Games you thought you'd love but you turned out hating them.
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Napoleon total war: since my first day of playing medievla total war i have wished for a napoleon entery, and after rome and another medieval i was feeling distraught, then i heard of empire, and although it wasnt exactly the right time frame i was ok with that, and i even built my pc so that it would run it well, i enjoyed it enough but i still wished they would do napoleon. then they announced it, i was so excited, so happy, and the best thing they announced, a uniform editor, i had great ideas about the untis of redcoats i would personalise like i was a colonel that had just raised his own regiment, but then when the game shipped it wasnt there, and it still hasnt been released, and now with shogan 2 coming along i doubt we will see it, and im so disappoingted
Games I thought I would love but ended up hating -
Command & Conquer 4
Zelda: Twilight Princess (had moments, but not many)
Half Life 2
Modern Warfare 2 (I enjoyed the snow level)
Dragon Age: Origins (I did like it for a few hours somewhere in the middle)
Okami
Grand Theft Auto 4
Metroid Prime
NOTE: Most of the those games are very good it was my pre-conception of what I thought they were going to be that led me to be disappointed.
However, some games I didn't think much of at first, but ended up loving -
Half Life 2: Episode 2
Assassin's Creed
Mass Effect
Shadow Complex
Left 4 Dead
EDIT: Yes add to the disappointment list - Lord of the Rings: Conquest
Command & Conquer 4
Zelda: Twilight Princess (had moments, but not many)
Half Life 2
Modern Warfare 2 (I enjoyed the snow level)
Dragon Age: Origins (I did like it for a few hours somewhere in the middle)
Okami
Grand Theft Auto 4
Metroid Prime
NOTE: Most of the those games are very good it was my pre-conception of what I thought they were going to be that led me to be disappointed.
However, some games I didn't think much of at first, but ended up loving -
Half Life 2: Episode 2
Assassin's Creed
Mass Effect
Shadow Complex
Left 4 Dead
EDIT: Yes add to the disappointment list - Lord of the Rings: Conquest
The original Assassins Creed and Half Life 2. I went in to both hearing such good things about both of them, but assassins creed was boring and repetitive, and half life was nothing special to me. Everything it did, I knew of other games that did it better.
Sucks too, cuz I was looking forward to them.
Sucks too, cuz I was looking forward to them.
Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts - I don't think I've ever been let down by a game as much as that. I thought it would be awesome to tinker with the vehicles, like playing Lego. Then I played it and realised I had to do a boring collection quest before I could start building the vehicles, and couldn't use them most of the time anyway.
Red Dead Redemption - Just the multiplayer really, after seeing the multiplayer trailer i was hyped but then after playing it with a few friends i realised it was just.....boring.
Far Cry 2 - Watching videos online would make you think the games awesome, but after playing for about 2 hours you realise your essentially just gonna be repeating the same 2 hours for the rest of the game.
MW2 - "That guy on the other team got alot of kills with his chopper gunner, it doesnt matter though we're still 20 kills infront
......whats that beeping sound? :s ........ WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE LOST :|"
Spiderman 3 - Spiderman 2 on the PS2 was one of my favourite games, i thought the jump up to the next gen consoles would only make it even better.....i was wrong.
Far Cry 2 - Watching videos online would make you think the games awesome, but after playing for about 2 hours you realise your essentially just gonna be repeating the same 2 hours for the rest of the game.
MW2 - "That guy on the other team got alot of kills with his chopper gunner, it doesnt matter though we're still 20 kills infront
......whats that beeping sound? :s ........ WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE LOST :|"Spiderman 3 - Spiderman 2 on the PS2 was one of my favourite games, i thought the jump up to the next gen consoles would only make it even better.....i was wrong.
Never got the whole hate against oblivion... I literally played it five minutes ago, and I don't think I've ever clocked more time in any game! (Maybe WoW, but that doesn't count, due to it being shit.)
OT: MW2. The campaign had it's moments, but it was short as hell. The multiplayer was just not fun, and I really had high hopes after months of listening to my friends talking about how it's the greatest game evvar :\ Meh...
OT: MW2. The campaign had it's moments, but it was short as hell. The multiplayer was just not fun, and I really had high hopes after months of listening to my friends talking about how it's the greatest game evvar :\ Meh...
Mass Effect 1. It was supposed to be KotOR without the turn based. Instead I got plagued with buggy AI, crappy combat, bad inventory management and copy paste side missions. Surprisingly the thing that bothered me the most was the fact that I couldn't switch to my teammates like I could in KotOR. However Mass Effect 2 was better for me and made me glad I worked though ME1.
Worst character development I have ever seen. I loved the story, I loved the gameplay, I HATED MY TEAM! And that ending was BS, which leads back to hating my team. Resistance 2 was far better in my opinion.IamSofaKingRaw said:You didn't like Kilzone 2?InfernoJesus said:
Killzone 2 (Never played the first one) and God of War 1 and 2(The HD remake for the PS3 that comes with the silm) I got these 2 games cause I was told they were one of the best games on the PS3. Instead what I get is a lesson in what "GENERIC FIRST PERSON SHOOTER" means, and a crappy version of Dynasty warriors with some blood and tits.
Half life 2 and oblivion at least. I mean its a decent game sure but seems from my view to get way to much praise. Nothing really amazing about it, just my opinion of course don't kill me. Oblivion was eh... People really love it but I just could not get into it. The level up system and bugs were a pain and frankly I had no idea what i was doing lol. I like games that just throw you into the world and say "Well have fun" but I could never get the hang of it. The combat system especially I never really got.
I never really enjoyed Lost Planet (the original). Thing is, I don't even know what it is I don't like about it!
Fallout 3: The reviews claimed a good story and fun gameplay, then I get the game and it railroads me from plot-point to plot-point and offers me little to no choice or input in anything. Then I find out that the GECK in Fallout 2 was a brief-case filled with seeds, dirt, and water. It wasn't a magical genesis device. So this was supposed to be a Fallout game? Then how did they f*ck-up a main plot point?!
fallout 3, transformers: wfc, guitar hero world tour, butal legend, avp 2010
oh and coming in at the top of the list for biggest excitment and anticipation and the biggest let down is 'drum roll please'
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FABLE 2. (games never seem to live up to the hype or my expectations now days so i just try to expect the worst then im rarely dissapointed when i waste another 80 dollors on a worthless shiny frisbee)
but having said that there is also the flip side and there have been some games that got almost no exposure and i wasnt hyped for at all that have absolutely blown me away.
oh and coming in at the top of the list for biggest excitment and anticipation and the biggest let down is 'drum roll please'
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FABLE 2. (games never seem to live up to the hype or my expectations now days so i just try to expect the worst then im rarely dissapointed when i waste another 80 dollors on a worthless shiny frisbee)
but having said that there is also the flip side and there have been some games that got almost no exposure and i wasnt hyped for at all that have absolutely blown me away.
I'm going to have to go with Fable 1 & 2 as my biggest disappointment. I was lured by the hope of a real in-depth experience for the first, but was let down by failed promises.
I got suckered in to Fable 2 because I'm an idiot and listened to Peter Molyneux talk about how THIS one was going to be different. It wasn't and again... I was disappointed.
Other games I didn't care for was Halo 3. I basically played through it to complete the story, but was bored after that and barely touched online multiplayer.
Half Life 2 was a big disappointment because everyone said it was awesome and I thought it was mediocre at best.
Hyping up games just leaves you further to fall. Now, if there's a game I want to play I don't read too much about it so I can enjoy it as is. I find this helps some, but not all of the time.
I got suckered in to Fable 2 because I'm an idiot and listened to Peter Molyneux talk about how THIS one was going to be different. It wasn't and again... I was disappointed.
Other games I didn't care for was Halo 3. I basically played through it to complete the story, but was bored after that and barely touched online multiplayer.
Half Life 2 was a big disappointment because everyone said it was awesome and I thought it was mediocre at best.
Hyping up games just leaves you further to fall. Now, if there's a game I want to play I don't read too much about it so I can enjoy it as is. I find this helps some, but not all of the time.
The Nazis where just a German political party. The Wehrmact was the standard Armed Forces. So playing as a Nazi means filing a bunch of papers and enforcing propaganda, so hell no-- that would be boring. Playing as a Wehrmact solder, still no because WWII games are only fun for so long. And regardless as a Wehrmact solder, Your fate is already set out, you die. either it be in Russia or any other Eastern European country.
Borderlands - I was psyched for this. The concept was awesome. The trailers were incredible. The guns shot lightning. It was going to be super magic co-op multiplayer happy fun times. Unfortunately the single player is fairly repetitive, and the multiplayer is criminally flawed for it's lack of basic loot distribution systems, server browsers, etc. Especially for the PC - ugly console port fingerprints abound. I really do believe that this could have been huge, but Gearbox just couldn't deliver on the details to realize that potential.
Oblivion - I was really hoping to like this one. There're a lot of borderline parts to the game that brought it down for me: weak central plot, stilted/eerie NPC conversations, repetitive dungeons. The straw that broke my back was the fatal combination of the unintuitive skill-based leveling system and auto-scaling monsters. So I spend two levels working on lockpicking, stealth, and alchemy and now everything's pounding me into the ground?! Not cool.
Far Cry 2 - Far Cry had no story, but it was awesome. I loved it. Beautiful before its time, and a solid shooter. Far Cry 2 promised an even more open world, more of a story, player choice, enhanced environmental/vehicle effects, etc. It should have been great. It wasn't. The unskippable railroad intro sucked. The illusion of player choice sucked. The missions sucked. The voice acting was horrendous. But particularly, the driving S U C K E D. I couldn't STAND having to spend so much time driving from one side of the map to the other with one eye on the map and the other eye on the Hummer chasing me. Total fail. And why did they even put the Far Cry name on it? No connection to the first.
Oblivion - I was really hoping to like this one. There're a lot of borderline parts to the game that brought it down for me: weak central plot, stilted/eerie NPC conversations, repetitive dungeons. The straw that broke my back was the fatal combination of the unintuitive skill-based leveling system and auto-scaling monsters. So I spend two levels working on lockpicking, stealth, and alchemy and now everything's pounding me into the ground?! Not cool.
Far Cry 2 - Far Cry had no story, but it was awesome. I loved it. Beautiful before its time, and a solid shooter. Far Cry 2 promised an even more open world, more of a story, player choice, enhanced environmental/vehicle effects, etc. It should have been great. It wasn't. The unskippable railroad intro sucked. The illusion of player choice sucked. The missions sucked. The voice acting was horrendous. But particularly, the driving S U C K E D. I couldn't STAND having to spend so much time driving from one side of the map to the other with one eye on the map and the other eye on the Hummer chasing me. Total fail. And why did they even put the Far Cry name on it? No connection to the first.
I didn't hear much hype about it, just one good review but one day I decided to get the DS remake of FFIII and it was just awful I hated it and I used an Action Replay code to finish it.
Also I waited for ages to get Pokepark WII Pikachu's Adventure, I am a huge Pokemon fan and I was really looking forward to a 3d Pokemon game with real time battles and when I finally got it, it wasn't bad and I don't really regret buying it but it was nowhere near as good as I expected.
Also I waited for ages to get Pokepark WII Pikachu's Adventure, I am a huge Pokemon fan and I was really looking forward to a 3d Pokemon game with real time battles and when I finally got it, it wasn't bad and I don't really regret buying it but it was nowhere near as good as I expected.