BouncyFrag
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Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Does only two games count as a series? That ending of the second one when they
. So fucking awful.
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Most dissapointing series of all time
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Spring-Loaded
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He's probably referring to the terrain deformation. Guerrilla's building destruction was great, but you can't blow up the ground. In the first RF, you could tunnel through the ground/thick walls using explosions.
In that regard, I could understand how someone could be disappointed by the series since it has had multiple instances of sequels with lessened destruction.
RickGhastly
Neo Member
Not a terribly creative reply, but Assassins Creed. Beginning with part 2/Brotherhood (the height), AC became the video game equivalent of the Matrix trilogy. The only difference is that we're following the same trajectory over about 15 different titles rather than 3 and there's no Monica Bellucci.
Black Flag was certainly a nice detour, but even then I no longer cared at all about the overarching plot.
Black Flag was certainly a nice detour, but even then I no longer cared at all about the overarching plot.
NickFire
Member
No. Just No.
Sonic also produces a lot more garbage.
A lot more.
He's a zombie at this point, frequently only contributing a whiff of rot and decay whenever he shows up with another stinker with which to separate the gullible from their money. Very occasionally something worth playing will show up, but it's merely decent and not fantastic.
Vorg
Banned
Care to elaborate on that?
Astral Dog
Member
I thought this was a Sonic thread at first.
Edit: wow Assasins Creed,you need expectations first for it to be dissapointing .
Edit: wow Assasins Creed,you need expectations first for it to be dissapointing .
GreatestHits
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When I first clicked on this thread Assassin's Creed flew into my mind.
Sonic was past his prime, SEGA as we knew them are dead, what makes you think Sonic isn't
Asscreed had no excuses. It's the way it is for money
Whoever calls Mass Effect a dissapointing series, is casting light on the ending, and not the series. That series was amazing. I played halfway through 3 so I ain't hatin' lol
You just shat all over some great games. Asscreed has Assassins Creed 2. That doesn't compete with the entire legendary good sonic catalog
Yep.
If we're taking history into consideration, then Sonic is without a doubt the most disappointing series of all time. In my opinion, the only other franchises that are comparable (in terms of disappointment) would be either Bomberman, the James Bond games, or Duke Nukem.
Sonic takes the cake because it was like Halo. It was a game that was a flagship title for a platform, a game that produced an iconic character (i.e. the 'face') for the platform, a game that was met with critical acclaim upon release, a game that was always the 'savior' of a failing platform, a game that had a TV show, the list goes on. Sonic was unbelievably big, in fact, the only reason Sonic games keep coming out is because of how big the earlier games were.
Jazzkokehead
Member
I'm gonna say Crysis. The first game showed so much promise - forward-looking game design supported by revolutionary technology. It's one of my favorite games ever. The sequels, however? Jesus.
corrosivefrost
Member
Halo.
Amin_and_Azizah
Neo Member
In my own personal opinion, I would have to say that Sonic the Hedgehog is the worst video game franchise of all time.
GreatestHits
Member
OK now I'm thinking you guys are just young. I completely respect opinions, some are just hard to believe
And Halo?
Guys you're trashing franchises that have put out multiple games that contend for GOAT. And we're talking Asscreed here. Meh
MrCompletely
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You're going to judge the merit of three spectacular games based on 10 bad minutes?
For me, Mass Effect was all about the journey and the characters and i think they knocked it out of the park, looking at it as a whole.
The multiplayer games are fine. The story is rubbish.
GreatestHits
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Splinter Cell gets a vote from me. Dat first one was amazing, but then it became irrelevant so fast
PooBone
Member
When you quote someone and the first words of that quote are "For me personally," I'm curious what makes you think this isn't an idiotic response on your part.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
Nah, there was some good Sonic games and spin offs... but there was never a good AC game.
shark sandwich
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Final Fantasy. No matter how a Final Fantasy game turns out, tons of series fans are going to hate it because it's not like some previous entry they really liked.
More seriously, my answer would be the Lightning trilogy.
XIII: no towns, horribly unlikeable cast of characters, nonsensical plot, very little exploration
XIII-2: even more nonsensical plot involving time travel. XIII ended with
. Apparently XIII didn't think that was enough to work with.
LR: supposedly plagued with bad performance and yet another shitty plot. Also has time limits which are annoying as hell. I might still play it on PC one of these days just because I hate myself.
More seriously, my answer would be the Lightning trilogy.
XIII: no towns, horribly unlikeable cast of characters, nonsensical plot, very little exploration
XIII-2: even more nonsensical plot involving time travel. XIII ended with
~10 million decadent humans getting cut off from their food, water, electricity, and shelter, and getting dumped into the middle of a wasteland filled with savage beasts
LR: supposedly plagued with bad performance and yet another shitty plot. Also has time limits which are annoying as hell. I might still play it on PC one of these days just because I hate myself.
PooBone
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I thought AC2 and Brotherhood were fantastic.
Asscreed isn't disappointing, it just never reached amazing heights.
Sonic's gone from a system seller to a franchise zombie, having produced titles so bad it's coined The Sonic Cycle term. The quality if the series is a pale, malnourished shadow of its former glory.
Basketball
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Assassin's Creed takes the cake
the games are huge detailed open worlds
but the mission design and the restrictions really bring down the series
the games are huge detailed open worlds
but the mission design and the restrictions really bring down the series
Solaire of Astora
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Ironic for a game where you climb towers.
And I would say that AC never reaching amazing heights is why so many are disappointed in the first place.
GreatestHits
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Listen to yourself. Glory. Now try to apply that to an asscreed game. I'm beating a dead horse here lol I'm done
revolverjgw
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Mass Effect. The first game awkwardly touched on atmospheric exploration with its side quest planets and the vehicle, and I thought they'd eventually be able to work out the kinks and make it better in the sequels. Instead they removed all of that and it became a corridor shooter with light RPG elements.
eh, they're entertaining for a good ten hours, I'll give them that
Actually, yes. Several points of ME3's story feels like a betrayal of what was set up in the other two games. Disappointing does not mean "horrible". Mass Effect 3 is up there amongst the top 10 best franchises ever IMO but the third game made it one of the most disappointing gaming experiences ever IMO, and that doesn't mean I hate Mass Effect, but because it couldn't live up to its premise in the end it became disappointing.
A lot of people say this, that the final 10 minutes "can't possibly be THAT bad, right?"... well, guess what, a lot of us who felt invested were slapped in the face so hard by that final asspull that it effectively ruined our perception of the rest of the trilogy. The ending is not just bad because it was abrupt or "too sad". It was awful because it turned its back on the narrative itself, making up random bullshit at the 11th hour that hasn't been foreshadowed very well, almost not at all, and then pretends that the story was always about that bullshit.
I was hoping not to begin any Ending rant in this thread, but it infuriates me how ignorant some can be of that ending. I don't believe you guys really processed what actually happened in those final 10 minutes properly.
Spoilers for ME3:
An artistic statement is not something you create by abandoning your story and then shamelessly insert [insert whatever real-life issue] that has nothing to do with the rest of the story. An aristic statement should be shaped by that whole story and then be summarized and concluded at the end. Mass Effect 3 doesn't do this. It inserts a random RL problem and thinks it makes it deep, when in connection with the pre-established story it clashes and becomes completely meaningless. "Organics and Synthetics will be able to co-exist peacefully", what the fuck are you talking about!? See the Geth, the Quarians? See EDI and the rest of the Normandy? ORGANICS AND SYNTHETICS CO-EXISTING PEACEFULLY! Those final 3 choices? They're meaningless. Absolutely meaningless if it wasn't for the fact that all of them actually end the Reaper cycles, but the stuff they do to organics and synthetics in Destroy and Synthesis is absolutely unnecessary unless the game had convinced you from the get-go that there was an issue, but there just isn't based on what we've seen. If anything, ME3 went to prove that conflicts between organics and synthetics could be resolved with peace, but the ending says otherwise no matter what your decisions were and effectively make a joke of the Reapers and a lot of events that happened in ME1 in retrospect.
Nothing before the final 10 minutes imply otherwise but suddenly Mass Effect's overarching plot, everything that was started in Mass Effect 1 is suddenly about the relationship between organics and synthetics. Okay. You got me Bioware, I didn't see that coming... now go change it into something that isn't non-sense please.
Nothing before the final 10 minutes imply otherwise but suddenly Mass Effect's overarching plot, everything that was started in Mass Effect 1 is suddenly about the relationship between organics and synthetics. Okay. You got me Bioware, I didn't see that coming... now go change it into something that isn't non-sense please.
/endrant
MrSaturn99
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Tales.
After playing through Symphonia and Abyss I was convinced the series would become one of my all-time favorites. Unfortunately, Vesperia was the only one that came close to their quality and Xillia 2 just about buried my hopes.
Still, like the sucker I am I'll keep playing them for their potential.
After playing through Symphonia and Abyss I was convinced the series would become one of my all-time favorites. Unfortunately, Vesperia was the only one that came close to their quality and Xillia 2 just about buried my hopes.
Still, like the sucker I am I'll keep playing them for their potential.
Aliquidmeri
Member
Personally, KOTOR. 1 was one of the best games ever made. I liked 2 even more, but all the technical problems killed the series I guess. Years on when they announced KOTOR 3
I was legitimately outraged.
On that note, Mass Effect 1 really felt like the spiritual successor to KOTOR. Loved that game. Then Mass Effect 2 ruined everything. Its like I lost KOTOR twice.
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On that note, Mass Effect 1 really felt like the spiritual successor to KOTOR. Loved that game. Then Mass Effect 2 ruined everything. Its like I lost KOTOR twice.
OrlanisWorks
Banned
Gotta join the AssCreed peeps. I couldn't play pass Brotherhood. And then I watched my bro play through AssCreed 3. I was done after that. Black Flag is a bit different, but the writing never picked up. It bored me. Yearly increments hurt.
Bring Kristen Bell back 
Baron_Calamity
Member
Thats because EA got scared when they got back the first run of focus group results and completely changed the game into a series of minigames. I would have loved to seen what the Spore Wil Wright had envision.
Sapphire Dreams
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Dead Space.
You've got a fantastic horror game with the first one with the focus on dim light, horrific monsters and claustrophobic environments, it almost felt like an old school Resident Evil game (in a good way though in controls much better) and then the series went on to have more focus on action and overabundance of gore, never to be scary again.
Oh and of course they had to add musltipplayer that fucking sucked.
You've got a fantastic horror game with the first one with the focus on dim light, horrific monsters and claustrophobic environments, it almost felt like an old school Resident Evil game (in a good way though in controls much better) and then the series went on to have more focus on action and overabundance of gore, never to be scary again.
Oh and of course they had to add musltipplayer that fucking sucked.
GGNKovalski
Member
As a huge fan of Assassin's Creed, I hate all of you that are saying that =(
As for me personally, I'd say Killzone or Resistance. KZ1 was okay and I loved 2 but 3 and SF are 'Meh' at best and while I loved Resistance 3, the first 2 and the Vita game were pretty bad.
As for me personally, I'd say Killzone or Resistance. KZ1 was okay and I loved 2 but 3 and SF are 'Meh' at best and while I loved Resistance 3, the first 2 and the Vita game were pretty bad.
GreatestHits
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Why in God's earth Will Wright partnered with EA I don't know, but then again I don't know Will Wright
To be fair Killzone is probably a lot shallower but I never played it. To me AC was more dissapointing because my hopes were high enough that I played it. I liked 2, I just can't believe they resorted to their episodic incremental model. They don't let games brew either. You simply cannot come out with GOAT ideas every year, much less implement them every year or 2
Personally Halo. There are far worse series but I never had hope for Assassin's Creed (got it for 5 euro) and ones that broke down after a few good games (sonic - I still have good early memories) but none, straight out of the box, just left me feeling "wait, that was it?" like Halo. There's just something more disappointing about absolute averageness than a bad game you can laugh at.
I really don't know if I'd consider Halo absolutely average. The original still exceeds a lot of modern shooters in terms of a lot of design choices.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
Mugen Souls and Record of Agarest War were the two games that I was so hyped for the concept that I forgot they were from Compile Heart. Fuck every game in both series'.
whatever77
Banned
I am only disappointed in the story of AC. You have a few incredible world-class sand box over worlds established based on these awesome periods yet the non of the story they have come up with can remotely represent the time and the kingdoms in their games.
I mean, how hard is it to find a melodramatic story in that time period and from that country and then make a modernized story out of it?
In term of gameplay and graphic, I have no problem with AC series.
In term of climbing buildings for fun, AC Unity delivery on it 100%.
I mean, how hard is it to find a melodramatic story in that time period and from that country and then make a modernized story out of it?
In term of gameplay and graphic, I have no problem with AC series.
In term of climbing buildings for fun, AC Unity delivery on it 100%.
At the time, coming off the 90s FPS glory days and having this be the new millennial of shooters it came across as workable but completely forgettable to me. Saying something is better than the modern one way corridors experience isn't exactly high praise. "It's not as bad as Ghosts" is something you say when a game is bad but not outright terrible.
For me, probably Devil May Cry. It's got two of my favourite games of all time, and it's not because the lows are awful games or anything (besides DMC2). DMC4 and DmC are good overall. But the three low points in the series for me are so incredibly disappointing it kind of taints my view of the series as a whole, as they could have all been so much better. DMC2 by Kamiya, non-rushed DMC4, DMC5 that fixed the series' major lingering issues. But corporate had to mess around with the series and fuck everything up.
There are worse of series, for sure. But DMC tops it for me.
There are worse of series, for sure. But DMC tops it for me.
Lionel Richie
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Gears of War for me. Shit looks so fun while it's actually insanely boring.