Name some of your most dissapointing games this gen!

[Runa216]

ooooh, disappointing games, thou art a heartless bitch.  This generation is both the most impressive and most disappointing.  Some of the most disappointing games were to my most loved franchises that I've loved up to this point. 

1 - Grand Theft Auto IV - Take everything that made Vice City and San Andreas better than III...and toss them out the window.  No awesome characters or movie references, no stat building or asset management, no car tweaking, no beautiful environments, nothing.  In essense it's Grand Theft Auto III...with better graphics and infinitely worse physics and characters and some REALLY stupid gameplay additions.  such a colossal step back for the franchise.  

2 - Final Fantasy XIII - VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XII are all some of my alltime favorite games, and given the variety in gameplay, worlds, characters, story, etc, it's not hard to please me.  I have a pretty wide taste in RPG's, but XIII took everything that made all those other games awesome and threw them out the window.  Horrible, bland, predictable story; flat one dimensional characters, hyperlinear with almost no sidequests or subplots (the marks on Gran Pulse were t he only fun part of the game), and a horrible, broken combat system that had far too many issues.  Other than one short part of the game where you're given freedom (on gran pulse), there was nothing good about this game.  

3 - Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - the demo was awesome, the gameplay worked...but it was so short and the makers decided to be cheap instead of challenging, making the game horribly frustrating instead of challenging and fun. 

4 - Devil May Cry 4 - Actually, the game itself didn't disappoint me, I loved it and feel this is precisely what a good action game is...the part that disappointed me in this game was the community that got upset becuase you play as Nero, and the community who thinks God of War is better...I'm just not seeing it! Devil MAy Cry All the way!  

5 - Rock Band 3 - Okay, it wasn't all that bad, but I play fake plastic guitar and there are maybe 10 songs total that aren't bland chordfests on guitar...And there were a lot of errors w ith the game's launch:  no keyboards on PS3 in canada, Rock Band NEtwork doesn't work on PS3, lots of songs were blocked from play on RB3, and there's no career mode.  Just a lot of things that were promised to be awesome, but they failed to explain much of the game and the things they were taking away.  Huge step down from Rock Band 2 in my opinion....the only upside is that they added an instrument. 

6 - Gears of War - It's nothing special.  The graphics are overrated, the audio is a joke, the story is nonexistent, the art direction is laughable, and it's short.  It's got some good parts such as awesome weapons and some interesting gameplay choices, but they're marred by the fact the game is only 5-6 hours long and it's just not up to standards with a good AAA title.  

7 - 3D dot Game Heroes - Okay, I actually really liked the game, reminded me muchly of a classic Zelda game...but the bosses near the end of the game became boring and tedius acts of endurance rather than skill.  I never beat it becuase I just didn't care to fight that dragon for the 300th time...

8 - Fallout 3 - the game was okay, loads of content and a sense of humor unlike any other, but the gameplay itself was unrefined and no matter how much I WANT to love it, the fact remains: post apocalyptic wastelands are depressing as hell, and I cannot play them for extended periods of time.  good game though, just not for me. 

9 - Uncharted 2: among Thieves - I actually really loved this game, but the last few missions upset me becuase instead of blending the puzzling and platforming that I loved so much, it became a row of one firefight after another after another.  the last 5 missions were nothing but gunplay against obnoxious enemies resulting in far too many deaths. Great game, not so fun ending missions, and that disappointed me. 

10 - I need to add a tenth game, so I'll say this: Every Guitar Hero game.  No matter how good the setlist is, Neversoft somehow manages to make the games boring as hell, and they're just ugly and juvenile compared to Rock Band's far superior presentation and DLC.