Most Over-Hyped Games

Expectation is the mother of disappointment, and that's especially true when it comes to video games. By making grandiose promises that, for one reason or another, simply couldn’t be met, the hype machine has wrecked more than a few games over the years. Here are some of the worst offenders.

[Letros]

OMG Daikatana, one of the most overhyped biggest POS's ever created.

[Hyrius]

Number 1 should be Halo.

[kasasensei]

I see you are looking for friends. rofl

[reload44]

1.Alan Wake
2.Crysis

[Red_Orange_Juice]

http://n4g.com/news/search?...

[timmyrulz]

"Number 1 should be Halo"

Look at the numbers playing multiplayer 3 years after launch, I know its cool to bash xbox games around here but there is a difference between ass licking and talking shit

[D0UbleF_]

Look at all the agrees xD

[Sitdown]

I honestly did not really know anything about the game...and just happened to pick it up by luck of the draw because the gamestop bundle made me pick three games with the purchase of an xbox....so I got that, dead or alive 3 (I believe it was the third one), and project gotham racing. It was not until Halo 2 that hyped started building because of the success of the original.

[specialguest]

I also knew nothing about Halo until it blew up in popularity after its release.

[tinybigman]

to these stupid ass articles because all they do is cause nothing but trouble. if i buy a game is because i was interesting in it and wanted to play it. not because of hype or whatever people want to believe.

i don't like halo but i am interesting in Reach because it seems a lot more interesting to me then the other 4 games in the series. and hype isn't the deciding factor for me wanting to play this one.

[jack_burt0n]

This would be top on worthless N4G articles giggedy giggedy waste of cyberspace and clicks :P

[thereapersson]

Pretty much.

The amount of duplicates, mirror articles and cut & paste journalism that gets posted around here is truly sickening...

[opoikl]

Is it that time of the week again??

[JeffGUNZ]

The difference with halo is that it actually delivers. Sure, graphically it is not a masterpiece, but the competitive multiplayer and the fun factor is outstanding.

I do agree with Too Human, man I was disappointed when I got my hands on that.

[frostypants]

No Battlecruiser 3000AD?

That game was legendary in its fail.

[mushroomwig]

Hey I totally agree with Killzone, I never liked the first game and I couldn't belive the hype it created. However the sequel I did like. ^_^

[Close_Second]

...billing Killzone as the Halo beater. To be honest it was not as good as Halo but there was no reason it could not have been. Was certainly not as polished as Halo.

Halo had a great story, best of the series thus far (not played Reach) but I have to say, Killzone 2 provides the most visceral experience of both franchises. Honestly, playing K2 you can almost taste the dust and black smoke in your mouth. Its still the best looking FPS game I have played on a console.

[thereapersson]

SONY never billed Killzone 2 as ANYTHING remotely "Halo Killing". It was the media, fanboys and other associated individuals that hyped the first game up higher than it should have been.

Honestly though, the tech and level design was ahead of its time. It was, in fact, more than the PS2 could even handle. Guerrilla Games really had a vision, and the fact that it took another console generation to really push it to its true potential is case-in-point.

[mcstorm]

Killzone 2 did look amazing but I still dont think the game play matched up to Halo's game paly.

I Got Killzone the day it came out and finished it played it online for a few weeks but it just felt like it was still missing things.

Killzone 3 looks like it may play better than KZ2 and if so will have longer legs than KZ2.

I think MW2 should be on this list yes it has sold Millions but it just did not do it for me I think BC2 was the better game and alot more fun online too.

[RememberThe357]

Of course it didn't, it was never meant to. Killzone and Halo have completely different goals when it comes to gameplay.

[-Alpha]

Killzone was definitely hyped as a Halo killer by fanboys and it was such a stupid hype train. The game is fun, but I did think it lacked many features and had lots of issues. The basic lack of a party mode for such a class based/team based game was unforgivable

[-Alpha]

Double post, oops

[darkdoom3000]

I agree. The hype following KZ1 was horrible. I did enjoy KZ1. But yeah.....
KZ2 redeemed things.

[kasasensei]

The first killzone is full of bugs. That is probably one of the reason it never reached the king. Or it was the lack of colors? :p

[mushroomwig]

Ouch, 10 disagrees.

[kasasensei]

A lot of people dont like KZ2 maybe?

[RememberThe357]

A lot of people liked Killzone 1?

I know I did. I loved that game.

[cyberwaffles]

do you like psycobylin mushrooms or something?

[kingslayer1000]

killzone no, halo yes

[Kurt Russell]

According to player base - statistically you are speaking verbal diarrhea. People will agree with you... but you're clearly waaaaaay fucking off the mark when you step into reality.

If halo was over hyped... you wouldn't need a halo killer would you?

[kasasensei]

"According to player base - statistically you are speaking verbal diarrhea."
omg, i love the way you talk. XD
bubble for you, well said.

[cyberwaffles]

blah blah blah. i guess mcdonald's cheeseburgers are better than red robin's right?

thank you for those who understand the analogy.

[Kurt Russell]

Doesn't change a thing cyberwaffles... not even your n4g e-peen, but keep trying.

Halo is popular for a reason... and it isn't happy meal implementation, it's because it is an extremely solid online shooter with a great deal of features to most console based ones... A lot more than your "Red Robin" has.

[-Alpha]

@cyber

That analogy just goes to show the elitism and intolerance of people around here. It's amazing: one guy says Halo is overrated and he gets a ton of agrees. That's cool, nothing wrong with that. But then when someone says the same thing about K2, despite the fact that it had tremendous hype, everyone acts as if he is objectively incorrect. Ur analogy is terrible. McDonalds burgers are quantity over quality. Quality suffers because of mass production. Halo isn't made with ingredients. It's made once and copied onto a disc millions of times and sold.

Just because a game has sold so much doesn't make it like a McDonald's burger. Are you saying that if it sold a lot less it would be any better?

[Megaman42xX]

People love to love Pac-Man. I think most of the time that I go to play in an arcade it winds up being Mrs. Pac-Man rather than Pac-Man. Huge difference, one is the same level over and over and the other has a few different levels.

[Close_Second]

...Pac-Man CE on Xbox Live (hope it comes to PSN) and then Pac-Mania on the Commodore Amiga. Of course the original is still a blast from time to time.

[il-mouzer]

good list, and no Halo won't be on that list, the first one at least it was a great FPS unlike Halo 3 and the later iterations of course

[darkdoom3000]

Finally a list I can agree with. It's not made to ignite nerd rage for hits.

[Venoxn4g]

but pacman??? it's classic :)

[JoeReno]

They didn't mean pacman it self, but the atari 2600 port of the arcade game.

[Jack The Lad]

HALO & GEARS

[timmyrulz]

Another basher how cute

[3sq]

Can't accept the truth? How cute.

[Lord_Doggington]

not really "another"

they're most likely the same troll

[chak_]

killzone

[Briefcase Joe]

PONG 7

[D0UbleF_]

Your article completely FAILS.

[The_Zeitgeist]

Killzone 1 was a good game. Not great but not bad. It was just good. Killzone 2 on the other hand is an absolute masterpiece. I think the people that don't like it either had totally different expectations for the game than they should have. The people that love it understand that it is not some fast paced shooter. It is a slow, tactical, methodical shooter. And anyone that says there was no innovation is dead wrong. The way multiplayer works is an innovation with the revolving match types in one game. I'm surprised more games didn't copy it.

[Lord_Doggington]

Lair and Haze should probably be on the list too.

[frostypants]

Lair wasn't a good game once they finally offered the non-motion controls to it. By then it was much too late for anyone to care, sadly.

Agree on haze, though.

[shovelbum]

Haze (another Halo killer) is definitely in the top 5 and its omission is quite glaring.

[Philoctetes]

The day I got that game was the day I learned that the world is a cold, evil place.

[Sizzon]

overhyped and overhyped... lol wtf is that, i buy the game i want. it's only video games freakin nerds.

[Kos-Mos]

Gta.

[writersblock]

After reading that I checked out the rest of their gaming articles
Yahoo actually has an excellent gaming section, who knew?

[Light Yagami]

Lair
Haze
Gengi

[Jacobite]

Any game can be overhyped if you are not into it.I tried to like Mario on the N64 & CG, great looking games played fine just done nothing to keep me playing. Quake & CS on the PC was another two, preferred UT games & TF, each to their own

[Xi]

touted as the first halo killer, it was an ugly, buggy, mess with a bad story, and even worse gameplay.

[Xristo]

the "WoW killer"....Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

I had so much hope, but it was heavily over-hyped...basically self inflicted by Paul Barnett

Guess it worked tho...sold close to a million copies (or shipped, can't remember)...then subs dwindled faster than any MMO I've ever seen...

Tier 1 is still fun tho! lol

[ChickeyCantor]

I actually liked Enter the Matrix LOL. BUT IT HAS BEEEEEN TO LOOOOOOONG.