Your biggest ever let down game... EVER!

GTA IV, so dull compared to past games in the series. It doesn't touch Vice City!

Far Cry 2, aka 'this game has nothing to do with the first but we needed the title so it would sell at least a bit because our game is absolutely terrible'

MGS4, not a patch on MGS1 or 2 and I really did try to get into it.

Resident Evil 4 and 5, lost the survival horror aspects of the series and became third person shooters with bad controls and shooting mechanics.
 
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Enemy Territory

Us RTCW players had very high hopes for the Splash Damage release, but it was a massive let down. It was a great game to players that had never played RTCW because it was free and quite fun, however; nowhere near what we anticipated and certainly not as good as the original.

I dont think there will ever be a multiplayer game that comes anywhere near RTCW. It was quake 3 with world war two guns. It was everything multiplayer should be, fast paced and simplistic and the hit boxes where excellently placed so a good headshot player would kill a spray shooter even if he was caught first... I loved the fact that you could come back and win a gun fight even if you were shot first..one shot dead is too sim like... we need arcade fun!! anyhoo!! I miss it as you can tell!!!


.. and Wolfenstein 3 was just a mockery of the first two classics.
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Did we just become best friends?!

I actually liked ET - it was similar enough to RTCW to be a good game and had some decent qualities (Oasis is up there with the best wolf maps for clan matches), but was certainly the inferior game. Not my biggest let down by any means - that honour goes to Wolfenstein 3, an abomination and bastardised cross of wolf and cod. How difficult could it have been? - the fanbase was there, chomping at the bit. They just had to give RTCW new clothes, do a CSS, and job done, big success. Instead they ballsd everything up! :mad:
 
Margaret said:
Resident Evil 4 and 5, lost the survival horror aspects of the series and became third person shooters with bad controls and shooting mechanics.
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I did originally think of putting these as my biggest let down, as they did lose the atmosphere and feel of the older games and became more of an action game.

But I did enjoy playing them, they just didn't seem like a Resi game.
 
I wonder if we expect too much from games now, or some types of games are just kinda getting old fashioned now. I mean every FPS is much like every other FPS made, right?. I remember having a fantastic time playing my first ever FPS (Terminator Future Shock). It ran under DOS on Windows 95 and crashed often but it was great. TOday however the games are far more advanced (at least graphically) yet just don't live up to expectations most of the time.

Personally I realy liked the free roaming aspects of Far Cry 2, but yes it wasn't perfect. I liked the atmosphere and locations, the graphics and lighting etc. STALKER I disliked initially but been playing it over recent months and actually enjoying it, possibly now that a modern mid-range graphics card can handle it well.

So anyway, I don't play load of games. A few notable disappointments for me were later versions of C&C. ALso Assassins Creed I just got bored of very quickly even though it was a bit different.

Last game that left a really good impression was Bioshock - first game I had completed for a while, without getting bored and putting it on the shelf. CAll of Pripyat looks alright also but now need a better graphics card as the 5770 is struggling with everything on high at 1920*1200 (rewind to Stalker in 2007)

Step back to 1996 - Terminator Futureshock (link below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p62hA4GUw8
 
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I wonder if we expect too much from games now, or some types of games are just kinda getting old fashioned now. I mean every FPS is much like every other FPS made, right?. I remember having a fantastic time playing my first ever FPS (Terminator Future Shock). It ran under DOS on Windows 95 and crashed often but it was great. TOday however the games are far more advanced (at least graphically) yet just don't live up to expectations most of the time.

Personally I realy liked the free roaming aspects of Far Cry 2, but yes it wasn't perfect. I liked the atmosphere and locations, the graphics and lighting etc. STALKER I disliked initially but been playing it over recent months and actually enjoying it, possibly now that a modern mid-range graphics card can handle it well.

So anyway, I don't play load of games. A few notable disappointments for me were later versions of C&C. ALso Assassins Creed I just got bored of very quickly even though it was a bit different.

Last game that left a really good impression was Bioshock - first game I had completed for a while, without getting and putting it on the shelf. CAll of Pripyat looks alright also but now need a better graphics card (rewind to Stalker in 2007)
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Sounds to me you'd enjoy the arma/flashpoint series
 
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Personally I realy liked the free roaming aspects of Far Cry 2, but yes it wasn't perfect. I liked the atmosphere and locations, the graphics and lighting etc. STALKER I disliked initially but been playing it over recent months and actually enjoying it, possibly now that a modern mid-range graphics card can handle it well.
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Farcry 2 is a near perfect example of how easy it is to ruin a game, yes it did have good atmosphere, it felt like something i had never played before but the mission structures, the respawning check point, the god awful story, ubisoft spent all that time creating a fantastic world and just failed to use it.
 
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Farcry 2 is a near perfect example of how easy it is to ruin a game, yes it did have good atmosphere, it felt like something i had played before but the mission structures, the respawning check point, the god awful story, ubisoft spent all that time creating a fantastic world and just failed to use it.
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I think without the re-spawning checkpoints I'd have loved it.

It's just the 'SO CLOSE TO PERFECT' with this glaring issue that ruined it. The way I can almost taste a brilliant game trying to get to me!


It's like if someone had released the PERFECT SHOOTER, but just made the mouse sensitivity WAY too high and unchangeable. It's, like, ARRRRRGGGHH SO CLOSE!
 
spore
hellgate london (omg cant belive how bad that game was and how good i wanted it to be)
final fantasy 13 cant understand who would like the liniarty of that game it might just of well been a string of battles and some story why make people walk in a straight line for no reason
 
Another one for me was Perfect Dark. I know it was not an awful game but compared to goldeneye it had non of the magic
 
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