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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.

Robertm80 wrote:

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 thought the FO3 DLC in its entirety was as good, if not better than, the original game. Just get the GOTY edition.

ShumaGorath wrote:SPORE

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.

johnscott10 wrote:Take Black Ops, MW2 and Oblivion for example, the story pulled me right in....

Huh?

MW2?

That story was God awful. Like, literally the worst thing I've ever seen.

Fallout 3 wasn't supported by a good story, but MW2 was just abysmal.

"Let's hijack a nuclear submarine!"

Stupid.

Söldner - Secret Wars, that was fifty Euros well spent on something I touched only once and looked upon with shame for a few years.

The sims, for adding piecing of crap every freaking season until you got a series thats 7 to 9 addons big....

WOW for just all the fanboyz comparing this or that, Oh, and the fact that Everquest was actually the first major MMORPG, not WOW.

MW 2 for being just so linear, no freedom whatsoever.

Supreme commander 2.

How is that a disappointment though?

The Sims has always been that way. Hoping that somehow big business will change from what is profitable is usually a failing proposition.

To me the Sims 2 started weakly but got better with every expansion, which is a bit sad, but that's how EA works.

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.

Oh, it was the game itself too. The AI was horrendously stupid.

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 3. I found Fable 1 and 2 alright for mindlessness. But Fable 3 is... Ridiculous.

Godzilla: Unleashed was also highly disappointing for me, especially when compared to the awesomeness of Save the Earth! =(

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.