Biggest video game disappointment?
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Kreugen
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Max Payne 3. Holy shit I hated that game. It was so far removed from the originals that it was basically Street Fighter The Movie: The Game.
EQ2 and SWG made me feel like the Nazi's opening the holy ark.
Mostly though this just brings up memories of roughly 80% of the NES games I ever rented. Especially the ones that Nintendo Power hyped the shit out of.
EQ2 and SWG made me feel like the Nazi's opening the holy ark.
Mostly though this just brings up memories of roughly 80% of the NES games I ever rented. Especially the ones that Nintendo Power hyped the shit out of.
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Intrinsic
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We were still lucky to have played Out of this World and Flashback. Neither of them did shit else though, unless you liked Shaq Fu.
Diablo 3, and I don't even think it's close. After how amazing Diablo 2 was, there couldn't have been a bigger disappointment. Diablo 3 was just fucking awful. The story was bad, the dialogue was cringe worthy, the itemization was horrible, the auction house was a fucking train wreck, just bleh! To put a final nail in the coffin, I got stuck behind the level wall in Act 2 when they ran that first patch, and couldn't progress any further. Rolling out those invincible enemy combos and getting insta killed made me want to fire bomb Blizzard. All the best loot was on the other side of that wall for those who were lucky enough to level to 60 before the patch, and they made damn sure everything was insanely expensive on the AH. Fuck that game!
Mr Creed
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In beta EQ2 was not that bad the graphics was a love or hate thing, they never really botherd me but 1 week before close of beta they done a major patch and completely destoryed the combat, the combat system was not that bad you never havd a millions skills like you had in the launch version (this new patch) the old versions of the skills shared the same CD so making needed to have all of them on your toolbar a non thing, but then this patched hit and changed it all and know one could beleive what they had done. It destoryed the game.
it was like the "Miracle" patch that all devlopers promise in beta but in this case no one asked for it or expected it.
Other games worth a mention, not so much a disapointment but just good awful game Horizon MMO my god that game was beyond bad, it was a while ago but I remember the beta being packed so I assume the hype for the game was big but it was just a hugh pile or turd.
Age of Empires 3 for me was a massive disappointment as someone who put so much time into AoE2 and used to play in pro events and ranked quite high, AoE3 was just terrible the new god systems and it basicly come down to who could build a god first won the game, the different tactcis that made AoE2 so unpredictable had all gone out the window
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Kiroy
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I'm going to completely agree with Age of Conan. I had just gotten out of the navy took a few months break from working and this was the first game that I truly poopsocked. I fucking loved the combat and got max level in a couple days, joined a raiding guild, and wtf everything was non-existent or broken. Pretty much ruined poopsocking for me.
Caliane
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managed expectations.
plenty of games are pretty disappointing. GW2 I had very high hopes for, with its near perfect manifesto. The game itself was of course, a giant letdown in WvW. let down in class balance/non-trinity design. Great world design though. so, good here, bad there. not the wow killer.
SWtor, as you note. Amazing trailers/movies. but, those aren't gameplay. was super hyped in the early days, but calmed way down by the time beta came around. Got into a closed beta. was soundly.. meh. So, on release I knew what was coming. only played because friends were playing, and at the time, didn't have another prime game. just subbed for 3months iirc.
any sandbox game. Fallout, skyrim, etc. I REALLY want more out of these games. more advanced AI. simulation aspects, etc. They all end up letdowns. playing fallout4 feels like a half finished game often. SO close in many ways. but then, nothing is flushed out like it should be.
no mans sky. I saw that shit coming a mile away. Landmark. saw that coming a mile away. so, can't be really disappointed in those, since I was expecting it.
D3 for me really stands out, because I did manage expectations, and was prepared for shit. It somehow managed to take my zero expectations, and go even lower. i was expecting a bad game, and got something terrible beyond my imagining.
radditsu
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Cybsled
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I loved FO4, but the biggest draws were the base building (main reason I played the hell out of Dayz:Epoch on Arma2) and I liked the companion interactions.
For big disappoints for me, I would say Age of Conan. Like others have said, early game was AMAZING. Then it became a shitty grind with no real content. However, it was fun to stab an old EQ1 guildy that took the Avatar of War legs and ebayed them in the stomach and chop off their head in AoC lol.
SC2 as well for me, although I think that had more to do with the fact I had played DOTA for years at that point and realized I wasn't as big a fan of the old-style RTS games anymore.
For big disappoints for me, I would say Age of Conan. Like others have said, early game was AMAZING. Then it became a shitty grind with no real content. However, it was fun to stab an old EQ1 guildy that took the Avatar of War legs and ebayed them in the stomach and chop off their head in AoC lol.
SC2 as well for me, although I think that had more to do with the fact I had played DOTA for years at that point and realized I wasn't as big a fan of the old-style RTS games anymore.
Caliane
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I wouldn't know. I am not paying 60$ to fix a broken game.
is it only 20 now? meh, still not going to.
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