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What's the worst BS release date announcement ever?
- Thread starter JinjoUnchained
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WooHooAlex
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Batman: Arkham Knight comes to mind. Everyone knew the October release date they announced was bullshit. Just announced the fake release date to get pre-order numbers up.
Fire Emblem Echoes?
Sectorseven
Member
Half-Life 2 was scheduled for October 2003 and they were silent up to like a few weeks before that.
Vyse The Legend
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For a AAA game? Resident Evil 7 comes to mind. That had a quick turnaround from announcement to launch, and it hit in January just as they announced.
Everyone knew this about Mass Effect: Andromeda as well. I wasn't even sure they'd hit the Spring date but now we know why.
JigglesBunny
Banned
RDR2 ain't hitting this year, so I'm going to go that route.
Version 3.0
Member
Pretty much every annual franchise, I think. I don't pay close attention, but don't all the Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Madden, FIFA and all the other sports titles come out exactly when they say they will? Every year?
soundtrack
Member
The FFXV event somehow gets funnier every time I think of it. Someone post the gif of the part where they teased out a fake release date.
High Prophet of Regret
Member
Final Fantasy XV: the thread.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I'm pretty sure Star Citizen was supposed to come out 18 years ago
Wins by default.
What is that?
Barry Burton
Member
Twilight Princess @ E3 2004: "Coming Soon!".
paragonpro
Banned
Half life episode 3 burns alot. Arkham knight got pushed back nearly six months than another two weeks. When they announced the two week delay they said "were pleased to announce arkham knight will be launching on xxxx" and people were like the fuck what happened to the other date? Ffxv had a whole event to announce its date...only to get pushed back almost two and a half months the month before it was supposed to come out. That was pretty embarassing for square enix
SirNinja
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My, how quickly most of us forgot the decade-long running joke that was Duke Nukem Forever's perpetually-changing date.
Agent was never given a release date announcement.
Agent was never given a release date announcement.
I got worried when I didn't see this on the first page. It would be my response as well.
Phatosaurus
Member
I only classify them as BS when it's a Half Life 2: Episode 3 scenario of a game being announced and never, ever seeing the light of day.
I'll back Nintendo for any and every game they delay and however long they choose to delay it for. I'll back any other publisher/developer that go the same route too. More delays of 1-2 years are welcome if it means we never get another ME:Andromeda type mess of a release in the future.
I'll back Nintendo for any and every game they delay and however long they choose to delay it for. I'll back any other publisher/developer that go the same route too. More delays of 1-2 years are welcome if it means we never get another ME:Andromeda type mess of a release in the future.
afternoon delight
Member
How many years did Gabe Newell tell people Episode 3 was wrapping up?
Earthbound64
Banned
This.
Captain Zyrain
Member
I still have one of these shirts somewhere, it still glows in the dark!
supermarioworldE
Banned
You might say it had the worst BS release date ever, since it is a fully fledged Zelda game and did not come to the US.
I mean, that game is essentially an online only SNES game where the US version had no way to go online at the time, but sure.let's go with that.
Rest assured I will jump through as many mental hoops as needed when it comes to justifying a pun. 😋
JinjoUnchained
Member
Oh, hahah, I get it now, well done. I played a fan "remake" of that awhile back where they combined the episodic content into one game. It was pretty fun, like a bizarro Master System expansion of Zelda 1.
Riesenfass
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Where is Fortnight?
DecoReturns
Member
The last three Fire Emblem games I believe.
Smash for Wii U manage to
Pokémon a couple times.
Splatoon 2 if that counts
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
Uncharted 4. That shit got delayed like three times.
PshycoNinja
Member
I'd say in recent times, it's Persona 5. It was delayed 3-4 separate times and each delay was a very long period of time. So much so that between the initial date and final release was about two years.
It wasn't just for the date. They announced 14 other things about the game that day. And the delay after the game's first official release date was a small two month delay. (Less than two months, actually, by a few days)
Many other games had much longer delays after initial announcements of their release dates.
It wasn't just for the date. They announced 14 other things about the game that day. And the delay after the game's first official release date was a small two month delay. (Less than two months, actually, by a few days)
Many other games had much longer delays after initial announcements of their release dates.
sixteen-bit
Member
First thing that came to mind.
NervousXtian
Thought Emoji Movie was good. Take that as you will.
HL3:Ep3 didn't have an exact date, but it had a launch window.
So that one.
So that one.
StereoVsn
Member
Yeah, that one was all kinds of BS, followed by assurances that it will 100% come out for the West in 2015. Sure, Atlus...
Oh yeah, and that delay from February to April for better localization was all complete BS as well.
FFXV/Versus XIII is also kind of out there. I suspect FFVIIR will take forever as well.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
I'm very confident that Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Ni No Kuni 2, and Red Dead Redemption 2 are not coming out this year.
FFXV 9/30/2015 - and you can close the thread. 
We had been waiting for it for years. They then finally had a huuuge event, for which they rented an iconic LA theatre, they had star guests, it was promoted, streamed and live translated all over the world...and it turned out to be BS just a couple of weeks before the alleged release. :/
We had been waiting for it for years. They then finally had a huuuge event, for which they rented an iconic LA theatre, they had star guests, it was promoted, streamed and live translated all over the world...and it turned out to be BS just a couple of weeks before the alleged release. :/
AlexFlame116
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Yeah it's hard to control delays that sometimes start creeping up near release when it has the potential to further have your game ridiculed than what it is now right?FFXV 9.29.2015 - and you can close the thread.
We had been waiting for it for years. They then finally had a huuuge event, for which they rented an iconic LA theatre, they had star guests, it was promoted, streamed and live translated all over the world...and it turned out to be BS just a couple of weeks before the alleged release. :/
But no it was obviously planned from the beginning! That sneaky Tabata! Down with him! Nomura and Versus for life! Bring back Stella!
FFXV 9.30.2015 - and you can close the thread.
We had been waiting for it for years. They then finally had a huuuge event, for which they rented an iconic LA theatre, they had star guests, it was promoted, streamed and live translated all over the world...and it turned out to be BS just a couple of weeks before the alleged release. :/
Didn't think initially stop on the release date that it ended up being?
