….letdown?

Have you ever got caught up in all the hype of a game, get so excited about it you felt like a little kids on christmas eve only to buy it and find out……….it wasn’t all that great?

what game was the biggest letdown to you and why?

Umm… Hrm… I guess… Final Fantasy 10 i suppose… I really only get caught up in the hype of good games. I don’t remember any bad games really.

I choose FFX though because I think I expected the impossible from it, and of course I didn’t get it… so i was just kinda put off and didn’t finish the game for a long long time.

Final Fantasy X I really didn’t like watching the game more than playing it.

Virtua Fighter 4, I had heard good things about this series for years so when I saw this was a greatest hit I picked it up. I don’t know if I just didn’t give this game enough of a chance but the day after I bought it I was back to playing Tekken 4.

The Bloodmoon expansion pack to Morrowind (and yes, after you’ve all heard me rant about it for ages, you’ll all be shocked.) Why? Well, I found the snow effects to be so hideously difficult for my graphics card to handle that I often had to go and make a cup of tea whilst I waited for the game to catch up.

Seven Samurai 20XX. I love Akira Kurosawa movies so much….and they butchered his most famous one to make this pitiful excuse for a ‘game’. *cries*

Originally posted by Khyros
Seven Samurai 20XX. I love Akira Kurosawa movies so much….and they butchered his most famous one to make this pitiful excuse for a ‘game’. *cries*

I almost bought that last friday.

I am glad that I bought Harvest Moon for my gameboy instead.

yeah, Virtua Fighter 4 sucked ass! realistic my hole! Dragonball Z Budokai was more realistic!

ff ix. i thought it would kick ass after loving 3/6, 7, and 8, but it was one of the worst games i have ever played.

Originally posted by The Immortal
yeah, Virtua Fighter 4 sucked ass! realistic my hole! Dragonball Z Budokai was more realistic!

I can tell that you’re not a fighting fan.

Anyways, I felt that Metal Gear Solid 2 was one of em. It was a great game yes…. but maybe I expected TOO much out of it.

SSX 3. I thought it was going to be awesome incorporating all the great stuff from Tricky and adding more to it, but EA practically didn’t bother as much with the game. The characters have like no personalities, you have to find and complete stupid challenges (Break all of the glass: where the hell is the glass!?!?!?), find stupid snowflakes that are randomly scattered all over the place, and wort of all, the expect us to explore more in that game when there’s "Off Limits" if you board a centimeter off the track.

Originally posted by Vivi FF
SSX 3. I thought it was going to be awesome incorporating all the great stuff from Tricky and adding more to it, but EA practically didn’t bother as much with the game. The characters have like no personalities, you have to find and complete stupid challenges (Break all of the glass: where the hell is the glass!?!?!?), find stupid snowflakes that are randomly scattered all over the place, and wort of all, the expect us to explore more in that game when there’s "Off Limits" if you board a centimeter off the track.

Come now, Viggo has tons of personality.

I personally liked SSX3 a lot more then I thought I would, but I’m with you on the challenges. They’re all terrible. I just stuck to the races and trick competitions.

Final Fantasy X-2. I waited, and waited, and waited….

And got something that wasn’t even equal to the original, let alone better.

Still a good game, but a disappointment nonetheless.

Most likely Bionicle: The Game.
I thought it would rock, but royally sucked.
The graphics were okay, they followed the original story, but the gameplay was terrible. Each character is supposed to have an elemental ability, but all they do is shoot a beam of light.
It was just sad.

Tony Hawk 2. I’m not a skaterboarder infact I hate it, but TH1 was awesome and I loved it. But #2 really sucked in my eyes.

Biggest letdown for me, was Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter. the first four were great games, and I thought CAPCOM would continue this greatness (so to speak) with the fifth instalment. I WAS WRONG! BoF Dragon Quarter is the pits! Cell shading, controls, while neogtiable, were frustrating and the whole feel was something completely NOT Breath of Fire. But then, that’s just my own opinion.

I was disappointed with Virtua Figher 4, although not a lot. I still kind of liked it, but I though I’d like a lot more. I was also disappointed a bit with Dragon Quarter. I knew it was going to be different, but still I would have preferred a game that looked like the others in the series.

I usually do not place too much hype on games. Sure, there are some I get myself interested with but I try not to expect the next best thing, you know ? After all, they’re just video games, so if in the end I didn’t like them, I can always sell them back.

MGS2 and the more recent FF games.

I almost bought that last friday.

I am glad that I bought Harvest Moon for my gameboy instead.

I just got it a few weeks ago too. Great game. Though you should have waited for "Harvest Moon For Girls", because you are a girl.

Crash Bandicoot!

It was supposed to be a mario-killer, it didn’t even come close to being a sonic-killer. In fact, Pandemonium was better in my opinion, and that is far from being a great game.

This game (and the company who made it) were hyped to the nth degree when the Playstation was in its infancy. The game itself was a horrid mishmash of all the bad parts of previous platform games on the 16 bit consoles, with really really bad pseudo 3D. I bought this game because I loved platform games back in the NES and SNES days.

This turned me off the whole genre for many years. Spyro got me back into it though, love Spyro.

P.S. VF4 shits all over any of the Tekken games. Tekken = button masher, Virtua Fighter = skill!

for me it was final fantasy 7. All that fighting and hard work for what. An ending that sucked!

I’m going to take this away from games and go to consoles if that’s allright. My biggest letdown was the N64, it had potential. Rare seemed to be the only company that could turn out a decent game on the old boy. What let me down the most about it was the utter lack of RPG’s on the system. The only good one’s were the Zeldas, on which I spent many hours. I was quite dissapointed that by the end of the console’s life there had not been even one mediocer third party RPG.

You really can’t say that the N64 was a letdown because it had potential. Every system has potential. There are a lot of great games on that console, including arguably the greatest game ever, The Legend of Zelda: OOT. That system also had arguably the greatest shooter game, in Goldeneye. And don’t forget Perfect Dark.

Anyways…

The biggest game letdown for me would have to be…umm…

Well, right off the top of my head, I will say FF:CC, and FFVIII

And i’m not even going to go into detail why those games totally destroyed my high hopes for both titles

Originally posted by Tiduslives
You really can’t say that the N64 was a letdown because it had potential.

THAT IS THE WHOLE FRICKIN POINT OF BEING LET DOWN!!!

God you are so friggin stupid it’s unbearable.

If something has a lot of potential, and that potential isn’t reached… it is a letdown.

As for me, I would probably say Final Fantasy X… or did i already say that? have i posted in this thread? *goes to check* Oops… yep i did… nevermind then, I hate you Tiduslives. Die plz 🙁

Why don’t you keep making threats like that to me, please?

Keep it up, and you’ll see what happens

What’re you gonna do, argue with him over the internet?

Someone needs to buy a dictionary because there is no threat in that post. Insult, yes. Suggestion, yes. No threat, a dictionary would be a good idea.

I’d say one of the all time biggest letdowns would be castlevania on the N64. They went from one of the all time greatest games ever in SOTN to, well blah would be the best way to put it.

Loki’s Dictionary for complete morons (Tiduslives)

Insult =

God you are so friggin stupid it’s unbearable.

Threat =

Keep it up, and you’ll see what happens

Ow, that hurts.

And if I die, it wouldn’t really matter to me. Try to outsmart me again…

Stop argueing, else you might indeed "see what happens". 😮

Biggest let-down.
FFVII… Sephiroth to be precise. He somehow had an awesome start but didn’t build up afterwards, instead got kind of boring… Anyway I failed to see what made him the best villain ever, that many people claim he is. High potential, yes, after this kick-ass introduction, but he does nothing much with this potential. 🙁

Chrono Cross
Only in one miiiiinor aspect, though. But if you’re me it’s important, crucial. He wasn’t there. ;_;

Monkey Island 3 and especially 4 where the worst let-down ever, though. Ruining the atnosphere by giving it this bright fluffy comic graphics with the many funny colours… I like MI1 and 2 because they look itself was a little gloomy, and under all those pixels relatively realistic. o_o You know… It weas dark, with dark humour. A happy-go-lucky comic just didn’t live up to the name Monkey Island. Boo.

Originally posted by Misao

Chrono Cross
Only in one miiiiinor aspect, though. But if you’re me it’s important, crucial. He wasn’t there. ;_;

Who are you referring by "he" ? Magus ? Frog ? or Crono ? Because if it is the latter you ought to play the game again…Because

*spoiler*

he DOES have a cameo.

I’m talking about Magus. Of course I am.