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[Moondoggie]

X Men: Destiny comes to mind. Excellent idea but poor execution. It boasted RPG like elements but these are so badly done. Your decisions don't change anything and the dialogue is cheesy with the character voices almost all wrong apart from a couple of good ones. The leveling up and skill trees are also meaningless you just end up with the exact same skills most of the time with little ability to make your character into something original you just sort of mix and match with everyone elses mutant powers with most powers not actually doing anything significant.

The story is stupid and nonsensical and the game looks ugly. Though i mostly found it a let down as i expected more of the RPG side with the ability to choose your side but it ended up being pointless as you don't even get to interact with your own side hardly at all.

Alice: Madness Returns was also a letdown but less so. I just expected better from it instead of just being a rehash of the first game with slightly better graphics. If they were going to make another one they could have at least given it an original storyline i thought it was a sequal not a remake.

[chunkyman]

Ima say something edgy and go with Skyrim. It's still a great game, but I liked Oblivion better.

I would have said DA2, but it's not a video game, it's an abomination to God.

[vometia]

chunkyman wrote...

Ima say something edgy and go with Skyrim. It's still a great game, but I liked Oblivion better.

Although I've already said DA2 is my most disappointing of the year, I'm inclined to agree.  For all the hype and excitement surrounding Skyrim, I felt it was a bit of a let-down compared to Morrowind and Oblivion: it just seems a bit charmless, somehow.  I can't really see it having the same longevity as previous TES games.

[RamirezWolfen]

RPGamer13 wrote...

RamirezWolfen wrote...

1. Bulletstorm - Honestly, too much profanity for me, and the game lost its fun factor after about five minutes. Fortunately I got all my money back.

You couldn't tell about the profanity before you bought it?

I didn't think it would have that much. I was expecting it to have as much as GTA or Gears of War, but not that much.

[DreamwareStudio]

chunkyman wrote...

I would have said DA2, but it's not a video game, it's an abomination to God.

WOW, now THAT is a STATEMENT!

[I Ryukage I]

google_calasade wrote...

chunkyman wrote...

I would have said DA2, but it's not a video game, it's an abomination to God.

WOW, now THAT is a STATEMENT!

I lol'd.

[naughty99]

DominusVita wrote...

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
i reley dont wan to say this, but i have to now.
this game is so esey. i mean, all you do is hit the spacebar. thats it! how is this an RPG anyway? you cant contrail anything but what it says on the screen! what if i didnt want to buy the potion? what apout quests? all you can upgrade is stranth? there is no way you can lose to the boss at the end! this game is crap! its not even an RPG at all! i mean look at it! in what way is this supposed to be an RPG if you can do quests and stuff? all you do is press one butten the entier time! explain to me! the athore coments al totol lies! is it supposed to be stick dudes? i dont even know how this damn game got the daily 3rd prize, or a rating of 4.26!
pepole think this review is worthles.
go ahead! say it! i dont care! im just trying to make a point here!
blam this piece of crap!!!!

LOL Super PSTW Action RPG has the greatest game trailer ever created in the history of trailers, hands down.

Rockworm503 wrote...

naughty99 wrote...

Merkitt wrote...
I don't think that RPGs need to be that heavy on killing pixels. I wonder what would have happened if they stuck with the Bioware Engine and dedicated their programming genius to the game itself. Perhaps there would have been a bigger difference between PC and console mode. Still a great game, but I expected more...

I'm not familiar with that term - can you explain a bit more?

Pixels as in the pixels on a screen? take the pixels out and its the same diff.

So he's saying RPGs should use less pixels? Lower resolution? I don't get it.

Modifié par naughty99, 01 janvier 2012 - 11:08 .

[Rockworm503]

He's saying RPGs shouldn't be so focused on killing I did say take out the pixel part.

Modifié par Rockworm503, 01 janvier 2012 - 11:14 .

[naughty99]

For those who were disappointed with Skyrim, did you buy it before release date or after?

I pre-ordered in August and I was essentially expecting Oblivion with Dragons (and some small improvements). What I got far exceeded my wildest expectations. It's the most fun I've had playing any game in the past few decades.

However, I understand there were quite a few glowing reviews after the embargo was lifted, and I wonder if the hype had something to do with the disappointment, particularly if you are more into games with cinematic cutscenes, etc

[Dominus]

Alice: Madness Returns was also a letdown but less so. I just expected better from it instead of just being a rehash of the first game with slightly better graphics. If they were going to make another one they could have at least given it an original storyline i thought it was a sequal not a remake.

Also this to an extent, the minigames weren't helping either. Every time I did the sliding parts, I had the Super Mario 64 Sliding Music in my head. I loved the original, but much like Bioshock, it felt like it had wrapped itself up nicely enough that a sequel wasn't really necessary. It's not a bad game, but it wasn't necessary.

[Spatia]

Probably Rage. The combat is great and varied for a single player FPS but falls short in a lot of aspects - in particular the quests and characters. For a game that boasted the ambition of an open world it has a lot of invisible barriers in the level design. Also, the end game is terrible and left a bad impression on what was a fairly fun campaign overall.

I haven't played DA2 yet and most other games considered a let down I avoided or I wasn't interested in to begin with.

[Andarthiel_Demigod]

 I'm gonna be a bit of a troll and say The Old Republic.
As far as I remember this is the one which I totally disliked after playing the Beta, big waste of download data, thank goodness I didn't end up paying for it. Another uninspired WoW clone with a Star Wars skin running on a 10 year old engine.They should have just made KOTOR3 with a brand new engine and possibly a new character.

Most of the other releases this year were pretty great, I even enjoyed Alice. But overall the best ones came around the end of the year.

Modifié par Andarthiel_Demigod, 02 janvier 2012 - 01:19 .

[DukeOfNukes]

While I would have Dragon Age 2 on this list, I would also have it on my "most under appreciated" list. It gets a lot of flack because it broke from the formula that DAO had. Some of it is rightly so, but some unjustly so as well. It was still a solid game with decent writing, but very repetitive, and forgettable characters. Found myself disappointed, but not hating it.

I'm gonna throw out a few that will probably draw a lot of criticism:
Arkham City - I was expecting a better game than the first...but it was the SAME game...minus a few unnecessary additions, and the aside from the Riddler Challenges, the whole Riddler part of the game was a large step in the wrong direction.
Battlefield 3 - I was hoping for an extension of the 2nd game...but this one played like they threw it into a blender with CoD. The leveling system for multiplayer put me off...the twitch based combat was very off putting. I leave thinking it's Call of Duty, with vehicles.
AC: Revelations - The untold chapter that...didn't really need to be told. The Desmond missions were the most interesting part...if only because they tried to give him more of a personality for AC3. The rest of it...really held no bearing on the overall story.
Halo Anniversary - When they announced it, I was thinking it would be the original Halo running on the Reach engine. What we ended up getting was the original Halo, on the same engine, with a new texture pack. I could have easily downloaded a high quality texture mod for the PC version, and gotten the same effect.
Uncharted 3 - WOW, seriously, how did this game get anywhere near perfect scores? The game actually felt like it resented me for playing it. I had very little control during the platform sections, where it SHOWED me where to move, I barely remember the puzzles, where it showed me the answers, the improved hand to hand was annoying because it forced you into it and the fights were way too long, and then the actually gun fighting was a huge step backwards, with horrible AI that could randomly see me creeping up behind an enemy, and then move awkwardly during the firefights...not a "ducking and weaving", but what looked like a laggy player in Gears of War TRYING to take cover and rubber banding out of it.

Sorry about that run on sentence...but seriously...GIGANTIC step backwards from Uncharted 2.

[frustratemyself]

I'm gonna add Zelda: Skyward Sword. After waiting a couple of years for this game I thought the controls were pretty damn awful. And while I know Zelda games tend to start a bit slower I just can't get into it.

[chunkyman]

naughty99 wrote...

For those who were disappointed with Skyrim, did you buy it before release date or after?

I pre-ordered in August and I was essentially expecting Oblivion with Dragons (and some small improvements). What I got far exceeded my wildest expectations. It's the most fun I've had playing any game in the past few decades.

However, I understand there were quite a few glowing reviews after the embargo was lifted, and I wonder if the hype had something to do with the disappointment, particularly if you are more into games with cinematic cutscenes, etc

I got it preordered months before. I got overhyped, I think. It's still good, but I get bored with Skyrim much easier than Morrowind or Oblivion.

[1136342t54_]

naughty99 wrote...

For those who were disappointed with Skyrim, did you buy it before release date or after?

I pre-ordered in August and I was essentially expecting Oblivion with Dragons (and some small improvements). What I got far exceeded my wildest expectations. It's the most fun I've had playing any game in the past few decades.

However, I understand there were quite a few glowing reviews after the embargo was lifted, and I wonder if the hype had something to do with the disappointment, particularly if you are more into games with cinematic cutscenes, etc

Being overhyped is one of the reasons why Skyrim is a dissapointment to some but definitely isn't the only reason. Some likely thought Bethesda was actually going to make a good story with good character development and great faction storylines. Plenty of that was dissapointing for some. I on the other hand knew that Bethesda will only slightly improve on the story of their games and no one is ever going to get another Morrowind. So I was less dissapointed with it lol.

[DreamwareStudio]

DukeOfNukes wrote...

While I would have Dragon Age 2 on this list, I would also have it on my "most under appreciated" list. It gets a lot of flack because it broke from the formula that DAO had. Some of it is rightly so, but some unjustly so as well. It was still a solid game with decent writing, but very repetitive, and forgettable characters. Found myself disappointed, but not hating it.

I tried so very hard to like DA 2 but just could not do it.  I found precious little to appreciate.  A solid game does not have such an uninspiring story, poor model renders, a dearth of immersion, and repeated areas.  I could go on, except that would be repetitive with what others have said.

I can only hope that DA 3 more reflects the quality of DA:O and improves upon DA:O while leaving most of DA 2 as a bad memory.

[lobi]

Deus ex HR: The graphics were hardly any better than ME2 and the roleplay was non-existant, Killer blowitallup lonewolf Jenson was the same guy as sneaky pacifist lonewolf Jenson. Alpha protocol was better.

Modifié par lobi, 02 janvier 2012 - 06:49 .

[vometia]

naughty99 wrote...

For those who were disappointed with Skyrim, did you buy it before release date or after?

I pre-ordered in August and I was essentially expecting Oblivion with Dragons (and some small improvements). What I got far exceeded my wildest expectations. It's the most fun I've had playing any game in the past few decades.

However, I understand there were quite a few glowing reviews after the embargo was lifted, and I wonder if the hype had something to do with the disappointment, particularly if you are more into games with cinematic cutscenes, etc

I bought it on the release date, but I don't think that's what it is either way in my case.  Sure, hype never helps, and some of the post-release hype was even worse (which I guess is what you were getting at), but for me it's just lacking some sort of spark.  I can't say exactly what, but Morrowind had it, Oblivion had it, even the recent Fallouts had it, but Skyrim doesn't have it.  I keep using the word "charmless": I feel very little "pull".  Sure, I enjoy it while I'm actually playing, but I just don't have the excitement and drive to start playing in the first place, much less pulling the sort of all-nighters that the other four games regularly saw.

[Andarthiel_Demigod]

chunkyman wrote...

Ima say something edgy and go with Skyrim. It's still a great game, but I liked Oblivion better.

I would have said DA2, but it's not a video game, it's an abomination to God.

I don't understand your logic. Skyrim is a vast improvement over Oblivion(Morrowind, fair enough).
It just does not compute.

Although I am sad to see so many people cursing DA2, that is the most underrated game ever(kinda like KOTOR2).

[Nerdage]

The whole RPG genre was disappointing for me in 2011 to be honest.

DA2 simply shouldn't have shipped in the state it was in given some of the bugs it had, and there are a fair few design choices I simply don't understand that stop me really enjoying it.

Skyrim had some of the least interesting (and perhaps worst implemented) characters I've ever seen in an RPG, and given how linear the quests tended to be and how the story didn't particularly grab me I can't imagine why I'd replay it over FNV, which has most of Skyrim's best elements with half the drawbacks.

Nothing about the Witcher 2 really grabbed me, I thought the combat felt clunky and - while the story had promise - I found all the characters so unsympathetic (including my own) I just lost interest.

All games that should've been great by association but fell short to me. I still enjoyed DA2 and Skyrim (for a time), but they were still disappointing. Really the only RPG I've liked unreservedly has been TOR.

[legion999]

DominusVita wrote...

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
i reley dont wan to say this, but i have to now.
this game is so esey. i mean, all you do is hit the spacebar. thats it! how is this an RPG anyway? you cant contrail anything but what it says on the screen! what if i didnt want to buy the potion? what apout quests? all you can upgrade is stranth? there is no way you can lose to the boss at the end! this game is crap! its not even an RPG at all! i mean look at it! in what way is this supposed to be an RPG if you can do quests and stuff? all you do is press one butten the entier time! explain to me! the athore coments al totol lies! is it supposed to be stick dudes? i dont even know how this damn game got the daily 3rd prize, or a rating of 4.26!
pepole think this review is worthles.
go ahead! say it! i dont care! im just trying to make a point here!
blam this piece of crap!!!!

You made my day.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

@vometia, I demand you unblock me.


Charmless is the true description for Skyrim.

Modifié par Jedi Sentinel Arian, 02 janvier 2012 - 12:39 .

[Lotion Soronarr]

1136342t54 wrote...
Being overhyped is one of the reasons why Skyrim is a dissapointment to some but definitely isn't the only reason. Some likely thought Bethesda was actually going to make a good story with good character development and great faction storylines. Plenty of that was dissapointing for some. I on the other hand knew that Bethesda will only slightly improve on the story of their games and no one is ever going to get another Morrowind. So I was less dissapointed with it lol.

Skyrinm >>> Morrowind.