/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8519160]

What games that was heavily shilled by gaming media and the industry when it came out is now forgotten?

picture unrelated.

[Anonymous No.8519168]

>>8519160
Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.
Zoomers are into better artistic Japanese games like Dark Souls.

[Anonymous No.8519175]

Rise of the Robots was heavily hyped in gaming media before release, although to be fair the same outlets rightly panned it when they were finally got their review copies.

[Anonymous No.8519176]

black and white

[Anonymous No.8519203]

>>8519168
It takes effort to load your bait with this much stupidity.

[Anonymous No.8519206]

Anyway, Messiah.

[Anonymous No.8519215]

Frontier: Elite 2

[Anonymous No.8519224]

>>8519176
True dat, I remember how big a deal the marketing for black and white was and now nobody talks about it, even here

[Anonymous No.8519234]

>>8519160
Daikatana

[Anonymous No.8519263]

>>8519206
>>8519176
You're just proving media shilling doesn't equal bad. Both of those are fun to replay while there is plenty of interactive movie shit that would be pointless to.

[Anonymous No.8519280]

If you know, you know.

[Anonymous No.8519291]

>>8519263
And good does not equal remembered.

[Anonymous No.8519316]

>>8519160
Night Trap and the majority of the wave of FMV games in the early 90s.

[Anonymous No.8519323]

The hype for this was unreal, but it was a pile of shit.

[Anonymous No.8519324]

>>8519206
I think the same could be said about most of Shiny Entertainment's output like Wild9 and MDK. I only hear people talk about Earthworm Jim (due to the character designer turning out to be a Christfag) and Aladdin on the Genesis (and even then, most people only talk about Aladdin as console war fodder).

[Anonymous No.8519665]

>>8519168
Ico walked so Dark Souls could run

[Anonymous No.8519698]

Most of the FMV games. They couldn't stop talking about Dragon's Lair, Burn:Cycle, Critical Path, Night Trap, Double Switch, etc. No one gives a flying fuck about most of those "games" today. They thought "MULTIMEDIA" was some magic word that made everything amazing. After getting stomped by Doom, SF2, MK2, and Myst, they soon realized you needed a game and not just some movies.

[Anonymous No.8519706]

>>8519665
You mean King's Field.

[Anonymous No.8519729]

>>8519176
oh shit you're right

[Anonymous No.8519743]

>>8519160
Brute Force

[Anonymous No.8519753]

kek who reported the 360 game i posted in here

[Anonymous No.8519781]

>>8519698
Most of those kinds of games were only available on PC and expensive CD-ROM consoles that most kids couldn't afford. They had no hopes in competing against popular fighting games and platformers in terms of sales numbers.

[Anonymous No.8519795]

>>8519160
Ape Escape.

[Anonymous No.8519807]

>>8519795
When did Ape Escape ever have hype?

[Anonymous No.8519832]

This game. I remember it being on all the websites and in the magazines. And it was just a regular fps game.

[Anonymous No.8519875]

Basically Mortal Kombat with giant monsters. It came out during the 4th to 5th gen transition period, so it ended up being ported to almost every console around that period. It did well enough to get a sequel, which never made it pass the prototype phase. I mostly remember it due to the controversy one of the fatalities caused, in which one of the apes urinates over his fallen enemy's corpse.

[Anonymous No.8519880]

>>8519875
I remember primal rage havent played it in years

[Anonymous No.8519915]

I remember this game getting a lot of buzz but I've never talked to anyone who actually played it.

[Anonymous No.8519919]

There was a lot of marketing and articles about it, it came out, reviews were mediocre, and it went away.

[Anonymous No.8519925]

>>8519175
Rise of the Robots was the first bad game I played. Poor six year old me was so baffled by the concept that I thought I was just playing it wrong at first.

[Anonymous No.8519945]

Didn't get a ton of hype, but it was talked about as one the good Genesis games. Quite terrible, though.

[Anonymous No.8519975]

This was supposed to be Streets of Rage IV at some point and then it became its own IP when Core wanted to make versions on other platforms. It's quite notable, as there weren't many 3D beat-'em-ups aside from Die Hard Arcade/Dynamite Deka, but Fighting Force doesn't seem to be as fondly remembered . And then for some reason they turned the sequel into a third-person shooter and only brought back the generic dude.

[Anonymous No.8520080]

Cyberpunk

[Anonymous No.8520120]

>>8519832
If I remember this game correctly and it's the one that's just brown and came out in like 2006, the articles I read on it were calling it mediocre.

[Anonymous No.8520170]

>>8519832
I hate how it had nothing to do with the cool light gun shooter that came out a decade before.

[Anonymous No.8520703]

Weaponlord. Gamepro shilled this for months.

[Anonymous No.8520713]

>>8519280
>we’re cancelling the contest but if you send in your proof of purchase, ID, blood and stool samples, date of birth, mother’s maiden name, your birth certificate and copies of your fingerprints and credit card info, you get a free Kemco game

[Anonymous No.8520719]

>>8520703
James D. Goddard, who was a Capcom USA guy who helped out on Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting and Super Street Fighter II, was the lead designer, but I think most people know him as the guy who created Dee-Jay than from Weaponlord. He became really salty when Namco ended up doing Soul Edge, accusing them from ripping off his own game (since they were Weaponlord's publisher).

[Anonymous No.8520725]

>>8519743
came to say this one

[Anonymous No.8520778]

>hyped as the second coming of Christ by not just the press but also the developer
>lead dev, Derek Smart, is an insane narcissist who endlessly goes on about how he’s the programmer and designer version of Da Vinci
>launches 70,000+ post flame war on Usenet, writing novel length replies to detractors and threatening to sue everyone who questioned his power
>game takes a decade to get released
>advertised with porn models posing with the game, telling the player that they’re about to get their fucking mind blown when they play this
>Take-2, the publisher, decides fuck this and releases a beta version
>Smart goes insane and destroys a vending machine in the T2 lobo because of it
>game is unplayable and riddled with bugs and crashes
>game is a titanic flop and loses millions
>years of patches try to make the game function
>Smart keeps posting on Usenet, continuing the flame war
>game gets totally forgotten about a week after it comes out

[Anonymous No.8520818]

Fable

[Anonymous No.8520880]

Zoop. wtf even was Zoop, i actually played it and now i've completely forgotten. think it was like a columns knockoff or a klax knockoff or something.

[Anonymous No.8520946]

Too Human is another title way overhyped that everybody immediately forgot about.

[Anonymous No.8520980]

SiN on PC
Black on original Xbawks

[Anonymous No.8521034]

>>8520778
Don't kid yourself, the only reason anyone cared about this game even back then was because of Dr. Derek Smart, Ph. D., inventing the concept of flame wars

[Anonymous No.8521038]

40 Winks

[Anonymous No.8521068]

>>8519945
One of the slowest paced and oddly depressing RPGs I've ever played. Doing anything takes forever, and the music and visuals are dreary as hell.

[Anonymous No.8521291]

>>8521038
I don't think anyone was ever hyped for this one aside from the "Move over, Mario" byline they added to the ad copy that was likely taken out of context.

[Anonymous No.8521373]

Spore. Fable.

[Anonymous No.8521401]

Massive hype behind this one.
>lucasarts proposes a game with the full backing of a feature film
>novel adaptation
>comics
>action figure toy line
>added to the star wars CCG
>ship cameo added to 1997 special edition star wars theatrical release
>dash rendar is the "future of the star wars brand"
The game was just ok, and people wanted more of the flying levels so we got rogue squadron games as a result. Dash Rendar was immediately forgotten.

[Anonymous No.8521404]

>>8521401

[Anonymous No.8521408]

>>8521404

[Anonymous No.8522094]

>>8521401
it still sold very well though. 2.6 million copies, it's the 10th best selling N64 game in North America.

[Anonymous No.8522134]

OP your image is not as the devs intended.

[Anonymous No.8522183]

>pic related is coming out
>it has a ton of ads on tv
>they're all targeted at young and naive kids like me
>none of them show any gameplay footage
>don't realise this until years later
>be young and incredibly naive at that point
>trick myself into believing it would actually be good
>good enough to be one of the best games ever
>beg parents to get it for me when it comes out
>they give in and pay full price for it
>start playing it
>having a hard time convincing myself it doesn't suck
>decide I must not be playing it right
>only solution is to keep playing it
>my older cousin who isn't into games sees me playing it
>tells me it looks really bad
>yeah no it's actually really good
>you need to play it a lot to appreciate it properly
>one other kid at school fell for it too
>talk to him about the game one day
>tells me straight that it really sucks

That was when I began coming to terms with it. Sometimes the truth is right in front of you and you can't see it at all. I feel bad to this day that my parents paid for it.

[Anonymous No.8522317]

>>8522094
It was hot for the year on the new launched N64 as the console was starved for good games and the original trilogy re-relase mania helped. Few people after 1997 ever mention the game ever again though.
They consider it a top 3 seller that year, but all it had to contend with besides mario 64 was... pilotwings 64? Maybe cruisin USA? The N64 had a shit launch.

The point is, it was very quickly forgotten not long after it came out which is the point of the thread.

[Anonymous No.8522394]

>>8521401
>>8522094
>>8522317
Kinda kills the meme that N64 fanboys will praise anything that was on their console.

[Anonymous No.8522402]

>>8519915
There was hype for it when it was going to be an early GC exclusive, then the Rare buyout happened, and then it took until the 360 to actually materialise, and the Xbox audience don't give a shit about cartoony platformers anyway.
I would kind of like to play this game, and the rest of Rare's 360 output one day, but I'm definitely not in a hurry.

[Anonymous No.8522416]

>>8522394
I'll praise it. It's a pretty good game. I think I like it more than Rogue Squadron, which just never really grabbed me. You get a jet-pack, you ride a speeder bike, you have shoot outs with Boba Fett and IG-88. It's alright.

[Anonymous No.8522426]

>>8519915
Me and my friend played it, back in the day. We thought it looked really gay but it turned out to be great.
It's weird how unknown it is for such a good title by a famous developer

[Anonymous No.8522428]

>>8519975
The Bouncer was also supposed to be SOR4 and IMO it sucks also. Japs can’t make 3d work

[Anonymous No.8522434]

The whole Shadows of the Empire thing wasn't centered on the N64 game, by the way. It was one of those "multimedia projects". If anything, the books were meant to be the centerpiece of it all.

[Anonymous No.8522438]

>>8519919
Looks like a semi rip off of soul reaver from that cover.

[Anonymous No.8522442]

Super Double Dragon, the last "proper" Double Dragon game made by Technos, was barely promoted, but somehow this got a huge ad campaign rivaling that of Super Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II, both which were coming out on the Super NES and Genesis at the same time.

It was a U.S.-developed fighting game based more on the Double Dragon animated series that was airing at the time than on the old beat-'em-ups, so you have Billy and Jimmy fighting with swords and a bunch of silly villains from the TV show like the ice guy and the dude with purple spandex and blade, but no Linda or Abobo.

I'm guessing Tradewest wanted to make money off a once popular beat-'em-up franchise, despite the fact that the series went off the rail after the second NES game.

[Anonymous No.8522447]

I still remember watching some feature on Nano-Breaker, and thinking it looked really cool, because you could change the colour of the blood. Did anyone actually play this?

[Anonymous No.8522449]

>>8519280
God that game was terrible, and the moment when Orsen Scott Card outed himself as a hack scribbler

[Anonymous No.8522452]

>>8522428
>The Bouncer was also supposed to be SOR4
No it wasn't. It was always intended to be its own thing. Sega was working on another canned Streets of Rage sequel on the Dreamcast when the Bouncer was made. There are rumors that the Bouncer started off as a sequel to Ehrgeiz at one point though.

[Anonymous No.8522463]

>>8522447
I played this after it went to the bargain bin. The multicolored paintball blood is the only thing I remember.

[Anonymous No.8522470]

>>8522452
>Ehrgeiz
Speaking of games which were hyped in their time but forgotten today

[Anonymous No.8522490]

>>8522470
I don’t remember Ehrgeiz getting more hype than any other of squaresoft’s
PS1 games

[Anonymous No.8522520]

>>8519925
Same I thought it was too hard and complicated and took me a while to realise that it was just a bit crap but looked amazing

[Anonymous No.8522537]

>>8522490
It had very little marketing, just basic one page ads in the usual gamer mags. Never got a cover story even.
>look cloud is in this game, remember FF7 please buy this game

[Anonymous No.8522538]

>>8522449
To be fair he barely had anything to do with the game or its story, they just gave him credit as a marketing gimmick.

[Anonymous No.8522558]

>>8519160
Does Myst count?
On one hand, it was an incredibly influential title when it came out in 1993, was re-released and remastered for several years, saw numerous acclaimed sequels, and drove up the adoption rate of CD-ROM drives for personal computers.
On the other hand, the point and click style it helped innovate didn't age very well, nor did the clones which copied its obtuse puzzles and static backgrounds, and the franchise itself has been overlooked in recent years.

[Anonymous No.8522564]

>>8522490
>>8522537
The American and European covers and ad campaign made it seemed like a Final Fantasy VII fighting game spinoff. Basically the "Featuring Dante from Devil May Cry" treatment years before Shin Megami Tensei III.

[Anonymous No.8522570]

>>8519176
It's because people didn't like 2 for whatever reason. Meanwhile it's the only game in that genre I actually enjoy. Shame because they had like 6 games planned out that would have gotten more and more tec heavy

[Anonymous No.8522728]

>>8522447
Played and enjoyed it, but damn is it hard. It feels like a reskinned Lament of Innocence, but the kicker is that there is no way to heal outside a handful of checkpoints if memory serves. Great designs at least.

[Anonymous No.8522750]

>>8519203
He's right though faggot

[Anonymous No.8522991]

>>8522558
Big enough to spawn a parody game starring John Goodman. It was a legitimate big deal.

[Anonymous No.8522996]

>>8522564
That’s just smart marketing.

[Anonymous No.8523003]

[Anonymous No.8523005]

>>8522991

[Anonymous No.8523025]

>>8522996
he's right though, it was horribly misleading because a straight FF7 fighting game spin off would have been unfathomably based.

[Anonymous No.8523063]

[Anonymous No.8523068]

[Anonymous No.8523430]

>>8522134
Can Dolphin do shaders now or is this shitposting lol

[Anonymous No.8525039]

>>8522537
>full RPG adventure fighting game
That actually sounds cool. Was it any good?

[Anonymous No.8525042]

>>8522728
The designs have a very Tsutomu Nihei/Blame! look about them, which is one of my absolute favourite aesthetics. I'll probably play it one day, just for that.

[Anonymous No.8525184]

>>8519160
Tomb Raider

[Anonymous No.8525501]

>>8525039
It was okay, imagine if someone used the Tekken engine to build a 3D Diablo clone.

[Anonymous No.8525525]

>>8519160
Any cel-shaded game from the 2000s

[Anonymous No.8525614]

all the various fighting games that came out in the 90s that weren't Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. Stuff like primal rage, eternal champions, killer instinct, etc

[Anonymous No.8525623]

>>8519168
most insightful answer ITT

[Anonymous No.8525640]

>>8519160

[Anonymous No.8525642]

>>8525614
>Stuff like primal rage, eternal champions, killer instinct, etc
>killer instinct
bait

[Anonymous No.8525687]

>>8525642
No he's right. Killer Instinct for instance was super hyped back then but let's face it it was Rare's ripoff of MK. The c-c-c-combo breakers, the abysmal soundtrack trying to be catchy pop, the goofy as fuck characters, the "3D" graphics, fuck off it was cringey then cringey now. Why play those ripoffs when we had SF2 and MK already? Even original Tekken was shit it barely was better than Virtua Fighter

[Anonymous No.8525786]

>>8525687
KI was the consolation fighter for tendies until smash came along

[Anonymous No.8525790]

>>8525501
Worked for Tobal.

[Anonymous No.8525850]

I played this as a kid and did a playthrough a few years ago and its still fun. The soundtrack is fucking ace.

>>8525640
I remember this being shilled hard. Was it any good?

[Anonymous No.8525981]

>>8525790
yup. It's like a poor man's Tobal

[Anonymous No.8526006]

Mostly self inflicted but still. Controversies around it are much more interesting than the game itself.

[Anonymous No.8526510]

>>8519915
Yeah, this was surprisingly shilled everywhere. I remember they even made some arcades that put on some "cache malls" here just to be ignored by everyone days after.

[Anonymous No.8526557]

It was pretty much a whimper considering it is the closure of the trilogy. Worse because they tried to reboot the story just to fall again and then for the supposed "sequel" to be retooled into the Assassin's Creed franchise.

[Anonymous No.8526626]

>>8519915
It's really good. Zelda w less puzzles and more combat that goes at a pretty fast pace and has more TECHNOLOGY than botw.

The art style is atrocious just like pdz but eventually you acclimate to it and just start keking all the time

[Anonymous No.8527215]

>>8526557
I played this one first and really liked it. Someday I'll play the rest.

[Anonymous No.8527356]

>>8519875
Good one. I remember the hype for that but had totally forgotten about it until you brought it up.
For me personally, there are a number of 80s games that seemed big to me at the time, though maybe it was just my warped kid perspective.
Spy Hunter
Hogan's Alley
RC Pro-Am
Road Blasters

[Anonymous No.8527369]

>>8519875
That one died because Midway bought them out and immediately buried them so Mortal Kombat had less competition. Theres a mostly complete sequel out there thats pretty fun. It had some great animation and fighting game veterans worked on it to make sure it was more balanced

[Anonymous No.8527376]

>>8525786
what does this even mean? SF2 and MK were both ported to the SNES.

[Anonymous No.8527386]

>>8520778
>She really wants it

[Anonymous No.8527429]

>>8519280
Love this game, even with the jank. Shame it never got a sequel after that cliff hanger. also that ost was peak TT
>>8520713
my sides

[Anonymous No.8527441]

>>8527376
It means he's a tard that confuses taking a side in the console wars with having a personality. 100% chance he does the same thing with politics or sports or something equally pointless.

[Anonymous No.8527442]

I honestly cannot remember the name of this game. I came out during the middle PS3 era, and Dobson referenced it in one of his comics.

There was a lot of hype around the game and the cover was orange and blue with a female lead with a short bob haircut. I remember the female had a great bum

[Anonymous No.8527451]

>>8527442
What game is this? I actually have no idea but it had hype. Bottom, not top.

[Anonymous No.8527453]

>>8527442
?

[Anonymous No.8527457]

>>8527453
>game is literally named remember me
>I found the dobson comic and it literally has the name in it
>i still can't remember

lol

[Anonymous No.8527458]

>>8527457
From what I remember it was an okay game

[Anonymous No.8527483]

>>8527453
What's really strange is that this is a Capcom game

[Anonymous No.8527485]

>>8527369
>That one died because Midway bought them out and immediately buried them so Mortal Kombat had less competition.
Atari Games didn't get bought by Midway until 1996, a few years after Primal Rage. And it's not like Midway wasn't willing to make a non-MK fighting game. They made War Gods (another overhyped game that's now forgotten) and Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. Hell, Atari Games even did Mace: The Dark Age after being bought by Midway.

[Anonymous No.8527486]

>>8522570
>>8522570
yea wtf i liked black and white

[Anonymous No.8527491]

>>8519915
>awful opening
>areas with major ruin
barf
>most abilities are barely used
>story has cool potential but it's wasted thanks to rare's stale humor and half assed character designs outside of Kameo, Kalus, Mystic and some elementals
I love this game but it could've been so much more. I wanted the tone to be similar to something like Star Fox Adventures. I wonder if MS had something to do with the story/tone with the game after they bought Rare and moved Kameo to the 360. Like maybe they shifted the game to be more kid friendly to have a kid friendly games for their console.
Idk where I heard this but I remember people saying they didn't know who the audience for this game was for, the game was not kid friendly enough, but also wasn't like for older audiences, I wonder if MS was the cause of this.
Shame it never got a sequel that improved on everything...though I don't want a sequel now, not with modern rare.

[Anonymous No.8527498]

>>8527483
They published it, but the developers were Dontnod Entertainment, same people that did those gay ass Life is Strange games.

[Anonymous No.8527504]

>>8522183
Flanders is the Rugal of 3D fighters

[Anonymous No.8527536]

>created to be the “Saturn killer” (or more accurately, trying to replicate the success of the Saturn/Virtua Fighter launch)
>one of the first proper 3D fighters that wasn’t VF
>advertised heavily with the launch of the PlayStation
>highly anticipated
>magazines saying it’s one of the best looking games ever made
>import reviews hail it as a masterpiece
>game sells boatloads
>critically acclaimed and hailed as one of the best fighters of all time, if not the best
>Ken Kutaragi publicly calls it the best game available for the PlayStation at launch
>so popular it gets an OVA adaption
>1 year later
>game is now seen as a shallow, awkward, unfun fighter that doesn’t really have much going for it
>Tekken 1 made it look like a joke mere months after it comes out
>sequels keep getting worse and worse to the point where the 4th one is ripped to shreds and isn’t even released in the US
>franchise dies at the end of the generation while Tekken and Virtua Fighter continue to make their rounds

lmao

[Anonymous No.8527665]

>>8527485
I'm talking about the sequel and the franchise as a whole. The first game had loads of hype and was well liked but faded away because Atari got bought by Midway and Midway crushed the franchise. They were permitted to make games that didn't directly compete with Mortal Kombat like 3d fighters but no bloody 2d fighters. Primal Rage 2 was 95% complete when the purchase went through and everything about it was shelved. They even had a toyline in the process of being released but that was killed too.

[Anonymous No.8527691]

>>8526006
How is the game not interesting? It's got better damage modeling and car handling physics than any open world game of its era.

[Anonymous No.8527694]

>>8527498
Life is Strange is the good kind of gay.

[Anonymous No.8527705]

>>8527536
>Saturn killer
Were they trying to kill the dead?

[Anonymous No.8527723]

>>8527536
>created to be the “Saturn killer”
>releases on Saturn
what did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.8527732]

>>8527498
>life is strange
those games suck, and somehow get worse
modern point and click games like twd games and life is strange are just movies with some window dressing.

[Anonymous No.8527751]

Pains me to say

>Spiritual successor to THE console fps
>Expanded single player and multiplayer
>Bots
>More interesting story and fully animated cutscenes
>Marketed beyond belief as the next big shooter
>Comes out years after expected
>Requires expansion pack to even play it beyond some small modes.
>Leaves little impact after release, completely overshadowed by PC games like Half Life/Deus Ex, and Halo a year later x

Damn shame.

[Anonymous No.8527789]

>>8527536
The series still has a banging soundtrack mostly (ignoring 4/Subaru)

The best in the series is Toshinden 2 Plus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8wCB9M8oNU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNSLlhITnZA

[Anonymous No.8527841]

>>8527457
seems like the producer was right all along
some booba would have made the game more memorable

[Anonymous No.8527891]

>>8527723
No idea why. Suppose Sega wanted a slice of the toshinden pie but I believe Sony signed an exclusivity deal to have the game on their hardware first. Apparently both versions were being worked on at the same time, but that’s how it was advertised

[Anonymous No.8527951]

>>8521401
I thought they made that game to test the waters for star wars still being popular enough to sell?

[Anonymous No.8527964]

>>8521401
>>8527951
wasn't this game a PC game first?

[Anonymous No.8527970]

>>8519168
you are obviously one of said zoomers, and your opinion is invalid on the retro board.
sadly this doesnt matter to you, as your web 2.0'd mind is crafted into a weapon of destruction against the internet.

[Anonymous No.8528079]

>>8527751
I want to say I blame Microsoft for the 360 game but in reality almost everyone at Rare left the company before the acquisition took place. Maybe if Microsoft wanted to put more money into the franchise it could have lasted longer. I wouldn't be surprised if thought about bringing it back but after COD4 it was clear there was only one kind of game the FPS market wanted and a "spy shooter" wasn't it.

They should totally bring it back as a more action oriented immersive sim or something

[Anonymous No.8528086]

>>8528079
I mean a few years after it came out it was basically forgotten, you can talk mad shit on Goldeneye but it stayed in the public consciousness for a decade, hitting the list of best FPS games and just best games in general lists without stop.

But Perfect Dark had little to no cultural staying power, even before Zero. It’s arguably more forgotten than even the Timesplitters series which has tons of fans still.

It had literally everything going for it, and despite its success and acclaim it’s really a footnote.

[Anonymous No.8528105]

>>8527951
>>8527964
It was an n64 game first and it was apart of this new wave of new Starwars material trying to get a new generation of people interested in the franchise along with the re-release of the original trilogy. The whole thing was something of an experiment by Lucasfilm to see if they could make a huge deal out of a single Starwars property without it actually being a film. They made toys, trading cards, comic books, and regular novels to go along with it. The re-release of A New Hope was coming out and they wanted kids to know StarWars.

[Anonymous No.8528118]

>>8519168
Ico and Colossus are talked about to this day. I haven't even played them and I've heard all about them.

>>8525184
Tomb Raider is one of the most well-known franchises there is. Unless you mean the reboot.

[Anonymous No.8528461]

>>8527694
The dead kind?

[Anonymous No.8528617]

>>8522991
i know you guys prolly dunno but Firesign Theatre is incredi-based

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKZtt2yEwfs

[Anonymous No.8528683]

I hate to say it, but you could make a case for the Double Dragon series.
>The first one was one of the top grossing arcade game of the year and the home conversions are heavily anticipated, with the NES version selling out during its release month.
>The second game is just as well-received as the first, resulting in a rights dispute between Acclaim and Tradewest over the publishing of the NES port.
>The third game gets overshadowed by Final Fight and is mostly known for inventing microtransactions by having in-game item shops that require real money. The NES version is a broken mess mostly remembered from the Bimmy memes popularized by the AVGN.
>The fourth game goes straight to SNES and ships unfinished despite some promising ideas.
>The cartoon and movie adaptations are rubbish and their vs.fighting game tie-ins are nothing to write home about.
At least Battletoads & Double Dragon was fun, even if they got Machine Gun Willy's name wrong.

[Anonymous No.8528690]

>>8528461
Kek

[Anonymous No.8528852]

>>8519175
It was hyped and the vidya magazine I bought at the time had the ad running for months, same for Zoop.
This game tried to mix the two big things of the time : fighting games and muh rendered graphics thinking it would be an instant hit.
Well, it gave us a good laugh and a memeable sticker, akin to "featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series". Poor Brian May

[Anonymous No.8529012]

Jet Force Gemini was everywhere and then 6 months later no one cared about it at all

[Anonymous No.8529045]

>>8527442
Can't tell if that's a joke post, but the game's called "Remember Me".
A game from that era that no one fucking talks about now is Wet. I remember a short window of time where that was going to be "the new Tomb Raider".

[Anonymous No.8529058]

>>8525687
I have little interest in fighting games, but some of the designs and music in Killer Instinct are pretty cool. Just on the visual end I think it holds up better than Mortal Kombat, which looks very goofy with it's digitised fighters, and Power Rangers costumes.

[Anonymous No.8529505]

>>8529058
I never liked the Power Rangers ninjas myself either. They should've stopped with Scorpion and Sub-Zero.

[Anonymous No.8529647]

>>8519832
I'm playing that game right now and I'm really enjoying it

[Anonymous No.8529796]

>>8519160
Malice

[Anonymous No.8531460]

>>8529796
>Originally intended to be an Xbox exclusive launch title
>Gets delayed until 2004
>Developer goes out of business 2 months later
Not hard to see why nobody cared lol.

[Anonymous No.8531497]

>>8528683
>inventing microtransactions by having in-game item shops that require real money.
How did that work anyway?

[Anonymous No.8531537]

>>8531497
They were like the item shops in River City Ransom or Fantasy Zone, but instead of using points or any form of in-game currency, they charge you one credit for each item. One item would restore your health to 150%, another one gives you the option to play as a new character when your current guy and so on.

[Anonymous No.8531543]

>>8531537
Ahh, that's pretty fucking uncool. Thanks for clearing that up for me, Anon.

[Anonymous No.8531550]

>>8525042
Hope you have fun with it, Anon. It's not a bad game by any means, but it's a pain in the ass to get screwed over by the lack of healing. Makes the game brutal at times.

[Anonymous No.8531559]

>>8531543
Forgot to mention that the Japanese version (which is apparently the later release) took out the item shops completely and just allowed you to choose your character from the get-go like any other beat-'em-up.

[Anonymous No.8531713]

Croc and Independence day were pushed as the big christmas games for a while.
The magazines tried to hype up Clayfighter a fair bit acting as if was the game that we always wanted.

Ridge racer 4 is one I felt didn't get enough hype considering its legacy, I thought there might be something wrong with it.

>>8522317
Remember mission impossible, that was pushed for years but it didn't appeal to me because the show seemed so straight faced and lame.

[Anonymous No.8531732]

>>8519215
this was the important game of my childhood

[Anonymous No.8531735]

>>8519832
this game is cool but it kinda goes downill once you get the alien powers

[Anonymous No.8531738]

>>8519875
awesome game

[Anonymous No.8531747]

>>8519975
this game is fun

[Anonymous No.8531752]

>>8521401
the on foot levels are more fun than the flying levels

[Anonymous No.8531780]

>>8526006
driv3r still turned out to be a fun game

[Anonymous No.8531791]

>>8519203
triggered retard

[Anonymous No.8533007]

>>8519168
I adore this post, because there are so many things wrong with it.

1). Team Ico games, especially their first, are still talked about as quintessential examples of the medium, and even artists from other mediums (ex.: Guillermo del Toro) have cited them as influences.
2). With the possible exception of the third one, Dark Souls isn't a very "Japanese" game (no, being made in Japan, by Japanese developers, doesn't count), as it apes western RPGs so well you'd be forgiven to think it was by a westerner developer instead.
3). FromSoft have cited Ico as an influence on the Soulsborne series. Enough so, that an entire section of Dark Souls looks like it could be from one of their games.

[Anonymous No.8533381]

>>8533007
Plus, ICO and Shadow of the Colossus has like a new version for each console generation.

[Anonymous No.8533790]

>>8521401
Speaking of overhyped Star Wars games, this one got plenty of magazine coverage and even made it on the cover of EGM. Apparently Lucasarts got the idea of doing a Star Wars fighting game after Capcom went to them for the license and turn them down, so Capcom ended up doing Star Gladiator instead.

[Anonymous No.8533803]

>>8528683
Like a lot of other stuff ITT Double Dragon was at least organically popular in its day

>>8520703
I love this game but it's true: it got hyped to death and then it sold like 4 copies I guess. Soul Calibur really did borrow some stuff from it, and I wonder about the barbarian dude from Killer Instinct 2 also.

[Anonymous No.8533813]

>>8519175
That game really feels like the first big vidya flop, or at least the earliest I can think of that practically parallels the flops of today.

[Anonymous No.8533818]

>>8533813
Atari Pacman had a lot of hype going for it and it flopped.

[Anonymous No.8533907]

>>8527215
if you like Two Thrones then you MUST PLAY the first two games, they are awesome

[Anonymous No.8533932]

>>8533818
It did not flop, zoomy.

[Anonymous No.8534384]

It wasn't a toxic shit heap like its 2013 cousin but it was still not that impressive. I remember there was initially some hype over a fully-3D Simcity coming out only to realize later that everything was excessively dumbed down to the point that it would've made more sense to call it SimTown 2.

[Anonymous No.8534697]

>>8527536
I don't think I played any other fighting game as a kid as much as this series. Yet it's all just sort of a blur and I can't remember any characters' names other than Eiji and Vermilion. I'm afraid of looking at footage now and it being worse than I remember.

[Anonymous No.8534803]

That Kane and Lynch game that got the a reviewer fired.

[Anonymous No.8534907]

>>8534697
>>8527536
The most I remember from Toshinden was the tacky U.S. marketing campaign that tried to push Sofia as a vidya sex symbol. This was a bit before Lara Croft debuted.

[Anonymous No.8536916]

>>8533790
It's kinda ironic, considering Capcom made the arcade and NES game adaptations of Willow, which was Lucas film's ripoff of The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings after they failed to secure the rights.

[Anonymous No.8536954]

>>8519807
Sony advertised the hell out of it as the first game to require the dual shock.

[Anonymous No.8536964]

[Anonymous No.8537510]

not /vr/ but literally every modern game is like this. Hyped and talked about for 1 year max and then completely forgotten about. Nobody cares about RDR1, watchdogs 1 or Battlefield 3 anymore.

to keep it /vr/ related, FFVIII

[Anonymous No.8537521]

I know Spore still has a bit of a cult following, but it was shilled relentlessly as the next coming of Christ. Until it was released.

[Anonymous No.8537543]

>>8533007
> as it apes western RPGs so well you'd be forgiven to think it was by a westerner developer instead.
Maybe to you, but imo it's easy to tell it's Japanese

[Anonymous No.8537605]

>>8537510
>Nobody cares about RDR1
Red Dead Redemption had plenty of discussion after it came out. RDR2 on the other hand, interest for the game evaporated overnight once the hyper wore off and players realized how much of a slog-fest it was. Same thing with Cyberpunk 2077. It was hyped like the second coming of Jesus and now retailers are trying to get rid of unsold launch copies at a discount.

>>8537543
Because the female characters are actually pretty?

[Anonymous No.8537691]

>>8522134
looking good

[Anonymous No.8537695]

>>8526557
I don't know if this counts, it was definitely talked about, it's more like the whole trilogy was suddenly forgotten

[Anonymous No.8537746]

>>8537521
I felt like I was taking crazy pills when this was being hyped. Between the astroturfing and vocal minority fnaboys it was impossible to talk about the game.
>bro, it's from the guy that did simcity and the sims
So it's going to be boring shit that only teen girls and stay at home moms play?
>but... simcity!
Dude didn't even make the good simcity games.
>it's going to revolutionize gaming!
Definitely not over promising and under delivering like every other game from the past 15 years, right?

[Anonymous No.8537780]

>>8519160
Ground Control and Act of War. Both were shilled as RTS renaissance but and were good but in hindsight, not that significant.
Another case: Tom Clancy's EndWar (not retro).

[Anonymous No.8537806]

>>8525640
This game probes square was already shit before enix merge.

[Anonymous No.8537812]

>>8525640
This game proves square was already shit before enix merge

[Anonymous No.8537819]

>>8537605
More or less, and silly things like the golden cloth head

[Anonymous No.8537832]

>>8522537
I played that game and it was god awful

[Anonymous No.8538187]

>>8536964
The fact that this game was basically filling the gap left behind by Punch Out, and actually did pretty well, makes me wonder why Nintendo didn't make a Punch Out for the N64.

[Anonymous No.8538490]

>>8520778
Is there a good rundown of all this? Like a comprehensive book or video? I've only read a few articles and they always present their slanted picture of what actually happened so you have to read like 20 articles to get the whole story.

I love it. I heard about them releasing an unfinished version, I didn't know about him sperging out on a vending machine though.

[Anonymous No.8538535]

>>8527386
Is she sitting on...? o.O

[Anonymous No.8538670]

>>8519160
>Ctrl+F
>"DNF"
>0 results
>"Duke Nuk-"
>0 results
For fuck's sake, /vr/

[Anonymous No.8538702]

>>8538670
I don't think that applies because it never really released, and no that abomination that released wasn't the original game nor was it hyped by the media

[Anonymous No.8538806]

myst