What's the most you've ever been dissapointed by a game?
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I was really disappointed by Oblivion. I heard a lot of hype for it, both on this site and elsewhere. I'm a huge RPG fan. And so I went into Oblivion with happy feelings, hoping to find a new addiction.
I just couldn't get into it. The game sat on my shelf for 3 years (with the constant justification that "I'll get back to it," despite the fact that I quickly abandoned it every time I popped it back in) until I finally just sold it.
So... yeah. That.
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...Okay, I think I'm ready.
I was really disappointed by Oblivion. I heard a lot of hype for it, both on this site and elsewhere. I'm a huge RPG fan. And so I went into Oblivion with happy feelings, hoping to find a new addiction.
I just couldn't get into it. The game sat on my shelf for 3 years (with the constant justification that "I'll get back to it," despite the fact that I quickly abandoned it every time I popped it back in) until I finally just sold it.
So... yeah. That.
Final fantasy X-2
The first game was a lovely, sad, sombre kind of game. The sequel turned the woman who was willing to sacrifice her life to save the world into a pop singer whose powers came from the wonders of CHANGING OUTFITS!
The first game was a lovely, sad, sombre kind of game. The sequel turned the woman who was willing to sacrifice her life to save the world into a pop singer whose powers came from the wonders of CHANGING OUTFITS!
Mass Effect. All the hype gave me impression that i'll play something 100x times better than Baldur's Gate, KOTOR, Fallout and Deus Ex all together. And all i got was dull, linear product with bad voice acting, uninteresting protagonist. Why ? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy...
Deus Ex 2: Invisible War
It was riding a huge train of hopes and dreams since the first game was like my favourite ever and I was too young an naive to know that things like Deus Ex can't be topped.
It was riding a huge train of hopes and dreams since the first game was like my favourite ever and I was too young an naive to know that things like Deus Ex can't be topped.
Eternal Sonata
I was so hyped for this game. An RPG inspired by Chopin, my favorite classical composer? Cool! Too bad the story was awful. I have never seen such a vast collection of unlikeable protagonists as there was in this game. Ever character you have is either annoying or stupid, and all conflicts in the game occur because the characters consistently pick the worst possible option in every situation. Gameplay is fine, the graphics are beautiful and the music is to die for, but everytime any character starts talking it's either a pretentious monologue about life that tries but fails to be profound, or a heavy handed social commentary that boils down to "war is bad - we should have peace instead of war!". Wow, how insightful. NOT. Either that, or they make a stupid decision and try to explain why it was a good idea, which always illicits the same response from me: "THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!" Eternal Sonata is a grand example of a potentially great game ruined by bad story.
I was so hyped for this game. An RPG inspired by Chopin, my favorite classical composer? Cool! Too bad the story was awful. I have never seen such a vast collection of unlikeable protagonists as there was in this game. Ever character you have is either annoying or stupid, and all conflicts in the game occur because the characters consistently pick the worst possible option in every situation. Gameplay is fine, the graphics are beautiful and the music is to die for, but everytime any character starts talking it's either a pretentious monologue about life that tries but fails to be profound, or a heavy handed social commentary that boils down to "war is bad - we should have peace instead of war!". Wow, how insightful. NOT. Either that, or they make a stupid decision and try to explain why it was a good idea, which always illicits the same response from me: "THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!" Eternal Sonata is a grand example of a potentially great game ruined by bad story.
Spore. I was young, and hyped, and I saw all this huge videos in game magazines where you would run around in a jungle with fighting dinosaurs ten times your size and everything - and then it was brown boring shit.
Same for me. It just didn't interest me. I had really hoped for more.SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
Also: GTA IV. Sure, it wasn't a bad game, but it just wasn't the GTA game I had been hoping for.
Fallout 3. It's the last game I ever bought 'blind' (i.e. knowing virtually nothing about it except what was on the box) and in a shop. It sounded good, it looked great... and the awful character animations, slow and unintuitive shooting and constant crashing just killed it for me.
In some other reality there's a Fallout 3 that was made with a good FPS engine, and that game is probably in my all time top 10.
In some other reality there's a Fallout 3 that was made with a good FPS engine, and that game is probably in my all time top 10.