Games that fooled you

[Sacman]

Oblivion... what I expected: epic fantasy adventure with a host of great side quest material and a great amount of character building and role playing...

what I got: a boring fantasy non adventure with a boring, boring world populated by bland characters, boring lore and a non existent focus point, which led me to doing nothing but running around the boring country side for a few hours abusing the skill and movement system to kill enemies 4 times stronger than me...

That about it... I typically don't let me get suckered in to games from hype... I'm much to cynical...

Though the original Deus Ex did surprise me, considering I didn't expect much from it...

What I expected: a fairly typical old school sci-fi shooter...

What I got: a truly unique and inspiring role playing experience... that, while not perfect, understood the basis of character development, storytelling, player involvement and choice in a game and wrapped it all together in a stealth action RPG system, amazing level design, that transcended the idea of "game levels", and a great post cyberpunk epic of a story...

 

[Dandark]

Dragon age 2. I should have been more careful but I didn't think they could **** it up that much. I still enjoyed it but it was such a disappointment.

Also Too human. The demo was fun and I actully enjoyed the game untill I got to the ice forest. ****ing ice forest, the whole game went downhill from there.

 

[tombman888]

BRINK. Never have i been so disappointed with a game i've bought. The only good thing that came from it was a Genuine Anger hat for my Sniper.

 

[Danzavare]

DA2. I'd dislike it as a standalone game, but I grew to hate it as a sequel to DA:O. The whole notion of playing over years in a changing city amounted to giving the writers an excuse to skip to plot points. Even then, nothing much changed city wise. The city itself felt bare, with nothing remarkable or likeable about it. I was happy with my silent protagonist but hated the transition into a voiced protagonist that would say the strangest of things or have the most obscure of dialogue options. As someone unfamiliar with the DA:O style of combat, I was very happy to meet challenged that I'd have to form little strategies to get around. DA2 was just spamming, any tactical maneuver I made (Getting into a good position out of combat as a mage) was rendered mute when the next wave mysteriously spawned around us. I'd win, but it never felt satisfying. Also the load in your character feature felt pretty pointless, giving the smallest of callbacks. Nuts to you guys for making me be LOVEY-DOVEY or ANGRY-SPITEFUL to keep anyone, punish me for not playing an extremist why don't you! Also;

Spoiler

DON'T TOUCH THE FREAKING MIRROR MERILL! After years of telling you not to AND sleeping with you, WHY DO YOU STILL REFUSE TO LISTEN! Inconsiderate writers, I loaded in my Dalish Elf which probably tells you as a player I'm aware the mirror is extremely dangerous, why then can I do nothing about it!?

Captcha: fill it up

 

[pyrokin]

Arma II.

I thought because the Day Z mod seemed fun, the original game would be too. Still on the 3rd level that's how boring it is to me...

 

[bluegate]

Assassins Creed

Had great trailers, lot's of hype by that Raymond woman, but the end product just wasn't worth it. Sure the environments looked awesome, but there was nothing to do in them aside from doing the same mission six times over, no interesting story, crappy story telling ( I have pity on the people that played it on an SD television... ), just straight up crap.

 

[RustlessPotato]

The Force Unleashed 2. Yeah, that game. 60dollars for 6 hours of bad storyline and boring gameplay. I'm having a derection right now because you made me think of it.

 

[ReadyAmyFire]

Anyone remember Haze? The hype around that was crazy. And world of warcraft, was really looking forward to trying out a big social game, but noone would speak to me

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

[PROTOTYPE]

Yes, I will always type it like that, until the end of time.

The trailer hooked me, the concept intrigued me, the game initially grabbed me, the eventual resolution left me flaccid and disappointed.

 

[Scrustle]

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.

 

[Padwolf]

The first Uncharted, such a big adventure game apparently! But then I bought it, expecting great adventure. I thought there was too much shooting and too little adventure in between the shooting. I have not touched the series since, I felt so disappointed.

 

[Random Fella]

Diablo 3. I thought I was going to be buying a fun dungeon crawler. Little did I know that I would actually be paying to participate in a marketing racket designed to farm currency for the developers.

I thought everyone knew that's what it was going to be before it was released

 

[Ninjat_126]

Brink.

It hyped up its character customisation, it hyped up its movement mechanics.

What we ended up with was a terrible, terrible, TF2 clone.

I liked the customisation and the movement. They just made the terrible mistake of making them irrelevant to the gameplay. I got the feeling the ideas were bigger than the budget.

 

[Vault101]

realistic fantasy is awesome. One of the few things I liked about Skyrim was it's aesthethics. I don't want the art to be based on the whimsy of the artists, but have some guidelines.

stylisation isn't based on the "whimsy of artists" otherwise there would be no consistency


anyway I guess it certainly added to the "rough, Scandinavian" thing they were going for. Its more personal since for me it was making something I found kind of dull even duller

 

[Vault101]

Brink.

It hyped up its character customisation, it hyped up its movement mechanics.

What we ended up with was a terrible, terrible, TF2 clone.

and lets not forget the "no girls allowed" fiasco

IMO when it comes to the heat of battle does the eye depth of your character matter all that much?

I think a sacrifice for females would have been worth it

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Brink.

It hyped up its character customisation, it hyped up its movement mechanics.

What we ended up with was a terrible, terrible, TF2 clone.

and lets not forget the "no girls allowed" fiasco

IMO when it comes to the heat of battle does the eye depth of your character matter all that much?

I think a sacrifice for females would have been worth it

Agreed.

I like making women more than I like making men.

Pretty much every character I make in an RPG is a woman

 

[Trippy Turtle]

From Dust looked awesome but I found it pretty horrible. This applies more to map packs and things I bought and instantly regretted.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

What are some games that fooled you with hype and made you buy them only to regret it later?

Games don't generally make you buy them...anyway!

If a friend refers you to a game, then they're the ones that fooled you. Not the game.

That's true...but the same goes with marketing such as the marketing campaign used for Dragon Age 2. I can't fucking believe I got that game...It wasn't a bad game but I remember it being marketed as a fantasy RPG epic like the last...but it was a linear, hack-n-slash with RPG elements and a roaster of supporting characters who range from forgettable to downright horrible except for your sister the mage and, Varric. Also in a game where a big issue was the same-sex coupling why the Hell can't you have Varric wield your +69 War Hammer. Instead you get a pirate winch who looks like she carries more diseases than items. Also, why did a Final Fantasy character come in claiming to be an Elf?

 

[Scarim Coral]

You had pretty much sum up 2008 Alone in the Dark and abit of The Last Story for me.

I was impress with the game engine with Alone in the Dark and the many trailers of it however what I was watching was the Xbox 360 version (I owned the Wii.
Needless to say I was super pissed when I played the Wii version and the changes to it like you cannot combine items together and for some strange reason the plot was different in the Wii version.

With the Last Story they hype it out to be an awesome game and the gimmick/ mechanic it used (like hiding behind walls) and it's made by the same person who did this Final Fantasy game so you know it's awesome (same with the soundtrack).
When I played the game, the story and soundtrack was bland (I've been spoiled by the awesome varity in Xenoblade Chronciles) and the game is too lineral.

 

[sheah1]

Castlevania Lords Of Shadow.
What a shitty, shitty game, I should have just got the demo and played that over and over, same effect really. Didn't exactly help that it was nothing like the Castlevanias that I've grown to love (Portrait of Ruin and such) What really pisses me off is that it was a choice between that and Enslaved (which is amazeballs) but everyone gave LOS the higher scores.