7 Most Disappointing Games Of This Console Generation

There have been some terrific surprises unleashed in gaming over the past few years – but there have also been some crushing let-downs.

From soul-destroying sequels to abysmal originals, FMV takes a look at eight of the most disappointing games in recent memory.

[Mr_Nuts]

I think you would need to replace RE6 with RE5...if you were smart and ignored those people who kept going on about "trying the game out first" or "giving it a chance" then you knew what to expect.

With RE5 however that was a total letdown...especially when you see the RE5 concept art before they added co-op.

[Lovable]

I thought the coop was fun as hell. When they released the demo I played it like crazy.

[Panthers]

The Co-Op was fun, but it shouldnt have been in a RE game. They could have created another franchise for that crap.

[Mr_Nuts]

Co-op does not belong in a RE game whether it's fun or not

[Blastoise]

Resi 5 was a good game, it was flawed but it was fun. A good action game atleast

Resi 6 on the other hand is a terrible game all round

[Lovable]

@Mr Nuts

Hey man as long as you're having fun

[andshesays]

me to it was awesome, I wish they would bring sheva back personally she was cool

[FATAL1TY]

Simcity
Crysis 3
Diablo 3
Duke Nukem Forever
RE6
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Gears Of war Judgment

[RedDevils]

RE from a survivor horror game into an adventure game, the last good RE probably 4 but not nearly as good as 3 imo

[Wikki]

I plaed through RE5 more times than I had any other RE game. I finished Leon's story in RE6 and haven't touched it since. I've never rage-quit as many times from a game as I had from RE6.

[STEWIE_PLAY_PS4]

FINAL FANTASY XIII, -2 and return of lightnings must disaapoint. SE nut crazy still high sell them game very very disappoint fun???

[chikane]

Final Fantasy 13-2 Crap Story Crap Characters...

Gran Tursimo Standard 5 -_-

Star Ocean 4 .. beyond me how this passed for a 360 and ps3 game ???????

only have those three Disappointing Games Of This Console Generation

-_-

[Lovable]

For SO4, besides the story, the gameplay seems pretty solid to me.

[wishingW3L]

Star Ocean 4 was absolutely terrible.

[Kte]

SO4 was better then FFXIII 1 and 2..and I loved it lol

[MiasmaDodo]

My top 3 disappointments this Gen

1. Saints Row 3
2. Fall Out New Vegas
3. Assassins Creed 3

[Der_Kommandant]

Saint's Row 3 was fun as hell, not as good as SR2 but wasn't a disappointment.

I actually enjoyed more New Vegas than Fallout 3.

And you're right about AC3, i'm glad the team who made AC2 and Brotherhood are making AC4.

[MiasmaDodo]

SR3 left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I played SR2 so damn much and 3 was boring to me.

FO3 I played hundreds of hours, played FONV for maybe 50 hours (not a bad game, just disappointing)

AC3 we actually agree on. LoL terrible game

[RavageX]

Saints Row 3 was my disappointment of this generation also. The last time I was ever that pissed over a game it was when I bought Enter The Matrix.

SR3 was a shell of a game compared to SR2.

[XboxFun]

Duke Nuk'em for me, that game should have remained vaporware or at least as a free digital download.

[BigBoss1964]

FF13 wasn't just disappointing, it was absolute dog sh*t

[Dj7FairyTail]

yeah disappointing dog shit

[wishingW3L]

FF went from being one of my most favorite franchise to one of the ones I despise the most. Toriyama should be killed with fire. -__-

[Relientk77]

Final Fantasy XIII

definitely

[Dj7FairyTail]

From what I played
@FFXIII PS3- no sidequest, freedom, towns and memorable bosses!
@LittleBigPlanet 1&2 - Got extremely bored of it ten minutes of gameplay!
@Skyrim 360- Got extremely bored hours in!
@Lost Odyssey - Battle System and Characters are lame!
@Wario Land Shake It! - Endless Annoying Shake Controls!
@PlayStation All-Stars - Sinlge and Multiplayer Player Content, Lacked of Variety Soundtracks from the games represented, No Real All-Stars and gets boring fast!

Edited:
@Uncharted Series - Just don't like Naughty Dogs games as well. I find them boring to me.

Remember I said to me. Don't go disagreeing with games I played.

[ziggurcat]

go back to C0D then...

[Dj7FairyTail]

I dont play CoD

Also if you like ND good for you.

[ziggurcat]

then what isn't "boring" to you?

[Dj7FairyTail]

That not easy to explain. I rarely finds games that are boring. These were the main ones.

[ziggurcat]

that's a cop-out. you can't name one game you didn't find boring?

[AbortMission]

Don't worry guys, it's just a Nintendo fanboy.. Lol

[SonyPS4]

*Xbox

"@Wario Land Shake It! - Endless Annoying Shake Controls!"

Not a Nintendo fanboy to me.

[Hicken]

If you think that stops him from being a Nintendo fanboy, you don't pay attention.

[Wolfbiker]

Where the hell do you read 'Nintendo fanboy' out of what he just said?

[noctis_lumia]

LPB ? lol dude this game changed the platform genre to a whole new lvl

Lost odyssey--->f13-ff13-2 combined

naughty dog best gaming dev this gen nuff said

[AbortMission]

Lmfao chill the hell out kid. I was JOKING. J-O-K-I-N-G. No need to work yourself out

[andshesays]

King Asshat?

[RedDevils]

@Dj7FairyTail It's seem you hate all games, why bother buying a game console should of save those money and get the Twilight trilogy instead LMAO

[Wolfbiker]

Its irrelevant if you didn't like the games but the article is about DISAPPOINTMENT so if you weren't excited for Uncharted 2 then it couldn't have disappointed you. You may find it overrated but that's another stupid article for you to go read.

[jcnba28]

TLoU, MGS4 and Infinite.

[jagstatboy]

LOL.

[Sizzon]

Lol really?

[Der_Kommandant]

You're like those pages asking for hits.

[McScroggz]

Are you're most disappointing movies Citizen Kane, The Godfather and Gone With the Wind?

[ziggurcat]

can't tell if trolling or...

[andshesays]

is heavily retarded?

[noctis_lumia]

MGS4 ?
TLOU ?

dude plzzzzzzzzzzzz go back to cod or something

[darkequitus]

Lair and Haze. Haze shipped so early, I could not cancel it after the review came out.

[Summons75]

Ugh here we go more people saying final fantasy 13 was bad despite all evidence otherwise, fanboys will always be blind. Wasn't perfect but it was enjoyable. And DNF the only reason why it failed was because the hype behind the game came mostly from kids who never played it. I saw the game I knew when I was a kid just on modern consoles, it was kinda welcome for me because of how silly it was. Bad, yes but DN was always made to be bad that its good. It should have remained cancelled but the controls were solid and gameplay wasn't broken so its not like it can be called a broken game in that sense.

Other than that the author clearly didn't deal with the nightmare was was vampire rain or try his hand at bullet witch. List could have been better most of these are newer titles.

[Elda]

@Summons75...I agree,there are some games I've tried to play that were just down right boring or they were broken & I just couldn't put myself to continue playing them,but FF-XIII imo was down right enjoyable down to production,graphics,music & gameplay it wasn't your traditional FF but the production of it all still seemed like FF to me just with some changes & that was due to the story.

[Hicken]

People can be disappointed with XIII. What they don't get, though, is that they should be disappointed in themselves, as they're the ones who got their hopes up expecting it to be something it wasn't.

Oh, well.

As for myself, Brink and Dragon Age 2 were rather disappointing.

[Sizzon]

Dead Island

[MysticStrummer]

Dead Island and Brink are my two biggest disappointments this gen. I played other games that weren't all that great, but I was really looking forward to those two.

[BlaqMagiq24]

Assassin's Creed 1 for me. The missions were so repetitive and boring that I had to force myself to finish it. It only changed a little bit at the end.

[I_am_Batman]

Same here. When I started playing I liked it very much but a couple of hours in I couldn't push myself to keep playing it cause of it's repetetive gameplay. I just recently started another playthrough and ran through it just to see the end and I have to admit that the story seems very interessting.

But since Ubisoft is milking the franchise so badly I don't have the motivation to play through all the other AC games anymore.

[jlm9]

AC II and Brotherhood are much better then the first with a lot more variety. Revelations and III are completely missable.

[kratos_TheGoat]

I_am Batman Same with Me

[T2]

Some of your lists fail hard ... Saints row , skyrim? Please you could at least troll around and have a bit of fun ...
1. Crackdown 2 - literally xbox original graphics , no upgrade whatsoever.
2. Socom confrontation - I tried to play it ... So many bugs it was virtually unuseable
3. Madden - I have a serious bone to pick with EA because their servers suck and its obvious madden could just release updates but nooo same game every year for 60 bucks

[VTKC]

Street fighter X Tekken and Soul Calibur 5 are both very disappointing to me.

[kratos_TheGoat]

street fighter x tekken was trash

[TXIDarkAvenger]

And here I am still wondering about Tekken x Street Fighter.

[VTKC]

I can think of more appropriate words. but why bother?-"flogging a dead horse" etc.

[BlaqMagiq24]

Gotta agree about Soul Calibur 5. It was a step backwards in the franchise. I could come up with a long list of cons and like 2 pros for that game.

[VTKC]

theres actually pros? what are they? I am quite the fan of soul calibur. and I cant find a single thing I could use to defend SC5. I hated the entire game in what they did to it.

[BlaqMagiq24]

Well I'll give them credit for the online presentation and including Ezio in there but that's it. Everything else just made no sense to me. One of the things that pissed me off the most was that Zasalamel wasn't in the game. They don't explain his whereabouts or what happened to him in the timeskip. He doesn't age and he didn't die in the canon storyline so there's no reason he couldn't have been in the game. I even would've liked him as DLC, but nothing.

[Der_Kommandant]

Two games made by Gearbox. I'll never buy another Gearbox game ever.

My top in no particular order:

Duke Nukem Forever
Marvel vs Capcom 3
Ninja Gaiden 3
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
Far Cry 2
Diablo 3
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Final Fantasy XIII
Alien Colonial Marines
Street Fighter x Tekken
Rage
L.A. Noire
Bionic Commando
Modern Warfare 2

[noctis_lumia]

agree with that list except L.A Noire

[KingDon]

Resident evil was not all that bad. Just got a lot of hate at the time. Aliens Colonial Marines is definitely a contender for the worst game of the generation.

[TXIDarkAvenger]

I wouldn't say RE6 was disappointing because its exactly what I expected. RE5 clearly demonstrates where they wanted to go with the series and dozens of RE6 trailers showed it. If you went in expecting a survival horror, then you must be an idiot or not informed.

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

The biggest problem is that it didn't even delivered in the action department as well. The game felt limited due to the tons of QTE's and the nonsensical story sure didn't help.

The game was a technical marvel under the hood but developers didn't allow players any chance to fully realize it.

Capcom themselves lied that Leon's campaign would deliver the survival horror old-school fans pined for then jumped to placing the responsibility to Ada's.

Capcom is to blame for the game's shortcoming's not the consumer.

[AbortMission]

I enjoyed RE6 for what it was. I even spent the time to plat the game. Jake's campaign has to be my most favorite, especially the action mission in China. But I can understand why old school RE fans would hate RE5 and RE6

[hollabox]

I know its old but I agree with you. My Resident evil titles I ranked form top to bottom are the following;
Resident Evil 0
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 6 (Too damn dark Yeezus)
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil Code Veronica
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Resident Evil 1 original

Every body screamed tank controls in Resident Evil 4, than they come out with Resident 5 and 6 and suddenly people complained about it playing like Gears of War and not being scary. I don't think if Resident Evil 7 played like Resident 1 it would sell to well. You will have people screaming been there done that, this feels like the mid 90's ect, ect.

[josephayal]

halo wars, genji, kof 12, dishonored, call of duty (all) and of course ff13

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

I feel your pain for Genji and King Of Fighters XII. I'm glad XIII tried to erase the travesty it's predecessor was.

And Genji.......My God the Playstation 2 iteration was perfect, why they threw away it's gameplay is beyond me.

[fsfsxii]

I bought Genji a few days ago, i think its a good game but wtf is wrong with the camera???

[Craigatorian]

I feel like the biggest dissapointment is Aliens: Colonial Marines, i think the least of a dissapointment is Final Fantasy XIII, only because it has such a strong legacy of way more AMAZING installments behind it. Besides that and the Linearity, FF XIII is a solid title.

[Master-H]

GTA IV ( takes the cake by far since i had the highest hopes for it)
Assassin's Creed: Revelations
Call of Duty Mw3
Dynasty Warriors 7
Medal of Honor
Prince of Persia : Sands of Time

[Master-H]

Edit: I meant Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

I would like to say Bullet Witch and Vampire Rain, both great concepts on paper but the failure in execution is memorable.

Fun fact: Alecia Hillis (Lightning) voiced Monica in Vampire Rain

[kratos_TheGoat]

socom 4
mvc3
ninja gaiden 2
ac1
re5 &6
twisted mental
should be in the list

[T2]

only agree if twisted metal 2 is not on the list... it was epic at the time, 4 player splitscreen all day, haha

[Der_Kommandant]

Of course, I forgot about Twisted Metal, I'm a huuuge TM fan, still playing TM2 after 15 years, my god... the disappointed with the last entry was a kick in my balls

[Chaos_Raiden]

Ninja Gaiden 3 - For being less challenging and boring gameplay than previous Ninja Gaiden games
Time and Eternity - Animation issues, linear and boring story progression objectives.
Anarchy Reigns - The overall game design did not appeal to me as awesome compared to other Platinum Games' releases.
Yakuza: Dead Souls - Extremely archaic and poor third person shooting gameplay design.
Final Fantasy XIII - Too linear and lack of many staple RPG elements like a variety of side quests and minigames compared to previous FF games.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - Very short and have less-interesting storyline than the first game.
Resident Evil 6 - Co-op feels out of place in a Resident Evil game and dampens the survival horror experience.
Resident Evil 5 - Co-op feels out of place in a Resident Evil game and dampens the survival horror experience.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City - Poor Resident Evil game with poor gameplay mechanics.

[fsfsxii]

RE5 was better in Co-op, which is ironic.
RE6 was... never mind.
RE ORC, enjoyed the co-op, but the rest was flat out garbage.

[Unlimax]

The 3rd Birthday

This game was literally a slap to my face as a biggest PE fan
I'll never forgive for what you have done to Aya ..Toriyama ಠ_ಠ

the rest :

Street fighter x Tekken
FF XIII
RE6
The new DMC
Silent Hill games this gen

[fsfsxii]

RE6... the horror
DmC
RE Operation raccon city
NG3 Razor's edge, i enjoyed it but it was disappointing coming from NGS1 to this
Soul Calibur 5
FFXIII was boring with lousy characters.
Dead Island Riptide... oh god
Every single NFS game

[Tdmd]

From most disappointing to least:
FFXIII
AC3
RE5&6
AC Revelation
Dragon Age 2

[DEATHxTHExKIDx]

Just ACIII for me that was the only game I bought this gen I regretted paying a full $60 for.

[testsubject]

Me to,I got it for Christmas and didn't even finish it,I feel sooo sorry for my parents paying a full $60 on it.

[Wikki]

I agree with all except DA2. I loved the game. Could it have been better? Sure, you could say that about most games. Was I disappointed? Not in the least.

[JohnCartenper]

What about ME3?????
@Wikki
DA2 is complete garbage.

[andshesays]

I loved Resident Evil 6, and 5

but im going to be completely honest

I was playing Final Fantasy 13 after a year I forgot about it... and I hate it worst game ever, I dont have so many hours to spend grinding and it always happens

Think your strong / go to the boss fight / beat boss down to red / boss uses super move / everyone dead

Had Enough @_@"

[yuuki]

i agree you on FF 13, it was so overhyped...

[SonyPS4]

I must be the only one that liked FFXIII, or the only one on this planet that is.

[andshesays]

the problem is.. I was so hyped to play it I checking for updates everyday and everything and when I played it and got to grand pulse.. I was so dissapointed number 1 the graphics looked no where near as good on the land, and there isnt much variety of different creatures to fight...

I mean battling 2 hexagonal dice? come on FF10 was so good so open, I was curious to see everything and talk to everyone

but ffx10 is too linear everywhere I want to go I cant or cant even get close too

it was the grinding which took too long

I love fang <3

[o-Sunny-o]

I say Perfect Dark Zero, Duke Nukem, Final Fantasy 13, Splinter Cell Conviction, and Mario Kart Wii were disappointments.

[gear]

AC3
FFXIII
DMC5
RE6

[Campy da Camper]

Matt Hazard, Terminator Salvation and that Jack Black one. (I'm a huge metal fan, too)

[CBaoth]

yeah but when we use the word disappointing, doesn't that also mean we had higher expectations initially too? I know things we like in life are entirely subjective, so if you say you were pumped for them, I respect that!

Did either of the first two games you listed garner excitement though? I mean I'm a Terminator fan and yet we both know the track record for movie licensed titles. I never even heard of Matt Hazard honestly before its announcement. The 3rd title you mentioned, Brutal Legend, was engulfed in turmoil during its whole development. I too love heavy metal & oddly enough like Jack Black, but I think Activision made the right choice in hindsight.