So this past week three demos came out for three games I was looking forward to. They all disappointed me.

Bulletstorm was the first disappointment. For some reason I thought the game would be like Borderlands. It seems to come from that same school of game development Duke Nukem and Serious Sam came out of where it's all about big guys and their big guns. The game does look good and I applaud the developers for not making the chick a big briasted bimbo but the gameplay was kind of shallow. About the only thing there was to do was kick people into stuff. Fun for some people, but not so much for me.

Crysis 2 was next. The gameplay felt off to me. It reminded me a lot of that game BlackLight: Tango Down for some reason. It was also very CoD-ish, except you could turn invisible and jump real high. And this is a minor complaint but I hate games with overly complicated menus, like the ones that are designed to look like a computer from a science fiction film where everything is semi transparent and the background moves around. It's distracting and gives me a headache. And while I love my Xbox, it just can't handle the graphics. Lots of pop-ins and delayed textures, I'm sure there's a fancy name for that. Now I've never played a Crysis game before and from what I've heard the single-player is where it's at and I'm sure it will be great, but I think I'm going to make this a rental.

Lastly was Breach. This was the biggest disappointment. I'd been looking forward to this game for awhile. I'm all for this idea of releasing multiplayer-only FPS's as cheap, arcade games, but I was disappointed by the aforementioned BlackLight. I thought Breach would be a lot better. The destructible environment system is using looked pretty intriguing and the gameplay seemed pretty solid and looked a lot like Battlefield. But of course, the game turned out to be utter [censored]. The graphics look very last-gen and moving around feels sluggish, like you're constantly wading through tar. The cover system is frustrating and the destructible environments aspect of the game both succeeds and fails. You CAN shoot out part of a wall, like the top, bottom, and side parts of it, but it'll leave a big area of it just floating there in midair. Towards the end of the games I played the map was littered with floating puts of wall and railing (Another problem is that the maps are big. This wouldn't be a problem if your character wasn't so slow).

Three games I was looking for forward too that won't be getting my money.

So what have been your most recent (or past, doesn't matter to me) gaming disappointments?

perfect dark zero was a disappointment. Black ops wasnt that much of a disappointment since i knew not to expect alot out of it. Crysis 2 still freezes my xbox. Breach was ok but then it was just pretty much a clunky shooter. New vegas i loved but i thought it was too much fallout to fast.

When I was younger I used to buy games on a regular basis without actually knowing if I was going to like them or not.
Now I only buy them if I′m totally sure of their quality and if they fit my tastes. Reading a lot of reviews and people′s opinions is a good way to deal with it before buying the games.
Turok evolution was my biggest disapointment.

WoW: Wrath of the Lich King. I had waited for a little more than a year for it to come out and when I finally got to play it, it wasn't the game I was expecting for. Death knights were so overpowered etc.

Rogue Warrior. When I heard that Bethesda is going to publish a new action game, I was like "Oh, cool". Then when I played it, I couldn't even find the right words to describe how much the game svcks. 50 euros wasted...

Saints Row 2. I liked the first one, so I thought that the second one was cool too. Well, it was not. Now it's gathering dust on my shelf...

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. I had seen some gameplay and it felt pretty much like Oblivion, so I decided to try it out. Again, it was not the game I expected it to be.

The Sims 3

EA butchered The Sims franchise with this garbage. Not only could I not get into the game much, but the actual game was missing core elements of the previous two which made it fun and memorable. Basically sacrificed content for visuals. What also bothers me is EA charging customers via The Sims 3 store for content, I wonder why the content was not put into the game in the first place. Going back to the game, The Sims 2 Sims look better and not Disney-like of Sims 3. Yes, Sims 3 is made for the new generation of people (mostly kids 13 and below) and yet I find the previous two are better and cannot be replaced. It is also noted the expansion packs are bug-ridden and meh as ep's, Ambitions does have spyware. Game felt meh and shallow due to focusing heavily on visuals and not actual gameplay. It is also worth mentioning people find Sims 3 is nothing more than a popularity of clothes and who looks good, the heck? O_O That's truly not what The Sims is about. I speak strong and expressive of this game because I bought The Sims in 2000 and then Sims 2, I was hoping Sims 3 would at least maintain some similarities of previous two.

Fallout New Vegas was a big disappointment for me. I thought it would be better but it was just filled with Bugs galore.

Fable 3 was a joke the only good thing about that game was how much the Graphics have improved. I beat it once and I couldn't play it again it was terrible and I traded it in a week later.

Red Dead Redemption is probably my biggest disappointment from last year besides Divinity 2 which was horrible, a complete sham. I was hoping when I read the reviews about Red Dead and the fact that it was made by Rockstar who also made the Grand Theft Auto series so I was kinda expecting it to be good. Red Dead was good but I just couldn't beat it and I gave up on it halfway through I was just getting tired of the controls and always getting killed.

In before Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Mass Effect 2

Personally i don't remember any game i would've hated so much i would rant about it :shrug:

Fable 3. I know to some people Fable 1 was a disappointment but I was too young to be hyped for the first game. Fable 3 destroyed my childhood favourite franchise (second only to Age Of Empires).

Speaking of AoE, AoE3 was disappointing. To be fair there was no way it could stand up to its predecessor, and I applaud the developments Ensemble made instead of sticking with the same formula as AoE2.

Black Ops was disappointing to me because I'd heard a lot about how good it is from like minded friends who loathed every instalment since CoD4 as well. I was expecting more of a return to CoD4's balancing. How wrong I was. Also, veteran campaign is stupid hard. Not fun hard - no hitpoints hard.

Splinter Cell Conviction was another childhood favourite molested beyond recognition. When I played the demo and physically couldn't complete it without being seen and without killing anyone I knew that I had to give up on the franchise. Good night, sweet prince.

Clocked in 147 hours and just stopped playing.

Jade Empire - I'd been seeing tons of rave reviews for this one, but when I got to it it felt like a blatant attempt to mimic KotOR, and it failed. Worse, the game just screamed "half-finished". I got even more of a vibe of it being rushed out the door than I did from KotOR 2 (which also did a better job of being KotOR).

TES IV: Oblivion - There's been enough garbage argued about this, I'll just drop the title and move on.

Jak and Daxter series - I'm not sure what most reviewers were looking for, but when I acquired these games described as platformers, I wasn't looking for awful platform-jumping controls. The later games decided to solve this by phasing out platforming in favor of vehicle-based gameplay with even worse control.

Call of Duty 4 - Not coincidentally, one of the earlier shooters to completely abandon singleplayer in favor of multiplayer killed any desire to look into other shooters as the whole industry veered that way.

Thief 3 - Sadly, the company tried way too hard to make the graphics amazing and modern, and wound up losing control of the technology. Stifling, linear levels broken up by load screens and a fountain of bugs kept this one from being what it could have been.

Suikoden 4 - Not much to say here. Appalling entry in a great series, exuding even more of the stink of incompletion than Jade Empire.

Most recently; Crackdown 2.

I really enjoyed the first one. It's actually what made me a fan of the whole "jumping around in an open world" genre. Because of it; I liked games like Assassins Creed, Mirrors Edge, Prototype, etc..

When I got 2, it was somehow lacking. I guess mostly because Prototype ended up setting the new standard for the genre, and CD2 wasn't nearly as good. (Although it's not a bad game; it's still disappointing)

Call of Duty 6 - Sacrificed good single player story and good multiplayer that I loved from COD 4 and turned it into a shoot first questions later action game with completely unbalanced multiplayer and left me disappointed

Sims 3 - What Everett said

Splinter Cell Conviction. I really loved the Splinter Cell series but then they made that crap. What were they thinking? It's hardly a stealth game anymore! Hell, there's only 2 levels of light and 2 speeds!

Far Cry 2. Who knew making a good FPS into an open world game with RPG elements would be a BAD idea? The only redeeming fun in that game were the fire physics.

Fable 2
Fable 3
Mass effect 2 (yes a guy said it would come up, dont care)
Crysis 2 was utter crap
Red faction gorilla
Tenchu z (good idea, bad gameplay, bad story)
Dead rising, I dont carewhat people say, the controls were bad, gameplay was bad, phsychos were annoying, stuff broke to easy, etc.
Oblivion, to much copy paste.. I dont remember exploring and going "ok this is an awesome find" no where stood out, fallout fixed that.
RDR multiplayer. Empty world, just filled with people shooting eachother, it needs to be alive like RDR SP.

Borderlands. Everyting was recycled, same few enemies with reskins, guns with only minor 1% changes and a different colour, even with all that crap that had minimum effort they could have put something else in there, only interection with non hostile enemies is getting uests. Fail.

I agree with this, that cave I just looted was same as the last 5 , only a few places I remember had a "story-ish" background with something to go " Oh that's cool " , everything else was just the same as the last. I agree with the Fallout though, every place ( pretty much ) had at least something in there that made the spot monumental in my mind.

For my gaming disappointment I'm going to say Mass Effect 1, everyone said Mass Effect 2 was just oh so wonderful, so I asked for both for Christmas, I got Mass Effect 1, I have only played it about 2 hours tops, and I don't feel any need to go pick it up. It's so bland , combat svcks, I don't even know what is going on in the story, to me, there is no sense of direction on what I am doing ( Main story mission ) ,the only thing I like doing is finding new Armour, and weapons.

Don't crucify me; but I didn't like Bioshock 2 much either.. The first one was really good. Atmospheric, creepy, unique, the works. I didn't like the second one nearly as much. Story was good, but the first story was better, IMO..

• Oblivion is the most memorable. It's a nice game, but I followed the hype far too closely after begin a Morrowind fan for years - taught me a lesson.
  
• Gothic 3 is a notable one. Like Oblivion, it was a decent game, but the previous Gothics are so much better that it is very disappointing in comparison.
  
• Jade Empire. Heard a lot about it. Found it boring, predictable and average at best.
  
• Shadow of the Colossus. I usually tend to end up liking cult classics, but no matter how I tried, I just couldn't get into this one.
  
• Okami. Same as above, but to a lesser degree.

That too. Bioshock 2 felt more like an additional level pack for Bioshock 1 than a complete game in its own right.

That is excactly my opinion about that game too. I played it for three hours, and then I called quits. Haven't touched it since.

Morrowind (no, I'm not trolling)
I hated the fighting/moving system. I really hate games where I don't have a block button. And when I swing my longsword with the enemy three feet away, I hit him dammit. Having your weapon fly through your enemy like he is a ghost just because your luck/weapon skill is too low is just ridiculous.

The most recent one that comes to mind for me is Mass Effect 2. I absolutely loved the first Mass Effect, but after playing the second one for several hours I just can't get into it.

This.

New Vegas was my biggest disappointment. It was a good RPG but an awful sandbox game, and I eventually got too bored to continue exploring so I just finished the main quest and never touched the game again. 47 hours is a pathetic amount of time compared to the 300+ hours I played Fallout 3 and the ever-increasing amount of time I've played Morrowind so far. Especially considering most of those hours were me just exploring and hoping in vain for it to eventually be worth it... and it wasn't.

Most recently, Two Worlds 2.

Gorgeous graphics but very unsatisfying experience. Boredom set in after 10 hours of playing when I realised the game was very unpolished and a mess of half assed ideas that failed to live up to their potential. It just felt like a poor clone of Assassins Creed trying to be an RPG.

Ah well, at least The Witcher 2 and DA2 are around the corner

Those indeed. Each being but a shadow of their predecessors (even Mass Effect 2, even though ME 1 was only decent).

Also: Arcania: Gothic 4, Fable 2&3, Two Worlds and Far Cry 2. To mention few.

My List:

• Warcraft 3 (Very disappointed with the direction they took after the first and second game)
  
• Diablo 3 (Probably my biggest game disappointment of my life bar none)
  
• All James Bond games after Golden Eye 64
  
• Halo 3 (Not a huge disappointment, but it didn't have any wow factor like the other Halos and I played it far less than 1 and 2)
  
• Final Fantasy 8 (I didn't even want to finish it. I hated the weapon system. Great card game though.)
  
• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (This game lost almost all of the rich flavor of the first game with its atmosphere, setting and storyline. Loved the whole corrupt religious theme and the overall realistic overtone. "Advance" you start in a school and go back in time :rolleyes: )
  
• Starfox Lylat Wars
  
• Supreme Commander 2 (Total Annihilation and Subcom 1 are two of the best RTS games ever created. The second one he sold out and tried to be more like Starcraft, sacrificing literally almost everything that made his RTS games different and unique. There was a funny review that could be simplified into a single saying that I think fits really well about it, "If you didn't like Subcom 1 you won't like Subcom 2. If you liked Subcom 1 you won't like Subcom 2". In other words, it doesn't really accomplish the role of being either a good RTS in the style of Starcraft or its own predecessor.)

I am probably forgetting some games but that is all I have in mind.

There are games that I liked a lot that will probably never get a proper sequel, one of them being Homeworld 2. Wish someone would remake that game with the same value as the first 2.