Biggest Disappointment games of all time...

[purbeast0]

i just added those off the top of my head, i'm sure there are tons more.

 

[thespyder]

maybe you just need to open your eyes. there are TONS of AAA titles that aren't FPS that are on consoles. here are a few franchises that i can think off the top of my head.

Uncharted
God of War
Gears of War
Street Fighter IV
GTA
Crackdown
Ratchet and Clank
NBA 2K
Hot Shots Golf
Forza
Burnout
Mario
Zelda

While there are some non FPS games for Consoles, for each one of those listed, how many FPS games are there? And more on the way. It does appear to be the "Future" of console (and by extension PC) gaming.

 

[American Gunner]

While there are some non FPS games for Consoles, for each one of those listed, how many FPS games are there? And more on the way. It does appear to be the "Future" of console (and by extension PC) gaming.

But how many shooters fail to sell. Just because they make shooters, it doesn't mean that people will buy them. Some of the non-FPS are the best sold games this generation.

 

[purbeast0]

While there are some non FPS games for Consoles, for each one of those listed, how many FPS games are there? And more on the way. It does appear to be the "Future" of console (and by extension PC) gaming.

there are plenty of FPS that come out, but there are also plenty of other games in the genres i explained above that also come out.

the difference is a lot of those "other" games don't sell for shit and aren't AAA titles.

take the wii for example. when it first came out, there were TONS of shovelware party/waggle games coming out for years. but hardly any of them sold, which is why now you hardly see any of those titles out there other than the actual GOOD ones.

the same thing goes for FPS. you are starting to see a slowdown of those as well, other than the major players in the genre.

 

[exdeath]

Don't get me wrong, I'm playing Fallout 3 at the moment, on my 360 even.

I just preferred when consoles had their niche and everything wasn't cross platform ports of the same rehashes and DLCed to death fps battle field Sims.

The current Call of Duty/Medal of Honor/Gears of War/Halo/Battlefield war simulator thing just needs to stop for example. I got my fill when it really took off with Battlefield 2 on the PC... how many years ago? Stop driving it into the ground.

Besides, UT2004 Directors Cut perfected online team vs team vehicle play in... 2004.

Another thing that needs to stop is this lowest common denominator simultaneous cross platform development. Deadspace and Bioshock inventory management on the PC is exactly why it should NEVER be done. May be good for market share and quarterly statements, but its bad for games.

 

[purbeast0]

Don't get me wrong, I'm playing Fallout 3 at the moment, on my 360 even.

I just preferred when consoles had their niche and everything wasn't cross platform ports of the same rehashes and DLCed to death fps battle field Sims.

The current Call of Duty/Medal of Honor/Gears of War/Halo/Battlefield war simulator thing just needs to stop for example. I got my fill when it really took off with Battlefield 2 on the PC... how many years ago? Stop driving it into the ground.

Besides, UT2004 Directors Cut perfected online team vs team vehicle play in... 2004.

Another thing that needs to stop is this lowest common denominator simultaneous cross platform development. Deadspace and Bioshock inventory management on the PC is exactly why it should NEVER be done. May be good for market share and quarterly statements, but its bad for games.

it is only bad for PC gamers, not console gamers. considering your 2 examples are console games, i strongly doubt anybody who is a console gamer cares.

and your other point doesn't make too much sense. my list above, of non FPS games, has a bunch of console exclusive games in it.

it just sounds like you want more RPG though, which personally, i hate, so i can't really comment on that.

nd you are also again comparing pc gaming to console gaming. most console gamers who have just gotten into FPS games during the xbox live era didn't even play the UT game you are mentioning.

 

[Nemesis13]

HomeFRont-what a pos
FF13- One of the biggest epic fails in my gaming history.
RE5- I want my zombies back las plaugues can suck it.
Fallout 3- I really think im alone on this boat, but the damn game made me want to run into oncoming traffic it was so bad. the lack of a color pallet killed my eyes.

 

[oogabooga]

Personally, I was hoping more from borderlands, it was described as diablo 2 with guns. Instead it was.... just another shooter.

Far worse choices out there though, that's just the one that comes to mind recently for me.

 

[ShawnD1]

Personally, I was hoping more from borderlands, it was described as diablo 2 with guns. Instead it was.... just another shooter.

Far worse choices out there though, that's just the one that comes to mind recently for me.

I really liked borderlands. I don't read reviews or trailers or anything like that. Just someone said "hey check out this game"

 

[J-Money]

The best part of these threads is the people who post some of the most well-liked and popular games ever made just to stir shit up and try to be "different". It's just like music threads where everyone posts the most obscure random artist no one has ever heard of as their favorite to seem cool.

I do agree with previous posts of "Perfect Dark Zero". Perfect Dark on N64 was so epic me and my friends played for hours with all the awesome bots and slo-mo knives. Perfect Dark Zero was nothing like this :\

 

[Chops McGandhi]

The best part of these threads is the people who post some of the most well-liked and popular games ever made just to stir shit up and try to be "different". It's just like music threads where everyone posts the most obscure random artist no one has ever heard of as their favorite to seem cool.

I do agree with previous posts of "Perfect Dark Zero". Perfect Dark on N64 was so epic me and my friends played for hours with all the awesome bots and slo-mo knives. Perfect Dark Zero was nothing like this :\

I didn't just list Perfect Dark because it is well liked and I wanted to stir shit up! I genuinely was disappointed in Perfect Dark for the N64. I loved Goldeneye and Perfect Dark was supposed to be everything goldeneye was and more! But it wasn't and therefore it was a disappointment. The things that made goldeneye great for me was the little things, and Perfect Dark got rid of most of those little things. And I just did not have the motivation to play it over and over again the way that I did with goldeneye.

And with Half-Life 2, no body is saying that it is a bad game, (I don't think so anyway. It's been a while since I read the whole thread.) but the complaints people are talking about are dead on!

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I didn't just list Perfect Dark because it is well liked and I wanted to stir shit up! I genuinely was disappointed in Perfect Dark for the N64. I loved Goldeneye and Perfect Dark was supposed to be everything goldeneye was and more! But it wasn't and therefore it was a disappointment. The things that made goldeneye great for me was the little things, and Perfect Dark got rid of most of those little things. And I just did not have the motivation to play it over and over again the way that I did with goldeneye.

And with Half-Life 2, no body is saying that it is a bad game, (I don't think so anyway. It's been a while since I read the whole thread.) but the complaints people are talking about are dead on!

Perfect Dark was definitely disappointing, but that's mainly because it was trying to follow the single best FPS of that generation (and one of the best FPS games of all time) in GoldenEye. GoldenEye was slightly more realistic with a better story (which was pretty much a given, since it was just a Bond movie) whereas PD went to the whole aliens angle and strange (albeit innovative) weapons. Had GoldenEye never existed, Perfect Dark would be AMAZING... but it couldn't quite fill those expectations. That's why it's a disappointment.

I'd say one of my biggest disappointment games was GTA: Vice City. I know I'll catch shit for this one, so let me explain. GTA 3 was a revelation; it was like someone had taken the Driver games (1 and 2, which I enjoyed immensely) and fleshed out the world around them, giving a grittier, more awesome story, and a feeling of immersion in the world around you that was utterly astounding. I'd never felt so compelled to see EVERYHING a game had to offer before. I played the shit out of that game, and I loved every minute of it.

When Vice City came out, it was a distinctly different feel, and it was entirely because of the setting; early 1980s Miami. The clothes, the cars, the music, it was all straight out of the 1980s. The problem is, I was born in 1983. I don't have nostalgic feelings about 80s culture; I was 6 when the decade ended. When I played Vice City, I really couldn't appreciate 80s culture at all; it all felt foreign, tacky and gay. This was supposed to be a game about crime and I'm playing as a guy who dresses like the guy from Miami Vice? What's cool about that?

Since I first played the game, my tastes have expanded, I'm a bigger fan of 1980s music, and I get the appeal of 1980s Miami as a scene for a crime-based storyline (the drugs, the gangs, it makes sense). But I didn't appreciate all that when the game was first released, and so I was inevitably disappointed by it. Which is not to say I didn't play the shit out of it the same way I had with GTA 3, only that it didn't captivate me in anywhere near the same way. It remains my least favorite of the GTA games since GTA 3 took the series 3D.

 

[Sonikku]

I think the first time I tried out the Farsight gun in Perfect Dark I knew it was not just another goldeneye. I never found that game disappointing.

Frame rate could have been better.

 

[Chops McGandhi]

Perfect Dark was definitely disappointing, but that's mainly because it was trying to follow the single best FPS of that generation (and one of the best FPS games of all time) in GoldenEye. GoldenEye was slightly more realistic with a better story (which was pretty much a given, since it was just a Bond movie) whereas PD went to the whole aliens angle and strange (albeit innovative) weapons. Had GoldenEye never existed, Perfect Dark would be AMAZING... but it couldn't quite fill those expectations. That's why it's a disappointment.

I would agree. I think that is a huge part of it. If there was no GoldenEye, Perfect Dark probably would not have been a disappointment to me because when I say that Perfect Dark was a disappointment, I say it is one compared to GoldenEye. Nevertheless, I consider Goldeneye a classic, and Perfect Dark was never a classic to me the same way that Goldeneye was.

I think the first time I tried out the Farsight gun in Perfect Dark I knew it was not just another goldeneye. I never found that game disappointing.

Frame rate could have been better.

Not gonna lie, the farsight was a really cool weapon. Although I did not mention it earlier, the frame rate was one of my issues.

 

[Kabob]

I definitely don't agree with #1. MK64 was awesome.

My biggest disappointment is probably the first Force Unleashed. I really had high hopes for that game.

Edit: I also returned my new, yet opened copy of CoD BO for full value after hating it, too.

+1, I also loved MK64. Best of the series IMHO.

I'll agree with the OP about Gears 2 though. My expectations were sky high and I absolutely hated the game.

Black Ops wasn't really a disappointment for me as my expectations weren't terribly high, it was fun enough but I greatly prefer MW1/MW2.

 

[Bonesdad]

Doom 3 - difficult to see, even in dark room...standard corridor shooter with no scares and boring plot

 

[rayfieldclement]

I play mostly shooters, so I'll just chime in with the obligatory DNF. Playing it now. Just slogging through it. It's serviceable at best. 6 or 7 out of 10. I'll also agree to Homefront to an extent. But I also think you guys have short memories.

Can I get a little Far Cry 2? Up until a few yrs ago, the original Far Cry was was one of the better shooters ever created. When we were promised a desert environment as expansive as the jungle, that allowed even more free roaming, yet still kept an engrossing, coherent story. Um yeah.....that never happened. I think I literally played 2 hrs (like 4%) and then dumped it.

OXM magazine (Official Xbox Magazine)says Far Cry 3 will be coming out!

 

[mirandu04]

Doom 3 - difficult to see, even in dark room...standard corridor shooter with no scares and boring plot

and try to play it on an old CRT monitor and you will see how mch iof a nightmare the darkness really is

 

[rayfieldclement]

Yep. Devs haven't yet figured out that real life looks very bland and boring. Have you seen what Iraq looks like? It's boring. Games look a lot better when they are as colorful as a gay man's living room. I thought GTA Vice City looked really damn nice. Then GTA 4 comes out and it looks like crap.

The most frustrating thing about the MGS story is that it has an enormous plot hole at the end. You need to walk through a hallway of microwaves and you're not allowed to use your metal barrel to shield you. wtf? He would have got through the entire hall with only minor damage to his feet.
You can try this at home. Find a metal cup and fill it with water. Now microwave it for 30 seconds. I've done this before. The water will still be ice cold; the metal shields the water so it doesn't get hit by microwaves.

I WOULD NOT put metal in a microwave oven. The oven might burn out!

 

[evident]

nobody said unreal tournament 3?

 

[zebrax2]

Disciples III - i have not really played it yet but according to the reviews as well as comments from customers on their forums not only is the game filled with bugs the gameplay is also inferior to Disciples II.

 

[Zorander]

There is a number of games named and shamed in this thread that I actually enjoyed and consider very good (MK64 & SoaSE notably).

Anyway, this is what I have:
1) Dragon Age 2
My heart sank as soon as my character started jumping and slashing (and dancing) at the enemy with the skills of an accomplished acrobat. I knew right away the game focus has shifted considerably towards 'graphics' than the story-telling that made DA:O great and I was right. The limited racial choices, city to travel in and dungeon design (singular) are salt in the wound.

2) Master of Orion 3
I had great expectations for this game after the classic MoO2 but this game was frustratingly over-complex, did not look great graphically even compared to its predecessor, and just too different. Most importantly, it failed to draw me in at all even after a few hours of (patient) play.

 

[Pia]

2) Master of Orion 3
I had great expectations for this game after the classic MoO2 but this game was frustratingly over-complex, did not look great graphically even compared to its predecessor, and just too different. Most importantly, it failed to draw me in at all even after a few hours of (patient) play.

To this day I remember that the reviewer of my local gaming magazine described MOO3's UI as a "ball of LSD yarn".

 

[Selenium_Glow]

nobody said unreal tournament 3?

Unreal Tournament 3 (like Quake 3) was specifically made for multi-player. And when I played this game, there were at least another 4 people playing with me... and it was fast and fun. But yes, the campaign mode in that game was a total joke.

 

[thespyder]

Has anyone listed Elemental: War of Magic?

Coming as it did from Stardock, and with GalCiv series and Sins behind it, I thought for sure it would be epic. What came out at launch was pre-Alpha crap. Even with a bunch of patches, enough to bring the game up to playability standards, it is a disappointment.

Um, sorry. PC game. But still highly disappointing...