Disappointments

[Ryth]

Name some games that you were excited for but ended up disappointed by. Please, explain what you expected from the game and what made you disappointed.

Marvel Nemesis: Rise Of The Imperfects
An all Marvel hero brawler sounded cool, a great idea and being a comic nerd I was excited, and the fact it was penned by a professional comic book writer I thought the story would be good. Alas, the levels were uninspired, the graphics were bland, the physics engine was ridiculous, the story was uninteresting, the fighters were all similar, characters with ranged attacks (i.e. Venom) made it impossible to win as a close-quarters brawler (i.e. Wolverine), and the Imperfects were like other Marvel chracters (Johnny Ohm = Electro). I was highly disappointed and wasn't entertained by it at all.

Final Fantasy VIII
When I bought this, I was already a FF fan, I had IX, VII, and X and loved them all. So I expected a great experience from VIII. However, my hopes were quickly dashed away by the horrible Junction system. This itself was enough to kill the game for me, though I continued forth in the game hoping for improvement, sadly, that didn't happen. The story was so poor, and the characters generally blew. The story and gameplay are the two biggest things to me and they both sucked, so this game was just almost intolerable for me to play.

Halo
I had heard so much hype about this first person shooter, I figured it'd be phenomenal. Not the case, the level design was repititious, one level had about 4 of the same looking hallways and rooms. The A.I. was unintelligent, the story didn't keep me interested, and it was overall too easy (unless you play on Legendary and in some cases Heroic), it just wasn't fun for me. There was little enemy variety as well, mostly just some elites and a pack of grunts all the time usually carrying the same weapons. I suppose the hype helped kill it for me as well.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
A similar case to Halo, I heard so many good things about it and it looked great and people would talk about it. The idea of the game and the free roaming looked great as well. Unfortunately for me, the gunplay was poor, the camera blows, the graphics were ugly, the story was idiotic and not in the least bit entertaining, it all felt so old after a while.

Shining Tears
I'm a big fan of Shining Force, so when I heard a new "Shining" installment was being made I was ecstatic. Was I sated by this game? No, no, and no. It's the worst RPG I've ever played. The enemy A.I. is retarded and the ally A.I. is even worse. The story sucks as well and the gameplay is painful. So horribly disappointed. Guess I'll still have to stick to my good ol' Shinig Force: Legacy of the Great Intention and Shining Force II.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories
I loved Kingdom Hearts, so I expected this sequel to be of fairly high quality. Wrong I was, the gameplay was fine enough but it wasn't all that great really. The story wasn't interesting and you just kind of just went and repeated KH1 with some new filler in between worlds. So I still liked this game, I just didn't like it as much as I had hoped I would, not even close really.

Kingdom Hearts II
Now, don't get me wrong. I do love Kingdom Hearts II. I really do. It's just I had such high hopes for it but in the end enjoyed Kingdom Hearts much more. Kingdom Hearts II had such awful story pacing, it was too easy, they dragged the middle of the game out for too long and it still ended up being too short, and the original was just better. KHII had better combat, camera and gummi ship but KH had better voice acting and actors, better story, better Coliseum, a better opening level that didn't get dragged out and become tiresome, and it had better looking weapons (especially keyblades). I love KHII, it's a fantastic game, it's just a notch or two below what my expectations were.

Final Fantasy X-2
I just expected this game not to suck, but it did. It sucked. Sucked hard.