I didn't think Mount and Blade was great at first, but then I tried it again a year later and absolutely loved it!

Far Cry 4 (the only one I played).

THIS ! Add to this the pretty ridiculous guild quests and side quests in general and you have the definirion of why it is widely inferior to Morrowind and Oblivion for me.

"Oh young apprentice, go and take this unique staff of sh*t in the same random grotto and you will become archmage in 30 min at level 5"

You mean pretty much exactly like Crusader Kings 1 so? :D

Yeah the atmosphere was not the same, I had a similar problem with Diablo 2 where it lacked the sinister and dark atmosphere of the first game (at least after the first level).

However, there was one thing I liked about AitD2: the little girl you get to play at some point. Her "fight moves" are just hilarious.

Never really been disappointed by a game since I always wait for reviews before buying anything and even apart from that go in with pretty much no expectations.

You can always upgrade your engine to make the ship move faster :P But yeah, the gameplay often felt like a chore. I didn't mind fighting that much, despite it being rather boring and easy. Even played the expansion "Zubmariner" but unfortunately at the time that I played it, it wasn't finished yet. Since I did complete all of the stuff available at the time (I think) and with the gameplay being like it is, I don't have the desire to come back to see what got added though.

I will probably never understand why that is a thing. The laughing was clearly just a joke/done on purpose but people keep harping on it for whatever reason. As for the game...it was average.

Same here, actually. I played Diablo for the first time some years ago and generally liked it. When I started Diablo II afterwards, it wasn't as good and since it didn't hook me in, I stopped playing at some point. Both games felt pretty different from one another.

I also had high expectations about :

- Alpha Protocol, which was sold as a roleplaying spy game, but ended up being just a slightly branching path of pre-defined infiltration maps. Not at all the open RPG that I was hoping.

- Dead Space, which was unplayable to me only because of the (keyboard and mouse) controls. I didn't get far before finding it unpleasant to play. Yet I would have loved the alien space horror atmosphere.

- Farenheit, which also started with weird consoley tank controls and immediate QTE on top of that. Immediately stopped as well.

- Deadly Premonition, same thing basically. The consoley controls, the silent-hill-like tank battles. It didn't allow me to experience its promising twin peaks atmosphere. I had to resort to Puzzle Agent to get my fix.

Console ports are frequently terrible unplayable letdowns, for me.

Same here, actually. The controls were absolutely terrible. But even apart from that, I don't think the atmosphere was anything to good (even played it during the night). Doom 3 easily beats it, in my opinion. No idea why it got such praise. Campaign was pretty short as well, only six hours for me. I'm just glad I didn't waste any money on it.

Hmm I loved all of those, except deadly premonition which I haven't been able to get into at all. I also liked Mass Effect 2 quite a bit. I particularly enjoyed alpha protocol because of how intricate the stories were. You could take one path and never know that you were being manipulated by someone into believing something that wasn't true. There are almost no games that I find worthwhile to replay, but when I went back to play alpha protocol again years after it came out, I was geniunely surprised with some of the revelations I discovered from choosing different paths through the game. It makes you go think back over information you thought you knew and add extra layers onto it, it's very interesting.

The most disappointing game for me has to be final fantasy 13. Final fantasy 12 was really bad too, but final fantasy 13 takes bad to a new level, there are no redeeming features. It was bad enough that I just don't trust them to make a good game anymore, I had played every final fantasy(excluding the mmo's which weren't really final fantasy) since the first one on the nintendo, but now I know it's a series to skip, I've completely skipped final fantasy 15. It's a shame, because up to and including final fantasy 10 I considered the final fantasy games to be the very best rpgs ever made.

I was also disappointed in dragon age 2(though I did enjoy the story, the combat was garbage), mass effect 3(the story just doesn't fit along with the rest of the franchise, and even starts you off with a character that you don't know but sheppard does, really jarring start. And that ending...), and mass effect andromeda. I probably should have been more careful about getting andromeda after mass effect 3, but it looked so good in the trailers.

No man's sky and spore do get honorable mentions as being disappointing.

The games I have wanted to see being remade the most have been Colonization and Master of Magic.
So I have never been more disappointed than when I played Civ IV: Colonization. What a let down. The original felt so alive and bright in comparison and the new one was just cold and brown.

GOG game: Age of decadence.

Honestly, I don't know what to say about this game. It has a great concept (it's essentially fallout in the middle ages), great story but the lack of direction in-game and the unforgiving branching choices means that you can easily hit a dead-end and be forced to start a new game because of this. Also it has horrible combat, it's extremely RNG-reliant meaning that you had to load many times until you get lucky enough to beat a difficult encounter.

non-GOG game: Final Fantasy XIV.

I haven't experienced a more boring game than this. It's story is uninteresting, most of its cutscenes have text boxes (what's the point of having a cutscene if it's not voiced?) and it's pretty much 200-250 hours of fetch quests until you reach end game. IMHO it's not even an MMO, as its entire game map is divided in small, instanced zones with annoying loading screens.

Honestly, even by MMO standards this is horrible.

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Was it? People generally like 12. I haven't played it yet because X-2 stopped me from continuing the series. It was so terrible that I had to stop 45 minutes in. Screw that fanservice. If I wanted to play a game purely for girls, I would play Style Savvy, not the Final Fantasy series.

To be fair, it was pretty obvious that this game was going to be really bad. But too many people still bought it because they are stupid. And because of that, they will continue to make crappy games and the gamers that have any standards have to "suffer". Imagine how it would be if everyone made informed purchases *cue Simpsons no-lawyers picture*

Fallout 4, was hyped but it quickly died. It somehow managed to feel like a cheap version of FO 3.

witcher 3, just found the horse riding so irritating, combat irritating and the overly saturated hues off putting. havent given up on it cuz i know the story is there and the immersion, recently installed some mods and am about to try again with it, hope it works.

i adored deadspace but would never play it, watched my partner play it and got all the story with none of the irritation.

recent let down was the new sherlock holmes, such a gorgeous boring ass game with lame game mechanics.

I have started and quit more games this year, none have grabbed my fancy, all seemed annoying in some way, most with k/m problems from console porting. its put me off from gaming, i may be in a phase but if a game doesnt grab me fast I dont want to waste time on it.

im so ready for a game to take me to that place of complete immersion, havent had a moment since project zomboid years ago.

I remember Dead Space has some serious mouse lag which makes controlling Isaac pretty awful, but weirdly you just have to turn off vsync to get rid of the lag.