/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7095674]

What games were ignored and were commercial failure while released but now considered classics?

So far can only think of Castlevania SOTN.

[Anonymous No.7095746]

Earthbound

To a lesser extent Super Metroid, considering the scope of games back then I'm surprised it didn't sell a lot more. I blame Metroid I and II.

[Anonymous No.7095812]

>>7095674
Bad Fur Day tanked at release iirc. Didn't help that Nintendo wouldn't promote it.

Grim Fandango didn't sell well, which marked the end of adventure games for awhile until indie games started reviving the genre.

[Anonymous No.7095814]

Vampire Savior

[Anonymous No.7095828]

>>7095674
Nier?

[Anonymous No.7095829]

>>7095812
>Didn't help that Nintendo wouldn't promote it.
I saw craploads of commercials for it

>>7095674
System Shock 2 only sold like 50,000 copies when it came out. Vampire the Masquerade only sold about 70,000.

[Anonymous No.7095832]

>>7095674
SotN wasn't failure

[Anonymous No.7095852]

>>7095674
>commercial failure
>SOTN
is this some new meme being forced?

[Anonymous No.7095864]

Doomballer
Fix
Tweetum & Co.
Zigsby Zog's Adventure
B. T.
Antarian Anarchy
Eggland 2
The Tiny Dinosaur Park

[Anonymous No.7095885]

>>7095852
>implying someone with three memes in the OP pic isn't forcing memes

[Anonymous No.7095908]

>>7095674
Okami on ps2

Wii did wonders for it

[Anonymous No.7095916]

>>7095674
>Symphony of the Night received wide critical acclaim at the time of its release. Critics lauded the massive, free-to-explore game world with its numerous secrets to uncover, and praised the game for integrating role-playing elements without compromising the series' basic gameplay.
>Despite the popular consensus of the time that 2D had become outmoded, critics also highly praised the game's graphics for their smooth animation, impressive effects, and evocation of atmosphere.
>Initially, the game's commercial performance was mediocre, particularly in the United States where it was meagerly publicized, but thanks to praise by critics, it gained sales through word-of-mouth and became a hit. The PlayStation and Saturn versions sold 225,862 units in Japan, while the PlayStation version sold 477,304 units in the United States, for a total of 703,166 units sold in the United States and Japan.

[Anonymous No.7096007]

>>7095674
Sales of most Mega Man and Metroid games were never, perhaps surprisingly, all that stellar. But it's hard to judge these things with sales numbers due to how prevalent renting was in the US market.

[Anonymous No.7096024]

>>7095674
>So far can only think
You're not fooling anyone zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.7097053]

>>7095916
I forgot it had a Saturn port. Wasn't it super fucked up or something?

[Anonymous No.7097076]

>>7095674
Most JRPGs on the SNES
>earthbound
>chrono trigger
>final fantasy vi

[Anonymous No.7097084]

>>7095674
The Neverhood.
>Mention The Neverhood to anyone who has played the game and chances are you'll evoke a childish ear-to-ear grin out of the gamer. The problem is, said gamer will be hard to find since this award-winning 1996 title sold roughly 41,000 units (according to the marketing organization NPD Group).
https://web.archive.org/web/20050421074436/http://www.microsoft.com/athome/morefun/5coolgames.mspx
Fun fact: Microsoft distributed (not published) this game.

[Anonymous No.7097291]

>>7095674
3rd Strike obviously

[Anonymous No.7097370]

[Anonymous No.7097379]

>>7095674
Psychonauts

[Anonymous No.7097580]

>>7095746
Did Earthbound cost more than normal games at release? I know they bundled it with the player's guide, but idk if that jacked up the price. If it did then that's why no one bought it.

[Anonymous No.7097590]

>>7095674
SOTN wasn't a failure you zoomer tard

[Anonymous No.7097664]

>>7095674
>sold a million copies
>failure
uh huh

[Anonymous No.7097683]

>>7097370
Plok looks like a klansman

[Anonymous No.7097706]

>>7095812
I've always hated Bad Fur Day due to its long intro
>>7097291
3S is overrated when you compare it to CVS2, Super Turbo, 4, Vs series.

[Anonymous No.7097710]

I did my part and bought it day 1, but most did not.

[Anonymous No.7097730]

Ico

[Anonymous No.7098251]

>>7097053
It was famously flawed (performance hiccups, no transparency, wonky 3D effects), but still has extra content the original didn't

[Anonymous No.7098253]

>>7097084
>Mention The Neverhood to anyone who has played the game and chances are you'll evoke a childish ear-to-ear grin out of the gamer
It used to be like that. Now it's more like
>Mention The Neverhood to anyone and the fact that Tennapel is a pig headed right wing nut will pop up in like a millisecond

[Anonymous No.7099203]

>>7097706
That doesn't mean it's bad nor that it isn't a classic.
It's funny how no one can mention 3S without making someone seethe and having them pull out the whole catalogue of fighting games to try to discredit it.

[Anonymous No.7099361]

>>7097370
That is some Euro-ass Euro right there. Plok was nearly Zniggy tier in concept. Fucking awesome music, though.

[Anonymous No.7099367]

i dont know anything about castlevania but SOTN is the only title i can name

[Anonymous No.7099410]

>>7098253
I hate that I feel the need to defend christfags these days. They're better than the alternative, that's all I can say.

[Anonymous No.7099418]

Imagine actually walking into your office job with this shit on your head

[Anonymous No.7099485]

>>7099418
Might as well go full space marine or enclave at that point.

[Anonymous No.7099503]

>>7095828
Nier and Drakengard

[Anonymous No.7099508]

>>7097076
>FFVI
Wherever I go people suck Terra's cock, the game was huge. But I think FF Tactics wasn't as beloved

[Anonymous No.7099509]

>>7095674
Galerians and Galerians ASH. I'd love a manga by the game's artist, it'd be great

[Anonymous No.7099769]

>>7095674
Path of Radiance
Chibi-Robo
Earthbound
System Shock 2
Grim Fandango
Thief II

[Anonymous No.7099981]

>>7095674
SOTN was fucking huge. zoom zoom