2012 the year of gaming disapointments, or are gamers expectations too high?

[Kresnik]

I don't mean to go against what you've said here, but:

1) I haven't played it myself, but everyone I know who has said that they really enjoyed the game itself, just hated the ending/ last 10 minutes. I know there's been a huge uproar about it and it is a disappointment, but it seems to have been blown out of proportion.

3) Other than the fact that it strays a little far from the original Max Payne design, I haven't read that many complaints about this game?

5) Given the funding and time constraints, I don't know what people were expecting from this game. It's a let down, sure, but nothing too major.

6) I don't know why ANYONE had hopes for this game. A new Syndicate game was never going to be in line with the originals, everyone knew that as soon as EA acquired Bullfrog, let alone 17 years later with a new company at the helm, so I'm not sure why people were getting their hopes up.

7) Slant Six, does anything else need to have been said? Not sure why people would've got hyped about this, Resi 6 is the big one.

8) Were people expecting it to be an amazing Star Wars experience? Pretty much every preview I read demonstrated that it was just a collection of Kinect mini-games, why were people expecting more?

So perhaps there have been a lot of disappointing games, yes, but I don't think they've necessarily been 'underwhelming' because there shouldn't have been great expectations for them in the first place!