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Nioh. There's hard, then there's throw your controller against the wall because the game is so fucking cheap hard.

Halo 2 Campaign probably.

I was insanely hyped after Halo CE only for them to take out the Assault rifle and make us play as the damn Arbiter half the game.

ChainsawFerret posted...

Magna Carta: Tears of Blood for PS2. I expected a lot better from Atlus.

Atlus didn't make it. It's a Korean game.

Atlus had nothing to do with it except for the North American release.

Also it wasn't a bad game imo. Magna Carta 2 was worse.

MGSV - The potential was there, but there was almost no meat to the game. Just repetitive missions in a bland open world

Skyrim - I don't think I've ever been so hyped for a game. I originally purchased it on PS3 and the game was almost unplayable after a certain number of hours. Your save file would bloat and absolutely tank the frame rate to slideshow levels. I've since enjoyed it on other platforms, but that original run with the game was so disappointing.

Dorfmann_ posted...

Skyrim - I don't think I've ever been so hyped for a game. I originally purchased it on PS3 and the game was almost unplayable after a certain number of hours. Your save file would bloat and absolutely tank the frame rate to slideshow levels. I've since enjoyed it on other platforms, but that original run with the game was so disappointing.

Remember when touching water instantly borked your game?

Dorfmann_ posted...

Skyrim - I don't think I've ever been so hyped for a game. I originally purchased it on PS3 and the game was almost unplayable after a certain number of hours. Your save file would bloat and absolutely tank the frame rate to slideshow levels. I've since enjoyed it on other platforms, but that original run with the game was so disappointing.

Yeah, exactly this. I really loved the game, but it genuinely had some of the worst framerate I've ever seen in a game on PS3. I made it to 90 hours, and it dropped below 10 fps.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Yeah, exactly this. I really loved the game, but it genuinely had some of the worst framerate I've ever seen in a game on PS3. I made it to 90 hours, and it dropped below 10 fps.

The PS4 version is much better. PS3 version, yeah, once you get past a certain point, the framerate becomes so bad, you can barely move.

masterpug53 posted...

Tough call between Fallout 3 and Final Fantasy 13. FO3 is by far the hardest I've ever gone from loving a game to hating it, but I did at least love it for a time. I didn't go into FF13 with high expectations, but it was still pretty disappointing to realize that what was formerly my favorite gaming franchise was pretty much dead to me going forward.

At what point did you start hating Fallout 3?

FurryPhilosifer posted...

At what point did you start hating Fallout 3?

I figured that would be obvious to anyone who's played it all the way through, lol.

EDIT y'know, now that I think about it, there's probably plenty of people out there who never experienced the original ending. I still maintain that Broken Steel doesn't exactly fix what pissed me off so much about it, but I imagine the retconned 'ending' would certainly be far less rage-inducing for a first-time player.

Twilight Princess. It was the one of the first games I got with the Wii (alongside Marvel Ultimate Alliance and something else I forget), and it was first Wii game I returned to Gamestop a few weeks later. There were two major disappointments, and a whole bunch of minor ones.

First and foremost was the introduction stage. There is absolutely zero reason for townlife Link to be as long and as necessary to progress as it is. It is an okay chore the first time through, getting a handle on the controls, learning old and new things to know in this game, and meet a bunch of characters who seem like they would be a strong supporting cast in the future. The second time through, it is an hour of doing the most basic shit you've already done to get items you'll never equip again soon after, catching the most annoying cat ever, and talking to a bunch of people you never need interact with again after the second dungeon. It is an unskippable chore that makes wanting to boot up a new file and replay the game a major obstacle at the outset.

The second disappointment is the map. Those first two or three dungeons and their surrounding lands are so relatively full and yet such a small portion of the overall map that the hype was real for what else was out there, especially those big wide expanses to the north. Turns out it's just a snowboarding track and a river rafting track and that's the 40% of map space that was still fogged out. Not to mention how empty a lot of the places feel, despite a lot of collectibles.

There are definitely great aspects to the game. The artstyle is still one of the best in the series, Wolf Link and Midna is an incredible partnership, Twilight is appropriately gloomy and stressing, a majority of the dungeons and bosses are the best the series has to offer, and the final events are some of the most desperate and thrilling in the series (despite usurping the plot almost out of nowhere).

But empty fields that are far too large for what they contain, poe hunting, blips of character interaction, an inventory filled with near useless items outside their respective dungeons, tons of weird lore that seemed made more for hype trailers than any gameplay impact, a dearth of reasons to explore places (oh great, another cave with a chest of rupees), and oh god the rupees. YES I KNOW BLUE IS WORTH 5. YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME EVERY TIME I RELOAD MY SAVE.

Oh, and the fishing was really good, really chill. I do think I should've kept the game sometimes exclusively to fish.

Other disappointments:
- Justice League Task Force (SNES) both in terms of being an awful game and not any of the games I asked for for Christmas.
- Everquest II (PC) felt extremely pay-to-play from the outset and lacked so much charm from the original. I just remember a really bland beach, ugly character models, a lack of pockets, and a whole host of little red flags that put me off immediately.

Metal Gear Solid 5. That game got absolutely massacred to be able to see release. Story was a mess, and they didn't even let Keifer Sutherland have enough voice lines to justify replacing David Hayter. Not enough Camp Omega style areas, too much open world empty space garbage. So many loose ends and new threads for a game that was supposed to close the gap between Big Boss's arc from MGS3 to MG1

That said I still love the game to death. Best stealth gameplay of any game still to this day, and I'm hoping they incorporate some of the cool stuff into the MGS3 remake

Splatterhouse for PS3/360, loved the originals.. but that was severely disappointing.

Anyway the most disappointing game for me was probably Leisure Suit Larry: Magna cum Laude.

The comedy was good and I felt like it kept the spirit of the original but the gameplay itself was crap. It was just a collection of mini games. Like playing Mario party by yourself.

A friend got me hyped for Overwatch 2 :/ sigh

Victoria 3. I played the fuck out of Victoria 2 with HPM but Victoria 3 didn't click at all.

Euripides posted...

Nioh. There's hard, then there's throw your controller against the wall because the game is so fucking cheap hard.

I am right now attempting Nioh 2. I hope my controller can take the abuse.

Battle for Bikini Bottom remake being ass

Probably both Mass Effect: Andromeda and Cyberpunk 2077. Both coming out after a series of amazing games that I loved, from highly esteemed developers, and both of them shit the bed really hard.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Just insanely slow and boring. Thought I just wasn't into the whole immersion and life sim thing, but I'm liking Persona 5 a lot. Maybe because Persona 5 comes with a fast forward button and every little minor task you do seems to build into something you will need long term.

Tears of the Kingdom - I really thought they'd sort out BotW's issues and fell for the hype. But the dungeons are still meh, story is delivered out of order from collectables, giant world but nothing worth finding in it.

Alundra 2 for me. It's just a completely different genre of game from the original with the name insultingly attached to push more copies. It still makes me sad that Alundra didn't get a real sequel.

Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness is up there too. Just an absolute turd of a game that deserved to have the whole series flushed.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

What are you talking about?
Chuck doesn't sprint. I'm not sure he even can sprint.

Im sorry, I know this is from a few days ago, but I just saw it.

I am obviously talking about the inclusion of timed objectives in the game, not whether a sprint mechanic was included in Dead Rising 2.

Sigh.

Sonic Heroes

Shamino posted...

I am right now attempting Nioh 2. I hope my controller can take the abuse.

Nioh 2 is a lot easier than the first one.

It's why it's so disappointing :(

superman_2000 posted...

Sonic Heroes

First game I ever traded in to Gamestop/EBGames.

superman_2000 posted...

Sonic Heroes

Understandable. Some parts were bad (especially the last jump in the Swamp with Team Sonic, how many times I died because they just dropped off instead of hopping to the last vine....)

Robot2600 posted...

A friend got me hyped for Overwatch 2 :/ sigh

Aside from the store front and cancelled pve the game is an improvement in every way on the multiplayer front.

5v5 makes the game so much easier to balance and that's one thing that's been being praised almost every season by content creators and top players. Also since we no longer have two tanks that you can top off with healing constantly, squishy heroes can get more healing focus and there's no more of those annoying stalemates where you can spend an entire match trying to capture the first point (because as long as a tank is alive it can be easy enough to hold the point).

One less player just means less to keep track of as well, and this goes for everybody. Tanks one less player to confront, healers have one less person to heal and one less enemy player to run away from, DPS have one less enemy to do damage to and can focus down targets easier. Especially love it for healers, having one less player to heal means you can actually play the role of support instead of being a heal bot and can actually contribute to combat.

Also that's one less ultimate to deal with. Couldn't stand how Overwatch 1 had such a large emphasis on ultimate economy instead of individual player skill and this was even after several global nerfs to ult charge rate.

Maps also feel better but this could just be a result of 10 players congesting the maps less than 12 players did. To top it all off, hero choice has never been better. They've been trying to round out the other roles so that there's as many Supports and Tanks as there are DPS.