Biggest let down in a game?

RB100

For people saying that HL2 was good when it came out but sh*t now is stupid IMO. I played it when it came out and everything about it blew me away. I played it through again last year and enjoyed just as much and still felt new.

If your going to say that it was good when it was released but bad now, that means your saying that legends of games such as LoZ:OOT, Goldeneye, Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, FFXII are all sh*t now and you wouldn't play them. Which they are clearly not and lots of people still play these games.

HazDanz

Perfect Dark Zero. It just didn't meet the standard I was expecting based off of Perfect Dark and how good that was.

Arawn

RB100 wrote: »

For people saying that HL2 was good when it came out but sh*t now is stupid IMO. I played it when it came out and everything about it blew me away. I played it through again last year and enjoyed just as much and still felt new.

If your going to say that it was good when it was released but bad now, that means your saying that legends of games such as LoZ:OOT, Goldeneye, Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, FFXII are all sh*t now and you wouldn't play them. Which they are clearly not and lots of people still play these games.

Final fantasy 12 is **** though

Delightfully Pessimistic

Duke Nukem Forever: I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but damn. This game is a slap in the face to anyone who pays money to play it. Way to waste 13 years of development.

L.A Noire: I've nothing else to say but boring. This game is just plain boring.

RB100

Arawn wrote: »

Final fantasy 12 is **** though

oops I meant 7:o

Pdfile

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Would you kindly take that back?

take what back ?? the whole game is rubbish ( actually iz serious )

hypersquirrel

RB100 wrote: »

For people saying that HL2 was good when it came out but sh*t now is stupid IMO. I played it when it came out and everything about it blew me away. I played it through again last year and enjoyed just as much and still felt new.

If your going to say that it was good when it was released but bad now, that means your saying that legends of games such as LoZ:OOT, Goldeneye, Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, FFXII are all sh*t now and you wouldn't play them. Which they are clearly not and lots of people still play these games.

The thread isn't about what games you think were sh*t, it's about what disappointed you. Half Life 2 was a massive disappointment for me but I won't say it's sh*t.

I played it for the first time 2 years ago. I had been told that it was one of the best games ever made and went in expecting as much. What I got was a game with a poorly paced story and awkward controls. If I compare it to other games out at the time I will admit, the graphics were fantastic and they still stand up quite well today. It also was revolutionary in terms of physics and one of the most influential players in shaping FPS. The problem is however that playing a game 6 years after it's release is that you will have played other games that saw these things and improved on them.

I found Gordon hard to relate to. I'd play for hours and get no further insight into the plot and then suddenly I'd be swamped in new information. The pacing just killed it for me.

The game was revolutionary, it did great things for the genre. It is a decent game but it is not this amazing experience that I had been told it was and therefore I was disappointed when I finally got around to playing it.

IMO the gameplay hasn't aged well and that is what I look for in a game.





I'd also have to cast a vote for the new SSX. Waited years for another game in the franchise and got this on release day. Put it on for a few hours and found no Super Pipe, or half the other event types. Liked the addition of the Deadly Peaks but didn't come remotely close to making up for everything they'd removed.

Mr.Saturn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Street Fighter 2 on the Commodore 64. The C64 was never going to pull off SF2 but deep down inside I really wanted the game that all my SNES and Megadrive owning mates were bragging about. It broke my little heart when I ended up with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0YVz9MaHGM

My older brother often talks of the original Street Fighter being a extreme disappointment when it came home to the C64, I daren't imagine the misery that followed with a game that was actually good.

funky penguin

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I totally forgot about first AC. Thx for reminding me. What a pile of **** after so much hype. I haven't even finished damn thing.

It really was disappointingly repetitive. Saying that, have you had a chance to play AC2? It's a triumph in gaming sequels, the best of the series so far.

For all it's perfection, Portal 2 was let down a bit by it's running sections.. Started playing co-op again with my gf so I'm well happy. Ive even got her doing the easy missions in skyrim now.

ShadowHearth

Pdfile wrote: »

take what back ?? the whole game is rubbish ( actually iz serious )

How can you say that whole game was rubbish as you haven't even finished it. Trust me, I know 100% now you did not finish it.

FanadMan

Big Knox wrote: »

Genuine question, is this sarcasm? If it's not I'd love to hear why. I can understand people not liking certain types of games and even the most critically acclaimed titles like Mass Effect, Skyrim, hell even HL2 but Portal 2 is just.... perfect!

How can you say Portal 2 is perfect? Yeah, the levels were so much bigger and it looked clearer but there was no cake!

Canis Lupus

N64 for me. Perfect Dark and Turok 2. 2 classic examples of pushing the hardware too much. Reasonable games ruined by dire framerate.

Any Total War game. I keep buying them like an idiot but they're just the same thing over and over again...

James Howlett

ShadowHearth wrote: »

How can you say that whole game was rubbish as you haven't even finished it. Trust me, I know 100% now you did not finish it.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I totally forgot about first AC. Thx for reminding me. What a pile of **** after so much hype. I haven't even finished damn thing.

Busted

elekid

FanadMan wrote: »

How can you say Portal 2 is perfect? Yeah, the levels were so much bigger and it looked clearer but there was no cake!

There is a

fake door leading to the Emergency GlaDos Shutdown and Cake Dispensary though

I wouldn't say it was a letdown because I'm not a big FPS fan but I'm another who didn't like HL2 and only played it because I kept being told it was the best game ever. This was only a couple of years ago as well. I prefer Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Timesplitters 2 and Bioshock 1&2

Metroid: Other M was a big letdown for me. After the excellent Metroid Prime Trilogy the gameplay was a huge step backwards with loads of annoying sections and the excrutiatingly bad story ruined Samus for me.

Retr0gamer

elekid wrote: »

I prefer Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Timesplitters 2

Not sure how you can say those 3 games are better than HL2. Have you played them recently because they have aged terribly with Goldeneye and Perfect Dark being nigh on unplayable due to the poor framerates. That's not to mention the poor level design in places and laughable AI. Not sure how anyone can say those 2 games are better than most modern FPS games including HL2.

elekid

I'm not saying they're better, I'm saying I preferred them. It's all down to personal taste.

Retr0gamer

Well there's no accounting for taste but I can't see how anyone can prefer those games to HL2. I suppose there's people out there that think Legend of Dragoon is a classic.

Blazer

Without a doubt Mass Effect 3's ending.
I had bought and replayed ME1/2 and all their DLC's several times in order for the so-called multiple endings (16 I think they promised).
Never touched the games after ME3 and have ignored all the DLCs as I quite simply lost all interest in it...
Bioware really really screwed up on ME3..I reckon they lost a shedload of cash on people giving up on it and not buying the DLCs etc....pity as up to the last 5 minutes it was a fantastic game and I was really looking forward to the replayability.

Eggy Baby!

Has to be in Spyro 2. After you get all the orbs and beat the whole game basically 100% as a result, all you get is a permanent super-fireball power.

For those who don't know, near the end, there is a massive door with an orb total on it equal to 100% of the orbs in the game. To get 100% it takes flipping ages. When you do, however, the door slides open and...imagine my disappointment when you basically get a power to help you complete the game....when you have completed the game.

Childhood was ruined on that day.


LA Noire was great in general but, for me anyway, it had zero replay value. I completed it and didn't play it again. Also, why make a huge and historical LA if theres nothing to see or do in it? All people ended up doing was letting their partner drive and then skipping the journey.

I played with Black and White on too- looked great.

James Howlett

I'm a big Tomb Raider fan and absolutely love the first game however when I first completed it I was so disappointed by the shorter-than-short nothing of an ending scene.

LiamKK1982

Eggy Baby! wrote: »

Has to be in Spyro 2. After you get all the orbs and beat the whole game basically 100% as a result, all you get is a permanent super-fireball power.

For those who don't know, near the end, there is a massive door with an orb total on it equal to 100% of the orbs in the game. To get 100% it takes flipping ages. When you do, however, the door slides open and...imagine my disappointment when you basically get a power to help you complete the game....when you have completed the game.

Childhood was ruined on that day.


LA Noire was great in general but, for me anyway, it had zero replay value. I completed it and didn't play it again. Also, why make a huge and historical LA if theres nothing to see or do in it? All people ended up doing was letting their partner drive and then skipping the journey.

I played with Black and White on too- looked great.

Would you be happier if I gave ya a digital hug for getting 100% in Spyro 2. I created a US PSN account just to download the ps1 trilogy, money well spent

Eggy Baby!

LiamKK1982 wrote: »

Would you be happier if I gave ya a digital hug for getting 100% in Spyro 2. I created a US PSN account just to download the ps1 trilogy, money well spent

And I was pretty young at the time; with young age comes a shorter attention span!

Magill

Me thinks we need another "Favorite games" thread... don't think i can take much more of this HL2 bashing !

LiamKK1982

Magill wrote: »

Me thinks we need another "Favorite games" thread... don't think i can take much more of this HL2 bashing !

I hear ya!! I just bought The Orange Box on Amazon UK in a protest to these fussy bitches here.:D

Hackysack

Unchartered 3

The lack of a boss fight with Katherine was very disappointing, how they killed her off was a big let down for me. They create a clever, manipulative and scheming evil villain, and then they kill her off in a scene. The one on one fight with Talbot was also very disappointing. Why did they go back to doing this? The Navarro fight in UC1 was interesting (you had to work through a lot of crap of him trying to shoot and kill you before you get into a fist fight), and the Lazarovitch fight in UC2 was actually tough! Why did they go back to this format??

That said though, it was a brilliant game and I really enjoyed it but those two things above really let me down.

penev10

The hand-to-hand combat was disappointing full stop in Uncharted 3, just a load of QTEs with endless safety nets. Some of the fights with the big lads left my hands in bits! It was like Summer Olympiad all over!

LiamKK1982

Tekken 6

After being spoiled by SSF4 & Blazblue this was a big disappoinment. It just felt very sluiggish and the loading times and online were horrible.

Josey Wales

Hackysack wrote: »

Unchartered 3

The lack of a boss fight with Katherine was very disappointing, how they killed her off was a big let down for me. They create a clever, manipulative and scheming evil villain, and then they kill her off in a scene. The one on one fight with Talbot was also very disappointing. Why did they go back to doing this? The Navarro fight in UC1 was interesting (you had to work through a lot of crap of him trying to shoot and kill you before you get into a fist fight), and the Lazarovitch fight in UC2 was actually tough! Why did they go back to this format??

That said though, it was a brilliant game and I really enjoyed it but those two things above really let me down.

Hard to reply to that without putting spoiler tags around it all.

I thought it was for the best not having a big fight with her at the end. It would look a bit ridiculous seeing Drake in a fist fight with an older woman. Even seeing him shooting her would be a little weird. [\spoiler]

Retr0gamer

LiamKK1982 wrote: »

Tekken 6

After being spoiled by SSF4 & Blazblue this was a big disappoinment. It just felt very sluiggish and the loading times and online were horrible.

If you buy a Tekken game expecting a good game then you're doing it wrong.

Shiminay

Biggest disappointments:

Quake 2's multiplayer being so spectacularly awful after the masterpiece that is Quake World.

Tribes 2 being completely and utterly broken when it got released. Had been so hyped for that game, but it was unending disappointment for the 2 months I tried to play it.

Bioshock - it was pegged as some sort of spiritual successor to System Shock 2 and it was nothing but an average FPS console game. Poor mechanics, boring game play and an art style that didn't click with me at first (which I've subsequently, I must admit, come to like).

Fable 3 - it was just Fable 2 with some slight tweaks and then an appalling "railed story" section that didn't tell you you were on rails till it was too late.

ShadowHearth

James Howlett wrote: »

Busted

Aye!

Though you have to admit, that AC had a huge flaw of the repetitive stuff. After 4 or 5 assassination it was clear that it was a very repetitive and crap.
I really can't say that bioshock stands even near repetitive nature of AC.

Duggy747

Duke Nukem Forever - I knew the game would be crap but, good grief, it was just a mish mash of outdated ideas. Shovelled out in the hope that people would buy it for it's name before realising it lacked everything.

Rage - I actually enjoyed it for the most part, after it getting it to run when it had that terrible launch with all it's problems. Awful, awful ending too, it felt like they ran out of money or ideas.

Skyrim - It actually feels more hollow than Oblivion, lacks the fun / charm of it and is just a big ol' rocky landscape with less fun quests. Just became a more serious and gritty game. I still like the game but just not as much as I hoped I would after pumping 170+ hours into Oblivion instead of just a paltry 90 hours in Skyrim.

Bioshock 2 - Started out good but I got incredibly bored of it after a while. Just became repetitive to me. The next Bioshock looks great though.

James Howlett

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Aye!

Though you have to admit, that AC had a huge flaw of the repetitive stuff. After 4 or 5 assassination it was clear that it was a very repetitive and crap.
I really can't say that bioshock stands even near repetitive nature of AC.

I wouldn't consider it crap. A lot of work went into it and some sections do have great merit however you're right about the repetitiveness and for that I can't blame anyone for giving up in frustration. If someone new to the series asked me about the game I would just say start at ACII and if you really enjoy the series then go back and check out the first game as love for the series might shield a person from its flaws.

Haven't played Bioshock but it's on my list

CastorTroy

Thought the main thing about Assassin's Creed wasn't the game itself, but Jade Raymond.

I think the reason some(not all) people who dislike Half Life 2 would probably be due to fact that it was so hyped up as being a great game. Go in to anything expecting greatness and you'd be disappointed. Same with movies and tv shows.

Uncharted 3 was a disappointment for me as well. As above, I heard how great it was, played it and thought that you had very little control of what happened. Was like playing a more actiony Dragon's Lair but with less chance of dying outside of the gunfights. So it would go from climbing and pushing to throwing you into a gunfight with about 50 guys at once with snipers and guys with grenade launchers.
So I liked it but just not to the point I expected to.

Doodee

ME3 ending
Fable 3

ancapailldorcha

I started Portal 2 and the humor is starting to grate me a little bit. It's a shame because it's an excellent game but I wish that Glados would just stop talking.

5uspect

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I started Portal 2 and the humor is starting to grate me a little bit. It's a shame because it's an excellent game but I wish that Glados would just stop talking.

What is wrong with you?!

Grimebox

C&C: Tiberian Sun

I played every C&C game to death up to this but Tiberian Sun is where the series really fell off

Grimebox

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well there's no accounting for taste but I can't see how anyone can prefer those games to HL2. I suppose there's people out there that think Legend of Dragoon is a classic.

I got far more enjoyment out of GoldenEye and Perfect Dark than I did Half Life 2. I way prefer them. I played GoldenEye recently however and its unplayable due to being so dated in every aspect.

I played HL2 single player around 3-4 years after it came. It was above average at best, graphics still stood up but the attempt at the plot was lame. It had such little impact on me that I couldn't tell you thing about the story now. Ravenholm was pure class though of course.

Hackysack

Josey Wales wrote: »

Hard to reply to that without putting spoiler tags around it all.

I thought it was for the best not having a big fight with her at the end. It would look a bit ridiculous seeing Drake in a fist fight with an older woman. Even seeing him shooting her would be a little weird.

Same. Hard to not reply without the spoiler tags. I get what you're saying, but they could have worked around it.

It could have easily been a boss fight if you fought

her while you're on the hallucinogenic drug, and her as a potential 'fire demon'

Josey Wales

Hackysack wrote: »

Same. Hard to not reply without the spoiler tags. I get what you're saying, but they could have worked around it.

It could have easily been a boss fight if you fought

her while you're on the hallucinogenic drug, and her as a potential 'fire demon'

Yeah, that might work. It would certainly be visually interesting.

ancapailldorcha

5uspect wrote: »

What is wrong with you?!

I'm not knocking the game! It's absolutely wonderful. I just passed the part where

Wheatley and Glados switch cores

. I was just getting a bit sick of Glados talking but J.K. Simmons' Cave Johnson is a great replacement.

HazDanz

Grimebox wrote: »

I got far more enjoyment out of GoldenEye and Perfect Dark than I did Half Life 2. I way prefer them. I played GoldenEye recently however and its unplayable due to being so dated in every aspect.

I played HL2 single player around 3-4 years after it came. It was above average at best, graphics still stood up but the attempt at the plot was lame. It had such little impact on me that I couldn't tell you thing about the story now. Ravenholm was pure class though of course.

Ravenholm, the mad priest and the use of a shotgun is one of the best situations I've played through in gaming.

Magill

Just after playing the first half of HL2 again... and i just don't get how anyone could think anything but at least a great game ! Nearly 8 years after release it still looks pretty good and plays awesome ! Mind boggling tbh !

LiamKK1982

HazDanz wrote: »

Ravenholm, the mad priest and the use of a shotgun is one of the best situations I've played through in gaming.

But you know what they say......WE DON'T GO TO RAVENHOLM!!. The atmosphere of Half Life 2 is second to none. I really loved episode 2

Monotype

Ravenholm is a nice place - see?
http://www.screencuisine.net/hlcomic/view.php?date=2005-11-18

adamski8

Pro evo 6. the end of a great series!

C14N

Half Life 1. I came at it about 12 years after its release. Really tried to like it but couldn't. After about 10 hours I looked at an online guide's contents and saw I was about half done and said "screw it". I wish I could like it but I can't.

Zelda Skyward Sword was a bit of a letdown too. Putting Fi in there was a horrible decision from the start. The whole world was far less engaging than its predecessors, the Wii Remote thing still had niggles, there was almost no involvement of the giant bird that seemed to feature in every trailer and the exploration was almost non-existent.

MiseryMary

I thought Batman Arkham city was a let down over the stupid riddles and the codes ,catwoman and now codes to get Harley quinns revenge pack omg what a ****ing pain .