Most disappointing games

Now disappointing does not mean "bad", it can be bad but I'm also counting games that did not live up to expectations, in this thread talk about games that where disappointing. I am going to start out with the obvious:

Fable II: it was WAAAAAAY too short and the DLC's where not that long either, and if that's not an insult, the Final boss was just a joke, and the games was so easy! does it make it bad? no, in fact I had a really fun time with it, but I was expecting more, now that Fable III is out was I disappointed again? yes, but it still is a good game, I'm not saying "don't buy it" I really recommend these games, just buy them when their in the bargain bin, like Fable II is right now, and plus you can buy the first one of XBLA for very cheap, I do recommend Fable III but like I said before, wait for it to be in the bargain bin, than buy it!

Dead rising 2: OK OK, I love this game, but it was really disappointing, I mean not that much has changed since the first one, but I can understand that, its a sequel, its meant to have the same gameplay, with a few tweaks in it, but lets use our logic here, lets look at the psychos, what does Slappy remind you of?, Adam the clown. What does Ted remind you of? Larry, what does Sullivan remind you of?, Brok! the main problem with it not being the same is its characters, I know some people will say "but Chucks a different character" yes he is, but is that going to change anything even though the main Character had a different personality than Frank? no. Really Dead rising 2 feels like Dead rising improved, the phone conversations are less annoying and there are more save slots and most of all the most improved part of the game is, the AI is smarter. Like Fable if you want to play DR2 than wait for it to be in the bargain bin.

that's some I got, how bout you?

 

Darksiders: The commercials and ad's I saw for this game made it look like a mix of SotC and God of War. But when I played this over at a friends I was horribly mistaken. The designs looked like they belonged in an 8-12 year old boys sketchbook, thinking it was badass but its actually not.

 

FFXIII. Not a bad game, just a very, very bad RPG. Realizing that the new Final Fantasy was actually a beat them all was quite a turn off for me.

 

Final Fantasy 13: The way people were talking about this game, especially around here, made it seem like God himself designed. Don't get me wrong, the graphics were cool, and Lightning was badass, but I didn't like the gameplay, how linear the game was, almost every other character besides Lightning I didn't like, the story was...meh. It's a good thing I rented it, because I would have regret paying $40 for it. A lot of people had something bad to say about Final Fantasy 12, but I had more fun playing that than playing 13.

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad game, but after playing the game before it, I was a little let down. That's okay though, you can't really top the first one. I also hated the whole time aspect, I don't like to rush when I'm playing games, and I especially don't like having to go back in time if I'm not fast enough.

Metal Gear Solid 2. Same concept of Majora's Mask. Loved the first one so much that I expected the second one to be the same, if not better. I after playing games for a while I've learned not to expect sequels to better, usually I expect them to suck so I wont be let down.

Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage and Mothership Zeta: I pretty much paid $20 for some nice armor and a sword that has lightning on it. Maybe I was disappointed because I never used Energy weapons. The quests were short and stupid though. Broken Steel was a little better because of the increased level cap,

Spoiler

Being able to continue the story after dieing in the purifier

, Point Lookout was my favorite Add-On, because you could do so much, and the atmosphere was awesome. The Pitt was the best Story-Wise and had that cool saw weapon, so I wasn't too upset by that.

Fable 2: What the OP said. Same thing with sequels not being as good as their predecessors.

Assassin's Creed: Too repetitive, the story was really slow to pick up, the ending made me want to break the CD, and some a lot of small things that added up. The physics and the graphics were decent, but I just wanted impressed. Now Assassin's Creed 2 on the other hand is incredible, one of my favorite games out there. The reverse, "sequels not being as good as the first" syndrome.

There are more, but I just don't really feel like listing more. I had fun what these games, but I used to expect too much, now I wait until I actually play it before I make my judgment.

 

Ok, some people are going to yell at me for this but:

358/2 days: Yes the gameplay does feel the same, but its a spinoff, yes I love the unique leveling up system, yes the graphics are amazing for a DS game. My main problem with this game is, its way to short, sorry to say this folks but I beat this game in 1 week! it usually takes me 2 weeks to beat a game, and I even played on proud mode and I got it done really shortly. Also the story, good god, the story. First off, the story is not bad, its just that, this game was supposed to be about Roxas in the organization! yes it is about that, but I feel that Xion takes too much of the spotlight, it kind of feels like square was thinking "oh well we need to add a charter for the last minute!" this is how they thought of Xion. Also, most of the missions in the game are repetitive as hell! about 85% of the missions are the same thing! Is this a bad game, no. Its just the weakest out of all the kingdom hearts series, if you are a die hard KH fan like me, pick it up, but if your a casual KH gamer, give it a try or borrow it than buy.

 

Final Fantasy XII: I was enthusiastic for a game that would fill me till XIII came out. Then I played it, a lot of people are saying XIII. But no, it was XII for me that killed the series, XIII just made it more dead for me. Very hard to get money, had to buy EVERYTHING to use it. The License points one at a time and the board drove me insane. Not including the shifting difficulty level. All flat out, no.

Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire: I was close to Diamond/Pearl instead of R/S, but D/P I wasn't nearly as enthusiastic after R/S, so this is my choice. I looked forward to this game for ages, and then when I got it, I rapidly lost interest, very few pokemon, even less returning. Same storyline, which I know, is part of the whole series, but slightly repetitive. NO Team Rocket, and Magma and Aqua doesn't hold a candle at all to the original villains in the games.

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: After OOT, I was foaming at the mouth for another LOZ game. I played that game three times before starting to get bored and that was through the forever damned water temple. I was thrilled to see another installment. I was eh about the time, though I wondered how I was going to get through the water temple in three days. The rest sounded great, then I saw myself playing the same days over and over and over and I found myself bored by it all. The time I hated it, I still do, they made the temples too easy. With the slow-down song, I still found myself beating the temples with two days to spare. At the most, it took me two days to get through the water temple. There weren't enough temples, too many sidequests, the final boss wasn't nearly as good as Gannon. I could go on for hours.

 

Final Fantasy XII: It was a good game on its own, but for me not a great Final Fantasy. I guess the main reason was because of the big change in gameplay from the previous final Fantasys. Gambits made it like I was watching the game instead of playing it

 

Final Fantasy XIII - I think too much was expected for this game. The cutscenes are goregous but the game itself was just a bad attempt towards the western audience. But I don't hold it against them for trying :) The story is okay, but the fact that it as so many disapointments from from 9 and 14 made it disapointing for me. Now on the other hand XII was actually the last good one released; it gets bad reputation because of not having a strong story, characters not having much personality, and the fact that it's apart of a different Final Fantasy Series.

Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 - I admire the fact that there is so much content on that little DS card but the missions can become very boring overtime...and really Nomura we need to know

Spoiler

what happend between the time Roxas was in the Organization... -_____-

Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus: The Final Fantasy 7 series has enough games and movies as it is, I felt like this would have been a great game if it were longer and had good gameplay mechanics other than that it was pretty good.

 

Dragon Age: Origins - It is still a really good game. But if you look at the game and the trailer they look WAY different. I also felt in the trailer that you would have a better exploration sense, but having the map that would sometimes give you a random event down the line felt lacking in trying to capture the extensiveness of that world.

 

Fallout: New Vegas - to start in almost everyway it exceeds Fallout 3 in a number of ways, the locations, the number of choices you have, the number of quests, companions, etc. However its the glitchest game I have ever played and the slowest to load. Almost every time I fast travel anywhere it takes a minute to load when initially it took 7 seconds, I know I've counted waiting for it, and I don't know how many times I've had to turn off the console because it's frozen or the quest has deleted something in my way.
Thankfully, a great number of patches are being made to repair them. Maybe afterwards it'll change my opinion.

That's my most recent dissapointment but i can't really think about other games I've played. Maybe I'll think about it another time.

I loved AC for all it's flaws. It was so nice to experience something new and different in a different place in history. It was probably the fact I'd been playing so many WW2 games at the time.

 

Oh I totally agree with this. It lags like crazy to the point where I can't play it anymore. The freezes, the glitches on quests, it was ridiculous.

 

Vanquish - I was really looking forward to this game; played it round a mates. It's not that good. It's way too short and combat is fun for the first half an hour then it just gets repetitive. Great concept didn't quite work in execution. The story is mess, it tries to be Metal Gear Solid with modern politic undertones but just falls flat on it's arse. It explains nothing. I really wanted it to be good. =/

 

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Hoshigami Remix- I've never played the original, but if the original was just like this game, I don't think I want to. The gameplay was extremely repetitive and hard to understand at first, but after training for a while, almost all the enemies became too easy to defeat. The graphics were terrible and the plot was boring. It has a branching storyline and I suppose that should've appealed to me as an RPG game, but it just wasn't.

 

358/2 Days.


I was so excited about it when it came out in Japan, and wanted to import it so flipping bad, it just looked so good, and at the time I didn't give a poo about Birth by Sleep/coded

Utter disappointment is all I got -_-

 

Breath of fire IV...
That game was really dissapointing, for me and everyone who liked the breath of fire series. It was like a whole different game, keeping almost none of breath of fire's older games elements.

 

Left 4 dead: I played the second one first and after playing that one I was expecting more from this one. It's a very good game it just feels too short and repetitive. The versus mode is really repetitive as there's not as many special infected you can play. The second one was a lot better, much more variety and a lot more fun.

Myst V: End of ages: I love the whole Myst series but this one was a real disappointment as it lacked what the other 4 had, all the people had been animated when in previous games they were real people. I couldn't get into the game itself and it just felt out of place.

 

I was deeply dissapointed with Assassin's Creed.
I don't exactly know why, but after playing it, I felt gypped out of my money.
LAIR, as well, really pissed me off. I'd been looking forwards to that game for weeks, and when it came out...
Horrible gameplay, annoying controls.
What didn't dissapoint me, however, was Final Fantasy Thirteen.
It easily had the best plotline out of them all, albeit the most tragic, in my opinion. The controls were fantastic, the plotline was great, though it could have had a little more replay value.