Yeah, that's the 2D designed-for-smartphone stage. But there was an underwater stage in 3D which they skipped because, something.

EDIT: here is a demonstration of what Spore was in 2005:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8dvMDFOFnA
Tjeck the comments below the vid. Now, that's some serious outrage!

This. Still pissed off about it.
If you want a dark, psychological horror type world with strong elements of survival and exploration, but without the grind, then check out Darkwood.

Personally I didn't mind the grind much in Sunless Sea. How extremely laborious and dangerous it was to get ahead in the world I thought fit perfectly with the atmosphere. But redoing the islands and re-reading all the text did start to get a bit old on the third/fourth attempt, which is a shame given how excellent the writing is.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but the game that most disappointed me was dark souls 3. I was so captivated by the first game and it's mysteries and loved just about everything about it. Then, I played dark souls 2 scholard of the first sins, which I found absolutely amazing. The lore of the game intrigued me and the higher difficulty (I played with the champion covenant active :P) was absolutely a blast.

However, I did not like the lore much of dark souls 3 nor the environments too much. I found it had way too much 'fan service' to fans of the first game. I don't know, it just kind of made me disapointed cause it seemed to try to make players mostly forget about the second dark souls and act like this was the sequel, but I really liked the land of drangleic! But this isn't what disapointed me the most. I found the actually gameplay and mechanics much easier than the first 2 (and I know it's partly due to the practice i aquired from the last two games, but DS2 offered a work around this with the champion covenant which made the game harder). Plus the environments and enemies of dark souls 3 just didn't seem to fit 'dark souls' as much as the locations and enemies in the previous games (don't get me wrong, DS2 had some areas that were a bit iffy too, but at least it sort of fit in with the overall theme of drangleic).

To summerize, Dark souls 3 disapointed me because it did not challenge me very much and failed to get me intrested in the environments/enemies/lore.

Meh, the top down view water stage is more fun IMO, I dont feel like I missed anything. The old system seems too similar to the 2nd stage, by changing it they made the gameplay more distinctive between stage 1 and 2.

I have to agree. This game was hyped all to hell, but it was boring as fuck. It looked nice, but the game just felt so tacky and repetitive. It was almost like they decided to slap "adult" visuals on some childish Mario type game.


The Witcher series. I hated the first one. I hated the second one. I wanted to play the third on... just to see the story all the way through, but I lost my saves from the first two because it took so damn long for the last one to come out (why the fuck do I need to keep my saves anyway? For years? Who the fuck thought this shit up? And yeah, I know it has those options in the beginning, but that's not the same as having your saves. You don't get all the little character interactions you get when you have your previous saves.)... and I hated the game play, and I hated the story. It was all just boring as fuck.

The original main story was interesting, but most of the game was "old granny lost her boy, go find him" or "there's that evil spitty plant there we could light on fire with burning arrows, but we gonna spend our money on a Witcher instead" or "go whack these stupid fish men that keep popping up cause we keep drowning folks in our river for some bizarre reason" or "whack that mute-y the king made by fucking his sister" or "there's that bizarre nuisance thang thar, go whack it wit yo sword"... I mean... The whole series just feels uninspired.

And then they didn't put it on Linux.

But the most disappointing to me is the Metro series. It's only available on steam. And I will not touch valve with a 10 foot pole. So I cannot play it. And I really liked the first one.

Outpost. It starts off great, turns into an unfinished disaster in the late mid-game.

Oh yeah, Mass Effect 2 and 3. Those were awful. The game play... I mean, why the clips? Why am I hunting around the battle field for doodads and upgrades and such? It completely destroyed the mood and tempo. It was like some dumbass who makes Mario and Sonic games was given control over the series. The clips and upgrades and such were equivalent to the rings, coins, super power objects and whatnot from the Mario and Sonic series.

And then the foul attempts at social programming that Mass effect 3 put in place (particularly the mission where you have the option to coerce the shop owner into giving up info. It was obviously an attempt to get us to sympathize with homeland security. Nice to know that statist pigs work at EA. Why is that company even in business? It's like it is set up to ruin EVERYTHING it touches.). And why was Aria such an idiot? I mean, seriously? She's supposed to be some hotshit badass, but she commanded her fleet like a drunken jackass.

Only good things of those two games were Jack, EDI, and maybe the Illusive Man. I hated that the replaced Wrex with that stupid test tube Krogan. I mean, Wrex had depth. Probably the most depth of any character other than Jack. And why did Ashley become even stupider and more 2 dimensional?

Mass Effect 4 was so bad I didn't even play it. Guess it doesn't make the list... or does it? It disappoints on one level, but it is an EA game, so can I say I was disappointed since crappiness was expected?

I always liked that game (if it's the one I'm thinking of... the old Sierra game where you have to build a colony on a planet) but I never made it to the late mid-game lol.

Yes, it's the old Sierra game. As I said the start is close to amazing... when I first played it I was awed. It compared to nothing else at that time.

But then you build your colony and get to things that don't work, or don't do much or have missing descriptions, your colony fails because I can't remember what structure that was supposed to generate a ton of power actually had a bug and it would draw in power while telling you it was generating it etc.

Let's just leave this one to the history books.

I feel like I've missed quite the error, considering how fond I was of Fragile Allegiance.

I had completely forgotten about KQ8 ... That was an epic failure.

Virginia - simply because it wasn't much of a game in the first place.

Vietcong 2 - I was so stoked up by the possibility to finally play the successor to one of my absolute favourite games ever...and then it disappointed severely. Put in direct comparison to its predecessor, it failed to deliver practically everything, that I was expecting.

The most disappointing game I have ever played? Life. It sucks and I still haven't reached the end of it after 47 years. And I really want to finish it, but I keep on playing because it's a multiplayer game and the people I'm playing the game with, would miss me too dearly.

1- Undertale
2- Superhot
3- Bioshock: Infinite

Special prize: Everything