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Hi Dakka!

So I was wondering, have any of you good folks ever got totally hyped by a new game, waited patiently for days/weeks/months to play it and then been completely shattered by the end result? I'm thinking Duke Nukem (2011), Homeland, Call Of Jaurez etc.
I myself was totally wrecked by the eventual release of Daikatana. Here was a game that had all the hallmarks of greatness. John Romero at the helm, 25th century Samuris and ultra violence in spades. This is what it delivered:

-Play through a level until you die. This will only take a few minutes.
-Remember where all of the enemies appeared in the level, because it is always exactly the same. This is good for you, too, because the game would be impossible if the enemies didn't always appear at exactly the same time and attack in exactly the same way.
-Run through the level again, using your knowledge of where all of the enemies are. You may succeed in advancing farther than you got the last time.
-Go a bit more, die, restart, and repeat.
Add to this the awful 3 gem save idea, the general toughness of the stupid bouncing frogs and the fact that the first gun you (eventually) pick up, ends up killing you more than your enemies and it's a total disaster.

So come on Dakkanauts let's have a list of the biggest let downs in gaming!

Halo:ODST, agree with Duke Nukem, Dragon Age 2, and The Force Unleashed games. I'm sure I will be able to add to this list Star Wars: Old Republic. I have really low expectations for this one, even though Bioware is making it.

Halo 3 sucked too, it maybe heresy to say that but compared to the first one, and especially the second one, it was poor beyond belief!


Edit: I meant 'Homefront' not Homeland

I had high hopes for Brink.

Halo 3, fighting brutes is poor sport after you got used to elites for 2 games.

Fallout 3. Cause I was a huge fallout fan before it.

Nerivant wrote:I had high hopes for Brink.

Seriously?

I took one look at a preview video of that game and thought "Well, this is going to be a turd."

Mine was Civ V. While the game itself didn't suck, I don't think I've ever seen a game THAT BROKEN come from a major developer (Or at least, one that wasn't a GTA title). Hell, 5 (?) patches later and it still has some game-ending bugs that have been there since day one. Explore the whole world? Game crash. Want to play with any mods or even the dev scenarios? Game crash. Want to load a game you previously played? Game crash.

Seriously, I'd love to take my copy of Civ 5 and backhand everyone on that dev team with it for sucking.

Yeah Fallout was great at number 2, then number 3 just lost a lot of that dark humor that made it so fun. Also, Halo would be ok if it wasn't the same game just farted out with a new pistol or something. I don't blame bungie for this, I blame the 12 year old who can't move on to a game that requires thought.

Pokemon Black/white. Lets bash the general story with the features people liked from the previous game, tape it all together and throw in the top 150 Pokemon from the rejected ideas bin.

You mean like they have with every other pokemon game since red/blue?

The Foot wrote:You mean like they have with every other pokemon game since red/blue?

Pretty much.

At least some of them were more tolerable than the others, mostly g/s/c, ss/hg and perhaps d/p/p.

But white/black was a kind of big step back to me, hg/ss introduced a lot of nice features that were just stripped away.

Dragon Age 2
Halo 3/ODST
Homefront

Fable is probably one of the most hyped game series in existance. It's a poor knock off combination of a dozen other games that pretends to be a epic do whatever you want adventure that is in reality a very linear game series with simple RPG elements.

Red Orchestra 2 got a lot of hype from small elements of the PC community and has been found to be a reskin of a Battlefield Clone from the early 2000's.

Fable.. oh yeah... such crap games, so much hype. I bought into the first, after completing the dumb thing like 4 hours, I kinda felt like killing peter snobhead.

I think we are forgetting a big one here;Final Fantasy 14. That game was pretty hyped as far as MMOs go and what happened? They released a beta version of the game and said, "oops, my bad." I think it is still free to play.

Yeah. Pete is a horrible person with an ego that makes mine humble in its awesome presence There's sadly quite a few personalities like his in the VG Development community. I got the first two, but they both failed miserably and I just didn't bother with the third (from what I hear I missed nothing).

Rift was fairly over hyped as well. For a game that promised an new MMO experience, all it amounted to was a reskin of all of the mechanics WoW pioneered with a crappy end game and downright horrible class balance. I got my money's worth out of it, nut I certainly didn't play anywhere near the 6 months I paid for.

Though most will probably disagree, I think the Gears of War series is also fairly over hyped. Much like Killzone, the community seems to like to entertain this illusion of greatness around a game that's really only unique in its genre for being more successful than other TPS games. I can give a game its due, but some games get a lot more credit than they've earned.

Gears is just good for it's story and horde mode IMO.

Well the title of the thread says it has to fail too, so while Gears is very over hyped it doesn't quite qualify. What about Army of Two? They were super over hyped, but did they fail?

Fable. I read reviews on that game for a couple months before release, it looked/sounded so good. Then I got it......and it was an ok game...but that was it. I havnt touched Fable since, Ive heard the games that followed were even worse everytime

Though the opening post implies that it is in your opinion as to what was disappointing.

The Foot wrote:Well the title of the thread says it has to fail too, so while Gears is very over hyped it doesn't quite qualify. What about Army of Two? They were super over hyped, but did they fail?

Army of Two never really went anywhere, but I honestly don't think the game was hyped that much. It delivered what the developers said it would. I just wasn't very good.

metallifan wrote:Mine was Civ V.

They made Civilization games after Civ. III? Why?

(Actually, I got Civ. IV and it didn't compare to Civ. III)

My contribution would be a lot of the Star Wars and Final Fantasy games. Both franchises delight in making an awesome game and then following up with a terrible game. But the existence of the good games (KOTOR series, FF XII (I think this was one of the good ones)) keeps you coming back hoping that it will be a fantastic game.

Yeah, it is all about personal opinions. Though Gears was a huge seller (I loved the first two), some people just didn't like them. What I'm after are games that were hyped up but let you down personally.....

To add to my first choice, 'Homefront' has to be up there. All the gameplay videos I saw looked awesome, the online multi-player looked sweet as well. But the game? Broken beyond repair, buggy as hell, slow and clunky it was the antithesis of what a good FPS (Halflife) should be.

Halo games, Gears of War series and Fable games.

Too Human. You've think a game that was in development hell for 7 years would at least have had some well thought out characters and storyline but damn was that game disappointing.

Still played the hell out of it

LordofHats wrote:Too Human. You've think a game that was in development hell for 7 years would at least have had some well thought out characters and storyline but damn was that game disappointing.

Still played the hell out of it

Yup, I was pretty much like that with the last Duke Nukem release. Unfortunately they seemed to have stopped developing it in 2001..... Cos visually it was no better than an early xbox release, it played badly and was incredibly un-PC in a bad way. The original games were so good and to see that travesty with the same name just hurts dude....
To reply to an earlier post, I liked the Army of Two games. As long as you had a mate to play the game with, either online or in person that is. The AI was pretty poor though!

Hell, most jrpgs in the past 10 years. I kinda gave up on them a while ago, just waiting for someone to make a good one.

Dragon Age 2, Soldner, Duke Nukem Forever, Fire Warrior, Red Alert 3, Modern Warfare 2 and Too Human.

So I'm confused, do you mean a sales failure, or a failure in your own eyes?

Because a lot of the games in here are most certainly not failures in terms of sales, however your personal opinion regarding their quality has no connection to that.

Perhaps a title change...

How the hell has Black Ops not been mentioned yet?

It at least has a zombie mode. But if we're mentioning CoD, then I nominate the entire franchise. I have little to no faith that MW3 won't suck to high hell.