Biggest Disappointment 2012

Nailed it.

I am still seriously upset that I spent $60 (flat out, no trading) pre-ordering it. I've never regretted a gaming purchase this much.

Operation: Raccoon City, I mean. I switched my RE6 pre-order at the last minute for Dishonored, but traded a few old games toward it anyway.

I feel you man. That's how I felt about Final Fantasy XIII-2. I bought OCC when it was down to $15 and I think it is worth it for that price. I will also be waiting for quite some time before paying full price for another FF.

They keep pumping out bullshit as opposed to just putting out a FF7 HD remix and a new kingdom hearts.

And Capcom...well what's to be said about Capcom?

Gotta admit, i was really hype for the game. I'm still sand and angry how Resident evil 6 (and operation raccoon city) turned out.

Mostly angry about ORC tough...

I still dont see why people hate RE6. Its a good action game. One of the best coop games this year. If not the best.

I'd go with THQ finally having to give in. Hopefully the sale will turn things around for them.

I still say that the people who were disappointed with Diablo 3 were people who had too much expectation for Blizzard. The game is incredible and i wish people would enjoy it for what it is.

*queue the angry fanboy listing reasons why diablo 2 loots was better then 3... like the game was about loots..."

I can't believe ME 3 was even nominated. In what world is a game that good nominated for most disappointing?

Boo GR, boooo!

100% agree! I was one of those ME fanboys who loved 1, actually loved 2 even more and was blown away (in a good way) by 3 except when that little boy gave me 3 choices... that genuinely pissed me off, and that was before the hype so I wasn't "influenced" - but that said - ME3 is a work of art, and even the ending is forgivable at least from the position that it definitely wasn't cookie-cutter. The "remastered" ending was more of the same, but it did answer those nagging questions. Anyways, yeah, I agree with you that ME3 didn't even deserve to be nominated. It's almost like asking "who was the worst mass murdered?" and then including Gandhi in the list.

is DIII worth playing? I love Diablo and II, my current comp won't run 3 though, was gonna pick it up when I get a new one at least for the story

If you loved Diablo and Diablo II, you should play Torchlight and Torchlight II.

I've avoided D3 on principle. Not allowed to play single player without constant internet, that goes too far. What if I want to play it on a laptop on a plane? Too f-ing bad, says Blizzard.
Good to know I'm not missing much.

Too bad that you DID miss out on a great experience. Darn them principles forcing us to not enjoy games...

But i agree Torchlight 2 is better. Number one? huh... not so...

yearh D3 also gave me above 20 hours worth of enjoyed gameplay. But from what i hear from people Torchlight 2 is really really amazing. (Why havent i picked this one up yet?)

A big part of disappointment is the expectation of it being good. If you expect something to be average & it turns out to be bad, that's not much of a disappointment. I played ME3 with the extended ending & it didn't disappoint. RE:OOC was never really on my radar, but I was actually a bit disappointed by Torchlight 2; mainly because it was hyped as being better than D III which I didn't want to drop the cash on, but I guess click-to-kill RPGs just aren't my thing. I didn't know I was fighting the final boss until I killed it & a bunch of achievements popped up. I ususally expect a bit more story from an RPG.

Oh man I forgot about this game. Boy was it bad and buggy. I could never properly join a game matchmaking or otherwise. The game play itself I felt was maybe almost there. It could have been very cool. Maybe they can take experience from this and make an actual good game of this style because if I remember correctly despite poor reviews it sold relatively well.

Also ME3 and D3 were two of my favorite games from this year. Especially ME3 but I may be biased because of how much I love the ME universe (I've even read the books). Star Wars is to movies as Mass Effect is to video games for me.

*High fives!*

I remember my friend renting ORC, only watched him play it and it looked very meh, he said it wasn't very fun either.

I kind of hate ME3 got nominated. The game lasted me 40 hours or so, and 39 hours and 50 minutes of the game was absolutley amazing and i had a blast. The last 10 minutes was disappointing but did not ruin the rest of the game, and then they came out with the EC that actually made the ending much better. I actually really loved the Control ending.

Yearh exactly. Before the new ending i also completet the game with 5 different classes. Loved it except for the last 20 minutes.

Yeah I get why you put Mass Effect 3 up there, but I have a feeling people will get the wrong impression about the game in the end...

Still, ORC was horrific. I hated playing it when I had to review it, and I don't regret selling it back at all.

This This This This 100%

Mass Effect 3s ending for sure. Even the other writers told people that the ending of the game pretty much wasnt screened by the other writers. Only Casey Hudson and lead writer Mac Walters sat in a room by themselves working on it which really shows as to the quality.

Here is how they wanted to end it " I wanted to see banshees attacking you, and then have asari gunships zoom in and blow them away. I wanted to see a wave of rachni ravagers come around a corner only to be met by a wall of krogan roaring a battle cry. Here's the horror the Reapers inflicted upon each race, and here's the army that you, Commander Shepard, made out of every race in the galaxy to fight them. "

He even mentions your score was suppose to change how well earth survived.

"what was SUPPOSED to happen was that, say you picked "Destroy the Reapers". When you did that, the system was SUPPOSED to look at your score, and then you'd show a cutscene of Earth that was either:

a) Very high score: Earth obviously damaged, but woo victory

b) Medium score: Earth takes a bunch of damage from the Crucible activation. Like dropping a bomb on an already war-ravaged city. Uh, well, maybe not LIKE that as much as, uh, THAT.

c) Low score: Earth is a cinderblock, all life on it completely wiped out

I have NO IDEA why these different cutscenes aren't in there."

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

I still say it sounds more like a Disney attraction than a AAA video game title.

Ouch... that hurt... i forgot how i was hype for it too!

I still beat ORC but I probably won't play it again. I was excited about getting to play as the bad guys but the mechanics of the game made want to throw my controller.

Don't forget Starhawk. Terrible, terrible game.

How does a bunch of GR 4.5 star-rated games get in this category? I think CODBLOPS Declassified should have at least been on this list.

Diablo 3 was by far the largest disappointment... People were waiting for a decade.