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Once-hyped games that are now completely forgotten
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I remember you could zoom into see a flower on the ground. The game sounded too good to be true. But then it was.
I remember you could zoom into see a flower on the ground. The game sounded too good to be true. But then it was.
Pingoreous
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donutzsick
Member
IMO spore was a really good example of this.
Hitmonchan107
Member
Almost every game branded as a "Halo killer":
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Should have been so good. Splash Damage, parkour, sweet customization, neat artstyle? Man, what happened?
lastplayed
Member
Hyped, then nothing.
I loved that game so much.
joecanada
Member
Ditto.
I remember some pretty big hype, at least after it was first revealed. Having 256 player online, especially on a console, seemed insane at the time. Sadly I never did get to play it, and with the servers shut down, I never will.
Socom confrontation could also be here. Was broken as hell so deservedly forgotten but it was so smooth when it worked.... So sad
jailbird20022
Banned
alooot of E3 2013 could go in here...
Bahaha, this comment honestly made me burst out laughing. Where do Titanfall haters get this stuff?
It's okay for what it is.
-Amon-
Member
Only in your dreams, probably.
Alex Connolly
Member
Hyped, then nothing.
Great soundtrack, though.
Didn't know it was hyped, lol.
Kenshin001
Member
The scream of 256 players fighting at once. It was a complete load of baloney. the most you will ever see is 64 because of how massively divided the players are on the map. I literally tried to run to another section with other people. After 5+ minutes of straight running, I got sniped out in the open when I was almost there and sent all the way back to my starting base.
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Actually for a lot of people I think that was one of the defining games of the PS3. Your post is somewhat ironic because there was nothing on consoles that came close to some of the epic battles in MAG and I remember when it was announced people were saying it was impossible to do 256 players on a map at the same time. Some OICs managed to get all 128 players on their team in the same building.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Dark Souls 2
dragonbane
Member
You couldn't be more wrong. First, Page never sued anybody or threatened to do so. It was speculation by a random dude on the internet posting on Examiner which got debunked relatively quickly. Second, Ellen is probably the reason they managed to move almost 2 million copies. So hiring her was just the best move they could have done.
BossLackey
Gold Member
Advent Rising
Best reload animation ever
Best reload animation ever
After playing demo: "This is going to be an amazing 3rd person action game!"
After finishing the first level of the finished game and moving on to the next: "WTF?"
Oh god I did the exact same thing. Thankfully I didn't buy it, a friend did. I must have played the demo 20 times. A 3rd person beat em up set in a heavy metal fantasy world sounded so amazing.
"It's actually an RTS game."
"W..What?"
Erm, no.Another one of those game that was hyped almost purely on graphics.
This wasn't hyped on graphics front at all. In fact, very little hype whatsoever. I enjoyed it though.
R_thanatos
Member
i'm one of those people... MAG was an experience that wasn't done before and still isn't.
It certainly won't be forgotten unless someone does better.
chrominance
Member
Best answer I can think of:
Ion Storm's first game, produced at the height of their hubris. Dominion was a partially finished game Ion Storm bought solely to burn off part of their contractual obligations with Eidos, which is something you normally hear about happening at the END of a contract, not the beginning. Then they brought in an expensive team to produce the shit out of it because one person at Ion Storm thought it could sell half a million copies; meanwhile the rest of Ion Storm, when they managed to pay attention to Dominion at all, are basically saying "dude, we just need to make sure it costs less than $3 million to make and we'll turn a profit, don't be an idiot."
Long story short, the game got a few splashy pieces in the gaming magazines of the day (including at least one cover story, I think), but Dominion died on release and it wasn't very good. Nowadays it doesn't even get remembered as one of Ion Storm's big failures because it turned out that Daikatana was even worse (and Anachronox didn't do so hot either). Really, if not for Ion Storm Austin (makers of Deus Ex and Thief), the Ion Storm name would be in the dictionary beside "schadenfreude."
This 1999 Dallas Observer article about Ion Storm is great reading, by the way, if you're curious about this period of history.
Ion Storm's first game, produced at the height of their hubris. Dominion was a partially finished game Ion Storm bought solely to burn off part of their contractual obligations with Eidos, which is something you normally hear about happening at the END of a contract, not the beginning. Then they brought in an expensive team to produce the shit out of it because one person at Ion Storm thought it could sell half a million copies; meanwhile the rest of Ion Storm, when they managed to pay attention to Dominion at all, are basically saying "dude, we just need to make sure it costs less than $3 million to make and we'll turn a profit, don't be an idiot."
Long story short, the game got a few splashy pieces in the gaming magazines of the day (including at least one cover story, I think), but Dominion died on release and it wasn't very good. Nowadays it doesn't even get remembered as one of Ion Storm's big failures because it turned out that Daikatana was even worse (and Anachronox didn't do so hot either). Really, if not for Ion Storm Austin (makers of Deus Ex and Thief), the Ion Storm name would be in the dictionary beside "schadenfreude."
This 1999 Dallas Observer article about Ion Storm is great reading, by the way, if you're curious about this period of history.
Fox_Mulder
Rockefellers. Skull and Bones. Microsoft. Al Qaeda. A Cabal of Bankers. The melting point of steel. What do these things have in common? Wake up sheeple, the landfill wasn't even REAL!
TitanFall. So much hype
……forgetit
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Rhomega Beta
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Haze is going to save the PS3! Lair will show how good the Sixaxis is!
checkeredknight
Member
Obligatory
MrChowderClams
Member
Came here to post this. Should have known it would be used as the example.
The second one had pretty good reviews and was really fun. The third was released only a year later and had a few issues, I never bothered with it.
Masquerader
Member
Before release: OHMYGOD this looks so good, and dark, and it's the sequel to the best game ever!
During release: Eh... It's alright, I guess. Pretty good game.
After release: OHMYGOD Bloodborne looks so good, and dark, and it's the spiritual sequel to the best game ever!
The worst part was that the hype was natural, so it hurt so many people, so hard.
Ol No Bones
Banned
I wish I could forget.
L4DANathan
Member
Hey, Spore is actually pretty good. Assuming, of course that you had no idea what you were buying, and were never on the hype train....
Manmademan
Member
Before release: OHMYGOD this looks so good, and dark, and it's the sequel to the best game ever!
During release: Eh... It's alright, I guess. Pretty good game.
After release: OHMYGOD Bloodborne looks so good, and dark, and it's the spiritual sequel to the best game ever!
The worst part was that the hype was natural, so it hurt so many people, so hard.
always easy to spot the people that didn't play Demon's Souls in these threads.
Oh give over. DS2 is still great, it's just not as good as its predecessor. And how many sequels manage to live up to the original, eh? Especially when they're developed by a different team due to the OG director not wanting to work on sequels? Plus, the DLCs own your face for
Anyway:
Was going to be a colourful, cartoony shooter with tons of humour, but then EA had to come along and brown 'n' bloom everything. Deservedly fell off the face of the earth when it released. It's a good thing that Insomniac went on to actually make the game FUSE should have been in Sunset Overdrive, and I'm hoping that the lesson that "EA are scum" has been thoroughly learned.
Also, this.
I honestly can't remember if it was hyped (though it logically should have been), but all I remember of its reception upon launch was a huge cloud of meh. I haven't seen nor heard anything about it since. Quake Wars, on the other hand...
Masquerader
Member
I was referring to Bloodborne being the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls, actually~
Brerlappin
Member
I honestly can't remember if it was hyped (though it logically should have been), but all I remember of its reception upon launch was a huge cloud of meh. I haven't seen nor heard anything about it since. Quake Wars, on the other hand...
There was zero hype for Q4. In fact I remember being shocked to see it on sale, thinking "wait, what, quake 4 is out? And more to the point, quake 4 is a game?"
Gunslinger
Member
Titanfall lol.
Only if you just started gaming 6 months ago or have poor memory