Your most deceived hype game

[Priran]

I just assumed "hype" was referring to how hyped you personally were for the game. I mean, who really gives a shit what other people think about your games?

de·ceive n. to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude
hype v. to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily

"hype" meaning expectations generated by marketing campaigns, trailers, interviews, reviews, and so on before a game is released. this thread is about games where you bought into the excitement and anticipation surrounding an upcoming release and then when you got your hands on it, it was awful.

[Meresgi]

Cataclysm WoW expansion, also FFXIV and Aion, fuck I loved the beta of Aion and bought that game and was so excited...then after level 25 it was a shit fest. FFXIV I got the CE, went to a midnight release for it...and ugh...UGH.

I guess for console I would have to go with Assassin's Creed II and Brotherhood and Dante's Inferno (wasnt really hyped by media but I thought it looked cool) and of course GTA4...what a pile of shit.

[Karbuncle]

Diablo 3. I'll leave out the multitude of Reasons at my post would be at least 8 paragraphs.
Tales of Vesperia. Loved Symphonia and Graces, Vesperia was ... disappointing.

That said, I'm not often disappointed with games, I consider myself a game lover of all types, SO long as its fun, I could care less about story, graphics, etc... So long as i enjoy playing it.

[Correction]

Thinking I should rename this to "Your most disappointing game" because most titles weren't hyped up as much.

Then people will just whine about games they never paid for or played very much but think are bad.

[Kuishen]

Still don't see an answer as to why people are hating on Fable 1.

[BaneTheBrawler]

"Most disappointing game you've played" then?

Edit: also, regarding Fable 1, the gameplay was awesome and whatnot, but I think a lot of the disappointment comes from the story. It's not very coherent or complete, even WITH the "expansion" Plus, the good/evil choices didn't have too much of an impact on the story itself, until the very end... but since the only way to actually keep playing (until the expansion) was to pick the evil option, you were forced into it. Unless you really liked the credits.

[mightyg]

Devil May Cry 2 broke my heart. Funniest part was I was talking to a bunch of my friends who were hopeless Nintendo fanboys telling them about the first game. Invited them over when I bought 2 and was all "Just wait guys....it'll get cool....guys? guys? Where are you guys going?!?"

Runners up:
FFXIV
Kingdoms of Amalur: Recoking
Fable III
FFXIII

[Correction]

Still don't see an answer as to why people are hating on Fable 1.

Gonna go with Molyneux overselling the available features, as he tends to. This whole thread could probably fill up with Molyneux lying about his games. Can't speak for Fable since I gave up on him after Black & White lol.

[Sup3rB4d]

de·ceive n. to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude
hype v. to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily

"hype" meaning expectations generated by marketing campaigns, trailers, interviews, reviews, and so on before a game is released. this thread is about games where you bought into the excitement and anticipation surrounding an upcoming release and then when you got your hands on it, it was awful.

I guess you're trying to be a smartass? Hype also means to excite. Sample Sentence: "I was really hyped for that game because of all the hype it was getting. Unfortunately the game sucked several bags of dicks. Damn those deceiving bastard developers"

Let me know when you realize you just repeated me

[Priran]

I guess you're trying to be a smartass? Hype also means to excite. Sample Sentence: "I was really hyped for that game because of all the hype it was getting. Unfortunately the game sucked several bags of dicks. Damn those deceiving bastard developers"

Let me know when you realize you just repeated me

don't really care about how you and your bros use the word hype, was just trying to clarify the ESL thread title

[Nevex]

Not sure why so many people are saying FFXIII. The trailers made it pretty clear that it was going to be different from your average FF. The two things it's most criticized for (linearity and auto-battle) were both confirmed months before the release so it's logical to assume that those aspects didn't bother you if you bought it. Really it shouldn't even be mentioned in this thread.

[Hyan]

Not sure why so many people are saying FFXIII. The trailers made it pretty clear that it was going to be different from your average FF. The two things it's most criticized for (linearity and auto-battle) were both confirmed months before the release so it's logical to assume that those aspects didn't bother you if you bought it. Really it shouldn't even be mentioned in this thread.

With that logic XIV shouldn't be mentioned here either. Obviously we have misunderstood the point of this thread (or the attention span of the people posting in it).

[Charismatic]

Not sure why so many people are saying FFXIII. The trailers made it pretty clear that it was going to be different from your average FF. The two things it's most criticized for (linearity and auto-battle) were both confirmed months before the release so it's logical to assume that those aspects didn't bother you if you bought it. Really it shouldn't even be mentioned in this thread.

Most people don't research games before they buy them, ain't really all that crazy of a notion.

[Fhloston]

Tales of Vesperia. Loved Symphonia and Graces, Vesperia was ... disappointing.

Not sure if trolling. Loved Symphonia, but I couldn't put down Vesperia at certain points. Easily my favorite Tales game so far. Graces is alright so far, need to play it more.

Metroid Other M: Gameplay was fun. Story was boring and Nintendo/TN just ruined Samus, character wise.

Legaia Duel Saga: Loved me some LoL as a kid. Duel Saga was just terrible. Doubt I put more than 10 hours in to that mess.

Sonic 4 Ep 1: Horrible music, mediocre stages. Don't get me started on the bosses.

FFXIII-2: I enjoyed XIII. Really linear, and Lightning sucked as a main character, but had fun. XIII-2 was just a mess. Beat it to get it over with, didn't bother w/any DLC. FF series alone just went to the shitter after IX.

[Zansho]

For me, it was Tera. I know people looooovvveeeee the shit out of that game, but it was kind of blah for me.

[Charismatic]

Not sure if trolling. Loved Symphonia, but I couldn't put down Vesperia at certain points. Easily my favorite Tales game so far. Graces is alright so far, need to play it more.

Almost certain it has to be a troll... otherwise it just doesn't make sense.

[Karbuncle]

Not sure if trolling. Loved Symphonia, but I couldn't put down Vesperia at certain points. Easily my favorite Tales game so far. Graces is alright so far, need to play it more.

Almost certain it has to be a troll... otherwise it just doesn't make sense.

Its mostly because of the order i played the games. I played Graces (F) first, then went to Vesperia. I'm willing to bet both of you played the games in order of release, Probably buying them as they came out right? Well, I didn't. Kinda just fell into Graces years and years after i Played Symphonia, So it was like a first re-introduction to the series.

In Graces, the combat system changed a lot, It used CC, Basic Attacks were basically special attacks (A Arts being 1CC/2CC etc trees), Titles did things other than costume changes, And i liked the characters and playstyles a lot, as well as the over-all combat because its what i grew accustomed too.

Its like people who played Vesperia/Followed the series in order had a hard time adapting to CC, some of them hated it. I played reverse order, and get the same feelings. The story is fine, I even like the weapon system and how you learned skills, I just couldn't adapt back and it disappointed me how much changed with just 1 generation (From Vesperia to Graces, was a huge change in gameplay and title).

Maybe i can force my brother to play it with me, and we can get used to the combat and actually enjoy the gameplay. You guys seem to like it a lot, So maybe it deserves a second chance.

[Charismatic]

Superior PS3 version so alot of this isn't possible in exactly the same way in the 360 version you played but you can still do neat stuff on 360... but posting this, you should kinda get the idea.
Graces, to me, was the disappointing one.

[Celeste]

Most people don't research games before they buy them, ain't really all that crazy of a notion.

I research all games before I buy them, in fact I don't do midnight releases or preorders either. I don't have that much income so I count my pennies and buy what is verified as good.

[Correction]

"Most disappointing game you've played" then?

Videogame Buyer's Remorse. :D
Then people would drop the arguments about what constitutes hype, which would be a welcome change.