Your 3 favorite developers and your 3 biggest disappointments by them

Just for the fun of negativity's sake, take your top three developers and list your three most disappointing games by them.

Sega

1. Skies of Arcadia - Unoriginal and mediocre. I expected so much more from Kodama and co.
2. Golden Axe 2(Genesis) - I'm one of GA1's biggest fans so this was a major let-down. I should have known that it was made by a different team than the original.
3. Jet Set Radio Future - They screwed over the perfect gameplay of JGR. I think JGR's soundtrack is very overrated. JSRF's is atrocious.

Nintendo

1. Yoshi's Story - Island was godly. Story is so far below Nintendo standards, it's scary.
2. Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - The game's design just wasn't addictive like the others.
3. Super Mario Sunshine - See Majora's comment.

It's tough to decide my third favorite developer between Capcom and Konami but I guess I'll go with Capcom.

Capcom

1. Devil May Cry - Good game but I was hoping it would feel like an old-school action game instead of a Resident Evil clone.
2. Final Fight 2 - Like Golden Axe 2, the console-specific sequel didn't compare to the first game.
3. Strider 2 - This is actually quite a good game but it lacks the magic of Strider 1 although it's hard to pinpoint how. I'm hoping when I finally play Cannon Dancer that it will be my true Strider sequel.

None of the games I listed are bad. I own all of them except for Yoshi's Story. They were just disappointing games, mostly sequels that didn't live up to their predecessors.

1.SEGA

1- Skies of Arcadia- This is game is atrociously bad, everything is so tacky and unprofessional that it's not even funny.

2- Daytona USA- The arcade game is excellent, but Saturn version of this game is unplayable.

3- Sonic Adventure 2- It gives Bubsy 3D a run for its money

2.Konami

1. Castlevania 64: The worst insult to the greatest series

2. The N64 Vania: same as above

3. PSX Contra: .....

3.Nintendo

1. Super Mario Sunshine- It plays worse than Croc

2. Super Smash Brothers- Fighting game catering to those learning the intricacies of Tee Ball[/striderkyo;)]

3. Mario Party- Another shitty game targeted at the lowest common denominator.=\

Sega:

Sega GT / Sega GT 2002: Piss poor controls and seriously unfun. I succeds in nothing it wished to accomplish. All I got from it was a funny magazine ad. Kicky Fast... too bad the game was slow as molasses.

Sonic Adventure 2: Great as Sonic... the first level (especially from the Demo with all the cool Nights, PSO and Chu Chu Billboards which were mostly absent from the full game and replaced with Soap ads) was so awesome I knew the rest of the game had to rule. I was wrong. The rest of the game was Knuckles, while not a bad chracter, played poorly.

Shenmue: Boring and not nearly so unique as everyone thinks it is. The "freedom" in the game is such a joke. Yu hasn't been responsible for a great game in ages.

Capcom:

Resident Evil (series): The whole series is garbage to me. It's slow, awkward, and not particularly scary. Scary is plaing the Marine in Aliens vs Predator on PC (playing the sequel right now and it scares the piss out of me), RE is like getting attcked by sluggish retards while not being able to run and shoot at the same time. The action is ass, the "horror" is a joke and the story is cheesy enough to be a parody which is a shame since the game takes itself so seriously it would seem to me. Capcom always meant fun and more fun. This is boring and more boring. I could list a million of thier RE clones, but that'd be cheating. I really wish more games like Cannon Spike would come out (I fully understand that Capcom simply published this title but still).

Tech Romancer: E for effort, while goofy fun, the game has nothing to back up the quirkyness.

Plasma Sword/Star Gladiator: Stands as Caps worst figher with some of gaming worst chracters this side of World Heroes. Admittedly I don't mind June and Hayato (or something like that) is pretty cool - but the game is pretty much a broken mess.

... beyond that I cannot think of another developer which has disappointed me more than once if at all. I'm thinking of Enix, iD, Bioware and Blizzard and I think I like everything of thier that I have played. Maybe Warcraft 3.. I'm not huge on that... good Single Player, ass MP.

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Dude, Kikaioh (best mecha one on one after VOOT) and Star Gladiator 2 are great.

Sega:

1. Sonic Adventure 2: The original was truly wonderful, the sequel is a mess that is mostly not fun and unmemorable.

2. Scud Race, Daytona 2, HOTD: Because they never got ported (or in HOTD's case, a decent conversion) despite being excellent. If this doesn't count then...

...2. Segagaga: Awesome concept, really awful execution.

3. JSRF: Good game but large parts of the game left me cold and frustrated.

Capcom:

1. Capcom vs SNK: The sequel was good but the original was such a wasted oppurtunity, the ratio system was lame and the SNK characters butchered.

2. Biohazard 3: Weakest in the series.

3. Rockman series: I love Rockman 2 and X3 but each time I try a new Rockman game I can't believe just how poorly designed they are.

Konami:

1. Can't think of any so...

Nintendo:

1. Mario Sunshine: I mean seriously, what the fuck were they thinking.

2. Zelda OOT: I don't see what the fuss is about. Boring game.

3. Metroid Prime: No skill required, rubbish boss fights and the music not very good (Phendrana Drifts' and Tallon Overworld musics were awesome though).

Yoshi's Story would be on there but I had been warned beforehand by everyone who had played it that was a complete pile of shit.

That's it for me, most of the games I look forward to end up being brilliant.

If you say so.. I didn't see it and as far as Tech Romancer goes, I had for for 5 minutes and then it was just stupid. Like listening to an insane guy on the street shout 'yo momma! yo momma!" over and over agian. You'll laugh at first but when he keeps doing it - it really starts to sink in how stupid it is.

Nintendo

1. Zelda 2 - JUst changed too much, it was an ok game but a big dissapointment for me, specially with how much i loved the first one

2. Super Mario Bros 2 - this wasnt even a fucking mario game to begin with. Given me Doki Doki Panic and trying to pass it off as mario, fuck that noise.

3. Mario Party series - i say this because every one told me the mario party games were so much fun. Ive had people just go on and on about these games and i dont know i just cant get into them.


Square Enix (since theyre one company now)

1. 7th saga - HOrrible Horrible RPG IMHO, just did not like it at all and i thought it was going to be really good

2. Final Fantasy VIII - as far as rpgs go it wasnt too bad, but coming from the great experience i had with VII this was a big dissapointment.

3. All the games both these companies decided to never bring it, more of a dissapoinment in them in general, specially you enix

Capcom

1. Not redrawing Morrigan

2. Mars Matrix - now before i get killed for this im not saying its bad, BUT everyone made it seem like gods gift to shooters. I just dont feel it, its not bad but im just not seeing what makes it so amazing.

3. DMC2 - nothing needs to be said here

I was aware that Capcom didn't make MM... that they just published it. I think Takumi made it?

I don't feel like listing a bunch of companies, but we'll just go with Capcom, since they have the most obvious mistakes.

1) DMC 2, I don't need a explanation

2) Ports, ports, and more ports. And then charging 40 dollars for those ports, ugh. I'm surprised SF 2 hasn't made the jump to the next gen systems yet.

3) Hm... I'd have to say Strider 2 here. Unlimited continues, the tiny acts that broke up the flow of the game, the non-sensical cut scenes... I wanted to like it, so bad, but they made it too hard for me to do it. Mostly because I hate games where I have to make challenges myself, because they gave me unlimited continues.

Sega:
1. Skies of Arcadia: Sub-mediocre tripe, with little to redeem it. I can't beleive Sega would put this kind of crap out. Too much time away from the genre, I suppose.

2. Jet Set Radio Future: Ruined so much of what made the first game good. A Real let-down.

3. Daytona USA 2: SuperGT will always be the true heir to Daytona. Te track design in this one was just lame. Developer changes are never a good thing.

Treasure:

1. Light Crusader: I just really didn't like it. I could bever get into it. Why a company known for colorful japanese styled action games would attempt a dry western themed RPG is beyond em, but they were out of their element and it showed.

2. Stretch Panic: Not a terrible game but went wrong in so many ways. Never should habve been shipped like that.

3. Silpheed: The Lost Planet: A thoroughly lame embarassment of a shooter.

tri-Ace: Spotless track record

Nintendo:
1. Mario Sunshine: What the hell is this crap? Completely rushed, terrible level design, way too much replaying of levels.

2. Yoshi's Story: Just wasn't half of what it should have been

3. Donkey Kong Country: Totally uninspired playable tech demo. Classic franchise abuse.

Sega:


Shining Wisdom: This game tried to be a Zelda clone, but ended up a shallow story, with shallow gameplay.

Phantasy Star III: After playing the highly enjoyable PS2, this game was a step back for the series.

Altered Beast: Everyone loved it in the arcades, and enjoyed the Genesis version, but I thought the game was all graphics with totally no gameplay.


Nintendo:


Yoshi's Story: The graphics were fairly unique, but the gameplay was just slow and boring.

Killer Instinct: It sold in droves and really was'nt a bad game, but there were far better fighters on the market, before this title came out.

Pokeman: Throw the hate towards me, but I thought this game was nothing but collecting monsters and battleing them. It may be fun for some people, but what I played was not that impressive.


Capcom:

Spawn: Horrible arcade game and a waste of resources to bring the game to the Dreamcast.

Power Stone: Some people may find this game enjoyeable, but I found it to be a slow and boring 3-D fighter.


Breath of Fire: Was this just published by them? Either way, I found the first game to be boring, lacked innovative graphics, and the sound was terrible, for a Super Nintendo game.

Nintendo
1. Mario Kart 64: Just...no. Rubber-band racing, too lenient tracks, and...just...uhg.

2. Zelda 2: Because it was so far removed from the first, that at the time it felt like the biggest dissappointment. Not that bad of a game, but I'm sure you all know how I feel on this.

3. Super Mario Sunshine: Nintendo deserves to be kicked in the balls for not pleasing every man, woman and child on earth with this. But seriously...it's a good game, neat elements, but lacks the charm, vast locales, and 'ground breaking innovation' every other Mario game offers. Or so people say. Like Zelda 2 - good for what it's worth, but following the tailwind of such a sucessful series, you can see how it can be seen as a letdown.

SNK
1. King of Fighter series: It's been bled to death. Anyone who complains (or has complained) about Capcom milking a said franchise but waits with baited breath for another KoF needs a swift kick.

2. The utter lack to move past the MVS/AES: Lame. Plain and simple. SNK gets tagged for 'best developer/2D gods evar' but they sure aren't smart when it comes to making hardware decisions. And business decisions. Think you're a hardcore SNK fan? Write em a letter and demand they work on next gen hardware. No more ports, no more games made on the Neo Geo. I mean, if you really cared about them, you'd want to see them succeed, and catering to such a small user-base will them bankrupt. Again.

3. Sengoku 2: I just didn't see what the big fuss was about. Blame hype...I was ready to play the end-all-be-all of beat em ups from what fanatics were saying, and I wound up with an 'ok' game.

Sega
1. Phantasy Star: No, it's not good. It does not stand the test of time. It's a boring dungeon crawler with no direction whatsoever. Legendary in its day? I wouldn't know - I had an NES. Legendary today? No.

2. Shinobi on PS2: Bad camera, repetitive gameplay, boring locations. Stylish action? Yeah. Some people would tell you that it's repetitive 'just like any other old school hack and slash and only a retard wouldn't appreciate it.' Don't give in to their pressure tactics. Shinobi is bad. Revenge is good. Shadow Dancer is good. This is...uhg...just pass on it, or have low expectations.

3. ChuChu Rocket: A simple puzzle game with online play? WHOO! Wait...what's this? Lag? In a fast-paced puzzler? Wait...now the servers are being shut down? Where's the fairness in this? Yep...another letdown.