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[Memento]

For me it is probably Uncharted 3. The hype I had for this game was just ridiculous. Uncharted 2 was and it still is one of the best games I have ever played, and my expectations for UC3 were just ridiculous high.

Now it is not a bad game, it is very good. But I was expecting the second coming after UC2. Also, I think I saw waaaay too much footage before the game released.

 

[Qwark]

I never really "got" Earthbound. It was kinda funny, and the whole auto-win a battle if you're OP was cool, but other than that... I don't get the hype behind the series.

 

[alexanderftw]

INSIDE, for me. And I wasn't even that LTTP; just a month or so later.

Same. Nothing shocking or wowzer about it whatsoever. I kept waiting for something to put my jaw to the ground but never happened.

 

[ReyVGM]

Zelda: Ocarina of Time for me.

Ever since that tech demo of a super blocky Link fighting a knight was shown in 1995, I spent days looking at magazine screenshots and any info I could get about the game. It got really bad as the years went on when more screenshots started coming out.
During summer break from school, I would literally wake up at 5am, go outside, sit on the porch and catch the sunset while looking at OoT (and Mario 64) screenshots from multiple magazines.

Of course, the name would never live up to the game I had created in my head, specially since most of those places from the early years shown on screenshots were never in the final game. Something like that happened with Twilight Princess too. I don't remember obsessing that much over it, but the game was disappointing too due to how hyped I was for it (and how long I waited for it).

And now we come to BotW. I've been waiting for 5 years now, and my levels of hype are matching or surpassing my OoT hype. Thankfully all impressions from people that have played the game are positive and the game has enough advancements and new stuff (for a Zelda game) that I think this one will not be affected by my hype levels.

 

[Ein Bear]

I'd agree with Nights.

My dirty gaming secret is that I played the Wii Nights game before I finally got to play the original via XBLA. I preferred the Wii game.

 

[theaffection]

You must have read a lot of impressions, especially on Gaf.

Yep, GAF went nuts for that game damn near unanimously. Barely any good old negativity to balance it out either!

 

[Lights and Waves]

Totally forgot: Journey. I can't stand how many people swear this game changes their life, ended world hunger, cleared their acne, cured their osteoporosis.

 

[Weiss]

I was constantly told that TLOU was the new peak of video game writing and story telling and that every perceived criticism was only due to their inability to grasp the depth they were witness to.

And it was just shit.

 

[Memento]

I was constantly told that TLOU was the new peak of video game writing and story telling and that every perceived criticism was only due to their inability to grasp the depth they were witness to.

And it was just shit.

You talk about other people's hyperbole but then keep going on your post stating TLOU's storytelling is shit. Seriously? Stop.

 

[ReyVGM]

Someone that cried playing TLOU

You talk about other people's hyperbole but then keep going on your post stating TLOU's storytelling is shit. Seriously? Stop.

Someone that DIDN'T cry playing TLOU

I was constantly told that TLOU was the new peak of video game writing and story telling and that every perceived criticism was only due to their inability to grasp the depth they were witness to.

And it was just shit.

 

[Octavianus]

No Man's Sky the thread

If ever a 'the thread' is appropriate, it's here

I don't really agree, unless we have different definitions of what hype is.
I honestly to this day think I would have enjoyed No Man's Sky if it was actually the game they advertised.

 

[Selddon]

I would also like to add MGSV, I was naive and honestly thought it was going to be the 2nd coming of christ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-c1a5c55-8 I watched this so many times

EDIT: this wasn't a LTTP game though, sorry

 

[Weiss]

You talk about other people's hyperbole but then keep going on your post stating TLOU's storytelling is shit. Seriously? Stop.

Why was Joel able to get up and shootkapow after

Spoiler

spending months unconscious in a dilapidated frozen shack with a giant puncture wound in his stomach.

 

[vocab]

Everyone acted like Witcher 3 was perfect and flawless but then I got ahold of its weak AC/Arkham- like combat and got kinda mad at everyone for leaving that important detail out 😡😡😡

Yeah it plays nothing like that.

 

[Zeouterlimits]

Gonna go with Heavenly Sword

It was a decent game. But it was hyped to heck and back as the next coming of God Of War. Had it just released without much build up I would have enjoyed it more

Oh man, Heavenly Sword.

I remember Bettenhausen's love for it, to the ridicule of just about everyone.

 

[DemWalls]

Yep, GAF went nuts for that game damn near unanimously. Barely any good old negativity to balance it out either!

While this may be (kind of) true, this post and your other one lead me to believe that you didn't really read too much about the game before buying it, at least on Gaf. Here you cannot mention TW 3, let alone open a thread about it, without someone stating that the gameplay/combat is terrible/awful/abysmal/etc.

If anything, some people (even those who actually like the game as a whole) throw so much shit at it that I would expect someone who's read a couple of threads about it to have expectations so low that they may actually end up liking even the combat.

 

[Musky_Cheese]

Halo 5 and No Mans Sky

Although is hype created by lies or misleading information fair for this thread? While the games had a lot of hype, it was the letdown because of outright lies. Not living up to hype and being let down by lies are very different imo

 

[Sir Ilpalazzo]

No way, Rondo was and still is awesome

Far more so than Symphony of the Night lol.

 

[Iceman]

Please, please, please, nobody judge NiGHTs based on ports. You have to play it on the the Saturn to have it click. None of them have reproduced the 360 analog control of the original which is absolutely necessary to the experience. If you can get B's (score rating) or better on any level, and if you can trigger the musical changes, then you've figured out how to play the real game. Once it clicks it's magic. A heart-pounding rush. There is still nothing like it anywhere.

 

[Magicpaint]

Uncharted 2. The hype was through the roof and what I got when I eventually played it was a fairly average third person shooter with amazing production values.

TLOU is the one that actually lived up to the hype for me, making a strong case for narrative driven, cinematic games. Amazing stuff.

Far more so than Symphony of the Night lol.

Nah. SOTN is vastly superior. Though I'm not a big fan of classicvania. The stiff movements don't sit well with me.

 

[Linkark07]

Many Sony exclusives, especially Naughty Dog games. Uncharted and The Last of Us are games who almost everyone say are the best games that have been released in a Sony console. For me, they are average games with amazing visuals and mediocre gameplay. Persona 4 is another one in my list too.

Stardew Valley might be another one. Dunno for sure, so far it isn't nothing spectacular for me.

 

[Budi]

While this may be (kind of) true, this post and your other one lead me to believe that you didn't really read too much about the game before buying it, at least on Gaf. Here you cannot mention TW 3, let alone open a thread about it, without someone stating that the gameplay/combat is terrible/awful/abysmal/etc.

If anything, some people (even those who actually like the game as a whole) throw so much shit at it that I would expect someone who's read a couple of threads about it to have expectations so low that they may actually end up liking even the combat.

Yup, don't even remember games media praising the combat. They probably didn't call it shit either, since it wouldn't be accurate. But I would have believed people are aware that you don't play Witcher games for the combat. Even though Witcher 3 had the best combat in the series, it's just decent. But any Witcher, or hell even CDPR thread isn't safe from the "trash combat" posts in here. I wouldn't be surprised to find those in the Gwent beta thread too!

 

[volcarona]

No games would be ruined by the hype if you didn't join in the hype culture and senselessly set unrealistic expectations for it

 

[IISANDERII]

No Man's Sky the thread

If ever a 'the thread' is appropriate, it's here

Sounds like the OP is talking about hype, not marketing

 

[rackham]

The last guardian.
Dishonored 2. Sucked compared to 1.

 

[Manu]

Shadow of The Colossus. I found it boring, with bad gameplay.

"But the horse is so good because it acts like an actual horse!." I don't care. It's still annoying to control.

 

[Steiner]

Bloodborne. I don't know how any of you put up with the inconsistent frame rate. I cannot finish the damn game, and I say that as a big Souls fan.

 

[Nocturnowl]

This is Mega Man X for me, I mean it's good but the platforming side of things is so damn neutered coming off the NES entries that they double down on the shooting side of things and for me that's kind of a bust.
For comparisons sake you can take the recurring tropes like water stage and the MMX equivalent (Launch Octopus) is just big, open and empty and if you fall down one of its few pits you can just wall climb back out with ease more often than not.

I actually found X2 to be more interesting from a level design standpoint but I seem to be in a minority here.

edit: I think some are missing the LttP angle of this thread

 

[xviper]

Fallout 4, the only answer

the hype it got was insane, like nothing before, not even GTA 5 was as hyped, you'd expect a generation defining game like Resident evil 4 with all the hype Flopout 4 got

and then we got a ps3 looking game with a ps2 gameplay and a ps1 physics and voice acting

that was an embarrassment to every fan of Fallout that was hyped for Fallout 4 and an embarrassment to the gaming industry

 

[Kaztinka]

Skyrim & The Uncharted Series

 

[NullPointer]

No Man's Sky.

Besides the stuff that was said about the game that wasn't true, it was also hyped to high heaven, and sold with impossibly high expectations, both in the marketing and in the imagination of gamers left to daydream of full universes of sci-fi possibility.

Should have been a $20-25 PSN game that blew up from word of mouth.

 

[pretty done]

Bloodborne. I don't know how any of you put up with the inconsistent frame rate. I cannot finish the damn game, and I say that as a big Souls fan.

Not sure how you can claim to be a big Souls fan but not be able to deal with a bad framerate unless you started the series with PTDE. Dealing with Dark 1 on PS3 was far more annoying than dealing with Bloodborne imo. Not to mention Demons framerate goes to shit whenever there's anything happening on screen. Even rolling into a single box will cause the framerate to dip.

 

[GamerJM]

Don't think I've ever experienced a game completely "ruined," by hype at all. I'm generally able to separate my feelings on a game pre-release and while I'm actually playing the game pretty well. Uh, closest thing I can think of is maybe Portal 1, which might have been more interesting had I gone into it blind at release and not after a year and a half of hype and memes.

I agree with a good deal of games being disappointing, but I don't think I would have liked them very much had I gone into them blind. Like Uncharted 2, I didn't like it very much but if it wasn't acclaimed I don't think that would have changed.

 

[Bulzeeb]

I was late to the party on The Last of Us and I went into that game hearing about how it was apparently the greatest thing ever made. At the end of the game I definitely enjoyed it but I didn't think it was anything that special.

Spoiler

I didn't think the intro was all that heartbreaking and I also thought the ending was kind of meh.

I will agree with this, I only played TLoU last year and I can see the appeal, but I labeled as another tps, I would have liked it more if there were more scenes that felt more survival horror with the clickers than the endless waves of thugs getting in line to be killed.

Also, fuck Ellie, that annoying kid was one of the worst characters I had to escort in a game

 

[Deleted member 102362]

Bioshock Infinite. GAF was looking forward to it. I was looking forward to it. Everyone was looking forward to it. And then the game actually came out, with its stale gameplay, dated mechanics, and, late game spoiler time,

Spoiler

Lady FUCKING Comstock.

At least the art direction was cool.

 

[Eumi]

Ok seriously I think more than half of these posts didn't actually read the OP. Or the title, for that matter.

Gotta say though, FFVII might be mine. It's just not a very good jrpg by today's standards, with counterintuitive design in a lot of places and a very poorly paced story, especially the characters.

 

[Baron Von Beans]

I beat it (and the DLC too) but yeah, 100% agree. I couldn't get over how self serious it was while using some of the most tired movie and game tropes ever in an attempt to be more "cinematic". The same 2 or 3 puzzle types showing up again and again didn't help either.

The game is a solid 8/10 for me but nothing really special. I vastly prefer RE4 which had superior gameplay as well as having the sense to revel in its own cheesyness and B-movie inspired plot.

I really enjoyed seeing Joel get killed in various ways, I think that was the highlight of the game for me. I have yet to play RE4, and I plan to some day. I've got a thing with RE though...I hate the controls from 4 on. If I can use a move in 4 like I could in 5 Gold, then hell yea.

Did you reach Winter?

Sure did, was able to play for maybe an hour or so after that I remember. But that's where I left off. And still...the only way I'll finish it is if someone gives me a copy for PS3 that works on my console. I doubt I'll ever play it again from scratch.

 

[ToyMachine228]

I am a huge fan of the original Titanfall. I was lttp on Titanfall 2 and had heard so much about the campaign being great online. After finishing it, I would give it a 7 at best. Maybe it's because I played the hell out of the first game that I felt 2's campaign was been there, done that, but with less intensity than doing it on your own on the multiplayer side.

 

[guek]

Why was Joel able to get up and shootkapow after

Spoiler

spending months unconscious in a dilapidated frozen shack with a giant puncture wound in his stomach.

I completely lost my ability to suspend disbelief when that happened and when

Spoiler

the first thing the Fireflies do is try to autopsy Ellie. What the flying fuck, that's not how vaccines work, and there's no way any scientist or medical professional would opt for immediately killing the sole immune human on earth while trying to find a cure. Any emotional strings they were trying to cheaply pull in the last act of the game was blunted by the thought of how incredibly stupid the plot had become.

 

[Ramsiege]

Jumping on the TLOU "meh" train.

Played it on PS4 and finished completely underwhelmed after all the hype I heard on that one.

FFVII is another one I thought was completely average. I didn't have a PS1 back in the day, but I got it a few years later on the PC and it was so boring to get through. After years of hype on how that game was so revolutionary, I just didn't see it.

 

[cartman414]

Uncharted 2. The hype was through the roof and what I got when I eventually played it was a fairly average third person shooter with amazing production values.

TLOU is the one that actually lived up to the hype for me, making a strong case for narrative driven, cinematic games. Amazing stuff.


Nah. SOTN is vastly superior. Though I'm not a big fan of classicvania. The stiff movements don't sit well with me.

They're not for everyone, admittedly. They're deliberately there to require a tactical approach to enemies, yet your character is given just enough leeway to maneuver about. The fourth game was the only one where it became simply pointless, since the multidirectional whip could curbstomp most enemies.

And Symphony itself would have been mildly disappointing for me if not for Dan Hsu's review docking it for being too backtracky, something I came to agree with. Not on Super Metroid's level in the end as a game, and bettered by a couple of the handheld followups.

Personal pick would be Pokemon. I liked it for a bit but couldn't put up with the grinding and the simple rock/paper/scissors. I prefer other games with more varied mechanics, tactics and objectives.

 

[Inuhanyou]

bioshock infinite is probably the biggest example i can think of. It wasnt like NMS where the reviews came out and were shit.

Bioshock infinite was tripped all over by the gaming media to portray as this god level game that was the citizen kane of video games(which ironically superseded it only later that year), only to fall flat on its face and proceed to destroy everything about the original game, and lead to the collapse of irrational itself.

Seriously, go watch adam sesslers review and then say you dont feel super annoyed.

 

[petran79]

Stonekeep

Game was even more hyped than FF7 back then but due to delays and changes ended up a total dissapointment and into oblivion

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

No Man's Sky

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