Most disappointing games - The Bear and Badger

retroking1981

What's your most disappointing games?

Doesn't have to be a bad game, but one you was hyped for that didn't quite live up to your expectations.

I think mine is Mario Golf: Super Rush on Switch. Camelot fucked up something to basic, it still boggles my mind. Previous entries in the series were some of my most played games on their respective systems.

Others I can think of:
Perfect Dark (N64)
Street Fighter III
Star Fox Assault
Super Mario Sunshine
Halo 4
Driv3r
MGS2
Resident Evil 6
Zelda: Majoras Mask
Castlevania Lords of Shadow

What's your picks?

Yossarian

BotW, HL2, mainly because they were so hyped.

Yossarian

Actually, maybe not HL2 thinking about it. It was okay.

Wookienopants

Yossarian wrote:

BotW, HL2, mainly because they were so hyped.

Get out

Yossarian

Nope.

Yossarian

We’re doing Jordan Peele movies, right?

acemuzzy

Us?

Blue Swirl

retroking1981 wrote:

What's your most disappointing games? Doesn't have to be a bad game, but one you was hyped for that didn't quite live up to your expectations. I think mine is Mario Golf: Super Rush on Switch. Camelot fucked up something to basic, it still boggles my mind. Previous entries in the series were some of my most played games on their respective systems. Others I can think of: Perfect Dark (N64) Street Fighter III Star Fox Assault Super Mario Sunshine Halo 4 Driv3r MGS2 Resident Evil 6 Zelda: Majoras Mask Castlevania Lords of Shadow What's your picks?

Completely agreed on Resi 6. It's the only numbered RE I haven't completed. Absolute tosh, and bordering on unplayable. Also MGS2, absolutely bonkers and not as much fun to play as the first MGS. Super Mario Sunshine is also a good shout, but that might be because it had impossible expectations to live up to. I recently went through it via 3D All Stars, and it's still good fun - just not as good SM64.

But Perfect Dark and Street Fighter III? Stone-cold classics, both. Though PD did have a lot to live up to, and it's arguable whether or not it did, and SFIII took many years to reveal it's genius, and I guess people had moved on to Tekken and Virtua Fighter - 3D is better than 2D was the mantra of the time.

Yossarian wrote:

BotW, HL2, mainly because they were so hyped.

Ban request.

Dark Soldier

Last of Us
Every Halo before or after 3
CoD: MW2
Trials Rising
Borderlands 3 (which i loved but lacks any teplayability)
FM22

acemuzzy

Top 3 recent ones:

- Untitled Goose Game
- Trek to Yuma (or whatever it was called)
- Stacking

drumbeg

Rise of the Robots. One of the biggest turds of all time.

afgavinstan

Need For Speed: Most Wanted (the Criterion one). They'd made the outstanding Hot Pursuit, and it was going open world, so anticipation was sky high.

But it was just a bit?... Pants?

RedDave2

For me it's often been sequels

Devil may cry 2 was particularly disappointing. A complete opposite of the first game. So poor. The first pes games on the 360/ps3 were also very lacking compared to the ps2 stuff. Burnout 3, while not a bad game, took one of my favourite racers and brushed a big smear of EA over it and the series never really recovered.

Darksiders 2 was another big let down - the first took me by surprise and was a slightly scruffy gem. The sequel added way too much rpg stuff and ditched mark hamall.

Also have to throw guilty gear games here. I've tried to like them across many versions and platforms but I can just never gel with them so drop them. Might be better if I had another person to play against and learn the game.

Diluted Dante

Dark Soldier wrote:

FM22

What about it? I was on 17 before so near enough everything was new to me. The dynamic youth rating being basically nothing was the only thing that disappointed me.

LivDiv

Cyberpunk.
They can fix all the glitches and framerate drops but they didnt deliver on making a meaningfully different path based on the initial faction choice and after 15 minutes it just became all the same.

Zelda Skyward Sword
Absolute toss. 10 my arse.

A whole bunch of remakes, re-releases and remasters of retro games that are lazily done. There was a real run of them on XBLA. Thankfully things have improved.

Cupatay

Shadow of war

Loved shadow of mordor and SoW added loads of stuff that should of made it better than its predecessor but they fucked it.

Eldon Ring

Hoped I'd like it, thought I might, turns out I don't. Did absolutely nothing for me in the first couple of hours I played and I couldn't force myself to play on any longer. Sucked in by the hype and had to try it. My most expensive loss on this list.

MGS 3

Loved the others but I missed this on release and didn't play it till years after.

Disco Elysium

My fault really this one. I knew it wasn't my thing but wanted to try it.

No man's sky

Fuckin yawn, uninstall.

Dreams

I have no idea why I bought it.

Dark Soldier

Diluted Dante wrote:

Dark Soldier wrote:

FM22

What about it? I was on 17 before so near enough everything was new to me. The dynamic youth rating being basically nothing was the only thing that disappointed me.

If you play it year on year you'll see. Bar the Deadline Day stuff which is mint first time then gets tedious, there's nothing new there. Staff meetings are absolutely hopeless.

Also the ME is fuck awful but that's been a trend for years.

Moot_Geeza

A few that spring to mind:

Guardian Heroes Advance
NiGHTS (Wii)
Super Monkey Ball 2
Dark Savior (I did enjoy this but it was no Landstalker)
Halo 4
Mario Golf Super Rush
Shenmue III
Rastan Saga 2
Everybody's Golf (PS4)
The second game in the most recent Tomb Raider reboot franchise. Rise of?

hylian_elf

Can't think of any off the top of my head, so I'll just look at others' lists and go "oh yeah, that one".

Halo 4, oh yeah, that one

Diluted Dante

Staff meetings can fuck off to be fair.

"Stop training this because it's no longer a weakness in his game"

Yeah, I want him to be good at it dickhead.

"Hire these people"

All of these are significantly worse than my current staff.

Paul the sparky

Cyberpunk is a big one. The marketing for it was disingenuous and outright lied at times

LivDiv

The Medium
Loved Layers of Fear and Observer. They tried to make a proper game with The Medium but they don't know how.
Stick to £10 4 hour thrills please.

LivDiv

Mario Sunshine
Not the worst game ever made, far from it but man that anticipation after Mario 64 then getting this. What a dissapointment.
These days we are used to the drip feed of Nintendo's big IP. One at a push two per console gen for the big hitters but back then we were going off the frequency of the 16 bit gen and the anticipation for Mario 64 2 or Mario 128 as I remember it being referred to was off the scale.

They really should have done a Mario 64 2 that was just more of the same on N64 had o soften the blow of Mario Sunshine.

retroking1981

Moot_Geeza wrote:

The second game in the most recent Tomb Raider reboot franchise. Rise of?

Good shout. So much so its put me off playing the third. Silly of me to buy them both at once.

hylian_elf

Third one was the worst. Utter gash.

retroking1981

Oh dear

this is where digital purchases really show a negative side.

regmcfly

It's Halo 5. What a waste of a game in a numbered series. Completing missions by talking to people. Fuck sake.

tigersgogrrr

Lego Indiana Jones. I bought it because some of you said it was good and then a guy at work said it was good and it was clearly for children not awesome tigers. More disappointed in all the people involved rather than the game itself. Including myself.

All FM/CM games after 01/02.

Skyrim.

Dragon Age: Inquisition.

tigersgogrrr

Monopoly.

Moot_Geeza

Power of Illusion (3DS)
Sonic the Hedgehog 4
Wonderful 101
Hotline Miami 2

hylian_elf

Mention of Skyrim reminds me…

Oblivion.

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