Most Overhyped Game [Archive]

Wall Street Ninja

08-19-2003, 12:39 AM

I agree. What a dissapointment. Especially with the amount of money they spent trying to make a great game. They should have hired the very best game designers.

Gruber

08-19-2003, 12:40 AM

There is no question about it: Daikatana.

LeRolls

08-19-2003, 12:57 AM

Brewmeister Gruber:
There is no question about it: Daikatana.BINGO!

qwerty uiop

08-19-2003, 02:04 AM

I'm going with Enter the Matrix. The only thing that made that game a challenge was the fucked up control set up.

Brute force no good, huh? Damn.

sorro

08-19-2003, 09:50 AM

Enter the Matrix.

Sammy Jankis

08-19-2003, 10:00 AM

Final Fantasy for me. Come to think of it, the movie suffered from over-hype, too.

Limitzero falls into The Abyss

08-19-2003, 10:20 AM

It felt like the TWO TOWERS video game was pretty hyped up. I still thought the game was really sweet, especially the unique opening, but I rented it and beat it in the FIRST day, what the hell kind of crap is that? The game was way too short. The overall idea was pretty similar to Enter the Matrix also.

Gruber

08-19-2003, 10:23 AM

You people DID see the old ads for Daikatana right?

Nick Hexum

08-19-2003, 11:03 AM

State of Emergency..People hailed this thing as being better than GTA a few months before it came out. The everyone bought it and hated it because it was stupid, repetative, and boring.

LlamaRama

08-19-2003, 11:25 AM

Gruber is correct. Nothing even COMPARES to Daikatana.

Andrew Sweeney

08-19-2003, 11:44 AM

Daikatana, with Messiah coming in a close second.

LeRolls

08-19-2003, 11:57 AM

Andrew Sweeney:
Daikatana, with Messiah coming in a close second.Yes, I almost forgot about Messiah but Daikatana definitely takes the cake. No console game can compare to these two.

Angles

08-19-2003, 01:46 PM

LeRolls:
Andrew Sweeney:
Daikatana, with Messiah coming in a close second.Yes, I almost forgot about Messiah but Daikatana definitely takes the cake. No console game can compare to these two.For consoles, E.T. would have to be the closest. I don't remember how much it was hyped back in the days, but I do remember getting excited about playing it for the first time.

Daikatana takes the cake for games that were eventually released, but does Duke Nukem Forever count? How sad must it be to go to work everyday and be a part of that dev team?

Sammy Jankis

08-19-2003, 01:48 PM

Brewmeister Gruber:
You people DID see the old ads for Daikatana right?Remind me. I seem to have forgotten.

mediumdave

08-19-2003, 02:17 PM

Suck it down. Oh, and apparently, Romero was supposed to make me his bitch. Promises, promises.

otisthecat

08-19-2003, 04:05 PM

I'm going with State of Emergency but only because I didn't actually buy Daikatana. It took all of 3 minutes of playing SoE before concluding I got fucked.

General Logan

08-19-2003, 04:18 PM

I must concur that State of Emergency was bafflingly rancid.

Ashxking2001

08-19-2003, 05:18 PM

GTA only because everyone talked about it and Killing hookerz can get old fast (ducks from the bricks fling at my head)

otisthecat

08-19-2003, 05:22 PM

Ashxking2001:
GTA only because everyone talked about it and Killing hookerz can get old fast (ducks from the bricks fling at my head)Yeah, because everyone knows GTA didn't live up to the hype.

turdmuppet

08-19-2003, 11:12 PM

starwars kotr. bought it played it hated it

Carl90210

08-19-2003, 11:24 PM

I know I may get shit thrown at me but here goes.

Super Mario 64.

Wall Street Ninja

08-19-2003, 11:29 PM

I didn't like KOTOR too. How about Star Wars : Tatooine City. Car jack land speeders(Cantina Music on the radio)swoop bikes,millenium falcons,tie fighters,bantas etc...Do missions for Jabba. Rack up kills with blasters,light sabers,.
I don't see why they don't go that route, they already tried to do a Twisted Metal clone with Star Wars demolition.

Doyle the half-demon

08-25-2003, 12:10 PM

KOTOR is a great game. more entertaining than HALO, if that is possible. But that's not what we are here for. I would have to say the most overhyped console game is Enter The Matrix, which had such great potential. Bad controls, clippy graphics, and enough glitches to warrant the constuction of a new matrix. What makes it worse is that Reloaded wasn't even that good either.(although staking vamps is always good fun)
PC is Daikitana without a doubt. Look what happened to Romero, making a port of a 1.5 year old game for N-Gage(though I am looking forward to N-gage)

Gruber

08-25-2003, 12:20 PM

KOTOR is good, but it's no Halo.

Jacob Singer

08-25-2003, 12:56 PM

Thank Christ for that.

Matt Goldberg

08-25-2003, 01:18 PM

K-Gruber's super sounds of the 70s:
KOTOR is good, but it's no Halo.Next up, we'll be comparing apples to oranges.

MrMushnik

08-25-2003, 02:06 PM

mediumdave:
Suck it down. Oh, and apparently, Romero was supposed to make me his bitch. Promises, promises.Yeah, I think I really have to agree with Daikatana. I'm not sure I even knew it came out, I stopped caring right about the time I was told I was going to be Romero's bitch.

Others I can think of: Strike Commander, which threatened for like 2 years to be vaporware, Messiah as mentioned above, Enter the Matrix, also mentioned, and wasn't there supposed to be some big Privateer sequal that never made it? I read about it constantly and then nothing.

Sly McFly

08-25-2003, 09:18 PM

MGS2.

After one of the best games ever, for the playstation at least, the sequal looked even better. The almost cg graphics (at the time) stunned the crowd at E3 and make the cover of every magazine. Until the release date that's all people could think about, speculations abounded online and in print and it looked like a lock-in for game of the year.

And then it was released.

I enjoyed it, but it was no Metal Gear Solid, didn't even come close. Most everyone hated it. Of course, it probably couldn't possible live up to the hype but it was one of the most overhyped games.

Contenders:
The Bouncer
Blasto

Overlord

08-25-2003, 09:45 PM

Every final fantasy after the first one. I gave up after a while, they were all pretty big let downs.

Super bowl tecmo bowl sucked compared to the original.

Pariah81

08-25-2003, 10:42 PM

GTA 3.

Nighttrap38

08-28-2003, 09:31 PM

Time Stalkers2

Sh**ty aiming kills the game.

Ben (formally Ned Fats)

08-29-2003, 02:35 AM

Str1derv7:
MGS2.

After one of the best games ever, for the playstation at least, the sequal looked even better. The almost cg graphics (at the time) stunned the crowd at E3 and make the cover of every magazine. Until the release date that's all people could think about, speculations abounded online and in print and it looked like a lock-in for game of the year.

And then it was released.

I enjoyed it, but it was no Metal Gear Solid, didn't even come close. Most everyone hated it. Of course, it probably couldn't possible live up to the hype but it was one of the most overhyped games.

Contenders:
The Bouncer
BlastoI think it was without a doubt Blasto. That game was supposed to be the absolute shit, but turned out to be nothing.

VladtheImpaler

08-29-2003, 08:02 AM

GTA3
GTA Vice City

Reason: Great idea. HUGE area to explore. However, that doesn't make a great game by itself. There was pretty much no story, bland charecters, and it didn't really ever seem to go anywhere.

Final Fantasy

Reason: Standing around getting your ass kicked while your waiting for your "turn" to retaliate never seemed like fun to me.

Tomb Raider

Reason: Bland, bland, bland. Platformers, as they are, should die as most recently showcased by Futurama.

Brute Force:

Not only NOTHING like Halo, there was really nothing special about it at all.