Your most disappointing game? : Othor Games

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:16 pm

Well, Dragon Age II was a huge let down for me not only for this year but in general.

Thought this game would stay in my gaming library for multiple playthroughs. Didn't even bother to finish it once.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:55 pm

I'd also like to see KH III, which, thank God, should be coming some time after the release of this 3DS one. (I seem to have forgotten its name.)

Dream Drop Distance.

I hope Kingdom Hearts III manages to get folks up to speed extremely well though, because I have a feeling most folks won't be playing Birth by Sleep or DDD (which, for all intents and purposes, are Kingdom Hearts 0 and Kingdom Hearts III).

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:36 am

Just because it wasn't Nobuo Uematsu doesn't mean it was boring music. There are a lot of simply brilliant pieces of music in the FFXII score.

The characters were far more rounded than the flat archetypes the series had been presenting until XII. True, Vaan's a bit of a pest, but apart from that, the characters were far more human than the clichés the FF series ran rampant with until then.

Because it wasn't about saving the world from a Tall, Dark and Bishounen villain?

Only if you used the gambit system. You could play the entire game without it activated. And come on, you can only play so many FF games before you become utterly jaded with the constant combat-swirl-attack-attack-attack-victory-fanfare formalities the games threw at you.

Heavens! A story where you had to actually stay focused!

Sound to me you're just looking for reasons to bash the game because it was innovative.

I'm with Freddo - X was the least good of the series. VIII was pretty lame as well, with all the romance bullcrap.

Yeah, I heard that too, but you should definitely try Suikoden V if you haven't already. It's one of the best games I've ever played, despite the main character's eye-searingly orange outfit.

I loved Jade Empire, myself, it was a nice change from the turn-based infinity engine games, which were brilliant, but started to show their age.

Make that "a lot of a letdown". What a boring snoozefest. You can only spend so much time kicking fallen zombies and watching them flail like idiots before quitting to desktop.

The worst for me were:

Legacy Of Kain: Blood Omen 2 - Damn, what an awful game! Blood Omen was a cynical, brutal top-down gorefest loaded with atmosphere, with Kain's Magnificent Bastard comments giving the entire thing its typical dark levity. Blood Omen 2 was a stupid steampunk 'alternate reality' piece of junk with block puzzles, Kain turned from bitter cynical noble into half-baked bishounen prettyboy, a love interest fawning over his painted nails, puzzle bosses, and a storyline that would make my grandfather fall asleep. That even the developers themselves later trashed the whole storyline and wrote it off as a non-canon "what if?"-story just serves to prove how edspicably bad it was.

Mistmare - Brilliant premise, great atmosphere, promising character and skill system, god-awful controls that induced finger pains after two minutes of playing.

Disciples III - decent game, but where are my Undead Hordes?!

Disgaea 2 - Brilliant game, but where is my female brawler?!

You didn't get to know the characters at all in FFXII. The characters didn't interact with each other hardly at all. They only talked about Nethicite this and we gotta do that. I found the music uninspiring. The music was been there done that, heard it before kinda stuff, and the way they tell the story doesn't work with my memory. For me to remember some one I have to an image to stamp their name on. So if they're talking about so and so big leader guy, I'm not going to remember him unless I've seen him, and you play the entire game on the antagonists side of the battlefield, and all of a sudden the opposing country comes in with a giant fleet you've never seen before and you know almost nothing about them. Like I said, I really wanted to like it, but I couldn't. The battle system didn't have a fun feel to it. It felt like I was playing FF11 and I hated that game. I am entitled to my opinion, I'm not bashing the game, I am saying what I, (see I?) didn't like about it.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:56 pm

Dream Drop Distance.

I hope Kingdom Hearts III manages to get folks up to speed extremely well though, because I have a feeling most folks won't be playing Birth by Sleep or DDD (which, for all intents and purposes, are Kingdom Hearts 0 and Kingdom Hearts III).

I get this odd feeling that Sora is going to end up like Sasuke in III....call it a hunch.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:49 am

Runescape after the HD update... Never been the same since...

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:42 pm

Dream Drop Distance.

I hope Kingdom Hearts III manages to get folks up to speed extremely well though, because I have a feeling most folks won't be playing Birth by Sleep or DDD (which, for all intents and purposes, are Kingdom Hearts 0 and Kingdom Hearts III).

I didn't play anything after II. I'm going to be lost, right?

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:55 pm

I didn't play anything after II. I'm going to be lost, right?

Not for DDD I don't think. Its an sort of in-between of 2 & 3 as I understand it.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:43 pm

Not for DDD I don't think. Its an sort of in-between of 2 & 3 as I understand it.

Lost for III, I mean... I don't have the platforms all these spin-offs went to.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:47 am

Lost for III, I mean... I don't have the platforms all these spin-offs went to.

Not a clue. We don't really know anything officially about it.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:02 pm

Runescape after the HD update... Never been the same since...

Runescape is the best game evar.

No, but really, I don't think it would fall into the "game" category, since it's played in the browser. And there are a million of mini-small browser so called "games" that I wouldn't think count.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:02 am

Runescape is the best game evar.

No, but really, I don't think it would fall into the "game" category, since it's played in the browser. And there are a million of mini-small browser so called "games" that I wouldn't think count.

You can download it to your desktop now

*trollface*

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:25 pm

You can download it to your desktop now

*trollface*

Riiight... I'm sure you can.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:18 pm

Gothic 4

This.

Probably the worst game I have played to this day. I wasn't really looking forward to it, but it was still a disappointment.

I think it's a shame; it had potential lurking there somewhere, it was just poorly realised. And obviously unfinished. And probably didn't really fit in well with the Gothic universe, but I didn't play long enough to find out.

In a way I also agree with Doom 3: I kind of liked it, but it was just... I dunno, unsatisfying. I suppose I didn't have many expectations to shatter so I wasn't disappointed as such, but another one with a lot of unrealised potential. It was only years later when I played Mass Effect that I thought "yeah, this is what Doom 3 should've been like." (I know that shooter fans won't agree, but I think it's what I was kind of hoping for... probably since the original Doom, actually.)

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:06 pm

Riiight... I'm sure you can.

Regardless if it can be downloaded to the desktop (which it can) it is an MMO that (back in my day of playing) had 250,000 people online at one time.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:11 pm

Regardless if it can be downloaded to the desktop (which it can) it is an MMO that (back in my day of playing) had 250,000 people online at one time.

Yeah... I use to play it. The 2D version of it was fine, but from thereafter, it started to be bad. Plus the "HD"... they need to learn what HD means. I think they think that HD means Highly Dnotdetailed.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:56 pm

I didn't play anything after II. I'm going to be lost, right?

It depends on how well they explain things for those that may have missed the handheld titles (not all of them are "spin-offs" :wink:

).

I'll try my best to do this without spoiling:

Spoiler

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep - Explains who Xehanort is, how Sora, Riku and Kairi came to be Keyblade wielders and, for the first time in the series, sheds light on the overarching storyline that Kingdom Hearts III will conclude. Introduces three very important characters.

Kingdom Hearts - At the time there were no sequels planned, so this was made as a self-contained story. It establishes the Heartless and "Kingdom Hearts" (assuming you're playing the games in the order they were released), focusing on the concept of light and darkness (particularly the darkness in Riku's heart). It is essentially a story of Sora and his friends, with minor elements (Ansem, Xehanort's Heartless) that were developed into the series' overarching storyline.

Kingdom Hearts II - The unexpected sequel that was conceived entirely after the original's success. Introduces the concept of Nobodies, Organization XIII (which is all but nonexistent by the end of the game) and expands on "Kingdom Hearts." Once again, focuses mainly on Sora and friends and doesn't add a ton to the overall story.

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance - Takes places after Kingdom Hearts II and will serve as a bridge linking II and III (wholly or only partially is unknown). Focuses partly on Sora and Riku's "Mark of Mastery" test to become Keyblade Masters.

Kingdom Hearts III - The finale, defeating Xehanort once and for all. I can't say exactly without spoiling BbS, but a number of important characters are "waiting" for Sora to "rescue" them. That is essentially what the whole series is about. These people you've met along the way and basically "freeing" them. Roxas, Namine, Ansem the Wise and about five other characters. Xehanort is scheming, he's had a hand in everything that's taken place thus far and Kingdom Hearts series has been about Sora's destiny to end it all.

You might be "lost" but you also might not even care, considering there wasn't much of an overarching storyline to the first two games anyway. Kingdom Hearts games aren't particularly heavy on story scenes, and most of it comes in one massive lump towards the end of each game, so it wouldn't be impossible to get people caught up. They just have to do it well.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:01 pm

Yeah... I use to play it. The 2D version of it was fine, but from thereafter, it started to be bad. Plus the "HD"... they need to learn what HD means. I think they think that HD means Highly Dnotdetailed.

To be fair Runescape had some interesting quests.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:29 pm

Planescape: Torment. Absolutely horrible game, in my opinion. A total disappointment. It seemed like the developers didn't even understand what a role-playing game is, which is bizarre considering who made it (I literally love every other game made by these guys).

Bioshock. It was too easy, and I didn't like how the story was delivered. I basically ended up going through a fight, then sitting there, doing nothing while trying to listen to a tape (so I could hear it all uninterrupted), then going through a fight... It motivated me to finish, but it felt like a chore.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:14 pm

Mass Effect 2: Why???? *Sniff*

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:06 pm

Gotta be Dragon Age 2.

The Force Unleashed 2 was disappointing as well for its brevity.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:03 pm

Planescape: Torment. Absolutely horrible game, in my opinion. A total disappointment. It seemed like the developers didn't even understand what a role-playing game is, which is bizarre considering who made it (I literally love every other game made by these guys).

Hmm...now that might lead to a little discussion. But I admit, I didn't like it at first either. Guess I was to young to appreciate it properly.
But today I wish...*sigh*...I wish there was a game taking us back to Sigil...Such a cool unused setting, great characters, and combat
just being one of many options...

Anyway, a long time ago I bought Star Wars: Empire at war...what can I possibly say? One of the worst RTS Games ever, it ruined this genre forever for me...
Not even the Star-Wars-Bonus appealed to me...

And for RPGs: Possibly Neverwinter Nights 1...What a horrible, boring experience that was...especially after Baldurs Gate...*shudders*

P.S. I feel quite lonely, as I actually enjoyed playing Dragon Age 2. Though I wish a sequel will be more like the first one, of course.
But a warden with a voice, and acting like a Shepard( Jennifer Hale rocks so much!), plus tactical combat and a more intense story? That would be fine!

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:03 am

I was planning on opening my (virtual) mouth to defend Mass Effect II... aaaaaaaand then I realized that the reason I liked it so much was because it contained MARTIN [censored] SHEEN. (Yes, the all caps are necessary.)

As any of my friends would probably tell you, this is a bit like promising me a delicious blackened chicken sandwich, delivering some slightly-burnt toast instead, and then saying "...Oh, by the way, we decided to throw in the Ark of the Covenant. Ta!"
It makes my perceptions a little skewed.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:44 am

DA:O.

I hated it at first and it took me a while to even slightly enjoy it. I think a big part of it was 1) me not following it too closely before release, and 2) It was said to be a "spiritual successor to BG II", but I certainly didn't think it was. Perhaps I just expected more out of it or something completely different.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:12 pm

I didn't like DA:O either. I'd heard great things about it, it looked cool, but while playing it seemed so "meh". Kinda got bored.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:10 pm

DA:O.

I hated it at first and it took me a while to even slightly enjoy it. I think a big part of it was 1) me not following it too closely before release, and 2) It was said to be a "spiritual successor to BG II", but I certainly didn't think it was. Perhaps I just expected more out of it or something completely different.

This. Exactly this. DA:O is an okay game, but to say it's a spiritual successor to the greatest RPG series of all time puts some serious expectations on it. It couldn't live up to those expectations, not even close.