Originally Posted by swordscythe
I think mine has to be Mistmare. It was this RPG I thought might be fun, it was really cheap and I didn't have anything else to do, so I took it home. when I was installing it, I went to Gamespot to see the review. Dismayed was I to find out the reviewers gave it a 1.7/10. Not one to be scared off by a reviewer (I remember IGN gave Gothic II a 2/10 once, one of the best RPG's I can remember and it got a 2/10!), I went ahead and tried it anyway. It really is horrid. The entire way to play the game is clunky and annoying. It's all extremely confusing and soulless. It's like they made a 2MB computer file that generates its very own RPG without any human input. It just appears never to have been tested. It goes from realistic to far-out fantasy in a second. It's full of spelling errors, it crashes to desktop constantly, and even on the best of machines its framerate is terrible.



Anyone else has any horror stories?


Since I'm a hardcore RPG player, I have high tolerance to the RPGs. But I'm definitely agree with you. Mistmare was a terrible game by all standarts. After had been reading all the interviews, previews and seeing the screenshots, I was expecting a game that can saturate my hungry to the Gothic style games. I may be wrong, but the release date of Mistmare was 2002 and Gothic 2 didn't reach to the English territory yet. I even continue to play it out of my optimism that it will be better in the later of the game. Nope, after 20 hours that wasted into the game, I said it's enough. All that I remind of the game is the terrible walking sound that still echoing in my head. smile

By the way, out of topic but 2002 was a great year for RPGs. According to the release dates, Freedom Force, Dungeon Siege, Morrowind, NWN, Warcraft 3, Icewind Dale 2, Divine Divinity, Arx Fatalis, Prince Of Qin all released in 2002.

My another disappointment was a topdown isometric Viking RPG that I can't recall its name. I think it was released in 2000 or 2001. I learned that not all isometric RPG was BG, IWD or PsT by that game.