E3 2005 sony hype train and all of those promises.
Banjo Threeie (Banjo Kazooie 3)
:sad:
-i remember back when i played Melee as a kid there was a rumor out there that Sonic and Tails or some other character was unlocked by beating 20 of the wireframe people on cruel melee.
-Mega Man Legends 3 being cancelled partially due to fans being uninvolved
-Capcom’s name-swapping for boxer, claw, and dictator in street fighter 2 in the 90s. still causes confusion today.
meh, Skyrim is just gonna be a watered down Fallout-ified version of the Elder Scrolls game 
What were some of the features of Oblivion back then? I just remember stupid shit they were saying in interviews, like “if you rob from a store too much they go out of business and you will see the owner as a begger soon” and “beggers can pickpocket you” and “you might wipe out a group of merc’s guadring a bridge/cave/building, and later on a stronger group of merc’s will have moved in” (which eventually became "we just make enemies spawn randomly with equipment that’s automatically your level).
I am just pissed whenever a developer tells me how realistic the world will be, and then it’s NOTHING BUT FUCKING PEOPLE WALKING RANDOMLY. Nobody goes into a store, or goes to play basketball, or goes to work/school, or interacts with other people aside from having a random ass scripted conversation, and there’s no kids anywhere to be found. Just walks in a straight line until they either disappear magically or you kill them. I wish at least one of these sandbox games would just not go as crazy with YOUR characters options, and instead give me a more realistic world.
also, this is my all time biggest most hated lie in forevers:
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Lies about multi-platform status annoy the hell out of me too…at least when it DOESN’T come to the system I would prefer—e.g.–> Magicka. This game was apparently planned to be released both on PC and Live Arcade… it comes out on PC later and that was it…like the company said “ehhhh fuck it.” Someone somewhere is a dumbass for that and needs to be smacked in the face. Yes, I’m in the depressing minority of gamers that would rather play stuff on a console (*it’s much more fun and convenient, in my opinion. I look at PC gaming in general as little more than needless hassle that would ultimately make me want to punch someone and set things on fire.). Of course, there are the incredibly close-minded folks that think such games can’t possibly work as well on a controller for some reason… I’d always rather use a controller than lazily click a mouse(yawn) to attack enemies and cast various spells.
*Taking it back once again to my old annoying friend:
Way back in the day, this dude claimed to have EVERY system that was out at the time, including a good PC to play with… this was back when the Neo Geo was new… so yes, this guy claimed to have Neo Geo, in addition to anything else that was out… remember that NG was about 600 bucks for a “Gold” system, and a “cheap” price for a NG cartridge back then was over $100.00. Of course, the majority of these things were conveniently at his dad’s house, which was in a different state…so he only played this alleged gold mine of games whenever he went there. Yeah, sure.
Ohhhh yeah… and I just remembered a recent one… this guy also claimed to have finished Halo 2 on Legendary. It’s possible, but due to his overall performance in just about every other game I’ve seen him play…nope… I’m not buying it. Perhaps he means “beating” Legendary in that he finished the final stage with others in co-op.(*this does not get you the achievement though; you need to beat every stage on that difficulty of course. I don’t even recall the last stage being anywhere near as hard as various earlier stages on that difficulty anyway. edit—did h2 even have co-op? I might be confusing it with part 3, which definitely had online co-op…it really shows how long it has been since I’ve cared about that franchise) On a sidenote… Halo 2 on Legendary was 10x more ridiculous than Halo 3 on Legendary, imo. I actually finished H3 Legendary (*after spending something crazy like 2 or 3 hours on Tsavo Highway as my final stage for completion… I will never forget that Hell)… however, part 2 destroyed me… I gave up on it.
One lie or exaggeration from good ol’ Peter Molyneux on Fable 2—> in their endless hype of your canine friend before this game came out… wasn’t he saying that it would also aid you in battle? Technically, that is correct…but wow what a disappointment it is. I was expecting the dog to leap into action and really tear into your enemies on occasion, or innocent people if your character was evil…but all he does is bite and finish off enemies that are already on the ground and close to death anyway. I was also hoping for a dog that could shoot fire from his mouth or something if your character focused on magical combat…but of course none of that happened. Ah, Fable 2…why must it be such a love/hate relationship with that game?! Like an abused spouse, I keep coming back to it and forgiving the faults…
Rainbow “?” in Mortal Kombat Trilogy (N64). So many lies associated with that version of the game. It took me years to admit to myself that the PS got the superior version.
Loosely related: “PSX” has always annoyed the fuck out of me. And not just because I was busy playing my NU64.
Well this one isn’t a game it effected me profusely. I was at my buddies house and i saw a copy of the movie, PS i love you. I’m like wtf is this shit, why would you watch such a shit movie. and he goes naw man, i thought it was going to be shit to but it actually turned out to be really good. so like 3 weeks later my gf was bugging me to watch it, so i agreed to watch it ( i never watch chick flicks…if my gfs want to watch them they watch them alone.)
anyway, i watched 15 minutes of the biggest piece of shit of my life and left the room and went to bed. asshole
Yo people used to lie so much about codes back in the day, that I was surprised as fuck when I went home to put in a code somebody told me about for MK3… and it actually worked!
It’s a damn shame that you had to be suspicious in the first place when it came to codes.
It’s nice that some of EGM’s lies eventually became a reality though (Akuma, Gouken, Sonic in smash etc.).
Some lies:
-On my 10th christmas… the motherfucking catalog said the Sega Saturn would be bundled WITH Sonic Xtreme. That shit got cancelled hard as fuck.
-Confusion over Samus Aran’s gender at first
-Castlevania coming out on the dreamcast. The dreamcast’s short lifespan led to a lot of empty promises that I was looking forward to at first (like a sequel to Chakan)
…Also I remember somebody said that Konami said they wouldn’t develop a single-player Castlevania for the Wii because they couldn’t think of a way to implement the Wii remote/motion controls in a Castlevania game (WORD??? The heroes of the series wield whips and swords all day and you couldn’t think of ONE way to utilize the motion controls?! )
-“Blades will bleed” -Twilight Princess trailer
… I didn’t have to flick any blood off of my sword once. >:7{(
-Having Yoshi in New SMB Wii. "Alright, got my Yoshi, beat the level aaaannnd… hold up… why the FUCK are you hopping off? Who the FUCK are you waving goodbye to??? Get your ASS back on that Yoshi dammit!"
Nah son… that ain’t fulfilling. After snes Yoshi, that BS in New SMBWii ain’t having Yoshi to me. He’s on some kuribo’s shoe shit now.
Megaman X being in MVC3
Megaman X 9
Madcatz SE sticks being viable (if you say they are it’s because you never tried a TE before)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 being ground breaking compared to Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1.
Chameleon Twist 1/2 being bad games…
Seriously what the fuck were these reviewers thinking giving these games bad scores… they were pretty above average imo…
Also, being told by someone that you can get a corrupted data back to normal on a catridge(SNES/N64)…
NBA 98 being realistic gameplay(I gotta admit though, when these games PS1 games first came out, they looked GREAT)…
Jeff Gerstmann (from gamespot at the time) said he told this random guy that he jumped over the flag-pole in Super Mario Bros. and got to the second minus world. Well apparently he found out later that this guy had taken a couple of days off from work before the weekend to try and reach it 
Fuck yeah dude, I use to play the shit out of Chameleon Twist. It had such incredible replay value it was crazy.
Awesome game.
Cable being in (U)MVC3
The Cow Level.
That was a lie.
-Madden being different each year…
-'im not mashing buttons, im telepathically dp-ing
Lol on what!? Cuz I remember the cow level on Diablo
mines a world of warcraft one.
the ashbringer.
if you played world of warcraft you would know how big of a deal this is.
OMG!!! I just remembered one of the most EVIL lies in all of gaming history.
Chakan: the forever man. The backstory is this. chakan’s a swordsman. The BEST ever. He was so good that he challenged Death to some sword-swinging fun. If Chakan wins, he gets eternal life. If not, he becomes Death’s bitch. Chakan accepts…and won. :woot: Death is not without honor, and says the following…
…What’s the punchline to this joke? THE FUCKING GAME CAN’T END!! IT’S GLITCHED!!! EVERY SINGLE FUCKING COPY OF IT IS GLITCHED!!! 
That’s right. Death Rick-TROLLED this fool!!! Apparently, someone was able to end it after hacking and overcoming the glitch area. Think Chakan is gonna know some peace and quiet now?
The truth will set you free
Spoiler
…NOT!!! Apparently, even if you beat ALL the badasses in the game, the “true” ending rolls and ends with the words…“Not the end.” Chakan: the forever OWNED!!!
I swear. This game is THE best example of what this thread is about.
-Starhammer-
Someone probably mentioned this already but my favorite lie in recent memory was NeatherRealm Studios saying there would be a major reward for completing the final mission on the Challenge Tower in MK9. When in reality all you get is an achievement/trophy and the costume Mileena is wearing in the background of her stage.
Ooooooooh. Another lie. The DLC game Faery for the PS3. Anybody remember THAT little gem? :mad: I wanna kick every one of them down all the stairs I can find for that damn thing. Bastards.
-Starhammer-