(OT) Games That Have Dissapointed You

CNCRaymond · #1 February 28th, 2003, 10:03 AM

Have you ever bought a game expecting one thing but getting something else? It is happening more often now as the presure to produce crap instead of quality has heighten to an all time frenzy.

Thus far my list is a short one, but here it goes.

(No rankings, just titles as I recall them.)

1. MOO 3 - They flat out lied.
2. Tribes 2 - Buggy as hell when released
3. BOTF - Buggy as hell when released
4. Empire Earth - AI to aggressive
5. Dugeon Siege - Hated the controls
6. Star Fleet Command - Too complicated
7. SOF II - Poorly desighned game.
8. Unreal II - Just plain horrible game
9. Quake III - Not at all fun
10. Civ 3 - What, no multi player? J/k Game sucked.

Games I liked right out of the box.

1. SE IV - Set the Standard
2. SimCity 4 - Delived what it said it would
3. SimCity 3 - Unlimited (Fun)
4. SimCity 2 - Fun
5. Civ 2 - Liked it a lot
6. StarCraft - Many of hour playing
7. Diablo - Can any one say BattleNet?
8. Diablo II - Like crack cocane
9. Deus Ex - By far one of the best FPS
10 Dark Forces - This game rocked!
11. Tribes - By Far the Best Game ever!

Growltigger · #2 February 28th, 2003, 11:22 AM

Dont know about bad games, I have been quite lucky in that regard (and dont buy many games anyhow) but games I have loved straight out of the box are as follows

1 Age of Empires/Age of Kings
2 Starfleet Command (easy to control with a bit of practice)
3 Mediaval - Total War
4 Dark Forces
5 Whacky Races (Morris the Moose is a diva)
6 Cuthroats
7 Any Tomb Raider game

henk brouwer · #3 February 28th, 2003, 12:50 PM

The greatest disapointment I had was with M.A.X.2 (Mechanized Assault and eXploration). The original MAX1 is in my top 3 of best games ever, it's a relatively unknown turnbased command and conquer clone with lots of strategic aspects. (If you haven't tried it, do)
I could rant here for an hour about MAX2 and what's wrong with it but I won't (do a search on google if your interested in that).. It's a sad thing that so many sequels to great titles get rushed out of the door and end up like big dissapointments.

[ February 28, 2003, 10:52: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]

DavidG · #4 February 28th, 2003, 01:57 PM

That's an easy one: Metal Gear: Solid.

It should have been nameed - Metal Gear: A lame movie with brief periods of gameplay in between.

tesco samoa · #5 March 1st, 2003, 02:27 AM

Capitalism 2
Civ 1 , 2 ,2a and the other ones

Imperilism 2

Bob the Builder

Gryphin · #6 March 1st, 2003, 02:34 AM

I guess my dissapointment has been more along the lines of games that have never been produced:
Empire Deluxe II
Battle Isle II, (had hex based movement)
Ballence of Power, (Cris Crawford). An outstanding simulation of Cold war. For those who know it I found a way to win every time.
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