Biggest gaming disappointment in 2011??

[AlternatePFG]

Huh, I really haven't been too disappointed by a game this year, so I guess Dragon Age 2 gets it by default, even if wasn't that bad.

Though my expectations were low to being with, I still thought it was a pretty fun game.

 

[Skops]

I really don't see why everyone was hyped for Brink in the first place. As soon as I saw the trailer, I called it. I remember the first thing I said after watching the trailer for the first time "Wow. I've never been more uninterested in game based on its trailer alone before.. More than half that shit won't even make it into the game.. I bet my years salary that "action rolls" will not be interpreted in the game at all yet there's 10 of them in the trailer."

And I ask you people. Can you do an action roll in Brink? No, you slide.. pfft.

OT: Biggest disappointment? Well does it count if I only got to play it this year? Cause if so; DoWII. I fucking love Dawn of War and all it's expansions, but this? This isn't DoW. This is Company of Heroes: Warhammer 40k edition.

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

Duke Nukem Forever.

Mind you I didn't really expect the game to be great, even after 14 years. But, man, I don't think anyone expected it to be as awful as it turned out to be. You know something has gone horribly, horribly wrong when a player is disappointed by a game they weren't even excited for.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Spore.
It has to be the biggest let down I've ever seen. They promised great things, they previewed things just as great at places like E3. Then you get the game to find half of it was cut out.

Holy cow. Did Spore come out this year? Seems like YEARS ago to me. Time is really dragging!

My biggest disappointment would probably be Rift. Not because there was necessarily anything wrong with it, or that I had big expectations, it just totally failed to capture me, and thus I was out the cost of two boxes and two 1 month subscriptions (for me and my girlfriend) for a pretty "meh" experience.

DA2 was pretty disappointing in that it was a blatant rush job, but I was already expecting a blatant rush job based on the volume of the yowling on the internet prior to its release, so I was actually pleasantly surprised when it didn't cause my PC to spontaneously erupt into flames.

 

[MorganL4]

considering that most major titles are held back for the holliday season and we are in month 9 of 12 ( thats 3/4s of the year for those folks who cant do math) I think this topic is best left untouched until January 2012.

 

[NoOne852]

Spore.
It has to be the biggest let down I've ever seen. They promised great things, they previewed things just as great at places like E3. Then you get the game to find half of it was cut out.

Holy cow. Did Spore come out this year? Seems like YEARS ago to me. Time is really dragging!

Yeah, I somehow missed the detail asking for THIS YEAR'S dissapointments... my apologies.

This years dissapointment I would have to agree to be Brink.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Yeah, I somehow missed the detail asking for THIS YEAR'S dissapointments... my apologies.

I figured. I was just raggin' on ya. Spore was undoubtedly a MASSIVE disappointment.

Although for some reason talking about it is making me want to play it again.

 

[MetallicaRulez0]

Mortal Kombat. It's so cool, and yet so unbelievably behind the times mechanics-wise. It would have been amazing in 2007, but once SF4 raised the bar, it just seems very dull and simple by comparison.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I would argue that DA 2 wasn't that bad, but that particular horse has been beaten to a fine pulp on these forums so, whatever....

As for disappointments: You know what they say about Expectations right?

Don't have them.

 

[Hookman]

I was going to say DNF but did anyone actually expect it to be good? The biggest dissapointment for me is probably Brink. I love games with deep character creation (Roll on Saints Row the Third!) but that game had nothing going on for it besides that. The SMART system was just a glorified jump button and the shooting was sub-CoD.

 

[geezah91]

Biggest disappointment so far in 2011 is the fact that I haven't bought a single new release because I can't afford them