Which old game back in the day had the most hype but was the biggest flop?

Obvious one and one already listed but Rise of the Robots, I can still remember it plastered over all the magazines bigging it up and when it released it was universally panned by pretty much all of them.

In more recent times I'd throw Crysis 2 in there, that game alone stopped me preordering games, at the time it just felt such a step back from the original to me.
 
Carmageddon TDR 2000! 1 & 2 were awesome and this had a great preview write up... i was certain it would be be decent... It wasn't, I returned it.
 
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Anything had the potential to be a disappointment after the awesomeness of C2... but yeah, TDR2000 was pretty underwhelming.
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What things like this happen the devs must know before it gets released that they have a stinker on their hands. I assume they just have to roll with it because of external pressures.

Or is it a case that they are too close and don't realise how bad it it?
 
Rise of the robots must be the standout game here: hyped for months, regular articles about motion capture, AI learning etc and the game could be beaten with the same basic move :cry:
 
Tomb Raider Chronicles - Edios road the cash cow too hard and burnt out the franchise. The devs and to some extent the fans needed a break from a game a year for the previous 4 years. Other games had overtaken it and it needed a refresh... In stepped Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness. The less said about that the better!
 
I have to add as well that frontier elite was such a disappointment. opened the box to find one solitary floppy disk lonely in the box. not fun at all. physics to realistic and just ended up flying off across the solar system unable to turn around... and some how outer space is now blue instead of black. I enjoyed the MS-DOS release of the original elite much more. and that was running on an Amstrad PC1512 in mono CGA
 
BowdonUK said:
I bought a game called Legends of Valour, which was a pretty good concept. But at the time most of the machines it was released on were underpowered so the game had jerky animations.

It inspired Todd Howard with his Elder Scroll series.

I liked the game. But it was a technical flop. I had it on the Amiga and it came with a number of disks.

Charles Hoskinson, an American entrepreneur, bought the license for the game in 2020 and is trying to make a re-release of the game. He's trying to setup a studio for it.
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I had LoV on my slightly upgraded A1200. One of the biggest problems with this game was the manual give you no clue on how to play it!
 
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I had LoV on my slightly upgraded A1200. One of the biggest problems with this game was the manual give you no clue on how to play it!
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Yes, I found myself mostly drinking mead in the tavern lol.

I think it was a game before it's time both creatively and technology wise. I had it on the A500 and the game struggled. I think the A1200 was said to be the best version.
 
Jas1975 said:
Frontier (Elite II).


Yes I'm old :D
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i am almost tempted to block you for that filthy post... along with all the other naysayers! It was an incredible game :D

As for 1st encounters............. not as ground breaking as Frontier but (once it was finally fixed to the point of being just about playable) I enjoyed that as well.

There lots of games mentioned i have memories of, i bought a CD32 for microcosm!.

But my pick so as not to name games already covered, one of my huge letdowns was crazy cars 2. Not sure why i was so surprised it was a flop as it was a sequel to another, better than number 2 but hardly awe inspireing racing game. (now crazy cars 3 OTOH was incredible, one of the best arcade racers on the amiga up there with lotus esprit turbo challenge imo )
 
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Been mentioned already but duke nukem forever. Waited for it for so long only for it to be so bad that I couldn't play it past the first 30 min
 
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