A lot of new games coming out this year. I'm really excited for a lot of them, but the new NFS really cought my eye. This trailers shows of all the cool features of the game - Anyway, from everything we've seen so far, the new NFS looks like it's going to be a great game. But we've been in this situation before. All the pre-release footage seems excellent, but the actual game is crap. We've seen it with Watch Dogs, SimCity, Destiny, etc. Remember the trailers for The Crew ? It seemed like it was going to be a wonderful game, but in reality it sucks. Can you mention your examples of games that seemed good, but when you played them, they actually sucked.
I'm in the exact same boat as you for the new NFS. For me, I'm going to wait until the game drops in price. We've seen it all the time with EA games, they'll drop in price by about half eventually, then a version with all the DLC will be out for $40-$50. I predict it won't be any different for the new NFS, especially since it has to be always online. Same with The Crew too.. I didn't even bother to buy it.
I was beyond hyped for Watch Dogs after seeing the E3 (2012 I think) footage, and then I got to actually play it......
Driv3r. I was pretty stoked for it. While I still love the driving segments and the difficulty, the game was pretty buggy and the out-of-car segments were hilariously bad. WWE Wrestlemania 21 for XBOX. I had it pre-ordered and was super stoked when I finally picked it up. While I finished it and everything, it was painfully generic and disappointing. Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. What a "wasteland" of potential. HAHA.
Bioshock: Infinite. The previews promised so much, but the release version was so disappointing. It wasn't all bad, of course - the atmosphere was superb, the graphics, sound, and character models/animation was great, and the action was mostly OK. But it was a real step backwards from Bioshock in some ways, Elizabeth (though well done by most NPCs in other games) wasn't nearly as revolutionary as we'd been led to believe, the gun-play wasn't as good as in Bioshock, the story started out well and quickly went downhill, and the ending was just pretentious rubbish. Offhand, I can't remember ever being more disappointed in a game.
I pay EA $5 a month so I don't need to buy their games, they go in the Vault after 6-8 months. Killzone 2 was way overdone. That E3 (06?) trailer made it look better than some PS4 games are, and it was...meh. Actually all the Killzone games have been overhyped, blatant Halo ripoffs. Aliens: Colonial Marines was so overhyped that they were sued for false advertisement. Knack, Drive Club, actually pretty much all the games Sony (and Microsoft too) announced at their system announce, pretty much. Also, unpopular opinion, but I think Destiny isn't as good as it was made out to be.
When I played Pitfall on Atari, I was wowed by the challenge that wasn't too stupidly hard or too dependent on randomness. When I played Pitfall 2, I was wowed by how big the whole world. And later got Atari 5200 because that version had extra that were not on any other console versions. So naturally I got Super Pitfall for NES with high expectation.... Biggest pile of shit that Activision released back then. It was as if Activision took a random game that had mostly cave exploration, tweaked a few things, and sold it as a Pitfall game. Is it any wonder they never actually released Super Pitfall 2? (original game Mystery of Atlantis or Atlantis no nazo). Honestly did they ever play test these game before they decided it would be released as a Pitfall game? Hint: 10 year old usually don't take drugs or smoke weed and would give a better opinion if the game was worth it or not.
