Games that you've been burnt by

[kickyourass]

Recently? Well I can always point to Too Human as the one game I well and truly loath (Seriously every other game I've played I can defend but not this one), but for a personal change of pace I'll say Brink.

Taking the Class-based gameplay of TF2 or Battlefront and fiddling around with it like this, adding a butt-load of customization and adding a bit of free running sounded amazing, and yet the end result feels utterly soulless. I wasn't really expecting a great story, I expected an excuse plot at best, but it somehow has even less effort put into it then that, the character models without fail are absolutely hideous, and there barely feels like there's any actual differences in the classes (Basically THE thing you absolutely need to get right in a game like this).

It's just so damn disappointing.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Assassin's Creed 3. Despite the fact that I don't think revalations needed to exist I liked every AC game up to that point. A lot of it just felt off, down to the basic controls and mechanics. want to switch weapons? Well, hold LB, the game will take a few seconds to open up a menu and you select it from that. Want to throw a simple slash of your sword? Press x? Nah that's the "take out your sword and swish it around" button unless you select a target first! It all feels extremely restrictive with what you can do and the controls were much less ergonomic from previous installments.

 

[MCerberus]

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Hey they wouldn't disgrace one of the best old-fashioned large-server multiplayer shooters with a game that can't even get its netcode right... right?

Skyrim: I meh'd so hard that I started disliking the WHOLE series

Modern Warfare 2: Saw the writing on that wall and got out before bad became awful

Left4Dead (XB360): Well my friend said it was worth the $60... wait this is the friend that recommended ET:QW. DAMNIT. Not bad but no content and quickly sequeled

Unreal Tournament 3:

WoW Cata/Mists: and yet I will likely buy Warlords and play it for 2 months before quitting again because I never learn my lesson

 

[DementedSheep]

Hmm nope, not can think of. Most the games I bought and actually hated were cheap buys I got to see if I would like that sort of game or not or ones I never expected to be great but was interested in a particular part of it so I didn't lose enough money on them to be really pissed. Even if I'm hyped about a game announcement that has usually faded by the time it actually comes out so I don't generally buy a game convinced it's going to be brilliant.

I felt kinda burnt by Skyrim because the main quest was broken and only just recently figured out what was causing that but it had other things going for it. I was disappointed in AC because I kinda bought into the hype a bit with that one. I like it enough to play it. It just wasn't as good as I had though it would be.

 

[CaptainMidlands]

Chrono Trigger - I'm in the UK so we never got this on release and after hearing so much about it and loving FF7/8/9 when i was younger i picked it up on DS, then i got disappointed 2 hours in. It was a bad battle system, tied to a silly story and was overall a pretty standard JRPG (i think the fact i didn't get to play it in 95 but 2012 might not have helped (I paid out a lot for Panzer Dragoon Saga and had the same problem))

Planetside 2 - When i first played Planetside 1 i didn't have the best computer so couldn't do the big battles, however Planetside was great in that it didn't matter. I found a niche as an Ant Driver/Infiltrator. When i wasn't hacking towers 2-3 km from the main battle drawing enemy forces off to recap it i was using my Ant to refill our base energy reactors

Planetside 2 however was just like "Sorry No Ants here, oh and you can only fight at the next base along so forget small infil teams messing with the enemy backlines, none of that allowed here"

 

[darkstarangel]

Being an older more experienced gamer I learned my lesson back in the old days.

Men in black for the playstation. In the day when the movie came out & before the internet started to take off games got plugged on normal tv shows, usually aimed at kids & teens. Being a teen with just enough money to by it I was seduced by the graphics. After buying it the gameplay & controls agitated me to no end. It was then that I realised I just wiped my arse with my long saved up birthday money & flushed it down the crapper.

Also bought Ring of red on the ps2 because the concept looed really cool but upon playing it I had no idea what to do & the instruction manual explained bugger all. Perhaps one of these days I might give it another try & finally figure out how it works, one day. Fortunately I got it second hand & dirt cheap, now I know why.

Since then iv always been picky before buying a game.

 

[Yopaz]

I know it sounds odd, but Mario Party 8. I hate that game for whatever reason.

How can you hate a game that is this challenging?
I've stopped expecting things from Mario Party games which is sad. I really used to love them. Hopefully they'll make a good one for Wii U.

I think I'll go with Bioshock. I had heard so much good about the game, it had an almost perfect score I even liked the demo for it. For some reason the game just didn't click with me. I really can't say why. If I am to list all the things I don't like about the game it just comes up to not liking the game and if I am to list the things I like it's almost everything about the game. I want to like it.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

For me it was Dragon Age 2.
I just... I just hated it. I know DA2 has been done to death here so I'll just leave it at that

This, so much this.

I still use the mouse-pad, but that's more due to there being no more collectors mouse-pad bundles any-more.

 

[Hunter Hyena]

Saints Row The Third had to be the biggest letdowns I have come across. Gone was the clever writing, the dark/twisted main character (they changed it cause fans felt their mass murdering crime lord was...a little bad?), the big life-filled cities with various types of landmarks/secrets/easter eggs, various interesting gangs, ect.

Instead we get the main character not feeling anything for his best friend's death (yet in the second game he had one of the saddest game scenes due to the death of a gang member he met...like a week before), villains being killed off anticlimactically, a tiny bland city with nothing to do, a mechanic that leaves you unable to die (and you cannot turn it off), an onslaught of LOL RANDUM humor (the first two gained popularity due to blending wacky humor with drama pretty well...they decided screw the drama, crank the wacky up to zonkers), far less character customization (can no longer make a skinny character or someone androgynous so I could no longer make myself in it, and a campaign that is shorter than the first two.

I sold it for a dollar because I didn't want that horrible game anywhere near my copies of Saints Row and Saints Row 2

 

[Sarge034]

To try and name one that people have not said yet, Brink.
It looked so cool! It seemed like it would be such an interesting game to play!

...Then I got it, no real campaign, and the mechanics were nothing to write home about. It felt like a 30 dollar game, which sucks considering I paid the full 60 for it.

Damn ninjas taking my ace in the hole... *grumble* *grumble*

L4D2. I love the first one so valve couldn't possibly fuck up such an easy established system right? Wrong. So, very, wrong...

 

[Candidus]

Ring of Red

Reaaally?! I loved that game.

Combat takes a lot longer than it should because every exchange of gunfire is pretty drawn out, and while this is happening it's quite an ugly game too, so there's nothing to distract you from the monotony. Even so, there's something about it! It's worth beating at least once if you can figure it out.

On topic, my own burns:

X Rebirth - Kinda knew I was going to get burned. Bought it anyway and did my best to spread the word via conversation and user review on just how awful it really is. Fundamentally dreadful. More so than any previous X game at launch. No hope of modding to worthiness without a total conversion.

Rome II - Couldn't wait for it. Played it for about 30 hours. Most of that duration was spent wondering why it wasn't as gripping as Shogun II. Eventually I gave up.

 

[Caiphus]

Final Fantasy XIII. Bought it on release day after work, for $100 NZD? That'll teach me. Never got past the eternal tutorial level.
Oh well.

Actually sort of enjoyed Dragon Age II. Or, the parts that weren't utter bollocks.

Uuuuuh. I actually didn't really like Bastion. I mean, it was okay. And you can hardly call it "burned"; it was a reasonably cheap indie game.

 

[lapan]

Spore. It could have been so much more. I weep for all the cut content

 

[Pikey Mikey]

Aliens:Colonial Marines. *bursts into tears.* I am now Mr. Skeptical and refuse to closely follow the development of any game. From now on it's just 'oh that game's in development' and 'hey it's out now!'

Sort of what I'm like now then =P (for me it was the whole ME3-thing (still love ME1 and really enjoy ME2))

 

[Teoes]

About the only thing I can think of was Rochard when I picked it up in a Humble Bundlea while ago. Gave it about 10/15 minutes and most of that time was wasted on (unskippable?) cutscenes with terrible voice acting, setting up unnecessary plot for a 2D platformer. Set me up to be in a hostile mood for when I was actually allowed to play it - the game might actually be good, but I was out of patience by that point.

Good thing it was dirt cheap and came with a few other games I was actually interested in.

 

[RyQ_TMC]

The biggest one for me was probably Command & Conquer 4. I had stopped following gaming media a good year before it came out, so for me it was (1) See it on the shelf (2) Freak out as a new installment in one of my favourite franchises was right there (3) Buy it (4) Quit about 10 minutes into the first (non-tutorial) mission (5) Never play it again.

I will probably get back to it at some point, just to finish the story (lack of a gaming-worthy PC precludes me from doing that right now), but it was likely the most severe disappointment I had in a game in my life so far.

Other than that, I'll join the chorus saying Final Fantasy XIII. I got in on release (split with my roommate, so it wasn't THAT bad, cost-wise) and even got through the entire game (the experience is much improved if you've got a bunch of beers and two other guys with you, and all three of you have a lady-with-a-sword fetish). But boy, was it crap.

There's also a smattering of indies that I bought after seeing all the reviewers gush about them, only to discover that they all seem to follow the formula of "take gameplay of a really popular game from 15 years ago, then add an aesthetic quirk". But I won't be naming titles here.

while the multiplayer is amazing, I hate multiplayer.

Eh? I'm not sure what you mean. By "amazing" do you mean "well-reviewed", or "sounding interesting", or something else whatsoever? Because that sounds like a conflicting statement.

 

[Pikey Mikey]

Saints Row The Third *Text-compression*

I sold it for a dollar because I didn't want that horrible game anywhere near my copies of Saints Row and Saints Row 2

Yeah, also the fact that the game gave you a tank, a flying tank (war-copter/jet) and a guided RPG-launcher after the first... four missions or whatnot? Which led to there being almost no challenge to it. (and, as you said, the constant random humor without any of the realness (terrible choice of words) so the humor outstays it's welcome fairly quickly (although I did find the gimp-carriage-chase-scene really funny))
In SR2 there were no tanks (only Bears, which were awesome to hide in when running from the SWAT-helicopters) and the Annihilator RPG (guided)/Satchel Charges were made available at a more fitting part later in the game. Haven't played the first one though =/
... I probably should, shouldn't I?

 

[mysecondlife]

Assassin's Creed 3.

At first it was good. Climbing trees, hunting animals, etc.

But then..

The set piece events and battles: huge disappointment

Connor's ending: um... ok...?

Desmond's ending: What. The. FUCK?

Not to mention horribly designed missions-- Completing all missions for 100% sync is just frustratingly impossible.

Eluding colonial and british soldiers are just annoying, the most effective way to make them go away is through boring combat system..

--

I'm not angry, just bored and disappointed more and more I spent my time with it.

 

[floppylobster]

The biggest one for me was probably Command & Conquer 4. I had stopped following gaming media a good year before it came out, so for me it was (1) See it on the shelf (2) Freak out as a new installment in one of my favourite franchises was right there (3) Buy it (4) Quit about 10 minutes into the first (non-tutorial) mission (5) Never play it again.

EXACTLY what I did. I use it as a coaster.

I've had plenty of disappointments, but I generally don't get my hopes up so the fall is never that far. But C&C4 was just such a slap in the face. It still stings.

The recent death of the new 'revival' game shows how badly they damaged the franchise with that one.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Batman Arkham Origins easily takes the cake.

That game is shamelessly bland and derivative, and nothing short of an insult to the first two.

I've just met the Joker for the first time in that game, I'm enjoying it so far.

Franchises like Assassins Creed get a free pass on being derivative (and arguably bland, depending on who you talk to, not my opinion on that though). Arkham Asylum, gave us an awesome Batman game. Arkham City, improved upon game play and scope, but lost some of its charm in the spreading out the locales. Which I understand, but overall it was considered an improvement. Arkham Origins, more of the same, therefore bad? I'm not saying it's better then the others, but I consider it a solid entry. But using derivative as something bad against it seems silly. It's part of the franchise, surely you play sequels to games and enjoy them sometimes? They're still derivative too, being derived from the same source.

Now if the next one, if there is one, is the same as Origins, then it starts to stagnate and then I see an issue that people could get really annoyed at.

As for bland, that comes down to preference and personal taste, so if you found it bland, you found it bland. Fair enough.

Mine, Blood Bowl for the Xbox 360. So much content cut from this title, but was still on the PC. I have the PC version now, was gifted to me by a friend and it was great, but that console port...