It’s happened to all of us…you catch wind of a new title coming out sometime down the line and your initial thought is “Wow…sounds kina cool.” You start researching a bit about it and quickly become entranced by the prospect of how good this gaming experience could be. You begin to spread the word, telling all that will listen that game XYZ is potential packed and that you’re “totally pumped” for its inevitable release. Months and months of hype contribute to your fanboy stupor and then you suddenly find yourself in line at your favorite local retailer picking it up with all of the sensations accompanied by a perfect Christmas morning.
Then, after rushing home, you pop the game in, sit back, and the suckage ensues…It’s happened more than a few times to me and I KNOW it’s happened to all of you. The fact is, in an industry where so much is possible, it seems that screwing up the potential is more of the norm than the exception. Sure, there are landmark titles, those amazing gems, the games we hold up as examples for what “interactive entertainment” truly means…and then there’s the games that SHOULD HAVE been great.
So, with that in mind, we’re asking you all to share your personal stories of regret and tell us which titles let you down in the worst of ways. Our Member BattleCry topic this week is:
WHICH GAME(S) DO YOU CONSIDER TO BE THE MOST DISAPPOINTING OF ALL-TIME?
Obviously, the game you select doesn’t have to be specific to a console or time frame, and we encourage you to be completely honest, even if it means going against the grain and telling the world why you were let down by an otherwise well-regarded title. Just speak your mind about the matter in the comments section below and if you have a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT subject you’d like to sound off on, feel free to do that in below as well. As always, we’ll feature a new Member BattleCry each day here on EpicBattleAxe.com and then highlight the Member BattleCry of the week on the next skirmish of the EpicBattleCry video podcast. Lastly, be sure to chime in on our weekly poll…this week we’re asking you to get specific about a few titles and tell us which one was MORE disappointing to you!
Alright everyone, that’s all from me for now…Feel free to chime in below and let us know your thoughts as we kick off another epic week of Member BattleCries here on the ‘Axe!
Cheers,
DK
Most disapointing you say…
You sir have given me the perfect opportunity for this image
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In all seriousness, My battle cry would have to go to Sonic unleashed.
The daytime levels looked (and played when the game actually did come out) great. When I started playing I truly believe that it could have been something good. But of course the new sonic team had to f*ck it up in some way, and so they threw in the were-hog and that little ice cream loving midget. Its like they intentionally brought my hopes up just to be brutally crushed an hour in.
You would think by now they would have some idea of what the fans like, but no, they continue to make their games progressively worse, and when they finally do make a game that actually has a lot of good qualities it turns out to only be half of the game, and the other half drags on at a snails pace so it might as well only be about 1/3 of a good game.
I am sorry but I play sonic so I can run really fast while killing enemies without halting the speed of the game, not to play a God of War rip-off, and a crappy one at that.
If the Sonic team had any idea of what they where doing they would have kept the daytime levels and actually made a game that didn’t revolved around a gimmick. OathQuote
What im about to say is going to be a sour thing for a lot of people, but hey its my opinion. My Battlecry goes out against Dragon Age Origins.
Though the game is regarded as a pinacle in the RPG genre, I just couldnt get in the game. The RPG elements weren’t explained well enough so that you know how to play it, especially with the commands that you could assign each team member.
Don’t get me wrong, i like the story and i like how it looks, the partymembers are fun, but because of this overly deep RPG which wasnt explained in a proper tutorial it just wasn’t grabbing me as I hoped it would be. Everything else i wanted to dig, but because it was so incredibly difficult (I had to freakin start on EASY!!!!!!!! I have never played a game on easy since, hell a long time ago!) it gloomed over the rest of the game, like a big dark cloud.
Id made me feel like i couldnt do shit in the game. I died numerous times without seeing what i was doing wrong. I dont mind trial and error, but if I die with one hit, while i dont have a broken limb or anything, i get confused, frustrated and well, pissed off.
I tried to assign my group to what they could be used best for, but sometimes they just wouldnt listen, it seemed to me. I didnt mind using the pause function of the game (I always played Knights of the Old Republic like that), but still it didnt matter for me. Thats why this game was the most dissapointing game that I have played so far, mostly because I had such high hopes that this game would be so much fun, with a deep story and good gameplay. Like i remembered KOTOR. The gameplay may still be good, but only if you ever played Baldurs gate 1 and 2. And I didnt……
I dont mind learning new RPG’s, but if you dont get a proper instruction (and yes there was a short message how you should use the assignmentbar, but that was far from enough for me to understand it) I was disappointed by the game.
Well, of to Mass Effect 2 eej DK TimOQuote
My 4th post ever !!
I would have to say that Devil May Cry 4 is one of my most disappointing games of all time. Let me list the reasons.
1) Friends and the internet had told me that the Devil May Cry games where crazy hard. I had never played a Devil May Cry game, but I know my friends well. So I took there word for it. I really had a HUNGER for a crazy hard game at the time. It had been months since I beat the X-Box version of Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Gaiden Black on the hardest difficulty levels. I was so proud of my self and I wanted to feel that again. But Devil May Cry was really toned downed and just did not stand up to the difficulty of other Devil May Cry games. I have two friends that have played through all the Devil May Cry’s and told me this was nothing compared to the first games in the series.
2) The next thing I was looking for was a list of attacks and moves that was vast and complex. The game fell short on this topic to. After finishing the game, I told my friends about all the great moves and attacks they could have put in the game. Example – if you press O to grab a guy and put him to you, why not type in button combos to do different kinds of moves. But all we got was a ground slam or a couple of hits. Have fun with this stuff, I say we soften the guy up a little bit then we hold down a button crush the guys head off.
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3) Watching the tailors for this game got me pumped to play it. Nero’s girl friend was shown dieing and Nero just let rage take him over. He was out to get the guys that took his lady love. I always give credit to producers that are willing to kill off a character in a game that is central to the player in some way. Unleashing the rage with-in and getting some valiance on the people that killed her was sounding just right for me. But that’s not what happened in the game, is it. ” SPOILER ” I think the story would have been a lot better if she had actually been killed.
4) This is the worst of all there are 6 bosses in the game. You will fight 4 of those bosses 3 times trough-out the game. They don’t look different, they are not stronger, do not bring new moves to the table ( except for boredom ). The other 2 bosses however do change. you will fight them twice and they do bring a new challenge for you. But having to fight the same boss 3 times over without any changes or upgrades is bad. Having 4 bosses like that in one game is just bad development.
5) Backtracking. This game must be the king of this category. You spent half of the game getting to a church. Once you get there you turn around and go right back to where you began. Same levels, same bosses, same everything. Where you began is the end of the game. The developers only had to make half a game. Poor choice.
Well that’s it. I still feel like I left something out. When my friends and I where done with this game, we sat down and just tore it apart. We all had our own expectations and hungers that we wanted this game to fill, but it just let us down.
For those of you that LOVED this game, I think its AWESOME that this game delivered for you. I’m sure some other crazy hard game will come out for me that I can be proud of beating. FervorNightzQuote
I was trying to come up with a list in my head of all the games that, throughout the years, have disappointed me due to gameplay issues, graphic issues, programming errors and the like until something dawned on me. Perhaps, the most disappointing games were the ones that were announced, created a big hype and then, never made it the scene.
It is therefore, that out of these contenders, my BattleCry goes out to Duke Nukem Forever, for well, forever disappointing me since it will never see the light of day, there will be no kicking ass and chewing bubble gum. Duke Nukem 3D was easily one of the most fun FPS of its time, because it dealt with not only with violence but its cynical take on exaggerated alien stories and boob exploitation. Of course, no game could’ve been more awaited than DNF, but it never came. Every time screenshots surfaced (at least in the beginning), we had new hopes, which were soon crashed down as it kept getting delayed and delayed into oblivion.
I guess my point is, developers, please, I know it is not an easy job to make games, but if you do try to make one, go for it 100% all the way, if it works out, great, if it flops, at least you tried. Don’t give up half way, give it all you got and come out with your chin held up high webnurvQuote
My battlecry for biggest disappointment goes to Enter the Matrix. The game released at the perfect time for me to make bad decisions. I had just started making money and being independent (around 13 or 14)and was swallowed into all the hype surronding the game and The Matrix:Reloaded. I ignored the fact Shiny never sent reviewers early copies of the game and bought it at launch. I get it home, excited as hell, pop the game in my PS2, and prepared to enter the rabbit hole. It was more like entering an a–hole. I could sit here and tell how bad the graphics and animations were, how clunky the controls, shooting, fighting, and general game machanics were, or how you could legitimatly fight an agent and survive (WTF?), but instead I’ll tell you what the game did do right…um…the in game advertisments for plentiful…
The worst part about the whole thing, I KEPT playing all because I wanted to find out “what I couldn’t in the movie.” What I found out was nothing inportant, it did not enhance my understanding of the movie to the point I enjoyed it better, nor did the info pacify the feeling that I’ve been duped. Eight years later, and I’m still bitter about it. FU Shiny, FU Atari, and FU WB Interactive. Videot21Quote
My battle cry goes out to the most bipolar developer in video game history, Ion Storm, and their supremely disappointing sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War.
I remember trying to sneak my way through the apartments at the beginning of the game, still excited I was playing the sequel to my favorite game ever, Deus Ex. I stalked my first target and readied my riot baton in an attempt to incapacitate him in a single blow. I expected a satisfying and well executed stealth takedown. Instead, all I did was take off a sliver of the newly implemented health bar and annoy the guard, who wasted no time shooting me in the face. That’s when I knew things had gone horribly, horribly wrong…
It was almost as if Warren Specter and Harvey Smith were trying to do everything in their power to ruin the legacy of Deus Ex. They took everything that made the original great and either overly streamlined it, or removed it completely. Obviously, as cited in the example above, the stealth aspect from the original was severely gimped by enemies who could hear the slightest movements and could only be one-shot killed by noisy weapons. It fostered a run and gun mentality, which is the complete antithesis to Deus Ex’s tactical philosophy.
Tiny levels/social areas, removal of the skill point system, a truly wretched UI, universal ammo, severely limited augmentation slots, bored sounding voice actors, and a story that fails to put you on the edge of your seat round out IW’s list of failures.
Granted, it was unreasonable to expect IW to surpass the ludicrously high bar set by its predecessor, but IW didn’t even resemble its overacheiving big brother. Streamlining a game can be beneficial (i.e. the absolutely fantastic Mass Effect 2), but there is a difference between that and dumbing down a game. IW may work well as a halfway decent FPS, but that’s simply unnacceptable for a game that’s supposed to be the sequel to DX.
/end rant. Anyways, that’s my vote for the most disappointing game of all time. Here’s hoping DX3 will, at the very least, be better than IW. Cheers! WakingEveryGodQuote
My battlecry for biggest disappointment goes to over hyped games e.g Modern Warefare 2. I’m say it is a bad game but, the way people we talking about made it seem like the best game of all time, the online was very fun but after play with it for a long time it does get repetitive and boring, the story mode was great fun but i muched preferd COD 4 which is what mw2 is really COD4 with a new skin. I just hope they take there time to make the next call of duty and make it more innovative and not a year on year release. osi64Quote
My battle-cry goes out to Fable, not because the game sucks, but because if it had been what it was marketed to be it would have been 10 times better. I have to admit Peter Molyneux had me going from the start. A game about choices, about really growing a character and seeing the world change around you. Instead we got a short, mostly linear and horrendously voice-acted game.
When it comes to disappointments the worst is not buying a game you heard nothing about and having it be awful when you get home, the worst is when you hear a year or more of build-up about features and promises and by the end its total BS. So much so that even the sequel has not caught up to the hype. Now THAT is suckage. OmegalegionQuote
My Battlecry goes to Killzone 2.
The game isn’t horrible, but the amount of hype it created since it was shown for the first time was insane, and I can say that if that game would have been released at that point in time or even a year later it would have crushed anything console FPS related for various years.
Lo and behold, when it was released 4 years later, it looked like your average next gen shooter, and the plot was just above a big “meh…”
I think the problem and disappointment came from the fact that the game was going to rely a lot on its graphical prowess and very little on its plot. The graphics and animations (which for the early years of the 21st century were astounding)were great, but for a game that was released in the late years of the first decade of this new century, it just doesn’t blow anybody’s mind.
Nobody will really remember Killzone 2 for it was meant to be, “a ground breaking graphical improvement in the console FPS genre” but for “the delayed SONY project that nobody cares about anymore”.
Cheers Axe heads!
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My Battlecry goes to Farcry 2.
I had high hopes for this Game but in the end it was just as bad as Farcry the movie (which i didn´t see but well… i dont have to cause Uwe Boll made it -enough said)
Besides the graphics this game isnt worth playing i tried it many times but after 10min or so it is just sooo unbelieveable boring driving from one side of the map to another and that for every mission. And when you are driving across the map every 2 min. a Jeep comes out of nowhere with 2 enemies trying to kill you, whatever their reason might be.
So my biggest dissapointment in this game is the Ai which can spot you across 2km while you are sitting in the thickest Jungle imagineable. On the other side you as the player mostly have a hard time spotting the enemies.
Ok finally the Graphics – the game really looks very good with spreading fire, realistic day and night cycle etc. but what i noticed is that there are so many damn Hills&Mountains in the Game which is nice to look at but why the hell can´t you get on top of them? It is supposed to be free roaming Fps remember? -.-
Believe me i tried but it seems that the top of Mountains is an non playable zone where you gonna get stopped by an invisible wall and that is just bullshit. The malaria sickness is also annoying btw. so thats it, my biggest dissapointment ever = Farcry2 bought it on day one and sold it on day one. SIgmaticQuote
After much deliberation, the obvious answer is ET on Atari, but we should not accept that answer since someone eventually was going to say it and it’s ranked on many lists online as the worst game ever.
So I would take the approach of non ET, and games you’ve played.
I want to say NES games that frustrated me, but I think there are some other games that are even worse.
It came down to a three way tie between Ikari Warriors for the NES because of the glitch at the end of the game where you get trapped in the pipes and cannot walk to the end of the game through the doors. Vs. WCW vs. The World for the Playstation, as the controls were horrible, Vs. Super Tecmo Bowl for the Playstation, as it was slow and not anywhere near as fun as the NES version.
My battle cry is going to go to Super Tecmo Bowl for the Playstation. The reason why I’m picking it above WCW vs. The World is because it had expectations, it had a history. Coming out on a newer console it should have been better graphically and gameplay wise then the older games in the series and it was horrible. It was difficult, boring, and weak. I went to gamestop one day and literally told them to just take the game when they said they would give me no money for it. scorpion666Quote
I know this was touched on before, but my Battlecry goes to the Fable series as a whole.
The first one, I believe I was told would revolutionize RPGs and there were there hard life decisions that would affect my world and appearance. True, Fable delivered some of what it advertised, but it’s still just some. Customizing your character just felt really limited. Not enough armor choices. You could have a wife but no kids. If you were good, you got a sissy halo and butterflies. The world was limited to small sections that had load screens. It felt shallow.
The next one, I thought they were going to fix everything. It looked better. Had a better story. The economy system was interesting. But there were no good legendary weapons. You could buy better stuff. You could have kids now but they never age and all you can do is lead them around and give them gifts. The dog was supposed to be this empathetic, intelligent creature. I lost him like three times. He got stuck somewhere, and the only real reason I liked him was he found treasure. The closet got bigger, but not enough for totally eliminating armor. There were less tattoos. It was buggy. The DLC was a joke. The list goes on.
The series always promises and delivers less than half of what they say. It always leave me with a bittersweet taste in my mouth. For games that base themselves on consequence and choices, I never feel that attached or like I’m making any kind of difference. They’re not terrible, but they always feel like they’re missing something. But like an abusive relationship, I’m comin’ back for Fable III. Hopefully this iteration lives up to the promise of the first. fatninjaQuote
Final Fantasy X-2
Seriously WTF?!?! firkraagQuote
My battle cry goes to Far Cry 2.
When i first heard of it i get really exciting and was looking forward to it. Read and watch some reviews and i sawed that most of them was good, so i went out and bought it. But when i got home and started to play it i found out that the game was boring as hell. All you do is driving around in your car, stop and fight at a checkpoint. The story was bloody pointless. I blow 500 sek on this piece of shit when it came out ( that is about 50$) When i could have spent them on Stalker Clear Sky. I want my money back Ubisoft! MacNilleQuote
I would like to give a special honors Battle Cry to C&C : Renegade. And not “special” in a good way. The game had great potential, a market flush with people waving money at the possibility of stepping into the shoes of a soldier sprite and running around fighting for GDI and NOD. Instead we got a hardly playable, completely wasteful product that was pretty much dead on arrival.
I’m sure at least one of the guys on the panel here at EBA knows the shame of having bought that game expecting great things from it, and were disappointed to end up using it as a coaster at Lan parties. OmegalegionQuote
My battle cry goes to Brutal Legend
Lets face it this was a game made by Tim Schafer built around a fantasy all star cast of metal legends and set in every heavy metal album cover ever and the most brutal sound track of all time. If that is not a recipe for success I don’t know what is. But what really killed me about this game was the demo. The demo was badass with its hack and slash action adventure vibe with a Deuce driving section. The game looked like all my prayers my entire life were answered in one little disk, but then reality set in. When I played the full game and played my first RTS style battle I realized I was tricked. I was expecting the most awesome adventure of my entire life and was left with a chip off of that stone and a below average at best simple console RTS. I wouldn’t have been that disillusioned with the game if they had marketed the game like it was an RTS. This ultimate bait at switch is the most upset I have ever been with a video game (including the $50 plate of garbage that is Far Cry 2).
EDIT: I had to ad that I’m pretty sure the game failed is because Dio was noticeably absent from the game. Just my 2 other cents DannyLQuote
My battlecry goes out to Duke Nukem Forever this game has teased fellow gamers to insanity, it has been delayed, switched teams, switched engines, cancelled, put back into production, until finally gamers just stopped caring. But the disappointment doesn’t end there, every now and then someone posts gameplay footage or screenshots of the game on the internet making it even harder for people to forget. Even if Duke Nukem Forever did come out there is no possible way for it to live up to the hype, unless it made you orgasm every moment you play it, and it still wouldn’t live up to the hype. DukeNukemForNeverQuote
The game that disappointed me the most in recent memory was Spore. Perhaps it was what I wished I could do after watching the dev videos and previews, but the game seemed more like a web app than something fully realized. dinsdaleQuote
Spiderman 3
‘Nuf said. AngelTheKingQuote
Which one? the movie? the game?
cause that is also still a big debat 
but i think the game 
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Most Dissapointing Game of all time would have to be Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. I played the original Modern Warfare competitively and put in hundreds of hours of game time and never grew tired of the games, maps, or gameplay. When I first saw the trailers and gameplay videos it looked like the game was going to blow everyone one away.
What happened once I had this game and played it? I realized that what was once a “perfected” multiplayer experience was now full of poorly constructed maps, unbalenced weapons, tons of glitches and hackers, and a sub par single player campaign. I played the game for about 2 weeks and haven’t touched it since. Too put that into perspective would be if Bungie released Halo 3 and it was completely “noobified” which is what CODMW2 is.
Personally MW2 has turned me off of the COD franchise ViViDQuote
FarmVille is the worst Game of all time (lol) as Alex Wilhelm recently wrote for http://www.thenextweb.com “FarmVille Is The Worst Game Of All Time – I Am Offended By Its Popularity” and so am I most of us would not venture in our Gardens because there might be something to do !
But Millions & Millions of people spend money on FarmVille ? Its simply behond my understanding.
Which harps back to Micropayments again ! You guys did not mention Microsofts new Game Shop launch in early March which is a form of Micropayments ? paying a few dollars for old school games on xbl (what a joke) so now we have a chance of making old game developers & publishers even richer, even though we can download for free the last 20 years of games freely of the internet.
Keep up the good work Guys.
Great Show … alunfennellQuote
Right now, all I can think of is this: Screw Gamestop, Support “Mom & Pop”.
I’ve never had a real problem with The-Store-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named before now, but today I’m pissed to EPIC proportions. After finally finding a used copy of Lost Odyssey over the weekend (the only one the store had), I lucked out even farther by getting one that was virtually mint.
Today, I started installing it to my drive, only to have the visually perfect Disc 4 bomb repeatedly at 40%. After checking the web (and a call), I found another store a half hour away that now had 4 copies. As I presented my copy and explained the problem, the guy took mine to the drawer, grabbed out another and began to examine both. He returns with a completely different copy…which has a pristine Disc 4, but the other discs had to have been used for Frisbees, and manual for a jock-itch scratcher.
When I ask “Can’t you just switch out the bad disc for a different one?”, he replies, “If you had bought it here I could…but since it wasn’t our store, I have to buy back yours and sell this one to you.”
Me: “So you’re taking my virtually mint copy and giving me a shitty one in return?”
Him, after a 10 second blank stare: “Yes.”
So much for the “guaranteed to work” bullshit. They give you a week to finish it before you’re screwed completely.
Support your local shops if you have (and trust) them! And always try a full install when you get home. sd403Quote
My BattleCry goes out to Too Human. I was very excited for this game when it first showed up. The graphics were great at the time, and the premise sounded great. But the Norse gods were not on that game’s side. Delay after delay the graphics remained the same, making the game look dated and down right ugly. But I remained positive, I even liked the demo playing it over and over. But as more negative opinions came out, I had to pull back my pre order in dissapointment, and desided to rent the game instead. It was every bit as bad as people said it was. The only decent quality to the game was the story, but even that was sloppy at times. And it’s supposed to be a trilogy too, if a Too Human 2 is announced, it won’t have me backing it up this time. Gun_Metal_TigerQuote
My battle cry goes to the prices of games.
I am in the UK and the retail price for a game is £40-£45. Lets say that it were to rise to £60 in the UK and for arguments sake, $80 in the US. Now I think if this were to happen then it wouldn’t necessarily mean that developers would make more money. I make this point because I think it would put pressure on developers to make a higher standard of game to justify the higher price. Also if consumers see the prices of games increase, then they will think more about the games that they choose to buy.
My point is, if a game like G.I Joe for example, were to be priced at $80 is it realistic to think that consumers are really gonna pay that much extra for a crappy game, when they can pay for a game like Mass Effect 2.
Thx for reading. Luke2903 – Recognise!!Quote
My battlecry could easily go out to every 3d sonic game thats been made so far, but instead it goes out to the micro transaction debate that has seemed to have sprung up over Jason Rubin’s comments on the bonus round. When listening to the episode I saw a few obvious flaws in the pricing scheme he was mentioning, at least for games that hardcore gamers are involved in. I have never played something like Farmville, but I imagine that things like leaderboards, unlockable items and other content you will get further down the road don’t seem to be that big of a deal and rather the focus is on the speed with which you progress through the game. In a game like Modern Warfare where stats truly matter, people will spend hours and hours going through prestige levels for something as seemingly insignificant as a emblem next to their name the pricing model will certainly not work. I don’t see this creating anything other than a polarization between players who paid for the content versus those who earned it and the pride factor involved.
What I do like about Jason’s comments is his intent. In media like movies and books, you essentially pay for content. When I bought the Apocoalypse now, I wasn’t paying for the experience but rather to see a particular take on the heart of darkness story. This is perfectly acceptable in this type of media because there is a certain amount of content I wanted to absorb or be exposed to and my actions have virtually no effect on the outcome. However with something like video games where it is more of a two way street you shouldn’t be paying for content, but for an experience. Since our society is very much based on the exchange of commodities, it is incredibly difficult to create a pricing model where the player is paying for his experience with the content rather than the content itself. Part of this involves the entry price point being lowered and a player essentially paying more based upon their enjoyment with the material. While I certainly have no idea as to how this model can be intuitively implemented I like the idea of the system and hope that this is somewhere the video game industry progresses. Moose0487Quote
My Battle Cry goes to Diablo 2 as the most disappointing game.
This selection will certainly raise a few eyebrows but here are my reasons for selecting this title. When I played Diablo 1, from the time you enter the first level of the Cathedral all the way until you confront Diablo himself, the game is dark (lighting, not colors), and the music gets in your head even today. Can you remember playing Diablo 1 at night all alone with your headphones on, hearing the distant screams of women, the cries of babies, and wailing of demons in the music…then getting curious at a door with blood inside, only to hear “Ahhh FRESH MEAT!” when you opened it? Remember that deer in the headlights feeling you experienced momentarily before you ran away? Now can you tell me something equally as memorable in Diablo 2? I can’t outside of the cutscenes.
Diablo 2 was a great game in its own right, but it did not live up to how epic Diablo 1 was, despite how simplistic and straight forward the game was. Diablo 2 was too fast (yes I know you can walk, but the maps were overly huge so the game was clearly designed with running in mind), the fear of moving forward too quickly was never present as in the first, and overall, the atmosphere, with a story just as dire as the first game, completely failed to deliver the creep factor the first game did, even though the story was excellent. Little things like Diablo 1’s armor having vastly different appearance when you went from scraps/leather to chain to plate… while a rudimentary method of visual improvement, made a much greater impact than the armor that looked almost all the same and was barely discernible from the last piece you just replaced in D2. I still remember the first time my warrior put on his first piece of plate armor and the “whoa nice” it inspired in me when I saw it.
To this day, when I get the itch to play Diablo again, I play the 1st and not the second. I can only hope the developers over at Blizzard on the Diablo 3 project will take just as many queues from the first game as they do the second. DrakkulQuote
Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
It was supposed to be Torn. It was supposed to be Black Isles’ next great hit. It was supposed to be a fantasy port of the SPECIAL system. It was supposed to be GOOD!
In the end, the light at the end of the dark tunnel was nothing more than the putrid glow of disappointment.
Not only did Torn get canceled, Interplay decided to let some upstart piece developer have the reigns of the SPECIAL system, something any Fallout fan holds dear. What spewed from Reflexive Entertainment’s orifice was a stripped-down, gutted scarecrow of Fallout, and even Diablo at certain points. Half-arsed dialogues, boring combat, an illusion of custom character generations, pathetic graphics…
After that cancellation, Interplay and Black Isles was truly, and sadly, Torn apart. OjimaruQuote
I got to say Hybrid Heaven in the N64 was a big disappointment for me. I was 15 years old at the time it came out. I was so excited about this game! I bought it on day one and I was expecting an awesome Sci-fi RPG action adventure platforming puzzle solving fighting game… but it came thin on every aspect. The only thing that kept me playing the whole game was the crazy story, with clones, aliens, conspiracy theories, political issues, love story and amazing plot twist. The only thing missing was dinosaurs and shit… Now that I look back at it, I think it was too ambitious for its time.
Damn I would play it again if my N64 controller joystick wasn’t broken… fucking Mario party! imjackscolonQuote
My Battle Cry goes out to Two Worlds. Let me say I love rpg’s of all types even most of the one’s that don’t score well or are not well known. Well I’d followed Two Worlds in the mags and it looked like it was shaping up to be a solid game. I went to game stop pre ordered it and waited for it to release with high hopes. When I finally got it home fired up the 360 and started to play I was so pissed I almost smashed my TV. The game was so broke I couldn’t put up with it. Then to add insult to injury I went back to game stop the same day mind you hoping I could at least trade it in and get half my money back. The clerk looked me in the eye and told me the game I had bought only hours before was worth just under ten dollars. I was so mad I snapped the disk in half and left it on the counter. I figued two worlds two halfs and never went back. ogre the slayerQuote
My battle cry goes out to “stronghold crusader extreme edition” for PC it came out six years later than the original Stronghold crusader but still had the same graphics which did not keep up with that years standards. For the same price with minimal effort put into designing the gameplay and presentation it was my personal most dissapointing game of all time DaringtoBeliveQuote
My battle cry goes out to Gears of War 2. I was so excited for the game I played through the campaign in one day. I’ll admit that the game was larger in scale which I liked but nothing much was really added to the already sparse story from the first gears. But my biggest letdown had to come from the multiplayer. To begin with finding a game was a nightmare and when I finally was able to get in a game I was forced to play game types I didn’t want to play due to the new matchmaking system and was usually was unable to finish a whole game without lag or a lost connection. I thought this was only a temporary issue but this lasted for many months after the games release. Hoarde mode the only mode I played regularly only because this was one of the few modes that didn’t take forever to join but to me it was very repetitive and somewhat frustrating when other players would quit to join their other friends games or because of the time required to reach the later levels. This led me to stop playing after about a month or two compared to a year and a half for the first gears, overall really disappointing. jake78655Quote
My battle cry goes out to the film and tv show to game adaptation, here`s why.
i saw recently that they where making a prison break game adaptation, and as a prison break fan i got excited. and when I saw that it was set on the prison from season 1 i got even more excited.
and then suddenly flashback to almost excactly 2 years ago. that was when i first put that piece of shit lost in my x box. and if you might remember it blew. the fealing of dissapointment, anger and all things horrible. it is this fealing when you the one second want to play this game your sure will be awesome and you feel excited. and then 20 seconds later your trying to forget this game ever where made.
this makes for a fealing that nothing can compare to, it is the worst fealing in the world and thats why it’s my battlecry.
PS:im from Norway so sorry for my bad english
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My battle cry goues out to Far Cry 2. When I first saw it I thought it looked really good. Getting to completly choose ur playstyle with the weapons u used to attack a camp or whatever just sounded really fun on paper, and beeing able to use fire the way it was shown looked awsome.
Then I come home and I get extremly dissapointed. When they said how big the game was I was first “Hell yeah that sounds cool” but getting around was just a pain in the ass. The quick travel to about as long to get to as the actual destination u had to go. And the insanely quick respawning of the enemies didn’t help when you wanted to just get where u was suppose to go. It also didn’t help that the enemies only “armor” was a frickin T-Shirt, and I sometimes had to shoot them 3-5 times in the back with a sniper rifle.
I know that they where going for some realism, you have to travel for malaria pills, your car and weapons break, but the point of any game is to engage u in some way shape or form. But how realistic is it that sometimes when u heal urself u put out a fire from ur leg because u where shot in the back.
If the story had been more engaging there is a chance I would have played it through all to the end, but hunting down and killing a guy that has saved my life several times doesn’t give me much motivation.
After about 15-18 hours or so I got to a new undiscoverd area and that’s when I just gave up. It will always nag me that I didn’t finish it because it’s one of the few games I didn’t see through to the end. But I just simply didn’t enjoy it. (did have a couple of hours fun with the multiplayer but that’s about it). BacbiQuote
I’d have to say MW2 it was supposed to hold me down until Bad Company 2 came out. and it failed on every level it was poorly handled be IW and activison with no public beta or demo. Look what DICE does a very well established franchise and the always have betas and gather feedback and fix glitches to the final product. MW2 was broken from the start with major balance issue and the game breaking glitches made it even worse. I don’t see how this game gets all the praise it does and NOBODY talks about how much of a problem the MP in this game is STILL today. have’t played it in 2 months. returning it when I pick up BF:BC2. See you guys on the battlefield NightsnipeQuote
I know its unusual, but I have a second battlecry. This one isnt about any game i was/am disappointed in, but about something you guys talked about in the Skirmish. Namely the micro-transactions. Why does everyone think in a one way street? Why does it have to become more expansive to buy a game? Yes they put in more money, so the costs get higher. But bare with me….
Do you guys remember Keynes? you know the guy from economics? remember high school economics? well let me explain it then. The higher the price, the less people will buy the game. So accordingly, the LOWER the price, the MORE people will buy the game….. Think about it. TimQuote
My BattleCry goes to Dante’s Inferno. Not only did the title mangle every story aspect of the poem, but to top that, every gameplay element there was, was either ripped off blatantly from other great franchises or a complete gimmick. Just throwing mature content and a mediocre at best hack n slash gameplay mechanic doesn’t make a game be good or sell good, and in the end it just seemed that there was not really any effort put in this project… shame, I was really excited about this one. draickinQuote
Im going to say that my most dissapointing game of all time was modern warfare 2, don’t get me wrong the game was brilliant…… until you finished the game and got to about prestige 2.
The graphics were ok, the gameplay was amazing, but the servers are to hmmm lets call them fragile, i get frustrated some times because i will join a match and emediatly get thrown out due to the host!!! I have checked my connection it is awsome, and after you get all the guns and perks it gets to boring.
The story was good but they ended the game at the wrong point and its not as ground breaking as the first. Its not very realistic either compeared to battlefield bad company 2 or (what i think is going to be much bettar than mw2) Medal of honour.
After you complete the game, it gets to boring and that for me is very dissapointing.
p.s my psn name is gezzy1969 and xbl is wynnie666
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Ok so my battle cry goes out to MR friggin Rubin and his stupid ranting on bonus round
Firstly I would like to say that I don’t think he knows what he talking about. During the bonus round he says that he thinks that the pricing he describes is a necessary change for the industry. However if you were to give away games for free initially and pay more the more you played them, what if AVP were to have been priced like that, surely they would be unable to recoup their development costs? So overall I think it would be bad for the industry….
The other thing I wanted to say was that I live in the UK and as a result the RRP for 90% of games (excluding MW2)is £50, about $70-$80 but I would still rather that they put up the RRP (if they have to) as I have never paid RRP for a game so im sure I would continue to shop around and get a good price. The other reason being that I hate the idea of not owning 100% of my game from the off
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My battle cry goes out to Dark Sector. Don’t get me wrong I played the game and overall it wasn’t terrible, but the original concept for the game was so much more intriguing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXJFC4bbzXw
Originally Dark Sector was supposed to have an entirely different setting and story line. It reminded me of a Metal Gear in space and when all was said and done ended up being an overdone plague based rehash resident evil type storyline with an A typical hero with the twist of a glaive. I don’t think the game was a complete failure like I’m sure alot of others do about their battle cries. I just look at the game disappointed wondering what might have been. GerbsterQuote
My most disappointing game of all time?
My Battle Cry would have to go to Fuel. When I saw the trailer, it made the game look kickass. With hundreds of miles of open terrain and, weather effects like tornados to race in. It looked like the perfect off-road racing game. But “Oh boy”, I was so wrong.
I bought it on the first day and after 30 minutes I was already disappointed. I still played it for the next 3 days hoping that the game would get better. But guess what, it didn’t, it got even worse. The game is so boring for all the open terrain, there is nothing to look at and everything is copied and pasted. The races were repetitive and the music was the same, if you could even call that music, it was just the same guitar riffs over and over again. And the cool looking weather effects didn’t happen randomly like I thought. They only happen in specific races and they’re on fixed paths. The weather doesn’t even affect the way your vehicle handles.
And to top it all off it doesn’t have a story at all, I know that it’s a racing game but I’ll take a cheesy Need for Speed story then none at all. Furthermore, I can’t believe that the CodeMasters name is on this piece on crap, I used to believe that a racing game with CodeMasters name on it was a gift from the racing gods.
In the end, I couldn’t even bare trading it in to GameStop knowing that someone else will feel the disappointment that I felt, so I took a hammer to it! Night FoxQuote
My Battle Cry goes out against Master of Orion 3.
Having enjoyed countless hours on both the first two games in the series, both online and amongst friends during the LAN times of old. The intricate space combat, the tech research and the multiple ways the game could be ‘played’ depending on race design, tech choices and more meant every game was a new opportunity and possibly a new experience.
The time between the first and second game was 3 years, with vast improvements on the gaming front. Master of Orion 2 built on everything that was great about the first one. More distinct race choices, more advanced space combat, very detailed colony management (too much at later stages in the game) but overall was a massive hit. When real-time space sims are being discussed, Master of Orion 2 is often brought up as a benchmark. So, naturally, Master of Orion 3’s announcement had me hyped for a very long time.
But only a few hours into the game I quickly realized that more or less everything I held dear in the old games were long gone. New AI was piss poor, space combat was no longer turn based and sucked. The first space combat I encountered in this game is where what remained of my hopes where completely shattered. Instead of the detailed sprites of old I was greeted with small triangles representing my ship and my opponent. The little ships flew around in circles at each end of the battle grid. Every now and then the ships would come close enough to fire, but after a few shots they would drift apart in their ever circular dance. After 5 min. of desperately trying to influence the combat I tabbed out and shut down the process.
I later talked to a friend of mine who had even bigger hopes for the game. He’d tried his best to actually LIKE the game. Sat down, read the manual cover to cover to try and figure out HOW to play the game. After weeks of trial and error he concluded that the game was “bearable”.
The game play was unrecognizable, very little to nothing remained of the game I held dear. In the third installment of the series, they changed too much.
Other games I’ve played may have been worse than this. But nothing has ever shattered my hopes more than Master of Orion 3. AstaresQuote
My Battle Cry is to HALO 3 , not because of the game itself but the developers had and opportunity to make a great game , come out whenever they want, do whatever they want to the franchise ,release it on two disc ( one for single player (FINISH THE FIGHT) & one for multiplayer ).i loved the game because i love the universe that it is set in, read all the books/comic’s and soon to watch all the anime. DaAfroSpartanQuote
I’m probably gonna be hated for this but the game that disapointed me the most was God of War 2.
Now gameplaywise it sure was an improvement over the first one. The sense of scale, the boss fights, the overall level design, it had everything, except a story.
In the first one you had a great story wich was told in a great way through flashback and the like. Kratos’ motivation felt genuine and the twists and turns were really clever. In the sequel however, I found it hard to swallow how the adventure began, it felt artificial. All the mythological characters that appeared didn’t have any legitimate reason to appear and *spoiler alert (start)* the whole zeus is your father thing was just ridiculous *spoiler alert (end)*
I enjoyed GOW2 gameplay and design but the story was such a dissapointment that I’m not interested in the sequel. chetoQuote
This is my Epic Battle Cry which im giving it to Resident Evil 5; because I spent my 60 bucks for a game that made me just shake my head. It felt like Resident Evil was more of a action game then a survival horror. The only thing that motivated me to beat the game was watching hot ass Sheva in action and to save Jill Valentine. After I beated it in a couple days I totally sold it to Gamestop, didn’t even bother or think twice about the dlc- watever, i just want my money back.. smittyg74Quote
the most disappointing game I ever played was star wars unleashed. It was a cool game but i was so hyped for that game then it let me down.But it was to short and you had to use combos come on a light saber kills instantly why in the hell will you need combos. Then they didn’t give much opportunity and the level where you take down the destroyer was weird the controls were not working for me so i had to quit and try again when I was not mad at that game. Then the ending was the cool but how did the apprentice live for the 2nd game coming soon and close 2nd has to be far cry 2 it sucked compared to the first croy10067Quote
I registered just to post this Battle Cry and express my prodigious disappointment with a game I had the highest of hopes for.
Black and White 2 is for me without a contest the most disappointing game of all time.
Yes there are games worse than B&W2 and yes there are games that perhaps were more hyped and did not live up to the hype. But I find Black and White 1 to be one of the most innovative games of all time and the torch carrier of the “God” concept of games like “Populous”. Black and White 2 however was so bad that instead of carrying the torch it firmly killed the “God”-game genre.
The first was an amazing game for its time and even though it did not fall in some peoples favour the cheer innovation, detail and control given to the player was without par at the time and most developers still agree that the Creature AI is the most advanced gaming AI to date.
Few people ever heard of Black and White 2 because it was such a huge letdown they didn’t even try to market it; The story was beyond subpar, the opposition of isolated towns was pathetic and the miniquests did not hold a candle to the ones in Black and White 1.
All it all it was a step backwards in every way but graphics compared to the first and sadly graphics never make a good game.
I was a poor kid but I saved up money for a whole year to buy Black and White 2 on DvD as well as a DvD player (since my computer did not have one) and you can guess my disappointment when the game I bought was not only bad but also made me realise it had killed a whole genre, a genre I deepely loved and miss. KrehlmarQuote
My most disapointing game of the times is (let the flames rise) Gears Of War 2.For the fact that the original left so much open to expand upon and all we got was more AI and gore, im not saying it a bad game its just that it could have been so much more imbrasing and maybe even a stronger story? agree or not that is my dub StalkerQuote
In my opinion the most disappointing game of all time would have to be Mass Effect 2. I bought the first game after hearing the great reviews it got and having it recommended to me by my friends. When I finally picked up the game, I was blown away. Never before had I seen a game that went so in-depth with story and character aspects. The branching story led to multiple playthroughs on my behalf and the large equipment and armor variables brought me even farther into the game. When I heard Mass Effect 2 had been announced I was ecstatic. I preordered the game almost immediately and was out the moment my local game store was open to pick it up. I got the game home and played through it only to find, much to my dismay, that many of the things that had brought gamers so deep into Mass Effects story were severely cut back or gone altogether. Much of the weapons/item inventory was gone leaving you with a very slim choice of weapons and armor to choose from as well as little to no other items available. The game went no where near the depth that Mass Effect had character wise and I was left with the feeling that I never truly got to know any of the characters and the ones I liked the most had had their stories built-up in the first game. The entertaining side missions with the Mako were also not present, replaced by a redundant mini-game involving the scanning of planets for resources. It seems as though in the process of making games more accessible to new or casual gamers, developers are making games less enjoyable for the more intense gamers. Taking out features or dumming them down so much that they are unrecognizable doesn’t make a game better, it may even harm it. Overall Mass Effect 2, in my opinion, is one of the best games released in recent months, but even so the first one was vastly superior. Axehead Necromaniac007 necromaniac007Quote
My battlecry goes out to The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Majora’s Mask was disappointing to me because it was preceded by one of the greatest games of all time, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Almost every single element of Majora’s Mask could not even begin to compare to its predecessor. Clock Town and its inhabitants were not as interesting or engaging as the citizens of Hyrule. Saving one little town from destruction wasn’t an as epic story as saving a kingdom and the Triforce in the first game. Plus, the combat was nearly unchanged from the previous game. Nintendo seemed to rest on its laurels rather than push the Zelda franchise forward. In by no means is Majora’s Mask a bad game, but it failed to live up to the hype generated by Ocarina of Time. All in all, Majora’s Mask seemed like a minor sidequest when compared to Ocarina of Time. Phoenix1492Quote