Your most disappointing game experiences
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Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly. I was a huge Spyro fan and really had high hopes for the game and it turned out to be utter crap. At this point, I don't really hate it for that. I have a blast observing the bugs. However, I'm still disappointed at the lack of a reward for 100% completion. I (and many others) had posted on forums trying to figure out what the reward was and where it was, only to find out that there was none. That did make me angry.
Sonic 2k6. I'm sure I don't have to say why, but I'll just say the main points. Horrible controls, trash quality story, and having cartoony characters in "realistic" environments just clashed far too much.
I don't really play games as much as I use to, so I don't have any recent titles to mention.
Sonic 2k6. I'm sure I don't have to say why, but I'll just say the main points. Horrible controls, trash quality story, and having cartoony characters in "realistic" environments just clashed far too much.
I don't really play games as much as I use to, so I don't have any recent titles to mention.
Probably the Incredibles, my introduction to the fact that just about all movie games are crap. Following that would probably be Arc Rise Fantasia. I had heard it was similar in game play to Tales of Symphonia (which I love) but I found the magic (my favorite part of combat in most games) boring and the story rather uninteresting. Finally Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of Starry Skies. It was good at first but went on too long and got too repetitive.
thats kinda funny cause i had the exact opisite happen to me. i played mass effect loved it then went and played fallout thinking id love it too(as the reveiws were much alike) i got out of the vault and said not worth my time.Axolotl said:
well i guess different tastes?
The Force Unleashed II was far too short, with the entirety of the first planet being covered in the demo. I bought the game because the demo was fun. However, I wasn't amused by the game's ridiculously short length and returned it immediately upon finishing it.
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon was a bigger disappointment because I expected (hoped for, really) better. I wasn't expecting TFUII to be great but at least not quite so short. AC:AH was an obvious attempt to appeal to the CoD crowd, aping CoD4 to an unacceptable degree. Bear in mind that Ace Combat is an arcade flying game series.
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon was a bigger disappointment because I expected (hoped for, really) better. I wasn't expecting TFUII to be great but at least not quite so short. AC:AH was an obvious attempt to appeal to the CoD crowd, aping CoD4 to an unacceptable degree. Bear in mind that Ace Combat is an arcade flying game series.
I'm in a bit of a rush so I'll just name my number one most disappointing game.
It has to be Skyrim. I will take part of the blame for getting extremely excited for it, but it has just left me feeling cold and underwhelmed. There are a number of reasons which I do not have the time to list, but it just left me feeling really empty I guess.
EDIT: Add to that L.A. Noire. I guess mostly for the fact that the game could have been so much more, but failed to make the most of the opportunity it had. That and the ending, the ending was atrocious.
It has to be Skyrim. I will take part of the blame for getting extremely excited for it, but it has just left me feeling cold and underwhelmed. There are a number of reasons which I do not have the time to list, but it just left me feeling really empty I guess.
EDIT: Add to that L.A. Noire. I guess mostly for the fact that the game could have been so much more, but failed to make the most of the opportunity it had. That and the ending, the ending was atrocious.
i was speaking mostly of fallout 3 in that respect,but if you were refering to the first fallout in your preveous post i played that before i played mass effect and i hated the asstedics of the game and if theres a story in that game i couldnt find it.Axolotl said:
Recently... Saints Row the Third
wow was I disappointed!
I can just see the developers meeting,
"Right so we get rid of the story, the best character and everything that made the second game fun, and replace with a purple dildo!"
wow was I disappointed!
I can just see the developers meeting,
"Right so we get rid of the story, the best character and everything that made the second game fun, and replace with a purple dildo!"
Agreed, and leave it with a ending that will never be resolved!Iwata said:
Baldur's Gate.
This game has so incredibly many strong points for such an old game, and I was for the longest time capable of even overlooking all the glaring weaknesses in the combat system, and this is coming from someone who hates RNG-based combat(and hates badly balanced RNG-based combat even more). That is, until I faced one huge problem: I got completely stuck. I got surrounded by wyverns and other monsters in one patch in the forest, and any attempt on trying to leave that patch in the forest either to advance or try to get back to a city turned out to be completely impossible. The exploration part of the game was what I enjoyed the most, and that very aspect hammered me in the face for exploring too much. Gah.
This game has so incredibly many strong points for such an old game, and I was for the longest time capable of even overlooking all the glaring weaknesses in the combat system, and this is coming from someone who hates RNG-based combat(and hates badly balanced RNG-based combat even more). That is, until I faced one huge problem: I got completely stuck. I got surrounded by wyverns and other monsters in one patch in the forest, and any attempt on trying to leave that patch in the forest either to advance or try to get back to a city turned out to be completely impossible. The exploration part of the game was what I enjoyed the most, and that very aspect hammered me in the face for exploring too much. Gah.
My most disappointing game experience would be when I first bought Battalion Wars 2, only to find out that the single player campaign was only 3 hours long, and the multiplayer mode was very limited. Waiting around 3 years for this game did NOT help matters either.
I'm pretty cautious about what I buy and play, but...
1) Dragon Age 2: I didn't play it. I had it pre-ordered because I enjoyed Origins, but then EA marketing was so aggressive with its "sign up for this-or-that or lose out on game content" that I cancelled it. EA marketing and Bioware's own social network are very antagonistic toward their companies' fans. Not worth my time even if it costs me access to some games.
2) Infamous: I picked it up free from Sony after the PSN outage and discovered that I was right to avoid it in the first place. I don't like the characters and setting, the gameplay is flashy but uninvolving, and I'm obviously not the right kind of gamer for it. It's not a bad game, but I just couldn't find anything about it to keep me interested.
1) Dragon Age 2: I didn't play it. I had it pre-ordered because I enjoyed Origins, but then EA marketing was so aggressive with its "sign up for this-or-that or lose out on game content" that I cancelled it. EA marketing and Bioware's own social network are very antagonistic toward their companies' fans. Not worth my time even if it costs me access to some games.
2) Infamous: I picked it up free from Sony after the PSN outage and discovered that I was right to avoid it in the first place. I don't like the characters and setting, the gameplay is flashy but uninvolving, and I'm obviously not the right kind of gamer for it. It's not a bad game, but I just couldn't find anything about it to keep me interested.
Without a doubt it would be Duke Nukem: Forever. Or Battlefield 3. I mean DNF everyone knew would flop, but I had faith! I was wrong... BF3 was a real shocker.. The hype carried on until after its release so I had no reason to think it would be bad. But somehow it was... mehfeeqmatic said:
Probably The Force Unleashed 2. The way they showed everything of and advertised it, i had rather high hopes.Like they said that different enemies would mean a more complex way of doing battle, but in the end it was just "defeat enemy x with attack Y" all the time. It looked cool and graphics were really great (i just like to be able to say: wow, this is a well rendered tree). The first one i liked, i just got frustrated with the long loading times everytime i wanted to get into a menu. But yeah, it was disappointing.
It was really short and felt kind of stiff to me (i'm sure there's a penis joke in there somewhere).
Fable. I had just finished playing Oblivion when i started it. It just felt ridiculous to me that i would get blocked by a fence, because i had previously thought it to be open world. It felt like i didn't have enough freedom, it wasn't really RPG and more action and all in all it just felt a bit bland to me. I had the same problem with Dragon Age: Origins, but after trying to play it a second time, it is easily now in my list of favourite games, due to it's execution of a rather cliché story. But boy, the execution of it was great.
Fallout New Vegas. I must say I haven't played the first 2 and appearently it resembles the first 2 more in its storyline, but to me it didn't feel "post apocalyptic" enough. First time i went outside of vault 101 in fallout 3 and had a first glimps of the wasteland i had kind of a "
" feeling. Somehow it felt more depressing to me.
It was really short and felt kind of stiff to me (i'm sure there's a penis joke in there somewhere).
Fable. I had just finished playing Oblivion when i started it. It just felt ridiculous to me that i would get blocked by a fence, because i had previously thought it to be open world. It felt like i didn't have enough freedom, it wasn't really RPG and more action and all in all it just felt a bit bland to me. I had the same problem with Dragon Age: Origins, but after trying to play it a second time, it is easily now in my list of favourite games, due to it's execution of a rather cliché story. But boy, the execution of it was great.
Fallout New Vegas. I must say I haven't played the first 2 and appearently it resembles the first 2 more in its storyline, but to me it didn't feel "post apocalyptic" enough. First time i went outside of vault 101 in fallout 3 and had a first glimps of the wasteland i had kind of a "
" feeling. Somehow it felt more depressing to me.I think that my largest gaming disappointment would have to be Dissidia 012: Final Fantasy. But it isn't for the reasons most would think given how it is basically a glorified expansion to the original. Hell, it even went as far as to include the original's campaign in it. It's probably because I never played the original so I didn't feel as cheated as those who did.
No my reason is the loading. Even with the data install it sill takes quite a long time to load on my 1k. I will admit that it is a pretty fun game, but the loading combined with the mandatory grinding to unlock everything, it makes it quite trying.
To make it more playable I ripped the full game to my memory stick and grabbed a 100% Dissidia 1 file, so that I'd have at the very least all the extra bonus XP and the like and make progression faster, even after the Exdeath grind abuse.
My other disappointments would be Pokemon and the other Final Fantasy games, but that's more of my stupidity and wishful thinking and quite a bit of brain washing on their part. I swear I walk into the store and walk out with the game in hand, not knowing exactly what happened. So at home when I have the game already, I play it hoping it'll be good again, but it isn't. I'm just glad I got FFXIII now though, and not at launch because otherwise I'd be extremely pissed. Now, having only bought it for seven bucks I can enjoy it as an interesting but shitty little game.
No my reason is the loading. Even with the data install it sill takes quite a long time to load on my 1k. I will admit that it is a pretty fun game, but the loading combined with the mandatory grinding to unlock everything, it makes it quite trying.
To make it more playable I ripped the full game to my memory stick and grabbed a 100% Dissidia 1 file, so that I'd have at the very least all the extra bonus XP and the like and make progression faster, even after the Exdeath grind abuse.
My other disappointments would be Pokemon and the other Final Fantasy games, but that's more of my stupidity and wishful thinking and quite a bit of brain washing on their part. I swear I walk into the store and walk out with the game in hand, not knowing exactly what happened. So at home when I have the game already, I play it hoping it'll be good again, but it isn't. I'm just glad I got FFXIII now though, and not at launch because otherwise I'd be extremely pissed. Now, having only bought it for seven bucks I can enjoy it as an interesting but shitty little game.
Most people have said this already but Dragon Age II:
I hate most of the party (varric had some good moments). Even in Awakening the party was great! Anders, Sigrun and Nathaniel were great! Then they brought Anders into II and removed his sense of humor entirely.
Also Hawke is a jerk even if you are good-guy Hawke.
I hate most of the party (varric had some good moments). Even in Awakening the party was great! Anders, Sigrun and Nathaniel were great! Then they brought Anders into II and removed his sense of humor entirely.
Also Hawke is a jerk even if you are good-guy Hawke.
Two words Devil Survivor , I mean for an Atlus game to be filled with so many bugs was truly a disappointing turn, and it just repeated it's self with Overclocked.
Oblivion was a broken piece of crap. Here's an excerpt of a review I wrote,
Posted a second time because apparently sensitivities run high here...
GAMEPLAY 1/10 - Now, Oblivion was such a major disaster because it had two separate opportunities to be great, and it failed on both fronts.
ROLE PLAYING - The enemy/loot level scaling was the worst I've ever encountered. I couldn't even suspend my disbelief and pretend everything was cool and I was enjoying my vacation in Cyrodiil. At level 1 you could explore EVERYWHERE and even beat the game, although you'd do it with a rusty sword and a potato sack, because at level 1 you will neither find a challenge nor find semi-decent loot. Once I realized that there was nothing to fear (nor gain) in the depths of any ruin, cave, region, or oblivion, and it was actually my advancing level that posed a danger (or presented treasure), I was through. I got about 1/3 through before the visual beauty wore off and my boredom couldn't let me continue. The level scaling renders EVERY aspect of the character development useless, so there really is no point in talking about character development and skill points. It is THE DEAL BREAKER with this game.
In Morrowind, finding great equipment was a fantastic experience, but you will NEVER find great equipment in Oblivion until you reach the required level to "unlock" it, and then every bandit you encounter will be wearing Deadric Armor. This makes the unique satisfaction of picking off a higher level enemy and jacking him up for his goods something you will not experience.
There are a few other RPG gameplay issues that are present, but I don't really remember them, and they weren't the atrocious, flagrant foul that this enemy/loot level scaling is.
ACTION - Well, this is a First Person Real Time Role Playing Game, so action is one of the two major components of gameplay, and sadly this game fails at being an action game as well. I know the action element can't be that great in a game such as this because it could render the role playing element obsolete, but with the level scaling and all, you don't really need to worry about being so good at the "combat" that you are outperforming much higher level enemies, because, honestly, you will NEVER encounter a much high level enemy.
Posted a second time because apparently sensitivities run high here...
GAMEPLAY 1/10 - Now, Oblivion was such a major disaster because it had two separate opportunities to be great, and it failed on both fronts.
ROLE PLAYING - The enemy/loot level scaling was the worst I've ever encountered. I couldn't even suspend my disbelief and pretend everything was cool and I was enjoying my vacation in Cyrodiil. At level 1 you could explore EVERYWHERE and even beat the game, although you'd do it with a rusty sword and a potato sack, because at level 1 you will neither find a challenge nor find semi-decent loot. Once I realized that there was nothing to fear (nor gain) in the depths of any ruin, cave, region, or oblivion, and it was actually my advancing level that posed a danger (or presented treasure), I was through. I got about 1/3 through before the visual beauty wore off and my boredom couldn't let me continue. The level scaling renders EVERY aspect of the character development useless, so there really is no point in talking about character development and skill points. It is THE DEAL BREAKER with this game.
In Morrowind, finding great equipment was a fantastic experience, but you will NEVER find great equipment in Oblivion until you reach the required level to "unlock" it, and then every bandit you encounter will be wearing Deadric Armor. This makes the unique satisfaction of picking off a higher level enemy and jacking him up for his goods something you will not experience.
There are a few other RPG gameplay issues that are present, but I don't really remember them, and they weren't the atrocious, flagrant foul that this enemy/loot level scaling is.
ACTION - Well, this is a First Person Real Time Role Playing Game, so action is one of the two major components of gameplay, and sadly this game fails at being an action game as well. I know the action element can't be that great in a game such as this because it could render the role playing element obsolete, but with the level scaling and all, you don't really need to worry about being so good at the "combat" that you are outperforming much higher level enemies, because, honestly, you will NEVER encounter a much high level enemy.
I was actually a bit disappointed with Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. I felt like the story could have went in so many bigger and better directions. There was very little backstory, and while that could be considered to be part of the whole isolated feel of the game, I really wanted to know more about the characters and the world, and didn't get that from the story. I also thought the freerunning was a little wonky and really restricted, but that wasn't very bothersome, because that wasn't the real focus of the game. I just wish it could have been a bit longer, and went more in-depth. I also really loved what they tried to do in the end, but I just didn't feel like the game had given enough time for there to be enough buildup to make the ending as thoughtful and deep as it could have been.