Biggest game let down you've ever had?

[Shoggoth2588]

Dragon age 2.
Goddamn it bioware...

This was a huge let down. A huge, huge, HUGE, human-scented let down. Damned humans...I don't hate humans but I have to live as one 24-7. Origins let me play as a stone-worshiping Dwarven man-whore. DA2 made me play as a male with a man-magnet in my ass. I assume playing as a woman in DA2 made you irresistible to other women.

The BIGGEST gaming let down for me...

Grand Theft Auto 4. For all the great scores it got, when I played it, it was lacking one thing that any game really needs for me. Fun. It looked good, and had a great story. But it wasn't any fun to play, like the older games were.

This. I was close to saying San Andreas but I actually liked the RPG thing going on in that game. If GTAIV kept that and gave you the fun that was in basically every other GTA it wouldn't have been so bad. I actually went back and tried GTAIV again after gorging myself on Just Cause 2 and, Saint's Row 2 and I just couldn't get into it (until I started to kill myself that is)

 

[Davidm4]

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. My dad and I played through it to the last mission, which was unplayable because the camera was fixed on Indy and I couldn't see anything. We emailed tech support and we were sent a walkthrough lol?

 

[AwkwardTurtle]

Brutal Legends. I played the demo. I thought it was going to be a comedic adventure hack and slash action game starring Jack Black's funny one liners with a rock/heavy metal theme. I bought the game thinking I was going have a fantastic time. Then they had me fight one of the bigger battles where I commanded units and gave orders. I thought okay...that was weird, but that will probably be the only time that happens.

Then it happened again...
and again...

Soon I realized that what I had actually bought was a terrible real time strategy broken up with occasional random linear levels in order to recruit some new unit.

The battles consisted of creating units, and then telling everyone to go attack one thing and occasionally flying down to the ground playing a quick guitar attack and then flying back up.

Disappointed on an epic level.

 

[00slash00]

the kotor series. everyone talked about kotor like it cured cancer but i found the story bland and predictable, the gameplay boring, and unless you obsessively talked to all the characters, there seemed to be almost no character development. as a result, i didnt give a shit about a single member of my team

 

[DAPLR]

hmm...mine was probably The Force Unleashed 2...but only because of the short story. Ultimately, I still liked it, but I LOVED the first one so much my expectations, I suppose, couldn't be met.

 

[00slash00]

Final Fantasy X (Something just did not click like the others had before it

I've always called it "Final Fantasy: Sailor Moon". I have yet to finish it, especially since I don't think I'm getting the 100% ending. And when did FF games have multiple endings? Especially ones that depended on a completion percentage? Fuck you Square! (Not yet SquareEnix at the time).

are you talking about final fantasy x or final fantasy x-2? final fantasy x-2 was such an embarrassment. i got about halfway through before i couldnt take it anymore

 

[NeutralDrow]

If you'd asked me a month ago, I'd have said Soul Calibur 3 (console version; arcade was fine).

Really? Now I'd say SC4.

I played SC3 for hundreds of hours, I absolutely loved it. That was on top of however much time I spent on Soul Edge and SC2 (but not SC, no dreamcast).

I got myself all hyped up for 4, and felt incredibly let down by it. Was just missing that spark, and I returned the game after just 1 day.

I've barely played 4, to be honest. My main problems with 3 were the unfair AI, the new tracking system made the fighting less defensive than SC2 (one of my favorite fighting games ever), annoying story mode (particularly with no-warning QTEs and little context), and Chronicles of the Sword mode that looks, sounds, and should have been completely awesome, but wound up boring me to tears.

It's not like I hated everything about the game (the character creation was cool, Setsuka and Zasalamel are awesome, some of the new movesets were fun, etc.), and I had some fun playing it, but it was still a pretty big letdown. The arcade mode fixed some of my problems, and added in Amy, which forgives basically everything...including the annoying "Create-a-Legend" mode they did to replace SC2 Arcade's Conquest mode.

 

[Whateveralot]

CoD 4 multiplayer. At the start (being a CoD 1 & 2 veteran), I was very good at those games.

But eventually, the game turned on me. The community deteriorated, airstrikes became more prominent and hardcore mode started taking over. Now, I dare not touch the multiplayer for it will only make me hate it more. I'll stick with CoD 2 instead! Love that game.

 

[Inkidu]

Bioshock 2. Screw some philosophical bull-crap. No, for the first time you got to play a mother-fucking Big Daddy. You know those bad-ass dudes in diving helmets who totally kicked your ass for three quarters of Bioshock? I was led to believe that was my destiny. That I would be able to cream splicer after splicer and be immediately on par with my peer Big Daddies. My boss would be big sister, or the brute splicers or some ungodly amount of the regulars.

Pfft. A different kind of challenge other than standard shooter build up? Hell no. Now get back in your sweater Jack get out of the diving suit. Seriously. Bioshock 1 and 2 are basically identical in the way they play. What. The. Hell. That would have been fine if it weren't for the promise of being a Big Daddy.

Greatest disappointment in the last ten years of video games hands down.

 

[Stammer]

Final Fantasy XIV. I followed it from its first announcement until the open beta. I was on forums, had made dozens of friends online sharing my hype, got sucked-in by the pretty graphics and whatnot.

And then the alpha demo at E3... it looked awful. The characters didn't do anything, the gameplay looked crappy.

And then they started announcing stuff I didn't like. No auction house, no auto-attack, how much it was gonna cost.

And then I tried downloading the closed beta. Their servers were so screwed that I was getting, if I was lucky, 1 kb/s. I had my computer running night and day for 3 days before it kicked me out.

I still had hope though. I eventually got into the beta and that's when I discovered that Square-Enix wasn't actually taking feedback from the testers. People were complaining left and right, but there was no feedback area, and Square-Enix themselves said that they have no intention to listen to the fans.

And by the open beta I'd noticed they hadn't upgraded a single thing since alpha. And with release right around the corner I cancelled my pre-order. The game wasn't even ready for alpha testing and they were already releasing it? Not gonna happen guys.

 

[Pargencia]

Sorry guys, my vote's on Fallout: New Vegas. I was skeptical about Fallout 3, but ended up enjoying what it did. The only thing it did wrong was calling itself a sequel; it was more of a reboot to the series than a sequel.

So, after many hours of enjoyment on F3, I bought NV at the midnight release. I took it home. I slid it in. I started it up. I started up a character with great perception (I'm a total gunslinger) and 9 intelligence, as always. I went over to the saloon to start the tutorial. I talked to Sunny, and got my complimentary, welcome-to-the-wasteland varmint rifle. I went to sneak up on the geckos. And it crashed.

It f***ing CRASHED on the TUTORIAL.

Figuring it was a little glitch, I restarted the game, and proceeded on. After all, a glitch like that had to be one in a million, for the game testers not to have caught it. How many glitches could a new game have, in this day an age?

 

[Altorin]

star wars the force unleashed.

I had the game pre-ordered, and then my 360 broke, but I bought it anyway, and I was super excited about it. I refused to watch or read reviews of it, but even the titles of the reviews and comments that I glanced upon kept saying it was horrible, but I still held out hope. I still thought MAYBE they all didn't get it. So finally I got a new 360 and could play the game, and it was horrible. Probably one of the worst games I've ever played. The combat, which in a game about rampant super powered force powers, was boring and not fun at all. It ranged from stupidly easy to just brain bustingly arduous. Not difficult in any good way, just enemies taking way too many hits to kill, enemies having bizarre immunities to force powers, the game was extremely linear, and despite revolutionary technology in terms of graphics and physics, the game just seemed like the worst game ever.

 

[MrBagface]

New Super Mario Bro's DS, It wasnt that it was a bad game but it could have been a real classic. Alot of the levels were boring and the game as a whole was way to easy. When you play a mario game your supposed to be able to get more than about 4/5 hours out of it

 

[geier]

Morrowwind

I got the complete set with all the expansion sets and was ready to explore the world everyone was talking about.
Sorry guys, after 30 minutes in the swamp and a ride on some insect to the next town, i decided to put the game away.

Also the Fallout collection and the Thief collection.

The best part is, on the box (at the Thief collection) it anounces : Full playable with WinXP.
And then the games does not run on multicore processors.

Now i see why the company went downhill.
Yes, i know, WinXP came out some years before multicore processors became standart, but the collection was released in 2009 !

 

[Jaffinnegan]

TF2 on the xbox.

Well thats your fault.

 

[CthulhuMessiah]

TF2 on the xbox.

Well thats your fault.

How is it my fault the game is crap?

 

[Legion IV]

Final Fantasy X (Something just did not click like the others had before it

I've always called it "Final Fantasy: Sailor Moon". I have yet to finish it, especially since I don't think I'm getting the 100% ending. And when did FF games have multiple endings? Especially ones that depended on a completion percentage? Fuck you Square! (Not yet SquareEnix at the time).

are you talking about final fantasy x or final fantasy x-2? final fantasy x-2 was such an embarrassment. i got about halfway through before i couldnt take it anymore

Hey man X was bad but at least it wasn't as bad as XI i imported that game back in the day when it came out and holy crap, has to be the worst of the FF"s like its okay but the first 10 hours are some of the most boring moments in gaming I've ever had. English version was no better either. X was bad but at least it had Auron and it was exciting! things happened in the first 2 hours. Oh the bad memories of 6 coming back....

OP: probably beyond good and evil or Shadow of the colossus, just wow, so over hyped and so bad. Dont mean to say there bad games but for me and in my opinion just wow.... don't even deserve a fraction of the praise they get.

 

[WaysideMaze]

Sorry guys, my vote's on Fallout: New Vegas. I was skeptical about Fallout 3, but ended up enjoying what it did. The only thing it did wrong was calling itself a sequel; it was more of a reboot to the series than a sequel.

So, after many hours of enjoyment on F3, I bought NV at the midnight release. I took it home. I slid it in. I started it up. I started up a character with great perception (I'm a total gunslinger) and 9 intelligence, as always. I went over to the saloon to start the tutorial. I talked to Sunny, and got my complimentary, welcome-to-the-wasteland varmint rifle. I went to sneak up on the geckos. And it crashed.

It f***ing CRASHED on the TUTORIAL.

Figuring it was a little glitch, I restarted the game, and proceeded on. After all, a glitch like that had to be one in a million, for the game testers not to have caught it. How many glitches could a new game have, in this day an age?

Obsidians writing is fantastic, unfortunately they have no idea how to program a game.

It's a real shame because so many people will be in the same boat as you, and will have missed out an a great world with great characters.

 

[Ultress]

Lets all gather around and play a game of Guess what Ulty is going to say.

Your choices are : A.Wild Arms 4
B.Wild Arms 4
C.Wild Arms 4 or
D.Persona 4

Spoiler: And the answer is...

E.everything but D. I could write a thesis paper on why I hate this game from it's broken game play to it's war is hell melodrama to it's completely unlikable main character.It singlehandedly train wrecks a decent series in one fell 20-30 swoop. I've said a bit about it in other threads about gaming hates and disappointments,so look there.Also to end on a happy note go play Persona 4 if you haven't and see how a good sequel is done

 

[Lawlhat]

I'd probably say Minecraft, but that's not that the game is bad as much as it is not being my thing.

If it comes to a game being bad, I suppose I'd say Modern Warfare 2. I loved Call of Duty 2 and Modern Warfare, and somehow my favorite fps series got turned into that. I'm not even sure that the game is even BAD, it's just totally uncharacteristic of what I liked about the two previously mentioned entries.