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[Miles708]

I noticed now the OP asked the worst of these 4.
In this case, Anthem by every metric. 2 of them have been successful despite their rough launch, while the other one (RDR2) actually made billions of dollars.

On the other hand, Anthem made little money, had a rough launch, rough patches, rough reception, rough dev cycle and no one actually liked it very much. This is objectively a failure on all sides.

 

[Shrennin]

On the other hand, Anthem made little money, had a rough launch, rough patches, rough reception, rough dev cycle and no one actually liked it very much. This is objectively a failure on all sides.

Also, I doubt it’ll have a FFXIV style rebirth either, despite that promise.

That whole game was full of broken promises, actually.

 

[Alphagear]

LOL at RDR2 and Cyberpunk being there. Much bigger failures come to mind.

Anthem, Fallout 76, Elders scroll online and Hyper scape come to mind.

 

[itsArtie]

Nice troll.
My list (serious):
1. Anthem
2. Avengers
3. Metal Gear Survive
4. Fifa and NBA games

 

[IfuckinghateReddit]

1. Anthem
2. Fallout 76
3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. Cyberpunk 2077

what was the biggest fail of them all? out of these 4?

Why is RDR2, a massively successful game in both sales and reception, on this list instead of Avengers?

The list should be

1. Anthem
2. Fallout 76
3. Avengers
4. OP's attempt to remove his head from his ass.

 

[teezzy]

3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. Cyberpunk 2077

 

[eastcoastkody]

none of them.

tho i'd argue that someting like Fallout 76 should be HUGE. and it didn't land. But whens the last time they made a good Fallout game anyway.

Anthem is a new IP. and sold decent and had a passable campaign. It just failed as a Gaas. Did Fallout 76 have a semicoherent story?

 

[Shrennin]

Elders scroll online

But ESO is one of the best MMOs out there Q_Q

 

[Alphagear]

But ESO is one of the best MMOs out there Q_Q

Haven't played it so don't know how good it is but did it meet expectations? I don't think so. ES has a loyal fanbase and I reckon people would play it irrespective.

 

[teezzy]

But whens the last time they made a good Fallout game anyway.

Fallout 4

 

[Nikana]

Destiny was clearly successful, but for me personally? I can agree with this. It was supposed to be the next big game all my friends and I would play. To say it was a disappointment in that regard is putting it lightly.

Bungee still hasn't come close to what they promised with the original game in destiny 2.

 

[Shrennin]

Haven't played it so don't know how good it is but did it meet expectations? I don't think so. ES has a loyal fanbase and I reckon people would play it irrespective.

When it released it had its problems, but it was updated and fixed pretty quickly and now stands high among great Elder Scrolls experiences.

Bungee still hasn't come close to what they promised with the original game in destiny 2.

Bungie is sadly a shell of their former self. The only thing they still do exceptionally well are gun play and sky boxes.

 

[Concern]

RDR 2? Lol someone shouldn't be allowed to make anymore threads.

 

[Rikkori]

Nothing can top Andromeda. Nothing. It was absolutely disgusting what they did with that game and how they butchered that franchise which frankly has maybe the best continuous story for a trilogy. They had the next star wars (at least for VG) on their hands, even better in fact, but they screwed it all up.

Diablo 3 was in that same vein but it had been too long since D2 & PoE was around so it hurt a lot less, plus we knew very clearly what Blizz became. By the time Reforged hit, it's shocking it was so low quality, but again the name Blizz stopped meaning what it was sometime before Overwatch launched, so it was expected it would be shit.

As for Cyberpunk, mixed feelings all in all, but I don't think it will end up there, even though it's very rudimentary in its gameplay & even the writing. It's just a game that needed 2-3 more years of development and I don't mean for squashing bugs, but actually building out more of the game. It's very clear that it wasn't enough time to really do justice to the ambition they had for it. There's still great promise there & night city is an incredible place. It just needs more work.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Cyberpunk I can almost kind of see just based on how the game runs on base consoles, but it's still a financial success and I'm loving it on my Series X where it runs just fine. RDR2 is one of the most critically acclaimed and best selling games ever so I don't really see how that's a failure in any way of thinking aside from some internet people complaining about the controls. Fallout 76 sucks (at lest it did, I haven't played it much since launch) but from what I've read they've at least somewhat managed to turn the game around into something some people enjoy and it sold fine.

Of those only Anthem is a real failure. Shit reviews, shit sales, not many people seem to like it much. And there hasn't been much of an update on the relaunch or whatever and I think the guy heading that just got put on Dragon Age so who knows where that's going.

 

[Entroyp]

CP and RDR are not failures by any means.

I would say Anthem or Avengers

 

[CaptainofIndustry]

Red Dead Redemption 2? Y'all just go ahead and lock this thread up.

 

[Komatsu]

1. Anthem
2. Fallout 76
3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. Cyberpunk 2077

what was the biggest fail of them all? out of these 4?

 

[SCB3]

Destiny was clearly successful, but for me personally? I can agree with this. It was supposed to be the next big game all my friends and I would play. To say it was a disappointment in that regard is putting it lightly.

The biggest new IP of the generation, how is that a failure?

 

[Shrennin]

The biggest new IP of the generation, how is that a failure?

I mean, I prefaced it “Destiny was clearly successful...”

I don’t know how you took my post to mean anything beyond speaking on a personal level since I mention that?

 

[skneogaf]

Ignore thread

 

[carlosrox]

Only anthem belongs on that list

Yup.

What is this thread lol? Some kind of next generation satire?

 

[SCB3]

I mean, I prefaced it “Destiny was clearly successful...”

I don’t know how you took my post to mean anything beyond speaking on a personal level since I mention that?

Sorry, I meant to quote the same person as you

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Final Fantasy XV

It is not bad no?

 

[Allnamestakenlol]

You think RDR2 and CP2077 are worse than these two?

• Mass Effect: Andromeda.
• Avengers

LOL - You are so full of shit.

 

[Camreezie]

1. Anthem
2. Fallout 76
3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. Cyberpunk 2077

what was the biggest fail of them all? out of these 4?

RDR2 is not like the others. You could add Battleborn or Evolve

 

[Enjay]

Pretty close race between death stranding, the last of us2, and cyperpunk

 

[SimpleKindofMan]

Halo

Since the release of Halo 4 in 2012, there has been one new Halo game. The console's mascot Master Chief appeared in 4 or 5 levels of the game. Maybe an hour and a half of gameplay for a console's mascot in an entire generation...

 

[Miles708]

Also, I doubt it’ll have a FFXIV style rebirth either, despite that promise.

That whole game was full of broken promises, actually.

It would require a total reboot of the project.
And on a new IP, I find that very difficult.

I think it's dead for good, and no one will really miss it that much.

 

[Mhmmm 2077]

Top failure threads on NeoGAF this generation:
1.

 

[DESTROYA]

It’s a M Mister Apoc thread so what do you guys expect ? Brilliant analysis and good points .....LOL.

 

[Explosive Zombie]

Fuck you, OP.

 

[existensmaximum]

1. Anthem
2. Fallout 76
3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. Cyberpunk 2077

what was the biggest fail of them all? out of these 4?

You mean, your personal disappointments? I don't know much about games 1 and 2 sales-wise, but games 3 and 4 are critical and commercial successes.

Cyberpunk is shaping up to be one of the games of the generation for me, just wow.

 

[HoodWinked]

Threads like this really make disappointed in the knowledge of some neogaf posters. I'd expect better from a forum dedicated to gaming. This is such a poorly conceived list.

 

[Hudo]

Well if we talk about "Disappointments of the generation" then mine would be:
(Meaning that those were games I anticipated and disappointed me. Stuff like Witcher 3 didn't disappoint because I didn't anticipate them anyway)

1. Destiny 1 & 2
2. WarCraft III: Reforged
3. Final Fantasy XV
4. Mass Effect: Andromeda

 

[Lupingosei]

I think people got it right:

1. Anthem (by far, probably the biggest videogame failure in a long long time)

wait


wait


wait

2. Avengers (messy and people dropped it, Square Enix lost 40+ million on it)
3. Battlefield V (not just because of the messy launch and the terrible politics, but they were actually able to kill it finally by even more stupid decisions and terrible balancing)
4. Warcraft Reforged (terrible mess)
5. Mass Effect: Andromeda (almost killed the franchise and was dropped fast. How did the character models look worse than in Mass Effect 3)

I would add Fallout 76 if it was only after the launch, but they still create content, still has quite a big player base. You may not like it, but unlike the other games, it is far from dead.

 

[NathanDiego]

RDR2 ? Are you crazy?
For me the biggest is Cyberpunk and No Man Sky

 

[Dazraell]

Anthem
Fallout 76
Stadia
Mass Effect: Andromeda

 

[Blond]

Red Dead 2
Resident Evil 3
Nintendo Switch
The Xbox 1

 

[Lupingosei]

No Man Sky

Really?

I played No Man's Sky for at least 200+ hours in the last few months and it is really good. Way more to do than in Elite for example and there is so much stuff to find and do.

Maybe it was bad a few years ago, but buying it now is worth every dollar and it looks gorgeous after the Next Gen patch.

 

[Blond]

RDR2 ? Are you crazy?
For me the biggest is Cyberpunk and No Man Sky

It was boring, clunky, way too long, so linear wrong turns end missions, and once you got over the fact it was the Red Dead you were waiting for the reality sets it that everything was created just to sell shit on Red Dead Online and the story was an afterthought.

 

[checkcola]

We're just talking software, not hardware? I'm sure you can look to all sorts of live services, Avengers being the most recent.

 

[iorek21]

Bear in mind that I'm judging the following games for their releases, not considering post-launch fixes.

- Everything Bioware
- Destiny 1/2
- Avengers
- Fallout 76
- No Man's Sky
- Evolve
- Watch Dogs
- Assassin's Creed Unity
- Crackdown 3
- Sea of Thieves
- Metal Gear Survive
- Telltale games managing to go bankrupt

I don't know if I'll add Cyberpunk on this list, probably not.

 

[The 8-Bit Raider]

Honestly, just select any 4 random GAAS titles and ad them to a list

 

[Hawking Radiation]

A little quick to call Cyberpunk a failure, no? Seems fine (from what little I've played so far), but I've heard some stuff gets buggy, which my friends inform me is something CDPR usually keeps on top of.

Bigger failures that come to mind are Final Fantasy XV and Star Ocean 5. Oh right. Yooka-Laylee. Oof.

Edit: OH RIGHT. Super Mario Odyssey, but that's a mega unpopular position.

Did your friends inform you:
- The game crashes on base console when driving around town for more than a minute.
- Button prompts to choose conversation options disappearing.
- Sub 15FPS in certain parts of gameplay on base consoles.
- Sub 720p resolution on base Xbox One.
- NPC's and other world objects popping in literally in front of you.
- Map waypoint markers disappearing.
- And a host of other issues.

Check the twitter handle Cyberbug.

It's undoubtedly a promising game. I played some of it last night after update 1.04 on my PS4 Pro and it's somewhat improved but I still cannot drive for more than a minute around Night City (at full speed) and then the game crashes to blue screen.

You CANNOT say a game is great when its performance is utter shit. Otherwise how else is someone supposed to enjoy the thing in the first place when they're faced with various performance related issues and blue screens all day.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

This is easily the worst stealth “Shit on Cyberpunk thread” I’ve read this weekend. And brother, there’s been a few.

So the backlash and negative reports is unwarranted ?

This is easily the most disastrous big game release of the last few years. Not even Anthem (as fucked up as it was) had this many issues when it launched.

 

[Redlancet]

Red dead 2 are people crazy?

 

[The Wheel of Fortune]

 

[oagboghi2]

Nah, it runs like absolute hot garbage on PS4 and Xbox One X. That's a failure

It runs poorly on 11 year old tech.

It's a failure

 

[Birgitte2004-2]

Avengers
No man sky
Anthem
Days gone

It's wrong to remove Fallout 76 and add No Man's Sky. Either you accept the post-release work of both or you don't, but you are trying to have it both ways.