Games that fooled you
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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.
like a lot brink BUT, I still like the game, I just got a different game from what is advertised.
what was advertised: a fast paced, highly customizable fps with a great freedom of movement.
what I got: a slow paced fps where majority of tactic comes into load out and how you approach the objective, with some freedom of movement (limited more by the level design then movement system).
A lot of people got dead island because they saw the great trailer, I was interested in dead island at least a year before that trailer when it was a very different concept of a survival horror game with breakable and craftable weapons, a focus on realistic enemy damage and making zombies scary again. Though yet again the final product was something good but very different from its original design, but you can see glimmers of the original dead island idea under the final product.
what was advertised: a fast paced, highly customizable fps with a great freedom of movement.
what I got: a slow paced fps where majority of tactic comes into load out and how you approach the objective, with some freedom of movement (limited more by the level design then movement system).
A lot of people got dead island because they saw the great trailer, I was interested in dead island at least a year before that trailer when it was a very different concept of a survival horror game with breakable and craftable weapons, a focus on realistic enemy damage and making zombies scary again. Though yet again the final product was something good but very different from its original design, but you can see glimmers of the original dead island idea under the final product.
I like it too.PreviouslyPwned said:
Advertising exists to sell products, not to inform consumers. If you're hyping yourself up over any game into thinking it'll have features or be something you havn't seen explicitly stated, then you're only fooling yourself.
What fooled me was MW2. I preordered it for the pc as soon as it was available and didn't give it another thought till release day when I took it home to find that it: was not "balanced for leaning," had matchmaking instead of servers, had no console.
In retrospect, I should have payed attention to development but it never occured to me they would release a sequel which was a step backward in many areas.
