sucked, the map editor was really amazing, the multiplayer mode was pretty well done but it got old quick like the singleplayer..

neverwinter nights 2: complete trash, pretty much worse then the first one, crap story and characters. the party system was much better in this game though and the multiplayer sucks in this game.

ice wind dale: i was expecting baulders gate...i found some snow and a couple wraiths...

ice wind dale 2: this goes along with the first one though someone told me it was almost the same thing as baulders gate( a few people actully).

chicago 1930:i found this at EB games one day, i looked on the back cover and relised it kinda looked like fallout style graphics(exept everyone was a biships family bouncer), so i bought it, it was the single dumbest game i ever played, about 20 really crap levels where your squad AI is so bad it doesnt even exist! i beat the game in a couple days, used 1 char at a time until i died then i used a different squad membet.Fun!

harbinger:again this looked alot like a fallout style game,it was just plain weird, you were on some slave ship in the future and you run around and shoot a gun and get shot, but when the enemy shoots the bullets travel so slow you can move out of the way, the game consists of 2 elements: running and shooting.

rebels prison escape:again this looked somewhat like fallout, exept this game was more like crash, or metal gear without all the good stuff.

marine sharpshooter:its night time, your 300 yards away from your enemy, you have night vision goggles and he doesnt, you have a sniper rifle with a scope and he has an ak47, he shoots you until you die in pitch black when hes 300 yards away.

vietnam black ops: some FPS i bought, made in 2000 and i would honestly rather play wolfenstien 3d, i beat this game in around 4 hours( not in one shot).

yup thats my list

adding in a couple more:

far cry: i read somewhere it was a strong contendor for game of the year...whoever wrote that is on crack

revenant:one of the older diablo 2 clones...its amazing that this company managed to make deus ex, i thought this game was horrible.

abomination:made by eidos,makers of one of my favroite games, deus ex..this game was terrible!! it was like watching a death metal rock band and mutants running around with guns! this game looks a bit like fallout but it sucks,i beat this game in around 4 days and i didnt play like a nutcase.


a game that didnt quite live up to the hype but was still fun:
fabel: it didnt go anywhere near its hype,it wasnt a groundbreaking game like they said it was going to be but it was still very fun.
 
cody92 said:
diablo 2:i had fun playing through with my dad bro and sis with tcp/ip but come on, the game sucked... boring hack and slash game hat gets real old real quick.skill tree's and questing system's sucked aswell..
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I actually found and still find Diablo2 entertaining single player or otherwise. I think thats a bit of a harsh review.

cody92 said:
neverwinter nights:i didnt like the choppy graphics the most, overall the single player campaign sucked, the map editor was really amazing, the multiplayer mode was pretty well done but it got old quick like the singleplayer..
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I agree with you here 100% I found the story line quite bland to the extent that I played it for a few hours and put it away. Next to Masters of Orion! Dungeon Siege and Rise & Fall.

cody92 said:
neverwinter nights 2: complete trash, pretty much worse then the first one, crap story and characters. the party system was much better in this game though and the multiplayer sucks in this game.
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Hold the train. NWN2 was not complete trash. You make it out to be worse than the first. I would say the worst part about NWN2 was the code. What a resource hog! Other than that, it was NOT a bad game.

cody92 said:
ice wind dale: i was expecting baulders gate...i found some snow and a couple wraiths...

ice wind dale 2: this goes along with the first one though someone told me it was almost the same thing as baulders gate( a few people actully).
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Bingo! and spot on...Learn to use a spell check pally.

cody92 said:
harbinger:again this looked alot like a fallout style game,it was just plain weird, you were on some slave ship in the future and you run around and shoot a gun and get shot, but when the enemy shoots the bullets travel so slow you can move out of the way, the game consists of 2 elements: running and shooting.
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Eh, I was a wee bit confused. I thought you were talking about the STDS9 game!

Pablosdog said:
Fallout 3
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...BAHAHHA
 
Bioshock. An average, boring shooter with good atmosphere, but stupid, unconceiveable level design.
 
Indeed, Bioshock was very mediocre... wonder why it got so good reviews.

Also, most new shooters are disappointing in that they don't bring anything new to the genre.

Take Crysis for example; Great graphics, but I'd say I expected even better from the hype. However, the fact that they didn't do pretty much anything revolutionary with their new engine apart from the graphics is very disappointing.

Also... a row soldier took a gauss rifle shot to the head with only losing their helmet. Realism would've been so good for that game.
 
Gaming disappointments for this year? Every game that's not Portal.

Seriously, Portal is the only game this year that hasn't disappointed me. The only other game that might not disappoint me is Eschalon: Book 1, but I'll have to play more than the demo before I know for sure.
 
Many games.

All Unreal (Tournament) games since UT 2000, for instance.

By the way, how the hell can game like Marine Snapshooter so hardly disappoint? is... Even the name stinks of a... well, second-rate quality.
 
Jesterka said:
Many games.

All Unreal (Tournament) games since UT 2000, for instance.

By the way, how the hell can game like Marine Snapshooter so hardly disappoint? is... Even the name stinks of a... well, second-rate quality.
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marine sharpshooter and vietnam were supposed to be like delta force, i really liked delta force :(
 
1) Doom 3.

I think I swallowed the hype on this one. And for the first 60 minutes of play, I was still pretty excited. The graphics were great, and it was a lot of fun seeing the reimagining of the old familiar sprites as fleshed-out scary monsters.

However, the level design killed me. All corridors all the time. I really really really missed the open spaces and cleverly designed corners, nooks and crannies, and the multiple verticle levels of the old Dooms. Nothing I saw in this game lived up to the fun of rooftops and windows, raising and lowering platforms, and a crowd of fifty imps teleporting behind you. Strafe, shoot, breathe, strafe, shoot, breathe. Yeah, those were the days...

I never even finished Doom 3. Never will.

2) Resident Evil 4 for the PC.

I can't even say if the game was any good, because this was the worst port of a game to another platform ever. Ever.

It's my own fault that I didn't read up on the release before I bought it, but I didn't even know it was getting ported to the PC. I was in the store and saw it and was just delighted and surprised. I used to play the RE games with my youngest brother on his playstations, and I had such fond memories of the scares and frustrations. And I just love killing zombies! I mean, zombies are bad, and they are meant to be shot in the head.

However, I get home and install this game, and I immediately find out some stuff. Like, no mouse support. Huh? I go hunting around the box and find that it indeed says that it does have mouse and keyboard support. It lied. When I tried to figure out the key-only settings, I found that all controls were referred to in-game by their console controller names. It was a mess. I couldn't play it. I mean, I physically could not control my character. It was like my character had MS and couldn't reliably control his own muscles. I was so mad I took the game back to the store (which has a strict no-return policy on opened PC software or game) and demanded recompense. I got an equal-value trade ONLY because the box promised something it did not deliver (mouse support). I forget what I got in return.

3) All this disappointment made me remember one of the most delightful and surprising-to-me-at-the-time experiences of gaming that I have ever had. A Star Wars Empire Strikes Back game for one of the early Atari systems. I remember being able to kill the giant walkers by tangling up their legs with my glider's grappling hook. I was so blown away even young as I was by being able to do something other than shoot! I loved it.

Misteryo
 
yeah doom 3 was pretty horrible, i didnt like any of the resident evils so i cant say i would be disapointed in a 4th. even though doom 3 sucked, i wasnt expecting much, i liked doom 1 and 2 but i used to like playing duke nukem 3d or heretic back in my young days.

another big let down for me was pool of radiance ruins of myth draynor, it sucked!
also the entire metal of honor series was pretty crappy.
 
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
It took a huge dump on the canonical story and with a game series that I love mostly for the story, that's a pretty big flaw. It also had a ridiculous female love-interest (in a skimpy outfit of course) that didn't fit in at all and boring ass combat.
The only fun thing about the game, as I remember it, were the character animations when you grabbed someone and hit them in the face with the hilt of your sword and then cut off their heads. It looked so stupid it was hilarious.
It actually makes me sad to think about this game, rather than angry. :|

About Resident Evil...
I've only played the remake of the first one (I'm more of a Silent Hill man myself ;)) but it really annoys me that everyone loves the 4th and keep referring to it as 'survival horror' even though they obviously took a huge step away from survival horror into action-shooter-horror-zombie-killfest in the 4th game.
I fear Silent Hill will end up the same way, due to the popularity of RE4. I see games journalists crying about the combat in Silent Hill, because they want it to be more action-y and none of them seem to realise that doing so will completely ruin the experience and make it another lame shooter like (I expect) RE4 is. :(
 
Splinter Cell : Double Agent : despite several good ideas, it failed miserably compared to Chaos Theory.

Oblivion : even though Morrowind was not really good when compared to Daggerfall, I still had great expactations for Oblivion...How naive I was...

Carmageddon TDR : I was a HUGE fan of the first one and I highly enjoyed Carpocalypse Now. TDR had a sucky gameplay and design.

Black and White 2 : even though it was not a bad game, it was too different from the first one to be called a sequel.
 
Resident Evil 4 for the PC.
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ahhh....the first time i saw the PC version at a friends place i thought he was joking with me.i couldn't believe it .the graphics were een crappier then the ps2 version !!!
 
MrBumble said:
Oblivion : even though Morrowind was not really good when compared to Daggerfall, I still had great expactations for Oblivion...How naive I was...
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I just quoted this because I feel the same, even moreso now that I know about how shotty the coding and optimization was. 16000 polys for a friggen ship mast? It's a tapered cylinder! Blow me, Beth. It's also less stable than Pre-patch Daggerfall!! :x As well, mods are the only way that game can really be enjoyed.

Another huge dissapointment was the port of Final Fantasy 6 to the Playstation. How do you make a game, that can fit easily into the system's RAM, be slow? HOW?! And without any bugfixes! They just "control V"ed that shit onto the disk!

Shadowrun, the new one. It's dissapointing that the thing exists.

Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy was buttcheeks as well.

Eh, I'll rant more later.
 
yeah, i played about half of the shadowrun for the snes, it was pretty freaky and entertaining. didnt try the new one.
 
Agreed on Bioshock. I think Yahtzee summarised it quite nicely (dumbed-down steampunk System Shock 2), so I don't think it's necessary to say anything more on this matter.
FEAR. The demo was scary as hell, but the entire game uses the same pattern - loads of shooting and a scary sequence. Repeat indefinetely.
Half Life 2. The atmosphere was pretty awesome, although it got quite boring towards the end. Until the last level, that is. Still, pretty meh.
Call of Duty series. Pretty atmospheric at certain points, but the scripted events (as in HL2) prevented me from ever playing the single player completely. Note that this is based on the first two games since I still haven't played the last installment.
Come to think of it, lots of games I've been looking forward to in the last several years turned out to be pretty mediocre. Fahrenheit, STALKER, Psychonauts and Test Drive Unlimited are the only recent games I can think of that I really liked.
 
Far Cry. Oh my god, how could a game with so much potential go so wrong?

1. Story is completely fucktarded.
2. Stupid fucking monsters that kill you in one hit.
3. Voice acting was shiiiiiiiiit.
 
Oh yes, I completely forgot about Far Cry. Man, that was a true "next-gen" game - shiny graphics, B-production plot and brainless gameplay.
 
Far Cry has great gameplay/level design. You only can't have lame hands, because the jungle full of quite crappy looking muties is obviously hell, and can't expect an enriching story - damn, it's a FPS, right?

Haven't seen better action on PC for ages (AvP, Unreal).
 
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