Your most disappointing game experiences

[Vanilla_Druid]

For me, it was Wrecking Crew. I was expecting some cool action game, but all they gave me was a puzzle game that was not all that good. I like puzzle games, but this one was just so much of a snore that I wish I could have my 500 Wii points refunded (yes, I spend most of money on the Virtual Console because it is much cheaper than buying new games).

 

[Treblaine]

I'm with you on Metal Gear Solid 4, I thought MGS2 was just a bad fluke after MGS3 did really well but god, I wouldn't mind the 30 hours of cutscenes if they were any bloody good. And Raiden's return, pah. But after MGS2 I never had THAT much faith in Metal Gear, I always suspected it would completely lose it.

Biggest disappointment that went against every expectation has to be Modern Warfare 2. God, COD4 was so good, it was raw, authentic, so well paced in both the single player and the multiplayer yet the sequel just went crazy. Dual-weld G-18s everywhere, tactical nukes and endless waves of overpowered air-support.

I didn't hate Modern Warfare 2, but as fas as disappointment of how far down actuality came from expectation it's up/down there with MGS2.

 

[BarbaricGoose]

Brink & Dragon Age 2.

Brink looked great, but it wasn't... it was terrible. The original Dragon Age was amazing, so I expected the sequel to be even better, it wasn't. This is on consoles, mind you. The combat was repetitive, the story was incoherent, and there was no sense of building tension. It was like 3 or 4 short, mediocre games in one.

Oh, and the bad guys should stop restocking & living in that one cave/house. I must've cleared those two places like 30 times each. Bad guys, right? Yeeeeeeesh...

Edit: surprised to see people didn't like MGS4. I loved that game. MGS3 is my favorite, but close behind is MGS4. I'm not ashamed to admit I cried a little bit at the end.

 

[citrusfr00t]

TWO WORDS...
TWO WORLDS


worst game I have ever played.. D:

 

[Blade1130]

Only one thing comes to mind, when I played through Deus Ex the first time.

Spoiler: Minor Spoilers

When you get to China you have to find a sword to stop a gang war for some reason that totally makes sense. They tell you some woman named Maggie has it, so I went to her apartment and she said this other guy had it. On my way out I noticed there was a small square extruding from the wall and upon inspection, I noticed it was a button to a hidden room. I opened it and went inside, finding a few soldiers, but I wasn't entirely sure what faction they were with and didn't want to start a firefight in there. There was a door that I would've needed to hack but I didn't want to waste the multi-tools since I only barely had enough and decided to back out. I clearly wasn't supposed to have found that place yet and I didn't want to get over my head.

Later I found the guy who Miss Maggie led me to, and he revealed that she had tricked me and she really had the sword the whole time. I was like "Mother F**ker! I saw that room and I didn't explore it! Grr, I'm such an idiot!". I promptly went back to her place, went into the secret room I already knew about, and (son of a b*tch) it was right behind the door I didn't hack. I was so close to finding the sword before checking the guys place to begin with. Bear in mind, when you go back to her place the second time, she is absent, but if I found the sword the first time through she would've still be there and been forced to answer to me.

Can't really blame the game for it, but that was definitely the most dissapointing experience I can thing of.

Besides that, I'd give an honorable mention to Grand Theft Auto 4, it really is quite an amazing game, if they wouldn't keep throwing t*tt jokes around the entire time.

 

[PotluckBrigand]

Front Mission Evolved.

I'm not sure what there is to say, really. I loved all of the Turn-Based Front Mission games (even and indeed ESPECIALLY FM4), but I like robot action games too so I was happy to give FM:E a chance, but it was short, boring, and... well... short.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

Rage, I had such high hopes for the game and I needed up having to force myself to finish it.

MW2, I was ape-shit for this game and I was in denial for about the first 3 week's telling myself it was so great, then it hit me hard that the game was just suck.

Pokemon Black/White, it has the least interesting generation of pokemon.

 

[deth2munkies]

Gonna get flamed to hell for this, but I don't care:

DotA 2

I played DotA for a long time and 2-3 years almost exclusively, from EX all the way through Allstars 6.something. I got into the beta, really excited to see what Valve did with it, and the answer is nothing. I'm playing on my 10 year old engine with nothing different from WC3. I wanted an updated game where they fixed all the annoying glitches, not a carbon copy that gives nothing to the genre but a better matchmaking system. I was disappointed enough to just straight uninstall it.

Other games that I've uninstalled before beating recently are:

The Witcher - The controls are too bad, menu system is too unintuitive, unplayable game.

Majesty 2 - If I hadn't paid $5 for it I'd be pissed, I loved Majesty 1, and 2 is just an expansion pack with slightly better graphics. There aren't even a lot of new units and those that are suck.

Heroes V - It's just...not as good as the old ones.

Alpha Protocol - I got it for $2 so I'm not THAT mad, but the alarm minigame was just so terrible that I couldn't beat the tutorial. I quit right there.

 

[deckpunk]

I would like to state that I didn't hate any of the following. The word "hate" is thrown around far too much these days.However I was disappointed with them. (There is a difference between the two.)

a) Call of Duty modern warfare 2 and onwards. The original modern warfare was great, the campaign was gripping and the multiplayer absorbing. The follow up 'world at war' was pretty good too. But then, year after year the same song and dance. It's a shame really, with all the hate these games receive, anyone could be forgiven for forgetting that this was a good series. Hell, it still is. The games are well made and fun but I've played them before many times. Perhaps what is most upsetting is that the constant barrage of yearly franchise releases is only hurting these great series. For example...

b) Assassins creed revalations. I loved assassins creed 2, but brotherhood felt hollow and tacked on. Revelations felt pointless. I traded the game in the same day I bought it, and I probably won't bother with AC3.

c)Guitar Hero/The whole rock band thing-ma-bob. Again two fun series driven into the ground by constant releases. That and everyone was getting sick of plastic crap clogging up their houses. Dj hero could fuck right off because my closet is full.

d) Tony Hawks series. Same problem as the 3 above. A good idea milked to death. Tony Hawk ride was blasted by critcs and gamers alike but it was proving ground that made me give up on all skateboarding games.

e) Final Fantasy 12. The gambit system...

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/09/08

f) Borderlands. I am not saying this is a bad game but my friends and I found it repetitive and when you play singleplayer its hard not to notice that there is NO STORY TO THIS GAME! I am not really into mmorpgs so I am probably not its target audience but it was still a letdown.

g) Tekken 6. Tekken 5 was perfection... tekken 6 was a big step backward... Actually I take back what I said.I FUCKING HATE TEKKEN 6!

 

[krellen]

Mass Effect 2.

Based on the feeling of glory and optimism I got from the end of Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 was the first game in my 25+ years of gaming that I ever pre-ordered. As reward for my purchase, I got tight, brown corridors instead of sweeping alien vistas, mind-numbing planet probing instead of chaotic bouncing exploration, cover-based shooting instead of stat-based awesomeness, and ammunition limits instead of limitless firing potential. And one of the stupidest stories I've ever seen in a game. The "end boss" made me cringe.

Mass Effect set a pretty high bar for me, and Mass Effect 2 not only failed to clear it, but ran smack dab into the bar and gave itself a concussion instead.

 

[tsb247]

I want to keep this as short as possible:

Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising

Thank you

I'm gonna agree with you there. That game could have been great, but Codemasters delivered a steaming pile of crap.

 

[Darth Rahu]

Amy, it had crap everything... yeah that's about it.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Dragon Age 2 - I loved Dragon Age: Origins it's one of my favourite RPG's to come out this generation. I was really looking forward to Dragon Age 2, I went into it expecting more of the first game but what I got was a 30 hour long game of going in and out the same 7 copy pasted rooms.

Brink - This wasn't a terrible game, it was just terribly broken. I did enjoy it when it worked but when it was released it's multiplayer was pretty much unplayable due to crippling lag and connection time outs and by time they got it sorted everyone had stopped playing it.

Too Human - I was expecting this to be great, I was horribly mistaken. To this day it remains the worst game I have ever played.

 

[sumanoskae]

Dragon Age II...

I'm generally not easy to disappoint. Not because I'm cynical, but because I'm good at estimating the value of the games I buy. I keep up with gaming news and spend a lot of time thinking about how games work. So when my friends buy games and get disappointed, I'm usually the one who says "I told you so".

However, when it comes to Bioware, Rockstar and Bethesda, I admit that I do harbor some unhealthy optimism... But it didn't fucking matter because all the good things shown about DAII were true, it's just that they neglected to mention that it would be populated by cardboard cutouts. A lot of the gameplay ideas were pretty good, the cross class combos, the friendship vs rivalry in place of a binary like/hate bar. They weren't all handled well, but they were interesting. However, in the end, I couldn't bring myself to give a FUCK about ANY of my party members. They weren't just generic, they were one note. They all had one personality trait and a dark ambition or desire(Most of them didn't even have that, so they lacked in the most basic of character traits, motivation), that they recycled over and OVER, ad nauseom. Anyone that I started out liking I just got so fucking TIRED of.

They weren't so much characters as straw men held together with angst and "Witty" dialogue(Practically everything that came out of their mouths outside of dialogue was a joke). On top of that, the plot ranged from unfocused to non-existent(It only ever picked up in the last few hours, but that had more to do with my existing connection to the first game), the combat had some good ideas, but was garish and often repetitive, the side quests were predictable, and some of the voice acting was even a little sloppy.

Let me repeat that, BIOWARE, released a game, in which the VOICE ACTING, was less than stellar... THIS CANNOT HAPPEN.

The only time the game ever got a reaction from me was when I ran into my old party members from Origins and wished I could join with them and play as my Warden again...

So DAII is the only game I've ever played to make me sad by accident.

 

[Dangit2019]

Black Ops.

Great story, believe it or not, but the gameplay is just dull, dull, and served with an extra side dish of boring and ugly.

 

[Volstag9]

Darkest of Days.

For those who do not know, it was a game where you traveled back in time to major battles and wars such as World War One to Custer's Last Stand. Instead of just fighting them with period weaponry, you could also bring back modern day assault rifles and rocket launchers.

When I first saw the game previewed in a magazine i thought it was the next great thing. While the premise was indeed good, it had very odd graphics and animation. The story had numerous holes in it. They whole package just seemed rushed. I still had fun but it was nothing like the grand visions i had when i first heard about it.

Honorable mention goes to Mercenaries 2 for being a buggy mess. I preordered that title, big mistake. I never preordered anything again.

 

[Chalacachaca]

Mercenaries 2, I loved the first one and having the chance to blow up my own country? even better, and my own PMC would help me with that. Besides, I could only imagine dropping napalm bombs in the sabanas and the eastern plains, dodging bullets in the meridian moors, riding a tank in the metropolis of Caracas and the surrouding shanty town of El Cerro, and finally conducting guerilla warfare in the amazonan jungles.

Then the game came out, and my first gripe was my hometown. I've lived 24 years in Maracaibo and I haven't seen the first mountain and jungle around here, but for some reason that's what surrounds it in that game apparently. I didn't mind that.
Then I visit other parts of Venezuela, only to find out that it's the same landscape, mountains, jungle, mountains, jungle, montains, jungle...

Now its story is quite offensive, Solano (a guy clearly modelled after Manuel Rosales, a presidential candidate who opposed Chavez and lost) betrays the main character after rescuing a general called Carmona (who shares the name with a military leader who was agaisnt Chavez and was forced to flee the country back in 2002-2003).
The Venezuelan liberation army consist on guys with red berets... a predominant element in chavizmo, and they seem to embrace communism too.

Since I wasn't enjoying the game, I decided to read the story online and noticed that after you beat the game the developers thanked the bolivarian "revolution" with "A better world is neccesary"

I stopped playing after that, they may as well praise Bush for his "outstading crusade for keeping the world safe from weapons of mass destruction".

 

[arnoldthebird]

Dragon Age II was very mediocre, it was not necessarily bad...just disappointing because I expect more from BioWare, and ME3 better have a good story because I didn't enjoy the combat mechanics in the demo.

So yeah, I expected more and was ultimately disappointed, lost so much potential

 

[Thaius]

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

I'm actually returning to this now with the HD collection in hopes of actually beating it, and it is easily the most terrible sequel I have ever played. Sands of Time is a masterpiece, a truly great example of both fluid, well-realized gameplay and nuanced, well-written storytelling. Warrior Within decided to get hardcore and dark for absolutely no reason.

Not to say that's an inherently bad move. It's been done correctly plenty of times before (my personal best example is Jak II), but this is just poorly done. The "Persian rock" sound of the music has been replaced with generic grunge rock. Combat features graphic gore for no reason. The Prince himself is angry and violent for no apparent reason. The dialogue is littered with profanity, again for no reason. The character design is overtly sexual, also with no reason. Now this is all fine in a darker context, but the context isn't darker at all. The story isn't dealing with any mature themes, it's just trying to be all dark and trendy to no benefit (and thus to the detriment) of its overall mood and story. It's outright pretentiousness, though not in the form we usually use it in; pretentiousness is basically trying to be all deep without having actually earned it, and this tries to be all dark and mature without actually giving us any mature substance.

As I said, the worst sequel I've ever played.

 

[The Heik]

I know that this has already been stated, but I'd say Brink.

I was hoping for a game that put a twist on standard shooter combat by making more use of the environment. What I got was a samey shooter that had a glorified jump button. What a waste of money.