Gaming Disappointments?
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Quake 4 was a huge disappointment for me. There was too much different, but it was strikingly familiar. It truly found the uncanny valley in my head.
Duke Nukem Forever made me want to sell my PC. It's just pure shit.
Duke Nukem Forever made me want to sell my PC. It's just pure shit.
Borderlands. I love RPGs, and I love FPSs. So why doesn't it work? My entire experience was me getting pissed off that I couldn't kill basic enemies with decent guns until level 12 because of horrendous weopon accuracy and damage, and the fact that I had to keep going back and doing side quests, just so that I could continue with the story...
...which was bland, uninteresting, and just sapped my drive to continue. In the end, I was being bombarded by a thousand pterodactyls which I could neither avoid nor shoot down and kept killing me, and I stopped playing.
However, that's just my vent - I hear it's more fun in online co-op, but none of my friends play it. Maybe I'm just playing it wrong. Doesn't excuse the fact that I couldn't easily kill half a dozen raiders on the other side of some rocks from my game start point even after 4 hours of playing.
...which was bland, uninteresting, and just sapped my drive to continue. In the end, I was being bombarded by a thousand pterodactyls which I could neither avoid nor shoot down and kept killing me, and I stopped playing.
However, that's just my vent - I hear it's more fun in online co-op, but none of my friends play it. Maybe I'm just playing it wrong. Doesn't excuse the fact that I couldn't easily kill half a dozen raiders on the other side of some rocks from my game start point even after 4 hours of playing.
FF XIII. One of the few games I bought new off the shelf, Stopped playing after 8 hours and traded the game in.
Also Red Dead Redemption I found disappointing, way too repetitive though i did play it all the way through and fairly enjoyed it, but not as much as everyone else apparently.
LA Noire was kinda disappointing too when I realized that it was sticking too strongly to the specific logic thread of a specific piece of evidence getting a specific result in an interrogation. There were times when I had collected all the evidence possible but found it too hard to figure out which specific piece of evidence was required.
Also Red Dead Redemption I found disappointing, way too repetitive though i did play it all the way through and fairly enjoyed it, but not as much as everyone else apparently.
LA Noire was kinda disappointing too when I realized that it was sticking too strongly to the specific logic thread of a specific piece of evidence getting a specific result in an interrogation. There were times when I had collected all the evidence possible but found it too hard to figure out which specific piece of evidence was required.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. The original is one of my favorite games. The second one was just an all around miss, They cut out a lot of content, could have used the source material better, and the Fusion system never worked for me. Marvel zombie that I am, I couldn't even finish it.
I'm guessing you want us to list our own gaming disappointments. I have to guess because you didn't actually say so in your OP. Also, your title has a fairly useless colon at the end of it.
Oh right, my disappointments. Uh, let's see.....MW2's multiplayer was pretty wretched, now that you mention it. Oh, and I really didn't enjoy Arkham Asylum at all. The writing was FUCKING HORRIBLE. Oh! And GTA IV wasn't as fun as it should have been. (Shut the fuck up, Roman, I'm trying to do something cool!) Oh, and New Vegas has been a bit of a letdown. I don't know why, it's about as good as Fallout 3(which I loved), I just can't get into it for some reason.
That's all I've got for now.
Really? You think you need a flameshield for that? You haven't been here very long, have you?Stealthygamer said:
Oh right, my disappointments. Uh, let's see.....MW2's multiplayer was pretty wretched, now that you mention it. Oh, and I really didn't enjoy Arkham Asylum at all. The writing was FUCKING HORRIBLE. Oh! And GTA IV wasn't as fun as it should have been. (Shut the fuck up, Roman, I'm trying to do something cool!) Oh, and New Vegas has been a bit of a letdown. I don't know why, it's about as good as Fallout 3(which I loved), I just can't get into it for some reason.
That's all I've got for now.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Brink
Homefront
Duke Nukem Forever
And good to know I'm not the only one disappointed in these games.
Brink
Homefront
Duke Nukem Forever
And good to know I'm not the only one disappointed in these games.
Funny you mention Fallout. I had precisely the same problem with New Vegas. I spent many hours in Fallout 3, but a few hours in new vegas I stopped for some reason.Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
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Too Human - To this day I still have no idea how they managed to screw it up. The idea behind the game was amazing, take Horse Mythology, turn it into a cyberpunk RPG, and add a combat system similar to devil may cry. HOW DO YOU FUCK THAT UP?!
Assassin's Creed - Never managed to finish the first game because I got bored of how repetitive it was. Thankfully the sequel brought be back and made me love the series again.
Assassin's Creed - Never managed to finish the first game because I got bored of how repetitive it was. Thankfully the sequel brought be back and made me love the series again.
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Borderlands is a ton of fun, but only if you play with friends the entire time. If not then the entire thing is incredibly boring.this isnt my name said:
Does every post need to be a question?Frozen Donkey Wheel2 said:
But I'd agree with F:NV. I, too loved Fallout 3, but with all the bugs and glitches I keep hearing about for NV, I just don't trust the game to work and cannot relax while playing.
Its already been said, but Dragon Age 2. I was so hyped for another Bioware game. After Playing Dragon Age Origins and Awakening to completion at least 10 times, i was so excited to continue my wardens story. I diden't even watch trailers, too afraid to spoil any bit of the story for myself. I pre-ordered the Signature Edition and anxiously waited for it to be released. To my disappointment when i installed the game, not only was i unable to import my favorite Elf Warden. But i was forced to play as some ponce named Hawke, who had a voice, but it was ******* Terrible. I soldered on to find that all the aspects i liked about the first game had been removed. The Upgrade and Enchanting systems, The somewhat clunky but loveable combat of the original had been replaced with bland and uninteresting. I never adventured outside of "Kirkwall" and had to replay the same dungeons over and over. I beat the game once. The story if it can be called that was crap. My choices effected absolutely nothing. The characters were bland and unlikeable. There was no Alistar or Morrigan. The game was just a huge letdown for me. Money wasted in my opinion.