what was your biggest let down in gaming?



for me, it had to be when 3DO went under and Ubisoft aquired most of their licences..
the Ubisoft Might & Magic games aren't bad.. some of them are actually fun at times.. they are good games.. just bad Might & Magic games..



what was the biggest let-down in gaming for you?

Mass Effect 3.

This post used to say Morrowind, and I was going to say "get ready to run." You're probably lucky you changed it, but man, sometimes you need to stick to your guns .

I would say Skyrim, but I don't want to be predictable. I'll probably say The Witcher (original). While it wasn't a bad game, it really wasn't my cup of tea and I had high hopes for it based on what I heard.

I don't get let down by games very often, as I tend to be really cautious when buying.

Kingdoms of amalur. I was really looking forward to the game and thought it might be the birth of a new series. Sadly..well..yea.

Unpopular opinion incoming...

I thought it was a fitting installment to the series. I know the ending was unpopular, but that's only 5 minutes of the game.

Then again, I tend to focus on the number of positives rather than the things I didn't love when it comes to evaluating games. None of them are perfect. If I enjoy the majority of my time with a game, then it didn't svck in my book. I ignore pre-release hype for all games in general, so whether or not a game lives up to its hype doesn't affect my opinion either.

I was going to say Morrowind or Skyrim, but they have at least some redeeming qualities. I thought Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect were the worst games I played lasy gen. I found Mass Effect even more hyped then DA2, so I've settled on Mass Effect 3.

Yeah, apart from the plot-armored space ninja, it isn't that bad

Mass Effect was a series that didn't really hold my interest as a whole. I thought the first game was fun, and that the second game was decent. By the time the third one came around I had no real desire to play it. A friend of mine let me borrow it, but I just couldn't get into it.

I suppose the biggest letdown for me would be the Dreamcast console. It was a good machine, it came out with a bang, and had all sorts of great games. Unfortunately, it still wasn't enough to save Sega from all its past mistakes, which ensured it would only last for two years.

What was the problem exactly? Did the game not live up to your expectations, or was it when the studio shut down?

Oh, sure, that's totally fair. I just could never understand why so many people that like the second game raged so much about the third. The ending is a bit of a deus ex machina, sure, but it isn't the first story to be guilty of that nor will it be the last. The rest of the game was comparable in quality to the second installment, IMO.

GTA V. Really overhyped for me.

And of course, MGS2.

Hated that guy so much.

For me, it has to be Hitman: Absolution.

Oblivion.

I was bitterly disappointed with that game when it came out. I played it for two weeks and uninstalled it. I didn't play it again until much later in that year, when mods were able to partially fix the game for me.

The decline and demise of the video game branch of the Battletech franchise is probably my biggest gaming let-down.

That tends to happen to Bioware for some reason. Another unpopular opinion warning - I did not think Dragon Age 2 was that bad. Sure, it was different than Origins, and the quality was not quite up to the same standard, but I felt the response to it was a bit out of proportion.

EDIT: On a sidenote, I just acquired a copy of Mass Effect 3 after having been steered away from it for years based on what people said about the ending. I am hoping to enjoy it, and I am sure I wil not be disappointed in that.

I think the game itself is not so bad. Some aspects are great, others are very bland... It was missing a certain something to make it truly special.

I definitely wouldn't want to be Curt Schilling though. Life ruined.

If I had to choose one I would say Battlefield 4, not really let down as much as bored though. Nothing good enough to keep me interested in it.

Blown-out-proportion drama over trivial matters on the internet? Nonsense!

And yes KoA, it's just boring. It had potential, but didn't really live up to it. I managed to finish it only at the fourth try

Same answer that I was gonna say.

Oblivion was definitely my personal biggest letdown in video gaming ever. I got caught up in the pre-release hype, specifically stuff from http://www.elderscrolls.com/oblivion/media/ (gameplay videos 1-6 - which never made it into the game, but they advertised how this was all in game).

Instead we got dumbed down AI (which bethesda themselves specifically said they 'dumbed down' the AI because they did things that made the game 'feel' broken, so they purposefully limited what the npcs could do), Dark elves with the same voices as the wood elves (and in the gameplay videos, we see a dark elf with the morrowind dark elf voice, which again never makes it into the game), a half assed Kvatch quest (again, we see in the videos of the oblivion gates INSIDE the city and guards riding horses into battle also inside the city, more things that again did not make it into game), a de-tree'd great forest (look at the great forest in the gameplay videos, look at the great forest in your copy of unmodded oblivion, self explanatory), No Caius Cosades (which again, i remember the devs SPECIFICALLY saying that we see Caius Cosades in game in Oblivion as a character that came from morrowind, but he was not, though that's definitely not a deal breaker for me at all but why would they say he was in the game in the first place?), A removed faction (the entire Duke Of Colovia questline was taken out of game), and so much more I can go on about if i felt like it.

It also didnt help that about two weeks before Oblivion was supposed to be released in November 22nd 2005, they suddenly delayed the game to March of 2006, so any of us that were excited and read a lot into oblivion the year prior, had to wait even longer. Of course i dont fault bethesda for that, they had to do what they had to do to keep the game as good as possible, but it's things like that make me wish they would just announce the game once it's ALREADY complete like a month before release or something. The marketing did a terrible thing to oblivion, because there was not only broken promises but they HAD to release the game after the first delay because they were going to piss off a lot of fans (which would have been avoidable had they not have announced the game with all these awesome features so long before it was done and said features werent even in the game yet).

Skyrim may or may not have been worse in this regard, but after the failing of Oblivion I vowed never to get caught up in hype of pre release trailers again, so I either ignored Skyrim pre-release features to save myself heartache or I took what I did hear with a very small grain of salt.

I heard so many good things about Kingdoms of Amalur. Friends were telling me it was "like oblivion but better" with Todd Mcfarlane (of spawn) and a whole slough of praises from people on the internet (a lot here in these very forums). So i decided to try it, played like 15 minutes and turned it off once i realized it had terrible hack n slash fable-like combat, unfortunately that was enough to put me off from the game and miss out on these apparently badass things about it. I may try it again sometime in the future when I'm in the mood, but i dont see that coming soon at all.

Seemed way too Fable-esque and cheesy god of war style hack n slash combat that did not appeal to me at all.

This was one of them, the new Might and Magic is terrible, not to mention linear character progression.

Let's see, Skyrim was a huge disappointment, maybe it was the hype, but it had no depth at all, not to mention "I don't claim to be the best blacksmith in have you been to the cloud district often, what am I saying..."

Pokemon X/Y...it was, "Meh", just "Meh".

And lots more!

Mass Effect 3. It's been two years, and I still can't touch a single game in the series without being reminded of that horrid ending.

Oblivion. even though it is now my prefered Elderscrolls game to play, my expectations of it pre release was much much much higher.

That was a big one for me, too. Mechwarrior Online is ok, but I got tired of PvP-only pretty quickly. I'd be interested again if they started introducing single-player campaigns.

Dragon Age 2 was the last let down for me and it had nothing to do with DAO, it wasn't a good game.

The most recent one I can think of is Halo 4. Just didn't have the same feeling that I got from the previous Halo games. Plus the Halo universe story gets so confusing and to fully enjoy a game's story I don't want to have to read a bunch of poorly written novels.

And as if bankruptcy wasn't bad enough, then he got cancer. I mean, jeez.