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Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City - Biggest Disappointment 2012


Platform(s): PS3, Xbox 360

Publisher: Capcom

Developer: Slant Six Games

A certain segment of fans would have you believe that Mass Effect 3 was the biggest disappointment in 2012, but we're here to spell it out for you. Mass Effect 3's fanboys are not part of the game. Don't let them keep you from finishing the fight against the Reapers. In fact, I recommend you do that well before you play Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.

In fact, I recommend you do a lot of things before you play Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. Get a physical. Learn to cook a nice dinner. Get into a drunken fight outside a sleazy bar. Go jogging. Seriously, any of these things is better than Operation Raccoon City's awkward, unintelligible, and poorly balanced brand of human-on-human-on-zombie violence.

A disappointment isn't just a bad game, though. Operation Raccoon City had a lot of promise in the months leading up to launch. The concept of bleeding your human opponent so that the zombie horde finishes the job seemed truly compelling. Resident Evil has always had style to spare, so a multiplayer shooter that turned the zombies into a tool seemed like a match made in heaven.

Regrettably, Operation Raccoon City proved too dark, too messy, and too uneven for a truly competitive multiplayer game. The campaign was mostly comprised of offline multiplayer skirmishes and graphical glitches and other bugs made the game frustrating to play. If that's not a disappointment, I don't know what is.

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  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy

    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 2:23 pm
    Nailed it.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
    I know some might say RE6 is more deserving, but I think ORC is more universally disappointing.
  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy

    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
    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.
  • Jobin_Wendy
    Jobin_Wendy

    Joined: Mar 2012
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
    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.
  • shandog137
    shandog137

    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
    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?
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 3:25 pm
    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...
  • Kassen
    Kassen

    Joined: Aug 2012
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2012 at 2:27 am
    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.
  • TurinAlexander
    TurinAlexander

    Joined: Sep 2006
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
    I'd go with THQ finally having to give in. Hopefully the sale will turn things around for them.
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
    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..."
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
    I can't believe ME 3 was even nominated. In what world is a game that good nominated for most disappointing?

    Boo GR, boooo!
  • Anthony_Severino
    Anthony_Severino

    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 4:20 pm
    We like to shake things up. Many people were disappointed in the ending, so we added it to the nominees. In the end, the award (if you can really call it that) went to the right game.
  • omnimodis78
    omnimodis78

    Joined: Jul 2012
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
    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.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2012 at 7:52 am
    I don't know if it's like THAT, but we hear you. Remeber it didn't win or anything...
  • MarcioTheGreat
    MarcioTheGreat

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 3:54 pm
    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
  • UpAndAtThem
    UpAndAtThem

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
    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.
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
    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...
  • Kassen
    Kassen

    Joined: Aug 2012
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2012 at 2:29 am
    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?)
  • R0ADK1LL
    R0ADK1LL

    Joined: Jul 2009
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
    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.
  • Guernica
    Guernica

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
    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.
  • Guernica
    Guernica

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
    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.
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
    *High fives!*
  • Axelownz
    Axelownz

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
    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.
  • Kassen
    Kassen

    Joined: Aug 2012
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2012 at 2:31 am
    Yearh exactly. Before the new ending i also completet the game with 5 different classes. Loved it except for the last 20 minutes.
  • LinksOcarina
    LinksOcarina

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 6:06 pm
    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.
  • 213EDD
    213EDD

    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
    This This This This 100%
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
    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.
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 7:51 pm
    "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."
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Dec 19th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
    Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

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

    Joined: Aug 2011
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2012 at 2:12 am
    NeverDead gets my vote
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2012 at 9:04 am
    Ouch... that hurt... i forgot how i was hype for it too!
  • Lok-Nar
    Lok-Nar

    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2012 at 2:15 am
    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.
  • xDUMPWEEDx
    xDUMPWEEDx

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
    Don't forget Starhawk. Terrible, terrible game.
  • Beta_GR
    Beta_GR

    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Dec 20th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
    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.
  • Doc_Holliday
    Doc_Holliday

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Dec 21st, 2012 at 11:15 am
    Diablo 3 was by far the largest disappointment... People were waiting for a decade.

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