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Hi all.

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.

Hard to say theres alot of games that have disappointed in one way or another. The biggest for me atm is Fable 2.

Pretty sure i dont need to say why.

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.

WWII Online
Anarchy Online
Horizons
Warhammer Online

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.

I got plenty.

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...

LordofHats wrote:I got plenty.

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?

Fallout New Vegas, too buggy a release and a patch is still a few weeks out.

Red Dead Redemption...

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!

You suck Rockstar...you really, really suck!!!

And breath...

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 suffers from the Bioware curse of having the same party character archetypes that they feature in all of their games.

johnscott10 wrote:

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.

My biggest dissapointments:

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.

Ghostbusters on the NES.

I am trying to think of what was disappointing, but it is easier to say what wasn't.

The Stay-Puffed Marhmellow man was kind of cool, at the time.
Everything else was a let-down.

heh

Civilization 5.

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.

Medal of Honor. YOU FAILED ME!
Force Unleashed It delivered but it was so darn short!

2 For me had to be have to be:

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.

EvilTim wrote: 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?

Didn't think so.

metallifan wrote:

EvilTim wrote: 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?

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

I'm just saying, it doesn't take a lot to beat DOOM 3

Just get the chainsaw and walk through every dark corridor with that thing at full throttle.

Heres another game that failed me.
RE5- I mean seriously it was RE4 just in desert! I could write pages about how much I hate it but I'm too lazy

Yea, but Resident Evil was never scary. It got even less scary than not scary at all when Zombies started using guns and motorcycles.

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.

Halo ODST
Dawn of War Soulstorm