"Great" games that failed to blow you away

[19]

Oh man, there's a ton. Let's see...

Mass Effect 2
Every Halo game after 2
Dragon Age Origins
Little Big Planet
Final Fantasy XIII (although I've really never been into JRPGs, except Lost Odysey,which was awesome)

 

[Sansha]

Fallout 1 and 2.

I really can't understand how so many people can love those games.

Agreed. I have no idea how the hell these games became popular enough to fund and spawn Fallout3, which was a biblical triumph of a production.

 

[Sam_Winchester]

Bioshock
GTA 4
Halo ODST
Modern Warfare 2(campaign)

all had raving reviews, but failed to grab me by the balls and draw me in within the first few missions.

 

[Dexiro]

Portal.
I found it dull, kept loosing the orientation, and it was only a few hours long.

It's overhyped, no mater what the internet says.

Is it possible that it's not overhyped and you just didn't like it?

 

[PhantomCritic]

Mirror's Edge and LittleBigPlanet. The games just didn't live up to my expectations, the ideas were good but something was missing I thought.

 

[Atvomat_Nikonov]

MAG is probably the most recent game that didn't blow me away. I tried it at a friends, because I'd heard it was meant to be amazing. I tried it, played between 10 and 20 matches and didn't like it. The guns felt horrible, did very little damage and recoil like a *****. I didn't get chance to try out the 256 player mode(because it wasn't unlocked), and that was apparently it's biggest draw. Even if I owned the game, I wouldn't have been interested enough to try and unlock that mode.

 

[Teh Ty]

Mass Effect, Modern Warfare, GTA4, Gears of war, God of war.

 

[Sky Captanio]

Left 4 Dead 1 and 2. So repetitive and boring.

Morrowind. Although I did play Oblivion first so maybe it has something to do with that.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Prototype
FallOut 3
And Heavy Rain.

 

[NoMoreBurninashun]

the original bioshock, mind you when i played bioshock 2 i thought it was great which means i may go back and play the first one again and try to look more favourably on it

 

[Iwata]

The conclusion we draw so far is that the main, great game we mostly agree to like is probably Super Mario on the NES.

And maybe Afterburner.

 

[Usurpurus]

Mass Effect definitley, I'm glad I only paid £6.50 for it but I still think it wasn't worth it. Bioshock 2, due to rendering problems and the exact same graphics as the first one, released 3 years ago, I wasn't impressed. BFBC2 for a while until I got used to it. And by far the biggest let down was Dragon Age...Oh my god what a boring, clunky game.

 

[Arikarin Aririkamei]

Mass effect, WoW, MW2 and every Fanal Fantasy game i've played. (7, 8, 10 and 13)
They just bore me so very much.

 

[T3h Merc]

Half Life 1 & 2
Dragon Age: Origins
Metroid Prime (too haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard (when I was 10)

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Half Life 2 just didn't work for me, I just didn't find it fun, for the most part. I appreciate that it was a game with a convincing world, some great characters and diverse gameplay, but I just didn't find shooting fun.

 

[lanternmiller]

Gears of War:

If it's going to be a FPS, I find it hard to play if it isn't realistic (Rainbow Six) or unrealistic (Halo/Half-Life).

By the definition of "Realistic" I mean either set on modern-day Earth and using cover to fight, by "Unrealistic" I mean anything that isn't the above. The game sets you in fighting insect monsters in apocalyptic-Earth with enourmous guns (With chainsaws on the end, come on!).... And you sit in cover to fight. Seriously?

God of War:

It's very, very pretty. It has some entertaining moments of violence. It has no story. None. Completely. It's the most standard non-descript action story ever, wrapped around what they think Greece was like.

Bioshock:

I was lead to believe it would be like Deus Ex. It was not. >.>