Supreme Commander and Quake Wars were my biggest letdowns. I had such high hopes for QW, but alas, it went from bad in the beta to worse opon release.
Unreal (the 1st one) - Graphics were good for its time, and AI was halfway decent; but couldn't get into it for some reason, outside of a few scripted events, it just wasn't interesting enough for me.
WoW - It's a well designed game, they did an excellent job filling the world with contents, and I really like the highly-customizable UI; but I felt characters level way too fast that I didn't get the chance to explore and experience alot of things, I quit 2-3 months after release because all my guild wanted to do was raid Molten Core/Onyxia over and over...boooring! PvP didn't grab my attention either, too many damn cowards that would never engage unless they have absolute advantage.
Bioshock - I loved the demo especially the opening sequence, but after the first two levels it's just mind numbingly boring, it took me nearly 4 months to muster up the patience to finish the game. The game had its great moments like System Shock 2, but between those moments you end up fighting the same enemies in the same tiled corridor for hours...not my idea of fun.
WoW - It's a well designed game, they did an excellent job filling the world with contents, and I really like the highly-customizable UI; but I felt characters level way too fast that I didn't get the chance to explore and experience alot of things, I quit 2-3 months after release because all my guild wanted to do was raid Molten Core/Onyxia over and over...boooring! PvP didn't grab my attention either, too many damn cowards that would never engage unless they have absolute advantage.
Bioshock - I loved the demo especially the opening sequence, but after the first two levels it's just mind numbingly boring, it took me nearly 4 months to muster up the patience to finish the game. The game had its great moments like System Shock 2, but between those moments you end up fighting the same enemies in the same tiled corridor for hours...not my idea of fun.
Oh yeah, I didn't like Supreme Commander either, my clan played the hell out of Total Annihilation but certainly not SupCom, it had too many gimmickry junk attached, it was just all style but no substance.
LoL Diablo 1/2 are awesome. They're mindless fun, and people are complaining because they're mindless.
Ummm... Games I bought and didn't like.
COD2
Earth 2150
Doom 3
edit: Oh and just about every console game I've played since SNES, excluding Soul Caliber.
I'm sure a number more. But Im usually fairly good about checking a game out before I drop the cash.
Ummm... Games I bought and didn't like.
COD2
Earth 2150
Doom 3
edit: Oh and just about every console game I've played since SNES, excluding Soul Caliber.
I'm sure a number more. But Im usually fairly good about checking a game out before I drop the cash.
Bioshock for me... I liked the graphics and story line, just hated the physics and game play...
Crysis was disappointing, I didn't like how short the out door human against human part of the game was...
Crysis was disappointing, I didn't like how short the out door human against human part of the game was...
Probably the biggest name game that I didn't enjoy was FEAR. That game got lots of hype but I found it so boring I never played more than a couple of hours of it.
shortylickens
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Doom 3. Most overhyped game ever actually released.
What made it even worse was a lot of people did like it.
I wont go into my rant here, (I've posted it several times on the forums and it makes me madder each time I do) but the story, gameplay and shooting action were SERIOUSLY disappointing, and the graphics were nice but not good enough to hold up a crummy game and too taxing on the computer besides.
FEAR was its superior in every way except hype.
I dont know why people keep complaining that FEAR was overhyped when it got very little advertising and accolades especially compared to most other games of its generation.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I did finish Doom 3. I just typed in the cheat codes and raced to the end of the game.
The last level (where you're actually in Hell) was pretty cool.
As for console: Most of them. The number one would have to be God of War (or was it GOW2? I cant remember.) and HALO was a close 2nd place.
They both had totally uninspired stories and gameplay. I cant figure out why people thought they were so cool. Unless you never played a computer game or most console games before them.
What made it even worse was a lot of people did like it.
I wont go into my rant here, (I've posted it several times on the forums and it makes me madder each time I do) but the story, gameplay and shooting action were SERIOUSLY disappointing, and the graphics were nice but not good enough to hold up a crummy game and too taxing on the computer besides.
FEAR was its superior in every way except hype.
I dont know why people keep complaining that FEAR was overhyped when it got very little advertising and accolades especially compared to most other games of its generation.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I did finish Doom 3. I just typed in the cheat codes and raced to the end of the game.
The last level (where you're actually in Hell) was pretty cool.
As for console: Most of them. The number one would have to be God of War (or was it GOW2? I cant remember.) and HALO was a close 2nd place.
They both had totally uninspired stories and gameplay. I cant figure out why people thought they were so cool. Unless you never played a computer game or most console games before them.
Baked
Lifer
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Any FPS, I can't stand the motion sickness. I don't know why I bought Metroid Prime 3... I didn't like Oblivion either. I enjoyed WoW a lot, but it was taking up too much of my RL time so I quit it. I'm just playing games on console that I can pickup and put down in 30 min a day.
Pretty much any MMO for me now. I got hooked on MUDs for a while in the early '90s, moved to UO, then to EQ, then to DAoC. I love the idea behind them. But the grindy aspects and the other people playing end up ruining the experience. I haven't tried WOW, but from what I've read, all the same old problems are there. The more MMOs have become mainstream, the worse they've become. Like so much on the internet, I often kinda wish we could go back to the early '90s.
I stick to single-player RPGs now, although multiplayer NWN worked pretty well for me back in the day if you could find a good group and a good DM.
I got Bioshock several months ago and tried hard to get into it. I loved the art deco style and architecture in the game. I just can't get into the gameplay. I thought it was just me because I've never gotten into FPS that much (other than the original Doom). I'm kinda relieved to see others had the same experience.
I stick to single-player RPGs now, although multiplayer NWN worked pretty well for me back in the day if you could find a good group and a good DM.
I got Bioshock several months ago and tried hard to get into it. I loved the art deco style and architecture in the game. I just can't get into the gameplay. I thought it was just me because I've never gotten into FPS that much (other than the original Doom). I'm kinda relieved to see others had the same experience.
HamburgerBoy
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Every iD-developed game aside from Doom, every Blizzard game after Starcraft, Half-Life 2, Halo, FEAR, and the Civilization series.
EDIT: I fail at reading titles. Halo if I must choose one.
EDIT: I fail at reading titles. Halo if I must choose one.
Schadenfroh
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mooncancook
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Unreal Tournament. I played it after quake3 ( I don't know which came out first) and it just seemed like more of the same, minus the awesome rocket launcher sounds and worse graphics.
Halo 1, 2, and 3 - All huge disappointments to me. They just weren't fun... Yeah, the coop single player is a great feature that I think all FPS should have (come on, even DOOM had it, why isn't this a common feature?)
Oblivion - An awesome game, but a little disappointing because the main storyline was so short. Also, a lot of the content was just fluff. The QUESTS weren't fluff, those were great! The random dungeons, caves, ruins, etc. in the countryside were 95% fluff. Some people like finding random dungeons in the wilderness and walking around inside of them without any reason. I don't. I want purpose behind me adventuring, not just killing monsters and finding loot. I hope Fallout 3 doesn't suffer this fate...
Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines. It's buggy as hell and crashes constantly on both of my computers (one is a A64 3200+ x800XL, the other is A64 X2 6400+ 8800GTS). I got through the entire first area (Santa Monica) before giving up with the bugs and uninstalling. NOTE: I had all of the official patches and tried both of the main unofficial patches just last week. Any game that I can't play on a fairly standard system is not a game. From what I've read, those people who do have it running smoothly still have to put up with tons of bugs that aren't completely fixed yet even after years of community development, and that's bullshit. It could have been a great game, but I'm not going to support a product that was ultimately unfinished - doing so tells game producers that it's an acceptable practice.
Black and White (and Black and White 2) - I just couldn't get into it. The game mechanics were frustrating at best (figuring out exactly the right way to throw things was a huge pain in the ass).
Call of Duty (all of the games in the entire series, the only one I didn't try was COD3, and by 'try' I mean 'borrow the disc from a friend') - I just couldn't get into them.
World of Warcraft - The end-game is bullshit. I started playing immediately after Burning Crusade was released. The first 10 levels went by in a flash. Levels 10-20 were awesome! I was having a great time. Levels 20-30 slowed down a little, but still very very cool! Levels 30-39... can't wait to get that mount, by now a lot of your quests have you going all over the world, so the slow foot speed (I played a few different classes with skills or abilities that helped this, such as the Druid travel form) is a huge detriment until 40. Levels 40-50... okay, now that I have a mount, my traveling is a lot faster and the game is more fun again! Levels 50-60... WTF are all of these factions? Why do I need to kill 1000 fubolgs just to reach Winterspring? It's so excessive! By this point in the game, you see that a lot of the end of game content was designed to waste your time. A lot of the factions would require tens of thousands of "reputation points" and most kills would only give you 1-2 reputation... with maybe 50-100 points here and there for certain quests or collected items.
Levels 58-70 in Outland were exciting, all of the content there is pretty cool until you hit 70. At that point, your life is probably being spent grinding gold, PvPing or raiding. There's no longer anything to do except try to get the best loot. Some of the raid content is pretty cool, but a lot of it is unnecessary and kind of frustrating. I think 5-man instances and 10-man raids are the perfect numbers. I could see 15 being pretty fun. 25 is excessive, and the whole thing just gets to be frustrating. Unfortunately, all MMORPG developers have a fetish for frustrating their high-level player base. Also, class balance is pretty broken in raids. It's impossible to beat a good warlock in DPS (basically mages are useless), and for awhile paladins were hands down the best healers of any class (until the illumination nerf, at which point we were still uber it was just less obvious). I quit right before the Zul'Aman patch and might return for Wrath of the Lich King, but will create a character from scratch.
I don't understand how anyone could be disappointed with Bioshock... it's a rehash of System Shock 2! You've got a fantastic storyline in an incredible environment (it was good graphically even if it didn't blow your mind). You get lots of cool weapons AND psychic powers. What's not to love about that? The hacking was bland, but it's optional and with enough research you don't have to play that hacking game anymore anyway
Oblivion - An awesome game, but a little disappointing because the main storyline was so short. Also, a lot of the content was just fluff. The QUESTS weren't fluff, those were great! The random dungeons, caves, ruins, etc. in the countryside were 95% fluff. Some people like finding random dungeons in the wilderness and walking around inside of them without any reason. I don't. I want purpose behind me adventuring, not just killing monsters and finding loot. I hope Fallout 3 doesn't suffer this fate...
Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines. It's buggy as hell and crashes constantly on both of my computers (one is a A64 3200+ x800XL, the other is A64 X2 6400+ 8800GTS). I got through the entire first area (Santa Monica) before giving up with the bugs and uninstalling. NOTE: I had all of the official patches and tried both of the main unofficial patches just last week. Any game that I can't play on a fairly standard system is not a game. From what I've read, those people who do have it running smoothly still have to put up with tons of bugs that aren't completely fixed yet even after years of community development, and that's bullshit. It could have been a great game, but I'm not going to support a product that was ultimately unfinished - doing so tells game producers that it's an acceptable practice.
Black and White (and Black and White 2) - I just couldn't get into it. The game mechanics were frustrating at best (figuring out exactly the right way to throw things was a huge pain in the ass).
Call of Duty (all of the games in the entire series, the only one I didn't try was COD3, and by 'try' I mean 'borrow the disc from a friend') - I just couldn't get into them.
World of Warcraft - The end-game is bullshit. I started playing immediately after Burning Crusade was released. The first 10 levels went by in a flash. Levels 10-20 were awesome! I was having a great time. Levels 20-30 slowed down a little, but still very very cool! Levels 30-39... can't wait to get that mount, by now a lot of your quests have you going all over the world, so the slow foot speed (I played a few different classes with skills or abilities that helped this, such as the Druid travel form) is a huge detriment until 40. Levels 40-50... okay, now that I have a mount, my traveling is a lot faster and the game is more fun again! Levels 50-60... WTF are all of these factions? Why do I need to kill 1000 fubolgs just to reach Winterspring? It's so excessive! By this point in the game, you see that a lot of the end of game content was designed to waste your time. A lot of the factions would require tens of thousands of "reputation points" and most kills would only give you 1-2 reputation... with maybe 50-100 points here and there for certain quests or collected items.
Levels 58-70 in Outland were exciting, all of the content there is pretty cool until you hit 70. At that point, your life is probably being spent grinding gold, PvPing or raiding. There's no longer anything to do except try to get the best loot. Some of the raid content is pretty cool, but a lot of it is unnecessary and kind of frustrating. I think 5-man instances and 10-man raids are the perfect numbers. I could see 15 being pretty fun. 25 is excessive, and the whole thing just gets to be frustrating. Unfortunately, all MMORPG developers have a fetish for frustrating their high-level player base. Also, class balance is pretty broken in raids. It's impossible to beat a good warlock in DPS (basically mages are useless), and for awhile paladins were hands down the best healers of any class (until the illumination nerf, at which point we were still uber it was just less obvious). I quit right before the Zul'Aman patch and might return for Wrath of the Lich King, but will create a character from scratch.
I don't understand how anyone could be disappointed with Bioshock... it's a rehash of System Shock 2! You've got a fantastic storyline in an incredible environment (it was good graphically even if it didn't blow your mind). You get lots of cool weapons AND psychic powers. What's not to love about that? The hacking was bland, but it's optional and with enough research you don't have to play that hacking game anymore anyway
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