When someone says "For our super-macho action game we got a professional hollywood/novel/comic writer" and you expect anything other than a hollywood/novel/comic-class super-macho action movie plot there is something wrong with you.
Just because someone is a professional writer doesn't mean that they're not going to write cheesy b-movie style dialogue.
The writers that write cheesy b-movie style dialogue are also professional writers.
What I said about it being an emotional rollercoaster that will leave gamers in tears was said by one of the writers in an interview.
I was happy with the end result because I wasn't expecting much, myself. But they really did try to hype it up. And they did with the first game too. The Gears games are consistently less deep and meaningful than they seem to think they are. I'm not surprised people are disappointed.
I have a feeling whenever any marketing department talks about "Gamers", they're not talking about us.
The Gears games satisfy me in a way that Arnold Schwarzenegger movies do.
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I haven't really been disappointed with any of my purchases for quite a while. But...then again, the last games I bought were LittleBigPlanet, Yakuza 2 and Shadow of the Colossus. So, yeah.
LittleBigPlanet annoys me with the last few levels where -everything- is electrified, but it's more of a "OH GOD THIS MAKES ME WANT TO KARATE CHOP MY CONTROLLER IN HALF" type of 'in the moment' thing rather than a blanket judgement about the game as a whole. Because, otherwise, I love it like a mother loves a baby. Y'know, if she doesn't have post-partum.
I wasn't disappointed with The Force Unleashed, really. Except when I realized that all the extra characters were, uh....you. In a different skin. Which is partly why the character pack can burn in hell, unless there's different controls for the characters. And the start of the last level was a GIGANTIC pain in the ass.
When someone says "For our super-macho action game we got a professional hollywood/novel/comic writer" and you expect anything other than a hollywood/novel/comic-class super-macho action movie plot there is something wrong with you.
Just because someone is a professional writer doesn't mean that they're not going to write cheesy b-movie style dialogue.
The writers that write cheesy b-movie style dialogue are also professional writers.
What I said about it being an emotional rollercoaster that will leave gamers in tears was said by one of the writers in an interview.
I was happy with the end result because I wasn't expecting much, myself. But they really did try to hype it up. And they did with the first game too. The Gears games are consistently less deep and meaningful than they seem to think they are. I'm not surprised people are disappointed.
I have a feeling whenever any marketing department talks about "Gamers", they're not talking about us.
Maybe I'm just not enough of a real gamer or whatever, but I mean, I have yet to purchase a game only to go "THIS IS A COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENT AND NOT WHAT I WANTED AT ALL"
Maybe I'm just not enough of a real gamer or whatever, but I mean, I have yet to purchase a game only to go "THIS IS A COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENT AND NOT WHAT I WANTED AT ALL"
Clearly you never bought Master of Orion 3.
I think I win.
Master of Orion 3 and Warlords 4 on the same day. Checkmate.
Age Of Conan- I was expecting more for some reason than a prettier and reskinned WOW clone.I guess I have myself to blame for this though.
Warhammer Online- Did I just buy exactly the same MMO again for the ..oh god... 5th time? Really? Click on cartoony looking evil thing and wait for it to die? uhg!! Is this as much creativity as the developers can bring to the table?
Gears2 - I actually had a really good time with this; thought the action was really fun and it never got stale while I was playing it. It probably won't be a gem I go back to time and time again, but dissapointed? no.
My all time biggest dissapointment:
Sins Of a Solar Empire - At first I loved the game but as soon as combat started everything felt wrong. My ships got so close to the enemy before firing they could have punched each other. Also everything seemed like the most generic paper-rock-scissors kinda thing I ever saw. I would design my ships much differently given the chance. Probably the worst thing about it though was that I just didn't find it fun. I'm sure other people do though.
Maybe I'm just not enough of a real gamer or whatever, but I mean, I have yet to purchase a game only to go "THIS IS A COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENT AND NOT WHAT I WANTED AT ALL"
Clearly you never bought Master of Orion 3.
I think I win.
Master of Orion 3 and Warlords 4 on the same day. Checkmate.
Maybe I'm just not enough of a real gamer or whatever, but I mean, I have yet to purchase a game only to go "THIS IS A COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENT AND NOT WHAT I WANTED AT ALL"
my son received hi-ho cherry-o for his birthday. that was kind of a let down. The entire back story was just blah. typical picking cherries off a tree and putting them in your basket.
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There's only one game that really seriously disappointed me, and that was Halo 2. I pre-ordered it, set up a little party for release day, got the dudes over, had extra controllers and even another xbox to lan up for massive multiplayer, but the fact that I had been thinking about it and building it up in my head for several months beforehand just ruined it. It wasn't a great game but it also wasn't a bad game. I was expecting excellence. From the very first cutscene where it's just like surprise! You're back at earth now and so is Johnson. Go shoot stuff! I was pissed off. I greatly prefer the vehicle physics in Halo 1, so that was a letdown as well. The whole things was just not at all what I expected. I realized later that it was in fact a fine game, and that my expectations were what ruined it. Since then I haven't let myself get into that kind of a frenzy over anything ahead of time. That policy has served me well. For example... I picked up Fable: The Lost Chapters waaaay after it came out, and without having listened to any of the hype whatsoever. I had a lot of fun with that game and I even still replay it occasionally.
For me, it would have to be GH World Tour. I was really looking forward to this one, hoping it would be a cross between the wacky cartoon style of GH and the realistic rock settings of Rock Band. It turned out to be GH 4. When I play with friends, we always end up going back to RB 2. GH's band interface just stinks to me. You can't turn the original singer's voice all the way down. You HAVE to play their goofy setlists to open up the songs for the band even though you opened them up single player. ETC. I could go on but who cares.
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It just didn't feel the same, I'm sure most long term halo:ce players will agree.
Oh hey, hadn't noticed you up there. ^5. I already described my reaction to Halo 2. As for Halo 3, I like it well enough. That's because I didn't think about it at all or pay attention to any of the media or the game itself until it was already out and I was playing it with a friend.
And how can people complain about Gears of War's story?
It is a game in which the main weapon is an assault rifle with a chainsaw bayonet. There is a character named "Cole Train". Your character is voiced by Bender. Were you expecting a subtle character piece?
It's a B-level sci-fi action story. The plot is really just about moving you from one action sequence to another. Also, remember, this is CliffyB we're talking about, here. The guy's been overcompensating for being a nerd for about as long as I can remember.
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Oh, right. Games I'm disappointed in. I shouldn't post when sleepy. Anyway, I loved Force Unleashed, but the game IS very buggy. I've had all kinds of problems, such as enemies stuck in the terrain, scripted sequences not firing (meaning you can't finish the level, meaning reset), etc. That said, it looks good, the gameplay is solid, and the story isn't half-bad. But c'mon, I expect no bugs in a console game, let alone gigantic game-breaking ones.
Crackdown was a bit of a letdown, too. No particular reason, it just never really felt all that fun to play. Except for the super-leaping on the rooftops, but that can't entertain you forever.
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For me though the most frustrating core gameplay flaw I see is that, because of no save anywhere leading to trying to do what will always work in every situation, the combat for me basically comes down to finding a good spot where you can't be ambushed and killing everyone from far away by directing their attention to my gun fire thus drawing them to me making them easier to shoot. This causes the game to become mind-numbingly boring because you'll do the same tactic over and over again.
Get the PC version - Save anywhere,
Also - Try going with silent weapons at night with Camoflage, the game goes from military action to sneaky stealth, you can finish missions without even being spotted or firing a shot.
How can anybody be disappointed with *game name here*. The game was supposed to be a *genre* game and that's what you got. Perhaps you had absurdly high expectations or maybe you just didn't get it.
Deus Ex: Invisible War. I wanted to like the game....I really did. But it ran terribly on my system at the time, and the gameplay felt like it had lost some of the depth that made the first Deus Ex great.
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How can anybody be disappointed with *game name here*. The game was supposed to be a *genre* game and that's what you got. Perhaps you had absurdly high expectations or maybe you just didn't get it.
Seriously, people.
Indeed, there will never be a game that will be able to make every person on the planet happy.
Someone made a post on the gametrailers forum (snicker) calling Fallout 3 the "worst fps ever". I wonder if people even look into games before they purchase it.
I'm going to use this thread for games I like, because I haven't been in the inner circle of gaming for a good year or two now. I buy what looks fun and avoid what gets thrashed by the media, unless it looks really exciting to me.
Dead Space - Dead Space is sweet, and marks the event of EA publishing a good title for the first time in ages. It's no RE4, but only RE4 is RE4. I mean, if I compared any game to RE4, it wouldn't be as good.
Fallout 3 - it has some "Bethesdaisms" in it; bad character models, floaty controls, mediocre dialogue...but it's fucking Fallout 3. It's much better than Oblivion.
Someone made a post on the gametrailers forum (snicker) calling Fallout 3 the "worst fps ever".
I'd swear there exists a small section of the gaming populace, that for some bizarre reason refuses to believe that there are non-fps games in existance. If there was a forum for pac man, or pong, there'd probably be some jackass posting that they were horrible fps games.
How can anybody be disappointed with *game name here*. The game was supposed to be a *genre* game and that's what you got. Perhaps you had absurdly high expectations or maybe you just didn't get it.
Seriously, people.
I guess that's fair to say and to each his own but I don't agree. If you buy a game, any game, you are expecting that game to be something. If you're like me and look at games as a luxury that is generally few and far between you generally want each game you buy to at least meet your expectations in one way or another. $50-$60 per game isn't unresonable but it can be hard to come by for some of us so to us a game we spent that type of money on should be what we expect.
But occasionally we make mistakes as gamers and buy games that are not good or don't meet those expectations so we either keep it as a dust magnet or sell it for half the price we purchased it for. So threads like this give those gamers a chance to vent. It's nothing against these game developers as they tried their best but sometimes a product just doesn't meet the expectations of the consumers.
Like I said before saying a game doesn't meet your expectations doesn't make the game bad (though it can) it just means that the game wasn't as good as you wanted it to be and/or bought it assuming it would be as good as advertising, reviews, etc. claimed it would be. Just because a game is following a genre formula doesn't mean the game is automatically at some level of acceptability. It just means that we as consumers know that when we buy said game for said genre said game will generally follow along with said formula but with its own idiosyncrasies. It's these idiosyncrasies that we as consumers will either love, hate, or anything else between.
And if you think it's unnecessary to discuss this then just don't read the thread.
Halo 2: I stood in line at midnight with my brother for this game to get my tin box LE version. And I loved the game. It was just what I loved about Halo 1. Up until halfway through when the idiots at Bungie thought it was a good idea to make me play as the aliens now. "What?" I said to myself, "I bought into the Halo series so I could play as Master Chief. Not so I could try and follow some confusing story with multiple sides! This is an FPS, NOT an RPG." I'm still pissed off at that. And never bought Halo 3. My brother did, but they like that shit. Fuck you, Halo. Fuck you in the ass. I'll stick with Half-Life. At least that game never takes you out of the main characters POV.
Also, I loved Super Paper Mario. Still do. I got a lot of enjoyment out of that one. Especially the wacky bosses. (Mainly the red dragon in World 1 and the Chameleon in World 3. Nurrrrr..) That and Galaxy. Oh, and Twilight Princess. I don't get any of the hate for these games and just write it off as high expectations that are impossible to meet.
Someone made a post on the gametrailers forum (snicker) calling Fallout 3 the "worst fps ever".
I'd swear there exists a small section of the gaming populace, that for some bizarre reason refuses to believe that there are non-fps games in existance. If there was a forum for pac man, or pong, there'd probably be some jackass posting that they were horrible fps games.
I can kinda see the argument for calling fallout 3 an fps.. I mean, you run around shooting things, in the first person. The problem is that as processing power increases the lines between an RPG and an FPS can get quite blurred depending on how the game is designed, does adding character development automatically make an FPS and RPG? Not really.
Also, i bought both Daikatana and MOO3 on their respective launch dates =(
Maybe I'm just not enough of a real gamer or whatever, but I mean, I have yet to purchase a game only to go "THIS IS A COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENT AND NOT WHAT I WANTED AT ALL"
Clearly you never bought Master of Orion 3.
I think I win.
You BASTARD I had repressed that memory!
I have a confession to make.
I, well, you're gonna laugh, I know.
I can say, with a straight face, mind. That I honestly, truly, deeply enjoyed MOO3. I loved it, I loved the concept, I loved the feel, I loved everything about that game except for the ugly cd lables and the fact that mine came in paper sleeves.
It was my first 4X. I came into it without knowing what I was getting myself into, and I came out of it a changed gamer.
Just imagine what happened to me the day I discovered Stardock and Gal Civ 2.
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Maybe I'm just not enough of a real gamer or whatever, but I mean, I have yet to purchase a game only to go "THIS IS A COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENT AND NOT WHAT I WANTED AT ALL"
Clearly you never bought Master of Orion 3.
I think I win.
Does anyone win with the very fact that game exists?
You can "play" master of Orion 3 by basically using excel for a few hours.
Halo 2: I stood in line at midnight with my brother for this game to get my tin box LE version. And I loved the game. It was just what I loved about Halo 1. Up until halfway through when the idiots at Bungie thought it was a good idea to make me play as the aliens now. "What?" I said to myself, "I bought into the Halo series so I could play as Master Chief. Not so I could try and follow some confusing story with multiple sides! This is an FPS, NOT an RPG." I'm still pissed off at that. And never bought Halo 3. My brother did, but they like that shit. Fuck you, Halo. Fuck you in the ass. I'll stick with Half-Life. At least that game never takes you out of the main characters POV.
I find this funny, because I ended up enjoying the Arbiter missions a lot more. The character was deeper than the 1-sided Master Chief and the Arbiter struggled with his faith and its morals. The levels felt more immersive and challenging, as the weapons were more sparse and you had to ration your resources more carefully. There were times when one weapon was definitely more effective than another, whereas playing Master Chief, you can pick up whatever you want and do some serious damage.
But Halo: Combat Evolved remains the best Halo game in the trilogy, by far.
Halo 2 was upsetting. I enjoyed Halo: CE, but Bungie was so self-aware and concerned about dressing Halo 2 up for the mainstream that it felt dumbed-down. The auto-aim made head shots way too absurdly easy. Buying Halo 3 never even crossed my mind.
Furthermore, Halo 2's ending was-
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How can anybody be disappointed with *game name here*. The game was supposed to be a *genre* game and that's what you got. Perhaps you had absurdly high expectations or maybe you just didn't get it.
Seriously, people.
I guess that's fair to say and to each his own but I don't agree. If you buy a game, any game, you are expecting that game to be something. If you're like me and look at games as a luxury that is generally few and far between you generally want each game you buy to at least meet your expectations in one way or another. $50-$60 per game isn't unresonable but it can be hard to come by for some of us so to us a game we spent that type of money on should be what we expect.
But occasionally we make mistakes as gamers and buy games that are not good or don't meet those expectations so we either keep it as a dust magnet or sell it for half the price we purchased it for. So threads like this give those gamers a chance to vent. It's nothing against these game developers as they tried their best but sometimes a product just doesn't meet the expectations of the consumers.
Like I said before saying a game doesn't meet your expectations doesn't make the game bad (though it can) it just means that the game wasn't as good as you wanted it to be and/or bought it assuming it would be as good as advertising, reviews, etc. claimed it would be. Just because a game is following a genre formula doesn't mean the game is automatically at some level of acceptability. It just means that we as consumers know that when we buy said game for said genre said game will generally follow along with said formula but with its own idiosyncrasies. It's these idiosyncrasies that we as consumers will either love, hate, or anything else between.
And if you think it's unnecessary to discuss this then just don't read the thread.
Do you hear that? If you listen really closely, you can just make out the sound of you completely missing the joke.
Army of Two was a let down for me. The aggro meter for the game was seriously broke, I don't think allowing one person to hold all aggro should allow another player to go invisible when they are running right in front of a enemy. Co-op sniping was useless cause one person could shoot 5 seconds later and still count for a co-op snipe.
Maybe I'm just not enough of a real gamer or whatever, but I mean, I have yet to purchase a game only to go "THIS IS A COLOSSAL DISAPPOINTMENT AND NOT WHAT I WANTED AT ALL"
Clearly you never bought Master of Orion 3.
I think I win.
Does anyone win with the very fact that game exists?
You can "play" master of Orion 3 by basically using excel for a few hours.
Someone should do a let's play of MOO3 that consists entirely of automating everything and then pressing the next turn button repeatedly.
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Halo 2 was upsetting. I enjoyed Halo: CE, but Bungie was so self-aware and concerned about dressing Halo 2 up for the mainstream that it felt dumbed-down. The auto-aim made head shots way too absurdly easy. Buying Halo 3 never even crossed my mind.
Furthermore, Halo 2's ending was-
I could probably write a term paper on how many different ways Halo 2 disappointed and pissed me off. In a purely objective sense, yeah, it wasn't that bad. To someone who played countless hours of multiplayer Halo: CE, it was like getting kicked in the balls by Bungie.
I used to be completely unable to understand the total, utter abandonment of people who enjoyed Halo 1 so much, but at some time after the release of Halo 2 I found out that most of the dev team for the first game left. Then everything made sense.
Speaking of Halo-related disappointment, I'm in the camp that loves the core gameplay of Halo but hates the way Bungie does the online segment: the way they've severely split the user base by requiring different tiers of maps is just silly, and prevents me from playing with my friends who either don't have a hard drive or who actually paid for the Legendary map pack.
I think the ultimate effect is that no one feels very satisfied: the guys who pay for the maps resent it when they go for free later and their friends don't buy them right away, the guys with a hard drive but don't have the new maps feel like they're missing out on some of the newer game types, and the guys without Hard drives are just shit out of luck with this game, even though every other online game manages to have a decent amount of support for them.
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How can anybody be disappointed with *game name here*. The game was supposed to be a *genre* game and that's what you got. Perhaps you had absurdly high expectations or maybe you just didn't get it.
Seriously, people.
I guess that's fair to say and to each his own but I don't agree. If you buy a game, any game, you are expecting that game to be something. If you're like me and look at games as a luxury that is generally few and far between you generally want each game you buy to at least meet your expectations in one way or another. $50-$60 per game isn't unresonable but it can be hard to come by for some of us so to us a game we spent that type of money on should be what we expect.
But occasionally we make mistakes as gamers and buy games that are not good or don't meet those expectations so we either keep it as a dust magnet or sell it for half the price we purchased it for. So threads like this give those gamers a chance to vent. It's nothing against these game developers as they tried their best but sometimes a product just doesn't meet the expectations of the consumers.
Like I said before saying a game doesn't meet your expectations doesn't make the game bad (though it can) it just means that the game wasn't as good as you wanted it to be and/or bought it assuming it would be as good as advertising, reviews, etc. claimed it would be. Just because a game is following a genre formula doesn't mean the game is automatically at some level of acceptability. It just means that we as consumers know that when we buy said game for said genre said game will generally follow along with said formula but with its own idiosyncrasies. It's these idiosyncrasies that we as consumers will either love, hate, or anything else between.
And if you think it's unnecessary to discuss this then just don't read the thread.
"Do you hear that? If you listen really closely, you can just make out the sound of you completely missing the joke."
How can people have been disappointed in Mass Effect?
I get being dissapointed with ME but... bad graphics, buggy gameplay, rushed? Eh? Owell
I mean what I'd consider valid criticisms would be the rubber stamped sidequests, the MAKO, the generic storyline, the texture popin during cutscenes, inventory system, etc - but I mean the dialogue was well executed, the graphics were by and large about the best you can expect out of the xbox 360 (and hold up to this holiday's releases, certainly)...
It's like in another thread like this where like four people said Half-Life 2 had terrible graphics... makes me scratch my head.
Anyways, I would have to say Fable 2 for the many mentioned reasons, Assassin's Creed as well (a real shame, I was expecting a less buggy Hitman: Blood Money set in ancient times, which would have been amazing), and if handheld games count Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (my god game designers, when you're on a handheld speed the animations the fuck up please, sometimes in decent sized batltes it takes like 8 minutes for everyone to take their turn because of long slow animations and the occasional dialogue tree)
Mirror's Edge for me, so far. Fair enough, I'm making it harder by going for no shots fired, but still... I definitely didn't buy the game for "Run this way, jump here, jump here, jump here... no, not there. *bzzzt* You're dead, do it again"; unskippable enemies who can kill me in two hits; shitty melee combat; poorly designed levels; glitches... all I wanted to do was run very fast over the rooftops wherever I pleased and every time the game forcibly stops me doing that it's like a kick to the face. Foot races in Crackdown were many times more fun than this... Sorry, am I venting too much? <_<
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Maybe I'm too late, but I want to second absolutely loving Tales of Vesperia. It's the best JRPG on the 360 right now, bar none.
I don't want to say I'm disappointed in Brawl... with the exception of tripping, I love most everything about it. The characters are incredibly well modeled, the levels are great, and the music may just be the best collection in any videogame ever made. Online is shaky, I guess, but I still can't find anyone locally to play it. They all went back to Melee or stopped playing Smash. I was hoping to get a ton of longevity out of the game, but no one wants to play. Oh well, I guess I'll enjoy the game for the graphics/music and pick up Street Fighter 4 in a few months.
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Again, from a while back, but I was thoroughly crushed by Brawl. I just expected something...more competitive. Instead I get tripping.
Brawl, competetive? I really like Smash Bros., but the series has always been party games. Yeah, sure there's big Smash Bros. tournaments, or so I hear, but that doesn't change the fact that it's primarily a part game.
I know that these two didn't come out this year, but they're the ones I remember.
Hellgate: London. Before trying it I was expecting something vaguely similar to Diablo II. I tried the demo and while not really similar to D2, it was still somewhat entertaining, so I got the full game. And at first, it was pretty fun, but it got boring very fast. I think I made it about half way through.
LEGO Star Wars II. I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting, but I bought it because it was cheap and a lot of people here had said that it was good. I don't know exactly went wrong, but rather than fun, I just found it to be frustrating. It was the PC version that I bought, in case that has anything to do with it.
Early on in the game, there was a section where you had to drive a vehicle over a number of buttons in a straight line. And I just couldn't get the damn thing to drive in a straight line. I was playing with my sister, her with a wired 360 controller and me on the keyboard, and we both tried lots of times and it took between 10 to 20 minutes to do something that is supposed to be ridiculousely easy.
I didn't find the other sections of the game fun either, but that's just what stands out in my memory.
Not really recent, but I was also fairly disappointed by Lumines, which I got on Live. The gameplay just isn't very addictive to me, and the much vaunted music generation doesn't seem to be doing much. Or maybe it's just my extreme bias to Meteos getting in the way, when it got much less press from most people.
I bought Lumines when it came out on Steam and I loved it. My main complaint about it though, is that there's no difficulty ramp. Once you've gone through all the skins, it just starts over and it's back to being easy. I've had single games that lasted over an hour.
Did you hear? The guys who made Diablo II left blizzard and went to make their own company! Their new game is going to be like Diablo 2, but set in a futuristic London! And it's going to have awesome FPS mechanics in addition to it's RPG stuff. You'll be able get stuff like bee-shooting guns and plasma swords and powered armor!
And you'll also get a shit-ton of bugs, unfinished features, not great graphics, an absolute shit storyline, not have enough programmers or artists to maintain the game and a monthly fee that is in no way, shape or form worth it.
And an eventually death when the company goes bankrupt and the rights get split between companies.
I think Hellgate actually knocks Diakatana out of my #1 most disappointing game spot.
JasonR66, instead of copying posts and wrapping them in quote tags, how about pressing the button on the post you wanna quote? It retains the formatting of the quoted posts and makes it possible for people to easily go to the quoted post.
I loved the Halo series, but certain things annoyed me...I never liked the driving in it, it didn't feel like it had any "umph" to it if that makes any sense. Also, dropping my second weapon while meleeing? I thought people would have written angry letters about that by the third game.
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LittleBigPlanet annoys me with the last few levels where -everything- is electrified, but it's more of a "OH GOD THIS MAKES ME WANT TO KARATE CHOP MY CONTROLLER IN HALF" type of 'in the moment' thing rather than a blanket judgement about the game as a whole. Because, otherwise, I love it like a mother loves a baby. Y'know, if she doesn't have post-partum.
I wasn't disappointed with The Force Unleashed, really. Except when I realized that all the extra characters were, uh....you. In a different skin. Which is partly why the character pack can burn in hell, unless there's different controls for the characters. And the start of the last level was a GIGANTIC pain in the ass.
I think I win.
It just didn't feel the same, I'm sure most long term halo:ce players will agree.
Age Of Conan- I was expecting more for some reason than a prettier and reskinned WOW clone.I guess I have myself to blame for this though.
Warhammer Online- Did I just buy exactly the same MMO again for the ..oh god... 5th time? Really? Click on cartoony looking evil thing and wait for it to die? uhg!! Is this as much creativity as the developers can bring to the table?
Gears2 - I actually had a really good time with this; thought the action was really fun and it never got stale while I was playing it. It probably won't be a gem I go back to time and time again, but dissapointed? no.
My all time biggest dissapointment:
Sins Of a Solar Empire - At first I loved the game but as soon as combat started everything felt wrong. My ships got so close to the enemy before firing they could have punched each other. Also everything seemed like the most generic paper-rock-scissors kinda thing I ever saw. I would design my ships much differently given the chance. Probably the worst thing about it though was that I just didn't find it fun. I'm sure other people do though.
I cede to the master.
That's just brutal, dude.
You BASTARD I had repressed that memory!
Oh hey, hadn't noticed you up there. ^5. I already described my reaction to Halo 2. As for Halo 3, I like it well enough. That's because I didn't think about it at all or pay attention to any of the media or the game itself until it was already out and I was playing it with a friend.
It's a B-level sci-fi action story. The plot is really just about moving you from one action sequence to another. Also, remember, this is CliffyB we're talking about, here. The guy's been overcompensating for being a nerd for about as long as I can remember.
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Oh, right. Games I'm disappointed in. I shouldn't post when sleepy. Anyway, I loved Force Unleashed, but the game IS very buggy. I've had all kinds of problems, such as enemies stuck in the terrain, scripted sequences not firing (meaning you can't finish the level, meaning reset), etc. That said, it looks good, the gameplay is solid, and the story isn't half-bad. But c'mon, I expect no bugs in a console game, let alone gigantic game-breaking ones.
Crackdown was a bit of a letdown, too. No particular reason, it just never really felt all that fun to play. Except for the super-leaping on the rooftops, but that can't entertain you forever.
Get the PC version - Save anywhere,
Also - Try going with silent weapons at night with Camoflage, the game goes from military action to sneaky stealth, you can finish missions without even being spotted or firing a shot.
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Seriously, people.
Indeed, there will never be a game that will be able to make every person on the planet happy.
Someone made a post on the gametrailers forum (snicker) calling Fallout 3 the "worst fps ever". I wonder if people even look into games before they purchase it.
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Dead Space - Dead Space is sweet, and marks the event of EA publishing a good title for the first time in ages. It's no RE4, but only RE4 is RE4. I mean, if I compared any game to RE4, it wouldn't be as good.
Fallout 3 - it has some "Bethesdaisms" in it; bad character models, floaty controls, mediocre dialogue...but it's fucking Fallout 3. It's much better than Oblivion.
I'd swear there exists a small section of the gaming populace, that for some bizarre reason refuses to believe that there are non-fps games in existance. If there was a forum for pac man, or pong, there'd probably be some jackass posting that they were horrible fps games.
I guess that's fair to say and to each his own but I don't agree. If you buy a game, any game, you are expecting that game to be something. If you're like me and look at games as a luxury that is generally few and far between you generally want each game you buy to at least meet your expectations in one way or another. $50-$60 per game isn't unresonable but it can be hard to come by for some of us so to us a game we spent that type of money on should be what we expect.
But occasionally we make mistakes as gamers and buy games that are not good or don't meet those expectations so we either keep it as a dust magnet or sell it for half the price we purchased it for. So threads like this give those gamers a chance to vent. It's nothing against these game developers as they tried their best but sometimes a product just doesn't meet the expectations of the consumers.
Like I said before saying a game doesn't meet your expectations doesn't make the game bad (though it can) it just means that the game wasn't as good as you wanted it to be and/or bought it assuming it would be as good as advertising, reviews, etc. claimed it would be. Just because a game is following a genre formula doesn't mean the game is automatically at some level of acceptability. It just means that we as consumers know that when we buy said game for said genre said game will generally follow along with said formula but with its own idiosyncrasies. It's these idiosyncrasies that we as consumers will either love, hate, or anything else between.
And if you think it's unnecessary to discuss this then just don't read the thread.
Also, I loved Super Paper Mario. Still do. I got a lot of enjoyment out of that one. Especially the wacky bosses. (Mainly the red dragon in World 1 and the Chameleon in World 3. Nurrrrr..) That and Galaxy. Oh, and Twilight Princess. I don't get any of the hate for these games and just write it off as high expectations that are impossible to meet.
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Also, i bought both Daikatana and MOO3 on their respective launch dates =(
I have a confession to make.
I, well, you're gonna laugh, I know.
I can say, with a straight face, mind. That I honestly, truly, deeply enjoyed MOO3. I loved it, I loved the concept, I loved the feel, I loved everything about that game except for the ugly cd lables and the fact that mine came in paper sleeves.
It was my first 4X. I came into it without knowing what I was getting myself into, and I came out of it a changed gamer.
Just imagine what happened to me the day I discovered Stardock and Gal Civ 2.
Does anyone win with the very fact that game exists?
You can "play" master of Orion 3 by basically using excel for a few hours.
I find this funny, because I ended up enjoying the Arbiter missions a lot more. The character was deeper than the 1-sided Master Chief and the Arbiter struggled with his faith and its morals. The levels felt more immersive and challenging, as the weapons were more sparse and you had to ration your resources more carefully. There were times when one weapon was definitely more effective than another, whereas playing Master Chief, you can pick up whatever you want and do some serious damage.
But Halo: Combat Evolved remains the best Halo game in the trilogy, by far.
Furthermore, Halo 2's ending was-
I could probably write a term paper on how many different ways Halo 2 disappointed and pissed me off. In a purely objective sense, yeah, it wasn't that bad. To someone who played countless hours of multiplayer Halo: CE, it was like getting kicked in the balls by Bungie.
I used to be completely unable to understand the total, utter abandonment of people who enjoyed Halo 1 so much, but at some time after the release of Halo 2 I found out that most of the dev team for the first game left. Then everything made sense.
I think the ultimate effect is that no one feels very satisfied: the guys who pay for the maps resent it when they go for free later and their friends don't buy them right away, the guys with a hard drive but don't have the new maps feel like they're missing out on some of the newer game types, and the guys without Hard drives are just shit out of luck with this game, even though every other online game manages to have a decent amount of support for them.
Really? There was a joke there?
....crap
nevermind then.
I get being dissapointed with ME but... bad graphics, buggy gameplay, rushed? Eh? Owell
I mean what I'd consider valid criticisms would be the rubber stamped sidequests, the MAKO, the generic storyline, the texture popin during cutscenes, inventory system, etc - but I mean the dialogue was well executed, the graphics were by and large about the best you can expect out of the xbox 360 (and hold up to this holiday's releases, certainly)...
It's like in another thread like this where like four people said Half-Life 2 had terrible graphics... makes me scratch my head.
Anyways, I would have to say Fable 2 for the many mentioned reasons, Assassin's Creed as well (a real shame, I was expecting a less buggy Hitman: Blood Money set in ancient times, which would have been amazing), and if handheld games count Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (my god game designers, when you're on a handheld speed the animations the fuck up please, sometimes in decent sized batltes it takes like 8 minutes for everyone to take their turn because of long slow animations and the occasional dialogue tree)
Read my book. (It has a robot in it.)
I don't want to say I'm disappointed in Brawl... with the exception of tripping, I love most everything about it. The characters are incredibly well modeled, the levels are great, and the music may just be the best collection in any videogame ever made. Online is shaky, I guess, but I still can't find anyone locally to play it. They all went back to Melee or stopped playing Smash. I was hoping to get a ton of longevity out of the game, but no one wants to play.
Current characters done: Ryu, Dan, C. Viper
Xbox Live: Infilament
Brawl, competetive? I really like Smash Bros., but the series has always been party games. Yeah, sure there's big Smash Bros. tournaments, or so I hear, but that doesn't change the fact that it's primarily a part game.
I know that these two didn't come out this year, but they're the ones I remember.
Hellgate: London. Before trying it I was expecting something vaguely similar to Diablo II. I tried the demo and while not really similar to D2, it was still somewhat entertaining, so I got the full game. And at first, it was pretty fun, but it got boring very fast. I think I made it about half way through.
LEGO Star Wars II. I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting, but I bought it because it was cheap and a lot of people here had said that it was good. I don't know exactly went wrong, but rather than fun, I just found it to be frustrating. It was the PC version that I bought, in case that has anything to do with it.
Early on in the game, there was a section where you had to drive a vehicle over a number of buttons in a straight line. And I just couldn't get the damn thing to drive in a straight line. I was playing with my sister, her with a wired 360 controller and me on the keyboard, and we both tried lots of times and it took between 10 to 20 minutes to do something that is supposed to be ridiculousely easy.
I didn't find the other sections of the game fun either, but that's just what stands out in my memory.
Yahtzee seems to have a huge boner for anything made by Valve. I don't blame him, I do too.
I bought Lumines when it came out on Steam and I loved it. My main complaint about it though, is that there's no difficulty ramp. Once you've gone through all the skins, it just starts over and it's back to being easy. I've had single games that lasted over an hour.
Did you hear? The guys who made Diablo II left blizzard and went to make their own company! Their new game is going to be like Diablo 2, but set in a futuristic London! And it's going to have awesome FPS mechanics in addition to it's RPG stuff. You'll be able get stuff like bee-shooting guns and plasma swords and powered armor!
And you'll also get a shit-ton of bugs, unfinished features, not great graphics, an absolute shit storyline, not have enough programmers or artists to maintain the game and a monthly fee that is in no way, shape or form worth it.
And an eventually death when the company goes bankrupt and the rights get split between companies.
I think Hellgate actually knocks Diakatana out of my #1 most disappointing game spot.