Most Disappointing Game of 2009?

Alright, I searched the forums for this topic and it was surprisingly nowhere to be found, so here goes.

Personally, I feel 2009, though having quite a few notable games out, is overall a more disappointing year in terms of delivering the goods than most in recent memory.  It just seems that even the "big" releases weren't as stellar or as well-recieved as they've been in years passed and, for the most part, I won't look back upon 2009 as a huge year in gaming.

So without further ado, what is YOUR personal most disappointing game of the year?  I pick Brutal Legend, simply because not only was the final product a bit underwhelming as far as gameplay, presentation, and length of the single-player campaign, but that it seemed to mascarade for so long as something it was not, and was pushed as a huge event in gaming when, in reality, it was one of the most skippable major releases of the year.

Thoughts?

Brutal Legend, I was all stoked for it, then I realized it was a console RTS game. Sad Panda =(

Prototype. It just wasn't as good as it could have been.

Halo ODST. It was just sort of blah. 
 
@AltonBrown said:

" Prototype. It just wasn't as good as it could have been. "

Probably for me, The Conduit. It seemed like a really competent shooter on the Wii, all it needed was a decent premise. Lo and behold it was a totally competent shooter on the Wii, but with a boring, generic premise. There's hope for the base they built, but the story behind the gameplay was flat-out weak. 

I haven't played any truly awful games that have come out in 2009, so by default, my most disappointing game would have to be Ghostbusters.
And by that I mean only the last third of the game. The first half or so is phenomenal: tons of fan service, hilarious dialogue and fun gameplay mechanics.
 
But unfortunately the game busts (no pun intended) its potential fairly quickly. After the first few levels, you have less interaction with the main crew, you find yourself doing the same things over and over again, and the boss fights, when you have to babysit your crewmates, frustrate to no end.
 
Still, I really liked the game (I'd probably give it a 4 out of 5, or a B+ or something). So that's saying a lot about the crop of games I tried this year.

" @Abyssfull: Yeah, RE5 was pretty disappointing. I liked Sheva, though. "

I was probably let down the most by Brutal Legend.  RTS is disguise (*Cue Transformers music....?*).

The biggest disappointment for me was Scribblenauts. That game had so much promise. It mostly delivered on the basic premise of writing anything and spawning it into the world, but as soon as you started trying to interact with all of that stuff, the game completely broke down. Definitely some of the jankiest controls I've wrestled with in a very long time.
 
RE5 and Brutal Legend would be my runner ups.

" @VinceNotVance: That pun was sooo intended =P "

I also agree with Prototype. I was hyping that game for months and it just wasn't what I thought it was going to be.
I also would add Red Faction: Gorilla. That game was way to repetitive for my liking. I don't know how it got anything higher than a 7.
On a side note, I liked RE5. Though I've never been a RE fan.

Damnation 

Scribblenauts and ODST are up there. Scribble was kind of doomed because it was hyped to the moon before it came out. ODST should have been a budget title. However, I don't have a lot of people on my Friends list in Live so I haven't played Firefight. Sad you can't just join a random game.

"I also agree with Prototype. I was hyping that game for months and it just wasn't what I thought it was going to be. I also would add Red Faction: Gorilla. That game was way to repetitive for my liking. I don't know how it got anything higher than a 7. On a side note, I liked RE5. Though I've never been a RE fan. "

Brutal Legend. They could at least come up with an ending but no they did not.

Brutal Legend, too short of an experience for it's 60$ price. I'm no fan of Multiplayer so the prospect of it being a warm-up for MP was not my cup of tea.

Resident Evil 5, Scribblenauts, Brutal Legend, and MUA 2.

inFAMOUS. Brad had me all excited for that game but it was terrible. I don't care what his review says: the story was awful, the character animations were noxious, and honestly it was just another GTA clone with some mild platforming and the inability to travel conveniently and quickly. (the train tracks don't do shit.)

Dragon Quest IX, that game fucking sucks more donkey balls than TooHuman and Halo 3.

Borderlands. Even with friends it was boring.

"Brutal Legend, too short of an experience for it's 60$ price. I'm no fan of Multiplayer so the prospect of it being a warm-up for MP was not my cup of tea. "

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2  - they stripped just about everything out of the game that was great in the first one and turned it from an Action RPG to a button mashing mess of autoleveling and bland costumes.

SF IV - Was really hoping to get into a fighting game, it looked awesome and the rumour was there were tutorials to help new players get into the game. Turned out to be the same barrier to entry as always and it went back to the store promptly. 
 
Also MW2 MP, after our collective "fears are unfounded" from 402, turned out, we were damn well spot on the money.

ODST. That game could've been a lot better. Personally, any Halo game is a game I want to play, but this one left a bad taste.

"ODST. That game could've been a lot better. Personally, any Halo game is a game I want to play, but this one left a bad taste. "

RE5. 
 
RE4 still exceeds it in every way. ditch the partner stuff.

So far it's Dragon Age: Origins. The game is good but not at all what it was hyped to be and there some bad decision making (on Bioware's part) that just prevents this game from truly shining. Personally I still think that NWN and the Baldur's Gate series are better. 

"inFAMOUS. Brad had me all excited for that game but it was terrible. I don't care what his review says: the story was awful, the character animations were noxious, and honestly it was just another GTA clone with some mild platforming and the inability to travel conveniently and quickly. (the train tracks don't do shit.) "

I got to say that MUA2 and Brutal Legend were my real dissappoints of 2009, like i had such high hopes for MUA2, since i loved the first one which had like Everything u wanted from marvel, but this time it was so stripped and boring i went well Fuck. and Brutal legend, i Really had no idea what i was going into, i'm like RTS? on console? well fuck. but i tried it anyway and guess what i was right. Fuck.

" Dragon Quest IX, that game fucking sucks more donkey ballsthan TooHuman and Halo 3. "

Lotta people saying MUA 2, so I figger I'll comment on that.

If I put the two games MUA and MUA 2 right next to each other, which one is better really comes out as a wash in my book.  While MUA had a more attractive playable character list and took you to every place you'd concievably want to go in the Marvel Universe, the story holding it all together didn't really give much motivation, tension, or excitement for the player to sink their teeth into.  MUA 2 really cuts down the number of Marvel characters you wanna play as and keeps a more real-world, perhaps blander setting, its story actually has a visible arc with at least one slightly meaningful decision within it to keep the player engaged.  The two games play nearly identically and have strengths and weaknesses involved in their RPG elements.  MUA had less visual polish, but more accurate-looking characters and costumes, while MUA2 looks nicer, but made some severe muck-ups with how characters look.

So, in my opinion, it's indecipherable which is actually a better game.

Puzzle Quest Galatrix broke my heart.

Wow I couldn't disagree more. Batman AA, Uncharted 2, Dragon Age, COD MW2, and Assassin's Creed 2 all met or exceeded their lofty expectations. 2008 was good (Fable / Fallout) but there were plenty of games that didn't live up to the hype (World at War, Gears 2).
 
Brutal Legend was pretty bad but I wasn't ever that jazzed about it so I don't feel letdown. Forza 3 didn't do anything for me either. Nothing wrong with it I just felt like I was playing Forza 2 again. Prototype and Red Faction were both kind of bland. Neither one was bad but I wasn't really compelled to finish either. I suppose coming out right after inFamous did them no favors.

Scribblenauts. While by no means a bad game, it was hugely disappointing that the game succeeded in what everyone doubted (the library) yet horribly failed on basic levels such as controls (which could have been fixed in 1 days worth of work!), physics and puzzle design. Boo. 
 
Also, every single Wii game that was released after June and didn't support MotionPlus. (Which is all of them!)

Modern Warfare 2, in a sense.
The story let me down phenomenally.

inFamous for me.  Controlling Cole and his powers was a blast, and just moving around the city was awesome... but the enemies lacked variety, the story was bland, the narrative sucked, and the missions structure had all the flaws of the first Assassin's Creed.  Also, the design of the city just was not appealing.  I understand that the whole town just experienced a huge explosion, but the environment that the game put me in was a place that I did not want to stay in.

The Saboteur...

Borderlands.... (shiver)