10 Hotly-Anticipated Video Games That Were Abandoned After Launch
Remember how much of The Division you were going to play?
Hype is becoming about as disastrous to video games as hardware faults, bugs or glitches. Being a nebulous concept attached to general excitement and fuelled by amped-up advertising, buzzwords and over-promising trailers, there is a way to whip up a consumer base into a stupor and capitalise on it in the right way, but man if that isn't seen on the rarest of occasions.
Think back on the generation so far - which games were hyped up and actually managed to deliver on expectations?
Breath of the Wild perhaps? Horizon Zero Dawn? Chances are your favourite titles from the last few years either came out of nowhere or confidently surprised you, not needing to 'lay the groundwork' with platitudes and baseless statements.
Because come on, how many times have we heard that a game is "a new way to play"? That it's "going to change everything", or that its mechanics are "truly innovative"?
Clearly such things only set developers up for a fall, as the following examples prove that if hype equals ironclad expectations, most games will find it impossible to meet them.