(OT) Games That Have Dissapointed You

Growltigger · #1 February 28th, 2003, 11:22 AM

Dont know about bad games, I have been quite lucky in that regard (and dont buy many games anyhow) but games I have loved straight out of the box are as follows

1 Age of Empires/Age of Kings
2 Starfleet Command (easy to control with a bit of practice)
3 Mediaval - Total War
4 Dark Forces
5 Whacky Races (Morris the Moose is a diva)
6 Cuthroats
7 Any Tomb Raider game

henk brouwer · #2 February 28th, 2003, 12:50 PM

The greatest disapointment I had was with M.A.X.2 (Mechanized Assault and eXploration). The original MAX1 is in my top 3 of best games ever, it's a relatively unknown turnbased command and conquer clone with lots of strategic aspects. (If you haven't tried it, do)
I could rant here for an hour about MAX2 and what's wrong with it but I won't (do a search on google if your interested in that).. It's a sad thing that so many sequels to great titles get rushed out of the door and end up like big dissapointments.

[ February 28, 2003, 10:52: Message edited by: henk brouwer ]

DavidG · #3 February 28th, 2003, 01:57 PM

That's an easy one: Metal Gear: Solid.

It should have been nameed - Metal Gear: A lame movie with brief periods of gameplay in between.

tesco samoa · #4 March 1st, 2003, 02:27 AM

Capitalism 2
Civ 1 , 2 ,2a and the other ones

Imperilism 2

Bob the Builder

Gryphin · #5 March 1st, 2003, 02:34 AM

I guess my dissapointment has been more along the lines of games that have never been produced:
Empire Deluxe II
Battle Isle II, (had hex based movement)
Ballence of Power, (Cris Crawford). An outstanding simulation of Cold war. For those who know it I found a way to win every time.
Don't do Anything. You score will not be as high but the world will love you.

Aloofi · #6 February 28th, 2003, 03:30 PM

Bad Games that I didn't like:
-Deadlock
-Seven Kingdoms 2

Good games that I didn't like:
-Pharaoh (I love Caesar III)
-Age of Kings (my first RTS)
-Medieval {that awful strategy map)
-Call to Power

Games I like:
-SE4
-Civ3 (my own mod, with recruiting units from the actual population and only historicly neighbouring tribes)
-Shogun
-Lords of the Realm II (my first game, back in '96)
-Strategy Command

raynor · #7 February 28th, 2003, 03:56 PM

M.A.X.1 was a an awesome game for the first 100 turns or so. After that it, it was worse than MAX2 because it would frequently crash. MAX2 was released unfinished. IMHO, that is the same story with MOO3. I think they made some design decisions that resulted in a game that was even more unplayable than the current game. But they knew that if they released at least something that they could make some money off the name.

Even with the mid-to-late-game bugs and crashes in MAX1, I still load it up at least once a year and play around with it. There is and probably never will be a game that compares to it in terms of building a base with radar, anti-air defense, turrets, etc.