I'm playing Devil May Cry 2 right now and it's a pretty horrible game. I'd stop playing it but I want to finish it at least once and be done with it, since I want to play the entire Devil May Cry saga. The graphics are boring and so is the gameplay. The music is lazy and can hardly be heard over the guns. The story? What story? It's just some cutscenes interconnected in between boring easy battles. This game is pretty disappointing, especially after having played Devil May Cry 1 immediately before.

What are some of your gaming disappointments?

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@Zero I've seen all the Ringus. The only one I liked was Ringu Zero and it's still not as great.

Speaking of Asian horror, I highly recommend "The Eye." The original, not the Jessica Alba remake.

@Oldmanwinter I really don't like the Final Fantasy IV remake on the DS and iOS. The music and graphics just didn't translate well, in my opinion. The PSP remake is far superior. I'm hoping for a Final Fantasy VI remake along the same lines.

Edit: Cecil's Dark Knight Costume in the DS remake is badass, though.

@sirmastersephiroth Yuck. I hate the PSP remake. Weirdly high-res sprites and text that look out of place, like a cheap flash game or something from RPG maker. I thought the DS remake was vastly superior. You and I do not agree much on remakes/translations, it seems.

Xbob42 said:

@sirmastersephiroth Yuck. I hate the PSP remake. Weirdly high-res sprites and text that look out of place, like a cheap flash game or something from RPG maker. I thought the DS remake was vastly superior. You and I do not agree much on remakes/translations, it seems.

I think this discussion deserves it's own roundtable....right here.

This thread reminded me of Metroid Other M, and how horrible disappointed in that game I was/am.

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Cecil Harvey >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> All other FF Protagonists.

Maybe I just don't get uber excited for games, but I don't really have any big disappointments other than Yoshi's Story. I loved Yoshi's Island and what they did with Story just didn't click with me.

I love Zelda games, but I don't expect everyone to be the greatest ever. So I can't say I've been largely disappointed with any of them.

I can't believe people are saying Super Mario 3D Land. That's one of my favorite Mario games. It's head and shoulders above any of the "New" games.

I'm huge fan of the Metroid series. So maybe I should've been more hyped for Other M, but it was announced so close to release and so little was known about it for awhile I had trouble building excitement. It wasn't the best Metroid game, but I still enjoyed it.

As far as Final Fantasy goes. The only mainline one I like is XII. Give me Tactics over the standard RPG any day of the week.

Oh wait, I thought some other ones.

Fez - This isn't really fair to the game. I was just expecting something else that what the game is. I thought it was going to be a platformer with a cool mechanic. But it ended up being more of a puzzle/adventure game.

Hard Corps: Uprising - Even though it isn't a 'Contra' game it was a little too slow for my idea of a Contra-like game. I also didn't like the leveling up either. The game didn't get fun until your character got stronger. However, the game was more fun once you paid for a new character.

Yar's Revenge - It's a new Panzer Dragoon/Starfox type game. But they really didn't balance the weapons/enemies well and wasn't fun.

It's weird that my main disappointments in recent years have all been XBLA games. I think it's because they're doing different things on there that aren't done in the mainstream. And I'm hoping they really pull it off.

I also have a large backlog. So it's hard to get excited for new games when you're still playing the previous year's games (not to mention 5+ year old games).

I love Super Mario 3D Land. It may not be the best Mario game, but it's pretty awesome. Leagues better than New Super Mario Bros. 2.

Edit: I'm also surprised that no one has jumped at me for hating on Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.

@Brick I think Other M was weak next to the best Metroid games, but I didn't come in with high expectations really, because I'm not a huge Team Ninja fan. If anything they exceeded my expectations there and made a pretty good game.

@sirmastersephiroth I liked SML2 as a kid, but last time I tried to play it (maybe 5-6 years ago) it just seemed so wrong somehow. I dunno.

As for Other M, the original trailer got my expectations sky-high, as Team Ninja + 3D Metroid was like some beautiful bizarre dream match I never knew I wanted, and everything about the trailer looked amazing. But as more details came out (Wiimote only, context dodge, auto-aim, first-person missiles, THE BABY) my hype leveled out. It was disappointing based on what I imagined it could be, but by launch my expectations were a little more realistic. I still was a little let down overall, but I was ready for it, so I don't count it as a huge disappointment.

It has, however, tempered my expectations on any Sakamoto-led Metroid games in the future. Most of the things I didn't like about Other M seemed to have his fingerprints, rather than Team Ninja's.

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I'm with you on that. My expectation were low and so Other M exceeded them and I had fun with the game. Unlike say, my rather big Metroid fan of a friend who spent the lead up to Other M's releasing overhyping himself saying it'll be the next Super Metroid and taking it upon himself to denigrate the Prime games. Suffice to say he was disappointed by the game and that is putting it lightly so nowadays whenever Other M is discussed for whatever reason, I like to rub his nose in his own hubris.

Other M:

A pretty good game. I was the same as most, my expectations were not very high and I didn't mind playing with just the Wiimote (Some people still don't know you can dodge while in first person) and seeing as I was not the biggest fan of Prime (although I enjoyed it), I didn't mind it being a bit more linear then the previous series...ok - a LOT more linear. Still - it was a good action game - I wish Sakamoto son allowed the voice actress who plays Samus more emotion wile delivering her lines, but the script was a bit on the lame side and the story direction even lamer. What bugged me the most was her not being allowed to activate her Varia/Heat Suit while in a hot area.. Balls.

I picked it up new for $11. No regrets.

@Smerd I bought it for $5 new.

sirmastersephiroth said:

@GameDadGrant The question everyone is dying to ask.........which FFVI version are you playing?

Gameboy Advance version.

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I finally beat Devil May Cry 2. What a horrible game! I can't wait till the Angry Video Game Nerd starts doing PS2 reviews so he can review this travesty! The ending is pathetic, and then it says "Now play the Lucia Chapters." Screw that!!! I'm done with this game.

GameDadGrant said:

sirmastersephiroth said:

@GameDadGrant The question everyone is dying to ask.........which FFVI version are you playing?

Gameboy Advance version.

You are officially banned from Negative World.

I'm getting the urge to play this game with all the discussion in this thread. I need to finish FFIV on the PSP first.

For Metroid Other M, I'd say the only part of it that was disappointing was the story/cutscenes. For all the hype and being the biggest budget ever for a Nintendo game, I expected it to be something better than what we got. Better written, better presented, all that. I hadn't watched the trailers or anything either, so I hadn't caught a glimpse of what it was shaping up to be. I didn't find it insulting or anything extreme like some people's reactions, I simply thought it wasn't good. For things like the controls, I found out about that beforehand, so I already knew they'd be terrible. Getting past all that, it was still a fun action game, so I enjoyed it overall.

@Xbob42 A million times better than anything in Devil May Cry 2. Seriously.

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Yes! Does that mean you will start Harvest Moon today? I'm getting lonely!

@Mop it up I dunno, I had played Team Ninja's Ninja Gaiden game and holy F it has one of the weakest sets of characters, some of the poorest storytelling, etc. in any big budget game I have played. So yeah, wasn't expecting much from Team Ninja there.

Although it might have been Sakamoto that wrote a lot of the story stuff, I dunno.