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EffectAndCause
11/25/19 9:12:28 PM
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When you consider hype before release compared to how shitty the game ended up being.

Is it Death Stranding? It was supposed to CHANGE VIDEO GAMES and create an ENTIRE NEW GENRE.
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A5modeu5
11/25/19 9:14:01 PM
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Death Stranding is amazing.

on topic: No Mans Sky
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Gakk86
11/25/19 9:14:01 PM
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Are you too young to remember Daikatana?
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EffectAndCause
11/25/19 9:15:50 PM
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No Mans Sky is an excellent choice, just as shitty as Death Stranding too.
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soulunison2
11/25/19 9:16:23 PM
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octopath traveler, fuck that game
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Pitlord_Special
11/25/19 9:17:13 PM
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Daikatana
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nevershine
11/25/19 9:17:52 PM
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Spore

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DevsBro
11/25/19 9:18:40 PM
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Tifa

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s0nicfan
11/25/19 9:19:11 PM
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Star Citizen followed by the N-Gage?

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EffectAndCause
11/25/19 9:22:22 PM
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I was actually gonna say the N-Gage.
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dodgefan91
11/25/19 9:22:38 PM
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EvenSpoonier
11/25/19 9:23:06 PM
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Virtual Boy ended the career of the greatest game designer who ever lived.

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Wii_Shaker
11/25/19 9:25:32 PM
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I don't think it's a game at all. I think it's a system.

The Sega Saturn really didn't need to exist, neither did the Virtual Boy.

If we are talking software, Too Human is a great story of being caught in development limbo.
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TheHoldSteady
11/25/19 9:29:15 PM
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Still has to be ET. Almost destroyed the entire industry
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ledbowman
11/25/19 9:30:12 PM
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Sunflower in conker's bad fur day

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Ryven
11/25/19 9:30:12 PM
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Duke Nukem Forever owns everything in this topic IMO.
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GiftedACIII
11/25/19 9:31:04 PM
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Ryven posted...
Duke Nukem Forever owns everything in this topic IMO.

Beat me by a few seconds
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Tonyjaa
11/25/19 9:31:21 PM
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32X
Daikatana
Virtual Boy
Sega Saturn
Ouya
Atari Jaguar
E.T. Atari game
Anthem
Fallout 76
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EffectAndCause
11/25/19 9:31:31 PM
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Does Shenmue 3 count? Or was that expected to be shitty?
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Gakk86
11/25/19 9:32:01 PM
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Ouya is a good one.
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ScazarMeltex
11/25/19 9:32:12 PM
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Star Citizen. Nothing even comes close.
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jumi
11/25/19 9:32:34 PM
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No Man's Sky or Fallout 76. Final Fantasy XIII would be up there too.
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KingWhiteKnight
11/25/19 9:35:16 PM
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No man's Sky is probably the most disappointing game in modern history

The Vita is probably the biggest failure
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pegusus123456
11/25/19 9:38:02 PM
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GiftedACIII posted...
Ryven posted...
Duke Nukem Forever owns everything in this topic IMO.

Beat me by a few seconds

Not really. There was no hype for that game, people expected it to be trash after almost a decade of development hell.
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Questionmarktarius
11/25/19 9:38:06 PM
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I dunno, but Peter Molyneux is involved somehow.
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ssjevot
11/25/19 9:38:43 PM
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Tonyjaa posted...
Sega Saturn


Wii_Shaker posted...
Sega Saturn


Outsold the Mega Drive (Genesis), Dreamcast, N64, Gamecube, WiiU, and every XBox in Japan. Just because something bombs in one region, doesn't mean it bombed everywhere.

My vote for consoles would be the Virtual Boy, not just because it sold bad, but because the experience of playing it also largely sucked unless you used the weird stand thing. For games it would be No Man's Sky on release (it's not terrible now), and probably Daikatana overall.

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Antifar
11/25/19 9:40:29 PM
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Too Human
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HagenEx
11/25/19 9:43:32 PM
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EffectAndCause posted...
When you consider hype before release compared to how shitty the game ended up being.

Is it Death Stranding? It was supposed to CHANGE VIDEO GAMES and create an ENTIRE NEW GENRE.


Not even close. Death Stranding is very enjoyable, even if it did fall a bit short of the hype. Lots of people having fun with it.

The only true answer is No Man's Sky. We were promised real procedurally generated worlds, where you could even find other people, AKA actual online multiplayer.

In the end we got a really bland and shitty game that you could basically get the general idea in a couple hours and everything you came upon after that was more of the same, with a different palette. It was an empty husk of a game.
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ledbowman
11/25/19 9:45:10 PM
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https://youtu.be/-5jWtz3rzco

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dave_is_slick
11/25/19 9:46:53 PM
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ledbowman posted...
Sunflower in conker's bad fur day

The only real answer in this topic.
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MKScorpion
11/25/19 10:28:01 PM
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Google Stadia seems to have been a miss.

Its a streambox and this is absolutely terrible for PVP games where you need little lag, good reactions, frame perfect decision making etc.

Online as it is now can be pretty much lagless when wired on a decent connection but playing online AND streaming the game in the first place sounds like it would be a disaster for fighting games and shooters. That is an absolute deal breaker for me.
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Wedge Antilles
11/25/19 10:34:02 PM
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No Man's Sky is pretty good now. Awful on launch but they kept at it and it's a pretty solid game.
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008Zulu
11/25/19 10:38:43 PM
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Anthem has to be close. As close to abandoned as you can get, and EA still have the balls to charge $90AU for it.
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chewbaccabbq
11/26/19 9:02:41 AM
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The Order: 1886
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Tyranthraxus
11/26/19 9:06:19 AM
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MKScorpion posted...
Google Stadia seems to have been a miss.

Its a streambox and this is absolutely terrible for PVP games where you need little lag, good reactions, frame perfect decision making etc.

Online as it is now can be pretty much lagless when wired on a decent connection but playing online AND streaming the game in the first place sounds like it would be a disaster for fighting games and shooters. That is an absolute deal breaker for me.


When you're playing online you're using Google's bandwidth and routing for that. Your connection only streams video and inputs. It's like you have 50 mile cables to the Google data center and you're playing off their internet.


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Kitt
11/26/19 9:08:13 AM
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Try not to let your hate boner for Death Stranding get in the way of things like Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever.
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eston
11/26/19 9:08:44 AM
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Tyranthraxus
11/26/19 9:11:23 AM
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eston posted...
The N-Gage
This isn't even close to the biggest hardware failure. The fact that so many people know about it is telling.

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eston
11/26/19 9:16:59 AM
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People know about it because of what a big failure it was. It became a running joke

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Banana_Cyanide
11/26/19 9:17:51 AM
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jumi posted...
No Man's Sky or Fallout 76. Final Fantasy XIII would be up there too.

So far it is the first and only Final Fantasy game that Square has ever admitted that not everyone was happy with (and yet they let Toriyama make two more sequels) despite the cluster fuck that Final Fantasy 15 was.
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Romulox28
11/26/19 9:18:34 AM
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the amount i busted when i played metroid prime for the first time
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Hotel_Security
11/26/19 9:20:03 AM
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Is it Death Stranding? It was supposed to CHANGE VIDEO GAMES and create an ENTIRE NEW GENRE.

Okay, you're just making up straw man arguments here since no one said this about Death Stranding. In fact, until the last month, folks still had no idea what type of game it was.

on topic: No Mans Sky

Much better example. This was basically an unfinished demo that they released and then didn't bother actually finishing until two years later. Somehow this is considered some great success story now.

Other better examples would be Fallout 76 which is STILL having controveries and issues almost a year from release and Anthem which has been a mess since release as well.

Kingdom hearts 3 was a pretty big bust

It should be considering how much gameplay has been butchered but sadly it sold very well so it can't be considered a bust.

Duke Nukem Forever owns everything in this topic IMO.

Maybe, but everyone saw that bust coming a mile away. The only folks who were hopelessly loyal to Duke Nukem got that.

Does Shenmue 3 count? Or was that expected to be shitty?

Not even out yet but it's hard to say a Kickstarter is a bust. Shenmue 3 will have a sliver of the budget the first two games have...it's not going to be as good, period.

Outsold the Mega Drive (Genesis), Dreamcast, N64, Gamecube, WiiU, and every XBox in Japan.

In the first month, maybe. That thing was killed off in like two years. I've never seen a company bail on a console quicker.

The Order: 1886

Again, hard to call it a bust when we all knew it was a QTE-fest right from the start.
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JBaLLEN66
11/26/19 9:21:43 AM
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I nominate the new call of duty
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Caution999
11/26/19 9:21:56 AM
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Final Fantasy XV

Ten years wasn't long enough.

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QueenCarly
11/26/19 9:24:35 AM
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NMS gets a pass considering the circumstances surrounding it that lead to it underdelivering on what devs were promising.

Great game now

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eston
11/26/19 9:26:24 AM
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Hotel_Security posted...
Is it Death Stranding? It was supposed to CHANGE VIDEO GAMES and create an ENTIRE NEW GENRE.

Okay, you're just making up straw man arguments here since no one said this about Death Stranding. In fact, until the last month, folks still had no idea what type of game it was.
Kojima said exactly that, but considering he's the one who made the game I don't know why anyone would take such statements seriously. He was Molyneauxing

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pinky0926
11/26/19 9:26:43 AM
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Kingdom of Amalur and the entire story behind that studio is sad simply because it should have been great (and was, in many ways), but the final result was mediocre.

Also gonna say Black and White 2, Fable 2, really anything Molyneux ever touched.
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Middle hope
11/26/19 9:28:24 AM
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Mighty number 9

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Tyranthraxus
11/26/19 9:29:08 AM
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eston posted...
People know about it because of what a big failure it was. It became a running joke
It's a running joke because it was still popular enough that people vaguely remember commercials about it.

Ain't fucking nobody fucking know what a PSX is.

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