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[Mr. Nice_Guy]

ME3 in general. The ending was just shit icing on a terrible sundae, but it isn't what ruined the experience for me.

Also ZOE 3 getting announced and then cancelled.

 

[PayOffWizard]

It looked so good (at the time), just a shame it played like a big bag of balls.

 

[Dorsal Axe]

I share many of the disappointments already mentioned in the thread.

One I'd like to add that hasn't been mentioned is Minecraft. I remember back around 2010 it was a much smaller, but more compelling game with so much untapped potential. Unfortunately, Notch was incapable or uninterested in fulfilling that. I think it was around the Halloween update that the tone of the game changed and his priorities shifted, and it's never been quite the same since.

Lucky for him that Minecraft resonated with a lot of people and they enjoy it in spite of its flaws, because now it's just a mess of half-baked features and directionless gameplay. Personally I can no longer play it for more than a few minutes without getting bored and giving up.

Luckily the modding community picked up the slack and obviously it has been very successful, but I still often wonder what could have been with that game.

 

[Epcott]

Lately?

Silent Hills... no, Konami in general.
Rockman Dash 3 canceled.
Assassins Creed 3 and Unity.
Still no TLG.
Zero bc in current gen and too many remasters.
My Wii U usage.

In the past...
True Fantasy Online canceled.
Dreamcast killed.
Horse armor and the resulting creation.

 

[Gnome Scat]

Battlefront 3 replaced with EA's "Battlefront."
Star Wars 1313 canceled
The Kojima Debacle
How Destiny turned out
How Halo 4/MCC turned out

 

[Yokai]

It still kinda hurts. 3D World is great, but to think that the first HD Mario would be a spiritual successor to the only Mario game in existence that was boring enough for me to have erased from my memory...well it's just sad.

As for other things, well 3D Land comes to mind, as well as the 3DS Launch. Likewise, more of a let down in regards to the industry, but well everything leading up to Zelda U, the design of a 29 year old character shouldn't be cast into doubt, and fans of said character shouldn't have to worry about his future.

I just played 3d land and liked it. 3d world was quite a bit better but land was still quite fun.

Im sad to hear you didn't enjoy it much. It probably helps that i went into land with moderate expectations.

 

[Brerlappin]

Halo 4:
Everything about it was shit. And if it wasnt shit, it was unforgetabble. Absolute bullshit.

Darksiders 2:
Hey i know what would make an awesome follow up to the kick ass cliffhanger ending of DS1, lets remove the MC, replace him with a crap MC noone cares about, completely ignore what happened in all of DS1, and make it nothing but fetch quests

Condemned 2:
Hey i know how to follow up a genuinely scary game about serial killers and investigating crime scenes, lets turn you into a hobo and have you fight bears by screaming at them until their heads explode

Dark Souls 2:
You liked the tough bosses and tight level design in DS1 right? Well fuck all of that, and have some gameplay based on nothing but mobs, shit map design, woeful graphics, and a fuckton of lame ass bosses

Dead Rising 3:
Honestly this is one of the worst games i played last year. From the PC port being badly optimized to the shitty ass missions, the map laid out solely to induce long drives that add nothing but padding, crap story, bland characters, and offensive gay stereotypes abound...it was a straight up shitshow. Glad i only paid 16 euro for it.

 

[Steroyd]

Rare.

I loved each and every one of their games from Snes to N64... And then Gamecube happened with Starfox adventures, then they got bought out by Microsoft, then there was that tiny glimmer of hope between Kameo to Viva Piñata... Then Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts happened, then they got crushed by Kinect never to be seen again. T_T

 

[Soodanim]

GTAIV was something I never thought I'd see. Rockstar rocketed to the top of my list with the PS2 trilogy, then... 4 happened. Ew. I only found it playable with cheats in the end, something I haven't done in years.

Assassin's Creed 3 was so shit that I gave up on the entire series. (It doesn't help that they went with the boats thing in 4 - the absolute low point of 3).

I don't actually have much else to contribute here, I tend to be too cautious to play games that are going to be bad. GTAIV was a hype purchase on the day I got my ps3, and ac3 was a ps+ freebie and I was interested in the ending (I wish I just YouTubed that messed instead). The intro was worth it, then it went to shit.

 

[Call Me A Hero]

Star Ocean: The Last Hope, it was a disappointment for me compared to Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.

 

[myco666]

I think mine is Twisted Metal on PS3. Had such high hopes for the online only to find out that the online barely worked at launch and when I got into game everyone was using that super annoying helicopter.

 

[Morning Star]

• Whatever the hell made me think SMT x FE would be different from what we got
• Destiny
• Knack
• SimCity 2013

 

[Safeto20Scroll]

Mega Man Legends 3.

what I'd do to be able to replay the first two.. god I wish they were on the PSN...

 

[el_colibri]

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising on PS3. I checked the screenshots and some short reviews before buying it (for dirt cheap) but when I actually started playing it, the graphics made the whole thing completely unplayable for me. I know it was a 2009 game but the bullshots really tricked me lol.

I don't normally care about graphics if the gameplay is good, but that game I just could not get into for that reason.

 

[gigantor21]

The Vita - We've had plenty of shitty systems and handhelds; we've had great systems and handhelds that just didn't sell well for some reason or another. But it especially hurt seeing how underwhelming the Vita turned out because the PSP is my all-time favorite handheld, and it was nowhere near as good as a follow-up in the year or so that I had it.

Saying Sony dropped the ball would be a gross understatement--and it's only made worse by the fact that they'd rather keep it on life support than either make a big push to turn it around (which is too late at this point anyway) or simply cut their losses and put it out of it's misery. A non-Nintendo dedicated handheld was always going to be a difficult sell in recent years, and Sony's approach did nothing to improve their odds.

FFX-2 - Final Fantasy X is one of my favorite games of all time--an especially weird case, given how I usually don't play JRPGs. So when I heard that they were doing a direct sequel for the first time in series history, I saved up whatever I could and bought it day one without even looking at previews or promotional footage.

And what did my $50 get me? A crass, cynical cash-in sequel that sexed-up the female characters and threw them into a story that came off more like a fanfiction or a filler arc in anime than a worthwhile continuation of one of my favorite stories in gaming. Yes, it has a good battle system, but that alone can't carry the rest of the worthless affair. THIS was the point where I started becoming cynical about the game industry and began to investigate games more thoroughly before spending a dime on them.

 

[FourMyle]

Dragon Age Origins - Just a hilariously awkward and badly made game that was trying hard to ape the great Infinity Engine games.

Halo Reach - This marked the decline of Halo. Lot of unnecessary additions that would later lead the series further away from its roots.

 

[Pantsuit Apologist]

Diablo 3 at release.
Mass Effect 3 ending.
Destiny expansion pass.

 

[RealityCheque]

Well, there was this POS:

That dropped the ball completely on this:

In fact, they lost the ball and is still yet to be found.

__________________

But the mystery of what might have been with Silent Hills just might be worse....

Edit: Tippy-top of the disappointment page! How fitting.

It's Dinosaurs in space.

In fairness, how could you not have known this would be a pile of ass?

 

[ranmafan]

The Silent Hills fiasco is high up there for me. Easily the biggest disappointment in years for me how thats turned out. others for me would include:

The end of the Dreamcast - One of the best systems ever made ending way way too soon.

Shenmue 3 - Nothing much more to say that hasn't been said. Even if this ever did get made it wouldn't be the same as it wouldve been had it been made back after 2.

Sakura Taisen's fall - This maybe is my number one disappointment. One of my all time favourite game series, that had an amazing start with the first two games, and a fantastic third game too, just seemed to plummet down to the bottom after that. A fourth game that disappointed many. A bad anime tv series. A fifth game that divided many people. and then just nothing. I still can't believe how quickly that series fell. Also very disappointed the announced "Kouma" game in the Sakura Taisen world never ever happened. I really wish of all the dead gaming series out there, that this one would come back.

 

[glaurung]

2, GTA IV - after SA it was a huge letdown, Liberty City is just an overdesigned wallpaper and nothing to do outside missions

Am I remembering this right - in San Andreas you could go on home invasion/robbery missions?

I wonder why this has never made a proper return in the series.

Could you break into any building or were there specific places to rob?

 

[karmaforgotme]

Perfect Dark Zero - The final nail in the coffin of Rare for me.

ME3 - I don't think it is a bad game, and I loved the first 2 (ME2 is one of my all-time favs). That said after 2 different tries I just can't finish it, because I become so bored of the combat. I guess I should be disappointed in myself. Also I know if they do a re-master version I will give it a third try.

Wii and WiiU - I use to be a hardcore Nintendo fanboy (N64 for life), but those days are long gone.

 

[Doffen]

Destiny.
Halo MCC's multiplayer.
TLG not released.
The way MS handled Xbox One.
Crackdown 2.
APB.
Agent MIA.
Xbox on WP.
Vita.

 

[martino]

Never forget

You're missing an ending here

 

[Mister Wilhelm]

Mass Effect 3's ending.

It still burns.

 

[Bowl0l]

The Walking Dead Season 2. Thanks Telltale for this forgettable tale... but I still appreciate Season 1.

FF13. My 2nd FF game after FF7. All my money went to reading comics when I was younger. Games was beyond my means at that moment.


FF7, the big announcement that it is coming to the PS4. Now i will wait until Square Enix game is sold for below $20 to show my appreciation for their trolling efforts.

WiiU, NoA getting Wii games in eshop. I purposely bought a WiiU because of this. That slow trickle of games will be embedded in my skull forever.. NoA will definitely pull the same shit for their next console.

 

[HanzoHasashiVSBi-Han]

I struggled to think even games back on the megadrive did not disappoint me as much as this did.

What really rubs this in is that I had freinds over waiting to play online, that's probably why this is my choice as it's disappointed more than just myself and made me look a mug to go along side the bitter disappointment

 

[Rollo Tomasi]

The Order: 1886

This game had so much potential.

Came here to post this. My reaction to The Order can be summed perfectly by this gif.

 

[sTiTcH AU]

Modern Warfare 2.

MW1 and W@W were fantastic, Treyarc really nailed the maps in W@W especially. MW2 however was just a clusterfuck and the killstreak system in that game was just too much, it took six months for IW to release a patch so players from around the world would not be connecting to each other. Infinity Wards complete arrogance leading up to that game started its downward spiral and then they produce a game like Ghosts.

 

[Daria Morgendorffer]

Borderlands the Pre-Sequel, I really thought it would solve some of BL2's faults. It did for the most part but in turn it brought in some new ones.