"So Close" games

Dota 2

But its an assfaggot.
If it was another type of game that was as well made, it would be nearly perfect.

Man I haven't thought about that game since release, guess that says a lot about the game.
Had a really good OST though

The first playthrough of LISA the Painful is horribly frustrating and bad times all around if you don't savescum.

Please explain. I think you might be able to highlight the reason that I didn't enjoy the game at all.

If this game would have gotten rid of the roll-cancelling and balanced out the roster a bit better, it would be objectively the best fighting game ever made.

Capcom VS. SNK 2 EO actually does a lot fix those problems, but tournamentfags refuse to play it because of "muh arcade" autism.

I thoroughly enjoyed the combat and controls (when in 3rd person), even if it wasn't the side-scroller we all want, it was close. The bosses were fun, especially the ones which were throwbacks to the 2d games.

If only the story and characters weren't shit, and first person was removed, it would have potentially been a decent installment to the series. Though maybe my view is jaded by desperation for a new real Metroid game.

Shit like the roulette house, where you can just straight up get a game over through no fault of your own (unless you count not getting every possible party member before that point to be the player's fault). For fucks' sake, there's a luck stat and it's not factored in!

The abundance of bosses with instant-kill, permadeath, high hit rate attacks. It's not that it's an instant kill or a permadeath or an instant kill with high hit chance, but all three factors rolled into one that makes it over the top.

And making campfire sleeping a big risk wouldn't be a problem if the game didn't force you to hurt yourself falling down ledges at a bunch of points.

CvS2 EO is on xbox and Gcube, which were nowhere near as popular as the PS2 ver.
They also haven't been ported to anything else and so everyone plays the port on the PS3, those portable arcade boards, or on PC.
Roll cancels are cancer and I despise the Jap scene for sticking to the original CvS2.

Non-adjustable camera control. Although there are probably other big problems but that one just sticks out the most.

Warframe.
Instead of shitting out weapons and frames that reuse the same mechanics with different digital values they should start releasing actual gameplay content like new levels, enemies, bosses and mission types.
Game barely changed in the last couple of years.