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Biggest "Blue-Balls" Moments In Games

mr.beers said:
Metroid Other M
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Man.

First they hype up Sector Zero as THE PLACE LIKE TOURIAN, and then have Adam yank it out from under your feet.
But not before he gives you three objectives.
Divert the intercept course, protect the survivor, and go kill Ridley. Alright, cool. Then Samus actually accomplishes exactly none of them.

It's rather hilarious how ineffectual she actually is to the game's plot.
 
Creamium said:
The
Deathstroke fight
in Arkham Knight. After doing all those side-missions to earn that fight, it's just
another tank battle.

The Order is also a good example. The ending of the game felt like the end of a prologue.
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I don't know who the hell thought all those tank battles were a good idea of why anyone else signed off on them.
 
jmood88 said:
I don't know who the hell thought all those tank battles were a good idea of why anyone else signed off on them.
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10 years from now I expect to hear stories of some higher up that was really hung up on the Batmobile ideas like how that Firefall dev totally derailed his game to chase the Esports crowd and build a ridiculous bus.
 
Ludendorkk said:
Bioshock Infinite: You never fight
Songbird
. Talk about an unfired Chekov's gun!
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Came in for this. Very, very true. Could have been an epic boss battle.

Spieler Eins said:
Okay here we goooo... ,,uh, so Umbrella died because of stocks or something. Here's our new story about magical parasites, kthxbye".
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They had been talking about taking down umbrella since the first freaking RE. Even in the second game, where Leon says, in super cheesy Rookie Leon form, "Hey! It's up to US to take down umbrella!" All this hype through the various games made me think that there would be a whole RE game where you went to Umbrella HQ and took everybody down, including some super corrupt, Chief Irons type person.

But, nope... Exactly like you said. "Stocks." Come on Capcom, WTF.
 
After spending years trying to get all 120 stars in Mario 64, I finally made it to Yoshi. Instead of getting to use the character in any capacity, I was given 100 lives and was told to keep playing the game.

What a letdown.

Though I can kinda let it slide as it was Mario's first 3D game.

Sunshine's 100% ending however...
 
Vanquish.

Considering how amazing the entire game is, the ridiculous cliffhanger at the end involving the final boss - coupled with the fact that we will never get a sequel, still pisses me off.
 
KingBroly said:
What I was gonna say.

Just in case people were wondering what it is...

You're about to go into this Tourian area with Unfreezable Metroids, but lolno Adam shoots Samus for some SUPER EMOTIONAL CUTSCENE that is not only incoherent, but insane, irrational and treats the protagonist like a Dog and is happy about it.
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The plot just went badly off the rails after the Nightmare fight (which was legit awesome, and aside from the infamous Ridley-meltdown scene, the game was pretty good up to that point). After Nightmare the stuff you mention happens, along with the Deleter subplot getting dumped unceremoniously and then
the ridiculous pixel-hunt real final boss battle.

They do get props for making it the only Metroid with an explicit postgame. Nice for completionists who don't want to take a lot of time out right before the final boss to track around to all of the areas and open up the doors you could never open.
 
Haunted said:
Fucking Darksiders, man.

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This one still gets to me.
 
No actual Final Boss in Mass Effect 3.

The Illusive Man has been a literal thorn in your side the entire game. He pulls a Saren and injects himself with Reaper Technology, and it all boils down to just talking himself to death.

Can't understate just how much Bioware dropped the ball on ME3's final lap.
 
Hey guess what? You did it. You pushed back the darkness and stopped Ahriman from taking over the world. All it took was sacrificing the princess to do so.

But of course that's not really meeting the requirements of the thread. The blue balls were twofold here. The Prince couldn't stand the loss of Elika (his blue balls) so he basically undid the seal and let Ahriman out to get her back. The game ends with him walking away with Elika asking (what have you done!) and that's where my blue balls first came in.

Then, after playing the rehashed content on the epilogue they meet again where she abandons him because of his terrible decision. My blue balls are getting tighter thinking about that double whammy of an ending for a game I'll never see a sequel to.

(I'm not counting the DS side game)
 
The explanation for the Reapers in Mass Effect 3. What a load of bullshit.

planetsmasherx1 said:
Hey guess what? You did it. You pushed back the darkness and stopped Ahriman from taking over the world. All it took was sacrificing the princess to do so.

But of course that's not really meeting the requirements of the thread. The blue balls were twofold here. The Prince couldn't stand the loss of Elika (his blue balls) so he basically undid the seal and let Ahriman out to get her back. The game ends with him walking away with Elika asking (what have you done!) and that's where my blue balls first came in.

Then, after playing the rehashed content on the epilogue they meet again where she abandons him because of his terrible decision. My blue balls are getting tighter thinking about that double whammy of an ending for a game I'll never see a sequel to.

(I'm not counting the DS side game)
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Yeah, you might wanna put spoiler tags around that.
 
Street fighter 5, just the whole game

Girlfriend bought it for me as a surprise on launch day after watching me play USF4 for tons of hours

Booted up game, got to main menu and saw no arcade mode or vs CPU

Tried story mode and saw garbage deviantart comics and 1 round brainless AI

tried survival but hated random reward system, non reset matches and then got disconnected twice while in round 25+ causing game to reset and lose progress

Arguably my most disappointing day 1 experience ever

Game still sucks too
 
Rage and Darksiders are the two most prominent examples I can think of. Both just ended when they were starting to get interesting. And then the announcement of Darksiders 2 not being a sequel to the events of Darksiders 1 made the situation even worse.

Halo 2 was bad, but at least we knew for a fact that a sequel was coming... Still no sequel for Rage or the events of Darksiders 1.
 
Xenoblade Chronicles X

Why can't anyone leave the planet? What force is drawing everyone there?

How are the Mims functioning?

Who or what piloted the ancient mech?

Who built the ruins on the planet?

Why were the two sides fighting in the intro war?

If the crystalline people attacked and caused them to crash, why do you only see their opposition on Mira other than Elma?

They answered none of the plot threads from the story.
 
Talk about blue balls...how do you think Mega Man feels
being trapped in space
with Roll and Tron trying to out-pine the other.

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Shenmue 2 obviously, but also Vanquish's ending. The game ends like mid climax, like "sorry, we run out of budget, see ya next time!"
 
Ludendorkk said:
Bioshock Infinite: You never fight
Songbird
. Talk about an unfired Chekov's gun!
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I remember Ken Levine saying around the time that E3 demo for Infinite was revealed that there would definitely be a boss fight with it. I guess it was just cut for time. Really disappointing still.
 
Dragon Quest IX

Had just about everything going for me in a game I wanted. And I was utterly shattered when I learned it didn't have online play.
Still put in 200+ hours though.

Also, Crypt of the NecroDancer. Again, everything I was looking for for my Vita, but they scrapped the custom music feature. That one I avoided buying.
 
Gears of War 1: When you see that big locust monster at the end but don't get to fight it...

Halo: Reach: when you get attacked by a scarab while flying by but never get to actually fight one ala Halo 3.
 
Nostremitus said:
Xenoblade Chronicles X

Why can't anyone leave the planet? What force is drawing everyone there?

How are the Mims functioning?

Who or what piloted the ancient mech?

Who built the ruins on the planet?

Why were the two sides fighting in the intro war?

If the crystalline people attacked and caused them to crash, why do you only see their opposition on Mira other than Elma?

They answered none of the plot threads from the story.
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Definitely a good choice for story/plot/lore blue balls. Here are all these kind of interesting mysteries. Here are the answers to some of them and then right at the end here are a billion new questions and oh yeah half the answers we gave were lies.
 
Nostremitus said:
Xenoblade Chronicles X

Why can't anyone leave the planet? What force is drawing everyone there?

How are the Mims functioning?

Who or what piloted the ancient mech?

Who built the ruins on the planet?

Why were the two sides fighting in the intro war?

If the crystalline people attacked and caused them to crash, why do you only see their opposition on Mira other than Elma?

They answered none of the plot threads from the story.
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____Elma____
is definitely not part of the purple faction from the opening cutscene. That faction (which is called the "Ghosts", by the way, though I'm not sure if this name is actually mentioned in the game itself) doesn't appear at all after the opening cutscene, with their final action being attacking the white whale while it's in close proximity to Mira.

Also, several details are potentially explained by the theories that (Xenoblade 1 spoilers)
Xenoblade X takes place in the new universe created by Shulk, that Mira is the planet that the ending of the first Xenoblade take place on, and that the Samaarians may actually be the Homs.
The first theory is heavily implied, the second is a logical extension of that, while the third is a bit more of a stretch, but the details line up well enough.
 
halo 4....

literally within 5 minutes after the insane excitement past i was like 😑 i always played the campaign with my cuz since halo3.... beat it once and that was enough for me.. then i played the MP.


😔
 
Prompto said:
I remember Ken Levine saying around the time that E3 demo for Infinite was revealed that there would definitely be a boss fight with it. I guess it was just cut for time. Really disappointing still.
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We'll never know for sure just how much or what was cut from Bioshock Infinite's promised ambitions, but I believe I recall Levine and Co saying something like 2/3 of the game was cut.

That game was basically a design by attrition. They had to remove and rework so much to make it work and stapled it all together for a release after sinking millions of dollars into it.

One of my biggest gaming disappointments as a whole.
 
GlassBurrito said:
Shenmue 2
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Everything up until this point in the game was grounded in reality. Then the Mystical Laser Sword of Seven Stars Burned all the ropes.
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To put things in context, the end of Shenmue 2 is *literally* the prologue of the story. It ends with Shenhua's recitation of the same prophecy used in the attract demo of the first game.

The entirety of the 2 games are basically just there to build up the world of a grander story. There are hints here and there that the artifacts that Lan Di are seeking have supernatural powers, some ominous warnings of what could happen if they fall into the wrong hands, etc. Trailers and preview footage from way back when the game was still in development on Saturn showed Lan Di and Shenhua exhibiting some legit superpowers, with explosions and plenty of collateral damage.

You don't see any of that throughout the entirety of the two games, though. To say that it's grounded in reality is an understatement. You only get a small hint that there's something more to Shenhua than meets the eye at the end of the second game. You don't even meet her (one of the three principal characters, on the cover art of both games, and seen in dream sequences throughout the first game) or learn what Shenmue is until the end of the second game.

Then, after they've spent all of 2 games meticulously building up this painfully grounded world, they start dropping these bombs on you, and then the credits roll.
 
The Order 1886 ending point is almost like as if Batman Begins ended as soon as Bruce put on the Batsuit for the first time, except the story told before that point wasn't nearly as compelling in The Order.

And yeah, like others said Halo 2.
 
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