/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8815397]

Are there any hugely shilled and marketed everywhere by the gaming media game that sold millions and was like the big GOTY of the century for a couple years that now has been totally memory holed?

[Anonymous No.8815407]

Disruptor PSX. Critically acclaimed projected led by the creator of Hatched and Clank.
>I never fucking heard of it

[Anonymous No.8815421]

Advent Rising. That shit made it to movie theaters.

[Anonymous No.8815439]

>>8815397
bubsy

[Anonymous No.8815658]

>>8815397
The early Medal of Honor games. They definitely weren't bad, were given a high budget, Hollywood treatment (hell, Spielberg was credited as one of their creative consultants for a short while), and had a fairly extensive advertising campaign. The series has been mostly overshadowed by the Call of Duty and Battlefield games, and I doubt many remember that VR MoH that came out two years ago.

[Anonymous No.8815660]

>>8815397
ocarina of time

[Anonymous No.8815672]

>>8815658
>Spielberg was credited as one of their creative consultants for a short while
Spielberg literally created the series to dump his ideas that didn't make it into Saving Private Ryan. He interviewed actual soldiers and partisans when directing the game.
Looking back to it, MoH 1 + Underground are probably the only WWII shooters worth playing. Far more unique than anything that came after.

[Anonymous No.8815673]

Black and White

[Anonymous No.8816226]

>>8815660

[Anonymous No.8816278]

>>8815660
unfortunately people still remember this snoozefest

[Anonymous No.8816447]

>>8815672
>Looking back to it, MoH 1 + Underground are probably the only WWII shooters worth playing. Far more unique than anything that came after.
Oh no, Wolfenstein 3D and Return To Castle Wolfenstein are great ones, and then there's Day Of Defeat

[Anonymous No.8816717]

>>8815397
Star Wars: Dark Forces.

It was a best-seller on both PC and Mac, praised by critics, but also innovative and influencial as it shaped the genre especially Build engine games.

Nowadays it's just "that one obscure FPS in between Doom and Duke" if it's even mentionned at all.

[Anonymous No.8816724]

>>8815672
>Looking back to it, MoH 1 + Underground are probably the only WWII shooters worth playing.
>>8816447
>Oh no, Wolfenstein 3D and Return To Castle Wolfenstein are great ones, and then there's Day Of Defeat
These and original CoD too, with health

[Anonymous No.8816726]

>>8816717
I see it mentioned more than MoH. It's also on every "must play 90's PC" list.

[Anonymous No.8816731]

>>8815397
Excuse me but what the FUCK happened to your syntax?

[Anonymous No.8817372]

Command & Conquer

[Anonymous No.8817390]

There was a particular window of time where BloodRayne was a marketable name. I think it even got a movie.

[Anonymous No.8817406]

>>8815397
Spore.

[Anonymous No.8817415]

>>8815397

[Anonymous No.8817426]

[Anonymous No.8817445]

>>8815407
this was a really good example

[Anonymous No.8817485]

>>8815397
Eternal Champions
Primal Rage

Both really big deals in their day and considered potential SF and MK killers but now both completely irrelevant and don't have any significant retro communities around them.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee got a lot of magazine covers and hypes but never became a major franchise. Not really memory holed since there are many sequels.

Soul Reaver similar case.

[Anonymous No.8817490]

>>8815660
>>8815673
>>8817372
>>8817415
OP asked for games that were forgotten

>>8817406
>>8817426
OP asked for games that were acclaimed

[Anonymous No.8817494]

>>8817426
I loved this game. I was groomed by a guy on there and one time he threatened he'd hack me, take my fedora from that pimp easter egg, and find my house if I stopped being his friend.

[Anonymous No.8817497]

>>8816717
I find it ironic that this game spawned an entire SERIES and literally every single game in said series is still popular, recognisable and what not, while Dark Forces is like asking people for some obscure shit. But just mention Kyle and you get instant reaction. I guess that would be the reason, too - the series kept changing names and in really weird way, so it's easy to lose track they are even connected if you only ever heard the title.

>>8817390
Like all Uwe Boll projects, it got turned into a movie because it WASN'T big on the market anymore, but hold a name teens easily recognised

[Anonymous No.8817508]

>>8817390
That was because the developer gave in-depth interviews to every no-name game publication they could. Every magazine had the "scoop" on this game no one really gave a shit about.

[Anonymous No.8817517]

>>8817490
and (you) should kill himself

[Anonymous No.8817520]

Fear Effect 1 and 2.

[Anonymous No.8817627]

>>8815658
>and I doubt many remember that VR MoH that came out two years ago.
I was actually considering picking that up until I found out that it was nearly 200 gigabytes

[Anonymous No.8817645]

>>8815421
They literately spent so much on marketing and other shit like a tie-in comic that they had virtually no money left to finish the game so it was shipped in a barely functioning crash heavy state

[Anonymous No.8817658]

>>8815397
Spore.
Was being hyped during the ps2 era so it counts as /vr/.

[Anonymous No.8817671]

>>8817658
/vr/ - Just /v/, but with an R

[Anonymous No.8817681]

>>8817520
I mostly remember the second game for the lesbian fetishism ads.

[Anonymous No.8817690]

ah yes one of those "list off popular games I personally don't like" threads

[Anonymous No.8817701]

>>8817681
It's a shitty resident evil with kinda fun combat.
Of course sex appeal is the only memorable thing about it, they made a new SJW game called Fear Effect Sedna that gets rid of all sexyness and guess what, nobody played it, no one gave a shit.

[Anonymous No.8817706]

>>8817406
>>8817658
Spore isn't /vr/ even by the new definition, faggots.
And it crashed hard on release, because it turned out to be bunch of empty promises, killing all it's hype within literal days.

[Anonymous No.8817710]

>>8817690
More like "games zoomers barely heard about, so they think they are forgotten", but it's still shit thread nontheless

[Anonymous No.8819461]

>>8817485
>>and was like the big GOTY of the century for a couple years
>Eternal Champions
>Primal Rage
things that never happened

[Anonymous No.8819526]

>>8815658
The series was definitely very influential though

[Anonymous No.8819549]

[Anonymous No.8819564]

>>8817517
And (You) should learn English.

[Anonymous No.8819602]

>>8817390
Yeah, I assumed Bloodrayne was actually good because it was so well-known back then, but played it recently and its just total jank. Not horrible though.

[Anonymous No.8819606]

>>8817658
>2008
>PS2 era
Reminder you must be 18 to use this site at all and at the very least 30 to "get" /vr/

[Anonymous No.8819612]

>>8816717
This guy gets it

[Anonymous No.8819628]

>>8815397
AvP

[Anonymous No.8819645]

Prince of Persia - Sands of Time was hot shit for a few years, but then a run of crappy sequels made it sort of fade out of consciousness nowadays.

Anyone remember the movie?

[Anonymous No.8820060]

>>8819461
Primal Rage was huge and everywhere. It displaced all the SF2 and MK cabinets in cinemas and department store arcades.
Eternal Champions got massive hype and coverage in magazines.

[Anonymous No.8820103]

>>8815397
not quite fitting the definition, but almost every MMORPG. when their life cycle ends, they get memory holed hard. Everquest, City of Heroes, Planetside, etc.

[Anonymous No.8820108]

This has literally never happened ever. Not when companies can sell you poorly emulated nostalgia roms

[Anonymous No.8820146]

>>8815397
If you had asked something like:
'Were there any extremely popular games that were heavily marketed and have now been largely forgotten?'
I might have answered you. But you type like a weird Reddit kid and I'm not going to tell you.

[Anonymous No.8820157]

>>8815397
Mascot platformers

[Anonymous No.8820191]

>>8819645
How could I not?

[Anonymous No.8820280]

>>8817494
How did that end

[Anonymous No.8820421]

Comix Zone
Vectorman
Seaman

[Anonymous No.8820428]

Wing Commander as far as current day popularity goes.

The 3do system in its entirety qualifies in some ways.

[Anonymous No.8821532]

>>8820280
I was white cold anxious about it and didn't play multiplayer again. Been groomed like 4 times, if I have a kid I'm locking down the computers and phones, they're everywhere.

[Anonymous No.8821572]

Happens all the time. All the time. I remember reading a post from the PS2 days about how Rogue Galaxy was the JRPG everyone was talking about. Now it's a 'hidden gem'.

[Anonymous No.8821575]

Ultima used to be the first thing you would mention if you wanted to give an example of an RPG. It had over a dozen well received games and know most people don't even know it exists.

[Anonymous No.8821582]

Pretty much any PC exclusive game that isn't made by Valve or Blizzard. It's due to people that grew up only with consoles.

I legit think that if every game had a PC growing up Final Fantasy would be an extremely obscure series that probably would have died decades ago.

[Anonymous No.8821595]

>>8821575
EA drove it into the ground pretty hard.

[Anonymous No.8821608]

We also had the reverse. Games that were not taken seriously back then gaining a religion.

No one fucking took Earthbond as more then game that was kind of weird but overall mediocre. Now hipsters won't shut up about it.

[Anonymous No.8821646]

>>8821608
Fans are obnoxious more breaking news at 11

[Akebi-chan No.8822151]

>>8817485
I've been on the hunt for the Primal Rage tie in novel they brought out as a replacement for the sequel, it goes for hundreds on ebay, and I can't find a PDF or anything