Reading the thread I got one suddenly! I really enjoyed Eric Chahi's Another World aka Out of this World aka Outer World. It was a landmark in cinematic storytelling in an action/puzzle game. Needless to say me and many others expected much from his next game, Heart of Darkness, but it was craptacular shit. Like the guy did not understand a single thing of what made his previous game great. The pinnacle of the lameness in that game was reached when, near the end of the game the hero meets the antagonist for the first time. The antagonist is just shooting fireball at the hero from the background and zero narration happens before or during this crucial confrontation. The WTF level is just off the charts.
The sad part is that Chahi, since Another World in 1991, did only 2 games in 25 year: The lame Heart of Darkness and a somewhat well received god game called From Dust in 2011. The saddest part though is that basically none of the groundbreaking tricks used to blend gameplay and cinematic narration in Another World have been reused by anyone in these 25 years. That's one big disappointment right there.
Not sure how all you dudes seem good with SWTOR!
Absolutely, Everquest 2 has been the biggest gaming disappointment for me.
There was so much potential and such a rich world to build upon; but SOE stupidly decided to scrap everything that made the original good in addition to having such a horrible sense of art direction it was almost unbearable to look at.
Keeping it simple.
MMO: Vanguard & Age of Conan
And most recently Rage. Played that shit for 15 minutes. Was so bad. Controls were garbage. Was some shitty pseudo open-world game. So disappointed.
managed expectations.Not sure how all you dudes seem good with SWTOR!
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.
I wouldn't know. I am not paying 60$ to fix a broken game.Hasn't D3 got a ton better over time?