What game disappointed you the most this gen and why?

My biggest disappointment was MW2 for all the reasons stated in all the MW2 threads :?

What game were you looking forward to but ended up disappointing you? Why was it a disappointment?

Red Alert 3.

it's just terrible compared to the previous games.

PDZ, I cannot accurately describe my feelings for this game without risking a ban lol

Grand Theft Auto 4.

Star Ocean : The Last Hope

It wasn't a bad game in its own right. It was just stuck somewhere between being fan service and being an actual game. It could never distinguish its self enough from either. That was its ultimate downfall.

Not many games disappoint me, but Demon's Souls did, everything especially the difficulty was blown out of proportion.

For me it would be

Mercenaries 2

FEAR 2

HALO 3

FEAR 2

RDR. Despite virtually everyone saying things to the contrary it very much is Grand Theft Horse: a poorly executed story, repetitive main-missions and underwhelming side-missions, questionable gunplay, and a large number of piss-poor design choices. Plus, in a very un-GTA move, a surprisingly mediocre soundtrack. Overall still a good and worthwhile experience, but one that should have been much, much better.

Mercs 2 - I had fun with it but then it became boring after I realized all the things wrong with the game.

Silent Hill Homecoming: I expected a Silent Hill title that would rival SH2 in terms of story, symbolism, and characters. Homecoming was just a predictable shallow story filled with cheap scares.

MGS:4 I guess I expected too much of this title. I was looking for this title will would be a great conclusion to the MGS saga or at least Solid Snakes story. I ended up experiencing a game with bad pacing. The story elements that were to tie everything up felt rushed, unnecessary at some points, characters weren't as interesting as past titles. It was like Kojima and Murata just said "**** it we give up we made a mess with MGS2"

Final Fantasy XIII: Although I did like the ATB system, I didn't care for anything else. The story wasn't interesting what so ever. The cast of characters sucked except for Sazh. Also the gameplay structure got very bland after he 10 hour mark. Run through a very linear path, fight, FMV scene, repeat. Also no game should take 20-25 hours to "open up" especially a RPG title.

final fantasy xiii, i loved square for the story and gameplay and never for the HD capabilities

PDZ, I cannot accurately describe my feelings for this game without risking a ban lol

Espada12

God of War III. Besides the visuals, it is not an improvement compared to the first two games.

MW2 online ruined the game

BFBC2 IF they can fix the online that game would be good

Killzone2/uncharted2 Diddnt like those games at all i liked the first ones more

MW2 online ruined the game

BFBC2 IF they can fix the online that game would be good

Killzone2/uncharted2 Diddnt like those games at all i liked the first ones more

gundaicut

Devil May Cry4

Fear2

Demon Souls

Unreal3

RDR. Despite virtually everyone saying things to the contrary it very much is Grand Theft Horse: a poorly executed story, repetitive main-missions and underwhelming side-missions, questionable gunplay, and a large number of piss-poor design choices. Plus, in a very un-GTA move, a surprisingly mediocre soundtrack. Overall still a good and worthwhile experience, but one that should have been much, much better.

PBSnipes

final fantasy 13, gta 4 and gow 3. my 3 favorite franchise and my 3 most disapointing games of this gen

Far Cry 2 - It started out fresh and exciting, the wildfires were so cool...then it became clear the game was nothing but MAJOR repetition and annoyances. :(

FUEL - Great concept on paper, but poorly executed. HORRIBLE soundtrack, and the map was actually TOO big. It could literally take an hour or so to drive from one end to the other, all while seeing lackluster graphics and hearing outdated sound effects. Very underwhelming. (And I know there was a "warp" feature, but when a game advertises itself as the biggest ever map created in a video game, then you should be able to enjoy driving around in it)

No More Heroes= Killer 7 is awesome. This game?A complete piece of crap Too Human= Eternal Darkness is awesome. This Game? A complete piece of crap something that disappointed me the most this year Splinter Cell Conviction= Not necessarily a bad game, but such a massive bastardization of the greatness that was once Splinter Cell. jg4xchamp

Tales of Symphonia 2. TOS was the best JRPG on the gamecube and I was very excited when they announced a sequel for the Wii. Well it didn't surpass the first one and it was a big let down for me. So far the Wii hasn't had really great JRPG's. Xenoblade is looking like it will be the best JRPG for the Wii. We still have to see how The Last Story will play, so im very excited to see both of these games at E3.

Farcry 2 - Bland gameplay and non-existant story made me very bored.

Final Fantasy XIII - Proof that padding out a game with boring filler won't make it any better than a excellent, short game.

Modern Warfare 2 - I don't know what Infinity Ward were smoking when they stripped down the PC port.

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"]No More Heroes= Killer 7 is awesome. This game?A complete piece of crap Too Human= Eternal Darkness is awesome. This Game? A complete piece of crap something that disappointed me the most this year Splinter Cell Conviction= Not necessarily a bad game, but such a massive bastardization of the greatness that was once Splinter Cell. charizard1605

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="jg4xchamp"]No More Heroes= Killer 7 is awesome. This game?A complete piece of crap Too Human= Eternal Darkness is awesome. This Game? A complete piece of crap something that disappointed me the most this year Splinter Cell Conviction= Not necessarily a bad game, but such a massive bastardization of the greatness that was once Splinter Cell. jg4xchamp

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"][QUOTE="charizard1605"] NOOOO! :evil: God damn it, No More Heroes is a GOOD GAME!charizard1605

Easily Gears 2, but after a year and a half they finally have the game playable.

Little Big Planet. I was so excited about it. I really wanted to make all sorts of neat and crazy stages, but it turned out that doing even the most simple task was a massive amount of work for a game that just didn't play all that well.

With all the doubt I gave you when I kept mentioning how much like GTA 4 it was you still in expecting something that wasn't Grand Theft Horse?jg4xchamp

Everyone said it was a fairly-significant-if-evolutionary-improvement over GTA4, and I liked the idea of a fairly-significant-if-evolutionary-improvement over GTA4 with horses. Whereas in reality RDR is actually worse than GTA4 in many important respects: the characters aren't as well developed and are largely totally forgotten as soon as you've finished their respective missions; the story has the same "why should I care about or invest in the protagonist?" issues, only worse; the main missions have even less variety; and the game is riddled with brain-dead design choices.

Sure RDR had its share of improvements (particularly how the more open setting and deadeye improve the gunplay), but I'd actually say GTA4 was the better game (with the caveat I haven't played it in forever).

But thanks for reminding me about Conviction, which now that I think of it is in fact my most disappointing game this gen. Sweet Jebus did it suck.

[QUOTE="jg4xchamp"] With all the doubt I gave you when I kept mentioning how much like GTA 4 it was you still in expecting something that wasn't Grand Theft Horse?PBSnipes

Everyone said it was a fairly-significant-if-evolutionary-improvement over GTA4, and I liked the idea of a fairly-significant-if-evolutionary-improvement over GTA4 with horses. Whereas in reality RDR is actually worse than GTA4 in many important respects: the characters aren't as well developed and are largely totally forgotten as soon as you've finished their respective missions; the story has the same "why should I care about or invest in the protagonist?" issues, only worse; the main missions have even less variety; and the game is riddled with brain-dead design choices.

Sure RDR had its share of improvements (particularly how the more open setting and deadeye improve the gunplay), but I'd actually say GTA4 was the better game (with the caveat I haven't played it in forever).

But thanks for reminding me about Conviction, which now that I think of it is in fact my most disappointing game this gen. Sweet Jebus did it suck.

Its a tie between Alone in the Dark and Farcry 2

God of War 3 sadly, I was one of the people who hoped this would score a ten, but when I played it, it just felt souless compared to the first two :(

I have a few

Tekken 6: Bad campaign and not such a good online and it took forever to load and was just dated to me.

Resident Evil 5: Thought it was gonna be a frontrunner and push on from number 4 but it was a massive letdown with a bad inventory system and lack of thrills. Didn't feel like RE.

Modnation Racers: I had high hopes for this but it lacked the brilliance of Little Big Planet and it just felt like a clone of Mario Kart Wii.

Bayonetta: The hype was quiet huge for this game but it felt like it was all mashing buttons and no puzzles. Doesn't rival GOW.

MGS:4 I guess I expected too much of this title. I was looking for this title will would be a great conclusion to the MGS saga or at least Solid Snakes story. I ended up experiencing a game with bad pacing. The story elements that were to tie everything up felt rushed, unnecessary at some points, characters weren't as interesting as past titles. It was like Kojima and Murata just said "F**K it we give up we made a mess with MGS2"jasonharris48

I disagree here. I think the premise of the MGS2 ending and the revelation of the Patriots had great potential. But Kojima went a bit manic with it in MGS4. In MGS3, I think it was a perfect prequel to give a bit of backstory to the pre-Patriot rule (The Philosophers) and to give us an idea of what the Patriots ideals were (even though we didn't know who, or what they were). And then Kojima went crazy in MGS4, and tried to be a tad overcomplicated.

Assassin's Creed 2, the new bells and whistles could only mask the same old repetative gameplay for so long. Poor stealth, convoluted story and I actually found the environments very samey after a while.