So, I have realized, as the years have passed, that I'm pretty seldom disappointed by video games any more. It's mostly because I pretty much never play any new releases 'cept for the annual FIFA edition (aswell as Dynasty Warriors, before KOEI got all lazy and dumb); but there's also the fact that I'm usually forewarned about a game being crappy by reviews, the lot of you, crazy old ladies on the street etc.
It's not to say it never happens, I usually avoid reading about games that I'll want to play no matter what and I still haven't fully recovered from just how bad Suikoden IV and Tierkreis were. Ted having an argument with a fucking ship can only make up for so much. Still, that was a decade or so ago and I honestly struggle to come up with more recent examples. Actually, I realize it probably has more to do with the fact that I usually don't expect anything special from any given games - unless it has the words "Fire" and "Emblem" in the title, in which case you know it'll be grand - than me checking review-scores, but whatever. In any which case, we're walking seamlessly towards the fact that something just pissed me the hell off, and it's about a game I haven't even tried yet.
See, I was gonna check if someone had translated Langrisser III or V yet. No one had, as it turned out. Lazy hackers and whatnot. But then a weird title caught my eye. "Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei", it read. Saywhat? "Surely another dumb chinese MMORPG or something", I thought. But no, lo and behold, it was a real title. Outside the main series, sure, but still... a real title! And - what the hell - it's already been released. IN ENGLISH.
Cue goosebumps.
I was like "ONGONGONGONGONGONGONGONGONGONG" and then I watched two minutes of a youtube video and after that I wanted to kill something. It. Looks. Fucking. Horrible. First real title in almost 20 years, first english release since '91 or whatever and bobblehead wars is what I get? Rage, and so on.
Anyhow, feel free to share similar experiences or, like, tell me about dreams you've had about different error screens or whatever.