Ramblings: Disappointment

E3, the one game convention where all the major publishers come and announce there plans for the rest of the year. That one week where trailers, gameplay videos, interviews, and games are on the line for your attention. This is where most of the shocking announcements are released. It's a lot to focus on, but once you find those few games in the crowd, you begin to wait patiently for more info of when the game is released. It could be a brand new IP or a sequel to that game you love.

SNOWBALL IN HELL

If you're not excited, you're dead to me.

After months of waiting and hours of watching info about the game it finally comes out into a resounding "this sucks" It's the disappointment you felt when watching a movie you wanted to see, that band you like releasing an album you don't like, or the TV show that hype itself up only for it to sell itself short. It's just something you would have to deal with. But what make games unique about all of this is that we are known about the project years before it's released. It's very rare for a movie to say "hey this movie is coming, not sure when though". It's almost impossible for a band to say that they are making an album only to release it years later. Like everything else though there are a few exemptions to the rule. 24, Jurassic Park IV, Arrested Development movies are announced to come out but not much else. Guns and Roses, a band I don't care for, took years for Chinese Democracy to come out. I don't know much about that album so I can't say for sure if it was a disappointment or not. Anyway, You hear about a game through a teaser trailer that tells you that a game is coming out. Then what? We are just sitting by and wait. It's like we are playing two games. The waiting game and the game itself. Sometimes the waiting game is better than the game itself.

People didn't like this one. I did

Everyone has a different game that they are disappointed from. It could be a game you like but someone else didn't. RAGE was a disappointment for me because of how much ID Software hyped up the game. It's a good looking game for sure and it's does have it's bright spots, but the overall game was a bit underwhelming. You may say that the game was one of the best games of the year. I won't sit here and judge you. It's your impressions of a game. But what about sequel to a fantastic game. Uncharted 3, which I still like a lot, is no where as good as Uncharted 2. Naughty Dog had an impossible task to follow that up. Great game, but didn't do what Uncharted 2 did.

IF IT WASN'T FOR DISAPPOINTMENT

Those was games that I felt was a slight disappointment. But what about games that was just flat out disappointing. Games that you waited for a long time for only to say "well, that wasn't worth it"? I've heard a lot of good things about Condemned: Criminal Origins and when I rented it, it felt boring to me. The combat was weak and there was hardly any what I though the game would be like; Investigations. It was mostly a first person brawler with the occasional puzzle to solve. There was makings of a great game, but it's heavy emphasis on melee made me not like this game. Same goes for Escape From Butcher Bay. Before Deus Ex: Human Revolution, I felt that first person stealth is not the way to go into making a stealth game. I never played Thief or the original Deus Ex.

Who are we to blame for this? The developers for not overlooking everything to make sure everything is perfect?  The publishers that just head rushes the developers to turn out everything quickly? What about the gamers themselves that builds up this hype in such away for the game that it's impossible for it to reach. Before Duke Nukem: Forever came out there was quite a few people saying the the hype would never match the game itself and they were right. I only played the demo and it felt very dull to me. And judging from what I've heard from people that did play it, it gets worse. The worst part is that one of the trailers that was released in 2001 looks so much better than what we got now. What happened to that game?

I WOULDN'T HAVE ANY APPOINTMENTS

Not convinced they can turn this into 2 hours

Is it possible to tell if we are going to be disappointed anyway? A movie or a game looks good, but deep down we know it's not going to work. A part of me wants to play Jurassic Park: The Game because of my blind fanboy of the series (Hey, I LIKE Jurassic Park III) but another part of me wants to stay away because I've heard that it wasn't that good. I'm actually having the same feeling towards 24: The Movie. 24 hours in the span of 2 hours? To me there are two factors into 24; Jack Bauer and Real Time. But in some strange reason I think it's going to slightly work because of the game. There is no way in hell that was in "Real Time" and it still released a pretty good story. 24: Redemption, the TV movie that bridge the gap between season 6 and season 7, was in real time. Then there are games that looks like it was going to be a disappointment, but still turned out good. I really didn't know much about Alan Wake and I was expected to be disappointing by it. It turns out though that it's, to me, one of the best games of this generation.

Disappointment comes with the territory. It's with us everyday. Whither big or small, there is that one small time a day where it comes up. Either by a TV show, a movie, a book, or even life. We just look down in disgust and go about our day never to think about it again. Til the next game announcement hypes us up again.