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Has to be Black and White II for me. I was actually excited to unbox it and play it, I just KNEW that they devs got this one right after falling short in the first version. The sequel sucked even harder than the original 
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The OP.
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The OC
THAT TOO
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Warhammer Online.
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Has to be Black and White II for me. I was actually excited to unbox it and play it, I just KNEW that they devs got this one right after falling short in the first version. The sequel sucked even harder than the original
I was thinking B&W II also when I read the title of the thread. I really did like the first one. It's just that it became unmanageable by the end of the game. You're trying to protect / raise a village while getting fireballs thrown at you from the AI, which would destroy all the progress you made, and you'd get stuck...the AI wasn't aggressive enough to completely wipe you, but you could never build up enough to match them.
B&W II sounded interesting, but the whole mechanic of having your beast raise its own child was terrible. I think I made it about two hours into the campaign until the AI came by and suddenly "charmed" half my army and used it to fight against me. I uninstalled it and never played it again after that.
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Metroid.
Samus is a chick!
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Warhammer Online.
This one will be a popular choice on this board because it received so much hype here and people here were at the time starving for DAOC-like PVP
It is a good example of why I am a late adopter when it comes to games. I avoided this steaming turd entirely 
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MOO3.
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Probably NWN. It was hyped to basically be the next generation of roleplaying games and it ended up being the worst thing BW has ever made and so awful it was painful.
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Ultima 5.
Running on a system with well above recommended specs your avatar jerked and weaved across the screen like an EQ character on a 1200 baud modem.
edit: I may be thinking of Ultima 8...
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WAR was a big one for me. I had a ton of hopes for that game. And then I played beta... and then I deluded myself into getting a collector's edition. I knew in beta that the game wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be, yet I continued to tell myself it would be another DAoC era of my life. I was wrong.
That game more or less cheated on me
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Warhammer Online.
This.
Spell animations looked like they were made in MSpaint ffs. Lots of stuff was poorly thought out and the good stuff was poorly applied.
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Asherons Call.
What a piece of crap.
Most of the other games listedby others are probably even worse, but i was warned off them so i didn't waste my money.
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Spore
agreed, the video demo/trailer was nothing like the actual game.
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Asherons Call.
What a piece of crap.
Most of the other games listedby others are probably even worse, but i was warned off them so i didn't waste my money.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion but I loved that game. Everyone I know that played it loved that game.
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Well yeah Warhammer was dissapointing, since I too was hoping (in vain) for something DAOC2-ish.
Deep down I knew there weren't any guarantees of that, but still.
Well one's stumbled over a few turds or just plain meh over the years of course.
Red Faction 2 for instance.
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Spore
agreed, the video demo/trailer was nothing like the actual game.
This is a good candidate too. The only fun part of the game was the animal phase, which lasted about 2 hours and got boring by the time you were done with it.
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MOO3 or Spore
I always assume a new MMO is just a weaksauce WoW clone with terrible, cliched mechanics. So that way, I'm never disappointed by warhammer/STO/ rift/etc
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asplain plz. I was considering buying this and want to be talked out of it if it sucks.
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Age of Conan
No matter how disappointed with Warhammer too, it was actually ranked #2 for me out
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asplain plz. I was considering buying this and want to be talked out of it if it sucks.
2 of us listed it as the most disappointing game of all time.
What more could you possibly need to convince you not to buy it?
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asplain plz. I was considering buying this and want to be talked out of it if it sucks.
Impenetrable interface, automates the stuff you like to manage, forces you to manage the stuff no one cares about, elimination of many classic MOO races, crappy combat..etc etc. Its so bad, the original lead designer doesn't even mention it on his resume.
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MoO 3 was bad but not that bad on its own. What made it so awful was it was a the sequel to two great games.
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asplain plz. I was considering buying this and want to be talked out of it if it sucks.
It screwed up almost everything that was great about MoO and MoO2. The game was a buggy, crashing mess. The space battles were terrible and the AI really bad. You couldn't even upgrade your old ships when you researched new tech.
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Asheron's Call was a ton of fun.
Asheron's Call 2 takes the cake for disappointing.
It is followed closely by Warhammer. 
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You couldn't even upgrade your old ships when you researched new tech.
So instead of automatically retrofitting your ships with newly-researched tech (something I really wished they'd have included in MOO2 and one of the few things I did not like managing in that game) they simply eliminated the ability entirely? Yeah that's pretty weak.
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WAR > SWTOR > FFXI
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WAR > SWTOR if only because WAR actually had some ambition.
But by the same token WAR was the more disappointing game. I knew SWTOR was basically going to be a derivative meh MMO once you got through the single player bits. I was hoping WAR would actualyl be a good game.
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WAR > SWTOR if only because WAR actually had some ambition.
But by the same token WAR was the more disappointing game. I knew SWTOR was basically going to be a derivative meh MMO once you got through the single player bits. I was hoping WAR would actualyl be a good game.
What? SWTOR spent 100 million $$$ on voice-acting alone, now THATs ambition 
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lets recap the FFXI launch.
* two weeks before US launch, they killed the US servers, and told us we would play on existing asian servers.
* existing players rape the market and inflate everything needed to level tradeskills
* gil sellers jacked prices through the roof, and you needed to buy gil because you couldn't earn enough to buy stuff
* poisons that never wear off, and eventually kill you, unless you find someone to cure you
* when you die, you lose exp and can lose a level
* many key abilities required synchronizing with other players moves, which is difficult when they don't speak your language
that game made Trials of Atlantis a dream to play, which was released on the same day.
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I think I have dodged every game mentioned as disappointing with the exception of Warhammer, and I enjoyed the first 30 levels very much.
I would still be playing WAR if its end game wasn't a horrible lagfest of unmitigated disaster.
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Star Wars Galaxies probably turned into the biggest disappointment after a year or so.
It was fun while it lasted, though.
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AC was good. AC2 sucked at launch and was the best MMOG I ever played shortly after everyone quit.
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I think I have dodged every game mentioned as disappointing with the exception of Warhammer, and I enjoyed the first 30 levels very much.
I would still be playing WAR if its end game wasn't a horrible lagfest of unmitigated disaster.
6vs6 Eternal Citadel is probably closest thing to DAOCs 8vs8
Open world RVR, though, was so dumbed down, in micro size areas, that it was laughable to
anyone that played DAOC NF. Pre-set positions for siege weaponry? Cmon, WHY would enemy
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NOLF II. It was so short I returned it for full refund after beating it in two days, maybe 4 hours of playtime.
I would say DAoC but I was too smart to ever actually play it.
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It was senior year in high school for me, we were in a playoff game in a do or die situation to go to district playoffs and I was supposed to pitch, but had only 2 days rest since my last start (which I won). Coach decided to go with my friend and the other lefty pitcher who promptly let up 3 runs and loaded the bases with no outs in the first inning. In I went and shut down the side, including picking a guy off at first base. I went on to pitch all but the last inning and threw 7 strike outs with only 2 walks and 2 hits and another pickoff at first. We lost the game 3-2 and our season, and my high school baseball career was over. Easily the most disappointing game for me.
Oh you mean computer games?
DAOC
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Some MMORPG that had a minotaur on the cover of a grey box... around 7 years ago.
It was so not memorable that I don't remember it.
Srsly.
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Thank you. Yes, that. Sucked.
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Shadowbane had very good classes and ways to spec them, but
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The sequel to Betrayal at Krondor. Betrayal is one of my all time favorites. The sequel stunk. Same with Bard's Tale 2. Ultima 9, as someone mentioned, was also a let down.
For non-sequels, probably Dungeon Lords. It was done by D.W.Bradley, who did the later Wizardry games but was a mess of bugs and lousy game play.
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Shadowbane was being hyped as the EQ killer before DAOC came out. I remember lots of conversations in public chat about how awesome Shadowbane was going to be and how EQ would be deserted when it came out. 
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Shadowbane was being hyped as the EQ killer before DAOC came out. I remember lots of conversations in public chat about how awesome Shadowbane was going to be and how EQ would be deserted when it came out.
Except that DAoC came out two full years before Shadowbane. 
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Horizons, followed by Warhammer Online for me.
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Warhammer Online.
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Warhammer Online.
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Can I say TOA?
Homogenized content, ill fit theme, over the top time sinks, made existing content irrelevant..... Blah blah blah, all been said before.
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I liked WAR and had more fun in that game then a lot of other MMOs. Until the ride crashed into a blazing inferno of suck at end game.
I also like SWTOR and think it has more potential than most other MMOs out there at this point.
I think Rift was the biggest waste of money.
Dawn of War 2 was a bigger disappointment than WAR IMO.
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Can I say TOA?
Normally I don't think it's fair to be able to call out just a single expansion to a game.
OTOH, ToA mayyyybe, and New Frontiers DEFINITELY, weren't expansions. They turned the game into something totally different.
Look at NF. When you completely delete the PVP zones that used to exist and replace them with new ones rather than 'add zones and play options'... that's a new game IMO. NF was a new game. It should have been designated DAOC-II.
(NF is also when I went from "merely disgruntled DAoC player" to "ex DAoC player." I saw NF on the test server, toyed with it, and quit right as it went live. ToA annoyed me and belittled what I cared about. NF broke everything I cared about.)
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Dawn of War 2 was a bigger disappointment than WAR IMO.
Ooh, another good candidate. Dawn of War 1 is one of the best RTSes ever. Dawn of War 2 is a steaming pile of shit.
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Szerek posted:
ZigmundZag posted:
Shadowbane was being hyped as the EQ killer before DAOC came out. I remember lots of conversations in public chat about how awesome Shadowbane was going to be and how EQ would be deserted when it came out.
Except that DAoC came out two full years before Shadowbane.
I thought he meant DAOC came out, as in admitted it was gay.
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Sin_of_Onin posted:
Dawn of War 2 was a bigger disappointment than WAR IMO.
Ooh, another good candidate. Dawn of War 1 is one of the best RTSes ever. Dawn of War 2 is a steaming pile of shit.
agreed on DoW2, but I think majesty 2 was more disappointing to me. I bought majesty 2 and got the steam version of majesty gold with it, and steam tells me I've played 120 hours of majesty gold and 3 hours of majesty 2. I guess in a way i got my 30 bones worth.
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Horizons
Is that the game that promised playable dragons?
Deus Ex 2 was a huge disappointment.
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We probably should give a shout out to Battlecruiser 3000AD, too.
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Galois2005 posted:
Can I say TOA?
Normally I don't think it's fair to be able to call out just a single expansion to a game.
OTOH, ToA mayyyybe, and New Frontiers DEFINITELY, weren't expansions. They turned the game into something totally different.
Look at NF. When you completely delete the PVP zones that used to exist and replace them with new ones rather than 'add zones and play options'... that's a new game IMO. NF was a new game. It should have been designated DAOC-II.
(NF is also when I went from "merely disgruntled DAoC player" to "ex DAoC player." I saw NF on the test server, toyed with it, and quit right as it went live. ToA annoyed me and belittled what I cared about. NF broke everything I cared about.)
Yup, no AMG standoffs was what really killed game for me, too...all that was left was 1vs1, 8vs8 and huge keep battles...boring like
hell compared to AMG standoffs
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auto assault was a big wad of suck
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http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/10/01/its-utter-rubbish-but-you-should-play-critical-path-now/
Critical Path was one of earliest games to be released on CD-ROM, and featured real time video which made it appear to be graphically superior to most games of its time. In actuality, the entire game was an interactive movie, where most choices would simply cause the game to progress or end.
Finished it in 30 minutes if I remember right. lol.
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I think I have dodged every game mentioned as disappointing with the exception of Warhammer, and I enjoyed the first 30 levels very much.
I would still be playing WAR if its end game wasn't a horrible lagfest of unmitigated disaster.
Right there with ya, Moe. WAR is the most pvp fun I've had with Outposters as well.
I'll go with Shadowbane. That was the last time I really drank the koolaid. I had read the entire site and was totally juiced to play it. I got to sit at their booth's demo computer at GenCon and was incredibly horrified but they assured me it would be worked out before beta was over. When I finally played, it was even worse. What a huge suckfest.
Seems to me there have been a few rpgs that were fun but only lasted a few hours and so were ultimately disappointing, but yeah.
I haven't played ME3 yet though, and there seems some serious hate going for it atm.
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Warhammer Online.
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Warhammer Online.
This!
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Oh man I liked that game... some reason....
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I thought it was going to be a FPS. It wasn't, it sucked.
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Szerek posted:
ZigmundZag posted:
Shadowbane was being hyped as the EQ killer before DAOC came out. I remember lots of conversations in public chat about how awesome Shadowbane was going to be and how EQ would be deserted when it came out.
Except that DAoC came out two full years before Shadowbane.
You do understand that games go through these things called development, right? And in Shadowbane's case, it was a long, painful process.
For reference, here's an article on Shadowbane's announcement from May 2000.
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