What are some of your favorite flops in gaming?

I'll start off with the Nintendo Labo. For some reason Nintendo thought playing with cardboard would make a great gaming invention. Let's just say, it was forgotten as quickly as it was remembered lol. RIP Nintendo Labo. How about you, SW? What are some of your favorite flops in gaming?

I’m going to assume that this means games that flopped that I enjoyed. Two off the top of my head are:

- Too Human

- Bionic Commando 2009

Forspoken and Redfall this year

Flops based on critical or based on commerical expectations?

Anyways, I do not have a favorite flop in gaming as I do not take pleasure in failure, even if a game-related product deserves to fail.

Can be serious or sarcastic lol. Serious answer for me would be God of War Ascension, The Order 1886, Socom: Confrontation.

Halo Infinite. Completely abandoned within weeks. Fans so unhappy with the game they closed down reddit. Game did so poorly they fired almost everyone at 343i. Best of it all is that after all of this, they're still in charge of the IP. WTF.

@hardwenzen: Halo infinite is Lemwenzens favourite game. From the Cows lips, you heard it here first folks….

Titanfall 2…guess that flopped. One of the best SP campaigns ever. Ryse Son of Rome was fun, and some incredible visuals for the time.

Yeah Titanfall 2 was an excellent game. Real shame what happened with that game. I also quite enjoyed Ryse: Son of Rome as well. Would also put God Hand on my list. Great game that sold very poorly.

When you ask a person what is their favorite thing about Halo Infinite, i genuinely have no idea what could be even said. All characters, story, levels, set pieces, enemies design, and pretty much everything can be a game is so bad that i bet you people will mention the grapple hook like its this amazing new feature never seen in a video game. Bro, if you want to grapple hook around, go play Spidermand 2, a 90 metacritic game🤭

Vanquish was another excellent game that unfortunately sold poorly.

PSVR2 and PS Portal.

PS Vita.

@hardwenzen: Nice deflection, but you’ve been outed. Your favourite game is Halo.

Midnight Suns bombed pretty bad and I freaking love that game.

@davillain: Right? Still a gorgeous looking piece of hardware. Seen what they’re doing with PSP’s and Raspberry Pi’s these days?

https://youtu.be/PKXbAd7vXA4?si=ymViszZHUmkUBpZz

Edit; Whoops, read too fast. Vita’s were cool and all…but I loved my psp.

Don't put this fake 9/10 on my shoulders. Infinite will be remembered as top 3 biggest failures of this generation.

I was rooting for this game.

Recently, Redfall. I played it for like 2 hours initially at launch, was trash. Game is significantly better now. I enjoyed it, that’s all that matters to me. I’ll definitely go back to it once some DLC comes out.

Saturn and Dreamcast both flopped and I enjoyed both.

@hardwenzen: Kinda hard for that to be the case when we have Gollum, Kong, and Quantum Error vying for the top three spots this generation, 🐮. 🤭

Noboby will remember low budget garbage. We're talking about highly anticipated titles that farted in fans face.

Retro Game Challenge

I enjoyed Ryse, the campaign was ok, but I really enjoy the MP portion of the game.

On top of my head, probably Star Fox Assault. Scores were not great and most people didn't think highly of it. But I loved the damn thing.

The Xbox brand in general. 20 years of floppage

I had no interest in it, people made some cool stuff with Labo though, so, not knocking it. Gonna give Nintendo credit for some creative conviction. Same with Dreams, no interest, not going to knock it, love watching cool videos of things people can make with it.

With recent release of Robocop Rogue City, I'm inclined to mention Teyon's previous game, Terminator Resistance.

This game got reamed hard when it released so I didn't give it any thought. Picked it up on sale for like $4 or $5 and absolutely loved it. And the game over time despite what MetaCritic says or the hate it gets has actually garnered a growing appreciation, enough to warrant upgrading the game to next gen systems (got a free upgrade on Series X recently). I didn't hesitate to grab Robocop Rogue City, Teyon has the creative conviction to make the games they wanted with the licenses they love, and it shows in their work they'll do justice with them, and not to placate the fickle minded mob of impossible to please full grown adults acting like children by making some formulaic trash.

And if you love the licenses these games come from, that's good enough reason to give them a shot. And there's really no point trying if you don't. They make these games for fans.

Solder of Fortune payback is one of my favourite games

I'm aware it flopped and it's actually terrible, like could make some lists for worst game ever.

But I played the crap out of that when it came out and loved it.

It's ages like milk as well but I still love it

For the most part, I don't enjoy failures. The only exception is the Steam Deck. I actually would've been sad about this flop, until Steam fans started talking out the side of their neck about Nintendo. After they did that, I was happy to see it flop.

I'm going to assume that the term "flop" is sales-specific, and not necessarily a flop in the quality sense. In that regard, I'd have to say:

• Alpha Protocol. Pretty overlooked for the most part but honestly, a damn fine game once you get over the technical issues. Imagine a game made in the style of Mass Effect (action-RPG), but about modern-day spy and espionage...so Mass Effect but Bourne Identity, Mission Impossible, and James Bond.
• Jade Empire. Martial arts epic with loads of cool Asian mythology made by the Bioware of yesteryear we all love. Did not sell well iirc despite decent, albeit not excellent, reviews.

Honestly most of the games I want to list are pretty niche so I don't know if they really qualify as a flop. I mean how many people are really hyped for a realistic Uboat sim other than sim fans such as myself?

Yeah, I feel like gamers need to be more accepting of budget titles. We used to be, there were always "bargain bin" games you'd see at Office Depot and CompUSA and other stores, they weren't great but they were often quite fun for five dollars.

The quality has improved. Games like Terminator Resistance, Hard Reset, and stuff like that.

Not everything needs to be some masterpiece; sometimes "good enough" is exactly that, and often better than big-budget disappointments.

@mrbojangles25: yeah, it is a budget title but not in terms of being some crap shovelware, it's a game'y game and not some bloated 200 hour abomination padded with cookie cutter content. It's meant to be enjoyed, and they deliver. They have focused stories and the gameplay is designed to accommodate what people would want from a licensed game in those worlds.

I think there's also a big issue some people are impossible to please unless they know they've been given permission to like something. Gosh, I even remember a study done where they asked people to rate games they'd be given to play but the variable was they'd make up fake reviews that either say everyone loved it or everyone hated it and something in between. Basically people's opinions of the game's they played in the study echoed the fake user reviews. I've no doubt this is the case, I'd have assumed as much without such a study. Like the classic demotivator said (paraphrasing) "when given the opportunity to be unique free thinking individuals, we tend to only imitate each other".

Okami

@randy_lahey: Woof. With you calling Xbox your favourite, and lemwenzen doing the same for Halo, Clown Alley residents finally converted to the better platform.

Or neither of you know how to read.

The starfield flop was particularly funny.

PlayStation 5.

Alpha protocol, of course.

Wish that game was on steam....

Wish no more.

NVM they removed it lol, never knew that.

😭 Perfect game for my steam deck.

But this isn't the case any more. The fans are happy with the single player.

And apparently Season 5 of multiplayer is really good. Fans are starting to gradually come back, but in small numbers. This isn't unusual for live service games to go through periods of being bad and then good. That's why one off reviews are pretty worthless. You need to look at how the game is year in and year out.

They also have access to a lot of help now with the ABK merger, considering ABK run a lot of live service games.

I know you love to hate on the game, but your views are really quite out of date now.

yep, people are sheep, follow what someone else says. You can't always do that...just remember, GS gave mortal kombat movie a 9 lol. Heck, they gave redfall a 4, but actually im enjoying it. I only recently started playing it, and sure its not the best, but definitely not the worst either.

I agree. A really good campaign that seemed like the series was going to take an upward turn. Hopefully a Titanfall 3 isn't just a red herring at this point

Fallout: New Vegas

F-Zero GX

GameCube

Wii U

Do you think MS should've delayed it one more year?

Bought that thing at launch! Had so much potential.

Would say Wii u but Nintendo did support the consoles even though 3rd party didn't. The vita was dead on arrival.

There's so many low scoring games that I truly love, some are amongst my GOATs.

The internet created this hive mind mentality that to me already crossed the line of being tolerable.

I loved the vita so much. What a library!! Crossbuy, cross play, amazing legacy library.... Incredible device, terrible leadership backing it. It was only in the end that it all came together, which sadly was far too late.

@sealionact: @TheEroica: @SolidGame_basic: While I did come late to the world of PS Vita, I must say, the Vita is vastly a great handheld compared to Switch in respects. Heck, PS Vita is the only device you are able to play certain exclusives on such as Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Souls Sacrifice. Sony really doomed their own handheld into the void. PS Vita is a flop, but still a fun handheld no doubt.

@uninspiredcup said:

I was rooting for this game.

Did you ever play it? lol

This game. I loved it so much I bought both the PC version and 360 version. One of the first cross play MP games. This game was declared trash by most game journos because it didn't have a SP campaign. It was a MP fps game with a Counter Strike set up (buy your equipment and skills throughout the match) it had awesome spells and tech equipments you could buy in a match. One of my favorite MP games of the gen. (I have never played shadowrun RPGS and don't have plans too, but I loved this game. That was another large source of hate, the rpg fans hated it lol)