Your most crushing disappointments in gaming?

[TL]

The PC Engine version of Golden Axe, just how did they get this so wrong?

PC Engine Longplay [040] Golden Axe

[Minerals]

Oh dear that is awful! Not sure whats worse, the jerky graphics or the tinny sound fx. 

[TL]

Oh dear that is awful! Not sure whats worse, the jerky graphics or the tinny sound fx. 

It's a Super CD-ROM2 game too!

[TrekMD]

Oh dear that is awful! Not sure whats worse, the jerky graphics or the tinny sound fx. 

It's a Super CD-ROM2 game too!

More like a Super Shitty-ROM game!

[TL]

Very AVGN!

[TrekMD]

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[Sokurah]

My biggest disappointment in gaming was many years ago. I was playing the first Grand Theft Auto game back when it was new. So, there I was - minding my own business - only running over people who derserved it...and then the game decided to teach me a lesson...

My computer resat and wouldn't start back up again. The entire harddrive was wiped - not a single file on it could be recovered (or even recognized) when I ran recovery software from my secondary computer.

...it was probably just a freak incident, but in my mind the GTA series is now associated with something pretty bad. 

[TL]

Here is another game that massively disappointed me when I played it recently, the Atari XL/XE version of Galaxian. Considering how good the 2600 version of this game was the A8 should have delivered a near arcade perfect translation but it's really poor. It not only plays badly but looks wrong with it's squashed graphics and the sound is an absolute insult to the POKEY chip:

[align=center:1i0uqqw3]Galaxian atari 8 bits[/align:1i0uqqw3]

[TrekMD]

Since the 5200 version likely came from that version, I can certainly understand how you feel.  That game is not a good translation and there is no good reason for it to be as bad as it is. 

[Aaendi]

The day I started SNES programming, and realized the slow CPU had to be the most overrated problem in gaming history.  It shattered my respect for the programming community.

[TrekMD]

The day I started SNES programming, and realized the slow CPU had to be the most overrated problem in gaming history.  It shattered my respect for the programming community.

Nothing like discovering reality for yourself.  I do still hear this mentioned plenty. 

[guest5158]

Sega games on a Nintendo / PlayStation console...come to think of it...Sonic and Mario "teaming up" and being buddies...RIP to the comical rivalry between the 2

[Ben]

My crushing disappointment is all of the fantastic Saturn games that staid in Japan, specifically the RPGs.  I actually think the Saturn had a superior RPG library to the PSX, such a shame.   

[TL]

My crushing disappointment is all of the fantastic Saturn games that staid in Japan, specifically the RPGs.  I actually think the Saturn had a superior RPG library to the PSX, such a shame.   

So true!

[guest5190]

Ghostbusters.

Awesome movie, but massively disappointing game (and that's being kind compared to how I really want to describe it).

So many aspects of the game, which don't bare any reality to the actual movie. Awful game.