(OT) Games That Have Dissapointed You

[Pax]

What I've been grossly disappointed by:

Fallout: Tactics totally un-true to the franchise!
Civ3 especially the slimeball tactic of their expansion pack!!
Pax Imperia 2 the DEMO was better! argh!
Anything that says "RTS" or "Real-Time Strategy" it's all a mad clickfest, where's the STRATEGY in that ... ?!?
Baldur's Gate 1 how many times am I supposed to die and still LIKE the damned game ... ?!?!?
X-COM Interceptor pure and utter ****e -- this garbage should never have been made!!

OTOH, games I have loved, typically right out of the box, and will GRIEVOUSLY HURT YOU if you refuse to try them:

Master of Magic I sitll go back to this one ...

Master of Orion

Civilisation 2 (MultiPlayer Gold)

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire (expansion for SMAC)

SE4 and SE4Gold

Thief 1 marred only by a storyline with not enough THIEVING nd too much "dodge the evil nasty thing that wants to kill you"

Fallout 1 and 2 classic, wonderful CRPGs, with some great tongue-in-cheek humor thrown in

X-Com: UFO Defense (the first X-COM title) great game, best in the series IMO; known as "UFO: Enemy Unknown" in the UK

A few of the games that I have liked, and would recommend, but don't consider to be must-play-them's:

Icewind Dale they appear to have gotten the hint WRT easy character deaths since BG1 ...

Emperor of the Fading Suns boring against the AI after a half-dozen turns, but against humans it MIGHT be GRAND ...

X-COM: Terror from the Deep not enough innovation; a sub-par sequel, but not grossly flawed

X-COM: Apocalypse not enough innovation, again. great eye-candy, but the story somehow falls flat

[Chronon]

Originally posted by sachmo:
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. [/QB]

Sachmo, I have to admit that I did not contact Paradox tech support about the problem with EU II. It does look like a good game, so you have convinced me to give it another try. Thanks.

[tesco samoa]

Total Ann. is still my all time fav. game.

[primitive]

Originally posted by Chronon:

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Originally posted by sachmo:
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.

Sachmo, I have to admit that I did not contact Paradox tech support about the problem with EU II. It does look like a good game, so you have convinced me to give it another try. Thanks. [/QB]

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Bu sure to reload the latest patch from http://www.paradoxplaza.com/downloads.asp
That also fixes some problems + increases the playability of the game.

Personally I rank EUII as the best single-player game ever.

primitive

[Ed Kolis]

To be honest, I don't think I liked SE4 "right out of the box" ... it's been a couple years, but IIRC my first reaction was "OMFG this makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER and the interface is so awkward!!!" Well, that's my initial reaction to MOO3 (and I haven't even played it since a marathon 5-hour session when I got it on Wednesday) - so I can only hope I warm up to MOO3 like I did to SE4...

[QuarianRex]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
Everybody says Starcraft is so great... it looks like just another RTS to me... but gameplaywise, there's nothing particularly novel...

What I thought was innovative about Starcraft was the beautifully orchestrated balance between the races. Each had very different strengths and each followed a different path of development, yet none had any real advantages over the others.

When I played each race it felt like another race, instead of the same one with different pictures.

This is what I loved (and still love) about Starcraft.

[tesco samoa]

wow those moo3 forums are a minefield... Ouch...