Disappointments in Gaming
At the risk of creating a rant thread... What games have you purchased which you heard good things about but when you played the game it turns out to be a disappointment;
or else you bought one game instead of another, but when you played the one you picked you wished you had made the other choice?
And why?
or else you bought one game instead of another, but when you played the one you picked you wished you had made the other choice?
And why?
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Sonic. The. Hedgehog.
(Do I really need to specify that I mean the 2006 version? Or why?)
"Grim Fandango". Sorry.
/me goes into hiding
I gave my reasons in the rate the last game.... thread.
And as soon as I finish it "Quantum Conundrum" will have disappointed me too.
Oh and StarCraft 2.
Little Big Planet is on several "Top 10 PS3 games" lists... but it's really kinda boring. Dying has no real consequence, you have no power-ups to kill monsters with, there are very few monsters (as opposed to animated obstacles) to threaten you, and there is little to no story. Seriously--"defeat Bowser and save the princess" is more story than LBP has.
Maybe I need to play it in multiplayer to feel better about it.
I never even bought it. Just played the demo and I was disappointed. No synergy, no fiddling with your stats, no choosing skills... they took all the fun parts out and replaced them with more complicated ways of not making the equipment you'd like.
Yes. Most disappointing game this year BUT I knew that before I even bought it so it didn't hit me as hard as Portal 2 did.
For someone who likes western RPGs and space/science fiction stuff as well as enjoying playing other BioWare titles I just can't get into Mass Effect. I've tried many times, I play for a bit then I get bored and just stop until I try again a few months or a year later or so. Now I've pretty much given up on the idea of finishing it, yet I won't uninstall it just in case I want to try it again.
I got Super Mario Sunshine a while back, and was getting irritated that Mario didn't control at all like in Super Mario 64 so I returned it. But then I watched NintendoCapriSun's Let's play of Super Mario Sunshine and it really did seem like it could be fun, so I might consider getting it again.
Blatant lies. In most LBP levels, you have a maximum of four times dying (on some checkpoints eight) before reaching the next checkpoint, otherwise you would need to start over again.
For me, it was Conquest of the New World. Both when I bought it back during the CD-ROM days (which I bought because I thought the demo was quite cool), and when I bought it on GOG (after which I found out why I stopped playing the game). It really was boring, you technically could just play the demo of the game and you have seen mostly everything.
Borderlands, although it might help that I just can't stand FPS games or games in first person, due to the fact that I get disoriented fast.
Quote of the year.
I'm generally not a fan of let's plays as I prefer to play a game rather than just watch it, and I would probably get annoyed when watching someone playing in a way I wouldn't which, I guess, is more relevant with RPGs or just games with moral like choices (even if it's just the illusion of choice).
Borderlands is a game that really doesn't work as a single player game. I played it with some friends and it was fun to shoot their car until it exploded or find really creative ways of parking.
What I didn't like was the fact that every single mission was "Go here and kill this thing/five of this thing. Why? Because we told you to, that's why!". By the end of my second session playing, I no longer cared about anything that was going on and proceeded to make my own fun via aforementioned car stunts.
On the same sort of topic - I really regret paying £60 online for the Balls of Steel version of Duke Forever, when I saw the same thing a week later in an actual store for less than HALF that. GRR.
Might have to revisit it again, though. Maybe it holds up better a second playthrough.
Oh how active I was in the community. How much I anticipated this game. How long I stumbled through town getting this game on release day. And how bugged, shitty, completely naive and fucking racist it was.
That was eight years ago. I don't think any game can EVER be more of a disappointment. I know that there probably are worse games out there. But thanks to The Fall, I know how to avoid them.
I remember several "fans" of this game on this forum when it was released that wouldn't let any criticism against the game pass. Even though we all could see it's as crappy as the piece of shit you can fling at the start of the game.
Or more I played it, thought it was terrible, and now I don't stop hearing about how awesome it was. And even better than Sonic Adventure 1. Listen. I like most Sonic games, even the 3D recent "Crappy" ones. I like Sonic Labyrinth for gods sake because I actually know how to play it. Nothing is better than Sonic Adventure 1 in the 3d Sonics. In the main series of Sonic Game, Sonic Adventure 2 was a sing step above Sonic 06 for me. A Single Step.
I can't say Sonic and the Secret Rings disappointed me because I wasn't expecting anything there.
Also, Sly Cooper. I can't play Sly Cooper. I try to play it and I can't get anywhere. I don't not like games that require me to be stealthy, but Sly made it feel all wrong. I'm still hearing so much about people loving it, so I'm seeing about revisiting it to see if anything has changed.
Sonic Adventure 2 was better, but still flawed.
Sonic Heroes was a return to pure shit.
Shadow the Hedgehog continued the trend.
Sonic '06 was a step BACK from shit. How such a thing is possible, I don't know.
Sonic & the Secret Rings was... an experiment. That failed. HARD.
Sonic Unleashed was half decent. And half shit. Guess which bits were which.
Sonic Generations was mostly decent (and a little bit shit).
And next... I dunno. More mostly decent? Here's hoping.
I agree on Colors, but Secret Rings was terrible, absolutely terrible. Putting Sonic on a rail and NOT LETTING HIM TURN AT ALL was stupid. Oops, I missed something, guess I better back up, whoops, I hit something, there went my rings. Black Knight was hardly any better. The only things those games had going for them was that they were very damn pretty. Some of the prettiest visuals on the Wii.
Main reason it is popular is the chao garden :P I remember the gardens, stats of a chao, the races, the karate matches, etc... For the actual game... there was a scene were a car chases you...
That's what made it good, you were constantly moving forward!
To me, that's what made it bad.
EDIT: In fact, my test to see whether I'll like a Sonic game or not now is, as soon as the level starts, I drop the controller.
These are games I hate.
Games I don't hate, whose wasted potential weights heavily on my soul:
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...'s single-player campaign. Which is awful.
To be fair, you really gotta get through the first few hours of Mass Effect before it starts getting good (every time I replay it, I wish I could skip the whole Citadel sequence).
My biggest gaming disappointments have been nearly all James Bond games. I don't know why it's so hard for developers to make good James Bond games. It should be so easy, it's a franchise that seems tailor-made for good videogames.
BIG disappointment.
You have to hit the any key.
Weirdly that's probably the bit I like the most. The furthest I got was getting Liara, during my first play through on the 360. Never played that version again and eventually sold/traded it. Got it again on the PC during a Steam sale but I've yet to get that far again. I do all the start and Citadel bit then just stop after doing a couple of side missions. That may be part of the problem. I'm a completionist when it comes to side quests, I have to do all that I can and I usually try to do as many as I can before I get into a main questline.