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Artinam

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Neverwinter Nights, expected something in the direction of Baldur's Gate. The singleplayer just didnt feel that epic to me and the online experience took time to develop.
Just was a major leddown. Furthermore without a later patch the game was unplayable, didnt start and claimed it was a cracked version while the shiney box with cd key was glistening besides it. Brought it back got a new one, same issue. Got my money back bought something else and wasn't bothered by it until I saw it laying a year later at reduced price.

Finally worked and thus was dissapointed.
 

The Wooster

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Assasins Creed for me. The trailer with the shit hot unkle track, the gameplay footage, the concept, the style, the whole sci fi/fantasy time fuckery plot, it looked like the best thing since sliced crack bread.

and it was ok.

Fuck.
 

Flour

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Just about every game I followed the hype for disappointed me in some way, ending with Halo2.
Then I grew a brain, decided reviews were crap and made my own hype for games that were at least 3 months old with a demo available.(a demo also means 20 minute gameplay at a friend's house)
I haven't been disappointed since I started ignoring game media.(it's like growing up in a cult, you don't know how bad it is until you create some distance between you and the cult)

But since this is a waste of space without some game examples:

Halo 2(I don't care about multiplayer, I don't care if a game has both single and multiplayer, but I do care when single player feels like a late addition to the multiplayer)
Final Fantasy 8
Banjo Kazooie
Shadowman

The only game I expected to be good(a friend told me it was good) after Halo2: The Force Unleashed. I played a save halfway through the game, so I missed some story and character development, but it missed something, I can't say what it missed exactly but I was bored after playing it for 5 minutes and that's something that normally only happens in sports or racing games.
 

Tjebbe

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Is it just me, or do more and more highly-expected games disappoint players lately?

Is this a trend? And if so, what would cause it, and what will the result be?

Could this be an omen for a new market crash? Or are these signs that the marketing and hype market is saturated, and more effort should be put into the actual games? (where effort is not just extra money for more artists).

Escapist Magazine, I See An Article.
 

aniki21

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Twilight Princess. It was all going so well until the last hour, too. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the next one isn't such a disappointment, but I'll not be putting any money on it.
 

aniki21

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Tjebbe post=9.72096.749321 said:
Is it just me, or do more and more highly-expected games disappoint players lately?

Is this a trend? And if so, what would cause it, and what will the result be?
It's almost certainly a direct result of increased internet exposure (and therefore hype). People are looking forward to games for a lot longer, with ideas, hopes, news and rumours all merging together on forums until the final product has no hope of living up to the expectation.
 

Kair

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Spore.

It seemed like a game of evolution. Evolution is awesome. A Kids game where you put paint with pretty colours, attach arms everywhere and go explore the universe as Captain SparkleDust is not awesome.

I could go on for ages playing like the amoeba and affecting evolution in the early stages, but creating pretty little planets and kidnapping animals does not intrigue me at all.

Too bad they dumbed it down.
 

sniper9474

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i have to say that i think that the biggest one for me has to be shattered union, where the game description made it sound like a big version of socom come redalert with the entire americas to roam and attack, but i instead i got risk with 20 places
 

Cyclomega

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It must have been the first Capcom VS SNK for me.

I was a 2D fighting game whore and wanted it to rule, I got it for my dreamcast, and after 10 minutes of play... decided I would get all stuff, then forget it.

It looked good, at least the levels and SNK chars, but it was horribly unbalanced (Capcom projectiles WIN -first rule, SNK chars are weaker and some combo-able moves are standalone only -rule two, SNK movesets suck -rule three, input detection is weak and imprecise as shit -rule four). And I still curse Capcom for this on a daily basis, a bit less for CvS2, but still...
And that's when I lost faith in every single video game release and waited a good deal of time before thinking of hearing to the hype...

To this day I'm doing OK, I've thrown all hopes overboard.
 

-Javelin-

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Portal
*Puts on Flame retardant suit*
I didn't find the puzzles all that challenging it was nice to see a game taking a totally different angle on the puzzle/platform genre but all in all i came to the end and thought
"so what?"
 

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CyberAkuma post=9.72096.748773 said:
Crysis just deserves an dishonorable mention simply because the game was way over-hyped.
I spent $300 on a videocard simply so that I could be prepared when that game came out.

The game was just way too short and fell short of expectations.

I recall the Crysis Demo being hyped to hell, only being released on very exclusive sites where people had to pay premium access to even have access to the Crysis demo. It was *THAT* hyped. You ever heard of a game demo being accessed first hand only to users who pay money? It's virtually like paying money for a DEMO.

The demo obviously got released on the warez-scene which was the only way for people to actually play the demo until CryTek/EA made the demo go public.
The preformance on the demo was terrible. I spent $300 on a videocard and I could barely play the demo on High Settings? What the ass? On top of that there were some additional Graphics Content on the Crysis demo to be found only in DirectX10 mode.

Yerli Cevat - CEO and main producer of the game promised that the game would run way better on "optimized hardware" such as quad-core CPUs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CD-mJMB7Lw]. I remember the game being majorly announced and advertised as THE game requiring a Quad-Core CPU and of course Intel jumped on the advertisement bandwagon and so did their soaring Quad Core fans. Also CryTek promised to optimize the code so that the terrible game preformance could be fixed.

The fun part came when the full version of the game came out.
No optimization what so ever [http://www.tomsgames.com/us/2007/11/16/crysis_demo_vs_full/] (still terrible preformance)
The game did not use Quad Cores. [http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=468] You'll get the same preformance out of a Dual-Core CPU.

Yerli Cevat tried to defend that statement by digging some "facts [http://www.incrysis.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=559]" straight out of his ass - like:
-The game does use quad-core but you won't see the benefit without a good GPU.

Bullshit, bullshit and triple bullshit.

Also to even add further insult to injury was the DirectX10 debacle the game was shrouded with - the fact that some graphical content was only exclusive to DirectX-10, a great way for Micro$hit to further advertise for Vista, but in reality all the DirectX10 content was there even for Windows XP users, you just had to hack the game to unlock it.

The game was hyped to hell, the hardware that was supposedly required to run the game smoothly was all a lie and even the software - the OS which was promoted to have access to some extra graphical content thanks to the wonders of DirectX 10 added up to the big pile of stinking, smelly, prime-time, high-end premium bullshit.
Get a console - they're much cheaper than a computer.
 

Vortigar

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Grand Theft Auto 3
I was a huge fan of 1 and London 1969. I am still a huge fan of 2. All the 3d incarnation have left me bored to tears. Maybe its the craptastic controls. Maybe its the blunt story being shoved in your face. The inability to choose sides or missions. The stripped content compared to its predessecors. The completely unlikable main character perhaps?

Vice City managed to get a smile on my face with some excellent jokes, but is still plagued by all the above.
 

Cyclomega

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-Javelin- post=9.72096.749376 said:
Portal
*Puts on Flame retardant suit*
I didn't find the puzzles all that challenging it was nice to see a game taking a totally different angle on the puzzle/platform genre but all in all i came to the end and thought
"so what?"
I guess if you take it as free candy in the Orange Box it's much cooler than playing as The Next Best Thing After Chocolate Jesus.
 

Antinash

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This is the first time i've had a chance to check this thread since I posted it, and I just wanted to say that I totally see why the majority of people were dissapointed with Crysis. I just hope Warhead is better, havn't gotten a chance to play it yet but its supposed to be more action focused than Crysis.
 

Amnestic

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Spore (Linier, repetitive, and compleatly devoid of gameplay
Spore? Linear? Hardly. Did you even bother getting to the space stage? Yeah it was reptitive, but it was the polar opposite of linear gameplay.
 

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monostable post=9.72096.749386 said:
Get a console - they're much cheaper than a computer.
Aw, come on.
This has been debated over and over again and it's been priven so many times that this is just dead-wrong.

Xbox 360 - $300
HD-TV - Probably around $500-800

Also, can I play Crysis, read my e-mail, write on the Escapist Forum and browse porn on my Xbox 360?
 

D_987

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MGS4 - Everyone said it was amazing, I played it and it wasn't as good as MGS3 .
 

Cyclomega

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CyberAkuma post=9.72096.749470 said:
monostable post=9.72096.749386 said:
Get a console - they're much cheaper than a computer.
Aw, come on.
This has been debated over and over again and it's been priven so many times that this is just dead-wrong.

Xbox 360 - $300
HD-TV - Probably around $500-800

Also, can I play Crysis, read my e-mail, write on the Escapist Forum and browse porn on my Xbox 360?
Stop that no one cares on either side.

There have not been much letdowns I have met since Capcom VS SNK, but I still felt SEGA hated us gamers when they removed the motion-based graffiti in Jet Set Radio Future, and how they mamage to fuck up Shadow the Hedgehog with laughable goth angst, retarded guns and gear fo'mo'nigga cred and a shitty emo storyline... Then they added furry bullshit in Sonic...
People hated Sonic Heroes, but it's still better than that...