Do long awaited games always dissapoint?

[Retro Doomer]

Newer games do disappoint 90% of the time.

But to get back to topic regardless of newer or older games we are talking about yes
when you have to wait for a game very long chances are that you have high expectations for the game and are hyping it up as you are excited till it comes out, and when you finally get it you have such a high expectation for the game that it likely will be a let down for you if it can not life up to your own hype you had.

This does not mean the game is bad though but more likely than not the waiting time just gave you unrealistic expectations about the game instead of staying grounded which of course is not something I blame anyone for as this tends to be the norm when you wait for something long enough,
the same with food or movies.

This all is of course my opinion and you are free to disagree with it.

 

[Turbo Kid]

Two main problems as I see it:

Developers never give fans what they want. We don't need another Mega Man game. We need another Legends game or another Mega Man X game. Developers always give gamers what they aren't asking for. They are so out of touch. Dino Crisis fans and Star Fox will probably be old and grey before we get another game. Instead we'll get fifty more Resident Evils and fifty more Zelda games.

Modern devs don't even understand what made classic games great as most of them have never even played them, which is why the last three Mega Man games weren't even good and every Donkey Kong Country game from Retro Studios was garbage (not to mention their newest Metroid game).

Developers and publishers today are just fucking stupid and clueless.

 

[Bacon Eater64x]

The Half-Life 3 thing is silly at this point. Valve did a documentary about Half-Life back in late 2023 where they explained exactly why there wasn't an HL Episode 3 or HL3. They wanted to make something that pushed game design and technology forward, like HL2 did, but they couldn't come up with anything. The lead writer moved on, Valve rarely creates games anymore, preferring to focus more on Steam and their hardware business, so what are people even talking about? It's just copium at this point.

Move on, dudes. It sucks to not get closure from the story, but it's been so long that even if they returned to the series (excluding HL: Alyx), it would have to be it's own, separate thing (like HL: Alyx).

I think the reason everybody expected a new Half Life is due to rampant rumormongering and speculation by "insiders"

Of course as a Smash Bros Fan, i know very well that one should not fall to "leaks" so easily, but the HL fans don't seem to know any better. Hell as a Smash Fan, the salt of the Game Awards heavily reminded me of the days of Smash reveals salt.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

In our minds, they do because the hype can never be realistically matched.

 

[iamthemilkman]

I thought Duke Nukem Forever was a perfectly fine game. I enjoyed it enough that I even bought the DLC. That said, the older version did look better. Duke Nukem Forever is one of the uglier UE3 games. George Broussard kept delaying it because of new technology, wanting it to be on the cutting edge, but the version that released paled in comparison to the version he should've released.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Team Cherry: *Pulls something of their pockets*

Now seriously, people tends to overhype games more for a sort of Dulcinea effect, as mentioned a lot already long game waits are romanticed over a backslash for bad games being rushed

 

[petran79]

Do not remind me of the various Kickstarter campaigns I funded

 

[Da Joker Da Joker Da Joker's icon]

stop awaiting for games so they become good

 

[Alarond]

No. Not always disappoint... but, some do.

When a game have more than 10 years of development... it's difficult to overcome the hype:

Metroid Prime 4 seems to be a disappointing game. I did not played it, but, from what I saw... I can't understand what the hell Retro Studios did there (for example, the desert is so mid 2000s I can't understand what the hell they were thinking). Supposedly, the Bandai Namco version was cancelled because it was disappointing (and I'm sure it was, the Bandai Namco Studios are almost dead).

Then you have some ridiculous cases, like Good and Evil 2, which basically, will never be released.

 

[dropsmegamega]

To me, as long as they are actually trying instead of just soulless cashing (like VTMB2 did recently), it's not a disappointment. Most likely it won't be as good as the original, but that's just how things are nowadays. Psychonauts 2, Baldur's Gate 3 and even more controversial ones like No More Heroes 3 all had positive points and carried some of the soul that made their series memorable.