The biggest disappointments in your personal gaming history

[sser]

Interstate 82....had a lot of expectation after the first one, was a horrible streamlined third person arcade shooter.

Reminds me of Driver3 or "Driv3r" as some smug marketing idiot labeled it. I think the scope of the game was just beyond the devs.

Driver: San Fran is one of my favorite console games so that did make up for it a bit, but Driver 3 had huge potential at the time it came out.

 

[Gregz]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...omething-of-a-cunt.113143/page-3#post-4921600

 

[Gunnar]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...omething-of-a-cunt.113143/page-3#post-4921600

I read the thread and concluded you were overreacting, you might not want to advertise this shit around.

The biggest disappointment recently has to be... Pillars of Eternity. What a borefest. I thought it was going to be at least pretty good, but the whole game is just knocking over mooks with shitty combat.

 

[Hobo Elf]

The first NPC was named "Murmur".

What was wrong with that? Murmur is the name of a demon.

 

[Scruffy]

lands of lore 3 was utter shit, and i loved the first two
lords of the realm 3 was utter shit, and i loved the first two
pillars of eternity was utter shit, and i was hoping for an actual spiritual successor to the IE games (in b4 "ie games were utter shit so worthy successor")
also, i wasn't terribly "disappointed", but i didn't like how silly fallout 2 was when compared to the first fallout. I liked that it was bigger etc, but the silliness was a bit annoying.

 

[vmar]

When I was like 10 years old and asked my parents for NFL Blitz for christmas and they got me Madden

 

[Soulcucker]

Number one is Deus Ex Invisible War, I don't think an explanation is needed for that dumbed down abortion.
ARMA series and Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising (actually had a lot of potential), still waiting for a real sequel to Operation Flashpoint.
Red Faction 2, massive backwards step when compared to the first game.
I would also pick NOLF2, Jedi Knight 2, and Commandos 3. These are all good to great games that failed to live up to my overly high expectations at the time of their release.

 

[octavius]

When I was like 10 years old and asked my parents for NFL Blitz for christmas and they got me Madden

That must have been maddening.

 

[Severian Silk]

Queue picture of Highlander with Madden's face. "THE MADDENING!!1"

 

[Beastro]

MMO3 - Had fond memories of playing it a on a friends comp, took it back the next day and bought an expack of CivIII with store credit.

Yeah, every MMO ever is disappointing. They are either pointless theme parks, or you have to basically dedicate your life to them like EVE.

Not UO or EQ~

 

[shihonage]

The first NPC was named "Murmur".

What was wrong with that? Murmur is the name of a demon.

I don't buy no game called "Hellgate London" to talk to a "Murmur", y'hear?

 

[Accept]

Pretty close between FO 3, HL 2 and Doom 3

 

[Cyberarmy]

Simon the Sorcerer 3.

Another major disappoinment that my brain decided to bury long ago. Probably my first major one come to think of it.

 

[pippin]

Simon 3's impact on the gaming industry has been so big that people don't even talk about the sequels that came after it.

 

[the_shadow]

Bought Torchlight 2 because on paper it had all the good features from Diablo 2. The whole was catastrophically less than the sum of its parts.

I'm playing Torchlight 2 at the moment, and think it's pretty damn good. Not as good the final (balanced) version of Diablo 2, but still an above average experience.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Simon 3's impact on the gaming industry has been so big that people don't even talk about the sequels that came after it.

Wow, there are two more Simon games out there :O

Simon The Sorcerer 4 : Chaos happens (fitting name)
Simon The Sorcerer : Who'd even want contact (lol even more fitting)
The games are no longer available to download as the company who published went into insolvency.

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[pakoito]

Bought Torchlight 2 because on paper it had all the good features from Diablo 2. The whole was catastrophically less than the sum of its parts.

I'm playing Torchlight 2 at the moment, and think it's pretty damn good. Not as good the final (balanced) version of Diablo 2, but still an above average experience.

Modded's better. Matter of fact I'm going to reinstall it!

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

using which mods? i installed some but they felt unfinished/not working.

 

[Sykar]

These are my biggest regrets:
NWN 1 (campaign)
Oblivion
Restricted Area

Luckily I wisened up after this and refrained from buying shit like FO 3 and never bothered with EA crap.

 

[SCO]

Recently was pretty disappointed by broken sword 5 first episode whatever. I mean, the same urination joke puzzle twice. I might even say this series high point was the interactive breakout game in the broken sword 1 installer. But that is kind of edgy.

 

[Murk]

I always forget it has multiplayer. I saw a video of it once and it looked really fun. Some guy disguised himself as a table, and all these people ran in the room and table guy materialises behind them and ganks. It looked fun but not enough for me to buy it.

Somewhat related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ecS0yKnNLA

 

[Ivan]

Dragon Age 2
Thief 3
STALKER: Clear Sky
Far Cry 2

 

[Leitz]

Sacred RPGs that disapointed me

Arcaunm
Planescrape
Wizardry 7
Ultima IV

They all terribly dissapointed me

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Oblivion
Wizardry 8 (last time I bought a game on the recommendation of the Codex)
Batman: Arkham Knight
Bioshock Infinite
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dead Space 3
Game of Thrones RPG (I lied when I said Wizardry 8 was the last time I bought a game on recommendation of the Codex. This was actually the last time, and it was overwhelmingly shit)

I've played plenty of other shit games of course, but the ones on this list were games I expected to be better than what I actually got.