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Imagine buying a DS and not getting anything related to Kirby.
Disappointing Games You've Played
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I totally forgot Meteos existed and how good it was. Off to Amazon I go.
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I feel your pain exactly.
I don't know whether it was a blessing or a curse that the game was so damn short.
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The real blessing would it not to exist at all.
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Don't own a PS4 or Switch yet because they still don't match to my "Five Exclusives I must have" rule before buying a new console. I've heard nothing but mixed user reviews with Disgaea 5. Even less focus on story and characters than ever before, and more of NIS jerking off all "LOOK WHAT WE CAN DO" by adding as much mechanic-based nonsense as they can.
If I want an RPG that's bare bones on story, I'll play a much older one.
As for any recent disappointments; UltraMoon is so disappointingly "it's the same game but with extremely minor DLC and patches" that I only recently got the Rock crystal. I just cannot be arsed to play the game with intent. Even Crystal, Emerald, and Platinum had enough new content to make it worth playing. But maybe I'm just getting burned out.
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Does anyone play Disgaea for the story? I try to pretend the cutscenes don't happen, because they make me feel like a weird old pervert, and they're all about the power of friendship and trust and tolerance and other such nonsense.
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Final Fantasy XIII. The soundtrack was the best thing about the game. The characters were annoying and dull, which made the storytelling a chore to follow.
Yakuza 6. Shit story to close Kiryu's chapter.
I didn't mind MGS V apart from Directed by Hideo Kojima every fucking mission.
Yakuza 6. Shit story to close Kiryu's chapter.
I didn't mind MGS V apart from Directed by Hideo Kojima every fucking mission.
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Just about every W40K action game. I preordered Eternal Crusade and put in 300 hours before I had to set it down because it wasn't going to get any better. Spacehulk: Deathwing was a buggy unplayable mess at launch and its devs have gone total radio silence about updates for nearly 6 months now.
Dragon Age 2 was a major letdown, as was ME2. Andromeda was just good enough.
Overwatch was fun but its community is total trash. Its devs are too good for such a terrible community.
Borderlands: The PreSequel is bad, but it scratched the Borderlands itch I had, albeit barely.
StarCraft 2 was a major letdown. I played the everloving fuck out of the Use Map Settings maps in StarCraft: BW, and I was super hyped to see what people could make with the expanded map making tools Blizzard put into SC2. The huge problem of the arcade system left the map modding community dead in the water. It took so fucking long to make a goddamned lobby system that was present in every RTS they made previously that most map makers had just moved on by the time it rolled out. As a result, the top maps in the arcade haven't really changed since SC2 launched, which is fucking ridiculous. There were even obscure maps I played that showed tons of promise, but since they never got played the creators just gave up on them.
Dragon Age 2 was a major letdown, as was ME2. Andromeda was just good enough.
Overwatch was fun but its community is total trash. Its devs are too good for such a terrible community.
Borderlands: The PreSequel is bad, but it scratched the Borderlands itch I had, albeit barely.
StarCraft 2 was a major letdown. I played the everloving fuck out of the Use Map Settings maps in StarCraft: BW, and I was super hyped to see what people could make with the expanded map making tools Blizzard put into SC2. The huge problem of the arcade system left the map modding community dead in the water. It took so fucking long to make a goddamned lobby system that was present in every RTS they made previously that most map makers had just moved on by the time it rolled out. As a result, the top maps in the arcade haven't really changed since SC2 launched, which is fucking ridiculous. There were even obscure maps I played that showed tons of promise, but since they never got played the creators just gave up on them.
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billy hatcher was incredibly disappointing to me as a kid but i was mostly hoping it would be way more like Glover
it felt more like extreme dung beetle action
it felt more like extreme dung beetle action
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Alice Madness Returns was a mediocre hack n' slash with a bad story but hey, it came with the original game so I guess I almost got my money's worth.
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Outlast 2 was pure trash, it's really sad because Outlast and the DLC were really good. I liked them better than the Amnesia games.
Superman on the Atari 2600 has the worst sound effects ever made for a video game. Even for the time it was made. It makes Crazy Bus sound like Mozart.
Superman on the Atari 2600 has the worst sound effects ever made for a video game. Even for the time it was made. It makes Crazy Bus sound like Mozart.
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I never felt so horrified by a purchase on a retro game until that day. You can't even see the sprites on the screen because they were flashing way too much for way too long (I understand why they flash and it doesn't particularly bother me on most games but Superman is a bad game AND the flashing makes it almost unplayable). And who would've thought that an Atari game would have bad sound effects.
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Back when Blockbuster was still a thing I rented The Legend of Spyro: The One Where You Can Free Fly. I can't remember the actual name, but I rented it for that reason because I loved the speedway sections in the old games and having an entire game to fly around in sounded really fun.
It was okay.
I mean, the free flying was okay. There were invisible walls of course but I enjoyed being able to explore the world in four dimensions. Everything else was pretty disappointing. The combat was ripped straight from God of War and looked out of place with four legged models. The story was bland, so bland that even though I never played the first two Legend games I didn't feel like I'd missed anything, the voice acting was unenthusiastic, and the characters were just as mediocre. It's odd... I went in expecting disappointment, I was disappointed, and even that was disappointing.
This game is like getting a sweater for Christmas. Not an ugly sweater, just a solid color, normal sweater. It might be red or green but whatever it is it's not your favorite color. Anyway, you already have three other sweaters that are much nicer, so you hang your new sweater in the closet and try to forget about it, but the sinister thing about this sweater is that it's so forgettable that it's actually unforgettably forgettable. Now every time you wear one of your favorite sweaters you can't help but think about that one sweater, the one you only wore once and put away, and you feel a little bit bad.
It was okay.
I mean, the free flying was okay. There were invisible walls of course but I enjoyed being able to explore the world in four dimensions. Everything else was pretty disappointing. The combat was ripped straight from God of War and looked out of place with four legged models. The story was bland, so bland that even though I never played the first two Legend games I didn't feel like I'd missed anything, the voice acting was unenthusiastic, and the characters were just as mediocre. It's odd... I went in expecting disappointment, I was disappointed, and even that was disappointing.
This game is like getting a sweater for Christmas. Not an ugly sweater, just a solid color, normal sweater. It might be red or green but whatever it is it's not your favorite color. Anyway, you already have three other sweaters that are much nicer, so you hang your new sweater in the closet and try to forget about it, but the sinister thing about this sweater is that it's so forgettable that it's actually unforgettably forgettable. Now every time you wear one of your favorite sweaters you can't help but think about that one sweater, the one you only wore once and put away, and you feel a little bit bad.
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Star Fox Zero is the most recent one. Not to say I haven't played games since that have sucked, but getting hyped about the first Star Fox game to come out in years, and then getting that broken piece of shit in the mail that I pre-ordered was a big letdown.
Does anybody prefer motion controls to using the stick?
Does anybody prefer motion controls to using the stick?
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Yeah i've played this for switch and i beat the final boss and the game refused to load the ending cutscene, and the fact you have to beat the game once for NEW GAME+ to get unlimited time to explore
But I'd Games i say were Disappointments for me were regular GTA4, it didn't have the crap that San Andreas had, and driving cars felt like you were driving on ice (i know your not supposed to go 100 miles an hour down a street but come on) and COUSIN do you want to go bowling, also the story was forgettable only mission i remember was the bank robbery mission, which was fun and Little Jacob and Dwayne (i think that was other black guys name) were my favorite characters to hang out with, Then i remember Saints Row 2 came out and i thought that was the better game (at the time)
Dynasty Warriors 9 is the recent disappointment, take the simplistic action series and make it open world but have nothing really to do in the open world except explore, combat is okay, i don't mind new system, and you just buy your 4th Weapons in this game or buy the scrolls to craft them (not have to do some insane missions like the older game to unlock them) and since there clones in this game there only unique 3rd weapon no unique 4th weapons as well so clone characters will share, and if you play any of the difficulties that's not chaos your pretty much a lawnmower cutting Grass. i mean i like the game it just feels lacking, which they came out and said they did rush the game out, and don't play with the English VA it's a mess and even some of the actors who did said it was a shitshow doing the recordings, pretty much one takes no good voice direction and no time for rehearsing, and some characters defiantly sound like they are reading off a script
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Going from the original Nier to Drakengard 3 was one of the most disappointing gaming experiences I've ever had. Nier was by no means a perfect game, but you could tell it had heart and a story that someone desperately wanted to tell. Drakengard 3, even by the sub-mediocre standards set by the earlier Drakengard games, was a mess of potentially interesting ideas utterly wasted on some bizarre hybrid of a harem anime and a Lovecraft-style horror story. Even if it hadn't played like hot trash, the incoherent tone and utterly unlikable protagonist made it a struggle to get through. The humor fell flat when it wasn't making me physically cringe and wasn't at all improved by an English localization that was trying way too hard to be wacky and edgy. There were maybe three characters I liked in the entire game, and the half-baked plot never allowed them to go anywhere interesting. The tie-in comics are among the worst I've ever read. Nier Automata made up for it in spades, but man, it was tough to be a Yoko Taro fan after that mess.
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Just adding some things to the DW9 pile.
The optimization was horrendous, and it actually runs a lot better than you would believe, but only if you tell your graphics card to override the game in most areas, because the game still thinks it's running on a PS4 and scales performance as if that's true.
Once you tell your graphics card to take the wheel, most framerate issues disappear.
Another problem is that the open world setting really threw everything regarding combat from the earlier games out the window, and the new engine has the difficulty ping pong, with secret bosses on Normal being Chaos level difficulty.
Finally, it has some good ideas, but Dynasty Warriors has always been about being a one man army, and an open world harms this because the closed arenas of the earlier game made it easier to feel like a badass because there was not nearly as much room between you and the guys you were slashing at.
