{''({o..o})''} 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 (edited) We all know them, sequels that failed to live up to their predecessors, game that got overhyped before they came out the gate, and games from good developers that just didn't work. Give your picks on games that could have rocked. I'll start, the horrible abomination of a follow-up, Chrono Cross. Edited November 12, 2003 by frozenblockofpiss Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Legend of Dragoon. I had such high hopes for this. Then it fell apart. Predictable story Fighting every step....actually more random encounters than ANY RPG I've ever played Oh and the ability only carry 26 or so items at once and there being no good healing spells. So you practically had to fill up with nothing but healing items. Yes I was very dissapointed. The only thing that followed through were the visuals... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Renegade 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Devil May Cry 2 comes to mind. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest XxSmashxXxHeadxX Report post Posted November 12, 2003 WWE Wrestlemania X8 sucked Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Legend of Dragoon. It was at least good for providing one of the more funny WTF commercials ever to hype a game. "He cut my head off!" As for my personal list of disappointing games: FF8: the only post 32-bit FF I didn't like... with stupid confusing junctions, draw system of magic and "reallife" salary system MGS2: Raiden, 'nuff said. Plus, too much "movie", not enough action. Those're the two biggest ones I can think of off my head. CC wasn't that bad to me, just too many secondary characters and quite possibly the most confusing story in console RPG history... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Star Ocean 3 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Xenosaga, all Suikodens, Smash Bros. Melee Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Ok....what's wrong with Smash Brothers Melee? And yes I agree with you totally Angleslayer. I was like "Here we go! Snake! The badass returns! Who's this asshole!?" and apparently with backlash most everyone agreed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Skironox Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Conkers Bad Fur Day. I came in expecting a great platformer with humor. It made me laugh, but the game was linear as hell crap. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chirs3 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Devil May Cry 2. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JudasSault Report post Posted November 12, 2003 GTA: Vice City Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PsychoDriver 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 WWF Warzone, They hyped it as the greatest wrestling game ever. They made you wait for it too (I think abit over a year from announcement to release) And man did it suck, total letdown. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Luigi's Mansion Streets of Rage 3 Shenmue Street Fighter Alpha 3 Mega Man X6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest cpac Report post Posted November 12, 2003 The only games on that list that i would call a disappointment are warzone. You people are too picky. How can you not have fun playing vice city or conkers bad fur day. I think attitude was an ever bigger disspointment compared to warzone. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lightning Flik 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Any of the Mega Man X Series post 5. Xenosaga, .hack (good story, but the game never freakin' evolves with each new game), Suikoden 3, Wild Arms 2 & 3, Smackdown: SYM, MSG: 2, GA: VC, RAW 1 & 2, Wrestlemania X8, Legend of Dragoon, Beyond The Beyond, Tales Of Eternia (otherwise known in the US as a Tales of Destiny 2), Thousand Arms, NHL 2000, Grandia Xtreme, and probably some more I can't seem to remember right now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 .hack .hack: Repetition Side-note: VS, whatever happened to Choko?! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Baron 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Anything EA has done in the last 2 years, minus Nascar and NCAA Football. Tom Clancy: Ghost Reacon. Perfect Dark Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Attitude... you played Warzone, you knew it was going to suck. But you hoped and hoped, after every delay, that the game would be good. So you buy it, finally, and you rush home to put the late Owen Hart through Season and give him the WWF title... and the game still sucks. P.S. I think Andrew meant "Street Fighter III", since that was a huge let down, while SFA3 is awesome (I think, anyway). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Bad Guy 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Shenmue Shenmue? In my opion that is one of the greatest games of all time... perhaps it would have been the greatest if Shenmue II wasn't so much better. Anyway... I disliked WWF Attitude, it got so much hype and it ended up being mediocre at best. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 I liked the Street Fighter Alpha 3 game more than the SF3 games. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 If walking around town finding random people while having to sit around and wait for time to pass, and listening to people say "THAT DAY? No, I do not remember anything about THAT DAY" leading you to get bored and spend all your time buying toys from machines and playing arcade games is an incredible gaming experience, then yes, Shenmue rocked! To anyone else, it's boring. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PsychoDriver 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 Warzone was more of a dissapointment then Attitude. Mainly because you had no clue what Warzone was like. It sounded so great (especially after all those Arcade Style games that came before it) and was the first WWF game to come out in a long time. Plus previews and reviews were saying "Best Wrestling Game ever" Then after a long wait. You find the game horribly confusing, outdated, flawed and just plain bad. YOU COULDN'T PICK YOUR OPPONENT yet they had "Burb and Fart" mode! At least you knew what attitude was (or wasn't) like. Actually, I say the Acclaim ECW games are much bigger letdowns than Attitude. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Bad Guy 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 If walking around town finding random people while having to sit around and wait for time to pass, and listening to people say "THAT DAY? No, I do not remember anything about THAT DAY" leading you to get bored and spend all your time buying toys from machines and playing arcade games is an incredible gaming experience, then yes, Shenmue rocked! To anyone else, it's boring. I think you are ignoring some things... 1. If you actually follow any of the information that people give you, you rarely have to talk to people who are unimportant to your quest. Since you are bringing up the whole "that day" part, I'm assuming you spent thirty minutes on the game then just said it sucks. 2. The graphics were incredible and are still very awesome, the game has one of the best soundtracks ever, and most importantly the control and the fighting engine is absolutely perfect. 3. The arcade games rule, how anyone could not have fun with Space Harrier, Super Hang On, or QTE Fighter is a complete mystery to me. Shenmue is a great game, Shenmue II is even better, and Yu Suzuki = God. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted November 12, 2003 I will admit, Shenmue is a gorgeous game, but I just found it too dull to continue much further into the game. Yes, I realize that makes my complaining about it unwarranted, and sometimes I even think of dusting off the DC and trying the game out again, but I became annoyed by the whole chasing someone through downtown at a certain time and having to be home and wait around if you miss him element of it. I hear Shenmue 2 (don't hae an Xbox to play it) has made dealing with time based situation waiting easier. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anya 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2003 Enter the Matrix. I've been playing this lately(bought it on impulse after seeing Revolutions) and it SHOULD have been a great game. The gameplay design is great. Jumping off walls and doing slow mo dives is a lot of fun and feels great. The story is a cool sidestory that ties to Reloaded and Revolutions. The problem it's all horribly put together and one of the most rushed and halfassed games I've ever played. A shame. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Der Kommissar 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2003 For me: Smackdown 3: I remember waiting for this game to come out, and when it finally did, it was underwhelming. It didn't have much of a story mode, and it took up a massive amount of space to save the data from the game. Legaia 2: I really enjoyed the original Legaia game, except for the rather dull ending. I bought this game, expecting it to match up, but found myself really bored. It appeared they were trying to stretch a rather so-so story out as far as they could stretch it, while doing very little to hold my interest to get through the 70 or so hours it would take beat the game. Plus, in the original, the ending seemed like it was building towards a sequel. I didn't like the ending at all, but could accept it if it was building towards a sequel. Upon finding out that wasn't the case, that made a crappy ending that much crappier. Suikoden 3: I am not sure why I disliked this game. I am not sure if I felt it was a disappointment after the quite enjoyable Suikoden 2, or if I just lost the patience needed to sit through an RPG. Either way, I wasn't able to get through this game. Plus, it got my hopes EXTREMELY up when it asked for data from Suikoden 2, as I assumed this meant characters would return. When I figured out that was not the case, I was extremely disappointed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2003 Speaking of SD games, I forgot to put down SYM on my personal list. I rented it with great anticipation, but the it seemed like the computer always made every match either super easy or super hard... it was almost like the match ending was predetermined... Hmmm... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Nacho Nixon Report post Posted November 13, 2003 Black and White was a bitter disappointment. Granted, nothing could have lived up to the hype, but it had a brillant concept, what seemed like the exact right people developing it, and then, well, it kind of sucked. The creatures turned out to be almost useless, and teaching them anything was annoying and boring. Stupid damn leashes. I did enjoy training my cow to shit in the grain store, though. Plus, even as a god game it didn't really stand up, especially since trying to play a good god offered like no real advantages, so to get any enjoyment out of the game you sort of had to be evil, cutting the number of options in half (because trying to be neutral accomplished nothing). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kahran Ramsus 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2003 Final Fantasy VIII Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2003 Final Fantasy VIII And that's all you have to say. -Contrived story "Oh we're to lazy to come up with backgrounds for everyone! They all grew up together...oh and......so did the villain!" -Here's a main villain that you don't care about thrown on you at the end! -Oh yeah....to upgrade your weapons you have to customize them...guess what? The material is hard as fuck to find! -Here draw some magic...you don't actually learn anything! -The monsters level up with you! It's almost impossible to build up without it becoming a 30 hour ordeal. -Do I need to repeat how much I hated the fucking story? -Here's your second angsty hero that doesn't want to be a hero! Man we'd better try something new in the next few!(thank god they did. Tidus and Zidane actually wanted to help people) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kahran Ramsus 0 Report post Posted November 13, 2003 Don't forget the endless GF animations. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
