Your most deceived hype game

[Insanecyclone]

Having nice music to Jersey Shore would not make Jersey shore all of a sudden watchable

whatever

[Souj]

Calling it now;
South Park: The Stick of Truth

[chazzyphizzle]

you shut your whore mouth

[BlackMoomba]

Only three good things about FF8 was Quistis, Liberi Fatali(however the fuck you spell it) and Moombas.

You're allowed to have opinions on what else is good in it, but you're all wrong because it was ass.

I fixed that for you Indy.

[Kuishen]

Guess I'm one of the few that enjoyed FF8's story and gameplay. I choose to continue to believe in the Ultimecia = Rinoa theory because it makes the plot that much more epic. Gameplay was fun too in my opinion. Drawing while dull, was rewarded with some pretty bad ass junction setups. Until everything became "spam Aura, cycle through characters until Limit Break shows up" the battle-system I would say was above average.

We are the few, the proud, the FF8 Fans. Represent.

Favorite game in the main series for me. Tactics being overall favorite.

[Indalecia]

Oh yes, I forgot about the moogles that played furry with Red XIII.

How silly of me.

[hey]

We are the few, the proud, the FF8 Fans. Represent.

Favorite game in the main series for me.

I was really shocked when i found out there are a lot of people who don't like 8. It is my second favorite ff game, close behind 9.

[Charismatic]

I don't think it is a great game, but I'm one of the few who thinks this but at the same time recognizes that Squall isn't emo.
Talk about being one of the few.


Anyway, as for disappointing games... I'm gonna have to mention another one.
Dungeon Siege III. I didn't even bother to finish it which is unusual for me.
Let me also add Front Mission: Evolved (which I did enjoy, but I expected much more)

[Indalecia]

Xenosaga Episode II

Star Ocean 3 (only for that one scene, you know what I'm talking about)

[tyven]

ff8 pwned on first play through. subsequent efforts always lost me when i had to do laguna shit and i was like fuck this nigga laguna.

[notorious bum]

FF8's shortcomings don't have nothing on FFX's hollow shell of an existence. Hell, Triple Triad was arguably the best mini-game in the series, I'd play FF8 again just for that lol What's the name of that jazzy piece they played in Timber? Youtube is failing me.

Back to the OP though, I came up with probably the easiest games that tried to deceive you with their hype: Every Pokemon game past Gold and Silver. Fans of the initial 2 releases probably thought "man, I can't wait to see what they do with the game next(fluid animations, diagonal(!)walking, more combat choices, etc.).

I wasn't exactly "surprised" and certainly not deceived that the Pokemon series continued to copy-paste the core of their basic ass game, but who would have predicted that they would still be just as successful and provide no real modernization of a 16yr old game lol

[Kuishen]

FF8's shortcomings don't have nothing on FFX's hollow shell of an existence. Hell, Triple Triad was arguably the best mini-game in the series, I'd play FF8 again just for that lol What's the name of that jazzy piece they played in Timber? Youtube is failing me.

Absolutely @ Triple Triad. I actually also like FFX. lol And uh...

[notorious bum]

nope, wasn't Timber then, my bad lol

here it is, called Martial Law:

[Rokku]

Back to the OP though, I came up with probably the easiest games that tried to deceive you with their hype: Every Pokemon game past Gold and Silver. Fans of the initial 2 releases probably thought "man, I can't wait to see what they do with the game next(fluid animations, diagonal(!)walking, more combat choices, etc.).

I wasn't exactly "surprised" and certainly not deceived that the Pokemon series continued to copy-paste the core of their basic ass game, but who would have predicted that they would still be just as successful and provide no real modernization of a 16yr old game lol

I don't know if anyone was ever really deceived by Nintendo on that front. They never really beat around the bush about the fact that each generation was pretty much solely about "Hey guys, new pokemon" and a couple new activities to do in a new world. The big N never once pushed any sort of hype machine about new mechanics/revolutionary new gameplay, and the biggest mechanical change they ever made (physical/special split) flew in completely under the radar.

[Nitsuki]

Star Ocean 4 is another addition to my list, battle system is what the game had best, the rest of the game was super fucking predictable. I just kept playing it for the battles... and Meracle, bitch was top tier.

[Rhyis.]

Red/Blue. All the Pokemon you'll ever have to play.

As to the topic, MGS2. Whole thing was just silly. Luckily 3 kicked it up a notch.

[Viq]

Is it fair to add the 3DS Culdcept to this list of disappointing games? It was only disappointing because it never had a release outside of Japan, and I can't read Japanese well enough to play that game. I mean, fucking Culdcept and Culdcept Saga were so good, but were on normal consoles, which is really not where they belong. Then they make a new version for a handheld, and it doesn't come out anywhere that I give a shit about. Fuck. I want to play new Culdcept so bad.

[Nitsuki]

Red/Blue. All the Pokemon you'll ever have to play.

As to the topic, MGS2. Whole thing was just silly. Luckily 3 kicked it up a notch.

Don't tell me cuz of Raiden you hate MGS2, while it was the weakest title in the series, Raiden showed growth throughout the game being a pretty badass character overall.

[Rhyis.]

Everything. Plot. Boss fights. Ebb and flow. Ending.

And no, Raiden was retarded throughout 2. He was so bad that they basically turned him into Gray Fox v2.0 in 4 just so they could bring him back without people freaking out.

[chazzyphizzle]

nah mgs2 was a good game, mgs3 was the best in the series though, and it wasn't even close