'Amazing' games that disappointed you

Street Fighter V + shelled out £50 for it on the Sony store. They saw me coming.

I'm finding all games boring these days. Think I'm just getting too old. Have most fun playing Yoshi's World or Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U with my daughter.
 
Last of us, for it's janky control scheme and wonky movement, my friends keep telling me the story gets real good 6 hours in, but I am not sure I can get that far.

Bloodborne, just did not run very well, also not a fan of grinding in games, got to a point where I clearly had to open a gate with x amount of blood echoes to progress, effort.
Could also see ahead that tough bosses would require lots of grinding for blood vials.
 
Another one for Skyrim here. I didn't play it when it first came out but heard all the hype about it, got it for £10 on steam recently thinking I'd just had a bargain, played it for an hour and got bored, haven't been back on it since.

Same for GTA IV and GTA V, IV felt like a huge step back after SA which was really good, and then couldn't get into V, switching between 3 characters just ruined it for me.

And to add to this, I did enjoy Far Cry 3 (4 was ok) but a lot of open world games just seem very slow paced and boring, it takes forever to get anywhere, the games are padded out with pointless side quests to distract you from the main story, and fast travel sort of makes the idea of open world pointless anyway.
I don't know if it's just me but I find it hard to get into games these days, I grew up with Quake, Doom 2, etc... you can keep your stupid "open world" games I want non stop fast paced action.
 
The Last of Us.

I just finished it last week, after my mate gave me his PS3 and all his games about 18 months ago when he moved to Santa Monica.

He proclaimed it to be the greatest game of all time, and he's my age, so has been gaming since the Atari 2600. I just didn't think it was that good. It's very repetitive, game play wise, and frustrating at times.
I suppose people must love it for the story. Maybe because I played it for a few days, stopped, then went back a year later spoiled it somehow.

Give me Skyrim any day. I must have over 500 hours in that game, and I'm not sure I'll be able to resist buying the HD remix or whatever it's called, even though I told myself not to bother with it.
 
Bigpops said:
The Last of Us.

I just finished it last week, after my mate gave me his PS3 and all his

I suppose people must love it for the story. Maybe because I played it for a few days, stopped, then went back a year later spoiled it somehow.
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You think? lol

Yeah you ruined the experience tbh.
 
Domo said:
Street Fighter V + shelled out £50 for it on the Sony store. They saw me coming.

I'm finding all games boring these days. Think I'm just getting too old. Have most fun playing Yoshi's World or Mario Kart 8 on the Wii U with my daughter.
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I don't think there are any classics around, hasn't been for years, just copied mechanics with predictable outcomes. Last Guardian looks interesting.
 
Meths said:
What do you mean by that?
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Very few options when you start out, but you can fast forward and unlock stuff with micro-transactions! Like a free to play game. And it feels a bit too grindy for a shooter. Even moreso than some free-to-play FPS I've played.

Superpatsy said:
I get slated constantly when I say it. The Last of Us was massively overrated in my opinion.
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I've never played it, but from what I've seen of it, it suffers from Bioshock Infinite syndrome. Great setting and story, but forgettable gameplay. Alas the former causes it to be hyped up and loved. I just watched a let's play of Bioshock since I'd never be bothered to play the game.

A lot of folks have been mentioning Halo games. I grew up playing Halo 1 and 2 on the PC in my teen years, so I can appreciate them. But after Halo Reach, things went downhill.

Halo 4 wasn't all that bad, but the Spartan Ops (those missions that required XBL) were just an excuse to constantly reuse the same maps in an attempt to make it seem like there was more content. Plus they removed playing as Elites and also the iconic Plasma rifle.

Now Halo 5 is seriously bad (micro-transactions alone put me off it). The plot and campaign don't even beat ODST, while the progression is now super grindy and FTP-like. I remember when we had to just play the game and do cool things to unlock stuff, not gamble card packs. Warzone is the only decent change there, big battles ala Battlefield. The surprising thing is how much people are defending that game.

That said, Halo 5 Forge is coming to PC next week and it's free to play. There's a chance for redemption there.
 
ZG002 said:
You think? lol

Yeah you ruined the experience tbh.
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Just replayed it through again over the last 3 days. It was okay, again. Not the game it's made out to be. I have the DLC (Left Behind) and I'm not even sure I'll play through that.

Reading some other posts in this thread made me remember Halo...

I tried multiple times to play through the first game, on Xbox and PC, but I just couldn't get into it. I'd put about 2-3 hours in and get bored, so I've avoided them all ever since.
 
Tomb Raider games. I only played early ones so maybe they improved.

Asides from having to listen to 90% of players going on about Lara's breasts, i had issues with the near 180 degree rotations when direction pressing buttons sometimes, being able to shoot things with perfect locked on accuracy when the screen was spinning all over the place and the utterly naff storylines.
 
Bigpops said:
Not the game it's made out to be.
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It's entirely the game it's made out to be; it's one of the few titles that has fully lived up to (if not exceeded) both what was demonstrated prior to release as well as my own expectations of what it'd be. It's a cinematic, character-driven game that's heavy on the narrative and incorporates various stealth gameplay elements. I'm not sure how anyone could have expected anything different.
 
The Order: 1886, what an incredible looking but utterly boring experience.
No Man's Sky, just a lot of wasted potential.
Haze, just dire still can not believe I paid £49 for that POS!!
 
Overwatch, I tried to get into it several times but it just never clicked.

I think I just prefer Destiny for my FPS fix on PS4.
 
ste91 said:
Another one for Skyrim here. I didn't play it when it first came out but heard all the hype about it, got it for £10 on steam recently thinking I'd just had a bargain, played it for an hour and got bored, haven't been back on it since.
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Skyrim was pretty boring in parts for me too (repetition), but the one thing that kept me playing is the environment. I've always loved the idea of being a lone wanderer on an adventure in the middle of nowhere, and this suited it perfectly. I immersed myself completely and played as if I was actually there, spending hours just walking around sightseeing and stuff. God I actually miss playing it now.
 
Halo, I just can't get on with it, I have just bought an xbox one and paiud £5.55 for the master chief collection though, maybe one of them will inspire me.
 
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