I expected a list and all I got was article after article after article... which is kind of a list as well, but not the kind of list I was expecting. Being a fan of list of lists of lists, I expected the list to be more list-y. Maybe I should lower my list expectations.
Thanks for posting it anyway. It's a nice concatenation of articles.
Real shame because the reveal trailer made it look like a nice little sci-fi action game. Then the gameplay showed it was nothing more than a hero shooter coming into an oversaturated market with a bloated budget and no hook
I always felt bad for Hello Games. They were a small team making what was essentially an indie game, but for one reason or another, No Man's Sky built up waaaaay more hype than they had presumably anticipated. I was part of that hype, because as a huge fan of 65daysofstatic I was really looking forward to hearing what they did for it.
So Sony picked up on the hype and marketed the everloving shit out of it, leaving Hello in a position where they had to deliver what was by that being considered a AAA game with an indie team. And of course, they came up short. How could they not.
That whole debacle was Sony's fault, but Hello have spent the past ten years making amends for it.
Yeah, that's a bit disingenuous take on the situation at the time.
While Sony could have toned down the marketing and better worked with Hello games, Sean Murray went on a absolute PR streak lying over and over in so many interviews about features that weren't in the game at the time and realistically wouldn't be added until many years after.
Then they released a half baked game which was missing basically every feature the gaming community was actually excited about.
They remdemed themselves and NMS in its current form is a fantastic game deserving of praise, but Hello Games deserved all the hate at the time. Entirely their fault.
Needs ‘Rise of the Robots’ the super hyped fighting game. The graphics looked amazing for the time, the characters were meticulously rendered in 3d studio. On release it bombed spectacularly because the gameplay just sucked, due to the constraints imposed by trying to achieve the fancy graphics. It was held up as an example of an overhyped game for years.
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List of video games notable for negative reception | Spyke
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I expected a list and all I got was article after article after article... which is kind of a list as well, but not the kind of list I was expecting. Being a fan of list of lists of lists, I expected the list to be more list-y. Maybe I should lower my list expectations.
Thanks for posting it anyway. It's a nice concatenation of articles.
Courtesy of our ai overlords:
That's a table, not a list. But I'll stop now :)
3 more trees died because of you!
To be fair, most of those look pretty weak.
No Daikatana. Literally the biggest flopsince Atari ET at least from the media coverage. So big it was a meme that lasted for a decade.
It's on the list of commercial failures in video games.
Hey, y'all remember CONCORD?
That shit will never stop being funny.
Real shame because the reveal trailer made it look like a nice little sci-fi action game. Then the gameplay showed it was nothing more than a hero shooter coming into an oversaturated market with a bloated budget and no hook
I always felt bad for Hello Games. They were a small team making what was essentially an indie game, but for one reason or another, No Man's Sky built up waaaaay more hype than they had presumably anticipated. I was part of that hype, because as a huge fan of 65daysofstatic I was really looking forward to hearing what they did for it.
So Sony picked up on the hype and marketed the everloving shit out of it, leaving Hello in a position where they had to deliver what was by that being considered a AAA game with an indie team. And of course, they came up short. How could they not.
That whole debacle was Sony's fault, but Hello have spent the past ten years making amends for it.
Yeah, that's a bit disingenuous take on the situation at the time.
While Sony could have toned down the marketing and better worked with Hello games, Sean Murray went on a absolute PR streak lying over and over in so many interviews about features that weren't in the game at the time and realistically wouldn't be added until many years after.
Then they released a half baked game which was missing basically every feature the gaming community was actually excited about.
They remdemed themselves and NMS in its current form is a fantastic game deserving of praise, but Hello Games deserved all the hate at the time. Entirely their fault.
Needs ‘Rise of the Robots’ the super hyped fighting game. The graphics looked amazing for the time, the characters were meticulously rendered in 3d studio. On release it bombed spectacularly because the gameplay just sucked, due to the constraints imposed by trying to achieve the fancy graphics. It was held up as an example of an overhyped game for years.