Poll: The Most Disappointing RPG of All Time

[Tavernking]

Vote.

 

[RPK]

What about games that looked like they were going to be awesome, but didn't get completed? Looking at you, Realms Beyond

 

[Infinitron]

Ultima IX: Ascension is possibly the one true answer to this question.

 

[NecroLord]

Anonymous poll.
Really nigga?


Anyway, I chose Fallout 3.
Bethesda ruined the franchise, simple as.

 

[Necrensha]

Gothic 3
That piece of shit is such an extreme drop in quality coming from Gothic 2 that it just doesn't feel like the same people did it you know?

 

[Oreshnik Missile]

I only played NumaNuma and the Pillars games out of this list, and Pillars weren't all bad.
NumaNuma though... wow. I joined this place a year or so after playing it and stil lwas angry enough to rant a few times.

Literally an anti-setting. Anything goes. Planescape is structured, in contrast. Oh and the "what does one life matter" question is lame.

 

[Sergio]

If I had to choose the most disappointing, for me it would be the new Torment, closely followed by Fallout 3, and with FF7 Rebirth in 3rd place.

 

[Mortmal]

Ultima IX: Ascension is possibly the one true answer to this question

Luckily, there are still Codexers of a certain age who know the truth. Those polls are conducted with young kids who have attention disorders.

 

[Bibbimbop]

Ultima IX: Ascension is possibly the one true answer to this question

Wasn't Ultima VIII basically a platformer game? Hard to be disappointed in IX when Garriot was already creatively barren.

 

[luj1]

Oblivion and Fallout 3 are the archetypal choice

Pillars 2 because they learned nothing

 

[d1r]

Dragon Age 2 and Dragons Dogma 2

 

[thesecret1]

DA2, CP2077, PoE, and Gothic 3. Because unlike the others, I thought these would be good

 

[Max Damage]

Early disappointments stick with you the most, for me it was Lionheart. Demo was very short, but character creation promised good or even great game. And then I played the full game and never backed any crowdfunded game once that became a thing, so at least something positive came out of this experience.

 

[Litmanen]

Fallout 3 and NWN OC.

 

[NecroLord]

Early disappointments stick with you the most, for me it was Lionheart. Demo was very short, but character creation promised good or even great game. And then I played the full game and never backed any crowdfunded game once that became a thing, so at least something positive came out of this experience.

Lionheart was on my "to play" list.
Now I am not so certain anymore.

 

[Butter]

I've never been more hoodwinked than the time I got tricked into playing KotOR 2.

 

[Old Hans]

Dragon Age 2 and Dragons Dogma 2

dragons dogma 2 has to be the biggest troll of all time.

 

[UndeadHalfOrc]

Other: Might and Magic 9
Return to Krondor
From the listed options:
Baldur's Gate 3

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Dragon Age 2 and Dragons Dogma 2

dragons dogma 2 has to be the biggest troll of all time.

Still leagues better than most of the games in the poll.

 

[Dark Souls II]

DARK SOULS 3

A sequel to the best game ever made, produced for a further generation console, what can go wrong? Just the same game with better graphics, right?

Right?

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Ultima IX: Ascension is possibly the one true answer to this question

I second this. I also voted for Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Fallout 3. I was a big fan of the first two Fallouts, but I really don't think Bethesda ever understood those games. There is humor in Fallout and especially in Fallout 2, but Fallout 3 leans into it too hard, and also takes fantasy ideas such as their Elder Scrolls vampires and tried to adopt them into Fallout 3.

My first Elder Scrolls game was Morrowind and I didn't expect to fall in love with it as hard as I did. Oblivion was a huge step down to me, as the setting was a vanilla fantasy one, the spells and skills were dumbed down, and the level scaling over the top. Such a let down.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Baldur's Gate.

 

[Steedless]

Mass Effect 3. The rest of those games don't even come close, and a couple of them are good.

 

[Tyrr]

If it's about the largest gap between expectations and reality, for me has to be DA2 and PoE1.
Yes, Fallout 3 was shit, but I never expected anything good from Bethesda (or a FPS Fallout) in the first place. So there was no big disappointment.

 

[JarlFrank]

Nothing in my life disappointed me as hard as Oblivion and nothing ever will. It single-handedly transformed me from optimistic teenager eagerly awaiting the future of gaming to a jaded old fuck pining for the good old days.