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Probably Randy Pitchford when he said he was a die hard Aliens fan and that Aliens CM was being made for die hard Aliens fans
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The entirety of Star Citizen, followed closely by the entirety of the press coverage leading up to the official release of No Man's Sky.
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Everything that was ever said about PlanetSide 2

MGSV not being trash
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Peter Molyneux

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DarthAragorn posted...

MGSV not being trash

It's not trash green butter
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"Starting from now, the Smash Bros DLC will be pure fan service"

*adds a sixth fire emblem character whose game hasn't even been released in most places*

It's not the biggest lie, but nonetheless...
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Destiny Dev: All that stuff out there is actual playable space you can go to

*Tries going to the actual playable space and finds out they're actually full of shit*
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On the hardware front, the time Nintendo specifically denied the existence of a DS upgrade about two weeks before they unveiled the DS Lite.

Boy, were people on here pissed at the time!

the people that made an MMO called Horizons. I followed it during development and there were so many claims made. It was going to have like 3 times the number of races it ended up having. including mermaids who would have had an entire other undersea world to explore that was as big or bigger than the land world. and people could ride on playable dragon friends. goblins would work together like a tribe. alone they would be weak but get like 20 goblins together and they and form a mob and do some damage. also there would be player governments. players could build towns and be elected to mayor or king. there was so much stuff promised. it sounded like the most amazing game ever. when it finally come out, about maye 5% of the claims made it into the game and it was nothing like was expected. turned out to just be a generic quickly forgotten mmo, instead of the most ambitious video game in history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvGXCisAaR4
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See sig
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We are working on Half-Life 3
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ZombiePelican posted...

Probably Randy Pitchford when he said he was a die hard Aliens fan and that Aliens CM was being made for die hard Aliens fans

That was my pick before even entering

Shinji Mikami himself said he'd cut his head off if RE4 gets ported to another system.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/11/18/resident-evil-4-premium-edition
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ChromaticAngel posted...

We are working on Half-Life 3

This or Brink.

The lie was that it would be playable.
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I take it someone watched the Jimqusition today.

Blastia posted...

Peter Molyneux

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This.
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Kitt posted...

I take it someone watched the Jimqusition today.

As always
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqeN6hj4dZU
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Blizzard has promised us offline mode and dance studio since 2008.
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Always this article. This game ended up being Fable.

http://ign.com/articles/2002/03/25/in-depth-with-project-ego

The principle idea behind Project Ego is that players can do what they want. But what they do will affect the characters around them, and will affect the player's character as well. The world reacts to your actions, meaning that you can't just wander around town slaughtering people and then expect a merchant to sell you jerky.

NPCs will take note of a character's eccentricities and react accordingly. If you strip down to your undies (currently Union Jack skivvies, but that will be localized) and wander into a pub, everyone will look at you. Some will laugh, others may point. None of them will have a normal conversation with you. And hey, walk into the wrong bar and you could recreate a famous scene from Police Academy.

As you go through the adventure, gaining notoriety for your deeds, you'll become an idol to others. Kids will cut their hair like you and even get tattoos to match your own. But you aren¿t the only hero in the world. There are other heroes, who are basically your rivals. Kids are fickle, and they can easily latch on to another hero. So, one day you may stroll into town and find every kid looking like your rival. What are you, chopped liver? Yes. This is partly to reflect your progress in the game, but also to motivate players to continue on with the story instead of spending a lifetime dillying and dallying.

Don't get the wrong idea that just because you are a hero means you have to be good. Yes, you are going to be the greatest hero of all time by the end of the game. But that doesn't mean you have to be nice about it. You can be a real jerk to everyone and anyone and still save the world. But how you act will change how the world reacts towards you.

Not enough to convince you of how intelligent this game may be? Well, let's say you are a mean cuss and one day you cut a kid. That cut will become a scar and if you return to that town twenty years later, that kid will have that same scar and a serious hate-on for you. Or maybe you're more into plant mutilation. Carve your name in a tree and it will stay there through the years.

And what would a true hero be like without followers? He'd be like all those heroes from those old RPGs of yonder years. In Project Ego, as your acclaim grows, so will those eager to follow your exploits. Followers are an inquisitive and eager bunch and will hassle lazy heroes. They want to see you do something cool. Go kill something and impress them. They're also helpful in reminding a character of the task they are working on. Something that will come in handy when you've been away from the game for two weeks and can't even remember which town that kid you cut lives in.

This quote about Destiny is also hilarious

"We like to tell big stories and we want people to put the Destiny universe on the same shelf they put Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or Star Wars; we've already seen they do that with Halo," Parsons said. "We were extremely proud of what we achieved with Halo… I'm pretty convinced we are going to do it again with Destiny in a way that maybe even Halo never achieved before."

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Irony posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

MGSV not being trash

It's not trash green butter

You're right, that's actually an insult to trash
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Everything ever said about the first Fable
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Definitely gotta give it to No Man's Sky >_>
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I'm still salty about no single-player DLC in GTA V

They even said they recorded dialog
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That the Wii would have a bunch of good games.
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Everything said about No Man's Sky

eston posted...

I'm still salty about no single-player DLC in GTA V

They even said they recorded dialog

I'm sure this was before their obscene profits for comparatively little effort from shark cards
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The producer of FFXIV saying you don't have to stay subbed to FFXIV to keep your house then later enacts the 45 auto demo thing
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Kingdom Hearts 3 is coming out
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Rockstar.

'state of emergency will change the gaming landscape'
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"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."
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Vindris_SNH posted...

"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

Which game is this?
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ZombiePelican posted...

Vindris_SNH posted...

"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor."

Which game is this?

Final Fantasy 12 IIRC

"It won't just be an A, B or C ending."

Or some such involving Mass Effect 3's ending.
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--kresnik-- posted...

That the Wii would have a bunch of good games.

It did tho
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