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Åesop
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The Joakim Mogren interview was CGI!
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Funny conclusions people jumped to while game info was scarce
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PapaEmeritus
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How about Mario X Rabbids will be a steaming pile of shit. Welp......
Finale Fireworker
Member
At risk of turning this into a Pokemon thread, this is kind of a Pokemon thread.
Pokemon fans love conjecture. They're like Super Smash Bros fans that way. They have very detailed notions about the future of the series and always believe certain things are inevitable or, conversely, impossible. The difference with Pokemon is that these beliefs are also held by people who do not actively keep up with the series. The result is that almost everybody has an idea of what kind of content Pokemon should have and almost nobody is completely satisfied when the reality.
People complain about USM because it is currently unconfirmed to have a Battle Facility or new Alolan Forms, which are the most popular feature requests. No amount of other supplemental material is going to alleviate the absence of that content. So until that content is revealed, people will complain USM is barebones. If it is not present in the game, people will complain indefinitely, because this content was "obvious" based on their fan conjecture.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Tbf, we should have seen it coming after the (brilliant) trailer at Keighley's show where MGS5 was shown as some MGS knockoff instead.
EmCeeGramr
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"Splatoon Switch is a port" was maddening, but it was also part of a wider trend where people kept insisting that Nintendo was porting every old Wii U game to Switch within the first year based on rumors, that the Switch's lineup would be overrun with Wii U ports, and Splatoon Switch was seen as part of that.
Mario Kart came because MK8 was huge, and Pokken was relatively recent had arcade updates to put in a new version, but people were sure that Smash Wii U, Mario Maker, Splatoon 1, and probably a bunch else were all right around the corner for 2017. Even when it was pointed out that the Splatoon footage from the Switch reveal video contained new maps, new lighting, and a bunch of brand new/changed assets and designs that they wouldn't bother with for a port, some wouldn't budge on it because of the rumors, and up until the title was announced were adamant it would be Splatoon: Subtitle. This thought process was so pervasive that people had to come up with the "I bet Splatoon 2 was a port until they added stuff to it" idea, which I guarantee wouldn't be the case if the rumors hadn't existed.
Mario Kart came because MK8 was huge, and Pokken was relatively recent had arcade updates to put in a new version, but people were sure that Smash Wii U, Mario Maker, Splatoon 1, and probably a bunch else were all right around the corner for 2017. Even when it was pointed out that the Splatoon footage from the Switch reveal video contained new maps, new lighting, and a bunch of brand new/changed assets and designs that they wouldn't bother with for a port, some wouldn't budge on it because of the rumors, and up until the title was announced were adamant it would be Splatoon: Subtitle. This thought process was so pervasive that people had to come up with the "I bet Splatoon 2 was a port until they added stuff to it" idea, which I guarantee wouldn't be the case if the rumors hadn't existed.
Kat Bailey at US Gamer repeated that claim ad nauseam.
Holy shit, I remember seeing that in another forum I went to at the time.Also it's not that funny but I remember back when the first FF9 trailers were out, discussions on GameFAQs thinking this said "Tifa" because of the font and was linked to FF7 somehow.
Finale Fireworker
Member
What does this say, by the way? Jisa?
mrmickfran
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"Super Mario Odyssey will only have 5 kingdoms"
TheTylerRob
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metalmania4evr
Member
To be fair the jetbike is the best thing to happen to GTAV, if you own one.
Iifa tree, with a capital i.
brunomartynhak
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Black Duke
Neo Member
I guess you can't beat the "Snake is the main playable character in MGS2"
Finale Fireworker
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Who are the other four, I wonder.
Death Penalty
Member
This is a good one, especially because SE's marketing backed it up on a regular basis.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
IIRC people only freaked out at the design of rabbid peach, not saying the game will be bad. Some may be skeptical, but that's all.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=489769
This thread is interesting in hindsight.
Nah, I was pretty sure the game was gonna be garbage. I was pretty surprised when impressions were so positive, and I admit it does look much than I expected even if I still don't have much interest in playing it.
Audioboxer
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Final Fantasy 13 will be a good game and it going to Xbox 360 is the end of Sony.
lol, this is bait, but FF13 was indeed mediocre at best
semiconscious
Member
that one, for me, was so completely out of left field that i never even had time to react to it
...Dreadnought
Member
Destiny 2 open world is going to be huge with small settlements and towns
KojiKnight
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Then slowly build a hardcore fanbase who 10 years later will say it really was great. Yes, we have a hardcore FF13 fanbase here and it still today baffles me.
Yui's Empire
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Switch is doomed at that launch price. I wasn't on GAF back in the day but I agreed with those posts. Now I will likely buy one next month and it's selling like hotcakes. Delicious crow.
Destiny 2 has no co-op campaign. Eh, that didn't turn out very true.
Nearly every loot box discussion on GAF this past month. Some games were underestimated (BF2), others were unfairly criticized (AC: Origins doesn't have loot boxes), others were completely misunderstood (Forza 7 does have loot boxes but most people believed they lowered the rewards to favour loot boxes when they actually increased them).
Tomb Raider: Next Generation (later becoming Angel Of Darkness) was supposed to be amazing and revolutionary. Ended up being shit.
Special mention goes to Valve revealing their new IP, Artifact. For a split second people expected something worthwile. Then they showed "a DOTA card game" underneath and, well, expectations shattered.
Also this. Never expect much change from Activision. People thought that the more powerful consoles and the different time eras will make Call Of Duty evolve into something bigger, with giant battlefields, vehicular combat, destructible arenas (after they toyed with the idea with scripted desctruction zones in Ghosts). And yet one generation and many iterations later it's still mostly down to 6v6 stale maps. I enjoy the games but yeah, not exactly revolutionized in the years. COD WWII seems like the biggest step forward since forever and it still doesn't change much tbh.
Destiny 2 has no co-op campaign. Eh, that didn't turn out very true.
Nearly every loot box discussion on GAF this past month. Some games were underestimated (BF2), others were unfairly criticized (AC: Origins doesn't have loot boxes), others were completely misunderstood (Forza 7 does have loot boxes but most people believed they lowered the rewards to favour loot boxes when they actually increased them).
Tomb Raider: Next Generation (later becoming Angel Of Darkness) was supposed to be amazing and revolutionary. Ended up being shit.
Special mention goes to Valve revealing their new IP, Artifact. For a split second people expected something worthwile. Then they showed "a DOTA card game" underneath and, well, expectations shattered.
Also this. Never expect much change from Activision. People thought that the more powerful consoles and the different time eras will make Call Of Duty evolve into something bigger, with giant battlefields, vehicular combat, destructible arenas (after they toyed with the idea with scripted desctruction zones in Ghosts). And yet one generation and many iterations later it's still mostly down to 6v6 stale maps. I enjoy the games but yeah, not exactly revolutionized in the years. COD WWII seems like the biggest step forward since forever and it still doesn't change much tbh.
Its because FFXV was so bad it retroactively made FFXIII great. /s
Black and White 2 aren't third versions.
HellofaMouse
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As some1 who'll never get a wii u, id actually like a bunch of ports.
Comrade Crunch
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Åesop;251661983 said:The Joakim Mogren interview was CGI!
Didn't everyone think it was done in The Fox Engine?
It would've made sense since leading up to that KojiPro kept showing off nearly photorealistic shots taken in engine.
Final Fantasy XIII might not be the best FF game, and it certainly has some major flaws, but I love it as an overall package. Sorry if that offends you. ... I do totally fit into your projections though because it took me a very long time to give the game a real shot (i.e. get past the massive tutorial section) and realize I actually really liked it. I was hating on it with everyone else before that.
I also like most of the sequels and spin-offs, FFXV and think FFII is the best of the original trilogy of FF games though, so I am basically the boogie man of the FF fandom.
Sometimes they actually had me almost convinced, but my pure anticipation kept me believing it would come out this year and I was rewarded.
modernmalady
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NinjaCoachZ
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"Super Mario Odyssey is just a demo to show off the Switch and not a real game!"
Still one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
Still one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
modernmalady
Member
Lol yeah i'm remembering the first trailer for V featured a homeless man standing around and people were really trying to say that he was an older Niko.
Jury is still out on this one. Though it is looking good.
People that think Pokemon USUM is "bare bones" are being willfully ignorant. We don't know yet if it is going to be a great third version packed with new stuff, but it has already demonstrated that it is adding enough to not be "bare bones".
Now, if what has been shown isn't enough for you to want USUM, that's fine, live your life, but that is a different conversation.
Before the release of the PS4 and Xbone and more concrete information coming out. Some people thought that certain publishers would "align" themselves with one console maker.
They in turn would then refuse to make games for both console platforms because they thought it was be a bloodbath sales wise and it would be more beneficial for all publishers to back on console maker because games were too expensive to make for multiple console platforms.
They in turn would then refuse to make games for both console platforms because they thought it was be a bloodbath sales wise and it would be more beneficial for all publishers to back on console maker because games were too expensive to make for multiple console platforms.
What was the expectation from "Fantasy areas"? I thought the environment variety was pretty good unless people were expecting something more in line with FFXIV.
Why? It's not like Nintendo hasn't used their IP's to create content for demo purposes in the past.
The BotW Treehouse E3 thread was crazy. Multiple people declaring that they would boycott BotW because it didn't have towns. Talk about jumping to conclusions.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
first hints of GTA5 was coming, cant forget the "gonna suck because GTA4" crowd
cue in the $1 Billion sale announcement in just 2-3 days and ending as the best game of two gens
cue in the $1 Billion sale announcement in just 2-3 days and ending as the best game of two gens
From what we've seen, the story has been flipped on its head. It doesn't look like it's Aether Foundation and Lusamine who are crazy.
Weltall Zero
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"No towns in BOTW" was absolutely, 100% a mainstream point of discussion. To the extent that people who contradicted it were often labeled as wishful thinking.
I wasn't ever sure there would be no towns, but I did worry it might be the case up until the first trailer footage showing them appeared.
Which is why I said follow ups, and not third games
The trailers to SM made me think that UB's would have a bigger role than they ended up having, so I'm not gonna trust the trailers again.
