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The BIGGEST meltdowns over game announcements?
- Thread starter Hero of Legend
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I loved when we actually got game play footage. Reactions were great all around.
In December 2006? It most certainly was not a universally loved system. A lot of gamers never really even considered handhelds as a viable alternative at that point.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
In retrospect, yes it was never gonna look that good
But BOY what a drop-off in expectations that was!
sublimit
Banned
Is this the thread where the "i'm an expert in Japanese culture" meme was conceived?
Epic stuff.
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
Ahh yeah, I wasn't sure what meltdown, I'm not going to lie those concept art got me so hyped and I was so disappointed when I saw the in game pictures, I agree with this meltdown lol.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Ya know, "i'm an expert in Japanese culture" guy still posts here pretty regularly. I wonder if he gets any shit for such an infamous post.
What was the consensus? I thought the first gameplay footage looked UH-mazing, easily better all round than the hokey CGI dog and pony show of e3.
pillardestruction.gif /drool
Remember how the game looked when they first teased it. People were expecting something....different.
This was not only about the game being on DS (though people were also pissed about that), but also about how it was supposed to become an Action RPG at first. They drastically changed the game after the first announcement.
A Year of that '00 spaceworld footage perculating in the minds of the true believers SMASHED to pieces.
People just don't know.
That's what I mean. It looked great, but you had people trying to down play it and others saying it looked better than the CG footage.
It did not look better than that CG footage. Just as close as anyone could reasonably expect.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Why? The controller really was terrible and developers were ultimately unable to justify its existence.
Tylahedras
Banned
I got banned for typing "Wii..."
Which was more an indication of surprise then of derision but man was that hammer falling fast and wide that day.
WrenchNinja
Member
The meltdowns over FFXIII, Epic Mickey, DQIX and DMC4 are especially amusing in hindsight when all of those games turned out to be mediocre at best.
It was incredible.
Cerebral Assassin
Member
EatinOlives
Member
I saw plenty of "bu-bu-bu art style!" cards being played. Many Wii fans also took offense at the realists and thought they were trolling. Even the first screenshots wouldn't get them to wake up. They kept repeating the one line from the PR statement that said the lighting system hadn't been fully implemented.
Prince of Space
Banned
IIRC, the reaction to Resident Evil 4 going to GC wasn't much of a surprise after REmake and Zero. THAT was a big announcement; RE going "GameCube exclusive", and brought on more than a few meltdowns. Twin Snakes was a pretty big deal, too.
The wink that set the world on fire. On was on GameFAQs back in the day...lord have mercy...
Haha nothing Nintendo did during the early GC years was ever good enough. The new Mario didn't have enough of a graphical leap to be impressive, the new Metroid was a first person shooter being developed in Texas, and the new Zelda was a Powerpuff Girls cartoon.
KillerTravis
Banned
I've been hearing Epic Mickey all over this thread but I haven't seen any links!
I didn't even remember it was that long ago, heh
Very interesting. I need to get caught up on that thread; when DQIX as announced it was just an "oh cool" moment for me, as I didn't really know much about the series. The only DQ I had played up to that point was Dragon Warrior Monsters.
SonicMegaDrive
Member
I wonder what Japanese Zelda fan reaction was to the whole 'Celda' thing.
Sexually Aggressive Uncle
Member
The VF5 announcement here was fucking crazy. A total bloodbath.....for VF5. lol
As far as bans for ridiculous shit, that one takes the cake.
As far as bans for ridiculous shit, that one takes the cake.
The Bookerman
Member
My favorite was RE4. Good gifs in that meltdown.
RE-4 is a a big one.
But I distinctly remember meltdowns when Starcraft Ghost was announced instead of Starcraft 2.
Besides that, hmmm, EA tying up ESPN exclusivity which pretty much killed NHL 2k and NFL 2k series.
EmCeeGramr
Member
The reaction on the GCNGB that RE4 was going to PS2 was batshit insane. Capcom had utterly betrayed the GameCube fanbase, the Resident Evil fanbase, the port would be awful trash that would undeservedly sell better, this was responsible for the perceived lower texture quality in recent screens, Mikami was a liar, etc.
You have to recall, the game had been delayed from fall to January, then in late fall, only a couple months before the game was about to come out, Capcom announced that there would be a later version (with assuredly more content) coming to a larger audience later in the year. To the diehards, Capcom had done a bait-and-switch on one of the GC's biggest system sellers.
You have to recall, the game had been delayed from fall to January, then in late fall, only a couple months before the game was about to come out, Capcom announced that there would be a later version (with assuredly more content) coming to a larger audience later in the year. To the diehards, Capcom had done a bait-and-switch on one of the GC's biggest system sellers.
Never really followed the VF community, what was wrong with VF5?
Also, a bit OT, but what's up with your user name?
EmCeeGramr
Member
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=560039&postcount=180
holy shit, it's been happening since 2004
SlipperySlope
Banned
There is only one answer. And that answer is:
holy shit, it's been happening since 2004
Hahaha
Keep on shining, you crazy dimaond.
Parallax
best seen in the classic "Shadow of the Beast"
ok then i didnt go crazy. it was hilarious for people to get banned over that.
megarockexe
Member
Looking through the DQIX thread.
The prophecy foretold.
lol
The prophecy foretold.
Actually comes from a YouTube video where this ultra nerd experiences some insane nerd rage. Try looking it up, it's hilarious.
Sexually Aggressive Uncle
Member
Like everything around here, it had less to do with the actual game itself but rather Sony losing some supposed exclusive. VF5 was extremely hyped around here because it was right at the beginning of the PS3 and it was one of those bullet points that some of these clowns would point out as a selling point. VF5 this, VF5 that....it was insane. When VF5 was announced for the 360, seemingly half the people that posted in that thread were banned. It seems even crazier now looking back on it lol.
As far as my username, it's kind of a joke. I'm not really an uncle.
Sexually Aggressive Uncle
Member
That guy was reading a post. From here.
EmCeeGramr
Member
That was one of the founders of Something Awful playing a character.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=560039&postcount=180
holy shit, it's been happening since 2004
oh shiiiit
Sexually Aggressive Uncle
Member
Sony would've had to pay out of their butts to keep them exclusive....money that they don't really have. If anything, I think if they kept those titles exclusive either Sony or the publishers of those games would be much, much worse off right now. It's probably better for everyone that things ended up the way they did.
Graphics Horse
Member
I can never remember if that started here or if a guy just pasted it here. Amir0x had his own little meltdown of course.
http://amir0x.ytmnd.com/
evilromero
Member
There is only one answer. And that answer is:
I agree. This was bigger than any meltdown in recent years.
lol Epic meltdowns. MH3 was surely big. I don't want to know what happened in Japan after this announcement. But even bigger than that is the MH3G and MH4 announcements. Oh god, I didn't even believed that we would see a new MonHun on a Nintendo Platform, especially after MHP3rd. Bayonetta 2 is also quite big, as FF XIII.
Also, the Wii Remote thread is awesome. LOL
Also, the Wii Remote thread is awesome. LOL
Sexually Aggressive Uncle
Member
Amir0x has a meltdown every other day. The drugs, of course.
As far as the FF13 stuff, I thought it was posted here and then picked up by SA but I could be remembering it wrong.
I'll give you GTA and the DLC for sure, even though though SA & VC existed on the Xbox. but RE historically was already a roving franchise. FFXIII didn't really matter, it outsold the 360 ver. heavily in the end, poor port and all. A lot of people made their choice before the betrayaton.
The rest weren't really huge players, not really sure they influenced too many. Microsoft's new IP aggressiveness and hunger early on was much more of a determining factor in console choice for fence sitters, than those once Sony platform favoring titles going multiplatform.
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
Majmun
Member
There is only one answer. And that answer is:
How could I forget that??
I remember seeing some kids having heated discussions over it at school. Not everyone had internet at that time. Some people just didn't want to believe it.
Real life fanboy meltdowns are vastly superior.
Red Blaster
Member
Tekken, Final Fantasy, Virtua Fighter and probably DMC now that Capcom has fucked around with it are now niche franchises in the West; wouldn't have made a difference.
