Chalk up another mention for LA Noire. I kept telling myself that the game would get better sooner or later, and then the game ended.

There's just so much wasted potential in it.

No one really slammed Assassin's Creed 3, just said that we were hyped for it and it was a disappointment.  If you want someone to go into detail about it though.

I'll start with the liberation missions.  The liberation missions are by far the worst side missions I've ever played in an open world game.  You go to a liberation mission and it's always one of three.  Kill a person riding off on a horse, kill a group of two or three soldiers that are taking civilians away, or letting someone free who's in stocks.  Is that what you call a fun side mission? 

The homestead missions consist of killing a group of people and walkinig back to the persons home.

I've never done any of the pirate missions I'll admit, but assuming it's  boat missions, the boat sequences are boring.  It looked so cool when in E3, but playing the boat missions are so easy and boring.  It's endless amount of raise sail, half sail, no sail, and circling around enemy boats and firing until they're dead.

Assassin's Creed 3 was the first one I played, but the thing is I got Ezio Trilogy at the same time.  It was awhile later, but I started playing AC2 and unlike AC3, the side missions were actually well developed.  Instead of doing mainly the same thing each side mission, they were more detailed and unique.  The assassin missions weren't just go to someone and kill him like AC3(no guards, just a random person walking in a random area.)  In AC2, one you had to follow a group of people and then fight them all once you found the location of the hideout, another you had to find a way to get past the guards(by throwing money) to kill someone and then escape with being unseen, another was to kill a group of heavily armored guards within a minute(hire a group of bandits.)  Not only that but the Altair armor side missions.  The one large church you had to go through, platforming your way to the top, and many more more detailed side missions.  The story and story missions were much better as well. 

Aside from the combat and the graphics, AC2 is 1000x better than AC3.  AC3 was just a very poorly made game.

yea Turok was a disappointment. can't think oof any others right now.

Metroid: Other M. That is all.

I will admit, you make really good points.    I let the hype take over my better judgement.  Damn!

  AC3 is still a good game.  I really like hanging ppl from trees and the homestead missions felt rewarding because the story of a community developing in the old days of my fore fathers.  It was very touching for me.  the liberation missions were repetitive, true, I still enjoyed them by approaching with different techniques.  The ship battles were something unique, no other game offers.  

Having said that, its dissapointing that the gameplay wasn't better.  I beat AC2 as well so I know exactly what you are referring to.  AC2's gameplay is superior. I forgot just how much.  If the premise of this thread was "couldn't admit i was disappointed" i would agree with you 100% now that Ive reanalyzed it.  But I don't believe AC3 was a "bad" game.