Games that lived up to massive hype?

[Robert Fishburne]

Anything that Blizzard has released. Most recently Overwatch and Hearthstone.

Grand Theft Auto Vice City

Grand Theft Auto 5

Horizon Zero Dawn

Final Fantasy 4,6,7,9 and 15

Skyrim

Fallout 3 and New Vegas

Chrono Trigger

Disgaea 5

Uncharted 4

Lots more to be honest. These are the ones that came off the top of my head.

 

[Maximum Bert]

You mean your own hype or hype in general?

Prob best to keep it to your own hype as the other one is highly subjective.

FF7. It exceeded expectations. Best FF by far.

Same and I fully expected to hate that game like I had every RPG before including FF6 only got it because everyone was going on about it and it looked amazing.

And on Dark Souls, wasn't the whole thing that there was no hype? Small little developer with a barely heard of game that turned into a cult hit?

No that was Demons Souls Dark Souls had a fair bit of hype on it thanks to the breakout hit of Demons Souls (which few ever played). Personally I still feel Demons Souls was overall the better game except in map design but guess it helped it was fresh while Dark souls was not if you had already played Demons.

 

[Guffe]

Most recent, Zelda: BotW.
Otherwise, Warcraft III, Pokemon Gold/Silver and MetroidPrime Corruption
There are more but those ar of the top of my head

 

[BrawlMan]

Devil May Cry 1 & 3 - A lot of people my not remember this, but barely after the first game was announced, almost every gaming magazine or show had some cover of the then new upcoming franchise. It being a new IP at the time from Capcom and staff behind RE 2 was definitely a big factor.

Bayonetta 1 & 2.

Resident Evil 4

Halo 1 & 2 - I was never a fan of the series, but brought many things to the table for console gaming. I'll admit that.

GTA III & Vice City - Not so much with San Adreas (hate this game), IV, and V. Though I stopped caring for sanbox games after Saints Row 2 and Prototype.

Bioshock 1

Dead Space 1

Metal Gear Rising

 

[Trunkage]

I remember the hype about Morrowind. Although a non-random Daggerfall did sound weird, it still sounded awesome. Still not as expansive or as good as a story as Daggerfall but the world was more interconnected. It met the hype.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Witcher 3, Command & Conquer 3, Deus Ex (the Ion Storm original), Space Marine, Batman Arkham Asylum/City, and Bayonetta.

Never did buy in the hype for Mass Effect oddly enough. I only bought the game because there was all that controversy surrounding it. But I enjoyed the game immensely nonetheless. I did like ME2, even though it felt disappointing (overall), and as for 3, the poor story made it the least enjoyable (though the game itself was fun). Hype is one of things that just makes the disappointment hurt more if the game fails.

 

[bjj hero]

Overwatch.

It is like a breath of fresh air against all of the gritty realism and try hards fixated on K ratios.

Bright stylised visuals and having to work as a team? What, constant, free balances and up dates? No season pass? Hitting cheaters with the ban hammer? Varied attacks and abilities rather than picking between guns with sl?ghtly different rates of fire? I could go on and on.

Id just resigned myself to missing half of every game I ever play again behind DLC. Then Overwatch strolled along.

Worth every penny.