Shack Reels: Top 10 Disappointing Games
Some games simply don't live up to the hype. Today, Greg Burke breaks down ten of the most glaring instances of games that set a high bar and just couldn't clear it.
Certain games don't always live up to the hype issued by developers, publishers, and yes, even the media. Sometimes, blockbuster games just fall short of expectations. Today, Shacknews is taking a look at some of those games.
Join Greg Burke as he looks at ten games that simply didn't meet the lofty expectations that the hype cycle had set. For some reason or another, they weren't the games we thought they'd be and Greg explains why in the video below.
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Name 10 people who loved DA2
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I remember Alice O'Conner defending it on here and I think she said she liked it more than the original game.
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She's wrong
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I loved DA2...
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I did not love but I enjoyed it, like Hawke's character and voice acting
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Seriously. I know anyone can claim this is all subjective. But Walking Dead was not a disappointing game. The argument presented here isnt even a good one. The first gripe is how its an interactive story game instead of more action? Anyone with a brain knew it was going to be this way based on telltales previous games like jurassic park and back to the future. In fact, because of the fact that the 2 games I just mentioned were mediocre, expectations for WD shouldnt have been high enough for anyone to be disappointed.
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Jurassic Park was mediocre. Puzzle Quest was fun, So was Back to the Future, They made me Think instead of Baby feeding me steps, to move the story forward. TWD was Just not my type Of Point and Click Adventure, coming from the background of all the Lucas arts games and the earlier work of TellTale. Unfortunately I'm in the minority here, so I expected a lot of Disagreement.
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Why do you write like a Fox News commenter? The random caps are super weird for anyone, let alone someone who writes for a living.
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Habit from social media and marketing. I've been trained for years to do that. Hard to break it.
Never compare me to Fox news.... -_-
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What social Media and marketing Taught you to use random Caps
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Kudos for the interesting choices. GTA V Online was really fun I thought.
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List from the video:
10 - Mass Effect 3
09 - Evolve
08 - Aliens: Colonial Marines
07 - The Walking Dead
06 - Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
05 - DC Universe Online
04 - Duke Nukem Forever
03 - GTA V Online
02 - Dragon Age II
01 - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Solid list, but you're just wrongety wring wrong about Wind Waker and Walking Dead. Yes your opinion is wrong. Good thing you blew yourself up in the end.-
Walking Dead doesn't really seem like a game. I guess this list is new(er) games only, or else he or she forgot gems like Daikatana
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Yep, it's a solid list but I gotta disagree with #1. I think Twilight Princess might have been a better fit (assuming we're talking Zelda games).
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I would argue that it isn't really disappointing, because expectations were never high.
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Very interesting list, Greg. I'm enjoying your video content; it's a great way for you to express your opinions, share some history, and generate some discussion. Now where's that TMNT Arcade Corner?!
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I didn't play a lot of what was on here, but I heard a lot of people complain about the same things. I think for the reason you listed for zelda a lot of people did feel the same at the time. I played it, not knowing about those trailers. I loved it. And I never finished Twilight because i thought the weird fairy was, well weird. I think that's one of their worst to date. I'm very excited for the new one though.
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Greg, for shame on #1. That's my favorite zelda.
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There's plenty of story-related wtf about ACM, but I've played through the (post-patches) campaign twice, enjoying both playthroughs, and the Bug Hunt DLC is good stuff, either done solo or coop.
It has a place on this list for it's condition on release, but now I'm curious how it compares side-by-side with Monolith's AVP2, which I played back in the day, but have forgotten most all details about, and which is mostly unavailable today
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Slow news month, eh?
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This is one of those games that I think has a solid core of people who enjoy it and a large group who hated it. i am obviously in the second camp. I give it up to Bungie for trying something different, but to me it is a swing and a miss. I had no interest in playing it after I beat the single player, such as it was.
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Severe lack of Brink because fuck that game.
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I don't think Jeff has played many games.
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I bring it up constantly, because the world should learn. But no, we keep getting one off poorly optimized MP FPS experiences who hope to save themselves with late DLC.
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Good one
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That was the one and only game that I gave into the shack hype for. Preordered it and everything.
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I don't think wind waker was that disappointing as an end product but god damn if it wasn't the most soul crushing/tone deaf reveal.
you had a small army of teenagers/young adults looking towards the next zelda installment, and they decide to reset the clock on that part of their audience. because I guess according to nintendo of that period, people's interest in video games didn't extend beyond a single generation of consoles.-
Yeah I will be honest I wasn't sold on the art style when they announced it.
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Dude who has only played 15 games ranks his most disappointing 10 games
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I don't even hate the game but man Black and White was disappointing. That's usually the first one that comes to mind for me when I think of disappointing games.
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No man you don't understand. This list is going to be so controversial that it is going to BREAK THE CHATTY. it is going to create a thousand post thread.
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MM and WW are on another level, just amazing.
OoT is great because it successfully transitioned the series from 2D to 3D and set the structure for following Zelda games. There are many ways it doesn't hold up though, especially with the quality of the dungeons. Its an absolutely important game but mediocre when you line it up against MM or WW.
To me it isn't like Super Mario 64 which still holds up, or Metroid Prime which didn't just translate Super Metroid to 3D but is still the best in the series and one of the best games of the last 15 years.-
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I enjoyed SS, but did feel abused- spouse syndrome during all 50+ hours. It's good, but deeply flawed. I don't know that I'll ever play it again either, and Zelda is my favorite series in gaming.
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I can't argue. Most of my complaints come down to interface more than anything - it was just really clunky, from descriptive text that you can't skip EVERY TIME you start a play session, down to the complete lack of quest markers and whatnot even though the game had a huge amount of things to do.
That combined with the ~5+ hours of play before you really get let loose was just...really poor.
Which is a shame, because the actual gameplay on the surface and in dungeons and sword stuff was a lot of fun.
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How I felt watching Greg's latest Top 10 video...
https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/0465306DBC1183371974987194368_39eb1aafe10.1.5.2794885728600747709.mp4?versionId=MRJWIzqKCmGEV_iexJDJlg60HPM7BdLi -
Holy crap people around here are getting touchy and nasty.
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Getting? Getting?
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If he hadn't made a hype thread for this video I doubt he'd be getting very much grief.
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You can disagree without being a dick about it.
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I am very disappointed...
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I absolutely love the originals. The new one was a disappointment in basically every area.
If you could get it cheap I might recommend the new one for the small moments where it does recapture some of the original games' magic - there are small bits here and there - but for the most part, no, they took a game all about exploration and letting the player figure out how they want to approach a goal and turned it into a linear game with 'cinematic' on rails escape sequences, etc.-
Great deal on all the titles! https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/thief_collection_storefront
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I get the point with Wind Waker, but Duke Nukem Forever, while a disappointment in terms of the massive 14-year wait preceding its release, actually turned out pretty good considering, in my opinion. I feel like a LOT of people wrote that game off without actually playing through it due to the negative press from some critics. I spent a whole summer playing the SP and MP and had a lot of fun. If you never played the game, I recommend checking it out and giving it a fair shot.
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I love this list tbh. I haven't played a lot of the games on it, but I enjoy the spirit of it.
I'd have Quake 3 on mine. After the super cool gothic horror of Quake 1, I was a little disappointed by the space alien bent of Quake 2, but was REALLY disappointed by the complete lack of single player of Q3. Really, it's the original Evolve only worse because Q1 was such a rad game.
Black and White would be on my list. I mean, duh.
I also liked the inclusion of GTA V Online. I LOVED Red Dead Redemption's online component and don't understand why that model couldn't have been more closely followed for other R* games. I'm constantly tempted to return to RDR.
Another weird pick on my disappointment list would be a two-parter: Battlefield 1943 never got more maps, and never made it to PC. That game is far more fun than anything Dice has done in ages, and it's trapped on the PS3/360 with only the stock maps.
BF1943-related disappointment was that the bonus map that was unlocked for hitting some number of games played within the first month or something was a shitty air-only map. Stupid bullshit.
Anyway, interesting list.
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Here is a summary of Greg's feelings about several popular video games http://youtu.be/_O1hM-k3aUY
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and he totally called it http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=33166325#item_33166325
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It was fairly droll by the end, certainly.
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He is not paid by the minute, he just likes to pound memes into submission. Like that silly Top Ten meme...
BTW have you seen this fantastic video from CES?
http://youtu.be/Nh_5FHsXZog
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I thought this was a good video. It's clearly your opinion and I thought it was interesting.
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What about Daikatana? Wind waker? Come on.
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haha! loved #1
that was pretty disappointing.. I lost all interest at that point (have only played about 5 minutes of the game at a friends house)
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No Brink?
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