1.) ET Atari is easily number. This made global gaming go dormant.
2.) No Man's Sky - Biggest modern flop.
3.) FF 14 - The game had to shutdown.
always the right answer
tldr: horribly bugged release pushed out of the door way too early, Future Publishing did exclusive pre-release coverage in two magazines which resulted in a additional drama. Atari hired a marketing firm in a botched attempt to change the narrative, exacerbating the situation. On top of that, people involved tried to scrub the scandal out of existence.What was the problem with it?
No Man Sky has since then been updated and has been warmly received and they are still selling units every time they release a new update. I wouldn’t put it in the top 3 after all of the efforts to put the game right.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Command and Conquer 4. It was terrible, and the reasons for this are:
No more base building
Always online in a time of patchy internet.
Rather than unlock units through the story you had to earn XP and had to play multiplayer to get good units.
It killed the franchise
I remember buying this on launch day and thinking 'What the fuck is this shit, this is nothing like what they had said it would be'. Just a massive pile of dogshit.Surprised no one mentioned Driv3r yet
This is what I came to post. My friends and I were so ready for both of these, riding high off of the Mass Effect trilogy. I remember that I got Mass Effect Andromeda early and my friends drove 5 hours so we could play through the campaign together. We made it 2 hours before we quit and played Mass Effect 2. How frustrating.Anthem crashed and burned.
Before that it was Mass Effect Andromeda.
Honestly not real sure how bioware hasn't been shuttered by EA. Pandemic was way better and even still they got kicked to the curb.
1.) ET Atari is easily number one. This made global gaming go dormant.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Command and Conquer 4. It was terrible, and the reasons for this are:
No more base building
Always online in a time of patchy internet.
Rather than unlock units through the story you had to earn XP and had to play multiplayer to get good units.
It killed the franchise
Yeah I'd have to go with this one as well. As a long time player of FF11 I was very excited for this release- got my big box special edition and everything. It's insane how they turned into this a truly great MMO. Well less insane and more like years of hard work I suppose.
I love how that game was completely revamped and development overhauled to make such a great MMO. Sometimes I forget it released in 2010 and then again in 2013 lol
So its cool to see such a wild revamp or even with No Man Sky to the point of them delivering everything promised and then EVEN MORE BEYOND that (pun intend)
Only time will tell if CP2077 can even come close to that type of revamp, maybe it makes sense to just start on part 2 and have a real solid foundation to work with, with the other 2 being online focused things, those progressive elements make sense, but many who play single player games, are unlikely to return years later to try to play a single player game as if they will just magically forget or negate that first experience or something.
Still, pretty high chance that it's gonna be garbage, remake or not.Edit: Nvm its Flashback 2. Still concerning.
I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet: Brink.
Highly promoted before release, had lots of cool features, very stylish, ahead of its time in a lot of ways. However, the map design was trash and poorly balanced. The game literally died in like 48 hours and never recovered.
There was a lot I liked about it, was disappointed that there was no one to play with and the bots sucked. Full price game became completely useless just like that.
Yeah came to post this. I remember playing the demo before it launched and it was so obviously crap. Making the base weapon a melee weapon was just horrible in that type and era of FPS, it looked average and the hype had been way out of control.for me
Easily has to be CP2077.
This game literally changed genres.
From the shit show on last gen systems (btw I don't blame Sony or MS regarding that situation, this fucking game was revealed in 2012, as in the fucking game was literally be worked on PRIOR to that reveal)
From lying to gamers about the game's current state
Lying to gamers about the actual core content in the game.
Hiding review footage from gamers which is odd as if the fucking game is perfectly fine, why try to hide this by stopping reviews from actually showing THE ACTUAL GAME?
I can excuse bugs, nothing is perfect, I can excuse even glitches, what I can't excuse is a deliberate, purposeful intent to scam, lie, or manipulate gamers into believing the game is more then what it clearly is.
I can't stand this fake idea that the FINAL game, is suddenly what the real believed intent was, that isn't what I read on here, that isn't what i read on Youtube trailers literally showing the dates of those comments, there was a real belief that the game would have some of those elements based on how it was marketed and comments made by the developer and based on the belief that they would some how destroy Bethesda or something, it wasn't even some unimaginable things that gamers thought the game would be based on how dated some of those ideas are and how much folks kept making it sound like CDPR would beat Bethesda etc
-So saying something like "Their powerful engines and exchangeable parts make them perfect for tuning" ....that litearlly doesn't fucking exist in this game, like zero....BUT, such a thing exist in gaming, thus a gamer can't be at fault for buying the game for an element like this.
Its even funny to read the comments of people saying this will destroy EA and NFS, GTA etc. They clearly thought, what was being stated was true and you can see this funny ass before and after from trailer to release of comments that are pissed those elements don't exist, clearly they were lead to believe this, but MOST where, its why you even have content creators talking about shooting from cars, exchangeable parts, tuning, what are they to believe? They showed this in the trailer, they state it in clear english, I simply can't fault someone here.
They were lied to.
"Though I'm not a car guy gotta admit heavy duty junk customization combined with heavy duty cars sounds like a fun set."
"Same here pal.^^ Didn't care in GTA, Saints Row or Watchdogs... But for Cyberpunk I'm all in" As in, they believed those features are like what they find in those titles.
"I'm liking most of the cars and I like that we can customize them"
after release
"there is no customization for cars"
"This video is a lie"
" Welp you can go back to customize in Gta, saints row, or watchdogs" lol
"Hilarious seeing this now that the games out with him talking about how much vehicle customization there will be. You can buy cars, that’s about it."
Notice, prior to release, I can't find a single comment by really anyone that questions this feature, but shit why would you? Its 2020 and a game has a feature to customize a car...that isn't new, that isn't some wild thing for anyone to doubt, but this is just 1 of many things they lead people on with to scam them into buying a game that had zero element like that even remotely. Even showing someone shooting from the car in that trailer, it was clear they wanted folks to believe those elements exist in the game freely, why fucking show the cutscene of 1 mission when talking generally about cars? Its to make you believe at anytime...YOU can do that too. They knew exactly what they were doing with some of this footage and this is why I put them at the very top regarding this type of deception, this isn't merely talking about a downgrade or a few features that didn't make it, its literally a week before release or so when that trailer comes out, as in they fucking KNEW it didn't exist in the game, almost 3 years later, that feature is still gone, so its not like it was almost, close type thing.
I'm willing to forget a few bugs, but not the choice to go out of their way to lie to consumers about features that don't exist to try to sell...no scam people into buy a completely different game to the point of the genre being changed. No Man Sky had its issues, not enough that at release they are calling it a different genre though lol
What was that hero shooter that gesrbox did? That game was doa.
This video still makes me laugh:
Re: the MCC, they completely fixed matchmaking on Xbox 3 or 4 years after launch, because they were launching the collection on Steam. It’s brilliant now, but 343i ensured there would never be a high population.
There is a fun game underneath that, thats the issue with Gamefreak/TPC, Pokemon is nto a hard game to get right but they just do not put the power behind itPokémon Scarlet and Violet are particularly offensive in my mind because those games being released so blatantly unfinished with worse graphics than other Switch games despite being the biggest franchise in the world, and still went on to break sales records
"Pokémon: You'll Buy It Anyway"