76ade6 No.16848167[Last 50 Posts]
ITT: Games that were hot property pre release, but faded into obscurity afterwards.
I remember there were constant threads about "from dust" on 4chan before it's release.
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89c148 No.16848202
So games that were virally marketed?
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a96e66 No.16848213
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ae7432 No.16848220
From Dust was fun and the tech was pretty interesting, but the game ultimately lacked content and they never put out any sequels to iterate on the engine. Naturally the game faded from memory quickly after players experienced it and moved on.
Didn't help that each level more or less had the same goal of "reach the exit". Only the final level really shook things up by unlocking all your powers on a blank map and requiring only that you survive the ritual storm.
I really wanted to see bigger maps, more free-form level design, and varied goals.
Also a multiplayer mode for collaborative building (or even a versus mode where you're trying to destroy the other guy's villages with creative natural disasters while protecting yourself from the same) would have been nice to see.
Tl;dr: great potential squandered on a bite-sized proof-of-concept campaign.
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a02189 No.16848221
>>16848213
Its a fun lemmings esque game but you'll play through it once and then never touch it again because the solution to every level is always the same
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623de9 No.16848228
>>16848213
It's fucking excellent. Aesthetic as fuck and had very innovative gameplay.
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983c7f No.16848383
>From Dust
People pissed themselves over anything with terraforming but the only game that got it nearly right was the original Red Faction.
Can anyone remember the, (I think) very early PS1 game that made some incredibly dubious claims about 'releasing endorphins' in the player's brain pre-release and buzzkill parents thought vidya might get their kids high for 5 seconds. Fucked if I can recall the name but that went up in a puff of smoke as soon as it appeared.
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2c8690 No.16848392
Anything made by Peter Molyneux.
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623de9 No.16848394
>>16848392
Syndicate? Dungeon Keeper? Black & White? Nah, classics the lot of them.
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2c8690 No.16848402
>>16848394
I like Syndicate, but people barely remember his games after their era. Meanwhile there's an active Deus Ex thread next to this one.
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20a1d4 No.16848404
>>16848202
Viraly marketed and failed miserably more likely.
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623de9 No.16848407
>>16848402
Deus Ex is a fucking meme, that's the difference. The games of Bullfrog are hardly forgotten.
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84ea4a No.16848408
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
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f1089d No.16848445
Aside from pic related most of Mr. Shitfaces games, can't even remember that adventure one.
>>16848167
That fucker of a game, last time I got excited pre-release for anything. What a linear turd of a puzzle game it turned out.
>>16848408
Is it really obscurity if it has been actively modded up until fairly recently though?
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a96e66 No.16848475
>>16848392
Not an argument.
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983c7f No.16848478
>>16848392
Many were disappointments but I don't think any fell into obscurity.
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92f260 No.16848485
>>16848167
From Dust make me wish for modern Black and White.
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2c8690 No.16848490
>>16848475
I never claimed to make an argument. I just said his name.
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a96e66 No.16848500
>>16848490
>can't make a connection
Disappointed.
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3d8463 No.16848508
>>16848167
I'll never forget the /vg/ threads that slowly went from excitement, to disappointment, to mocking.
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36956f No.16848509
>>16848500
I thought it was funny. LET ME POST
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2c8690 No.16848514
>>16848500
All I have to do to is say the name and most realize he's not the hot shit genius he was claimed to be.
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20a1d4 No.16848529
>>16848500
More like, not a video game :^)
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65737e No.16848561
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2c8690 No.16848565
>>16848561
Yes.. forgot about that one.
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983c7f No.16848578
>>16848561
>that nothing game
I do remember knowing the hype/adshit chatter was too much before getting a cheap as dirt copy, there were still players around but no-one including me gave a shit for long.
>>16848565
It was so utterly forgettable we forgot it, all I *think* I can recall it was some water base thing and ill defined people were fighting over it.
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20a1d4 No.16848584
>>16848561
I think everyone did considering it was impossible to play online.
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1fdd59 No.16848624
>>16848407
I remember Magic Carpet and Hi-Octane. Few other people seem to.
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2c8690 No.16848632
>>16848624
I remember it. I made multiple mistakes at the time. I bought a Saturn before I turned it in for the Playstation.. and I got Hi-Octane before Wipeout.
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ee80d7 No.16848661
I thought it was from the same devs as Black&White.
I was highly dissapointed that it was a shit console game and a shit port at that, all I wanted was a good RTS with terraforming.
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6ba71c No.16848703
>>16848408
media stfu'd about this game after they realized devs are jewish
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7f59c0 No.16848709
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480167 No.16848722
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40b052 No.16848758
>>16848709
Never forget AMD boxart simulator.
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8e7ab7 No.16848761
>>16848709
I don't think Lawbreakers was ever a hot property. It was announced to a collective "meh", released to tumbleweeds, and committed suicide in a gender neutral bathroom like most trannies eventually will.
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006b5c No.16848765
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98d5b5 No.16848782
>>16848765
>I want to make a billion dollar IP
What if you wanted to make a good game instead.
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dd1058 No.16848789
>>16848782
Why would a bunch of kikes give you money for that?
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f1089d No.16848790
>>16848661
I was expecting a lite RTS with a healthy dose of God game management mechanics. It was made by the guy, Éric Chahi, who did Another World/Heart of Darkness, so I had some hope for it. Never trust a frog, I say. Actually, never trust any name that has been resting on their laurels for a decade.
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3bb02d No.16848794
>>16848761
It was looked ahead in the F2P community and ignored by everybody else.
Until Cliff went full retard and swapped to paid as if it weren't two completely different markets. There was more players during beta than after launch.
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623de9 No.16848799
>>16848790
Eh, it was perfectly in line with his previous work which was minimalist and highly aesthetic.
I don't see why people keep expecting things from games which they very clearly had no intention of doing. You buy a game from Eric Chahi and you want a game made by Molyneux and get angry when it isn't. You buy a game from Molyneux and then you get mad that you got another quality title made by Molyneux instead of some game that doesn't, and will never, exist outside your head. This makes no sense to a rational human being.
Why does every game have to be an autism simulator with you guys? Arcade games had simple mechanics and they were great anyway, because they were effective. I myself prefer games without needless bloat, that takes a thing and does it well. Bloat does not make a game better.
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f1089d No.16848816
>>16848799
The previous games under his direction had far more care put into the actual game design. All I got was playing with swirling balls of shit, toilet water and flaming shit balls. They teased it as a God game and that's what I expected of it. You probably came to it after that fact and don't realize what a shit blossom it is in relation.
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0f2e5a No.16848981
>>16848213
I regret spending the pocket change it cost solely because it came packaged with
FUCKING UPLAY
zero replayability, Lemmings ripoff that installs spyware with extreme console-itis
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bddcc2 No.16849119
Basically all arena shooters in 2016.
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46859b No.16849144
>>16849119
I want to like pic related so bad but
It's so fucking DEAD
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247376 No.16849147
>>16849144
Oh man. I tried that one in the free version and the way it was presented was a goddamn PR nightmare. Every time you tried to get into a game as a f2per, it would try for a minute or so, then give up and throw you into a bot game. By yourself. And give you the implication that you could play with real people if you bought the full game. I also wish it had caught on but the mismanagement was real.
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99375f No.16849155
>hyped as the game that would save and revive the RTS genre
>forgotten almost immediately
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393aba No.16849160
>>16849119
This game died far too quickly.
Oh why do the good die so young?
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e384b4 No.16849163
>>16849144
Toxikk could have been great but they fucked it with their f2p-but-not-really model. I tried to get a bunch of friends together (a few owned it, a few with the free version) and it was a fucking nightmare.
If they'd gone all-in, made everything free, and then charged for the "full version" that just let you customise your character and host listen servers, it could have been amazing. But instead they shot themselves in the foot at the first step of a marathon.
Fucking idiots.
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19a0de No.16849234
From Dust flopped because it's a very linear tech demo marketed as a sandbox game. Though it was really interesting watching a Egyptian Nile type river delta forming or playing with my big volcano island. I got a lot of WOW TECHNOLOGY moments out of that game despite the brain dead complexity and gameplay mechanics 7.7/10.
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6c2684 No.16849237
>>16848167
>demo for 360
>purty fun
>was poorfag
>time passes
>memory on system was shit
>delete a bunch of shit game data
>got money
>space for full game
<it's not available anymore
<can't even re-download the demo
what the fuck.
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2366f1 No.16849296
>>16849155
Kinda sad. I liked it.
I'm a sucker for RTS where one faction is "alien" and has a core gimmick that is actually central to them.
Reminded me of Earth 2160, where there was an alien faction that also made soldiers by stationing huge disc-creatures on deposits of water and silicon and then split them into smaller bits.
I think it also had poor balance. The "tech advanced" faction was notoriously bad when compared to the Alpha's.
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480167 No.16849300
I remember about 6 years ago, there was a time-based RTS where you had a propagating timeline and you could use some kind of resource to send your units back in time to alter previous battles, and over time, stuff would become "canonized" so you couldn't affect it anymore, and the further back in time you sent your units the more it cost. I was looking forward to it coming out but I'm guessing it fell flat
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83b433 No.16849304
>>16849300
Archon, or Achron or something. Try watching a tournament of that game, the commentary is bizarre to listen to
>(Player) is doing well in the future but he's gotta watch out because he's going to have some problems coming up here in the past that could hurt him in the present
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480167 No.16849309
>>16849304
Oh motherfucker, it released 2011, what the fuck am I doing with my life?
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aacd2e No.16849315
>>16848794
What ever happened to this guy?
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