Your Single Biggest Disappointment Gaming Wise.

[Daveofarabia]

The ending of "GhostHunter" on the PS2...

It was so good and then it wasn't and then it ended and now there's a hole inside where the ending that game deserved should've been.

 

[Iwata]

Biggest surprise? Alien Isolation. The IGN review scared me

Don't worry, you're not the only one. That IGN review is now infamous, and even they had to make a video with the reviewer and his buddies trying to justify their pathetic reasoning for why they gave the game such a low score.

Bear in mind that for a while, they were the lowest published review for Alien: Isolation, and the HIGHEST for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Pretty much tells you all you need to know about IGN.

 

[Inazuma1]

Warhammer 40k: Fire Warrior for the PS2.

I've played through that game and it becomes a fucking riot when the Chaos Space Marines show up. When I first saw them I started laughing because I couldn't tell what legion they were from (I later figured out they looked like Word Bearers,) and started calling them the 'Lost Traiter Legion: Generic Marines.' The final boss fight absolutely takes the cake for how nonsensical and insultingly piss easy it is. You fight a freaking Lord of Change with a sniper railgun and win after about 10-12 shots. Then the game just ends with an FMV exterminatus.

Anyway. Biggest gaming disappointment. And I can only choose one. Final Fantasy XII. XIII is complete ass but XII was the progenitor that predated the series's fall from grace. While I loved the setting and large populated cities I couldn't take more than a couple hours of the game before saying "Fuck this," and just quitting. It's the only Final Fantasy game that didn't hook me in. Not that it didn't try, it just failed because it expected me to explore the world while putting up with the band of pricks it makes you follow. Nobody in the game has any real personality and having to play as Vaan is just insulting. Balthier is the only interesting one but he's completely underutilized and shunted aside for Vaan to act like a jackass or Basch to brood or Ashe to be holier than thou. When the group made it to Balthier's airship I kept expecting someone there to ask why this group of adults were bringing along a teenage rent boy and his worthless friend. When nobody did and I had to walk around another city listening to Vaan say he was Captain Basch I just said "That does it," and turned it off.

 

[Bizzaro Stormy]

I don't think it's fair to say disappointment since it has nothing to do with the game and everything to do with my opinion of the game. It takes a lot for me to return a game but Manhunt went back to the store within hours of my purchasing of it. The basic idea I could get behind. The thought of listening to the Director purring with obscene pleasure every time I killed an enemy was nauseating.

 

[UknowwhatUR]

Fable 3. Say what you will about Fable 2's ending but at least the rest of the game was enjoyable and a step up from the first game. Fable 3 felt like a cheap cash in that killed my interested in the series. Honorable mention goes to Advent Rising. Advertising one's game as a Halo killer which would span multiple games only to be a Halo clone that got the ax after one was a pretty impressive implosion.

 

[Jeteye]

Transistor. I feel bad for saying that since Bastion is one of my all time favorite games but ya it was a disappointment. Transistor isn't a bad game it just never clicked for me. My big issue the story. Bastion got me hooked at the start and kept me wanting to see more. Transistor's story just can't grab me. It's convoluted and a mystery and I just don't care. Maybe it gets better later on but I don't care anymore. I do love the art style and the isometric view. It looks really good and I was following it since Super Giant Games first announced the project. Like Yahtzee said I had to force myself to play more. Since reviewing it isn't my job I can't force myself to finish it.

 

[White Lightning]

Gonna say Shart Souls 2. I'm almost impressed at how effectively Fromsoft was able to remove everything that made Dark Souls 1 so good from this game. I'll never understand the people who think it's just as good or in some cases better, my only guess is they've gone hollow.

 

[Darth Rosenberg]

Gonna say Shart Souls 2. I'm almost impressed at how effectively Fromsoft was able to remove everything that made Dark Souls 1 so good from this game. I'll never understand the people who think it's just as good or in some cases better, my only guess is they've gone hollow.

...which was going to be one of my major picks. Agreed, it's almost as if they completely failed to understand why DS got so much praise, for its lore, world connectivity/cohesion, and how the NPC's enriched the whole narrative. I bought DS2 on day1, and within about 10mins it felt like a crushing letdown.

Other notable mentions:

Oblivion - like Lisa Simpson watching Ralph Wiggum's heart breaking in slo-mo on TV, Oblivion's the moment you can see Bethesda ditch the esoteric inventiveness and expressive artful individuality of Morrowind, for the cash, exposure, and conservatively homogenised design of mainstream console markets.

Dragon Age Inquisition - with a major caveat: once you realise 90% of its content is utter filler garbage, it does have its charm, despite the brainless arcade combat or the almost complete lack of a proper story. That DA:I was praised so much by the mainstream press bewilders me, as it just feels like the worst, least cohesive game BioWare have produced. I really hope it doesn't reflect BioWare's overall direction in terms of me-too design.

David Cage's Fahrenheit - it was like an interactive attack on gameplay, and I'm not sure I'll ever again experience as physically unpleasant a 'game' as that thing.