Weird, I had the opposite reaction when playing Jade Empire... it felt like a departure from the usual BioWare format of Cool Opening/Disaster Strikes + Go to four different places and get these items/recruit these partymembers + Cool conclusion. I thought the story was fun to play through start to finish, not too many dull moments.

The last game I allowed my expectations to run away with was Oblivion, and I was so disappointed with that game that I have since altered how I react to any game before it's released. I allowed myself to get caught up in the hype, and placed some rather unfair expectations on the game in the year leading up to it's release. When it came out I was heartbroken, and even though I've since come to appreciate it for it's own merits I still can't look at it without feeling the weight of all those expectations and false promises.

I don't see how anyone can be disappointed with Jade Empire. Different strokes i guess. :shrug:

I was most disappointed in Oblivion.

Some other contenders are the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man and Hearts of Iron 3.

Skyrim.





...Oh wait, that hasn't come out yet. But when it does, it will be on the top of my list.

Mass Effect 2, for now.

For me it's completely opposite, I feel FFX is the worst FF game I ever played, and FFXIII take the worst parts of FFX and make them even worse, judging from what my friends said who have played it. FFXII was a breath of fresh are and a step in the right direction for the FF series, even if Vaan is highly annoying. FFVI is still better than FFXII though

Besides FFX, another huge disappointment for me was Metal Gear Solid 2. Everything that made the first game great just vanished from MGS2, and made me lose interest in the series. Which is a bit unfortunate as Metal Gear and Metal Gear Solid are both among my favorite games.

Other disappointments are Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (way too many military levels instead of civilian levels) and Deus Ex: Invisible War (pretty much everything is worse compared to the first game).

Deus Ex: Invisible War is also pretty much the last game disappointment I've had, I guess I've gotten better on having realistic expecations on games instead of being persuaded by the hype

Brink.

This, so much this.

Although I'm now looking at buying Skyrim immediately and at full price, based on some last shred of hope that it might be more to my liking than Oblivion was.

Dragon Age II
I was so disappointed in this game. On it's own, I suppose it's an alright game. But, compared to DA:Origins... :sadvaultboy:
I had to force myself to finish this game.

Red Faction: Armageddon
I enjoyed RF: Guerrilla a lot. I was looking forward to more Martian free roaming.
Ancient Martians release? Not the best story but I was willing to roll with it.
But, of course, there is little free roaming. I haven't even finished it yet. I doubt I ever will.
Sure, there are a ton of nice new weapons, but I think they would have been perfect for Guerrilla.

Dead Island was a bit of a let down... http://imgur.com/VdQAt pretty much sums up my feelings. There's another one with a panel for the writers which shows someone drunk but I couldn't find it.

Fallout 3 was the most disappointing one.

It just didn't offer anything I expected from the title, and the more I played to worse it got.

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?!

This. Both the original and Human Revolutions.

How can it be disappointing if you have no expectations in it?

Dragon Age 2 was pretty terrible.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run. When I was young I thought this game was going to be amazing - best game ever. Like you could do anything you wanted. A huge sandbox, endless possibilities, way more diverse than the GTAs and all whilst playing Homer. I was thinking bizarre things like running a car into Moe's then robbing him armed with a machine gun. Safe to say when I got it, I was pretty upset.

Speaking of GTA: GTA IV was pretty disappointing. Again, when I was younger and got a shot at my cousins PS2 to play Vice City, I thought it was the best game ever. Mum obviously wasn't for letting me get it. Now that I'm older, I have freedom and purchased GTA IV (technically my first GTA game). It's horrible. The controls are clunky, it isn't fluid at all... I swear the only reason I got past 3 missions was because of the Russian accents (or Scandinavian, whatever it is).

Fable 3 was also a disappointment. I adored Fable 2, and didn't think F3 lived up to it. I still really liked F3, just, it wasn't what I expected.

Red Dead Redemption. Horse riding controls were awful and I found the game very boring. Also "YOU BROKE THE LAW" if I so much as fart in the face of a chicken.

Eastern European. Seriously.

Legends of wrestling
Legends of wrestling 2. Both had great list of legends except the first had RVD who isn't a legend. But the territories storylines thing i couldn't stand. Why couldn't i of just picked which storyline i wanted instead of pressing whatever button to stop and see which storyline i got ? The first LOW i don't think had the option to choose the storyline. I usually stuck to the exhibition matches. I do like a lot of the theme songs for the wrestlers though. Character creation was eh IMO.

That's definitely on my "disappointing" list. Didn't like it when it came out, but eventually forced myself to play it after thoroughly enjoying HL2 because, predictably, the usual suspects claimed that the original was so much better. Not in my experience: I had to keep on forcing myself just to get through it and won't be touching it again.

DA2 was also pretty disappointing. It might've ranked as at least a mediocre stand-alone game (I was going to say "reasonable" but shuddered at the memory of the interminable three-wave attacks and re-used areas) but it didn't really do anything in terms of continuing the story of DA:O and none of the promised resolution to numerous loose-ends transpired.

I have this niggling feeling that there are worse offenders, but I can't quite think of them offhand.

Mass effect 2 symbolises everything I believe is wrong with gaming today.
I still don't understand how any of Biowares [censored] games keep winning awards.

I don't have quite that level of disappointment, but I definitely felt it was a step down from Morrowind. Him Indoors summed it up as "it feels like you're in the Truman Show - like all the NPCs say, "Quick! He's coming! Everyone into position now" when you're coming round the corner."

Then I went away and played other games for a while and came back to Oblivion, and appreciated it as you say on its own merits. It is a great game. It's just not what I expected it to be.


Yes, I think that's the top one for me, too. Shame, really. I liked one or two levels on it, though.


I just didn't connect with the gameplay, and found it really flawed. Again, shame.


What? ME2 is in my top 3 favourite ever games!

How short do you have to be to be going around farting in the faces of chickens?

For me, I'd say

GTA IV (I thought it was alright in it's own right, but it lost alot of that crude charm since Vice City)
Splinter DA on PS3 (PS2 version was better IMO)
Sims 3 (Was just to easy)

And the massive fleets of massive airships :yes:



Mass Effect 2 seems to be one of those games that divides opinions very sharply. Most of the criticism seems to stem from the same source as Dragon Age 2's criticism, excessive streamlining.

It's personal choice, but I'm divided on ME2. It was an epic, cinematic experience, but the combat was streamlined to FPS-level, and the role-playing reduced to a dating sim.

*Buys ME2*