Games that fell short of your expectations

It never happened to me with videogames (usually i get surprised by games with 0 expectations) but it happens often with films

Ethan Carter. Positive reviews talked about a short but really really amazingly beautiful game.I know that it's an indie game but i felt disappointed, because i expected (ahah) a game more beautiful than BF4. Apart from that, the frightening atmosphere was not my cup of tea.

Witcher 3, Arkham Knight

There are a lot of games that just don't live up to the hype train. I think a majority of the AAA games coming out recently (for the last year or two) end up being overhyped. Not all of them are bad, and there are some sleeper gems (I loved the Witcher 3) but I think overall there's more disappointment, mostly because of marketing, than success stories. Often, the only problem is that the game was sold as so much more and I would have been content with what I got... had a better game not been presented previously.

Right with you on Skyward Collapse and Redshirt. They seemed like a bunch of fun but grew boring rather fast.

Arcania- after two amazing and one good Gothic game, i expected this as new game in the series, my hopes for it was high, but than i was terribly dissapointed, even its not bad game, just its not good old Gothic

Fable: The lost chapters

Doesn't really happen to me that often, probably because I play games when all the hype is gone.

Well ... here goes my list:

• Fallout 3: I feel it just isn't as good as everyone keeps saying it is. For me the real star of the series is New Vegas, for the time being.
• Orcs Must Die!: I've been playing this game for 2 years. I am determined to maybe possibly eventually get the will to beat this boringly repetitive game.
• The Forest: It's not a bad game, but for me it's not a great one either. I got bored rather quickly with the single-player. Maybe the multi-player is better, but my internet is too crappy for that.
• Banished: I kept getting told how amazing this game was and that I needed to get it. It was interesting for a little while, but quickly lost my attention. Of which I then proceeded to slowly murder my village and wondered how that last guy lasted 3 months with no food.
• Alan Wake: Another one that everyone told me was really good. I can attest the story is very interesting, but it was the only thing that kept me going as I slowly trudged through the repetitive gameplay and uninteresting enemies.
• Lifeless Planet: When I got this game the user reviews only talked about how great it was. But when I played it, it was just a dreadfully slow paced 3D platformer with a story that I had no interest in.
• State of Decay: I really really enjoyed this game. But it just didn't live up to what I was expected, especially in the aspect of managing your community. I never felt like they really needed me to survive. Also for base building, I never felt that the things you could build affected the game much.
• The Wolf Among Us: Telltale is by far my favorite developer. This is still a really really great game, it just wasn't as strong as a title as I felt it should've been. Also, they really needed to work a lot more on QA for this game, I encountered so many bugs in this game it was a little ridiculous.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare. The base game was really good, never expected this pile of trash as the follow-up. No wonder there never was a sequel after such a gigantic failure.

Grand Theft Auto IV. Taking out the black humour, one of the foundations of the whole series, turned it into just an average TPS with some good cast. I always wondered how come people on YT and Twitch still only play the 3D trilogy. Now I understand. If not for the franchise name, it would be as equally forgettable as any of the GTA wannabees in the past decade, like Watch_Dogs.

Half-Life 2. I cannot really think about a single thing that was better than mildly tolerable in it. Okay, the character of Alyx.

Knights of the Old Republic 2. Boring characters. Everyone is whining. The plot even with the restored content makes no sense and contradicts canon and EU Star Wars lore. (Like… really, really contradicts it.) There is no real role-playing since you are immediately forced to commit yourself to the light or dark side, and you cannot back out from your decision ever.

L. A. Noire. It is just another GTA game, but the story is great to play once. Not more, and not anything beyond the main story, including the exceptionally boring collectible hunting.

Mirror's Edge. Got motion sickness. Watched a run in a small video window later, still don't understand what was good in it that made everyone who played it deem one of the best things ever. I really don't. Although this one I scratch up totally being my fault because I don't see anything particularly bad in it either. It's just not my type of game.

Neverwinter Night 1 original campaign (or base game). The worst, most uninspired, laziest piece of trash BioWare ever made. Considering it came after Baldur's Gate 2, probably their best, it was more than a simple letdown.
The two expansions saved most of it at least. They were absolutely fantastic.

Sanctum. A tower defence game where your towers don't do jack shit and you are actually forced to clear levels playing it as an FPS. An FPS with sluggish controls.

Still Life 2. The first one was an excellent French style horror/thriller. The follow up was every failed direct-to-video Hollywood follow-up to good suspense thrillers meshed into a terrible game with terrible controls and terrible game mechanics.

Red Alert 3. Opposite of GTAIV, this was so cheesy it attracts mice. Dumb story mode, terrible balance (Allies are trash, Rising Sun is pretty much invincible), and letting everything be amphibious made water pointless. But it was NOTHING compared to…

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight. Just… no. Everything, and I mean everything that could go wrong with the design and implementation went wrong.

Every Blizzard game ever since WarCraft 1. And after WC2 I had spectacularly low expectations for each of them, yet they somehow managed to fail even those. My favourite part is how fanboys praise their great balance and never get bothered with the fact that their games have the longest list of rebalance changes and patch notes in the gaming industry.

I can honestly say nothing since I go into most games blind. Not one who cares about the hype machine. If it looks pretty, sounds interesting or has something unique to it, I'll give it a go.

Had the same reaction to War of the Human Tanks.

ArmA 2. When I got it I was pretty excited, even though I heard it could be buggy. But even in the training missions, it was horrible. Way to many menu's to go through, without getting any explenation as to what button to press (I spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to get in a car). And the voice acting is just terrible. Then came my first taste of combat, it was horrible. This one is on top of the list of games which I regret buying, even though I got it pretty cheap.

Bioshock Infinite was a huge letdown tbh

can i list old games?
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ok!

deus ex invisible war - at first it looked awesome just for the graphics, then you notice the lack of skills, the generic implants, the lame (almost missing) inventory, generic ammo for all weapons, etc...
bioshock infinite - maps with almost no exploration, limited weapon inventory, no alt fire, terrible tonic design (plasmids from bioshock were awesome), extremely overpowered or useless skills.
starbound - i only blame me for this one... but i expected much more as i came from minecraft. i wanted to build stuff, explore, find secrets. i got bored after ~50hs of gameplay.
torchlight 2 - the combination of non-classic classes (i expected something extra simple like fighter, mage, thief) and boring maps made me quit and i couldn't even go past lv20.
supreme commander 2 - they kinda destroyed the franchise with this. super dumbed down mechanics that aren't even similar to total annihilation or supcom 1. the game is not really that bad but it feelsarcadish, if it were unrelated to supcom it would be fine i suppose.
stalker: clear sky - this game feels rushed, specially the last 2 maps (pripyat and power plant). even the first area is a terrible way to start the game (who thought it would be ok to start the game in a swamp!? omg!)
red faction: armageddon - this game shouldn't even had the "red faction" title attached to it...
magic the gathering: duels of the planeswalkers //insert year here// - wow. each version they release looks like an improvement from the previous, but it is actually worse! more ai cheating, more crappy decks... but more options to build a deck that are still extremely limited (so in the end it's the same!).

The Witcher - Damn it, why did everyone love this game except me? :(

L.A. Noire - "Hey look, I can play as a detective! This is so fun!" Few hours later "Oh god this is getting boring..." (also is a horrible port, thanks to Rockstar Games)

Murdered: Soul Suspect - Unplayable piece of broken shit. I feel bad about winning it and saying that about the game, but: 1. The game lags awfully, something like how GTA IV and L.A. Noire felt. 2. The menus are literally broken BEYOND FUNCTIONALITY for me. I've tried finding a solution, didn't find any good ones worth trying. Other people experienced the same issue (menu glitches open, won't close, nothing responds except using left/right keys to navigate the menu, only solution is to kill the process), and I'm not sure what caused it. Regardless, that was highly disappointing since I was pretty hyped when I won it.

Grand Theft Auto IV - Need I seriously list all of the flaws of the worse PC port to ever be released in the history of video games? First is the god-awful lagging regardless of the crappy graphics. Seriously, don't bother trying to make it run on your system correctly. Second, the fucked up controls. Third, the fact that my save keeps on getting deleted for who-knows what reason. Fourth, GFWL. Please trust me, don't go for GTA IV unless you have a monster gaming rig. Else, play it on a console.

Fallout New Vegas - I know it's a very popular game and highly praised, but I never could really get into it. I think I got carried away but the praises and over-expected what the game would be. (God damn overpowered assassins keep trying to kill me, I keep running out of bullets, and I have no idea where I'm supposed to be going... I think I may be the problem here...)

Dead Island - Oh man, the disappointment of realizing that the game you've bought is a forced and boring zombie killing game with terrible gameplay mechanics... I make bad decisions when buying games. :'(

Need for Speed: Undercover - Fun little racing game. "Yay, I've won a nice fucking car! Whoo!" "I just spent all of my money to customize it real nice. I'll go for a spin!" Police starts chasing me "Meh, I'm still the fastest. Damn I love police chases!" Hits spike strips "...W-what the fuck?" You don't have money to pay for the fine, so we took your beloved car. Also, go fuck yourself with a lug wrench. ...Fuck this game, I still cry every night about my lost love. I will never fall in love ever again. ;_;

I'll agree on Mountain, but that's because I didn't really look into it before I got it.
And I thought I would love Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries, but the controls were so clumsy for me I couldn't really enjoy it.
There's also The Spatials that I bought on release, it didn't have as much content as I thought it would. But they've updated it since I've played so I don't consider it a disappointment. I just need to try it again!

The Witcher series. 1-2-3 all games are overrated IMO.

To the Moon. A few friends told me how amazing and deep it was, reviews made it sound amazing, Then I played it and it was just...boring and strange. I couldnt finish it.

The Path. I watched a friend play it and it seemed like something I would LOVE. I got it in a bundle. Game felt too... pretentious. It was shallow. They didnt clarify the goals of the game (pick flowers, find items to unlock dialogue/memories).

Terrarria and Starbound. I love Minecraft, and a 2D version seemed really interesting until I played it. Just couldnt click with it.

Thief. Really wasn't as fun as I thought it would be.

Need For Speed Most Wanted (2012 version, not to be confused with the 2005 version, which I really love). I just thought I was going to have a similar experience than with the original version of most wanted, How wrong I was.
No safe houses, no garage, you can only improve your car winning races (I mean, you win X race, and get X upgrade, not money to buy and upgrade).
When I tried to return it, Sony said I had already earned an achievement, and I could not return the game. So now it's sitting in my PS3 HDD, and I race every once in a while.

Thief - Played it halfway and got really bored in the end. Felt like a humanized Dishonored game

Contrast - Too short for my taste, especially the ending part.

Deponia - Damn it what happens to Rufus at the end?