And there's tons of idiots on twitch.tv who still play and support the game.
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Have you ever genuinely wanted a game to fail?
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And there's tons of idiots on twitch.tv who still play and support the game.
For the most part, no. The exception is when I see a traditional console franchise being shoehorned onto smartphones or tablets. For example, Breath of Fire 6, I'd just assume that failed, so as to discourage other developers from doing the same thing with their own franchises.
BruceLeeRoy
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Only time I have ever looked at the NPDs with the hope of a flop was with Aliens. I now find myself hoping everything Randy Pitchford is attached to is a commercial failure
Triggerhappytel
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Why? I've only seen positive comments about it until now. I mean, sure Inafune is basically ripping off Mega Man, but when Capcom obviously don't give a shit about the brand at least someone is carrying that torch.
Yeah actually, that would be one of the few games I'd like to see fail. Obviously a lazy con masquerading as a game, springboarding off the success of others and deliberately choosing a name to try and associate themselves with better, more popular products.
It's hardly just Sony and MS responsible for this movement. It's practically every big publisher.
Your reasons are stupid, not to mention you bought the fucking games anyway! Enchanted Arms was a commercial failure years ago, and Demon's Souls existence had no bearing on that.
XxSlasherMcGirkxX
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What do you even mean by this Karst? You want all games with a considerable amount of devs and budgets to die?
On topic, easily DmC. I've never been more offended by a game and it's devs before.
Wow so you want the man who made Megaman failing on his spiritual succesor you mad? I am glad there is a spiritual succesor coming since Capcom is failing even harder.
ha! me too, i was a huge Aki fan.
I think he means shit that makes games feel like they're coming off a conveyor belt. He wants the feel of games from the good old days, not that there aren't games still like that, but it seems like the industry is moving more and more towards AAA, all guns blazing, minimal player interaction with environments etc.
In other words games that are like Hollywood sequel X and just get forgotten about and have no lasting impact. Are all these COD/Skylanders kids really going to be looking back on COD in 10-20 years the way we look back on our experiences from the previous gens?
At this point in time, 'AAA gaming' has become somewhat synonymous with certain design elements that a lot of forum-frequenters dislike. I don't think people want to really get rid of big budget large scale games, but rather the 'unfortunate baggage' that often seems to follow.
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The Tomb Raider Reboot, because i was thinking the old gameplay would return somewhere down the road if it did. False hope i guess.
Forsaken82
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Spoken like someone who never played Call of Duty 1 or 2.
Call of Duty. Just because I actually loved Modern Warfare, and World At War (yeah, I said it), but absolutely hated Modern Warfare 2 and 3 and Black Ops. I want COD to fail, so that they are forced to change it up. Although at this point, I guess I have Titan Fall to do that for me. So I'll be moving on.
Triggerhappytel
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Not that I wanted Tomb Raider to fail, but I hope another dev picks up where they left off and does an original explore 'em up in large desolate locations like the old TR games used to deliver. This constant need to dumb franchises down in order to appeal to more and more people is so misguided.
SkylineRKR
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Ninja Gaiden 3, because its utterly terrible and an insult to the franchise. Razor's Edge is fucking terrible as well, I regret buying it even though I got it cheap. They took everything that made the franchise what it is out. All thats left is mindless button bashing on the same enemies over and over and a completely linear level design.
DmC, somewhat. I didn't jump on the hate train right away but its just no patch on DMC4 and its pretty much a useless release if you reflect back on it. All the fans wanted was a proper DMC5 after all, and the non-fans aren't going to be fans because of Donte.
DmC, somewhat. I didn't jump on the hate train right away but its just no patch on DMC4 and its pretty much a useless release if you reflect back on it. All the fans wanted was a proper DMC5 after all, and the non-fans aren't going to be fans because of Donte.
Tertullian
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Of course I have. I want any game to fail that's bad, or that employs practices that are bad for the industry, or that's loaded with anti-consumer bullshit. Those who never want any game to fail don't seem to understand that bad games failing is just as important to the health and future of the industry as good games selling well.
Yep. Horrible affront to the series. NT could have gone and made their own, original IP and used those exact gameplay mechanics and I wouldn't have cared, but don't shit all over the amazing gameplay found in DMC3 and 4. Not even going to talk about what a horrible abortion of a character the new "Dante" was or how the writing was literally 3rd grade shit-tier.
I would also like to see a CoD game fail so Activision realizes that the devs have to put a little more effort into their games besides re-releasing the same thing on a yearly basis but that probably won't happen.
Says nobody ever
Plenty of custom made levels for TR4's level editor in the meantime.
The only game I ever wanted to fail was APB. Managed to get myself into the closed beta for that game not long before its official release and I was hyped as hell, especially coming off gta iv and messing around with the coop in that, APB was promising so much. First few beta sessions were interesting, the game had obvious problems but I was sure with good feedback most of them could get straightened out. As time went on though it became more and more apparent that nothing was going to change and the game was going to get shoved out the door in an unfinished and badly designed state. Worse was the community, half the community seemed to do nothing but swat down every single legitimate complaint or any constructive feedback in a crazy conservative attempt to keep the game in its horrendous state. The game was bad, the community was bad, the game in my mind just did not deserve a chance.
A few weeks after it released it collapsed in on itself in one of MMO's greatest failures. 150 million dollar flop I believe it was, so bad it crushed the company who made it. I was so happy, that is, until someone picked it up, polished that turd and decided to re-released it.
A few weeks after it released it collapsed in on itself in one of MMO's greatest failures. 150 million dollar flop I believe it was, so bad it crushed the company who made it. I was so happy, that is, until someone picked it up, polished that turd and decided to re-released it.
AstroZombie
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Even better if they went down before shitting on Deus Ex.