soniqstylz Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 http://www.develop-online.net/features/751...-damaging-games At the end of last year, we saw a lot of lists of best games of the decade. But we didn?t read about the turkeys.The games that really flopped. The games industry?s equivalent of Waterworld. Or Ishtar. Or Heaven?s Gate. I?m not just talking about games that were bad. There are lots of those. I?m talking about games that took down companies. Some of them were never released. Some of them came out and no-one cared. Some of them even made decent sales ? just nowhere near enough to cover the costs. And all of them were costly for someone. Several of them destroyed companies. Some destroyed careers. Others were, in my view, brave and sensible gambles that didn?t pay off. So there is some schadenfreude in this list. But also a great deal of respect. Because you can?t make great games without taking risks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LingeringSoul Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Damn, Daikatana was released in 2000? For some reason, I always thought it was older than that. Maybe it just aged really, really badly. Back in the PS2 days, I was actually so bored once that I tried to play through Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. My brother bought it (I certainly wasn't going to pay money for that... thing), and I was able to get about halfway through the game (possibly further than that). I eventually reached an area where one of the character models was replaced with a trash can. Seeing Lara engage in conversation with a trash can (with a French accent, I might add) was just a little too much for me, and that's where I stopped. There was another area where I had to run away from a gigantic monster of some kind (if my memory serves). Whenever I put the camera on the monster, the frame rate slowed down into the single digits, so I had to complete that entire area with the camera focused on the wall, because that's the only way that the game was playable. Good list, though it needs more Lair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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