tokyostomp
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Any MLP game.
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Have you ever genuinely wanted a game to fail?
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About as bad? Give me a break.
I will not force anything, after all, I'm the one spending the money on videogame consoles. Not buying a Nintendo system is not about forcing things onto someone, it's preference.
airmangataosenai
Member
I'll admit to feeling schadenfreude over this one. Team Ninja's behavior towards the fans was appalling.
Edit: Ninja Theory, duh.
nkarafo
Member
Cheers on that.
Let your child decide what games to play.
TechnicPuppet
Nothing! I said nothing!
Good luck with that.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
You people are evil
Please explain me how my kid will have access to a console if I'm not the one buying it?
The Hermit
Member
Even Super Hexagon?
That game made me look iOS games diferently, but so far its a diamond in a sea of shit.
vxXJordanXxv
Banned
This.
vxXJordanXxv
Banned
Fuck so many people having the same opinion as me on this thread so I guess I will refine my list.
Any CoD game post CoD 4.
F2P pay to win games
DmC (of course)
Super Mario Galaxy
Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts (Fuck you MS)
Any Minecraft clone
Gears of War Judgement
Castlevania Lords of Shadow
Zelda Skyward Sword (The only Zelda game I ever hated)
Mass Effect 3 (Way too linear in MY OPINION)
Any game sequel/reboot that abandons it's core audience and completely revamps it's core gameplay. Looking at you Duke Nukem Forever.
Any CoD game post CoD 4.
F2P pay to win games
DmC (of course)
Super Mario Galaxy
Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts (Fuck you MS)
Any Minecraft clone
Gears of War Judgement
Castlevania Lords of Shadow
Zelda Skyward Sword (The only Zelda game I ever hated)
Mass Effect 3 (Way too linear in MY OPINION)
Any game sequel/reboot that abandons it's core audience and completely revamps it's core gameplay. Looking at you Duke Nukem Forever.
Boy Wander
Member
No specific game but anything that takes the piss in terms of micro payments or payable upgrades etc.
Reubeucent
Neo Member
DmC, Battlefield 4, Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age 1-2, Dead Space 3.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
Call of Duty after MW2 so we can start to get past this shitty phase.
Not a very unique sentiment, but that's a good thing.
Not a very unique sentiment, but that's a good thing.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
I've wanted games to fail, yes. Felt they were bad routes for series, genres, and careers to take. Thing is, in this generation, one bomb usually means at least dozens of pink slips and closed dev houses, so it's something dangerous to wish for.
Bedameister
Member
Any Fifa on a handheld or nintendo console because it's the same game as the year before and EA gets away with it every year.
Sorcerer Supreme
Member
I like you.
Glorified G
Member
I'm afraid of pubs of big budget fighters next gen will be taking an extreme monetary route by releasing less content, avoiding the retail market and charging more in the long run. Killer Instinct is a great example of that and I hope that model for them bombs bad so ms is eventually forced to release the game retail.
Keep the 30 man roster for $60 retail please.
Keep the 30 man roster for $60 retail please.
C'mon !
No game should be that hated !
I mean even the lowest of the lowest can have something GOOD right ?
I would be happy if games like Ryse would not make millions and show the industry that saying "fuck you" to gameplay is a good thing but to FAIL ?
Nooo... there are good people working there and they need their jobs.
OMFG THIS !
THOSE GAME COPIERS SHOULD DIEEEE !
RIP OFF GAMES !
Zelda Jumper, Mole Kart, Copy, Korean Team Fortress, Chinese Mario Galaxy...Copy and Paste unauthorized remakes and stuffs like that.
Please die in a fire.
I am not talking Gameloft's "creating a polished game in the style of games that are not on mobile" ... i am talking artwork ripping and crap rippofs of level design.
No game should be that hated !
I mean even the lowest of the lowest can have something GOOD right ?
I would be happy if games like Ryse would not make millions and show the industry that saying "fuck you" to gameplay is a good thing but to FAIL ?
Nooo... there are good people working there and they need their jobs.
I wished every possible level of failure and humiliation on the dirtbags who made that Android Pushmo ripoff.
burn in hell
OMFG THIS !
THOSE GAME COPIERS SHOULD DIEEEE !
RIP OFF GAMES !
Zelda Jumper, Mole Kart, Copy, Korean Team Fortress, Chinese Mario Galaxy...Copy and Paste unauthorized remakes and stuffs like that.
Please die in a fire.
I am not talking Gameloft's "creating a polished game in the style of games that are not on mobile" ... i am talking artwork ripping and crap rippofs of level design.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
No need for consoles, let him embrace PC gaming from youth, he will be quoting Julius Caesar and Attila at age 7.
Storm Chamber
Banned
It's never gotten that serious for me
I know, right?
I'd rather these games succeed just so I can listen to the butthurt from angry nerds who take these things a little too personally.
Don't like a game? Don't play it, but wishing it to fail is just childish.
BumblebeeCody
Member
Fifa. Hate that series and that sport.
Apeopleman
Member
You are all social degenerates.
People fear change.
Oh, and I guess over an 85 on metacritic, and rumors of a second installment = failure.
Classy personal insults.
People fear bad change. There are no rumors of a second installment. That's wishful thinking on your part.
Gaming's a serious hobby for people. I don't know why that's difficult for some to grasp. "Just games lol" is the poorest thoughtout and easiest copout answer ever given on these forums.
CommandThrower
Member
For me, it's World of Warcraft. I did play the game and I genuinely enjoyed it for the time I played, but because of World of Warcraft, there probably will never be a Warcraft 4. Warcraft 3 is one of my all time favorite games. I loved it's gameplay, but most of all I loved it's story. I felt that WoW totally muddled up the Warcraft lore. I think there's only two ways the lore can be salvaged for a new Warcraft RTS, and it's either making WoW it's own separate entity lore-wise and starting from where Frozen Throne left off, or rebooting it; but with all the races that Blizzard has fleshed out because of WoW, a total reboot to the lore is highly unlikely.
While it's not exactly a fact, the idea that Warcraft 4 not existing because of WoW still chaffs my hide, and it's damn close to the truth if you ask me. If there will be a Warcraft 4, it won't happen until WoW dies, and even then...I think Blizzard sees only Starcraft as their main RTS now, since it's pretty much the world's flagship RTS. They see Warcraft as an MMO, rather than an RTS...and that is NOT what Warcraft should be.
While it's not exactly a fact, the idea that Warcraft 4 not existing because of WoW still chaffs my hide, and it's damn close to the truth if you ask me. If there will be a Warcraft 4, it won't happen until WoW dies, and even then...I think Blizzard sees only Starcraft as their main RTS now, since it's pretty much the world's flagship RTS. They see Warcraft as an MMO, rather than an RTS...and that is NOT what Warcraft should be.
I agree with you.
NSMB:U has some of the best level design of this decade in a platformer. Sorry that your blind to that fact and think that every game they release is a goddamn copy. SMH. And that goes for everyone on this board that thinks new IP is hot shit over games with fantastic gameplay design.
The failure of World of Warcraft would make a Warcraft 4 far less likely, not more. I mean, because of WoW we got Hearthstone, we're getting Blizzard All-Stars, even a movie...I'd say an RTS game is hardly totally out of the picture, and if it is, it's only because Blizzard doesn't feel the need/desire to make one.
I mean, while Warcraft lore has been MMO/modern Metzen/whoever is writing everything now-ified, wouldn't it be amazing to see post-WC3 lore developments sort of reimagined into RTS form, a format that lends itself far more to good storytelling than MMOs?
Seriously, the success of WoW begs for a RTS comeback. My interpretation is the opposite of yours.
Apeopleman
Member
Yes, considering if a game doesn't sell well, people can actually lose their jobs.
But when 17 year old cry babies don't get a Dante with white hair, they spam every message board slamming a hard working developer and wishing failure and difficult times among the creators and fans alike.
When I want a game to fail, I'm mostly thinking about the design decisions forced on those developers to no longer be the norm. Like with Socom Confrontation, I wanted it to fail because it sends a message to the publisher NOT to fuck with the game's formula. I WANT them to succeed by doing so.
Well they didn't get the point nor listen to the loudness of their fans over the final 5 years or so and made Socom 4 with the same concepts in mind. And guess what? They failed, shut down the studio (Zipper), and hundreds of developers were out of a job. Good going.
Sometimes its good to listen to your fanbase, these are the very people that put the dollars in your pockets.
In certain situations it's really the publisher that feels the brunt of damage on a failed property. Not an outsourced developer. Failure can often lead to structural change. It's useful in establishing what works and what doesn't. What changes should be made and what things should stay the same.
A lot of people here are discrediting failure as something that is only negative. It can be a very productive, albeit expensive, lesson. Those people only wanting success and neutrality are the ones with childish perspectives.
In this case, the outsourced developer had strong ties with the publisher (producers were Sony employees) and it seemed some of the decisions were directly coming from the publisher. Shit like "we want some of the COD fanbase" sounds like something a publisher would want, not a developer who usually just wants to make a great game.
MastaKilla
Member
Socom 4. The devs tried so blatantly hard to make a TPS call of duty clone that nobody wanted. Now the dev and franchise are dead forever.
Exactly. And it's the publisher that needs to feel the heat in their wallets. It doesn't always work out that way, but it's often enough.
Yeah, the idea that wanting a game to fail is "short-sighted" is silly for exactly this reason (at least depending on the motive). In many cases the success of Franchise butchery just results in an even larger crash down the line due to the increased success promoting much larger budgets (and bigger teams), which makes an inevitable future failure much, much worse.