Oh come on. Randy Pitchford was the only one who hyped Battleborn, everyone else had already seen Overwatch.
So forgotten about that it took 4 pages before it was mentioned.
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Once-hyped games that are now completely forgotten
- Thread starter Phediuk
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Seeing Wildstar posting..reminds me why this game failed so hard. Yeah it tried to attract WoW players and new ones, i played it and the take was cool and unique but everything around it was such a big mess. After i never bothered to play it again and did what i always do just keep playing WoW.
And i hate attunments..sure they can cooperate if there not to hard but Wildstar took it way way to far.
And i hate attunments..sure they can cooperate if there not to hard but Wildstar took it way way to far.
Gearbox's first mistake was hyping it up as an Overwatch-esque game, when it was in reality a first person MOBA. That actually led to the public thinking it was something it wasn't (an class-based arena shooter).
Their second mistake was letting Randy Pitchford actively, publicly make a fool of himself online, essentially letting Blizzard walk all over him and look good doing it.
Anyone remember 2 Days 2 Vegas?
To some the idea of exploring for exploration's sake is simply foreign, and the game not living up to the hype didn't help alleviate that.
Because what you do was made clear many, many times in those threads.
To some the idea of exploring for exploration's sake is simply foreign, and the game not living up to the hype didn't help alleviate that.
Blasto on PS1 comes to mind. I remember it being all over the place for a while. Then the game sucked and it went nowhere.
What's up with all these Last Guadian mentions? The game gets regular threads and gets talked about all the time from what I can see. I doubt people are gonna forget that game, what a classic.
What's up with all these Last Guadian mentions? The game gets regular threads and gets talked about all the time from what I can see. I doubt people are gonna forget that game, what a classic.
That's the game with the tentacles scene.What about this one?
Return to Krondor
Betrayal at Krondor is still a legend and in 90s it was much much bigger. Hype for sequel was huge, but then it just went and was forgotten, overshadowed by Baldur's Gate. It's not that it was even a bad game. Far from it. It was an excellent RPG, but it just didn't have anywhere near the effect on the market the original did.
Betrayal at Krondor is still a legend and in 90s it was much much bigger. Hype for sequel was huge, but then it just went and was forgotten, overshadowed by Baldur's Gate. It's not that it was even a bad game. Far from it. It was an excellent RPG, but it just didn't have anywhere near the effect on the market the original did.
No Man's Sky....that game was so over promised and fell right on it's face. A shell of what it was supposed to be (not sure how it is now after the updates).
The fuck with all the No Man's Sky replies? You can debate that it was a massive disappointment but that isn't the point of the thread. It's for forgotten games. The fact that the reddit forum is still incredibly active and the game has an ARG currently with a upcoming major patch. That's the opposite of forgotten
What about this one?
I definitely don't forget it. The creator of the D 'trilogy' who founded WARP, Kenji Eno, died in February of 2013 at the age of 42 due to heart failure. Eno was a true visionary in games and still has a cult audience after his passing for his bizarre but innovative games and 'rockstar' persona which was very unusual in Japanese game developers.
Nah, it was, and still is my GotY that year and the only thing that came close was a Link Between Worlds. Are the shooting galleries lame and repetitive? Absolutely. But damn if that setting and narrative isn't even better with age, at least to me. I instantly started a second play through at the time, something I haven't done since the 16bit era.
Everyone mad about Far Cry 5 pulling back from its original anti alt right messaging, but Bioshock Infinite tackled these topics of so called extremists patriots with evangelical figureheads well before I started seeing people self identify as alt right. Similar to the original Bioshock and absurd philosophies of Ayn Rand, and the tea party.
That is true. The game was hyped to disproportionate extents after its GOTY wins in 2012. But to be fair, the game put Telltale on the map, and to this day, Telltale has an established fairly large fanbase thanks to that game.. So I wouldn't see it faded into obscurity.
Actually, yeah, now that I think about it - The Last Guardian.
Also, in comparison to BotW, Odyssey. Both received the same amount of acclaim, but BotW I feel is still discussed more despite coming out earlier. I guess that's more of a 3D Mario problem though. Zelda is talked about more in the core gaming sphere
Also, in comparison to BotW, Odyssey. Both received the same amount of acclaim, but BotW I feel is still discussed more despite coming out earlier. I guess that's more of a 3D Mario problem though. Zelda is talked about more in the core gaming sphere
Unlike most of this thread that's a really good game though.It was hyped in pc magazines as the Diablo Killer.
I blame betrayal in antara for the series turning to shit to be honest.Return to Krondor
Betrayal at Krondor is still a legend and in 90s it was much much bigger. Hype for sequel was huge, but then it just went and was forgotten, overshadowed by Baldur's Gate. It's not that it was even a bad game. Far from it. It was an excellent RPG, but it just didn't have anywhere near the effect on the market the original did.
It's on sale on psn right now actually, a bunch of people in that thread picked it up I think. I was actually thinking about since I was interested in the original but never got around to playing it
I think that one's unforgettable, whether you were for or against (I was and remain firmly for, I still play through it at least once every year).
I'll add a couple:
I wonder if APB: Reloaded is any good these days. It didn't turn out to be the AAA MMO blockbuster it was marketed as, but it must be doing alright if it's still up and running.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Conan
Age of Conan.
It came out in a period when WoW was on a lull and a hell of a lot of people I knew rushed off to go and play it was it was supposedly going to be the next big thing. I think all but 2 (I think I knew about 20 people who went to go play it) came back after just 2 weeks. It was hyped up to be a WoW killer by a lot of people and then it wasnt.
Age of Conan.
It came out in a period when WoW was on a lull and a hell of a lot of people I knew rushed off to go and play it was it was supposedly going to be the next big thing. I think all but 2 (I think I knew about 20 people who went to go play it) came back after just 2 weeks. It was hyped up to be a WoW killer by a lot of people and then it wasnt.
This game makes me really angry. Not because I was overhyped, purely because there was no way that they were EVER going to cram all of that stuff into the game and make it compelling.
Even the first trailer when you jump out of warp into the middle of a 'space battle' looked flat and nothing like the 'factional warfare' that they were claiming.
How much of a mug do you have to have been to believe all that crap that Sean was spouting? It's just like the Killzone 2 trailer all over again that CLEARLY wasn't gameplay which you could tell because the movement style and contents didn't look like gameplay at all.
It was hyped in pc magazines as the Diablo Killer.
It did really well though, even still had a couple hundred people still playing online a couple years ago. The official servers are gone but there are player ran ones still.
No Man's Sky hasn't been forgotten completely. Sure a lot of people have gave up and ignore it now but it is doing well. Plenty of people still play it because the game has been improved significantly since release with multiple free major updates with another one (1.5) on the way.
Imma say both Star Wars: The Force Unleashed games.
One minute the first one was being hyped to all hell and like 7,000,000 million people bought it... The next minute, the messy as fuck sequel came out and everyone was like:
... And then everyone moved on and seemed to forgot that either of them even happened.
One minute the first one was being hyped to all hell and like 7,000,000 million people bought it... The next minute, the messy as fuck sequel came out and everyone was like:
... And then everyone moved on and seemed to forgot that either of them even happened.
If the games had dismemberment like the Jedi Knight games they would've been cooler imoImma say both Star Wars: The Force Unleashed games.
One minute the first one was being hyped to all hell and like 7,000,000 million people bought it... The next minute, the messy as fuck sequel came out and everyone was like:
... And then everyone moved on and seemed to forgot that either of them even happened.