black ops, l4d and l4d2
The keyboard and mouse controls are horrendous and the game itself is weird as shit and gimmicky.
It was better when it was just a tech demo.
Saints Row 3, I agree. too bad I got it for $1 via OnLive lol, but I just have’t had the time to play it though, but If I had payed $60 I wouldn’t be too happy.
Bordelands, maybe you didn’t play enough multiplayer or too much multiplayer. Depends, but I bought it on sale like 3 times, but I would have been glad to pay the full $60 I still occasionally play it after my almost 10th playthrough(those include the hard 2nd playthrough mode).
Halo ODST: Would it have hurt them to include a PvP team deathmatch or something, the campaign was not good, it felt like the devs gave up.
Dragon Age Origins: It was not that good, It got boring fast, and the story was uninteresting.
MW3: I rented it and I was actually mad that I did.
Duke Nukem Forever and Jurassic Park The Game.
DNF sucked worse than any joke comparing Black Mesa to the former 3D Realms Title and Jurassic Park: The Game is really only worth full price if you have to insert a coin into the game’s box every time your character gets disemboweled by any of the Prehistoric denizens of Isla Nublar.
I thought the ODST story was actually decent, better than Halo 3 in any case. Just wish Firefight had matchmaking.
I agree with you on Dragon Age to an extent. I know what they were trying to do with the gameplay, but they failed pretty hard at it IMO. The story, I thought, was pretty good, it all came down to horrible gameplay.
Now for my own list:
Call of Duty 4 was a huge letdown IMO. After all the raving my friends were doing after the beta, I thought I’d give it a shot. The campaign was okay, but I hated the multiplayer.
Dragon Age: Origins for the reason I listed above.
Dragon Age II. After all the talk about building on feedback from the fans, I figured I’d give it a shot and see if it was any better. The gameplay was slightly faster, but still had the same flaws, plus some new ones. The story didn’t motivate me to finish this one.
LittleBigPlanet. It was okay, but none of my friends play PS3. The game would have been significantly better if I’d been able to play online with friends, going through the story and some random levels that people designed.
The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass. Touch screen controls ruined it. And having to go through the Ocean Temple multiple times to improve your time and get all of the charts. No thanks.
Armored Core 4. I loved Armored Core on the PSX, IMO it’s the best in the series. (haven’t played Master of Arena, but Project Phantasma was a bit meh.) Armored Core 2 and 3 felt like improvements on the formula, but never hit that sweet spot as well as AC1 did. Then Armored Core 4 comes along and completely changes everything. I’d have been happy with the same pace and part balance, but with updated controls.
I’m sure there are more that I’ve been disappointed with, and paid full price for, but I can’t think of them right now.
Dragon Age II was actually OK in my opinion, but I didn’t really pay for it in cash I paid for it in time to download through cough other cough means…
I actually liked the story this time around and I was able to beat it, although the controls this time around were still pretty bad, I played it via pc but I linked my buttons to a controller. I also don’t like how crappy they made the gameplay again, they tried to make you use strategy or whatever, but it doesn’t work. I set my team to “automatically” heal themselves if need-be when they reach a certain amount of HP and they didn’t do crap, the thing is broken. They make it impossible to play the game on any difficulty without lowering the difficulty at some points, seriously it pisses me off how they have weak enemies and then some super powerful impossible boss.
Also, why are people constantly crying over Duke Nukem Forever. It was actually a good game, I liked It. Heck it was a Great game if you consider all the recent shit games that have been coming out. Why are people rating the stuff AROUND this game instead of the game ITSELF, the game is not bad at all, i know the story mode didn’t end so well and it has it’s highs and lows, but it’s definitely 100x better than the recent campaigns that have been coming out(MW3, CoD : BO, Sniper: Ghost Warrior, ect.). The multiplayer is ok also. This game is not a 2/5 or a 55 metascore, it’s more like 3.5/5 or like a 75-80 metascore. esp. by today’s crappy standards. Again, rate THE GAME, NOT IT’s PREDECESSORS OR ANYTHING ELSE.
Agreed… I sank like 1400 hours into this game.
I wish I never paid for any CoD after WaW… and Too Human (very very bad).
There’s a very good reason why Duke Nukem Forever wasn’t even mentioned in last month’s Game Of The Year awards: It wasn’t worth the wait. I’m sorry, but when you take twelve fucking years to make a game, It had better be worth fifty bucks, especially when its supposed to be the sequel of the greatest First Person Shooter to come out of 1996. To tell you the truth, when you compare Duke Nukem Forever to all the other First person Shooters that have come out in 2011, Duke Nukem just barely beats out Bulletstorm. (And that’s not saying much) I’m not saying Duke Nukem Forever was an awful game (I’ve played worse) all I’m saying is that Duke Nukem Forever wasn’t worth the $50.
ugghh, I agree with you 100% on that game. The controls were down right horrible it felt so awkward and boring.
I’m not saying Duke Nukem is worth $60 or $50, but if I had a Choice between Duke Nukem for $60 and MW3 for $50 I’d buy Duke simply because of this years low standards. I mean how much money does Activision pay reviewers under the table to give them good reviews and lower the competition’s. Also that what I mean people are reviewing Duke based off of the stuff around it, the 8 year in the making crap and what-not. Black Mesa isn’t going to be worth the 8 year in the making either if it was $60, not saying it’s going to be bad, it’s just not going to be worth $60. Bulletstorm wasn’t bad either.
Basically what I’m saying is people are willing to give crappy “remakes” like MW2 and MW3, and crap games like CoD: BO these high ratings and shit, but Duke Nukem has the same if not better quality game than either of these yearly releases. The stroy of Duke Nukem although bad I can assure you it’s better than the other games I just mentioned. Heck I hear CoD fans complaining that Black Ops is crap and the worst CoD game, but they still go out and buy it, and reviewers still give it the usual 9/10. Which disgusts me that gaming has come this low, where reviewers don’t even express the truth or even their own opinion and just do it for the money or the fans.
I’m rather ashamed to admit this, but back when I was first building up my GCN collection from Wal-Mart, I decided I would get this game at full price, even though the game had already been out for years. Should have spent that $40 on a new copy of Eternal Darkness, which was also available.
At the time, I still was loving Army Men before I realized how horribly unoptimized those games really were. It’s really the only game that I regret paying full price for. Everything else has been informed decisions, or bought used.
lol XD, come on man the casing on that game says it all.
But I have bought some bad games myself, Super Monkey Ball is what I’m ashamed of.
(for PS2)
I was new to gaming so I though that stuff like this was “hardcore” “awesome” fun. lol I feel ashamed and the game was crappy.
I thought it was less of a rip off than ut2004, less than a year after 2003 and i paid even more money for a me too bf1942 game mode.
I’m sorry, but I disagree. I like the game (not the story, I just don’t really think the UT series is made for story) but the multiplayer is pretty fun. But with mods it’s a whole new game, the main reason I like it is the mods, same thing with Half-Life 2(I may get some hate for this) but I only like Half-Life for it’s mods and I don’t like the story that much. UT3 has a ton of amazing mods, maybe you haven’t played enough of them, maybe you haven’t played any of them, but I for one think that the mods make the game great.
Half Life 2: Episode 1. Paid 20$, one dollar per minute of gameplay.
LOL…Are you on crack? Yea I get it…it was pretty weak. I regreat paying full amount on RAGE…that bastard still doesn’t run like it should.
That.
I regret opening and playing Shenmue for the Dreamcast.
Not for buying it, but for opening it and trying to play it. If I’d just resold it packaging on, I might have made hundreds of dollars. But I wanted to play it. I found a sealed copy in an out of the way mom and pop game shop. In TEXAS, of all places. Never been opened, and I fucking opened it. Inside, I found a game that seemed to have forgotten how to be a game.
Shenmue had a ton of atmosphere going for it. It really captures 1980s Japan, and the graphics are still some of the best on the platform. But it’s more like an Indigo Prophecy affair- there’s not a lot of “game” to it. If the plot had been more interesting I would have been more forgiving of the game, but sadly there wasn’t much keeping me interested.
Perhaps it would have been best left unopened…
Spore and Brink. Both huge disappointments.
Luckily enough for me, I guess, I pirate a bunch, and when I do buy games I generally wait a few months.
The only game I really have regretted though was ODST, it had already been out for months, so I thought the price had dropped, even as I was standing in the store I thought “What the hell am I doing”, but I had wanted to play it for a long time, then I played about to maps, got bored and didn’t touch it again. Go figure.
Since then I’ve learned to only buy my games from Brittain where they’re like 300 kronor cheaper.
Oblivion. Bought the goty for $30, and soon realized that it just wasn’t worth that amount of money.