Player Affinity: Top 3 Most Disappointing Xbox 360 Games

The Xbox Team at Player Affinity wrote: "The Xbox 360 has had its share of amazing games; games like most of the Halo series, Mass Effect 2, and Gears of War have definitely kept us playing our 360’s into the long hours of the night. But there are some games that just don’t hit the gaming sweet spot. These are the games that make you lament the fact that you turned on your console."

[KinivingReviving]

I agree with all these choices apart from Mass Effect. Loved that game.

[Blacktric]

Mass Effect is on the list? Hahahahahahah!

"I don’t think “it wasn’t me” was the real problem as Mass Effect had a ton of problems, one being the incredibly slow start. It took around two hours until I actually got to do something and what I finally got to do was drive one of the worst controlling vehicles I’ve ever seen in a game. After many game over’s, I got to the end of that planet and was doing a boss battle Due to the poor combat and terrible healing system, I died and then had to drive all over again. I turned the game off then."

*facepalm*

I mean come on there were FPS drop problems but there was nothing else as far as I can remember. It was a great game and it still is on both 360 and PC.

[InTheKnow]

Unfortunately, the bugs in Mass Effect really drove me crazy and I have never really recovered from. Disappointing...yes, worst ever...Maybe.

Rented Crackdown 2 and couldn't get into it. That game had it's heart and soul ripped out of it by switching devs...a cost cutting measure by M$ and it cost them and everyone ( indirectly related, Realtime closed ) dearly.

I understand the reason for Halo 3...but I don't agree. Halo 3 was a great game and I still remember many great moments from that game. Hype can help and sometimes hurt a game as well...Killzone, UC and Resistance on PS3 had the same effect on me...was expecting the next big thing...NOT quite.

Bioshock 2 is the same as Crackdown 2...different dev, different vibe. Also, I think the graphics were definitely downgraded from the first game...sure it's 720p but they cut corners everywhere to make it multi-platform ( PS3 ) compatible.

[IronFistChinMi]

Ruffian Studios was mainly comprised of staff from RTW, who never wanted to work on APB. MS were not to blame for the demise of RTW, just taking too long to greenlight the sequel and only giving Ruffian 8 months to work on it.

ME1 does suffer from some technical issues, but once the story got going, they never mattered. ME2 improved on it overall, but ME1 has the better story and protagonist.

[kaveti6616]

Mass Effect on 360 has a lot of technical problems, and I was disappointed by the game for its technical problems. I didn't get very far in the game because of slow downs and texture pop-ins distracting me the whole time.

[kneon]

I've only played the PC version of Mass Effect and it had no such problems that I can remember. But the game had far too many dull bits for my liking, and I despised the combat system.

[Tony P]

Disappointment is directly proportional to expectation. And I still I don't understand how a person who "had never enjoyed a BioWare game" expected so much out of this one. Just because it was sci fi? So was KoTOR. :S

I died at the first big boss battle too. But I reloaded and got better at managing my party. And definitely had a lot more fun after that.

Crackdown 2 I totally agree with. I felt like they didn't do much of anything for the game. It should have been more than it was. Period.

[RagingCajun]

Same as the person above. Though I enjoyed Bioshock 2 quite a bit as well

[darren_poolies]

Mass Effect whaaaaaaaat??????

[Lionalliance]

Mass Effect?!
Are these guys serious?!

[Chuk5]

Mass effect is one of my fav rpgs, but some people just don`t like it. But to call it disappointing, I disagree with.

[BillOreilly]

i hated it at fist because i tried to play it as a fps. i came back a year later and got so addicted to it though. it is and was one of the best games ever. the story is superior to the second aka no story just filler. while i think the second improved the game mechanics and was better and the mythos was amazing it cant compete with learning about sovergn and watching the citadel fall to reapers.

[Kingdom Come]

Just because it's only the second going to the Playstation. Mass Effect one is a superb game and to be honest I found it more engaging than 2 (other than the suicide mission)...

[Blacktric]

Shepard's face when we see him for one last time before the game ends and then seeing Normandy flying into the black empty space beyond an unknown planet while M4 Part II by Faunts starts playing. I can't tell how I first felt and still feel whenever I saw or remember that part.

[Moonboots]

Mass Effect is in your TOP 3 most disappointing games?

That's your opinion but you are going against the grain on that one.

I can think of so many more disappointing games on 360. You must of really loved Viva Pinata Trouble In Paradise.

Never a day go by that something N4G posts gives me a major facepalm.

Crackdown 2 I can agree with considering how well the original is and how little they did with 2 as well as Bioshock 2. But ME was GOTY and rightfully so.

[HorriblePanda]

Uhh the only problems I had was Mass Effect 1 was the texture pop up and that's cuz of the lovely ol unreal engin 3....with its greasy slick graphics....the only reason people hated it is/was because the hardcore xbox360 shooter lovers and the mouth breathing ways....(not that I am any sort of a fanboi)one of them even wrote to gameinformer and bash the game for not being a FPS and bought timeshift instead....such a shame and a waster of a good console....but it did have faults like the mako it did not help that it controlled like a hotdog and the texture pop up but great story,gameplay and I loved how you could really make comander sheperd your own...shuch a shame they went in a differnt direction and made ME2 such a 3rd person shooter with lite rpg ideas good story though....it sounds like a mad ps3 fanboi wrote this..

[Skadoosh]

Just shows that everybody has an opinion. Mass Effect is my favorite game this gen.

[ZombieAutopsy]

Exactly it's just their opinions, everyone is acting like just because someone was disappointed by Mass Effect they are fanboys. I some what enjoyed the game, didn't think it was anything special but IMO it wasn't really disappointing.

[Perjoss]

I have to agree, Mass Effect is one of my favorite games this gen, along with Dead Rising, Lost Odyssey and Valkyria Chronicles. PCs dont really have 'gens' but I have to mention StarCraft 2 :)

[jjmtf22]

Disapointing doesn't mean it was bad. Disapointing mes it didn't live up to expectations.

I loved Mass Effect but it had a lot of problems.

[RobertMF]

Mass Effect was one of the few games I played through multiple times, but I had to get around a lot of its flaws first. As much as I loved the cinematic presentation, setting, and ambitious story (a trilogy where your decisions carry over!? Wow!), I hated the samey side missions and clunky shooting. I've been playing through it again to bring a character up to Mass Effect 2, but after seeing all the improvements Bioware made for the sequel it's tough to keep going.

[Invadersims]

I really liked Mass Effect but everyone has an opinion and as long as they can justify it, then it should be fine.

[Cherchez La Ghost]

See, this is what I talk about some nobody blog post bullsheit to get hits by creating flamebait bullsheit. And hot bullsheit stinks.

..............Mass Effect?!