The Most Disappointing Moments in Games (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)

[Uriel]

Not the most disappointing games, but the most disappointing moments. Avoid

I gotta say when they killed Lu Kang in one of the Mortal Combats. WTF?!

And when Phoenix dies in Starcraft.

There's a lot more.....

[sinkoman]

When Ape Escape ended :(

[Stigmata]

Uriel, those aren't disappointing so much as unexpected plot events. Well maybe not the Mortal Kombat one.

A better disappointing moment in gaming history might be Daikatana.

[Uriel]

Uhhh, no they're disappointments. Disappointments can be applied to gameplay, graphics, sound, storyline, etc.

But I stated moments, which are applied to the story. Unexpected plot twists can still disappoint, suck, and so on.

EDIT: ooooooh, I got a big one. When you can't kill the CyberDemon Lord with regular weapons and have to use the soul cube. Along with finding there was no SpiderDemon Lord :(

[BHC]

I think it almost goes without saying, after playing through the tanker chapter of MGS2, being forced to play as the slightly-less-manly Raiden for the remainder of the game.

[Jintor]

Slightly? Raiden was ghey.

Umm... probably "WTF ANOTHER HALO SCREW EARTH" in Halo2.

[Hazar]

when I realized how bad force commander was

[Stigmata]

The entirety of the Halo 2 campaign on Xbox.

[leib10]

The entirety of the Halo 2 campaign on Xbox.

Quite. Especially the ending.

A lot of the story in Max Payne 2 sucked. I thought it was too confusing and less compelling than the original.

[Stigmata]

Oooh, I've got another one.

Perfect Dark Zero.

****ing Rareware. :|

[nutcrackr]

End of SOF 2, my god that was pathetic.

[Baratos]

Ending of Halo 2. KHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!

[leib10]

Hate to say it, but Episode One's ending pissed me off, even if it was only because I was starved for more.

[ZeroPointGun]

The end of Half Life 2...

[Zephos]

Ending of Metroid Prime 2 sucked the fat one compared to the first one :/

[Eejit]

Finding how little espionage there was available in Civ4. Due to be fixed with next expansion though. /happy

[-Psy-]

When the Royal Mail start a strike on the day that your game is supposed to be posted to your house.

Disappointing. >_<

[Warbie]

Oooh, I've got another one.

Perfect Dark Zero.

****ing Rareware. :|

Aye. My dreams of another 'Golden Eye' died with this game.

[Pulse]

Disappointments:

- Victor Troska's death in OFP:Resistance
- Deus Ex: Invisible War
- Planetside: Core Combat
- Neocron (a few patches into retail)
- Max Payne 'Nightmare' sequences

[-Psy-]

Ah yes, Perfect Dark Zero. I remember playing it for the first time round my mates' house. It was so boring and generic, much like Halo.

[kupocake]

2003 in Video Gaming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_in_video_gaming). First there was Unreal 2, which smelt like the rancid feces removed from the arses of 20,000 dogs destined to bulk out a day's worth of big macs. Then Homeworld 2 happened and it sucked more than the vacuum it is (supposedly) set in. Then Half-Life 2 promised to save the downward spiral of the FPS by September. You know what happened next.) Then Final Fantasy X-2 set the trend for Square-Enix's commercial comeback and utter artistic failure. And we saw Christmas in with Deus Ex: Invisible War. Santa's 'naughty' list must have been particularly long this year, because Deus Ex 2 was 'average and still playable', meaning that by comparison it was utterly terrible. He was opposed to the Iraq War or something.

Looking at the list of 'notable' games in 2003 isn't too exciting. There isn't a single game there really sticks out in my mind, just a collection of 'good' games and a heap of really disappointing or god-awful ones. Still, 2003 just made 2004 look even better...

[Samon]

Halo 2: Covenant attack Earth 'by accident'. "Earth will never be the same.." What a load of ****ing shit.

Perfect Dark 0: Horrible game. Just horrible.

Far Cry: Wondering around the 6th level if the gameplay was ever going to change. Shame the 14 levels did in fact not change.

Doom 3: Curious as to why I was bored at around the 20 minute mark...thinking nothing but how extremely lame it was when a dead body was flung at me in a vent and some retard way off starts "Muahaha!"ing. Twas then that I knew Doom 3 had failed, and pretty much sucked.

I'd mention some Quake 4 moments but lets face it...it really doesn't need to be said.

[nokori3byo]

It went like this: I was playing the original Max Payne on my friend's computer. I'd been trekking accross town to do a level or two every day and was on the verge of finishing it. Then, during the final sequence, when you have to shoot the final cable to send the radio twoer crashing down, I was having a bit of trouble figuring out how to do it. Now, obviously, I would have got it eventually. Max Payne is not exactly a tough puzzle game. But, then, as I'm trying to figure it out, my friend (who had played virtually none of the game) walks in and says, "Oh, what are you doing? Can I try?" Well, I couldn't eactly say "No." It was his computer.

He figured it out and finished the game. The bastard.

[Loke]

- Max Payne 'Nightmare' sequences

Ugh.

[Uriel]

Thief 2 ending.

"Tell me........."
*game ends

WHAT?! Maybe i gotta beat it on expert....

"Tell me........."
*game ends

NO!! NO!!!

[Noobulon]

Ending of Metroid Prime 2 sucked the fat one compared to the first one :/

MP2 was made of dissapointment.

You've already double-back-tracked the entire game looking for three keys in each of the three areas so you can fight three bosses and restore power to three generators.

And then, what's that you say? Nine more keys to find?? Three in each of the three areas? Give me a ****ing break

[Narcolepsy]

Yeah, Metroid Prime 2 was disappointing. I played it and got sort of a hollow sense of enjoyment out of it, but it had no magic.

[Lucid]

Insurgency getting canceled.

[AHA-Lambda]

Halo 2 ending
Doom 3
Max Payne nightmares
F.E.A.R. EP telling you that the entire game you just finished was pointless because the villains from the first came back from the dead and you accomplished nothing!

[Bad^Hat]

Half-Life 2 ending.

What?

[Qonfused]

Stuntman: Realizing I spent $50 on a game in which I couldn't get past the third stunt.

[TCfromBN]

The second OOT ended

[Absinthe]

MGS2 - Realizing that this whiny sissy-boy you've come to control after the tanker is the character you'll be playing for the rest of the ****ing game.

KOTOR2 - Crashing onto the final world and never seeing most of your companions again.

Prey - Those moments where bullshit Native American mysticism seeped so heavily into the story. **** Grandpa.

FEAR - Actually kind of mixed about this one. Killing Paxton Fettel. I'm glad they avoided the uber-boss routine, but just walking up to him and plugging a round into his skull seemed pretty anticlimactic.

WoW - Illidan, arguably the second most significant character of WC3 and TFT, is killed by Maiev Shadowsong. She was a crazy, unlikeable, throwaway character and should have just died in agony while hunting for him. His demise was also lacking connections to other characters that were important in his development (ie. Tyrande and Malfurion). Also, learning that Prince Kael'thas went crazy as a bullshit excuse for you to fight him. It's like Blizzard's entire approach to lore in BC was shitting in a bucket and finger-painting over the rich tapestry they had built up until that point.

[Vegeta897]

ArmA. It's my own fault for not knowing better but I thought it was going to be like an Operation Flashpoint 2. It was a great game for what it was supposed to be, I guess. Actually, I wouldn't have been as disappointed if it hadn't run like shit on my PC.

[CyberPitz]

I'd have to say an Far Cry, when the "Tridgens" or whatever first appeared. that was the last time I played that game, and vow to never play it again. I mean..way to take the story downhill.

[kupocake]

I'd have to say an Far Cry, when the "Tridgens" or whatever first appeared. that was the last time I played that game, and vow to never play it again. I mean..way to take the story downhill.
Ah, good point. Similarly, the moment that the first Thief game resorted to having 'Zombie missions' because someone just didn't trust the gaming public to be enthralled solely by the Sneaking missions.

[ailevation]

Turok: Evolution for the PS2 biggest letdown of the Turok series.

[DEATH eVADER]

Finding out there would be no true successor to Imperium Galactica II :(

[ríomhaire]

All of Halo 2, especially the ending.
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. My hopes weren't high but FFS, the SP campaign was poor (And some parts really weren't finished), the story had a grand total of one interesting plot point/twist and the Scrin are simply not fun to fight.
Deus Ex: Invisible War.
Enter The Matrix. I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking but I did think that the game would be finished.

[Destron]

Enter The Matrix. I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking but I did think that the game would be finished.

I bought EtM a while back and I tried playing it. I got sick and tired of it and uninstalled it. It's sitting on my shelf as we speak. :rolleyes:

Doom3 - Too many #*$)* monster closets!
Half-Life - On A Rail (OMG!!!! *shoots computer*)
Half-Life2 - 1. Waiting for Alyx to find me in Nova Prospekt while I'm busy getting my head blown off by thousands of Combine soldiers.
2. Finding out after finishing the game that I can guide missiles with the launcher laser. (Not the game's fault).

[Dumb Dude]

I think the most disappointing moment for me was playing through Metroid Prime like if I was being forced to. That game sucked so much I just wanted to pass it to get it over with. The least fun I've ever had in a game by far.

[Geogaddi]

Stuntman: Realizing I spent $50 on a game in which I couldn't get past the third stunt.

I beat it. It took me like five hours a day for six months but I beat it.

[Samon]

Starcraft Brood War: Mengsk not getting plunged several layers into the Earth's crust for his wrong-doings. Here's hoping Starcraft 2 makes up for it.

[taviow]

Justice shall be made.

[Mikael Grizzly]

Dagoth Ur.

A crazy, half-naked gray guy with a sunflower on his face.

Wait, this is the final boss?

[Javert]

The ending to Half-Life 2 was abrupt.

Then a dev said that Episode I would, "reveal more about the G-man". Of course it didn't reveal anything more than was stated in all the previews.

[Baratos]

2. Finding out after finishing the game that I can guide missiles with the launcher laser. (Not the game's fault).

I figured that out when I launched a rocket, then looked at my feet because I thought I saw a healthpack.

[Samon]

Then a dev said that Episode I would, "reveal more about the G-man". Of course it didn't reveal anything more than was stated in all the previews.

So true. I was pretty annoyed, because they said the same about Breen's fate. I wonder if they meant the actual trilogy now, rather than ep1? It was mentioned in so many interviews. :-/

[Shift]

PES 6 for 360 was nothing compared to the PC version. You were stuck with unlockable players no one had heard off, the multiplayer is so god damn laggy it could generate enough rage to make someone wanna kill babies, you cant register players into other teams to keep up with transfers, some of the players stats are ridiculously inaccurate AND you cant use your master league team in multiplayer matches.

Call of Duty 3 was so shallow and tedious I couldn't bare playing beyond the half way marker, the tank missions have got to be the worst simulator I have ever seen. No comparison to the first two.

[nokori3byo]

Half-Life2 - 1. Waiting for Alyx to find me in Nova Prospekt while I'm busy getting my head blown off by thousands of Combine soldiers.
2. Finding out after finishing the game that I can guide missiles with the launcher laser. (Not the game's fault).

Sooo...you got past all those gunships and striders simply by dumb-firing missiles at them? Impressive. I commend your patience.

[Absinthe]

So true. I was pretty annoyed, because they said the same about Breen's fate. I wonder if they meant the actual trilogy now, rather than ep1? It was mentioned in so many interviews. :-/

Seconded. I only hope they come through with EP2. Judging by the trailers, more info about the G-Man seems a certainty. But Breen? I hope he's not dead. But if he isn't, I hope they didn't turn him into an effing slug.

[Javert]

So true. I was pretty annoyed, because they said the same about Breen's fate. I wonder if they meant the actual trilogy now, rather than ep1? It was mentioned in so many interviews. :-/

Thing is, they're saying it again. But this time I believe them more because the Screenshots evidence is too powerful.

[Dog--]

The end of System Shock 2.. You go through the entire game, your character doesn't say a word, everything going fine, then in the cutscene when your about to kill SHODAN she says something along the lines of "Join me!" with this huge speech, then your character just says "nah... *shoots SHODAN*". Then thats the end..

Entire game = really good
Ending = GAY.

[Jintor]

Oh yeah, Ending for KOTOR II. Wtf was with that. So lame.

[Uriel]

AHHHHHHHHH CROTCH, FOTCH FETCH FLIPPING FREAK.

I just downloaded thief 3 instead of thief 1.

BLAH! THAT TOOK SO LONG ><

[nokori3byo]

Didn't the final screen for the original Quake simply have a text message con gratulating for winning or something like that?

[AHA-Lambda]

Oh yeah I forgot about KOTOR II the plot was just awful and made no sense :|

[Samon]

Oh yeah I forgot about KOTOR II the plot was just awful and made no sense :|

One-Thousand-Billion times better than KOTOR 1's. :|

Thing is, they're saying it again. But this time I believe them more because the Screenshots evidence is too powerful.

Ah, this you will.

[Danimal]

WoW - Illidan, arguably the second most significant character of WC3 and TFT, is killed by Maiev Shadowsong. She was a crazy, unlikeable, throwaway character and should have just died in agony while hunting for him. His demise was also lacking connections to other characters that were important in his development (ie. Tyrande and Malfurion). Also, learning that Prince Kael'thas went crazy as a bullshit excuse for you to fight him. It's like Blizzard's entire approach to lore in BC was shitting in a bucket and finger-painting over the rich tapestry they had built up until that point.

I agree with you 100%, I feel so disappointed at this.

I also find it semi-silly how these uber "I can take on the whole ****ing world" kind of characters in Warcraft 3 are going to be killed by 25 people over and over and over in the name of epic loot.


...Oh well.

[Jintor]

One-Thousand-Billion times better than KOTOR 1's. :|


Eh, both plots were about equal, though KOTOR I had a nice plot twist. But the way the damn ending of KOTOR II was carried out... blarg. Disgusting. "Darth Nihilus", the famed most evil jedi of this time, blah blah blah, difficult to beat... ended up as 'slash slash slash CUTSCENE slash slash slash DEAD'.

Wtf.

And let's not even talk about Kreia and Sion. I had more fun slaughtering the shitty sith commandoes and dark jedi in the temple.

[Eejit]

Yeah the plot wasn't the problem I had with the ending of KOTOR2, it's how they carried out the ending that I disliked.

[CrazyHarij]

Ending of Halo 2. Ending of HL2. Most of KOTOR2. The hell and last levels of Doom 3, it had gotten way to stale by then.

Enter The Matrix easily goes for one of my most wasted investments. ****ing bastard child of a game. Gun valkyrie after 4 levels

[Hellrider]

The hell level in doom 3 was awesome, after the boring mars labs finally something fun

[Combine Hybrid]

Halo 2 ending: It's like when you watch a movie, something dramatic happens near the end then it says "to be continued". Except they tried to make it more cool with Master Chief, but no...

Half Life 2 ending: WTF that's it? Where the **** are you going Gman? GET BACK HERE YOU ASSHOLE.

Metal Gear Solid 2: near the end, you find out that the main villains are call "Lu Li La Lo La Lu Li Lu Le Linkin Lankin"

Metal Gear Solid 2: Rose keep calling you bitching about why Raiden can't spend a time with her and all sorts of domestic shits. you are on a ****ing mission risking your life while your girlfriend keep calling you on a codec bitching about all sorts of thing. I admire Raiden for not losing his mental condition after dealing with that.

[Gray Fox]

Halo - Library level

God of War - Hades level

Jak II & III - All round horrible frustrating game play

MGS3 - Predictable uninteresting story, uninteresting bosses especially story wise, lack of radar. Overall boring game play that rewards just shooting your way trough( either rambo style or sneak and head shots) instead of avoiding violence, levels lacking any thoughtful game play.

Hl2 - The already mentioned criticism of the story.

FFXII - when I realized that 90% of the game play is just grind trough maze like cheap level design that needs no input from me because of the gambits system. Lack of story and character development. What is there of the story and dialog is of much higher quality then previous FF's, it's just too little.

[Samon]

I must be the only human being on Earth who liked playing as Raiden. Or at least, had no problem with it. Apologies but give a shit I did not.

[Gray Fox]

I must be the only human being on Earth who liked playing as Raiden. Or at least, had no problem with it. Apologies but give a shit I did not.

:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

[Shift]

Oh dear god. Raiden really, really, REALLY annoyed me, it was a chore to play as him, it really was. Snakes mission was exellent, but hated the mission with Raiden.

[Samon]

It seems to me the main problem players had was actually with Rose. I wouldn't know, I didn't give her conversations the time of day, but Rose was a pretty hated figure and I just assumed people merged this problem with Raiden. Raiden's chapter had better gameplay and he was more versatile than Snake. And Snake looked pretty badass from the other perspective.

[Gray Fox]

I just like to post this again( as childish as it is):
Raiden VS Gamer (http://www.lotusreaver.com/articles/index.php?section=raiden_vs_gamer)

[Absinthe]

I have two grudges against Raiden.

1) He was simply an annoying character. If you followed the story and answered all your codec calls, you would actually see something as incredulous as Raiden getting bitch-whipped by his girlfriend in the middle of a world-saving espionage mission. He was naive, whiny, and saddled with heaps and heaps of awkward dialogue. He may have technically been more powerful/versatile than Snake in terms of in-game mechanics. But Snake had character that went a lot further (although I'm no fan of his perpetual gruffness). It probably helps that the tanker was a far more interesting environment to play in than Big Shell.

2) I don't like wasting $50 to be toyed with in some overrated game designer's experiment. I picked up the game expecting to be Snake for most of its duration. Upon learning that Raiden was to remain, I felt cheated. This goes in conjunction with a lot of the other stupid stuff in the game, like the increasingly horrendous plot towards the end, the "you're in a game" self-references, and so forth. Kojima just teased you with Snake and then dropped him off the face of the Earth to make his grand, elaborate, poorly-written point... at the expense of the audience.

So that's why I don't like Raiden. In many ways, he signifies everything that was wrong with the game. :|

[DESSTROYER]

The end of System Shock 2.. You go through the entire game, your character doesn't say a word, everything going fine, then in the cutscene when your about to kill SHODAN she says something along the lines of "Join me!" with this huge speech, then your character just says "nah... *shoots SHODAN*". Then thats the end..

Entire game = really good
Ending = GAY.

"Woosh....Neeeh..UUUUURGGGGGGGGGGHHH *BLAM* *long scream noize*"

[AHA-Lambda]

It seems to me the main problem players had was actually with Rose. I wouldn't know, I didn't give her conversations the time of day, but Rose was a pretty hated figure and I just assumed people merged this problem with Raiden. Raiden's chapter had better gameplay and he was more versatile than Snake. And Snake looked pretty badass from the other perspective.

I only forgave the rose character because the apanese voice actress also did the voice of belldandy :P

[Stigmata]

Halo - Library levelI loved this level.

:o

[Samon]

Haha, right.

[Stigmata]

No, seriously.

[Warbie]

Even I don't like the library level!

[Absinthe]

The Library is a pretty good level for coop.

SP? Monotonous garbage.

[Samon]

Even I don't like the library level!

:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O

Who are you and what have you done with Warbie?

[Darkside55]

Gunstar Heroes gets new game! :D

Best feature removed! DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

[Stigmata]

The Library is a pretty good level for coop.

SP? Monotonous garbage.Although it might have been because I was playing co-op every time I did a campaign level... :3

[ríomhaire]

(Back to Raiden and MGS2). My game seems to have been glitched, because when I played it I started on the Big Shell and once I'd finished that I got to play the Tanker.

[Rapstah]

Are we talking PS2 MGS2 here?

The end of KOTORII was rushed by the publishers to come out by Christmas - Obsidian meant for it to be better. Team Gizka ftw.

[AHA-Lambda]

ah, I suppose that explains alot.

[Shift]

(Back to Raiden and MGS2). My game seems to have been glitched, because when I played it I started on the Big Shell and once I'd finished that I got to play the Tanker.

That happened to me first time also, had to do a lot of fiddling about.

[Qonfused]

I beat it. It took me like five hours a day for six months but I beat it.

You're Jesus then, because that game is impossible.

[Stigmata]

I want Stuntman now.

[ríomhaire]

That happened to me first time also, had to do a lot of fiddling about.
You just reminded me of how annoying I found the first bit of MGS2. Every second room I went into I was phoned up and explained, in a completly counter-immersive way, different gameplay aspects that I had already figured out from messing about and exploring in the first damn room. But I can't really blame Konami, they do have to explain that stuff to people who don't take it into their hands to explore what they can do themselves.

[jimbo118]

(Back to Raiden and MGS2). My game seems to have been glitched, because when I played it I started on the Big Shell and once I'd finished that I got to play the Tanker.

maybe its to do with the questions the game asks you before you start playing mgs2? like 'did you like mgs1' or whatever it asks, cant remember, afaik if you choose certain options like 'i didnt like mgs1' or havent played it you start with the plant chapter, then get to play the tanker part...

[Absinthe]

A lot of MGS2 in general felt like a hand-holding experience. If it wasn't the constant "Pess A, Raiden" shit it was the extreme amount of cutscenes hogging up at least half of the game. Too often it felt like the game was out of my control and I was just along for the ride.

[Jintor]

The end of KOTORII was rushed by the publishers to come out by Christmas - Obsidian meant for it to be better. Team Gizka ftw.

Just because it's understandable doesn't mean I can't hate it.

[Dalamari]

The magical disappearance of multiplayer in Mafia, they didn't even have enough time to take it off the box as a feature