Blog:4 dissapointing/crappy overhyped games

In my opinion Hype is our biggest enemy as consumers, it plays with our excitement, allowing irresponsible companies to sell us products of a lower quality than the promised, of course thats not always the reason of not fulfilling promises, but is many times a big factor, it doesnt help that pseudo journos are there to help publishers in their deception, helping them to screw consumers with inflated scores (is not always the case of course), thats what i wanna write in this blog, about the games that did not deliver the promises, im gonna write about both dissapointing games (in no particular order) that can be still considered decent and downright awful games that completely failed ,well lets start

10 Fallout 76: Fallout 76 is the laughting stock of the gaming industry, and rightly so, Bethesda instead of fixing it has only make it even worst since it released in 2018, adding things like fallout fuck you first (a $100 subscription for basic stuff to a game that is terrible in the first place, and it was laucnhed in a broken state ), pay to win microtransactions and more, everyime this game is patched they fix something but they introduce another bug This game coudnt get more lazier even if tried, from the begining everyone realised that the game was just a crappy asset flip of Fallout 4 in a broken state (thanks in a big part to the fosile of a game engine they used), and outside the game itself the situation isnt better as Bethesda has lied constantly, or not delivering in promises, also the idiots of bethesda had been issuing bans constantly, most notable the ban of the creator of Map 76 who was just trying to help Bethesda fix the game. This game has destroyed a big part of Bethesda's reputation, and makes everyone worried for their future games like Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6 as they are gonna use the same Obsolete engine that is in part to blame for the broken state of the game, so buyers beware

09 Pokemon Sword and shield: this was suppose to be the big jump of Pokemon after beign relegated for years to portable consoles, people expected more than what they delivered, and let to one of the biggest divisions of a fanbase in a long time, first with the announcement that the National Dex would not return caused an enormous controversy, but the biggest mess came by far with the release of the game, where it was discoverd that more than half of the Pokemon were cut from the game leaving the total in only 400 from the over 850 that existed, not only that but over a 100 moves were also cut, in adition to Z moves and Mega evolutions, of course that wouldnt be so bad if Gamefreak hadnt open their mouth to say lies, they stated that they were going to create everything from scratch ( models and animations) which was found by dataminers wasnt the case, as the models were the same as the ones used in Sun and Moon for 3DS, this let to the the hashtag #GameFreaklied and an even bigger division in the fanbase, and thats not counting the other problems like the insanely low difficulty, the fact that many things visually still work like in the 3DS games, lack of endgame content the mediocre framerate and the fact that trading and other functions are locked behind the Switch online payment, on top that it has less content than the previous entries yet due to beign a Nintendo Switch game is more expensive than the 3DS games, the expectatives of many fans werent made. That beign said the game can still be fun and is a decent Pokemon game, the problem is that it fails as a sequel as it lacks content and mechanics new to the series, if anything feels like an step backwards from the Sixth and Seven gen games, overall a big stain on Gamefreaks legacy, hopefully thay can recover from it in the future.

08 Destiny: Destiny promised a lot, basically a combination between Borderlands 2 and Halo by the creators of the later, so much was beign teased in those trailers, great gameplay an amazing story, badass loot, gorgeus graphics, and a lot of content, then release date came and the dissapoinment was shocking, simply shocking. The story was dreadful, the world building was beyond lacking (downright insulting with the cards that you need to go to the Bungie website to read and get any decent detail on the story and world) and the writing was abysmal making the campaign unsatisfying, and while the Gunplay and combat was good (even if a bit lacking) and the graphics and sound were amazing, there were som huge problems with gameplay mainly the loot system beign completely random frustrating people beyond believe and ruining the purpuse of a looter shooter, also many of the promised places to explore didnt make it into the game. The crappy practices of Activision didnt help pushing the annoying expansion pass model that segregated players that couldnt buy it splitting the comunity and tuining it worst yet 2 of this expansions were found as on disc dlc, yeah the cherry on top of the shit sundae It wasnt until the Taken king expansion that the game became decent, fixing many of the problems, but still the game needed a lot of stuff that never came since the 4th expansion didnt do too much for the game and late Destiny 2 came and felt very similar to the first just a little bit better but adding worst practices like microtransactions (which were also added to the first destiny), Actvision continue to screw the game with awful practices, however, even considering the hacks of Actvision, it feels that Bungie isnt as great as they used to be, and there are many theories of what happened behind the scenes, but we will probably never know. Now Bungie got rid of Activision, so Destiny 2 might have a chance, but considering that they accepted money from Tencent this i wouldnt hold my hopes.

07 Watch Dogs: Watch Dogs was definetely one of the most highly anticipated games of all time, and it should be an smash hit, however instead it became alongside Destiny the symbols of how 2014 was an awful year for gaming, in the release we learned that the beautiful graphics in the trailer were downgraded incredibly badly, so it wasnt anything like what was shown to us, so next gen my ass. But besides the titanic downgrade, there were a lot of other problems; the meh story, the terrible main character, the horrendous driving controls, the underused mechanics that felt pointless, the awful mission structure, and that the hacking wasnt that impressive. Dataminers also found in the Pc version (Which sucked by the way) textures that made the game look just like that E3 presentation years ago, somewhat like self sabotaging their game. Also dont forget the special edition mess and the Wii u port without dlc. The bad tast of this game leaved a really bad taste in the mouth and it affected the sales of Watch Dogs 2 despite beign a great improvement over the original, a new Watch Dogs is coming in the future so lets see if it is good or end on this wikia like the first.

The sad thing is that this topic can go for a long time i plan of course more blog entries for overhyped trash so see you later

