Things that got over hyped but ended up a disappointment.

[JDLY]

I'm gonna go a bit off the wall here and go with a food.

Nutella.

First time I heard about it was through someone at school, and they were infatuated with the stuff. Then apparently the internet found out about it, because for a while it was apparently a mortal sin to go on the internet and say that you didn't like it; judging from the amount of grief those that did so got.

Finally I tried it myself. And while it was alright, it was not "like angels dancing on my taste buds" as one person I know did in fact put it. Given the option of it or regular peanut butter, I'd pick peanut butter 9 times out of 10.

 

[Weaver]

Full Metal Alchemist.

Everyone told me it was their favourite anime of all time forever and it was going to blow my ass out of my mouth with how amazing it is. I had its praises sung for years and years. EVERY time I talked about anime with my friends it was "Oh man, did you watch FMA yet? No? OH YOU HAVE TO IT'S SO GOOD."

When I finally watched it I got a slightly above average shonen anime. I kept watching wondering when it was going to get good. What crazy twist it was going to throw to earn all these praises. Then I watched the final episode, it ended, and I stopped trusting what people tell me.

 

[COMaestro]

Duke Nukem Forever.

End Thread.

I never actually played it, but due to the LOOOOOOONG wait for its release, so much so that it was considered vaporware for quite a while, a lot of people were expecting an amazing experience. Instead they got...well...DNF. Now you can find new copies in stores for about $6.

 

[Weaver]

Full Metal Alchemist.

Everyone told me it was their favourite anime of all time forever and it was going to blow my ass out of my mouth with how amazing it is. I had its praises sung for years and years. EVERY time I talked about anime with my friends it was "Oh man, did you watch FMA yet? No? OH YOU HAVE TO IT'S SO GOOD."

When I finally watched it I got a slightly above average shonen anime. I kept watching wondering when it was going to get good. What crazy twist it was going to throw to earn all these praises. Then I watched the final episode, it ended, and I stopped trusting what people tell me.

Which version did you watch? Brotherhood or the Original? They are completely different in how the mid to end go about.

OT: Brink. I was really looking forward to that game... it sucked. So much.

I've seen them both. I watched the original first and it's what I'm talking about in the above post; Brotherhood did not exist when I first watched FMA.

I preferred Brotherhood.

 

[Weaver]

Duke Nukem Forever.

End Thread.

I never actually played it, but due to the LOOOOOOONG wait for its release, so much so that it was considered vaporware for quite a while, a lot of people were expecting an amazing experience. Instead they got...well...DNF. Now you can find new copies in stores for about $6.

It was actually fun IMO.

I feel like lots of the people who hate on it actually never played it, and were just echoing opinions of others.

 

[Bullfrog1983]

Spartacus, Prometheus, Star Wars Prequels I & II, The Dark Knight Rises, The Happening, Max Payne 3, Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age 2, the Wii, Jagged Alliance 3.

Prometheus was a yawn fest, it wasn't scary or interesting but had decent special effects.

The Dark Knight Rises was by far the worst movie in the series and had way too much Bruce Wayne in it and not nearly enough Batman. Half of the movie I couldn't understand what Bane was saying and the reason behind Bane and his master destroying Gotham made absolutely no sense at all.

I must have seen "The Happening" advertised over a million times in a single month and because of that I never went to see it. I eventually borrowed it off someone who got it in a value bin and it wasn't really worth the time I spent watching it except to make fun of the story.

I already wrote a long tirade about why I hated Max Payne 3 so I'll give a brief overview:

The story sucks, Max Payne is a whiny ***** who has no reason to whine and the developers got rid of the best cut-scenes in the business (the style from the first 2) and added some goofy shit in instead.

ME3 + DA2 - Shitty story, recycled areas and boring games.

Jagged Alliance 3 looked really good and for a while it seemed like it would be the best one yet in the series. Then some genius got rid of the turn-based strategy element the rest of the series had that I absolutely loved to play and simplified a lot of things in the game. After playing a demo of the game I decided it sucked.

 

[Phrozenflame500]

Assassin's Creed Revelations/3 for me.

Those were the games that kickstarted my hatred of cinematic trailers.

 

[Nexxis]

Judge Dredd (The new one)
I didn't see this when it was out in the theater, but I've heard many people sing its praises from the heavens and back again. Recently, I got a chance to watch it with my mother and, needless to say, I was not impressed. Over all, the movie was boring and had a few points in it that made little sense and bugged me a bit. Personally, I felt like it wasn't worth the hype that I've seen for it. My mother didn't enjoy it either and she loves more actiony movies that I do.

 

[teebeeohh]

i strictly adhere to the "don't give a fuck and don't read about things pre-release" rule, if something looks interesting from early footage i will usually make a note and ignore any information that is not related to release dates. it helps avoid hype. i also rarely watch trailers. i got burned pretty early when i thought "how can you fuck a sequel to deus ex?"

 

[Thaluikhain]

The Horus Heresy series from Black Library.

Really? I'm actually curious how old you are and how long you've been into 40k, personally I got into the hobby in my early teens, and I think the first novel came out that same year. I'll admit they are a mixed bag, some absolute stinkers, a couple gems mostly mediocre. But I can see how much of a letdown they would be if you had spent years in the hobby, and heard that the most legendary event in the lore was getting a book release.

Yeah, I've been into 40k for maybe 10 years before they came out. They've had some really good tangential stuff about the Heresy in the past.

IMHO, the BL was going downhill already, and there seemed to be a lack of effort on some people's parts with the HH series, and they got really, really dragged out. Have they released a book about the Ultimate Gate yet? Cause that's what people wanted when the thing was first mentioned.

 

[Keiichi Morisato]

Final Fantasy XIII, when it was FINALLY released it was shit, thanks impart for it going multi-platform.

 

[soandnb]

Pokemon Black and Pokemon White.

This was advertised to be the "next-generation of Pokemon! With sexy new features!!!"

What I ended up getting was a couple of dynamic camera angles at the expense of many features that gave the series variety; little distractions that allowed one to take a break from battling (which, even in BW, is limited; you can only battle most trainers one time) to become absorbed in, say, gambling off your money, participating in contests, or making a secret base. There just wasn't much to do. Postgame was pretty bad, too. Overall the game lacked any sort of personality.

 

[fissionmoon]

I was so excited for spore. I had waited for years, through delay after delay. I could barely contain myself as I installed it on launch day. And then it was crap. None of the coolest looking features made it into the final game. It's always been just a little harder to get excited about new games since then...

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Prometheus (the movie). Looked so damn awesome, it was Ridley Scott returning to "Alien" territory, looked epic as all hell, and then I saw it...and thought it was absolutely terrible. Boring, nonsensical, incoherent, and not at all suspenseful or scary.

I remember that I saw it with my then girlfriend at the time, and we didn't say anything for about 10 minutes, and then she finally said "wow, that was really bad". I concur.

 

[FPLOON]

I will be SHOCKED if anyone knows what I'm talking about, so bear with me here...

*inhales* Tower Prep on Cartoon Network... The concept was basically the only thing that kept the series for lasting at least that one season... Granted, most of the hype came from CN's self-hype shrouding in its own mystery, but the show had some promise despite it being live-action...

The only thing that disappointed me the most was, almost like with Class of 3000, it became too non-existent and barely anyone I have talked to over the years felt like I'm talking about a somewhat-average non-existent fanfic that CN would NEVER turn into a series... Then, they realized that they still remember the movie AND show Level Up... another over-hyped live-action show (that used to be) on CN...

On second thought, most of CN's live-action shows were kinda over-hyped BECAUSE they were live-action, basically... (Thanks, Andrew WK...)

 

[DeepReaver]

Too Human... I had heard so much about the development of that game, the techno nose myth aspect made me so happy and then i finally played it and... Well lets just say i have never been more disappointed in anything.

 

[WWmelb]

I think the biggest let down from hype for me ever was The Matrix: Reloaded. Went to world opening night screening, buzzed as fuck, and then i basically got this, and felt like this at the end of it.



Though yes.. as someone above mentioned: Spore was very close... all my things made with the creature creator that was released first couldn't be loaded into the game as they were too detailed.. and the game sucked...

 

[TheKangaroos]

Castlevania - Mirror of Fate on the 3DS. Total crap, and they were doing so well after Order of Ecclesia.

Also, Honey Pops. They started running ads for this stuff on UK TV and I jumped at the chance to experience a product that claimed to be - and I quote - "yum yum yum". I figured they would have been better than Golden Nuggets at least, but they were just so bland.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Fable...All of Fable. I never played Black and White so I had no starting point when it comes to Peter Molyneux and his tall tails. The original Fable was a game that I liked on the Xbox but it didn't do half of what Peter said it would be capable of. When it came to Fable 2, it claimed that all of the shortcomings of the first game would be addressed so hard that players could expect the perfect Xbox 360 game...that didn't happen either (though I did like Fable 2 more than the original somehow...) Fable 3...the less said of that piece of filth the better...It's like everybody went into Lionhead Studios with a bad case of Who-Gives-A-Shit and kept passing it on to each other. Then again, by Fable 3 nobody was going to be fooled by the false promises of the boy with a lion's head...

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I didn't like what they did with Dragon Age 2 but that's kind of a polarizing example. I also didn't like what they did with Mass Effect 2 in terms of gameplay but once again: polarizing game. I didn't even have a 360 when that one was being hyped.

Final Fantasy XIII, when it was FINALLY released it was shit, thanks impart for it going multi-platform.

I forgot about this one...if Final Fantasy XIII was complete and only on the PS3, there may have been a Zoo/Casino thing but that horrible combat system would have stuck around...probably...

Pokemon Black and Pokemon White.

This was advertised to be the "next-generation of Pokemon! With sexy new features!!!"

What I ended up getting was a couple of dynamic camera angles at the expense of many features that gave the series variety; little distractions that allowed one to take a break from battling (which, even in BW, is limited; you can only battle most trainers one time) to become absorbed in, say, gambling off your money, participating in contests, or making a secret base. There just wasn't much to do. Postgame was pretty bad, too. Overall the game lacked any sort of personality.

Now that you mention it...I have fewer memories of Black/White than any other generation. Silver was my favorite but I still remember getting a lot more time out of Sapphire and, Diamond than I did with Black/White. Fingers crossed that X/Y will bring back a secret base at least.

 

[Rariow]

Well, Aliens Colonial Marines jumps instantly into my mind the second this topic pops up.

Skyrim was also a big one for me, though that was mostly due to the The Elder Scrolls fanboy in me rather than the marketing.

Silent Hill 2. Don't get me wrong, damn fine, scary game, but the amount of people declaring it the best horror game of all time is completely out of whack with the game's actual quality.

Dune to me is a big one. When I finally got around to reading the first book I found it incredibly dry and boring, and the film wasn't much better.

The Star Trek reboot (Not even talking about Into Darkness here, which I refused to watch), which people told me was everything from pretty good to amazing, but I ended up despising from the bottom of my soul.

Speaking of things Benedict Cumberbatch is in (Or prequels to things he's in, I guess), Sherlock. It's another case of something that's pretty good, but I don't understand why so many people love it so much. Most of the components of the series are great, but every character is either an arrogant and unlikeable douche (Looking at you, Sherlock. And not in an endearing way either) or a complete idiot (Hello, everyone who isn't Holmes or one of the criminals), and I find it near impossible to watch.

All of Assassin's Creed. Given every single game in that series so far a spin, even got a good five or so hours into 2, and I've managed to squeeze enough fun out of that series to fill about twenty minutes of playing Team Fortress 2.

This last one's kinda weird in that I like the game, but I don't think it should've actually happened: Deus Ex: Human Revolution. As a sequel to what at the time of its release was my favorite game of all time (What's Invisible War? Is that a sci-fi channel original TV series?), it's bloody disappointing. As a game, standing alone, without the burden of being a Deus Ex game, it's pretty damn good. It deserves the praise it gets, but I wish it didn't get it because then maybe we'd have a more old-school style Deus Ex game. Now excuse me as I return to my home back in dreamland.

captcha: hold your tongue. After such a long post, feels appropiate.