The Most Disappointing Moments in Games (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)

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Not the most disappointing games, but the most disappointing moments. Avoid

I gotta say when they killed Lu Kang in one of the Mortal Combats. WTF?!

And when Phoenix dies in Starcraft.

There's a lot more.....
 
Uriel, those aren't disappointing so much as unexpected plot events. Well maybe not the Mortal Kombat one.

A better disappointing moment in gaming history might be Daikatana.
 
Uhhh, no they're disappointments. Disappointments can be applied to gameplay, graphics, sound, storyline, etc.

But I stated moments, which are applied to the story. Unexpected plot twists can still disappoint, suck, and so on.

EDIT: ooooooh, I got a big one. When you can't kill the CyberDemon Lord with regular weapons and have to use the soul cube. Along with finding there was no SpiderDemon Lord :(
 
I think it almost goes without saying, after playing through the tanker chapter of MGS2, being forced to play as the slightly-less-manly Raiden for the remainder of the game.
 
Slightly? Raiden was ghey.

Umm... probably "WTF ANOTHER HALO SCREW EARTH" in Halo2.
 
when I realized how bad force commander was
 
The entirety of the Halo 2 campaign on Xbox.
 
Stigmata said:
The entirety of the Halo 2 campaign on Xbox.
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Quite. Especially the ending.

A lot of the story in Max Payne 2 sucked. I thought it was too confusing and less compelling than the original.
 
Oooh, I've got another one.

Perfect Dark Zero.

****ing Rareware. :|
 
Hate to say it, but Episode One's ending pissed me off, even if it was only because I was starved for more.
 
Ending of Metroid Prime 2 sucked the fat one compared to the first one :/
 
Finding how little espionage there was available in Civ4. Due to be fixed with next expansion though. /happy
 
When the Royal Mail start a strike on the day that your game is supposed to be posted to your house.

Disappointing. >_<
 
Disappointments:

- Victor Troska's death in OFP:Resistance
- Deus Ex: Invisible War
- Planetside: Core Combat
- Neocron (a few patches into retail)
- Max Payne 'Nightmare' sequences
 
Ah yes, Perfect Dark Zero. I remember playing it for the first time round my mates' house. It was so boring and generic, much like Halo.
 
2003 in Video Gaming. First there was Unreal 2, which smelt like the rancid feces removed from the arses of 20,000 dogs destined to bulk out a day's worth of big macs. Then Homeworld 2 happened and it sucked more than the vacuum it is (supposedly) set in. Then Half-Life 2 promised to save the downward spiral of the FPS by September. You know what happened next.) Then Final Fantasy X-2 set the trend for Square-Enix's commercial comeback and utter artistic failure. And we saw Christmas in with Deus Ex: Invisible War. Santa's 'naughty' list must have been particularly long this year, because Deus Ex 2 was 'average and still playable', meaning that by comparison it was utterly terrible. He was opposed to the Iraq War or something.

Looking at the list of 'notable' games in 2003 isn't too exciting. There isn't a single game there really sticks out in my mind, just a collection of 'good' games and a heap of really disappointing or god-awful ones. Still, 2003 just made 2004 look even better...
 
Halo 2: Covenant attack Earth 'by accident'. "Earth will never be the same.." What a load of ****ing shit.

Perfect Dark 0: Horrible game. Just horrible.

Far Cry: Wondering around the 6th level if the gameplay was ever going to change. Shame the 14 levels did in fact not change.

Doom 3: Curious as to why I was bored at around the 20 minute mark...thinking nothing but how extremely lame it was when a dead body was flung at me in a vent and some retard way off starts "Muahaha!"ing. Twas then that I knew Doom 3 had failed, and pretty much sucked.

I'd mention some Quake 4 moments but lets face it...it really doesn't need to be said.
 
It went like this: I was playing the original Max Payne on my friend's computer. I'd been trekking accross town to do a level or two every day and was on the verge of finishing it. Then, during the final sequence, when you have to shoot the final cable to send the radio twoer crashing down, I was having a bit of trouble figuring out how to do it. Now, obviously, I would have got it eventually. Max Payne is not exactly a tough puzzle game. But, then, as I'm trying to figure it out, my friend (who had played virtually none of the game) walks in and says, "Oh, what are you doing? Can I try?" Well, I couldn't eactly say "No." It was his computer.

He figured it out and finished the game. The bastard.
 
Thief 2 ending.

"Tell me........."
*game ends

WHAT?! Maybe i gotta beat it on expert....

"Tell me........."
*game ends

NO!! NO!!!
 
Zephos said:
Ending of Metroid Prime 2 sucked the fat one compared to the first one :/
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MP2 was made of dissapointment.

You've already double-back-tracked the entire game looking for three keys in each of the three areas so you can fight three bosses and restore power to three generators.

And then, what's that you say? Nine more keys to find?? Three in each of the three areas? Give me a ****ing break
 
Yeah, Metroid Prime 2 was disappointing. I played it and got sort of a hollow sense of enjoyment out of it, but it had no magic.
 
Halo 2 ending
Doom 3
Max Payne nightmares
F.E.A.R. EP telling you that the entire game you just finished was pointless because the villains from the first came back from the dead and you accomplished nothing!
 
Stuntman: Realizing I spent $50 on a game in which I couldn't get past the third stunt.
 
MGS2 - Realizing that this whiny sissy-boy you've come to control after the tanker is the character you'll be playing for the rest of the ****ing game.

KOTOR2 - Crashing onto the final world and never seeing most of your companions again.

Prey - Those moments where bullshit Native American mysticism seeped so heavily into the story. **** Grandpa.

FEAR - Actually kind of mixed about this one. Killing Paxton Fettel. I'm glad they avoided the uber-boss routine, but just walking up to him and plugging a round into his skull seemed pretty anticlimactic.

WoW - Illidan, arguably the second most significant character of WC3 and TFT, is killed by Maiev Shadowsong. She was a crazy, unlikeable, throwaway character and should have just died in agony while hunting for him. His demise was also lacking connections to other characters that were important in his development (ie. Tyrande and Malfurion). Also, learning that Prince Kael'thas went crazy as a bullshit excuse for you to fight him. It's like Blizzard's entire approach to lore in BC was shitting in a bucket and finger-painting over the rich tapestry they had built up until that point.
 
ArmA. It's my own fault for not knowing better but I thought it was going to be like an Operation Flashpoint 2. It was a great game for what it was supposed to be, I guess. Actually, I wouldn't have been as disappointed if it hadn't run like shit on my PC.
 
I'd have to say an Far Cry, when the "Tridgens" or whatever first appeared. that was the last time I played that game, and vow to never play it again. I mean..way to take the story downhill.
 
CyberPitz said:
I'd have to say an Far Cry, when the "Tridgens" or whatever first appeared. that was the last time I played that game, and vow to never play it again. I mean..way to take the story downhill.
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Ah, good point. Similarly, the moment that the first Thief game resorted to having 'Zombie missions' because someone just didn't trust the gaming public to be enthralled solely by the Sneaking missions.
 
Turok: Evolution for the PS2 biggest letdown of the Turok series.
 
Finding out there would be no true successor to Imperium Galactica II :(
 
All of Halo 2, especially the ending.
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. My hopes weren't high but FFS, the SP campaign was poor (And some parts really weren't finished), the story had a grand total of one interesting plot point/twist and the Scrin are simply not fun to fight.
Deus Ex: Invisible War.
Enter The Matrix. I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking but I did think that the game would be finished.
 
riomhaire said:
Enter The Matrix. I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking but I did think that the game would be finished.
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I bought EtM a while back and I tried playing it. I got sick and tired of it and uninstalled it. It's sitting on my shelf as we speak. :rolleyes:

Doom3 - Too many #*$)* monster closets!
Half-Life - On A Rail (OMG!!!! *shoots computer*)
Half-Life2 - 1. Waiting for Alyx to find me in Nova Prospekt while I'm busy getting my head blown off by thousands of Combine soldiers.
2. Finding out after finishing the game that I can guide missiles with the launcher laser. (Not the game's fault).
 
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