Personally there are a few games which left me very dissappointed, after hyping myself up for years in certain cases.
Divinity Original Sin: turns out I prefer more streamlined, less packed games (love Pillars of Eternity) and that coop play in a CRPG stresses me out.
Wasteland 2: I actually managed to finish this one but secretly I admit I was hoping for a better Fallout which I didn’t really get. New Vegas did the cowboy theme much better.
INSIDE: while the design was cool, it was just a ton of boring, easy puzzles in comparison to LIMBO, its predecessor.
For me it’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. After Breath of the Wild I was super hyped for a successor. When they announced they were gonna reuse the same exact game world I was a bit worried but thought it could work if they do it well.
Well here we are with like 90% of the content being reused. The gameplay is more interesting than Breath of the Wild and the dungeons are better and so is the story. But my main draw for Breath of the Wild was exploring the world. All this fun is missing in TOTK. The new parts of the world like the sky and underground are pretty bland and not quite as much fun to explore as an entirely new game world would be.
Crysis. I first played it in the mid 10s having heard it was groundbreaking, and… eh. Military shooter where white people go to africa/middleeast and have gunfights in the most boring washed out brown environments imaginable. The suit abilities were kinda cool but I’ve just played that template so many times before, it’s not fun anymore and it wasn’t fun anymore 10 years ago. It was barely fun 15 years ago.
Military shooter where white people go to africa/middleeast and have gunfights in the most boring washed out brown environments imaginable
That doesn’t sound like Crysis at all. In Crysis you fight North Korean soldiers and aliens on a tropical island. It’s far from “washed out brown environments”.
