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Your most hyped game of all time.

It sounds strange, but I don't remember even being hyped for games when I was a young teen or smaller. I remember tons of PS1 and N64 games that my siblings and school friends were hyped for, but I didn't closely follow games back then. Therefore, I can't list anything pre-PS2. A lot of PS2's early blockbusters were already out when I started playing the console, so it was around 2005 or so that I started becoming hyped for games.

In the past few years, I have been extremely hyped for Kingdom Hearts 2, Final Fantasy XII, Shin Megami Tensei IV, and Fire Emblem Fates.

None of those games disappointed me.

The upcoming games that I am most hyped for are Dragon Quest VII, The Last Guardian, and Persona 5. I don't even have a PS4, but I will certainly get it as soon as those games are released (if I have the money).

I'm extremely excited for the launch of TLoZ: Breath of the Wild to see how it turns out. I think just about everybody has some hype for that game. Unfortunately, the game alone is not enough to make me actually want a Wii U. It can instantly sell me the NX, provided that the console and other launch titles are compelling. Nintendo, please make the NX a good console!
 
Probably was Fire Emblem: Awakening. I followed everything they released about that game, I was thirsty after we didn't get the previous Fire Emblem.
 
Probably a tie between Smash Bros. Brawl and Uncharted 2. I remember the days before both releases very vividly because they felt like the longest of my damn life.
 
Probably Xenosaga Episode 1.

I must have watched the first trailer 20 times. Took like 30 mins to download with my shitty 56k connection back in the days. Good times.
 
Star Fox 64 in 1997. I remember saving change my Dad would bring home everyday as I saved for the game. I was hyped in numerous ways, the graphics looked stunning, EGM was hyping it up and the introduction of the rumble pack.

Final Fantasy 8 in 1999. Remember trading in Pokemon cards at a local card spot to get the $50-60 I needed for the game.

Was hyped for a long time for Shenmue since its revelation in EGM and there were questions at the time with whether the game would make it to the states or not at the time.

Since then:

Metal Gear Solid 2, Halo 2, Zelda Wind Waker, Gears of War 2, Half Life 2, Halo 3 and a few recent ones like Dark Souls 3.

Out of the games I listed the one that let me down the most, by far, was Gears of War 2. Terrible netcode that killed online play and a disappointing single player campaign.
 
Nothing will ever eclipse the sheer unfathomable hype that I had for Super Smash Bros Brawl. The anticipation for Brawl led to the first steps towards me being plugged in 24/7.

The closest I ever got to it was Silent Hills.

...
 
At this point it might be Dishonored 2.

I was hyped for the first one, and I'm already expecting something great for the next one. Everything at last E3 made me excited.
 
Sir_Crocodile said:
Ocarina of Time.

Lived up to expectations - felt like a good translation of zelda 3 into 3D.

There will never again be the same kind of hype as there was for the snes -> n64 shift.
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This.

If there was a such thing as a "promised one" in gaming, it'd be Zelda 64, or as it became, OOT

And it delivered in nearly every way...
 
Right now it's Persona 5.

Animal Crossing Wild World is the second ahaha...imagining Animal Crossing on the go was a dream come true back then. I remember the day I got that game in middle school. Can't believe it's been over a decade. Crazy shit.
 
FFXIII, GTAIV, Assassin's Creed 3 are up there, as are Splinter Cell Conviction (lord did they wait a while), Forza Horizon 2 (love me the south of France), Mass Effect 3 and Bayonetta 2 (my Wii U killer app).

I was pumped for Shenmue 2, Skies of Arcadia back in the day, and Vice City.

Right now, Breath of the Wild and Persona 5.

So about half/half in terms of me ending up liking those games.


But the winner for me is easily Street Fighter IV.
 
Diablo 3, and that game ended up disappointing immensely... not because it was a bad game necessarily, but it failed to re-capture the magic of Diablo 2. There was a certain roughness to Diablo 2, wether it be the harsh death penalty or the permanency of your skill choices that made the comradery and adventure all the more rewarding. It also helped the atmosphere and art design in general felt a lot more oppressive.
 
Tekken 3. I tried to get any little info about it that I could from magazines. When the first promotional artwork came out, I even commented to my little brother, "Oh look, Kazuya now has a tattoo on his arm!"

The game exceeded all of my (already high) expectations. This was a time when Namco was firing on all cylinders and could do no wrong.
 
Mass Effect 3 was my most hyped title of all time. It was a truly bittersweet experience. I got a lot of enjoyment playing the game, but felt so hollow after beating it. It just had no chance of living up to my level of hype.
 
Kingdom Hearts II was easily my most anticipated games of all time.

I was 13 when it came out, I actually convinced my parents to let me take the day off from school so I could play it all day.
 
GTA IV surpassed by GTA V.

I was also weirdly hyped for indigo prophecy after reading about all the endings and the opening scene in the bathroom.
 
Hmm. It's tough because my most hyped games are from when I was in high school but most of the time due to being in school I could forget about the hype and concentrate on other stuff. Probably

Resident Evil 2
Ocarina of Time
Shenmue
Resident Evil: Code Veronica

All lived up to my hype.

My most hyped gaming related item ever though is probably the Dreamcast. That whole time was just hype inducing, the jump in visual quality from PSone/N64 to DC was incredible.

It also helped having a dad who is a gamer and was on good terms with the manager of the then Electronics Boutique in Wolverhampton. And he told us to pop in on a Sunday and he brought in his imported Dreamcast and I got to play House of the Dead 2, Sonic and Soul Calibur well before the UK release of the console. Just remembering that brings a smile to my face.

HMV also had a competition which let you play Sega Rally 2 a while before release as well. I went to that with my dad and we had a blast.

Then came the release date in the UK and I got up stupidly early on a school day so I could go with my dad to EB's and wait in line to pick our console and games up. Good thing about that was the manager saw us and let us in early and sold us our stuff before letting the others in lol. Felt good. But then I had to go to school and suffer through that while knowing I got to play those glorious games when I got home.

Power Stone, Sonic, Sega Rally, Trickstyle and Toy Commander on the same day.
 
It had to be the expansion World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. I was big time into WoW. I played with around fifteen people from work, several good friends from high school and college, poured over news and leaks, was a moderator on a discussion forum for WoW (small site, like 200 users), etc. So many people took vacation the week of release. All of us having fun on whatever chat app we were using at the time. It was a hell of a month leading up to the game, and a really fun week of drunken leveling and dungeon diving.
 
Metal Gear Solid 4. Lived up to it for me at the time, but the more I played MGSV, the less favourable I look back upon Guns of the Patriots. I must replay it some time just to see how it holds up now.

Since then, nothing has touched it in terms of antcipation. The closest has been The Last of Us (matched and surpassed expectations to the point it became my GOAT), Destiny (didn't match expectations, even if I enjoyed what I've played of it, although the exps have done wonders to it since) and Grand Theft Auto V (matched expectations).
 
Hard to say but I was hyped as hell for Xbox 360.

I spent $2500 on a 32 inch 720p LCD HDTV a few months before launch just for it.

The TV would probably cost $100 now. Damn, what a waste of money.
 
Uncharted 4.

Reaching the ending credits and feeling satisfied and underwhelmed at the same time... a sad conclusion to my hype train.
 
Gotta be Mario 64, and surprisingly enough, it delivered. Too many games I have been hyped for did not. As a result, I don't get as hyped for individual games as I used to, though I do get hyped for hardware. Currently, I have massive hype for PSVR. I am hoping it can give me that same feeling Mario 64 did all those years ago.
 
Monster Hunter is like this for me with every game. Last week I almost broke my index finger after slamming a sliding truck door on it, and the first thought that came to me while I try to get my finger out was "oh shit how am I gonna play monster hunter with a broken finger?!". I mean, I don't really need the index finger to play it, but it would just throw me off and make some quests a couple minutes or so longer than they should.
 
Ocarina of Time comes to mind. It came out just after my 9th birthday. I had my parents preorder it and everything. It was a big deal at the time for me, as a was at the age where I was reading and learning about upcoming games whenever I could get my hands on gaming magazines. I distinctly remember playing it the night it came out, and the next morning before school.

Resident Evil 4, and Twilight Princess were big ones as well.

I also remember being super hyped when I found out there was a Quest for Glory 5 coming out. One of the series I had grown up on. Not really as good as it's predecessors, but good none the less.
 
I think it was Super Smash Bros Brawl.

I LOVED Melee and I got hyped to the point where I thought with my luck I was going to die on a car crash on the way home from the game store.

Went full George Costanza.
 
Smash 4.

I just adore the Smash series. I know it gets a lot of hate, but the hours I spent playing Brawl with my best friends in University were just incredible.

Add on the fact that, MEGAMAN, SHULK & LITTLE MAC. Were all gonna be in the game. The handheld version as well (which is stunning) and all of the Amiibos. I just couldn't be more excited.

And then the game came out.

And it was everything I wanted and more. I love it.
 
It's close between pouring over Super Mario 64 screenshots in magazines before launch or reading the reviews for Skyward Sword when all of the 10/10s started hitting.
 
Mario 64.

I remember reading in mags,and especially Edge regarding the move to 3d and I was blown away,unbelievably hyped.It didn't let me down either
 
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