What’s the most you’ve ever been disappointed in a game?
No Man's Sky it's still dogshit btw, despite what literal paid-shills will tell you
>>737731401Dark Souls 2.I played it at launch, what a fucking downgraded disaster piece of shit.
>>737731401I'm still waiting for a PC source port of this that gives the game completely traditional Star Fox controls. I've heard the game is good aside from the controls, which are the only reason I absolutely fucking refuse to play this game.
>>737731401Star fox assault
>>737731401I know it sounds like recency bias but Mouse PI is high up there
>>737731401Kingdom hearts 3Final fantasy 7 remakeCounter strike global offensive
>>737731401>What’s the most you’ve ever been disappointed in a game?I was so fucking excited for this game after the 2005 GDC presentation. The final product couldn't even live up to the unfinished demo that Will Wright showed, much less all the other promises he made about what else would be in the game. The final stage just being a straight up turn-based space 4X game instead of the real-time multi-tiered space-and-planet exploration that was promised really chapped my ass the most, but not even the creature creator lived up to what was promised. I'll never forgive Maxis for this bullshit.
>>737731485but 4chan told me they fixed the game
>>737731485thisDaemon X MachinaOctopath Traveler
Original assassins creed. He looked so fucking cool and I was so hyped to play it for so long. Once I reached the first real life office segment... yeah right. Back to God of war and cod thanks
>>737731401assassin's creed 3pokemon alpha sapphirekirby air ride
>>737731485Came here to say NMS. I agree.
>>737731728The controls are fine. Just don't look at the second screen and the motion controls are excellent. The issue is that more than half the game is all range dogfights or slowass gyro-wing garbage, and the first playthrough forces you to do a singular route. Once you beta the game, you can do alternate routes, but they aren't enough. 64 feels like it has more content. For what it's worth, when you get to play traditional on rail stages, the game is fantastic. They're just so few in number.
>>737732723>Just don't look at the second screenSo just don't look where you're aiming, even when your target is unavoidably and completely off-screen in the main view?>the motion controls are excellent.Motion controls fucking suck on their own, they should only ever be used to supplement traditional stick controls. I like gyro aiming as an optional aid, but never as a sole input.
>>737731401Bannerlord.It's my own fault but still
I couldn't even get twenty hours out of it over the course of a year.
Brawl and MGS4Moreso Brawl since I ripped that piece of shit in half and threw it in the trash where it belongs.
>>737733117i bought every single smash game except smash 4 and the pii u
First two missions where great. Everything else after that is generic filler shit. Everytime I come across those guardposts in the middle of nowhere with four guards surrounding it waiting to be sniped, I die inside.
>>737731401Maybe Mario Sunshine, it seemed like it could be good but they designed it completely wrong in every aspect possible.
>>737733117>>737733316It's smash bros, you bust it out with friends to play with. I'm never surprised that someone says "I hardly played Mario Party, Mario Kart, Smash Bros" like, no shit you didn't.
I really thought this was gonna be the greatest game of all time
>>737733707It felt like it would be if it wasn't for how ultra repetitive it is
>>737731401I expected Zelda 1 but I got every open world game on the market instead.
I loved getting lost in the linear worlds of KH1, it felt magical. Then they fucking took it away because some kids were too stupid.
>>737731401I liked Prime 1 and had pretty high expectations for the 2nd because a lot of hyped it up to be the best of the trilogy. This shit is one of the most repetitive games I have ever played. Having to constantly find portals to comb through every single area twice, doors always locking because of enemies appearing, those enemies having constant i-frames, and the ammo being limited now made me absolutely hate this game. Also the final suit is ugly.
>>737733676For just wasn't fun.
>>737731401>Watch A Fox in Space with buddy>Get in the mood for Starfox game>Play Zero>First two or three levels are great, in fighter mode arwing>Next two hours was slow paced gimmick vehicles >Stop playing out of boredom
>>737733930I had fun when I played them, they were fun games
>>737733836>>737733918low quality b8
>>737734008Good for you, this is a thread about games you were disappointed in, and For disappointed me a lot more than I expected.
>>737731401>>737733894The mismanagement of the entire Kingdom Hearts series is a disappointment. Holy hell I hope Kingdom Hearts 4 fails and Nomura retires in shame. Square Enix is filled with terrible hacks.
>mandatory Heat shitWhat the flying fuck were they thinking? Did they just want to make people on Twitch who don't even play the game do the pogface?
>>737731401MH: World completely bastardising the series's combat
>>737732974>So just don't look where you're aiming, even when your target is unavoidably and completely off-screen in the main view?Correct. You can see where your lazers are going by using your fucking eyeballs, shitter.>Motion controls fucking suck on their own100% a skill issue on your part.
>>737734163Square in general needs to suffer greatly, so much so they either have to make actual games or they close their doors for good. It's amazing how many times they dropped the ball and still aren't being punished for it. I honestly can't even think of an IP from Square that I hold dearly. I'd like to hope Dragon Quest can get away from them, but if DQ has to die to purge Square from the face of this earth, so be it.
>was introduced to DMC for the first time in magazines>eventually rent DMC2 as my first DMC gameIt actually made me feel bored and sleepy.
why does it think my original post, picrel, is spam and wont let me post it? Is this new? Never seen this posting here
>>737734350>You can see where your lazers are going by using your fucking eyeballsNot when the enemy is COMPLETELY OFF-SCREEN, you retard.
>>737734580I'm pretty sure nint*ddler is a banned word here, same with sonygg*er
>>737731401Pokémon Legends ZA
>>737734708ah I see. But I am one. We can call ourselves that, just like niggas
>>737734740You can't use the hard R, fellow nintoddla.
>>737731401Mario Galaxy 1, I thought it was going to be good from the movie but it's pure slop.
>>737734879Lol
>>737734717This but Arceus
>>737734879Congratulations, you are a case study for why Miyamoto raped Galaxy's original vision so hard in the movie
>>737731485That game is the textbook definition of "wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle". Game made for people that care more about the concept of what their doing then the actually actions taking place.
Depends on the situation. Weighing hopes against experience, it's easily Breath of the Wild and Resident Evil 5. I like both of those series and despise the turn both of those games took in context. As a blindsiding experience, like just picking something up and simply not feeling it? My gut reaction says Bloodrayne 2. I played it immediately coming off a fun time with its predecessor and I can only describe it as "antagonistic". There's playing a bad game, then there's playing a game that makes you wonder if the devs hate their audience. Bloodrayne 2 is very much the latter.
GalGun2 for me. GG1 was so good that i had high expectations. GG2 was a Downgrade of almost everything to make it into a vr game that ended up not compatible with ps4 vr. im guessing it was sony's early censorship meddling.
>>737734879>from the movie
I fell for it
>>737731401MGSV, i dont think anything is gonna top that
>>737731401BotW easily, realizing it peaked on the plateau, was all downhill from there and not Zelda.
>>737731401Paper Mario Sticker star. I wanted another Paper Mario RPG after Super was a big gameplay downgrade, and I got the dumbest RPG since Quest 64.
>>737731401death stranding, i can't believe the fights and bosses are dogshit
>>737735808I actually forgot that this game happened.
>>737731401Animal Crossing: New Horizons
>>737734879>there unironically exist children who have gone to see the new Mario movie and then bought the Mario Galaxy port on Switch with their parents' credit card because of the movie
>>737734879It was of its time
>>737735808I think I have brain damage or something because I remember enjoying it more than Cute and Funny in Time
>>737736228Maybe i'm just a banjo autist and need to replay it again, but on release it felt disorienting and dissapointing. I really disliked the whole 'expand the world' thing, but I might have ruined that for myself. Finishing everything in the first world meant I could expand every subsequent level before i'd even gone to it.
>>737731401Only played through picrel one time when I played the previous installments More than 10. The story and wonky gameplay damn near turned me off from the whole franchise.
>super is amazing, I can't wait to play it's sequel after 8 years>biggest pile of dogshit metroidvania ever conceived second to other MThank God prime came out on the same day to get the taste out of my mouth
>>737736973Metroid games are not metroidvanias, they are Metroid games. There is no -vania in Metroid.
>>737736973Fusion is a good game, but definitely not what I'd suggest as an archetypal Metroid game.>second to Other MOther M is literally Fusion but bad.
>>737731401I genuinely believed FF15 could be the greatest game ever made after one of the trailers. It was so bad in practice that I wish I hadn't played it.
>>737731401Mass Effect 3I even had low expectations...
>>737737039I can't believe there are still retards who attribute the term "metroidvania" to its original early 2000s connotation instead of the modern subgenre>>737737367other M is fusion but worse, fusion is bad to begin with. Literally everything wrong with other M is in fusion except those I spy segments
>>737731401skyrim, after seeing how popular that game was i was surprised to find it's an incredibly mediocre game
>>737737696Fusion doesn't have a mechanic like concentration, it allows you to use missiles normally, and doesn't have Samus waxing high school diary every 10 minutes. It does still have the rigid, biome-based sequencing, plus it does introduce Adam and some inner monologues from Samus so it's hardly absolved from sin, but at the very least it plays close enough to Zero Mission to still be alright to play as an action adventure on its own terms. It's definitely a misfire if you wanted a sequel to Super though, I won't argue against that.
>>737737961>Fusion doesn't have a mechanic like concentrationleast of the game's problems>very least it plays close enough to Zero Missionit does not, they only control the same. ZM has proper level design and exploration unless you mean the post game they added which is a fusion-tier hallway with the stealth mechanic emphasized more
animal crossing new horizons. having such little content compared to the previous games. made me start pirating nintendo games out of spite
>>737737696Firstly, calling Metroid Fusion a metroidvania is like calling Doom 2 a Doom clone. Secondly, even in the modern sense of the genre term, metroidvania games ALWAYS have a heavy dose of Castlevania elements. Whether that's RPG elements, gear drops, melee-based combat, a focus on lots of boss fights, fantasy aesthetics instead of sci-fi, or something else, I find that all metroidvania games look and play far more like Symphony of the Night than Super Metroid, to the point that I just don't think you can call any Metroid game a metroidvania because they play nothing like any other game in the genre. I feel especially strongly about this because I LOVE Super Metroid but HATE Symphony of the Night and I have literally NEVER found a metroidvania game that can actually satisfy my need for a true Metroid clone.
>>737738124>metroidvania games ALWAYS have a heavy dose of Castlevania elements.not true, axiom verge and environmental station alpha are metroidvanias, same with metroid. It's time to move on from the outdated connotation
>>737738052>they only control the sameMostly what I meant. Also, concentration is definitely a significant mark against Other M. You don't even have to play the game well because of it. Dodging, too. A symptom of forcing a 3D game to use D-Pad movement, I'd wager.
loved melee and the hype leading up to the release was great but then the game just felt so fucking bad to play
>>737738347oh yeah this is a good one, DMC2 tier sequel
>>737738175>axiom vergeA very rare exception that proves the rule.>environmental station alphaMelee combat is its Castlevania element. Short range weapons fucking suck.
>>737731401That one is a good oddity.I remember being disappointed in Yoshi on Switch.
>>737731401Breath of the wild. It was the literal monkey paw realization of my "dream zelda game" i talked to my friends about as a kid, essentially OoT, but Elder Scrolls size. Really curious how the remake would either further butcher that dream or help me taste a bit of it.
>>737732037I have an even stronger hate for this one because my dumb friends hyped it up as "SimEverything" and when my mom asked me what i wanted for Christmas, i was planning to get an N64 disk drive back when they were affordable, but instead asked for the collectors edition of this limited online activation piece of shit.
>>737731401diablo 3oblivion, when coming from morrowind
>>737738674Damn... thankfully, I was savvy enough at the time to pirate the game instead of paying for it after I heard about the SecuROM bullshit.
>>737733894I really hate how the combat became diet DMC and all the quick time input shit. I liked the slow progression of the first and how you gain shit like higher jumping.
>>737738712>oblivion, when coming from morrowindthat was me playing skyrim, when coming from oblivion, ive only played morrowwind on xbox and i couldnt get into it
>>737731401Mass Effect 3 no contest.
>>737738812The higher jumping ability is in 2, but there are absurdly convoluted requirements for it. In 3, they just have a double jump.
Sonic Lost WorldBanjo N&BSonic 4Pokemon Rumble as a series Mario's Time Machine (a summer week rental I'll never get back)
>>737737039Metroidvania was originally exclusively used by the castelvania community to differentiate between "classicvanias" and the "metroidvanias". It literally NEVER meant "games with a mix of metroid and castlevania elements". The only people who say that are retards who just assume it must mean that because its in the name. It literally started becoming a wider used genre term after the rise of axiom verge. You are a retard.
>>737731401Lunar: Dragon Song will always hold this spot for me because the first game is so good and Dragon Song is so, so, incredibly bad.
>>737737441>me when i blew 300 bugerbux on the collectors edition
>>737738974You just spent the first 90% of your post explaining why I'm right, but then end it by saying I'm a retard? Metroid games are Metroid games, they are not metroidvanias because metroidvanias are always modeled after SotN (the original metroidvania) in some fashion. Axiom Verge is literally the ONLY exception, but people are wrong to call it a metroidvania since it's literally a Metroid 1 clone.
>>737738870Yall both weird.Morrowind was fun, but Oblivion was also an amazing thing to experience as new-gen game. Skyrim was also amazing for a new-gen game.
>>737737441I remember thinking Nomura was a genius who was wronged by Square. The games that followed quickly proved me wrong
>>737738759I was still naive enough to assume pc gaming was how i remembered it in the 90s and earlier 2000s where sometimes you didn't even need the disc in the drive after installation.
>>737738386>Melee combat is its Castlevania element. Short range weapons fucking suck.disingenuous
I played Super Mario World and Super Mario 64 as a kid and spent the next 20 years getting periodically disappointed trying to gaslight myself into being a Mario fan despite not really liking the series. It's a good game but it's a game quite literally made for Mario fans by Mario fans.
>>737739128No, you really are just fucking retarded. What part of "it was NEVER meant to describe any game inspired by both castlvania and metroid" do you not get? It was not originally a genre. It was a community name for a bucket of games. By the time it became a genre name, it just meant any game inspired by metroid. There was NEVER a point in history where it was used to describe a genre of games inspired by metroid and castlevania. And even if it was, you'd be a retard for sticking with a "middle point" of an evolved definition, since you can't accept that meaning has changed yet you refuse to use it for its original purpose.
>>737739237I never even engaged with the online portions since i got them after servers went down, but i enjoyed playing this and the 3DS ones just for the default levels in the game to see what stuff Nintendo devs would make if forced to make new nes/snes mario levels.
>>737739223How is that disingenuous? I listed melee combat as a Castlevania element right there in that post:>>737738124>Whether that's RPG elements, gear drops, MELEE-BASED COMBAT, a focus on lots of boss fights, fantasy aesthetics instead of sci-fi, or something elseA true Metroid clone would have a long range main weapon. The only minor exception is Metroid 1 having the Long Beam as a power-up, but that mistake was rectified in Metroid 2 and every subsequent game. ESA's obnoxiously short range main weapon that never even gets its range upgraded is no different than the melee weapons of SotN.
>>737739354>What part of "it was NEVER meant to describe any game inspired by both castlvania and metroid" do you not get?I never said it was. I said metroidvanias are all SotN clones and therefore Metroid games are NOT metroidvanias.
>>737739427Samefagging to add:>>737739354>By the time it became a genre name, it just meant any game inspired by metroid.Except they all take after SotN and are not actually inspired by Metroid at all, which is the core of my point. Metroid is Metroid, it is not a metroidvania.
>>737739427>metroidvanias are all SotN clonesThis is genuinely a retarded take. Ori games are not sotn clones. Esa is not a sotn clone. Hell, not even hollow knight is a sotn clone. Saying "metroid + melee = sotn clone" might genuinely be one of the most braindead takes I've heard on this subject.
>>737731401Metroid Fusion. Went in expecting portable Super Metroid, got copious amounts of dialogue and barebones exploration.
>>737731401Fable 2Super Mario 3D World Tears of the Kingdom
>>737739534>Saying "metroid + melee = sotn clone" might genuinely be one of the most braindead takes I've heard on this subject.It is, though. Ranged combat is a core mechanic in Metroid, melee combat comes directly from SotN because Metroid games don't have melee combat.
>>737731401>Neverwinter Nights>Crysis>GTAV>MGSV
>>737731485I tried playing it for the first time ever recently and achieved a complicated mix of overwhelmed and bored.
>>737740103>games is 95% metroid>5% sotn>that somehow makes it a sotn cloneMotherfucker most indie metroidvanias are close to metroid than sotn is
>>737740837*closer
