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[Scarface]

without Al Lowe lsl magna cum laude is nothing :not_ok:

[Yamcha]

Yes they totaly forgot the quest element and now is just some stupid arcades :not_ok:

[mikebarry]

I agree with the inferiority of Magna Cum Laude...they could have at least consulted with Al Lowe...according to him they didn't at all.

For me, when they tried to "revolutionize" Kings Quest 8 I was turned off greatly. I could probably remember some other great disappointments, but this came to mind first...and I have to go to class now

[xoopx]

Originally posted by cheesegrater@Jan 11 2005, 04:58 PM
Disappointing games:

fly! - garbage
counterstrike - overrated
silent hunter 2 and desroyer command - no dynamic campaign, crappy ship animations, bad online gameplay
interstate 82 - jesus christ this was a baaaaaaaaaad game

i am no longer buying any electronic arts games - they are bastards

new games generally suck because the developers are hoping to cash in on the lastest society trend (for example: nfs underground, lord of the rings, yu-gi-oh), when gaming was for hardcore geeks they had to make good games or people would go back to dungeons and dragons and axis and allies

developers of games like HL2 and DOOM3 have a lot of pressue on them to make a great game, i don't think this formulated approach always works to create a classic like the first game was.

counterstrike wasnt always overrated.. when it was in beta it was cool, and not so ruined by cheaters. once valve bought it up, they began ruining it. the stupidest thing was the limiting of jumping. ive never seen anything so stupid in my life.

[HighProtein]

Doom 3 didn't live up to its hype in game play or online play.
Doom 2 revolutionized fps games, Doom 3 just had good graphics.

[JJXB]

enter the matrix. i know it was meant to fill in the story of the osiris between "the flight of the osiris"(on the animatrix) and the matrix reloaded and there it succeded but the gameplay wasn't very good and it was as glitchy as hell (even with the patch) and the driving sections sucked plus hacking wasn't very good. the only reason i played it was to get the extra bits of the matrix storyline that were only available through etm (i have the trilogy+animatrix on dvd).

[bohor]

Lord of the Realms 3 - I had such high hopes for this game
Daikatana - just kidding!

[Borodin]

Originally posted by bohor@Jan 12 2005, 02:15 PM
Lord of the Realms 3 - I had such high hopes for this game

I didn't buy it, on the basis of the reviews which (typically) lauded it to the skies, all the time making it clear it was just-another-RTS-clone. As opposed to LotR 1 and 2, both distinctive and original titles.

[The Niles]

You have read lauding reviews for LotR3? I read only two reviews but neither of the two where very flattering about it. The highest scorring one gave it 73% and that is by a magazine I know always adds atleast 10% over what I would give a game. The other had a score somewhere in the 60% range. Neither review was positive about the game and both claimed it had major problems.
The price was also a giveaway that this game would not be good. It cost only half of what any other game of the same publisher would cost. I'm all for price reductions but when a well established company starts cutting the price of only one game in half then something is not right with it.

Never played the game myself. I was looking foreward to it but when I read the reviews and saw the price I steared clear.

[Fawfulhasfury]

Tales of Symphonia