Over-hyped video games

[MasterKirov]

Overhype...In truth, any game anyone has heard of on the mainstream market. The particully guilty ones* are below:

- The C&C franchise devolved into this when EA got their hands on it. EA go all out marketing the game. What they don't do though is properly fix the bugs and balance the units correctly.

- Starcraft. I've played Starcraft Multiplayer. It takes forever to train one guy (that is, build speed, not resource gathering, although this may be an issue for newer players), the online games are over in seconds (especially if they're playing Zerg) and The Computer is a Cheating Bastard. Did we also mention the fact that it's very unfriendly to new players, Online especially?

- Any First Person Shooter on the modern market you or I can think of. Halo. Call of Duty. Left 4 Dead (especially L4D2). Even the mods like Counter Strike - while not marketed in the same manner of the above - have such a fanbase following it makes you question why sometimes.

- Portal. The game is incredibly frustrating, and some of the puzzles are deviously designed. Points maybe, but the only thing good about this game is the catchy song in the credits. Also, anyone who said they finished it in 2 hours or so must be related to the same breed of people who can solve a Rubics Cube in 7 minuites.

- Many, many MMO's - especially World of Warcraft and Aion Online.

- Relating to the above C&C statement, some of the Mods, like RA3 Paradox and ShockWave, fall into this, although Your Mileage May Vary. RA3 Paradox of especial note has a generally negative view from Red Alert 3 fans, but is also one of the few RA3 mods still being worked on.

- Video Game tie ins to anything ever.

*This is pure opinion, fanboys! I'd rather not have my residence burned down because I insulted Starcraft! Thank you!

 

[Ricotez]

Most games don't live up to their hypes, but usually that doesn't really matter and they're good anyway.

I have two very good exceptions to this.

First, Spore. I don't think there has ever been a game that was so... Disappointing. Sure, the creators were very intuitive and fun, and you can create awesome things in the game. Playing God has never been so easy. But the actual gameplay part of the game, the five stages of evolution, were incredibly shallow and dumbed down. Many people were very disappointed with Spore's gameplay.

On the other side of the spectrum is Portal. I highly anticipated this game, and it did not disappoint me even a single iota. It was exactly what I expected; it was even more, for I didn't expect the pitch-black humour that accompanies the game, and the incredible atmosphere that soon evolves from feeling like a testing environment to some sort of abandoned, sterile cage made of concrete and brown metal where you got caught in. It's still the same environment, but you start to experience it differently the more you find out.

Spoiler: Portal Spoiler!

The first 'Behind The Scenes'-part in the Android test chamber is very unsettling.

 

[DocBot]

Assassins Creed was SUCH a disappointing game. It was supposed to be this free roaming interactive city-crawling bonanza. And, after the cool, "Hey this place is big and I can explorable and there's alot of people here!" You realize you still have to pickpocket a guys. Listen in on someone's conversation. And, there was a third one that you think I'd remember but now...I can't. That game and I wasn't that big on is Uncharted that everyone loved. Although that's my own fault for know it's a cover-based-shooter in the same general vein as Gears of War in core gameplay, I stupidly bought it anyways.