What is the Most Disappointing Game Ever?

[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.

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.

[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

[Famidrive-16]

Kirby's Air Ride for the Gamecube really disappointed me. The controls were real awkward and the game was just too weird all around. It looked so good on the 64, too.

I thought Ico was a bit overhyped. I liked it but nowhere as much as the people who praised it for years after it's release.

And if we're talking about bad endings, Pac-In-Time's ending really sucked.

[Life of Brian]

Metal Gear. All of them. I bought Sons of Liberty, played it once, and haven't given it a go since.

[DJ Daishi]

Metal Gear. All of them. I bought Sons of Liberty, played it once, and haven't given it a go since.

[MachineGex]

I would have to say Perfect Dark is high on my list. I played Goldeneye with my friends almost every day for two years. We were really longing to play Perfect Dark, but after a 2-3 year wait, we all had just moved on.

Perfect Dark was the most anticipated game I ever wanted to play. Yet, by the time it came out, I never bought it or even played it. That is what happens when you push a game back so many times, you lose most players.

[tag274]

Few dissapointments ive had:

1) Anything on the Odyssey 2
2) Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (PSX)
3) Most pack in games lol