The year 2016 brought a lot of games that are surely going down the hall of fame. However, with every good comes bad. In this case, 2016 also brought a lot of titles that leave nothing much to be desired. What's worse is that there are games that failed to deliver amidst the hype before launch. Here are the three most overhyped games that turned out to be disappointing of the year.
No Man's Sky
Can anyone say "overhyped" without No Man's Sky? This title is perhaps the biggest disappointment of 2016. Its misleading ads pre-launch even escalated to court, but they were eventually cleared of that. Its promise of endless adventure with procedurally-generated planets has earned the game a massive following even before it was released.
However, those fans were also massively disappointed when No Man's Sky finally came out. I admit that the game isn't that all bad, especially with the recent Foundation update. But the lies the devs told us are not hard to forget.
It may be hard to regain the trust of consumers when you're already branded as a waste of money, but I am keeping optimistic about its future. If Hello Games manages to turn it into the game we wanted in the first place, then we can expect something great for the future of the gaming community.
Mirror's Edge: Catalyst
Mirror's Edge: Catalyst is sort of a reboot of the original, which is considered a cult classic nowadays. Surely, Mirror's Edge had many flaws that EA tried to fix with the second installment.
It would not have gained the overhyped status if players did not expect too much from DICE. Making it an open world switched things up a little, but ultimately did not serve to portray what EA had intended.
Per the words of Gaming Bolt, the flaws of the original game that they should have fixed were only highlighted in Mirror's Edge: Catalyst. What made the title exciting and original were disregarded, making the reboot a much more disappointing game.
Mafia 3
Don't deny it - the first two Mafia games were great, which is why Mafia 3 was such a big letdown. There's so much that 2K Games could have done in the 60's version of New Orleans, named New Bordeaux in the game. The open world could have also opened a whole lot of opportunities, but the ones we got were rather repetitive.
How open world titles could run out of ideas is a mystery to me, especially when Mafia 2 did okay with it. Is that why we got less what we hoped for? The developers simply ran out of brain juice?
So those are the three most disappointing games so far. We are now in December, but keep in mind 2016 isn't finished yet. I haven't yet played The Last Guardian and Dead Rising 4, which have also been subjects of much hype in the past few months. What do you think of these titles? Did you get what you expected?
