What game let you down this year?

It's a simple question: what game that you put your money down on this year, fully expecting greatness, sucked the hardest? 
 
It's between Crackdown 2 and Fable 3 for me. Both are sequels to games I would recommend to anyone, games I sunk large amounts of time into and got nearly everything out of. But the former turned out to be a hollowed out version of its former self, and the latter seemed to be geared towards being Kinect controlled, and when that got canned just replaced it all with button presses.

Lost Planet 2

It wasn't a game that was released this year, but this summer I finally got the chance to sit down with the Chronicles of Riddick. I fucking hated every moment of it. 

Final Fantasy XIII, Gran Turismo 5 and Crackdown 2.

" Worms: Reloaded. "

Fable III =[ Although parts of it were enjoyable the fact I could easily put it down once 'complete' is a big downside for me.

none. I was all fanboy set for GT5 and then everything hinted at ti being bad over time so eventually I ended up going with NFS. ?BEST gaming decision of my life. GT5 got horrible reviews and NFs had some of the most kickass game play i've seen in ages! 
 
Everyone flaming me for trying to warn them. 
 
Who's laughing now. 
 
GT5 not being in stock helped me discpline my decision even more.

fable 3

" @ESREVER said:

" Worms: Reloaded. "

what was so bad about it? i didn't play it, but how can they mess up effin' WORMS? "

Medal of Honor and Mafia 2. I was expecting so much from Mafia 2, but it failed to deliver in almost every way.

Epic Mickey.  As I've said before, it was like having your parents rent out the Magic Kingdom for your birthday, but all you could do there was bob for apples in the lobby at the Hall of Presidents.  Great atmosphere, no fun.  Also Metroid: Other M.  I've never not liked a Metroid game.  Sad.

" @AjayRaz said:

" @ESREVER said:

" Worms: Reloaded. "

what was so bad about it? i didn't play it, but how can they mess up effin' WORMS? "

It's no Armageddon or World Party. Far, far from it.  Less Options, Less Worms, Less Weapons, Less Fun.  I miss the days where I could just stack worms on top of each other, then drop a Super Banana Bomb at the center of the base. Hehe, good fun. "

Final Fantasy XIV

ME2 removing all the RPG stuff, and give me that "streamlining" bullshit.

Easily dead rising 2. I couldn't figure out what to do most of the time and it's very linear. I was expected alot more.

It's hard to say, most games either matched or exceeded my expectations, that's not to say everything I played I thoroughly enjoyed, but there wasn't really anything I had high hopes for that let me down. I had hoped Final Fantasy XIII would be a great game, but approaching its release it was becoming clear that it was going to fall short of the mark, thus by the time it had been released my expectations had been slightly tempered. Sure enough, some of the more negative impressions of the Japanese released proved to hold weight. Once upon a time I'd been really looking forward to FFXIII, though, so I guess I'll go with that. I still enjoyed facets of it, at least, I thought it housed one of the most entertaining battle systems in a JRPG yet.
 
Mass Effect 2 let me down in some ways, but it made up for it in so many other ways that it didn't matter in the slightest.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Trine. It looks pretty as hell but it's just unbelievably boring.

The PS3 version of Mafia 2, maybe EA MMA too, but the more I play it the more I realise it's really good...just hard to start playing. 
The PC version more than made up for it though. ^_^

Final Fantasy 13 for sure. My most anticipated game of the year and it turned out to be poorly written garbage. Such a disappointment.

" @AjayRaz said:

" @ESREVER said:

" Worms: Reloaded. "

what was so bad about it? i didn't play it, but how can they mess up effin' WORMS? "

It's no Armageddon or World Party. Far, far from it.  Less Options, Less Worms, Less Weapons, Less Fun.  I miss the days where I could just stack worms on top of each other, then drop a Super Banana Bomb at the center of the base. Hehe, good fun. "

" Final Fantasy XIII let me down in 2010. So much potential to be a great game, but it fell flat in several key departments that would have made it a great game. Beautiful graphics and some battles aside, it failed to deliver what it could have done. "

Command and Conquer 4.

Scott pilgrim for me. Got caught up in all the hype and thought this was going to be the best thing since castle crashers but it just didn't click with me. Not an awful game but maybe I was expecting too much.

" @shadowknight508 said:

" Final Fantasy XIII let me down in 2010. So much potential to be a great game, but it fell flat in several key departments that would have made it a great game. Beautiful graphics and some battles aside, it failed to deliver what it could have done. "

I disagree. "

" @LiquidPrince said:

" @shadowknight508 said:

" Final Fantasy XIII let me down in 2010. So much potential to be a great game, but it fell flat in several key departments that would have made it a great game. Beautiful graphics and some battles aside, it failed to deliver what it could have done. "

I disagree. "

I agree with Shadowknight 508 on this one. Care to elaborate Liquid? Why do you think that Final Fantasy 13 met it's expectations? "

Fable 3, Crack down 2 and dead rising 2

Brotherhood. I hated the mission and level designs, and I found the build a brotherhood mechanic to be nothing but a time sync that had no real   relevance  in the grand scheme of things. The game also had  horrendous  frame rate issues, the game never seemed to run above 10-15 FPS the whole time and many times just out right  froze  for several seconds, and had that annoying  gradient  glitch that made the top half of the screen whited out. 
 
I won't spoil it, but other then the last few minuets of the game nothing of any real relevance happened to move the story along.

CODBO, some parts of Mafia 2 (mostly mechanically), Anything Star Wars, CIV5 (everything was great, except for the stupidly dumb leader AI), FNV was a minor disappointment technically, but I kind of excepted as much from Obsidian
 
As for surprises, I was surprised how decent Medal of Honor was after all the media and review bashing. CODBO had a lot of the things people were complaining about in MOH. 

Crackdown 2.  Fraggin' Zombies...

Fable 3 and Crackdown 2

" @jadeskye said:

" @LiquidPrince said:

" @shadowknight508 said:

" Final Fantasy XIII let me down in 2010. So much potential to be a great game, but it fell flat in several key departments that would have made it a great game. Beautiful graphics and some battles aside, it failed to deliver what it could have done. "

I disagree. "

I agree with Shadowknight 508 on this one. Care to elaborate Liquid? Why do you think that Final Fantasy 13 met it's expectations? "

I had a lot of fun with it. I came in expecting melodramatic story, and got an extremely polished game with a melodramatic story. It had great graphics, intense fights, and when the game opens up, it really opens up. "

" @jadeskye said:

" @LiquidPrince said:

" @shadowknight508 said:

" Final Fantasy XIII let me down in 2010. So much potential to be a great game, but it fell flat in several key departments that would have made it a great game. Beautiful graphics and some battles aside, it failed to deliver what it could have done. "

I disagree. "

I agree with Shadowknight 508 on this one. Care to elaborate Liquid? Why do you think that Final Fantasy 13 met it's expectations? "

I had a lot of fun with it. I came in expecting melodramatic story, and got an extremely polished game with a melodramatic story. It had great graphics, intense fights, and when the game opens up, it really opens up. "

" @LiquidPrince said:

" @jadeskye said:

" @LiquidPrince said:

" @shadowknight508 said:

" Final Fantasy XIII let me down in 2010. So much potential to be a great game, but it fell flat in several key departments that would have made it a great game. Beautiful graphics and some battles aside, it failed to deliver what it could have done. "

I disagree. "

I agree with Shadowknight 508 on this one. Care to elaborate Liquid? Why do you think that Final Fantasy 13 met it's expectations? "

I had a lot of fun with it. I came in expecting melodramatic story, and got an extremely polished game with a melodramatic story. It had great graphics, intense fights, and when the game opens up, it really opens up. "

Hmm. I didn't get that at all. The story wasn't so much melodramatic as over-acted and very simple. You are right about the graphics and some of the fights are deffinately intense. I S-ranked it after many hours spent and some of those optional bosses are hard as hell. Opening up though, i just can't forgive it. the overworld on pulse just can't claw back the 40 hours of linearity for me.  The polish is there too which is in and of itself a crime that they polished what is in my mind an incomplete package. But i guess at the end of it, i did still put 150 hours into it so i guess i can't complain that much.  "

Fable 3, but I wasn't surprised. Fable 2 had less features than Fable 1, and knew this would just fellow suit. 
Mass Effect 2, still a good game. I just hate how non-rpg it became.  Will probably avoid ME3 until it's on sale next year, will definitely if Dragon Age 2 is as bad as it seems 
Mafia 2, horrible AI and bad camera. Also Vito was a little prick compared to Tommy. Mafia 1 is one of my favorite games of all time with one of the most interesting stories. It makes me so sad that the sequel is just a bunch of archetypes and scenes stolen from mob movies.
Things about Alpha Protocol were disappointing, but they more than made up for it with New Vegas. 
 Epic Mickey, while I think Ryan is being way too overly negative, it at times did feel more shallow than I expected. 
 
And then on the opposite end of the spectrum, one of the best Wii games and best platformers all year was a Sonic game. What the fuck?

Definitely FF13. Had great expectations for that game but sadly it pretty much sucked. The worst thing is that everyone bought FF13 instead of Resonance of Fate that turned out to be a great game.

alpha protocol i dont know how but  i had such high hopes for that game and none of those hopes were met. 

" It wasn't a game that was released this year, but this summer I finally got the chance to sit down with the Chronicles of Riddick. I fucking hated every moment of it.  "

Splinter Cell: Conviction, to be honest-- I loved the previous games (ok, maybe not Double Agent...), but this one didn't make it for me.
Also Disciples III and AVP.

Final Fantasy XIII, because of the combat. I don't mind cheesy characters on linearity one bit, but that combat took everything I loved from turn-based RPGs and threw it out the window.

I would have to say 007: Bloodstone. I don't really know what I was expecting but all I got was very boring third -person shotting with the bonus of BAD driving from a studio known for good driving games.  

Final Fantasy XIII. Honestly I've just given up on that franchise now, and most things coming out of Japan. There just not any good now.
Transformers, thought it was going to be this years Batman AA. I was wrong.
Fallout NV was good but not Fallout 3 good.

Fable 3 by a mile