(OT) Games That Have Dissapointed You

[Chronon]

I don't buy too many games, but there have been some disappointments:

1. Civ III (My expectations were too high. I wanted SMAC on Earth)
2. Seven Kingdoms (RTS just isn't exciting to me)
3. Europa Universalis II (Locks up on my computer even though I meet the minimum requirements)
4. Black and White (Same problem as EU II)
5. Spaces Empires IV (AI and graphics) (Please don't go ballistic, read on...)

Best games:

1. SMAC (Depth of play is immense - did need some serious patching, though)
2. Space Empires IV Gold (PBW and modability make AI and graphics deficiencies irrelevant - or even an asset in the case of graphics, because an artistically challenged person like me can make a shipset)(Oh, and I shouldn't forget, the best community of gamers anywhere)
3. Combat Mission (revolutionary gameplay - this is how to combine turn-based and real-time action!)
4. Civ II
5. Strategic Command (Third Reich on the computer!)

I'll reserve judgment on MoO3 until I actually play it.

[Aloofi]

Originally posted by Mephisto:
. Anyone ever played Close Combat 2? I loved this game and I think it is a fine example how you can do RTT (Last T for Tactics ). I never felt overrun by time (you could pause) and it did get rid of those IGYG problems of so many games. I played it hours and hours in single player (very good AI most of the time) and days with friends over LAN.

I've played Close Combat 5, and its probably the most realistic WW2 tactical game ever. If you forget that in reality most battles in the Western front were decided by the allied air supremacy, that is.
But it is a great game. Definitively a top ten ever in my book.

[Ed Kolis]

Everybody says Starcraft is so great... so I finally get it and, hey, it's not bad, but honestly, it looks like just another RTS to me... an RTS with an interesting storyline, for sure, but gameplaywise, there's nothing particularly novel... of course I say this as the game is around 5 years old, maybe it was novel then, but then I generally don't buy a lot of new games anyway...

[minipol]

Originally posted by Aloofi:

-Lords of the Realm II (my first game, back in '96)

That's got to be one of my all time favourites too! I eargerly await Lords Of The Realsm III. It should be out this year. Latest rumour was august i think.

[sachmo]

Originally posted by Chronon:
I don't buy too many games, but there have been some disappointments:

3. Europa Universalis II (Locks up on my computer even though I meet the minimum requirements)

Chronon,

Have you tried working with Paradox tech support about this? I had lockup issues, and tech support told me that the game can have this problem if installed on a fragmented HD. I did a defrag, ran the install again and never had another problem. The game is worth the effort, let me tell you. Very much so.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Everybody says Starcraft is so great... so I finally get it and, hey, it's not bad, but honestly, it looks like just another RTS to me... an RTS with an interesting storyline, for sure, but gameplaywise, there's nothing particularly novel... of course I say this as the game is around 5 years old, maybe it was novel then, but then I generally don't buy a lot of new games anyway...

It was not novel then. Starcraft, like all Blizzard games, is designed for people that are not gamers.

[Atrocities]

When Star Craft came out, it was the first of its kind. Now the market has been swamped by look alikes.

Games that Dissapointed me:
Tribes 2 (At first, because of the bugs)
Moo3 (For all of the published reasons and then some)
SimCity 4 (Too difficult to early)
Unreal 2 (Bad design, horribly scripted game)
SOF 2 (The first was fun, the sequal was not)
DF 2 (Jedi Night was not fun to play as Dark Forces)
Armada II (Horrible graphics, not at all fun to play)
Dominion War (S&S game, what else need I say)

Games I have enjoyed right from the box:
Tribes
Tribes 2 (Although many of my friends could not play, I could)
BOTF
SEIV
SimCity 3
Freespace (awsome game)
Elite Force (Although a short game)
Armada (nice graphics and fun to play)

Tribes 1 and SEIV were by far the best out of the box games I have ever played. I love them both equally. Too bad I never really got into the PBW games. That I do honestly regret and will for a very long time.