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Personally there are a few games which left me very dissappointed, after hyping myself up for years in certain cases.

Divinity Original Sin: turns out I prefer more streamlined, less packed games (love Pillars of Eternity) and that coop play in a CRPG stresses me out.

Wasteland 2: I actually managed to finish this one but secretly I admit I was hoping for a better Fallout which I didn't really get. New Vegas did the cowboy theme much better.

INSIDE: while the design was cool, it was just a ton of boring, easy puzzles in comparison to LIMBO, its predecessor.

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never understood the Crisis hype, or the "Can it play Crysis" memes of the 2010s. The game was dumb.

[–] lordriffington@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The "Can it run Crysis" thing was purely about the fact that it was one of (if not the most) resource-intensive games out at the time. I remember it being a big jump in terms of both visual quality and the requirements to run it well.

[–] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I remember in the early 00's people saying the same thing about rendering Balmorra with a double-digit framerate.