Games That Made You Go...SHIT

[DragoFireheart]

Games that start out good and then immediately go to shit are indeed pretty rare, but games you could've expected to be good but they aren't - not so much.

Thankfully the expectations now is "this game is likely shit, will rent/pirate to see otherwise" and then you get surprised if it's good. Must be part of growing up or something.

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

Pandora First Contact, looking at the tech tree.

Galactic Civs 2, after finishing one game.

Battle for Middle Earth 2, just giving faction units and abilities a good look. No, fuck you retard, this isn't how you balance a game.

Also had a very such strong vibe when I reinstalled Arma 2 and saw all those DayZ servers.

 

[sexbad?]

All these people with hearts torn apart by Invisible War... Bitch, I couldn't stomach the original Deus Ex beyond some part with an airplane.

 

[Telengard]

One of the early Total War. Probably Shogun. Don't remember which. When the AI borked for a second battle (of two tries!) trying to cross the ford on the ford map, and all bunched up together and couldn't get out, allowing me to cut down a huge force with a couple ranks of archers while they couldn't defend themselves.

WarCraft III. Second cutscene. My thoughts at the time: "Why are there cutscences!" And then, why are they so bad?

Mass Effect. "We are a superior being who is beyond your understanding, whose motivation you cannot understand. But we'd like to take this long time out to explain by not explaining to you in English who we are and what we're about." How Zen.

Max Payne 3. When Max couldn't figure out that the ship was being used to smuggle, even with all the evidence staring him in the face, and even though ships smuggling drugs and money is like ground zero basic cop knowledge.

Dark Souls. When, after falling through the floor four times, killing a boos in a breeze because it got stuck on some gravel and couldn't turn around to attack, and not getting to save that bennie either because I fell through the floor for a fifth time, getting stuck in the wall a couple times, getting knocked into a part of the dungeon you're not supposed to be able to go to, and so being unable to move at all, but the enemies couldn't attack me either because of invisible walls. After all that, I was going up in an open-walled elevator, and it got stuck and was juddering around like it was on the end of a tiny rubber-band, not going anywhere. In fact, I first thought it was an earthquake, but it just kept going on and on, and I soon realized the game had borked again. So, I went to suicide off the side of the elevator, and discovered that there was an invisible wall protecting you from falling off. That moment.

 

[Whisky]

Dark Souls. When, after falling through the floor four times, killing a boos in a breeze because it got stuck on some gravel and couldn't turn around to attack, and not getting to save that bennie either because I fell through the floor for a fifth time, getting stuck in the wall a couple times, getting knocked into a part of the dungeon you're not supposed to be able to go to, and so being unable to move at all, but the enemies couldn't attack me either because of invisible walls. After all that, I was going up in an open-walled elevator, and it got stuck and was juddering around like it was on the end of a tiny rubber-band, not going anywhere. In fact, I first thought it was an earthquake, but it just kept going on and on, and I soon realized the game had borked again. So, I went to suicide off the side of the elevator, and discovered that there was an invisible wall protecting you from falling off. That moment.

Whoa, you got bad luck with the Dark Souls glitches. I fell through the floor twice, but never had the others. There shouldn't be an invisible wall on the elevator either, unless it's that cage on in Sen's Fortress, which isn't invisible, but still annoying if it glitches.

 

[DalekFlay]

You are kidding right, its painfully poorly executed with horrible dialog and even worse voice acting, how can anyone enjoy that 20 min of torture is beyond me.

The idea was very good. The stuff that sucked about it is stuff that sucks about the whole game.

 

[Outlander]

I distinctively remember feeling like that while playing Pool of Radiace: Ruins of Myth Drannor

And how did that work out for you?

Well I didn't have too much experience with RPGs back then, had more patience time, and was naive enough to think the game would get good at some point...

 

[spekkio]

Resident Evil 4 is one I actually stopped playing. When the enemies were really coming at you and you still had to fuck with those god-awful controls I was done with that game. Then I got to a point where the guns I had put a ton of money into were suddenly replaced by better guns and the enhancements didn't carry over... I lost it, stopped playing, have never gone back since. Just terrible design all through that fucking game, I don't understand why people love it so much.

Shit, BRO. I’ve just installed RE4 PC to give it a second (and final) chance, before freeing some GBs. I stopped my first try after reaching the 2nd hub (a castle?). Game was horribad and had close to zero connection to Resident Evil name. DAT controls + zombies slowing down when getting close to you (to make aiming easier) + no sidestep... Maybe I just proceed to the “are you sure you want to delete this file” part right away...

 

[skacky]

The first few minutes of Fallout 3 after I went out of the vault.
Skyrim after an hour, same with Oblivion. The intentory in the former made me throw my keyboard in anger.
Unreal 2, holy shit, what a turd.
DX:IW is also guilty of that.
Dawn of War 2 during the beta. Played an hour, threw it in the trash can.
Dragon Age: Origins when I reached some stupid boss battle.
Inquisitor after I finished act 1. I just couldn't carry on.

 

[Delbaeth]

1. Warcraft III. Pokemon colours. WTF?!

2. Red Alert 3. Limited installs. WTF?!

3. Fallout 3. Gouls, running. GOULS. RUNNING. WTF?!

4. Crusader Kings II. Portraits DLCs. WTF?!

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

After playing it, spitting out blood and sometimes even enjoying it, I found a hole in the map.
Broke my immersion, but I carried on. Until that shitty final moments, of fuck, that's one of the worst final moments I've ever seen in the fucking game.

 

[Hellraiser]

Oh god now I remembered something truly dreadful.

Command and Conquer 4



We can't balance an economy and counter unit spam plaguing our previous mediocre RTS titles, so let's just do away with resources and conventional base building, by doing some ungodly and awful copycatting of World in Conflict.

Also that non-ending which managed to be even more of a non-ending than Nod's from C&C3: Tiberium Wars. Which wasn't bad as far as a cliffhangers went, if they ever bothered resolving that cliffhanger instead of ignoring it entirely in the expansion pack and sequel. But the C&C4 ending, now that was simply irredeemable.

 

[markec]

Can't understand all the butthurt about games that were always going to be crap - there was reason enough to think that Oblivion might resemble Morrowind, but really, what is with this 'I played FO3 and got something worse than I expected' bullshit?

I dont know about you but I expected FO3 to be complete and utter shit and it still managed to surprise me how bad it is.

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

Oh god now I remembered something truly dreadful.

Command and Conquer 4

 

[Machocruz]

Newmb Raider- after I noticed the game auto corrects jumps for you. The very depths of popamole.

Oblivion - 3 dungeon types, merchant loot is not on store premises, I have to do a bunch of quests to access spellmaking. Came back with Obscuro's Overhaul mod, which helped a lot, but then I just wondered why I wasn't playing Daggerfall.

Far Cry 3 - Liked the wildflife aspect, but the core game is boring and the game screams "Xbox game." Worst in the series.

Dead Space 3 - After I crafted a weapon that activated EZ mode.

Bioshock - I was actually enjoying this...until I got System Shock 2 to work on my computer. Need I say more?

 

[DraQ]

Until that shitty final moments, of fuck, that's one of the worst final moments I've ever seen in the fucking game.

May I recommend you some Clear Sky?

Spoiler

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Until that shitty final moments, of fuck, that's one of the worst final moments I've ever seen in the fucking game.

May I recommend you some Clear Sky?

Spoiler

I borrowed Clear Sky from a bud to see if it's better.
And it was shit from the very beginning.

 

[Koschey]

Inquisitor. Promised a deep plot, engaging dialogues, choices and consequences. First thing that happens in the game:
"Sorry, m'lud, but you can't enter the town unless you kill all bats in the vicinity."

 

[Dedup]

Kengo Legend of the 9 - At the time I was desperate for a new Bushido Blade or something similar. I had played the first Kengo and thought it was OK so I figured if the Legend of the 9 was at least as good as it was I might be able to have fun with it. The game failed on every fucking conceivable level. Pure irredeemable shit.

Bioshock - Tried the demo and got motion sickness from the water part in the beginning. Got on solid ground and the nausea didn't go away. Uninstalled.

Civilization 3 - Played one game. I can't pinpoint what exactly I didn't like, it just didn't have the same magic as Civ 2 Gold which I had put tons of hours into.

Honorable Mentions
Daggerfall - Was having a great time with it. I had just gotten an artifact elven bow, not the most powerful weapon but it could inflict a ton of status effects. I took it into a dungeon filled with nightblades who proceeded to pelt me with arrows that were giving me the same status effects as my supposedly one of a kind, artifact, bow. I rage-quit but later started a mage character which I beat the game with.

Oblivion - I was in the mood for a new hiking sim so I pirated the game. Ran into some DRM at installation, began thinking about the fuck-ton of mods I would need to download to make the game hopefully decent, said fuck it, not worth the effort and deleted it. So technically it wasn't uninstalled since it never got installed in the first place.

 

[SoupNazi]

Shitman: Absolution during that stupid mission against some PMC goons.
Oblivion when I found Martin.

Probably some more but I rarely give up on games.

 

[DalekFlay]

Shit, BRO. I’ve just installed RE4 PC to give it a second (and final) chance, before freeing some GBs. I stopped my first try after reaching the 2nd hub (a castle?). Game was horribad and had close to zero connection to Resident Evil name. DAT controls + zombies slowing down when getting close to you (to make aiming easier) + no sidestep... Maybe I just proceed to the “are you sure you want to delete this file” part right away...

Hey don't ask me man, the general consensus is the game is better than sex.

 

[dextermorgan]

I am ashamed of this but here goes:

Installed Fallout demo, waited for one of the guards to drop and looted a minigun from his corpse. Then couldn't hit anyone with it. I quit in disgust.

Spoiler

I was a Diablotard back then

More recently, Dragon Age. Everything just felt so forced.

 

[Mebber]

Last time this happened to me was with Aliens: Colonial Marines - pretty much from the very first seconds; a true "Horror game".

 

[Tehdagah]

Shit, BRO. I’ve just installed RE4 PC to give it a second (and final) chance, before freeing some GBs. I stopped my first try after reaching the 2nd hub (a castle?). Game was horribad and had close to zero connection to Resident Evil name. DAT controls + zombies slowing down when getting close to you (to make aiming easier) + no sidestep... Maybe I just proceed to the “are you sure you want to delete this file” part right away...

Works well in a console shooter.

The modern RE titles are among the few enjoyable console shooters, mainly because they don't try to be like PC shooters.

 

[spekkio]

^
Playing "console shooters" is like being a heterosexual, yet still watching some gay porn, once in a while. Jesus, what's the point? Just install Doom / Quake / Unreal / Blood / Duke / FEAR or even 1/2Life.
There are much better genres on consoles, like metroidvanias, zelda-likes, tpp-brawlers, etc.