Hey everyone,

Just a little topic so everyone can share their toughts about dissapointing games. Just name the game and why you throw up each time you see it somewhere.
You can make categories like of all time and this year.

Here's mine

Of all time:

Resident evil 4 and 5. The 4 is good game but not a resident evil. The 5 just svcks in both ways.

This year:

Dragon age 2, followed by Dead Island. High expecations for DA 2, turned out to be a boring button mashing action game. Dead Island, while sometimes enjoyable, Glitch island is really not what I hoped for, an engaging survival game.

Sorry for the grammar, english is not my mother-tongue.

My most disappointing game of all time was Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

I've only purchased Terraria this year and I had no expectations so there was no possibility for disappointment.

FO3.

Dragon Age 2 was huge disappointment.


Skyrim was let down as well. But if they patch it properly and release CK, I'm sure it will thrive after modders do some of their magic.

Dungeon Siege III. Enjoyed the first two very much, played the third for maybe 7 hours and gave up.

I loved halo untill Reach, I knew ODST was to make cash and I didn't cared much.

Halowars was also a huge letdown.

Halo went wrong with the years

Soo many fails and so little time....

Just look at how Rare wnet wrong, Sega,

Now it's the turn of Bioware and Capcom....

Final Fantasy XIII - I enjoyed it as a game in general, but it was still an incredibly disappointing Final Fantasy title.

Yeah, I heard of this. Kinda sad really.

Three games comes into mind with my thoughts on this:

Vanilla Oblivion: "I start out in a [censored] prison?!!?!!? I can't enchant/make magic without going through all that Mage quest line first??! Where the hell are the crossbow/spear? What kind of Main Quest is this crap? When the hell did the fighter guild be this pathetic? There no other option for fast travel! WHERE THE HELL IS THAT LEVITATION/RECALL/ANY SPELL LEFT OUT?"

Fallout 3: "Well that was fun, but god dammit its like they took the lore of Fallout and shove it down toilet like its was crap! Too much lore screwing!"

Halo 2: "Switching from Chief to Arbiter isn't very flowy, nor was the single player in general. Also, WHAT THE HELL WITH THE CLIFFHANGER ENDING!?!??!"

Oblivion was my first by RPg so I wasn't expeting much.

Fallout New Vegas did a better job than FO3 story wise, I agree.

Halo 2, the first time I played I hated the graphics. And yeah, the ending was some very nice [censored] sauce.

Tie between FO3 and GTA IV.

Just could not get into FO3 at all. Was hoping it would svck me in like every Bethesda game (IHRA Drag Racing is just too good for it's own... good) but it failed.

GTA IV was just... UGH. *looks at GTA IV* *looks at Saints Row 2* *looks back to GTA IV* Why so serious?

I'm afraid I'm going to have to jump on the Dragon Age 2 bandwagon; admittedly a large part of it was down to my own preconceptions and were it just a stand-alone game with no connection to Oranges I'd probably be okay with it, if not especially enthralled; but in terms of what it "should" have been, I think it ranks as my most disappointing, even though there've been plenty of games that are measurably worse (or that I just liked less.)

Vanilla Oblivion, simply because I expected too much of it and was over-hyped. After a few mods as well as Shivering Isles, it turned out to be pretty decent.

I've been quite disappointed with Skyrim as well so far. The quests (particularly factions and parts of the MQ) seem to be poorly written, are fairly repetitive (Civil War), and have very underwhelming endings (my least favorite being the College of Winterhold).

Duke Nukem Forever comes to mind as well.

I actually like some of their quests(compared to Oblivion).

Have you done the Sanguine quest yet? love the reference.

And the main quest, I was actually pretty decent writing in my opinion. I was quite pleasantly surprised.

Crackdown 2.

I think it was because Prototype spoiled me though.

An exaggeration. Bethesda did very little to change original lore, it just added new to avoid conflicting with original stuff (which, after 10 years, was inevitable) and reusing some of the old stuff (mostly main factions) to give a feeling what series this game belongs in.
Surprised me how everyone whined about things like, ghouls can run, VATS, bolt-action hunting rifle and other such but when they appeared in same form in New Vegas people got quiet.
You guys just are impossible to please. Setting an impossible standard and then complaining how it's wrong.




Personally I always avoid hype at all costs and thus I have little expectations of new games. Dragon Age II is the only game I despised no matter how hard I avoided reading about it. My reaction wasn't as strong as of those who were expecting Jesus' second coming, but I still considered it an unworthy sequel. A nice story can't really complain, but absolutely abominable gameplay in all aspects took away all the fun. No fun, having to mow down fifty thugs to walk from one street to another. The quests themselves were text based and hollow, it's those damn thugs that gave the game fake longevity. I recall my first and only full playthrough lasted 40 hours. I'd say 25 hours went on those randomly spawning thugs.

EDIT: Also Red Orchestra 2 to a degree. Many like it and thus it must be a good game but for me, owner of one single FPS that was Ostfront RO2 took away what I loved in Ostfront: the immerse realism. Tank gun is controlled by mouse, allowing very agile aiming compared to Ostfront where you had to use WASD. I'm no WW2 tank expert but I'm a tank gunner of a 21st century tank and aiming the gun sure as hell isn't just moving your fingers a little to get the best angle, especially when the vehicle is moving. (I disabled the gun stabilizer sometimes, forcing me to use my brain and hands not the computer to aim the gun. It was masochistic.)
Furthermore, the idea of "earning" your weapons is not what I like. I preferred the "faceless" soldiers of the Ostfront. You die, then you damn die. So basically, RO2 was just too arcade for me.

Oh I dunno, pulling Super Mutant out of nowhere with no origin, having a LARGE number of Enclave out of nowhere as well not to mention coming to DC just like that, BoS, I mean, the Lyon Pride becomes Knight and Shining Armor out of some stupid reason to "follow" the Chosen One, the Outcast became the total opposite of the Lyon's Pride in a short time from the split, water being not clean after 200 years from the war, and so on. This is not including all the other crap they did like adding in Aliens as ingame feature, and later a DLC, rather then just an Easter Egg, removal of the Trait feature, how many area just doesn't make sense in term of livelihood or any form of economic.

As for New Vegas, things were tweak to perform better then what it was offer then Fallout 3, not to mention its a hell lot more lore friendier then Fallout 3.

I dunno. In a way I appreciate what people are saying if they diverged too far from established lore, but on the other hand, lore can be a straitjacket if it's applied too rigidly, and why not have different factions within the same organisation, different experiments and so on? As long as it doesn't actually contradict the established lore, I'm not really sure it's such a problem.

There's no doubt (at least from my experience) that New Vegas' performance was much better than FO3's though, especially with regard to overall reliability.

There is no problem if the game doesn't mess with the lore too much (only a small level of acceptance), but not to the point of no return where the lore it establish just outright mess up the previous lore just to bring in anything they want just for the heck of it.

Well no doubt that New Vegas much better in handling new stuff into the game, given that the guys that made the game were also the one that took part in making Fallout 2 and the cancel game Van Buren.

Takes the cake easily, worst game I've played this year by far. If there's a quicker way to destroy a franchise its to do what Obsidian did.

Most disappointing games... Deus Ex: Invisible War, Red Faction II, Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows, Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy XIII, and Fable.

The console version is. The PC version is not...especially if you play on higher difficulties. The plot and environment repetition are pretty bad, though.

Red Faction II, Resistance 2, Conflict: Denied Ops.

Mass Effect 2, though it was fun the first few times.

Dragon Age 2, it's a good game but it was a letdown compared to DA:O.

Deus EX: Invisible War, need I say more?