whyamihere
Banned
Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles The Crystal Bearers
"They're making a single player CC with an awesome protagonist that has gravity powers?"
Then you played it..
Oh...
Oof. Yes.
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Once-hyped games that are now completely forgotten
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Oof. Yes.
old manatee
Banned
Mendel Palace. Everybody was talking about it, but now nobody is talking about it.
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.
? I still play it daily, plenty of people do.
The PVP is about to come out, too.
Some gaffer's hate boner for this game is hilarious.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
This can't be seriousI know it's still getting DLC but I can't think of a game that came and went so fast as Ghost Recon Wildlands.
Definitely this
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Some good ones in this thread. Brute Force was actually the first game to come to mind. A few others:
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and more MMOs than one can count...
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and more MMOs than one can count...
I'm sure the people who didn't play it would love to think that. But it's actually a very memorable game.
According to the last NCSoft quarterly report, Aion has actually doing better than Guild Wars 2 for all but 1Q17 (and the difference was slight, only about 1k Mn Won). Of course, that has more to do with GW2 failing hard than Aion doing better, but it's surprisingly stable for an MMO in it's 9th year. Not saying it's doing well, just that it's kind of surprising that it's still truckin' (though not in the way that Lineage I is somehow still making so much money it's obscene).
T.Slothrop
Member
Lair comes to mind.
neurosisxeno
Member
A lot of them still have legitimate followings. Off the top of my head FFXIV is doing well, LOTRO has been going strong, ESO is still growing, Rift is back and fourth between being good and bullshit p2w, TSW just relaunched and seems to have come a long way, and SWTOR is a steady stream of income for EA/BioWare.
The ones that folded fast off the top of my head were WAR, Conan, and WildStar. All 3 had very real problems and the drop off in interest was completely justified. I actually really liked WAR and WildStar had potential, but Conan was a straight up bad MMO.
Superkewl
Member
I'll always remember that game for the art direction. Gameplay was repetitive though.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
Homefront: The Revolution.
FIREKNIGHT2029
Member
The hype for this was deafening before it launched.
"Have you seen Titanfall?"
It was supposed to be the COD killer according to some and the future of multiplayer FPS for years to come. Then it launched and the hype dissipated. Was gonna get it on PC when it dropped in price until I heard its online was a ghost town. Its sequel didn't fare much better either thanks to some bad decisions from EA.
Laieon
Member
Were people actually ever hyped for this game? Not sure but it's sure forgotten.
Really underrated game imo. I personally enjoyed it a lot more than I did say, Skyrim. Not really sure who owns the rights for it anymore (Rhode Island?) but I wouldn't mind seeing it ported to Switch.
I personally am. That, or a good sale. I think the lowest I've ever seen it sold for was $30.
HueyFreeman
Banned
Game gets multiple GOTY awards - the fourth most for 2016 in terms of critical selections, and including the notoriously choosy EDGE magazine - but GAF poster feels that it is now completely forgotten. Ok.
It will always remain a mystery to me as to why there is a subset of the population - here and elsewhere - that is determined that this game be considered a failure at all levels.
There is a weird amount of agenda in this thread in general. I get some of you didn't enjoy some of these games but I don't think the OP's point was to highlight games you "wish" you could forget but clearly can't.
Kssio_Aug
Member
It was a disappointement, but the franchise is still quite popular.
texhnolyze
Banned
A game being forgotten doesn't mean it's a failure. Where did you get that conclusion from?
The Last Guardian was my top 3 GOTY in 2016, I loved every second of it from start to finish. But after a week or so I already forgot about it. There isn't much to talk about anymore as there's no multiplayer and DLC for the game. It's a one and done game. It's a fantastic game but I'd agree that it's already been forgotten.
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
Not even close.
As this thread points out, there are tons of hyped games that get forgotten about in a flash, because fans want others to buy the game so that they get the next game from the developer, even better if you end up becoming a fan yourself.
I'm also guilty of shilling Yakuza on GAF threads, but luckily Yakuza 0 was amazing and a lot of people enjoyed it. Either way it's still agenda driven given I posted plenty of times about it. People are always going to do that for their favourite games.
I'm also guilty of shilling Yakuza on GAF threads, but luckily Yakuza 0 was amazing and a lot of people enjoyed it. Either way it's still agenda driven given I posted plenty of times about it. People are always going to do that for their favourite games.
The Quiet Man
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Crazy Diamond
Member
PUBG. Can't even find a match at this point. Why even bring it to consoles.
xDUMPWEEDx
Banned
Heh. I like you.
Jinfash
needs 2 extra inches
New phone; who dis?
MetalliCabombination
Member
I feel like splatoon stole arms's thunder
lol, Wildlands and Fallout4, completely forgotten?!
Unfortunately I dont think many games qualify as being hyped (to me this means there was a decent amount of people looking forward to its release) and it just dropping off.
Even disappointing games like The Order and No Mans Sky arent forgotten, and get brought up consistently.
Unfortunately I dont think many games qualify as being hyped (to me this means there was a decent amount of people looking forward to its release) and it just dropping off.
Even disappointing games like The Order and No Mans Sky arent forgotten, and get brought up consistently.
travisbickle
Member
No Man's Sky is a "never forget" game, it's currently trying to relaunch itself and will be brought up every time a new proc-gen game is announced.
The Xbox prelaunch hype games like the "girl with the hammer" and "girl with robot pal" are good calls because they were part of the launch hype but I couldn't tell you if they were ever released?
The Xbox prelaunch hype games like the "girl with the hammer" and "girl with robot pal" are good calls because they were part of the launch hype but I couldn't tell you if they were ever released?
I came for this and was not disappointed.
It was definitely the first thing that popped into my head when reading the title.
I hate to say it. I really love the character designs & now that I own a Switch, I still plan to get it. Still, Splatoon 1 was also pretty bare bones at first & only became a success as it got regular updates. ARMS is still going to get that, but whereas Splatoon had no competition for 3 months until Mario Maker, ARMS is now up against Splatoon itself.
I hope it picks back up, though. It looks really fun conceptually!
(Speed Punks in the US)
Massively hyped up by the Official UK Playstation Magazine as a Mario Kart beater. Great game but I rarely hear it mentioned these days.
I remember that a good number of magazines were very excited about this game. Since it launched only a couple of weeks before Crash Team Racing I'm not surprised it got buried, though.
Sierra's Outpost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpost_(video_game)
"Initial reviews of Outpost were enthusiastic about the game. The American version of PC Gamer rated the game at 93%, one of its highest ratings ever for the time. It was later made known that the reviewers had in fact played beta versions of the game, and had been promised certain features would be implemented, but never were.
Indeed, many of the features described in the game's own documentation simply did not exist in the game at all. These included the ability to enter diplomatic relations with the rebel colony and the ability to build roads, orbital colonies, or the mass driver. Many of these gameplay aspects were later patched in, though in appearance only, as many of them failed to have any meaningful effect on gameplay."
I'm still bitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpost_(video_game)
"Initial reviews of Outpost were enthusiastic about the game. The American version of PC Gamer rated the game at 93%, one of its highest ratings ever for the time. It was later made known that the reviewers had in fact played beta versions of the game, and had been promised certain features would be implemented, but never were.
Indeed, many of the features described in the game's own documentation simply did not exist in the game at all. These included the ability to enter diplomatic relations with the rebel colony and the ability to build roads, orbital colonies, or the mass driver. Many of these gameplay aspects were later patched in, though in appearance only, as many of them failed to have any meaningful effect on gameplay."
I'm still bitter.
Gtagentleman
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JustSomeone
Member
Final fantasy 15
Crazy Diamond
Member
Y'all gotta get out and see the world.
Errr, buddy....this is one of the all time classic....
17 Seconds
Banned
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.
but..... it wasn't fake hype at all. once the infinity ward thing happened and respawn was formed, there was a ton of immediate interest over what they would make, and whether it could compete with the beast they created at IW. for whatever reason, the community and interest fizzled after release, but it wasn't manufactured hype like Evolve or something
ProgenitorCastle
Banned
Pretty much this.
GameAddict411
Member
the best example is Fallout 4
this game was hyped like it was the greatest game ever created, and few months after it was released, they forgot it like it never came out
no game has ever reached the insane hype of Fallout 4, not even GTA V
This thread has so many shitty examples, but this one takes the cake. Fallout 4 is still very popular game on streams. It's has 25k hours daily on Steam to this day. People still trash talk the game on many threads.
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can't unsee upside down master chief bent over, looking for lost keys.
No it's still on people's list of all time classic JRPG.