Most Disappointing game for you?

Great potential, turned into a totally wasted mess. Combat was flashy, but came down to sitting around for mindless timing attacks to the point where combat seemed more like overused quick time events. Wouldn't have been so bad if story missions didn't constantly force you into combat. What's the point of doing acrobatics across rooftops, sneaking through the shadows and stalking your prey in secret if they screw you over with a mandatory cutscene as soon as you get close? Not to mention the same old missions over and over. And the ending was a complete letdown, sure it's one thing to have a cliffhanger, but this had no resolution whatsoever.

Horrible ****** game. I expected this to be the new Kotor. I expected to play it at least ten times and not be bored. I bought a new PC so I can play it. Screw you game!

Call of Duty 2 and 4

- Simply weren't as enjoyable as the first game. I don't know what was missing, but either way both of those games put me off Infinity Ward. Modern Warfare 2 would make the list, except that it was exactly as ungood as I expected it to be.

Dawn of War II

- They kept most of their promises, but the end product left something to be desired. Chaos Rising made it much more enjoyable for me, and Retribution's looking to be their next Dark Crusade.

Oblivion

- I didn't play the game with high expectations, having read a lot of opinions about what it was like. That I was STILL disappointed should tell you how bad it really is.

Fallout 3:

- Does not deserve a 9+ status. Period.

Age of Empires 3:

- I put an enormous amount of time into the second game as well as Age of Mythology. I must have lasted about 10 hours into this one before quitting it out of boredom.

Empire: Total War:

- Never should a game be released in that state ever again.

Half Life 2 and Episode 1:

- They're impressive experiences. Best FPSs of all time they are not. Episode 2, however, fixed a lot of their problems.

Mass Effect 1 & 2, Dragon Age: Origins and Awakenings

- Playing these games a second time made me realize just how good they aren't as RPGs.

Command and Conquer 3:

- I don't know what it is about the game that made me dislike it. Either way, it didn't manage to live up to my mediocre expectations.

Call of Duty 2 and 4

- Simply weren't as enjoyable as the first game. I don't know what was missing, but either way both of those games put me off Infinity Ward. Barbariser

Half-life 2 episode 1 was a bit of a let down, but episode 2 was excellent.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was an absolute scandal.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Not that it was poor, but I had played San Andreas first, and so VC seemed a bit of a let down.

Easily this game.KHAndAnime

Thanks for naming the game. Seriously. An Old Woman? :D

Yep, Oblivion is definitely up there. Fallout 3 also wasn't very good. There's just something about Bethesda's games that turns me off. I think it's because they're generally very large and feel mostly copy pasted. I generally have something like an hour a day to play video games, tops, and with Bethesda's games you have to put in SO MUCH time to get anywhere and make any sort of meaningful progress, I just end up saying screw it and play something a bit more rewarding.

Also, Oblivion gates. The worst.

WHY EA?!?!? WHY?!?!?!? *cries*

SF_KiLLaMaN

I couldn't agree more. After the great C&C:TW, C&C4 was one of the most disappointing games of all time for me.

Ah Dawgz! Certainly Dragon Age - which was said to be an awesome original shock to a whole genere, but was an old clichee of a clichee of a goddamn clichee, remake of Baldurs Gate, with dumb story rewritten lord of the rings, dumbed down gameplay mechanics, and idiotic 3d graphics when stepping on the mouse covered your whole team with potatoe soup all of a sudden...

Other is STARCRAFT 2 - a graphic patch to an old game from 1998... it's a god damn joke!

Vietcong 2, coz the original blew me away. I expected the already proven developer team to give everyone a good lesson. Why the hell would they give up the best weapons physics engine ever, not bested to this day! Not only does the sequel suck, but even the poster is crappy.telep_man

True, or the size of the game is just insanely short for that era's standards. Wish game nowadays had shootig mechancis like that.

Not the worst, not even average...but very disappointing. Capcom turned Resident Evil into all action without FEAR or any sense of dread in the air. I miss the old Resident Evil games. I hope RE6 will turn back to its roots, RE: Code Veronica styl-e.Elann2008

I just dont know whats worse re4, with its total lack of scary moments and "trials" levels filled with laser traps and zombies with guns and explosives. or re5 that feels like an action game with terrible control. Atleast the things you have to face are not insanely stupid like re4, but there goes the survival element. Again, neither is bad, just dissapointing. The new RE is from new developers. Judging by what i have seen latelly from RE, can't say they can mess it up. Who knows, perhaps its better. More dead space like.

Horrible ****** game. I expected this to be the new Kotor. I expected to play it at least ten times and not be bored. I bought a new PC so I can play it. Screw you game!

GeneralShowzer

:D...same, i loved kotor, but this game? Story, characters, combat, rpg gameplay, planets, EVERYTHING was toned down into a very inferior version of kotor.

Crysis and Alan Wake are tied for this accolade.

For me it would be Assassins Creed was incredible but could have been much more and extremely repetitive thus never managed to finish although came close but just could not take it.

Sup Com 2 only played the demo before release but made it feel completely inferior to the first. Since then as someone has said they changed a lot of stuff so it might be better now than release but damage was done as its had such a price crash in a matter of months.

Dungeon Lords, Mafia2, Hellgate London, Far Cry 2 and Spore.

I really hate to say this, but:

Weak writing, badly designed puzzles, annoying firefights, no new weapons or abilities... I felt these games were lacking a huge amount of quality in comparison to Half-Life 2, which, as a die-hard fan of the series, was tremendously disappointing.

JN_Fenrir

Second this

'nuff said.

[QUOTE="KHAndAnime"] Easily this game.SkullShooter17

Thanks for naming the game. Seriously. An Old Woman? :D

I really hated how they deviated from the original formula from Retirement Home Simulator 1&2! They removed half of the rice pudding puzzles and put in some crappy tapioca mini games instead. What is this, My First Simulator? Devs keep dumbing down our games for accessibility.

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True, or the size of the game is just insanely short for that era's standards. Wish game nowadays had shootig mechancis like that.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]Not the worst, not even average...but very disappointing. Capcom turned Resident Evil into all action without FEAR or any sense of dread in the air. I miss the old Resident Evil games. I hope RE6 will turn back to its roots, RE: Code Veronica styl-e.dakan45

I just dont know whats worse re4, with its total lack of scary moments and "trials" levels filled with laser traps and zombies with guns and explosives. or re5 that feels like an action game with terrible control. Atleast the things you have to face are not insanely stupid like re4, but there goes the survival element. Again, neither is bad, just dissapointing. The new RE is from new developers. Judging by what i have seen latelly from RE, can't say they can mess it up. Who knows, perhaps its better. More dead space like.

Horrible ****** game. I expected this to be the new Kotor. I expected to play it at least ten times and not be bored. I bought a new PC so I can play it. Screw you game!

GeneralShowzer

:D...same, i loved kotor, but this game? Story, characters, combat, rpg gameplay, planets, EVERYTHING was toned down into a very inferior version of kotor.

Mafia 2. Disappointing because I was really hyped for it for over a year but it just turned out to be a linear 10 hour game with a pretty backdrop.bonafidetk

1. Halo 2

2. Stalker SoC

3. SSBB

4. GT5

5. UT3

The hype...it was too much :(

Has to be Oblivion . After morrowind i expected WAY more , but oblivion is pure disappointemend for me , not to mention boring .

2. Stalker SoCJackboot343

We had NO idea that this game was just going to be 5 terrible mini-games glued to a monster editor.

When I finally decided to start buying games again for PC I bought NWN 2. All I have to say is wanky camera. What a horrible experience that game was ...

DeViLzzz

Mafia 2.
weak story, too linear, too short, not-too-engaging characters.

oblivion
don't know what's so good about this game.

civ 5
simplified gameplay.

doom 3
cheap scares. weak story.

doom 3
cheap scares. weak story.

mac631

[QUOTE="mac631"]

doom 3
cheap scares. weak story.

Animatronic64

Agreed. You don't play DOOM for the story, however, the scares were a little cheap.

Far Cry 2.

After the hype, and PC Gamer gushing over it, it was one of the most disappointing things I have bought.

Operation Flashpoint 2.

Thank the gaming gods Bohemia developed the ArmA games.

SPORE

Speaks for itself really.

[QUOTE="Jackboot343"]

2. Stalker SoCdakan45

i'm mostly pleasantly surprised by games instead of disappointed. if i have to choose one it would be the secret of monkey island: special edition. not that it was bad, but i just really shouldn't have played that again after all those years. it was still funny here and there but that was really all it was.

[QUOTE="mac631"]

doom 3
cheap scares. weak story.

Animatronic64

I don't even recall that much hype for STALKER SoC.....

SF_KiLLaMaN

imo doom 3 is a story-driven game..u know, there are video logs, e-mails to provide some back-stories. the point is that the developer tries to create a good story.mac631

[QUOTE="mac631"]imo doom 3 is a story-driven game..u know, there are video logs, e-mails to provide some back-stories. the point is that the developer tries to create a good story.kdawg88

[QUOTE="kdawg88"][QUOTE="mac631"]imo doom 3 is a story-driven game..u know, there are video logs, e-mails to provide some back-stories. the point is that the developer tries to create a good story.the_ChEeSe_mAn2

starcraft 2: overrated mediocrity

I don't have a screenshot, but a little game called Shattered Union. I had high hopes for that game, but it was rubbish. In the end, World in Conflict managed to be what I hoped Shattered Union would be.

I've been disappointed a lot in the last 2 or 3 years. Here are the examples:

• Operation Flashpoint: DR
• Medal of Honor: Airborne
• Rainbow 6 Vegas
• Dirt
• Far Cry 2
• FEAR 2 Project Origin
• some other games

I was probably most disappointed with Far Cry 2. It was so promising but apart from great graphics and good physics nothing was realized. The other game would probably be F.E.A.R. 2 which wasn't a bad game but it should have been so much more since the first F.E.A.R. was really epic.