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Personally there are a few games which left me very dissappointed, after hyping myself up for years in certain cases.

Divinity Original Sin: turns out I prefer more streamlined, less packed games (love Pillars of Eternity) and that coop play in a CRPG stresses me out.

Wasteland 2: I actually managed to finish this one but secretly I admit I was hoping for a better Fallout which I didn't really get. New Vegas did the cowboy theme much better.

INSIDE: while the design was cool, it was just a ton of boring, easy puzzles in comparison to LIMBO, its predecessor.

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[–] RedditRefugeeTom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deus Ex: Human Revolution...Man when I saw that first teaser trailer I had tears in my eyes. Another game in my all time favorite series so many years later? AND it's a prequel?!?!

But I was pretty dissapointed. I felt the game was pretty watered down vs Deus Ex, which was also a complaint about DE2 (apart from the console favoring nature of it). The prequel aspect was also pretty dissapointing. A couple characters in the game, Gunther Hermann and Anna Navarre, were extremely noticeably mechanically augmented individuals who looked more like mechanical abominations than flesh and blood human beings. Yet in Deus Ex: Human Revolutions you did not become more machine looking as you gained augmentations. You have your limbs put in place at the beginning and that's the change, a very sleek and stylish augment. I expected to see a more grounded take from the high tech in Deus Ex, but instead was met with an entirely different universe like Deus Ex: Human Revolution was the first of its kind. Deus Ex is still and always will be my most favorite game of all time. I really hope something miraculous happens and the original game is done justice, but as long as Square Enix holds the title I highly doubt they will give the universe enough time, care and love that the original got (as a passion project).

[–] M1st3rM@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Master of Orion 3 Played 1 and 2 all the time as a kid with my brother and my father. We were SO hyped that there was going to be a MOO3 and we bought it blind because that's what you did back then. We were in for a massive disappointment. They had some good intentions to reduce Mikromanagement but we never understood how to really play it. We tried it again after a while but came to the same conclusion

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Halo. I picked up the collection in the summer steam sale for $10 and it was just ... boring. I guess that's to be expected for a 20+ year old game, the genre has innovated and improved a lot since then.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Halo is one of my favorite games of all time, and I played the shit out of the first one when it came out. It was absolutely game changing for console shooters. Before that, I hada SNES (skipped N64 era). It absolutely blew my mind.

Unfortunately, I don't think it really held up. If you played it back then, the nostalgia still hits hard and that's fun. But if you play it for the first time now, it just won't hit the same, unfortunately.

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[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In the most recent history, No Man's Sky. I know it's gotten better over the years, but that initial blandness was rough. Other than that in three days a spiritual successor to jet set radio comes out (bomb rush cyberfunk) and I just have a sneaking suspicion that it's going to let me down. The devs have been so quiet for so long about it... And in three days I get to learn the truth.

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[–] Amro@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

@verycoolusername Yes. I waited nine months for "Life!". And it sucks. The levels are to long. The rules are incomprehensible. Other players are getting away with shit I can't because of the rules. And don't get me started on the NPC's or the game mechanics.
Don't recommend.

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[–] WorldWideLem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

SOCOM IV

Waited for a long time for that one and unfortunately they couldn't resist COD-ifying it. It's a shame because they had some cool things in it, loved the bomb defuser escort game mode.

[–] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Resident Evil 3 Remake.

I knew the new Nemesis was crap but I wasn't ready for how dull the rest of the game is as well.

[–] Hyperi0n@lemmy.film 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Resident Evil 2 Remake as well.

Doing away with the fixed camera really kills the vibe of the game. Just being able to hear by not see an enemy has so much suspence.

Gaining lore from the background objects. Another product of the time but walking up to something and interacting to get an indebth text read out on what you are looking at was great in the original but was absent in the remake.

It was great that the Tyrant was able to move around more than the original but it's extreamly limited and once you figure out the mechanics you realize that he is just teleworking around close to you, it becomes more of a chore than a threat.

I was really hoping for a good remake Ala the first Resident Evil Remake.

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[–] hyhachi@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

diablo (psx) - my brother and i are always looking for co op games when i'm back home for a visit. i'd played d2 til 5am on weekends in highschool and diablo on psx feels more like a game cause ur not just clicking a million times. i dunno what we were doing wrong but we'd done a new game + like 4 times and were still hung up at the same part of the dungeon so we bailed. great game but the curve ramped up in a dumb way. or we were missing something.

coop mentions cause im always lookin

perfect dark n64 double dragon 2 nes goof troop snes river city ransom nes jackal nes gunstar heroes genesis battletoa... nevermind

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