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Most forgotten games of 2022

Phediuk

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Oct 27, 2017
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You know, the games that make you go "wait, that came out this year?" or "oh yeah, I forgot that game existed". The kind of game that isn't coming up at all in the GOTY thread, or in any other end-of-year discussion, for any reason. The games that didn't really connect with anyone, for good or bad. The kind of game that left the conversation immediately after coming out.


Here are a few that stood out to me as I scrolled down the list of releases for this year:

Dying Light 2
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This currently has only seven votes in the GOTY thread, despite being the long-awaited sequel to a highly-acclaimed, successful game. Perhaps this one just arrived too late for anyone to care anymore. Or maybe it just wasn't good enough to be memorable. Either way, it met with a wet fart from critics and audiences alike.



Freedom Planet 2
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Wait, Freedom Planet got a sequel? THIS year? Apparently so, and it was so ignored that there isn't even an OT for it here. The first one was pretty popular in this community, so what happened?



Nintendo Switch Sports
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Feels weird to put a game that's sold 4mil+ here, but there's currently zero votes for this one in the GOTY thread, despite being a Switch exclusive and follow-up to one of the most popular games of all time. I guess this one is just the arse end of Nintendo's lineup for this year on this site, given the general indifference toward casual/sports games. Even then, though, I haven't read any stories about grandmas playing it or w/e. This game is just kinda there.


Star Ocean: The Divine Force
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Now, here's one that should, theoretically, be right in Resetera's wheelhouse, being a full-scale Square-Enix JRPG in a long-running series, and it came out as recently as October, and yet I've heard virtually nothing about it here. It's still new enough that its OT is marginally active (we're talking 2 posts a day), but the game has accrued only 5 votes so far in the GOTY thread. Xenoblade and Pokemon seem to have overshadowed this completely.

Name some more forgotten games.
 
Tomasoares

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What? I see Horizon 2 being talked all over the place, give me more examples like the OP did. Didn't know Freedom Planet 2 was out, 1 was a nice game
 
hydruxo

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Anyone who says Forbidden West has to be trolling because it still gets plenty of attention.
 
PedroRVD

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Horizon Forbidden West and Mario Strikers Battle League come immediately to mind. Both are also my biggest disappointments of the year.
 
ryseing

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Phediuk said:
Feels weird to put a game that's sold 4mil+ here, but there's currently zero votes for this one in the GOTY thread, despite being a Switch exclusive and follow-up to one of the most popular games of all time. I guess this one is just the arse end of Nintendo's lineup for this year on this site, given the general indifference toward casual/sports games. Even then, though, I haven't read any stories about grandmas playing it or w/e. This game is just kinda there.
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It's also not a good game to be frank, and a very disappointing follow-up to Wii fuckin Sports. I have not played Golf yet TBF.
 
Plinkerton

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Proposed ruling for this thread: any game that gets mentioned more than twice is automatically disqualified. It clearly isn't that forgotten if people are bringing it up.
 
zanna

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Wow didn't expect to see OPs username here

Also - my personal GOTY, Rollerdrome has been totally forgotten. Would've thought Tony Hawk style gameplay + guns was a recipe for gangbuster sales
 
AllChan7

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Ghostwire Tokyo was forgotten pretty quickly
Babylons Fall too.
 
Kalik

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games like Horizon Forbidden West and Dying Light 2 haven't been forgotten...DL2 is getting updated regularly with patches and new content and just like the original game will be supported for years...HFW is getting a huge expansion in February and was one of the biggest selling games of 2022
 
Retromess

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Mario Strikers (or whatever the Mario soccer game is called) gets my vote. I adored the Mario soccer game on GameCube and Wii but the one from this year just seemed so lackluster and "meh", which is fitting for how "meh" the recent Mario sports games have been.

Also anyone who puts Forbidden West in here really needs to look around - it's fine if you dislike that game and all but it's VERY remembered, for good or ill. It may well be forgotten in time (kinda like the first game. It was pretty and had a neat idea but isn't super memorable otherwise) but for 2022, it's decently popular.
 

t26

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Oct 27, 2017
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Yurukill The Calumniation Games
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch (Switch)
Kamiwaza: Way of the Thief
 
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pete_clarf

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Oct 25, 2017
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Gran Turismo 7? I'm sure tons of people play it but, to me, it came and went without much fanfare considering how huge the series is (was?).
 
thediamondage

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Ghostwire Tokyo, Gotham Knights, Saints Row would be my list.

I'd normally put HFW in there too but I think the fact they are putting out a new DLC in the spring probably puts it back in peoples minds.
 
AuthenticM

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Freedom Planet 2 is weird because it didn't get a single review on either Opencritic or Metacritic. This is a sequel to a game that has had a ton of positive word of mouth in the years since it came out. The first game even got reviews.

I have no idea what happened there.
 
Youabra

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I feel like DragonBall The Breakers qualifies for this category.
There were multiple betas of the game, and when it came out, at least in my case I didn't hear anyone talking about it.
Either that or Valkyrie Elysium. I actually thought it was a 2023 game. Could be a case of "I didn't follow the right people", though.
 
etrain911

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Oct 27, 2017
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Dragon Quest Treasure was basically sent to die by Square. I know people who don't know it exists.
 
hydrophilic attack

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i'm currently playing valkyrie elysium and i'm liking it quite a bit, but it seems to have received almost zero attention. it'll likely go on my goty list, not sure why no one cares about it
 
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Phediuk

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Is King of Fighters XV a contender for this thread? I was considering using it in the OP, but I don't follow the FGC closely enough to say whether it's really forgotten or if it's just this site that ignored it.
 
AHA-Lambda

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AuthenticM said:
Freedom Planet 2 is weird because it didn't get a single review on either Opencritic or Metacritic. This is a sequel to a game that has had a ton of positive word of mouth in the years since it came out. The first game even got reviews.

I have no idea what happened there.
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Cos it took ages for the sequel to come out, and the indie scene is immeasurably more competitive than when the original came out

It's absolutely a marketing issue
 

AndyVirus

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Oct 27, 2017
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Rainbow Six Extraction.

Even a Game Pass launch didn't keep it in the conversation for long.
 
Star-Lord

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Oct 25, 2017
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Rainbow six extraction - remember when everybody wanted a co-op version of rainbow six siege? And we got this.

Also anyone saying horizon forbidden west is crazy. This game sold a good amount of copies. Even going shopping this week I went to a few electronic stores in Canada and every single store was sold out of horizon for ps5.
 
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Phediuk

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Is it just me, or did Rogue Legacy 2 receive only a fraction of the attention that the original did?
 
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