When Games Don’t Meet Expectations
By Shawn on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 at 3:44 PM PST In Bioware, Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Games
What started out to be a review of Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer ends up to be an commentary on what happens when games don’t meet or beat our expectations of them.
Almost everyone has gone through the scenario at one time or another. You have a game you’ve been looking forward to since it was announced. You’re geared up by all the hype leading up to the release. Then, when you finally get your hands on the title, it falls flat, fails to resonate with you or just doesn’t hold your interest.
Explore this pitfall of many gamers in “Side Quest: Time Out or Burn Out?” on RPGWatch.
This is one reason I hate the internet, back before it you really didn’t know much about a game until it was almost released. Now days developers tell you all the bad ass stuff their going to add then don’t include 10 percent of what they said they would put in the game. I think star trek legacy is a good example of this.
I don’t have much trouble with this because I only buy games after I play a demo for them.
@Mustikos:
Dont forget Battlefield 2.
Perfect Dark Zero is the epitome of this, for me personally. I was the such a huge fan of the original game and then Zero comes out and shattered my love.
This article should be renamed “Halo 2″
The only thing disappointing about Halo 2, to me, was the poor execution on the story late in the game (as well as the last encounter, which I won’t spoil despite it being 3 1/2 years since release now if memory serves me right).
Frontlines Fuel of War is similar during its beta run it was fine but when it hit the shops the game was unplayable to many people turns out we have to turn off shadows and foilage to get it working but for me the keyboard doesn’t work in the game anymore, i’m still waiting for a patch
@ xmg0:
More like “Halo 3″
like crysis it sucked and cost to much and once you tryed the game it is to late to return and get your money back.People should be able to return a game the next day after buying it if it sucks.
@ linda
right after they’re done copying it ?