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Sonic 3D Blast for the Sega Genesis.

I must have been 6 or 7. Was extremely pumped for my dude Sonic IN THREEE DEEEE!

Got it probably for my birthday and played hours of it. Just...terrible. First thing that ever taught me what disappointment was I think.

got xmen for nes on my birthday. i cried after playing it for a while.

Team fortress 2. It got rid of everything that made TFC fun and made it ugly

Reloaded on PS1. I disliked it so much that I begged my mom to take me back to the store so I could get exchange it

Home Alone 2 on NES was the first time as a kid I became conscious of the idea of a "bad" game. Whenever I rented a game from Blockbuster it didn't matter what it was I'd play it the whole weekend. With that one? I just went back to Mario.

PSO Card. No idea why my brother and I thought that a game that's actually about cards would be anything but that...

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The Three Stooges on NES

A Boy and His Blob on the NES.

There were plenty of NES games that were god awful. You never knew what you were going to get.

The first game I remember being hyped for pre release and let down by was Yoshis Story. I still played it a ton but felt it wasnt up to the standard of Yoshis Island or other first party N64 games.

One of the Zelda Oracle games on Gameboy. Not that the games were bad in hindsight. But I was too young to actually read or solve puzzles so I never got past the first area. I remember hating it so Mum returned it for a Mario game.

Yoshi's Story. I had a choice between that and Diddy Kong Racing. And I beat Yoshi's Story in 1 sitting. I was so pissed at how short it was >_> Even going back and trying to beat all the levels wasn't satisfying at all.

Superman 64

BuckVanHammer posted...

got xmen for nes on my birthday. i cried after playing it for a while.

Haha this is also the first game that came to mind.

Yoshi's Story is a good choice. When I was young, Ninty was the only company I expected excellence out of, and I think that was their first 1st-party game that let me down enough to cause genuine disappointment (as an aside, the Super Mario Bros. movie was my first big childhood taste of disappointment in regards to the media I consumed, nothing at the time compared to that).

Chrono Cross too, maybe? I liked CC for what it was and loved parts of it, but that was my first big taste of RPG / story-driven sequels not living up to the original.

When jagex got rid of free trade and wilderness pking for runescape

Not because I cared about those things that much but so many of my friends quit at the time

The Road Runner game for Sega.

I couldn't figure out what to do so I had to stop playing.

I rented ReLoaded 2, and I just remember going through this desert canyon stage, not knowing what I should be doing, or what the objective was, but after 30-40 of just walking around, I gave up.

I remember being mad as a small kid that some Sesame Street game on the NES was just an educational answer-only game and not an adventure game.

probably Dragon Age 2.

I didn't really look forward to upcoming games when I was younger, but if I did, I generally ended up having a good time with them.

but with how good Bioware games had been up to that point, from my experience, Dragon Age 2 ended up just being really bad, for me.

going to blockbuster and all of the good games were out of stock and they only had shitty movie games

Shining Force: Sword of Hajya on Sega GameGear. I watched like 5 minutes of the opening story scenes and was convinced it was just watching a story and there was no actual game. I wasnt familiar with RPGs or games with substantial stories. I tried it again a year later and found out there was actual gameplay, and it became one of my favorite games.

MarthGoomba posted...

Team fortress 2. It got rid of everything that made TFC fun and made it ugly

Can you elaborate, mr potential grenade spammer?

Metal Gear for nes I thought you get to play as Kyle Reese since he was on the cover right?

Still ended up liking the game anyway.

EndOfDiscOne posted...

There were plenty of NES games that were god awful. You never knew what you were going to get.

Yeah I think that was part of the reason I never felt truly disappointed by a NES game. Even at 5 my expectations were in check and besides, I always rented, never bought. So if a game sucked, whatever. Still play it for the weekend cause I'm a dumb kid and then try my luck next time.

Agree with Yoshi's Story

Incredibly short game

World of warcraft being an mmo

Grand Theft Auto 4

Terminator 2 on SNES. That game was stupid wonky.

E.T. on Atari

I also rented Yoshi's Story, beat it in a single sitting after school and was like "Well fuck". My dad wasn't taking me back for a week so that was that. Can't imagine paying $65 or however much for it.

BuckVanHammer posted...

got xmen for nes on my birthday. i cried after playing it for a while.

LJN became that company name that gave all of us NES/SNES gaming kids nightmares at night because of how genuinely awful most of the stuff they were over was.

Freddie_Mercury posted...

going to blockbuster and all of the good games were out of stock and they only had shitty movie games

I have this one memory from when I was a kid where I went to rent a specific game from Blockbuster and they didn't have it so I got something else. When I got home and opened the case, the game I had originally wanted was in there

I think it was Flashback on SNES

BuckVanHammer posted...

got xmen for nes on my birthday. i cried after playing it for a while.

AVGN reviewed this game. It sucks ass.

LinkFanatic posted...

AVGN reviewed this game. It sucks ass.

ya that episode got me in the feels. shit was so fucking bad and being a huge xmen fan, it was crushing.

MK:DA. that shitty gameplay, that shitty roster, those ugly ass graphics... deception and armageddon weren't a whole lot better. honestly if the games were just fun i probably would have still liked them but that gameplay... just nah.

Sonic 3D Blast is a good one

MrWingnut posted...

Terminator 2 on SNES. That game was stupid wonky.

Robocop vs Terminator was a godtier game though

EndOfDiscOne posted...

The first game I remember being hyped for pre release and let down by was Yoshis Story. I still played it a ton but felt it wasnt up to the standard of Yoshis Island or other first party N64 games.

This.

Yoshi's Story was such a massive step back from Yoshi's Island, and the Yoshi series never really recovered from it (except for Woolly World).

Seaman_Prime posted...

World of warcraft being an mmo

Hate MMOs.

BuckVanHammer posted...

ya that episode got me in the feels. shit was so fucking bad and being a huge xmen fan, it was crushing.

Is it weird that I'm actually feeling genuine empathy for you despite this happening to you decades ago? :)

First time I fought the Dragon Lord in Dragon Warrior and died I was disappointed. Of course I was like 10-12 years old. I beat the game though.

It brings me comfort that I am not alone in being disappointed in Yoshi's Story >_>

Regarding Yoshi Story, I'm not going to defend its flaws, but you're supposed to beat the game multiple times, because every playthrough you only get to play one level in each world.

There are four levels per world, so that would mean four different playthroughs going through four different levels per world each time as a minimum.

I actually liked Yoshi's Story as a kid, but yeah Yoshi's Island was way better. Also, I don't think I could play Yoshi's Story today.

I honestly can't remember the first game that dispointed me, though. It mustn't have been that bad since I can't recall, lol.

Toy Story on Sega Genesis. I knew that was a waste of a rental the minute I played it.

It's been downhill ever since.

Fable 1.

Granted 2 and 3 were worse, but I already had much lower expectations for those games after falling for Molyneux's lies about Fable 1.

Srk700 posted...

Fable 1.

There may have been some before Fable, but I'll still say this.

YoungMutual posted...

Regarding Yoshi Story, I'm not going to defend its flaws, but you're supposed to beat the game multiple times, because every playthrough you only get to play one level in each world.

There are four levels per world, so that would mean four different playthroughs going through four different levels per world each time as a minimum.

Im scratching my head how so many people dont realize theres 24 levels, not 6. Do they not find any big hearts? When you start a game you literally have to pick between the 4 different starting levels. Plus every level has branching paths and a few different things to uncover.

I played Yoshis Island for the first time this year and was disappointed. Its braindead easy if youre not going for 100% completion, and tedious and boring if youre going for 100% to unlock the secret levels. Yoshis Story has more interesting gameplay with more varied levels, and it controls better.

Robocop 2 NES