Biggest disappointment/surprise of the year?

[QUOTE="khoofia_pika"][QUOTE="DarkLink77"] Oh, God, here we go.texasgoldrush

So...what you're saying is your taste in games isn't really all that great. Dragon Age Origins was most likely the last great game Bioware will make.

Biggest disappointment(s)

• Diablo 3 (still a decent game though)
• The fact Sniper,Mastershake and DarkLink are still tools
• Mass Effect 3 ending (still love the game but god the ending sucked, I wanted to make space babies with Liara and take over the universe)
• Still no FF Versus 13
• Still No Half Life 3
• The delay to DMC
• World of Warcraft MoP or MoD as I like to call it (Mists of Dailies)

Biggest Surprise(s)

• Sleeping Dogs
• Hotline Miami
• GTA V trailer
• The WarZ alpha beta
• DayZ
• Max Payne 3 (MP3 > Vanquish)
• Starcraft 2 HotS finally got a release date
• Dragon's Dogma
• RE6

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="texasgoldrush"] Or you just don't get it. svetzenlether

Does this guy have an alarm that goes off whenever somebody (rightfully) trashes ME3's ending????

Biggest disappointment - Darksouls on the PC - No proper mouse and keyboard support meant I didn't bother to play the game, plus 720p and 30FPS on launch, which did get fixed. Also everything EA did, F2P Generals 2 being a particularly bad moment.

Biggest surprise - DayZ, the best thing from 2012 in gaming by a wide margin, in a different league to anything else I've enjoyed playing this year.

http://kotaku.com/5943951/torchlight-ii-vs-diablo-iii-the-comparison-we-had-to-maketexasgoldrush

Biggest disappointment(s)

• Diablo 3 (still a decent game though)
• The fact Sniper,Mastershake and DarkLink are still tools
• Mass Effect 3 ending (still love the game but god the ending sucked, I wanted to make space babies with Liara and take over the universe)
• Still no FF Versus 13
• Still No Half Life 3
• The delay to DMC
• World of Warcraft MoP or MoD as I like to call it (Mists of Dailies)

Biggest Surprise(s)

• Sleeping Dogs
• Hotline Miami
• GTA V trailer
• The WarZ alpha beta
• DayZ
• Max Payne 3 (MP3 > Vanquish)
• Starcraft 2 HotS finally got a release date
• Dragon's Dogma
• RE6

Ballroompirate

Biggest disappointment - Assassin's Creed 3. I was really hyped for this game, and it turned out to be quite disappointing. Sad really considering how much I liked the other AC games.

Biggest Surprise - How much I enjoyed Borderlands 2. I was really expecting it to not be as good as the first one.

Disappointment: Paying half with my neighbour to buy RE6.

Surprise: Nothing really surprised me this year. Everything good has been as expected never going beyond that.

Biggest dissapointment - Diablo 3

Biggest surprise - DayZ

Biggest Disappointment: RE6 that game is grabage is a 2.0 out of 10 in my book and one of the worst games this gen.

Biggest Surprise: Sleeping Dogs it was never on my radar but after playing the demo I had to get the game and I was so damn impressed. It's the game that GTA IV failed to be.

My biggest Surpries and Disapointment was ME3, no one expected the ending to be that bad and many people including myself were disappointed.

Biggest surprise: Oblivion was actually a pretty good game.

Biggest disappointment: Nothing.

I knew from the start this year wasn't going to be a very good year which is why I used this year to focus on much older games; and by games I mean just one because I'm cheap.

My biggest Surpries and Disapointment was ME3, no one expected the ending to be that bad and many people including myself were disappointed.

Gibsonsg527

Disappointments: ME3/RE6/FFXIII-2
Surprises: Halo 4 having good maps and an okay story/Journey

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"]

Biggest Disappointment: Me purchasing Halo 4. Here I was thinking I was above that sh1t. I never thought I could disappoint myself so much, but I really let myself down there.AAllxxjjnn

Biggest dissappointing surprise? That GS scored Fable the Journey and wonder book at 8.

Biggest disappointment, I'm not really sure as I enjoyed all games I bought and looked forward to this year. I guess I was a little let down with RE6, but I liked it enough to give it an 8.

Most pleasant surprise is Max Payne 3 as I really didn't think Rockstar would do it justice. I loved the grim story, the amount of work that went into the presentation and I loved the shooting. Very solid game, the only big game from Rockstar I liked this gen. Hope GTA 5 continues that.

I was also very surprised by Shadows of the Damned. I didn't play it until this year and it really passed my expectations and was very awesome.Too bad it sold so bad but everyone should pick it up as it's only $20 and under now! Give this game a chance, promise it'll be unique enough to have great enjoyment.

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"][QUOTE="khoofia_pika"] ME3's ending sucked. The game didn't, but the ending did. Goldrush is one of the stupidest biodrones I've seen. svetzenlether

So...what you're saying is your taste in games isn't really all that great. Dragon Age Origins was most likely the last great game Bioware will make.

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"]http://kotaku.com/5943951/torchlight-ii-vs-diablo-iii-the-comparison-we-had-to-makeRavenshout

it seems the DA team now does not want to go back that direction and is phasing the Wardens and teh Darkspawn out of their stories.texasgoldrush

Well, considering that the Dragon Age team is made up of the morons that made Dragon Age II, this incredibly stupid decision does not surprise me.

Or maybe because its one of the most basic, cliched, conservative RPGs ever made that rips off everybody and blantantly copies FFXII's combat system while basically confirming the criticism that Bioware recycles its plot and it characters. Its so generic and cliched it seems the DA team now does not want to go back that direction and is phasing the Wardens and teh Darkspawn out of their stories.texasgoldrush

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"]

it seems the DA team now does not want to go back that direction and is phasing the Wardens and teh Darkspawn out of their stories.DarkLink77

Well, considering that the Dragon Age team is made up of the morons that made Dragon Age II, this incredibly stupid decision does not surprise me.

[QUOTE="Gibsonsg527"]

My biggest Surpries and Disapointment was ME3, no one expected the ending to be that bad and many people including myself were disappointed.

Ravenshout

[QUOTE="Ravenshout"]

[QUOTE="Gibsonsg527"]

My biggest Surpries and Disapointment was ME3, no one expected the ending to be that bad and many people including myself were disappointed.

Gibsonsg527

Actually biggest disappointment was e3

Not ONE thing was announced worth getting excited about.

Nothing.

[QUOTE="Gibsonsg527"]

[QUOTE="Ravenshout"] You act as if all other video game endings were good. They aren't, and most of them are worse than ME3's ending.

texasgoldrush

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"][QUOTE="Gibsonsg527"] No I don't act that way at all. Stories in video games are usually crap and its not surprising alot of games had bad endings espcially the AC series which are probably worse than ME3's ending, but I expected so much more form Bioware and a game the that takes story seriously.

Gibsonsg527

The biggest suprise is Diablo III beng bested by a budget game, Torchlight II. It is matched critically, but once you start comparing them...TL2 does most stuff a lot better. I thought TL2 was going to be written off as a Diablo clone, instead, its a Diablo killer.texasgoldrush

Torchlight 2 is far from a Diablo 3 killer, in fact they are pretty much equal or "meh". One does something better than the other and vice versa. Personally though Path Of Exile wipes the floor and owns D3 and TL2 combine when it comes out.

PoE is Diablo 2 on bath salts

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"]The biggest suprise is Diablo III beng bested by a budget game, Torchlight II. It is matched critically, but once you start comparing them...TL2 does most stuff a lot better. I thought TL2 was going to be written off as a Diablo clone, instead, its a Diablo killer.Ballroompirate

Torchlight 2 is far from a Diablo 3 killer, in fact they are pretty much equal or "meh". One does something better than the other and vice versa. Personally though Path Of Exile wipes the floor and owns D3 and TL2 combine when it comes out.

PoE is Diablo 2 on bath salts

Biggest disapointment ME 3"s ending,

Biggest surprise: Dishonoured

I was also very surprised by Shadows of the Damned. I didn't play it until this year and it really passed my expectations and was very awesome.Too bad it sold so bad but everyone should pick it up as it's only $20 and under now! Give this game a chance, promise it'll be unique enough to have great enjoyment.immortality20

The biggest suprise is Diablo III beng bested by a budget game, Torchlight II. It is matched critically, but once you start comparing them...TL2 does most stuff a lot better. I thought TL2 was going to be written off as a Diablo clone, instead, its a Diablo killer.texasgoldrush

I was hyping TL2 big time but was really let down. It's a great game for the price, but I still thought Diablo 3 was better.

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"]

it seems the DA team now does not want to go back that direction and is phasing the Wardens and teh Darkspawn out of their stories.texasgoldrush

Well, considering that the Dragon Age team is made up of the morons that made Dragon Age II, this incredibly stupid decision does not surprise me.

[QUOTE="Gibsonsg527"]

[QUOTE="Ravenshout"] You act as if all other video game endings were good. They aren't, and most of them are worse than ME3's ending.

texasgoldrush

Surprise: Binary Domain I really didn't expect anything from this no-name shooter/rpg, but...it ended up being way better than it had any right to be. Great shooting mechanics, a surprisingly decent story, excellent pacing and decent squad-based shooting made this one a very enjoyable ride. Disappointment: Guild Wars 2 It's not that I didn't like it, but I find myself going back to Guild Wars 1 more often than not. I miss the original's depth and broader variety of 'end-game' goals.Planeforger

I know a lot of people who played both but ended up preferring GW1.

I would say that GW1's skills had a bit more oomph to them, in GW2, none of my skills felt anywhere near as impactful as they did in GW1. Sure, they were flashier, but still felt less impactful.

I also stick by the notion that removing energy management for skill use was a terrible design choice.

Biggest surprise - Cheleman

Biggest disapointment - Your mum

Disappointment: Demons Souls - Game was dull

Surprise: Assasins Creed III - jumped in and really enjoyed it. Will try the others

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"][QUOTE="DarkLink77"]

Well, considering that the Dragon Age team is made up of the morons that made Dragon Age II, this incredibly stupid decision does not surprise me.

DarkLink77

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"]The biggest suprise is Diablo III beng bested by a budget game, Torchlight II. It is matched critically, but once you start comparing them...TL2 does most stuff a lot better. I thought TL2 was going to be written off as a Diablo clone, instead, its a Diablo killer.Twin-Blade

I was hyping TL2 big time but was really let down. It's a great game for the price, but I still thought Diablo 3 was better.

How bad Diablo 3 was, definitely.