Games you couldn't wait for that turned out to be huge disappointments.
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i was amazed to find it not on the first page but... i gotta say Too Human... I was so looking forward to it then it was shit... One i haven't seen at all is God of War 3, i mean i never really expected anything great story wise form god of war but that was... yea. Most shocking game i found disappointing to a much, much lesser extent (don't kill me) Bioshock. Listen to the reasoning, i actually didn't get around to playing Bioshock till recently and after seeing it brought up so much i was expecting to be amazed, don't get me wrong it was good but it seemed people were making it out to a god among games but the mechanics were a bit... i don't know off, weapons and plasmids were a bit awkward to use, i got tired of hacking after the first 500 times, and the fact that death didn't mean anything other than a 1 min walk back, at most, kind of killed the mood. The story was great and the environment amazing but thats all it really had...
The one that came to mind first was Spore, since I practically lived and breathed that game until it came out. I watched every video three dozen times, I read every article and update, I bought the Creature Creator kit. I played it for hours when it first came out, and enjoyed it to an extent. Then I quickly realized how terribly shallow and inconsequential the game was. There was no flow from one bit to the next, and you never felt like the decisions you made in the early game really mattered all that much in the later game. There was really only one major decision, which was carnivore/herbivore. Everything past that was just an extension of that basic decision.
Next up would be Fable 2. I bought a 360 just for that game. The controls were abysmal, the gameplay was barely there, the characters were uninteresting and irritating, and I never really felt like my character was an extension of my play style. There should never have been a Fable after the first.
Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion. I'd still rather play Morrowind. Remember those early videos of the emergent AI, and how it reacted to the things the player did. Yeah, that worked. The sense of exploration is all but killed by the fast-travel system. The combat was unintuitive and went from way too easy to way too hard, with barely any middle ground. Level scaling was a terrible idea, especially when it led to beggars carrying around daggers which were worth enough to buy a damn house. Then they blanded down the intricate and unusual setting of the Elder Scrolls world and made it into a very typical fantasy setting. The game did a few things right, but overall it was so disappointing.
Next up would be Fable 2. I bought a 360 just for that game. The controls were abysmal, the gameplay was barely there, the characters were uninteresting and irritating, and I never really felt like my character was an extension of my play style. There should never have been a Fable after the first.
Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion. I'd still rather play Morrowind. Remember those early videos of the emergent AI, and how it reacted to the things the player did. Yeah, that worked. The sense of exploration is all but killed by the fast-travel system. The combat was unintuitive and went from way too easy to way too hard, with barely any middle ground. Level scaling was a terrible idea, especially when it led to beggars carrying around daggers which were worth enough to buy a damn house. Then they blanded down the intricate and unusual setting of the Elder Scrolls world and made it into a very typical fantasy setting. The game did a few things right, but overall it was so disappointing.
Well, I consider Bioshock's gameplay to be good but if you look at the hype and reviews that praise Biohsock most of it is about the story and atmosphere I think . I'm not sure if that many said the gameplay was amazing.Riptide1 said:
Warhammer Online - it fixed a lot of problems that WoW had (at the time), but for every problem it fixed it had to screw something else up to compensate. Add to that a tiny community (which is fatal for an MMO) which resulted in a feeling of loneliness, prevented any of the much-touted world PvP from happening and very long wait times for battlegrounds. Canceled my account after only a month, and it seems like tons of other people did in a similar amount of time.
Spore - it could have been so great, but unfortunately it had to dumb everything down, take out features for no discernible reason and change the aesthetic style from being slightly cartoony to being entirely populated by stuffed animals in a world of cardboard. It wasn't bad, but it was incredibly repetitive, disappointingly short and remarkably shallow. Certainly incredibly forgettable, which is arguably even worse than if it had just been outright terrible.
EDIT: Homefront - the singleplayer campaign sounded so awesome to me (I was also rather annoyed at everybody else dismissing it before it had even come out, so I was hoping to prove them wrong), but then it turned out that the singleplayer was hopelessly derivative of Call of Duty, was ridiculously short and that the multiplayer (which was the focus of the game - not that you'd know that if you'd paid any attention to any of the advertising or hype) completely failed by making the maps too wide open and sprawling. Also the vehicles are goddamned impossible to control on the PC. That being said, the singleplayer campaign is unintentionally hilarious and is incredibly fun to riff on.
Spore - it could have been so great, but unfortunately it had to dumb everything down, take out features for no discernible reason and change the aesthetic style from being slightly cartoony to being entirely populated by stuffed animals in a world of cardboard. It wasn't bad, but it was incredibly repetitive, disappointingly short and remarkably shallow. Certainly incredibly forgettable, which is arguably even worse than if it had just been outright terrible.
EDIT: Homefront - the singleplayer campaign sounded so awesome to me (I was also rather annoyed at everybody else dismissing it before it had even come out, so I was hoping to prove them wrong), but then it turned out that the singleplayer was hopelessly derivative of Call of Duty, was ridiculously short and that the multiplayer (which was the focus of the game - not that you'd know that if you'd paid any attention to any of the advertising or hype) completely failed by making the maps too wide open and sprawling. Also the vehicles are goddamned impossible to control on the PC. That being said, the singleplayer campaign is unintentionally hilarious and is incredibly fun to riff on.
Pretty much everything. Graphic style, interface, aesthetics, the bland-ass land, the dialogue system, the voice acting, the endless bugs, the skill reduction, the removal of like, every spell ever... you get the idea.internetzealot1 said:
I have been happily surprised by many games being better than I expect with one of my favorites being modern warfare.
Having said that my worst disappointment so far was the latest version of it. Black ops is completely without any pacing, it just constantly screams in your face like you are some brain damaged crack head who cannot remember what was happening two minutes ago.
Having said that my worst disappointment so far was the latest version of it. Black ops is completely without any pacing, it just constantly screams in your face like you are some brain damaged crack head who cannot remember what was happening two minutes ago.
I'd say Black Ops and Homefront.
But none were as bad as Halo ODST. I don't know why I haven't traded/sold that one off yet...
But none were as bad as Halo ODST. I don't know why I haven't traded/sold that one off yet...
Anyone remember Fuel? An open world post-apocolyptic racer with the largest open world map ever made. It was almost perfect as well, except a few things that made it so irritating I ended up selling it. The day / night system seemed to work at random, sometimes you'd have four hour nights (real world time), followed by 10mins of daylight. Also there were these 18 wheelers everywhere that would spring up at every junction you took at high speed and totalled your car, with no explanation as to their existence. Also the AI waws poorly done, which was a real shame cos the game had some really epic moments, like racing through a tornado. Never trusted codemasters since that and GRID.
Unlimited SaGa... I rented that game about a year after its release. To this day it remains my most loathed game in existence and the only time I ever turned off a game in fifteen minutes already knowing it was worthless.Drunkbot said:
Final Fantasy XII is probably the game to top this list. The graphics were absolutely stunning, the characters held a subtle intrigue about them, primarily Ashe, who offered an alternate spin on the de-crowned princess and Basch, for his framed traitor role and I adored the articulate dialect and political approach. Unfortunately, what seemed like an assured fantastic experience was diminished by terrible pacing, lackluster to nonexistent character development and a story that forgot it even existed for large portions of the game. Far too gameplay oriented. Coincidently, Final Fantasy XIII suffered in the opposite manner, restricting you from gameplay for two thirds of the game.
Despite my dislike of FFXII. I would not cite it a terrible game, just not a particularly good one either. FFXIII I found noticeably better because at least it had a story to keep you occupied.
Dragon Age 2 is on this list, although I was not as disappointed by it as some. What I have found increasingly irksome is the sheer arrogance and condescending attitude from BioWare. We have Gaider having lost any degree of competence he ever had with his moronic defense to obvious retcons and the company's biased reviews highlighting their own game as a masterpiece.
You could argue Mass Effect 2 being on the list. I may adore the game and series however the main plot of the sequel was an inconsistent mess with desperate need of exposition. BioWare... has not been good with storylines pertaining to the main plot as of late.
halo odst and too human both traliers looked good and i liked the halo series so i bought it and hated it
too human i liked the setup and tralier so i was looking forward to it well i don't want to go any further or i might get banned and be called a massive troll
edit: Xblades for obvious reasons
too human i liked the setup and tralier so i was looking forward to it well i don't want to go any further or i might get banned and be called a massive troll
edit: Xblades for obvious reasons