The most recent ones that stand out for me are:
New Vegas: I can't quite put my finger on it, but it just doesn't hold my attention like FO3 did. It's not the bugs, as I haven't encountered many, so I honestly don't know why it just isn't as entertaining. I played FO3 for hours after I got it, but with Vegas, I played for a couple right off the bat, and then I only play it occasionally.

Halo: Reach: With this one, I think it's mostly that my tastes in gaming have changed. I like all the new features, like the maps, loved the story, but once again, it doesn't hold my attention like Halo 3 did. I used to spend hours in Halo 3 multiplayer with my friends, but I now only play Reach for maybe an hour when I do play it. I usually only play it once every other week though.

pitfall 2 :rofl:

Mercs 2

Mass Effect 2

Xeno Gears 2

Skyrim will disappoint me if it doesn't have spell creation.

Personally I loved AoE3. 2 was amazing but three just clicked with me for some reason.

Halo Reach was probably my most recent disappointment. I loved halo 2 and 3 and sunk a ton of hours into them. I can't blame Bungie though. I think I just played myself out.

PArt of the problem with FNV at least for me, was that it is too smilar to FO3.

One that I can remember that let me down when I was looking forward to it was Rainbow Six Lockdown. I just couldnt believe how bad that game was and it didnt get much better even after Vegas. I know someone who has worked on the upcoming Ghost Recon Future Soldier and he even says its going to be garbage.....poor Ubisoft.

:huh: What? Really? I've only played a few hours of SR1 but I completed SR2, and they seemed pretty much the same to me - awesome to the max.

I hadn't played Oblivion when I came here, so assuming it was like a Tolkien-y Fallout I bought it. I just couldn't get into it at all, I literally got bored the second I left the prison area at the beginning.

Also New Vegas, Fallout 3 just seemed like a more cohesive, believeable setting, to hell with canon.

I wasn't expecting much, but Skate 3 was dissappointing in terms of how little it brought to the table. The park editor was the only good addition, the map was far worse (only one megaramp skatepark? crappy pipes areas?)

Ubisoft apparently died a few years ago. They seem to be making the 'government cheese' of video games now.

The what now? :blink: Unless you mean Xenosaga, in which case i have to disagree. Except for the part where it became a single three game series instead of three two games series. And the second part wasn't that good, but it was supposed to be included in the first one originally :shrug:

Mercs 2 wasn't as good as the first and was quite buggy in addition, but it still was entertaining enough. A Game where you can buy a Hind and proceed to blow [censored] up can't be a complete letdown :hehe:

Grotesque Tactics (Steam game) was pretty bad, it had a decent amount o fhumor but overall was a pretty bad game.
Magnetis also was pretty bad, I think I just expected more from it though it was only $2 so I should not have had very high expectations. I will admit it has moments where it is fun but overall again it is very subpar.
Deus Ex and Invisible war also both could not get my interest at all when I tried them.

I agree, it had a really bland campaign and I didn't find the multiplayer enjoyable at all.

In recent memory, Dragon Age.

The biggest of of all time? Final Fantasy 7.

I got into the series with 8. Played it and loved it. Did the same with 9 and 10. People kept recommending 7, so I played it.

I played it for 4 hours, trying really hard to get into it, but I just couldn't.

Fable 3 was a big let down for me considering I enjoyed the first 2 games quiet a bit. I don't know what direction they were going for but they let me down. I enjoyed the story but the game difficulty and layout are just... not good. If i can make it through a rpg without dying one time something is wrong with that game. I felt like i was playing a game for children at one point. I know you are suppose to be a hero and all but shouldn't heroes face actual challenges? Not to mention that they stripped down most rpg elements to the bone.

Another problem I had with it was their take on good and evil, when i first started buying property i started out in Bowerstone Market and i raised the few buildings that i owned to high rent well about 15 minutes later i return to Bowerstone and everyone hates me, so i lower rent and they still hate me? Now i have to do quest for every single person? Screw that. The ending was the worst part though, how does being a good guy actually end up having the reverse effect and evil consquences?

A message to lionhead studios: If you ever release another Fable game please give it some time to actually be polished. I think the series is due for a big make over.

At the end people hate you for being "evil" because you didnt give them what they wanted. They are kinda like the spoiled brats who want something and wll throw a tantrum if you keep it away even if its for thier own good.
Also I didnt even realise there was a knockdown achivemetn I was jsut like "2 huh, wonder what they are ?"
Check out angry joes 32 reasons fable 3 svcks (cant link), he hits the nail on the head.

Also gears 2, crap story, boring gameplay, buggy and bad multiplayer.

Mass Effect 2. What a pile of steaming cow turd...

Compared to Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 had such of broken plot filled with holes and whatnot. And the script? In Mass Effect, it could seem like cursing had been removed from the vocabulary of the space traveling average Joe, but Mass Effect 2 changed that too... And the combat was really great, seriously. But it wasn't an RPG I was playing, it was a third person shooter. As an RPG, Mass Effect 2 is dumb, as a Shooter, Mass Effect 2 is smart.

Yeah, I meant Xeno Saga 2. That game was terrible.



Agreed, they ruined that franchise.

WoW. With everyone saying it's very fun, and because I usually like MMORPGs I thought I'd like it. Bah, quests everywhere and/or repeating the same instances isn't fun at all for me. And it's more of an action game in many ways than an MMORPG. Time lost....

Really? I thought the story was really good the first time around, didn't have much replayability after that.But, the graphics and scenic views were excellent.

Can't say I really bought a bad game, I rarely dish out money on games, and when I do, I research well.

Mercenaries 2 was a disappointment. it didnt have that wow or fun factor as the first one.

I was extremely disappointed when I played the PC version of Final Fantasy XIV. I was expecting a great, amazing MMO. I was expecting Square Enix to learn from their mistakes of FFXI and create this awesome, brilliant game. It turned out to be a poor, menu-excessive, repetitive experience, which offered as much variety as a carton of eggs. As a huge MMO and Square fan, this was my worst disappointment I've ever had.

Recently, Mass Effect 2. Overall, I wouldn't cite specific games, just game companies- Valve and BioWare.

Yeah, they basically http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com/pl/topics/detail?id=ae8d667b53355d8ea364fafa44d5253e4362e17f it wasn't worth paying for.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2006. What a giant piece of [censored].

Assassin's Creed 2. Never played the first one, but the general consensus I got from it was that it had some interesting ideas alongside some gaping flaws. When this came out it was met with universal praise, so I decided it was worth checking out. Some 30 hours later, I have no [censored] clue what's so great about this. It has by far one of the worst combat systems I have ever played, each of its missions are stupidly repetitive, and the exploration aspect is trashed by the very fact that there's absolutely nothing worth finding in the otherwise gorgeous-looking environments. It's a good thing I never played AC1, because if I didn't like AC2, I most definitely would have hated part 1.

Xenogears. I played the hell out of the demo that came with Parasite Eve, and it seemed like an interesting game. And, for the most part, it was, though it could be annoyingly wordy and cutscene heavy. And then you reach the second disc, and everything falls apart. The narrative goes out the window, with everything being dumped on through exposition and a few loosely-connected and poorly explained boss fights and dungeons that you have to slog through.

Devil May Cry 2 and 4. The former was a bastardization of the first game in the series made by an idiot who nothing of what made the first one so cool. And the latter was another lazy, by-the-numbers production that Capcom is infamous for.


What was so cohesive and believable about Fallout 3's setting? None of the settlements produced anything, no one was growing their own food, seemed the population sustained itself for 200 years off scavenged goods and had made no advancements in that time, the nearest slave buyers were hundreds of miles away, Super Mutants were dumb as bricks and yet were organized enough to nearly overrun the Capital Wasteland (and their whole presence was barely given a cursory glance), and the whole "water purification" plot made no sense even under Fallout's trademark use of bad science. And Little Lamplight. Everything about Lamplight was nonsense!

Far Cry 2.

While not being a game I hate or dislike, I do hate the actual gameplay itself. It's tiresome, and you have to be on guard all the time. You're also quite dependent of those safehouses and weapon shops to save, if you die and the last time you saved were three hours ago, you're [censored]. And getting around on foot, that's a drag, sure it's a nice game to look at and all that, but it takes forever to walk from one place to another. And even if you have a reliable car, let's not forget all the guard posts that are at almost every road that cross each other, with roadblocks that you either need to to ram or drive around. And if you try to ram them, the car will quickly become useless, if you drive around them, you not only need to drive around them but take a damn detour as far away from the guard posts.

It's a realistic game that's punishing, and most of the time it kicks you while you're down. It's not really that fun either... I wonder why I play it?