Games that you've been burnt by
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The first one was more or less completely basic as a GTA clone type of game, with very well done humor and the BEST talk radio station in any game to date.Pikey Mikey said:
LOL... you just sold me on playing Killzone.Sniper Team 4 said:
For me, The Last of Us sucked. The gameplay was just terrible forced stealth(I love good ones).
MGS 2's bait and switch hurt me as I played the demo and was angry about Raiden.
The first error was this game called Videomation. Here's the wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videomation Even the description on wikipedia is based on the box, which was a flat out lie. Your designs don't come to life with full video animation. Some canned animations are available but nothing in your drawing is movable. It's a shitty paint program without the ability to save. I got my money back for the first time on an open video game at Toys R Us because the manager agreed with child me.
Mass Effect 3. I was utterly hyped for almost over a year and then I played it.
I didn't hate it. What I did feel was mild confusion and a vague sense of disappointment. Then, it went from vague to actual disappontment. I'm still sad that it did not fullfil my expectations.
Guild Wars 2 was an utter waste of money too. I will not deny that it is a quality game with many nice features, but it bored me out of my mind 2 days later. A real shame.
Apart from that, I'm used to having low expectations therefore only few games manage to actually burn me.
I didn't hate it. What I did feel was mild confusion and a vague sense of disappointment. Then, it went from vague to actual disappontment. I'm still sad that it did not fullfil my expectations.
Guild Wars 2 was an utter waste of money too. I will not deny that it is a quality game with many nice features, but it bored me out of my mind 2 days later. A real shame.
Apart from that, I'm used to having low expectations therefore only few games manage to actually burn me.
Do you mean the online one? I remember being showered with e-mails about it "coming soon", but I gave precisely zero fudgesicles about it. I was under the impression that they wanted to make it Generals for a FarmVille audience.floppylobster said:
Yeah, as I mentioned I'm not coastering my C&C4 disk just yet... But I really want to "finish" the series, even though I know it will cause me pain. It was already bad that they expanded what had been a planned trilogy into a longer series... I'm guessing EA used Tiberium Wars to test the waters for turning the series into a possible annual cash cow, and when that failed, they decided to resort to that old trick, taking a well-established series and completely changing the gameplay in an effort to attract twitch players, resulting in a huge flop.
Dragon Age 2.
Definitely not worth the $60.
And no, not getting any DLC unless the amount of stuff justify the cost.
Definitely not worth the $60.
And no, not getting any DLC unless the amount of stuff justify the cost.
Let's see....
Rome Total War 2: I'm not as resentful as others are of the game, but what killed it for me is I haven't been able to play the game since...the 4th patch? I was willing to be patient and let the game get fixed, i'm fond of the series so my tolerance threshold for screwups was exceptionally high. But if I can't play the game AT ALL then it is a literal waste of money that doesn't even give me the chance to find some redemptive qualities in it. Maybe it'll be fixed one day but for now when I look upon rome 2 in my list of installed games (i still keep it and update it in hope it will work some day) I see 15-20 gbs of wasted money.
Dragon Age 2: I blame Greg Tito and the overwhelmingly positive da2 reviews for setting up high expectations here.
Had I not been so hyped, I'd have remembered the game more fondly as up until act 3 I was still enjoying it despite some frustrations and niggles. Then act 3 the magician's illusion got ruined and over and over in my head I was thinking "is this what I was supposed to beat up my non existent little brother to get? This is the perfect flawless rpg of the decade that made origins shrivel in its pants?"
Gemini Wars: Got this during a sale and eugh..I should have done some research for this beforehand.
Basically impossible to find a game on your own (and this is a pure online multiplayer game), you have to go through some 3rd party program and jump through hoops and yeah, not interested in dabbling in the community, just wanted to play the darned thing. It would be like as if in dota or league you had to go to the chat and find people yourself to play with (and in this example at least the way to find other players is within the game itself).
These 3 are those that immediately came to mind, but got a few other burns I'm sure
catchpra: think hard It's ok catchpra, I think I've written enough as it is.
Rome Total War 2: I'm not as resentful as others are of the game, but what killed it for me is I haven't been able to play the game since...the 4th patch? I was willing to be patient and let the game get fixed, i'm fond of the series so my tolerance threshold for screwups was exceptionally high. But if I can't play the game AT ALL then it is a literal waste of money that doesn't even give me the chance to find some redemptive qualities in it. Maybe it'll be fixed one day but for now when I look upon rome 2 in my list of installed games (i still keep it and update it in hope it will work some day) I see 15-20 gbs of wasted money.
Dragon Age 2: I blame Greg Tito and the overwhelmingly positive da2 reviews for setting up high expectations here.
Had I not been so hyped, I'd have remembered the game more fondly as up until act 3 I was still enjoying it despite some frustrations and niggles. Then act 3 the magician's illusion got ruined and over and over in my head I was thinking "is this what I was supposed to beat up my non existent little brother to get? This is the perfect flawless rpg of the decade that made origins shrivel in its pants?"
Gemini Wars: Got this during a sale and eugh..I should have done some research for this beforehand.
Basically impossible to find a game on your own (and this is a pure online multiplayer game), you have to go through some 3rd party program and jump through hoops and yeah, not interested in dabbling in the community, just wanted to play the darned thing. It would be like as if in dota or league you had to go to the chat and find people yourself to play with (and in this example at least the way to find other players is within the game itself).
These 3 are those that immediately came to mind, but got a few other burns I'm sure
catchpra: think hard It's ok catchpra, I think I've written enough as it is.
+1 to the ring of red love. And the fact that each engagement was a combat phase lasting 1min 30 secs was a positive to me, it made it feel more like an authentic battle with intense skirmishes followed by withdrawal as the sides lick their wounds and restock/refuel the mechs. I loved in particular how infantry worked in this game and you could do all sorts of unit/mech combinations to make truly specialized and deadly combat units who fought very differently in the skirmish phases. Meh wheres my ps2...I wanna play it again.Candidus said:
Silent Hill Downpour
I will admit that i didn't expect much, but i still had some hope it did look bettet than Homecoming afterall. Turned out to be a terrible game on all accounts. It had some great ideas and concepts here and there (The stage production that turns into reality among others) but the game just fell flat in every way. Horribly designed with static and boring enviroments and a broken battlesystem. There was no atmosphere and it was never fun or anything resembling fun, just plain boring. It convinced me that the studio probably has one or two people with actual bright ideas and a lot of useless programmers and clueless designers, it's so bad. One of the worst games of 2012...
Then there was Batman, i thought it would be right up my alley but i ended up hating everything about it and yet i bought the sequel , which was even worse...
Oh yeah, Bioshock Infinite is another one, best thing about it was that i could trade it in to get MgS4 and Tomb Raider. The gameplay was boring and quite annoying at times because it was poorly balanced on the so called 1999 mode (The only mode where dying isn't completely pointless). No variety in skills, a misplaced 2 weapon system and horrible gun play makes for a very tedious gameplay experience. Then there's the story, which was the usual poorly told drivel, i don't like the fps way of telling storys (What's up with all the silly vlogs?), in my eyes the method is fundamentally broken but the overwrought, pompous and self important writing didn't help. Throwing 100s of big themes at the player isn't depth, it's just a way to conceal that you don't really have anything important to say. And don't get me started on the ending... I hated that game with a passion...
I will admit that i didn't expect much, but i still had some hope it did look bettet than Homecoming afterall. Turned out to be a terrible game on all accounts. It had some great ideas and concepts here and there (The stage production that turns into reality among others) but the game just fell flat in every way. Horribly designed with static and boring enviroments and a broken battlesystem. There was no atmosphere and it was never fun or anything resembling fun, just plain boring. It convinced me that the studio probably has one or two people with actual bright ideas and a lot of useless programmers and clueless designers, it's so bad. One of the worst games of 2012...
Then there was Batman, i thought it would be right up my alley but i ended up hating everything about it and yet i bought the sequel , which was even worse...
Oh yeah, Bioshock Infinite is another one, best thing about it was that i could trade it in to get MgS4 and Tomb Raider. The gameplay was boring and quite annoying at times because it was poorly balanced on the so called 1999 mode (The only mode where dying isn't completely pointless). No variety in skills, a misplaced 2 weapon system and horrible gun play makes for a very tedious gameplay experience. Then there's the story, which was the usual poorly told drivel, i don't like the fps way of telling storys (What's up with all the silly vlogs?), in my eyes the method is fundamentally broken but the overwrought, pompous and self important writing didn't help. Throwing 100s of big themes at the player isn't depth, it's just a way to conceal that you don't really have anything important to say. And don't get me started on the ending... I hated that game with a passion...
Grand Theft Auto 4
Here's a game that was flooded with perfect 10 scores and game of the year praises from critics AND players. I picked it up expecting something good (although I've never owned a prior GTA game) and wound up selling the game to a co-worker about 2-3 weeks later.
I found it hard to believe that such a 'perfect' gaming experience could have such average contols, tedious side quests and frustrating respawn points. I felt like most of the game was about traveling to your destination rather than doing anything remotely fun.
GTA 5 has received similar overwhelming hype and many of the reviewers claim it's improved upon all the terrible parts of GTA 4. The parts that never came up during the first month of the game launch from players or critics. Again, I'm in a position where I'm interested in buying GTA 5 but feel like I'll just get burned again. As a result, I'm resolved to wait at least a year or more to get the non-hyped reviews of the game.
Here's a game that was flooded with perfect 10 scores and game of the year praises from critics AND players. I picked it up expecting something good (although I've never owned a prior GTA game) and wound up selling the game to a co-worker about 2-3 weeks later.
I found it hard to believe that such a 'perfect' gaming experience could have such average contols, tedious side quests and frustrating respawn points. I felt like most of the game was about traveling to your destination rather than doing anything remotely fun.
GTA 5 has received similar overwhelming hype and many of the reviewers claim it's improved upon all the terrible parts of GTA 4. The parts that never came up during the first month of the game launch from players or critics. Again, I'm in a position where I'm interested in buying GTA 5 but feel like I'll just get burned again. As a result, I'm resolved to wait at least a year or more to get the non-hyped reviews of the game.
That's an easy one. Diablo 3.
Never have been disappointed in a game more. It was so damn bland, boring and "appealed to the masses" i can't even think of any other game that "burnt" me, because everything pales in comparison to what D3 did.
Only Gothic 3 was such a huge let down - but that's a diffrent kind of burnt. Because it was so bug-ridden it was unplayable. An example: 1 single boar could wipe out the main city, because they had such a high attack speed that the target would be locked in a hit animation. Or they just forgot to add values to armor - so even the biggest most badass armor didn't protect you at all.
Edit: Add Darkstar One to that list. I'm a huuuuge Freelancer fan and was hopin' for this game. But nope.
Never have been disappointed in a game more. It was so damn bland, boring and "appealed to the masses" i can't even think of any other game that "burnt" me, because everything pales in comparison to what D3 did.
Only Gothic 3 was such a huge let down - but that's a diffrent kind of burnt. Because it was so bug-ridden it was unplayable. An example: 1 single boar could wipe out the main city, because they had such a high attack speed that the target would be locked in a hit animation. Or they just forgot to add values to armor - so even the biggest most badass armor didn't protect you at all.
Edit: Add Darkstar One to that list. I'm a huuuuge Freelancer fan and was hopin' for this game. But nope.
Alien: Colonial Marines.
I fucking LOVE the Alien franchise. Even the weak entries have had something going for them. And since I LOVE the setting I'm willing to look through my fingers with a lot of shit. Still: Alien Colonial Marines is one of the biggest disappointments of my life, and I fucking hate every inch of that game and the people who made it.
I fucking LOVE the Alien franchise. Even the weak entries have had something going for them. And since I LOVE the setting I'm willing to look through my fingers with a lot of shit. Still: Alien Colonial Marines is one of the biggest disappointments of my life, and I fucking hate every inch of that game and the people who made it.
I'd say my first burn was probably Fable, not because the game was bad as a whole but because it finished with such a weak ending, that it just disappointed me.
Oblivion / Skyrim (most rpgs by bethesda), I always think that these games look great in theory.. The options, the world, all is so ambitious, and they trick me every time... but when I get to play them its all a soul-less clunky mess with awkward characters and pointless side-quests forever.
Uncharted 3 was a big one for me as well, I never expected to like Uncharted 2 so much as I did, so the Uncharted 3 hype got me blustering like a schoolgirl, but then the game was out... and it was soo.. MEH.
An unexpected burn came from Gone Home. I love my silent, mysterious, narrative exploration games, but I felt the plot was so mundane, and the choice for the center story of the blossoming lesbian love was trying so hard at "unconventional", that the game lost me pretty badly.
GTA 4 was also a major letdown, so much it has turned me off for the rest of the series. The scatter-shot narrative, the dissociated characters and the borderline manic depressive tone, coupled with the completely average overall gameplay made the game an exercise in frustration, to the point that after half of it, all I wanted was for it to be over.
Grandia 3 and Dragon age 2, both had the issue of highly entertaining previous games setting the expectations high, and then delivering far less interesting or entertaining experiences, which resulted in much disappointment.
Blizard has managed to consistently disappoint me ever since warcraft 3, but surprisingly, I keep on acquiring most of their products. Diablo 3 was the highlight of crappyness there.
Resident evil 5 managed to kill any resident evil interest I might have had before.
And Indigo prophecy assured that I would never take David Cage seriously... opinion which stands the test of time
hmm I don't know.. I guess many games have sort of burnt me...
Oblivion / Skyrim (most rpgs by bethesda), I always think that these games look great in theory.. The options, the world, all is so ambitious, and they trick me every time... but when I get to play them its all a soul-less clunky mess with awkward characters and pointless side-quests forever.
Uncharted 3 was a big one for me as well, I never expected to like Uncharted 2 so much as I did, so the Uncharted 3 hype got me blustering like a schoolgirl, but then the game was out... and it was soo.. MEH.
An unexpected burn came from Gone Home. I love my silent, mysterious, narrative exploration games, but I felt the plot was so mundane, and the choice for the center story of the blossoming lesbian love was trying so hard at "unconventional", that the game lost me pretty badly.
GTA 4 was also a major letdown, so much it has turned me off for the rest of the series. The scatter-shot narrative, the dissociated characters and the borderline manic depressive tone, coupled with the completely average overall gameplay made the game an exercise in frustration, to the point that after half of it, all I wanted was for it to be over.
Grandia 3 and Dragon age 2, both had the issue of highly entertaining previous games setting the expectations high, and then delivering far less interesting or entertaining experiences, which resulted in much disappointment.
Blizard has managed to consistently disappoint me ever since warcraft 3, but surprisingly, I keep on acquiring most of their products. Diablo 3 was the highlight of crappyness there.
Resident evil 5 managed to kill any resident evil interest I might have had before.
And Indigo prophecy assured that I would never take David Cage seriously... opinion which stands the test of time
hmm I don't know.. I guess many games have sort of burnt me...
The Last of Us. Cliche story and horrible shooting controls just killed the game for me. I ended up switching to easy mode halfway through the game, simply because trying to aim in the game was so frustrating and annoying, even with weapon upgrades. I know Joel wasn't supposed to be an expert marksman or anything, but if that's the case then just make guns an optional method for getting out of tight spots, rather than a requirement to pass certain sections of the game. Also, I found Joel to be extremely unlikeable.
KOTOR. I always heard it was the best game ever made. By the time I got around to it, it was about 5 years old and everything about it that was amazing had been done and improved upon by a dozen other games. Aside from that I found the story uninteresting, the twist very underwhelming, the characters boring (I'm told HK-47 or whatever was an interesting character but why would I choose blasters over lightsabers, if given a choice?), and the game play dull and repetitive (I was a guardian and breezed through every encounter by just clicking flurry over and over again. By the end I was just just using random force powers that I didn't need, just to try and break up the monotony.
KOTOR. I always heard it was the best game ever made. By the time I got around to it, it was about 5 years old and everything about it that was amazing had been done and improved upon by a dozen other games. Aside from that I found the story uninteresting, the twist very underwhelming, the characters boring (I'm told HK-47 or whatever was an interesting character but why would I choose blasters over lightsabers, if given a choice?), and the game play dull and repetitive (I was a guardian and breezed through every encounter by just clicking flurry over and over again. By the end I was just just using random force powers that I didn't need, just to try and break up the monotony.
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
I loved the previous two Oddworld games, and the early footage of the third one looked freaking incredible. Oddworld in all it's dark, mystic weirdness rendered in a fully interactive 3D world. However most of the early footage didn't make it into the game, and the end product was just a mediocre 3D platformer wearing a loosely fitting Oddworld skin.
Metal Gear Solid 2
And no, this wasn't because of Raiden, though his presence didn't help much either. The game from the Big Shell onward was just a cheap knock-off of MGS1. That was seriously the whole point behind the game. It was Kojima putting himself before the audience, for the sake of being artistic. The game was all about satisfying himself rather than us, and then getting paid for it.
I loved the previous two Oddworld games, and the early footage of the third one looked freaking incredible. Oddworld in all it's dark, mystic weirdness rendered in a fully interactive 3D world. However most of the early footage didn't make it into the game, and the end product was just a mediocre 3D platformer wearing a loosely fitting Oddworld skin.
Metal Gear Solid 2
And no, this wasn't because of Raiden, though his presence didn't help much either. The game from the Big Shell onward was just a cheap knock-off of MGS1. That was seriously the whole point behind the game. It was Kojima putting himself before the audience, for the sake of being artistic. The game was all about satisfying himself rather than us, and then getting paid for it.
Farcry 2. I fucking loved the first one, at least the part until the monsters showed up and the second one had the promise of no monsters so i thought it would be the best damned thing ever, but then i played it.. Didn't even finish half of that bloody thing, i got tired of clearing out the same checkpoints every few minutes and taking the bus is just meh.
Halo 4. I actually pre-ordered Halo 4 expecting it to be bad. 343 Industries had done nothing but try to retcon Bungie's Canon and put in their lol cool stuff so I wanted to see how bad they could go. It's just hideously bad, the story is complete fan fiction and, besides Cortana's sub plot, never actually does anything but touch upon themes we've seen handled more competently by previous games. Though it hasn't changed much the gameplay has become more Modern Military Shooter-fied and not even it's multiplayer could be any fun with the amount of brown, bloom and lag the game had (any game which can remake Valhalla from Halo 3 and make it not fun should be slapped).
Shogun II
I've tried several times to get into it because I love Total War, but it never grabbed me. There was the odd infuriating thing (naval combat was the biggest farce I've ever seen), but mostly I just got bored. Even when I'd established myself and got some decent units, it just felt too... linear.
Funnily enough, I like Rome II.
I've tried several times to get into it because I love Total War, but it never grabbed me. There was the odd infuriating thing (naval combat was the biggest farce I've ever seen), but mostly I just got bored. Even when I'd established myself and got some decent units, it just felt too... linear.
Funnily enough, I like Rome II.
Everyone said No More Heroes was amazing but I found it to be incredibly tedious and held together with absurd but not at all clever humor. It must be good for the part of the brain that appreciates Tim & Eric because I can't understand why anyone likes that either.
I'm also still a little pissed I paid $60 to beta test New Vegas. I was expecting some glitching and a few crashes but that thing couldn't run for 10 mins without completely crashing. Playing it again and a couple of years and 8 patches seems to have done it some good but shit, if I bought it now I could've gotten the game and all the dlc for half the price I paid for the basic game. A good reason to wait for goty editions even for games you're looking forward to.
I'm also still a little pissed I paid $60 to beta test New Vegas. I was expecting some glitching and a few crashes but that thing couldn't run for 10 mins without completely crashing. Playing it again and a couple of years and 8 patches seems to have done it some good but shit, if I bought it now I could've gotten the game and all the dlc for half the price I paid for the basic game. A good reason to wait for goty editions even for games you're looking forward to.
Ugh... Total War: Rome 2. I got into the TW series about 5 or 6 years ago with Rome, fell in love, they became my favorite strategy games of all time. Shogun 2 comes out, it's amazing. Then all of a sudden we find out that there's another Total War coming: ROME freaking 2! All of the screenshots, demos, etc. looked amazing. Then it came out.
It was glitchy, the AI was borderline autistic, and worst of all, the game was TOO EASY... I have never before wasted years for a game only to be disappointed like I was with that game.
It was glitchy, the AI was borderline autistic, and worst of all, the game was TOO EASY... I have never before wasted years for a game only to be disappointed like I was with that game.