The biggest disappointments in your personal gaming history

[kangaxx]

Red Dead Redemption 2. Utter shite IMO.

Many examples post the golden era around the turn of the millennium though.

 

[Dark Souls II]

Dark Souls 3.

Dark Souls 2 was a perfect game. The greatest video game of all time. And Dark Souls 3 was supposed to be the same, just supposed to be a little bit better because it would run on the superior Playstation 4 hardware. They would keep all the great things and just improve the graphics a bit. Surely they wouldn't completely ruin the whole thing? They wouldn't just self-mutilate the combat system by raping the poise mechanic, removing powerstancing altogether, shitting on the very possibility of build variety etc.? Of course they wouldn't ruin the feeling of exploration and amazement by making each area in the game literally the same as every other area in the game? They wouldn't just deprive the game of all SOUL and replace it with SOY? They wouldn't do that, right? Why would they... Ha ha...

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Starfield. Goddamn it, Todd.

I didn't expect much of Starfield, and it still managed to disappoint, with Bethesda Softworks forgetting how to make an Open World game in the style of Morrowind, not adding any space elements other than mediocre spaceship combat, and creating much more of a "looter-shooter" than an RPG. Not what it could have been:

 

[Fargus]

Year 2023 and you people expected anything from Bethesda other than them being a laughing stock? Lmao.

 

[NaturallyCarnivorousSheep]

Stalker. I remember like it was today. I was hyped for it for years by the time it released. It couldn't run on my PC, I've got my parents to buy me a new one. Then I've sat down to it and... yeah it was stalker. It was bad.

 

[rumSaint]

In no particular order:
- Disciples 3 - take unique gameplay and setting and change it into generic Heroes 5 wannabe
- Mirage: Arcane Warfare - really enjoyed the beta and even bought it pre-release, game died in like a week
- Thi4f (or whatever they want to write that, stupid cunts) - just why
- Quake Champions - I love this game, but I'm disappointed how badly had it been handled and how they let it die
- Dawn of War 3 - Jesus, what a moba trash

Honorable mention:
- Blizzard - overall recent years

 

[Yuber]

FF7 Remake
FF 14 Shadowbringer & Endwalker
FF 15 & 16
Resident Evil 6
Silent Hill 2 Demake
Onimusha "Remaster"
Baldurs Gate 3
Xenoblade 2 & 3

 

[Inec0rn]

A lot of games here were obviously bad releases from get go and can't disappoint. A true disappointment really has to bait and switch your expectations.

D3 - absolutely nothing redeemable about it, terrible launch, terrible mechanics, total butchering of the lore and a massively anticipated title with no alternatives in the market. I can't think of many others where I have been absolutely shocked at how unbelievable shit a game was compared to the expectation.

Cyberpunk was also pretty bad given CDPR's track record.
Underworld Ascendant was horrible but also not unexpected prior to release.

 

[Alienman]

Onimusha "Remaster"

How come?

 

[Poseidon00]

No Neverwinter Nights 3, instead we get Neverwinter Online

No Kotor 3, instead we get Kotor Online

 

[Yuber]

Onimusha "Remaster"

How come?

OG Music is GONE! New music does not even come close. Whole game ruined. Great job!

 

[anvi]

KSP 2 is a shame :/ Unreal Tournament 3 was a let down too. EverQuest 2 was crapppp. Hard to remember all the disappointments. C&C being run into the dirt, etc. Classics like Syndicate getting remade to use their good name for some modern cash grab.

 

[Reality]

Majesty 2 - saw nothing about but saw it as a yard sale... Turner put the IP had been bought up by paradox and outsourced to a Russian mobile phone company

Age of Wonders 4 - too recent for this kinda thread but never forget unique factions

Twisted Metal : Black - I've always loved car combat but somehow I had never played a TM game ... I didn't buy the old games because I knew it'd be an unfair comparison after glorious Vigilante 8 - Black was the latest and greatest.... And it is actually a good game ... It was a case of wrong expectation : ALL car combat game are shallow/party games and going from 2nd strong ones to the flagship wasn't going to change that

Mech Warrior 5 : Mercenaries - old games were cool though I mostly played the spin offs, so seeing it come out of copyright jail 15+ years later was exciting. However the game is a text book example of procgen "content". I did get into MegaMek because of it so that's a plus

 

[Ezekiel]

Red Dead Redemption 2. Utter shite IMO.

Many examples post the golden era around the turn of the millennium though.

I rated this Agree, but quickly removed it after remembering that I wasn't optimistic after how mediocre GTA V was and how long in the tooth these issues (like restrictive design and sluggish movement with nothing between the walk and fast run) that they never addressed had become. I don't know what will possess me to buy GTA VI when I can't even force myself to finish RDR2. Always instant boredom.

 

[Beastro]

This thread makes me sad to go through.

Should just be renamed "Codex Cemetery 2.0".

 

[BrainMuncher]

My biggest disappointments were for the lack of things that never existed. I remember playing games like Super Metroid, which was contained on 3MB of storage. Then when I found out CD-ROMs could hold 700MB I thought wow, you could have a Metroid game, but 200x bigger. A whole world of Metroid full of secrets to explore.

Well they never made anything even remotely close to that. Instead, they seemed to abandon 2D games altogether, until 8 years later Metroid Fusion came but was short and railroaded you into a linear path with no exploration at all. The press all gave it 9/10

Countless other things that I imagined in my head that would be awesome but no-one even threatened to make

 

[anvi]

My biggest disappointments were for the lack of things that never existed. I remember playing games like Super Metroid, which was contained on 3MB of storage. Then when I found out CD-ROMs could hold 700MB I thought wow, you could have a Metroid game, but 200x bigger. A whole world of Metroid full of secrets to explore.

Well they never made anything even remotely close to that. Instead, they seemed to abandon 2D games altogether, until 8 years later Metroid Fusion came but was short and railroaded you into a linear path with no exploration at all. The press all gave it 9/10

Countless other things that I imagined in my head that would be awesome but no-one even threatened to make

I think that describes what I think about gaming better than I can describe it. They were doing miracles with low tech. Once the tech became good I expected the miracles to get bigger but.. it went a different way competely.

 

[Biscotti]

Starfield. Goddamn it, Todd.

I didn't expect much of Starfield, and it still managed to disappoint, with Bethesda Softworks forgetting how to make an Open World game in the style of Morrowind, not adding any space elements other than mediocre spaceship combat, and creating much more of a "looter-shooter" than an RPG. Not what it could have been:

The fact you two had expectations at all is baffling.

 

[Grauken]

Bard's Tale 4

 

[thesecret1]

Cyberpunk 2077

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

Counterstrike 2 - everything wrong with it, all my problems with servers, ~350fps down to 100fps, even the maps they brought back that I love like train are shit

Mass Effect 2 - was younger, saw so much potential with Original ME

Actually, any RPG I played before ~2022 because I didn't follow any news or knew what going on in the industry. Always getting burned by my optimism and naivety, always expecting good from humans.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Starfield. Goddamn it, Todd.

I didn't expect much of Starfield, and it still managed to disappoint, with Bethesda Softworks forgetting how to make an Open World game in the style of Morrowind, not adding any space elements other than mediocre spaceship combat, and creating much more of a "looter-shooter" than an RPG. Not what it could have been:

The fact you two had expectations at all is baffling.

I mean, it depends on what kind of expectations. I just wanted some Skyrim tier dudebro entertainment, but in space rather than with a fantasy setting. Bethesda didn't even manage to do that. Then again, should've learned my lesson with Fallout 4.

 

[Grauken]

Starfield. Goddamn it, Todd.

I didn't expect much of Starfield, and it still managed to disappoint, with Bethesda Softworks forgetting how to make an Open World game in the style of Morrowind, not adding any space elements other than mediocre spaceship combat, and creating much more of a "looter-shooter" than an RPG. Not what it could have been:

The fact you two had expectations at all is baffling.

I mean, it depends on what kind of expectations. I just wanted some Skyrim tier dudebro entertainment, but in space rather than with a fantasy setting. Bethesda didn't even manage to do that. Then again, should've learned my lesson with Fallout 4.

I actually like the NASA aesthetic of the game, shame the game seems to be terrible

 

[Tehdagah]

My biggest disappointments were for the lack of things that never existed. I remember playing games like Super Metroid, which was contained on 3MB of storage. Then when I found out CD-ROMs could hold 700MB I thought wow, you could have a Metroid game, but 200x bigger. A whole world of Metroid full of secrets to explore.

Well they never made anything even remotely close to that. Instead, they seemed to abandon 2D games altogether, until 8 years later Metroid Fusion came but was short and railroaded you into a linear path with no exploration at all. The press all gave it 9/10

Countless other things that I imagined in my head that would be awesome but no-one even threatened to make

"Metroid Fusion came but was short and railroaded you into a linear path"

This is a meme.

 

[Grauken]

My biggest disappointments were for the lack of things that never existed. I remember playing games like Super Metroid, which was contained on 3MB of storage. Then when I found out CD-ROMs could hold 700MB I thought wow, you could have a Metroid game, but 200x bigger. A whole world of Metroid full of secrets to explore.

Well they never made anything even remotely close to that. Instead, they seemed to abandon 2D games altogether, until 8 years later Metroid Fusion came but was short and railroaded you into a linear path with no exploration at all. The press all gave it 9/10

Countless other things that I imagined in my head that would be awesome but no-one even threatened to make

"Metroid Fusion came but was short and railroaded you into a linear path"

This is a meme.

It's not

Fusion was such a massive disappointment, doesn't even count as a metroidvania