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"Most over-hyped games..."

You've been waiting months for the latest release. Eveyone's been talking about it. It will rule. You even had a copy reserved, just to make sure there was one there waiting for you. Now it's the time to collect it. You're up early in the morning, and waiting outside the shop before it opens at 08:30. Your heart leaps as the shopkeeper comes into view, walking slowly toward the fron of the shop. Too slowly. Why can't he hurry up? Eventually he get's to the door, and opens it up. You step inside. Are you walking on carpet or air? ou're not quite sure.

Then everything starts to happen so quickly. Before you know it, you've paid for the game, taken it home, and removed it from it's casing. For the first time, you realise you'd were so worked up you'd gone up town in your pyjamas. That explains the funny stares. Never mind though, that's not important now. You fumble the game into place, and switch everything on. The loading screen takes too long.

Eventually, you're in. After a short intro, the game itself has started. That which you've been playing for months is now here..

....and it's lame. You could've had more fun with a tin of catfood. After it's passed through the cat. Depressed, you sit back on the chair, and start to regret spending £40 on this heap of junk.
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Yes, there's a point to all this:

So... what are the most overhyped/dissapointing games you've ever bought?

BAH, in what way?
Was it the... uhh... hmm, help me out here it's pretty deep and the water is seeping in.

Armatige Shanks wrote:
> Bewarethetoadsoffate wrote:
>I also think Black and
> White
> was a disappointment, but that was inevitable after the vast
>
> amounts of hype it got. Its fun to play, but nothing special.

Why
> do you think B&W was a dissapointment?

its a fun game with good ideas, but it didnt live up to the hype

Funny that I found that Black and White was underhyped, everything I read about it said it would be great but it never had a big feature about it long before the release like Quake and so forth did. Probably because it isn't a FPS, but even non-FPSs get hyped occasionally.

Anyway, I don't buy games on hype, just instinct and interpretation. My instinct tells me if any hype is unjustified and my interpretation tells me what is true. It's worked so far, I can only think of one game I bought which was hyped and I was disappointed with namely Diablo 2 because I was distracted by the greatness of Diablo and I never really bothered to investigate the game itself.

Shenmue.

It as Dan's fault, he was raving about it. First we had the 20 page post preview, then the massive review, then the 30 page post analysis. But it was hyped, and not just by Dan. But I fell for it.

Fortunately for him, PSO came out shortly afterwards and reassurred me that I had made the correct decision to purchase a DC.

Then MSR really convinced me that getting the DC was really worth it.

Shenmue has been gathering dust for an awfully long time since then. Undoubtedly the most boring game I have ever played on any format, even Barbie had more colour. It was hailed as an RPG but wasn't, it was hailed as a beat 'em up but it can take you an awfully long time before you throw a punch, it was hailed as having innovative graphics, the best ever seen, but you can say that about any recent game on the DC.

One day, I'll get around to giving Shenmue another go. I like to give games a second chance before they become placemats.

I'll have to be very very bored on a very very rainy day though.

Bewarethetoadsoffate wrote:
>I also think Black and
> White was a disappointment, but that was inevitable after the vast
> amounts of hype it got. Its fun to play, but nothing special.

Why do you think B&W was a dissapointment?

I think perfect dark was a hyped up disappointment. everyone waited 3 years for the "most highly anticipated N64 game ever" only to find in was a rip off of the brilliant Goldeneye. Sure, it was a good game, but not if you already had goldeneye and had to pay another £30 for the expansion pak. I also think Black and White was a disappointment, but that was inevitable after the vast amounts of hype it got. Its fun to play, but nothing special.

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> turbonutter wrote:


I wouldn't say disappointed, but I agree.
> Quite a lot of
> over-hyped games are disappointing.

Well
> that makes sense!

I meant a bit disappointing. IE, not as good as expected, but not felling totally let-down, which is what disappoinTED means

South park. Those stupid people at NOM got me hyped about it as they gave it 90%.

Any/All of the Elite sequels so far...

(Unfortunatly I did pay for them! :( )

Daikatana

(at least I didnt pay for it! :) )