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    Quote Originally Posted by hamburgler
    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

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    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. , they're name doesn't have any value.

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    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.
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    Holy crap. It's been a while.

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    Gone.
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    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
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    Myst (so boring!)
    DK64
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    DK 64, Shadows of the Empire, Banjo Kazooie, Star Fox Adventures.... too hard to choose.

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    Zelda 2.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by 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. , 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.

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    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.
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    disappointments as in high expectation/low payoff?

    easy

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    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

    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.

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    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]
    Tritium (aka Mel)
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    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.
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    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 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
    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...
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    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?
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    psst

    2600 Pac Man

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    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.

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