Games that were good, but still disappointing. - General Discussion Forum - Page 2

Jaz007 · 2015-07-27T00:29:06+00:00

This is about a game that you enjoyed, but didn't live up to your expectations. I'll start it off. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood I played AC1, loved it, and thought it had great combat. Soon after I got Brotherhood, I was really excited considering it supposed to have improved the game in everything including combat. For the most part this was true, expect for combat. I stealth, missions, weapon variety was all improved, but the combat felt like they did everything to mess up the greatness of the first one. I realized this for sure about half way through the game. Brotherhood got rid of combo kills and introduced kill streaks instead. I loved combo kills, and kill streaks were like an stupidly easy version of combo that removes the difficulty and the satisfaction. It also got rid of regenerative health, and introduced medicine instead. Which it let you have 15 of and made for instant health regeneration in combat, making it impossible to die unless it was on purpose. It also got rid of countering grabs and had them grab you and just mash square to get out. It didn't feel as responsive either. In AC1 if you pressed block when someone was midway through a swing, you blocked, not so in Brotherhood. It also made some enemies impossible to counter instead of just making not kill them like the in the AC1. It also made hidden blades too easy to use in combat as opposed to making them hard, but possible and rewarding like in the first one. It was really a shame too since the game improved on the first one so much in other ways. It let you pull people off roofs, assassinate from the air, had better mission structure etc. It was a good game, but marred by the combat. Anyone else have stories of a good that was ended being disappointing?

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Unashamed_116
Sun 20th Sep 2015

@RR529: I had pretty much the same experience as you, I think. FFXII was absolutely beautiful, and I did enjoy it, but it never lived up to the standards set by FFX for me, and I never finished it either. That's one of the few games I'd be really happy to see remastered for the current gen, actually, because I feel I probably didn't appreciate it properly the first time around.

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2Pac
Sun 20th Sep 2015

Disney Infinity 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. I've always bought these games thinking they would be the best game ever. I always have really high expectations for any game...I still like them though...

the switch is pretty cool.

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Jaz007
Sun 20th Sep 2015

@BusterRed123: They do cost enough to give that impression.

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Tasuki
Sun 20th Sep 2015

I have only played a bit of it but I am leaning towards Batman Arkham Knight. It's a good game but honestly it didn't wow me like Asylum did and definitely not like City did. The Batmobile just feels like it's forced on you and the controls for it are horrible. Using the battlemode makes it feel like a third person shooter.

As I said it's a good game I am just disappointed that it didn't live up to the standard that the other two games did.

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SuperSilverback
Sun 20th Sep 2015

The Phantom Pain. Fantastic gameplay. Story wasnt great at all. And fairly short. The ending really disappointed me as well.

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Tasuki
Sun 20th Sep 2015

iDangerMouse_ wrote:

I'd say my biggest one is Watch Dogs. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but the hype that was thrown into it pre-release just made it disappointing to play and the storyline was a bit dull IMO.

I still haven't played that game and I doubt I ever will. As you said the hype built around it set it up to be a disappointment.

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Hego
Sun 20th Sep 2015

Dragon Age: Inquisition for me. Looked very impressive before it launched and although parts of that game are good, it has a serious amount of filler and just bland elements. Good game but a lot of lost potential. Really feel a great addition to it would have been a mission or two where you controlled your Inquisition Army as it attacked a certain base or stronghold, I was crying out for this from halfway on through the game.
Also AC:Unity, loved the setting and I do feel Ubisoft did try to freshen up the missions from past games, the murder investigations were a highlight in particularly, but the gameplay is still criminally lacking in those games, another series with so much wasted potential

[Edited Sun 20th Sep 2015 by Hego]

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