Galaxialconda:
Too Human, that game was just awful.

I disagree.

Anyway, on track to the thread, my biggest let down was Halo 3. Normally I don't like the hype, but I enjoyed Halo 1 and 2 so much, plus it was coming out on my Birthday! How was I supposed to resist that? Sigh.

Assassins Creed, game looked like it had so much going for it and then when you actually played it, it was all repetition with the game being fun during the killing if you repeated the process to get there enough times.

to add ones that havent been listed:

Boiling Point: Road to Hell. much promise, such a buggy mess. A prime example of why publishers rushing to release a game before another can ruin everything...Infact put down every game published by Atari in the last 5-6years & say dissapointing coz of rushed development to beat a nonexistant rival to realease.

Quest 64.

My hopes of ever finding an RPG for the 64 died that day.

Madnezz:
GTAIV. My friend told me about how awesome it was, etc. etc. but when I played it I was let down since, for me, it was a rehash of the other GTAs.

And a very poor rehash at that, what happened to the bikes, and ability to upgrade your stats like bike, motorcycle, and fatness, muscle, etc.

I totally agree with you, it was over-hyped and it made me sad face.

Mr Goostoff:

bue519:
its a tie between Gears of War 2 and Banjo and Kazooie nuts and bolts.

darktheif28:
*Cough Cough* Banjo Kazooie Nuts And Bolts

Whats wrong with Banjo-Kazooie?

It's just not as good as it was.

My biggest disappointment was probably Enter the Matrix, but that's just because I got suckered in by a PC Gamer cover story. I paid $60 for that pile of shit... in fact, I paid $60 for that pile of shit on the same day that the girl I liked cancelled our date and told me she just wanted to be friends. I was in grade 9, so that was pretty much the worst day of my life up to that point.

Other sequels have disappointed me, though. I was absolutely blown away the first time I played the original pre-release Call of Duty demo; I'd never played such an intense game in my life. Then Call of Duty 2 came out, and it was just a rehash of the first; I was profoundly underwhelmed. I got it for Christmas, but I knew it wasn't worth the money my parents paid for it, and I always feel kind of crummy about that.

Fable 2 - With all the hype I had expected quite the action adventure game, in spite of who the developer was. In the end you are left with 75% of the game being: "You can do it... but why bother?" and I pathetically weak storyline that essentially mimics the original. Not a particular bad game per sa, however hardly great either.

Final Fantasy XII - The trailers were fantastic, the characters appeared intriguing (except Vann) and the political focus was a breath of fresh air for a Final Fantasy series, yet despite all this the end result was nothing more then a cheap dungeon crawler with ridiculously impressive graphics. Little character development, poor pacing, terrible plot twists and the worst main character I have ever had the misfortune of playing.

Final Fantasy X-2 - Probably the biggest let down in gaming for me personally. I absolutely loved FFX and upon hearing news Square was going to release a sequel due to the impressive sales (rivaled FFVII for a time) I can honestly say I was ecstatic. Never would I have imagined Square selling out so horrendous as the cheap fanservice that is FF-2. Many noteworthy characters are ruined, voice acting is terrible as it is not the same people from FFX barring a few and the Charlie's Angel storyline was vomit educing at times. Having now forced myself to play through the game I shall admit it does have a sense of humor however given how phenomenal FFX was, I found this a huge let down and with FFXII being what it was, I am now moving all FFs to my "rent first" list, which I had never expected to do.

Spore, no reason needs to be given, anyone who bought this game on the hype will now why it failed so badly.

The biggest let down? Half Life 2 and it's sequels. Everyone I seem to know was telling me how it was the greatest fucking game ever and I played it and it was meh. It wasn't awful, it was just meh. I was expecting it to be amazing as my friends said it was and I played it and was like, oh. It's okay.

Halo. Where is the interactive environments? I'm Still waiting Bungie! Oh wait, those ideas were cancelled? Why? So you released this shit? GTFO! Can't believe Halo is more popular then Gears of War for example, I mean Gears of War is at least fun.

GTA IV wins. It's just so boring and normally I'm a fan of the GTA series.

WickedSkin:
Halo. Where is the interactive environments? I'm Still waiting Bungie! Oh wait, those ideas were cancelled? Why? So you released this shit? GTFO! Can't believe Halo is more popular then Gears of War for example, I mean Gears of War is at least fun.

...How do you find one unsophisticated shooter to be fun, while not finding the other one fun?

i know it was a while back but the Eragon game and movie. I loved the book and i am ready the third book now the game depressed me so much

DirkGently:

WickedSkin:
Halo. Where is the interactive environments? I'm Still waiting Bungie! Oh wait, those ideas were cancelled? Why? So you released this shit? GTFO! Can't believe Halo is more popular then Gears of War for example, I mean Gears of War is at least fun.

...How do you find one unsophisticated shooter to be fun, while not finding the other one fun?

Because of gameplay my friend. I found Serious Sam very funny so yeah. Halo didn't even have that kind of fun.

Woe Is You:

SomeBritishDude:
Black & White 2. I loved the first game, but 2 was a real let down.

Eh...the first game was such a big disappointment that I didn't even bother with the second game. It had good ideas, but in the end it was a clunkier Populous.

Maybe it was, I remember loving it back when I was 11 though. Havn't played it since, maybe if I did I'd be disappointed by it. B&W2 is just bad though.

Haz-

needausername:
Haze

Okay, how about Spo-

Draxis:

Spore - Was just way too simple.

*sigh* Final Fan-

galletea:
FFXII So very, very dull.

God fucking damn. ¬_¬

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident - One of the best looking space based games I have ever seen, its almost 5 years old now but the ships, shields, and weapon effects still look good. Its a shame to see a game that came so close to exactly what I want in a small-scale space combat game fail so bad, as winning seemed to be entirely based on luck.

Gears of War 1

Assassin's Creed (I still like it, but it's far from perfect)

Far Cry 2 (like it, but also flawed)

Advance Wars: Dark Conflict (not a lot of extras)

EcksTeaSea:
Assassins Creed, game looked like it had so much going for it and then when you actually played it, it was all repetition with the game being fun during the killing if you repeated the process to get there enough times.

I loved Assassin's Creed, I just thought it was too short. And I will say that my biggest let down was the release of Red Faction 2. The first was awesome, especially the Geomod engine, and then the second one came out and you could only blow up certain walls that the game told you to. Pissed me off.

Baldur's Gate, I kept getting told how amazing it was and how it was vastly superior to Neverwinter Nights. It was the worst RPG I've ever played.

GTA IV. "This game got perfect scores from every single reviewer. Clearly my skeptical assumption that it is just an over-hyped mediocre shooter is just pessimism. If its scores are so great, clearly it will be one of the greatest games ever... Nope, I was right."

Star Trek: Legacy. That game just sucked. Hell, the first Starfleet Command is better.

BF2142, Orange Box, Earth 2160, Genesis Rising, Armies of Exigo, World in Conflict: all fail to run (properly) on my laptop (which is basically my PC).

Ground Control 2: GC1 was fun, the squadron-based tactics rocked and were a nice change from the usual single units, the environments looked good. GC2 was just Generic RTT #2364 with single units, lame Heroes, cluttered environments, etc.

Empire Earth II: Never before have I seen a sequel that was actually uglier than its predecessor. Also, the addition of the ridiculous territory control took the whole "classic RTS" feel away from it, and that, combined with the graphical style, makes it more suited as Rise of Nations II than EE II, and I might've been more positive towards it had they published it as RoN II.

The Settlers: Heritage of Kings. Turned The Settlers from a game emphasizing on managing a "tribe" with a simplified but still fleshed-out economic system with some combat aspects to generic medieval RTS #64 billion, the economic system is a joke, the research and weather control (srsly, wtf?) sucks, the voice acting is ridiculous, the enemies are cheesy (guys in black spiky armour wielding warhammers and battle axes? Why not just carry around a sign that says "KILL ME, I EAT KITTENS FOR BREAKFAST"?), some of the characters are so retarded (especially that mayor or whatever in one of the earlier missions, where some bishop or other turns out to have sold out to the enemy - that's the point where I got completely fed up with the game and deinstalled it) that I just want to reach into the screen, pick them up and pound them into the ground until they were a bloody pulp.

WH40K DoW: Soulstorm, the fucking memory leak makes it absolutely unplayable - it seriously takes several minutes to load the campaign screen, and by the time I'm actually starting a campaign map I could've fought one battle and be halfway through the next in Dark Crusade. I'm not going to touch that game until they fix that memory leak.

Halo 3, massively over-hyped, and an even bigger let down than Halo 2 was. Even though 2 had a shitty SP the Mp was good. Apparently Bungie was out to sabotage their own games progressively, slowly removing the things that were good until all that we were left with were the shitty remains of a once decent franchise. I cant wait for Recon.

Starwars: Knights of the Old Republic 2, it could have been a lot better.

GTA IV as whats stated before and sadly even the reviews over hyped it.

force unleashed not to say it was bad jut short and shallow

MGS4

It is the only game I have ever played where I had to ask myself "Why am I playing this?"

It's a shame, because I was hoping it would be great

galletea:
FFXII So very, very dull.

Seconded and I was really looking froward to that one too.

I see a few people saying Oblivion. I bought it not knowing what it was though. I liked it, maybe because I had no preconceptions going in.

My memory sucks so I am going to go with recent games.

Dead Space: Dear god how can anyone think that camera angle is usable ?
Fallout 3: Soooo many problems and soooooooooooo ugly. They need to hurry up and release the modding tools so it has a chance at becoming a decent game.
Merc 2: Absolute rubbish.
Legendary: SONOFABITCH! One of the worst games I have played in years.

Strategia:
WH40K DoW: Soulstorm, the fucking memory leak makes it absolutely unplayable - it seriously takes several minutes to load the campaign screen, and by the time I'm actually starting a campaign map I could've fought one battle and be halfway through the next in Dark Crusade. I'm not going to touch that game until they fix that memory leak.

Couldn't agree more. Not only the memory leak though, the new races were horrible in comparison to the others. Dark Eldar were so terrible, and the AI was just as bad. Aaaaand the "spells" that the new races could cast after gaining souls or faith was such a bad idea.

And yeah i also think Spore blew chunks. Massive chunks.

Halo 3, not necessarily because it disappointed me but mostly because of all the hype that surrounded it.

Halo. God i hate that game and the two games to follow to. people was all hype about them then i play it i almost threw up it was that bad.

Hellgate London.

OH the potential that game had! I had merry visions of watching my guardian friends run out in front to start squashing masses of bad things supported by cabalists and sniper fire from the roof tops.

But the game just kind of rolled over and died. Not with a bang but a whimper.

The even larger disappointment is that no one is going to try to make this kind of mmo again. Or atleast has not tried yet.

TheNoog:
SSBB

Terrible replay value

I disagree completely, but it appears that I'm in the minority. Especially since Brawl has, so far, lived up to the hype for me.

Letdowns for me? Hmm... Probably Twilight Princess. Not to say it's not an awesome game, but it could have been more. Pathetically easy, too.