[The Z]

I was recently playing through a game when I realized that I was only playing it because I had been told it was good and that I wasn't having as much fun as I was supposed to be having with it. Following that, I began to think of a lot of games that I played simply because I was told that they were supposed to be good.

Some of the ones were: Unreal (the original, I love UT though), Icewind Dale (Again, I feel that the sequel's much better), to a certain extent Starcraft/Brood War (It was still fun, but it wasn't something that made me leap out of my seat in ecstasy), Thief, The Sims, Dark Forces, and Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight.

It's not so much that I didn't think the games were good, it's just that they weren't as good as everyone else (reviewers, friends) thought they were. I mean, Jedi Knight was pretty cool, but it didn't actually make me feel like a Jedi or anything. Unreal never really got me interested, even though I thought that the engine/graphics were fantastic and the weapons rocked.

Any games that you thought weren't as good as they were hyped to be?