Matt Attack
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Mass Effect 3's original ending hurt. A lot.
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Biggest bummers in gaming history.
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The_R3medy
Banned
Mass Effect 3's Ending.
SparkleMotion
Member
Brutal Legend.
Not only did it fail to properly deliver on a great premise, it sunk Double Fine as a retail developer and doomed them to making downloadable titles.
Not only did it fail to properly deliver on a great premise, it sunk Double Fine as a retail developer and doomed them to making downloadable titles.
Magnet_Man
Member
-Capcom's almost satirical incompetence these past years.
-The prostitution of Rare's corpse.
-Wonderful 101's horrible sales.
-The corruption of DLC's ideals from expanding content post-release to ransoming it pre-release.
-The prostitution of Rare's corpse.
-Wonderful 101's horrible sales.
-The corruption of DLC's ideals from expanding content post-release to ransoming it pre-release.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
The death of JRPGs and the rise of moe otaku nonsense, including its proliferation in the west.
The shittiest thing about video games? Growing up.
I can appreciate games on a deeper level than I used to, it's just a shame I don't have nearly as much time anymore.
Some others:
- Rare (That Conker E3 tease, ugh.)
- Wonderful 101
- Death of the Handheld industry
- PSASBR (Just make a Smash Clone for the sequel, so easy)
- Anything Capcom post Dragon's Dogma
- Resident Evil 6
- Titanfall
- Star Wars 1313
- 38 Studios
- DLC
I can appreciate games on a deeper level than I used to, it's just a shame I don't have nearly as much time anymore.
Some others:
- Rare (That Conker E3 tease, ugh.)
- Wonderful 101
- Death of the Handheld industry
- PSASBR (Just make a Smash Clone for the sequel, so easy)
- Anything Capcom post Dragon's Dogma
- Resident Evil 6
- Titanfall
- Star Wars 1313
- 38 Studios
- DLC
ConradCervantes
Banned
Nintendo dedicating one entire hour to some lame-ass SRPG bullshit for 3DS this past e3. Fuck that garbage, I want enhanced remakes of games I already played.
#1: Hadn't seen this mentioned anywhere yet, but EA's monopolization of the football genre. As a fan of the 2K (and later ESPN) football series, imagine where first-person-perspective football could have been at this point, now that the Oculus and Project Morpheus are both gaining popularity.
#2: Battlefield 4
#3: Price increase of games from $40 to $50 to $60. Does no one remember when regularly priced games were $39.99?
#2: Battlefield 4
#3: Price increase of games from $40 to $50 to $60. Does no one remember when regularly priced games were $39.99?
Games did dip in price at the start of the CD-ROM console era, but as MCN said, there's been about eighteen+ years of inflation since then.
When I was moving last week, I found a journal I wrote in back in 1996. I had received some money for my birthday and I wanted to buy a copy of Super Mario RPG. I called several stores (including Wal-Mart and Target) and just about every store charged a different price between $65 and $80. Finally, I found an independent used game store about an hour away from my house that was charging $55 for a used copy, which I ended up buying.
The closing of Black Isle and Troika
EA buying a company, ruining their franchises (hi Dungeon Keeper Mobile) and killing the companies.
Bad ports - any game, any platform. No excuse. Off the top of my head - Dark Souls. You shouldn't need a modder to fix the game.
Bioware since Baldur's Gate II - I've noticed some people saying "but DA, ME", I didn't care for DA, and ME 1 + 2 were ok, but not enough to make me want to play 3
Anytime a game doesn't have a good single player. That's just me - I don't want to play or care about multiplayer.
Rise of Always Online and other DRM
Uplay - such a waste to have on top of Steam.
Whenever a game doesn't come to GOG for no reason. For example, why isn't any Bethesda games on GOG? They pulled the Fallout games with seemingly no intention of returning them. FFS you can download a drm-free copy of The Elder Scrolls Arena and The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall (DOS games) for free from Bethesda's own website! I don't even think the other games even use DRM other than Steam...
Pay to win
EA buying a company, ruining their franchises (hi Dungeon Keeper Mobile) and killing the companies.
Bad ports - any game, any platform. No excuse. Off the top of my head - Dark Souls. You shouldn't need a modder to fix the game.
Bioware since Baldur's Gate II - I've noticed some people saying "but DA, ME", I didn't care for DA, and ME 1 + 2 were ok, but not enough to make me want to play 3
Anytime a game doesn't have a good single player. That's just me - I don't want to play or care about multiplayer.
Rise of Always Online and other DRM
Uplay - such a waste to have on top of Steam.
Whenever a game doesn't come to GOG for no reason. For example, why isn't any Bethesda games on GOG? They pulled the Fallout games with seemingly no intention of returning them. FFS you can download a drm-free copy of The Elder Scrolls Arena and The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall (DOS games) for free from Bethesda's own website! I don't even think the other games even use DRM other than Steam...
Pay to win
I suppose, but there are a lot of triple-A games that I wish I could play split-screen. I thought it was coming back in 2011, with big titles like Uncharted 3 or Killzone 3 or F.E.A.R. 3 or Portal
Now it seems to be going away again like never before. Call of Duty Ghosts dropped the split-screen count down to 2, even on next-gen platforms. Killzone is back to being single player only (and bad). The Last of Us had no split-screen, and I doubt Uncharted 4 will either. Bungie isn't supporting splitscreen with Destiny, despite Halo thriving on it before and during the introduction of Xbox Live multiplayer. The Order 1886 is based around a squad of 4 fighters, yet there is no multiplayer aspect to it at all. DriveClub is too pretty to have split-screen. Sunset Overdrive will have some kind of multiplayer co-op, but no word on local split-screen within or outside of Online. Assassin's Creed V is going to have a big co-op focus, but there's not a chance in hell it will have local play.
Thanks Nintendo for keeping the dream alive, I guess. I still don't want a Wii U though.
Anyway, I've got to go dig a ditch to bury local multiplayer in.
God, this is a real bummer. Twisted Metal 2012 was a genuinely fantastic game and absolutely deserves multiple sequels helmed by David Jaffe. The gaming world was far to stupid to pick up on the design brilliance of this game, however (waa! Cars don't die quick enough! I want instant gratification, I don't want to work for it!!!) and we will most likely never see another one, which really, really sucks.
scoobidoo112
Member
To be honest the Extended Cut hurt more.
With the original ending I was pissed off, but at least there was still a chance that they could unveil some indoctrination type scheme and reveal that the real ending would be coming in some free package because of development delays or something, the speculation and exchange of an theories on the forums was awesome.
With the Extended Cut and the reaction they gave to the fans they truly showed that they didn't get it and didn't give a shit. A slideshow to finish off a series I spent hundreds of hours/$$$ on? No recognition that the starchild and the R/G/B endings were a direct lie ("we're not doing an A/B/C type ending" a month before release), terribly written and full of plotholes?
Not to mention all the lies about the reaction of the fans ("they have a hard time letting go" instead of the actual complaints, which mainly where "it is filled with plotholes, leaves out harbinger, makes all decisions meaningless, no end boss, cliffhanger ending for your crew with no closure"), direct attacks towards their own fanbase (people are "entitled" for disliking the ending and wanting a better one after spending at least $180 and hundreds of hours, fans are attacking "artistic integrity" even though we know the ending was written by two people without reviews from the other writers and in complete contrast to the vision of the original writer).
Really the way they handled the reaction to the ending made the ending worse, because it showed that they were completely unable to give a direct, human response to the complaints. They completely ignored the forums and the letters they got from fans, and the reaction video's like Angry Joe's and instead all we got were like two PR-filtered statements. It showed how terribly incompetent they are now at maintaining a relationship with their fans and reacting in a proper way when a majority says "this is awful".
I hate the way the ending debacle was portrayed on all the major gaming websites and especially how it is remembered. Almost every article made it seem like the fans were nothing more but loud, arrogant, entitled, mean, threatening assholes that were out of control and being ridiculous, which is simply not true.
I was in the midst of that forum when this whole thing went down, and it was far from it. The Bioware forums were filled with at least tens of thousands of huge fans that spent hundreds of hours on the games. Those guys were immensely passionate. They tried everything to make valid complaints about the ending, valid complaints about the interviews they gave a month before release, valid complaints about day-1 Javik dlc and valid complaints about the response from Bioware to said complaints ("oh you just can't let go). Heck they even donated to charity and send Bioware cupcakes and letters to let them know why they were so unhappy, but still they were portrayed as an ungrateful and selfish minority.
After everything that happened I'm convinced that EA has already has permanently damaged what Bioware used to be so great at, which is communicating with their fans. At this point I'm pretty sure EA is just waiting for them to fail again so they can line the company up like it did to all the others it has acquired over the years.
Flakster99
Member
The closing of Black Isle Studios.
Earthbound 64 for the 64DD. What could have been...
The demise of Sega, eventually leaving the console business. They won me back with the Dreamcast and the day I heard the news I was super bummed. A part of console arcade gaming died that day. Since, their software output hasn't been the same.
The demise of Squaresoft. For me their pinnacle was the 16-bit generation. Since that time it has been a steady decline of quality and quantity. It's downright depressing.
You're not alone.
Earthbound 64 for the 64DD. What could have been...
The demise of Sega, eventually leaving the console business. They won me back with the Dreamcast and the day I heard the news I was super bummed. A part of console arcade gaming died that day. Since, their software output hasn't been the same.
The demise of Squaresoft. For me their pinnacle was the 16-bit generation. Since that time it has been a steady decline of quality and quantity. It's downright depressing.
You're not alone.
foolishoptimist
Member
Wasn't that the GBA?
Mine would be the closure of Liverpool Studio => No more wipeout
That and the general consumer disinterest in the Vita. Such a great piece of hardware, and a great gaming OS.
Ganondorfo
Junior Member
That Sega didnt help Nintendo with the WII U by giving all their powerful Sega love with creating titles like Skies of arcadia 2, Shenmue 3, Dragon Force 3, Valkyria Chronicles 4, Billy hatcher 2, you get the point.
Japanmanx3
Member
Seeing FFT and iOS in the same sentence.
The wait for KH III.
The wait for FF XV.
The sequel to Legend of Legaia.
Most recently though, the cancellation of Lily Bergamo smh...
The wait for KH III.
The wait for FF XV.
The sequel to Legend of Legaia.
Most recently though, the cancellation of Lily Bergamo smh...
ZombiePlatypus
Member
Squaresoft becoming Square Enix.
Yep thats mine for sure. It's a shame how far jrpgs have fallen that the fandom now loves stuff that wouldn't have gotten any attention during the SNES-PS2 days. Back when we had jrpgs that were interesting in the mythos and themes they tackled. Maybe they were a bit "my first psychology" storytelling, but they sure at least tried stuff and weren't relying on cute girls to sell themselves. I'm surprised the fandom seems to eat them up. I guess that means I've moved past the jrpg fandom.
Adding on to the pain of the OP:
Too many to list...
- No Shenmue 3.
- No sequel to Jet Set Radio Future. Death of arcades in the UK, namely Namco Wonderpark.
- No Virtua Cop 3 home release along with the lack of light gun shooters.
- New Sega not giving us what we want.
- No sequel to F-Zero GX.
- Battlefield 4 issues - I really want to buy that game but I refuse to until it is, at least, playable to BF3 level even though that game has issues.
- Platinum Games' hard times and struggles for super success due to bad developer deals and the major gaming audience.
- Companies like this that perfectly summed up the major gaming audience of today, which are not gamers but rather interactive movie gamers. Do I condone this company? No way. I hate companies with that kind of mentality to games and sadly there are too many of them that are silently like this (wouldn't surprise me if many people here laps this up in favour of the developer because of the game's graphics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGVFcBvLNWI
Too many to list...
Silvawuff
Member
One-hundred percent this.
Rare's buyout and what followed...
This is mine too
They were king in the SNES and N64 era.
Freezasaurus
Member
Advent Rising. Story and setting were so promising, and they were advertising different variations in the story based on player choices. But when the game came out, it turned out to be an absolute stinker.
legacyzero
Banned
Conflict NZ
Member
As a huge fan of the first one, it being in my top 5 of all time, the second one was a huge bummer. The story in the first game was incredible, perfectly set up with a main villain to focus on, three acts through which you collect party members during missions and come together to bring down Saren.
The second one was as different as you could get from the first one while still being a Third Person Shooter RPG and in the Mass Effect Universe. The plot was no longer about an overarching villain, it was about the collectors who turned out to be on of the shittiest twists in the series. The whole game was a party creating fetch quest with no real plot advancement and the final suicide mission was plain boring, also Baby Terminator WTF? They got rid of almost all of the great things about the first in an RPG sense, and stripped so much out. The missions were all linear and the choices made affected almost nothing.
They actually completely changed the writing staff from the first to the second, Drew Karpyshyn who was the lead writer for the first game was shipped off to The Old Republic to toil away on that talent sink while Hudson (the Producer) and Mac "The Hack" Walters took over lead writing and it is incredibly obvious this happened. The plot was poorly tied together and never seemed to make much sense, just look at what happened in Mass Effect three.
I will grant that the gameplay was better but they changed too much that didn't need to be.
DarkJedi24
Member
EA shutting down Pandemic Studios. They were my favourite developer near the end of the PS2 era with Mercenaries, Battlefront and Destroy All Humans! all being made by them. They may not have made perfect games, but they sure gave them character and made them memorable.
IckeDerDude
Neo Member
Lightning Returns... and I really liked her... sadly her games are shit.
Gothic III... fucking bugs. ~5 years later it's nearly playable, thank you Community.
Diablo III... who ever decided to throw randomly generated maps over board : F@CK YOU.
The death of THQ... luckily Saints Row 4 kicked GTAs ass regardless
Gothic III... fucking bugs. ~5 years later it's nearly playable, thank you Community.
Diablo III... who ever decided to throw randomly generated maps over board : F@CK YOU.
The death of THQ... luckily Saints Row 4 kicked GTAs ass regardless
BolognaSoup
Member
Single biggest disappointment in gaming history. EA lost my business for life with this unspeakable atrocity.
Poimandres
Member
Shenmue 3, STALKER 2, Prey 2, Irrational....
Robot Pants
Member
My man
IAmRandom31
Banned
The closing of Studio Liverpool ( wipeout and shit )
The closing of Pandemic Studios ( mercenaries, destroy all humans, etc. )
Monster Hunter becoming a handheld franchise. Seriously, a game about fighting massive monsters but doing so on a 5 inch screen. Brilliance.
The FPS genre taking over the industry for this long of a stretch. Thought the fad would of died out by now. I think I am out and then they pull me back in with games like Destiny.
The slow death of the JRPG genre
-MD-
Member
It's pretty depressing to think about, yeah. Twisted Metal 2012 was excellent when it worked, easily the best multiplayer game on PS3 and it had a high skill ceiling.
There was supposed to be another car combat game being kickstarted and Jaffe was involved but it failed and never returned. One of my favorite genres is likely dead for good.
Sega exiting the hardware business and merging with Sammy Studios
The rise of F2p/iOS at the expense of everything else
The end of TechTV and G4's slow, painful, death
Rare (post-2001)
Sony and the industry's treatment of the Vita
Rising dev costs, homogenization, annualization, and massive studio closures due to HD development
The rise of F2p/iOS at the expense of everything else
The end of TechTV and G4's slow, painful, death
Rare (post-2001)
Sony and the industry's treatment of the Vita
Rising dev costs, homogenization, annualization, and massive studio closures due to HD development
That'd do it for me too. The fact that we haven't heard of an official release of PSO2 either yet... bah. Damn it, Sega.
I love hand held consoles. I just can't belive how badly Sony botched Vita. If they just launched Vita and didnt muck around with memory card.. things would have been completely different now. SCEA(COD, Resistance, Unit13, BL2.. they relentlessly released awful games on vita, kudos!!!) and Memory card are like cancer that killed the great baby.
The GBA is a similarly powered device with some half-decent but imperfect SNES ports (with not enough buttons). I want the SNES virtual console on the 3DS, and can't believe it's not possible on a system that can do near Gamecube-level graphics.
Sectorseven
Member
I'll say the untimely death of Gunpei Yokoi. That guy helped create a huge chunk of Nintendo's most beloved IPs as well as the controller D-pad and Gameboy. Portable gaming as we know it might not exist without him and who knows what he could have invented were he still alive.
I'm not the only one who regretted purchasing this game...?