Let's Talk Games

[Jimmienomam]

We've been having discussions on best games and what we miss, so it got me thinking. I want to take a turn from the normal and go completely opposite.

So my question to you is, what games do you wish you missed, are happy you missed or just completely and utterly let you down?

There's no wrong answer as I'm not looking for the biggest flops necessarily. I'm looking for the games YOU thought were downright horrible or completely dissappointed you.

[Jimmienomam]

I'll start off with one I talked about a little bit ago with a few people.

Fable.

Overall not a bad game. But Lionhead boasted of this game so much it literally became unaccomplishable in that generation of gaming consoles. Peter Molyneux was the base for Fable. He had a good background (he made Black and White) and touted Fable for a full year before release.

He was quoted saying "EVERY decisions will matter and have consequences later in the game". He likened it to "an Acorn that grows into a tree slowly" where the branches break off onto different routes, all having different endings. He touted getting married and having kids. The list went on and on of what this amazing game will be.

What the game really did was that almost all decisions went to the same ending of missions with SLIGHTLY different dialogue. The repercussions for choosing the "dark path", scarring. No marriage, no kids.

Overall a decent game, but they hyped it soooooo much that it left one of the worst tastes in my mouth for any game. I honestly thought this game could best Chrono Trigger if it lived up to its hype, which made the drop that much farther.

[Bumcats]

That's tough. Too many games. I'm gonna say (as of now cause it's recent in my head) is Dues Ex: Human Revolutions. I got it a few weeks ago cause it was cheap and people kept talking about how great it was. It was really had to get into it. People tell me there are two ways to play it. Stealth or action, but the action part is really not done well. It takes 2 shots to really kill you and even with the upgrades you still die too fast. One mistake and you have to sit through loading that is pretty long. And the stealth can be wonky at times too. I felt it's way too depended on stealth with it's slow crouching and enemy with super sensitive ears.

I think most people boast about the story and dialog, but I like my games to be a little enjoyable in the gameplay. I just couldn't get into it. Just traded it into BBy yesterday too. I can see the appeal for some people to like it, but I just couldn't. Not for me.

[zztoluca]

ill get back to you I have a list somewhere

[Jimmienomam]

I'm scared zz...

[zztoluca]

Don't know where it is

But it had games all the way back to the SNES era when i started gaming

[zztoluca]

ToyStory-SNES

Robocop vs Terminator-SNES

"Driver" Series

Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter 1 & 2

Alexander - PC

Turning Point-PC

Superman-N64

MortalKombat 2011

Brink

Duke Nukem

Marval vs Capcom

Ghost Busters

Man vs Wild

Harry Potter Games

Mind Jack

Army of Two

All Movies that are made into games

Id probably fill the page if I had found my list. But these are the ones i could recall at the moment

[Jimmienomam]

You mean you didn't like ET zz?

[Kyle-BBY Retired: Senior Social Media Specialist]

Haha!  zz's been keeping a list.  That's awesome.

Which Ghostbusters are you referring to, zz?  Because if you're talking about the most recent next-gen release, I agree completely.  As a huge Ghostbusters fan, I bought that game on release day with super high expectations, only to have them crushed slowly and painfully as I trudged through the campaign.  I wouldn't say the gameplay was bad, because there are definitely games with worse gameplay, but it just fell so amazing short of what I wanted.

I think you're right about movie games for the most part as well but I do have to say I have thoroughly enjoyed some of the Spiderman games. Specifically the open-world ones.

[zztoluca]

Yep also ET, how i forgot about i don't know, or maybe that was a good thing

Yes newer ghost buster games are half made not sticking to the original