Games that took so long to be released that the hype died down?

New or old.

I’m not familiar with many but I’d say Kingdom Hearts 3 was one of them. Not for the loyal fans but for casual players like me, yes. Psychonaughts 2 might be one as well.

Borderlands 3, to an extent. Maybe the FF7 remake.

Duke Nukem Forever. Took so long it became a joke, and when it came out it was--surprise surprise--a joke of a game.

For me it's FF 7 definitely Luke warm for me now.

@speeny:

Kingdom Hearts 3 turned out to be a total letdown for me. It wasn't even worth the wait.

The Last Guardian PS4 comes to mind and it took a decade to get that game release and the hype surrounding it died off. I wasn't even excited picking it up and decided to wait for a sale after release. Played the game and I couldn't bring myself to get hype while playing it.

Putty Squad took from 1994 to 2013.

Though from my understanding it wasn't in development all those years, System 3 cancelled the game and came back to it a decade or so later.

@davillain-: That really does suck. I remember it was a very underwhelming release. I really loved what I played of ICO.

@nepu7supastar7: Agreed. It felt so rushed. The gummi ship content was complete trash too.

What I didn’t like is that all of the worlds were shown off before release. (No surprise worlds, what?!) Kingdom Hearts II is so much better in my opinion.

I concur with KH3. All that hype and wasn't what everyone expected.

I also like to add FFXV. So many years of development and speculation, and we were left with an incomplete game with the Day One edition. Then Square-Enix repackaged the game a few years later FFS.

With episodic content and generic hack-and-slash gameplay, Final Fantasy VII Remake is destined to be a game with "all flashes zero substance".

Alan Wake the story and characters are great but the gameplay gets repetitive the game was originally suppose to be open world I wish it stayed that way the game needed more variety. Shooting ghost like enemies isn't as satisfying as shooting normal human villains.

@warmblur: Wow I didn’t know it was originally going to be open world. I think it would of been much better that way.

Death Stranding. Its safe to say the hype is officially dead on that one!

@henrythefifth: Yeah I haven't heard much on that game in a while.

Winback....

Sad... sad story.

Dead Island 2

@watchdogsrules: Yep, I remember that myself.