I started a Thread like this on Warseer and it proved very popular so i thought i might start one here for people to discuss the videogames of any console, hand held device or pc which dissapointed them. Of course it dissapointed doesnt just mean those few terribly bad games which do still lurk in the darker corners of the game shops but also popular games which didnt live up to your expectations. It could even be a game which you like but aspects of it were extremely dissapointing.
So anyway thats what this thread is here for to discuss games which dissapointed us, explain why we didnt like the game and people are free to debate against the claims, it just makes it a little more fun.
Also please feel free to talk about games which have already been discussed.
Ill start.
[u][b]Prototype[b][u]
When I first played this game my first thought was this is way better then Infamous "a game which I thoroughly enjoyed", it was like a darker, gorier version of Infamous with slightly cooler powers and weapons. Lightning's cool but spikey gauntlets and all the other nasty weapons available in Prototype are terrific.
However Prototype suffers in other regards which eventually put me straight back onto Infamous, first unlike Infamous Protype has a terribly boring storyline with sub par voice acting and animation.
Protoype also suffers from some pretty poor mission designs which range from insanely hard to mediocre.
Another issue with Prototype isnt much of an issue depending on how you look at it, Infamous had a streamline and efficient way to gain powers and upgrade them. Protype is full of so many powers it becomes maddening to remember how to do all of them especially when sometimes a mission depends on it, the issue is though that some of them are Mortal Kombat Fatality esque with an huge amount of buttons to be pressed in a pattern in a short amount of time.
This can get frustrating as your mortality rate in Prototype isnt very high.
With all of this said Prototype is fun for a free roaming game especially when it comes to terrifying the densely packed citizens of the city with your new array of weapons but even if bought as a cheapy in the sale bins of EB its likely to get old.
I say Avoid, I honestly dont think it has the replayability many crave.
I have to admit it: I am dissapointed in Halo Reach, I just find the multiplayer gets boring easily, the ranking irritates me, I don't really like any of the abilities and forge is boring.
DoD: Source (basically reskinned WW2 Counterstrike with 1/10 of the player base and rocket launchers)
New Medal of Honor
Earthbound (the prospect of a truly awesome, atmospheric and extremely disturbing end boss fight is ruined by a stupid, long, pointless and really childish story and environment)
Titan Quest (one really, really long top down hack-and-slash that feels like a really bad version of Diablo)
Every single incarnation of Everquest and Anarchy Online to ever exist.
Almost all WWII shooters, tired of always being a one man army. Halo's 2 and 3, still tired of being a one man army. Halo ODST, no need elaborate. Halo Wars, could have been a good game if it wasn't on a console. Halo: Reach, I really only disliked the multiplayer. Fable 1 and 2, derp. Skate, innovative controls but lacking overall.
I hated Prototype. Absolutely loathed it. I made a cartoon about it for a gaming website which I also hated. Naturally it became my most popular cartoon on Newgrounds and will never let me forget the shame of buying that lousy game. At least I made the cost back in ad money.
I enjoyed Reach's single player, but the multiplayer is not fun unless you've got 3-4 buddies to dick around with. I can even play TF2 with random strangers and have fun, but I can't in Halo. Kind of expected that though.
Fable 1 & 2
Modern Warfare 2
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Dawn of War 2
Mass Effect 2
Black Ops is being pretty disappointing on PC right now. No one seems to bother testing to see if the servers work.
I'm picky...
Would like to see why you didnt like Fable 1, apart from peter not givin us the content he promised but i dont know what was meant to be included. Why mass effect 2 apart from the fact the story is 90% a repeat essentially and that it was short?
I loved that game like the son I never had or wanted...
I collected all the damn berries, hunted wildlife to extinction. Gambled until I was blue in the face and rescued every dumb stranger in the game, got to the end. I was down with the whole, dying in the end thing because you were ultimately a person getting what you deserved and then I was alive again.
So basically, the whole game was pointless. The entire premise, at least to me, was that Marsden didn't believe he deserved redemption in the end and he didn't get it. But because you get to play your son and avenge your own death, it just becomes a cycle again.
Why waste my time with all the story crap when you just choose to have your cake and eat it too!
I'm probably going to catch alot of flack but I was really dissappointed with Dragon Age: Origins....I don't even know why really I just couldn't get into it. I even re-rolled just about all classes and races just to see opening stories, which was about the only thing that kept my attention. But, once I got into the world it just fell off for me...
Would like to see why you didnt like Fable 1, apart from peter not givin us the content he promised but i dont know what was meant to be included. Why mass effect 2 apart from the fact the story is 90% a repeat essentially and that it was short?
You must be psychic
I like Mass Effect 2. It's fun. But the story sorely disappointed me until I reached the ending. The abandonment of traditional RPG elements (wtf is my inventory darnit! I want to manage items *nerd rage*) also soured me a little.
As for Fable, I just think the series is crap. It's an overhyped, not as good version of Elder Scrolls with lots of flash and gimmicks and no substance imo. The first game left me feeling ripped off, and the second was... the same thing all over again but worse...
Dragon Age suffers from the Bioware curse of having the same party character archetypes that they feature in all of their games.
I wouldn't say that. They finally made Carth pseudo-enjoyable to be around.
Fable: I had such high hopes and it was such a mediocre game. For Fable 2, I assumed it wasn't going to be great, so I wasn't disappointed when it wasn't
Halo 3: After playing a ton of Halo 1 and 2, I was expecting great things from 3. But, I guess I was just burnt out. I ended up barely playing it online. I haven't bothered with any of the new Halos.
Star Wars Galaxies: Licensed games are almost always trash, but Star Wars games are usually pretty good. This taught me that MMOs don't work with licensed content (which is why I was expecting and received poor results from LotR Online and Warhammer Online)
Nethack: After hearing about one of the hardest games ever, I was really excited to try it out. I ended up beating it on my 4th attempt, although I was AMAZINGLY lucky (3 wands of wishing on level 3)
Daikatana: This is the ultimate example of marketing working, but the development being garbage.
Monkey Island 2: I missed the adventure game craze. But, after hearing great things, I went and tried this out almost 20 years after it came out. Oh my god, was this boring! I honestly don't understand what people saw in these games.
Super Mario Brothers 2: The first was a classic, possibly the greatest game of all time. When 2 came out, everyone was excited. It stands on it's own as a decent game, but when you're expecting a true squeal, it's a huge letdown.
Castlevania Harmony of Despair: Multiplayer Castlevania!!! This looked SOOO awesome. Unfortunately, the game is really short and you spend most of your time replaying old levels farming items. Repetitive and boring.
Star Ocean 3. If I could ignore the last quarter or so of the game, it would have merely been somewhat bland. However the "Twist" in the final part of the game was just so vomit-inducingly bad that I'm shocked I was able to finish it.
The big, XBAWKZ HUEG patch that was supposed to fix the biggest issues in the game did nothing but -create- issues, and make the game unplayable due to an inability to load saved games without getting a runtime crash.
Sad, because it would really would be a great game if one could actually play through it.
Fable 2: "I Was promised the world, and all I got was this f**king dog!"
Dead Space:
Friend "Hey this games REALLY Scary!"
Me: "Sure I'm up for that"
*5 Minutes in*
Me: "Oh, a vent lemme guess, Yeup, another monster... *sigh*"
DS maybe wasn't scary for me simply because playing Doom3 RoE, with 2 days sleep deprivation, and no lights, Takes a lot to beat.
You clearly haven't played it on mushrooms then. I made that mistake about 5 years ago in grade 11. Ever seen a cat meow, causing it's head to turn inside out and become covered in mouths?
You clearly haven't played it on mushrooms then. I made that mistake about 5 years ago in grade 11. Ever seen a cat meow, causing it's head to turn inside out and become covered in mouths?
Didn't think so.
My Junkie (or slaanesh worshipping, if you prefer) Days are far behind me, but that as they say, is another thread
Tomorrow never dies for the playstation.
I remembered playing it when I was like 8, and never getting far. I picked it for 1 dollar a month ago and realized that really sucked. After goldeneye for the N64, I expected a good bond game, but no, suckage prevailed in the form of crappy controls, graphics that were bad for the playstation era, and bad gameplay. Shame really.
Bioshock, actually. I LOVE the idea of the story and whatnot, but the whole "Nurses jump out of the dark and try to stab you" just didn't do it for me. Plus I HATE enemy respawns for stuff like that.
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance - I was just looking for something more in lines with the original PS game. This wasn't it. I'm sure it was a fine game, but I just couldn't shift it out of what I expected with the original.
Saints Row 2 - Just couldn't do the graphics after playing GTA4.
Sure there are others. Lots of games got played once or twice before being binned due to gameplay issues, but really most of them I never expected much from to begin with.
Bioshock is one of my favourite game series, its up in the top three anyway.
I was a little disheartened though when I found out mos of the story and ideas are from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, its kind've her Objectivist Utopia gone wrong. But that still doesnt detract me from the awesome big daddies, the characterful bosse's and the disturbing splicers.
1-UP wrote:Saints Row 2 - Just couldn't do the graphics after playing GTA4.
Please tell me you didn't skip SR2 just because of the graphics. Tell me you skipped it because of how hard it is to get it to work properly on a PC. It blows GTA4 out of the water in every other regard, and I say this as someone who happens to own both games. The only thing I don't like about SR2 is how difficult it is to get it to work on Windows 7. Once it's working though, Gentlemen of the Row is really the one and only thing you'll ever need for that game.
1-UP wrote:Saints Row 2 - Just couldn't do the graphics after playing GTA4.
Please tell me you didn't skip SR2 just because of the graphics. Tell me you skipped it because of how hard it is to get it to work properly on a PC. It blows GTA4 out of the water in every other regard, and I say this as someone who happens to own both games. The only thing I don't like about SR2 is how difficult it is to get it to work on Windows 7. Once it's working though, Gentlemen of the Row is really the one and only thing you'll ever need for that game.
Play it on a console. Play it on a console. Play it on a console. Play it on a console. Play it on a console. Play it on a console. Play it on a console. Play it on a console. Play it on a console. Play it on a console.
Play it on a console.
Really, I got it for PC and it still doesn't work properly, then I got it for the 360 and it works like a charm. feth GTA, SR2 is where it's at.
Dragon Age: Origins - after all the hype this game sucked so bad that i could not force myself to play it.
The part that made me quit was ingame character telling me, that he knows about some nice quest but i have to buy some DLC to in order to hear the rest ... WTF? Joke game...
Black Ops- So boring, the guns are possibly the most unrealistic/stupid choices ever. I'm pretty sure that the Galiel is not better than an M4. Also, a terrible campaign.
New Vegas- I can even get into half of the Casinos... BUGS.
Operation Dragon Rising- Realistic and all, but noone bought it. I suppose it would have been great if people did.
Age of Empires III- It was just terribly boring, I played it for about 20 hours before stopping. I think I'll stick to Civilization and Total War...
have to say that i love and hate Starcraft II
the leaque thing where you suppose to play people of your own skill sucks... most of the time we have gold / platinum or even diamonds players against us , while we play in the bronze leaque ourselves , hate that tbh fable II sucks
I played Black Ops at a friends house this weekend.
It didn't seem that great. I'm going to get it used (my xbox got rrd, thats why I don't have it) and return it if I don't like it.
The stupid RC car is stupid. "Herp Derp balistic knife 360º killcam! " is really annoying. Spawns are still terrible.
Im really enjoying Black OPs, Im pretty sure its now my favorite in the series. There was some great dramatic levels, a good variety in enemies and terrain and some really fun missions. The story got a tad confusing half way through and the ending was ok but it was a fun ride.
Im loving Multiplayer, my favourite thing though is the games you can play against Bots, very fun with split screen.
Nazi Zombies is still fun but I feel the very first Nazi Zombie game was still the best, the others seem to focus on how many more doors can we fit in which lead to even smaller rooms with more doors which cost money for you to get out of. Its a real drain on your points. Still the game you unlock when you finish Camapaign is fun, the cinematic had me laughing.
I like the weapon range, the customization and the new kill streak perks.
Having my favourite character in Call of Duty history make a return was just a bonus
Halo Wars - just terrible. Still not roused myself to play more than the first few missions. Boring as hell and stupid controls.
Halo ODST - loved the single player, but it was really obvious Bungie could not be bothered with this game when it came to multiplayer support. Almost impossible to get a 4 person firefight game going (or indeed any multiplayer stuff going) - why aren't there multiplayer lobies like any other Halo game? Where is the DLC (yeah, I don't like paying for it, but it does extend the game), etc?
Halo 2 - I don't really like playing half a game. Was really enjoying myself until I got to what felt like half way though and it ended suddenly. I could not believe it and I seem to recalling swearing through the entire credits and probably for some time after that
Halo Reach - Enjoyed the game and the multiplayer is expanding so hopefully that will continue. What I was really disapointed with was the forge - yes, it is a lot easier to edit well, but why do we only have the choice of a handful of components? After a while it all starts looking the same. Plus for such a huge map, why can I only use a few of each of the larger components in a single map?
Also, why are the different game modes in different editors? And why are there no in game tutorials on altering all the settings so I can actually make even the simplest of game mode varient maps? *shakes fist*
Star Craft 2 - Seriously I had high hopes for it and I paid 60$ USD for it, the online is absolute crap it's just noobs in bronze leauge getting crushed by diamond league players (yeah really good online matchup system) and then blizzard keeps going on talking about this game claiming it to be soo in-depth and so dependent on the economy umm anyother RTS game could say that. As for the main mission it sucked I liked how it was interactive and all but they would give you units that you cant even use online or in a skirmish.
Medal Of Honor - I just dont get why two different companies are needed to make the single player and online it was kinda bad
The Call of Duty Series - Honestly I just hate those games they arent fun
Halo Reach - Customisation while sure it was better than before but alof of the stuff ended up looking the same and it seemed uncared for, and forge mode was dumbed down
SilverMK2 wrote:Halo Wars - just terrible. Still not roused myself to play more than the first few missions. Boring as hell and stupid controls.
We can make it a drinking game, Silver! I still have to finish it too.
Halo ODST - loved the single player, but it was really obvious Bungie could not be bothered with this game when it came to multiplayer support. Almost impossible to get a 4 person firefight game going (or indeed any multiplayer stuff going) - why aren't there multiplayer lobbies like any other Halo game? Where is the DLC (yeah, I don't like paying for it, but it does extend the game), etc?
Agreed. At the very least, it would have been nice to be able to use the ODST/Marine models for multiplayer in Reach and Halo 3.
Halo Reach - Enjoyed the game and the multiplayer is expanding so hopefully that will continue. What I was really disapointed with was the forge - yes, it is a lot easier to edit well, but why do we only have the choice of a handful of components? After a while it all starts looking the same. Plus for such a huge map, why can I only use a few of each of the larger components in a single map?
Also, why are the different game modes in different editors? And why are there no in game tutorials on altering all the settings so I can actually make even the simplest of game mode varient maps? *shakes fist*
We still haven't gotten my "Warzone" map working have we?
While I loved the game concept and it was fun to play at the time, and the soundtrack was the best for any game ever, I think I was just expecting something else. I kinda thought it was gonna be a hack and slash button masher like God of War, instead it was some kinda funky RTS with way too much running around that just got old.
I suppose it isn't technically a game in and of itself, but Burning Crusade really disappointed me. Between Space Squids, a pretty horde race (that is pretty) and all of the end game weaponry and armor looking like it was bought from a new age crystal therapy store, I just wasn't into it.
Thankfully, Northrend took a step back to the fantasy genre and I enjoyed it immensely.
Necros wrote:Brutal Legend, overall, was a letdown for me.
While I loved the game concept and it was fun to play at the time, and the soundtrack was the best for any game ever, I think I was just expecting something else. I kinda thought it was gonna be a hack and slash button masher like God of War, instead it was some kinda funky RTS with way too much running around that just got old.
Gitzbitah wrote:I suppose it isn't technically a game in and of itself, but Burning Crusade really disappointed me. Between Space Squids, a pretty horde race (that is pretty) and all of the end game weaponry and armor looking like it was bought from a new age crystal therapy store, I just wasn't into it.
This is a complaint I've never understood. What's wrong with Horde having Blood Elves? The "they're pretty, thus can't be Horde!" argument has always seemed kind of half-cocked.
Aye Blood Elves for me have never been a problem, and my main is a Draenei, the female Draenei model is awesome.
Mind you it'll turn around again if one of the lead devolpers is to believed, he has said a few times he'd like to add Ogres to the Horde to compleate the original Horde from Warcraft 1 eventually.
If he does bring them in, I just hope they give the alliance High Elves for that expansion, that would be so nasty. Mmmm Blood Elves v's those within their race who stayed within the Alliance, real blood fueds kicking off there.
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Oh and responding to the OP,
Probably Warhammer Online was my worst, I was so eager for that game, wound down on WoW, was ready to leave for good, and it was terrible, real tradegy that the game that drew so much interest from me pre 2004 died, and Mythic took over to replace it with that tosh. Don't get me wrong its not ultimate bad, worst mmo ever, but it has gaping flaws big enough to push buses through and Mythic did nothing to address them pre launch. The more posts I see from former Beta testers and the like, the bigger the face palm forms on my forehead.
Other than that, Dynasty Warriors 5 was bad, at least 6 tried to change stuff, they've still not really captured the game in the same light since DW3 as far as I'm concerned.
Oh and Doom 3, I love the mindless shooting of Doom, I wasn't looking for a horror version of Half Life. I think I prefered Serious Sam and the Doom 1 & 2 games that came with my Doom 3 got more play than the main game.
Mass Effect 2. I enjoyed the characters, I enjoyed the story, I hated the game. I loved Mass Effect because it was essentially a shooter RPG. Well they ripped out all the RPGness and reduced it to a Shooter with a good story. I'll be buying ME3 for sure, but I'll bemoan what they could have done with 2, namely fixed the few problems that it had, the Mako and the Inventory... well I won't dignify it by calling it a system, thing, and they'd be golden. Instead the ripped it all out. Bah.
Dawn of War Soulstorm. I love the Sororitas, how could this be a let down? Dark Crusade was great but I'll admit that defending was kind of pointless when you could have an uber base already built and just crush your attackers within ten minutes under a flood of Land Raiders, Terminators, or anything else like that. Totally removing that ability then adding in even more vectors you could be attacked from meant I spent 1/4 of my time fighting new opponents in new areas and taking new terrain and 3/4 of my time fighting the same stupid mooks on the same stupid map for the fifth fething time in a fething row. While DC might have gone overboard with the prebuilt bases totally removing it instead of fixing it just made things suck. I still haven't finished Soulstorm.
I think the biggest problem with Mass Effect 2 was that there wasn't nearly as much support for a Renegade character from ME1. If you load a Paragon player, you get all these cool encounters with people from the first game, and little updates on how they're doing. It's pretty cool.
But, if you went Renegade, most of those people are dead, and you don't get these interesting little encounters.
It really does make a HUGE impact on how you view the game.
Tyyr wrote:Mass Effect 2. I enjoyed the characters, I enjoyed the story, I hated the game. I loved Mass Effect because it was essentially a shooter RPG. Well they ripped out all the RPGness and reduced it to a Shooter with a good story. I'll be buying ME3 for sure, but I'll bemoan what they could have done with 2, namely fixed the few problems that it had, the Mako and the Inventory... well I won't dignify it by calling it a system, thing, and they'd be golden. Instead the ripped it all out. Bah.
Dawn of War Soulstorm. I love the Sororitas, how could this be a let down? Dark Crusade was great but I'll admit that defending was kind of pointless when you could have an uber base already built and just crush your attackers within ten minutes under a flood of Land Raiders, Terminators, or anything else like that. Totally removing that ability then adding in even more vectors you could be attacked from meant I spent 1/4 of my time fighting new opponents in new areas and taking new terrain and 3/4 of my time fighting the same stupid mooks on the same stupid map for the fifth fething time in a fething row. While DC might have gone overboard with the prebuilt bases totally removing it instead of fixing it just made things suck. I still haven't finished Soulstorm.
I wasnt fussed by the Soulstorm Campaign though I agree with your comments, my biggest issue with the game was rather then adding more ground units, even Dark Eldar were missing Grotesques, they added Flyers. The Flyers just dont work for the game and seem like a pretty pointless addition, though I did like the addition of the Deciever.
I was also pretty dissapointed when I played the game and it turned out there were no Arco Flaggelants when they were pictured in some early adverts for the Witch Hunters. I was also dissapointed that there was no Inquisitor, I though that would have been at least one of the H.Q. choices.
If we are talking disappointing games rather than bad ones then for me it was Elder Scrolls - Oblivion.
I was a complete Morrowind worshiper and addict, I have never looked forward to a game so much as Oblivion in my life
Was it good? Yes.
Was it graphically amazing? Yes.
Was it fun to play? Yes.
Did it have well scripted quests? Yes
Was it anywhere near as good as Morrowind? Hell no, it was massively dumbed down, too streamlined and the fast travel meant the exploration side was something most players never bothered with.
... but its maps, at least most off the ones I had a chance to play, were horrendous snipefests. It was utterly unfun most of the time to anyone who wasn't a dedicated sniper player.
Daedricbob wrote:If we are talking disappointing games rather than bad ones then for me it was Elder Scrolls - Oblivion. I was a complete Morrowind worshiper and addict, I have never looked forward to a game so much as Oblivion in my life
Was it good? Yes. Was it graphically amazing? Yes. Was it fun to play? Yes. Did it have well scripted quests? Yes Was it anywhere near as good as Morrowind? Hell no, it was massively dumbed down, too streamlined and the fast travel meant the exploration side was something most players never bothered with.
So, I'm not the only one?
Oblivion was a GREAT game, but after Morrowind, I was expecting it to be even better than it was.
One of the few games that I'd give 90+ out of 100 but still call disappointing
I love the God of War games, Kratos has about as much personality as an angry pepper shaker but the boss's and epic enemies more then make up for it. Im also fascinated by Greek Mythology and a chance to bludgeon, butcher and blatantly crush major figures and characters of said mythology is awful fun.
I was especially impressed with God of War 3, Me vs the Pantheon of Olympus, one word....EPIC.
CNC 4 - No bases, just walkers. Oh and the unit count. WTF is a unit count doing in a CNC game.
CNC 3 - where was the tiberian ecosystem, the Veinhole monsters, the viceroids, the tiberian fiends seen in tiberian sun!
GTA 4 - Erm, right quests and spawning in places I never understood. Plus the same system as GTA 3. *yawn* SR2 is better.
Warhammer online - SO FECKING DUMBED DOWN and no gore or disturbing stuff. I got bored tanking on the bastion stair with my guild. No wonder I left. In the higher levels its either MPkill in the pvp areas or just be bored.
Resistance 2. If i wanted to play gears of war i would have bought gears of war! I really liked the first one.
Resident Evil 5. Not what i want from a zombie game anymore.
Titan Quest. Bought it for some retro fun. linear and boring. And why cant i fight hercules or agamemnon or achilles or someone like that?
This game is extremely repetitive and repetition is its greatest weakness, go to an invaded camp, free the prisoners and kill the invaders until you have enough forces to attack with a huge army and besiege their fort. The big battles are awfully fun though, just to look at.
But after the fifth or sixth time of doing the same thing it kind've loses a little something.
UbiSwanky2 wrote:I'm probably going to catch alot of flack but I was really dissappointed with Dragon Age: Origins....I don't even know why really I just couldn't get into it. I even re-rolled just about all classes and races just to see opening stories, which was about the only thing that kept my attention. But, once I got into the world it just fell off for me...
Dragon Age was very dissapointing and downright boring a lot of the time. Last time I buy a game just based on its developer.
It was very repetitive, and enemies began to take 200 plus hits with your sword (controlled by the right thumb pad thing) at like, halfway to level cap.
It was very repetitive, and enemies began to take 200 plus hits with your sword (controlled by the right thumb pad thing) at like, halfway to level cap.
So true. I still played the game to death. That could have been a very good game had level and enemy design been better. Controls could have used work too.
Don Cooperino wrote:Black Ops. Was seriously excited and then pretty underwhelmed. IMO MW2 still the better game.
Returned Black Ops and got Fallout New Vegas and really enjoying it.
Shenanigans, I call it, this fellow said that he RETURNED a game after playing it. Lies I tell you, lies!
I'm loving black ops, some really nice weapons and the story is better than MW2 in my opinion.
Let's see most disappointing game is going to have to be Red Faction 2. The first was good, but the second one seemed to drop the ball on blowing the place up.
Warhammer Online. Was awesome, but feth, on release my friend and I played a BO/SH combo and it was a joke in pvp or rvr. Absolutely frustrating.
Freelancer. Please MS update this or release a new version, it has disappeared.
WoW. Addicting time waste. Can't get into raids unless you have a GS from the next 2 highest raids, how the feth am I supposed to get that gear to tank your ICC 10 then?
Planetside. God I still love this game, but BFR's killed it along with lack of support, last update was from 2009 I think.
I think the game that disappointed me the most was 40k Firewarrior. First, I thought "Oh! A 40k SHOOTER! Must play!" but, then, I realized how much of an EPIC FAIL it was. First, Tau could use Bolters. And Heavy Bolters. And Chaos Space Marines could hold RAILGUNS. You could also take down a IG Commissar by yourself in CLOSE COMBAT...and your a fire warrior.
I'll echo a couple other posters by saying that Oblivion was awesome yet disappointing. The lack of Levitate and Jump spells made me a sad panda. On the flip side, an enchanting system that didn't backfire nearly everytime was nice.
FALLOUT 3 what a turd that game was. I loved morrowind, I loved Oblivion and i even got most the way through Arx Fatalis (I cite that because it was a buggy, unfriendly game). It was just so bland and VATS was just like a rubbish version of Resi 4 ( the same shot placement strategy i expected was very lacking). The horrible glass eyed NPCs the Nonexistant learning curve, the monotone map (maps in games are more than one colour for A REASON!!). Far cry 2 Was pretty rubbish and i'm kindly comparing it to Far Cry: Instincts (the Xbox one) which i liked. Any Game since Oddworld: Stranger 'The Best game in the world. tm.' has disappointed really.
BrookM wrote:WoW is as good as MMO's can get in terms of polish, care and whatnot. My main problem with it is one of would you like some grind with your grind?
Gah! Please don't remind me Brook. I am seriously considering the expansion here and flailing to avoid it.
Maybe, but at least you don't have to pay monthly after you get it all purchased.
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BrookM wrote:WoW is as good as MMO's can get in terms of polish, care and whatnot. My main problem with it is one of would you like some grind with your grind?
WoW is as good as it can get when it comes to gakky, generic MMOs with cartoony graphics, yes.
Certainly not the best by any definition except a blizz fanboy's. Hell, City of Heroes was better in almost every way and it was released before WoW (and its expansions added far more content than WoW's expansions).
I laugh at all the WoW hate, its like a the geek in the stripy pj's trying to tell everyone else how cool he is because he thinks dice games are awful and only dweebs would play it.
Ignoring the fact he's got a complete set of Warham's and playing Dungeon 'I killed the Dragon' Quest 209.
If you don't like it cool, no ones asking ye to play, plenty of things I can't stand, but form a club because you hate it that much and want to wave banners.. really?
I dislike WoW because I played it and it bored me to tears. I never gave a damn about being cool, because I'm a fething nerd and I know I'm not "cool".
I was actually referring to the stuff above your posts Melissia, finding the game boring is fine by me, it just the whole venom some folks seem to have is what gets me.
It's a bloody game, if you don't like it you play something else.
It's not like WoW came round to their house, took a dump on the carpet then smashed their favourite figs, its just, well frankly bizarre.
Which is why I associate it with the tying to seem cooler than others in the same effective hobby. I can't see any other reason for it.
Actually I'm more annoyed at WoW fanboys than people who bash WoW.
These douchebags will attack any game for not being enough like WoW, and if it is like WoW, they'll attack games for being clones. I'm sorely tempted to find them as they're playing, seal off their room, and then give them carbon monoxide poisoning through their air conditioning system. That way they can die playing the game whose zucchini they enjoy so much.
Yeah I'm with you on that, they're worse than anything. I've personally tried WaR, City of Heroes, Lotr, Everquest and Champions Online so far, always looking for a good MMO.
WoW is the most polished currently, but it probably helps I actually like the whole Warcraft backstory, if I didn't I'd have been gone ages ago.
Hoping for good things from DMO mind, and still waiting for Eve to put that avatar patch thingy in, then I'll give that monster a go as well. Oh and the new 'WoD' Vampire the Masquerade based one I'll be joining for sure.
By the time DMO and WoD arrive in 2012, if the world hasn't ended I do think either or both might have enough for me to walk out of WoW for at least a bit, if not permantly. Depends on how many MMO subs I can afford.
Melissia wrote:Actually I'm more annoyed at WoW fanboys than people who bash WoW.
These douchebags will attack any game for not being enough like WoW, and if it is like WoW, they'll attack games for being clones. I'm sorely tempted to find them as they're playing, seal off their room, and then give them carbon monoxide poisoning through their air conditioning system. That way they can die playing the game whose zucchini they enjoy so much.
It's not restricted to WoW fanboys "attacking any game for not being enough like WoW". WoW is, as it stands, is the measuring stick MMORPGs are held against.
Why? Because it is, as it stands, the first MMORPG that didn't just appeal to your stereotypical nerds and gamers.
stompydakka wrote:This is the "games which disappointed you" thread, not the "dont talk about games which disappointed you" (aka WoW) thread.
I knew someone would start the flames. =p
Yes, someone did start the flames. You. There's no reason to be talking about "hoping WoW players commit suicide" or any of that other crap. If you're going to post in a bloody thread, don't post like a tool. Actually put forth reasons, explain why a game disappointed you. That's what this thread is about. "Games which disappointed you". Not "games I hate" or "games that are nerdy".
Kanluwen wrote:Why? Because it is, as it stands, the first MMORPG that didn't just appeal to your stereotypical nerds and gamers.
lolwut? Pretty much everyone who plays WoW is considered a nerd, here... IE, it's not that nerds are attracted to it, but rather, playing WoW itself is associated with being a nerd/geek/whatever.
Which is really annoying when you DON'T play, and people assume you do because you're a gamer. I have better taste in games than to play WoW...
Kanluwen wrote:Why? Because it is, as it stands, the first MMORPG that didn't just appeal to your stereotypical nerds and gamers.
lolwut? Pretty much everyone who plays WoW is considered a nerd, here... IE, it's not that nerds are attracted to it, but rather, playing WoW itself is associated with being a nerd/geek/whatever.
Warcraft, while being considered fairly nerdy, actually has a playerbase that if you were to break down into a demographic that is far from just being "nerds/geeks/whatever".
Which is really annoying when you DON'T play, and people assume you do because you're a gamer. I have better taste in games than to play WoW...
I'd assume it more because you have the social ineptitude that's so stereotypical of WoW gamers.
Kanluwen wrote: There's no reason to be talking about "hoping WoW players commit suicide" or any of that other crap. If you're going to post in a bloody thread, don't post like a tool. Actually put forth reasons, explain why a game disappointed you. That's what this thread is about. "Games which disappointed you". Not "games I hate" or "games that are nerdy".
Sometimes a game just bores you though, even if you can't necessarily explain it. With WoW, for me it was pretty much a combination of every gameplay element-- from the gameplay itself, to graphics, to the sounds, to the social aspects, to the grinding... all of them put me off somehow. Frankly I find it hard to pick games which haven't done things better than WoW. Maybe RF Online is worse.
Kanluwen wrote:Warcraft, while being considered fairly nerdy, actually has a playerbase that if you were to break down into a demographic that is far from just being "nerds/geeks/whatever".
I'd have to actually look at the demographics to judge that, and frankly I'd rather spend my time doing something at least slightly more pleasant. Like rubbing my face against a cheese grater.
Kanluwen wrote:I'd assume it more because you have the social ineptitude that's so stereotypical of WoW gamers.
Im not saying I hope they would, I'm just poking fun about all suicides caused by WoW.
It may just be a urban legend, but what about the boy who killed himself to be with the developer who died?
And the guy who shot himself because his subscription ran out, and after he paid for the next month, he had to wait 1 extra day before playing and couldn't handle it?
WoW isn't a fun game for me, at all. You just grind the same monsters over and over. Get to a new area, and grind monsters that look the same but with different stats over and over, etc.
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Im not saying I hope they would, I'm just poking fun about all suicides caused by WoW.
It may just be a urban legend, but what about the boy who killed himself to be with the developer who died?
And the guy who shot himself because his subscription ran out, and after he paid for the next month, he had to wait 1 extra day before playing and couldn't handle it?
Because suicide is such a great thing to make jokes about, right?
In almost every case of these suicides, there's alot more factors involved but the media latches onto the fact that the person played a game. It's like whenever a school shooting happens and they find the kid played Grand Theft Auto.
Probably just more Urban myths, plus when does the actions of one or two sad folks dictate the mindset of the whole population.
It's like all the rubbish those of us into RPG's had to put up with in the late eighties and early nineties.
Same with those kids shooting folks, and GTA gets blamed, its all nonsense.
Finding the game not fun due to the reasons you gave is fair enough, its why I didn't like Metal Gear. None of them, I am sure I am in a minority for many gamers, but I can't stand them, don't find the stealth mechanic much fun at all.
I certainly don't hate or even care if anyone else likes them mind, I let em play what they want to play.
Just to throw a small cat in amongst the pigeons, I would say if anyone gets the chance they should give WoW one more go after Cata launches.
The changes to the quests and the sort of things you do now are so different to what has gone before. Yes there are still killing quests, but I'd be shocked to find many games in the fantasy genre that don't require you getting out there and blatting some Orcs at some point.
The added bonus of course is you don't need Cata to see the changes. The expansion gives you the new races, and the lvl 85 content. The world change is so dramatic they couldn't phase it, so everyone will get the new look Azeroth on Dec 7th no matter the last expansion you brought.
Of course me being a big fan of Diablo 2 probably helped my like of WoW, once youve grinded that game for gear, WoW was easy.
But yeah, back on topic, Metal Gear Solid, never liked or got into the game, never saw what the fuss was about, my brother tried to talk me up to play it and yep, was seriously dissapointed after I played.
There are plenty of games that have just disappointed me.
the console version of "IL2 Sturmovik" was just terrible.. you cant tell me that the slightest adjustment with the controller joystick would cause me to spin uncontrollably into the ground (not stalling, because i was at full throttle the whole time but the slightest movement in my joysticks caused most every plane to veer out of control and crash)
Army of TWO the 40th Day, After the brilliance that was the first AoT, i found many elements of the second one to be just half baked, and no where near the level of the first.
Gran Turismo: Prologue. nuff said.
I recently got into a slight "argument" over WoW with a co-worker, who claimed that my 40k hobby was much 'worse' than WoW, to which i replied that, at the end of the day, i have all these miniatures that i built and painted myself, what do you have sitting around that others can see your "accomplishments" ??
The weird thing is, I like Diablo 2, but now WoW.
Probably due to the multiple fethers walking around in WoW, the cheesy graphics, the multiple dead bodies from people falling, the people who stand inside the mailbox so you can't click, and all things like that.
Also, when a kid writes a suicide note about how he is going to be with a developer in the afterlife, well, you can sure as hell blame the game for that one. I know suicide isn't a subject to joke about, but I can't help but bring them up. Also, I'm not making fun of the kids for killing themselves, but for being so obsessed with WoW they would kill themselves.
I mean, answer me this:
If Blizz instantly, and permanently, shut down WoW tomorrow, don't you think some people would kill themselves?
Maybe, some folks need things to survive, if the goverment banned Alchohol or cigerettes and removed them compleately from existance, I'm sure many folks would be on the edge there as well.
None of those are things folks require, but that doesn't lesson the fact that many people who play the game are not these reclusive loners folks try to make them out to be.
I note a few comments here are about the bad community, and I'd agree if the only communication you share in game is Trade chat, then yeah its pretty poor.
However I'm there because of the guild of people I play with, who contain mostly adults. Quite a few of us married and playing with partners (11-12 couples at last count) so we obviously got something out of it that maybe others haven't found.
That is probably the main factor I'm still there, one of the things we are loving for Cata is the new Guild stuff (a lot of which seems ripped from WaR) but for us it's going to be great.
You know, level eighty five content doesn't matter to me when I ended my subscription before ANY of the expansions
I'm not starting it up again. The art style alone is enough for that, horrendously cartoony in a way that is completely and utterly unappealing to me. And it hasn't really improved, yes, I've seen the new graphics.
The weird thing is, I like Diablo 2, but now WoW. Probably due to the multiple fethers walking around in WoW, the cheesy graphics, the multiple dead bodies from people falling, the people who stand inside the mailbox so you can't click, and all things like that.
Or it could be the fact that the games are absolutely dissimilar. About the only mechanic they share is loot, which is still quite different due to the pacing difference in both games.
:edit: I love the fact that fat miniatures wargamers can so reliably hate on other peoples hobbies that it's an easy money bet to see a WoW hate flamewar in everything semi related to videogames here. The irony is palpable.
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Also, when a kid writes a suicide note about how he is going to be with a developer in the afterlife, well, you can sure as hell blame the game for that one.
Um no you cant, did the game make the boy kill himself?? It sure as hell didnt. If anybody is to blame its that soad "God"(Quoted as I dont believe in him, no offence to those who do) as "He" killed the developer which then caused the boy to commit suicide. Sure the guy may have made some amazing content for Wow but it wasnt the game that caused the bou to commit suicide.
Back on-topic though, a game that disappointed was Sonic Unleashed the werehog levels were just attrocious.
Oh another one that dissapointed me was Sims 3, not so much for the gameplay which was as expected. In fact since the expansions have come out I've creapt further and further back in.
My issue was the shop at launch, theres a lot of that happening atm, DLC at launch that should be in the game. Whenever that happens at the moment, it really frustrates me.
Should be for extras, or stuff down the road that took more time to design, such as the GTA packs.
Fallout New Vegas.
I haven't played it, and I never will, after the designers basically said it was just a glorified expansion pack. Everything looks the same as in FO3, and it is running on the same game engine.
How could Sonic Unleashed disappoint you? Seriously, have you actually learned anything from the Sonic franchise, or do you still hold on to a vain hope?
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Fallout New Vegas.
I haven't played it, and I never will, after the designers basically said it was just a glorified expansion pack. Everything looks the same as in FO3, and it is running on the same game engine.
Thanks for reminding me of Fallout 3.
Was such a crap, boring and frankly unchallenging game imo. The story sucked and was a bit predictable. Shame really would have felt it deserved more comin from Bethesda.
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Fallout New Vegas.
I haven't played it, and I never will, after the designers basically said it was just a glorified expansion pack. Everything looks the same as in FO3, and it is running on the same game engine.
Thanks for reminding me of Fallout 3.
Was such a crap, boring and frankly unchallenging game imo. The story sucked and was a bit predictable. Shame really would have felt it deserved more comin from Bethesda.
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Fallout New Vegas.
I haven't played it, and I never will, after the designers basically said it was just a glorified expansion pack. Everything looks the same as in FO3, and it is running on the same game engine.
Thanks for reminding me of Fallout 3.
Was such a crap, boring and frankly unchallenging game imo. The story sucked and was a bit predictable. Shame really would have felt it deserved more comin from Bethesda.
What was wrong with the story?
When i say sucked i mean that in the way that i wasnt as drawn into it like other games. Take Black Ops, MW2 and Oblivion for example, the story pulled me right in and it was one of those games i just didnt want to put down until i knew the story. Fallout 3 didnt have that same effect, a few hours into the game and it was turned off. took me a while to actually pick it up and play it. FF13 was different story wise even though i put it down for ages, left due to not being able to defeat a boss but the story still drew me in.
When i say sucked i mean that in the way that i wasnt as drawn into it like other games. Take Black Ops, MW2 and Oblivion for example, the story pulled me right in and it was one of those games i just didnt want to put down until i knew the story.
The biggest disappointment in the RTS genre would have to have been Seven Kingdoms Conquest.
The absolute worst RTS game I've ever played, and I'm a fanatic for the genre... the controls were clumsy, the balance was a mess, the factions were almost identical with only graphical changes and a few abilities, most of which weren't useful. The story was incoherent and weak... I can't think of any redeeming factors save for its concept, which can't save it.
I have only played the demo, so I don't know if they fixed the issue, but
Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom
Its an rpg, and you have action points. Every single thing (minus walking) uses them, and they slowly regenerate. If you run out, you have to slowly walk around and try not to die as enemies can keep hitting you. One swing of the swords takes your energy like, half down. If they didn't fix it, unplayable.
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Fallout New Vegas.
I haven't played it, and I never will, after the designers basically said it was just a glorified expansion pack. Everything looks the same as in FO3, and it is running on the same game engine.
Never judge a book by it's cover. Fallout New Vegas is very well done, a much better tone and setting than Fallout 3, more memorable characters and quest lines that are challenging and not just "go to X shoot Y number of dudes, return to Z, get experience, yay you levelled up and chose a perk that wont help you 1 bit".
I recommend everyone giving it a try, rent the game at least and see what you think.
I have racked up 24+ hours in the game and have barely scratched the surface.
I will say 1 thing, the game is just chock full of bugs, patches have been released to fix it and more are incoming but the game will cause you frustration in that regard. I have a bug that whenever I enter a certain area of New Vegas the game locks up. I await the new patch to fix this eagerly.
battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Fallout New Vegas.
I haven't played it, and I never will, after the designers basically said it was just a glorified expansion pack. Everything looks the same as in FO3, and it is running on the same game engine.
Never judge a book by it's cover. Fallout New Vegas is very well done, a much better tone and setting than Fallout 3, more memorable characters and quest lines that are challenging and not just "go to X shoot Y number of dudes, return to Z, get experience, yay you levelled up and chose a perk that wont help you 1 bit".
I recommend everyone giving it a try, rent the game at least and see what you think.
I have racked up 24+ hours in the game and have barely scratched the surface.
I will say 1 thing, the game is just chock full of bugs, patches have been released to fix it and more are incoming but the game will cause you frustration in that regard. I have a bug that whenever I enter a certain area of New Vegas the game locks up. I await the new patch to fix this eagerly.
Hmm, if you say so.
However, I'm not throwing away any money for DLC, because all the FO3 DLC was a rip.
And I'll wait untill ALL the major bugs are patched and when it is around 30 bucks
I had this on pre-order for about 2 years. After 3 hours of playing (I was already on the space age) I could have practically cried. They had removed so much from the game that was in early previews - it was so simplified and samey (no matter how you played) that I was probably the most dissapointed I have ever been over a game.
But what do you expect from the same guys who make...
Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Sims
Like always, they just reskin and update the graphics, leaving the very, very basics in the main game... then release piddling addons to add in (at £20-30 a go) a couple of extra features at a time, which, if you have a million pounds and have bought all of them, make the game almost impossible to play because your sims are just depressed all the time at not doing their 800 things a day required by each of the addons.
I actually liked WoW when I played. WoW from level 1 to the Cap is actually pretty fun in my opinion. Lots of interesting things to do, see, and try. Then you hit the level cap and WoW becomes a completely different game. Nothing pre-cap is really that much of a grind in the conventional sense. You'll wish you could go back and do the, "Kill X and talk to me again," quests when realize you'll have to kill thousands of the same enemy to build up reputation with a faction you don't really give a gak about just to get the one piece of kit you need to go spend three months wiping nightly in a raid dungeon.
I always had fun leveling up. Once I hit the cap I wanted to shoot myself.
Wow was the worst / most boring game I have ever been forced to try. period.
I was pretty dissapointed (given the hype by all the nerds i know), but not as disspointed as I was when I found out that my wife's mac doesn't run ANYTHING!
Guys, guys. Guys. No more Wow players VS non-wow players. The bear and the field mouse can be friends! They just can't mate or the mice would explode.
I was dissapointed by all the Fable games as well. They wrote a check they couldn't cash on those games. I remember some of the features I was most looking forward to being changed before release of all the Fables.
Tyyr wrote:I actually liked WoW when I played. WoW from level 1 to the Cap is actually pretty fun in my opinion. Lots of interesting things to do, see, and try. Then you hit the level cap and WoW becomes a completely different game. Nothing pre-cap is really that much of a grind in the conventional sense. You'll wish you could go back and do the, "Kill X and talk to me again," quests when realize you'll have to kill thousands of the same enemy to build up reputation with a faction you don't really give a gak about just to get the one piece of kit you need to go spend three months wiping nightly in a raid dungeon.
I always had fun leveling up. Once I hit the cap I wanted to shoot myself.
QFT!
I'm a huge fan of the Total War games and when Total War: Empire came out I was too excited...Don't get me wrong it's a very well made game and it holds true too the Total War title....it's just the guns...it felt like my whole army was made up ranged guys....I missed my dismounted knights, Pikemen and warrior monks(Shogun: Total war)...so it's wasn't the actual game itself...it was more of a personal dissapointment.
The Lord Of The Rings Online - despite being free to play, I find this game a huge let down. I think I have been spoiled by World of Warcraft (which I don't play at the moment, lets not start the WoW discussion again) but to me that was a perfect MMO gaming experience. You ran around, killed things, ran into other players, it had population centres and much later on it felt like you were really moving things on in the game world. I had a lot of fun and spent a lot of time in WoW, LOTRO is just not gripping me at all, the quest lines seem generic (more so than vanilla WoW), I barely see anyone else and the classes and races are not distinct enough. I was looking forward to play it once it was free and it has been a huge let down for me.
Fable 2. As Wolfun said, Fable 1 was alright for some hours of mindless entertainment. 2 was just a bad game with a bad story.
LOTRO. Just too much of a hack n slash, same with WoW.
SoE Star Wars Galaxies. After the combat update, this game was just horrible. It was really nice before it, but SoE just ruined it.
Headhunter: Redemption. Not too much hype, as it seemed to be a less popular game, but for all the content it advertised, it only had half, and only about the first level was even beatable. The learning curve was incredibly steep.
Halo 2, 3, ODST. All of these were way too easy, and Halo 2 had too short of a campaign. I was expecting ODST to be closer to what marines can realistically do, but they seemed exactly like spartans with a little less armor. I'll stick with my Halo 1, that actually has hard levels, thank you very much. Haven't tried Reach, and not sure if I dare to.
Spore, for reasons stated above. The game was just far too linear and needed diversity from game to game. Gotta admit though, their creators weren't bad at all, but it wasn't worth that much money to create a few aliens and their tanks.
FFXIII. The game would randomly switch from way too easy to extremely hard, lacked the story of previous Final Fantasy games(though it wasn't bad, just disappointing), and just generally convinced me that FFX and any above that suck.
One game that didn't disappoint me was Monster Rancher 2. May be a PS1 game, and yeah, PS1s don't have many good games, but MR2 is FUUN. I would be playing it a ton if I hadn't lost my PS1. FFVIII and IX were also awesome.
Dragearen wrote: Haven't tried Reach, and not sure if I dare to.
Reach is certainly tougher than those three, possibly tougher than one in places, it's still not as long as I'd like, but after finishing it on Normal. (I used to play shooters easy for some blinkin reason and missed out on the achievements) I went back and walked through Halo O.D.S.T and Halo 3 Normal without barely dying. Hell even the Halo 3 level I hated on easy when you save cortana from Gravemind seemed so much easier after reach, think I died once or twice max.
Me and my brother are planning to try Legendary on Reach at some point, after which I suggested we try O.D.S.T and Halo 3 legendary as I think it'll be the same thing.
I had such high hopes.
