Baconsammy
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Yeah, that never happened. I seem to recall the past two years of shit and wallowing around last in sales.
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The BIGGEST meltdowns over game announcements?
- Thread starter Hero of Legend
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Yeah, that never happened. I seem to recall the past two years of shit and wallowing around last in sales.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Wow at the vast amount of examples that are from Japanese publishers.
Red Blaster
Member
The mini-meltdowns whenever a Wii developer would announce another "test" game were always fun.
Mama Robotnik
Member
This isn't the thread for this, but hasn't the Wii sold just-shy of thirty-million more units than either MS or Sony, worldwide, across the entirety of the generation?
Calling figures like that "dominating the generation", is inaccurate how exactly?
BrainZEROX
Member
Will repeat with The Last Guardian. The amount of expectations around the game are now impossible to match and the backslash will be violent.
whatevermort
Member
They did. If people say that they didn't, they're still just smarting. It won. It won, and maybe deservedly so. Risks should be rewarded.
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KillerTravis
Banned
sonycowboy
Member
(09-16-2005, 02:53 AM)
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King Jippo
Banned
(09-16-2005, 02:53 AM)
#29
Haha it's like 2012.
bobbychalkers
Member
Bayonetta 2 was the biggest meltdown I've seen since I became a member. When I was just lurking the FFXIII and Epic Mickey threads were pretty bad.
ShellyDeKiller
Member
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133134&page=20
Holy shit, this DQ9 thread gets glorious from page 20. HAHAHA
Holy shit, this DQ9 thread gets glorious from page 20. HAHAHA
OldJadedGamer
Banned
Valkyria Chronicles 2 going PSP
Third party support.
You said the entire generation. The generation is still going.
Theres...an otherwise?...
Third party support.
You said the entire generation. The generation is still going.
That depends on what acceptance means. Have I accepted that DmC actually exists and is coming out aka not being canceled? Yea I accepted that. Have I accepted the direction that the series is going with DmC? Have to play the game before I decide.
In terms of infamy, my biggest memory is all the port beggars for Epic Mickey getting wiped out. Thread was a blood bath.
Second biggest is FFXIII on 360. Before the announcement, anyone on GAF who said they believed it was going to be announced got banned, and then after the announcement Bish said they were staying banned anyway. GAF mods were much crueler back then.
Second biggest is FFXIII on 360. Before the announcement, anyone on GAF who said they believed it was going to be announced got banned, and then after the announcement Bish said they were staying banned anyway. GAF mods were much crueler back then.
eighty(one)
Member
The bigger ones I can remember:
FFXIII announced as multi-platform (also on 360), by SE
Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 0 and a remake of Resident Evil, as well as the Capcom 5, exclusive on Nintendo GameCube. Eventually, Resident Evil 4 made its way to PS2, and there was a small flare up with fans and a bigger flare up, causing Shinji Mikami to quit Capcom.
Silicon Knights and Factor 5 abandoning Nintendo
Bioware and DICE being gobbled by EA
Monster Hunter (and Resident Evil handheld) shifting toward 3DS and Wii(U), away from Playstation brand
Bayonetta 2 appearing exclusive on WiiU
Nintendo selling RARE, MS acquisition of RARE
Epic developing on iOS (Infinity Blade was originally a Kinect game idea)
Bungie leaving MS
- some minor things:
3DS 250$ pricing and value vs Vita, 3DS screen scratches, Lost Odyssey and other JRPG's only on 360, Vita flopping everywhere, iOS/Android vs portable gaming....
Lots of things.
FFXIII announced as multi-platform (also on 360), by SE
Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 0 and a remake of Resident Evil, as well as the Capcom 5, exclusive on Nintendo GameCube. Eventually, Resident Evil 4 made its way to PS2, and there was a small flare up with fans and a bigger flare up, causing Shinji Mikami to quit Capcom.
Silicon Knights and Factor 5 abandoning Nintendo
Bioware and DICE being gobbled by EA
Monster Hunter (and Resident Evil handheld) shifting toward 3DS and Wii(U), away from Playstation brand
Bayonetta 2 appearing exclusive on WiiU
Nintendo selling RARE, MS acquisition of RARE
Epic developing on iOS (Infinity Blade was originally a Kinect game idea)
Bungie leaving MS
- some minor things:
3DS 250$ pricing and value vs Vita, 3DS screen scratches, Lost Odyssey and other JRPG's only on 360, Vita flopping everywhere, iOS/Android vs portable gaming....
Lots of things.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
The wink that set the world on fire. On was on GameFAQs back in the day...lord have mercy...
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
Wonder why this was only mentioned once so far. I wasn't there when it happened but it must have been major.
Another meltdown I would have loved to see is Zelda on CDi, before it was obvious the games are crap.
Same here. It was one of those moments where I realized how much Nintendo actually cared about gaming.
Baconsammy
Banned
"Dominated the entire generation" is incredibly inaccurate. Definitely dominated a lot longer than it's been failing, though, but for the past two years it's only been dominating Ebay/Craigslist Uses Game sales. It's fair to say that in console sales overall it won the generation easily, but it most surely didn't dominate the entire generation. Not even remotely.
SonicMegaDrive
Member
The Wind Waker was great. I remember being pleased with the art direction even when it was first announced.
It was funny too because lots of people said "The Xbox 360 isn't powerful enough to handle it".
The wink that set the world on fire. On was on GameFAQs back in the day...lord have mercy...
I posted on IGN at the time. The backlash was so bad that the Gamecube forum had to be SHUT DOWN because there were 500 Wind Waker threads being made per minute.
evilromero
Member
I remember there being some meltdowns when Final Fantasy games started coming back to Nintendo consoles. I guess Square fans at the time forgot where the games had started.
fly high ~ayunite~
Member
The username sonycowboy takes me back! Is he still around?
CadetMahoney
Member
I've only had the pleasure to be a part of the Bayonetta meltdown first hand. That was a riot.
heh
heh
SonicMegaDrive
Member
Funnily enough, I took it as good news at the time, since my logic was:
Sega making games for all three consoles = MORE GAMES = more for me.
Sadly I did not account for Sega losing it so badly. If I had known then what I know now I probably would have been more depressed.
Baconsammy
Banned
People freaked out about Wind Waker? I loved the look of that game. The clean, cartoony graphics almost make you forget that the game isn't on an HD console.
Tylahedras
Banned
I was on gaf when the FFXIII one happened. The thread moved like 5 pages with each refresh, it was amazing.
There have been other big ones
But FFXIII was on a whole other level.
There have been other big ones
I was even banned during the great Epic Mickey purge
But FFXIII was on a whole other level.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
I missed it. The game doesn't interest me at all so I never read the thread. Now it sounds like I was missing out.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
I somehow feel that you are exaggerating a bit.
evilromero
Member
It's funny to think what things would have caused meltdowns today. For example Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon and Wipeout all going to other systems seems like it would've caused quite a few meltdowns had it happened today.
I imagine something similar happening to Jak, Resistance or Sly.
I imagine something similar happening to Jak, Resistance or Sly.
No shit?
I think that was obvious hyperbole, but there were enough threads being made that you couldn't try to have any legitimate conversation. The entire forum was shut down because the mods/admins didn't know what to do.
I've never seen backlash anywhere near as bad as the unveiling of Wind Waker.
Baconsammy
Banned
I'm starting to think people will meltdown over everything. Meltdowns lose all meaning when they occur over stupid things like Zelda's graphics or a bad game like Epic Mickey.
CadetMahoney
Member
j0hnny_385
Member
This thread and links in it are pure gold. My stomach hurts from all the laughing. Thanks GAF!
Can't wait for another megaton meltdown. Hahaha.
Can't wait for another megaton meltdown. Hahaha.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Everyone saw the concept art, of steampunk Disney with a dark twist and thought "holy fuck this is gonna look amazing", and then that GI cover looked like some kind of abstract David Lynch Disney nightmare
then the actual screenshots came out and it was just another cute little Wii game
Red Blaster
Member
Here's the GAF thread when RE4 was announced for PS2
1000 posts in a thread seemed huge back in 2004
I also miss old GAF memes like IAWTP and one console future
1000 posts in a thread seemed huge back in 2004
I also miss old GAF memes like IAWTP and one console future
Little Green Yoda
Member
Context. The Wii has floundered lately, not the Wiimote. The failings of the past two years are directly related to the lack of third party support and underpowered console, not at all related to the controller.