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Once-hyped games that are now completely forgotten
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Basically every game featured on the cover of Next Generation magazine in the 90s
(Pictured, Messiah by Shiny)
Wow, I remember the hype for Messiah was through the roof. Did it even release?
Deified Data
Banned
The Order will inevitably be this.
There is barely any hype for The Order, most previews are underwhelming
This games that are HYPED, not shat on in every thread about them.
Before release: OHMYGOD this looks so good, and dark, and it's the sequel to the best game ever!
During release: Eh... It's alright, I guess. Pretty good game.
After release: OHMYGOD Bloodborne looks so good, and dark, and it's the spiritual sequel to the best game ever!
The worst part was that the hype was natural, so it hurt so many people, so hard.
The hype was validated. Excellent game as a standalone and an good entry into an excellent series.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Brink.
Lol The Order is not hyped at all, it gets shit on in literally every thread about it, some people are already comparing it to Ryse.
Lol The Order is not hyped at all, it gets shit on in literally every thread about it, some people are already comparing it to Ryse.
Yep, it did. And it was cool but not really worth the hype.
Before release: OHMYGOD this looks so good, and dark, and it's the sequel to the best game ever!
During release: Eh... It's alright, I guess. Pretty good game.
After release: OHMYGOD Bloodborne looks so good, and dark, and it's the spiritual sequel to the best game ever!
The worst part was that the hype was natural, so it hurt so many people, so hard.
... naw.
Before release: OHMYGOD this looks so good, and dark, and it's the sequel to the best game ever!
During release: Eh... It's alright, I guess. Pretty good game.
After release: OHMYGOD Bloodborne looks so good, and dark, and it's the spiritual sequel to the best game ever!
The worst part was that the hype was natural, so it hurt so many people, so hard.
Yeah, no.
Souls games in general are all far from completely forgotten, already due to their difficulty alone.
If any game of that had to be applied to your logic though, it would be Demon Souls if at all.
alfredofroylan
Member
Great game, oustading DLC still play it from time to time. So nope I don't think this one would be in this list.Killzone 2 on the other side, hell yeah, bleh game that was overhyped to the heavens and beyond, wish Sony'd have stick with Resistence instead of this franchise.
Before release: OHMYGOD this looks so good, and dark, and it's the sequel to the best game ever!
During release: Eh... It's alright, I guess. Pretty good game.
After release: OHMYGOD Bloodborne looks so good, and dark, and it's the spiritual sequel to the best game ever!
The worst part was that the hype was natural, so it hurt so many people, so hard.
Alex Connolly
Member
Best answer I can think of:
Ion Storm's first game, produced at the height of their hubris. Dominion was a partially finished game Ion Storm bought solely to burn off part of their contractual obligations with Eidos, which is something you normally hear about happening at the END of a contract, not the beginning. Then they brought in an expensive team to produce the shit out of it because one person at Ion Storm thought it could sell half a million copies; meanwhile the rest of Ion Storm, when they managed to pay attention to Dominion at all, are basically saying "dude, we just need to make sure it costs less than $3 million to make and we'll turn a profit, don't be an idiot."
Long story short, the game got a few splashy pieces in the gaming magazines of the day (including at least one cover story, I think), but Dominion died on release and it wasn't very good. Nowadays it doesn't even get remembered as one of Ion Storm's big failures because it turned out that Daikatana was even worse (and Anachronox didn't do so hot either). Really, if not for Ion Storm Austin (makers of Deus Ex and Thief), the Ion Storm name would be in the dictionary beside "schadenfreude."
This 1999 Dallas Observer article about Ion Storm is great reading, by the way, if you're curious about this period of history.
Great call! Certainly more valid than most of the entries here.
AuthenticM
Member
lol I was going to say this.
UltraGunner
Banned
Did anyone else forget that Watch_Dogs came out this year? Cause I did.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Mostly forgotten, except for those who remember what a mess it was.
Before release: OHMYGOD this looks so good, and dark, and it's the sequel to the best game ever!
During release: Eh... It's alright, I guess. Pretty good game.
After release: OHMYGOD Bloodborne looks so good, and dark, and it's the spiritual sequel to the best game ever!
The worst part was that the hype was natural, so it hurt so many people, so hard.
This would have killed me if I hadn't been apprehensive about the new director and team in charge of it.
Competent game, I guess. But I hate it. Never seen a sequel miss the fucking point as badly as Dark Souls II did.
Deadpool_X
Banned
Having a ton of the original Diablo team members on this game gave it a ton of publicity. This game was Borderlands before Borderlands existed, just without the humor. It came out and tanked. I want to say the game had some massive server issues at launch. But maybe I'm wrong. I didn't pick it up until a year or so later, when it was already $9.99 at Gamestop.
shark sandwich
tenuously links anime, pedophile and incels
Mostly forgotten, except for those who remember what a mess it was.
Dude, this and Duke Nukem Forever are probably the best known gaming clusterfucks of all time. Bad game yes, but definitely not forgotten.
Locke Lamora
Member
NWO was supposed to be the "Counter-Strike Killer" back in 2002. The only thing this game killed was its developer.
OK.
Not necesarily hyped but they seem to be largely forgotten...those Strike games:
Desert Strike
Soviet Strike
Jungle Strike
Urban Strike
I went down to my local used games shop a few months ago to pick these up for SNES. Definitely a set a gems there.
This.
Oh my gosh, I was so hyped and then it turned out one of the buggiest and uninspired game in VG history.
VelveteenTouch
Member
I recall a little mmo called Majestic that all the magazines and web sites proclaiming it to be a mind-bending merger of games and reality that would send you emails and call your cellphone to advance the plot. Nobody cared. I got to wonder if something like that would go over a lot better now that smartphones are so prevalent.
Deathtrap Dungeon was another one that was EVERYWHERE before release because it was published by Eidos who was riding high in the reputation Tomb Raider got them.
Ha! Just remembered Iron & Blood Warriors of Ravenloft. Seemed like every month the mags would have that same set of pics of a green goblin guy fighting some generic warrior, metal bikini lady, or dwarf. They used mo-cap with real weapon experts! You could find items and equip them on characters and save it on a memory card and take that character to a friend's house with that equipment! I was probably the only PlayStation owner that was excited about it because it was Ravenloft, and I was probably the only dope that bought that piece of crap.
Deathtrap Dungeon was another one that was EVERYWHERE before release because it was published by Eidos who was riding high in the reputation Tomb Raider got them.
Ha! Just remembered Iron & Blood Warriors of Ravenloft. Seemed like every month the mags would have that same set of pics of a green goblin guy fighting some generic warrior, metal bikini lady, or dwarf. They used mo-cap with real weapon experts! You could find items and equip them on characters and save it on a memory card and take that character to a friend's house with that equipment! I was probably the only PlayStation owner that was excited about it because it was Ravenloft, and I was probably the only dope that bought that piece of crap.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
To be fair, I made a thread about it in recent times and even contacted Andy Ashcraft (War of the Monsters on PS2) for details about his involvement.Allow me to take you on a stroll down memory lane:
Anyone remember this PowerVR game NEC was touting back around '96?
ReVolte has almost no details running around on the Web now, but it featured in many hype reels advertising the PowerVR architecture that never caught on. Game looks decent, if run-of-the-mill.
Solid Samus
Banned
MAG is that game where you have to know exactly what you're doing with a quality squad or you're not gonna have much fun with it. I thought it was an incredible game sometimes, when it clicked.The scream of 256 players fighting at once. It was a complete load of baloney. the most you will ever see is 64 because of how massively divided the players are on the map. I literally tried to run to another section with other people. After 5+ minutes of straight running, I got sniped out in the open when I was almost there and sent all the way back to my starting base.
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I've got all of you beat.
Global Operations.
Was supposed to dethrone Counter Strike and had decent magazine coverage.
LMAO! My brother worked on this game and did a lot of the frontend/UI stuff. This was of course before Barking Dog Studios got bought out by Rockstar.
That being said, I think it had an online community that went on for far longer than anyone had expected. At least that's what he told me.
What about classic games like the original Dynasty Warriors for PSX (you know, the fighting game before the series turned into a beat'em up) and Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi.