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What was your personal worst prediction fail regarding videogames?
- Thread starter Metalmucil
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Happen this year actually.
*mayham regrading Challenger 5 for smash DLC and pessimism*
me: "It's not gonna be Byleth lol chill everyone with the pessimism"
Sakurai: Byleth!
me: oh.
*mayham regrading Challenger 5 for smash DLC and pessimism*
me: "It's not gonna be Byleth lol chill everyone with the pessimism"
Sakurai: Byleth!
me: oh.
OP
OP
This one made me more sad than anything. I bought one immediately and loved it.
i really thought Destiny didn't look like anything special. From the E3 hype trailers etc, it just looked so bland and generic to me. Just cookie cutter random space shooter game. I thought it would crash and burn.
I didn't really change my tune till i played PVP in the beta. And i liked it more than Halo.
6 years later Destiny' 1/2 are probably my most played games.
I didn't really change my tune till i played PVP in the beta. And i liked it more than Halo.
6 years later Destiny' 1/2 are probably my most played games.
I got into PUBG right as all that was starting to catch on and my buddy got me to download this knock off Battle Royale mode Fortnite put out since he couldn't play PUBG on console.
Thought it was kinda neat, but clearly wasn't going to be anything like PUBG in terms of success.
So..
Thought it was kinda neat, but clearly wasn't going to be anything like PUBG in terms of success.
So..
That the WWE games moving from Yukes to 2k would be a good thing for the franchise to grow after stagnation.
BOY was I wrong
BOY was I wrong
It's wild because from like 2005-2010, Microsoft absolutely killed it. And then they started to chase that casual dragon and it all seemed to fall apart. They basically wasted 2011 to 2014/15 chasing the casual and entertainment audience and lost their base as a result.
Wild to see the shift they've made since to games and GamesPass. Would never have dreamed those would be possible at the start of the gen.
I was so confident in Sega that I convinced my friend to get a Saturn instead of a Playstation. He never let me live that one down.
Man, I loved the Dreamcast. So many good first party games, and pretty danged good third party support too until the piracy.
I tought Kinect 1 would be used to complement controller gaming and that curent gen controllers would be some sort of detachable controller that would mix motion with the traditional controller.
Also believed in the indoctrination theory.
Also believed in the indoctrination theory.
That PlayStation Home would be this amazing social hub where everyone would hang out between playing games.
Not necessarily a prediction, but I pre-ordered Star Fox Zero.
I think I cancelled a few days before release and thought $30 was about as low as would go...
That said, I actually enjoy the game for what it is. But, you can get sealed copies for like $10-15 now.
To be fair, I don't think the Dreamcast probably had much more life left with or without piracy, given the PS2 was looming around the corner.
Unless there's some data out there that says otherwise?
I think I cancelled a few days before release and thought $30 was about as low as would go...
That said, I actually enjoy the game for what it is. But, you can get sealed copies for like $10-15 now.
To be fair, I don't think the Dreamcast probably had much more life left with or without piracy, given the PS2 was looming around the corner.
Unless there's some data out there that says otherwise?
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The moment I first laid eyes on a Wii-mote controller during the Wii reveal I was sure that it would fail miserably.
Then later when I saw the leaked concept art and heard that Guerrilla Games was doing a "robot dinosaur" game, I thought the idea sounded so stupid that it was bound to be a flop. Robot dinosaurs just sounded so childish and silly.
Glad to be wrong on both counts.
Then later when I saw the leaked concept art and heard that Guerrilla Games was doing a "robot dinosaur" game, I thought the idea sounded so stupid that it was bound to be a flop. Robot dinosaurs just sounded so childish and silly.
Glad to be wrong on both counts.
I thought the Wii U would've been decently successful. Didn't think it'd replicate the massive success of the Wii, but would have still sold well-enough.
I very confidently thought that World of Warcraft was going to be a massive failure. A lot of the bad word of mouth that came from the early betas with arcane and heavy MMORPG penalties sounded too harsh, and then when they corrected to its eventual launch state, my state as a subscribed FFXI player (which itself had tons of arcane and hardcore failure penalties at the time) made me think that it was too casual and my fanboyism for FFXI just generally made me think that it was an indication that Blizzard had no idea how to make an MMORPG and had no business making an MMORPG instead of just a regular Warcraft game.
Boy, was I wrong. And my friends convinced me to start playing a little under 2 months after it launched and I loved it right away and ate a feast of crows.
Boy, was I wrong. And my friends convinced me to start playing a little under 2 months after it launched and I loved it right away and ate a feast of crows.
I thought people needed to get over the idea of a final fantasy 7 remake it wasn't going to happen.
I thought the Dreamcast had a chance.
When that didn't pan out, I thought Sega going third party publisher was going to make them one of the biggest greatest ones of all time. They did nothing when they turned third party and spread their franchises to different consoles. It was really bizarre.
When that didn't pan out, I thought Sega going third party publisher was going to make them one of the biggest greatest ones of all time. They did nothing when they turned third party and spread their franchises to different consoles. It was really bizarre.
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I predicted Banjo Threeie would be at:
E3 2002
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Corona saved my blushses this year.
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Corona saved my blushses this year.
+1. Thought the name alone would have it ridiculed to failure.
To be fair, a lot of the pre-release footage was not good, everything was slow-paced and there was a huge focus on the multiplayer. I don't think id themselves really knew what they had on their hands with regards to the single-player. I think the turning point for a lot of people was this Nvidia demo just before release:
My general faith in the Dreamcast and that Shenmue III would be released on the original Xbox are a couple more of my bad predictions, sadly.
Halo 6 would not have sprint and would be a graphical leap as the trailers showed prior to what we saw this summer. They can still fix it, but.
We would get a blowout of Shin Megami Tensei V info by November 2019. I was wrong by 8 months, as we got a new trailer and release year in July 2020.
Vita TV would sell better than PS4 in Japan, becoming the de-facto new PlayStation home console for Japanese games
