(OT) Games That Have Dissapointed You

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by oleg:

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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
wow those moo3 forums are a minefield... Ouch...

And I noticed Atrocities just stepped in... Wonna bet how soon he will be branded as Troll ?

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Charging in to the Official MOO 3 forums and starting a thread telling people to check out SE IV takes some hutzpah. I would not be surprise if he gets into trouble either... But it's still funny.

[ZeroAdunn]

Dissapointed:
Battlecruiser 3000AD (didn't have half the features is said it would, was lucky to be able to play it for five minutes, an insanely complicated user interface.)

SEIV: First time I jumped into it I thought it was horrendous, but I grew to love it....

SEIII: The first time I played it I couldn't figure out how it worked, thank god for persistence.

BOTF: Well duh

X-com Terror From the deep and beyond: All of them crap, at least Terror from the deep was playable.

ST: Armada: Decent, but boring campaign, week borg, and buggy as hell.

Everquest: Boring as hell, stupid gameplay, and annoying people.

Others, but I care not to list.

Games I liked:

Master Of Orion: Incredible game
Master Of Orion II: Even better then the first
Machine hunter: Sensless robotic violence, explosions to induce epeleptic seizures, and little to know story, how could you not like it??

HOMM I-III: Heroes of might and magic, great game, very different from anything I had played at the time.

X-Com: UFO Defense: Another reason why I love the bargain bin.

All Diablos: Evil slashing fun. Of course, the excessive clicking is kinda annoying.

Sim City II & III: Great games, unfortunately by III I had lost interest in city building

So many more, but not enuogh time to list them...

[gregebowman]

Originally posted by Pax:
What I've been grossly disappointed by:

Civ3 especially the slimeball tactic of their expansion pack!!

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All I want to know is if you just want to play Civ 3: Play the World in solo mode, is it worth the price to get the new tribes and the couple of new stuff they included? I heard it's not good for multi-play, which doesn't make sense, since it was advertised for multi-players. But since I don't do multi-play, I just need to know about the solo play mode.

[sachmo]

Originally posted by Chronon:
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.

Any luck?

[solops]

After my post got embarrasingly lost...

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

1. Patriot - incomplete
2. Superpower - buggy
3. Civ III
4. Call to Power I
5. Hearts of Iron – buggy as hell, true greatness was fumbled
6. Creatures I, II & III – too cute, my kids drive me nuts with it
7. Battlcruiser 3000
8. Imperium (the only attempt at a 3D galaxy I’ve seen)
9. Age of Empires (don’t like RTS arcades; too fast; no pause for orders)
10. SM’s Alpha Centauri - aweful graphics, absurdly unintuitive tech tree. Graphics usually do not matter to me, but I found these offputting to the point of making the game unpleasant.

Games I liked right out of the box (Not in order)

1. Conquest of the New World Gold
2. Star Fleet Command
3. Stars! – #1:The best ever MP, outstanding interface
4. Civ 3 PTW add-on w/ patch
5. Civ 2 - Liked it a lot
6. Civ 1
7. The Operational Art of War (all editions)– outstanding, #2 favorite
8. SE IV
9. Dungeonkeeper II – a hilariously engrossing jaunt
10. Tanks!
11. Harpoon
12. Medieval Total War – fun, mixed implementation, good interface
13. Reach for the Stars! (Ancient original edition on Apple II)

[gregebowman]

If I can get my new compouter soon, I'd like to know how these following games rate, since I've been wanting to play some of these for years, but couldn't due to hardware requirements:

America
Dungeon Seige
Neverwinter Nights
Microsoft Train Simulator
Trainz
Icewind Dale 2
Civ 3 expansion (can't remember the title)
Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
Any Sims title after the first one

If I do get a new computer, I might not be playing SE4 for awhile due to binging on these other games for awhile.

[ March 05, 2003, 17:51: Message edited by: gregebowman ]

[rdouglass]

A lot of games have disappointed me - the marketing hype for most games is "deceiving" at best - so my list would be most of the games I've bought but it's generally safe to say any RTS.

Games that I played for more than 20-30 hrs:

SExx (III, IV, and Gold)
SMAC (& Alien CrossFire - Hey, I liked 'em)
AutoDuel (anyone remeber this??)
Pax Imperia (from my Mac days)

Someday I'll get around to getting some of the others mentioned, but I don't get a whole lot of time to game and it's almost exclusively SEIV...

[ March 05, 2003, 18:17: Message edited by: rdouglass ]