For me personally:
Baseball Stars 2 (NES), which lacked the create a player feature.
Toe Jam and Earl 2 (GEN), what on Earth was this supposed to be?
Rush 2049 (N64), expecting Midway to follow up Rush 2 with more tracks modeled amazingly well from real cities, instead getting a load of crud.
Perfect Dark (N64) was a disappointment, because it was no longer a Bond game.
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"Ambitious, but rubbish."
ff7 was my biggest disappointment. I realize so many people love it. But I hate it. And I had been left in awe by ff6....so I got super hyped for absolutely nothing.
Final Fantasy 7 (its not -that- bad. but not as good as the snes games or 3j)
Master of Orion 3 (utter poo)
Super Robot Wars MX (so easy you could play it blind. plays too slowly too)
Super Robot Wars J (too easy)
For me it was probally Zelda 2. I'm sure it's a good game in it's own right but it's un-zeldaness killed it for me and I never really gave it a second chance.
It's becasue of all those !'s isn't it?
Simons quest (not terrible in its own, yet not as good as 1 and 3)
FF8- Just couldn't force myself into the game
Mario Galaxies- I really enjoyed Sunshine, yet can't really get into this game.
The above games aren't bad, but I was really bored with them. And there all based on good series.
One game that comes to mind for me is State of Emergency. Talk about a terrible game. I thought at worst it would be decent since Rockstar was doing it. Gamespot also had the nerve to give this game like an 8.5. I played it literally for 20 minutes and never played it again. Good thing I rented it first.
If I paid over $80 for a single game chances are it disapointed me.
DJ Max on PSP for one
Donkey Kong 64. Apparently some people are bashing the DK Country Series but I was a huge fan of them. I was so enormously disappointed with the game that I just gave up. Which was something I had never really done with any video game I had ever owned. Yes, there were nes games I owned when I was younger that I coudn't complete, but I would still play them every now and again. After more than half way through DK 64 I just couldn't handle any more monotonous 'quest's and just stopped. My brother finished the game and told me it was OK but didn't get much better. It's not like it was even a terrible game, I just didn't like the direction the series took.
Luigi's Mansion. This was the Mario sequel we got?!?! After Mario 64, Yoshi's Island, Super Mario World, Mario 3, Mario 2 and Mario 1?? Not to mention all of the great side games.That game somehow turned me off video games for a good 4 years between 2001-2005
Ok here's my list:
FF 12-Went to get at the midnight launch. I put a few hours into it and just didn't care for the story at all.
Ghoul Patrol(SNES)-There should never of been a sequel to ZAMN. It would've never lived up to the greatness of the original. I just didn't like the attempt at giving the game a new direction and pathetic story.
Soul Calibur 4(PS3)-I loved the second game to death, the third game was decent, but I just got bored with the new one. The story mode was weak and there was less of the extras in previous incarnations. On top of that they made Cassandra serious, instead of being a goofy girl who taunts her opponents. I'm not going to even mention the ridiculousness of Ivy's character design getting worse as the series progresses.
Twisted Metal 3-4: They were watered down and bland entries in the series. Though it was done by a different design team so it's understandable.
The Matrix(PS2): I was really looking forward to this after all the hype. I picked up after watching Reloaded, of which I enjoyed for the most part. It just wasn't able to deliver the great experience I had thought was in store.
Most definitely Metroid Fusion. I finally got around to playing it several months ago, and had been enjoying it immensely. I thought there were too many bosses (some of which were way too tough), but other than that, I was really digging the exploration and acquisition, as I do in all Metroid games. I realized that it was very linear throughout the game; still, I was looking forward to going back and exploring everything and finding things I had missed after I had gotten the final weapon and was fully powered, as you can freely do in Super Metroid.
I was wrong. After I was fully powered and was ready to go back and do some exploring, all six habitat areas were permanently closed off. I mean, that's what I had really been looking forward to the entire game. At that point, you were forced to go back into the main part of the station and battle the SA-X (the "evil" Samus). When I finally came to that realization, I felt so gypped; I didn't even bother and switched it off.
"As you traitors roast in your own juices, I will be safely ensconced three miles below the earth's surface, listening to my wax-cylinder player and enjoying a delicious phosphate!"
Sonic on the Xbox 360. HOLY crap, now that's a lesson in how to turn a steady decline in quality into a freefall. :-(
Final Fantasy 7- I just couldn't get iinto it. I tried several times.
Perfect Dark for the N64- The frame rate is so bad it gave me motion sickness.
Unreal 2, i loved the first unreal, played it to death on the won.net co-op servers. Legend made a right hash of the sequel.
Yeah, without a parachute at that or erm, snowboard...yeah.
Tekken 4
I actually obtained the secret tape recording of the concept meeting for this game from Namco. Here's how it played out:
Executive: "Johnson, Tekken 3 was a huge improvement for the series and a major financial success. How should we follow that up?"
Johnson: "Uhhhh....let's cut the game speed in half, sir, and, uhhhh, let's have the players fight in exciting environments such as a shopping mall and an airport tarmac..."
Executive: "Excellent, Johnson. Have it on my desk by morning."
Creepy Janitor with a comb-over: "Heh. It'd be cool if Heihachi wore a diaper! Heh!"
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There is a few, but I had one happening 2 weeks ago: Toejam & Earl.
A few of my friends and I are into retrogaming, we usually try to find good co-op games we missed when we were kids and play the hell out of them on weekends.
With the reviews found around the web regarding Toejam & Earl, we were expecting something really great. Holy shit we were disappointed. What a boring game.
DK64- was basically a walk in the park. I mean the SNES games was far more challenging and made more sense. While the game is massive in it's own right.
I mean where do they get off making Zingers drop water bombs on you?
Master of Orion 3. I'm a HUUUUUUUUUUGE fan of the first two, and I was in line the day MOO3 came out.
Biggest. Disappointment. EVER. Classic case of too many cooks.
WoW
don't flame, i don't like the game.
it was way too overhyped and is still way too overhyped for a mmo. there are some very good mmos out there much better than wow that get forgotten because somehow wow not only got overhyped, but it is out and still gets overhyped.
Case in Point:
People that stop playing WoW, stop playing WoW.
Other mmo's that have been out for forever and a day, people just play them on the weekends or whatever.
I got a buddy that still plays lineage 2. Hell, I got a friend that still plays EQ1.
WoW is still young, and since people do not realize that, they will get a good smack in the face when another mmo dethrones it.
the game is so f'ing overhyped that people become blind to that fact (see, I was ranting for a reason).
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