Who has disappointed you this gen?

Sony - For making the Ps3 complicated all in the name to be the High Tech. Should of gone Ps2 simplicity but more powerful. If all the devs survived from Ps2 era we would be in gaming heaven.

Microsoft- For letting any of the major developers slip. Focusing on the casual market so much.
 
Vlightray said:
Sony - For making the Ps3 complicated all in the name to be the High Tech. Should of gone Ps2 simplicity but more powerful. If all the devs survived from Ps2 era we would be in gaming heaven.

Microsoft- For letting any of the major developers slip. Focusing on the casual market so much.
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Err the PS2's hardware was anything but simple.
 
MS - Went from king of the games to Kinect pusher.

Sony - They should have used SD cards for the Vita.

Nintendo - Everything the ever try.
 
Biggest disappointment for me this gen has been certain "gamers" and their endless malcontent whining.

To those people I'd simply say this:

You've never had it so good.

There has been an incredible number of excellent games released this gen at a broader range of price-points than at any time in the history of gaming.

From iOS 99c revolution, through the often stunning low-to-mid-price offerings on all the platform holders download services, to the top end hitting new heights of technical and artistic sophistication... Not forgetting the rise of online vendors like Steam and GoG offering tremendous value for money for PC-gamers, the rise of the indie-scene, free-to-play MMO's, consoles as internet media streaming hubs, the list of good things is endless.

Yet, noone seems happy anymore; it's tragic.
 
Nintendo: Aside from Super Mario Galaxy and Wii Sports, Nintendo hasn't made anything original or worthwhile for me this gen. Kid Icarus comes close if it wasn't for the shitty controls and annoying voice acting. Sega has filled the void for me with original new IP's like Bayonetta, Vanquish, MadWorld and Binary Domain.

Microsoft has disappointed me with their faulty hardware.
 
Microsoft - 2008+ Focusing on things most gamers don't care

Square Enix - ...

Konami - Ruining 3 franchises i used to love (MGS, SH, PES)

Nintendo - Crap hardware combined with the "revolution" of motion
 
Clear said:
Biggest disappointment for me this gen has been certain "gamers" and their endless malcontent whining.

To those people I'd simply say this:

You've never had it so good.

There has been an incredible number of excellent games released this gen at a broader range of price-points than at any time in the history of gaming.

From iOS 99c revolution, through the often stunning low-to-mid-price offerings on all the platform holders download services, to the top end hitting new heights of technical and artistic sophistication... Not forgetting the rise of online vendors like Steam and GoG offering tremendous value for money for PC-gamers, the rise of the indie-scene, free-to-play MMO's, consoles as internet media streaming hubs, the list of good things is endless.

Yet, noone seems happy anymore; it's tragic.
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Definitely agree with this.

There have been bad trends that started this gen no doubt but there has been a lot of good stuff as well.
 
Clear said:
Biggest disappointment for me this gen has been certain "gamers" and their endless malcontent whining.

To those people I'd simply say this:

You've never had it so good.

There has been an incredible number of excellent games released this gen at a broader range of price-points than at any time in the history of gaming.

From iOS 99c revolution, through the often stunning low-to-mid-price offerings on all the platform holders download services, to the top end hitting new heights of technical and artistic sophistication... Not forgetting the rise of online vendors like Steam and GoG offering tremendous value for money for PC-gamers, the rise of the indie-scene, free-to-play MMO's, consoles as internet media streaming hubs, the list of good things is endless.

Yet, noone seems happy anymore; it's tragic.
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Disagree, mostly with the part I bolded. I appreciate Steam but that has nothing to do with the quality of games I get now, which is mostly dumbed down pretty crap. And people's answer to that is to tell me to play indie games. So depressing.
 
I'm very disappointed with gamers who believe that since they love this gen everyone else should also feel the same about it.
Obviously if i like something everyone else should also like it.Yeah makes sense.
 
I'm too lazy to start another thread; someone else can do it. Another question would be. Amidst your disappointments, who has the best chance for redemption going into this next generation?
 
sublimit said:
I'm very disappointed with gamers who believe that since they love this gen everyone else should also feel the same about it.
Obviously if i like something everyone else should also like it.Yeah makes sense.
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And on the flip side, the gamers who hate things feel that everyone else should hate the same things too.
 
Derrick01 said:
Disagree, mostly with the part I bolded. I appreciate Steam but that has nothing to do with the quality of games I get now, which is mostly dumbed down pretty crap. And people's answer to that is to tell me to play indie games. So depressing.
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Why is it depressing? What's wrong the critically acclaimed indie games that have been released this gen?
 
Bgamer90 said:
Why is it depressing? What's wrong the critically acclaimed indie games that have been released this gen?
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It's depressing because money is getting pumped into non-stop explosion-fests with $200m marketing instead of ambitious, genre-bending projects. There's nothing wrong with indie games this generation, in fact, I'm glad for them. But if someone told me in 2002 that 10 years later the majority of shooters would be hand-holdy corridor shooting galleries I wouldn't have believed him. It's okay to enjoy "stupid" games, I do myself, but in my eyes gameplay has taken a significant step backwards since last generation (with some exceptions of course).
 
Bgamer90 said:
Why is it depressing? What's wrong the critically acclaimed indie games that have been released this gen?
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It's depressing because indie games are just as terrible as the big budget casual fests I complain about, only at least those have some production values behind them.
 
Glass Rebel said:
It's depressing because money is getting pumped into non-stop explosion-fests with $200m marketing instead of ambitious, genre-bending projects. There's nothing wrong with indie games this generation, in fact, I'm glad for them. But if someone told me in 2002 that 10 years later the majority of shooters would be hand-holdy corridor shooting galleries I wouldn't have believed him. It's okay to enjoy "stupid" games, I do myself, but in my eyes gameplay has taken a significant step backwards since last generation (with some exceptions of course).
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I understand that, but it seems like the person I was replying to didn't mean it in that way.
 
Derrick01 said:
It's depressing because indie games are just as terrible as the big budget casual fests I complain about, only at least those have some production values behind them.
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Don't really get how they are terrible also. Games like Fez and Trials Evolution are great fun and are challenging as well (especially Trials).
 
Derrick01 said:
It's depressing because indie games are just as terrible as the big budget casual fests I complain about, only at least those have some production values behind them.
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Can't please everyone.. I am pretty happy with indie games. Theres a lot of stuff this gen you just wouldnt see last gen like 2D sprite based games.. specially platformers.
 
Sony: for letting MS launch first, the nonexistant and sometimes strange marketing and some not very friendly engineering and design decisions. They got better at the end and hopefully they can use the synergies to make a turn-around next gen.
 
The people for overreacting on DLC in general.

No one really judges games on the base product anymore. It's understandable to feel a little down on what could have been there Day 1, but just because it's absent from the initial product, said product is garbage, and no one should like or buy the game in question.

Otherwise, I wouldn't say I'm completely disappointed with a company beyond Silicon Knights. HI THERE WE FUCKED UP AN X-MEN GAME SO HARD!
 
Capcom:
Take your pick

Mircrosoft:
Wanting me to pay extra for WiFi and online services

Konami:
Just Castlevania, Silent Hill and a bunch of MGS
 
I can't @ Derrick spouting his usual nonsense how all modern games are bad.

My disappointments:
LucasArts - I think they stopped pretty much any gaming activity at this point? Around 2009 I had high hopes of Monkey Island revival, apparently both remakes and Tales of MI were big financial successes, but LA changed management and their policies

Microsoft/Rare after 2008 - really like B&K Nuts & Bolts and Viva Pinata, I'm disappointed they released only 1 game after that and it's not even for me

Ubisoft Montreal - I love Assassin's Creed, but they also dumbed down all Tom Clancy's games, Prince of Persia 2008 was dull etc.

Microsoft/FASA - multiplayer based Shadowrun FPS and closed down afterwards

Microsoft/Ensemble - extremely simplistic Halo RTS spin off, then shut down

Relic - I absolutely adore all their games, but where's my Homeworld 3?

Bioware - for getting entangled in all that cinematic shooter/action game stuff
 
Atomski said:
like 2D sprite based games.. specially platformers.
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That's, in my opinion, the only indie genre that's completely saturated. I honestly don't want to play another indie (puzzle) platformer (with a twist) any time soon. I've notices that my brain just shuts down whenever anyone on any gaming podcast mentions some indie game with 16-bit graphics or something like that. Same thing happens when I hear about "Verb the Noun" iPhone games, for example.
 
Ive been disappointed with Lucas and EA for years, so nothing new there.

Not gonna mention Capcom either, they brought back fighting games for me.

It has to be Square. Back in the PS1 era you had very worthwile, genre defining games every 6 months or so, very good PS2 presence as well. Now? Not so much, and thats being kind.
 
RobotMafia said:
Level 5 just because they didnt give me Dark Cloud 3.
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I think the Dark Cloud IP is owned by Sony, or at least partially owned by Sony. In any case, they (Sony and Level 5) chose not to continue building on Dark Cloud but to create White Knight Chronicles instead, so I'm not sure exactly who is to blame here. Most likely not entirely L5's fault though.

I've been disappointed by Square this gen, but I think if they don't mess up anymore, they're on track to recover pretty well up to and going into next gen.
 
snap0212 said:
That's, in my opinion, the only indie genre that's completely saturated. I honestly don't want to play another indie (puzzle) platformer (with a twist) any time soon. I've notices that my brain just shuts down whenever anyone on any gaming podcast mentions some indie game with 16-bit graphics or something like that. Same thing happens when I hear about "Verb the Noun" iPhone games, for example.
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Keep em coming I say :P. They are better than a crap load of slow console shooters.

Talking about slow shooters. Im so disappointed in id. Here they are being the kings of super fast fps games on the pc for years and finally they make a new game and its some crap slow console focused shit :(.
 
Activision
  • For merging with Vivendi, consuming Blizzard.
  • For dropping Brütal Legend and other games, then later bitching about how EA and such picked them up.
  • For the whole CoD desaster (and I don't necessarily mean the games themselves, more the things surrounding them)
  • For overfeeding the market with (in my eyes) generic, same-ish FPS games. (This one is purely objective (I hope I didn't mix that up with subjective. It's one of them words))
  • For having Bobby Kotick as CEO.

EA
  • For Origin.
  • For being a total dick for the last two or three years.
  • For trying to ruin some of their best franchises.
  • For closing the PC Burnout store for apparently no real reason, making it impossible to retrieve any DLC (even the bundled DLC) for Burnout Paradise.
  • For not making Mirror's Edge 2.

Epic
  • I blame them for the overuse of their UE3. I'm not saying it's not a great engine (it most definitely is), but it seems that every game that runs on that engine automatically has a plastic look to it. BioShock, Gears, Batman, you name it. The only exception to it seems to be Lost Odyssey.

Nintendo
  • For not announcing the Wii U a year sooner.

UbiSoft
  • For cancelling Beyond Good & Evil 2 (or is it in development again?)
  • For using EXTREMELY shitty DRM on their PC games since AssCreed II.

Mojang and Edmund McMillen
  • For Minecraft and Binding of Isaac respectively. Seriously, guys, I have to study, goddamn it! :(

Capcom, Namco, EA, way too many others
  • For not using DLC the correct way (take a look at 2K and their BioShock 2 DLC, or Rare and their DLC for Banjo-Kazooie N&B). Give us an expanded/a new story or a bunch of new quests with an expanded overworld for 5 bucks. Or give us new playable characters in fighting games that aren't locked on the disc for 3 bucks each. That is the correct way to do DLC.
    The wrong way is to sell costumes for 20 bucks (SF4 costume packs) or a weapon which I'll never use (way too many examples to list only one of them) for 5 bucks. Stuff like that should be earned by playing through the game and/or achieving several...well, achievements (not the Xbox kind of achievements, mind you). Like the old days, you know.
  • I wanted to write something else but I forgot.

Some statements are not meant to be taken as seriously as others.
Ranting about DLC will never get old for me.
 
Microsoft was great at the beginning of this generation but in the past couple of years have really taken a huge step back with Kinect and other useless "apps."
 
RADRAD said:
...Otherwise, I wouldn't say I'm completely disappointed with a company beyond Silicon Knights. HI THERE WE FUCKED UP AN X-MEN GAME SO HARD!
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Am sticking with this also. I don't know of any developer with a bigger difference in quality from last gen to this one. Not sure how you go from Twin Snakes & Eternal Darkness to Too Human & X-Men. As much as I want another Eternal Darkness, I'm not sure what I expect from them anymore. Not much.
 
While not a company, I'm disappointed that we didn't have one decent Star Trek game this gen. The last decent one was Star Trek: Elite Force II, and that was 9 years ago/
 
Nintendo- I've been a Nintendo fanboy since 1996 when Mario 64 launched. Last fall I sold my Wii and back in March I sold my 3DS. Skyward Sword was the first Zelda I haven't played since Ocarina. :/
 
I think out of all the things that bother me, Rare's transformation hurts the most. I loved Banjo 1 and 2. I played Goldeneye and Perfect Dark all the time with friends. Conker's Bad Fur Day was one of my favorite games. Donkey Kong Country IS my favorite game series. I even enjoyed Star Fox Adventures. But when they ditched all of that to do things like Kinect Sports it just brings a tear to my eye. They started off strong with the Viva Pinata games and Kameo, but went downhill quick from there.
 
Eh, I'll bite.

Square-Enix
What just happened to Final Fantasy? I might be a bit old fashioned, but I miss the rag-tag bunch of heroes on a steampunk/fantasy setting going out to slay evil, crystals optional, games. FF4DS was awesome, so we know they still got it, but... Can we get a console game like this again anytime soon? The FFXIV trailer response should have been a clue. Chocobo knights, sprawling landscapes, classic looking heroes. All "Ooh!"s and "Ahh!"s. Then "Online" appeared and a collective "Awww..." was heard. Also, Kingdom Hearts. Can we have a 3 please? And a sane story, perhaps?

Lucasarts
Consider the lightsaber. It's one of the coolest sci-fi props ever. It's shaped roughly as a flashlight and it makes a hum when moved around. Now consider the Wii Remote. It is shaped roughly as a flashlight, it responds to movement, and it has a built in speaker, so it could hum when being moved around. Can you see the connection I'm hinting at? If you can, congratulations! You're smarter than Lucasarts! If there was ONE game I was dead-sure would be made, it was the Wii Lightsaber game. Still waiting on that.

Sony
Losing your password database to hackers is bad. Honestly, I'm content with their game efforts, but the PSN hack and following month of downtime? That's disappointing.

There are others, but really, most of them are just smaller complaints, not really disappointments. Maybe because I didn't expect much in the first place. Sonic is improving, Capcom is Capcom, EA is evil again. Activision, too. Microsoft is doing their... whatever it is they are doing. Nintendo are doing fine with a few grievances, but nothing major. Bioware? Apart from that ending, they've been doing alright. Was never really a big fan, though. And Duke Nukem Forever, of course, but how could that ever live up to its own legend?
 
Blizzard.

While SC2 and Diablo 3 are still probably my favorite PC games of the past few years, I feel Blizzard could have done so much better.
 
Bjoern the Smexy said:
Activision
  • For overfeeding the market with (in my eyes) generic, same-ish FPS games. (This one is purely objective (I hope I didn't mix that up with subjective. It's one of them words))


UbiSoft
  • For using EXTREMELY shitty DRM on their PC games since AssCreed II.
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1. Yes, you mixed objective and subjective up :lol
2. Ubi DRM isn't that bad lately. They've moved away from the always-online shit for most of their stuff at least. Still some curious cases in the Anno games with Solidshield.
 
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