man a few years ago I was so height for
brink it had free running and these cool
character designs and character creation
system and awesome shooting mechanics
and team-based gameplay and it was crap
it was not that good
totally mediocre and there's tons of
games out there like that whether they
were actually really bad or we as gamers
if we hyped them up like way more than
they really deserved we need to count
them down so we're here before we get
started I'm trying to get six likes
that's for every six out of ten that
these games got hey i'm sean force
protects top ten things it's alt number
ten
it's obvious that expectation has a lot
to do with the games we put on this list
in 2012 our childhood fantasies of
seeing Street Fighter versus Mortal
Kombat characters what finally not come
to fruition with the release of Street
Fighter cross Tekken which will do just
fine I guess or it won't the marriage of
the first and third most important
fighting game franchises resulted in a
broken pay2win juggler that was just men
with completed characters not included
on the disc and a player base that
ultimately ended up saying it well go
back and keep playing some Street
Fighter 4 there's a reason this was only
an Evo for one year number 9 I am
getting on my soapbox right now I called
this [ __ ] from the very first trailer
the second I saw the debut teaser with
those people in the carriage I looked at
Sam next I'm in the office and I said o
werewolves I betcha
and there were werewolves then there was
the debut gameplay trailer where I was
like hey this is just a cutscene with a
reticle on it and it was counted is the
game that would show what the ps4 could
really do we ended up being treated to
an afternoon long game that basically
boiled down to a trailer for its sequels
which let's be real they're never gonna
happen but its biggest sacrilege it's
ending I don't even care about the
spoilers I'm just gonna show it to you
right now really that's it come on man
number 8
admittedly I'm not the hugest
elderscrolls fan I mean I play the hell
out of oblivion and Skyrim and my
knowledge only goes so far and as a more
hardcore fan I couldn't imagine hearing
the news that you'd now get to
experienced Tamriel with your friends
and what do we get
pretty much everything we've experienced
from other mmo's within Elder Scrolls
theme Shane I think this is a pretty
huge lesson in calming our own
expectations because I mean do you think
there's any way this game could have
really lived up to what we wanted I mean
really lived up to the hype I guess
we'll never know
number seven okay I'm kind of getting
movie softer break here just having one
of their recent issue riddle titles on
this top 10 between watchdogs Assassin's
Creed unity and the division the latter
really does encapsulate every topic we'd
hit if we were to discuss all three of
these titles it's another Ruby saw at e3
trailer that shows way better visuals
and details than the final product it
had nothing really to do except to shoot
guys with flamethrowers or shoot guys
with guns or shoot bigger guys with
flamethrowers and bigger guys with guns
oh I'm not even going to go into the
dark zone and how broken that [ __ ] is
that's not even more touching
playtesting what a help there guys maybe
next time number six
it was John Romero's first solo endeavor
after do the marketing behind daikatana
advertise that John Romero would make
you his Beach when you market something
like that
you better not slip up you better bring
on debut daya katana was tainted by
everyone old man skins Thomas was
telling me about how it was one of the
first times gamers were so mad they
wouldn't play it we didn't have these
little boxes of 140 characters the
kitchen moan about video games
we didn't say oh we're not gonna play
that it may have been an average game
but [ __ ] that we actually didn't buy it
in huge parts due to its cocky demeanor
it just goes to show that too much
attitude and marketing can really turn
off consumers I need my pills daikatana
may not have been that bad of a game but
we stood up in one voice and said really
John Romero we gonna make you our [ __ ]
with our wallets number 5
the videogame promised it's almost
political really a figurehead emerges
with bright new ideas he says I'll give
you the world I'll make a fable game and
sequels with this and this in this
Anderson is another's antennas I'll make
a game about a cube and only one person
will open it what's inside who gives a
[ __ ] Pete just keep on telling us about
how you made the first fable which was
ok but it wasn't like half of what you
promised and then appear on more and
more face-to-face interviews with Geoff
Keeley Peter Molyneux is famous for not
living up to his own expectations but
every time he has a new concept people
starts lobbing all over his dick ok
before you get on your high horse and
say but Shawn he made black and white he
did like 15 years ago and it was good
but that doesn't mask the fact that
developers might at times hype their own
ideas before making a game and no one
wins in that situation so keep it chill
Pete I'm sure you'll make something that
lives up to your own dreams eventually
well you're still a hell of a lot better
at making games and I am so just do
whatever the [ __ ] you want I don't care
we may who knows start another
experiment even more intriguing thank
you very much ok a fun experiment for
just one second
close your eyes well don't close them
keep watching the video pretend to close
your eyes imagine you're 11 years old
video games aren't what they are today
you just saw Star Wars The Force awakens
it was damn good right it's the
highest-grossing movie of all time and
now at Christmas mom and dad if they
have a divorce yet bought you Star Wars
The Force awakens the videogame then you
put it into your Atari 2600 and it is a
piece of doo-doo damn it [ __ ] helmet
down would you be
welcome to 1982 number three fifteen
years do you know how long that is
that's over half Molloy
that's like two console generations
that's more than old enough to be forced
into a marriage in some countries
that's how long Duke Nukem Forever was
hyped and you know what it wasn't that
bad of a game hold on don't hurt me
unfortunately we on the internet love to
collectively [ __ ] on stuff but besides
tiny tech issues let's take a long look
at Duke forever I mean it's everything
we'd want in a Duke Nukem game strafing
turds big titties
schoolgirls blowing each other stolen
references from they live and
beer-drinking oh wait what's that it's
been 15 years since the last Duke game
and now we're like grown up now some of
us are like 30 and we have kids and that
stuff's just not funny to us anymore huh
go figure
oh yeah number two this one is person
while not in development hell as long as
Duke Nukem Forever aliens colonial
Marines had something way more important
to live up to legacy
gearbox and whoever the hell they ended
up getting to make it had such a
standard to live up to they promised
authenticity in the weapons and the
Xenomorphs in the sound and the
soundtrack and it really boiled down to
it just not being good the multiplayer
had some neat ideas but otherwise it was
complete trash why are the aliens
attacking me like dogs I've only seen
aliens like 17 dozen times but don't
they like sneak around and stuff where's
the horror where's the tension the
lovable characters sure at least it
ended up looking like a crappy aliens
game but we
III trailers that showed us something
this awesome and this tints and all the
while it was trying to hold itself to
the standard of one of if not the
greatest science fiction film of all
time when you're gonna make a game for
this fanbase you better not take any
shortcuts and they [ __ ] did just that
and it sucks how many fingers am i
holding up he's fine it's number one
hikes for almost ten years by
prospective fanboys and developers
Silicon Knights - human in theory was
full of cool ideas it really was Norse
mythological figures as cybernetically
enhanced humans dude that's freaking
sweet it was going to be the start of an
awesome microsoft exclusive trilogy it
was going to lead the charge and satisfy
all of our needs it was going to be a
revolution the light the hope the
everything
head of Silicon Knights Dennis Dayak
bitched at reviewers who gave it a low
score his studio got sued by epic for
not paying for the Unreal Engine the
company got completely annihilated and
all copies of too human were pulled from
stores even digitally but hey everybody
there's hope if you want a silver lining
to this tragedy you can find solace in
the fact that copies are now extremely
hard to find and if you are lucky enough
to find one they are ridiculously
expensive making it a near-impossible
collector's item
happy hunting