Brutally true answer for me. I love Ueda's work and TLG was a lovely, wonderfully put together game.
But it just didn't leave any sort of lasting impact for me. Unlike Ico and SotC which i still hold dear.
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Once-hyped games that are now completely forgotten
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Brutally true answer for me. I love Ueda's work and TLG was a lovely, wonderfully put together game.
But it just didn't leave any sort of lasting impact for me. Unlike Ico and SotC which i still hold dear.
Spieler Eins
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ScientificPizza
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GrizzleBoy
Banned
What is a no mans sky?
Frankly, my experience was messed up a bit by having to play it across two months in multiple smaller sessions. Me and my gf struggling to find good times to play it together.
I should have just one-shotted it by myself. Would have probably been a way better experience
velociraptor
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Unreal Tournament
CecilRousso
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That so many people here mention No Man's Sky, seems to be an indication that it's far from forgotten.
Spieler Eins
Member
Pretty much. The backlash is gonna stick for a while, even if people don't play the game.
GrizzleBoy
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Combichristoffersen
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This got a fair bit of hype as the hot shit new AAA platformer for the PS1. It came, received little fanfare, and is probably mostly forgotten today.
Theslammer
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Enter the Matrix.
Lair.
Those are the first two I thought of.
I won't soon forget that experience.
Lair.
Those are the first two I thought of.
I won't soon forget that experience.
evilromero
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That game is infamous for its marketing and for being a flaming turd of a game. It's anything but forgotten.
I think Drawn to Death lost any momentum it had thanks to poor early impressions. It's a shame, I think it's a really good game.
Then again I don't know hyped it was to begin with, maybe not enough for this thread.
Then again I don't know hyped it was to begin with, maybe not enough for this thread.
I don't know about forgotten, but it's certainly mentioned a lot less now that it actually exists.
Dr. Carroll
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The N64 version of Daikatana is an absolute abomination. The PC version... eh... is really not any worse than most late 90's PC FPS games. Really, the game's reputation is extremely hyperbole/meme driven.
cyber_ninja
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Too Human
Lair
Haze
Lair
Haze
King Kong
Almost the the entire conversation about the game where cheap jokes based on the title. It wasn't that hyped.
Almost the the entire conversation about the game where cheap jokes based on the title. It wasn't that hyped.
These threads always have people posting games that are far from forgotten. Bioshock Infinite? The Last Guardian? No Man's Sky? You can think they were disappointing or whatever but they are far, far from being 'completely forgotten'.
Anyway I haven't gone through all 11 pages but Galleon always springs to mind. It was hyped up because the creator was behind the original Tomb Raider, was delayed constantly, and then released to a fizzle and promptly forgotten about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI6xDNjEir0
Anyway I haven't gone through all 11 pages but Galleon always springs to mind. It was hyped up because the creator was behind the original Tomb Raider, was delayed constantly, and then released to a fizzle and promptly forgotten about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI6xDNjEir0
Theslammer
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I think it's because it was one of the first big exclusives for the Xbox One in 2014, and altogether since there weren't many well-review exclusives at that point.
We all remember the rise and fall of Brink, don't we?!
Great pull BTW OP, I remember the demo for Brute Force way back when. Also literally every FPS after Halo was considered "Is this the Halo killer?!". Same thing with WoW.
Before that came out I went to a local game con here and they were announcing to show us a exclusive new trailer for it on the main stage, it turned out to be the same trailer was already out weeks earlier on the internet.
I bought that game on launch day because hey, that one third person parkour trailer sure looks awesome. That game was dead on arrival, I could never find people in match making and ended up with brain dead bots.
I believe I played it a total of three times.
Didn't know there was hype around that, I did play it from start to finish and quite enjoyed it.
Platform? I put 50 hours or more into it on Xbox.
It was a shooter developed by key ex-Infinity War staff in which you can summon giant mechs from the sky and run on walls and have a jetpack and get inside the mechs and start crushing people or turn the mechs on autopilot and they start crushing people as you run on walls with a jetpack and you can jump onto the back of an enemy mech and shoot its internal wiring or jump on the back of a friendly allied mech and shoot at enemies as you're riding it like a horsie.
Shit that game was hyped for all the RIGHT reasons.
There is a big difference between a game being forgotten and a game not being talked about. The Last Guardian falls into the latter. Most games eventually fall into that.
This game man... still my join fave JRPG
Seem to of vanished also
and/or
Final Fantasy XIII
GAF is hilariously out of touch these days lolI know it's still getting DLC but I can't think of a game that came and went so fast as Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Im actually playing through this right now and it deserves to be forgotten. It is very boring, repetitive, and the writing is terrible (maybe a bad translation but I think it's deeper than that). I'm about to hard quit it.Who remembers Blue Dragon?
I feel like this and Lost Odyssey were pretty hyped up during the 360's early days of Japanese support, but LO seems to be the one remembered the most and BD is mostly forgotten.
Imp the Dimp
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Probably mentioned but I'm not gonna dig through 11 pages.
Primal
The Getaway
Primal
The Getaway
Playstation. The match making could just barely find anyone.
Rowleyfan3620
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It never came out, but let's not forget that we had a third-person shooter StarCraft IP coming! I was beyond hyped. Now I forget this was a thing.
JonnyDBrit
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He was supposed to be the Crash Killer.
I scoured the thread to make sure if this had been posted first.
Ty is something of a curious case since it's not like it fell apart out of the gate or anything. It was decently reviewed, sold over a million copies, and spawned two sequels. In spite of that though, it has no lasting legacy to speak of. When the pc port for the first game - nominally the most popular entry in the series - released it did so to little fanfare. No-one references it in terms of game design or platforming principles. It is neither so great that people clamour for a remake, nor so infamous that people remember it for how bad it was. Freaking Bubsy the Cat has more cultural impact and legacy than Ty the Tasmanisn Tiger.
man the rock is so roided out now.Maybe it's because I just didn't lurk on GAF nearly as much then as I do now, but the general consensus I got was that if you were employed by a gaming website Titanfall 1 was basically the video game that was going to end all video games. But if you were an average Joe you looked at all of that hype and basically went
Titanfall 1 was such forced hype. While I actually enjoyed Titanfall I'm kind of glad the marketing push didn't work because of how disgustingly obvious the fake hype was.
I disagree.
People either will remember the enjoyment and/or dissatisfaction of playing this game after the long wait.
I never Said Its a bad game only that IS forgotten after the launch, i dont see people talking about this game today
autoduelist
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First thing that came to my mind.
Other games have been hyped more than FO4, and I'm not sure FO4 is even forgotten.
Lots of other strange choices in this thread, like Wildlands and Last Guardian.
Yes, Warhawk still has a large contingent of fans that want something like it on PS4, like me. Saying Warhawk is forgotten is almost like [but not quite as severe as ] saying Socom 2 is forgotten.
Raylan Targaryen
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I remember debating on if I wanted a 360 or gaming pc back in the day. This game was a huge reason I wanted to get into pc gaming
Never heard of it after it released
Little Monser
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I did as soon as I did one disappointing play through of it
Shame the developer couldn't live up to his past glory and relied on nearly a decade of delayed hype
It was all fake hype generated by huge marketing budget and a lot of people called that out even at the time.
No one gave a damn about the game and the very little true hype it had it was because Xbox One players were desperate to have an AAA exclusive which is biggest reason most of the titles on this thread fall in this category (it's the "InsertGameOrConsoleHere" killer!).
Atom Heart Mother
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I still have no idea when this came out or what reviews it got. It just flashed for a moment.I know it's still getting DLC but I can't think of a game that came and went so fast as Ghost Recon Wildlands.
And it's the best selling game worldwide right now.
This got a fair bit of hype as the hot shit new AAA platformer for the PS1. It came, received little fanfare, and is probably mostly forgotten today.
It was flawed, but still somewhat solid. The biggest thing that squashed the game was Phil Hartman's death close to its release.
HellforLeather
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It seems that "forgotten" has had its meaning changed by a large contingent of GAF.