Games that looked good but then turned out to be...

[Morningside]

boring.

I nominate Left 4 dead. Looks great! I mean what could be more fun than running around shooting zombies? well, you would think that but after playing for 5 minutes I just started to get really bored with it.

It may have this 'director' for adaptive gameplay but to be honest if I have cleared a room why keep making them reappear?

Then you get the same special zombies. Oh look a boomer (again).

The world has no animation in it. Everything is dead (haha) but I mean nothing operates or plays. Cars are just left there doing nothing. I want to drive or fly or something.

So all you do is run around with your 'mates' shooting the same hoard over and over again

All in all a great idea on paper but gameplay I give it 2.

any others?

[Daston]

seriously have you tried it online with your mates after a few beers??

Personally I nominate anything that has "next gen gaming" in the title as that normally means fancy graphics poor game play and bugger all content.

[Gun]

I found Modern Warfare 2 boring, I loved the first one but got bored of the second one after a few days.

[Chr1sch]

Ferrari challenge and race pro were both huge disappointments for me

[idlewillo]

Race Pro - should have been the mutts nutts but it was crap.

[GT Kodiak]

Too Human was a bit of a let down...

Beautiful fluid gameplay but everything else was clunky. Really hope they bring out a 2nd installment to smooth out the 1st one's shortcommings...

Street Fighter (The Xbox one)

It's biggest appeal also crippled it for me... You might as well just play it on a Nintendo. Nothing new... just flashy 3 Models... Looked great, gaming nirvana of the retro kind... but... meh, "I've played this before".

[redtwin]

All motorcycle racing games, motogp, wsb etc etc.

[PhillT]

I gave up on L4D2 after about three minutes, I got so fed up with having to help my idiotic teammates and didn't have a clue what was supposed to be happening. I also found Shaun White Snowboarding rather dull, which surprised me as I really like the Tony Hawk style of game.

[JakeS]

MAG for me - Bought it, played it just didn't like it so I put it on ebay. Strangely enough Bad Company 2 isn't that different but I love that game, while MAG feels a bit crap.

[rhinochopig]

Gears of War series. Stunning graphics, but it's like playing a bloody lazerdisc game from the 80s.

Do you want to take the left path or the right? WTF - No I want to just wander down that path without having the flow of the game utterly ruined. I also want to be able to jump over a hand rail down into the areas below me - I'm a bloody supersoldier FFS, yet I'm stopped by a handrail

[mackie1]

Yup, I instantly disliked MAG for some reason. I love BC2, my only grip being the slightly choppy/jumpy framerate, MW2 is rock solid smooth the whole time.

[Steve Evil]

Gran Turis...

Recently Operation Flashpoint - Dragon Rising comes to mind, could have been highly engaging, but ended up being a battle against bugs rather than the enemy.

[xr287]

PhillT said:

I gave up on L4D2 after about three minutes, I got so fed up with having to help my idiotic teammates and didn't have a clue what was supposed to be happening.

L4D2 is all about the multiplayer and coordinating a team of 4 real people, I only used single player to learn the maps and it's only really there so you have something to do if your internet is down. There are about 6 game modes and since 5 are online multiplayer that kind of tells you something about how it's expected to be played!

Edited by xr287 on Monday 8th March 10:41

[Neil H]

rhinochopig said:

Gears of War series. Stunning graphics, but it's like playing a bloody lazerdisc game from the 80s.

Do you want to take the left path or the right? WTF - No I want to just wander down that path without having the flow of the game utterly ruined. I also want to be able to jump over a hand rail down into the areas below me - I'm a bloody supersoldier FFS, yet I'm stopped by a handrail

I loved the GoW games, they are very linnear but there's still a lot to enjoy. They're more tactical than simply running around like a madman, on Insane difficulty you really have to work hard to make progress.

Horde mode on GoW2 is one of my favourite games, superb.

I bought L4D recently as I usually wait for games to drop to budget price before I buy them, I'm finding it ok, but not nearly as good as I thought it would be.

[Road Pest]

Gun said:

I found Modern Warfare 2 boring, I loved the first one but got bored of the second one after a few days.

Am the opposite on that one, the only game I've played through three times. May give it another go at the weekend.

[Skylinecrazy]

Gun said:

I found Modern Warfare 2 boring, I loved the first one but got bored of the second one after a few days.

Someone agrees with me

[LukeBird]

idlewillo said:

Race Pro - should have been the mutts nutts but it was crap.

I'm glad I didn't bother given the posts I read on here!
I still can't believe it was a howler...

[GingerWizard]

Steve Evil said:

Gran Turis...

you just JUST got away on that one.....

[Skii]

LukeBird said:

idlewillo said:

Race Pro - should have been the mutts nutts but it was crap.

I'm glad I didn't bother given the posts I read on here!
I still can't believe it was a howler...

To be fair it isn't that bad. In fact as a multiplayer racing game I've had more fun and closer realistic races on Race Pro than I've ever had on a Forza title, which I why I won't be trading my copy in for a long while. For Solo stuff like bombing around the 'ring agains the clock I'll fire up FM3, if I want to race someone its Race Pro.

Plus it has Spa

[S3_Graham]

Skylinecrazy said:

Gun said:

I found Modern Warfare 2 boring, I loved the first one but got bored of the second one after a few days.

Someone agrees with me

+2 its crap if im honest....