What was your first gaming disappointment?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I remember getting sad (yes, actually sad) when my copy of Secret Agent wouldn't run anymore once we made the jump from pure DOS to Windows 95.

That game had been my entire gaming world from age four to seven (when we upgraded the machine) and to this day I still have NO IDEA why it wouldn't run for us, considering both Carmen San Diego and Sensible Soccer (the other two games I was really into at the same time) worked flawlessly on the new computer.

I'm sure an older, wiser me would have been able to figure it out (for Secret Agent was the ONLY DOS-based title that failed to even launch in there), but the disappointment stuck and I wouldn't let go of it until the DosBox era, when I beat the whole thing in one frantic evening.

And, to add insult to injury, Halloween Harry / Alien Carnage (another DOS-based beast and the one title I had bought with spare change just to have something to play on the new rig) also worked perfectly in there. It really did feel like Windows 95 just hated my favorite game and the disappointment lasted weeks.

What about you?

 

[Heinzu]

Sequels that don't live up to their predecessors: A classic example is Devil May Cry 2, which I felt was a significant step down from the original. I was very disappointed.

 

[Zerohour2k12]

I remember being excited for Trinity Trigger. It was good, but I guess my expectations we a bit high that time. Same goes for Lords of Shadow 2.