speculawyer
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Pong. It never really went anywhere after that first game. OK, Breakout was a cool variation but besides that, can you even name another Pong game?
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Most dissapointing series of all time
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Assassins Creed has some good entries. Sonic has so much potential from the mega drive days. They have been so close to a good Sonic game on a couple of occassions (Generations and Lost World were just missing some polish), it breaks my heart because Sonic 2 on local coop with my brother was one of my first and greatest gaming memories.
For a series to become disappointing, one of the games had to be great and that's why like many others, Assassins Creed is my choice for the most disappointing series of all time.
AC2 was great, I loved it. It had an interesting story and improved on almost every aspect of the gameplay from the original. But they decided to turn it into a yearly franchise and it has suffered massively. It lacks any real creativity now and has become monotonous.
AC2 was great, I loved it. It had an interesting story and improved on almost every aspect of the gameplay from the original. But they decided to turn it into a yearly franchise and it has suffered massively. It lacks any real creativity now and has become monotonous.
Assassins Creed for sure. The first game wasn't great for sure, but it had promise. I loved the structure and sense of routine. It lent it self to having memorable targets that you had to figure out how to get to and kill. It's just it never went there. The investigations where shitty and really all the assassinations where the same. Also the combat was shitty.
The sequels never fixed that and instead went off into a different and worse direction becoming just another open world game with terrible combat, tedious fluff, and boring copy and paste missions. They threw out the routine structure that had so much potential. It really should have been open world history hitman. You have a specific target per mission and you have to figure out how to get them. They have a set routine you have to discover and you have many ways to get to them. Maybe the target visits a brothel you discover. Maybe buy your way into a room next to the target's or pay of the prostitute to be in the room where she services the target. So many things, but instead they decided to say screw it and make a boring open world game with shitty combat. A waste of a series thats been downhill since the first one.
Also Mass Effect as a series seem to devolve with each game. I bought into the first game because I was hyped up on the idea of story you had a control over and the exploration of far off planets. Instead ME1's story mostly goes the same only you can effect things that don't really matter. Who cares if Wrex dies, it's not like the story is dramatically changed. Nor does it matter if Kaiden or Ashley live or die. The story will really go the same place.
Also the worlds were so boring and bland looking. What a boring future that apparently is made up of campers on un-interesting planets. You spend the rest of your time in a Space Mall while a cool looking cityscape laughs at you from the outside. The world that you see in ME sucks. Dosen't help that they story devolves into typical sci fi shit.
ME2 fixes none of these problems. Instead of having better expansive level design the levels become hallways and even less full of exploration. Oh but the combat is good. The story in the end feels very pointless as well.
The 3rd game just says screw it. Screw having worthwhile sidequests. They just become fetch missions you overheard. Screw quality designed side missions. Here's a lazily thrown together horde mode mission. The world becomes even smaller to the point of even the boring Space Mall feeling dumbed down. Remember all the conversations with your party members? Nope, you have so little interaction now and one of them is with the boring marine character who never goes beyond the stereotype. Who cares about the story that goes to shit and forces a conflict into the centerpiece of the entire series even though it was so undeserved in any other game that it feels very random. I laugh anytime people claim that it's just the ending that people have a problem with. ME3 is shitty as a whole.
The sequels never fixed that and instead went off into a different and worse direction becoming just another open world game with terrible combat, tedious fluff, and boring copy and paste missions. They threw out the routine structure that had so much potential. It really should have been open world history hitman. You have a specific target per mission and you have to figure out how to get them. They have a set routine you have to discover and you have many ways to get to them. Maybe the target visits a brothel you discover. Maybe buy your way into a room next to the target's or pay of the prostitute to be in the room where she services the target. So many things, but instead they decided to say screw it and make a boring open world game with shitty combat. A waste of a series thats been downhill since the first one.
Also Mass Effect as a series seem to devolve with each game. I bought into the first game because I was hyped up on the idea of story you had a control over and the exploration of far off planets. Instead ME1's story mostly goes the same only you can effect things that don't really matter. Who cares if Wrex dies, it's not like the story is dramatically changed. Nor does it matter if Kaiden or Ashley live or die. The story will really go the same place.
Also the worlds were so boring and bland looking. What a boring future that apparently is made up of campers on un-interesting planets. You spend the rest of your time in a Space Mall while a cool looking cityscape laughs at you from the outside. The world that you see in ME sucks. Dosen't help that they story devolves into typical sci fi shit.
ME2 fixes none of these problems. Instead of having better expansive level design the levels become hallways and even less full of exploration. Oh but the combat is good. The story in the end feels very pointless as well.
The 3rd game just says screw it. Screw having worthwhile sidequests. They just become fetch missions you overheard. Screw quality designed side missions. Here's a lazily thrown together horde mode mission. The world becomes even smaller to the point of even the boring Space Mall feeling dumbed down. Remember all the conversations with your party members? Nope, you have so little interaction now and one of them is with the boring marine character who never goes beyond the stereotype. Who cares about the story that goes to shit and forces a conflict into the centerpiece of the entire series even though it was so undeserved in any other game that it feels very random. I laugh anytime people claim that it's just the ending that people have a problem with. ME3 is shitty as a whole.
PapaEmeritus
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Captain_Kusanagi
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Rival Schools.
If only because we have not gotten a sequel in almost 15 years but who could forget the omission of the "Burning Blood Youth Diary" feature from the original left out of the NA and EU versions. I was so excited to be able to create my own character, edit stats, level up character by learning new moves. *sigh*
If only because we have not gotten a sequel in almost 15 years but who could forget the omission of the "Burning Blood Youth Diary" feature from the original left out of the NA and EU versions. I was so excited to be able to create my own character, edit stats, level up character by learning new moves. *sigh*
I liked how they were going with the first one. The people who were basically slaves uprising against a massive corporation. I thought that would lead on to them moving on to rescue and set free other colonies but they messed it up completely. I just liked the whole setting and direction Red Faction was going in the first one.
On top of the obvious, I'll add Paper Mario.
The first game is one of my favourite games of all time, the second one TTYD is the one everyone loves, so you'd think they'd just take that formula and make a competent squeal. No, no they fucking don't, instead we get a boring pseudo-RPG-platformer. Then the 3DS version is announced, and the early screenshots show, oh my God, this game actually has a battle screen! Is it returning to the original formula that we love? Not to mention the art-style would fit right in, in 3D. Then, instead, we get the complete monstrosity that is Sticker Star. Not only is it the worst game ever, it's an irredeemable absolute fucking piece of pure bastarding garbage.
The first game is one of my favourite games of all time, the second one TTYD is the one everyone loves, so you'd think they'd just take that formula and make a competent squeal. No, no they fucking don't, instead we get a boring pseudo-RPG-platformer. Then the 3DS version is announced, and the early screenshots show, oh my God, this game actually has a battle screen! Is it returning to the original formula that we love? Not to mention the art-style would fit right in, in 3D. Then, instead, we get the complete monstrosity that is Sticker Star. Not only is it the worst game ever, it's an irredeemable absolute fucking piece of pure bastarding garbage.
Not for me, I tried 2 and Guerilla but they had lost something from the first RF.
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This isn't a series
PooBone
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GREAT ANSWER
Even Kingdom Hearts now that i think to it. KH1 and COM seems like wonderful fables, from KH2 till now the saga has become a some sort of shonen, with the story that contradicts itself, full of stereotypes and plot holes. Sad to see a piece of my childhood ruined for the same reason that ruined AC: Money.
That's what I came here to post. Agree completely and have never forgiven SEGA who are masters of shooting themselves in the foot.
ROUGE_BLOCK
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Fable defeats all. Not one of those games lived up to there potential (even if the first was a fun game) and frequently were weighted with Peter Molyneaux's promises for the next greatest thing ever, again and again.
Not to mention it's one of MS main first party exclusives, and never has an exclusive been so drab and failed to amount to anything but mediocre action-adventure game.
Even the anniversary edition of Fable 1 was disappointing.
Not to mention it's one of MS main first party exclusives, and never has an exclusive been so drab and failed to amount to anything but mediocre action-adventure game.
Even the anniversary edition of Fable 1 was disappointing.
PixyJunket
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My first thought was that Sonic should be given a Lifetime Achievement Award for his, but then I thought, what's to be disappointed by? Sonic was from day one meant to be a Poochie character, an "edgy" focus tested kids character made purely to market a variety products with. And he has lived up to that in spades.
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Jotamide
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It's could've been the Persona of fighting games in a way.
Before entering the topic, Assassins Creed is what came to mind. I really thought Desmond was going to get a huge game modern day. So much build up for nothing. Everything about Desmond was a waste. The opening cutscene for 3 made me think they were going to so it right but we all know how 3 turned out.
Saints row for me, loved 1 & 2 but then 3 came out and toned down the customization and tried too hard to be wacky/funny/stupid. 4 looks like it went down the same path 3 did.
Remember Black on Ps2? didn't that get a sequel or spiritual successor? can't remember what i didn't like about it but it was cheeks.
Tony hawk's?
Remember Black on Ps2? didn't that get a sequel or spiritual successor? can't remember what i didn't like about it but it was cheeks.
Tony hawk's?
Every Assassin's Creed has had the same basic gameplay loops. There's never been much to expect :X
Killzone is a really good answer I think.
PooBone
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I really enjoyed Fable 1. I was able to decipher the BS that Molyneux was spouting though. That's a big caveat.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
Fable. Series has continued to misfire, starting from the first which failed to live up to most of the grandiose promises laid out by Molyneux.
LookAtMeGo
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I would agree with people saying Killzone if I didnt love KZ2 so much. Overall it has been pretty disappointing though.
I would say Watchdogs but thats not a series so I think I will have to say Fable. When I first heard about the game I was excited beyond belief but I have not enjoyed a single entry so far and I don't think that will change with the new one.
Not saying its a bad game. Just a huge disappointment for me personally.
I would say Watchdogs but thats not a series so I think I will have to say Fable. When I first heard about the game I was excited beyond belief but I have not enjoyed a single entry so far and I don't think that will change with the new one.
Not saying its a bad game. Just a huge disappointment for me personally.
NickFire
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Sure I will. Although the lack of endings tailored solely to the specific choices made in the three part game was less than ideal (though not unexpected - having choices matter is one thing, having 300 endings is another), the series was no where near what I believe can fairly be called disappointing, never mind the most disappointing of all time. The game provided its fans with over 100 hours of great gameplay, and in my opinion was the greatest 3 game trilogy of all time.
The Albatross
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For me..
Fighting Force.
I was so amped for this game on PSX. A beat em up with a partially 3D world, nice character models, and made by Core + Eidos (who were behind TR & TR2)... I was so ready for this game. I remember downloading a movie of it from IGN all morning on my old dialup connection and it was like a 5 second gif-quality of a guy walking into a group of baddies and beating them up. I was so ready to play the shit out of this game. And then it was just disappointing garbage.
Still, this was a time when really lousy games got sequels, and so FIghting Force 2 came out, which was not a beat em up. And it was somehow worse.
http://www.ign.com/articles/1997/11/04/fighting-force
Fighting Force 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCZ--6uJmc
Fighting Force 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_77V7qPy0
Fighting Force.
I was so amped for this game on PSX. A beat em up with a partially 3D world, nice character models, and made by Core + Eidos (who were behind TR & TR2)... I was so ready for this game. I remember downloading a movie of it from IGN all morning on my old dialup connection and it was like a 5 second gif-quality of a guy walking into a group of baddies and beating them up. I was so ready to play the shit out of this game. And then it was just disappointing garbage.
Still, this was a time when really lousy games got sequels, and so FIghting Force 2 came out, which was not a beat em up. And it was somehow worse.
http://www.ign.com/articles/1997/11/04/fighting-force
Fighting Force 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCZ--6uJmc
Fighting Force 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_77V7qPy0
SuperSonic1305
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Warzone? First person cover? Hate it all you want but don't spread this BS about the same old formula.
Dictator93
Member
THe multiplayer and some of the guns aer the only good things about that game. I just played the single player again early last week. It was wretched. really really wretched.
PooBone
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Yep.
fuzzyreactor
Banned
All the Killzone responses make me weep for the future of the FPS genre.
