Games that fooled you

[Nazulu]

The SSB Brawl game play teasers never showed the fucking tripping!

Skyrim, kinda. I liked the beginning of the game and the dragons are cool, but just before I see the main villain I'm always too over-powered and the rest of the world becomes very similar, especially in difficulty.

 

[Soopy]

I recieved this as a gift but...

Skyrim.

I don't know, Bethesda seems to lack any kind of focus in their games.

Spoiler

Skyrim is very focused on it's side quests, and never manages to spend any significant amount of time on any of the actual storylines. The gameplay is also really clunky. I went out of my way to quell the Stormcloak rebellion before the main story, but fighting Ulfric was rather unfulfilling.

It can be fun at times, but I put Skyrim in the same bucket as Modern Warfare 3 and Half Life. It's ok, a solid 6/10. Fun at times, but not something I would play for hours on end.

Good analogy.

Would you say that Skyrim is more or less entertaining then the modern online shooters like COD?

 

[loa]

Spore.
As a bonus, it also introduced me to the wonders of limited installs DRM and made me the cynical bundle of hate I am now.
I gave up on buying retail games after spore.

 

[Iwata]

Epic Mickey. From the reviews, I took it to be on the same caliber as Okami. Should have known better, it's made by EA so I should have expected it to be half-assed.

Wait a sec - why would it's having been made by EA have been a sign it wouldn't be good, when it wasn't made by EA? It was published by Disney, and developed by Looking Point Software, which is owned by Disney.

About the closest it comes to being "made by EA" is that it's designer, Warren Spector, worked at Origin Systems for the short period of time it was owned by EA.

Haven't you heard? Blaming EA for everything is what's hip these days. If you're not doing it, you're not with the cool kids.

 

[Jynthor]

Two Worlds.
Friends kept telling me how awesome it looked from previews and I used to be that "Must spend all my money" guy so I bought it when I saw it.

I brought it back after 30-60 minutes of playing. It was so terrible.
I remember making a character and then being forced to play as someone who didn't look anything like the character I just made. Then I heard the terrible voice acting. Then I finally got to the combat which was equally terrible. When I got out of the starting dungeon I got killed by a goblin and stopped.

 

[CleverCover]

The only one I can honestly think of is ME3.

I was told I would get a great ending. Personally, all I got was something rushed and a screen asking me to buy dlc.

I haven't touched the damned thing since and I adore the series.

 

[Bamcrash]

Damnation. Just... just don't ask. Watch the Unskippable for it. Then imagine the gameplay is 50x worse.

 

[random_bars]

Brutal Legend. Throughout the trailers, gameplay videos and so on I saw for this game (and even playing the first few missions of it) made it feel like this was going to be a God of War-esque action adventure game in a unique world with interesting characters.

Then before I knew it I was guiding headbangers, trying to keep my resources of fans up and defending towers in this close up RTS environment.

Needless to say, I was not happy...

I too was stung by Brutal Legend. I thought it would be an awesome hack and slash action game set to the best soundtrack in any game ever with scenery to match, with even a little driving and car customisation thrown in. I'm even a moderate fan of Jack Black. It should have been the perfect game for me. But oh how I was wrong.

The demo gave the impression of the game I was expecting it to be, but once you got past that stage in the actual game things pretty much go to shit. Turned in to a crappy repetitive game full of shallow unenjoyable mechanics sprinkled over a shitty RTS game. I really don't like RTS games. I don't necessarily have anything against them but I felt so cheated thinking that I was lied to about the entire genre of the game! If I knew that's what the game was about then it would be fine, I simply wouldn't have bought it. But they lied. Which ended up in me wasting £40. At least the soundtrack was still good.

Also...

Brutal Legend. The game itself was fun, however I didn't like the RTS elements. I thought it would be a Heavy Metal hack and slash.

...But the game was a heavy metal hack and slash action game. Especially in the battles. The idea wasn't to take to the skies and try to direct everything from above, it was to bring together and use all of the fun action stuff you were doing in the rest of the game - the hack and slash combat, the double team attacks, the guitar solos, your car.

If you wanted to delve into the strategic side of what troops to make and when best to use what solo and whatnot, you could - but if you didn't give a toss about strategy and just wanted to play a fun action game, you could just keep all your troops together, build whatever the hell you felt like, and just have fun hacking enemies apart alongside your army.

The problem with the game is that it didn't make this clear enough, leading many people (me included) to try to invest way way way too much time into the 'strategy stuff', trying to play Mouse Cursors and attempting to independently control every single troop and whatnot, when in reality by far the most effective and fun way to play was to just keep your army together and spend all your time down in the battle amongst your troops, using all the fun action moves you wanted to use (and which the devs expected you to use).

 

[Ddgafd]

If I didn't win hard enough with Too Human:

Level-5.... How did you f*ck this up.....? I'm asking solely in the name of science as I Would when presented with any physical impossibility.

Dammit dammit DAMMIT! I fucking hate that game! I can't believe the same folks who made the goddamn Dark Cloud games and Rogue Galaxy(my tied favorite game on PS2) could produce a pile this shitty. Just seeing that damn image made my blood boil. Fuck the sequel too. I never played it, but fuck it anyway.

 

[lacktheknack]

I never have had this happen to me. I refuse to buy things until I KNOW I'll like them. It's a good system.

 

[Kotep]

Final Fantasy 13.

"Oh, it couldn't possibly be as bad as people said it was. It's a Final Fantasy game, hell, I liked Final Fantasy 2."

And then I played it, and it was as bad as everyone had said. Damn it.

 

[Patathatapon]

Skyrim...

I should have known

Oh thank god I'm not the only one!

 

[General Vengeance]

Anything made by EA during the last several years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LE0ycgkBQ

 

[Inkidu]

Once again, I'm about to win the thread:

Too Human

nope. sorry.

it will never beat this

not even close.

But Dead Island wasn't horrible.... Nor misleading....

I think the rest of the internet would like a word with you

That trailer made it out to be a tense survival game with good characters.

You got a fairly unpolished game that was basically borderlands with only zombies

It's got some fairly high review scores, and the game is fun.

The issue is, people took the word of a concept trailer, instead of a gameplay demonstration and

Dead Island was a buggy piece of crap with one class that cold stand on its own feet. I rented it waited eight weeks for it to be mailed and turned it back in the next day. It's terrible, unpolished, and at best mediocre with three other players, damn near unplayable with one. I could play Borderlands solo if I wanted. Dead Island not so much.

 

[Soopy]

Skyrim...

I should have known

Oh thank god I'm not the only one!

You're not alone, don't you worry.