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.

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.

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Third.

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

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!

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.