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Games that sucked from announcement to release
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toythatkills
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What?
I am fully expecting this. Has the beta happened yet? I vaguely recall them announcing it.
Why did you even reply to the thread before you knew what it was about? It's not a race.
It's slow as fuck for a hack-n-slash game.
If you're, for example, the people who made Dante's Inferno... yeah you should strive to reach DmC's mediocrity. But I'd rank Darksiders, Prime Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising, Wonderful 101, and even God of War all above DmC in terms of quality - which puts a pretty big chunk of the genre above it.
Greg_le_Casual
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Being a Knights of the Round Table in 1880's London hunting for half breed monsters in a AAA game sounded good to me at announcement. And Galahad is cool.
Then you can say the game didn't deliver, but it didn't really suck from the beginning IMO.
Commanche Raisin Toast
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Quantum Theory
GabeTheGrouch76
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Damn it!
I'll be willing to speak in minimal defense, that the first trailer revealed was considerably impressive in terms of graphics. That said, it was later revealed by the devs after the game's release, that the shown gameplay footage wasn't even running on the Wii U. Once we saw the actual game around E3 time, everything fell to rock bottom...
Speaking of Sonic, Sonic 4: Episode II. Was convinced it would be no better than the first episode (and in some ways, the final result was actually worse).
Ghost Slayer
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That's why i didn't say "All action games"
Calling DmC mediocre is just silly because the combat is goddamn great
It holds up pretty well with a great ammount of enemies on screen, but yeah objectively Adventures looked better.
That's why i didn't say "All action games"
Calling DmC mediocre is just silly because the combat is goddamn great
I'd really disagree with you there. DmC feels like amateur hour compared to the greats. DmC also having one of the most laughably awful stories in gaming (even by Devil May Cry standards) does it no favors either.
That's why i didn't say "All action games"
Calling DmC mediocre is just silly because the combat is goddamn great
Agreed. Gameplay never peaked my interest.
None of that was based on demos I imagine. PS4 fans were still desperate for a great exclusive and it had most graphics of all the games coming out. Also the developer had a fairly good track record but all of the gameplay shown prior to launch looked pretty boring and uninspired.
When I played it back in 2005, I thought it looked like shit outside of the first space level.
nailbombxx
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In my opinion, DmC definitely fits into the "never looked like it would be good" territory. I never liked the aesthetic, and lo and behold the gameplay didn't live up to my expectations either. I guess you could do a lot worse, its combat system is not as mediocre as the many God of War clones and Batman-like games, but from the start DmC just went into a direction that was completely unlike what I wanted from the series. Just does not touch the standard that has been established years ago.
At first I was on the same boat... but I after watching this video and its amazing performance: Misery Business- Wii Music Drums
I think that, perhaps, it was a misunderstood or not well explained simulator, it was not a game but a simulator that they should had present way better. Looking at that video, there is a lot of missed opportunity with the game.
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To add to the thread.
Paper Mario: Sticker Star - It is a good game (fun mechanic), but not a good Paper Mario game, which I have been waiting to play for a long time.
bananafactory
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DmC is fucking great. Yall are crazy
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
X-Men: Destiny is a game that I remember sites and magazines being very skeptical of based on what they'd seen and heard, even though they liked the concept.
Ghost Slayer
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I don't think so, the combat has its own stand compare to DMC3, 4 and i thought DmC story was fine, nothing special but not bad either.
Ghost Slayer
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I would be appreciate if you posted your opinion instead of using gif.
TheJollyCorner
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But this thread isn't about "games that started to look bad leading up to launch".
I mean, am I completely missing the point of your thread, toythatkills?
This thread is about games that looked like garbage from first reveal and ended up being garbage upon release. Some of you are insane if you believe The Order looked like lazy garbage from first reveal. It had a lot of hype behind it and casting that off as "desperate PS4 fans" is fucking sloppy.
I agree with this. My reaction to the first trailer was "Pretty...where the fuck is the game?" and that was more or less my same reaction to the final release.
Totally agree. Only a big tech demo, imo.
TheSpoiler
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Not even trying to hide that console allegiance huh?
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
There Was also the guy from NoA who also did a awesome live thing on stage at some conference
I was actually arguing that then got off topic. I agree the first trailer when they were in the carriage looked very interesting. Just not the gameplay stuff shown later.
That's not entirely fair. The only current gen console I own is a PS4, and I certainly thought that people were desperate for a 'big exclusive' so they ramped up expectations of the title far beyond normal. I didn't think it looked good from the start, gameplay wise - the game looked pretty as hell, though, and IMO is one of the best looking current games.
R
Rodin
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Same for me tbh. Graphics always looked insane, but gameplay never impressed me (to use an euphemism), so i was never really hyped about the game.
This too.
It has a very slow pace in combat for a hack-n-slash title and that's not even comparing it to more polished games like MGR or Bayonetta.
Modest Mauser
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I thought it looked bad aesthetically, the designs/colors looked like a step down from Prime, but I thought the gameplay could be promising. But then it released...
Other M is without a doubt one of my biggest gaming disappointments.
feint_ruled
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Call of Duty : Black Ops Declassified for the Vita. Insanely short development period, developer whose previous FPS was a little iffy, total lack of preview materials and info, then it squirted out to the expected total lack of fanfare. A total non-surprise from start to finish.
Bad idea from the start that (in my opinion) got worse the more we found out about it.
"well this looks pretty dark and edgy, I wonder what this is"
My name...is Dante
The amount of asspain on that day was unbelievable. I was part of that tsunami and it was murderous.
Also every CoD, Watch_Dogs, Far Cry 4, Splinter Cell Conviction, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3, Homefront, MoH, MoH Warfighter, Operation Flashpoint 2009, Duke Nukem Forever, Sleeping Dogs, the vast majority of movie tie-ins...
Waiting for more dumb drive-by gif answers to continue littering the thread.
InfiniteCombo
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Seriously? What kind of nonsense answer is this?
Ghost Slayer
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I didn't compare it to MGR or Bayonetta and no way DmC has slow pace in combat.
darthsontin
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The Order 1886 looked like a boring generic linear corridor shooter/Gears clone from announcement through release. I remember Colin Moriarty getting a lot of hate for saying the early demos looked mediocre.
Gunstar Ikari
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I thought that Shadow the Hedgehog looked like bottom-of-the-barrel trash from day one, and that was back when I was a massive Sonic fanboy.
Compared to most hack-n-slash titles it does. Only slower one I can think of would be Dante's Inferno.
So far, for me at least, Mighty No. 9 is on track for this, and not because of the graphics reasons people often complain about. The second I saw gameplay footage I was worried about the level design being boring. I hope my impression is changed by the (presumably eventual) release of the final version, but I'm not holding out hope as everything I've seen after does nothing to excite me.
Bluekaveli
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feint_ruled
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Guys, this is not a "games that looked amazing but turned out to be slightly disappointing" thread. Take the Order hate elsewhere.
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