I really hope Skyrim is going to be amazing....I loved Morrowind and Oblivion.....I think I played 400+ hours of Oblivion alone.... My hype meter was pushing the limits for Skyrim, for some I am less excited..... I was pumped up for Rage and it seem like its average at best I thought Rage was going to be epic with Carmack leading the development/Programming.....

I hope Skyrim is what I envision...... I will try and keep my cool and not get to hyped..... because Rage seems like a let down....

name one game you were pumped up for and the when it came out it was not what you were expecting...and you were let down...

lol Spore. If you watch some of the early development videos it wasnt so cartoony, more vicious life simulator. THAT GAME WAS CRAP.

Grand Theft Auto 4.... i was jumping about like a pixie on drugs the day of release. Got home...played an hour and then :sadvaultboy:

I was pretty hyped for Elemental: War of Magic

Welcome to the club.

I will be modding this game to build a following, and a portfolio so that I can get hired at BGS after college. It would be my dream job.

To me Skyrim is more than just an incredible game. It's a window into the future and the career that I've always wanted.


For me the dissapointment is definitly Battlefield 3. I know, it's in Beta, but ignoring all the bugs and people in it, the actual gameplay mechanics have changed so much that it's another generic market shooter like COD or MOH.

Really?? I love Gta 4!
I dont have a letdown game but a game that went above and far beyond expectations was Dead Island.
@battlefield 3 beta guy.
I know right! Its so much more fast paced and COD like.
The fact that its a small map with no vehicles doesnt help...

Same here! I was like what the hell is wrong with this game! My hype for oblivion was high and when I played Oblivion I was a little left of heaven!

Oblivion, don'd get me wrong I loved Oblivion, but i was expecting better than Morrowind not shinier and worse than Morrowind

I agree, although at first I thought Dead Island was gonna be complete [censored], although so far I stand corrected, it can be very fun. But a game that has let me down? Every game I've been hyped for besides Minecraft. I would jump around and just think about how awesome the game will be, and then the map is completely different, the encounters are different, the story is different, and in general it feels like I'm playing a wrong game.

It was...

Oblivion. The let down came half-way through the game when I realised that the level scaling system was a slap in the face.

I did gain back some appreciation by learning to cap my characters at levels 10-15, but it never cured the trauma.

Skyrim is showing promise though....

TES games are always amazing. There is so much "wasted content" included in the games. Content that most players don't even see. Very high replay value (almost infinite with mods).

Skyrim looks rugged so YOU must be happy about that? I hear it has a kind of morrowind feel to it......

Oblivion was better.

thankyou for being realistic
the game magizines are what i blame the most

i think they lead you to imagine wonderfull things that simply arent true.

just like some one telling you about eating a wonderfull food of some type ... your imagination is FAR stronger then what the real thing actually is ..
trying to stay grounded in realistic expectations is really hard when the magizines articles are misleading ... but ...
i mean ... we dont have much else to go on ...
we do have the people who played hands on at the demo .. but even that is misleading because your not that person.
they may have loved the way something played or looked and your impresion after playing the same exact demo was totaly different
love is fickle ... allways misleading in some way
our imagination of what could happen in a dark alley is FAR worse then anything an enemy could do to us

Skyrim will be legendary. It will forever be remembered through the annals of time as the greatest of all time.

I hate to admit it i got two worlds thinking ah great another morrrowind/oblivion like game

and it wasnt horrible but i was let down and i havent tried two worlds two because of that even tho im tempted to try it while waiting for skyrim

off topic but the beta for battlefield 3 really ive had alot of fun with it and i used to hate rush mode ive only played conquest from the start of 1942

i have been playing with my friends tho and i think that makes a big difference and im a big fan battlefield is the reason i even like shooters in the first place

Duke Nukem Forever was my biggest let down. I wanted it to be amazing, I was so pumped, and when I finally played it, I got a cheap Halo clone, where Duke could only hold two weapons, terrible physics, a storyline that was both offensive and boring at the same time, Duke quoting internet memes, and just an overall bad game. Bah!

How is RAGE a letdown?

its comments like this one that proove my point.
you simply have no idea what this game will be like .. because you have never played it.
so to claim it will be "legendary", and as you say "It will forever be remembered through the annals of time as the greatest of all time." is what i concider a falsehood.

I have the upmost faith in Bethesda :thumbsup:
I just started a new character in Oblivion today because I can't stop thinking about Skyrim lol so I thought that this would kind of help keep my mind distracted for awhile

Hyperbole my friend. We can't know until we play it, and for it to be the greatest it would have to beat a hell of a lot of quality games.

i often have to remind myself that there are people that are infactuated with todd howard and believe he is beyond human ...
and some of those people are here on these forums ... they try to make it imposible for you to express your honest opinion without cutting your words up, and making you shy away from giving your honest complaints.

Well I have read that the story is terrible..people can finish it under 10 hours...the enemy AI is great but stays the same throughout, its not very big or opened...some have said that the end was really terrible .. wonder why though....

That's a shame. I love COD, but games definitely need to build on and maintain what originally makes them popular and in many cases sequals tend to ignore it and stray from it.

COD is great for its "die hard" style action arcade gameplay, and when they tried to add vehicles in those two installments it ended up hurting the game badly. I guess they thought "other war games have vehicles, we should too" and it got in the way of what makes COD fun and makes it the best arcade style shooter out there.

BF3 is fun because the gameplay is a bit slower, but the battles feel more epic and real and there is much more strategy to it with the heavy emphasis on vehicles. If what you say is true, that is a shame too. I have seen vids and I was dissapointed in the lack of destructive environments. Nothing was more fun than trying to defend a house in BC2 when it was getting blown apart by tanks.

Likewise, Minecraft became popular because of its sandbox nature and the fact that you could make anything you could dream of. Now it looks like they are taking it in a completely different direction. All the 13 year olds don't realize it and cry out with joy when they hear "adventure update" but I know that if the game goes in that direction, with leveling up and exploring, it will be like a completely lame version of something like TES. Minecraft didn't get popular because of its potential as an RPG, it got popular because you can build and in my opinion the developers need to be adding more tools for people to be creative with like pistons.

If I want hardcoe action, I play COD. If I want strategic, huge battles with vehicles and destruction, I play BF. If I want to play an awesome RPG, I will play TES. If I want to be creative and make awesome circuits, I play Minecraft. When those games try to do what one of the other ones has already done to perfection, they wont do it as well and it will get in the way of what originally made it attractive.

So true people havent played Skyrim and yet claim its the best game ever? :cryvaultboy: