DragonGirl
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Eating crow basically means admitting you were wrong.
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Biggest crow a developer has served this past gen?
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Eating crow basically means admitting you were wrong.
JumpJeff84
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I'd probably go with Batman AA
sixteen-bit
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WiiU is current gen though
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Eating crow doesn't mean eating shit. Eating crow is simply proving wrong when everyone doubted you, and the eating process is the humiliation the one doubting it faces.
For example "I'll eat crow if Uncharted 4 trailer is real time" or "I'll eat crow if half life 3 is revealed at E3".
It's a bet where you're sure you're not wrong but there is always a chance that you may be, so it's always great to see crow being served when someone is wrong.
Uncharted 2, specially when they announced that there would be online multiplayer and people kept saying that taking resources away from the single player would affect its quality.
only for some
it wasn't as good nor as successful as the previous ones though.
only for some
it wasn't as good nor as successful as the previous ones though.
Lord of Castamere
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If you have to use that many letters it's not an abbreviation anymore. It should just be called Gears 3.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Arkham Asylum, DmC and Wolfenstein for me.
Not really Arkham Asylum for me as I predicted it would be rad 
Bluekaveli
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Haze
TheGreatLugia
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Ever since Xenoblade was released it's been pretty funny to look back at the reactions to when Nintendo first acquired Monolith Soft.
Wii Sports/Wii Fit seem like the obvious choices on consoles. Nintendogs was the clear winner on traditional handhelds; I distinctly remember the reactions to Famitsu's 40/40 review, and then the game went on to be one of the best selling games of the generation.
I think Angry Birds and Farmville also absolutely qualify.
I think Angry Birds and Farmville also absolutely qualify.
OH! I never knew that. That makes perfect sense, even in the context where I first heard it.
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In that case, I take back what I said about Watch_Dogs - that was called from a mile away. DmC definitely isn't a good example either, but as someone said already, people for some reason will defend this game even in the face of the superior games before it.
Human Revolution is a good example.
giancarlo123x
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Just because It sold worse and doesn't play as well as the old games mean its a bad game? It's not like Capcom lost money on it since it was outsourced to someone else. With this shitty logic a bunch of low selling great games are bad. And IMO DMC3>DMC1>DmC>DMC4>>>Some other game with Dante.
There were countless naysayers for U2's multiplayer. How at best it would be tacked on and at worst would be tacked on and make the single-player short and shitty. Not only was the single-player spectacular, but the mp went onto become one of the biggest multiplayer draws on PS3. Basically wrong in all ways, thankfully.
Phoenician_Viking
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God Of War 3, Batman AA, and DmC.
*Blinks* gameplay wise DMC4 is probably superior than even 3. This list confuses me.
Those of us who knew who was developing it (ex Starbreeze devs) knew it would be good.
Still, I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was.
Just started playing this game and goddamn is it good. I remember when people were talking so much shit about it.
Brutalitops
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DmC was better than everyone told me it would be.
But my personal crow eating is UC2 MP. Thought it would be shit
But my personal crow eating is UC2 MP. Thought it would be shit
I'd probably go with Batman Arkham Asylum.
Lets be real about this, before Batman AA, even dreaming about a good AAA superhero game would have gotten you laughed out of the room and be shunned for being a naive idiot who still believe that making a good superhero game is possible.
After Batman AA people can't seem to stop wondering which superhero will Rocksteady will do next?
Lets be real about this, before Batman AA, even dreaming about a good AAA superhero game would have gotten you laughed out of the room and be shunned for being a naive idiot who still believe that making a good superhero game is possible.
After Batman AA people can't seem to stop wondering which superhero will Rocksteady will do next?
Nonsense list, Bayonetta is the best DMC game.
OT: Idk if it counts as crow, but there was some weird group on GAF that insisted on comparing Darksiders to Bayonetta only because they released close to each other. Not only were they crazy, they were wrong.
Freedom = $1.05
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I remember there being some folks looking down on Dead Rising 2 for not coming from Capcom JP and being made by some guys in canada who made sports games?
I ended up enjoying DR2 much more than DR1 and am anxiously waiting for DR3 to come out on steam.
That game was really, really good and didn't deserve the shit it got.
I ended up enjoying DR2 much more than DR1 and am anxiously waiting for DR3 to come out on steam.
That game was really, really good and didn't deserve the shit it got.
If you said Deus Ex HR or Batman Arkham Asylum then you were right. Both games met fans and critics extremely high expectations completely out of left field. When people heard about Batman there was little to no one talking about how amazing it was going to be. Most people had written it off before it even came out. Deus Ex had similar issues but not because it's based on a movie or comic but an already preexisting series. Both games completely blew me away.
Wreck-It Ralph
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Ooh, that's a good one. First time I saw it was a demo in the store. It was just the first map of challenge mode, so I thought, "Oh, it's just a shitty beat-'em-up with the Batman license. Meh."
Then I started hearing people throwing the word "Metroidvania" around, so I checked it out anyway and it wound up being one of my favorite games of the generation.
BronsonLee
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Killer Instinct: The Ultrathread
timetokill
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Yup, these. Nintendo was serving a lot of crow last gen in general.
naw.
i mean some people probably enjoyed it, but no crow was served. it turned out exactly how intelligent critics of the direction thought it would, shallow and inferior gameplay that relied entirely on aesthetic to impress. sales reflected that too.
This is correct. But at the same time, people also give DmC way less credit than it deserves just so they can say there were correct all along. It's definitely nowhere near the garbage a lot of people thought it would be.
Wind Waker was two gens ago. But yes, if the thread was "biggest crow ever served" the answer is unquestionably wind waker by a massive margin.
Systemwarrior
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Batman AA, like a lot of others here. My hopes were extremely low until I played and loved it.
Topic complete. Move on, people.
Spider-Man 2 is probably a big crow serving. Before Spider-Man 2 the most notable super hero game on the market was Superman 64, and it was notable for all the wrong reasons.
I haven't been able to find many combo videos for DmC that make it look on the same level as 3 or 4. Some of the stuff people can do in DMC4 is magical, which is why gameplay wise I think 4 is actually the pinnacle of the franchise.
Eh, it's ultimately subjective but I still legitimately think DmC was the worst game I personally played in 2013. The gameplay stripped a ton of things from the DMC formula, contributed nothing new in place of any of that, and the story/writing was stunningly awful.
I haven't been able to find many combo videos for DmC that make it look on the same level as 3 or 4. Some of the stuff people can do in DMC4 is magical, which is why gameplay wise I think 4 is actually the pinnacle of the franchise.
Eh, it's ultimately subjective but I still legitimately think DmC was the worst game I personally played in 2013. The gameplay stripped a ton of things from the DMC formula, contributed nothing new in place of any of that, and the story/writing was stunningly awful.
The_Hitcher89
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Isn't there a sizable potion of Zelda fans who don't like Wind Waker?
Usually the argument you encounter was DMC 4 didnt sell well so a reboot was needed.
Both are shit though. The only difference being was that UC2's MP was good until they made it bad. TLOU was bad out of the gate.
Exploratory
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Not current gen past gen. But yeah I agree.
Which is a flawed argument on its own, DMC4 is one of the best selling entries in the franchise.