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¿Question #1542?
Wernazuma: What game you had anticipated with high expectation was your biggest disappointment?

ocdspectrum: The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire
xofour: I can't say off the top of my head. I remember there have been games that really let me down. I wish I had one off the top of my head.
Pithagoras: Sitting Ducks Gallery
aleo09: none
DasViktor: to date, Small World. Still a good game, but it did not live up to its pre-release hype.
ricardofo: A Line in the Sand
Aetheros: Spin the bottle
engdy: Ca$h-n-Gun$: Live - it just flopped with my youth group
ZeroZilla: Probably Attack!... there was so much you could do in that game, but we think the cards are broken.
Zedsdead: Age of Mythology.
jhearne: Nexus Ops.
cgund: Knights.
TheKeck: Apples to Apples.
virre: At the moment Carcascone - The Castle
RichCsigs: Cults Across America
Numskull: 7 Ages
DHEK: Twilight Imperium, 3rd edition. It's not terribly bad... it just takes too long to play and explain to newbies.
POvidiusNaso: Citadels.
Yuengling12oz: Knights and Cities of Catan
ibemichael: My best (er, worst) example is Axis & Allies: D-Day
dmomo: Don't know
daveroswell: Allhambra. Of course we played with the wrong rules.
ZiggyZambo: Tic-Tac-Toe... What a let-down. But hey, could any game have lived up to that level of hype?
MaksimSmelchak: Civilization and Age of Mythology from Eagle Games. Both worked well as computer games and were not so fun as board games.
tdabomb: Arkham Horror
vampywife: none yet
falloutfan: Return of the Heroes
mats-k: Hansa
brainrob: New England
justinmatters: Wraith (RPG)
Avatar_69: Entdecker
mrspank: Through the Desert. Great ratings, made by Knizia, but it just didn't float my boat.
Chris Page: Mammoth Hunters is the one that springs to mind.
FuzzySilk: Hex-Hex recently.
dietevil: Fiese Freunde Fette Feten
Loquutus: Palazzo
bigbadsteve: i havent really had one(knock on wood)
Tushratta: Checkers. When that came out I was bitterly disappointed.
GrandpaDave: None come to mind right now
ssmooth: Inklings
mrbeankc: Victory Games Civil War
SabreRedleg: Attack!
Hawklord: Blood Wars
Lord_Prussian: I can't say
tipigi: Blue Moon
The Unbeliever: 42
darthcliff: Dune
Windopaene: Struggle of Empires - Though I'm holding out hope for it
Lucimara: Maharaja maybe....
Gecko23: Vanished Planet
skrutsch: The Avalon Hill version of Cosmic Encounter
BaSL: SM's Civ
DangerMouse: Lord of the Rings - Knizia
CapAp: Doom
Belash: zoo sim, though it is getting better
Metaphora: St. Petersberg. I keep wanting to like this game, but can't seem to.
snoozefest: na
netfilterz: Runebound
Nomadik: Risk Godstorm
AWildEep: Seafarer
MisterCranky: Balloon Cup...it's never locked up for us once.
xlorp: Talisman
Reloaded: so far Duel of Ages...
heli: There's almost never much difference between expectation and event.
kennyb: havnt been disappointed yet
Dave: Princes of the Renaissance, my first (but not last) Martin Wallace letdown.
redhuntingcap: get the goods. i didn't have sky high expectations, but i didn't think i would hate it.
Debate: TTR
gnomehome: Iglu Iglu
Shakar: Magna Grecia.
Fawkes: El Grande.
Salt-Man Z: Probably Management Material, which -- while fun the first time -- was entirely forgettable.
chaddyboy_2000: Elfenland.
hibikir: runebound
GuyHill: Doom
djlg: St Petersburg
Cavedog_pdx: Munchkin
Aelf: Betrayal at House on the Hill
CDRodeffer: Scarab Lords
CortexBomb: Probably Maharaja
jttm: PoF or Settlers
Spielfreak: Destination Tressor
skelebone: Danger Guy... I'm really bitter over that one, if you couldn't tell
Wernazuma: Maharaja
sos1: Europe Engulfed
BobDodgerBlue: Supremacy
Blackwind: not sure.