Which game was true lightning in a bottle?
>>736600774Witcher 3 maybe?
Incel chud simulator
>>736600810I don't think that quite fits. Witcher 2 was already an insane achievement, they just went open world with 3 to draw in normalniggers
>>736600774diner dash
>>736600774Meet N Fuck Kingdom, Steve
>>736600774NoitaRandom bunch on Eurofags come together to push out a banger unlike any other game. Every pixel simulated with physics.Then they just released it and left it alone.
>>736600774>it's about Highguard
literally Team Fortress 2. perfect original dev team with an amazing art director, Moby Francke. Shame it had to get raped by valve interns, tranny workshop cabals, and Eric Smith not giving a fuck.
>>736600774Minecraft and Fortnite.
>>736600774Master of Magic (1993), X-Com(1993) Jagged Alliance 2, Sid Meier Alpha Centauri, Victoria 2, Broodwar, Diablo 2, Rome Total War, Dark Souls 1.
Dead Rising. None of the attempts Capcom has made to replicate its success have worked at all. Dead Rising 2 is okay but Chuck Greene is nowhere near as cool to play as as Frank West. 3 & 4 are dogshit and the Remaster is an abortion.
>>736600774minecraftgta dota skyrim
>>736600909>left it aloneNot entirely true, they've put out a few updates and added in things including modding support after the initial release. But it certainly is a top 50 game of all time
Currently? Clair Obscur.I don't envy the devs, because everybody expects the sequel to top that shit.
>>736601252I hope they make an entirely different game instead of a sequel
>>736600774Gonna sound weird but RE4.RE4's development was an infamously perfect storm of set-backs and limitations that kept warping the project but a dedicated and hungry to prove themselves team that kept trudging along to make the best version of the constantly changing vision.RE4 is a game that in many diffrent universes and points in time were totally diffrent and the one that ended up releasing was the best case scenerio- despite all putcomes pointing it should've been the opposite.
>>736600880Meet n huh?
>>736600774Street Fighter 2.
>>736601094Almost none of these were "lightning in a bottle". Some stuff like JA2 and DaS1 are just the first game but better.
>>736601345Capcom has MANY of those.
>>736600774the division
>>736600774Dead Space 2
>>736601205Yeah they didn't really leave it alone like the other guy said, ands I think the amazing thing is that all of the content they added was free and interestingI'm still hoping that the mega secrets like the cauldron or the eye puzzles get figured out someday
Any game that releases and does well, then the devs try to make a sequel and get everything wrong; not knowing what actually made their game do well and then going back to the first game.So:OverwatchDarkest Dungeon AOE2Frostpunk
>>736601901>Darkest DungeonWhat the FUCK were they thinking
>>736600774Mirror's Edge
>>736601734Good choice, it had every reason to look like it was gonna suck:EA sequel in the early 2010's during a time when we were all sick of forced sequels that were either worse than the first or retroactively ruin the characters or story (or both)protagonist is now voiced where they were silent beforestreamlined gameplay with more actionIt had red flags all over it, and yet it turned out to be my favourite oneI'd argue the same is true of Bioshock 2, a game that should by all accounts have ended up being sequel slop (especially because it went to a studio owned by the publisher just called "2K Marin"), and yet it turned out to be a really good game
Darkest Dungeon comes into mind. Honestly many indies suffer from first game syndrome.Also, Ragnarok Online. Gravity or whatever company owns the IP has been milking on RO nostalgia for 20 years now since nothing they have made since then has ever succeeded.
Nier Automata. Platinum's greatest success and hasn't been the same ever since and is practically dead since everyone has jumped ship now.
The Binding of Isaac
>>736601920lets copy the slay the spire map procgen and tie it to the stagecoach that has nothing to do with improving the deck/party
>>736600774By definition? Arc Raiders.>extractionslop in a genre that's notoriously bad for casuals and games always die because of this>gets bigger numbers than expected and keeps even growing for 3 weeks post launch>cultivates its own special carebear playerbase
>>736601252>>736601265It's going to be a prequel
>>736601901nidhogg
>>736602174Carebear raiders has excellent audio design and solid gameplayIt also has an extremely streamlined inventory system, interesting PvE enemies and inoffensive designsTo pretend to not know why/how it became successful is peak dishonesty, when it's literally just a good third person shooter with permadeathWhy it devolved is the real phenomenon that is worthy of analysis, why and how it attracted the SoT and gamerdad and egirl audiences, especially when those have no cross-viewership with the biggest streamer since ninja who propelled the game to the stratosphere
Luigi's Mansion
>>736602392Arc Raiders succeeding and Marathon bleeding to death signifies to me the comp bubble popping.
>>736600774FTL: Faster Than LightThe dev's second game did okay but nearly as well as the first one. There's at least a few copycats but none of them caught on nearly as much.
>>736601265It's more than likely going to be an anthology game, unrelated to the story of E33. Because the direct sequel would require picking a canon ending, and the devs stubbornly refuse to do that.
>>736600774Vampire Survivors.
>>736602865I hope you're right. The worst thing they could do is to expand on the writer/painter war, it's great because it's not explored fully
>>736600774Nothing captures this feeling more than Nier: Automata. Everyone involved knows this, which is why they won't let Yoko Taro direct another game, because it will prove that he cannot, in fact, do it a second time.
Phantasy star online
>>736600774GTA3 literally changed the game
>>736602049If you look at that game's history, the team that made it got almost entirely thrown out around the time it was 90% done. The team that managed the game from the start was not the one who built it.
>>736600774Pizza Tower somehow went from vapourware to jackpot.
>>736602906And also - it's not that interesting. There are more creative stories to tell in this universe, I feel like. Especially since at this point everybody would see the "you are in the Matrix" plot twist coming, so you need to do something different.
>>736600774Helldivers 2
>>736602925Nier automata is a similar MGRR case. Everyone great who made it possible is no longer around.
>>736602747Yeah it's only naturalAbuse the cattle with engagement/retention matchmaking for winrate gambling and micro transaction purchasing, torture them with sbmm while selling p2w shitLet favoritism run rampant, let cheaters destroy every online space ever, have a personal stake in the bot rmt economy tooAt some point, all the cattle will get fatigue and turn to the nearest carebear PvE coop experience
>Tetris>Minecraft>GTA 3>Shenmue>Super Mario Bros>Fortnite>DOOM>World of Warcraft>Half Life>Dark Souls
>>736600774Valkyria Chronicles. Even the devs themselves stated in interviews that they have no idea why it did so well.
>>736603065>There are more creative stories to tell in this universeLike what? What universe? The Writer/Painter conflict is literally the only noteworthy bit of worldbuilding that even exists in this "universe." What a strange thing to say.
Gothic 2? It's the greatest game ever made for many people but they never managed to come anywhere close again
>>736603348I'd say Risen qualifies but yeah those niggas clearly were just fumbling in the dark mostly
>>736603214The univers that allows you to create and shape realities via the works of art.How about a story of some artist enslaving an entire population in his piece of fiction via the dream machine? It's a plot of Silent Hill and the Matrix mushed together, but it took me 5 minutes to come up with.Or I dunno, using art as reality-bending weapons?
>>736603348I liked Elex 1 but that might be my scifi fag bias
>>736603082HD2's post-launch support has proven that Arrowhead had no fucking idea what they were doing and lucked out at making a fun game, because 90% of the patches have been doing everything in their power to remove fun and make the game a slog to play
>>736600774World of Warcraft
>>736600774>this has mainstream shit written all over itHow the fuck does someone end up thinking that's good? Mainstream is only the worst garbage, it's the death of creativity to make trash for the cattle. Who kind of horrible fate is that, to hope to be a slopchurner.
>>736601496There's no game like x-com.Every other game that tries either does it completely different (XCOM) or fucks it up (Xenonauts).Hell even nucom hasn't had a proper spiritual successor. There's ton of XCOM "clones" out there (they copy the combat but forget the important base-build and world map parts)About the others that I have played: JA2 has never been surpassed, JA3 is just not as good.Alpha centauri has never been surpassed, diablo 2 is still the only diablo-like worth playing.
>>736600861I don’t think Witcher 2 comes even in striking distance of the mainstream success Witcher 3 had.
>>736600774Armored Core VI
>>736600774Marvel Heroes
>>736603685Definately. Witcher 2 was a very experimental and at time incoherent game. It was CDPR throwing every idea they had at the wall to see what will stick. It was a cool experiment, but I think it lacked the coherent vision both W1 and W3 had.
>>736600774Crystal Project
>>736603685nta but it's the same case of good will buildup that the souls games progressively got that culminated with elden ring. We can then assume that DaS1-3 were the witcher 2s to ER's witcher 3. Also, unironically Skyrim. Bethesda will forever live in its shadow.
>>736600774Mass Effect 1. Right place, right time, right team and right budget. BioWare was coming off of KOTOR and wanting to establish their own personal scifi universe, the next generation of consoles had just come out so the sky was the limit in terms of ambition, and EA wouldn't acquire them until a month before release so they didn't have time to fuck things up unlike ME2 and beyond. The focus was very much on the setting and the roleplay, on the story and the characters, and you can tell. Mass Effect died shortly thereafter, and ME1 still stands tall and proud 19 years later as a golden, if flawed, masterpiece.
You may not like this answer, but Vampire Survivors
>>736600774Hypnospace OutlawIt could've spawned out a genre of its own but no one tried or could replicate its success
>>736600774Subnautica, bunch of retards accidentally make a decent game, completely misunderstood what people liked about it, fire the only competent person on the team, get bought out by an even bigger retard who paid them billions of dollars to do basically nothing. We can only hope that the actual dev team completely ignore what the original devs have to say and do their own thing
vanilla WoW. the societal conditions for its success will never be replicated again
>>736603756>Also, unironically Skyrim. Bethesda will forever live in its shadow.Nah, it's Morrowind. You wouldn't have Skyrim without Morrowind. Todd seems overwhelmed by it and its sacred cow status to this day.
TF2I don't even like TF2 anymore, but it's never happening again
>>736603814If you want to go that route, I'd argue Everquest counts too, just in the previous generation to WoW. People just don't want to play "old-school" MMOs like that anymore, and to your point the datamining shit largely didn't exist back then in the way it does now, so a lot of the mystique and urban legends around shit that happens in-game just wouldn't be replicable in current year
>>736601252Idk about that, there's significantly more successful franchises than that out there, it did really well for a AA game though
>>736600774>Killing Floor 12 and 3 are a fucking meme. Tripwire is much better at Rising Storm.>Fallout: New VegasSomehow the case for both Bethesda and Obsidian as neither of them produced anything of value afterwards. Skyrim is okay but it was being worked on at the same time FNV was.>SubnauticaBZ is a fucking meme and I don't expect 2 to be any different.>Darkest DungeonI don't think I have ever seen anybody defend 2.
>>736603873towards the fans, it's morrowind and new vegas, but commercially and critically, it's skyrim imo. Not even fallout 4, and fallout 4 sold really well, has beaten skyrim in sales I think.
>>736602135Let's also make every character pansexual
>>736600861I would say TW3 fits only because I don't think any developer would be able to pull off a game like it again, including CDPR itself. I think they lucked out with how relatively cheap it was to create content for that game because CDPR was based in Poland and somewhat obscure, compared to Ubisoft, Rockstar or other open world developers which are all in expensive western countries and more well known (at least at the time). I think, between game development getting exponentially more expensive everywhere and CDPR being full of American devs now, that you could never replicate the same circumstances that lead to TW3 ever again. I think the fact that CDPR is moving to UE5 rather than staying with Red Engine validates my opinion.
>>736600774wasn't this a concord or highguard dev or something saying this? top fucking kek
>>736604025highguard. It was posted by the same guy who threw a tantrum on twitter.
>>736600774DMC5. I have never played a game before with that level of satisfying combat, and I'm bummed there's none like it since.
>>736604025Highguard, yeah.>everyone in the industry told me this is a 10/10>toxic positivity isn't a problem btw
>>736603914>hear about hyjal and old ironforge>go out of balance to see them>world becomes that much cooler and more mysteriousi miss it so much, people would shit talk the devs for being lazy fucks these days.
>>736604052it was also itsuno's last dmc game so I doubt we'll ever get something like it again now that the guy is no longer at capcom.
Final Fantasy VIIMario 64Skyrim (even if you dislike how they watered down TES)Dragon's Dogma: Dark ArisenAge of Empires 2These are the ones that come to mind picking from the ones I've played.
>>736600774Any answer other than Counter Strike is wrong. A hodge podge of random Quake modders coming together and accidently creating the most successful competitive FPS of all time. Nearly 25 years later and the gameplay remains largely the same
>>736603814Only true answer in this thread i think. Almost nothing else in here actually grasps what the slogan means.
>>736604160That's not really lightning on a bottle, when every iteration is more popular than the last and the best is 1.6
Modern Warfare 2019, in a way. It's the only good Call of Duty game since Black Ops 2, even if maps weren't very good.
>>736603986>Fallout 4It was the first Bethesda game that wasn't treated in kids' gloves by the fans and reviewers. Because it was both following up FNV, the darling Fallout game AND going up against the Witcher 3, from some relatively then unknown up-and-coming Polish studio. And then in turned out it cannot compete with either on fair terms. This was the moment when Bethesda's "they can do no wrong" status started to crack.
>>736604117That just makes me even more bummed. I wanted to see V's mechanic appear again somehow. Capcom took on the challenge "Can we make a summoner character work in DMC?" and they executed it so unexpectedly well. They should've had something like it in DD2, but they just didn't. Instead we got Trickester vocation - fucking hell.
>>736600774Nier which made people tolerate the older shit ass drakkengard games
>>736604306>re-releasing your last popular game in a declining series is lightning in a bottleYou gotta be trolling
>>736602865>Because the direct sequel would require picking a canon ending, and the devs stubbornly refuse to do that.Not necessarily. The only difference between the endings that's relevant for a sequel is whether Alicia is in the canvas or not. They could bypass that by just ignoring Alicia and the manor and keeping the focus on Clea, Renoir and Aline vs the Writers. She could still be in the canvas as per her ending or be out of it as per Verso's but just a shut-in neet.Or they could have her outside but unclear whether it's because Verso forced her out or because she left on her own/Renoir or Clea forced her out later.
>>736604237>when every iteration is more popular than the lastThat's not true, 1.6 was more popular than every game that came after it until skins were added to CSGO
>>736600774Undertale and Deltarune
>>736604359Modern Warfare 2019 played nothing like other cawadooties.It only shared the same names of some characters, it has nothing to do with previous games.
>>736603938Lightning in a bottle is more about making an amazing game that's unlikely to be repeated and not just sales or popularity.
>>736602925There's a reason why Yoko Taro has spent the last 9 years cashing in Nier Automata The dude caught lighting in a bottle, prior to automata all his games we're critically panned they all played like shit and because he Made Automata suddenly nah man actually his old stuff was goodNO NIGGA IT WAS SHIT HE JUST MADE THE ONE GOOD GAME
>>736600774The first 3 years of Apex Legends.
>>736604415I kinda agree it really gave oxygen to the franchise at the start of the 2020's
>>736604372But we really want another game revolving around the Dessendres? It would just cheapen the universe.I for one REALLY don't care about Clea and her stupid feud with the Writers.
>>736600774Batman Arkham games
Expedition 33
>>736604628>for one REALLY don't care about CleaI do, because she's hot
terraria
>>736604521Nier 1 was heavily praised in nerd communities back at release but it was a super niche title that had no chance of mainstream success. 2B's ass really carried Automata.
Binding Of IsaacBastionTerrariaHotline MiamiBalatroGTADark Souls
>>736604628>I for one REALLY don't care about Cleame neither tbqh. Might be in the minority here but I personally don't find stinky barefoot frogs with massive bushes very attractive, especially when they have a bitchy attitude on top of it
People really forget that nier automata back then was also the underdog to kamiya's scalebound. so it won over people
>>736600774>oh yeah, that happened
>>736605079>scaleboundkekeroni I forgetted
>>736604160I'd go with Quake itself desu.Or EverquestBoth took their respective genres and completely transformed them.UO (Or random MUDS) -> EQDoom/wolfenstein -> Quakeboth went WAY beyond an iterative change.
Postal 2
>>736600774Fallout New Vegas>Bethesda just happened to give some of the OG devs in Obsidian a chance to make a spinoff Fallout game>Obsidian had the Van Buren concept ready as a framework for lore and setting background>Fallout 3 is a good enough foundation to build upon
>>736602392The actual reason Arc Raiders did well in a sea of samey extraction slop is because they actually allow proximity chat and griefing so funny clips can go viral
>>736605369Obsidian should just be standalone expansion studio, glorified modders.
Psychonauts
>>736605369This. NV was better than it ever should have been and 4 and 76 proved that.
>>736600774>118 replies>ctrl f: stardew>0 resultsi know that it isnt groundbreaking in any aspect and "just a harvest moon clone", but 50 million sales for such a game is huge.
>>736605475elite ball knowledge
>>736601252>>736602185>>736602865The sequel is going to be about the writers
>>736605592>i know that it isnt groundbreakingThen it isn't "lightning in a bottle".
>>736600774Pokemon GoThing was a global phenomenon
>>736605423Unless you know an Embark employee, then you'll get banned
>>736600774Disco Elysium.
>>736600774Surprised nobody has said Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines yet
Animal Crossing New Horizons. Game sucked but everyone got onboard because there was basically nothing else to do.
Brave Fencer Musashi, only real ones know. The atrocious sequel effectively strangled the franchise in the crib, but the PS1 game is easily one of the best from that console generation
The Bouncer. They simply don't make games like that anymore
>>736605821World of Darkness LARPing was still popular back then, so it wasn't 100% lightening in a bottle.But the way such a mess of a game came together so perfectly fits the definition.
>>736600774starcraft in korea in the 2000s
>>736605821You're right. >Managed to make use of Source facial animation tech>Early 2000s peak urban fantasy era>Rik Schaffer's music Shame about the botched release date
>>736604339Everyone thought V was a slamdunk for a summoner archetype in DD2 prior to release Oh how wrong we were. I long for those innocent days.
TerrariaMinecraftWorld of WarcraftRuneScapePath of ExileDragons Dogma Dark Arisen
>>736605079i remember this trailer being where people started to actually pay attention and care about autoamtahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bx02CEISLI
>>736606132>>736603814Early Blizzard was truly something.>Starcraft became one of the founding pillars of esports>Warcraft 3 spawned countless minigames with map editor, some of which grew into fullfledged games>WoW caught the tide of social gamingI guess Diablo never quite achieved any particular breaktroughs, although first and second are still considered beloved classics among the genre.Shame about what happened.
>>736606851>Diablo never quite achieved any particular breaktroughsLiterally invented a genre
>>736606851Diablo led to all the other isometric ARPGs. The RMAH was honestly cool as fuck, I got $1000 for playing Diablo 3 by selling items.
>>736606851like the guy above said, diablo created the ARPG genre and then blizzard themselves ended the genre a few years later with diablo 2, a game that people are still trying - and failing - to recapture the essence of 30 years later. honestly i'm not sure what those games are called now, they've been referred to as diablo-likes, ARPGs, hack n slash, i think most games in the genre technically qualify as skinnerboxes too kek
Seeing so many examples in this thread makes me thing: Which games WEREN'T lightnings in a bottle? Games that the devs knew exactly what they were doing, had the proper resources and ended up being just as good as expected?
>>736607420GTA Vice City
>>736607420CoD usually
>>736607335PoE has long since surpassed Diablo 2 as the superior ARPG. To some extent, you could argue they're separate genres, since they fundamentally play so differently, but it didn't start off that way.
>>736605639I think Sandfall Interactive are the writers.
>>736603938How many of those successful franchises were started in an established industry by 3 nobodies and a bunch of complete newbies?
I'm going to throw Viewtiful Joe into the conversation. 2 was good as well, but the first game was just great at the time.
>>736607442True, especially since they made San Andreas right after, so they knew what they were doing, yes.
>>736600774Promise Mascot Agency.It shouldn't work. It has so many genres inside it and the mascots are weird little freaks but I have ended up adoring the game so much.
>always online cash shop GaaSlop has surpasse-
>>736604628I liked Clea :(I don't know what I'd like to see in another Clair Obscur game but what I do know is I'm instantly buying whatever they make next, I saw the end of act 1 coming but never expected the full scope of the act 2 twist until it happened and then ng+ knowing the full story and seeing how everything was foreshadowed and setup was just cinema
>>736600774Kek what is this in reference to? Please tell me it's not High guard...
>>736607420DooM and Quake
>>736607420>just as good as expectedAll the Monster Hunter games until world. Autists here will complain about one entry or another but every entry was consistently popular and basically a household name in japan.
>>736607420World of Warcraft
>>736607463It really hasn't, because the gameplay of ARPGs was always shit, including Diablo 2. It was 100% carried by its presentation, which PoE cannot come close to matching.
>>736602895Gotta disagree here, the upcoming vampire crawlers is fantastic
>>736607420Every game blizzard made until like 2006
>>736607730>then ng+ knowing the full story and seeing how everything was foreshadowed and setup was just cinemaI remember being all cynical when running into the shadows for my first play through, just for everything they say to make a lot of sense and add depth in the 2nd play through.
>>736607903>I don't like this genre so it means it's badYou're the kind of autist that claims no one likes beer.
>>736600774These people are so fucking retarded, unironically just hire a couple chuds off 4chan and they will tell you if your game is slop, it's not fucking hard. I suspect most of these faggots barely even play games and aren't tapped into the actual culture at all anymore, they are so disconnected from what gamers actually want and multi year dev times just compound the issue
>>736607420Also Deltarune
>>736600774Doom? The original.
>>736607907I thought we were talking about games that launched at the right place and right time and did inexplicably well as a result and whose success hasn't quite been replicated. Not one hit wonder devs.
>>736606485That trailer really was what won people over with nier automata. The boss, the music, the bullet hell, the fast paced combat.It was pretty funny in hindsight that at the time, people were pointing out how nier automata was not getting much press coverage and was clearly lower budget meanwhile scalebound got the fat xbox funding, but scalebound ultimately got canceled.
>>736602085Not even the best nier game... Automata is basically 50% replicant stuff.
>>736607940I haven't seen a twist that enhances your appreciation of the story on a repeat executed this well since Fight ClubEverything hits twice as hard when you know the actual deal so I have no idea how they're gonna top that for their next game when now everyone will know what to expect
>>736600774warcraft 3. It has/had insane influence because of the custom games it had turning into atleast 2 genres (moba and tower defense).
>>736600909Good pickFor me is Outer Wilds. Devs did some experimental games and then crated a masterpiece ( and even a very very good DLC) as well.
>>736607420Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Advanced Warfare etc.
>>736608152So it's 1.5x as good as Nier
>>736608226Pretty sure it also created hero arena games. It also had zombie survival modes like 6 years before the trend booned with the walking dead tv show.
>>736604010I've only barely touched W2 back when my computer could barely run it. Should I give the trilogy a playthrough?
>>736608260no but if you played replicant you would understand how automata isn't bringing that many new things into what was already existing, but I guess you didn'tstill a good game though
>>736601345>>736601524Devil May Cry also begun as a glitch in a Resident Evil game where you could juggle the zombie, so they decided to have a game with that.One that came completely from the left field for me is Portal.
>>736607903nah I'm not even a poe1 fag and I can admit the amount of shit they put in that game is incredible. PoE2 is shaping up to be amazing as well
>>736608235Most people would agree the base game is lightning on a bottle. As for the DLC, it's so divisive there is no question at all that it nearly isn't as good as base game.
1995-2000for the entirety of the RTS genre was lightning in a bottle as innovations happened it all slipped away.
>>736608438>quantity > qualityClassic nugamer
>>736608438I unironically kinda like the campaign i poe1 and 2. The setting is just far more exotic and esoteric than diablo's tier heaven vs hell theme. By the time diablo 4 came out, I just rolled my eyes throughout the story.
>>736603757>BioWare was coming off of KOTORthey weren't. they were coming off Jade Empire which was not a success and didn't sink the studio because Microsoft paid for it and paid for ME.
>>736608008It's like those artists who put on exhibitions where they stand there sawing a piece of wood while naked, and everyone stands around applauding, or something like that. They really live in a different reality where "normal" standards aren't taken into account, and when they are, they're completely disregarded.
Kinda funny that someone told this guy his project was lightning in a bottle and he didn't realise that was an insult
>>736600774STARCRAFT
>>736608678something being "lightning in a bottle" isn't an insult ESL-kun
>>736607420Halo 3Fans wanted it, they had experienced devs, an infinite budget, a new, powerful console that was easy to program, they were addicted to playing it even outside work hours, the story was already set up... there weren't many games of that magnitude to compete with, especially in the sci-fi fps genre
noitakingdom hearts 1TWEWYFEARsnake eaterMGSV
>>736607420Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood. after those 2 you can feel the bloat creeping in with every new instalment
>>736607420unironically Elden Ring. Unbelievable amounts of hype after years of radio silence, to the point where people didn't even think it existed. To come out and completely knock it out of the park in every way possible
>>736600810>Third in a trilogy that's worse than both games before it is lightning in a bottle
>>736600774EYE
>>736603082That's a turd in a bottle, not lightningHelldivers 1 is the actual lightning as the only good game Arrowhead ever made and they clearly don't understand why or how
>>736601920Darkest Dungeon is just fucked now.I can't go back to DD1 because the combat is just way better in DD2, along with the visuals. However, I am bored of DD2. I don't like the Kingdoms game mode (which is the only thing that gets content now) and I beat the main roguelike mode already.
>>736607420Left 4 DeadPortal 2Halo 3GTA San Andreas
>>736600774overwatch
>>736600774tribes ascendruined by not allowing the community to have their own modded servers and custom maps
>>736600774Sekiro
>>736603408>using art as reality-bending weapons?Already been done.
>>736610323Even with that, it survived fine until they just fucking stopped supporting it and the entire dev team was moved to Paladins.I continued to play it for a solid year past the updates but eventually it became just the same 50 people running the same tired routes. The last update which removed classes in favor of armor weights was just an insult, far too late and actually diminishing roles in gameplay, killing it for good.
>>736600774Maybe they were all retards? Is he using this as an excuse or something? Implying that everyone else is wrong?
Deus Ex
>>736602925>because it will prove that he cannot, in fact, do it a second timeHe's made the voice of card and nier gacha games, obviously all of those have been a failure.
>>736601524>Mega Man>Resident Evil 1>Resident Evil 2>Resident Evil 4>Street Fighter 2>Devil May Cry>Dead Rising>Monster HunterHow did they keep getting away with it?
