Once-hyped games that are now completely forgotten
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Both of these were more heavily linked to the Amiga CD32 - the premier versions of these games on the "first" 32bit console.
Which instead of a game, is my nomination. Nobody talks about it any more, and it's fate can be heavily linked to those two titles in particular.
I bet there's a fair chunk of GAF who's never even heard of it.
JetBlackPanda
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stargateheaven
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Playstation All Stars for sure.
I fucking loved advent. Combat was the best EVER.Vocal Orgasmizzle
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Every David Cage game.
If you can call them games and not interactive movies, that is.
If you can call them games and not interactive movies, that is.
AtomicShroom
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I have a feeling that someday No Man's Sky will end up in one of those threads.
The level of hype is through the roof, yet all we have to go by are fancy procedural graphics. The gameplay itself looks dull and uninspired. How any elements of resource gathering/trading functions are notably MIA, nor what's being done to keep a fair balance between players. The elements required to make a game fun simply don't seem to be there. You can't just build a massive open world and expect people to have fun in it if there's not much to do that's actually fun. Ask GTA V Online how well that went for it.
The level of hype is through the roof, yet all we have to go by are fancy procedural graphics. The gameplay itself looks dull and uninspired. How any elements of resource gathering/trading functions are notably MIA, nor what's being done to keep a fair balance between players. The elements required to make a game fun simply don't seem to be there. You can't just build a massive open world and expect people to have fun in it if there's not much to do that's actually fun. Ask GTA V Online how well that went for it.
SolidSnakex
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Quest 64 and Hybrid Heaven are good examples. Q64 in particular received a lot of hype simply because it was one of the very rare RPG's on the N64.
legacyzero
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Thats OK. Dirty Bomb is making up for it IMO.
zackmorris
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Well that's why the season pass is such a big deal now. If you sell it at launch you will get a bunch of people to buy it who will probably stop playing before the DLC comes out and wouldn't have bought it otherwise. Destiny will be huge to see how long people actually care to play that game.
As far as being bad for the industry, how so? People still bought the games. If anything it would be better for them because they buy the game, then move on and buy another game a few weeks later as opposed to one game every six months. I get the used game argument, but if they sold 5 million at launch I don't think used games are a huge concern.
legacyzero
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Man, Hybrid Heaven was awesome!I could think of two.
KoopaTheCasual
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There was actually hype for that game?
One of the least forgotten titles ever.
The_Hitcher89
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We'll always have Dynamite Cop...
Teletraan1
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Using this barometer all games with an online component would be disqualified since someone might still be playing it online and that is quantifiable. I cant tell if anyone is currently playing Lair. (probably not)
My vote is the exclusive launch window games that people put on lists for console wars. These games are parroted as being the reason so and so is buying the system. The games themselves are usually shit and fall off the face of the earth. Some games are hyped too much and thus aren't forgotten because they have achieved meme status like the previously mentioned Lair or Haze. Outside of the internet these games are probably rightfully forgotten.
SolidSnakex
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With consoles, any genre that a console doesn't have many of will often times get a lot of hype. That's why the N64 has many examples of that. Remember when World Driver Championship was going to kill Gran Turismo?
Mufausa The 3rd
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One of a number of a Saturn refugees that ended up on other systems when Stolar pulled the plug. Received a lot of middling reviews in game magazines when Core Design was coming hot off of Tomb Raider 2.
What a shame. I actually enjoy that game a lot too.
Considering people took the effort to dig all these up and the AVGN's making a movie about this game, I'd say it's not that forgotten
SolidSnakex
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ET is a weird one. I don't think many people remember the game itself. But it ended up tanking so badly that it became legendary for that alone.
TheLostBigBoss
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Ubisoft cracked the hype formula, and they are laughing all the way to the bank.
Release a big reveal trailer that is the prettiest vertical slice you will ever see. Make sure it has the graphical fidelity of a game a few years down the line.
Then as time goes on and proper reveals shows the obvious downgrade and lack of detail, tell everyone they are blind and there has been no downgrade. When people start to question things just say it's in development. Some will question what they saw, but that's all they can do.
But that doesn't even matter, because the hype has already spread like wildfire via press and word of mouth. Press can't talk shit about a game that's in development, and most of the people who buy games only heard about how amazing that E3 trailer was, and preordered it on the spot there.
Appollowexx
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In 2 years maybe, but not now
RandyBobandy
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That about covers it
This dates me so hard but I'm gonna go with Ehrgeiz. It was advertised everywhere and all my friends were super hyped for it. A fighting game with Final Fantasy characters?!? Who doesn't get pumped for that??
When it finally came out everyone came over to play it at my place and it was so terrible we ended up just playing Goldeneye instead. So bad. So so bad.
I bought this too! Back then I hated buying bad games since $50 was a lot of money to me back then.
A Serious Man
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Daikatana is the poster child for over-hyped disasters, it's hardly forgotten.
Saying Watch Dogs and Titanfall is just silly.
I picture those people as the kind that have a personality I'd be embarrassed to be in the same room with.
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Brute Force is a really good pick. My friends and I in high school were really into it for a few months then it just dropped off.
Lairs anther good one. I remember the pre release hype and then it just came out and flopped
Back in the day Blasto and Rascal had a lot of hype behind them in my playstation magazines.
I picture those people as the kind that have a personality I'd be embarrassed to be in the same room with.
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Brute Force is a really good pick. My friends and I in high school were really into it for a few months then it just dropped off.
Lairs anther good one. I remember the pre release hype and then it just came out and flopped
Back in the day Blasto and Rascal had a lot of hype behind them in my playstation magazines.
Night_Trekker
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I remember how AMAZING it was that this game could stream video from the disc during gameplay.
Fuck yes it was. I wish HH would get a modern re-release.
HH inhabits that weird margin between the routinely abstract (basically all NES games) and the more modern game design paradigm in which everything has to make sense. (Nobody can use guns in the underground facility, but gun-like weapons that fire tornadoes are okay? Every one of the genetic experiments knows wrestling moves?) It's one of those games that's very much a product of its time. I love that about it.
My pick would be:
Daikatana
Rage
Brink
Descent (series)
Screamer (series)
Interactive movies (as a genre)
C&C (franchise) I mean it's not completely forgotten, but back in the day it was the thing everybody was talking about all the time, and we would've given one hand and one leg for just one more screenshot. But to me the series just died after Generals.
Daikatana
Rage
Brink
Descent (series)
Screamer (series)
Interactive movies (as a genre)
C&C (franchise) I mean it's not completely forgotten, but back in the day it was the thing everybody was talking about all the time, and we would've given one hand and one leg for just one more screenshot. But to me the series just died after Generals.
No, love. It's time was at least four months back.
When I'm getting put into the same lobby I left five times repeatedly, you have the definition of "#deadgame."
SeanR1221 said:
WAtch Dogs, maybe.
Titanfall, why? The game bombed in it's online population. Are a few people still playing it? Sure. But it isn't the "CoD killer/ground breaking/next-big-thing" the games media (HAVE YOU SEEN/DID YOU SEE TITANFALL?) hyped it to be.
The games population saw Titanfall during the beta. The beta was more than enough for most people to pass on it. Those that bought it pretty much left after a week since it only took about 2 days of heavy playing (16-ish hours?) to hit the level cap and there wasn't enough modes.
Now DLC trailers come out for new maps (no modes!) and people are like "...people are still playing?"
runnin_blue
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Yeah I don't know why people keep mentioning it. I agree that it's been fairly forgotten but I don't remember the game having much hype before it released. Then again, I'm in Australia, maybe the hype train was overseas.
It was an awesome game btw, I recommend anyone should play it if they have the chance.
s_mirage
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I remember the hype for that but IIRC its protracted development did it no favours. By 1998 Abe's Oddysee had beaten it to release and no-one seemed to care about HoD. That being said, it sold well apparently, which is strange considering hardly anyone remembers it.
16 hours to get top rank? Really? I'm on over 100 hours played now and I'm still not Gen 10. Don't chat shit.
It's not even close to forgotten. It's name pops up in pretty much every other thread regardless of what the topic is about. If "number of people still playing" was the criteria for a game being forgotten, then basically every single player focused game becomes more qualified. It sold more than every other game on the platform, and has far more current players than most other games released that you'd forget to even mention (Ryse? Knack? etc). It not having the same level of excitement doesn't automatically qualify it as forgotten. Not when people like yourself can't make it through the day without bringing it up passionately. You consider Watch Dogs to be less suited suggestion, when most of the people I know that purchased it were done with it long before even finishing the single-player, let alone bothering to continue playing it online. Yet it's still a stupid suggestion, because nobody here has really forgotten it at this point.
Halo 4's population dropped off the face of the earth shortly after it was released, but if anyone tries to claim the game as "forgotten", they are quite simply taking the piss.