Game(s) that didn't meet you expectations or live up to the pre-release hype?

Have there been any games that you were really excited about. Maybe you pre-oreded, followed the game for months, went to the midnight release, etc....only to discover the game was not at all what you were expecting? Maybe it was slow/boring/too short/not what they promised?

If so, what games pulled the bait and switch on you?

Sorry, should be your* expectations in the title.

brink

the only reason i hated it was because the graphics didn't load

The mojority of games never live upto expectation these days to be honest.. developers are full of hot air mostly, promising us this and that.. Then failing to deliver.

The mojority of games never live upto expectation these days to be honest.. developers are full of hot air mostly, promising us this and that.. Then failing to deliver.

DecadesOfGaming

Crysis 2. I thought it was going to be amazing, but the singleplayer really wasn't that special and the multiplayer is one of the worst experiences I've had on consoles. Completely turned me off from Crysis 3.

Crysis 2. I thought it was going to be amazing, but the singleplayer really wasn't that special and the multiplayer is one of the worst experiences I've had on consoles. Completely turned me off from Crysis 3.

Vari3ty

Any Fable game ever released. Great games to play but it didn't include a lot of the content that was promised by Mr. Molyneux.Subtle_Ninja_X

Brink

• Fable II and III, but defenitely III. Fable as a franchise is mostly just promises that were never realized.
• Diablo III

2 that immediatlly come to mind , perfect dark zero

duke nukem forever!

these two both took 5 or more years to complete the first ended up with way less content then it should have had considering the hours put into it , its like they just spent the majority of the time scraping things from the concept , instead of making the actual game and for dnf well the levels were so bland and coupled with no features from the n64 version of duke nukem make for a frustrating expeirence i always liked zerohours time to kill and duke nukem 64s multiplayer modes ,

and n64s had a original feature of not having to exit a level to get to another one,

I hate to admit it but Halo ODSTs really disappointed me. Still love Halo though.

I hate to admit it but Halo ODSTs really disappointed me. Still love Halo though.

MentatAssassin

Yes ODST was dissapointing for me too.. wasn't much to it

I played ODST ages after it came out and had read all the slagging it took before I decided to play it anyway... so based on what I'd read I was actually pleasantly surprised by it. For me though, Red Dead Redemption started off as a real let down - I played it right after I'd finished Fallout 3, and at first just couldn't forgive it for not being as open as Fallout 3 was. Once I let myself get over that though, I really enjoyed it.

I think the one game that this really happened to with me was Dead Space. It reviewed well, I know loads of people who played it and loved it, and on paper, it ticked all the boxes for me. I should have loved it... but I just couldn't. It just didn't do it for me. To this day, it's one of the few games on my shelf that I haven't seen the end of.

Rage

Rage

Flubbbs

Resident Evil ORCmrgab

Max Payne 3 and AC Revelations.

[QUOTE="mrgab"]Resident Evil ORCJoeJoeLaker

For me it would be RE:ORC.

for gaming in general i would say DNF.

Max Payne 3 and AC Revelations.

JoeJoeLaker

[QUOTE="JoeJoeLaker"]

Max Payne 3 and AC Revelations.

MW2ismygame

Max Payne 3 was alright but incredibly overhyped. It's a pretty standard third-person shooter, and while the game has the unique bullet time feature which makes things more interesting, overall the game is pretty dull. I also don't know what it is about Rockstar games but the controls feel clunky compared to something like Gears or even the later Mass Effects. The completely uninteresting story didn't help things either.

[QUOTE="JoeJoeLaker"]

Max Payne 3 and AC Revelations.

MW2ismygame

We waited 9 years for this game, and it didn't live up to the hype. The controls were clunky, and the story was predictable.

Still a pretty good game though.

[QUOTE="JoeJoeLaker"]

[QUOTE="mrgab"]Resident Evil ORCmrgab

Yeah, I like the previous RE games also, but this game from the start looked terrible:P

[QUOTE="MW2ismygame"][QUOTE="JoeJoeLaker"]

Max Payne 3 and AC Revelations.

Vari3ty

Max Payne 3 was alright but incredibly overhyped. It's a pretty standard third-person shooter, and while the game has the unique bullet time feature which makes things more interesting, overall the game is pretty dull. I also don't know what it is about Rockstar games but the controls feel clunky compared to something like Gears or even the later Mass Effects. The completely uninteresting story didn't help things either.

Yeah.. it's pretty strange that they make great games, but they can't make great controls.

Each one of their games feel the same. GTA IV, RDR, L.A. Noire, etc.

SSX 2012. Biggest letdown in gaming for me.