okay, We've all been let down by certin games, games that seemed would be good but when we played them turned out to be absoulte crap. What I'm asking is what game (or games) let you down, and when did you give up hope that it was the game that you wanted it to be?

Digital Devil Saga 1, I got halfway through the second dungeon and realized that for 3 hours of gameplay I'd only seen about 20-30 minutes of story when what I thought I was getting was a story based game.

Thankfully DDS2 delivered.

True Crime: Streets of LA

Thank god GTA came out on Xbox anyway

Transformers: The Movie game. Could have been great if defeating the bosses wasn't as boring as running around, throw something at it until it's guard goes down, punch it once or twice, repeat. And there is no reason that game needed to be open world with the amount of "drive to location 'X', fight the robot" gameplay.

Sonic Rush -_- I was mislead by the box saying 'Best sonic game ever!' Bollocks.
Oh and ESPECIALLY Sonic the Hedgehog for Xbox 360 and PS3, that was THE worst game I've EVER played.

Two Worlds, the first 5 seconds of gameplay.

Medieval II: Total War

Not a totally horrible game, but very annoying. On too many occasions have I lost because my great commanding armies sent forth to purge the world of my enemies rebelled against me. All to often have I sent out pretty much my entire force except some guards left behind at my cities for protection, only to have my great armies join the rebels and attack me with my own units!

Also, you can't attack anyone without being excommunicated. And when the Inquisition comes about, WATCH OUT! It literally once took out every single one of my commanders.

When I saw the cover of "Bomberman: Act Zero" and realized that my beloved Bomberman was now some sort of bad ass.

Oh geez, Army of two hands down. I actually thought that game was going to be GOOD. Sheesh!

It was the bullshit training mission at the beginning that clued me into it though. It just reeked of mediocrity.

mjhhiv:
When I saw the cover of "Bomberman: Act Zero" and realized that my beloved Bomberman was now some sort of bad ass.

Oh yeah, what's with that?

This is not a question of what game, but most every hard game. I find a certain very hard challenge and I do it a couple times. After a few crushing dissapointments, I give up and move on. I always try to complete things to their fullest (at least in video games), but after a few tries, I'll settle.

Frontlines: Fuel of War, one of the worst fps i've ever played second to Call of Duty 3. In multiplayer i got huge kills just by running into an enemy spawn and slapping everybody with my gun. The gun mechanics and hitboxes are so bad nobody could shoot each other with ease.

It was such a letdown because the developers were the guys that did the Desert Combat Mod for BF:1942. The final product was a lazy, broken console port piece of crap. Such a shame because the game had some nice ideas.

Lair.
Halo 2.
Haze.
MGS4.
The original R&C
Killzone
Any Blizzard game.
Mario Sunshine
Mario Galaxy
Fable
Brawl
MLB 2K8
NHL 08.

I have one game that pretty much fills that mold, and it's not just a game, it's a word, and not just a pussy word, it's a LETTER. It's name is D, and it still haunts my dreams. And I HAT-love that piece of shi-experimental gaming.

The story goes as follows. I was at bookmans in Tucson Arizona, and I SAW it, the ONE game for the Saturn. NIGHTS at 5 bucks, and that shit D at 15 bucks. I bought both; fast, before anyone realized that cosmic joke and raised the price of the ONE game. I thought "cool, NIGHTS, and D, whatever". But since D cost me more than nights, coupled with the legend of the craziness of Eiji Eno(the mastermind behind D), I decided to play D, and hated it, but I still, I went through with it, and forced myself to LOVE it because, after all, it DID cost me more than NIGHTS. THEN the nightmare began:

The "game" was snail-slow as hell, and I realized I was literally playing a movie; The "game" had a 2 hour window limit, and if you don't finish it by then, well, tough luck, game over; The music was horrid and painful and the puzzles were just out there. Finally, after a nightmare journey full of pain and anger, shitty music loops, walking armors and weird mammals and churches for almost two hours, my heroine Laura stood triumphantly infront of daddy to finally discover the mistery of it all, and then...the SHIT hit the fan. Daddy told Laura that she had the blood of Dracula and whatnot and threw around some weird riddle, and then...NOTHING! I was at a loss of words, I didn't know what to do and that fucking, FUCKING clock was ticking towards that dreaded 2 hour mark, so I, unconsciously pressed up on the D-Pad
and...lovely Laura walked forward AND...Daddy ate her. FADE TO BLACK. That's it. End credits AANND...the sounds of daddy munching and crunching my beloved Laura. Really, that's what happened.

Of course, I was going WTF all over the place. I couldn't believe it, so after flipping for about 20 minutes I regained my composture and tore D from the Saturn and slapped Nights again. That lovely NIGHTS.

I know this is long, but really, this is some kind of deep seated gaming trauma that I have so, sorry if that was boring.

The moral of the story is the following: If you see the name Eiji Eno slapped around somewhere, run like mad and never look back.

FFVII: Dirge of Cerberus.

First when I had trouble with the first boss because the controls were so clunky.
Second when I actually cringed at the awful writing.
Finally when I fought the same boss for the FOURTH time. Seriously, there's 12 levels, and there's the same boss for 1/3 of the levels.

Kind of a recurring theme with any online shooter I play. I reach a point where, at a certain time, I will be losing extremely badly with no hope of recovery. When the red haze of rage starts to settle over the vision, it's about time to quit.
After a month or so of this, I put UT2004 back in it's box, and haven't played it since.

Half-Life 1 and 2.
Reviewers go on about those games being among the best games ever made, but after playing both, I got bored of it pretty quickly. It all just feels so mediocre/boring.
Same with Far Cry being meh. What's the point of a beautiful 'open' island, when you get shot in the friggin' face by a friggin' rocket launcher friggin' fired from the other side of the friggin' island (though the heartattack I had when I saw it flying towards me was awesome, but in the end, it's just lame)

World of Warcraft.
Someone let me create a character on his account, the first quest was to gather 6 pelts of animal A, and 4 teeth from animal B (or something like that). I farmed 5 of the 10 required items, then deleted the char. Too much grind. Was expecting more from such a popular game, but playing it reminded me of MapleStory (which is NOT a good thing at all).

Halo.
Might've been a revolution on the xbox, but on the PC it felt like another shooter with nothing to add to the genre. That, and gray hallways that look the same half of the time.

Fahrenheit.
Though enjoyable at first, the ridiculous plot twists and clunky controls (climbing a fence has NEVER been this frustrating) didn't satisfy me.

Call of Duty 2.
I'll admit, I mostly had fun when playing it. But in certain missions (mainly the Russian ones) were so scripted... it was basically whack-a-mole with Germans, until you move one step forward, and Germans start popping up in different spots all over again.

And I'll think up some more when I can be arsed to.

Just cause, all the missions were so samey that eventually I couldn't tell what part of the game I was in, the stunts were cool though, but even those can only entertain you for about 5 hours

Saphatorael:
Half-Life 1 and 2.
Reviewers go on about those games being among the best games ever made, but after playing both, I got bored of it pretty quickly. It all just feels so mediocre/boring.
Same with Far Cry being meh. What's the point of a beautiful 'open' island, when you get shot in the friggin' face by a friggin' rocket launcher friggin' fired from the other side of the friggin' island (though the heartattack I had when I saw it flying towards me was awesome, but in the end, it's just lame)

World of Warcraft.
Someone let me create a character on his account, the first quest was to gather 6 pelts of animal A, and 4 teeth from animal B (or something like that). I farmed 5 of the 10 required items, then deleted the char. Too much grind. Was expecting more from such a popular game, but playing it reminded me of MapleStory (which is NOT a good thing at all).

Halo.
Might've been a revolution on the xbox, but on the PC it felt like another shooter with nothing to add to the genre. That, and gray hallways that look the same half of the time.

Fahrenheit.
Though enjoyable at first, the ridiculous plot twists and clunky controls (climbing a fence has NEVER been this frustrating) didn't satisfy me.

Call of Duty 2.
I'll admit, I mostly had fun when playing it. But in certain missions (mainly the Russian ones) were so scripted... it was basically whack-a-mole with Germans, until you move one step forward, and Germans start popping up in different spots all over again.

And I'll think up some more when I can be arsed to.

That's the first time I've ever heard someone say they genuinely don't like Half-Life. You call Half-Life mediocre... Do you have anything to back that up? I understand that we might just have different tastes, but dang. I didn't think it was possible to not like Half-Life.

In addition, you say you don't like Halo, Far Cry, Call of Duty, or the Half Life series. I'd suggest that you stay away from FPSs as a whole. That's as good as it's going to get in terms of FPSs.

mjhhiv:

That's the first time I've ever heard someone say they genuinely don't like Half-Life. You call Half-Life mediocre... Do you have anything to back that up? I understand that we might just have different tastes, but dang. I didn't think it was possible to not like Half-Life.

Guess you don't see my posts. I even hate portal.

shatnershaman:

NHL 08.

Confirmed. Every year the graphics get better and the gameplay gets worse.

GTA IV. After seeing an upward trend from GTA III to Vice City and San Andreas, I expected it to blow me away. Then I got six stars and didn't see tanks. Good job, Rockstar.

Assassin's Creed is fresh in my mind but there have been many other times for sure.

Call of Duty 3. Ick.

shatnershaman:

Any Blizzard game.

Mind elaborating? I mean, I can understand why you would hate WoW, but as a huge StarCraft nerd, I'm interested in knowing what let you down there?

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.
You see this? *unscrews cap* IT'S WEAK SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unmannedperson:

shatnershaman:

Any Blizzard game.

Mind elaborating? I mean, I can understand why you would hate WoW, but as a huge StarCraft nerd, I'm interested in knowing what let you down there?

Warcraft 1-3-Rather play C&C. don't like the units/resources in Blizzards games (Even more so by how they ripped of Warhammer and 40k)
Starcraft-ditto
Starcraft 2-It could be perfect but it won't have Master Chiefs (Halo Wars)
Diablo 1 and 2-Don't like the point and click style.
WoW-Don't get me started.

Hellgate: London. I actually punched my friend in the face for making me play this game. Too much grind for the spiritual successor to Diablo 2. And it had a thoroughly dull story.

Too Human. I played the demo and the horrible camera combined with the awful stick waggling to attack enemies just killed what I was hoping would be a good game.

Halo 2, for having a horrible ending.

Halo 3, for getting 10/10s all around, but having a stunningly mediocre campaign mode.

Assassins creed for having the worst ending since Halo 2.

KOTOR 2, for being awesome right up until the last 30 minutes.

SecretTacoNinja:
Sonic Rush -_- I was mislead by the box saying 'Best sonic game ever!' Bollocks.
Oh and ESPECIALLY Sonic the Hedgehog for Xbox 360 and PS3, that was THE worst game I've EVER played.

You had hope for not one but two new Sonic games? Idiot.

Also, Too Human. It looked so awesome, then the demo was shit.

Viva Pinata-I bought it without reading an actual review, though had heard good things about it. When I saw it was basically gardening I was so ashamed that I was so stupid to actually buy it.

Psychonauts-had heard very good things about it both from review, and online communities (such as this one), but when I got it just really couldn't get into it at all.

Gungrave. I'm a big fan of the anime. But when I played the game, I wanted to claw my eyes out. Boring, repetitive, not worth my time. Copy and paste that for most any anime-themed game you could think of. (Except Record of Lodoss Wars. Classic.)

without a doubt Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit for those across the pond) has to be by biggest "and that's when i gave up hope..." moment. The gameplay wasn't that great, but the story was so fantastic and wickedly immersive that i was willing to forgive! i mean having to cover up a murder and escape the cops was great fun! but about half way through, the story went nice and bat shit crazy, and part of my soul died. Never before have i mourned a games story that bad.

the orange box
i dont get how portal is so great the puzzles arent that hard and i dont get the supposed humor it is suppose to have

half life 2 feels very outdated the graphics and gameplay feel like something youd play about a decade ago

and i dont have Xbox live so no TF2

Unmannedperson:
Medieval II: Total War

Not a totally horrible game, but very annoying. On too many occasions have I lost because my great commanding armies sent forth to purge the world of my enemies rebelled against me. All to often have I sent out pretty much my entire force except some guards left behind at my cities for protection, only to have my great armies join the rebels and attack me with my own units!

Also, you can't attack anyone without being excommunicated. And when the Inquisition comes about, WATCH OUT! It literally once took out every single one of my commanders.

Basically... you're not very good.

But when I give up hope? When I see things like "Bus Driver Sim" on the shelves.

Oblivion: After I got over how fun it was to shot things with arrows (which is still kinda fun)

AitD: Hmm, after the first level?

Quake 4. In second half of the game, you have 4 or 5 missions where you just run around alone killing monsters...