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Virtual Vox Pop: What’s the most disappointing game you’ve played?
By Jeffrey L. Wilson On 19 Mar, 2010 At 02:30 PM | Categorized As Virtual Vox Pop | With 2 Comments
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Virtual Vox Pop is a weekly open mic in which we ask you, the reader, to sound off on a particular topic. This week, it’s disappointing games.

As gamers, there are few circumstances in life more disappointing than ripping a highly-anticipated game from the shrink wrap, popping it into a console, and then sobbing softly when brutal reality hits: the long awaited game isn’t quite what you were expecting. I’m not talking games that outright blow; this is all about games that are decent/good, but didn’t live up to the hype.

Mine was, don’t laugh, Dance Dance Revolution. After watching the kids in Chinatown bust out some crazy moves on DDR, I thought that it was a true dance simulation, not Simon-meets-Twister. I eventually had quite a bit of fun with the game, but I never quite overcame the initial sinking feeling.

I pass the mic to you: which game let you down the most?

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About - Founder and Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey L. Wilson’s love of all things shiny/digital has lead to jobs penning gadget- and video game-related nerd-copy for E-Gear, Laptop, LifeStyler, Parenting, PC Magazine, Sync, Wise Bread, and WWE. Besides overseeing the editorial content at 2D-X.com, the Brooklyn College grad hosts New York City’s monthly Bits and Bytes video game media and public relations meetup. You can find him at a bar sampling foreign beers, or on Twitter doing twittery things.

  • http://www.aggrogate.com Will G

    So far, Final fantasy 13. I’m still playing through it, but it seems so utterly shallow and linear. There’s literally NOTHING else to do besides run through the areas and fight monsters. You barely get any choices in the game besides the deceptively simple Crystarium and the needlessly complicated equipment leveling systems. I hear it opens up at least a little further on, but… it seriously disappoints as a Final Fantasy game. It might actually be more disappointing than Final Fantasy 9.

  • http://www.thebbps.com Daniel Lloyd

    Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Such a great story, yet such a terrible horrible miserable game.

  • http://www.the-other-view.com Valkor

    I can go down the list of disappointments, but the most disappointing has to be Tomb Raider. Don’t get me wrong I thought it was fun, but the overall experience was kinda dry. Also Star Wars Arcade, which I still play to this day, but the first time I played and beat the game, I was beyond pissed! I didn’t know game over actually meant game over! If you put in a buck and still have energy before you fight Vader, you should be allowed to restart and at least finish out the rest of your money. lol

    Will – I’m considering shelling out for 13, so keep me posted on how the game ends (but not revealing the ending lol)

  • http://www.clodhop.com Kerry

    You’re on a roll with the pics Jeffrey…lol

  • http://wingdamage.com/ mainfinger

    First off: Dang Will, FF9 is prolly my favorite FF, but to each his own.

    Now I don’t know about of all time, but in very recent memory I was most disappointed with Dark Void. I was very excited about it and it turned out to be super mediocre.

  • http://www.2d-x.com Jeffrey L. Wilson

    Oh…I likes the Dark Void!

    But I also have an unhealthy obsession with jetpacks. I love The Rocketeer and cheesy Hollywood serials. Little known fact: i attempt to build a jetpack at age 10.

  • http://grumpfactory.wordpress.com Tim

    Xenosaga Episode 1 – There was a trailer with gorgeous Yasunori Mitsuda (Xenogears, Chrono Trigger) playing and it made me run out and get the game immediately. The music was great, the game was slow and plodding and the story was slow, nonsensical garbage told through the worst directed cutscenes I’ve come across in a mainstream video game. I couldn’t be bothered to finish it. And people call MGS4 and Heavy Rain movies…

    Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 – KH1 I played to completion, and wondered why I bothered. Can anyone tell me what that ending was about? And why the Gummi Ship sucked? KH2, I played about four hours and quit. I couldn’t stand doing pointless errands and swatting the same bad guys over and over. I’m still kind of obsessed with this series in a way, in that Square tricked everyone by promising Mickey Mouse and Cloud Strife fighting together then gave us a bunch of bullshit and ladyboys in hoodies no one but fangirls and 12 year olds care about anymore.