What was your single biggest gaming disappointment this generation? *56k*

I've had a lot of disppointments this generation, but nothing comes close to Sonic The Hedgehog. Sonic was nearing his 15th birthday. SEGA said that the next Sonic game would take Sonic back to his roots. Heck, they even named it Sonic The Hedgehog, then they slapped a picture on the front of the box that would make you believe the little blue blur is finally back.

I had so much hope. I thought SEGA had learned their lesson.

Then we find out the worst. Tails and Knuckles would be fine, but we don't just get them as playable characters, we also get Shadow, Silver, Rogue, Omega, Amy, and Blaze. :| Like seriously, wtf, SEGA?

Then I said, oh well, maybe SEGA will finally make these characters worthwhile to play as. I mean, SEGA has promised something special this time, so it's gotta be true.

Well, the release rolls around, and I'm treated to one of the most craptastic games I've ever played. From awkward controls, wonky physics, absolutely atrocious level design, and everything else... Sonic The Hedgehog turned into one of the biggest jokes ever. Thanks for nothing, SEGA.

Playstation 3, in total i only own 6 games :| Folklore Resistance 2 Metal Gear Solid 4 Virtua Fighter 5 Call of Duty 4 Valkyrie Chronicles. Believe me i was bored after beating Folklore and having to wait till VF5 to have another great game to own. Everything else mostly rentals.Adrian_Cloud

I thought you really liked PS3? Why the change of heart? You should check out Siren if you like survival horror. A really underappreciated game. Get LittleBIGPlanet, too. Did you play Resistance: FoM?

Sonic is never going to be good again...Jack-o-Thompson

I enjoyed Unleashed, Rush, and Secret Rings - and I'm one of the toughest SEGA critics.

[QUOTE="Adrian_Cloud"]Playstation 3, in total i only own 6 games :| Folklore Resistance 2 Metal Gear Solid 4 Virtua Fighter 5 Call of Duty 4 Valkyrie Chronicles. Believe me i was bored after beating Folklore and having to wait till VF5 to have another great game to own. Everything else mostly rentals.BioShockOwnz

I thought you really liked PS3? Why the change of heart? You should check out Siren if you like survival horror. A really underappreciated game. Get LittleBIGPlanet, too. Did you play Resistance: FoM?

[QUOTE="Jack-o-Thompson"]Sonic is never going to be good again...BioShockOwnz

I enjoyed Unleashed, Rush, and Secret Rings - and I'm one of the toughest SEGA critics.

Resistance 2 disappointed me in the single player it was more like CoD4 meets Halo 3 than a R:FoM game.

Sonic the Hedgehog disappointed me in general, it's a shame they gave it the name of the original but better that than destroying the Sonic Adventure name I suppose.

[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]

[QUOTE="Jack-o-Thompson"]Sonic is never going to be good again...Jack-o-Thompson

I enjoyed Unleashed, Rush, and Secret Rings - and I'm one of the toughest SEGA critics.

Can't deny that. Rush is the closest thing to the Genesis games, but still can't touch 'em.

Hands down..

hopesfall2own

For now? Fallout 3. In a few months time? Deus Ex 3. Deus Ex 3 will be an even larger failure of a game than Invisible War.Vandalvideo

I'm thinking the same thing. I have very little hope in Deus Ex 3, and it's not because I'm a Deus Ex elitist (even though it's my favorite game of all-time), but because I don't think it'll be very good. Even though Invisible War was a gigantic disappointment, I still found it to be a good game in its own right..

This POS.

"buh buh spore is gonna revolutioneyes gaming!!11!11 :cry:"

It sucked, bad.

Sonic is never going to be good again...Jack-o-Thompson

Metal Gear Solid 4, the visuals in the small levels look mediocre, and everything looks empty

Plus the gameplay is very limited and repeatetive, i could not believe how boring it was and how many installs and loadings i had to go through to play asuch tiny linear levels

The worst and most last gen experience i had from a game i bought

Metal Gear Solid 4, the visuals in the small levels look mediocre, and everything looks empty

Plus the gameplay is very limited and repeatetive, i could not believe how boring it was and how many installs and loadings i had to go through to play asuch tiny linear levels

The worst and most last gen experience i had from a game i bought

obamanian

Metal Gear Solid 4, the visuals in the small levels look mediocre, and everything looks empty

Plus the gameplay is very limited and repeatetive, i could not believe how boring it was and how many installs and loadings i had to go through to play asuch tiny linear levels

The worst and most last gen experience i had from a game i bought

obamanian

[QUOTE="obamanian"]

Metal Gear Solid 4, the visuals in the small levels look mediocre, and everything looks empty

Plus the gameplay is very limited and repeatetive, i could not believe how boring it was and how many installs and loadings i had to go through to play asuch tiny linear levels

The worst and most last gen experience i had from a game i bought

Vandalvideo

to be a fanboy but i have to say the wii. Seriously. But i was expecting the wii's strong sales to result in real investment in the console from third parties. That has not happened, although I'm still looking to some future releases like madworld and conduit. I'm not holding my breath though, and I'm not really truly hyped for anything on the wii unless it's being made by nintendo. I'm holding hope though, and I'm not selling mine. Right now, Sega's strategy seems to be the norm. Make your money on the wii, and then invest it into the other consoles. I thought that might happen in the short term but never for this long and it's looking like it will be true until the end of the wii.

very few devs are interested in anything other than making money on the wii. Devs are investing their pride into the other consoles

Far Cry 2 is the most epically pathetic failure of a game I have ever encountered, simply because of the ratio of what I expected versus what I got. Maybe I only think that because I forced myself to finish it, ironically thinking that the ending would somehow vindicate the rest of that repetitive, unfun crap.

DLC I freaking hate it and all this Half-Life episodic content trash you people love so much. Make a full freaking game you lazy *****! If we are talking about games only, then this gets my vote:

What a PoS game. I bet you the original members of BlackIsle shed a tear of despair when they saw how their beloved franchise was raped and bastardized by Bethesda. Fallout fans have more patience than casuals Bethesda. We wanted Fallout 3, not an Oblivion mod made to cater to casuals :|

Mirror's Edge went the extra mile in terms of being dissapointing. The game is relentless in stomping on all of its potential with golf cleats until it gets to the point where it shares no resemblance to its former self. Look no further if you want to see how an excellent concept can be destroyed entirely.

Big fan of the first one. Part 2...not so much.

DMC4. Capcom initially promised that there would be more weapons than dmc, dmc2, dmc3 combined. BS. Dante felt like he was slapped on just for the sake of it. Wasnt even as fun to use as he was in dmc3, even with on-the-fly style change. Besides that, the whole game just reeked of laziness. Backtracking through the whole game is bs. And the dice stages too. And fighting the same bosses 3 times?? Come on Capcom.

Overall, very disappointing.

NG2 was pretty disappointing as well, but not as disappointing as dmc4.

This was suppose to be the RPGs to end all RPGs with a great story, huge exploration, stragetic combat, and awesome freedom of choice. What did we get? A derived, unoriginal story, one big city and a whole lot of unimportant landscapes, combat that didn't know if it was RPG or shooter, and lame moral choices, with a dialog tree that was, at times, literally an illusion.

quake 4/unreal tournament 3/crysis.

all could of been alot better

Likely for me the PS3, I had a PS2 and a Gamecube, never owned an xbox personally, and then the console was released, i hated the 360 and laughed at it's poor hardware failures and what not, and then GRAW was coming out and so was oblivion, i hated updating my computer and i thought i should get a next gen console, i looked at the Wii and i felt it was too far off to wait for. I looked at the PS3, and i was set on it ,and then all these poor reviews and what not came out for the launch games, i had no HDTV at the time, so blu-ray was useless, and i looked back at the Xbox, and i really liked GRAW and oblivion.

So despite the fee for xbox life and the chance of your xbox breaking down (mine doing so twice) I think today I made a good choice because the console i chose was relevant to my interests in features and in video games.

GTAIV and Halo 3's story.

Halo 3's MP

Wii (Not a game but one big disappointment)

This was suppose to be the RPGs to end all RPGs with a great story, huge exploration, stragetic combat, and awesome freedom of choice. What did we get? A derived, unoriginal story, one big city and a whole lot of unimportant landscapes, combat that didn't know if it was RPG or shooter, and lame moral choices, with a dialog tree that was, at times, literally an illusion.

FrozenLiquid

Cosign except that I did like the story a lot.