What game was ALMOST amazing to you but fell short?

So this is about games that are fantastic in some areas such as story, controls, gameplay, and etc but fail in other areas that you find important for that paticular kind of game. I will have to say Star Ocean The Last Hope fits this category perfectly. It has a really amazing combat system, a decent story, and some nice music but it could have been much better if the characters were more memorable. A few had really annoying voices that took time to get used to and others were just plain annoying. The story could have been better without such long cutsecenes that just seemed way too long and started to get dull. Not to mention it was a very slow starting story and it took all of the way until the middle of the second disc to get pretty interesting,

This isn't a thread about games that you hated or that failed just games that could have been a lot better with a few improvements.

Street Fighter IV. It was AMAZING when i first got it. it was absolutely beautiful, everything played well, everything was amazing. . . then i went online. that killed most of my experience, as i found many cheap tactics and clearly Cheap wins and newbies running the show while pros Cowered in their corner at how Broken Abel was and The Invasion of the Kens.

Turning Point. It had a great concept but it was poorly implemented.

Also DMC4. The graphics were nice and the gameplay was fun, but it got repetitive halfway through the game thanks to fighting the same bosses over and over again and the constant backtracking in empty hallways.

And Nero was annoying. Capcom, next time you make a DMC game, make sure the protagonist is Dante and Dante only.

Street Fighter IV. It was AMAZING when i first got it. it was absolutely beautiful, everything played well, everything was amazing. . . then i went online. that killed most of my experience, as i found many cheap tactics and clearly Cheap wins and newbies running the show while pros Cowered in their corner at how Broken Abel was and The Invasion of the Kens.

Aslyum_Beast

yes preach it i love sf but online has def ruined it for me because that is 99.9% of matches people picking ken or ryu and spaming cheap tactics to win and i beat them most of the time so whats the point of spaming the cheap tactic and its not even working?. Now what really disapoints me is that i never get to play against anybody else just ryu and ken. sometimes akuma sometimes sagat but it dosent matter who they pick because they all do the same exact thing.

FC2 had all the potential in the world. if it was more like Boiling Point and less like Assassin's Creed, it would've been GOTY material.

Lost Odyssey.

The presentation and everything was great, but the story is just too sappy. Every cutscene someone is crying. I mean, come on, this isn't a soap opera!

Even though fallout3 is one of my fav games it could be a lot bigger but throwing crappy dlc´s is the way to go i guess.

Even though fallout3 is one of my fav games it could be a lot bigger but throwing crappy dlc´s is the way to go i guess.

gow117

Even though fallout3 is one of my fav games it could be a lot bigger but throwing crappy dlc´s is the way to go i guess.

FC2 had all the potential in the world. if it was more like Boiling Point and less like Assassin's Creed, it would've been GOTY material.

LeGoofyGoober

chromehounds. i wanted this game so bad. then i played it and it was aweful.

[QUOTE="Aslyum_Beast"]

Street Fighter IV. It was AMAZING when i first got it. it was absolutely beautiful, everything played well, everything was amazing. . . then i went online. that killed most of my experience, as i found many cheap tactics and clearly Cheap wins and newbies running the show while pros Cowered in their corner at how Broken Abel was and The Invasion of the Kens.

Gen007

yes preach it i love sf but online has def ruined it for me because that is 99.9% of matches people picking ken or ryu and spaming cheap tactics to win and i beat them most of the time so whats the point of spaming the cheap tactic and its not even working?. Now what really disapoints me is that i never get to play against anybody else just ryu and ken. sometimes akuma sometimes sagat but it dosent matter who they pick because they all do the same exact thing.

spamming and cheap tactics ? there are easy ways to avoid these "tactics" and not everyone is ryu and ken, but i actually revel against ken and ryu players, as there by far the easiest to beat, learn how to block and counter, quite simple.

Transformers:The Game (Based on 1st movie, not the second one)

Easy, yet very frustraing to do most objective. They could have made weapons useful insted of making them "sheild raisers" and then you would have a robot "brawl" when its supposed to be a robot"firefight"

Assassin's Creed, Call of Juarez, and Lost Odyssey.

All good games that could have been soooo much better.

[QUOTE="Gen007"]

[QUOTE="Aslyum_Beast"]

Street Fighter IV. It was AMAZING when i first got it. it was absolutely beautiful, everything played well, everything was amazing. . . then i went online. that killed most of my experience, as i found many cheap tactics and clearly Cheap wins and newbies running the show while pros Cowered in their corner at how Broken Abel was and The Invasion of the Kens.

joesh89

yes preach it i love sf but online has def ruined it for me because that is 99.9% of matches people picking ken or ryu and spaming cheap tactics to win and i beat them most of the time so whats the point of spaming the cheap tactic and its not even working?. Now what really disapoints me is that i never get to play against anybody else just ryu and ken. sometimes akuma sometimes sagat but it dosent matter who they pick because they all do the same exact thing.

spamming and cheap tactics ? there are easy ways to avoid these "tactics" and not everyone is ryu and ken, but i actually revel against ken and ryu players, as there by far the easiest to beat, learn how to block and counter, quite simple.

Trust me i dont get beat by those people but it makes the game no fun and yeah i have played against other characters but most of the time its ryu and ken like i said before id say 90% of the people i face pick those 2 and im not hyping that number.

Probably Gears Of War 2 IMO - it just didn't live up to the hype and the multiplayer was no where near as fun as the first game despite improved game mechanincs!

Gears of War. It was a great, nay, excellent game, but it never amazed me. I was never blown away, or on the edge of my seat, or even caring a whole ton during the campaign. Gears of War 2 fixed that problem for me quite well.

Another is Street Fighter IV. Unlike Gears, this just flat out sucked. Capcom, I love you, but you won'd find me wasting my time and cash on this franchise ever again. Maybe, if I had played that game since the olden arcade days and spent thousands worth of quarters, if the controls weren't broken, and if the AI wasn't so cheap, it might have been a fun fighting game. But it was the least intuitive, least accessable, most frsutrating game I have ever had the misfortune to spend 55 dollars on. Thank God it was used, and I could take it back two days later after having no fun at all, and just breaking things worth more than that heap of crap. I'll take my SSB and Soul Calibur over this any day of the week.

Of course, the obvious one, Assassin's Creed. Such a brilliant concept, and I couldn't help but pity the great game struggling to come out, but burried beneath repetition.

vampire bloodlines and stalker clear sky

Assman's Creed Great graphics and controls but was way too repetitive and hardRobboElRobbo

Even though fallout3 is one of my fav games it could be a lot bigger but throwing crappy dlc´s is the way to go i guess.

gow117

Mass Effect and Assassins creed.

fable 2

Mass Effect and Assassins creed.

Star Wars The Force Unleashed. While it was fun the first 5 hours the last 2 afterwards was quite repetive, and ended up being a XXYY/XYY mashing fest. And after the 7-8 hours of gameplay, you don't feel extremely enthralled to return unless you are looking some useless lightsaber color crystal

Was Lost Odyddey really that good? Got to check that one out. I say Gears Of War 1 was way too short. I was wanting more after all that gritty action.

Eternal Sonata and Lost Odyssey for me. Both had a couple flaws that kept them from being awesome games. Both are great and I enjoyed them immensely, but a couple annoying factors prohibited them from being true favorites.

Fable 2.

The more I think about the game, the more I grow to hate it.

Street Fighter IV. It was AMAZING when i first got it. it was absolutely beautiful, everything played well, everything was amazing. . . then i went online. that killed most of my experience, as i found many cheap tactics and clearly Cheap wins and newbies running the show while pros Cowered in their corner at how Broken Abel was and The Invasion of the Kens.

Aslyum_Beast