gaara9999:
hasent been many game releases yet or as much previews as last year

Yeah, that's a great point - the lack of good titles this year's gonna be a huge disappointment! I mean, it's bad enough not expecting many good games, but not expecting many games at all? Surely that's going to be the most disappointing aspect of it all?

I3uster:
No more heroes is _mindless_ goregrind for you?
No more heroes lives through its story, well manhunt and mad world dont need a story other than "KILL"

No it's just that MadWorld isn't mindless violence. It's supposed to be satirical, like NMH.

Axolotl:

I3uster:
No more heroes is _mindless_ goregrind for you?
No more heroes lives through its story, well manhunt and mad world dont need a story other than "KILL"

No it's just that MadWorld isn't mindless violence. It's supposed to be satirical, like NMH.

Hmm missed that point obviously, thanks to all of those "LAWL FINALLY BLOOD ON WII"-sayers... sry

I3uster:
Hmm missed that point obviously, thanks to all of those "LAWL FINALLY BLOOD ON WII"-sayers... sry

Well it's either satirical or very, very bad. Juding from the fact that it's from the makers of Viewtiful Joe and Okami, I took it to be satirical.

Wargamer:
Whatever game my friend, who I shall call 'A', claims will be the greatest game of the year. Seriously, this guy is like the touch of death to videogames. I swear the decline of Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, Halo, Fable and many others is down to him taking an interest in the series.

That friend of yours seems like an avatar of the current console market. Although it's always nice when people who used to be disinterested in certain games begin to take an interest in classics and franchises we love, they do so en masse, and seem to love them for all the wrong reasons. Then developers go in listening to what the vocal majority likes and dislikes, and changes the game accordingly. Devil May Cry 2 is a perfect example of this.

Halo 3: Recon, because the Halo games aren't as good as the hype.

Wouldukindly:
Headline: 'Relic and Valve bought out by EA'

Oh...oh...oh God.

I will weep at a such a report.

I will sit down and weep.

Biggest dissapointment? I'd say Starcraft 2, except I was already dissapointed in it in 2008 and I wasnt really looking forward to it anyway... Owing to them basically and predictably not changing the damn thing; I mean seriously, C&C isnt so much the father as the grandfather of RTS standards, and grampy is now incontinent. That style of RTS became obsolete when Warzone 2100 was released.

Now there's a good game that still has more unique features than most new releases.

WarpGhost:
Biggest dissapointment? I'd say Starcraft 2, except I was already dissapointed in it in 2008 and I wasnt really looking forward to it anyway... Owing to them basically and predictably not changing the damn thing; I mean seriously, C&C isnt so much the father as the grandfather of RTS standards, and grampy is now incontinent. That style of RTS became obsolete when Warzone 2100 was released.

Now there's a good game that still has more unique features than most new releases.

The problem with starcraft 2 being innovative is the huge fanbase, tv stations and sponsors wont like if their game is changed.hard.

Its like changing american football to have a multi-ball-phase where 100 footballs are randomly thrown on the field every 3 minutes...

I predict that Heavy Rain will be mediocre at best.

The gameplay problems from Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy will probably still remain.Based on current previews and trailers.

Jagged Alliance 3 (Although it's unfair to count it as 2009, 'cos this is possibly the biggest dissapointment of all time, if it ever get released)

Diablo 3 Because not everyone has the time to play MMORPG.

.. And of course 90% of the games that gets ported from consoles to the PC, with crappy controls that jerks about, cameras that point at a wall while the horsemen of doom are riding towards you, and not to mention not being about to save untill you've reached a checkpoint or safe house. (But then again, I'm quite used to these games, so it's not really a dissapiointment when a port I expected to be rubbish turns out to be actually rubbish)

GTA chinatown wars and borderlands. GTACW will be basically GTA IV on DS and borderlands might turn out like too human, all generic and basic.And boring.

Starcraft 2 because no matter what, I still don't think it will actually come out. lol

LornMind:

Wouldukindly:
Headline: 'Relic and Valve bought out by EA'

Oh...oh...oh God.

I will weep at a such a report.

I will sit down and weep.

I fear that were that to happen, my life would have no meaning....

Whatever Peter Molyneux thinks is another one of his God-like gifts to man.

That Superman game that Factor 5's supposedly working on. Then again, everyone would see that failure coming, so I'll predict White Knight Chronicles falling flat, despite my hopes and dreams.

The next NFS game.
Not like anyone expects anything from it anyways,and it'll sell fine...ish
It'll just be rubbish.

FF13 is pushed back to 2010 OR

FF13 is as big a cock up as Last Remnant, failure to utilize the Unreal 3 Engine properly combined with poor play issues makes FF13 a maligned failure,

Baby Tea:
I'll jump in with the obvious 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, which I think is slated for 2009. I could be wrong, and if so I'll just tuck that away for the 'Big disappointments of 2010' thread.

How can one be disappointed by something that one never believed was going to be good?

Indigo_Dingo:
Judging by their more recent project , Bayonetta, it looks very very bad.

Bayonetta hasn't been released yet. How can you possibly judge it?

ladof84:

Biggest disappointment of '09 would probably be FF13. The series has been slowly dying since it went 3d with 7 (a good game) and 12 was just piss easy. Bring back the challenge of the SNES games.

Come back when you beat Yiazmat

PedroSteckecilo:
FF13 is as big a cock up as Last Remnant, failure to utilize the Unreal 3 Engine properly combined with poor play issues makes FF13 a maligned failure,

They aren't using the Unreal Engine with FF13, though. They're using an engine of their own.

And The Last Remnant really did have an interesting battle system, but the failure to use tech properly and the sordid storyline made the game a chore. Such wasted potential.

I predict my sex life will be just as disappointing this year as it was last year

Why must Starcraft milk us for our money? And my predict for fail? Hmmmmmm....Prototype. Or maybe...maybe the new No More Heroes. Hyped, yes. Ensured greatness? No. Anyone remember Too Human? 10 FREAKING YEARS!!!

The amazing horror survival game, that Surprise Surprise, makes you trip over ammo and med kits from the start. *glares at Dead Space and RE*

Bayonetta will probably be a dissapointment to some, not to me, I'm expecting very little from that one.

Starcraft 2 will amaze everybody by doing nothing new and we'll all eat it up. Really, all they need to do is put a graphics updated 'classic mode' (same as SC1 except with a resolution going up to the 1600s and redone sprites) in there as a bonus and they're set.

I'll call down my wrath upon Resident Evil 5, that thing is not going to live up to its hype or predecessor. It's a decided amount of 'hey, T&A!' and 'look, 2 player splitscreen!' and all the while you're playing the same game as 3 years ago. (To put a finer point on this one, yes, I've played one of the show-builds.)

But really, guys, the worst thing that could happen to 2009 already happened and its called Timesplitters 4.

Aside:
Wasn't Halo: Recon renamed to Halo: ODST in the weirdest PR move ever last year? I see everybody still calling it Recon here.

I'm guessing if Deus Ex 3 comes out in 09 a lot of people or gonna be disappointed in it as from what I heard the developer of it said Deus Ex 1 was boring and slow. I got a feeling people are not gonna like it and it's gonna puss off a lot of fans. I have yet to play or beat the first one but yea...that has huge potential to bomb.

Aside from that I always reserve my judgment for games until they come out and I see clear cut evidence that it's crap. I'v seen games that have looked like complete garbage before they came out but turned out quite good after release so yea.....DE3 is just a throw out there.

The next next Sonic game. Whatever it is. UNLESS IT'S DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS 2D, HD AND BLOODY MARVELLOUS.

But even then... it'll probably be rubbish. Sadly.

Indigo_Dingo:

Baby Tea:
I'll jump in with the obvious 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, which I think is slated for 2009. I could be wrong, and if so I'll just tuck that away for the 'Big disappointments of 2010' thread.

There are a couple of problems with calling that "most disappointing title of 2009"
1. Everyone is expecting it to be a failure, so how can it be a disspointment if it matches our expectations exactly?

Maybe it will drop below those expectations?

I have a little faith in Blizzard. They know what is takes to make a good game and I would like to think that they know what made Starcraft and Diablo great and won't do much to kill them. So I think those games will be good. The only fail that maybe associated with those is their release date. Blizzard loves to tout, "we won't release a game until it is finished". 3 years later, we get to play. I wouldn't be surprised if these 2 games don't even show up in 2009.

I agree with Indigo, Halo Wars will suck, but I think only Halo-tards will be expecting that one to be good, so I can't really call that one a disapointment.

I think RE5 will be a compete rehash of RE4, but guess what, that means it will be made of awesome. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But you can put some flashy new paint on it.

Assassin's Creed 2. I think this will be like RE5, they will rehash the first and slap on some new paint. I do have hopes/faith that they will improve what is the game's only major flaw (IMHO), the investigation missions are all the same. I don't know where this hope/faith comes from, but it is a warm and happy place made of sunshine and dreams.

I think the biggest disapointment will come from Prototype, and I hate to say that. Prototype has SO MUCH potential to be compete bad ass injected with awesome on a bed of naked hookers dipped in chocolate, but I have this lingering feeling that it is going to suck. I call it the "Too Human" effect.

I really hope I'm wrong, but Heavy Rain. It looks way to good to actually live up to my expectations.

Further disappointments/predictions for 2009:
-After finally being unveiled in November of 2009, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 will be delayed until March of 2010, and retitled "Half-Life Forever"
-Nintendo will announce "Wii Motion Super Plus" which will further improve the accuracy of the motion controls, but still won't be compatible with any games.
-Halfway through the year, Sony will finally admit that the Home "beta" is really the final build
-Microsoft finally realizes how useless Avatars are and "borrows" something else from its competitors