Which games disappointed you the most?

[TornadoCreator]

Well you've opened a can of worms with this thread...

The Mass Effect Sequels - Not just because they're bad sequels and bad RPGs but because they're good third person shooters, which means people don't understand why I hate them so much. There are hundreds of shooters, Mass Effect however was my AAA sci-fi RPG, name me one other AAA sci-fi RPG of that gen... there aren't any. The closest would be Deus Ex and that's cyberpunk, completely different feel to a space opera. How many third person shooters are there though, fucking dozens. The changes may not have been as massive as I perceive them but it positively screams "sell out", and I will never forgive BioWare for that.

Final Fantasy XIII - The single most disgusting game I've ever played and again, the fact that it's competent at least makes it worse. Yes sure there are worse games, but this took the name, good will, and standing of a franchise I love and sunk it to the very depths of mediocre pap and fan-service bullshit. The storyline is senseless, the characters moronic, the setting inconsistent, the pacing glacial, the gameplay non-existent, and the focus perverted. This games art direction budget alone is several thousand dollars too damn expensive. If they cared as much about making decent games as they do making Lighting look hot on billboards to sells shit to idiot Japanese fanboys, maybe the series would still be worth a damn. FFXIII is an insult to the franchise, but then everything Square Enix does is a bloody insult now (Eidos doesn't count).

Fable 3 - The Fable franchise is somewhat of a guilty pleasure of mine. They're not especially good games, but they're not bad either if I'm honest and I did genuinely enjoy Fable 2. While it has massive flaws and is painfully shallow at parts, it is actually quite fun and I can respect that they wanted to focus more on certain aspects of the game. Then Fable 3 happened. How did they fuck up so much, the gameplay felt weak, non-gunpowder weapons are next to useless, spells are too damn powerful now, and the storyline jumps around like crazy. Pacing is a concept this game just doesn't get. Fable 2 is a guilty pleasure, an honestly rather shallow game that I have far more fun with than it deserves. Fable 3 took all the little redeeming things about the previous game and ruined them leaving a sub par fantasy action-RPG.

Fallout: New Vegas - This was such a disappointment. Fallout 3 is awesome and the world has so much potential. Then the DLC came along and fixed every story issue I had and expanded the game even more. Brilliant. New Vegas lands and it's the most glitchy buggy unfinished mess Obsidian had done to date... and considering they made Alpha Protocol, that's saying something. They actually broke shit that worked in Fallout 3! How do you do that? If the code works, leave it the fuck alone. Obsidian touching something is basically an admission that it's about to fall apart. They are quite possibly the most incompetent developer in existence... and the bastards keep getting handed franchises I like. Even if we ignore the glitches though, there's more. The game punishes exploration. The desert wasteland feels empty, until you're stupid enough to shoot something then 300 enemies pop out from behind the nearest rock to descend on your arse. The storyline is railroading and boring, (I don't care about the damn chip or the guy who shot me). The world isn't realised at all... hell go to Gomorrah, it's built up throughout the whole game as this den of depravity and awesome fun, and when you get there it's boring, bland, and fucking empty. There's no-one in there, there's no atmosphere, just a few slots and a blackjack table that causes the game to crash. This is an insult to the franchise.

Civilization V - This is one that I genuinely tried to like but I couldn't. They removed half the civs, the government system is pathetic; it's nothing but World Of Warcraft style talents and has no feeling of tactics or choice. Abilities from Communism and Democracy should not stack, and you don't progress through one to the other, that's just stupid. There's less tech, there's less buildings, there's less customisation... there's just less. The only thing they improved was the combat system and while that's great, if I want a more combat orientated game I'll play the Total War games. Civ was always about expressing yourself as a world leader, this game didn't let me do that. There was a forced line of progression and very little flavour. For someone who's never played a Civ game before it's likely incredible, for people who know better it's a massive step backwards.