If only someone would actually get those old comics, especially that whole storyline from mid 80s with Spiderman in black suit, Black Cat, Kingpin, The Answer, Silvermane and Cloak and Dagger and make a game out of it...

Colossal disappointments:
DMC2, Dino Crisis 3, RE6, DmC (right at announcement), TLoU Part 2 (story and no multiplayer), Crash Nitro Kart, MGS5, MGS The Twin Snakes, Shenmue 3 (though I expected it).

Disappointments:
Too many to count but here's a few: God of War 2018, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, MGS2 (The demo was like the greatest thing ever. The full game didn't live up to it imo), GTA4, Oblivion, Persona 5, DMC4, RE5, RE Zero, Ninja Gaiden 2, Ys 8, Okami (Great game but way too easy. With higher difficulty and less handholding, it could have been one of the best "Zeldas", but as it is, it's my least favorite), Tekken 4, Tekken 6, the PS360 Ace Combat game with dogfight mechanics, Sonic Unleashed, RE4 Remake, RE2 Remake, RE3 Remake, RE8, RE9, P.N.03, Valkyria Chronicles (later story events), FFX-2, FF13, 15, 16, The Third Birthday, The Last Guardian.

Like I keep telling, Wing Commander 1&2 are my favorite games ever.
Wing Commander 3, direct sequel and finale for the trilogy ending the whole original war in the series, was a huge disappointment. Not bad game, but much less enjoyable gameplay and mostly badly written story (especially coming out of WC2 expansions, the best written parts of the series).

King's Quest 7, while kind of enjoyable for simple gameplay, felt terrible as a dumbed-down version for little girls. Particularly it ruined Rosella who was good protagonist in KQ4.

Dragon Quest 5 was disappointing, coming from DQ4, my favorite part of the ones I've played and best Nes game ever.

Final Fantasy Legend 2 was linear and generic and ruined the class system of first. Now, I did play the first FFL/SaGa game as Wonderswan fan translation, but I still say it was fresh design ideas that made it so much better, not just graphics and sound. FFL3 was somewhere between.

To name something disappointing other way than as a sequel, I have to say KotOR. I'm not big fan of western RPGs but it was so hyped and, well, it's Star Wars. But I didn't enjoy it, the second slightly better.
Similarly Baldur's Gate 1&2. I'd played other D&D games and read many Forgotten Realms books, but still didn't get much out of them (except Throne of Bhaal expansion of BG2 is great).

Colin McRae Rally 3 was big disappointment, but that was because I had before played CMR 2005 and the 3 is almost exactly that without the big career mode and on lesser graphics.

I thought Final Fantasy 16 was a stinking pile of **** that is grossly overrated. Absolutely boring as crap for 70% of the game, with awful side quests. The game is awful.

Uh, good choice! RE4 more or less changed my gaming life, I loved that game, and was extremely hyped for RE5. I played the demo and was so disappointed that I never picked up the full release. It just felt so generic, lacking almost everything I loved about RE4.

It is of course possible that I could get into it if I gave it a more proper chance, as some say it is decent in its own right. But even "decent" is a major letdown from one of the greatest and most important video games of all time. I don't know what Capcom were thinking there, throwing away such a massive opportunity the hype of RE4 gave them. The series arguable didn't recover until RE7.

Oblivion. Morrowwind was my first open world game. I was blown away that so many in-game books were written for it. The dialogue, while long, was detailed. The bizzare culture, political depth, landscapes, and creatures worked together to make a place called Morrowwind. It really felt like you had been dropped into an entirely new foreign country and sent out to adventure.

Then came Oblivion and it was just your bogstandard Western Swords and Sorcery RPG. It felt like adventuring in Britain in the Middle Ages, if Britain was even more boring. There were half as many factions and quests as Morrowwind. The main story was just "close the gates" and little more. The faces were ugly. The level scaling system was broken. The writing was weak. Every city looked the same. Half the skills from Morrowwind were either gone entirely or made useless. Lockpicking was now a joke of a skill. You could pick a level 100 lock as a level 1 Warrior. You just needed 20-30 lockpicks and to be personally good at the game as a player.

Honestly, aside from Fallout 3, every Bethesda RPG after Morrowwind was mediocre. It all follows that same cookie cutter Bethesda formula that I can't stand.

Yeah, i get this feeling. I didnt connect with SoS either, just didnt do it for me. Lovely art style, but wasnt big on the writing and combat.

Try Chained Echoes if you havent, i felt it was much better.

The Last of Us Part II. The graphics, sound, gameplay and accessibility options nailed it. The story is poorly done, not even close to one of the best stories in gaming which is the first game.

TloU2 mentions for story are wild lol

Anyways, only thing I can think of is Alan Wake 2. Was so glad when I was finished playing it. Like a sigh of relief. Lol

Are they tho? Thats literally the only complaint people have of the game, it really is a divisive story quality-wise.