Gaming Most disappointing game

[HuMaNpUmPkIn]

Sonic Unleashed. Hands down.
I picked it up, played for a while, and my eyes went "o_____o". Because despite not holding a candle to the original games, the daytime stages were good. Then it became werehog time, and I nearly wept at how they had rendered a pretty sweet game borderline unplayable (In my opinion, at least).
Runner up would be Sonic 4. (Notice a pattern?). It was touted as Sonic's comeback, blah blah blah.
Same old bullshit. Lack of momentum based gameplay, the levels lack the flair the originals had, and that jumping!?

 

[Fishaman P]

Battle Rage: Mech Conflict.

A super awesome 3D robot fighting game, including guns and flamethrowers? HELL YEAH!
...But it's laggy, has terrible controls, and it's boring.

 

[Deleted member 256505]

"Donkey Kong Country Returns" fits the bill for me. You can't play as Diddy in single player, you're forced to shake the Wii remote to perform crucial moves, there is barely any original music, the Kremlings have been completely eliminated (and the new enemies feel like a step down), there almost no variety in the bonus stages, and there aren't nearly as many barrel puzzles as there were in the SNES titles.

*Inhales*

 

[Wombo Combo]

All Sonic games on Wii

 

[smile72]

I was severely disappointed by Metroid Other M and Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, I completed both, but I found Twilight Princess and Other M taxing. I didn't really care about Midna, and in Other M, I didn't feel the love I did with every other Metroid game. I hope that Skyward Sword is better.

 

[Satangel]

any need for speed game

Tried Need for Speed Nitro yet? Now that's a good game!

 

[chop]

Horrid Henry, it's probably a PAL only release based on a kids TV show/series of books in the UK, for you US wii players think Dennis the menace, It offers so much promise as a title then the DS version came out and it was a generic platform game, then the Wii version came out and it was a conversion of the DS game.

Will I ever learn.

 

[mrpinkeye]

any need for speed game

Tried Need for Speed Nitro yet? Now that's a good game!

urgh! its horrible and feels like its made for 5 year old chavs that wanna slide a multicolored brick around a tagged up track

 

[Bladexdsl]

I was severely disappointed by Metroid Other M and Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess

metroid i agree TP isn't that bad there are a few things that i really hate in it one being the fucking sumo parts! other stuff like pointless shortcuts (once you have the warp!) and a fucking useless sidequest to get a shop! there are some parts in it that are worth playing though like the desert level you use the screw to bounce around and up walls etc plus the cool pinball boss

 

[luminalace]

I would have to say Conduit 2! Unlike most, even with all the flaws of the original I finished that game. Part 2 was supposed to right all the wrongs! Instead it lost everything that made the first half decent!

 

[Mazor]

Super Smash Bros Brawl.

I bought my chipped Wii only to play this game and preordered the Japanese version. The game was a huge disappointment to me and pretty much every other Melee fan. I gave it more than a proper go and even won a few tournaments, but the game was fucking terrible for playing competitively (one extreme example would be how I lost Grand Finals of a smaller tourney by tripping). I'm surprised it's so popular in the US, here everyone went back to Melee.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Super Smash Bros Brawl.

I bought my chipped Wii only to play this game and preordered the Japanese version. The game was a huge disappointment to me and pretty much every other Melee fan. I gave it more than a proper go and even won a few tournaments, but the game was fucking terrible for playing competitively (one extreme example would be how I lost Grand Finals of a smaller tourney by tripping). I'm surprised it's so popular in the US, here everyone went back to Melee.

Brawl is a better game in every way. More characters, more fields, more content, just improvements over everything.

Competitively, who gives a shit. It's SSB. It's not like it's a real fighting game. It's fun as hell but it's hardly an actual fighting game.

I'm just getting sick of people who say Melee is better than Brawl when it clearly wasn't.

 

[gamefan5]

Super Smash Bros Brawl.

I bought my chipped Wii only to play this game and preordered the Japanese version. The game was a huge disappointment to me and pretty much every other Melee fan. I gave it more than a proper go and even won a few tournaments, but the game was fucking terrible for playing competitively (one extreme example would be how I lost Grand Finals of a smaller tourney by tripping). I'm surprised it's so popular in the US, here everyone went back to Melee.

Brawl is a better game in every way. More characters, more fields, more content, just improvements over everything.

Competitively, who gives a shit. It's SSB. It's not like it's a real fighting game. It's fun as hell but it's hardly an actual fighting game.

I'm just getting sick of people who say Melee is better than Brawl when it clearly wasn't.

Actually, I think it depends of your taste. I happen to like both, even competitively.

 

[KingVamp]

Even if it isn't a "real fighting game", what wrong with playing SSB competitively?

You can play anything competitively that has two or more players.

Tho tripping can be a bit annoying sometime...

tba I can't thing of a game right now. I know I play at least on bad one...

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Even if it isn't a "real fighting game", what wrong with playing SSB competitively?

You can play anything competitively that has two or more players.

Tho tripping can be a bit annoying sometime...

tba I can't thing of a game right now. I know I play at least on bad one...

I'm just saying it gets completely brushed aside as a fighting game. The game's balancing is an absolute joke (I mean pretty much all fighting games have balancing issues but this is just a completely different level) and most of what makes the game fun (items, levels) are just taken away for the sake of "fair competition" (which is boring-as-hell Final Destination with no items). I enjoy the game a lot and I still have a shitload of fun with it at parties (hell, it was even my first Wii game), but I'd hardly consider it a serious competitive or tournament fighting game.

On topic though, Metroid Other M is probably by far the most disappointing game on the Wii. The combat was bad, the story was atrocious, the voice acting was bad, and it just felt like a completely gimped Metroid game.

 

[Deleted member 256505]

Even if it isn't a "real fighting game", what wrong with playing SSB competitively?

You can play anything competitively that has two or more players.

Tho tripping can be a bit annoying sometime...

tba I can't thing of a game right now. I know I play at least on bad one...

I'm just saying it gets completely brushed aside as a fighting game. The game's balancing is an absolute joke (I mean pretty much all fighting games have balancing issues but this is just a completely different level) and most of what makes the game fun (items, levels) are just taken away for the sake of "fair competition" (which is boring-as-hell Final Destination with no items). I enjoy the game a lot and I still have a shitload of fun with it at parties (hell, it was even my first Wii game), but I'd hardly consider it a serious competitive or tournament fighting game.

On topic though, Metroid Other M is probably by far the most disappointing game on the Wii. The combat was bad, the story was atrocious, the voice acting was bad, and it just felt like a completely gimped Metroid game.

What is your opinion, if any, on the unofficial balancing hacks that have been released in order to balance SSBB?

 

[machomuu]

Even if it isn't a "real fighting game", what wrong with playing SSB competitively?

You can play anything competitively that has two or more players.

Tho tripping can be a bit annoying sometime...

tba I can't thing of a game right now. I know I play at least on bad one...

I'm just saying it gets completely brushed aside as a fighting game. The game's balancing is an absolute joke (I mean pretty much all fighting games have balancing issues but this is just a completely different level) and most of what makes the game fun (items, levels) are just taken away for the sake of "fair competition" (which is boring-as-hell Final Destination with no items). I enjoy the game a lot and I still have a shitload of fun with it at parties (hell, it was even my first Wii game), but I'd hardly consider it a serious competitive or tournament fighting game.

On topic though, Metroid Other M is probably by far the most disappointing game on the Wii. The combat was bad, the story was atrocious, the voice acting was bad, and it just felt like a completely gimped Metroid game.

What is your opinion, if any, on the unofficial balancing hacks that have been released in order to balance SSBB?

You shouldn't need to hack your Wii to balance a game.
That's my opinion and I'm sure that's what Guild will say. Actually I structured that statement to sound like Guild. Or rather, like the first sentence of one of Guild's spontaneous rants

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[Guild McCommunist]

What is your opinion, if any, on the unofficial balancing hacks that have been released in order to balance SSBB?

You shouldn't need to hack your Wii to balance a game.
That's my opinion and I'm sure that's what Guild will say.

Yeah, pretty much this. It's Nintendo's fault for making the game as unbalanced as it is to begin with and even more so their fault for being unable to patch it (compared to fighting games like Marvel vs. Capcom 3, which already got a balancing patch for Sentinel so far, and Mortal Kombat, which is able to get easy balancing patches).

 

[DxEggman]

What is your opinion, if any, on the unofficial balancing hacks that have been released in order to balance SSBB?

You shouldn't need to hack your Wii to balance a game.
That's my opinion and I'm sure that's what Guild will say.

Yeah, pretty much this. It's Nintendo's fault for making the game as unbalanced as it is to begin with and even more so their fault for being unable to patch it (compared to fighting games like Marvel vs. Capcom 3, which already got a balancing patch for Sentinel so far, and Mortal Kombat, which is able to get easy balancing patches).

MvC3 will never be balanced. also that is the most disappointing game i've played since final fantasy 13. wastes of money.

 

[Deleted member 256505]

What is your opinion, if any, on the unofficial balancing hacks that have been released in order to balance SSBB?

You shouldn't need to hack your Wii to balance a game.
That's my opinion and I'm sure that's what Guild will say.

Yeah, pretty much this. It's Nintendo's fault for making the game as unbalanced as it is to begin with and even more so their fault for being unable to patch it (compared to fighting games like Marvel vs. Capcom 3, which already got a balancing patch for Sentinel so far, and Mortal Kombat, which is able to get easy balancing patches).

Oh, I agree with you and machomuu on the issue. Completely, actually. I was just curious to see if you had tried them.