Games you were Excited for that turn out to be Turds II

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Well the last thread like this I made was pretty active and fun to see what people were excited about and let down with.
Well seeing the old thread died I figured I would go ahead and make another one..
So with that said like the other one list a game or games you were excited about and turned out to be a pile :roll:.
So thanks to all the people who contibuted in the last thread, the only excpetion to this one is lets try to keep it with current gen systems and the PS2,PS3,and the DS nothing older.

So I will put one down for starters:

:360: Spectral Force 3 : Well I just got my 360 at the time and I was excited about the RPG's I missed and all the new ones coming out. Well with the thought of some solid SRPG's also interested me and the graphics did not matter to much and what was the biggest issue here was the gameplay..... enough said.
 
:ds: Heroes of Mana. The previews were mixed at best, but I really like the art style of the Mana games and I decided to take a chance on it and drop $40 when it was first released. It's agreeable enough for the first few missions, and the graphics and story are nice, but as it gets more difficult the broken pathfinding just sucks the fun right out. I wish I hadn't paid full price for such a fundamentally flawed game.
 
Dead Rising. Man did that game piss me off. The bosses were cheap and the save system was terrible just to be terrible.
 
Like many people before the second Matrix movie came out, I was caught up in the hype. I thought the game looked like it was really going to be good...boy was I wrong. I don't remember much from it except the tremendous amount of bugs and utter disappointment.
 
Resistance Fall of Man..

I got on the PS3 game somewhat late but picked this up last year when a local Comp USA was letting them go for like $20...

The people were just so stiff and plastic like. I played it for a few hours and just sold it off. I could not give it more time than that. I was really craving a shooter, but it just didnt do it for me...

The only thing I can think of is I had just finished Uncharted and maybe that ruined my expectations of "next gen" gaming. I know RFOM is a release title, but still....
 
Hellgate: London for sure. I preordered it for the lame dye, played the open beta for 15 minutes, went back to EB and canceled the pre-order.
 
[quote name='FloodsAreUponUS']Spore.[/QUOTE]This and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. They patched the mother fucker how many times, and it's still so buggy that I can't leave the newbie area...
 
[quote name='eswat']This and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. They patched the mother fucker how many times, and it's still so buggy that I can't leave the newbie area...[/quote]

Obviously it just hates you. I played through Clear Sky without running across maybe one or two minor game bugs.

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I think as far as disappointing games, I was extremely disappointed with The Force Unleashed.
 
Mass Effect, Gears of War, KOTOR, Metroid Prime 1-3, all Battlefield games, Ikaruga, Geometry Wars, all Brothers in Arms, and so many more. :(
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']Valkyrie Profile 2, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, Grandia Xtreme, Shadow Hearts: From the New World, Lunar DS, FF12, Star Ocean 3[/QUOTE]

Wasn't the only reason you didn't like FFXII because you couldn't get a Demonsbane? :lol:
 
Zelda DS, and Burnout Paradise.

Zelda DS, focused to much on the stylus for gameplay, and all it did was annoy and frustrate me.

As for Burnout Paradise, I didn't care for the open ended gameplay much at all. Preferred the previous versions.
 
[quote name='Nephlabobo']Assassin's Creed (possibly the worst game I've ever played)[/QUOTE]

That is so wrong and you KNOW it.
 
[quote name='Moxio']That is so wrong and you KNOW it.[/quote]

Even though you listed Mass Effect, KOTOR, and a bunch of other awesome games, I have to say I agree.
 
[quote name='Nephlabobo']Assassin's Creed (possibly the worst game I've ever played)
[/quote]

You are lying and you know it. Ass Creed is not that great, but its not that bad.
 
[quote name='FloodsAreUponUS']You are lying and you know it. Ass Creed is not that great, but its not that bad.[/quote]

You don't know the entire history of games he's played. It may very well be the worst game he's played.

Anyway, I have to go with Dead Rising, Lunar Dragon Song, and Grand Theft Auto: IV.
 
Perfect Dark Zero. Only time I got caught up in launch hype. Mario is Missing. That game just flat out sucked and that's a bad trick to play on a kid that thinks Mario games can't go wrong.
 
[quote name='Moxio']That is so wrong and you KNOW it.[/quote]

No, it's not. And I mean it.

Ass's Creed was enough to make me swear off Ubisoft games entirely.
 
[quote name='Kendal']Dead Rising. Man did that game piss me off. The bosses were cheap and the save system was terrible just to be terrible.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='Liquid 2']My answer in everyone of these threads: Dead Rising[/QUOTE]
Yeah, my friend hyped the game so much and then when I actually played it I hated it.
 
Star Trek: Conquest

I thought it'd be decent like ST: Encounters was. Bought it and a short & repetitive game. I guess that's what I get for a $20 PS2 game, but can't believe they were charging full price for the Wii version.
 
[quote name='The Crotch']Alternate title for threads like these: "Find out which CAGs you should never listen to."[/quote]

or "Hey, these guys have opinions about stuff!"
 
Rear Guard by Adventure International

Obscure, I know. Multi-platform titles can be tricky today but things used to be far worse. There is an occasion severely bad port like the Orange Box on PS3 but for the most part things are fairly consistent or divergent platforms are given distinctly different versions of the game that don't pretend to be identical to the optimal platform.

Back when the assorted platforms were wildly different in functionality and review sites not a click away, it used to be far more difficult to make good choices. In his first Johnny Maxwell novel 'Only You Can Save Mankind' Terry Pratchett created a satirical ad for a game at the center of the plot. In the small print at the bottom it read: Screen shots are from version you didn't buy.

Way back when I'd only had my first gaming platform, an Atari 800, a few weeks, I saw an ad in a magazine for a game called Rear Guard. The originating version on the Apple ][ looked pretty good and the screen shot for the Atari version was less graphically appealing but appeared to be the same game. It really wasn't. The Apple version was a proper bit of machine code while the Atari was written in interpreted BASIC. It was rare that anyone had the nerve to sell such an item. BASIC games were usually the territory of type it in yourself magazine listings. Not only was it not the sort of thing one expected to pay for at retail, it also had no discernable gameplay. We could never figure out what constituted success in the game.

It isn't as if the bar was terribly high back then. Another game whose title I forget but I do recall it was from Broderbund, was a variant on Lunar Lander with a giant lizard that would eat your stranded astronaut if you landed in such a way to force him to take the wrong path. IT would barely count as a mini-game today but that was a satisfactory purchase for cassette in a Ziploc bag at $15.

I've had plenty of bad games since then but that was the first time I felt genuinely ripped off. That loss of innocence stays with you always.
 
Wii OLOLOLOL

In all seriousness, I have to say Metroid Prime II. The backtracking and horrible menus were what finally made me start to lose faith in Nintendo and a big part of the reason I started playing non-Nintendo consoles. Rather pathetic, I know.

edit: Oh, and Phantom Hourglass. I can't believe that piece of crap got a Zelda name slapped onto it. Yeah yeah more bitter fanboy tears.
 
[quote name='Ryuukishi']:ds: Heroes of Mana. The previews were mixed at best, but I really like the art style of the Mana games and I decided to take a chance on it and drop $40 when it was first released. It's agreeable enough for the first few missions, and the graphics and story are nice, but as it gets more difficult the broken pathfinding just sucks the fun right out. I wish I hadn't paid full price for such a fundamentally flawed game.[/QUOTE]

Oh, man, hopefully I'll like it better - just picked up a mint used copy at GS with the cellfire coupon. At least it only cost me $17.49 in GS credit.
 
The Wii version of The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess.


I picked my Wii up on launch day, along with Zelda, and I nearly bursting with excitement. I was young and precocious lad; my expectations were insurmountably high. I thought to myself "boy I'm going to be just like Link on one of his grand adventures; when I swing my arm, Link swings his sword--neato!"

I was wrong. Dead wrong. I soon realized that instead of being a reasonable facsimile of Link, I was a mere facsimile of a retard, and a bad one at that.

See also: Super Paper Mario, Metroid Prime III, Mario Kart Wii, Wii Fit, ect.

See also: lololololololol Nintendo.
 
[quote name='Moxio']Mass Effect, Gears of War, KOTOR, Metroid Prime 1-3, all Battlefield games, Ikaruga, Geometry Wars, all Brothers in Arms, and so many more. :([/quote]
What kind of games don't disappoint you? With Mass Effect, Gears, KoToR, and Metroid you've named some of the best in recent gaming. How in the world were these games disappointing? I guess if you don't enjoy solid play, graphics and story I could see your point...

ATTN Dead Rising haters: I'll admit the save system is a little frustrating at times, but I think it encourages strategy by having consequences for running in w/o a plan. If you can't get by that then you're doing it wrong; tell me slaughtering zombies w/ pretty much anything in sight isn't fun? Speaking of which, I still need to get the Genocider achievement...


As for my most disappointing game, I pick Starship Troopers. Apparently some people got it running well enough to play, but I tried it on a win98 machine, and several different XP machines and the graphical errors made it unplayable. I wanted it to work so badly too. :cry:
 
Gears of War
I grew up loving the Unreal series, and just about everything that Epic had made up til Gears.
Gears is... just something entirely different I have little to no interest in. I respect it for what it is, but meh... no thanks.
 
[quote name='Nephlabobo']No, it's not. And I mean it.

Ass's Creed was enough to make me swear off Ubisoft games entirely.[/quote]

Thats the weirdest thing I ever heard. Swearing off a publisher because of bad games? If you did that you wouldn't play anything?
 
[quote name='FloodsAreUponUS']Thats the weirdest thing I ever heard. Swearing off a publisher because of bad games? If you did that you wouldn't play anything?[/quote]

I don't know. Southpeak is kind of on my avoid list ever since I bought Two Worlds on release day. Thank god I was able to unload it soon after for a minor loss. They also published Monster Madness.
 
[quote name='Antic']:wii: Victorious Boxer[/QUOTE]

Good call here. That could have been so much better..

I will say though in the night I bought and beat the game i had one fight where everything I intended actually happened, every single move worked, and worked well.. That one fight is etched in me forever now. It was reall really fun. Too bad the remainder of the fights after that were not 1:1 control.
 
Probably not the qualifier that you were all looking for, but...

:ps3: Warhawk

I was a huge, huge, huge fan of the original. When it turns out that the follow-up is essentially Halo without the shiny suits, it was like the eleven years of waiting was wasted time.

The fact that I can't control "complex" shooters with a gamepad doesn't help.
 
[quote name='The Crotch']Drakengard. Just... Drakengard. Man.[/QUOTE]

NO.


Drakengard is AMAZING, You just have to put in some work before it gets there.
Go back, play it again. Get all the weapons, power up your guy, and get all the endings.

You WON'T be disappointed.
 
Age of Conan = oh boy that was money not well spent.

Perfect Dark (360 version) = really hyped and really disappointed

Two hyped games that did the fish thing and went belly up.
 
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