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Once-hyped games that are now completely forgotten
- Thread starter Phediuk
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Yet within 3 months everyone stopped playing. It came and went.
To be fair, there was a reason Titanfall was hotly anticipated and covered, the track record of the developers gave it a pretty good chance to be a decent multiplayer shooter. As opposed to Brute Force, where the hype was just inexplicable.
Seriously. I guess there's a bunch of young whippersnappers in this thread not old enough to have actually been around for the likes of Brute Force?
Watchdogs and Titanfall, while both found to be a bit disappointing by actual gamers (not the gaming press), both managed to sell way, way, way more than enough to guarantee sequels. Sequels which will have new features and improved mechanics which will likely make them better games, and probably bankable franchises. They are inherently disqualified from this thread, if only because they will definitely get sequels.
I think the OP really nailed the topic on the head though, I can think of plenty of other titles like this.... but none of them so perfectly embody this subject like Brute Force. That game was *so* massively hyped, and was utterly irrelevant a day after launch.
aspiegamer
Member
We shall see...
Though Alpha impressions from Destiny were so good that I'm not picturing quite the same nosedive.
TrueGrime
Member
Please come and stop by the Titanfall OT2 thread sometime.
timetokill
Banned
I'm not sure how Titanfall makes sense for this thread. It's not "completely forgotten" by any stretch of the imagination. This isn't a "disappointment" thread, it's a "forgotten" thread. A lot of disappointing games are remembered for being disappointing.
I'm not saying Titanfall is disappointing (I haven't played it) but I sure do still hear about it a lot.
Anyway, Brink is a good one because I remember GAF hyping it up but I hadn't remembered so until this thread.
Another I'll suggest is Hellgate: London.
I'm not saying Titanfall is disappointing (I haven't played it) but I sure do still hear about it a lot.
Anyway, Brink is a good one because I remember GAF hyping it up but I hadn't remembered so until this thread.
Another I'll suggest is Hellgate: London.
Funny, I never have issues finding games on it.
Smaller userbase than CoD = nobody playing. Only on Gaf.
UltraGunner
Banned
This game came around the same time as God of War and Sega was clearly trying to ride the wave of hype that game was building up. I remember that G4 made a documentary or some sort on the development on this, and I kept wondering why when it could basically has been summed up as "Cause GoW".
Look here pal, gaming for me is a religion, and Haze is the Shit!
Who's everybody?
Oh good example, it was meant to play a key part in bridging the gaps left in the franchise's storyline ushering in a new era of cross-media storytelling in the process.
I wouldn't say Zool is forgotten and it did get a sequel but it never delivered on the hype for the Amiga version.
Not me, the PS3 Inferno version is one of my favorite PS3 games, a criminally underrated game imo.
It's funny because Titanfall is being mentioned so much from the haters that it can't be forgotten even if the game deserved it.
Also wtf at The Wonderful 101 being forgotten? the game is still getting a lot of love...various mentions in Wii U/action game related threads and LTTP topics. Maybe some people confuse a completely forgotten game with a cult classic.
TrueGrime
Member
Spore would be my answer, but it's been mentioned several times, so I'll go with:
This is a shame. I absolutely loved The Getaway.
copelandmaster
Member
It's a Ubisoft game that shipped 8mil+.
Think about that.
I wanna say Perfect Dark Zero. At least until people actually saw the game.
UltraGunner
Banned
Spore would be my answer, but it's been mentioned several times, so I'll go with:
I just want to know what the rationale behind this game was. "Hey lets make an open world game with absolutely nothing in it to do and have the only way to get anywhere be turning signals pointing to the next mission, making sure that no would would ever humor the thought of exploring the world."
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
There was a lot of advertising for it, at least. Never played it myself, but it seemed to be everywhere for a short time.
As for what came to my mind: Clayfighters and a bunch of other mediocre flavor-of-the-month mid-90s fighting games.
Yup.
It's funny. I have no interest in the X1, and I haven't bought a first-person shooter since Perfect Dark on the N64. But I'm never going to forget about fucking Titanfall considering how much this forum rags on it at every opportunity. And I don't even have a clue of how it looks or plays.
Not only in this particular game itself, but as a franchise that was raised from the 'dead' only to quickly vaporize again. Pity, EA could have it's own 'old war era' backdrop. They would have all three time eras locked down.
(old-school MoH fan)
I think Ubi already planned at least two games in the IP. I'd be surprised if a sequel didn't release within 2 years.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
How about this one:
Nobody will ever forget about Too Human. Dyack saw to that.
Tabula Rasa
Richard Garriott's big new game after the Ultima series/UO had a huge amount of hype and then just died. I couldn't even remember the name of the game and had to look it up from Garriott's Wikipedia page.
I'd say the bit about his termination from and lawsuit against NCSoft was probably more interesting than the game itself.
Richard Garriott's big new game after the Ultima series/UO had a huge amount of hype and then just died. I couldn't even remember the name of the game and had to look it up from Garriott's Wikipedia page.
I'd say the bit about his termination from and lawsuit against NCSoft was probably more interesting than the game itself.
The last hurrah of a dying platform, Mayhem in Monsterland for the C64 was hyped up beyond belief before its release, with wall to wall coverage during development, culminating in a 100% review score in Commodore Format. 100%. I call that hype.
It may not be totally forgotten - I'm pretty sure it got a digital release on the Wii, but I can guarantee that not many people remember it.
He kinda reminds me of a shitty drawn Sonic colored yellow.
Am I the only one.
Diprosalic
Banned
True it was well received and there will be a sequel, but like OP states, it got huge hype and now where is it? While of course people still play it, there is not a whole lot of marketing for it or its new DLC. It died off very quickly
It's not forgotten, but I guess it kinda works for this thread because it was marketed and hyped like the second coming of gaming-christ. And compared to that, you don't hear and see that much of it anymore.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Ummm titanfall is actually a really good game and far from forgotten.
Over-hyped is a matter of opinion. But definitely not fitting this thread.
Brute force... now I can see that game fitting. I remember it had a demo reel on halo CE lol, that is about it. Never played it or saw footage.
Over-hyped is a matter of opinion. But definitely not fitting this thread.
Brute force... now I can see that game fitting. I remember it had a demo reel on halo CE lol, that is about it. Never played it or saw footage.
bobawesome
Member
I will forever bring up Advent Rising in these topics. The world has forgotten BUT I NEVER WILL.
Winterfang
Banned
Agree, best looking GameCube game easily. Would had love a Zelda game with that graphic style, over Windwaker or Twilight Princess.
This was going to chart evolution and allow infinite life creation and choices on a galatic scale and cure cancer, right?
Spore would be my answer, but it's been mentioned several times, so I'll go with:
Great game.
If you can actually make me forget this, I'll pay you.
I think the Titanfall choices don't really work for this thread because it's the first thing the same to pop into everyone's mind when anything about pre/post release hype is brought up. It's still on everyone's mind regardless of if their thoughts on it are positive or negative. Nearly every other game released for this gen so far is more qualified for this title. How often do you read about Resogun today for example? It was supposed to be the new Geometry Wars.
I guess you weren't around for the recent update and DLC threads.. That shit went viral. Tonnes of unique and/or nostalgic ship designs and a heck of a lot of forum and gamer chatter.
I dont know, I thought perception of Resogun was 'oh that cool little sideline you get free with PS+'
Actually I remember that now, lol. It just disappeared from my thoughts again shortly after. I guess that was a pretty bad example though, but basically everything is more forgotten than Titanfall at this point, because its pretty much the only game that is consistently brought up in threads that aren't about that game specifically.
It was basically the only launch game anyone had any real faith in being great. The cost isn't really important. GeoWars was also a small downloadable title, but it was probably the most important game of the 360's launch.
Weltall Zero
Member
I could think of two.
Was going to post this: it might as well be called Rise of the Robots: The Thread. I guess most here are a bit too young to even know about this, but the hype surrounding this game was literally unprecedented; I don't think a single game, ever, up to that point, had gotten such a ridiculously massive amount of press hype (remember, this was a post-Street Fighter 2 world, and it STILL got more hype than any version of Street Fighter). Then it came out and it was a painfully unplayable mess. Magazines all around the world pretended the game didn't exist (except to take potshots at it once in a while), probably so as not to be shamed by association because of their obviously unwarranted hype. This example was burned in my mind as the most amazing disparity between pre- and post-release coverage; no game before or since was so mind-boggling, not even Spore.
Also, in the case of Spore, and unlike most examples in this thread, this disparity was entirely justified; the game that was announced to the public was utterly different and much more complex than what was finally released.
TemplaerDude
Member
How in gods fucking name are you people saying titanfall with a straight fucking face.