Biggest "Ooops" moments in gaming.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2006-03-25 11:13pm

Duke Nukem Forever was announced in 1997, right? I long ago stopped following its development, and frankly, can anyone take this at all seriously, that it will ever be released? I understand games of this kind taking several years to produce, but we're looking at nearly a decade now, which is laughable. Hell, even Half Life 2 came out. In 2004!

DNF will never live up to any of the hype it ever had or hopes to have.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2006-03-26 12:00am

Daikatana was seriously overhyped, so everyone who played it was dissapointed since it wasn't the Second Coming of Christ- but it wasn't actually a bad game. Just not an excellent one.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-03-26 01:25am

I'm surprised that the ET game hasn't been mentioned.

And to clarify:

Lord British was the Mary Sue of Richard Garriot, the creator of the Ultima Series. During an address to a crowd in the VERY early stages of UO someone managed to steal an instagib spell off a guard noticed that he didn't have an invulnerability tag = 1 and took him out.

American McGee is a brilliant level designer (just look at any of his work) but he sucks at making games. Just play American McGee's Shite (figure out the anagram) or any other of his games where its not just a fucking shooter with great level design.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-03-26 01:35am

Dennis Toy wrote:How bout the recent release of Driver 4: Parallel lines, man that game was shit and with a capital S. They took out director mode, made NY look lifeless and shitty and the cars are pathetic.

Assuming the lack of any quality in Driver 2 and 3 didn't tip you off?

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2006-03-26 01:35am

Letting Phillips make Zelda games.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-03-26 01:39am

Praxis wrote:Letting Phillips make Zelda games.

Nintendo didn't have much of a choice in that matter.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2006-03-26 07:09am

FSTargetDrone wrote:Duke Nukem Forever was announced in 1997, right? I long ago stopped following its development, and frankly, can anyone take this at all seriously, that it will ever be released? I understand games of this kind taking several years to produce, but we're looking at nearly a decade now, which is laughable. Hell, even Half Life 2 came out. In 2004!

DNF will never live up to any of the hype it ever had or hopes to have.

I think it's an eleborate joke. Look at the title, people will be waiting forever and it will never come.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2006-03-26 08:48am

weemadando wrote:I'm surprised that the ET game hasn't been mentioned.

And to clarify:

Lord British was the Mary Sue of Richard Garriot, the creator of the Ultima Series. During an address to a crowd in the VERY early stages of UO someone managed to steal an instagib spell off a guard noticed that he didn't have an invulnerability tag = 1 and took him out.

American McGee is a brilliant level designer (just look at any of his work) but he sucks at making games. Just play American McGee's Shite (figure out the anagram) or any other of his games where its not just a fucking shooter with great level design.

To be honest...ET suckitude speaks for itself. Some hype, because it's ET...but what happened afterwards and that it pretty much got the ball rolling for what happened to Atari.

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2006-03-26 11:27am

Ghost Rider wrote:
18-Till-I-Die wrote:I'm shocked Enter the Matrix isnt on this list...

Did you all blank out that part of your memories or something? I understand extreme trauma can cause that.

Jesus lord that was a shitty (looking, playing, existing) game.

I got it and i was thinking, cool i get to play the movies and shit. WRONG. I get to play two people i see on screen for five fucking seconds and NOT as Neo which was what everyone who buys the game was probably expecting.

Crap all around. Bad gameplay, shitty graphics, the best part was literally the end credits with that cool Evenescence song.
And?

It still wasn't hyped to being the best game ever concieved. Which is much of the point of why many of these games are listed. It was essentially cashing in on hype of the Matrix films, just like so many shitty Star Wars games.

Hardly a blip on the fucking radar compared to some of the shit mentioned.

Besides, they were saying you played Ghost and Nirobe the entire time. Anyone who thought otherwise fooled themselves.

But yeah, that was a little overhyped.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2006-03-26 11:55am

A little known MMORPG called Ryzom. I played it just after i dumped Lineage 2. It was crap in the worst way. The game had shitty models, no ingame music, no atmosphere and the majority of the quests where bugged. In short it had been rushed out to hit the market before WoW and EQ2.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2006-03-26 04:50pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Praxis wrote:Letting Phillips make Zelda games.
Nintendo didn't have much of a choice in that matter.

That's the "Oops" part of it

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2006-03-26 10:04pm

* Sets aside a place for Spore on this list. *

PrinceofLowLight · Post by **PrinceofLowLight** » 2006-03-26 10:34pm

Master of Orion III. "This is what democracy looks like." The newest game in the single most beloved franchise in space-based 4X reduced to worthless shit by the whacked out development process that was supposed to be one of its main selling points.

Temple of Elemental Evil. It's actually a very good game now, but that's due to the Circle of Eight mod team. The game was unplayable out of box, and I'm pretty sure that was one of the main reasons Troika went under.

Even though it was mostly Atari's fault from what I understand. Bastards.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2006-03-26 11:52pm

Flagg wrote:
FSTargetDrone wrote:Duke Nukem Forever was announced in 1997, right? I long ago stopped following its development, and frankly, can anyone take this at all seriously, that it will ever be released? I understand games of this kind taking several years to produce, but we're looking at nearly a decade now, which is laughable. Hell, even Half Life 2 came out. In 2004!

DNF will never live up to any of the hype it ever had or hopes to have.
I think it's an eleborate joke. Look at the title, people will be waiting forever and it will never come.

A member of the Penny Arcade forums put it into perspective once:

"In the time that Duke Nukem Forever has been in production, NASA has designed, built, launched, and crashed objects on Mars. Twice."

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-03-26 11:56pm

MoO3 was SO funny. You'd think looking at user-sensitive mods like CounterStrike (*still* stuck in a neverending dev cycle) would make people wary of simply accepting any and all nutbar ideas and whiny complaints from users. It did teach us one thing though: 4X players are as retarded as everyone else.

Post by **Edi** » 2006-03-27 01:26am

Heroes of Might and Magic IV at original release. The thing needed two expansion packs and patch 3.0 before it was really working. The first release didn't even have multiplayer aside from hotseat (if that, don't remember anymore), and it had been hyped as the best thing ever in strategy gaming (turn-based anyway). Didn't help that they stole a lot of the tactical combat ideas from Age of Wonders (the original). It was such an unplayable piece of shit it's hard to describe.

They basically shat on the whole HoMM series with that one, though HoMM IV ultimately did become a very good game. The Heroes IV Complete DVD is very good value for money if you like that type of games.

Edi

Post by **Vympel** » 2006-03-27 02:08am

Stark wrote:MoO3 was SO funny. You'd think looking at user-sensitive mods like CounterStrike (*still* stuck in a neverending dev cycle) would make people wary of simply accepting any and all nutbar ideas and whiny complaints from users. It did teach us one thing though: 4X players are as retarded as everyone else.

Can you elaborate? I just figured MoO3 sucked ass, and never bought it.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-03-27 03:18am

Drooling Iguana wrote:* Sets aside a place for Spore on this list. *

You know what? After seeing a bazillion of the topics about the same video, sometimes even on the same forum, I second that.

Admiral Drason · Post by **Admiral Drason** » 2006-03-27 08:29am

What about the Hot Coffee for GTA SA and then the scramble to cover Rockstars asses?

Kadaeux · Post by **Kadaeux** » 2006-03-27 08:39am

Or possibly the worst hyped game on earth the failed to meet it's expectations............
Metal Gear Solid 2

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-03-27 11:43am

Admiral Drason wrote:What about the Hot Coffee for GTA SA and then the scramble to cover Rockstars asses?

I'm still convinced that whole debacle was a deliberate exercise on Rockstar's part to generate additional publicity.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2006-03-27 12:00pm

Kadaeux wrote:Or possibly the worst hyped game on earth the failed to meet it's expectations............
Metal Gear Solid 2

It met all of my expectations. Here is a list for you:

1) As good as, if not better than, Metal Gear Solid.

Of course I did have the advantage of missing all the hype, not having seen a single trailer, read a single pre/review, or even looked at screeshots of the thing. Actually, I was unaware of MGS2's existance until the same friend at whose house I played MGS, got it for his birthday. Some time afterwards, I borrowed Sons of Liberty for a month or two.

Damaramu · Post by **Damaramu** » 2006-03-27 11:21pm

Elheru Aran wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:What the hell kind of name is "American McGee," anyway?

Sounds like a freaking carny...
Or Lord British. Sounds like some toffy English dude.
That really *is* his actual name. His parents were oddball hippies, apparently, which has also influenced his games to some degree.

Richard Garriott is his name, actually. Lord British is just an alter ego.

Behold, Lord British in all his glory:

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2006-03-27 11:38pm

I actually liked Driver 2 and 3. Number 4 just plain sucks

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-03-27 11:42pm

Damaramu wrote:
Elheru Aran wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote: Or Lord British. Sounds like some toffy English dude.
That really *is* his actual name. His parents were oddball hippies, apparently, which has also influenced his games to some degree.
Richard Garriott is his name, actually. Lord British is just an alter ego.

Behold, Lord British in all his glory:

I was referring to American Mcgee actually... sorry bout the confusion.