Was this the biggest AAA failure in recent years?
>make 1/10th of a game, and what you DO have is boring and crappy
>charge 3x as much for it because apparently this game is worth $150 in their minds
>they thought they'd make bank since they blew their whole game dev budget on running ads in Times Square since casuals are programmed to buy whatever garbage gets advertised at them
turtle rock deserved it desu
>>319534569
hi
>>319534569
MGSV. Because unlike of the other AAA failures it didn't make me simply laugh.
It broke my heart.
I had a lot of fun playing it with friends the first month, it was probably the most fun I've had in a multiplayer shooter since the battlefield 1942 wake island demo.
and then it kinda just died out. haven't played it since.
That piece of garbage
>>319534931
If you didn't hype yourself up like an idiot that game is fun as fuck and hardly deserving of being in this thread but whatever.
>>319534910
Titanfall is pretty good actually. CoD didn't make a 1:1 copy for nothing.
>>319534910
Titanfall yes
Battlefront no
>>319534931
sadly this, Kojima never disappointed me this hard, but probably was most Konami fault
>>319535068
Fuckonami
Battlefront holds that title. Literally all they had to do was polish what Batrlefront 2 did. But no, they had to completely fuck the whole formula up
>>319536221
this is what happens when you make a game for 8 year olds
no seriously, they literally admitted battlefront was made for 8 year olds
>>319536221
>Literally all they had to do was polish what Batrlefront 2
BF3 already existed in alpha which was already that, they literally just had to add a new coat of paint onto it
Does anybody have statistics to what their income/spend was?
Im hoping it tanked
>Default Steam forum is "announcements"
>The general discussion first page 75% pointless stickies
This is how you know a game is shit and they're trying to hide it
>>319536336
>Seeing that alpha video when the soldier gets into a ship and seamlessly goes from ground battle to space battle
I dont think I'll fully get over what we could have had
>>319536451
It had a pretty fucking massive marketing campaign and was shilled all over sporting events along with the commercials that ran for it, it had to have had more than 100 million in that alone
Worst release date ever
>>319536707
Literally Oh That's Out?: The Game
>>319536707
worst lara ever. looks like a moody gang banger
>>319536798
If it wasn't Xbone timed exclusive people would know it had been released. But yeah, I don't know what the fuck Microsoft and Square were thinking, especially with how the 2013 TR sold better on Playstation than on Xbox.
>>319536707
They pretty much killed the franchise again. And good fucking riddance, to be honest. This third iteration was bloody & edgy garbage. At least the Legend trilogy reboot was fun, even if wonky at times.
>>319536221
"w-w-we didn't design this game for hardcore games! I-it's supposed to be shallow on purpose! THE LACK OF CONTENT IS A FEATURE!"
>>319537565
When your entire design philosophy is that tits are morally repugnant you won't make a good game.
It was basically Reddit: Left 4 Dead 3. Full of gimmicks and shit that looks cool but adds no merit. It jumped on the
>PC master race
meme but never followed through, just to get attention
>>319536707
>timed exclusive
>haven't seen any marketing whatsoever
Serves them right.
Game itself is fun but.. stay the FUCK away from it. Once 2K took over, the cashcowing began and my god did they cashcow HARD.
I play the game only because I have ridiculous amounts of liquid funds.
>niggers forget The Order:1886
>>319536536
If you actually stop and think about it, that seems like a good idea on paper, but without a shit ton of NPCs in the map with you, what it would actually end up being is a huge amount of dead map space with no enemies anywhere.
>>319539570
It delivered exactly what people expected. It may have been shit, but that's what was advertised.
Tortanic
>>319534569
Did it do worse than Elder Scrolls Online? If so, then yeah probably
>>319539703
That is a blatant lie from the reveal trailer. It wasn't till the reviews came out, and youtube vids shown just how shit the "game" really was.
Obvi battlefront
>>319539570
Leave the deads alone.
>>319539012
>When your entire design philosophy is that tits are morally repugnant you won't make a good game.
Thing is, lara is still a 100% conventionally attractive supermodel, just without big titties.
I see the reboot as the end game of SJW pandering: cynical lip-service to feminist/lgtbbq themes that get awkwardly crowbarred into a story and characters that are still explicitly aimed at the 15-30 year old male demographic. Thanks EA!
>>319539570
Part of me wants them to make a sequel that's an actual GAME.
>>319539570
Who remembers the lead dev or whoever it was saying bad reviews was harassment?
>>319540102
The GAME is a clunky, sub-par cover-shooter that would have sucked just as hard if it wasn't mostly a movie. The whole studio just need to be purged or closed down.
anyone remember this shit?
>muh sixaxis
lmao
literally Oh yeah they actually made that game -tier
>>319540870
Oh god I forgot about this.
How could they have had playtested this and still think it was an okay game.
>>319540726
>Factor 5 didn't want to do more Rogue Squadron games
>They did this and died
I wonder if it would've been better received if they just added actual controls from the very start.
>>319536798
> Oh That's Out?: The Game
>>319536707
I wrote an article about the previous reboot compared to Anniversary and TR1 last week and only then did I find out it was even out. I didn't think it was due for a few months.
this actually ended up blowing so much dick that they canceled the ports to PC and ps3
early ps3 was so shit
>>319534990
Failure? Game sold so much they got away with packaging a dlc collectors edition so many casuals eat that garbage up still it's ridiculous. They'll get away with 3 more sequels and 4 dlcs that should've been in it start like the first
>>319534569
i feel bad about evolve
the whole tracking monsters/hide and seek idea seemed like it would be a good spin on multiplayer shooters
was the gameplay any fun at least
>>319541520
sorry ports to xbox and pc
>>319541364
i blame sony for coming up with that gimmicky sixaxis bullshit
>>319534694
Fuck off, game is fun. Maybe not worth full price, but I'm enjoying it. Hardly a failure.
>>319541603
>was the gameplay any fun at least
Not really.
It should have felt like you were hunting something, instead you were just constantly sprinting across the map chasing the birds and shit that say "THE MONSTER IS OVER HERE."
Then finally after like 5-10 minutes of sprinting around the tiny map you get in a fight and there's so much flashy shit on the screen you can't tell what's happening.
>>319535068
>Kojima name is everywhere in the game
>"I-it's c-clearly Konami's f-fault!"
The biggest failure in AAA history will always be Brink.
>>319541167
Too soon
>>319542227
Oh shit man, I almost forgot. Fuck you.
Half-life 2: episode 2. Great game but drove the series into a corner it couldn't get out of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
>ITT
guys you remember all the times you played wii music with your friends? yeah me neither
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d5kiu5zj2s
>>319542464
God that was embarassing
>>319542464
Yeah but who even counts nintendo anymore, theyve been dead for the past 10 years.
Evolve may have tanked, but it didn't Brink tank.
My local Best Buy actually fucking gave out free copies of the game with any game purchase over 50 dollars only 3 weeks after it released.
It tanked that fucking hard. BRINK TANKED SO HARD THEY HAD TO ACTUALLY GIVE IT OUT FOR FREE.
>>319534910
man, titanfall was a better shooter than halo, cod, battlefield hardline. Idk why it failed. I think the xbone exclusivity did more harm than good.
>>319541520
its actually pretty funny remembering all those sonyggers hyping this up as the "halo killer"
>>319541167
> failure
> spore
Bait/8
>>319543224
well, not financially. but it was a massive fucking disappointment
>>319542227
What's the story behind Brink?
>>319536707
>no jiggle physics
Clear misplacement of priorities.
Crysis 2 and 3 were visually impressive, but their gameplay was completely broken.
I felt as if I was playing a strange lovechild of the original Crysis and Crysis Warhead and the Modern Warfare series.
>>319543319
Brink was going to be this fucking AMAZING post apocalypse multiplayer shooter with THE BEST PARKOUR in any game yet made.
The trailers looked amazing, the game had this huge hype train behind it, then the game came out and was a complete piece of dog shit and didn't even move more than 200k copies. Stores everywhere had like 50 copies stuck on the shelf.
>>319543319
Bethesda tried to mirror the "success" of TF2 as well as cram in Mirror's Edge bullshit for some reason. Also a tiny bit of Call of Duty because every shooter had to be like Call of Duty back during Brink's release.
They failed, they failed fucking badly.
>>319543450
most people had to wait a few years to be able to even run the first crysis
>>319541603
>was the gameplay any fun at least
No, the game is basically the opposite of what normal people want out of an FPS game, which is why it dropped 80% of its playerbase. If L4D versus mode is the how-to of isometric multiplayer combat, then evolve is the ultimate how-not-to.
>>319543450
Far Cry > Crysis
>>319543612
Overdone setting too. Humanity's last hope but nah the good guys are the shitheads who overcrowded it and demand restitution. Boring.
>>319543319
Basically splash damage has been remaking RTCW:Enemy territory for the last decade or so and each iteration they add some shit gimmicks that are popular at the time and water down the gameplay and map designs.
Brink was basically the lowest point of all that will TERRIBLE maps, a completely broken class system that made no sense on any level and ruined the game and abysmal weapon balance.
Dirty bomb is a step back on the right path, but nowhere near as good as the original ET. I'm honestly surprised that they even managed to make dirty bomb, given that their last two attempts failed horribly.
>>319534992
I was only hyped for MGO and I was still let down by how they handled the story ontop of the fact that there's a shitload of missing content.
The gameplay itself is great and fun as fuck. It could've been so much more though.
>>319534990
TTK fixed it
what a piece of shit
>>319534569
I find Titanfall and the new Battlefront to be even worse, with Titanfall being better than Battlefront obviously. Evolve actually has some great ideas and gameplay but they shot themselves in the foot with shoddy balance, cutting their game up into a billion pieces to sell so that you'd have to spend far more than the price of a new game just to get the entire fucking game and then there's the real issue. It's not a full price game even with all of that in it. I'd pay 30 maybe 40usd brand new out the gate for a Evolve if all its content had been included in the package.
>>319534848
Don't let your personal bias get in the way, that game has done incredibly well.
>>319534694
It's massive but it just doesn't live up, sadly.
>>319534910
Titanfall could have passed go if they'd released as a 30usd or fee to play with cosmetic cash shop and free map updates sort of deal.
Battlefront is legitimately bad but from what I've seen it's selling well enough despite how god awful it is.
>>319534990
Regardless of "TTK fixed" it comments, I'd say that even its VERY poor release and shoddy quality didn't stop it from bringing in the numbers it needed to not actually fail. I get it though, it really was a disappointment, regardless of its current success, no doubt about that.
But it sold well.
>>319536707
I didn't even know that was out. Fuck the reboots anway.
>>319537565
And the wonky could have been worked out of the Legend stuff if people had put their minds to it. The fun was there. It was colorful and had character. The new stuff can jump off a cliff and die in a black and white cutscene.
>>319539570
I didn't like it, but it wasn't because it didn't deliver on what it promised. Let's be honest here, no matter how bland it was, what it is was is exactly what it claimed to be.
I can't get bent out of shape over this one. Too bad they didn't want to make an actual game.
>>319541167
Fuck.
>>319543450
Crysis was always shallow but pretty.
>>319545976
> Crysis 1 shallow
Good kek m8, tell another?
>>319545404
Turning shadowrun into a multiplayer shooter was a terrible idea.
>>319546360
It's all pretty, sure, but it's standard shallow first person shooting gameplay just like the next two in the series. Doesn't mean it can't be fun, but the next entries in the series vary little from it, their gameplay certainly isn't worse.
>>319546668
yeah and it was multiplayer only for the price of a normal game
>>319539570
made me remember the steak analogy damage control on twitter
>>319534569
>Was this the biggest AAA failure in recent years?
It was a massive fuck-up and wasted potential yes, but I think ToR takes the cake in terms of failures.
>>319534569
ESO
>>319547840
i feel so happy every time a EA or Bioware game tanks
even better if its both of them at the same time
>>319534746
This.
Works pretty well for a number of games though as well. See how many you can think of
>>319542961
You. Get the fuck out. Dur xbone exclusive ruined it. Dur.
>>319534569
Is Evolve worth getting for like $10 if I just want to play single player?
I really like the idea of switching between hunters on the fly and everyone I ask says the AI is above average.
>>319549693
>Evolve
>single player
lol
>>319539703
The problem was entirely the price. Multiple times they said it was a story with gameplay attatched, but that price made you think you were getting a game, not a movie ticket.
>>319543450
I remember playing crysis 2 full stealth and when I got to the end I couldn't continue because I had to kill the ceph stalkers...
>>319534910
Pretty sure Battlefront will make it up together with the movie though
And Titanfall was a piece of shit, /v/ just loves to like unpopular games these days
It was literally cod with wallrunning - AND you get to sit into a big machine that lets you play big-CoD inside your CoD, so you can CoD while your CoD.
If the mecha gameplay would've felt like you were actually controlling some military machine and didn't just grow 40 meters and got a different weapon loadout it could've been worth a shit.
>Game that person doesn't like
>YEAH, IT COMPLETELY FAILED. JESUS, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
>Game that person likes
>IT DIDN'T FAIL, IT DELIVERED EXACTLY WHAT IT PROMISED. JUST BECAUSE IT WAS REVIEWED POORLY AND WAS A COMMERCIAL FLOP, IT WAS FINE FOR WHAT IT PROMISED TO BE.
I think the people defending The Order 1886 are my favorite. The game sold three times less than fucking Knack.
>>319552013
>Knack
Forgot about that one.
>>319541603
Don't listen to >>319541992 and >>319543710, the game was a lot of fun at higher levels of play. People who suck dick at it spent the whole game just chasing after the monster behind it, which will never catch it because it's just plan faster, and then they'll complain about how there's no action for the first ten minutes of the game.
On release, it was pretty bad with the one monster, the Wraith, because it was completely overpowered in terms of mobility that it was actually impossible to catch if the monster was good, but for the most part it was all about knowing the maps, splitting up into teams to check the normal feed locations, and then flushing the monster into your trapper who took a centralized location.
With a team of people who knew what they were doing or with friends, the game was incredibly fun. It just had no fucking content and was trying to wring the player for money as much as possible.
>>319550032
You can play all the modes with bots.
I remember getting on the hype train hard for the first ever trailer, as did a lot of my friends. Glad I never actually bought it. What a piece of shit
>>319541520
the korn song was the stupidest fucking thing, just went and rewatched the video, cringe 101
>Evolve
>290 online
Holy shit, there are more people playing shitty censored visual novels than an AAA title. Poor guys
>>319534569
Whatever happened to this? I remember they were releasing more expensive monsters for it and everyone was pissed that there were over $100 in in-game purchases. It just fell off the face of the earth after that.
>>319552656
>all those ads they took out talking shit about GTAV
beautiful
>>319552353
If the game is good, why is like 2% of the playerbase still playing?
Checkmate evolve fags.
>>319541082
Because it was a decent game. Most fags like you never played it or for some reason hyped it up to MGSV levels of delusion
>>319542227
Watching that hype train derail here on /v/ was a fucking amazing time to be around here. The months of denial afterwards was nothing short of incredible
>>319553708
>It just had no fucking content and was trying to wring the player for money as much as possible.
Also I think the game has to have some support on consoles because they're still making monsters and hunters. I have no idea what the numbers would be though. I think it was just a matter of the new consoles having nothing to play for a while.
Overwatch is about to trump them all in terms of failure. ActiBlizz does it again!
>>319553981
>This delusion
I wish I had that comic of the people telling someone their boat is going to sink over and over again only to be ignored as they drive away on a speedboat.
>>319553981
>20TICK is an artistic choice
>>319541167
We'd love to forget this
>MS finally has a fun exclusive
>This is their immediate cashgrab followup
>>319554328
The first crackdown sucked ass. Two just sucked more. The only reason the first one had any success is because of the Halo 3 beta.
I remember my GameStop doing the midnight release for crackdown and giving away Halo 3 mini posters and instructions on how to get the beta
>>319541167
The game that killed Robin Williams.
>Dungeon Keeper 3
>Sim City 5
>Tortanic
>that Tomb Raider game that released two weeks ago and did nothing
>Master Chief Collection
>Metroid Other M
I'm glad Evolve failed. What a terrible fucking business plan.
>>319552013
Knack actually sold very well
It sold better than Super Mario U or whatever it's called
>>319552013
>The Order 1886
Reminder that a dev of the game released his own review and gave it 10/10 because he was so anally destroyed.
>>319534694
This game is fun as fuck. We take bong rips and fly around above the trees and fields. My gf loves watching it. I'm not poor so I don't have a framerate problem
>>319555178
And it was still considered a commercial failure by Sony. Mainly because of its launch title status.
Obviously The Order was viewed as poor as well since Sony parted with the devs.
>>319555178
Really? I don't disbelieve you, I'd justike to know the sales numbers.
>>319534569
Every AAA title made in the last 5 years
>>319549605
Wow you seem pretty mad familia
>>319552469
>>319549693
Evolve is too barebones with bots, it's literally just a combat game+hide and seek on a map.
At least with L4D there is something like an actual "story experience" that you get from playing a level. If you can't play online it ain't worth it. The MP is easily worth $10, but I don't know how much of a playerbase there still is.
Such a PR trainwreck. A shame because I actually liked the game itself. Then again I can't give it much credit because frankly, L4D2 came out 6 years earlier and feels like a more interesting and complete game minus the inferior graphics.
>>319553981
I'll say "blizzdrones will eat it", but after the failure of HotS seems they are turning less stupid.
>>319547840
Game as made a fortune. It continues to make a fortune. It has 3 expansions. Far from a failure. Maybe in your mind.
>>319553981
Their only consolation will be that they didn't have to spend a lot of money on it. Which seems to be there go-to tactic these days.
"What's the cheapest way we can try to steal players from the most successful contemporary genres?"
Generate hype train, release a flawed, mediocre product that doesn't actually steal any fans or really deliver any of the shit that made said games popular in the first, crash and burn, collect WoW bucks to rinse and repeat.
>>319534569
Sim City
Oh wow, the amount of backpedaling
>>319558090
/v/ loves to parrot "le tortanic" meme.
Is true that it failed as the next WoW-killer, but IIRC they recovered the inversion after some time as f2p and now they have benefits with it.
>>319558835
On that note Sims4.
I gave it the benefit of the doubt I really did.
Coming off of Sims3 I thought it can't be that bad. But the things missing, the fact that every house you go to needs a loading screen and the fact that a fire broke out and my Sim is woken up by the fire alarm and is panicking, only to discover there is no firefighter and my Sim is locked so I can't do anything to fix the fire, yeah that was pretty much it.
>>319559027
Pretty much anything can make some money in F2P. Doesn't change that ToR was a pathetic failure of a AAA MMO
>>319544581
What did TTK fix?
I'm playing right now and I don't know.
I'm assuming it's the end game strikes, right?
