frankie_baby
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Elite 4 actually happening after nearly 20 years
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Things you never expected to happen 5 years ago.
- Thread starter MRORANGE
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RE4 came out in '04/05 though and RE5 is 5-6 years old.
I did not see the indie craze happening at all. Nor did I see me actually enjoying a Capcom game again at the time (based dragons dogma) and of course REmake HD.
jackissocool
Member
From Software is popular.
Lion Heart
Banned
That is awesome. Following the same trend (not my opinion but the majority of GAFs)
Sony leading next gen.
Man, that thread is amazing. The first page is filled with LOLs
Thanks sooo much for this!
Laughed hard at this:
My prediction is Ouya becomes a Big 4th.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
It's so funny to see how everyone was writing Sony off.
Zeyphersan
Banned
That people would willingly pay money for a game in its half-completed state
Weiner Whistle
Member
Having these four together in ONE GAME.
Sephiroth_GR_
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That was an interesting read
AntiFacebook
Member
-I never thought Monolith soft would make a mediocre game,but then they went and made xenoblade.
- I never thought region lock would carry on to the next gen.
- I never thought region lock would carry on to the next gen.
This is true for me. Rare PC gamed before the beginning of this year until I made my own rig. Can't even remember the last time I played a game on consoles, and no intention to buy either PS4 or One.
Mineshaft_Gap
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I never expected to be stuck in the same console generation for another 5 years.
Naughty_Doge
Member
"That The Last Guardian game Sony just announced looks cool, eh? Yeah, it's never coming out"
Pretty much.
-MS would blow all their dudebro capital chasing a demographic that only buys consoles every 20 years, and now will probably never buy consoles again.
HypnoDarkrai
Member
Hatsune Miku games apparently considered a shoe-in at localization.
Really? Brawl wast just 1 yeae old that time, that's pretty cynical.
I think that sony would screw up their next handheld was and is still shocking to me.
PSP was such a great machine, I still liked my Ds more but it may be my favorite PlayStation platform.To think that Sony is now pulling the plug for the Vita, it doesn't give me the faith to buy and support one.
I remember, I used to play a lot games from THQ...
Freeza Under The Shower
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Mass Effect 2 having that ending (okay, the concept made sense, but it was such a wtf in the game itself). And the game becoming somewhat boring in between because of pokemonning. I mean, I enjoyed all those backwater planets in the first. How can this become boring from a lack of SPACE of all things? (and there's the plot:"that guy from the first game? He died on the way to his home planet. BUT HE"S OKAY NOW. We proudly present ROBOCOP 2!" *scream of agony* )
and then you got Mass Effect 3. Never forget Marauder Shields.
I really thought we would have the Sci-Fi we'd been waiting for with this and Dead Space.
(though Dead Space and the first Mass Effect delivered what they intended, the second DS did as well. It's the sequelitis that gets them eventually. You can't make something good on repeat. See Assassin's Creed, and yes I am counting from the first, not the second. )
Speaking of which: Call of Duty becoming everything wrong with how we deal with violence and imagery EVER. I mean: that first level of Black Ops 2: shooting fleeing black people in the back? OH YEAH IT'S FUCKING GREAT.
And MW3..... "do whatever this man says"...
You know what I really never expected: to be done with this hobby.
edit: to clarify, I am dissapointed with the results of ME, but I am offended by CoD-like shooters these days. Notable exception obviously being Spec Ops the Line.
and then you got Mass Effect 3. Never forget Marauder Shields.
I really thought we would have the Sci-Fi we'd been waiting for with this and Dead Space.
(though Dead Space and the first Mass Effect delivered what they intended, the second DS did as well. It's the sequelitis that gets them eventually. You can't make something good on repeat. See Assassin's Creed, and yes I am counting from the first, not the second. )
Speaking of which: Call of Duty becoming everything wrong with how we deal with violence and imagery EVER. I mean: that first level of Black Ops 2: shooting fleeing black people in the back? OH YEAH IT'S FUCKING GREAT.
And MW3..... "do whatever this man says"...
You know what I really never expected: to be done with this hobby.
edit: to clarify, I am dissapointed with the results of ME, but I am offended by CoD-like shooters these days. Notable exception obviously being Spec Ops the Line.
loaf of bread
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AaronB
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The most wildly successful games of the last few years are a couple of indie titles (Minecraft and Angry Birds), a toy delivery system (Skylanders), and a genre based on a fan mod (Dota and League of Legends).
By the way, I did an informal conversational survey of a couple hundred Turkish high school students, and the most popular game was easily League of Legends. I also have yet to see a Wii U in stores in this country.
By the way, I did an informal conversational survey of a couple hundred Turkish high school students, and the most popular game was easily League of Legends. I also have yet to see a Wii U in stores in this country.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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For me to lose all faith in both Capcom and Sega, to the point I almost don't care what they put out anymore.
Pretty tough tough to think about, because those two companies are largely the reason why I am a gamer today.
Pretty tough tough to think about, because those two companies are largely the reason why I am a gamer today.
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Jotamide
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Guilty Gear XX would get a sequel.
vagabondarts
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I never expected people to reward IAP timer games with real money and abandon traditional game models on mobile. I was really hoping that whole design philosophy would die out.
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Trigonometrize.
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I had enough money to afford PS4 on day one.
It's understandable. PSP sold remarkably well even if software never did well, so the fact that Vita can barely cross ten million is a surprise to some of us. Vita and Wii U are sisters when you look at how their lives are playing out.
It's understandable. PSP sold remarkably well even if software never did well, so the fact that Vita can barely cross ten million is a surprise to some of us. Vita and Wii U are sisters when you look at how their lives are playing out.
Diprosalic
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Having these four together in ONE GAME.
after Sonic and Snake got in (more than 5 years ago) this didn't seem all that crazy.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
This one is better.
Minus the killer game, you can arguably say that's exactly what Sony did do.
Trigonometrize.
Member
So many idiots saying Sony will drop out of the console race. I realize retrospect is 20/20, but how did the 70-80 million PS3s (or whatever it was at the time) lead people to that conclusion? Sony has yet to produce a flop console.
SpinningBirdKick
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I never expected Microsoft to screw up the successor to the 360.
This generation was theirs to lose and... they lost it.
WTF were they thinking? Surely one of the biggest gaming industry missteps of all time
This generation was theirs to lose and... they lost it.
WTF were they thinking? Surely one of the biggest gaming industry missteps of all time
I know mentioning Vita here is snagging low hanging fruit, but...
QuixoticNeutral
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I'd known about the popularity of MOBAs since the golden age of WC3 custom maps but had no idea they would come to take over everything. Relatedly, I think most people looking forward to SC2 expected a far more vibrant custom maps scene than what we got, but the problems were apparent as soon as the editing tools were released in beta. And speaking of SC2, I certainly didn't expect the niche of e-sports to become as widely spectated as a form of entertainment as it is now; in most communities I observed there used to be quite a bit of resistance among the player base to the idea of professional players or watching instead of playing. Now, awareness of Twitch streaming and organized tournaments is practically an expectation in any burgeoning multiplayer scene.
I didn't expect paid DLC (still new and strange in 2009) to someday be so ubiquitous as to a) make it into Mario Kart, b) be praised for it, and c) entice me to pre-purchase it months before release.
The greatest unexpected convenience in the past five years, personally, was the explosion of good, well supported native ports of most high-profile PC games into OS X, available via dual-platform purchase on SteamPlay with more reasonable prices and DRM than the array of digital vendors who used to rule that notoriously overpriced market. The idea of using a MacBook as a decently performing games PC without having to dual-boot into Windows or wait years for undiscounted ports was unthinkable five years ago.
I can say I fully expected Zynga to crash and burn.
I didn't expect paid DLC (still new and strange in 2009) to someday be so ubiquitous as to a) make it into Mario Kart, b) be praised for it, and c) entice me to pre-purchase it months before release.
The greatest unexpected convenience in the past five years, personally, was the explosion of good, well supported native ports of most high-profile PC games into OS X, available via dual-platform purchase on SteamPlay with more reasonable prices and DRM than the array of digital vendors who used to rule that notoriously overpriced market. The idea of using a MacBook as a decently performing games PC without having to dual-boot into Windows or wait years for undiscounted ports was unthinkable five years ago.
I can say I fully expected Zynga to crash and burn.
I Wanna Be The Guy
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A handheld would exist that I actually play more than my consoles. Unthinkable before the Vita for me. This also ties in to my second one. I never would have expected there to be a time when I play and like more indies than AAA games.
Holy shit, almost everyone thinks Sony will be dead last or bow out lmao