[General Discussion] RPG hype getting the better of you

If its one thing about games in general that is becoming more common place especially in this day and age is that a lot of games tend to be built around their own hype or even to a certain point the hype that particular fans have toward a certain game or game genre in particular.

With so much access to information about games before they're even made it is very easy to build hype upon a game especially if it has such a strong fan base.

From my point of view one thing that I have learned especially over the last few years, is not to allow myself to have un-realistic high expectations toward a game especially if it is one of my favourite games or series of games.

I find if I allow myself to get involved with the hype of a certain game, then I feel that I am setting unrealistic high expectations toward games in general, and more often than not I end up getting dissappointed.

This has happened with some of the rpg's I've played as well. I would share some of games that I was hyped about but ended up getting dissapointed at the end.

Xenosaga Episode II (Jenseits von Gut und Bose): Xenogears is my favourite game of all time. When they first had released Xenosaga even though I know its not a direct prequel but there are some slight similarities, I was obviously excited but I did not know anything about the game beforehand. I'll be honest if it didn't have the word Xeno in it, I probably would of never picked it up. I didn't want to go into this game thinking it was like Xenogears completely, so I kept an open mind and when I played the first one I enjoyed it a lot. When I had heard that they were maming a sequel, thats when I got really hyped up about it since they did the first one so well from my opinion.

Xenosaga Episode II came out, and I even had the game pre-ordered for the longest time because I was so excited about it. I thought they probably weren't going to change much, to be honest the story for Xenosaga Episode II was still pretty good but in my eyes everything else sucked. The first thing I noticed is that they changed the majority of the voice cast, I thought the voice cast from the first game was practically flawless especially chaos's voice. I was not a fan of the armour break battle system. I found it so incredibly tedious. I honestly thought the team up moves were a little silly, I tried really hard to enjoy this game, and if it wasn't for the story I probably wouldn't of finished it.

Final Fantasy VIII: With how good Final Fantasy VII was even though it doesn't hold much of a candle to Final Fantasy VI; I really had high expectations for VIII. Especially after seeing a trailer for the game they had definetely improved with the graphics and I thought with how well they did with VII they could make more positive advances with VIII. Boy was I wrong, all this game in my eyes is eye candy and thats about it. Within playing about 1 hour and a half into this game, I knew that angsty emo teens would jump all over this game. Drawing magic was tedious and annoying. The cast is like a fantasy version of The Breakfast Club. I got a friend back home who thinks this is the greatest game ever made, and she consistently writes squall and irvine gay fanfics all the time.

I know different people are going to have different opinions toward certain games because as much as we all like rpgs we do have our unique individual taste.

So what I would like to ask the Gamingforce Community is have you ever allowed yourself to be hyped up for specific rpg's only to be dissappointed by the end product.

Jam it back in, in the dark.