I am "only" 13 hours into it but your thoughts on AC3 ring pretty true. It really seems like a too many cooks in the kitchen situation, and corporate meddling. Big bummer, though I will keep playing it.

This sentence screams for modding.

Edit: as in game modifications, not moderation.
My guess is that you will have the best time once the second city is unlocked. This is the closest to AC 1.

This might be a bit of a stretch since it's the seventh sequel, but here goes:

Final Fantasy 8

Spoony has already pointed out many of the big flaws of this game, so I won't go too much into detail. Up to this point FF games were amongst my favourite games, but the 8th game in the series left me completely cold. It is also where I lost interest in the series and according to the reviews of recent releases, it was the right choice.

Im sure its more fun in real life than a video game. Surely there are sex shops in Poland

Blood 2. It was just such a boring mess of a game, compared to its predecessor.

I dont want to know where you would get a giant purple dildo from instead. I just hope you clean it first.

so dildos existed back in the american revolution, damn i thought they used cucumber

Uh huuuuh... I believe you... millions wouldnt.

Yeah, so did I! I guess dildos are the bad sequel of cucumbers. Ah, purple cucumbers, those were the days...

Devil May Cry 2 was pretty horrid.

Grand Theft Auto IV. After San Andreas and its awesomeness, I was pretty pumped for a next-gen GTA. What we got was pretty graphics, some amusing physics and a huge amount of downsizing relative to San Andreas. One city, no surrounding country, only a few token boats and helicopters, height ceiling for said helicopters lower than the buildings, no planes, no different vehicles such as go-karts, hovercrafts, mining trucks and bicycles and the worst, most heinously anus mechanic of San Andreas (dating) was not only greatly expanded, but in some cases made vital to progress the story. Not to mention, the story took itself just so damn seriously.

I tell you, I'm going to be very wary about Grand Theft Auto V.