Games That Disappointed You...
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Oh come now, be fair. THOSE games never even looked good pre-production. But alas we continue to be dissapointed by them. You would think us Silent Hill fans would have learned by now. The franchise is long dead.FoolKiller said:
OT: LOTR: Conquest was one of my biggest dissapointments. I was so excited for it. I was really ready for a LOTR game that didn't tie in directly with the movies. Shame that it was just such a bad game.
I mean come on, with the LOTR lore behind you, the game pretty much makes itself. You have characters, locations, enemies, a goal and a storyline. All you need is some some compelling gameplay... oh wait. Even the graphics were poor for this generation. Sad times.
Too many, the ones that come to mind now,
Bioshock 2: I know the original wasn't exactly meant to be a horror game but if you put the player in the body of 7ft, armour plated, mining drill welding, fire ball throwing, god killing machean, then it's not even creepy any more.
Prototype: kill these guys, go hear, kill these guys, go hear, kill these guys, go hear, kill these guys, go hear,kill these guys, go hear, kill these guys, go hear, then kill this crappy boss, end.
Bulletwitch: It had so much potential, but it turned out to be an store brand Bayonetta.
Also, I can summon lightning strikes, tornadoes, and meteor strikes but I die from one shot WTH.
Assassins creed 2, Assassins creed brotherhood, Assassins creed revaluations, Assassins creed 3, oh, sorry getting ahead of my self there. It's apparent that the AC series very quickly turned into how much money can we milk from this with the minimum amount of work. Also am I the only one who liked the first game, It had a good story (Gray morality), good game play, and it was actually a stealth game, not a generic warriors of awesomeness game.
Bioshock 2: I know the original wasn't exactly meant to be a horror game but if you put the player in the body of 7ft, armour plated, mining drill welding, fire ball throwing, god killing machean, then it's not even creepy any more.
Prototype: kill these guys, go hear, kill these guys, go hear, kill these guys, go hear, kill these guys, go hear,kill these guys, go hear, kill these guys, go hear, then kill this crappy boss, end.
Bulletwitch: It had so much potential, but it turned out to be an store brand Bayonetta.
Also, I can summon lightning strikes, tornadoes, and meteor strikes but I die from one shot WTH.
Assassins creed 2, Assassins creed brotherhood, Assassins creed revaluations, Assassins creed 3, oh, sorry getting ahead of my self there. It's apparent that the AC series very quickly turned into how much money can we milk from this with the minimum amount of work. Also am I the only one who liked the first game, It had a good story (Gray morality), good game play, and it was actually a stealth game, not a generic warriors of awesomeness game.
Sonic '06,I had heard it was bad,I thought "Maybe it'll be ok."
Days later I finally use stones to get Silver to the SECOND level,and notice one of those psychic trigger things on the ground on the other side.
Not to mention the RETARDED way you control Silver's telekenesis,THE FUCKING LEFT STICK ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! I NEED THAT TO MOVE!
Not to mention the amount of boring that was Shadow's stages,and Sonic's high speed stages.
(You know,the ones where you crash into EVERYTHING!!!)
Also the controls sucked overall.
Edit: I forgot to mention Bioshock 2,for being a cake walk after getting the hypnotize 3 plasmid,having the story suck,and finally not letting us feel awesome and powerful until the very end.
Edit 2: Oh and GTA IV for being as boring as it was brown. (which means it was boring as hell.)
Days later I finally use stones to get Silver to the SECOND level,and notice one of those psychic trigger things on the ground on the other side.
Not to mention the RETARDED way you control Silver's telekenesis,THE FUCKING LEFT STICK ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! I NEED THAT TO MOVE!
Not to mention the amount of boring that was Shadow's stages,and Sonic's high speed stages.
(You know,the ones where you crash into EVERYTHING!!!)
Also the controls sucked overall.
Edit: I forgot to mention Bioshock 2,for being a cake walk after getting the hypnotize 3 plasmid,having the story suck,and finally not letting us feel awesome and powerful until the very end.
Edit 2: Oh and GTA IV for being as boring as it was brown. (which means it was boring as hell.)
L.A. Noire...
I had a media blackout of the game. All I knew was "noir" and "interrogations" and "facial tech."
But I wasn't cut out for the game. I had no fun bungling my interviews, and what's the use of going back and redoing them if you fucked them up once? You're already a bad detective for having to restart in the first place.
Also, and this was my mistake for not knowing my aesthetics, I realized that what I really like isn't "noir" aesthetics so much as "neo-noir" a-la Sin City, Max Paynes 1 and 2, or Batman TAM's dark-deco style. I didn't feel immersed in the world at all. There were no fun exaggerations. It was just some detective, in 1940s LA, solving crimes in the daytime. The artstyle was so boring. It was just a 1940's LA with Red Dead Redemption's lighting. But again, my bad, because I didn't know noir from neo-noir, and I had the wrong expectations.
When Max Scoville from Destructoid said that it was to the game's credit that it wasn't just "GTA in the 40s with Jazz..." I immediately wished it were that instead of the boring detective sim it was. Remember Vice City? How fucking fun and atmospheric WAS that game? And how gaudy and artistically exaggerated with references to movies, cheesy music and the colors, oh the colors so bright? That was a fun game, that was an immersive game...for me at least. I'm a huge aesthetics guy. I may not know how to express my feelings about them too effectively, but when something interesting and cool catches my eye, I become lost in it. That's probably why I happily eat anything Suda51, Atlus or Sega's Yakuza/Ryu ga gotoku team poops out.
But I guess Rockstar's in the business of making drab looking "realistic" shit now.
I had a media blackout of the game. All I knew was "noir" and "interrogations" and "facial tech."
But I wasn't cut out for the game. I had no fun bungling my interviews, and what's the use of going back and redoing them if you fucked them up once? You're already a bad detective for having to restart in the first place.
Also, and this was my mistake for not knowing my aesthetics, I realized that what I really like isn't "noir" aesthetics so much as "neo-noir" a-la Sin City, Max Paynes 1 and 2, or Batman TAM's dark-deco style. I didn't feel immersed in the world at all. There were no fun exaggerations. It was just some detective, in 1940s LA, solving crimes in the daytime. The artstyle was so boring. It was just a 1940's LA with Red Dead Redemption's lighting. But again, my bad, because I didn't know noir from neo-noir, and I had the wrong expectations.
When Max Scoville from Destructoid said that it was to the game's credit that it wasn't just "GTA in the 40s with Jazz..." I immediately wished it were that instead of the boring detective sim it was. Remember Vice City? How fucking fun and atmospheric WAS that game? And how gaudy and artistically exaggerated with references to movies, cheesy music and the colors, oh the colors so bright? That was a fun game, that was an immersive game...for me at least. I'm a huge aesthetics guy. I may not know how to express my feelings about them too effectively, but when something interesting and cool catches my eye, I become lost in it. That's probably why I happily eat anything Suda51, Atlus or Sega's Yakuza/Ryu ga gotoku team poops out.
But I guess Rockstar's in the business of making drab looking "realistic" shit now.
Power Rangers: Super Legends for PC/PS2...
Only difference between the PC version and the PS2 version I could make out was the PC version was haphazardly mapped to ~MAYBE~ the WSAD layout and even that didn't stop me from feeling like it was naught bar a button masher turn keyboard SMASHER (as in physically destroying the keyboard when trying to pull off otherwise impossible key combos that'd work better on a console) that made me uninstall it after (maybe) 15 minutes and sell it on when I got the chance as I wasn't gonna go through 20 bloody keyboards in order to finish ONE game*.
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*And this is coming from a Power Rangers fan pretty much ever since the damn show started.
Only difference between the PC version and the PS2 version I could make out was the PC version was haphazardly mapped to ~MAYBE~ the WSAD layout and even that didn't stop me from feeling like it was naught bar a button masher turn keyboard SMASHER (as in physically destroying the keyboard when trying to pull off otherwise impossible key combos that'd work better on a console) that made me uninstall it after (maybe) 15 minutes and sell it on when I got the chance as I wasn't gonna go through 20 bloody keyboards in order to finish ONE game*.
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*And this is coming from a Power Rangers fan pretty much ever since the damn show started.
Every Final Fantasy game since Final Fantasy X. I'm okay with grinding, I'm ok with spreadsheet level up mechanics, that's fine. I've a mechanical brain and its dressed up real pretty.
I will not, however, play such a game when: There are no fun side quests. Monster hunting is not fun. Snowboarding, chocobo racing, card games collecting things for cool useful prizes are. Leaving no hints as to how to get ultimate weapons and arbitrary upgrades are no fun. Fighting with a mop and a punch glove in a spring is! Annoying characters are no fun. Optional one who improve backstory are!
And for the love of god, when you've designed a lush looking city or a theme park, why the hell aren't I able to explore it! Graaaaaaargh!
/rant
I will not, however, play such a game when: There are no fun side quests. Monster hunting is not fun. Snowboarding, chocobo racing, card games collecting things for cool useful prizes are. Leaving no hints as to how to get ultimate weapons and arbitrary upgrades are no fun. Fighting with a mop and a punch glove in a spring is! Annoying characters are no fun. Optional one who improve backstory are!
And for the love of god, when you've designed a lush looking city or a theme park, why the hell aren't I able to explore it! Graaaaaaargh!
/rant
Black Ops as well. also, gta4. all my friends were like 'its a great game', i play it and im just thinking 'so all im going to do is drive around smushing people, then shooting them sometimes? huh. well then...'
I've borrowed the game off a friend. I haven't finished it yet but I think it's pretty good but tbh it feels more like a film than a game.AyreonMaiden said:
Crackdown 2 It felt like it took more stuff out than it added in.
Mario Kart Wii The only thing good about it is the online.
Marvel VS Capcom 3 So easy to unlock charcters and very little replay value for me.
Mortal Kombat. They are putting in Freddy Krueger instead of an actual MK character.
Mario Kart Wii The only thing good about it is the online.
Marvel VS Capcom 3 So easy to unlock charcters and very little replay value for me.
Mortal Kombat. They are putting in Freddy Krueger instead of an actual MK character.
Bioshock 2 naturally, should have seen it coming
The worst game though I can remember being so disapointed by is Stronghold 2, it was just awful
The worst game though I can remember being so disapointed by is Stronghold 2, it was just awful
call of duty modern warfare 2, black ops, halo:ODST, halo: reach, dragon age
rigins, farcry 2, left 4 dead 2, fable 2, fable 3, final fantasy XIII, fallout new vegas and lego starwars 2... i havnt ctually bought a good game since halo 3 was REALEASED. in like 200* (When was it released???) if warhammer 40000:space marine and diablo 3 are bad i wll consider filming an Xbox BBQ and posting on youtube...
rigins, farcry 2, left 4 dead 2, fable 2, fable 3, final fantasy XIII, fallout new vegas and lego starwars 2... i havnt ctually bought a good game since halo 3 was REALEASED. in like 200* (When was it released???) if warhammer 40000:space marine and diablo 3 are bad i wll consider filming an Xbox BBQ and posting on youtube...
Sonic Unleashed.
The day levels were awesome, but the night levels were God-awful. And the voice acting...A 3 year old caffeinated on glue could have done better voice work than Jason Griffith, the worst Sonic voice actor ever!
The day levels were awesome, but the night levels were God-awful. And the voice acting...A 3 year old caffeinated on glue could have done better voice work than Jason Griffith, the worst Sonic voice actor ever!
Dragon Age 2 - No I wasn't too thrilled with the newly adopted Mass Effect dialogue choice wheel, the more action battles that lacked any real strategy, or the reused dungeons over and over again. But perhaps what pissed the shit out of me most was that your choices and actions had little to no impact on either the story or the landscape. Why does it bother me so much? Because that was exactly what the developers touted, promised, and stressed during an interview article for this game.
Grand Theft Auto 4 - Definitely polished but some how this game felt less fun for me and more tedious than previous games in the series. Maybe it was the more realistic approach they took or that the control scheme did not feel as natural to me. I dunno.
Yakuza 4 - Okay I still love this series but I had some really high expectations for the third sequel especially since there were now four characters involved. While some things were tweaked or slightly improved, overall I still felt that I was playing the same Yakuza 2 game that first introduced me to the series. The map is still the same clunky mess it was back then, the interface basically the same, dialogue scenes still go on forever and a day, and random battles are still a little too frequent. But it was the battle system in particular which irritated me the most. Honestly no matter what difficulty you pick, most battles are either flat out easy (usually regular and random battles) or flat out hard and cheap to the point where almost the only way to even have a hit connect is having to rely on your characters heat move or pure luck(Why Hello there Amon & IF7 simulator!!).
Grand Theft Auto 4 - Definitely polished but some how this game felt less fun for me and more tedious than previous games in the series. Maybe it was the more realistic approach they took or that the control scheme did not feel as natural to me. I dunno.
Yakuza 4 - Okay I still love this series but I had some really high expectations for the third sequel especially since there were now four characters involved. While some things were tweaked or slightly improved, overall I still felt that I was playing the same Yakuza 2 game that first introduced me to the series. The map is still the same clunky mess it was back then, the interface basically the same, dialogue scenes still go on forever and a day, and random battles are still a little too frequent. But it was the battle system in particular which irritated me the most. Honestly no matter what difficulty you pick, most battles are either flat out easy (usually regular and random battles) or flat out hard and cheap to the point where almost the only way to even have a hit connect is having to rely on your characters heat move or pure luck(Why Hello there Amon & IF7 simulator!!).
