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Most forgotten games of 2020
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Does that still have a decent online population?
Played about six games of this tonight and I still enjoy it!
watch dogs legion was one I immediately thought of when seeing the thread title. It should be making the worst of lists, but I feel like people forgot it even existed.
Wasn't that mostly just meme-hype as the alternative to TLOU2 by gamergate types?
Doesn't help that Ubisoft released 2 other open world action adventure games in the exact same release window lol
Yeah! I've been playing it for the last couple of nights to try and get some more trophies and it's about 60 seconds to wait for a match. Decent split of PC and PlayStation players.
Only needs five people for a match so don't foresee huge problems any time soon.
ExTG was made by a different developer anyway.
And I bought it so whatever. I don't care for the perspective of the original game but I was willing to try a sidescroller.
And I bought it so whatever. I don't care for the perspective of the original game but I was willing to try a sidescroller.
Nah, the original game was well liked for being a pretty solid licensed game.
In the end I feel like Dreams could of absolutely found an audience but it's PlayStation fault for sending it out to die.
I thought I'd see fenyx rising on this inevitable thread but good word of mouth combined with cyberpunk bumbling out the gate and some nice discounts may have saved the game
Ctrl + F "Monster Train"
Looks like even this thread forgot about one of the best roguelites of the year.
Looks like even this thread forgot about one of the best roguelites of the year.
I'm playing it right now after finally noticing it in my itch backlog, SUPER IMPRESSED, even though I just had to update to the x64 version since the itch client installed the older buggy 32-bit build.
Is it ever coming to consoles? I want to play itOh boy I got some forgotten games that'll actually rank rather highly on my personal top games of the year. I'll definitely echo games like Murder by Numbers and XCOM Chimera Squad, but I want to talk about these 2 games here:
The 3rd and arguably the best entry in the CSD series. Its a game that takes the CSD games on the road where rather than serving food in a timed shift, you cook and serve food before or at a stop where a set number of hungry customers will want their food ready to eat. You even have rival food trucks try too mess up your orders by attacking you in between stops. This game got a little bit of attention when it launched in Early Access and it did release on all systems in October. While it garnished a few reviews (some of which were very glowing) it didn't grab the attention of many major gaming outlets. On one hand the CSD series has never been an indie series that's as popular as Shovel Knight, Undertale or any other major Indie game franchise, but its a shame this game flew under the radar because its an incredibly addicting game with a great sense of progression. Its also a game that got me more educated about food from around the world (I never heard of foods like Ayam Goreng or Khachapuri before playing this) and even inspired me to cook some of the food featured in the game too. Also the OST slaps, which is done by Jonathon Geer who you may know from Owlboy fame.
Them's Fightin' Herds, like CSD3, was in early access before reaching its 1.0 state this year. However, its been in Early Access since 2018 and now it got to its 1.0 state after getting its 1st Story Mode chapter playable in April (w/ more to come in the future). This game almost had its big moment this year when it was gonna be one of the 4 games in the main stage for EVO online. But EVO Online got cancelled because of the sexual harassment and pedophila allegations towards former EVO CEO Mr. Wizard (which he confessed via twitter) and Mane6 (TFH devs) were one of many devs to step down from the event before the cancellation. Though sadly ever since the cancellation of EVO, TFH hasn't had a player based that peaked since then and people seem to forget it was in fact a 2020 1.0 fighting game (Freaking One Punch Man got a best fighting game nomination over TFH at TGA). Still, this is one of the greatest fighting games to play online (also just frankly a great online multiplayer experience period) and it has one of the greatest tutorials in a fighting game period, breaking down key FG components that even novices could understand.
Edit: talking about TFH
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That new Amnesia game. came out and nobody cared about it at all.
and Desperados 3 for sure. play Desperados 3, it is a stupidly good game.
and Desperados 3 for sure. play Desperados 3, it is a stupidly good game.
I'll give Sony the benefit of the doubt here, as it would be hard to market something like Dreams on any console platform. Dreams isn't a game in the traditional sense, but a development suite/software kit with a short, bolted-on story mode, so how would it be marketed? 'You can spend 4 hours playing our SP campaign, and 400 hours making your own campaign'? It's the kind of thing that would have been more at home on PC than on console. Hats off to MM for making an impressive piece of software, but I'm not really sure what Sony were expecting of it.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon and Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot were released one day apart back in January, during the before-times. People are still talking about Yakuza. Kakarot? It came and went.
Yakuza was released last month outside of Japan, that's why it's still being talked.
I originally wanted to get TFH on Switch and wait it out, but decided to buy the game on the steam Summer Sale. Sadly I don't know if console versions are in the cards yet since I don't know if the team has access to the devkits for those consoles. But TFH is planned to come out on Mac and Linux if either of those are you OS of choice.
I think Sony see it as a mixture of prestige and not being afraid to experiment. It may have led to a huge success, it may have led to other more experimental projects.
Yeah, it's the kind of prestige project like TLG that Sony used to fund. But I suspect we'll see few of those under Jim Ryan's leadership. Sony doesn't seem like they want to throw a ton of money at stuff like that anymore.
Some of these suggestions are just SP games that were pretty successful. Why would people still be constantly and actively talking about them months after release? I loved HL:Alyx but have not talked about it with anyone in a long time. I didn't forget about it but there nothing new to bring up besides the occasional workshop mod.
Lithium City is a really stylish action game that's been compared to Hotline Miami and hardly anyone bought it. Very fun 2 hours (with some more free content scheduled to come out later).
World of Horror sold decently on Steam (and was also on Game Pass), but hasn't been talked about much for such an amazing game. I'm hoping that when it leaves early access, it'll win a bunch of awards.
World of Horror sold decently on Steam (and was also on Game Pass), but hasn't been talked about much for such an amazing game. I'm hoping that when it leaves early access, it'll win a bunch of awards.
Agreed. It's one of the best in the genre and probably the franchise best. Apparently, it sold very well at least (#2 best selling indie on eshop for 2020 per Nintendo's info).
Also adding:
One of the best fighting games of the gen.
Those games came out 13 years ago and 11 year ago, respectively. Not really relevant to the current Media Molecule.
The platforming didn't really pick up at all until the very last sequence. Also, the narrator makes the narratives of my preschooler's TV shows seem like Metal Gear Solid in comparison.
It's not actively BAD in my opinion. I just don't think it stands out at all. As a Nintendo fan, the last thing I am is a "teh kiddie trash" kind of person, but I think Tearaway is a game that primarily very small kids would have the best time with. I don't say that as an insult to the game, it's just how I felt after playing through it.
i think world of horror got enough talk
the updates for it are being really minor, i'm afraid. not much to talk when you come back to it months later and theres like, one new short case and a couple of bugfixes. and i'm not blaming the dev or asking for more (afaik its a really small team), just sayin' why it aint being talked more after the big boom when it released the demo and then "released" . Plenty of youtubers covering, some major names even. Thankfully it was fine, cause it's a real interesting game.
Goddamn, this gave me a chuckle.
As someone who likes Tearaway, especially the Vita version, it is a game that's rather shall we say cloying.
And this is basically a recurring trend in Media Molecule's games, even when LBP is farmed out to other devs it retains this "almost charming but actually kinda suffocating" vibe, even in Sumo's Sackboy game I'm playing through it's like "man, I miss the grit of Yoshi's Crafted World"
I did play it on the Vita and didn't think it was very good. It felt like babby's first platformer. It's like someone made a game out of the night levels from Sonic Unleashed, and then, to spice it up, added the context sensitive buttons from Conker's Bad Fur Day. And then they topped it off with whimsy so cloying it was suffocating.
It's almost always games that released in the first few months that are forgotten, so in this case it's Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, the Switch port of Tokyo Mirage Sessions, Granblue Fantasy Versus, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX.
The fact the pandemic happened globally right around the time of Animal Crossing/Doom Eternal really feels like the line in the sand.
The fact the pandemic happened globally right around the time of Animal Crossing/Doom Eternal really feels like the line in the sand.
I was curious about it when it came out, but a lot of the user reviews were about how it's mobile roots weren't really shed in the transition back to PC & console, and it suffered for it.Heard very little about Torchlight 3, despite the popularity of the first two games.
Reviews seem to be tepid, which probably explains it.
Which is kind of the same thing as Super Meat Boy Forever. Both indie darlings from a bygone era that took way too long to make a sequel. Both took an in development mobile and made that the full fledged sequel, only receive a middling to non-existent reception.
