Tell me your story. What games disappointed you the most? And how did those games manage to do that?

I´ll start here:

1. Alien Isolation -> The game is almost unplayable without the day one patch and a lot of bugs never got fixed.
2. Hellblade -> The outstandig atmosphere is ruined by a far too low difficulty level.
3. Pretorians -> Great Campaign but the mechanics didn´t translate well to the skirmish mode.
4. Dragon Age Origins -> EA didn´t bother to fix most of the bugs. Fortunately there are unofficial patches now.
5. Wargame European Escalation -> Again, the campaign is fine but the A.I. can be exploited very easily in skirmish mode.

GTA 4
Buggy, Windows Live, missions that were too long with no checkpoints, and I just didn't like the story, there was no resolution.

F.E.A.R.
Oh look, another abandoned office building. :P

GTA IV: No check points

Deus Ex: So bland, boring and ugly. The main character doesn't control very well. Dialogue is terrible and the music is atrocious.

Dark Souls: Loved Demon's Souls but this one, it was all hype. Tried to fix what was already perfect the first time round. No thanks.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Continuously crashing every two minutes. Boring game play and not much actually happens through out the entire game. Talk about a bland pile of shite.

Resident Evil 4 - took a serious survival horror series and turned it into a casual third-person shooter. Game doesn't even have real zombies either, just humans with a parasite inside them. Man, coming from Nemesis and Code Veronica, RE4 basically told me that games were no longer aimed at me - it has been taken over by a new generation who were only interested in action games.

This is interesting to me. I AGREE with you but RE 4 was the first one I played and I liked it. It wasn't until I started playing the others that I realized how much it totally screwed up the rest of the series.

The change in RE was because it was getting stale. Go to a mansion, run around zombie, have big scary boss fight, rocket launcher, the end. Had they not changed it, everyone would have complained about it being more of the same. They changed it up, made it different and made a damn good game out of it.

I agree that RE4 taken on it's own, if you forget about all the previous games, is a solid TPS, but you can't separate it from them because it's still RESIDENT EVIL.

it didn't screw up anything though. If it did anything, it brought new life to the series. It certainly wasn't going anywhere if they hasn't make the game. By the time I got to Code Veronica after RE3, I stopped caring because it was the same thing over and over. Do that a fifth time and the series would have sunk.

You can still have the same type of game (ie survival horror with static camera angles) and change it up, add new weapons etc. The idea that a series needs to completely change it's GENRE to remain interesting is BS. Code Veronica proved that the classic RE gameplay style was still solid. Then again, I don't expect a fan of Fallout 3 to understand why changing a series' genre is a bad idea.

The real reason for the change in RE4 was because of the PS2 and Xbox low-attention-span generation who weren't interested in limited ammo, puzzle-solving horror, they wanted to just shoot monsters.

Mass Effect 2: It's an excellent sequel for one of the best games i've played (and one of the few i've instabought the day it came out -- it helped that it didn't feature any online DRM), but the cliffhanger at the end and the need to install the Origin client to be able to play ME3 disappointed me a lot. If i knew it beforehand, i wouldn't bother playing ME2 (the original ME can stand on it's own perfectly anyway). Hope we'll see a GOG version someday, so i can see firsthand what's the fuss with ME3's ending the disappointed a lot of folks. Hmmm, i don't remember any bugs in DA:O and i've finished it six times... (I own the retail version, no patches used at all)

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Checkpoints spoil GTA 5 for me. It makes 100% impossible if you restart at checkpoint.

And GTA missions are like 5-10 mins. If that is too long maybe you should try something turn based!


You got the windows live thing right though! In fact may have understated it!


Buggy? Maybe? End mission really not feasable on PC far to designed for controller. (No I prefer the superior KB+Mouse thanks!) Most problems were that people tried to play it on machine with less than a 4 core CPU which was needed upon release. They tried to offset that with ridiculously high GFX cards which did not work. I works fine for me even on a cheap 4 core laptop with low AMD GFX (albeit on low settings).

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I don´t want to ruin the game (DA:O) for you, but if you still wanna know what I´m talking about, read the text below:

A huge number of skills doesn´t do what the description says. In addition there are several endings bugged. One of them can even cause a read ring of death on older xboxes. To be fair, the PC version (also on GOG) is fine because of the fan-patches.

I recently played Her Story and was very disappointed. I don't want to ruin it for others but I was really looking forward to a good mystery and was disappointed with the "game".

Sometimes it takes five to ten minutes just to get to the mission after you accept it. :P
I'm not asking for much, just a checkpoint for those times when you accept the mission and then have to haul your ass clear across the map to start it.

The DLCs (correct term?) fixed this. Lost and the Damned and Gay Tony were both great and ran the way I thought #4 should have run from the beginning.