What is the Most Disappointing Game Ever?

[Charlie]

OK, worst game ever is covered, best game ever, best game with monkeys in ball covered...

So how about this... what game was the single biggest let down you ever expirenced?

I've got a couple... Zoda's Revenge was bad but honestly I wasn't expecting it to live up to the original Star Tropics...

And I didn't really enjoy the multiplayer frame-rate of Mario Kart 64.

The runner up (for me anyway) is Ocarina of Time for the N64/Gamecube. A lot of people call this the best video game ever made, but I just found the entire quest to be terminally boring. The empty overworld with little or no badguys between each level was so very dull that I quit playing five times before I beat it (as in stopped playing it for months or years), and I found the dungeons to be tedious and the puzzles to be more annoying then enjoyable. Unlike the temples in Wind Waker or even Majora's Mask.

Speaking of which, Ocarina of Time was so boring that I bought Majora's Mask the day it came out and I didn't even muster up the courage to open the thing and actually play it until over a year later.

But the game that was the biggest let down overall for me was Donkey Kong 64. First off, I really, really enjoyed the first two Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES (thought #3 sucked ass), and I had enjoyed Banjo-Kazooie enough to be psyched for DK64. Instead, I found a game that crawled along at a snail's pace. And the game relied too much on collecting crap then on fun levels and objectives. It could have been fun but lots of the non-DK characters were just no fun to use.

So yep, DK64 is the biggest letdown I ever experienced... but your milage may very.

[Tepic]

Hard choice really.. The worst game ever has to be Myst <yawn>

The most dissapointing for me is Goldeneye on the N64. People raved about it so much I bought a N64 to play the damn thing and it was really rather naff..... Or maybe I was.

[Tempest]

Yeah Myst has to be up there. When I heard about it I was told that it was the most amazing game ever. After struggling to get it loaded on my computer (it never liked my video card), I found out it was a point and click adventure. Now that's not bad (I like those type of games), but it was so god awful boring I quit after only an hour into it. It was like Kings Quest without any of the fun.

Personally I think most of the Neo Geo games fall into this category. The system and games get so much hype that you'd think God himself personally endorses the system, but when you play the games you find that they're OK but nothing great.

Tempest

[portnoyd]

State of Emergency. Potential + GTA3 hype + Shitty Gameplay + Stupid Gameplay + Dull Gameplay = Super Disappointment

The only game I've ever played where I returned the damn thing 2 hours after buying it.

dave

[Eternal Champion]

The original Shadow of the Beast on Amiga is a big one for me. Beautiful game, awesome music, but all but unplayable. Ooooops, forgot about that!

Anything on Sega CD! "HEY! You STILL don't have a CD?!" Er, no.

I know this game wasn't hyped compared to most, but Rise of the Robots. The gaming mags had really cool ads for about 5 minutes, making it look like a movie FX house made the thing, then....CRAP!

[Raedon]

lets see..

any of the "multimedia" Zork games
Neverwinter Nights

[strongmanx]

You like Donkey Kong country for the SNES? Are you crazy? That game was so damn boring. Graphics were pretty for the SNES but the game was BORING!

[hamburgler]

Devil may cry 2
I can understand why the first one was the best in the series but,this one doesn't withstand to it's length of how long the game is.Not that i'm saying the game is bad,I'm just saying how a big dissapointment it was to all devil may cry fan's.

[Atari7800]

I snoozed though THE BOUNCER for PS2...

The PSX game DRAGON BALL GT: FINAL BOUT was supposed to be terrible, and it is, so I guess I wasn't disappointed.

SHINING FORCE 3 on the Saturn is a great game, but I'm totally stuck half-way through (it was my first try at an RPG and I made a lot of mistakes) so I'm really disappointed, but it's not a disappointed game at all.

I'm rambling. :roll:

[portnoyd]

Haha, The Bouncer. The only game you can beat 5 times in 5 hours and then never have to pick it up again. (Well, one of the only)

dave

[Six Switch]

I would go with State of Emergency or Donkey Kong 64,both I had preordered for months and couldn't wait,then I played them.I should have taken them back but now thy are worth nothing. >:(

[MyNameIsBoB]

Starfox Adventures. All you do is go around picking up items and puting them in slots. Thats all the game is. Very disappointing when I beat it in 2 days.

[TheJuggala]

Batman: Dark Tommorow. I waited for months to play this, the graphics looked amazing. So i go and rent it, and the gameplay absoulutely sucks. The camera view is almost the same one they use for Resident evil and i really really hate it. >:(

[Charlie]

State of Emergency is another bad one... that's what it and DK64 had it common... they both got ungodly hype before they came out and they both had little substance. I had a friend who swore up and down that SOE was the best game he ever played one day and then the very next day he was saying how much he hated it. lol

[Atari7800]

I can't believe a forgot these Nintendo 64 stinkers, both of which were highly anticipated and both of which SUCK ASS

Superman 64

Carmagaddon 64

Batman for the N64 sucks ass too, but I think most people expected that one, so it really wasn't that much of a disappointment.

[ManekiNeko]

I'd list the trifecta of Sonic Adventure 2, Crazy Taxi 2, and the sequel to Virtua Tennis. The Dreamcast had left me completely satisfied... until those games were released. Why Sega felt it was necessary to spoil their three most popular franchises with crummy sequels is completely beyond me. Sonic Adventure 2 made the mistake of taking the Sonic games in a cold, dark new artistic direction, and worsened matters by taking my favorite character Tails and bolting him into a mech that COMPLETELY changed the way the character played.
Crazy Taxi 2 had a cast of "new" characters that were really just unimaginative ripoffs of the first four cabbies, plus cities that were much too crowded and clogged with traffic.
Tennis 2K2 (I think that was the title, but don't hold me to that) was the followup to the overhyped Virtua Tennis, featuring real tennis stars but no tennis fun. It was boring and frustrating, and had none of the life of Nintendo's competitor Mario Tennis.
All three games sucked much ass. I bought the last two at Blockbuster for some pocket change and a little belly button lint, and I still felt cheated. It took almost an entire day to accumulate that belly button lint, after all!

JR

[EnemyZero]

The most dissapointing game I ever played...hmmmmm id have to say Starfox Adventures was kinda dull, i waited long for it played it for a bit and then sorta went through that ::looks at game:: hmm do i wanna play? hmmm ...OO PIZZA..for like a month or 2 lol

[Phantom]

I'd list the trifecta of Sonic Adventure 2, Crazy Taxi 2, and the sequel to Virtua Tennis. The Dreamcast had left me completely satisfied... until those games were released. Why Sega felt it was necessary to spoil their three most popular franchises with crummy sequels is completely beyond me.Hmm. Sonic Adventure 2 and Tennis 2K2 are two of my favourite games of all time. :roll:

Tennis 2K2 (I think that was the title, but don't hold me to that) was the followup to the overhyped Virtua Tennis, featuring real tennis stars but no tennis fun. It was boring and frustrating, and had none of the life of Nintendo's competitor Mario Tennis.I think that Mario Tennis is good, but not great. (I liked the gameboy color version much more than the N64 one). IMO Tennis 2K2 is much much better than Mario Tennis and Virtual Tennis.

[katchoo]

Metropolismania by Natsume...After bring out a game that i LOVE, harvest moon, i thought that this would be another wonderful, addiciting game.

It's so full of bugs, and so confusing, it's not even worth it. :/

[Starcade]

Harvest Moon for PS2, I loved the SNES and PSX versions, but the Ps2 version just sucked...really badly.

[hydr0x]

Devil may cry 2


pretty damn right u are :)

I'd add the following games:

ET, Atari 2600
Master Of Orion 3, PC (Why oh why? part 2 was so great :( )
GTA 2
Doom 2, PC
Commander Keen 7, PC
Secret Of the Stars, SNES
RE for DC, yes, all three, the controlls sucked...
Virtua Fighter 3tb, DC

and a lot more i can't think of right now ;)

[Charlie]

Starfox Adventures is another bad one... still doesn't compare to DK64 (mostly because of the ungodly hype DK got... Star Fox I sort of dreaded).

Like I said before, if MS hadn't bought Rare, they would have gone out of business. Quality is not an issue here: Rare games were not ones that many people bought. Let's go down the list.

Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Tooie
Blast Corps
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Diddy Kong Racing
Donkey Kong 64
Goldeneye
Jet Force Gemini
Killer Instinct Gold
Mickey's Speedway USA
Perfect Dark

Eleven games. Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie were huge sellers. Diddy Kong Racing and Perfect Dark did ok. Everything else was a major bust. 2 good sellers, and 2 ok sellers doesn't make up for seven huge failures. This is why Nintendo didn't put up a fight, because they lost nothing. Like Treasure, despite their reputation, Rare is not a company that can sell games based on their name value. LOL, they're name doesn't have any value.

[AB Positive]

This was my own personal case of hype to disappointment, I got a nice trade that included Magic Knight Rayearth for the Saturn. I was so psyched about this game, I boot it up and start playing. Now, I love MKR the anime but I forgot a couple things.

1) I always watched the series with subtitles.
2) There is no experience system in the game.

Read that second one again if you haven't played the game. Okay, welcome back. Yes, you level up at certain pre-determined points in the game throughout. It's linear, and Clef sounds like "A damn retarded leprechaun" according to one of my friends. I have to agree. I'm keeping it of course, but still. Blegh.

[Neonsolid]

Gone.

[max 330 mega]

well, as people have seen in other "games you didnt like " threads im a pretty picky gamer, and alot of the most loved game series ever i totally hate, but i guess the BIGGEST dissapointment to me was super puzzle fighter 2 turbo, i really thought i was gonna like this game in my mind i had it built up to be different than what it was and i absolutely hated it :o

[kainemaxwell]

Rise of the Robots
Myst (so boring!)
DK64

[pixelsnpolygons]

DK 64, Shadows of the Empire, Banjo Kazooie, Star Fox Adventures.... too hard to choose.

[Kamino]

Zelda 2.

it sucks. badly. i'd bet the battery in mine's dead, as it has not been played in 12 years.

[fishsandwich]

Starfox Adventures is another bad one... still doesn't compare to DK64 (mostly because of the ungodly hype DK got... Star Fox I sort of dreaded).

Like I said before, if MS hadn't bought Rare, they would have gone out of business. Quality is not an issue here: Rare games were not ones that many people bought. Let's go down the list.

Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Tooie
Blast Corps
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Diddy Kong Racing
Donkey Kong 64
Goldeneye
Jet Force Gemini
Killer Instinct Gold
Mickey's Speedway USA
Perfect Dark

Eleven games. Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie were huge sellers. Diddy Kong Racing and Perfect Dark did ok. Everything else was a major bust. 2 good sellers, and 2 ok sellers doesn't make up for seven huge failures. This is why Nintendo didn't put up a fight, because they lost nothing. Like Treasure, despite their reputation, Rare is not a company that can sell games based on their name value. LOL, they're name doesn't have any value.

I can see some of these game being sales disappointments, even big sales disappointments in some cases, but you're says Blast Corps, DK64, and KI Gold were all "huge failures?" Do you have any sales figues versus sales expectations figures ro back that up?

I've read that Jet Force Gemini was a big bomb and I know you can still buy sealed Conker's BFDs and Perfect Darks all over the net, indicating a big overproduction of games. But KI Gold was re-released as a Player's Choice, and you don't see many sealed Blast Corps.

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers

[RJ]

Devil May Cry
Resident Evil: Code Veronica X
Crusaders of Might & Magic (PS)

Just now I got done/quit playing Ape Escape 2 (PS2). It starts out great, very gradual learning curve, tons of easily-gained powerups/rewards, almost too easy for a seasoned gamer, really along the line of a kid's game...

Then BAM! I got over 2/3 through it & was hoping to finish today. The Moon Base stage is SO IMPOSSIBLY FREAKIN' HARD!!! The 5th time I fell off that spinning yellow thing after sliding off those pivoting platforms was enough. I ejected the disc & threw it frisbee-style across the room, then reset the system & deleted the game save w/ EXTREME PREJUDICE. I'll never touch that f'ing game again & I mean it.

It's a shame, too- a fun game up until that point, which ruined it all for me.

[chrisbid]

disappointments as in high expectation/low payoff?

easy

World Series Baseball 2K1

[Ed Oscuro]

Can't really understand the folks tearing apart Blast Corps, Shadows of the Empire (that game has a great deal of depth, really, keeps you occupied for hours, and finding/collecting the Rebel Alliance crests was fun!), and I always chuckle when another liberated soul trashes Goldeneye LOL

Really, once you've tried out Shadow of the Beast, Amiga or Genesis/MD, you'll never complain about a game again. Run left a few screens until you get to a dungeon, traverse it a ways, and then you'll bump up against a hideous sliding boss. I have no idea how you're supposed to beat the damn thing as you apparently need to hit it while it's coming TOWARDS you...but if you hesitate it'll overrun you. Your exit is blocked off and after hitting the thing as many times as you can it'll still just slide into you...you'll die. The whole rest of the game - including the overworld scenes - is pretty much like that, with stuff screaming towards you out of nowhere. I hear that loading times on the Amiga made this game even more aggravating there than it is on the Genesis.

I still like it a little bit, but you really haven't seen disappointing until you've seen that.

Another game, for me, that's rather dissappointing is Castlevania: SotN. First thirty minutes of that game are so boring...ugh. I find many of the older games in that series are too easy; but then SotN is exactly the opposite. It's so easy - and, more importantly, so devoid of tension, neat occurences, and STAIRWAYS - that I really haven't managed to spend more than an hour or so with it. Plus the folks who say the game's soundtrack is the greatest thing ever obviously need to listen to some better music now and then...rather uneven and cliched as it is.

[tritium]

In response to some ofyou guys/gals. I enjoyed
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Zelda 2: Adventure of LInk
Sonic Adventure 2
Donkey Kong Country
Devil May Cry
Crazy Taxi 1 and 2
Doom 2
DC RE Games

Games I was REALLY dissappointed with
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Myst,
GTA 3 and newer,
Border Down,
Mario Kart : DD
Soul Calibur 2 [PS2 version, I like the GC version]

[Crush Crawfish]

Monster Rancher 4.....I loved 2 and 3, and this looked amazing. Unfortunately, tecmo decided to fix what wasn't broken and screwed it up. And I missed the cel-shading from 3, as it fit the game better.

[AnAngel]

Drakkhen I for the SNES and I can't stand Total Carnage..that game cheats like no other, especially at the end when you have to capture the general.

[Cryomancer]

I see a lot of posts trashing State of Emergency around here, I wonder, did you all play the ps2 version? The xbox one was alright.

[Avenger]

State of Emergency. Potential + GTA3 hype + Shitty Gameplay + Stupid Gameplay + Dull Gameplay = Super Disappointment

The only game I've ever played where I returned the damn thing 2 hours after buying it.

dave

Oh man i couldnt say it ANY better so ill just say

SAME HERE @_@ AND GAMESPOT GAVE IT LIKE 8.5! you know sumone got payed for that...

[Avenger]

sorry had to double post i cant edit that one ^^^

nothing tops my disappintment fir this game here....yea i played Myst and it sucked, DMC2 was shit....but NOTHINg compares to my utter total 100% disapointment for

HALO

i was told it was the greatest thing to ever grace the earth....so why was i falling asleep and wanting to die while playing ever second of that game?

[Gamemaster_ca_2003]

psst

2600 Pac Man

[esquire]

I'll second that on ET for the Atari 2600.

For the PC, my nomination would go to Daikatana and Trespasser. I expected a lot out of both of those games and was extremely disappointed in both.

For the PSX, I'll say Warriors of Might and Magic & Crusaders of Might and Magic. I loved the PC RPG and Turn Based strategy games from this genre, but these action games just plained sucked.

For the Dreamcast, it's got to be Shenmue. There was so much hype to that game that I was expecting an instant classic. I was utterly bored with that game.

[Wavelflack]

Sonic R. The game looked great, and the music was nice (the vox didn't bug me), but it's so damned difficult to control.

I wanted to like it. I really really did.

[VG_Maniac]

Super Mario Sunshine. I know it wasn't really a bad game, but it didn't even come close to living up to Super Mario 64. All the areas looked the same (tropical island themed), and I didn't like the whole water squirter deal. I'm still waiting for a worthy sequal to SM64.

I also was HIGHLY dissapointed by Blaster Master 2 on the Genesis. I waited a very long time for a Blaster Master sequal, and when I heard there was a 16-bit Blaster Master on the Genesis, I was thrilled. So I went out and rented it. Man, was I so let down. The game just sucked. The gameplay was horrible, the music was very obnoxious sounding. What a crapper.

[evildead2099]

I, like a few others, strongly disagree re:Tennis 2K2, Sonic Adventure 2, RE: Code Veronica, and (ESPECIALLY!) Zelda II being categorized as disappointing.

Here are the games that I consider most disappointing:

Daikatana (I gave it too much benefit of the doubt when I played it, and still found myself very disappointed)

Pokemon Pinball

Halo 2 (The first one is great, however)

Red Faction 2 (NOTE: when I first started playing this game, I was impressed with its multiplayer aspect but VERY, VERY disappointed with its single player aspect - especially since I had high expectations based on how amazing Red Faction 1's single player aspect is. I eventually came to appreciate Red Faction 2's single-player mode after I forced myself to beat it, but I definately consider it an aquired taste)

[Quackaddict]

Wow. I was thinking State of Emergency before I even clicked on this thread. This biggest waste of $49.99 I've ever spent.

On top of this...I can't believe that they are releasing "State of Emergency 2!"

http://www.gamefaqs.com/search/index.html?game=state+of+emergency

[unbroken]

Doom 3 was pretty big let down for me.

[Roi]

Wow I read some games here I really enjoyed!

Most dissapointing for my was Starfox Adventure, man I thought Rare had made a great game as a goodbye to all the fans :'( (If Rare was still developing for the Cube I'm sure the sales of there games will be much higher.)

[Ridley30]

Lots of Rare hatin' going on here. I, for one, loved the crap out of Starfox Adventures. Biggest letdown? Tales of Symphonia. So SLOW!

[Jumpman Jr.]

A bunch come to mind, but there not really a complete 'let-down.'
For instance, when Super Mario World 2 (Yoshi's Story) came out, I was hoping/expecting a simialr game to Super Mario World. That didn't happen, and I was pretty dissapointed. However, it was still a fun-as-hell game.
Same goes for Sunshine.

[§ Gideon §]

^ Woah. That's pretty much exactly how I should respond.

[albailey]

Action 52 for NES.

I bought it (thankfully I did not buy it when it came out), brought it home, put it in the NES and tried every single game on it .
Took it back out of the NES, and put it back in the box. I will never try and play that cart again.

Al

[Snapple]

It's a cliche answer, but Final Fantasy 8.

Some people were disappointed the direction the series took starting with 7, although I still don't know why. For me, I really didn't like FF8. It's the first and only Final Fantasy game that I never really found anything good to say about it. Even FFX-2, while clearly a pretty shallow game, and one with minimal programming involved, given how much they just copied and pasted from FFX, had SOME good in it. But not FF8, not for me.

I know people out there disagree, and that's fine. I have no qualms if people like FF8. It was a huge, huge letdown for me personally though, at the time it was released.

[linlhutz]

Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road (NES)

My brother and I loved the first game (Co-op rocks!) and waited, very impatiently, for the sequel to arrive on the NES.

..eh...whats with the ugly repetitive levels? WHY are these shops here? Mini-games with loading time??!!!

Yuck. Turns my stomach just thinking about how much allowance money we wasted on that.



That and Ultima IX. I might dust that off and see if the Gaming Rig I just built up can play it at full speed.

[googlefest1]

2600: pac man ( but i enjoyed it immensely)

2600: donkey kong 2 or jr dont remember which one it is)

nes: Zelda (to this day i don't get the hype )

nes: ninja gaiden (a great and fun game but was diapointed it was nothing like the arcade)

nes: metroid (i was and still get board playing it -- the comercials were alot more fun looking -- im not saying it was a bad game just a let down for me because of the expectation i had)

nes: wizards and warriors - i think im thinking of the right game

master system - alien syndrome ( my excitement for the game totaly droped after seeing the arcade)

N64: Goldeneye

psx: dino crisis and resident evil games (the control brings the otherwise great games down to a lower level

saturn: 3 dirty dwarfs - i just felt WTF is this - i just couldt get into it - although i play it once in a blue moon

rise of the robots - on all systems - played them all starting with PC

PC: starcontrol 3
PC: comand an conqeror tiberian sun - i waited and waited for this game after seeing the trailer for it upon beating the first game in this series - big disapointment for me

[Rob of the Sky]

Metroid Prime 2 seemed like a dissapointment to me. The first Metroid Prime was a wonderful game. There was a lot of exploration and discovery to done in MP. While these elements were in MP2, they seemed to be overshadowed by the enemies in MP2. The enemies in MP2 must've been on steroids or something, because it takes two fully charged shots to kill the easiest enemy. I also didn't like how MP2 was so much darker than MP. It was like Retro Studios tried to make MP2 a Halo clone or something.

Another game that was disapointing was Zelda: Majora's Mask. I enjoyed Ocarina of Time. OoT was perhaps the best game I've ever played. So, I thought that Majora's Mask would be better than that. However, Majora's Mask had a very boring begining, and the three day thing was fustrating. I always becan each three day cycle getting all of the ammo that I lost going back in time.

[cyberfluxor]

The Adventures of Mighty Max (GEN)

When I was venturing through the pawn shop and saw this game in the bucket of $1 games, I was thinking it would be an awesome game if it were like the show! I never knew they made a game after the show, so thinking to myself it'd be a moving mystical adventure well done. Well, all was good except the "well done" part. Just playing it a few minutes was a letdown. Bummer.

[Richter Belmount]

i wouldnt say most disappointing game ever , but i wasnt entirely imperessed by doom 64 That game was hyped on my mind for such a long time but the game wasnt as cool as quake when i finally played it , but i did play the pc conversion and much more kickass.

[Xizer]

Most disappointing? Shenmue. Everyone raved about how it was the best thing since sliced bread - that game was boring as hell. The whole game is just wandering around lost, talking to people and having strange conversations until you finally find the right person. Then you have to find someone else and talk to them, and so on.

FYI: Donkey Kong 64 and Star Fox Adventures kicked ass.

DK64 was a massive adventure which was fun for pretty much the whole 50+ hours it took to collect everything. Star Fox Adventures was a good adventure too, although on the short side.

[Damaniel]

For me, the most disappointing game was Lord of the Rings, Volume 1 for the SNES. Being a fan of the books, I waited for that game for years -- pretty much from when Nintendo Power first mentioned that the game was in development -- and I recall that it kept on getting delayed. I wanted that game more than just about any other at the time. Once it came out and I had a chance to play it, I realized that it sucked. *Really* sucked. Never since have I been disappointed with a game as much as that one.

[Psycho Penguin]

Final Fantasy X-2. I loved the first one, but the sequel was totally unneeded. Plus, the music and storyline were ABYSMAL to the point that I skipped scenes and pushed the mute button on more than ten different occasions. The mission based system was ass, and the characters were annoying as hell. This game really let me down.

FF8 and legend of Dragoon are other games that really let me down, as well as Metroid 2 and Link's Awakening for the Game Boy.

[Richter Belmount]

new super mario bros. :bawling: too much of cakewalk for me I rather stick with super mario bros. 2 japan

[GuitarHero73]

Hello everyone new to this board figured I would throw in my 2 cents on this subject

Atari 2600 E T

Nintendo Castlevania II I thought the first one was classic the 2nd one was a weak follow up although part III was great

[Ruudos]

I don't know of any game that was really a huge disappointment to me. Zoda's Revenge could have been better, but there's plenty of games that could have been better.

[FrakAttack]

Soul Reaver, but only because there was so much build up beforehand. Not necessarily a bad game, but they hyped it for like 2 years before release, so by the time I finally got to play it it was kinda like "meh."

[Trevelyan]

Personally I found Hitman 2: Silent Assassin on the PC disappointing. I never played the original but I remember that it and its sequel had alot of hype. I purchased Hitman 2: Silent Assassin along with The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast in a 3 for £20 offer. The latter two i've since played and completed and love, but i never took to Hitman. I was a big fan of the Thief series of games which I felt overshadowed (no pun intended) my experience with Hitman completely. I'm sure i'll give it another go one day:?.

I bought a dreaded third party expansion pack for my N64 which made playing Perfect Dark a living hell cos it would crash after about 45mins:bad-words:.

Another honourable mention is the 1988 Tiger, Sonic the Hedgehog handheld game. I got it for my birthday in around 1991, i'd be 7 or 8. I got so excited thinking it would have game gear graphics, it didn't:sob:.

[Volcanon]

Master of Orion 3. It was the last game I ever paid full retail for. Now I buy everything used or online. MoO2 was such a great game and I had fun playing it multiplayer, I buy MoO3 and what does it have? Almost no multiplayer support (3 months after release and there were a grand total of ZERO people in the room during a Saturday afternoon) and the entire game sucks.

[G-Boobie]

Castelvania 64 and Castlevania Legacy of Darkness. Those games were utter crap.

[Dreamc@sting]

Theres been quite a few of these I've come across in my lifetime...but most dissapointing of all time for me...Virtua Fighter...im not going to lie. I love fighting games, some of my favorites are the original Mortal Kombats, Soul Caliber, Street Fighterm, King of Fighters, Darkstalkers...but one series I cannot get into is Virtua Fighter..I wanted to like this series so badly..I couldnt enjoy the original, nor the saturn version. I tried the PS2 version and I refuse to spend money on the PS3 version.

[GnawRadar]

Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus - One of my favorite video game characters thrown into a meaningless 3rd person shooter.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories - A disappointing and shallow card game version of Kingdom Hearts for the GBA. You could just hit A over and over and beat the game.

Suikoden III - I never played any other of the series but had heard how great the first two were and this one just seemed boring and never ending.

[RASTAN]

In all honesty, with as much as I love the first game (though I still own part 2), I didn't like the finished product that was MAX PAYNE II: The Fall of Max Payne. I loved the idea of a tragic love story in the film noir fashion gone overboard, but it was a concept best left that... a concept. It didn't really work very well as a video game. It bounced around (the pacing) too much, and I felt like I was merely playing disjointed fever memories from any number of my worst nightmares met with my most xXx sexual dreams, trapped in a world where John Woo was GOD, and I was forced to use a ROMAK-3 PSL (Romanian clone) sniper rifle, instead of the proper Russian made SVD Dragunov... even though the game says it's a Dragunov. HA!

Thus the flow of Max Payne #1 was a lot better, and I felt was handled much better as well, in spite of all the delays that first outing had. I understand that MAX PAYNE 2 didn't sell the way the makers and publishers had hoped for, so it's doubtful us fans of the franchise will ever see a part III. And if so, I hope they drop the whole "Film Noir Love Story" thing. It works for movies and novels, not for video games. I honestly enjoyed Total Overdose both as a video game over MP2 and what Once Upon A Time In Mexico should've been for a proper ending to the El Mariachi trilogy of movies.

[vintagegamecrazy]

DK64 and Starfox Adventures were busts too. I have to say that the biggest letdown for me was Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. Man did that game suck hard.

[Dukert27]

Final Fantasy X-2
OMG i was sad after i beat it lol it was hard as hell to get into and the fighting style was not what i was used to in the final fantasy series. and i hated the level up feature. they should have did the sphere grid like X.

IMO this is the most disappointing.

[DJ Daishi]

Bujingai for the ps2...worst ending ever put into a game!!!

[Cinder6]

Bujingai for the ps2...worst ending ever put into a game!!!

I don't know... I've never played that game, but Chrono Cross had the most abysmally-disappointing ending to any video game I've ever played. I was furious that I stayed up late on a school night to beat it; I wish I never did beat it, in fact (and yes, I got the "good" ending that requires Element trickery).

[Ajax]

FF XII this game was going to be the game to get people out of their MMORPG perversion and back to the classic single player RPG. This game was so disappointing I didn't Finnish it nor have I even watched the DVD that came with my special edition of the game.

[Coleman]

I'm thinking AD&D heroes of the lance. Loved the gold box series - loved the novels... but um... WTF