Biggest Disappointments in Gaming

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Since Rare only put out I think two games on the XBox, I'm going to take a wild guess and say it's Grabbed by the Ghoulies.

Republic: The Revolution, Folklore (where the eff is the voice-acting?), Black & White 2 and Mercedes-Benz: World Racing.

Starcraft2 and the fact that I've been waiting 12 years for this sequel and I've been hearing it will be released soon since 2007.

almost every GTA game for pretending to offer a lot and in the end its always 15 minutes of fun and then you quit playing.

MOH rising sun for being really really really ugly really really really short and for some reason omiting the last level when you play in co-op (nontheless i did enjoy rising sun a bit, co-op was fun and there were some interesting things)

the HALO series for being to hyped allthough they are good games and i play halo 3 online every once in a while, i can't really see why people make such a big deal of these games....they're not that special, nothing about it ever made me feel like whoaaa this is so intense.

another big disappointment.....that one time all the save files on my zelda ocarina of time cartridge were deleted

pretty much every fps game thats coming out nowadays simply for having way too short campaigns

I play music and rhythm games so for me it would be Konami stuffing up the DDR
series with rubbish song licenses (The SuperNOVA series and X espcially,).

The ending of fatal frame 2 crimson butterflies disappointed me. After staying up half the night to save my sister in that game [myu] somehow my character ends up strangling here and killing her. I like that character and it made me actually cry T_T which is a challenge since i never cry ussually. i am to closed up for that.

ow and the ending i got at the end of dragon age origins. After making love to and making king of alistair i was gonna give my characters life up for him. Except he would not allow me to do it and he did it himself. Darn you alisair you selfish jerk now my character has to live life in suffering because of you.

Rome Total War

It had w*k AI
It felt like a monty python version of history (flaming pigs, head chucking bretons)
It was delayed for a year to make the game more "accessable" i.e. dumbed down.
During that year it recieved tons of hype had a game show (Time Commander) promoting it, lots of promotion in mags before release

Its taken years of modding by people in their own time to make it a decent game (Europa Barbarian Mod)

Medieval total war and Shogun total war were so much better even with the out of date 8 bit graphics

The game engine it used didn't really achieve maturity till the expansion for its sequal medieval 2 Kingdoms. Even then its still taken a greek modder to give it any decent AI

It really disappointed me as a game I was expecting so much more. Empire total war has felt like a repeat so i've not wasted my time on napoleon total war. Might get it for the multiplayer campaigns but thats it.

My biggest disappointments

Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire: they took out all of the amazing new features from Gold & Silver and was just Red and Blue with prettier graphics

Zelda Twilight Princess: it was too similar to Ocarina of Time and I also overhyped it believing it would be the greatest game of all time (It was the first Zelda game I felt forced to finish)

Zelda Phantom Hourglass: the Ocean Temple was Nintendo's worst idea since giving Phillips the right to make 3 Zelda games...

Oblivion: I liked Morrowind MUCH more the only thing I liked about Oblivion was the ability to ride a horse to places but was actually pretty pointless as the map was like 1/4 the size of Morrowind's so it was pretty pointless to have horses when everything was so close together

I knew going into Borderlands I'd get a better story out of a fighting game probably. But the bit where you beat the uber octopus and get nothing or renown? Criminal. Was a good game overall though.

No, for me it has to be Dragon Age on 360. After all the critical acclaim I tried for hours to get into it. It never felt much more than a late gen XBOX game with this generic and graphically dated Tolkienesque world. Granted some of the conversations could be amusing but that bit of joy wasn't enough for me. The most inspired part of the game to me was the title screen, for some reason.

In Borderlands I believe that the main story would be more entertaining if they have treated like they're treated the story for "The Isle of Dr.Ned" making it being in the sense of having that one arms dealer telling a story to a child.

I'd loved to have played some of the expansions. Sadly I don't have Live so off to Ebay it was after playing through both playthroughs. It felt like pure Diablo crackhead bliss for over a month and then I couldn't care what ++weapon I found anymore.

Probably the second KOTOR, I mean jesus christ that ending was garbage. I read it was rushed going in, but man I'm surprised that game still managed to get positive reviews with that nonsense there.

Second place would have to go to oblivion, so much hype and yet it more or less ended up being a morrowind with the life sucked out of it and a better combat system (which eventually became horrible due to scaling).

Agreed. That temple killed the game for me.

Twilight Princess was a mostly disappointment, with Imp Midina being one of the few redeeming features.

I simply declared 'What is the point!?' inside the second quarter Palace of Twilight, due to the Gimmick(carry the MacGuffin while being chased by a hand, oh how classic.) of the dungeon seeming twice as gimmicky and arbitrary as the last.

Now, it did not feel like a rehash to me, but it felt too much like they focused on the padding first, gameplay second, then the storyline with dungeon design being on the back burner, and puzzles being somewhere lower than that. The dungeons are nice, but they felt a bit arbitrary to complete and find all the items in, like a throwback to Zelda One, where you might find the item to kill the boss, but you have yet to find the compass or map. Or even the keys to unlock the door back in room 3-A.

The storyline was compelling, but if you can never reach the story in good time, what is the point?

Yeah I still haven't finished that game and I probably won't because I'm just too confused by it.

Hmm I am usually my own biggest disappointment because in games that I really find fun like Guild Wars and Dungeons and Dragons Online, I suck playing by myself and I always need my friends to come help me when I get into difficult stuff, which is pretty soon after the training bit. I don't know what it is......

Also one was with Harvest Moon 64. I was doing amazingly, getting the girl of my dreams really quickly and whatnot, then my sister accidentally deleted my file. I still don't think I've restarted. Hmm maybe today.

ALSO also... Pokémon Battle Revolution (the one for the Wii?): It's just battling! I thought there would be some storyline to it. And I never really figured out how to use my own choice of rental Pokémon, so it's a good thing I copied my DS game into it. But you can only use each Pokémon once on each Battle Pass. Pretty dumb. And also what if I want to copy another DS game onto it. Does it delete the previous data? OH yeah.. and the narrator. The way they pieced together the monologue/voiceover was very sloppy.