Games that came and went

[Blemontea]

I just randomly remember this old game. "Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg" When this game came out i saw it every were, in magazines, online, on tv, Nintendo Power had whole secton for tips and tricks for it. In case you haven't played its basically a "Linear Katamari without the Crack" but what im trying to get at is that when it was out it was big but today... where did it go? no one has mentioned it really or talked about it, it kinda just faded away even though it was on a throne for some reason. Can you recall any game like this, Big when it came out but nowadays no one even knows about it?

 

[Zyst]

Warhammer Online. I'm aware it's REALLY alive and all, but considering the holy-shit hype that it had around it, it's really dead at the moment.

EDIT: Not to mention it was constantly referred to as a "WoW killer."

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

All Points Bulletin. Two months after release it's shut down, that's got to be a record.

 

[Judgement101]

Diablo II, it is still alive but no one really plays it. It was gone UNTIL Blizzard announced Diablo III

 

[Tanis]

I remember all the hype about Killzone, and the game didn't even make 'Greatest Hits'.

 

[blood77]

Diablo II, it is still alive but no one really plays it. It was gone UNTIL Blizzard announced Diablo III

Actually there is still rather a large community of players online.

I feel the same way about Viewtiful Joe, it barely popular enough to make a second game, but the third never made it, at least before Clover studios went down. Then we got a terrible multi-player SSBB knock off and a sub par DS game. It really sucks because the games were a series and the 3rd was supposed to be the last, think if they did that with a movie trilogy, made 1 and 2, but 3 never it made to the box office.

 

[mikecoulter]

All Points Bulletin. Two months after release it's shut down, that's got to be a record.

Damn, ninja'd!

How about the old E.T game?

 

[Blemontea]

-snip-

Damn, ninja'd!

How about the old E.T game?

Thats technically still alive immortalized as the grand Bland Piece of Shat forever.

 

[Blemontea]

Diablo II, it is still alive but no one really plays it. It was gone UNTIL Blizzard announced Diablo III

Actually there is still rather a large community of players online.

I feel the same way about Viewtiful Joe, it barely popular enough to make a second game, but the third never made it, at least before Clover studios went down. Then we got a terrible multi-player SSBB knock off and a sub par DS game. It really sucks because the games were a series and the 3rd was supposed to be the last, think if they did that with a movie trilogy, made 1 and 2, but 3 never it made to the box office.

THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A 3RD?...shit, those were fun games

 

[Blemontea]

All Points Bulletin. Two months after release it's shut down, that's got to be a record.

I have never heard of this what was it?

 

[captaincabbage]

SIngularity seemed to slip right under my radar, since it was apparently an exercise in mediocrity.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Chuck Rock. I don't think they ever made any new ones.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

The Last Remnant, it's my favorite Square Enix game, but it's not very well known (probably because it's a SE game that isn't Final Fantasy...)

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

Timeshift...

I don't know about everywhere else in the world but right before Timeshift's release, it was EVERYWHERE in my town...

...and right after it's release, nobody knew it existed...

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Section 8?

Billed as the next good FPS and then died a death about 2 days after launch.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Spectrobes. Everyone was hyping it up to be the next Pokemon. It even had a sequel. Yet Pokemon is now in it's 5th gen, and Spectrobes faded into obscurity.

 

[Durxom]

Aliens vs. Predator.

I have not played the game myself, but this game pissed me off to no end, because my preorder of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth was on the same day as it, and I had to wait 3 more days for it to come in cause all they had were backpiles of AvP.

You go back now, its nowhere to be found, except for about a few pre-owned copies, while AAI: Miles Edgeworth is in the top pick/best selling lineup for DS at the store.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Section 8?

Billed as the next good FPS and then died a death about 2 days after launch.

Yeah, that pissed me off. I liked that game, had some awesome ideas and everything. But then it just died.

 

[Fenra]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Shadow of Chernobyl, I remember a lot of hype around that, then it came out and seemed to fly under the radar for most people I knew, shame to because its a great atmospheric game, marred I think by being buggy as hell at release heh

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Black. Game had so much hype leading up to it because it was by the guys who made Burnout, and then it wound up being a very forgettable shooter.