Games that fooled you
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The last 3 games I bought on hype were Skyrim, Witcher 2 and Deus Ex HR. But that wasn't publicly generated hype, it was due to me being a fan of those series. So self generated hype.
The only one I'm disappointed with is Witcher 2, because I can't get it to work.
I never buy something based on publicly generated hype. Never. I HAVE bought some games on a whim, but it's usually "Hmm, that box art looks kinda cool... ?15? Why not". They are the ones that disappoint me the most.
The only one I'm disappointed with is Witcher 2, because I can't get it to work.
I never buy something based on publicly generated hype. Never. I HAVE bought some games on a whim, but it's usually "Hmm, that box art looks kinda cool... ?15? Why not". They are the ones that disappoint me the most.
Beat Hazard and Polynomial. Beat Hazard just looked so fun, and it ended up just being kinda...meh. The Polynomial is pretty cool in terms of visuals, but I just don't have any idea what I'm supposed to do.
Guess I'm just a sucker for music-interpreter games.
Guess I'm just a sucker for music-interpreter games.
which was again pretty bare-bones.DeathSwitch109 said:
another game that didn't fool me, but did fool some friends of my (even though i warned them) was SFxTK. man one of them was Pissed! came to me saying i was right and how capcom is evil and stuff.
How in the world did you manage to stretch it out that long?RustlessPotato said:
Anyway, for me it would have to have been Fracture. The trailers made it look fun, the tutorial was enjoyable to play, the weapons and story were rather creative. I thought it was going to be a fun time when I got it. Then about 5 hours later I was rather disappointed with what it had turned into.
Ah yes. I have a history with this. Now I do my research.
The worst case was in my highschool years in the PS1 era where I bought the Men in black game on impulse because I saw a review of it which made it look good. It sucked hairy old man testicles.
A few years ago I bought Shadow of the colossus because what the back of the cover said about the game. I got the impression that I could explore the whole region & look for the colossi. Instead, you had to kill them in sequencial order & your sword led you to their location. The game itself wasn't bad, just linear. And I wanted the pleasure of searching for them myself in any order.
I think the most recent was Mirrors edge. Again, it wasn't that bad a game just limiting & the controls are awkward.
The worst case was in my highschool years in the PS1 era where I bought the Men in black game on impulse because I saw a review of it which made it look good. It sucked hairy old man testicles.
A few years ago I bought Shadow of the colossus because what the back of the cover said about the game. I got the impression that I could explore the whole region & look for the colossi. Instead, you had to kill them in sequencial order & your sword led you to their location. The game itself wasn't bad, just linear. And I wanted the pleasure of searching for them myself in any order.
I think the most recent was Mirrors edge. Again, it wasn't that bad a game just limiting & the controls are awkward.
This one right here. The first truly abysmal entry in the once-proud Metroid series, ruining the most prominent and powerful female character in gaming. And now there's been absolutely no word on anything Metroid since, so I guess it also spells the end of Metroid altogether.SirBryghtside said:
Dead Island doesn't really count for me because it's a non-gameplay trailer that generated all the hype. Once you saw the gameplay you instantly knew it wasn't worth it.rhizhim said:
Witcher 2 I just can't get into, not the story, love the story. But the combat mechanics are so clunky for my liking that they kill the flow of the game.
NBA 2K12, after having such a good time with 2K11...got to love companies that backtrack on their games. Which brings us to nothing else other than:
Diablo 3, anyone who has bought it and has reached inferno difficulty should know what I'm talking about.
There must be a few more than I've forgot, FO3:NV comes to mind,but the feeling there was lost mostly due to the crashes and not the actual game,so I don't think it counts fully.
Diablo 3, anyone who has bought it and has reached inferno difficulty should know what I'm talking about.
There must be a few more than I've forgot, FO3:NV comes to mind,but the feeling there was lost mostly due to the crashes and not the actual game,so I don't think it counts fully.
Pretty much every MMO that has come out in the last 5 years. The only one I think I have played past the free 30 days was Swtor, and I have since stopped playing it.
SilverBullets000 said:
Lol, yeah, my missus bought that for me, once. It's the only game in my collection that has dust gathering on it. I normally like any shooter, but that was.....
Fucking.
Shit.
She asks me which upcoming titles I might be interested in now, thank God.
The cross-platform X-box/PC idea was a good one too. WRONG game to try it with though. Ugh.
(pardon my French)
Personally I enjoyed Brutal Legend, the RTS sections were a surprise and I had a lot of fun with the multiplayer when I could actually get a game, but I can see why people were annoyed about it, the demo did nothing to demonstrate that the RTS elements were going to be there, and totally threw the impression of what the game was about.Scrustle said:
If Double Fine had just shown that it was going to be that, people would've gone in knowing what to expect and not felt burned or mis-lead.
Did you try Witcher 2 once they bought out the patch? I played it a couple of months ago after they added all the new features/tided up the game, and I didn't feel it was too bad, some elements are a little clunky, but apparently it's a massive step up from what it was like at release. They pretty much overhauled the fighting mechanics.Idocreating said:
Thats strange, GTA3 was every bit as cool as I expected it to be. I even bought a new graphics card to play it. I remember a few years earlier I imagined how cool it would be if GTA was 3D, but that would never happen because a 3D open world just wouldn't be possible...dimensional said:
For me DA2 is the obvious candidate but thats a boring subject.
Pretty much everything labelled X-Com that has been released after Terror From the Deep. Every game that had a Master of Magic vibe to it, Age of Wonders and Warlock I'm looking sternly at you!
But besides DA2 I think the biggest disappointment has to be Bioshock. I loved System Shock 2, and after hearing so much praise about Bioshock I had to try it. I still can't figure out what all the fuss was about. It's just a normal mediocre shooter with linear levels and some admittedly very interesting aesthetics.
