Most Disappointing Games Ever.

No, I didn't say 'The Worst Game Ever'. I said 'The Most Disappointing'. Games that you thought you were going to seriously enjoy, but in the end they weren't nearly as good as you were expecting. So, it could be the best or worst game ever, just the one that you thought you were going to enjoy, but you were seriously let down!

Let's list them

My Most Disappointing Game: Either KOTOR 1/2 or Toribash.

Coolchris330 :D

C&C 3 ... i was so hyped for it but was really dissapointed in it.

Another game that really dissapointed me was Deus Ex:Invisible Wars.... I was such a huge fan of the first Deus Ex game, and was hoping for the next one to be alot of fun, but i just found it way to buggy and the funfactor wasnt nearly as high for me personally as the first one.

Fear is another game i was really hyped up for, but just didnt dealiver the goods for me.

King's Quest 8.

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front page sports: football 96. man, even if they just did a graphics upgrade, i would have been elated. but it was buggy and things just didn't work as nicely as they did on the 95 version. and then there was 98, which marked the death of fps: football series. farewell, my sweet. farewell.

but then again, can't really blame fps: football 96. where can you go from perfection but down...

I'd have to say Half Life. I should have played it back in the day, kinda regret that I didn't.

Oblivion was not a disappointment right away, but the more I played it, the more I felt the decline in quality of the series.

And while Warcraft 3 was a great game, I was really disappointed by it's story.

Mafiaregnumekal

Are you insane! mafia? MAFIA?

Anyway for me it would be Gears Of War, my friends constantly bragged about how it was the best game ever to be released on Xbox 360, so i picked it up when it came to Pc and was completly bored by it.

I'd have to say Half Life. I should have played it back in the day, kinda regret that I didn't.

Oblivion was not a disappointment right away, but the more I played it, the more I felt the decline in quality of the series.

And while Warcraft 3 was a great game, I was really disappointed by it's story.

artur79

Yea Warcraft 3 really dissapointed me alot to

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I'd have to say Half Life. I should have played it back in the day, kinda regret that I didn't.

Oblivion was not a disappointment right away, but the more I played it, the more I felt the decline in quality of the series.

And while Warcraft 3 was a great game, I was really disappointed by it's story.

kozzy1234

Yea Warcraft 3 really dissapointed me alot to

Why is that? I thought it was really cool.

[QUOTE="regnumekal"]Mafiawood_duck

Are you insane! mafia? MAFIA?

Anyway for me it would be Gears Of War, my friends constantly bragged about how it was the best game ever to be released on Xbox 360, so i picked it up when it came to Pc and was completly bored by it.

Yeah Gears of War has some of the most dissapointing online play imo. I thought the coop with a friend was fun while it lasted, but the online i just hated haha :P

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I'd have to say Half Life. I should have played it back in the day, kinda regret that I didn't.

Oblivion was not a disappointment right away, but the more I played it, the more I felt the decline in quality of the series.

And while Warcraft 3 was a great game, I was really disappointed by it's story.

biggest_loser

Yea Warcraft 3 really dissapointed me alot to

Why is that? I thought it was really cool.

I honestly can not pinpoint exactly what it was, but the 3rd warcraft just wasnt nearly as addicting to me as the first two in the series. I got completly bored with Warcraft 3 after about 3 months, where as Warcraft 1 and 2 i played for years and couldnt get enough of them to be honest. Guess the fun factor and addiction factor wasnt as high for me personally in part 3

Hmmm..Kinda tough

Let's see, there are several, but in no particular order:

Age of Sail 2 (insanely buggy on release and with a tonne of missing features. It finally became a worthwhile game to play once another dev bought the rights to it and patched it up.)

Master of Orion III (seriously, what the hell were the devs thinking when they made that convoluted mess that doesn't even really let you play? The stupid in game "advisor" reverses most of the decisions you make throughout the game)

Commandos 3 (take what's basically a puzzle solving game, then remove all the puzzles and just turn it into Diablo with a machinegun)

Half Life 2 (I was guilty of buying into the hype. While I never thought it was going to be as good as the gushing reviews and slavering fourm fanboys made it out to be, I never thought it would be as mundane and forgettable as it was)

XCOM Apocalypse (Take an excellent franchise with a good, turn based tactical combat section, a fun strategic overlayer with research, base building, and economics then throw it all out the window to turn the game into a Diablo clone with hoverboots and a raygun)

I agree about Doom 3. Nice game and all but considering Doom 2 was my favorite game ever it didn't really push the envelope forward and the cutscenes and story were more cheesy than scary.

I have very high hopes for Doom 4.

Doom 3, agreed. Graphics are amazing, and I did have fun, but after completing it I felt like I wasted my time doing nothing worthwhile.

Half Life 2, semi agreed. Everyone made it seem like it was so amazing, but I didn't really think it was that awesome. It started becoming repetitive when I got to Ravenholm, and I was bored until the last few levels.

Master Of Orion 3.....there were tons of posts on here before release saying it would be the greatest of the series..Duh?

It was a total broken mess:roll:

Forgot to add Morrowind to my list. I spent about 6 hors just wandering around being amazed by the terrain, then spent the rest of the time wondering why the devs hadn't done any work in populating that terrain with anything other than cardboard cut-out NPCs, generic fetch quests, or enemies thatposed even a remote challenge once you were past level 8.

I always get a laugh at people who level charges at Oblivion, saying that they dumbed down Morrowind by shrinking the size of the world, removing skills, and limiting the RPG elements while chranking up the graphics. Those are the same charges I leveled at Morrowind, saying they dumbed down Daggerfall.

Crysis. I swear without the graphics that game would have gotten a 6.5

Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I was a huge fan of Wolf3D and had high hopes for this game.. it was very dissapointing.

Same thing with Doom3.. i just couldn't get into it no matter how hard i tried.

C&C 3.. it's just complete rubbish.

Well the most disappointing games would be the ones from Crytek, Farcry and Crysis the mostDanielDust

You must be kidding us right? Crysis and FarCry are awesome games,and didnt dissapoint- what we expected- we got

Viva Pinata... I should have liked this game since its gameplay is sorta similar to Harvest Moon, but I couldn't accept it.

Simcity 4, way too much work to run the city smoothly, I prefered a city managing lvl of no more than Simcity 3000, or better yet, simcity 2000

theres others but can't think of them...

Half Life 2 (I was guilty of buying into the hype. While I never thought it was going to be as good as the gushing reviews and slavering fourm fanboys made it out to be, I never thought it would be as mundane and forgettable as it was)

bogaty

What?!?!?!

Mundane and forgettable? Maybe a few levels, (Ravenholm) but as a whole, that game was unbelievable. Can you honestly say that fighting the striders wasn't fun, that the gravity gun wasn't one of the coolest weapons you've ever seen, and that your jaw didn't drop when you entered the citadel?

Maybe if you played HL2 today you wouldn't find it to be as unique, but back in 2004, there was absolutely nothing like it.

I'd have to say Half Life. I should have played it back in the day, kinda regret that I didn't.

Oblivion was not a disappointment right away, but the more I played it, the more I felt the decline in quality of the series.

And while Warcraft 3 was a great game, I was really disappointed by it's story.

artur79

I second that. The game started out great, but yeah, the decline started to kick in.

Daikatana. I so wanted to be Romero's ****DennisKumfi

Truth.

Doom 3
Never got in to it. Pretty graphics at the time, but my PC could barely run it unless I turned everything way down. By the time I got a new PC, I had forgotten all about it.

Command and Conquer (everything after Red Alert 2)
When it first came out, C&C was the bomb. But they really failed to update any gameplay, and have only updated the graphics a little. Kind of lame now and has been surpassed by games like Age of Empires.

Far Cry
Same as Doom 3, but I could play it. It was better in that it was more open ended. But it just seemed to lack a real plot.

Crysis
So short . . . started well but then was meh.

Prey
See Crysis

Deus Ex: Invisible War
They essentially took the best parts out of the original DE and dumbed down the rest.

Band of Brothers
The whole fire and manuever thing was cool, but they needed to get rid of those icons. Then it became very repetitive. And the guns were so . . . difficult to use. Shouldn't be that way with a mouse and keyboard setup.

Star Trek Elite Force 2
Saved my biggest for last. Let me preface this by saying that, at the time, I was a big trekie. Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force was my favorite game and it was awesome. I was exstatic when EF2 came out. But then it sucked. It looked outdated. Enemy AI was dumb. More important, the storyline was no where near the original. So disheartening.

To the one who said X-Com Apocalypse, I enjoyed that game a lot, but for different reasons than the first two X-Coms. It had great graphics and artistic style for its time. The UFO battles were very unique and fun, though some of the vehicles were imbalanced. I remember buying every hoverbike I could. They were so cheap, and the UFOs missed them like crazy. It was all hoverbikes until you got the heavy vehicles late in the game.

The tactical missions took out a lot of the tactics you had in the first two X-Coms, but you still needed to use tactics. I certainly would not call it a Diablo clone. You still had to position yourself properly, and know when to run or stand and fight. The crazy explosions and destructible environments were an interesting change. Stuff would actually fall, if it wasn't standing on anything.

I admit that the game disappoints early X-Com fans, but it grows on you if you give it a chance.

A big disappointment for me was Dawn of War. I found it difficult to position my troops and use tactics at all in that game. I would select a bunch of squads, and send them to an area, but they would spread out in random ways. It was difficult to get them just where I wanted. I also felt like every mission in the campaign was about the same. It was very repetitive feeling.

I also have to disagree on Half-Life 2 being a disappointment. Half-Life 2 keeps throwing unique obstacles and challenges in your way like I've never seen a shooter do, not even Half-Life.

Im going to have to say a tie between crysis and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I had way too high hopes for crysis, when you expect perfection you will always be disappointed as one of my good friends says. Im not sure why i couldnt get into stalker, it has all the perfect elements in a game that i love but it seems like the autosave just sucks. I dont like getting to the end of a level dieing and having to go through the entire level again (some levels take up 30 minutes easy).

EDIT: id also like to add medieval 2: kingdoms to the list, it had alot of added content but all of the new factions sucked.

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Half Life 2 (I was guilty of buying into the hype. While I never thought it was going to be as good as the gushing reviews and slavering fourm fanboys made it out to be, I never thought it would be as mundane and forgettable as it was)

dos4gw82

What?!?!?!

Mundane and forgettable? Maybe a few levels, (Ravenholm) but as a whole, that game was unbelievable. Can you honestly say that fighting the striders wasn't fun, that the gravity gun wasn't one of the coolest weapons you've ever seen, and that your jaw didn't drop when you entered the citadel?

Maybe if you played HL2 today you wouldn't find it to be as unique, but back in 2004, there was absolutely nothing like it.

Yes, I can honestly say that fighting the striders wasn't fun. I always thought the "boss" level concept was hackneyed and overused. Oh reat, here comes a fill-in-the-blank giant tough thing that I'll have to pummel with ridiculous amounts of ammo while I cirlce strafe and take cover.

The gravity gun was functionally no different from the push-and-drag blocks of Tomb Raider, Wrath of Kain, or the hand in Trespasser. Slide and stack things on top of other things doesn't equal novel or compelling gameplay to me.

Entering the citadel...can't really recall. Was that the over-long cutscene where all you could do was look around as you rode along in some sarcophagus on rails?

Look, if HL2 was everything you ever dreamed of and more, great! Glad you enjoyed it. To me, I bought it when it was first released and I found it to be a bog-standard shooter. Technically, the engine was impressive, but the AI, level design, weapons, and story were nothing special. I played through the game once, felt underwhelmed but not ripped off and shelved it. Never had any desire to play it again or try any of the add-ons.

Call of Duty 2. I wouldn't call it even half as good as the original.

Homeworld 2. It's a superb game, but it's not as good as the original or Cataclysm either.