Biggest Gaming Let-Down

[ave]

Mostly all the games that were delayed for excessive amounts of time:
Duke forever
Daikatana
etc

[maxum]

Dragon Age 2. No geysexytime bioware? No 4some at the brothel bioware? No making in-roads to the north with the male dwarf prostitute? Why bioware? why?

[Solitude]

This is far easier than the greatest game of all time. For me, there is only one answer, and it wins by a huge margin:

Diablo 3

+1, ruined probably my favourite franchise

It was disappointing compared to Diablo II. It's a lot better now though. Have you guys tried it again lately?

Dragon Age 2. No geysexytime bioware? No 4some at the brothel bioware? No making in-roads to the north with the male dwarf prostitute? Why bioware? why?

You guys are mentioning some of my favourite games!

I think my biggest disappointment has to be Silent Hill Homecoming. I just expected more. It wasn't THAT bad but it wasn't good either.

[Wyzak]

It was disappointing compared to Diablo II. It's a lot better now though. Have you guys tried it again lately?

Nope, they refuse to add offline play even thought they have removed everything they used as an excuse for it before. So I won't give them another cent.

[StaggerLee]

It was disappointing compared to Diablo II. It's a lot better now though. Have you guys tried it again lately?

I have. I tried it again after the 2.0 patch. They definitely fixed up a lot of things, but 2 years after release is too little too late in my opinion. Additionally, the fixes they introduced have a finite life-span. You can only increase legendary drops so far before everything that drops is legendary. And as Wyzak mentioned, the excuse for an always-online connection has been removed, sooooooo, where's the offline mode?

Relative to D2 it makes it the biggest disappointment in gaming history.

[Saint_Dee]

GTA IV, and NFS: MW 2012 (*obligatory "that game can go jump off a cliff" remark*).

[Murph]

For me, Test Driver Unlimited 2 was a massive let down. I expected a lot more from the game. Probably the only pre-order I've bought that I had some buyers remorse afterwards.

Douchebag Simulator? Yeah, it was fcking terrible.

GTA IV, and NFS: MW 2012 (*obligatory "that game can go jump off a cliff" remark*).

I'll give a merry +1 to that.

My addition: Dead Space 3.

[Crableg]

I have to go with Spore on this one.

Was so much hype around it, followed it for years, from the initial trailer at GDC, never followed a game so much before, then they changed it to be alot more Kid friendly, and just wasn't what it was promised to be.

[Jagtiger]

H.A.W.X 2 - what a watered down version of first game, boring gameplay, limited features, etc... They removed aircraft selection, weapon selection, missions look same all over... Left game and deleted after few hours.

Splinter Cell later instalments - That not game I remember, nothing similar with earlier games. Didn't understood a thing, they removed visibility and noise indicators, added takedown... Left game and deleted after 30 minutes.

Red Alert 3 - That's a joke. Maybe I am not fan of anime? Cartoonish graphics, movies are some sort of parody of previous games, compared to previous games, drama/comedy balance is well maintained in movies. Next, they took naval combat up to 11; they just should have changed AI so they built more ships (where previous games fail). Removed traditional ore fields and replaced by mines... Sound like "no-harvester-cheat". I stopped in middle of campaign and deleted it.

[maxum]

Ooh. DeadSpace 3. I was about 6 hours into it over a week. The whole time I'm thinking.. "okaaaaay, this seems okayish to play" The prior games had me thinking "Omgzor!!!!!" . So yeah, big let down, less immersion than the first 2. Meh