Too bad the 'Syphon Filter' games on the PS1 are still better than MSG series thus far.

:seriously:

it would have to be wing arms on the sega saturn.
really, i had high hopes for this game but it failed so miserably.
its WAY too short! it makes mw2's campaign look like a 100 hour game.
hell, the house of the dead is longer than this game. seriously.

:seriously:
They're more fun.

Then if you add in the PSP games, well...fuck MGS.

Well no to me, If I can enjoy the game at least from a certain point, it's fine by me & I always give more credit to the storyline rather than gameplay, but that's just what I am.

I wasn't calling you lazy. I was calling the dev's lazy. The part where you're on the ship was brilliant, but everything after wasn't. They're lazy for trying to justify the crap portions of the game with some hackneyed plot twist.


(don't get ugly as in CC, I don't wanna start a flame war so let's try to keep this civil. Ok?).


Wasn't flaming you.


You care about it?

:rolleyes:


I buy into that shit, It's impossible that I can suck Kojima's cock because I hated many things about 3 & I hate other things about 2

Gamers buying into shitty justifications for lazy, shitty games is what prompts dev's to make more lazy, shitty games.


So again. Do you actually care about it?

Again. :rolleyes:


I don't give a damn about Splinter Cell I didn't played it but that's not the point here. We were talking about Metal Gear Solid 2 here & if you don't like to sit through long-winded political conversations, why did you like MGS1 in the first place?

Because MGS1's gameplay was that good, for starters. The political shit was actually kind of interesting as well, considering that at least the basis of it was factual in nature. I was treated to (for the time) good cinematics while listening to it, too. They weren't as long-winded as they were in MGS2, as well, and besides, exactly how many stealth-action games were out at the time that didn't have shitty gameplay?


Also, frek Kojima and the Metal Gear series.

Fool needs to go back and work on ZOE again.
:(

I want my ZOE3...

I'd love to see more ZoE. Didn't Kojima retire or something, though, once he managed to flush the MGS series down the toilet?

I'd love to see more ZoE. Didn't Kojima retire or something, though, once he managed to flush the MGS series down the toilet?
No I think he 'took a (mostly) hands off' approach to the rest of the series.

And in a recent interview he said he was willing to make a ZOE3...which is what I'm hoping for.

Because MGS1's gameplay was that good, for starters. The political shit was actually kind of interesting as well, considering that at least the basis of it was factual in nature. I was treated to (for the time) good cinematics while listening to it, too. They weren't as long-winded as they were in MGS2, as well, and besides, exactly how many stealth-action games were out at the time that didn't have shitty gameplay?


I don't know what's shitty about MGS1 & 2 Gameplay.

Games of stealth action from that time.

1998:
Metal Gear Solid

Tenchu Stealth Assassins <- good game

Thief: The Dark Project <- Awful game to me.

2000: Hitman: Codename 47 <- I has some stealth features, but it's a shooter to me.

2001: Metal Gear Solid 2 <- The best gameplay in all MGS series if you ask me, though I didn't played 4 yet.

2002: Splinter Cell <- Didn't played it, but from what I looked it's like a fusion between Tenchu, MGS & Tomb Raider.

I was mildly disappointed with Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Children of Mana, Heroes of Mana, but I still had plenty of fun.

Nothing has ever really dissappointed me that badly so far.

yeah i didn't like Children of Mana either. the soundtrack was kinda nice...

No I think he 'took a (mostly) hands off' approach to the rest of the series.

And in a recent interview he said he was willing to make a ZOE3...which is what I'm hoping for.

Hm. Interesting. I'll believe it when I see it, though.


I don't know what's shitty about MGS1 & 2 Gameplay.

I didn't say MGS1's gameplay was shitty. For that matter, MGS2's gameplay wasn't bad by any stretch. It was just a complete rehash of 1, as I've been saying.


Games of stealth action from that time.

Note to self: stop using rhetorical questions. :rolleyes:

Thief: The Dark Project <- Awful game to me.

Not getting involved, but I just want to say that any credibility you had disappeared right here.

Not getting involved, but I just want to say that any credibility you had disappeared right here.

May I know why?



Note to self: stop using rhetorical questions.

LOL

LOL

You realize you're laughing at yourself, right?

You realize you're laughing at yourself, right?


Yes...

Final fantasy 12 is probably the most disapointing game I played.
I wasn't waiting for a MMO...
I'm happy I wasn't one who bought it.

FFXII isn't the MMO buddy, you're looking at FFXI

You know, I've never understood why people are so quick to criticize FFXI for being an 'online' game, when these same people gladly sign their souls away to Blizzard's purgatory.

Speaking of which, I have to say although it wasn't the most disappointing game I've played, World of Warcraft was actually a let-down for me. It just didn't excite me when I finally decided to bite the bullet and give it a go. So I let my account lapse after the free trial ended, and I haven't gone back to it. And this game has over 9 million active players? Why??

Probably Pokemon Battle Revolution. That game is so not worth $50 ~_~. I'm never buying another pokemon spin off game ;_;. The non-spin offs already take up too much of your life already D:. I've really been careful now about what games I buy now on the latest generation home consoles D:.

You know, I've never understood why people are so quick to criticize FFXI for being an 'online' game, when these same people gladly sign their souls away to Blizzard's purgatory.

Speaking of which, I have to say although it wasn't the most disappointing game I've played, World of Warcraft was actually a let-down for me. It just didn't excite me when I finally decided to bite the bullet and give it a go. So I let my account lapse after the free trial ended, and I haven't gone back to it. And this game has over 9 million active players? Why??

WoW has such a huge following because it's Blizzard. Diablo 2, Starcraft, Warcraft....a lot of those players jumped into WoW without question, and now it's all about the stats and gear and end raiding, so they always keep playing to get the best gear/numbers.. It's really just gotten too boring to me, I finally quit after about 3 years of playing.

However, FFXI I will never play because of what I've heard (this is in the 'is it worth it' thread) of being so hard to solo outside of like...level 5. You basically have to party up to get anywhere in the game, and I always like WoW because you could solo all the way to the top. I only raided when I hit 80, never before. I loved that game, but like I said, it just got watered down too much for me.

WoW has such a huge following because it's Blizzard. Diablo 2, Starcraft, Warcraft....a lot of those players jumped into WoW without question, and now it's all about the stats and gear and end raiding, so they always keep playing to get the best gear/numbers.. It's really just gotten too boring to me, I finally quit after about 3 years of playing.

However, FFXI I will never play because of what I've heard (this is in the 'is it worth it' thread) of being so hard to solo outside of like...level 5. You basically have to party up to get anywhere in the game, and I always like WoW because you could solo all the way to the top. I only raided when I hit 80, never before. I loved that game, but like I said, it just got watered down too much for me.

WoW sure has its awesome moments when you've just epically pwned the Dead Mines and left nothing but a trail of total carnage in your wake ;)

WoW sure has its awesome moments when you've just epically pwned the Dead Mines and left nothing but a trail of total carnage in your wake ;)

ahahaha, I only played as Horde, and I loved running my way to the Deadmines. Good times! :D

On the other hand, going into Arathi Basin while playing on Alliance pretty much guarantees you a losing battle :( Frickin' people on the Alliance side are retarded, and can't grasp the concept of 'defending'. In the meantime, Horde initiates some major pwnage on us. I love playing as either side, but I'd say the brighter minds out there besides my fiance and I mostly stick to Horde, while the dullards on Alliance are trying to figure out just what the hell is going on and then complain about losing at the end of the match. To quote a sign I saw on Failblog once, "it's not rocket surgery"! LOL

However, FFXI I will never play because of what I've heard (this is in the 'is it worth it' thread) of being so hard to solo outside of like...level 5. You basically have to party up to get anywhere in the game, and I always like WoW because you could solo all the way to the top. I only raided when I hit 80, never before. I loved that game, but like I said, it just got watered down too much for me.

Then you haven't read further posts in that thread. Square Enix has made updates to Final Fantasy XI Online where soloing has been made a lot easier. You could solo from level 1 to 75 if you so desire. There are areas of the game where you do need to be in a party with others to fight against certain leveled monsters/story missions/etc. Then there are the endgame events etc where you are usually in a full alliance of 18 players. However those are certain events only, not the standard setup for all battles in the game.

Then you haven't read further posts in that thread. Square Enix has made updates to Final Fantasy XI Online where soloing has been made a lot easier. You could solo from level 1 to 75 if you so desire. There are areas of the game where you do need to be in a party with others to fight against certain leveled monsters/story missions/etc. Then there are the endgame events etc where you are usually in a full alliance of 18 players. However those are certain events only, not the standard setup for all battles in the game.

Actually I did read that, however, you used the word theoretically(sp) meaning that it's still hard as fuck to solo grind to the top level. Even if it is a solo-capable game, there's that aspect that I just don't feel right with a Final Fantasy game being an MMO. Relying on others to complete your gaming experience is important, but I play Final Fantasy purely for storyline/some side quests purposes. Clearly XI isn't for me since you'd have to depend on those other 17 people for 'certain events' (which mean storyline related?) so no thanks for a FF Online game.

Sadly that's where SE is leaning, again, with XIV yea?

Red Alert 3.

Actually I did read that, however, you used the word theoretically(sp) meaning that it's still hard as fuck to solo grind to the top level. Even if it is a solo-capable game, there's that aspect that I just don't feel right with a Final Fantasy game being an MMO. Relying on others to complete your gaming experience is important, but I play Final Fantasy purely for storyline/some side quests purposes. Clearly XI isn't for me since you'd have to depend on those other 17 people for 'certain events' (which mean storyline related?) so no thanks for a FF Online game.

Sadly that's where SE is leaning, again, with XIV yea?

When I said theoretically, I mean it is possible to level to 75 via soloing, however it would take some time. Being in a standard experience party (6 person party), does speed things up. The 'Certain Events' I was referring to are endgame things like Dynamis, Limbus, Sky etc. Mission battles can usually be done with 3-6 people, depending on their levels, jobs and equipment setup.

FFXII isn't the MMO buddy, you're looking at FFXI

I know. But FF XII gameplay was as empty as most of the MMO.
FF XI was not disappointing for me because I knew it was a MMO before it was released.

Rogue Warrior
i was having more fun balancing the controller than playing the game itself
made by bethesda
thought hey could be pretty sweet
i wish i could get that time back

Sword of Mana for the GBA. It is actually a remake of the First Mana game, released here for the Game Boy as Final Fantasy Adventure. It is improved in every way, but it is crap. The reason for my hatred is not because "O NOES THEY MADE CHANGES" but rather because certain key points of the story were altered. For example, Julius is supposed to be not the Reincarnation of Vandole, but rather a descendant of Vandole. There are other changes that I blocked out of my head.

Most crushingly (and the moment that made me literally destroy the cartridge) the heroine is a sacrifice to the Mana tree. A SACRIFICE. She is supposed to become the Mana tree when it is destroyed after the final battle because her family line comes from the Mana Goddess herself.

I cannot believe I risked my life to get this game on release day in the middle of a blizzard.
I HATE YOU SWORD OF MANA!

just because the translation is more accurate in the remake and therefore differs from your childhood memory doesnt make it a bad game.

are you like those guys that RAGED when the DS port of chrono had a better translation?

Rain of Fire

Prototype should of never bought that piece of shit

Prototype should of never bought that piece of shit

My mother found it and asked me if I'd want it, I said absolutely not. 4 months later she gave it to me for my birthday because it was only $5. I couldn't return it because it had been over 90 days plus she had long since lost the receipt.

I would have to say Two Worlds. I was so god damn excited for this game I can't even explain it. The way all the commercials made it seem like was basically an online Oblivion. I thought, "How could I pass this up?" So I preordered it and got it the day it came out.......ended up returning it a week later.

InFamous. what a pile of shit. Patheticly obsolete gameplay reminiscent of an early PS2 title coupled with a tiny, tiny, tiny sandbox 'world' that dared to say you have choices. Do you fuck!!!!! all the choices do is change the colour of your lightning. hell the game even CHEATS you and pretends you have a fucking choice. At one point you either save your girlfriend or six doctors. It's an interesting moral dilemma, well it would be if your choice had any impact, but it doesn't. If you choose the doctors, your girlfriend dies. If you choose your girlfriend then apparently she was over with the doctors all along and you were tricked. Yeah right tricked, tricked into buying this sorry excuse of a fucking game.

Very long game. Definitely get your money's worth out of it. Especially when considering it begs to be played twice - once as good and once as evil.

Don't know why, but the game was a 6.8/10 for me. Just felt too much like a chore rather than being fun. Obviously most people don't feel this way, so don't take my opinion on it.

what's the point of doing two play throughs one as good and one as evil when it's exactly the same both times save for the ending? It makes fucking Bubsy 3D look like a masterpiece. I hate the game with a passion.

Oh and then there is that game with Special Ops douchebags with pussy-ass heartbeat monitors on their guns!

Aliens????

:P

It makes fucking Bubsy 3D look like a masterpiece. I hate the game with a passion.

Don't you mess with Bubsy, he will platformer you to death.

Command and Conquer Red Alert 3

It wasn't bad really, I just expected SOOOO much more from the next Red Alert game since Red Alert 2 is one of my all-time favorite games.

lol Bubsy 3D was such a bad game. Looking back on it it just makes me laugh.

lol Bubsy 3D was such a bad game. Looking back on it it just makes me laugh.

Hahahhaa, yea, I played Bubsy (SNES version) about a year ago after reviving my SNES console. It just wasn't the same as when I was 6 hahahhaa.

Aliens????

:PModern Warfare 2

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, hands down the most disappointing game I have ever played. Since I was a kid, I was a huge fan of the Banjo series. The insane moves, the wacky transformations, superb platforming, and the vast colorful worlds all made the main games in the series wonderful. Granted, I knew going into this there would be more of an emphasis on the new vehicle element, but that doesn't mean they couldn't have still incorporated some of the above elements that made the series so famous, right? Well, those were all thrown in the trash. Not to mention the physics were horrible, vehicle building was a total pain, challenges were frustrating and took forever to beat, the levels were bland and rather small, the new characters lacked personality, and there was far too much fourth wall breaking. Sure, there was a decent amount in the N64 games, but c'mon! A god of video games?! Ridiculous. This is one of the main contributors to my disdain for Rare and my decision to trade in my 360 for a PS3.

Just dug out my old NES and some of the games...

I remember watching the show Airwolf, and I loved it. Pity the game was crap.

Blade Dancer... i hated the hero

Sword of Mana for the GBA. It is actually a remake of the First Mana game, released here for the Game Boy as Final Fantasy Adventure. It is improved in every way, but it is crap. The reason for my hatred is not because "O NOES THEY MADE CHANGES" but rather because certain key points of the story were altered. For example, Julius is supposed to be not the Reincarnation of Vandole, but rather a descendant of Vandole. There are other changes that I blocked out of my head.

Most crushingly (and the moment that made me literally destroy the cartridge) the heroine is a sacrifice to the Mana tree. A SACRIFICE. She is supposed to become the Mana tree when it is destroyed after the final battle because her family line comes from the Mana Goddess herself.

I cannot believe I risked my life to get this game on release day in the middle of a blizzard.
I HATE YOU SWORD OF MANA!


just because the translation is more accurate in the remake and therefore differs from your childhood memory doesnt make it a bad game.

Let me get this off my chest: The translation in Sword of Mana is not more accurate. It is a complete re-imagining of the plot. Granted, you may be right about some things specific to the game, so I'm not going to refute your hypothesis in regards to Julius's origins. However, you are completely wrong about the ending sequence. At the end of FF Adventure, the Mana Tree is destroyed. You actually see it happen. The Heroine promptly has a talk with her mother revealing that her mother is in fact the Mana tree and the Heroine herself must become the Mana Tree as soon as her mother dies, which is pretty much right then. Then the credits roll, and the "THE END" sign after the credits has a young Mana tree clearly showing the result of the Heroine's transformation.

In Sword of Mana, After the final battle, everybody you ever met in the game shows up and talks. Then the Heroine says she realizes she was a sacrifice to the mana tree all along, and turns into some red thing with wings and flies up into the mana tree to sacrifice herself.

Also, the magic system is different by incorporating the elemental spirits from Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3, and this is reflected in the story when both the Hero and Heroine work together to open up the temple to find the tree of mana by finding the Dark and Light spirits. In FF Adventure, Julius kidnaps the heroine and uses her to go up the falls leading to the Tree of mana, and the Hero follows.

the graphics in the sequences I have just described prove how wrong you are. This is not a question of translation accuracy, this is a question of plot re-imagining. And the answer is SWORD OF MANA CHANGED THE PLOT. Do not respond until you have played both games as much as I have.


are you like those guys that RAGED when the DS port of chrono had a better translation? Of course not. I know when something is better, and the CTDS translation is better without changing anything fundamental like Sword of Mana did. Besides, Chrono Trigger on DS is the same game as Chrono Trigger on SNES. Final Fantasy Adventure on GB is not the same game as Sword of Mana on GBA.

OK, I feel better now. Maybe I can give Sword of Mana a better chance now that I've got all that hatred out of my system. Regardless, I'm still right about everything in this post.

My Sims Kingdom
I played it for one day and nearly Died!!

Ok honestly I know this is a kind of a sucky answer but its true, I personally think when I got to a certain age all video games started disappointing me even the best of games have still in a way disappointed me with length,presentation,depth,story,etc.I can go on but my answer to the ? Super Hero games have been kind of disappointing over my life.

I would say FF 13 but it wasn't disappointing, just worst than I expected, rotten.

dito... FF13 I really wanted to like this game but other than good graphics and a good soundtrack it got nothing. too bad.

another game that dissapointed me a lot was star wars bounty hunter.
the game was not hard, was not frustrating, but DAAAMN it was so boring.
i had to resort to action replay to be invincible and ace through the levels, that was the only way i actually had any sense of enjoyment with it. i did like all the background for the clone wars, though

^ Agreed on Star Wars Bounty hunter. I was just really confused when I started playing it. It didn't have any tutorial time at all, it was just like 'hey go catch that guy!'... ok....... how? After reading how to do it in the manual, I just gave up for not wanting to subject myself to more bad.

Bounty Hunter was a huge disappointment. The controls where stupid, the level layouts made no sense, they got Jango & Zam's actors to do the voice work but they where totally bored with it, and it just wasn't all that exciting.

Plus no Slave 1 Rogue Squadron shooting levels.

My friend that is a weaboo plays a lot of hentai games and gets disappointed at how long he has to "play" before he is "satisfied".

His name is Duo.

Duo Maxwell from gundam wing?

Right now, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories comes to my mind.

You weren't even moved by the endings?

I'm moved by your ending.

You weren't even moved by the Dog Endings?

Dawn of Mana. It's like they gave up on the Mana series.

I've been disappointed by a few, not to many honestly, but Star Fox Adventures let me down to the extent of hating it.

Star Wars: Battlefront - Renegade Squadron
Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues (PSP Version)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Xbox Version)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Resident Evil 4
J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings Vol 1

Star Wars Battlefront - Renegade Squadron

Reason: No Clone Wars in Galactic Conquest, Some of the planets like Utapau, The Death Star from BF2 wasn't in the game, very short and easy campaign unlike the one in BF2. Elite Squadron is way better

Lego Indiana Jones 2

Reason: No Original Trilogy like the PC Version has just Crystal Skull, Repetitive Soundtrack "A Whirl Through Academe" from the Crystal Skull Soundtrack keeps playing throughout the game

Grand Theft Out:Vice City

Reason:$@%%& Controls, Bad Color and contrast, horrible camera angles unlike San Andreas which had better controls and graphics

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Reason: You can only play through Aragorn's Stroy. It would have been nice to play through Merry and Pippin or Frodo's Story unlike Return of the King which allowed you to play as Wizard,king and Hobbit plus the game is wayyyyyyyyyy to short you can beat it in like an hour

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Reason: Most HP Fans are disappointed in this game because there isn't free roaming around Hogwarts and the game leaves out the plot and game play unlike the first 3 Harry Potter games and the game has you fight creatures and looks for useless items that had "NO" freaking thing to the plot of the story

Resident Evil 4

Reason: It didn't quite have that N64 feeling and the game wasn't that scary unlike the playstation version of the first 3 games

The Lord of the Rings VOL 1 (SNES)

Reason: This game had you picking up gems in order to get into Moria. Now if you knew anything about Tolkein's books or you seen the movie THATS NOT HOW THEY GOT INTO MORIA!! second only Aragorn and the Hobbits go into Moria the other 4 fellowship members stay at Rivendell very disappointing game I was expecting a good RPG LOTR game but NO! it sucked

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

'nuff said.

For me include:

Shaq Fu
Rise of the Robots
Final Fantasy 7
The Sims 2

Rise of the Robots is the biggest POS I played on the SNES. That game developer hopefully is no longer in the business.

-So pretty much any GTA after Vice City felt re-done. Super glad Red Dead Redemption is out.
-Super Mario Sunshine
-All Sonic's after the DC release.
-Guitar Hero Van Halen
-Legend of Mana for PS1 or any Mana that wasn't part 1 (excluding the Japanese only sequels I never played).

I just recently finished Red Dead Redemption (2 days ago to be exact), and although I really enjoyed it the ending was shit and left me verrrrry disappointed. Sure I got the whole sad kinda stuff and the kind of 'end of the west' hidden message in there (trying to avoid spoilers here) but I left all my challenges and a few of the stranger missions, and generally all the free-roam crap till the end and now i'm stuck with a bad character that sounds like an annoying whiny bitch.

VERRRRRY Dissapointed.

All Silent Hill games after Silent Hill 4..Big Suprise :(

tenchu shadow assassin (wii) it looked good in trailers.. but the game is just horrible. didn't care for the first person sword fighting.

tenchu z (360) controls felt too complicated.

there's others, just those are the ones that stand out the most.

tenchu shadow assassin (wii) it looked good in trailers.. but the game is just horrible. didn't care for the first person sword fighting.

tenchu z (360) controls felt too complicated.

there's others, just those are the ones that stand out the most.

It sounds like you should avoid Tenchu in general.

Currently my biggest letdownn was Alpha Protocol. I can't believe this game was released the way it was. Its a travesty to say the least. It had so much potential but it was done all wrong. Doesn't seem like there will be a prt 2 either. Sega said there wouldn't be lol. Sadly I was hoping they would improve it the 2nd time around. Oh well.

The worst games i've ever played are the following

Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time
Super Dragonball Z
The Fidgets
and Breath of fire Dragon Quarter

Currently my biggest letdownn was Alpha Protocol. I can't believe this game was released the way it was. Its a travesty to say the least. It had so much potential but it was done all wrong. Doesn't seem like there will be a prt 2 either. Sega said there wouldn't be lol. Sadly I was hoping they would improve it the 2nd time around. Oh well.

Sega didn't make Alpha Protocol, they only distributed it. Obsidian Entertainment were the ones who made it. It was a ok game, and didn't really deserve all the negative feedback reviewers gave it imo. Still, can't please everybody.

Obsidian was the developer but the publisher decides whether or not there's a sequel. Even if the devs don't want to make one, the publisher can force them to make one if they know it will bring them $$$.

I was disappointed with how Dementium II ended..
Just when you think you're going to have all the questions answered at the end of a game, you get dragged through a mirror and that's how it ends. That's what I get for trying out 3rd party games. (Coming from someone who thought Henry Hatsworth was actually a pretty badass game)

Dragon Age: Origins. Not only it's one of the most disappointing games, but also one of the worst RPG's I've played.

Dragon Age: Origins. Not only it's one of the most disappointing games, but also one of the worst RPG's I've played.

Meh... can't please everybody.

Dragon Age: Origins. Not only it's one of the most disappointing games, but also one of the worst RPG's I've played.

I smell a troll.

I smell a troll.

I smell a fanboy.

I smell a rat. I smell a slew of them. Skittering around, the ceiling and the ground~

86 out of 100 critics disagree with your view. (http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/dragon-age-origins)

And 82 out of 100 critics gave positive reviews on Final Fantasy XIII, but I'm pretty sure there are people here in this forum that will agree with me that it doesn't deserve such high score.


I smell a rat. I smell a slew of them. Skittering around, the ceiling and the ground~

The Fiction And Poetry forum is few forums up Neg.

And 82 out of 100 critics gave positive reviews on Final Fantasy XIII, but I'm pretty sure there are people here in this forum that will agree with me that it doesn't deserve such high score.

Fanboys (and girls).

Sure, it may have disappointed Final Fantasy diehards, but viewed objectively, it definitely deserves a metacritic score in the 80s.

Personally I believe Dragon Age deserves a score at least in the mid to high nineties, but my opinion doesn't mean shit - collectivism is the most likely way to judge the quality of something.

Scores don't mean squat when you find yourself disappointed in a game. A while ago, I posted on here that GTA IV was a game that I found very lacking. What score did it get on Metacritic? 98 from 86 critics. The quality of a game should be judged by people who can objectively analyze the good and the bad and NOT see it merely in relation to its predecessors or how it lived up to personal expectations/tastes, etc. Certainly I would not consider the thoughts of everyone who bought it as indicating its quality.

To each their own. There is no universally accepted 100% perfect game available at this time. Each person's opinions and views are different from others.

While I may disagree with Aniki about Dragon Age: Origins, it's his choice not to like it.

Regarding metacritic and such... Personally, I don't care much for review sites/gaming magazines/etc when it comes to deciding whether to get a game or not. Rent the game first, then make your own opinion whether to buy it or not I say.


And 82 out of 100 critics gave positive reviews on Final Fantasy XIII, but I'm pretty sure there are people here in this forum that will agree with me that it doesn't deserve such high score.

82 out of 100. That is too high. How about -82 out of 100? I'm not trying to be flippant etc... but I really do despise this game and I do have my reasons for that as well.

There's a difference between a bad game and a game you don't like. In the same way that there's a difference between a good game and a game you like.

There's a difference between a bad game and a game you don't like. In the same way that there's a difference between a good game and a game you like.

Exactly the point i'm trying to make.

For instance, I'm with Olde when it comes to GTA4 - it was a game that I just couldn't get into. Objectively though, I recognise it deserves the high review scores; what it does it does extremely, extremely well.

I'm not saying that review scores or reviewers are always right -metacritic is good in that it provides the average of a wide range of reviews. When it comes to gaming reviews, even though peoples tastes might vary on niche games, it's hard to deny that any game that has a metacritic score of 85+ is a game that will be enjoyed by the majority of people who play it.

82 out of 100. That is too high. How about -82 out of 100? I'm not trying to be flippant etc... but I really do despise this game and I do have my reasons for that as well.

My thoughts are exact on Dragon's Age.

There's a difference between a bad game and a game you don't like. In the same way that there's a difference between a good game and a game you like.

That's true, but remember... what may be considered a good or bad game is purely up to the individual in question. What one considers to be bad, may be considered good by another.


Exactly the point i'm trying to make.

For instance, I'm with Olde when it comes to GTA4 - it was a game that I just couldn't get into. Objectively though, I recognise it deserves the high review scores; what it does it does extremely, extremely well.

I agree with both you and Olde about GTAIV. The main character was about as charismatic as a doormat for one thing. The only part of GTAIV I liked, were the two expansions (The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony) as I could enjoy them more than the original.


I'm not saying that review scores or reviewers are always right -metacritic is good in that it provides the average of a wide range of reviews. When it comes to gaming reviews, even though peoples tastes might vary on niche games, it's hard to deny that any game that has a metacritic score of 85+ is a game that will be enjoyed by the majority of people who play it.

That's purely subjective though... For example, Metacritic gave a review of 44 out of 100 for Warriors Orochi 2. Personally, I enjoyed it as a sequel to it's predecessor, but others didn't. You can't please everyone.


My thoughts are exact on Dragon's Age.

That's your choice. I enjoyed Dragon Age and have played it more than once. If you don't like it, while I may not agree with your decision, that's your choice. I'm not gonna list reasons why you should like it. That'd just be a waste of time imo.

rotfl...

I was just called a name on another forum by a fanboy.A mod intervened.
If I am lucky they'll give the guy an infraction.

I hate fanboys btw...smiles.

Well there are obvious bad games..like the ones the angry video game nerd talks about.
A lot of those are on the old systems.

A lot of the games that come out nowadays have flaws.But people disagree on whether those flaws are critical.Whether they matter.

FFXII has some terrible flaws.I believe and I don't like the game..but a lot of others like it.
I haven't played FFXIII yet.I hope to in the next few months. A lot of people feel it's flawed as well...But a lot of people like it.

On some forums people have gotten into vicious flamewars over games..whether a game is good or bad. I was in one of those on gamefaqs.It got so bad I ended up quitting gamefaqs.
Since then I don't even try to say whether a game is good or bad..just whether it is flawed and I point out what I feel are the flaws.
Shrugs..doesn't stop you from being called a name though...

For me an rpg such as FF needs compelling characters, a cohesive and interesting plot, towns and minigames and all the traditional FF elements, and the music and so on and so forth.I am a traditionalist. If it violates tradition I don't like it.

Just my 2 cents.

In my case... for someone who has never played a single Final Fantasy game ever, is XIII not a good game to start playing? I have no intention of going back and playing older games, but seeing some previews for this game intrigued me... a little.

In my case... for someone who has never played a single Final Fantasy game ever, is XIII not a good game to start playing? I have no intention of going back and playing older games, but seeing some previews for this game intrigued me... a little.
'You should go play the older, 2D games'.
Now that that's out of the way...



I'd say...no.
It's nice to look at, but it takes too damn long to get enjoyable.
You're better off playing 'Lost Odyssey' or something.

as of august 15, aside from those i mentioned, i must add DOOM for the saturn.
i cried, i really did.

FFXII has some terrible flaws.I believe and I don't like the game..but a lot of others like it.
For me an rpg such as FF needs compelling characters, a cohesive and interesting plot, towns and minigames and all the traditional FF elements, and the music and so on and so forth.I am a traditionalist. If it violates tradition I don't like it.


So you dislike XII because it feels like a completely different rpg that has nothing to do with FF, ergo breaks the tradition or you dislike it for this and other reasons. Just asking...

In my case... for someone who has never played a single Final Fantasy game ever, is XIII not a good game to start playing? I have no intention of going back and playing older games, but seeing some previews for this game intrigued me... a little.

FF13 is a good game in and of itself, but it's not representative of 'Final Fantasy' as such, which is why it has its fair share of haters. Final Fantasy 12 was also different in that it tried to marry an MMO-style of combat with a single player game.

If you ask a person what defines 'Final Fantasy', you get wildly different answers because a lot of them are really wildly different games. For those that have been playing since Final Fantasy I on the NES, Final Fantasy is the quintessential JRPG - a menu-driven grind-a-thon (which admittedly has its charms). This battle system hasn't really changed much (until FF11 and onwards, that is), just been tweaked slightly.

For those who started with Final Fantasy on the SNES, the games are about epic, sweeping storylines involving brooding anti-heroes and beautiful heroines.

Those who started with Final Fantasy on the PS1 (my group) see Final Fantasy as games about breaking technical barriers, and presenting a good story with AMAZING CGI.

I honestly don't know what people who start with Final Fantasy XIII will think, because it's too early to tell - but Final Fantasy is about many different things to many different people. Some games in the series do some things well, some do others well.

To be honest, some of the older games would be worthwhile playing, albeit on a smaller scale - if you have a PSP or iPhone, it's worth checking out the remakes of Final Fantasy I & II. Or, if you have a DS/GBA, Final Fantasies III-IV are available in various forms, and are all still playable...kind of. I don't like FF3, but that's just me.

Grab an emulator and play IV and VI, imo. If you think you'd want to try one with a job system I'd say V.

Megaman Network Transmision, I cant get passed Gutsman

So you dislike XII because it feels like a completely different rpg that has nothing to do with FF, ergo breaks the tradition or you dislike it for this and other reasons. Just asking...

as others have noted.
It's also incomplete, poorly edited, and needed some additional elements added, that I believe Matsuno would have added and corrected if he hadn't left precipitously.

FFXIII from what I have heard seems to suffer from some but not all of the same deficiencies. I haven't played it yet but I hope to by the end of the year.
Pretty graphics while good cannot take the place of compellling characters and a superb plot.
And what about gameplay.If it so much rote boring repetition then how can it hold anyone's interest ?

Anyway , I hope Verses turns things around for FF.

I started with FF V and VI on the SNES btw...

Haha, your post just proved my point - you started on the SNES, and FF to you is about plot and characters over repetitive gameplay/technical smexyness.

Also, repetition can be a VERY powerful gameplay motivator; look at Halo, for instance, a game that has been described by its creators as 'Five seconds of fun repeated ad infinitum'.

Just because it can be doesn't mean it should be. Five seconds of fun repeated at infinitum sounds good at first, but if it's the same five seconds then sooner or later they're gonna stop being fun. Bang, bang, bang, dead. I've never really been able to get into online shooters all that much for that reason, even though FPS is one of my favorite genres.

That can also be used to describe Koei's, Dynasty/Samurai Warriors series. Yet for me, I've enjoyed each installment thoroughly.

That's what I get for trying out 3rd party games.
please don't tell me this means what I think it means

It means what you think it means.

We're all doomed. Doomed I tells ya!

I'll say(type) it again once I turned 13 yrs old EVERY game I've played disappointed me, so many times I've felt why didn't this video game company add this to help your own game feel more streamlined deadlines be damned just make a complete game. I hope people understand what I'm trying to convey adding all the light elements to a game that makes it a standout ie. If FFXIII had a dash button for all the running around on the exploration map I would like it ooodles more than I do,small things like that to me can make ONE of the hugest differences. I'm not stupid(well not all the time) I understand cutting & editing(well not all the time) but..........basically what I'm trying to say is Final Fantasy Verses XIII better not suck Dammit!

Perfect Dark Zero

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence
Disc 2 Persistence I belive

But for me it would probably be Dragons Revenge for Genenisis/Megadrive
I acutally like the game, but when I was a younger I just picked the game because the anme sounded cool and the cover looked like it was full of medevial sword wielding dragon slaying kick ass sidescrolling beat'em up action.

Turns out it was a pinball game.

Got Armorians: Project Swarm with a bunch of other random n64 games and it auto targets and was not the Goldeneye knockoff with Starship Troopers theme.

Contact, Starfox Assault, and Metal Gear Solid 2. All bought at full price, I felt really ripped off. When I buy budget release games, I know exactly what i'm getting into. These games promised me a good time, and i didn't get it.

But I did not expect much from both of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeons (and more first) so I stopped playing after each dungeon or two would have been terrible.

So this is my first post on this site,but I have to say FFXII,every Tenchu game except the first and Legend of Dragoon. This is my short list.Oh, and (please no angry people) Fallout New Vegas. I don't really know why with New Vegas I just couldn't get into it.

Twilight Princess - i thought it was the videogame messiah. The game added nothing to the saga compared to Ocarina of Time. More than a stagnation, it was a step backward for the Zelda saga. Deplorable.

monsterseed.
all i can say is: all the wrong ways to copy pokemon

vin diesel: wheelman

The New Super Mario Bros games (DS and Wii). In both cases I was expecting a return of the Mario "magic" that all the reviews insisted there were...it was not.

The Force Unleashed II...it was not really what I was expecting, but then again neither was its predecessor.

The Force Unleashed II...it was not really what I was expecting, but then again neither was its predecessor.

The sad thing is... George Lucas has made both TFU games, canon with the movies...

"Superman" (the 1999 video game for the N64) is one of THE most disappointing video games I've ever played in the history of the world, but I can't think of any other bad games. :(

The sad thing is... George Lucas has made both TFU games, canon with the movies...

people thought they werent canon?

if its an original game, no matter how shitty it is (bounty hunter) then its canon - george lucas.

DNF has REALLY let me down.
:(

"What's the most disapponting game you've ever played?"
Without a doubt the "game" of love.......

DNF has REALLY let me down.
:(
Going into that game with high expectations was a pretty dumb thing to do, man.

Going into that game with high expectations was a pretty dumb thing to do, man.
I went in it with fairly average "expectations" but it STILL managed to let me down.

I went in expecting it to be a pretty crappy game based on the demo and the fact it has been in development hell for 12 years or so. It was okay.

for me, it would have to be Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz for the Wii cause of the bowling mini-game. followin the success of the Super Monkey Ball Deluxe for the PS2, i had fairly high expectations for this game. because there was no way to change the angle of your throw, i gave up on it.

DUKE NUKEM FOREVER without a doubt.....my mind cannot comprehend how bad and disappointing this game is.

tales in general doesn't jive with me all that well (except legendia/symphonia, abyss had stellar gameplay and Guy Cecil) but MAN... i'd honestly say symphonia II was pretty disappointing, but it's not the most disappointing thing ever. i went in with terrible, TERRIBLE expectations and... it managed to go below the expectations, but nope. still not the most disappointing.

instead, that disappointment has manifested in a game called Tales of Vesperia. Let me tell you something, the plot stopped making sense halfway in, it got pretty disgustingly jrpgish at the worst times, the anime cutscenes had crappy animation, the only cool chars were Yuri/Flynn and Raven and even then like Tales sucks at humor so they weren't even that good overall. So much for me to nitpick x_X the battle system felt pretty stale overall, i honestly didn't think it was that fun esp since bosses were cheap and broke out of combos ridiculously easily (unless i've been doing something wrong, likely but it was annoying). at least it had difficulty...... but no, i went in with pretty high expectations and came out with... burnout. thank god the ps3 port isn't coming to the west.

i guess the worst part is that i even prepared for the worst. my gameplay expectations were pretty high and i got something that, despite being an abyss upgrade... wasn't at all stellar and got pretty boring quickly unlike Abyss, and it actually managed to go way WAY below my plot expectations. I mean at least i had really little hope for Symph II to begin with, I had some hope of "oh its just subjective".............. god, vesperia, god. wasting such a cool name on a disappointing game. FOR SHAME. FOR SHAAAAME.


Before playing Cross I read up on it about it being "hit or miss" and I had a feel that my reaction would be "eh." I hated the gameplay, the plot was something I read up on due to genuine interest and I actually kinda liked it (despite it nullifying Chrono Trigger and making them seem like pawns or bastards depending on your interpretation, bleh) and the music was gorgeous. Except I only got to the Serge/Lynx body switch before i stopped giving a crap and then hard drive failure and yeah i'll just read TheDarkId's LP on it if i care enough for plot. I guess it all averaged out to "better than eh," but the gameplay disappointed me greatly.


surprisingly, almost every other game i have played wasn't disappointing to me at all ^_^ I tend to have a good feeling towards whatever i end up buying and that guides me in the right direction. Its just that the Tales games are quite strange in this regard.

If you will ask the same question from a person who loves and likes to play games then he would say that he never found a game disappointing.Because it is all about passion,love and craziness.My answer is also same.

Medal of Honor 2010, COD Black Ops, Fallout New Vegas(because of gamebreaking bugs), and Everything I have ever bought on the Wii.

Everything I have ever bought on the Wii.

Serious? Are you just shoveling your money into every "party game" available?

I couldn't disagree more with Merc Raven about Tales of Vesperia. I think its easily one of the best JRPGs of this gen. I just loved the characters (all of them) and the tone of the game was much more light hearted and genuinely fun than many other overwrought titles, but still packing emotional punch when it needed to. As I say, one of my very favourite JRPGs of recent times.

My most disappointing game is probably Halo 3. I absolutely adore Halo 1, and its still one of my favourite games ever. Halo 2 was a bit wobbly at times, but it got better as it went on. I consider it a very worthy sequel to a game that was always going to be a challenge to top. A lot of key staff members had left between Halo 1 and Halo 2 as well, so that probably didn't help.

But Halo 3... man, that game was so boring and unambitious. They had all that extra firepower on the 360 to work with, and yet it all felt so routine and utterly uninspired, like Bungie just wanted the series to be over. It just felt like there had been no genuine enthusiasm by the developers when making this game. Dull set pieces, much reused situations, no real advance in gameplay terms, and a vastly scaled down and poorly executed plot.


I haven't played a new Halo game since then, because that game really sounded the death knell for that series, as far as I was concerned. If Mass Effect 3 with its dubious Kinect controls can just avoid being anywhere near as drab and by the numbers as Halo 3, I think Bioware can call it a win.

Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain
Halo 3 - made me sick and tired of the whole series
Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2
Medal of Honor 2010 - campaign had some good moments/levels and bad ones, multiplayer was too frustrating to be fun
Homefront

no i got RE: UC, 007 Quantum of Solace, Red Steel, and RE for Wii. I cant stand party games, and am really past all nintendo's icons.

If Mass Effect 3 with its dubious Kinect controls can just avoid being anywhere near as drab and by the numbers as Halo 3, I think Bioware can call it a win.

The whole Kinect addon for Mass Effect 3 is a joke imo, a poor marketing ploy to try and appeal to those with the delusion of more interactivity with Shepard and co. Just means instead of selecting your dialogue choices or directing your squad to different locations during battle by controller, you speak the dialogue choice you want or direct your squad verbally (IE Garrus, move forward. Garrus, Concussive shot etc etc etc). Fortunately it's optional to use Kinect, so you can select from the menu whether to use it or not. I'm assuming that last part, but from what I've read on the Mass Effect wiki and on other forums (BioWare's own forums for one), that not using the Kinect won't change anything else of the game, which is good... as I refuse to pay money for that gimick solely for one game. If I did that, I'd have bought a Wii for Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.

Part marketing ploy, part "we want to show our game at E3, and with Microsoft's new policy called KINECT OR DIE, we had no choice". It's pathetic for two reasons. 1. It doesn't really use Kinect, just the voice recognition which means it could have been done just as easily with a microphone. 2. All it really does is replace your input commands, instead of pressing buttons you shout and the marketing folks who said it's faster and easier to control your party with voice commands.... it's not, it's really not.

My point is that whilst I don't want to and will not be using Kinect with ME3, I'm willing to accept it being part of the game, just so long as the game itself is actually good - unlike Halo 3, which felt extremely tired and lacking in any kind of energy or enthusiasm.

Basically, I'm just saying that whilst I rolled my eyes as I imagine most people did, when hearing of Kinect in ME3, my primary concern for that game is that it doesn't go down the terrible path that Halo 3 did, and make sure the series goes out with a bang, not a whimper.

A flat, uninspired, 'we're doing it for the money now' ME3, would be a heartbreaking calamity.

I couldn't disagree more with Merc Raven about Tales of Vesperia. I think its easily one of the best JRPGs of this gen. I just loved the characters (all of them) and the tone of the game was much more light hearted and genuinely fun than many other overwrought titles, but still packing emotional punch when it needed to. As I say, one of my very favourite JRPGs of recent times.I'm glad you're just saying this instead of trying to argue because I fully understand liking it, it's just that my own expectations were way too high going into it and it just didn't click with me one bit. Disappointment is relative, after all.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

Silent Hill Origins.
Clumsy made-up story, shorter than other SHs, unoriginal mechanics (going through mirrors... bah!), rehashed locations and ridiculous support characters. Only good (good, not great) thing is the soundtrack, although less brilliant than other SHs' OSTs.

no i got RE: UC, 007 Quantum of Solace, Red Steel, and RE for Wii. I cant stand party games, and am really past all nintendo's icons.


resident evil, bad? ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED?

UC was practically House of Dead reskinned for RE. Not that it was bad just didnt come close to the main series in quality. I said disappointing, not necessarily bad okay. The RE remake port was just the same thing with no new features. Not bad, but not great. Sorry if I offended you.

did i say RE UC? no. did i say RE? yes.

who in their right mind would spend 30 dlls on a PORT when you can get the same game used for 10 or less?.
thinking better, you DESERVE to be dissapointed, but for yourself for falling into such a stupid scam.

Didnt pay that much for it lol. I got for like 5 (half of deal on used games) dollars at gamestop. I only bought it because I never played the remake but played PS1 version from PS Store. They had no gamecube versions at the store so that was my only choice. Its not like I said it was total crap, just a bad judgement. It wasnt like a highway robbery, so no harm done. Btw, I thought you were talking about both games so my bad on that. My definiton of bad and dissappointing are far different.

wait, the happiness of finally having warcraft 2 again clouded my comprehension skill a bit.
resident evil, dissapointing?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.

oh, just forget I said it man. This will never end lol. Oh and nothings wrong with me....that I know of.

Final Fantasy 13... and Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon. Terrible IMHO.

after playing parasite eve 2, i must say i am dissapointed with it.
i expected something like the first one, or better.
its not like the first one, and its not better.

however, it is NOT a bad game.

Either Final Fantasy 10, Resident Evil 4 or Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Probably FF10, because I do think the other 2 are fairly good games, they just aren't as good as I was hoping for, and/or weren't what I wanted them to be. But FF 10 was just utterly terrible - and crucially for this thread - a massive letdown.

Sorry you don't like those ones, Vrykolas; I think a lot of people go into games with such high expectations, it's easy to be let down in the end. I try my best to start a game I've never played with no expectations at all; just take it as it comes :) I just figure it helps to ease any potential disappointment.

Also, I really need to get around to trying out Parasite Eve; I've never even played the first one :O

I hear what you're saying and I try to be that way too (and remember, I did say that I do like Majora's Mask and Resident Evil to a certain degree, FF10 is the only one I point blank do not like).

But with Majora's Mask... I mean, maybe people don't understand now, but back then, this was like *the* game that people were waiting for. Ocarina of Time was so amazing, that a new Zelda game was cause for truly irrational excitement.

So on release day, I'm all set to go and grab my copy, but because of a series of mishaps, I only got down the town, late in the afternoon. I raced back home, put it in... and the damn thing didn't work, because I didn't have the N64 memory expansion thing that you needed to have!

Looking up at the clock, I saw I had about 15 minutes to get back into town, before they closed up for the day. And I tell you, the Flash had nothing on me, that day. I *flew* out of my house, sprinted like my life depended on it, and basically slithered under the door as they were bringing the grill at the shop down! I managed to persuade them to serve me, got my upgrade, and left an exhausted but happy man.

Which meant that I finally played the game... and it was only okay.

Yeesh, I can certainly understand where you're coming from. TBH, Majora's Mask isn't entirely what I had pegged in my head, but overall it does certainly create a great atmosphere and hold a lot of great memories for me�plus it's the only Zelda that comes close to feeling like a survival horror title (IMHO). My beef with it is just the simple fact that everything is so . . . goofy? I mean, no hard feelings between me and the game�I love it�but . . . it's like the developers were having a drinking party while working on much of the game. Again, I do like the game, really, and it took some major getting used to . . . but . . . I dunno, I'm probably being way too hard on it for my own good. It is sort of nice to get away from Hyrule once in a while (like in Link's Awakening) and see something new. And in the end, I think a little lighthearted fun is fine; considering the storyline, it'd be downright depressing any other way.

Wow, I had an epiphany mid-post. Kudos to me.

I guess I just went in hoping it would be another epic, globe trotting adventure, with a proper 'Quest to save the Kingdom from Ganon or some other Big Bad' storyline, and instead it was kind of like a Fantasy version of Groundhog Day, Quantum Leap and Mr Benn. I mean, there are some really great moments, once you get used to it - the whole back and forth in time is pretty neat, and the bit at the end with the tree is really eerie, but strangely uplifting at the same time. Majora's Mask is a pretty creepy final boss as well.

But still... it felt really short, and very much like a spin-off, when I was expecting a full, proper Zelda game. And I'll admit, my expectations after Ocarina were never going to be met, because that really was a classic of all time IMO.

Your point about it feeling like a survival horror at times is a good one, and that's kind of the problem I had with RE4 (but the other way, obviously). RE4 is a good action game and its really enjoyable in a cheesy James Bond kind of way, with awful quips from the hero, daft OTT set pieces and gloating villains shouting 'MATALO!', but that's not what I thought I was getting at all, when I paid my money!

If they'd made it a new game, rather than turning RE into this farce, then I would have been fine with it.

Duke Nukem Forever :mad: Enough said.

you guys seem to fail to realize MM�s story is the darkest of all zelda games.
the main theme in here is death.
the 3 characters you transform to? they all died.
the entirety of termina? dead in 3 days.
you even visit a dead kingdom!
the girls father in ikana would probably had killed the girl and sucumb to the curse.
death (or any variance of the word) is the most spoken word of the game.

hell, even oot didnt have much death in it.
ganon didnt want to kill everybody, he wanted to RULE everybody.
then theres the shadow temple. and the only ("important") character deaths were ganondorfs nannies. not even ganon himself died.
majora on the other hand, said FUCK IT, IF IM TO BE ALONE, THEN ILL MAKE SURE THERES NO ONE ALIVE.

What's your point?

What does it being dark have to do with anything? I don't disagree on that point (and I did mention that the game is eerie at times and CC pointed out it feels like survival horror etc), but I don't see how that's relevant to what we're discussing here. Big, open, epic, adventurous - these are words I would hope to use when describing a Zelda game. Darkness is something I can take or leave in these games (and OoT did have such moments, like the first time you enter the Market and its destroyed, with all those screaming zombie things around).

The start and ending of Majora's Mask are genuinely interesting, but the bulk of the game felt very lightweight to me. Though neat at first, the time travel starts to feel gimmicky, an excuse to reuse the same locations and situations over and over, and as I said the whole game feels really short. Its not like I didn't enjoy playing it, but it wasn't anywhere near the awesome experience that OoT was (I could have lived without that thrice-damned Water Temple though...) It was just a combination of expectations that were far too high, and the fact that after something as top class as OoT, the only way is down, even if only by a little.

But you don't want to admit that at the time, you want to believe that the next one is going to be just as good, if not better. And IMO, Majora's Mask wasn't as good, and that was a crushing experience, because I'd been looking forward to it ever since I finished OoT.

that its not all rainbows and sunshines in nintendo games.
majoras mask, for its mere core content, should be rated AO.

and a matter of fact, i wasnt hyped when oot came out. i was kinda dissapointed because the previous versions were more open (example, market town being an actual town and just screens).
obtain the triforce

Well, I got a lot more of OoT than walking about the market and finding the Triforce (although it would have made things a lot easier, if it was being sold on one of the stalls...)

And yeah, I know that Nintendo do dark a lot more (and much better) than people think. The Wii actually has quite a lot of survival horror games, even though you wouldn't generally think that would be the case. Which would be great, except for the fact that most of them are rubbish!

Sonic 2006 was god-awful, except for the music, which was amazing. Duke Nukem forever just sucked. Inuyasha: Feudal Combat caught me completely off guard, with its
ridiculous 10 minute story lines and a very small character selection.

that its not all rainbows and sunshines in nintendo games.
majoras mask, for its mere core content, should be rated AO.

and a matter of fact, i wasnt hyped when oot came out. i was kinda dissapointed because the previous versions were more open (example, market town being an actual town and just screens).
obtain the triforce
Dark = good? It being dark and full of death doesn't make it a good game.

I mean, I thought MM was a good game actually, but that's besides the point.

Silent Hill Shattered Memories. While a appreciate the whole reboot and remake was needed, the un-armed and run thing was a downer and too much of a killjoy for me.

For me:

1 Resident evil 5:I expected more from it because i had played the previous games,and even if i wasn't the worlds biggest resident evil fan,i still relatively enjoyed the scares.It wasn't scary at all much to say,and it rips off the matrix with those bullet time effects that wesker performs.

2:Final fantas 7:Talk about games that have a huge let down with the hype it came with.This game was a monumental let down for me coming from ff6.I expected more from the characters to be likeable and the story to be intriguing,instead i forgot many instances and found the villain to be shallow and pathetic.I used to love final fantasy,but i stopped caring much for the series after X.I don't even have a wish to finish 8 or X,and i own both of them.


3:Suikoden 4:Its world is closed off and everything is squeezed in as tight as possible.I was running around and getting characters much more easily than in the previous game,plus the wars were nowhere near as fun.

4:Metal gear solid 4:I loved the series of metal gear solid.I played all the previous games and enjoyed them more and more.The first one i loved the mixture of real footage that was placed within the game of vietnam or of president kenedy and such.I really enjoyed and was intrigued with the story like no other game in that time,and this was special for that reason.Then came metal gear solid 2 which upgraded many things the first didn't have.I enjoyed being able to put enemies inside a locker and even hide within lockers and bang and confuse the guards.I loved the reaction of guards looking at adult magazines or lockers.The reaction of the guards when they see raiden naked is really funny.Then came metal gear solid 3,a game that broke the boundaries that i have never seen before,a game that got even better than the first 2 and left me gasping at how amazing the game overall was.The story and characters were just amazing.I loved the gameplay because it actually forced you to think before rushing in and not go in guns blazing shooting everything.To me,metal gear solid wasn't about going around shooting anything that moves,to me it was about being careful to the max and disabling security cameras and blowing up electrical floors,to me it was an action shooter which wasn't just about going around killing people.After mgs4,i was hyped up to death about the series because after 3,i couldn't wait to see what came next,then i found 4 which left me less than satisfied.Mgs4 was for me,a let down.I was hoping for so more,and yet,it seemed to go backwards rather than progress gaming.The gameplay was a step back,because you could go around shooting people.It was a major letdown because you had rations rather than looking for food to eat.I miss being able to interact with the surroundings and throw snakes at enemies to distract them,or cure your wounds.It felt kinda realistic in that way,because a soldier of that kind would have some knowledge of medical assistance.Maybe not an absolute expert,but some expertise in order to survive.

Zelda twilight princess:This game bored me.I tried,but i couldn't keep myself interested.I used to love zelda series.When you got the horse,it was not exciting like the previous games.I didn't have that much desire to explore the world that much either.It just felt like i really didn't care all that much.

I swear I'm not trolling, but Secret of Mana. I was so bored with it I just could not go on. The gameplay was slow and tedious, the graphics, which I had heard were some of the best on the system, looked like a first-gen SNES game like Actraiser, and the music... Well, okay, I admit the music was fucking awesome. But still, compared to Seiken Densetsu 3, everything else was not that great.

Hey now, what's with that comment about Actraiser?! That was an awesome game.

FF7:I expected so much from it after the hype it was getting,but i ended up disappointed
Mgs4:I was expecting a little more,because i love the series,but i was a bit disappointed in the gameplay and story department.
Suikoden 4:I really liked the series,but this game was not on par with the rest.

Hey now, what's with that comment about Actraiser?! That was an awesome game.

If Charmo was referring to Actraiser II, that I can understand... but not the first one...


-Suikoden 4:I really liked the series,but this game was not on par with the rest.

Everyone knows that Suikoden IV and Rhapsodia (Suikoden Tactics) are the worst in the Suiko series.

Everyone knows that Suikoden IV and Rhapsodia (Suikoden Tactics) are the worst in the Suiko series.[/QUOTE]

Except for the people who actually like suikoden 4,or maybe they are trolling,i dunno.

Some people claim it to be a good game,i even saw one guy in a youtube comment call it the best suikoden.
Don't ask,i don't know what he was smoking,cause:

The battle system sucks in comparison to suikoden 2 and 5.
The characters are all crammed in to towns,and there are only a hand full of actual towns.
The main hero wears short shorts,and for some reason is a boy.He looks like a girl.
The characters weren't really memorable,and i didn't even like the main hero's friend.

Silent Hill Shattered Memories. While a appreciate the whole reboot and remake was needed, the un-armed and run thing was a downer and too much of a killjoy for me.


i liked it for that,. reminded me of another series i like a lot: clock tower.

On the subject of survival horror disappointment, Alan Wake was a massive letdown. All that time in development, all that hype and expectation, and what did we have to show for it in the end? A game with a miserably unlikable 'hero', poor repetitive combat, tiny number of enemy types recycled endlessly, impossibly dull and pretentious story that seemed to think it was the most original thing ever and the only true scare being the threat of a sequel in the near future.

Crash Bash on PS1. Not the most disappointing, but it was disappointing (however, fun!).

The first Crash game after Naughty Dog discontinued the series. I think it was made to compete with [I]Sonic Shuffle[I] and [I]Mario Party 2[I], which those two games I don't know much about.

It had some very frustrating levels, like the tank levels and the "Crashball" (can't describe the type of) levels. They were terribly frustrating. The next game in the series is a little bit better, though.

A buddy and I recently picked up Lost Planet 2 during the Christmas Steam sales to play co-op. Despite the generally poor reviews, we are actually having alot of fun with this game. The sheer scale of the game at times is amazing, especially the boss fights. However at the same time, the game is disappointing because it had the potential to be so much more. The game is very polished in some aspects but at other instances, it seems rushed or not fully thought out. I do hope they continue with this franchise because it has the potential to be a top tier franchise.

Call of Duty: Finest Hour

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Oh and as someones' reminded me, Crash Bash for PS1 was awful :(

Must be something around Silent Hill 5 / Homecoming.

To just a small extent, the PS2 version of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
Can't really think of many disappointing games, some have worn me out, else I've kept nearly every single game I've happened to own.

while the game is not bad and i actually enjoy it, i was a bit dissapointed with tom clancys endwar. i thought it was gonna be another type of strategy game.

The voice commands were pretty funky though. One of the only games where that stuff actually worked really well.

unfortunately its not advisable to use voice commands at 3 am

Well, I don't like voice controls/motion controls etc as a rule, as I'm too self conscious to ever be comfortable with them. But the fact that voice controls are often pretty bad doesn't help. Endwar at least a voice control system that worked properly (recognising many accents etc) and there was enough variety in the commands you could give to feel like it was more than just a gimmick.

I'm not saying the game is a masterpiece by any means, but that aspect of it was pretty impressive.

On the subject of survival horror disappointment, Alan Wake was a massive letdown. All that time in development, all that hype and expectation, and what did we have to show for it in the end? A game with a miserably unlikable 'hero', poor repetitive combat, tiny number of enemy types recycled endlessly, impossibly dull and pretentious story that seemed to think it was the most original thing ever and the only true scare being the threat of a sequel in the near future.

What about the remake of alone in the dark?

I saw a review of it by spoony,and he was talking about having to attack different patches on the bodies of enemies,and the supposed broken controls of the car.Like:Supposedly,the car would fly backwards if it crashes into a sidewalk,or a tree.

The thread isn't 'What is the worst game', its 'What is the most disappointing game'.

To be disappointed, you have to have had some expectation and/or hope that the game would be good. The Alone in the Dark remake was always going to be awful. There hasn't been a truly decent installment of that series for decades. The New Nightmare for example on the PS2 was pretty dire, but it had its moments, I suppose. The remake/reboot/whatever you want to call it, from this gen though, looked terrible from the get go (and indeed it was appallingly bad).

Alan Wake meanwhile generated huge amounts of expectation in the survival horror community. It was billed as a highly ambitious Twin Peaks style open world kind of deal. Details were kept under wraps, but it sounded like the game we'd been waiting for. Because this gen has been terrible for survival horror, with Resident Evil continuing to abandon its horror roots, the Silent Hill games from this gen have all been crap (haven't played the Wii ones though which are apparently better), and Fatal Frame hasn't been good since Crimson Butterfly.

Alan Wake was hopefully going to turn that around, but instead it was a pretentious, boringly repetitive action game with a terrible main character, weak dialogue and plot, and absolutely none of the ambition or open world it had teased earlier in its development. The real kicker was that Deadly Premonition came out around the same time and was all the things that Alan Wake had promised!

Deadly Premonition was one of those golden games, which just seemed to fall out of the sky unannounced, and was so amazing that its in my Top 5 games of this gen. It has its problems (graphics are awful, action sequences are tacked on) but in all the important regards, its one of the best games I've played in years and years and years.

Which just made Alan Wake seem all the more awful. If it didn't have the 'Child of the Elder God' rock concert shootout, that game would have been without any merits.

[QUOTE=Vrykolas;1928180]The thread isn't 'What is the worst game', its 'What is the most disappointing game'.

To be disappointed, you have to have had some expectation and/or hope that the game would be good. The Alone in the Dark remake was always going to be awful. There hasn't been a truly decent installment of that series for decades. The New Nightmare for example on the PS2 was pretty dire, but it had its moments, I suppose. The remake/reboot/whatever you want to call it, from this gen though, looked terrible from the get go (and indeed it was appallingly bad).

Alan Wake meanwhile generated huge amounts of expectation in the survival horror community. It was billed as a highly ambitious Twin Peaks style open world kind of deal. Details were kept under wraps, but it sounded like the game we'd been waiting for. Because this gen has been terrible for survival horror, with Resident Evil continuing to abandon its horror roots, the Silent Hill games from this gen have all been crap (haven't played the Wii ones though which are apparently better), and Fatal Frame hasn't been good since Crimson Butterfly.

I also heard that the alone in the dark movie sucks.Any confirmation on this?

Also:i could have sworn i played alan wake game demo.

I also heard that the alone in the dark movie sucks.Any confirmation on this?


Anything directed by Uwe Boll sucks.

postal was decent.
in other words, the least shitty of his movies

The only good thing that Uwe Boll ever did, was when he challenged his critics to an actual boxing match - and beat the crap out of them! He makes terrible, terrible movies, but I have to admit that was amazing.

'Raging Boll' - lol!

Ball in a Cup. The ball was attached to the string but was not attached to the cup. Needless to say there was a need to worry.

The first let down in final fantasy series,was final fantasy 7.I expected more from it after playing ff6.
The first metal gear to betray me:Metal gear solid 4.
First suikoden to betray me:Suikoden 4
First zelda game to disappoint me:Twilight princess:I found the world to seem smaller and the horse was basically:A hand me down.
First metroid to kind of disappoint:Metroid prime 2 echoes.The world didn't seem like it was that different all together.I finished it,but i still don't like it as much as the first metroid prime.

Ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3

Ultimate Marvel vs capcom 3

I'm not sure if that is the same game,but i heard that in those games,they charge extra for outfits that should probably be included for the characters.I watched a review,and a guy called razorfist complained about the pheonix outfit.

Legend of Zelda OoT. Link and Zelda never kissed, do you know how long I was waiting to see that moment?? AND IT NEVER EVEN HAPPENED!

Sonic The Hedgehog 4, i set my hopes high seeing as this was a sequel to the classic sonics, but this game disappointed me.

That 'new' Voltron game was pretty disappointing, and shitty.

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty.

Okay game, but it was kinda disappointing how it turned out. It had a really cool concept, but it wasn't executed well, sadly.

Prototype 2. They ruined it, went off track and butchered Alex Mercer's character. His reasons were cliche and the comic that explained why was weak.

Sonic The Hedgehog 4, i set my hopes high seeing as this was a sequel to the classic sonics, but this game disappointed me.

BRINK. The game had ,any good ideas, just they weren't joined together very well. Add in dumb AI and (although this is now the fault if Splash Damage) a lakck of teamwork from players, the game just was not enjoyable in neither single nor multiplayer.

what abou goldeneye? worth its praise? or letdown? i heard that its popularity stems from multiplayer.

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.

There's nothing new about the gameplay, the plot sucked till the second-ranked assassin appeared (after that there's just one assassin left and the game ends).

No More Heroes (the first one) didn't need all those minigames, clothes for Travis and that awful animated sequence about Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly 5 to be a must play. To me Suda51 got lucky, his other projects are boring (Killer7, Lollipop Chainsaw are examples of that).

Paper Mario Sticker Star. It's a good game but I do wish that jump and hammer had been normal commands. That I feel would've been better. Also Zombi U didn't live up to my expectations, and as my second most anticipated Wii U game I found it just average.

Resident Evil 5


First metroid to kind of disappoint:Metroid prime 2 echoes.The world didn't seem like it was that different all together.I finished it,but i still don't like it as much as the first metroid prime.

I have to disagree. :p I actually like Prime 2 a little bit more than the first one. I like that it's harder (to me it is) and I like the overall darker atmosphere of the game. I also think the music is better too. Especially the Temple Grounds music. Same reason I like Majora's Mask more than Ocarina of Time.

Resident Evil 5



I have to disagree. :p I actually like Prime 2 a little bit more than the first one. I like that it's harder (to me it is) and I like the overall darker atmosphere of the game. I also think the music is better too. Especially the Temple Grounds music. Same reason I like Majora's Mask more than Ocarina of Time.

The difficulty didn't bother me, it was the dark world segment.To me, it seemed to rip off zelda.Zombie space marines? really? I never thought i'd see a zombie in a metroid game.Also:The portal thing cam from zelda.The artwork was great, and the weapons very different, but that portal thing bothered me.

007 Legends.

I'm a big Bond fan but it was truly terrible :(

Such a shame.

Monster Rancher 3 (it was less about stats and more about luck)
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers all three versions (why do I have to pay that Chatot again?)

Super Paper Mario. After the N64 and GCN titles, I was so pumped for the next one. Made it more than halfway to give it a chance, but once I realized it wasn't going to get any different through the end, I put it down and haven't looked back.

Most disappointing game for me would probably have to be Dragon Quest Monsters:Joker. Maybe it's just the nostalgia, but I absolutely loved the original DQM, and even the second one. When I played Joker, it felt nothing like the previous two.

Here's to hoping the 3DS remake of DQM makes it stateside.

prince of persia is my disappointing game bcoz i reached the stage 2 and dont know the route to travel more..

Ducati World Championship.

I won that game in a raffle, and I hadn't won anything in a while so I got really excited, but boy does that game blow.

Starfox 64 - all thanks to that Skippy who can't shut up for just two minutes. Two minutes! TWO MINUTES! GRRRRR! *transforms into hulk* HULK SMASH SKIPPY!!!

Super Paper Mario. It's nothing like the previous 2 and was very disappointed when I played it mainly because of no partners, no battle system, and the side-scrolling. Don't get me wrong, I love side-scrollers but not in a Paper Mario game. The graphics are nice but that's about it. Sticker Star is alot better thankfully.

Final Fantasy XIII. Still, sort of enjoyed it, but that was probably it's name messing with my mind. After all offline games in the series from VI onwards were amazing (minus X-2), I obviously thought XIII would be the same. Of course you don't need to be a genius to figure out that it wasn't. Funny thing is, I had just reached what many describe as the turning point in the game, when I gave up, oh well.

assassin's creed 3: liberation (psvita) My first assassin's creed ever played, and I have to say I did not like it. I don't know if it's because of the save glitch that caused me to fucking restart in the middle of the story or that I just didn't like it overall. waste of my money.
gravity rush (psvita). The game mechanics itself aren't that bad, but the story and setting were both disappointing.
gi joe rise of cobra (wii). I have no idea why I even bothered to play this shit, I guess I thought it would be like the movie.
thrillville (psp) bad ripoff of rollercoaster tycoon
sims 2 pets (psp/wii) just bad.
legend of zelda: spirit tracks (nds) first time playing a zelda game, and what do you have to do? guide a fucking train through the field. boring as shit.
grey's anatomy (nds). I'm ashamed to say I've played this but what can I say? I like the tv show, I didn't know that this game would be a bitter disappointment.
max payne 3 (pc) Everything was great except that the story is too short.
sims 3 (any other platform than pc). PC version is just better in all aspecsts. nuff said
uncharted 3: drake's deception (ps3) only the desert level because it's 30 minutes of absolutely nothing, just wandering around in the desert, boring ass shit
sim city societies (pc). what people thought would be a great spin-off/follow-up game to sim city 4 was actually a childish shit version in 3d of the game.
kingdom hearts re:coded (nds). i didn't like the story
lost horizon (PC). I accidentally bought this thinking it was a 3D action/adventure game like indiana jones or tomb raider. turns it it's more of a hidden object/puzzle kind of game. not bad though, I played it all the way through. but not what I thought it was.
lara croft: guardians of light (PC). not what I thought it would be. disappointing.

assassin's creed 3: liberation (psvita) My first assassin's creed ever played

Should've started with the first one and work your way up. :p

GoldenEye for the Wii.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness
FFX-2

I'd absolutely love to say Turning Point: Fall of Liberty - but I can't, since I knew even before playing what pile of poo it would be. Same goes for Assassin's Creed (Nintendo DS version).
Now that I think of it, the only game I've really been disappointed with was Crysis - not that I expected anything great or even decent of it, it just turned out to be even greater disappointment than I thought it would.

I know I will get a lot of hate for this but I hated Bioshock Infinite.
I just couldn't get into it and the ending left me more empty than satisfied plus Burial at Sea just compounded my anger.
It was a real cop out for me and utterly loved the first two.

Another game that was really disappointing was Digimon World 1. I had only played the sequels; Digimon World 2, 3, 4, and Data Squad which we pretty fun, and I thought that the original would be just as fun. That game can be summed up as "Good Luck knowing how to progress the plot, and digivolve into the digimon that you want even with a guide!"

As I've said many, many times before - Mass Effect 2 and Resident Evil 4. Not because they're bad games (they're both excellent games), but because they were so jarringly inconsistent with the mood and tone of their respective series and set those series on (IMO) the wrong path.

Other than those... I'd really hoped to like Red Dead Redemption, because I've wanted a good Western video game since forever. But I'm really not a fan of Rockstar's writing, and the whole anti-hero thing never does much for me. I wanted to be more of a Marshal Dillon type, keeping his town safe from desperados and crooked land barons etc.

Even though this thread has been raised from the dead and SHOULD be closed... I'll leave it for two things:

ONE: some people have posted responses which fit the title, so I'll allow it.

TWO: My opinion, Dragon Age Inquisition. Huge disappointment all around.

Here's mine
Transformers: Cybertron Adventures for Wii

A while back, i saw this game at Rogers, the name sounded and looked cool so I rented it, but when I actually played the game, it sucked. You follow a single path and the character you control moves on his own and will only move after you kill every enemy an area, the music and controls also sucked, the graphics were really bad as well. In the end, I just gave it back because it was this bad. I would rather play War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron on XBox 360/PS3 and PC instead of this shitty game for the Wii. This game isn't worth buying or renting because it was awful in every single way.

Mario Is Missing
Sonic and the Secret Ring

I have another game that I am was kind of disappointed but eventually became one of my favorite games on the Wii, Pok�mon Battle Revolution. While it's true that Pok�mon Battle Revolution had no story mode and repetitive game-play, I enjoyed a few things about it.

To start things off, the announcer was entertaining, every time you took out a Pok�mon with Seismic Toss, the announcer would yell: "HUUUUUURLED BY SEISMIC TOSS!". He was voiced by the same guy who narrated the Pok�mon anime.

The graphics were amazing, every move animation and models were simply incredible, although i don't like Poliwrath's model since it doesn't even face it's opponent for some reason lol.

And last but certainly not least, the game had an amazing soundtrack composed by Tsukasa Tawada, who coincidentally also composed the music for Pok�mon Colosseum and Pok�mon XD: Gale of Darkness.

All I like all games really.
But, to pick one...

Probably Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.

Final Fantasy X-II. I still pretend it was just a fever dream instead of me really having played it. No idea what they were thinking.
Donkey Kong 64. I was (and still am) a big fan of the SNES titles and therefore was super excited for DK64, but it turned out to be everything the old games were not. No lighthearted fast paced gameplay, instead you were constantly collecting far too many different items and backtracking because you were forced to change characters.

Assassins Creed Unity

I have a new one: Rock Band 4. I do not recommend buying it in its current state. The new drums are unplayable with latency and hit detection problems. The microphone also has a huge latency problem. The new guitar controllers are okay, but not good enough to play difficult parts accurately. The game itself is watered down compared to Rock Band 2 and 3, with less options and play modes. Wait for the game to get updated and working properly.

Fallout 4 is a huge disappointment for me. It lacked the environment and the vibe that made Fallout: New Vegas, hell even Fallout 3 so good.
Oh and there's lots of bugs, which I guess is the norm for Bethesda games.

Probably Bloodborne because I was so into wanting to play it but I died so many times just in the first level.

Moon Diver that game is trash

Resident Evil 5

Afro Samurai (ps3). That game was God-awful, in every way. It is a hack and slash, with very unimaginative controls. No health indicator at all, and it was choppy. To make it worse, the game was a straight ripoff of the first movie.

New Super Mario Bros. 2. It was disappointing because it recycled pretty much everything from the DS and Wii games (like the music). The final boss was disappointing as well (and the less said about the Bonus Boss at the end of the final Bonus World, the better). And the game had quite possibly one of the worst rewards for accomplishing something (in this case, it would be getting a million coins as the goal that had to be accomplished).

HALO 3 - After playing the first two and enjoying them I was really looking forward to this one and boy, what a disappointment. It was just bland and uninspiring to play, and the duel wielding and weapon switching pretty much annoyed me really.

I played Half Life 2 right after completing Halo 3 and wow what a game. My disappointment towards Halo 3 grew even more after Half Life 2.

Castlevania 64

Watch Dogs :/

Off the top of my head: Deus Ex Invisible War, Metal Gear Solid series, Warcraft III (and just about everything released by Blizzard post Diablo II), and Age of Empires III. ZombiU dropped the ball too.

Haze

No Man's Sky

5 minutes in and no interest whatsoever.

the hype and generation of hype is the only appeal to it.
Everything is a cinematic and for a large portion of the game when you start, you have zero control.
So when you get an achievement out on the field, it stops you, you lose control, and a wild animal attacks you.
You're nearly dead before they let you play again. By that point, it's useless to do anything.
You'll die if you move then have to spend an hour going through the screensaver mode of the game.

Everything about the first play should easily be skipped.
It's only meant for showcasing at the E3 show.

There's way too many icons on the screen with no exposition so there's nothing to care about.
Half the stuff you can't interact with, just shoot them and get basic carbon.

For something that's been held off too long, it's quite a useless game.

It's also severely insulting there's no "screensaver" mode where gameplay is auotmatic.

I'd love a game that's a screensaver.
Like the "Mountain" game.

'll, it must be Gal*Gun Double Peace for Vita. It is absolutely unplayable... one has to have the patience of saint's to play it... Best ~40 euros I ever threw away _- I tried to take it from quirkiness side, but no, I can't play that anymore...

No Man's Sky.
Ugliest game ever created, completely different from the fake trailers.

Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast. What a huge step down from the Genesis games. I so wanted to like it but it just did nothing for me. The franchise has never recovered in my mind. Hopefully Mania brings some of the magic back.

Grand Theft Auto V. I REALLY wanted to like it, but... I can list my grievances:
1 - THE DOWNRIGHT GENOCIDAL POLICE; coming from GTA IV's bumbling fat cops to these killing machines should have been criminalized!
2 - AI Drivers; "Oh no, a noise! I'd better become an unstoppable vehicular force to kill everything in my way!"
3 - The Rock Station; "You wanted Danger Zone? Sorry, here's back-to-back [glitch if I ever met one] airings of Roundabout!"
4 - Lamar Davis, aka the Single Most Annoying GTA Character I've had the misfortune of dealing with. Even Ryder & Big Smoke weren't this atrociously bad!
5 - The Glitches in Online; "No, I don't want another car or shark-card, I want a playable game for just a few hours at least!"

Sonic '06. Need I say more?

@ pufffdragon: I'm not trying to start an argument here, but what exactly is it about Halo 3 that was such a letdown in your opinion? The story? The music? The graphics?

Final Fantasy XIII. It was to me:

1) One of the first games I bought with my own earned money and not an allowance.
2) First FF I hadn't emulated. Felt happy finally giving back to Square-Enix for one of my favorite series.
3) What the **** is this damn game.
4) Wait no, it's over? You've got to be kidding me.

Anyways, I will spare you the specifics and save them for a FFXIII discussion thread, but I cannot remember a bigger disappointment with a game than that one. And beyond it, I'm not a fan of what SE has been doing with the series since either. Nowadays I usually just exclude or plain forget mentioning FF among my favorites and skip the trouble of explaining.

Now I'm not sure which I find worse, FF or Megaman. And the latter even gave me my nickname, so darn.

Spiderman 3 The Game.

@Wobbla: What did you find wrong with AoE III? I'm a fan of that series and Civilization(well sorta...still really haven't figured out how to play Civ 3, and I've got Civ 4 as well). It would be disappointing to find out AoE is doing the same thing where after the second game they change everything up.

My most disappointing games, well from the FF series it would be XII. I just didn't give a crap about the characters and it was just too much of a ripoff from Star Wars. Plus I didn't like the character's hair graphics either, not just the styles, but it wasn't moving right.

Other than that, I'm not sure...oh the House of 1000 Doors hidden object game series was good, until game 3 when they messed with the storyline a little, and game 4 was pathetic.

The first couple Haunted Hotel HOA games weren't that great either, first one had the storyline as text based, and it was too long and drawn out.

Dark Parables was a good HOA series until Blue Tea Games quit doing it after game 7 and Eipix took over...the later games, I get the "Storyline, what storyline?" impression...even if you take it as a standalone game, they don't really try to have it make sense.

For me it was Dragon Age Inquisition and Dragon Age 2. Massive let downs both them. Felt very shallow and boring...

AoE III disappointed me as the box said it supported the Xbox controller, but nothing in the game did.

(I have no idea how that would even work though.)

The Simpsons game. Was really looking forward to it after Hit 'N Run.

However, the wonky camera was so bad that I couldn't play the game longer than 15 minutes.

I was heavily disappointed in Final Fantasy X. I did manage to play through the entire game, but boy howdy was I unimpressed.

It's like listening to a band who's had a key member leave to start a solo career, when you loved their music up to that point. Let's say...Aerosmith after Joe Perry left in the late 70's. That shouldn't be too polarizing.

Zelda: Skyward Sword's gotta be it. Goddamn it do i hate that game. It's the only Zelda I don't love, and it's just so LOW. Everything about it is bad, except for the motion control, about two themes in the soundtrack and a handful of ideas that were completely wasted in the actual execution.

Tomb Raider. It was so boring for me...

Tomb Raider. It was so boring for me...

Which one?

Metal Gear Solid V. It's not a bad game, but it had far less of a story than previous Metal Gears and didn't really live up to its own trailers. Plus the bizarre plot twist, and the fact the final mission was released as a video because Kojima ran out of time and money...