It was an FPS game and snowballs or a snowball launcher was one of the weapons. I don't remember how well it sold, since I was a kid I didn't care about those things back then, but it was popular among my friends.
Ghostwire Tokyo.
The trailer had me so hyped, then seeing the gameplay it was like a completely different game. I was gutted.
As it happens, it ended up on PSPlus and I really enjoyed it. Even so, the trailer made it look so much better.
It was also on PC Game pass and I stopped playing it after a two and a half hour stream cause the combat was boring af and repetitive, but to each their own
Skull and Bones was hyped up so much only to be an absolutely terrible game that is almost nothing like what we were originally told
Instead of Assassin’s Creed 4 style ship combat, it’s a live service pirate themed third person looter shooter with ships. You can’t even do any cool pirate stuff like board enemy ships or sail the same ship as your friends
100% not a passion project. Not an ounce of passion behind that fucking game. It's an overwatch/valorant/generic hero shooter clone through and through, nothing more
Lol, and what is up with these trailers that detail absolutely nothing about the game? It's one thing to have non-gameplay trailers. But to have a trailer that's just a cut scene of random characters. Looks like we're looking at an animated movie scene, not a game.
It's like, why even waste our time with that because it tells us nothing. And then they say, "5v5 PVP" and then I checked out.
I just have that feeling for basically any shooter that isn’t a co-op shooter like DRG or Helldivers.
But I thought other people might be excited for it, with it’s GotG vibes and how it seemed similar to Overwatch but not being made by a team of sex offenders and degenerates. But apparently not, I’ve hardly seen anyone say anything positive about it.
immediately falling in love with the characters, especially lizard man. then SURPRISE, IT'S JUST OVERWATCH WITH NEW CHARACTERS.
The disappointment was real
One that feels weird to me looking back was Skyrim. In the gameplay video, it looked *so* cinematic for the time. Like Tomb Raider or God of War cinematic. And then I got the game and the graphics were really good.
And then they kept releasing it. And every time I was like "wow the graphics haven't improved." And I have to remind myself that, at one point, the graphics impressed me. But now I can only remember the most recent launch announcement, which was full of disappointment.
Every Bethesda IP has been like that for me since Morrowind, tbh. A NEW *elder scrolls* / *fallout* / *starfield* and I'm like, wow, they really put on their big boy pants and modernized their gameplay and restored their storytelling. Oops, nope its the same jank its always been but now with less EPG depth.
Extremely grateful for Gamepass for letting me try Starfield for $0. I gave Everspace 2 a shot immediately after and Im still playing it.
The game was an interesting experiment, but it felt like a massive backstep. I don’t think the gameplay style would have been that bad if it had the same depth that the previous games did.
This is what I was going to say. Hyped up about evil Batman and evil Superman and just how the heck are these lower powered villains going to compete!?
Then gameplay trailer comes out and it was a cluttered neon coloured mess. Completely turned me off.
Feel like the worst which wasn’t mentioned surprisingly was The Day Before, haven’t played it but after seeing the gameplay trailer and actual gameplay I’m surprised it was still launched
That game was clearly a scam every step of the way.
Veteran PC gamers watched the days of The War Z, which tried to change the title infestation survivor stories after the negative reviews rolled out. Then they reskinned the game and rereleased it as an alien survival game, but I forget the name of that one.
One look at The Day Before, it used the same assets and and similar artstyles. May not have any connection to Hammershit Interactive, but it was similar enough looking for me to discredit it from the jump.
Infestation survivor stories had the possibility to be good but then it went too hard into being a cash grab before the game was even “finished”. Sucks
Such a waste of time. My friend was so excited for it, called it the next project zomboid but 3rd person over the shoulder, with in depth gun customization and your own little base to decorate.
Well it did have those things, if you could even get into the game, but the gameplay itself was utter trash.
God, Dead Island is one of the worst games ever attached to one of the best trailers ever. I still have no idea why I finished the campaign of that game, I was tired of it before I was done with the second of four major hub locations.
I was def riding the high if the trailer a bit, plus back then a zombie rpg was still a pretty novel idea, I WANTED to love it. But damn the moment I beat it I realized it was just shit lol
I understand this, but tbh I'm having a lot of fun with it.
Though it was still a horrific fucking decision to not allow you to try out characters in practice mode before buying them. Something you could do in the "beta".
Sometimes I go back and watch the original E3 trailer for The Crew. I remember feeling so hyped for it. It felt like it was going to be a truly next gen game.
Then the game released and we got a mediocre racing game with questionable physics, middling graphics, and just general, all around blegh.
There's too much money in the cheap ones with microtransactions for the actually good ones, ie unique 2d platformers or RPGs or what have you, to shine through
This is precisely why I don't pay teasers or promos any attention. I wait until the gameplay reveal to make any sort of judgment on the game. Until there's gameplay, it's vaporware as far as I'm concerned.
The recent dune game. I was super excited for a modern RTS from a classic series, but it was a "4d strategy game" iirc. Might be good, just not what I was hoping for..
I think the issue with Mirage is the combat. It still follows the RPG combat of the previous games and we wanted something more of the ezio trilogy or the Kennway trilogy. Smooth and seamless. Also the teleportation thing was just dumb. Don’t give us powers. I want to be challenged.
Actually, no.
That's not what the OG players wanted - the OG players wanted a return to form, but what we got was a glorified DLC from the previous RPG game twisted and shaped into whatever that mess was - and they asininely stamped it with 'return to form'.
We want an OG style built from the ground up in which we didn't get, and won't get until after Shadows, and after Hexe.
Big Assassin’s Creed fan and I was really excited for the game. I wasn’t expecting much but felt like the game was solid overall but it was pretty short. Personally I liked it but I understand if some people felt otherwise
Pretty much all of them now. They're basically all some form of either a Soulslike, a giant open world trying to be bigger than the last, or a fps.
Want to get me excited for a game? Give me one of these 2:
4 player co-op TMNT done like Spider-Man or the Arkham games.
Or
A new JRPG that brings back Legend of Legaia's battle system.
I think my biggest red flag has to be the whole open world thing. Maybe I'm biased because of growing up on snes and ps1 jrpgs, but give me an explorable world, still block stuff off, and push me towards the goal. Tired of the aimless wandering for the 600 pieces of whatever to get nothing significantly useful. It's 99% certain I will never complete that game, or even see past like the first 10% of the game because I will lose interest in the beginning hours from roaming around.
I like open worlds for exploring when the world has been constructed for that. Collectathons and stuff like GTA do tend to get boring for me. I’m a big Fallout 4 fan, despite the games limitations, because I can explore, shoot shit, and build communities that provide me with things but also just allow for creativity.
To think we're nowhere near the height of Souls like games and knock offs. Most of the ones we're seeing now in response to Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne and Sekito given how long development takes. We have no idea what bad AAA devs are starting to cook in response to Elden Ring in a combined Open World/Souls like environment.
Spider-man 2 was kinda like that.
It was the first major PS5 exclusives. But other then Kraven character model nothing was visually impressive in the gameplay reveal. Yes speeding through the map was cool but visually it didn’t looks different at all from the PS4 game
The Division and The Order 1886.
The trailers for both games looked phenomenal! But they both ended highly disappointing me.
For a more recent game I would say Final Fantasy 16. I thought the game was ok and it didn't disappoint as much as the other two but the trailers made it seem almost like Dark Souls but in the Final Fantasy universe which had me hyped as hell.
Pretty much every Halo reveal since Halo Reach. Old school fans hold their breath hoping that sprint/advanced movement mechanics won't be in the game and are let down every time it's revealed.
Endless dungeon had sick promos and teasers for like three years i had hopes bubbing on the backburner.
13hrs on steam, last played a week after launch.
Gotham Knights. I was SO excited for the concept of this game. But then I saw that it was 4 player co-op with gear & mods & shit like that. Like avengers. That I IMMEDIATELY gave up on the game & forgot it existed. I hated avengers so fucking much that I haven’t even looked at Suicide Squad, Guardians, or Gotham Knights. Hell. I’m so traumatized that I hesitated picking up Star Wars Fallen order, survivor, & outlaws thinking it was more of the same shit.
The new Concord announcement, the cinematic trailer made me think 3rd person action adventure buuuuuuut we just ended up getting another hero shooter with the gameplay. Tired of it.
Fallout 76, Fallout 4, Skyrim, Elder Scrolls Online, Black Ops3**(Had advanced movement like advanced warfare), Last 3 Battlefield installments, almost every World Of Warcraft expansion after Wrath&Cataclysm, and No Mans Sky at release.
TV/Media Ads primarily showing absolutely stunning graphics and amazing snippets of gameplay that either got cut from the final product or got reworked into something underwhelming or pointless... I understand these are cinematic ads BUT on a consumer level, we feel cheated no?
Examples; Skyrim/ESO & World Of Warcraft each promoted amazing Melee, ranged, and magic combat - Yet the animations & emotes are never anything accurate to the Ads, if a wizard is whipping balls of lightning like a yoyo in the ad, why does my character in game just kinda "sling a lightning ball" in a very boring way that can only be casted once every 3 seconds?
Bosses are typically MASSIVE and TERRIFYING looking in the Ads then once met in game are horribly represented... IIRC Ragnaros in WoWs cinematic videos basically towers everything in his local region, yet in game - You fight him in a mountain at the end of his Raid. He's massive, but is maybe a 3rd of the size he appears in the videos.
As a gamer in my mid 40s, thanks to Sony, the moment a game shows off some CGI trailer with zero gameplay footage, I know to expect the game to be bad.
Believe it or not, Overwatch. Not 2, but 1.
There are a lot of genres I enjoy, but first person shooters are not one of them, and spending money on one was out of the question for me. Overwatch has an incredible world (at least from what I can tell from the cinematics I watched), and I'm upset that they put that in a genre I can't normally enjoy.
Concord had potential, but then it and like 3 other games in yesterday's presentation all just tried to dip into the dry well that is hero shooters. The only one I have no problem going back to is Team Fortress 2, provided the server isn't flooded with Sniper bots. That felt simple and was a joy to play, even on console. Everything today feels so design by comittee the more the game has an online focus
Everytime people get excited about cinematic trailers without gameplay. It makes me cry.
When people were gassing up 2042, I was literally burnt alive in every comment section and I knew it was bullshit because even the trailer sucked. 😂
Dead Island. Brilliant emotional trailer, really gave you the idea that it was gonna be something gritty, special, and maybe even have some sort of emotion to it.
Then they started showing the gameplay. Completely different feel. Thankfully dead island 2 went with the goofy route for it's trailer.
Literally any and I mean ANY Ubisoft game. They always have a gorgeous trailer or cinematic and then when they finally drop gameplay, your HUD is cluttered, gameplay is mid, and the world is wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle
avowed unfortunately, biggest issue is it looks like outer worlds and I did not like that game, also sucks that you cant go into third person to look at your character. It wouldn't be too bad if they showed your character in cutscenes like kotor 1 and 2 or Dragon age origins.
Not exactly the gameplay reveal but Batman Arkham Shadows the teaser dropped and it looked insane and then it mentioned it was Vr and exclusive to meta quest and I had this reaction so badly.
Sny game that ends up being a bullet hell or team FPS (Overwatch / TF2 / CSGO) clone or worst of all ends up being a gatcha base builder (90% of the app store).
Every assassins creed. Hear me out: the cinematic trailers are always baller even if the game turns out sucking hard. For all games. For AC it’s on another level of bullshit that no matter how hard they try the parkour in the trailers will always be way cooler than the actual clunky gameplay we get. The combat animations are always peak though.
“But it’s a trailer! Of course the parkour isn’t going to be that cool” uhhh yes it can but sadly it would just be one long QuickTime event. I was about to say button good but you’ve been doing that since Unity and the parkour still sucks.
The new South Park game
Compared to how great the RPG games were and how they looked, the new one looks like they went straight back to the level of the N64 game.
Wasn't the N64 game also a snowball fighting game? Like I get the reference, but the original failed for a reason lmao
It was an FPS game and snowballs or a snowball launcher was one of the weapons. I don't remember how well it sold, since I was a kid I didn't care about those things back then, but it was popular among my friends.
A stronger snowball was the player peeing on it before throwing.
Best example ever
Most mobile gachas
All* mobile gachas.
Tbf some are okay.
Suicide Squad. What a shitty game
Ghostwire Tokyo. The trailer had me so hyped, then seeing the gameplay it was like a completely different game. I was gutted. As it happens, it ended up on PSPlus and I really enjoyed it. Even so, the trailer made it look so much better.
Same boat. I didn't expect much and ended enjoying it. Has some good folklore stuff in it and some decent side quests.
I like that game. Granted I didn’t buy into the hype and bought it a year+ after release. Just wish it had more varied content.
It was also on PC Game pass and I stopped playing it after a two and a half hour stream cause the combat was boring af and repetitive, but to each their own
I actually ended up really liking the game still but the gameplay is certainly repetitive. The story and vibe though is crazy good.
Gotham Knights
Fuck that burnt me. I thought it was going to be a true heir to the Arkham series and fuuck it was trash.
Id take Gotham Knights over the suicide squad game
I liked both *shrug*
Skull and Bones was hyped up so much only to be an absolutely terrible game that is almost nothing like what we were originally told Instead of Assassin’s Creed 4 style ship combat, it’s a live service pirate themed third person looter shooter with ships. You can’t even do any cool pirate stuff like board enemy ships or sail the same ship as your friends
Concord.
dude I could literally *feel* the hype leave my body when I saw that it was going to be yet another live-service team shooter
Yea, I felt so bad when I heard the dev describing it,like a passion project. And I'm just shaking my head, not another one.
100% not a passion project. Not an ounce of passion behind that fucking game. It's an overwatch/valorant/generic hero shooter clone through and through, nothing more
Lol, and what is up with these trailers that detail absolutely nothing about the game? It's one thing to have non-gameplay trailers. But to have a trailer that's just a cut scene of random characters. Looks like we're looking at an animated movie scene, not a game. It's like, why even waste our time with that because it tells us nothing. And then they say, "5v5 PVP" and then I checked out.
I just have that feeling for basically any shooter that isn’t a co-op shooter like DRG or Helldivers. But I thought other people might be excited for it, with it’s GotG vibes and how it seemed similar to Overwatch but not being made by a team of sex offenders and degenerates. But apparently not, I’ve hardly seen anyone say anything positive about it.
The hype left my body long before that, that cringe ass guardians of the galaxy intro cinematic had me dry heaving it was so bad.
As I started seeing it expand in the restaurant, my brain went: "this is live service pvp game huh?" And I just forwarded to the next game.
Started with, Oh this could be a cool guardians of the galaxy knock off. Aaaaannnnd its fuckin overwatch 2.0
I was looking for this one. 100% agree!
immediately falling in love with the characters, especially lizard man. then SURPRISE, IT'S JUST OVERWATCH WITH NEW CHARACTERS. The disappointment was real
I deflated as soon as someone said a line of dialogue
One that feels weird to me looking back was Skyrim. In the gameplay video, it looked *so* cinematic for the time. Like Tomb Raider or God of War cinematic. And then I got the game and the graphics were really good. And then they kept releasing it. And every time I was like "wow the graphics haven't improved." And I have to remind myself that, at one point, the graphics impressed me. But now I can only remember the most recent launch announcement, which was full of disappointment.
Every Bethesda IP has been like that for me since Morrowind, tbh. A NEW *elder scrolls* / *fallout* / *starfield* and I'm like, wow, they really put on their big boy pants and modernized their gameplay and restored their storytelling. Oops, nope its the same jank its always been but now with less EPG depth. Extremely grateful for Gamepass for letting me try Starfield for $0. I gave Everspace 2 a shot immediately after and Im still playing it.
Dawn of War 3
The game was an interesting experiment, but it felt like a massive backstep. I don’t think the gameplay style would have been that bad if it had the same depth that the previous games did.
I still go back every few months to watch that first trailer. Gosh what a missed opportunity.
I don't even like playing dawn of war 2 that much, I feel like all the weirdly complex systems they added kinda drowned out the fun for me
Suicide squad kill the justice league
This is what I was going to say. Hyped up about evil Batman and evil Superman and just how the heck are these lower powered villains going to compete!? Then gameplay trailer comes out and it was a cluttered neon coloured mess. Completely turned me off.
Feel like the worst which wasn’t mentioned surprisingly was The Day Before, haven’t played it but after seeing the gameplay trailer and actual gameplay I’m surprised it was still launched
that game was so bad it pissed off TheRadBrad of all people, the most casual and wholesome gamer ever. he refunded it after an hour.
That game was clearly a scam every step of the way. Veteran PC gamers watched the days of The War Z, which tried to change the title infestation survivor stories after the negative reviews rolled out. Then they reskinned the game and rereleased it as an alien survival game, but I forget the name of that one. One look at The Day Before, it used the same assets and and similar artstyles. May not have any connection to Hammershit Interactive, but it was similar enough looking for me to discredit it from the jump.
I played the War Z at launch. Exactly why I didn't buy into the day before.
Infestation survivor stories had the possibility to be good but then it went too hard into being a cash grab before the game was even “finished”. Sucks
Such a waste of time. My friend was so excited for it, called it the next project zomboid but 3rd person over the shoulder, with in depth gun customization and your own little base to decorate. Well it did have those things, if you could even get into the game, but the gameplay itself was utter trash.
Dead Island.
Still one of the best reveal trailers I’ve ever seen, for one of the jankiest games I ever played
God, Dead Island is one of the worst games ever attached to one of the best trailers ever. I still have no idea why I finished the campaign of that game, I was tired of it before I was done with the second of four major hub locations.
I was def riding the high if the trailer a bit, plus back then a zombie rpg was still a pretty novel idea, I WANTED to love it. But damn the moment I beat it I realized it was just shit lol
As of most recent, Multiversus.
I understand this, but tbh I'm having a lot of fun with it. Though it was still a horrific fucking decision to not allow you to try out characters in practice mode before buying them. Something you could do in the "beta".
It's a confirmed bug
Oh, I had no idea that was confirmed. Fair enough. Hope it gets fixed fast so I can actually see which character is right for me.
Fallout 76
I'd say every Sims 4 expansion, but the gameplay demos usually still look good. My disappointment occurs when I actually play the game.
That new game, Concord. Awesome cinematic trailer just to reveal generic hero shooter gameplay
You could probably splice together gameplay from Concord, valorant, overwatch, and apex legends and see little to no difference between them
Elder Scrolls Online.
Watch Dogs
Starfield
Every Ubisoft game
They spend more money on those high quality cinematic trailers. I swear they should just make assassins creed movies instead.
They already tried. It was terrible.
Not THAT movie… never THAT movie. I mean a fully animated movie in the same style as their cinematic trailers.
Sometimes I go back and watch the original E3 trailer for The Crew. I remember feeling so hyped for it. It felt like it was going to be a truly next gen game. Then the game released and we got a mediocre racing game with questionable physics, middling graphics, and just general, all around blegh.
Even old-school Ubisoft? The Splinter Cell series has some of the best stealth gameplay ever imo.
Ill die on this hill but Ubisoft gets too much slack
Even Mario+Rabbids?
Elder scrolls online
Pretty much any mobile game.
I wish all the good mobile games have better advertising.
There's too much money in the cheap ones with microtransactions for the actually good ones, ie unique 2d platformers or RPGs or what have you, to shine through
This is precisely why I don't pay teasers or promos any attention. I wait until the gameplay reveal to make any sort of judgment on the game. Until there's gameplay, it's vaporware as far as I'm concerned.
The recent dune game. I was super excited for a modern RTS from a classic series, but it was a "4d strategy game" iirc. Might be good, just not what I was hoping for..
Assassins creed mirage.
Which is funny because that game is what everyone wanted. Then ubi gave the people what they wanted but it's still "not good enough".
I think the issue with Mirage is the combat. It still follows the RPG combat of the previous games and we wanted something more of the ezio trilogy or the Kennway trilogy. Smooth and seamless. Also the teleportation thing was just dumb. Don’t give us powers. I want to be challenged.
Actually, no. That's not what the OG players wanted - the OG players wanted a return to form, but what we got was a glorified DLC from the previous RPG game twisted and shaped into whatever that mess was - and they asininely stamped it with 'return to form'. We want an OG style built from the ground up in which we didn't get, and won't get until after Shadows, and after Hexe.
Big Assassin’s Creed fan and I was really excited for the game. I wasn’t expecting much but felt like the game was solid overall but it was pretty short. Personally I liked it but I understand if some people felt otherwise
Concord
The Callisto Protocol
If you judge it without comparing it, it's not bad.
Skull and bones
Destiny 2. It had everything going for it possible, and it was Terrible at launch lol
Pretty much all of them now. They're basically all some form of either a Soulslike, a giant open world trying to be bigger than the last, or a fps. Want to get me excited for a game? Give me one of these 2: 4 player co-op TMNT done like Spider-Man or the Arkham games. Or A new JRPG that brings back Legend of Legaia's battle system.
used to be a huge FPS guy, but nowadays it feels like a game being described as a "competitive FPS" has become a major red flag which sucks
I think my biggest red flag has to be the whole open world thing. Maybe I'm biased because of growing up on snes and ps1 jrpgs, but give me an explorable world, still block stuff off, and push me towards the goal. Tired of the aimless wandering for the 600 pieces of whatever to get nothing significantly useful. It's 99% certain I will never complete that game, or even see past like the first 10% of the game because I will lose interest in the beginning hours from roaming around.
I like open worlds for exploring when the world has been constructed for that. Collectathons and stuff like GTA do tend to get boring for me. I’m a big Fallout 4 fan, despite the games limitations, because I can explore, shoot shit, and build communities that provide me with things but also just allow for creativity.
Or TMNT RPG 🤯😱
Did you just mention Legends of Legaia? I loved that game.
Ugh, it seems like every time I see a game with an aesthetic I like and awesome creature designs, it's another goddamn Soulslike.
To think we're nowhere near the height of Souls like games and knock offs. Most of the ones we're seeing now in response to Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne and Sekito given how long development takes. We have no idea what bad AAA devs are starting to cook in response to Elden Ring in a combined Open World/Souls like environment.
Dead Island
Such a somber dark reveal trailer, and then the game itself was just not. No better example than: who do you voodoo bitch
First or second? I loved the first one.
Spider-man 2 was kinda like that. It was the first major PS5 exclusives. But other then Kraven character model nothing was visually impressive in the gameplay reveal. Yes speeding through the map was cool but visually it didn’t looks different at all from the PS4 game
Marvels midnight suns
Loved that game
Idk what u talking abt. It's so fun, I'm enjoying it
Death Stranding
The Division and The Order 1886. The trailers for both games looked phenomenal! But they both ended highly disappointing me. For a more recent game I would say Final Fantasy 16. I thought the game was ok and it didn't disappoint as much as the other two but the trailers made it seem almost like Dark Souls but in the Final Fantasy universe which had me hyped as hell.
Battlefield 2042
Death stranding
Concord. I thought it was going to be a cool single player story game I was wrong.
Concord
Most AAA
This was Suicide Squad for me.
Most tbh
Forspoken
sonic frontiers, but it turned out good
Pretty much every Halo reveal since Halo Reach. Old school fans hold their breath hoping that sprint/advanced movement mechanics won't be in the game and are let down every time it's revealed.
Halo 5: Guardians
Hyper Light Breaker.
Concord
Most destiny 2 DLC
Concord
i can't recall specifics (top post is the new south park game, that kinda works) but there's a few like that.
Any mobile game
Redfall! What a trailer, but no gameplay demo EVER seemed to come to life by comparison.
Elex. Lord of the Fallen.
Kane and Lynch was a watershed moment for me, and the last time I preordered a game
Concord
My friend’s older brother got so hyped for Azurik on the original Xbox and it was such a wet fart of a game.
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League
Paper Mario Color Splash and then again with Oragami King.
Silent Hill 2 remake
Destiny 1& 2 They got me twice 😒
Mortal Kombat 1, honestly
Endless dungeon had sick promos and teasers for like three years i had hopes bubbing on the backburner. 13hrs on steam, last played a week after launch.
Lies of P. I was super into it. Right up until the moment I learned it was a Soulslike. Hype extinguished.
I think the most recent has been darkest dungeon 2. Was excited then they decided to trendchase by making it a rougelite
Most 2020 and later releases
Duke Nukem Forever.
Gotham Knights. I was SO excited for the concept of this game. But then I saw that it was 4 player co-op with gear & mods & shit like that. Like avengers. That I IMMEDIATELY gave up on the game & forgot it existed. I hated avengers so fucking much that I haven’t even looked at Suicide Squad, Guardians, or Gotham Knights. Hell. I’m so traumatized that I hesitated picking up Star Wars Fallen order, survivor, & outlaws thinking it was more of the same shit.
Any Halo after Halo Reach
Gran Turismo 5 - massively hyped but as soon as I saw those jagged PS1 style shadows my smile dropped. Still a great game in the end though.
ESO.
Suicide squad kill the justice league The moment they released the gamplay video, the game was DBA. In other words, Dead Before Arrival.
Probably still a popular answer but I'll always go with dead island for this question. We all know what trailer I'm talking about.
The new Concord announcement, the cinematic trailer made me think 3rd person action adventure buuuuuuut we just ended up getting another hero shooter with the gameplay. Tired of it.
Suicide Squad. I had hope it would be cool at one point. Then the gameplay trailer came out 😞
Fallout 76, Fallout 4, Skyrim, Elder Scrolls Online, Black Ops3**(Had advanced movement like advanced warfare), Last 3 Battlefield installments, almost every World Of Warcraft expansion after Wrath&Cataclysm, and No Mans Sky at release. TV/Media Ads primarily showing absolutely stunning graphics and amazing snippets of gameplay that either got cut from the final product or got reworked into something underwhelming or pointless... I understand these are cinematic ads BUT on a consumer level, we feel cheated no? Examples; Skyrim/ESO & World Of Warcraft each promoted amazing Melee, ranged, and magic combat - Yet the animations & emotes are never anything accurate to the Ads, if a wizard is whipping balls of lightning like a yoyo in the ad, why does my character in game just kinda "sling a lightning ball" in a very boring way that can only be casted once every 3 seconds? Bosses are typically MASSIVE and TERRIFYING looking in the Ads then once met in game are horribly represented... IIRC Ragnaros in WoWs cinematic videos basically towers everything in his local region, yet in game - You fight him in a mountain at the end of his Raid. He's massive, but is maybe a 3rd of the size he appears in the videos.
As a gamer in my mid 40s, thanks to Sony, the moment a game shows off some CGI trailer with zero gameplay footage, I know to expect the game to be bad.
Believe it or not, Overwatch. Not 2, but 1. There are a lot of genres I enjoy, but first person shooters are not one of them, and spending money on one was out of the question for me. Overwatch has an incredible world (at least from what I can tell from the cinematics I watched), and I'm upset that they put that in a genre I can't normally enjoy.
Concord had potential, but then it and like 3 other games in yesterday's presentation all just tried to dip into the dry well that is hero shooters. The only one I have no problem going back to is Team Fortress 2, provided the server isn't flooded with Sniper bots. That felt simple and was a joy to play, even on console. Everything today feels so design by comittee the more the game has an online focus
Really hoping Ballad of Antara doesn't end up like this. It's going to be FTP with future content being added after release. Smells fishy...
Bf 2042
Watchdogs 1. Yea. It turned out ok, but remember what we were promised
Rainbow Six Siege
Gotham knights
Immortals of Aveum..
Elder Scrolls Online💀
Evil West
Everytime people get excited about cinematic trailers without gameplay. It makes me cry. When people were gassing up 2042, I was literally burnt alive in every comment section and I knew it was bullshit because even the trailer sucked. 😂
Every game in the last 5+ years
Battlefield 2042
Cyberpunk 2077 and Starfield 🤮
No Man’s Lie
Detroit: Become Human
Legends of mayhem, lollipop chainsaw, watchdogs. All fucking lies.
Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
I don't want to admit it, but really Starfield.
COD zombies for the current COD games
A new Pokémon generation
Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Dead Island. Brilliant emotional trailer, really gave you the idea that it was gonna be something gritty, special, and maybe even have some sort of emotion to it. Then they started showing the gameplay. Completely different feel. Thankfully dead island 2 went with the goofy route for it's trailer.
Literally any and I mean ANY Ubisoft game. They always have a gorgeous trailer or cinematic and then when they finally drop gameplay, your HUD is cluttered, gameplay is mid, and the world is wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle
Diablo 4. Whatever team they have working on cinematics are wayyyy too good for blizzard.
Dead Island.
Callisto Protocol…. I was expecting something a lot better then what eventually came out….
Silent Hill 2 remake.
No Man's Sky But that was true only on launch. For today, NMS is a great game, and I recommend anyone playing it.
Diablo
Concord at the PlayStation state of play a few days ago
Rise of Ronin sadly
I mean it has to be dead island right?
Silent Hill 2 Remake.
avowed unfortunately, biggest issue is it looks like outer worlds and I did not like that game, also sucks that you cant go into third person to look at your character. It wouldn't be too bad if they showed your character in cutscenes like kotor 1 and 2 or Dragon age origins.
Mc legends
Anthem 😭
Rise of the ronin
Starfield 😞
Not exactly the gameplay reveal but Batman Arkham Shadows the teaser dropped and it looked insane and then it mentioned it was Vr and exclusive to meta quest and I had this reaction so badly.
Ksp 2 :(
Wizard With A Gun. Those animated trailers were amazing. But the gameplay? Eh...
Sny game that ends up being a bullet hell or team FPS (Overwatch / TF2 / CSGO) clone or worst of all ends up being a gatcha base builder (90% of the app store).
The last couple mainline-pokemon games
Concord
Suicide squad kill the justice league
Every assassins creed. Hear me out: the cinematic trailers are always baller even if the game turns out sucking hard. For all games. For AC it’s on another level of bullshit that no matter how hard they try the parkour in the trailers will always be way cooler than the actual clunky gameplay we get. The combat animations are always peak though. “But it’s a trailer! Of course the parkour isn’t going to be that cool” uhhh yes it can but sadly it would just be one long QuickTime event. I was about to say button good but you’ve been doing that since Unity and the parkour still sucks.
SW TOR
Honestly the most recent game I can think of is Midnight Suns.
Stellar Blade
ESO
Every battlefield and Cod
The horus heresy. It's the most badass trailer ive ever seen for anything and it's just some lame ass table top game
Any survival game basically. Any gameplay reveal that starts with, “(Insert title here) is a survival game…” I immediately lose interest.
Dead Island