Games That Disappointed You...
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LA Noire. For the first 12 hours or so it was a solid 9.5/10, but as soon as you cleared the homicide desk it rapidly decreased in quality, in terms of story, gameplay, and enjoyment value. When all's said and done I'd give it a 6.5 overall.
I played it on the console, so you could be right about the PC version. I'm not willing to play it on the PC though, I'm not that kind of gamer.00slash00 said:
When I played, I never had to change strategies, I just waited for a spell to fill up and then I used it, meanwhile spamming other spells. Got boring insanely quickly.
Brütal Legend.
Metal!
Action!
Adventure!
...
Strange third person perspective RTS-like battles halfway through the game?
So, yeah, I don't consider it a bad game, but if there was any game that ever "disappointed" me in the truest sense of the word, it's this one.
Metal!
Action!
Adventure!
...
Strange third person perspective RTS-like battles halfway through the game?
So, yeah, I don't consider it a bad game, but if there was any game that ever "disappointed" me in the truest sense of the word, it's this one.
Yeah, being either a puny ***** or an overpowered mage drained the fun out of the game. It was either too easy or too hard on any difficulty. The character dialogue was horrendously dry as well.00slash00 said:
Dragon Age 2 is the most recent example, as for many of the rest of us in this topic.
My biggest disappointment ever was Fallout 3.
It's good, but just not for me. One playthrough...and that was it. Even then, I only beat it 8 months later.
My biggest disappointment ever was Fallout 3.
It's good, but just not for me. One playthrough...and that was it. Even then, I only beat it 8 months later.
Prince of Persia (PS360)
After the work done on the Sands of Time Trilogy and the trailers that showcased the combat and the parkour stuff, it was looking very good.
Then we got the game and there were like 6 different fights. The story was bland, the witty banter between the characters was just bad, the world was empty and the whole plot was entirely pointless because all of my efforts were undone at the end.
After the work done on the Sands of Time Trilogy and the trailers that showcased the combat and the parkour stuff, it was looking very good.
Then we got the game and there were like 6 different fights. The story was bland, the witty banter between the characters was just bad, the world was empty and the whole plot was entirely pointless because all of my efforts were undone at the end.
Gran Turismo 5
This is what I've been waiting for? WTF? 90% of the cars are copy/paste jobs from GT4 and GTPSP. Credits are very hard to come by, the non-premium models (90% of the total cars in the game) can only be bought from the used car dealership, so you have to keep checking the damn thing to see if the car you want showed up, then the late game is all grinding for a race car so you can complete the final 5 or 6 races... B-Spec is required for completion. That's right, you have to let the game play itself, WTF?
*sigh*
This is what I've been waiting for? WTF? 90% of the cars are copy/paste jobs from GT4 and GTPSP. Credits are very hard to come by, the non-premium models (90% of the total cars in the game) can only be bought from the used car dealership, so you have to keep checking the damn thing to see if the car you want showed up, then the late game is all grinding for a race car so you can complete the final 5 or 6 races... B-Spec is required for completion. That's right, you have to let the game play itself, WTF?
*sigh*
L.A Noire, it was a slight dissapointment, not in story or gameplay just the fact that Cole Phelps seemed to suffer from something similar to Commander Shephard syndrome in which you surround a blank canvas of a charecter with others of great charecter depth and you end up just feeling like your playing as a empty husk of a charecter with no sense of being able to connect with the charecter.
Oh and any re-hashed game brought out for the 3-DS and Duke Nukem forever
Oh and any re-hashed game brought out for the 3-DS and Duke Nukem forever
Assassin's Creed 2: Poor PC optimisation despite no real graphical innovations and no option to turn off shadows as well as draconian DRM made it unplayable for me. However, I plan to give it a second try when I get a much better computer. Ezio is too hot not to. Yes, Ubisoft, only because Ezio is hot. 
Spore: Expected much more, especially on the creature stage. They could have made it a more complex survival aspect. As it is, creatures live in nests, food is plentiful and the only danger are the Epics. Boring, boring, boring! Also, I can't make a dragon fly properly.
Dragon Age 2: Reused environments, boring characters (except Varic <3), weird elves, weird story, no consequence to actions, lame rise to power and boring boss battle. I had more fun fighting Orsino than Merredith and also thought you should fight one OR the other, depending on whom you sided with. The idol thingy was pretty weak. Oh and "can't take three steps without mass genocide" - Toegoff, which I very much agree with.
Echo Bazaar: Limited actions? Yes, game killer for me. Also, the story and text seemed pretty uninteresting the time I played.
The Sims 3: It's gotten better with the expansions but the only reason I still play Sims 3 it's because of its open neighborhood and superior Create-A-Sim. Otherwise, the game looks like all effort was put towards the neighborhood and even that isn't as good as it could be. The "seamless" part of it needs AwesomeMod to help it (fast switching of households, saving wishes and inventory items on switch), as well as the weird story progression. As for graphics, they look a little better than sims 2, especially the sims themselves (no mods) but the objects look like they were imported directly from sims 2. Also, many of the sim-to-sim interactions from base sims 2 were removed. Also, sim larvae.
Minecraft: Granted I haven't played this multiplayer, but I did play an afternoon of it on single, made a pretty little pyramid... step pyramid that is. Didn't even try multiplayer since the first thing I wanted to build was impossible (a giant, normal pyramid).
Spore: Expected much more, especially on the creature stage. They could have made it a more complex survival aspect. As it is, creatures live in nests, food is plentiful and the only danger are the Epics. Boring, boring, boring! Also, I can't make a dragon fly properly.
Dragon Age 2: Reused environments, boring characters (except Varic <3), weird elves, weird story, no consequence to actions, lame rise to power and boring boss battle. I had more fun fighting Orsino than Merredith and also thought you should fight one OR the other, depending on whom you sided with. The idol thingy was pretty weak. Oh and "can't take three steps without mass genocide" - Toegoff, which I very much agree with.
Echo Bazaar: Limited actions? Yes, game killer for me. Also, the story and text seemed pretty uninteresting the time I played.
The Sims 3: It's gotten better with the expansions but the only reason I still play Sims 3 it's because of its open neighborhood and superior Create-A-Sim. Otherwise, the game looks like all effort was put towards the neighborhood and even that isn't as good as it could be. The "seamless" part of it needs AwesomeMod to help it (fast switching of households, saving wishes and inventory items on switch), as well as the weird story progression. As for graphics, they look a little better than sims 2, especially the sims themselves (no mods) but the objects look like they were imported directly from sims 2. Also, many of the sim-to-sim interactions from base sims 2 were removed. Also, sim larvae.
Minecraft: Granted I haven't played this multiplayer, but I did play an afternoon of it on single, made a pretty little pyramid... step pyramid that is. Didn't even try multiplayer since the first thing I wanted to build was impossible (a giant, normal pyramid).
Off topic: You know I can make a drinking game from threads like these.
Easy: 1 shot every time FF 13 is mentioned
Medium: 1 shot every time Dragon Age 2 is mentioned
Hard: 1 shot for every time Black Ops is mentioned
Very Hard: 1 shot for every FPS mentioned.
On topic: I have been disappointed in few, if any titles... but if I had to chose one.... I'll go with, World of Warcraft, Cataclysm... sure I played till 85, but after that, if you can't get gear to raid, or PvP, there?s not much to do...
EDIT: spell check?
Easy: 1 shot every time FF 13 is mentioned
Medium: 1 shot every time Dragon Age 2 is mentioned
Hard: 1 shot for every time Black Ops is mentioned
Very Hard: 1 shot for every FPS mentioned.
On topic: I have been disappointed in few, if any titles... but if I had to chose one.... I'll go with, World of Warcraft, Cataclysm... sure I played till 85, but after that, if you can't get gear to raid, or PvP, there?s not much to do...
EDIT: spell check?
Fable II and FFXIII. Not the worst games I've played, by any means, but the most disappointing.
Fable 3: I did enjoy Fable 1 & 2 (Fable 1 being superior). The third one was fairly weak. Simple, spamtastic combat system, the story was meh, characters were meh, just a meh game in general.
Dragon Age 2: Again, not terrible, just meh. I personally think that it gets so much hate because of the sky-high expectations Bioware create for themselves and the fact that it was a direct sequel to Origins.
Bioshock 2: Yet again, meh
Medal of Honor: It just doesn't work. The single player is crap. In the multiplayer, you get sniped within 5-10 seconds of spawning. Just bloody terrible.
Duke Nukem Forever: I really wanted to like this game, but it's too terrible and repulsive. Its a dumb, awkward mix of old school gameplay and modern gameplay. All the bad parts.
Black Ops: Reasons stated by others
The Sims 3: They sucked the fun and imagination out of the game to be put in expansion packs.
Dragon Age 2: Again, not terrible, just meh. I personally think that it gets so much hate because of the sky-high expectations Bioware create for themselves and the fact that it was a direct sequel to Origins.
Bioshock 2: Yet again, meh
Medal of Honor: It just doesn't work. The single player is crap. In the multiplayer, you get sniped within 5-10 seconds of spawning. Just bloody terrible.
Duke Nukem Forever: I really wanted to like this game, but it's too terrible and repulsive. Its a dumb, awkward mix of old school gameplay and modern gameplay. All the bad parts.
Black Ops: Reasons stated by others
The Sims 3: They sucked the fun and imagination out of the game to be put in expansion packs.