bemusedchunk
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Diakitana/Sin
Once-hyped games that are now completely forgotten
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Its quite amazing, i have a magazine that has several pages dedicated to both The Gateway and Headhunter on the PS2. Headhunter has a entire page just with the guy's face on the cover, who looks like a younger Chuck Norris.
Then there is this 1/4 small crumped up section of text that constitutes 60ish words about some game called Grand Theft Auto or something, never heard of it, and there is one small screenshot of Claude standing in the street with 2 cop cars behind him.
It still happens today, games like LoL, Minecraft and even Borderlands garnered very little fanfare or attention, while major releases from EA, Activision, Sony, MS and others have deepthroated us for years with their "big" games that half the time ended like a wet fart.
My favorite gaming "wet fart" has to be Jade Empire. I only remember 2 game review scores, the notorious 8.8 for Twilight Princess and the laughable IGN 9.9 for Jade Empire. That game fell off the face of the earth mere weeks after release and its like nobody has ever mentioned it since, like it never happened, as if we all had this bizarre dream that wasent quite real.
Winterfang
Banned
That's why is stupid. When Sonic 4 came out, the redesign was established for more than a decade. Yet people started complaining when Sonic 4 came out, like it was something that mattered in the slightest.
ShinobiFist
Banned
This fucking game right here. The god damn hype this got was insane. Story by Orson Scott Card and Music By Tommy Tallarico. This game made me buy a XBOX at the time. Boy what a buggy mess this was.
Dr. Black Jack
Member
my man
I remember this game getting hyped to Hell and back in all of the gaming magazines. Plus it was trying to ride the Armageddon wave, at least in packaging. No one remembers that it exists now.
The actual game is great, fun twin stick shooter.
AkelisRain
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I am going to get tons of hate for by his, especially since it isn't out yet. I predict Sunset Overdrive to be on this list on the sometime future.
Surprised no one posted this.
This is a good choice.
It was supposed to be the Wii's Halo Killer, an amazing first person shooter with awesome online. I remember one of IGN's crew hyping the game a lot.
Ruud_Luiten
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That Halo beater on GameCube. I don't even know the name anymore haha!
Neff
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Yep, the game was absolutely fucking everywhere. It was advertised to gamers and non-gamers alike in all manner of media outlets not usually considered for gaming. Even FFVII probably didn't get as much widespread coverage. I'm convinced they spent 90% of the budget of the game on advertising. I thought it looked horrible at the time, and tried it years later out of morbid curiosity. And it was.
Alessandro
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I remember Dark Messiah of might and magic got a lot of coverage back in the day, gameplay is similar to Dishonored but It's almost forgotten.
Masquerader
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This game had a TON of reviewer hype surrounding it. However, a lot of people simply did not care all that much for it. The reviews were indeed pretty good, but the way they got on in the previews, I was expecting nines and tens everywhere. And a few months later, it was largely ignored, forgotten history.
Brink (another Bethesda thingy) falls into this, but at least Rage was actually quite good, unlike it.
it's a pity in my opnion,because i found it an good game with problems,but an concept for a great sequel.
eot
Banned
This game was getting several magazine covers, and I was completely into the hype. It seemed like such a great idea for a game, then it turned out to not really be what anyone expected.... and then the studio made Evil Genius and closed down.
That's a really good one, hadn't thought about that game in ages.
To be fair, Rise of the Robots has retained some infamy as an absolutely terrible game and frequently shows up on lists of worst SNES/Genesis games.
Games like Brute Force, on the other hand, are reasonably decent, but unmemorable, and so won't even be brought up as a bad game.
Yeah, this is a good one. What happened with this? Didn't it come out in NA 2 years or something after its release in Japan?
One Foul Note
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Not as good as an example as many already posted, but I recall Hellgate being promoted very heavily before release and then vanishing off the face of the Earth. Shame because I liked the concept but playing it was a very middling experience.
runnin_blue
Banned
This wins it hands down in my opinion.
afternoon delight
Member
Let's uh, wait til this one is actually out of beta?
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
I still remember the insane amount of hype this game got and the full-stories devoted to it in Gaming Mags (much of it due to the fact that one of the girls in the game would be appearing in playboy).
Its apparently so forgotten now that the LttP thread I made it about barely got any responses.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=840404&highlight=
I still remember it, and it was a fine game indeed. Think I'll have to dig it out alongside my PS2 when I go home on vacation next week.
Rise of the Robots is the epitomy of overambitious young British developers who don't really know what they're getting into. It seems there were plenty of those around in the late 80's to early 90's. Especially from Psygnosis. Shadow of the Beast was another one (wasn't Sony attempting to resurrect this brand as a modern AAA PS4 title?).
But my personal favorite is Microcosm. It was an FMV shmup inside a human body. They did a ton of worldbuilding for that game, going as far as describing the entire solar system the game is set in. It was going to be a system seller for the ill-fated FM Towns. They got freakin Rick Wakeman to compose the soundtrack (and then realized the hardware couldn't handle playing the FMV backgrounds and CD audio at the same time).
Ti-tan-fall is more than one syllable!
BriGuy said:
I can't recall those being massively hyped. Descent was only "hyped" in regards to being shareware on most PC's at the time to show the 3D-tech off.
Wild 9 had a demo on PSX, but I can't recall people going "OH WOW I NEED THAT" but that's probably just my circle/school at the time.
Oldroutes said:
Something like that, but people found out it really wasn't worth the hype. It's why when they released White Knight Chronicles 2, people were like "SKIP THE FIRST!"
Indeed it was. Don't regret it for a moment.
abstract alien
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This game gsve me so much joyA few titles from the cobwebs of my mind:
Alcoholikaust
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IMO this game got the most hype
Not as good as an example as many already posted, but I recall Hellgate being promoted very heavily before release and then vanishing off the face of the Earth. Shame because I liked the concept but playing it was a very middling experience.
TheDarkKnight774
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Blasto was the first game to come to mind.
I'm sure you could litter the thread with MMOs chasing the WOW money. Conan, war hammer online, middle earth, etc. maybe even Everquest 2
I'm sure you could litter the thread with MMOs chasing the WOW money. Conan, war hammer online, middle earth, etc. maybe even Everquest 2
MDK was going to be the next big thing from Shiny after the success of Earthworm Jim and Aladdin. See the concept trailer here.
Shiny just seemed to lose traction after the 16-bit era though. After MDK they released Messiah which is even more forgotten. It's a shame, really. MDK was an awesome game with a unique feel.
EQ2 didn't chase WoW, it was developed at the same time, WoW happened during its release.
It is however pretty hyped and relative to the bar WoW set for sub numbers, I would agree it was essentially forgotten.
Winterfang
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I disagree but not because of what you think. SO has barely any hype.
People posting shit that they didn't like but everybody clearly still remembers ruined this thread before it even got going. It's a shame.
I've started going back through the 1UP Show. Now that's an exercise in games that were hyped and then disappeared under the sands of time.
Similarly unpopular opinion: I'd wager that The Order: 1886 will be on a future revision of this list.
AkelisRain
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Really, it seems to me a ton of people on gas are hyped about it. I don't have cable television so I am not sure how much marketing it will receive, but it seems to be garnering some traction.
A Serious Man
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Speaking of MMO's...
There have been plenty of hyped MMO's that failed, but none of them dropped off the face of the earth as quickly as this wreck. Its servers were shut down less than a year and a half after its release.
There have been plenty of hyped MMO's that failed, but none of them dropped off the face of the earth as quickly as this wreck. Its servers were shut down less than a year and a half after its release.
Didn't Matt_IGN practically beg Nintendo fans to buy this game in order to "send a message" that there was an audience for core games on Wii? Or was that MadWorld?
Vocal Orgasmizzle
Banned
This game had a TON of reviewer hype surrounding it. However, a lot of people simply did not care all that much for it. The reviews were indeed pretty good, but the way they got on in the previews, I was expecting nines and tens everywhere. And a few months later, it was largely ignored, forgotten history.
The shooty parts were so good though!
I have no idea why there wasn't online multiplayer for the shooter gameplay, which was excellent. Plus the vehicle traversal wasn't fully realized despite being fun sometimes. If they just focused on the FPS part of the game and didn't have it end in an ambiguous and weird way it would have been quite the gem.
Now? Just a forgotten gem plagued in what could have been.
AkelisRain
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I agree, but I am on the hype train for this game.
Yeah, when you bring it up maybe. Where are the spamfest topics about the X1 savior though? I see no topic talking about it's expansions, multiplayer, or anything. The game is forgotten less than 6 months after it's release.
Vocal Orgasmizzle
Banned
Ugh, don't remind me of the start of SEGA's downward spiral back in the mid 2000's.
Which sucked, cause Panzer Dragon Orta, Gun Valkyrie and JSRF were great.
Was Gun Valkyrie hyped? I don't remember, but it sure is forgotten.