Personally there are a few games which left me very dissappointed, after hyping myself up for years in certain cases.
Divinity Original Sin: turns out I prefer more streamlined, less packed games (love Pillars of Eternity) and that coop play in a CRPG stresses me out.
Wasteland 2: I actually managed to finish this one but secretly I admit I was hoping for a better Fallout which I didn’t really get. New Vegas did the cowboy theme much better.
INSIDE: while the design was cool, it was just a ton of boring, easy puzzles in comparison to LIMBO, its predecessor.
I keep forgetting how lucky I was to get into NMS late. Not that I’ve put too many hours into it, but it didn’t suck when I started playing it. Which is nice.
Tbf, there was a person who managed to get and ‘beat’ it a week early who then proceeded to post an ama. I kind of knew I was in for a fancy screen saver. Even so, it was frustrating to see how much better it could be (and eventually became).