"What If It Sucks?"

[DiMono]

Nope. I don't really buy into hype, because I've found that the best way never to be disappointed is to have no expectations. So I keep myself from having any. The closest I've come is Warcraft 3, because I was expecting something mature and instead we got a video game of a cartoon. That was immensely disappointing for me, and I have never and will never play it.

 

[Rblade]

2 things I hope won't suck

hearth of the swarm

and more importantly

the hobbit. O how I pray it will be as awesome as we all want, and know it could, be.

there be dragons

 

[tmande2nd]

The Witcher 2.

BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT some friends of mine did say.
Play the first one...I did it was meh.

Then my friend bought me TW2 as a Birthday gift....I died due to crappy design so many times.
Sure I followed it since quite a few of my friends seemed to LOVE it.

Then i got it.
Up yours CDreject that was an over hyped piece of crap that I wasted a night on when I could have been doing something else to waste my time.

 

[Sectan]

Other than Pokemon Diamond, not really.

<SO EXCITED! New Pokemon region with new Pokemon! I bet it'll be even better than Ruby/Sapphire!

<Cue disappointment at how awful the game was. Geodude and Zubat constantly screaming in the speakers, mostly seem to find old Pokemon for a supposedly new generation, and most of the new ones I was finding were totally stupid. This annoying blonde homosexual hipster kept showing up everywhere to battle me as well. The story of Team Plasma was utterly boring and I just felt like I was derping along without being invested in the game at all. About the fifth gym I was just like, "Let's finish this up and beat Cynthia so I can get this over with."

Never played any of the Sinnoh games again. Sold Diamond a few days after beating it.

Black and White on the other hand are probably the best Pokemon games I've played. That was totally unexpected.

For me nothing will ever beat Pokemon Silver. That was basically 2 Pokemon games rolled together. Plus the whole cellphone and secret gift things were so amazing to 10 year old me.

Anyways the game that disappointed me was The Sims 3. I have all of the Sims 2 expansions, I put many many hours into businesses and families and getting the stories just right, but when I got the Sims 3 I was a bit pissed off. OH SO NOW I GET TO BUY ALL OF THE OTHER EXPANSIONS TO GET WHAT THE LAST GENERATION ALREADY HAD?! Plus I couldn't get my Sims to look right... I put hours into businesses, nightclubs, beating up the vampire my Sim's wife was cheating with, building my homes to great heights just to have all of those features taken out in the NEW GAME. Can't believe you did that to me EA....oh wait.

Spoiler: You Shunda Don that, I was just a boy

 

[Memoriae]

Supreme Commander 2.

After playing TA, SC, and Forged Alliance, I stood in line, with my copy of Borderlands (to atone. See piracy thread), and my copy of SC2, thinking "Well, Forged Alliance got a bit meh, because it was just 6 missions, different voices, and not really much else. What if SC2 is like that, but worse?"

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. This was Supreme Commander I was talking about. The successor to Total Annihilation, and the sequel to one of the non-RPGs that I've spent the most time playing ever.

I couldn't be right. SC2 would never suck.


Oh god, how wrong I was.


But on the other hand, I liked Dragon Age 2. The problem with sequels is that people judge them against the previous games, instead of on its own merits. If you don't go into the game assuming that DA2 will be a heavy D&D tactical game, then as an action-oriented RPG, it's not that bad. Just don't go looking for a particularly visual plot. I finished it in 30 hours, and had real issues trying to pick out the story missions...

 

[Fappy]

DA2 like woah.

The thing is I wasn't that disappointed with it until I finished it and I was like, 'What did I just play?'

It was such a let down from Origins.

I'm worried about Mass Effect 3 too. The clip where they were getting excited about what was essentially Gears of War gameplay was like :| Also they are shoehorning in multiplayer in which which makes me EXTREMELY worried.

Yeah, I had a delayed realization of how shitty DA2 was. Me and a buddy of mine played through it and realized simultaneously how bad it really was after talking about all the things that bothered us about the game.

DA2 was such a steaming pile of shit.

 

[Da Orky Man]

I once did that with Halo 3: ODST. Never again...

Except I can't stop myself. I'm straight onto anything Mass Effect 3 related.

http://postimage.org/image/kmcedd3r7/

Anyone know what alphabet that second word is in? Looks like really early Latin.

 

[Wolfram23]

I no longer bother with getting hyped. For example, I could be hyped about Bioshock Infinite, but I'm not. I do look forward to whenever it gets released, but beyond that I just don't think about it that much.

That said, I was disappointed with DA2. It went really well until you never leave the same freaking areas. And the story just got long winded.

I was worried about Skyrim after Oblivion but it managed to deliver a fun experience for over 100 hours. That's all I can really ask of a game, even though now I start to see so many things that could be better about it. I'm waiting for a couple months for some good mods to come out after the creation kit is released, then I think there'll be a lot of good stuff.

 

[Betancore]

I was a bit concerned about Skyrim, but I reasoned that there'd be few things that the modding community couldn't eventually fix. And I'm also afraid that ME3 might let me down, but I'd play it anyway. Besides, I'm almost expecting it at this point. That way, I won't be too disappointed if it's terrible, but I'll be pleasantly surprised if it isn't.

 

[Joccaren]

No, I never think 'What if it sucks', because I have already pre-ordered it, and if it really is that bad it's not that much money wasted, and I'll at least be able to get a story out of it.

Games that sounded good originally, but turned out crap:
DNF
DA2
Skyrim (Not crap, but rather meh)

Other than that I tend to do quite well in what I buy. Most games I'll give a miss because I know I won't like them, and most others that I buy I do enjoy.

 

[Suicidejim]

FFXIII. I stuck with it all the way through, telling myself "I bet it's going to get awesome any second now!" It never did.
Also, Dante's Inferno. I realize I was being naive, and that there was a high likelihood that a videogame recreation of Inferno would turn out completely awful, but I was hopeful. I now use the game as a drinks coaster, after about an hour's worth of play.

 

[Nimzabaat]

I should have asked myself that about ME2. What a pile of crap. Since then i've managed to lower my expectations about games. So far every company with the exception of Bethesda has managed to dissappoint me at least once.

 

[Lucian The Lugia]

Other than Pokemon Diamond, not really.

This.

This was the game where the legendary trio was merely the same Pokemon edited 2 other times.

And before you get on me about Black and White's recolored trio, at least they had type variation.

On topic: I'm really glad that Portal 2's DLC was free, because the story behind the Peer Review DLC SUCKED. After playing through puzzles that were headache-inductively hard, I was like: "That's it?!"

That DLC really put me in a shitty mood.

 

[Something Amyss]

I'm not a fanboy. I hold out the possibility that any game might suck.

What's so hard about this?

 

[sheah1]

Brink.

Had been following the game since the first screenshots were released.

Oh god... the horror... the horror...

It's okay. It's okay. I've.... suffered too. We can make it through this. Together.

 

[Fappy]

I'm not a fanboy. I hold out the possibility that any game might suck.

What's so hard about this?

I don't think its possible to explain it to someone who has never experienced it before.

"It's like describing color to a creature without eyes."

 

[Denamic]

Any game I'm excited about, I assume is actually crap.
That way, I'm either right or pleasantly surprised.
Who said being a cynic is depressing?

 

[AhumbleKnight]

Spore. I loved the idea of that game when I heard about it and rushed out to grab it as soon as it came out, after over a year in anticipation. I still find it difficult to buy new games without trying them first...

 

[Benni88]

Brink.

Had been following the game since the first screenshots were released.

Oh god... the horror... the horror...

I was gutted about Brink too. The premise seemed sooo good!