Games you thought would be awesome...

[Arduras]

Spore felt like a creation tool with a game tacked on, it just didn't work for me.

AC, yeah i know its been said a million times here, but it just didn't grab me, it felt alot more like a test; how long could you control the urge to stab a beggar in the face, that and the fact alot of the areas were heavily recycled and repetitive.

kotor II, just unpolished, it was soo frustrating trying to follow the storyline because it never really stayed consistant or entertaining.

Neverwinter nights 2, same as Kotor 2, just didn't feel complete, the story was there but not polished.

The list does carry on but they are some of my more massive letdowns.. heres hoping things start looking up again when it comes to hype

 

[esperandote]

king of fighters 2003,max impact,neo wave,xi everthing after 2002

I almost thought you said Max Payne.
I was gonna flip out...
Lol

LOL, now that you mentioned it, i played max payne 1 and loved it after a while i tried max payne 2 and didn't like it. Maybe i didn't play long enough but id didn't look or feel like No.1 to me.

 

[WithHisHat]

Dead Rising. Kill zombies and survive in a mall like in Dawn of the Dead. How can you fuck that up! Oh yeah, shitty controls, no autosaves, and the dumbest story ever. I mean, they actually say zombie in the game. YOU NEVER SAY ZOMBIE! See Shaun of the Dead as reference.

 

[Orca87]

Final Fantasy 8
I played each game in sequence, and Seven was the best, followed by six, then five, then four...
Eight wasn't very good at all, nine was better, but the decline was clear, I literally had more fun with Mystic quest, then I did with eight.
That's pretty backwards.
I even gave it another shot years later, back in April, and found myself procrastinating playing ff8, by doing the work I was meant to be procrastinating from in the first place.

So yeah, after ff7 blew my mind, ff8 strained out a steaming dump onto it.

 

[Emeli]

Fallout 3. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's a fine game, but I loved the first 2, where awesome lay thick on the ground, this felt labourious and boring by comparison.

 

[Signa]

Oblivion pissed me off too. I loved it at first, because it was a great game to just become part of the world, but after a while, I realized that the experience was bastardized compared to Morrowind and I had to go back and play that. There was several times where I went between the two games and each time I loaded up Morrowind, I was greeted with ugly graphics and OMG LOOK AT THE NEW WEAPONS, SPELLS, AND ARMOR!!!.... Oh. Never mind. It's just the stuff that was pulled from Oblivion. Bastards.

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Lair. I fell asleep in my chair after 5 levels. Because boredom and fatigue made a pact to put everything good in a game in to a old slaughterhouse owned by Jigsaw. An elevator in Mass Effect was more interesting than this. The worst part is, there was no LAIR in the game!

 

[Nasty McDonalds Burritos]

Mercenaries 2. The first game had a certain "feel" to it, and while the new one has improved a bunch of things, it just isn't as fun as the other game. I can't describe it, but I liked the first one better.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

The new Prince of Persia

You know, that game has been getting a lot of hate but I played and beat it and it wasn't that bad. Other than the combat, it wasn't that bad.

 

[masher]

Oh...you know...Dark Sector...Prototype...Far Cry 2...

 

[essieteric]

Neverwinter Nights 2. The steep system requirements were just a joke at the time that it came out - I had people advising me to get two top-of-the-range graphics cards to put in my desktop to get "average-to-high gameplay". When I finally got a computer that would handle it reasonably well, I was quite disappointed in the game. :-(

 

[Kit Fox]

Mercenaries 2 for be far too easy and at times using completely absurd mission, and for giving my xbox the red ring of death
Call of Duty 3 on the wii, only cause I was ignorant at the time, and thought the wii would be awesome
Halo 3 for losing all the online multiplayer maps I had come to love
Army of Two for having kinda shitty aiming and those stupid little gimmichy enemies who can only be killed from behind

 

[Dragonblade146]

king of fighters 2003,max impact,neo wave,xi everthing after 2002

I almost thought you said Max Payne.
I was gonna flip out...
Lol

LOL, now that you mentioned it, i played max payne 1 and loved it after a while i tried max payne 2 and didn't like it. Maybe i didn't play long enough but id didn't look or feel like No.1 to me.

Yeah. Your right about that one.
The only fun part was the coolet Bullet Time Effect.
I mean, Max Payne, made that for gaming.

 

[Thaius]

I've got to say every Crash Bandicoot game made since Naught Dog sold the franchise (though the first two GBA games were pretty good). The PS1 games were so amazing, but the new studios just can't make a Crash game that's not crap...

 

[Generator]

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly. As a young, naive little boy, I was so excited for the greatest series in all of existence to make the jump to the PS2. Sadly, I didn't realize that Insomniac sold the rights to Crap Productions. My childhood ended that Christmas morning.

 

[Godspiel]

The best thing I can say about The Longest Journey is that it's upfront with you about what's wrong with it. It started out with a lot of promise, but I still spent the last half of the game waiting for it to end.

I was led to believe that Eternal Darkness was like Call of Cthulhu. It wasn't.

KOTOR on PC was far too buggy to keep my interest. My machine surpassed all of the recommended system requirements, and I still had the frame rate drop off a cliff in places.

Oh, and Monkey Island IV still makes me sad.

 

[firedfns13]

The new Prince of Persia

Absolutely this. Also the newest ace combat (AC6)'s story was a crap rehash of the psp game...

 

[theultimateend]

I had such high hopes for spore
So high...

I had modest hopes for it and they were crushed.

SPORE was my Nixon .

I'm so untrusting of the gaming industry now.

Neverwinter Nights 2. The steep system requirements were just a joke at the time that it came out - I had people advising me to get two top-of-the-range graphics cards to put in my desktop to get "average-to-high gameplay". When I finally got a computer that would handle it reasonably well, I was quite disappointed in the game. :-(

The reqs were a joke and so was the game. ALL my friends went back to NWN . I was so crushed I stopped playing all together.