Sometimes, games tend to be over-hyped and that can be a trap for gamers, making many of us buy a game without watching/paying attention to a gameplay trailer or playing a demo first. What's the worst let-down you've ever had? Mine, without a shadow of a doubt, is Jericho. I'm a huge Clive Barker/Undying fan so I suppose you can imagine my dissapointment ("What the...? Team based!?")

GTAIV. My friend told me about how awesome it was, etc. etc. but when I played it I was let down since, for me, it was a rehash of the other GTAs.

Advent Rising. it was so bad and so hyped.

oblivion

Any old school RPG fan will remember the big let down that was Chrono Cross. I mean it wasn't a bad game but it was a piss poor Chrono Trigger sequel.

its a tie between Gears of War 2 and Banjo and Kazooie nuts and bolts.

Mirror's Edge. Don't get me wrong, at this moment I'm playing it and loving it, but I think they put too much emphasis on combat. Besides that, I haven't really been that disappointed. Oh, wait, I forgot Halo 3.

Fable 2. I was very let down by it, it was to short, and there really wasn't a lot to do. I bought every house in the game, became king, did all the side quests and beat the game in about 3 days. I was really disappointed and bored, so i turned it in a reserved gears 2. Which i love.

Really thought LBP was the biggest letdown, far to much hype on that platformer.

crazy-j:
oblivion

Also, this. In the gameplay trailers they showed npc's talking about your latest acheivements in ridding Kvatch of daedra, but all I got with my game was:
"I saw a mudcrab the other day."
It's especially funny if you get the same voice actor talking to himself.

Black & White 2. I loved the first game, but 2 was a real let down. It was in the book of world records for best AI in a game for the creature, and I so prefered the creature from the 1st game, and the game in general. Lionhead seem to have a habit of putting out unfinished games *stares at his Fable 2 case with a sigh*

Not really a super-uber-letdown, but I expected more of 'Condemned 2'. The first one is an absolute masterpiece, but part 2... so much potential and it turns into a far too generic 'evil cult' thing.
Like Yahtzee said: The first game was so psychologically tense because of the locations. You chased a mass murderer in everyday environments like a school, a normal house or a mall. Well, part 2 wasn't that bad, but compared to the first 'Condemned'...

Also, Final Fantasy XII was extremely bornig. Every Final Fantasy had a scene which defined the game for me. Part 12's story simply wasn´t interesting or surprising. Severe lack of the 'magic' usualy provided with the Final Fantasy storylines.

FFXII So very, very dull.

What? 'Chrono Cross' is an underapprechiated masterpiece!

*Cough Cough* Banjo Kazooie Nuts And Bolts

galletea:
FFXII So very, very dull.

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SomeBritishDude:

galletea:
FFXII So very, very dull.

second

Third.

Haze and Turok. Also GTA IV, but I wouldn't say it was as bad as it could have been.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

Of course, this was my first ever "serious" mmorpg experience, so maybe I'm just not into mmorpgs as a general rule. Still, it was so horribly boring.

I've never become a victim of 'hype' so I avoid most let downs. The only times I've been let down that I can think of are Deus Ex 2 and Halo 2, and that's only because their previous games were fantastic. I'm just glad I didn't buy them.

Two thirds of the way through Bioshock.

Xerosch:
What? 'Chrono Cross' is an underapprechiated masterpiece!

It's a terrible sequel to Chrono Trigger though.

Oblivion. X3 terran conflict.

Too Human, that game was just awful.

bue519:
its a tie between Gears of War 2 and Banjo and Kazooie nuts and bolts.

darktheif28:
*Cough Cough* Banjo Kazooie Nuts And Bolts

Whats wrong with Banjo-Kazooie?

SomeBritishDude:
Black & White 2. I loved the first game, but 2 was a real let down.

Eh...the first game was such a big disappointment that I didn't even bother with the second game. It had good ideas, but in the end it was a clunkier Populous.

But yes, GTAIV definitely. I was suckered by the hype. All I really got was GTA3 HD. Even Halo 3 wasn't as big a disappointment (got it cheap, actually liked the game and Bungie is doing a good job updating it).

Almost every over-hyped game. When a game is given such high expectations, there is a huge chance it won't live up to its name. GTA 4 was fun though. The new physics were awesome. I love watching Niko fall from 20 feet in the air and land on a railing

Oblivion, since I am claustrophobic and I was really fucked over by the godamn stupid "generic dungeon with baddies" syndrome. I mean seriously - you talk to someone in the street and they want you to help an old lady over the road, and it turns out she miraculously wants to cross a road 1000 feet under the earth, surrounded by zombies!

Deathguy3:
Almost every over-hyped game. When a game is given such high expectations, there is a huge chance it won't live up to its name. GTA 4 was fun though. The new physics were awesome. I love watching Niko fall from 20 feet in the air and land on a railing

That almost seems like a good reason to own the game.
I think I may actually have enjoyed the Zelda series if it weren't for the countless 'Best Game Evaaarrr' rants.

GTAIV. For all it's technical brilliance they left out the code for fun.

Eternal_Rapture:
Fable 2. I was very let down by it, it was to short, and there really wasn't a lot to do. I bought every house in the game, became king, did all the side quests and beat the game in about 3 days. I was really disappointed and bored, so i turned it in a reserved gears 2. Which i love.

Pretty much that (including the love intrest sub-plot =p)

All of them... really all games are overhyped

SSBB

Terrible replay value

Fable 2. It's fun, but I expected it to be much, much longer.

Mater of Orion 3 - The first and second games were simple and fun, moo3 was a mess, almost every part of the game was broken or unfinished. The single thing it did better than the previous two titles was the ground combat.

Black & White 2 - The original was a massive let-down, but in my mind the entertaining creature AI, good looks, and nice ambient track saved it from being a total failure. B&W2 pretty well removed the creature from the game, was pathetically short and easy, as well as being repetitive and mind-numbingly dull. Graphical glitches caused severe issues on many NVidia 6 series cards (probably the most common graphics card at the time).

Hellgate London - Was just an awful game. It felt like an grind-fest MMORPG, except I was the only guy playing. LAN play did nothing to resolve the issue.

Spore - Was just way too simple. The programmer in me is very impressed with how the game works, the way it works seamlessly online, but the gamer in me cries. I would have been far more entertained with a massively fleshed-out cell stage game. The creature stage was fun for a bit, but tribe, city, and space were all just a drag after the initial newness wore off.