What game has been the biggest disappointment?

Written by: Olivia Grace (@oliviadgrace) | January 30, 2013 9:41 am

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A petition was put to the White House recently, demanding the removal of Devil May Cry’s latest iteration from the shelves. The people who created it asserted that the latest Devil May Cry violated their consumer rights, as it didn’t give them the option to choose between the original and the rebooted version. Following a fair bit of research, while I’m still not sure, I think their dissatisfaction stems from the altered appearance of Dante in the latest version.This game is violating our rights as consumers and we believe it should be pulled off shelves from game stores due to its insulting nature and the fact that it violates our rights…

The petition has since been pulled from the White House website, indicating that it’s not really being taken that seriously, but it raises an interesting question about disappointment in games. Have you ever been so disappointed by a game that you’ve felt like filing a petition to the White House about it? Certainly, many an angry forum poster could be believed to be that angry about a game, but have you been?

And so, what games have been the biggest disappointments to you? In the video, I mention Portal 2. You may be confused, especially if you’re a regular watcher of Legendary, because I love Portal, and Portal 2, but having played through Portal and then waited years for its sequel, I was really disappointed to discover that the second part of this fantastic game was barely any longer than the first.

Apart from that, I was rather disappointed by Star Wars The Old Republic. I had hoped for a really epic experience, and didn’t really feel that I’d got one, and it’s hardly gone from strength to strength since then. I was also a little disappointed in the PvP in Guild Wars 2, the PvP itself, the fact that you didn’t have to level to participate, that was fantastic, but the gameplay, particularly the much-vaunted underwater gameplay, didn’t really do it for me. And, before you accuse me of being a WoW-lover, I’ve certainly been disappointed with aspects of Mists of Pandaria, particularly what I see to be the shift of focus away from group play towards solo work like dailies and other grinds.

But I’m more interested in what you guys think! What game has been the biggest disappointment to you, recently or long ago? Is it just because those games were over-hyped? And have you ever been so mad at a game that you’ve considered petitioning the White House, like the players of Devil May Cry?

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http://twitter.com/WolfpackCasey WolfpackCasey

SWTOR. Grand promises for large scale PvP. Never delivered. Game is so badly coded, it can not handle more than ~30 people around you.
Deadnstien

I’ve never wanted a game I’ve played removed from the shelves because it’s bad. I guess I just don’t play that many games.

Oddly though, I work at a Walmart that still has copies of the old Shadowrun FPS in the bargain bins. A multiplayer only game who’s servers were shut down years ago. I’ve considered telling them they should take it out of the bin since it’s a game that literally can’t be played but the people who run the department… Well lets just say they don’t know games and just blindly do what the company says and can’t do anything without corporate’s say. So if I said anything it would be like talking to a wall.
Ravenstorm

Xcom Enemy Unknown. Have waited 20 years for a remake like this but ended up being so console-ish and imo not innovative nor really replayable. I feel the devs sold out to the console market and it showed in the feel of play on pc bigtime. Sad face.
Keigh

Final Fantasy 13 I would say was my biggest disappointment. Once I heard the new DMC was going to be a reboot, it was the end of a great series for me.
http://twitter.com/ActWon1 Jericho Bull

Firstly, the DmC story is totally ridiculous and embarassing. Ugh…way to lend more credence to the “entitlement” backlash, petitioners! And I’m puzzled about your Portal 2 reaction O_o I thought it WAS way longer and bigger in scope.

Anyways…my vote goes to Mass Effect 3. All that momentum going into it, only to snatch away every ME2 companion for largely arbitrary reasons (and then provide little interaction w/most of them!). Dialogue choices were gimped. Cringe-worthy pandering (why hello, Jessica Chobot). Ham-fisted, rushed ending that required DLC to make sense of it (especially looking back at ME1).
Selona83

I do have 500 hours clocked in Guild Wars 2. While I do love the game and Arenanets effort to make it better. I have learnt to filter a lot of the PR-talk that goes on up until a games release.
Colin Johansen and many more from Anet really made it sound like the world would be changing constantly and all that. While it does, to a certain degree, I still think (imo) that it was overstated/hyped. I was really expecting that if no one took out The Claw or Jormag or Tequal the Sunless, they would rampage across the land. At least they made it sound like it. This is not the case at all.

So I personally, going forward, have learnt to take what Devs say with a bit of salt, and not get to hyped about games I now look forward to.
Such as Wildstar, Elderscrolls online and so on.

Hope I was on topic guys. I just felt like sharing a way to not get as disappointed in the future.
Be a bit cynical even. Then you might just get presently surprised
/A swedish viewer
- saxophone15
  
  Yeah I think your expectations for GW2 were too high. That doesn’t make it a bad game though. The game was actually pretty much what I expected. I never expected dragons to freely rampage across the land or anything like that. I think over-hype is very dangerous to a person’s perception of a game and it should be avoided if possible.
Krzysztof Kotarba

Diablo 3
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1451529456 Ryan Wilson

Fable 3.

The game was too damn easy, exploring got boring after a while and everything just felt as though I’d done it before (Raising a family ect).

Then the 2nd part came in, and I was genuinely excited to rule a kingdom and take part in those make or break choices.

You all know how well that went.
- http://www.facebook.com/chad.klusman Chad M Klusman
  
  I actually would say the original Fable. I had that game pre-ordered when it was still called Project Ego. There were so many promises the game makers made. It was supposed to be an Xbox launch game (it actually came out like 2 years after that).
  
  Plus most of the systems they said were going to be in the game just weren’t. Not to mention it was supposed to be this whole HUGE free roaming world, and ended up on a hard core path system. I’m pretty sure the second and the third are decent, but I’ll never know by how much I was burned by the first that I just don’t care. Don’t make crazy promises if you can’t keep em.
Depravity

Yeah, the new Dante is an emo fag. The first two minutes of Angry Joe’s review nail it on the face.

Having said that, I’d probably rank Swtor as the biggest disappointment. It isn’t a bad game, but the longevity raised serious questions. Actually I was let down by Bioware (especially after seeing what a masterpiece Mass Effect 3 was – seriously, a fucking gem).

And yeah, probably Guild Wars 2 as well. I enjoyed PvP, but there being only 3 (now 4) maps to bash our heads in in tournaments really made me leave the game sooner than intended. Mostly because there was no (still isn’t) competitive tPvP tools to make the game last (rankings, eSports features and such). And the lack of PvE progression also hindered the other (otherwise beautifully designed) aspect of the game. I wanted raiding, proper challenging raiding, challenging dungeons, but so far even the fractals don’t even come close to what I enjoyed the most in Wow, namely tackling hard raid encounters and progressing through them with us guild bitches (with all the banter and fun that comes with it).
http://twitter.com/Salamolign Salamol

MMO-wise it would have to be FF14… there are no words for the disappointment.
http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

I’m more dismayed that gamers would ask the government to intervene in the content of video games.
- http://twitter.com/oliviadgrace Olivia Grace
  
  I know, right? Entertaining
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JD5RIAPTFFZFIF3DCNYVVG7NIQ Kyle Bohannon

diablo 3
http://twitter.com/Aminorat Aminorat

dmc is actually quite good

and for disappointment d3
Nick Cattane

I thinke everyone knows you are the biggest wow-lover around… not that it is necessarily a bad thing tho
http://twitter.com/KliffUndersn Klifford von Undersn

I haven’t experienced such a bad game that I would want it pulled from shelves or think about starting a petition to get it removed.

Though the worst game that I had high expectations was Hellgate: London. I loved the story, the concept, and the people behind it. It was mediocre at best

Also disappointed with MoP and their way of questing. So many in game cinematics and timed/timing quest wasting my time.
http://twitter.com/Ricksterness Rick

Want to know why gamers have no credibility to the White House? Because of this shit right here. Honestly, it’s the loudest minority giving gamers a bad name. ‘Pull the game because they changed Dante’ Fucking really? Why not ask them to pull the Star Wars remake that replaced Sebastian Shaw with Hayden Christensen. Or they new Totall Recall with Colin Farell instead of Arnold. I’ve never been more ashamed to be part of a community.

EDIT: The WarZ. That game is all sorts of crap.
http://twitter.com/Akame79 Bostjan

Dantes Divine Comedy in backwards come to mind. A player who was ripped from gaming haven & tossed into the deepest pits of hell, betrayed by Blizzards Diablo 3.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Boiwka/1167985586 Mike Boiwka

At the snippet on your front page, my thoughts ran like, “Petitioned the President? President of the company that made DMC, surely.” Then I read the article. No… it can’t be… the President of the United States? Has the world gone completely mad?

So… right now, people have been a far, far bigger disappointment than any game ever could be. We are doomed.
Chronic24

so sick of the old DMC fans crying, this is a ALTERNATE REALITY REBOOT, and to top it off the game is quiet fun with a very solid story that actually makes sense.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000212167453 Geoff Watson

I was dissappointed with ME3. I’m still mad. However I have never been stupid enough to even think of trying to petition the white house. Also the new DMC is actually pretty good and let me tell you when it was first announced I was like screw this.
http://www.facebook.com/Cammy0380 Cameron Grunow

Man people are over reacting way to much to the new look of DMC. I have played all the previous games, and they were in my opinion getting stale, The new game has breathed new life into the franchise. As for a game I was disappointed in, The Force Unleashed, It was way to short and easy.
Demi_God

GW2 was my biggest disappointment by far. First time in a long time, that I just want my money back for a game. They marketed specific types of content I wanted, and they didn’t come through on their claims. And no I don’t want to hear excuses from GW2 fanboys, if I hear one more “you rushed through content” or “endgame content starts at level 1″ argument I am going to kick a puppy. And blood will be on your head.

SWTOR was also a disappointment, but I feel I got my money’s worth from 2
epic class stories. So I hold no grudge against the game.
- http://www.facebook.com/aaron.desrosiers.3 Aaron Desrosiers
  
  Seriously, to wait that long for the product we got was a huge disappointment. It isn’t the worst game, but it isn’t a “good” game and I feel like playing it was a waste of time.
http://twitter.com/Veldara Veldara

I am far more disappointed with the gamers that decided to go so far as to post and sign a petition on the White House. Not only is this bad optics on gamers for the rest of the world but it also reinforces negative stereotypes about our culture.

The gaming culture will never be taken seriously as other forms of entertainment media if we continue to allow people such as these to lead the narrative.
- Bastian_Star
  
  agreed…and not to sound like a complete freak but this seems so outrageous, and the timing so odd that I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a smear type move on the part of a non gamer (I KNOW, huge reach but the thought crossed my mind….the timing is a bit too perfect)
arenasb

For the most part I haven’t had any disappointments. Pretty much all of the games I’ve gotten have been what the developers said they were (a key to this is not to buy into the marketing and fan hyping of games). If you had to push me I’d say the biggest disappointment for me was the Mists of Panderia expansion. It’s one of the few games in which I’ve gotten a refund for. Now I’m not sure if it is because of that particular expansion or that I’m just really tired of wow type of gameplay.
http://twitter.com/Oledurty Oledurty

SWTOR. Wasted the whole concept.
http://twitter.com/Deadalon Deadalon

Diablo 3 was not really a disappointment since all should have known it was only about RMAH.

My biggest disappointment in years is how poor the basic core systems in MOP were thought out. So many bad decisions from the devs all over the place. And it looks like its just gonna get worse.

“To encourage Raid Finder groups to persevere, each time an Raid Finder group wipes on a boss fight all players in the group receives a stacking buff that increases health, damage dealt, and healing done by 5% (up to a maximum of 10 stacks). This buff is cleared once the boss has been killed.”

Total Disgrace!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lord-Styx/1800631029 Lord Styx

Swtor my biggest disappointed, lucky I saw it in open beta and never bought the game. Played some when it went ftp but can’t make it through the grind so stopped. Wish they had made it what it could have been not the mistake it was.

For me anything that I has been a disappointment I always found out ahead of time. Games promise so much now day and give so little now that I don’t buy game until I get a try at it first. Something I am sticking to from here on out. If I haven’t played it I won’t buy it.
Hicks64

SWG-NGE… yeah I’m bitter
- Cyclops07
  
  to this day its still the biggest fail to what at the time was the best game…its hard to forget/get over lol
Seventy One

SWTOR with ME3 close second. Bioware really did it for me this past year. Not that those games were totally bad, they had some good moments but never lived up to their potential, at least the potential i thought they should have. Maybe i have to blame myself for being over hyped than blame the games themselves. Either way i was frustrated and disappointed by them.
That is why i waited for some rational reviews of D3 a long while after this game was launched and i ve made up my mind not to buy it.
DoctorOverlord

Warhammer Online. Missed so many marks and promises it’s impossible to count but it was especially disappointing because I followed that game during the developing thinking this would be a chance to see the Warhammer setting done right.

Warhammer is a well-respected game setting and it deserved better.
http://www.facebook.com/jetmorph Jason Taylor

Warhammer online I had such high hopes for with all the promises they were making and the unique systems they were offering, and then a few months before launch all those promised innovations started dropping like flies, but i still played it i was so disappointed with the gameplay I had such high hopes for
InvaderMig

I’d say Swtor, even though I did enjoy playing it. So much missed opportunity because of foolish blind devs. Diablo III raped my wallet and I have yet to recover from the violation.
Oldschoolremag

Swtor. One of the greatest IP’s ever, paired with a game developer I’ve been a massive fan of since Baldur’s Gate in 1998. What could go wrong, right?

Well, just about everything. From reducing all that space could have been down to a sad abortion of Star Fox, to not having simple things like a ready check and /roll, to leaving out swoop racing and pazaak, Swtor was a bitter disappointment. Even for free I just can’t stand the thought of going back to those lifeless worlds.
http://twitter.com/MiZTiiX MiZTiiX

guildwars 2 by far
DosTacos

SWTOR for me as well. The long wait in anticipation and finally getting into Beta, turns out to have been the best part of SWTOR. But I guess I should have seen it coming when the Dev Company had no real previous MMO experience. Great Story! though, just to much FAIL in the MMO related features. And most recently showing how CLUELESS they are in implementing F2P features, Double Face Palm Fail!
http://www.facebook.com/FireravenHollowheart John Fireraven Barnett

Cataclysm.
- http://www.facebook.com/tim.whitehead1 Tim Ginger Panda Whitehead
  
  How. . . .predictable!
http://www.facebook.com/tim.whitehead1 Tim Ginger Panda Whitehead

Medal of Honour Warfighters, The used DICE’s Frostbite 2.0 engine and barely anything was destroyable a complete waste. While the campaign mode was great (well I enjoyed it) the online aspect of Warfighters was so average, every game mode was set in the same map area with only minor increases in size. Combat Mission mode was team Death Match with 3 locations to attack, which when compared to Medal of Honour (2010) version of Combat Mission mode is just a lazy effort. I exchanged the game at CEX for £22 after a week. It makes me sad when a game holds so much promise then fails to deliver (Brink anyone?)
J_Symon

Star Wars: The Old Republic. A lot has been said about it so I won’t rehash all that, but its main (and arguably only) selling point was the IP. The game itself was horrible and though some improvements has been made, it continues to suffer to this day. I will never reinstall that “game” again.
- InvaderMig
  
  The Agent story was amazing. The Sith Inq story was also pretty good, so I feel like I got my $60 worth, but yea it was my major disappointment as well. Diablo III was a blatant robbery.
InvaderMig

Whoever came up with the idea for that petition as well as those who signed it should be beaten.
Jado Cast

Games overall, Battlefield 2142 because EA put super cookie tracker in the game to track game’rs web browsers. I still hold it against EA to this day and didn’t buy another battlefield after that dumb stunt. I loved Battlefield, but took a stance against Game Companies violating my privacy, no matter how much I was looking forward to the game. It ended up being a crap game anyways, so I didn’t miss out.

As for MMO’s, SWOTR was a major disappointment.
http://www.facebook.com/uglywhiteman Keith Baldwin

TSW
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1220320566 Peter Chlodnicki

Were I to pick one title that disappointed me completely, it would be Diablo III. Total waste of money. I did finish the game once, and when I tried to replay on another character I got bored way too fast. Diablo I was replayable, Diablo II a little less so… Diablo III? Blizzard learned that there are people who will endlessly grind in a game and made another game that fits the exact same form.
Worst spent $120 ever (because my wife got one too)
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Bergevin-Jr/1393526370 Jim Bergevin Jr

Guild Wars 2. As far as I can remember there is little disappointment I have experienced in gaming (mostly because I do some research before buying a game, and thus manage my expectations). With GW2, the disappointment comes not from the purchase but from the change of direction Anet made in comparison to the first game.

When originally announced in 2007 or so, around the time of Eye of the North, I thought it would be an awesome idea to have a sequel in the franchise and update many of the things int he original game. However, with each announcement releasing more info about GW2 from that time on, my disappointment began and grew over time. Ultimately, after playing the Betas and Stress Tests, I found that the game was lacking many of the things that I enjoyed about the original and it cemented my decision not to buy the game. For me, GW1 is the superior of the two games and it’s unfortunate that Anet has put the game in maintenance mode as it was much more innovative and revolutionary in its time than GW2 is for this time.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004223793887 Vaneryle Duece

WOW
http://profile.yahoo.com/Z36GPOU3Q2QIQYBIDVNQAVGNGE Raul

MOP, only Because I am not an 11 Year old Chinese Boy.

SWTOR, because EA’s greed ruined a score of promising Careers, as well as the Game.

Diablo 3, nothing like being robbed and Screwed simultaneously.

The Secret World, primarily Because the AI pathing and Animations are college final d-grade quality.

I would gladly remove any of these Games from this list,if the Developers would actually respond to their fan-base’s feedback.

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