What game was the biggest disappointment this year?

Discussion in 'Video Games and Technology' started by Recall, Oct 27, 2009.

  1. Eric

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    Turtles in Time: Re-Shelled and ODST. What a waste of money. :( 
     
  2. Mechafire

    Mechafire Shadow Broker Moderator News Staff

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    I'm gonna go with ODST. I mean it's a great game, but aside from Achievements and Firefight... there's not that much to do after you beat the game. I think most of the problem was that I was expecting a little too much.
     
  3. Brawlastator

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    Bawww, I like ODST. The campaign may be short, but that just leaves you more time to play with your Johnson!

    I'm going to have to go with Crash Course, the L4D DLC. Mostly because I paid five bucks for it. Fuck you Microsoft, making Valve charge for achievements like that.
     
  4. Smasher

    Smasher HUNKY BEATS

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    Bionic Commando makes my inner kitten sad.
    King of Fighters XII is a huge disappointment after BlazBlue and Street Fighter IV.
    Come on, SNK! Don't release a game that's not finished.

    And, I guess the game came out in 2008, but Samba de Amigo for the Wii is awful.
    The Wii had absolutely no idea what was going on with the remotes.
    The control on the Dreamcast was better 10 years ago.
     
  5. Counterpunch?

    Counterpunch? Interior Renovator

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    Yep, I take back my earlier statement.

    KOF12, hands down my biggest gaming disappointment of the past 5 years.
     
  6. Beastbot X

    Beastbot X Old skool. In a lot of ways.

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    Scribblenauts. Waaay too many arbitary rules, sometimes infuriating controls, and objects behaving/interacting in nonsensical manners. It's still worth playing, but I thought it'd be a home run-- instead it's just a single.
     
  7. Sokar

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    KOF 12. It's just a very incomplete game. For a series so well known for it's cheap bosses, you would think they could have at least thrown in a Rugal or Zero clone in there somewhere. The gameplay itself felt pretty solid, but the lack of a real game to play was a huge dissapointment. This wouldn't be a big deal though if it hadn't been for the netcode. I haven't seen anything that choppy since a 14.4 modem tried streaming an hd youtube video on a 286. Here's hoping that they get their stuff together though and make kof13 a complete game

    Speaking of fighters, Tekken 6 comes to mind as well. This feels a lot less like a new game than a repack of tekken 5 dr with worse (yes worse) graphics. Maybe I've not given it enough time, but there's not a lot to suggest I'm wrong.

    As for tmnt, I can't say I was totally dissapointed by it. I knew it wasn't the snes version unfortunately, so I had a feeling it wasn't going to be as good. I disliked the graphics, but the only really unforgivable thing for me was them changing the music.
     
  8. LigerPrime

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    Seems like KOF12 for me - even though I don't own it but is Tekken 6's graphics even worse than 5's? Other than the lame "campaign" mode, I though the game was pretty fun with the new moves and cast of 40 fighters! X)
     
  9. Dirge121

    Dirge121 I'll be your end of days

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    Ditto.
    I say this knowing full well that I'll be buying L4D2. Sigh.

    I just cant really dig Crash Course. As L4D it really doesnt have the same charm the rest of the game has. It seemed to be very rushed, and I think the experience suffered for it.

    What can I say, one last adventure with Bill before moving on to Nick.
     
  10. Alexander Quinn

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    Transformers ROTF...for the Wii. Someone explain how it was easier for the game developers to give us that piece of crap rather than just lowering the graphics like they do for every other Wii game? I was so looking forward to seeing how the Wii's controls could come into play for ROTF and was instantly brain damaged by the craptacularness of what they gave us.
     
  11. Opticron Primal

    Opticron Primal Comin' up OOOs!

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    You mean you were expecting it to be good?
     
  12. Brawlastator

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    >One last adventure with Bill
    >Bill says nothing throughout the entire campaign.

    Hee hee. For once you sticking me with Francis worked out. :lol 
     
  13. ZeroEdge

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    Halo in general is just overrated I find.
     
  14. Dirge121

    Dirge121 I'll be your end of days

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    No you. He'd just been in a Helicopter crash, for an old man thats probably traumatising.

    Besides, you could have been Louis, but you know how Obvy wishes to be the little girl.
     
  15. OmegaScourge

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    from the games i've bought and actually played (bought like 2 dozen, played like a dozen). So far, its Street Fighter IV.
     
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    ROTF on the PSP. I mean... It's a game about Transformers, right? Why the hell don't you ever transform?
     
  17. Orion_Prime48

    Orion_Prime48 Super Sentai Purist

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    I loved ODST and ROTF....... but DiRT 2 as much as I loved that game its just too long for me. I won over 100 races but still have like 50 or so left before I had to return it :(  *runs*

    NFS Shift as well I mean the graphics were great but I couldnt stand the handling or customization of the cars

    edit: how the hell did I and everyone else forget Fuel??!! my god that game is terrible and its amplified by the fact that its made by the same people that made GRID and both DiRT games :redface2: 
     
  18. Batman

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    ROTF on the DS. The first one was so good and this one just took a major step backwards. I ended up trading it in towards Arkham Asylum.
     
  19. Liege Prime

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    You gotta have expectations to be disappointed in something, and I don't think anyone was banking on Fuel being a be all end all title.
     
  20. ZeroEdge

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    I hated that they took out the ability to scan and transform into any vehicle you choose too.