akachan ningen
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Any game that brings nothing new to the table. Or if it does, it's a short-lived gimmick.
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Have you ever genuinely wanted a game to fail?
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Mauricio_Magus
Banned
It's awful because TW101 and X will sell like crap compared to the plataformers, so we'll get more of those.
Flanimal Lover
Neo Member
Family guy reference. If you want, just replace it with edgy people who seek attention so much they will spout hyperbolic crap about games that clearly don't warrant it.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Mega Man 9?!?!?!?1 You're insane, it's one of the best Mega Man games ever made.
I think it was GENIUS how they created a retro Mega Man game after so many years. Sadly... 10 was disappointing.
thewhitehawk
Member
I always feel a bit saddened when I see a game succeed that does something which I consider anti-consumer or pushes the gaming industry in a negative direction: Diablo 3 with its forceful always-on DRM, Mass Effect 3 with its Origin exclusivity, the "From Ashes" controversy (and dismissing it by saying "real fans" would buy Collector's Edition anyway), Sim City's DRM, Assassin's Creed 2's PC DRM, Persona 4 Battle's Region Locking (a terrible black stain on an otherwise excellent title) etc.
To a lesser extent, I also feel a bit sad when I see lackluster sequels receiving praise and great selling numbers, like Resident Evil 6, but I don't really don't want the game to fail, I just wish those people had, in my opinion, better taste in their purchasing decisions.
To a lesser extent, I also feel a bit sad when I see lackluster sequels receiving praise and great selling numbers, like Resident Evil 6, but I don't really don't want the game to fail, I just wish those people had, in my opinion, better taste in their purchasing decisions.
Wiktor
Member
I remembered another one. I really want If My Heart Had Wings to fail, because of how extensively it has been censored. I don't mind cutting out the few sex scene it had, that was understable, but they even removed any kissing or sexual jokes, which was just plain going way to far.
Winterfang
Banned
I don't care about the quality of the game, I wanted to fail because of what it represented. Megaman as a cheap nostalgia Cash in instead of a full fledge mascot game like Sonic, Mario and Racket & Clank.
Samir Sedlar
Member
Yes, there is one game which actually turned pretty good, but at the same time it doesn't live up to its legacy gameplay or atmosphere, of course even then I am totally aware the legacy gameplay and direction is not coming back, thanks to greedy publishers that want every single game to sell over 7Million copies.
NinjaBoiX
Member
Yeah I know. It's not as if they ruined a wonderfully nuanced, deeply affected character study. Old Dante was a smarmy, floppy haired effeminate pansy.
At least NT's Dante looked kinda badass.
He was a huge improvement IMO.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Assassin's Creed 3 after buying it and finishing it.
DmC from the moment it was shown to still feeling the same at release.
DmC from the moment it was shown to still feeling the same at release.
Misterinenja
Member
What happened? I used to love Runescape. My friend was pretty excited about this.
NinjaBoiX
Member
You realise those two pictures perfectly illustrate my point. Was that intentional?Haha what?
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Misterinenja
Member
Or that you're blind / completely tasteless / the worst.
NinjaBoiX
Member
It's literally a picture of an effeminate dude, with floppy hair, clasping a flower in his mouth. And you use that picture to prove how I'm wrong?
OK then.
DerZuhälter
Member
Wii Fit and Wii Music.
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Deleted member 20920
Unconfirmed Member
Nope. I think it's silly and childish to want a game to fail. As much as one can hate or dislike something, we're talking about the livelihoods of people here. Just don't buy it if you don't like it.
badnewsbeers
Member
Star Wars the old republic. Because I really wanted a KOTOR sequel.
Dude's face looks pretty masculine if you ask me.
If that's effeminate then I must not know what a girl looks like.
Anyway, DmC. I'm not even that big a Devil May cry fan, but fuck DmC.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
You don't understand! If a game fails the developer will magically make better games. It's not like the publisher will shelve the franchise, only good things can happen.
Haha what?
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I like the way new Dante is mad about old Dante's taste for style XD
Also DmC is very good, so much better than 4, I never liked old Dante anyways.
The game I really wanted to fail was GTA V is not that I hate GTA but I hate people that play only GTA and think they're masters of gamming. Well... maybe next time XD
Yeah I don't think this will do too well. lol at no offline and regular size
Say what you like about Dante but he is not effeminate at all. Floppy-haired and smarmy yes. I had no intention of buying DmC (played 1-3) but the character switch from this:
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Made me genuinely wish for this game to fail.
The big change is that they completely remade and streamlined the combat to introduce action bars and hotkeys along with revamping some other things like the UI. It might sound good on paper but the laid-back and unique combat in Runescape was one of the things that set it apart from other MMOs to me. Unique things like special attacks (removed completely), runes and special spells are all obsolete because you spam a few abilities no matter what you use or do and that's it. I was also shocked to see how many microtransactions have been put into it, it's heavily advertised and part of it is RNG-based.
I could write more detailed but it'd be a wall, I was very into this game before
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
It isn't even that gameplay wise. During the combat sections the environments open up quite a bit and you can aproach it in so many ways.
Yeah, but not that it would be a problem if it would be strictly linear...
I don't even know what it's supposed to mean that it is derivative lol. Which game isn't?
biggersmaller
Banned
Madden.
That NFL exclusivity deal resulted in the quality standstill we all predicted. If Madden doesn't sell well enough to make the deal worthwhile - then competition will result in higher quality football games (including Madden).
That NFL exclusivity deal resulted in the quality standstill we all predicted. If Madden doesn't sell well enough to make the deal worthwhile - then competition will result in higher quality football games (including Madden).
I have been wanting it to fail since around MW3ish.
I don't even really hate it that much i just want it to die so we can start doing something else. I want it to fail for the same reasons i wanted dumb fucking music instrument based games to fail (IE Guitar Hero and Rockband)