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[PastorOfMuppets]

I think a lot of you are missing the "completely forgotten" point when you say Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever. Both games were hyped up and failed to live up to expectations yes but the post-release fallout will ensure that they will remain infamous for a very long time. Duke Nukem Forever should be remembered just for it's ridiculously long development time and continued to be remembered to serve as a warning to future game developers about the dangers of feature creep. Daikatana is going to be remembered for the "John Romero's Gonna Make You His Bitch" ad and to a lesser extent, the game that played a large role in the demise of Ion Storm. They're like the Vanilla Ice of video games. Being historically awful or being famous for behind the scene drama does not lend itself to being truly forgotten.

While we are on the subject of Ion Storm though: Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 is a perfect game for this thread. Was heralded as the next great RTS and came out and completely flopped. It is forgotten not because it was a terrible game, but because it was completely average.

Titanfall is probably going to suffer the same fate as Dominion in that respect. It was a game that was hyped up as the COD-killer, it had journalists in the press calling it revolutionary but when it was actually released, it turned out to be merely good. Not awful enough to be remembered but not nearly as good as it was hyped out to be.

 

[Nuke Soda]

This got a huge amount of hype and was supposed to be a 'GTA killer'. And who knows, maybe it could have been, if they'd actually finished the game before shipping it.

I think Eurogamer put it best:

It hurts just remembering this turd.

 

[Phediuk]

It hurts just remembering this turd.

Ironically, GTA was itself the Driver killer.

The first two Drivers were huge hits.

 

[crazyrabbits]

Titanfall is probably going to suffer the same fate as Dominion in that respect. It was a game that was hyped up as the COD-killer, it had journalists in the press calling it revolutionary but when it was actually released, it turned out to be merely good. Not awful enough to be remembered but not nearly as good as it was hyped out to be.

Even so, all of the people running around parroting Titanfall, when the game's barely been out a year and is still played (even if it isn't on par with its early adoption rates) is not being completely forgotten. The fact that there's so much discussion and trashing of people using it as an example should be proof enough of that.

People keep mistaking that a game that is legendary for its badness (DNF) is not forgotten, and just because a game may be mediocre, it doesn't make it forgotten if it's still played regularly by even a small subset of gamers..

 

[Atomski]

Im not sure how hyped it was I just remember a lot of my online buddies being really excited for this game

I remember how it was supposed to be really cool and they already had a trilogy in the works. Then the game came out and everyone was like ah man this sucks. Then it vanished into the void to never be heard from again.

 

[JaseMath]

Almost forgot about this game..

Game was so good, too.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Ironically, GTA was itself the Driver killer.

The first two Drivers were huge hits.

One of the biggest mistakes in the industry was made by those that wanted D2 on the PSone instead of the PS2. The original Driver was huge and well loved. So the sequel being open world on the PS2 would've had a ton of hype, which isn't something that GTA3 had before its release. But D2 came out and disappointed while the D3 wasn't released until 2004. And by that time Rockstar already owned the genre.

 

[Atomski]

Also remember reading about a lot of hype for this in PC mags.. never heard a peep after it was released.

 

[Thaster]

The real answer

Had the hype-train of the century. Now very few people remember it

I still remember the day I picked this game up for some reason. I had no idea there was any hype surrounding it.

It's a pretty damn cool game though. I've tried playing it many times in the past but never actually beat it.

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

Original XBox had the most examples of this I can think of really.

Bruce Lee game for some fucking reason.
Blinx
That weird fighting game where you could break limbs
That weird racist party fighting game
Brute Force
Perfect Dark Zero among others

 

[OnPoint]

Im not sure how hyped it was I just remember a lot of my online buddies being really excited for this game

I remember how it was supposed to be really cool and they already had a trilogy in the works. Then the game came out and everyone was like ah man this sucks. Then it vanished into the void to never be heard from again.

If I remember the ending correctly, "vanished into the void" is kind of fitting.

 

[Parakeetman]

The real answer

Had the hype-train of the century. Now very few people remember it

wat? I dont recall hearing anything about that game, let alone have actually seen it around in stores. If it was there it was so low key that I never noticed it. Dont recall any magazines bombarding ads like overhyped bullshit these days either.

 

[abstract alien]

Heart of Darkness was a really great game. Wish there was more like it.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Heart of Darkness was a really great game. Wish there was more like it.

Well, the Oddworld remake comes out this week on the PS4, and they're obviously quite similar.

 

[SliceSabre]

Brink.

I fell in love with the previews and got my friends on the hype train to play the game. Then the game came out, all 5 of us go it and they practically disowned me and I couldn't blame them.

 

[glottis8]

TITANFALL. that is all.

I was looking forward to this game, got hyped. Played it for a couple of days, have not booted it up since. Waste of 60 dlls.

 

[Glowsquid]

Battle Arena Toshinden (unless having sequels disqualify it?).

 

[SuperCambot]

 

[Sapiens]

The reason why is because none of them wore heals.

 

[TheSlySoul]

Spoiler

I remember having fun with this game.

In terms of games forgotten that deserve more attention:

Shark gun!

 

[themagicalkitsune]

Im not sure how hyped it was I just remember a lot of my online buddies being really excited for this game

I remember how it was supposed to be really cool and they already had a trilogy in the works. Then the game came out and everyone was like ah man this sucks. Then it vanished into the void to never be heard from again.

I almost bought this game. Then I realized it was made by the same company responsible for Drake, so I nope'd out of there.

 

[Popetita]

In terms of games forgotten that deserve more attention:
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Shark gun!

This game was the bomb. A great Lucasarts game if I recall correctly. Awesome stuff.

 

[Baron_Calamity]

Did not forget about this game

Stubbs was freaking AMAZING

I agree. Played the heck out of it on my OG Xbox. I wish I got the steam copy when it was available.

The Movies is a good pull. I remember all the hype around the movie creation features. And then nothing after launch.

My nominee is for us old timers: Outpost from Sierra Online. It sounded amazing on paper, but was a complete wreck when it was released.

Man, the Movies had so much potential.

Outpost was amazing on paper because thats where all the features were. The strategy guide had chapters devoted to game play features that were never even coded in the game.

 

[Sapiens]

I never realized how many Xbox exclusive Sega games there were. I guess they were a bit bitter at the PS2 over the Dreamcast.

In the early 00s, Xbox truly was the dreamcast 2.

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

Outpost was amazing on paper because thats where all the features were. The strategy guide had chapters devoted to game play features that were never even coded in the game.

I remember that game very well. It's actually a shame that people have forgotten about it because it was an early example of how ineffective the game press was (and possibly still is, I dunno, I don't follow the press anymore) at being a consumer advocate. PC Gamer gave Outpost an Editor's Choice Award based purely on promises by Sierra that the features not in the review copy would be coded in later. I never bought an issue of PC Gamer after that. Such a shame that CGW was the magazine that ended up being shut down.

 

[djtiesto]

In terms of games forgotten that deserve more attention:

Shark gun!

Pete Tong gives out game awards now?

 

[ksdixon]

Binary Domain? I can't believe it's been years now since it released. Once my friends and family knew it wasn't a co-op game like GEARS, they never gave it a second glance. Such a damn shame.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

I remember some pretty big hype, at least after it was first revealed. Having 256 player online, especially on a console, seemed insane at the time. Sadly I never did get to play it, and with the servers shut down, I never will.

I was in the beta for that game. It was just ok and I don't remember the maps being as big as it was said, but yep, nobody cares about Mag anymore. I did not know that the servers were shut down and I believe that was a purely online game so if someone bought it today they'd be throwing away money, and it's useless to current owners now.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

The reason why is because none of them wore heals.

It's heels and I'm pretty sure that Parasoul wears heels.

 

[Accoun]

The Path of Neo was a fun game. I remember many hours spent on that.

But this... crashed on my PC every time.

On one of the highway levels?

Spoiler

Because that supposedly was the copy protection.

Dunno. I remember this being pretty fun back in the day. At least it didn't have the Merowing/Mega Agent Smith levels from Path Of Neo. Of course, not sure how it would play now, probably not as good.

 

[Sora_N]

Deadpool turned out awful but I felt really excited that they were making a game.

 

[koutoru]

 

[Zee-Row]

The one I remember was this fighting game made by Konami called Kumite: The fighter's edge. EGM had it as a cover story and had it hyped as this 3-D Fighting game that would change everything.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Bioshock infinite O_O

It just came out last year too...

That was probably the most hyped games for years, the frenzy leading up to release was insane, and then..poof.

 

[jblank83]

Once-hyped games that are now completely forgotten

Nearly every AAA game ever?

 

[Ramsiege]

Dead to Rights

 

[BokehKing]

You win, I don't think I've even heard this game mentioned since 2005 before this thread.

Is that the game where you fight vampires? Loved that game

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

Oni.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Come to think of it, there were a lot of Star Wars related games that sucked.

 

[Loakum]

Onimusha

 

[antitrop]

Come to think of it, there were a lot of Star Wars related games that sucked.

Yeah, but that Hoth level, tho. That was pretty hard for me to forget.

 

[Coconut]

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 really liked that game sucks that i forgot about it.

 

[mr2xxx]

Project spark, forgot all about until the $20 thread.

 

[killatopak]

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 played this. It was awesome.

 

[Heratiki]

Anyone remember Ruin for PS3/Vita. SOOO MUCH HYPE and then it literally disappeared from existence. :-(

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/09/22/ruin-for-ps-vita-lairs-relics-and-the-social-web/

 

[killatopak]

Onimusha

recently got a few threads last month so no.

And this is one of the best games Capcom has put out and I haven't forgotten it yet.

 

[Sophistical Bunt]

DriveClub.

Just imagine this post was made 3 months from now.

 

[JackTheRipper57]

ROAD RASH!!

 

[InsertCookiesHere]

The Movies is a good pull. I remember all the hype around the movie creation features. And then nothing after launch.

My nominee is for us old timers: Outpost from Sierra Online. It sounded amazing on paper, but was a complete wreak when it was released.

I still play The Movies occasionally, even after all these years. I liked it a lot.
Have it installed now in fact. Excellent game. Ironically, I never cared much for it's headlining feature in creating a movie.

How about Giants: Citizen Kabuto?
I remember quite a bit of attention paid to it, much hype around it being the best looking game ever made... but then it released, sold poorly and was quickly forgotten

 

[Loakum]

recently got a few threads last month so no.

And this is one of the best games Capcom has put out and I haven't forgotten it yet.

I miss those threads about it. Apparently Capcom forgot about this awesome game, because it's a sure seller, if they would had released a new one.